Most of the nations food can be easily grown in the midwest.
If you want tomatoes in January, you aren't going to get them from the Midwest. You also aren't going to get grapes, almonds, or a wide range of vegetables. You will get sweet corn in July and August, and nothing the other 10 months.
The #2 state for agriculture is Texas, #3 is Iowa. In dollar value, California produces more than both of those combined.
No but the exterior often is in the winter and that's usually where the car spends most of its time. Plus who wants a mobile which will not work outside half the year?
These flow batteries are not for mobile phones and cars. They are for grid storage, which can be installed in a heated area.
They don't make money if you're not replacing your batteries all the time.
These flow batteries are targeted for home and grid storage, which is a market that currently barely exists. No powerful incumbents are being threatened. Utilities would be affected, but in a good way, since more grid storage would diminish the need for unprofitable "peaker" generators.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else.
You should work on being less oblivious to reality. Over the last decade, batteries have become far cheaper, higher capacity, and more reliable. This progress was the result of those "breakthroughs" that you read about.
It is not money that gives Elon credibility, but his list of accomplishments. He has a track record of turning ideas into reality, so people pay attention.
In public, I typically try not to do anything I wouldn't do in public.
That is NOT the issue. Right now, this tech is being justified by using it to keep bad people from behaving badly. But once it is deployed, it may also be used to track who is going to a political rally or protest, or who is visiting a dissident.
Don't be complacent just because we have a benevolent government that serves the interests of all citizens. In the future things may change, and it is even possible that we could be ruled by a narcissistic plutocrat that tries to divide the people and is intolerant of criticism.
That is sophistry. If the speed is limited, then obviously the data is as well.
No FTC required here.
The word "unlimited" has a common, everyday meaning that is understood by nearly everyone. Advertisers should not be allowed to make up a new meaning that is basically the opposite.
Depending on the facility it would probably just be cheaper to construct a building with an integral bridge-crane
Are you serious? You really believe that a building size industrial gantry system would "probably" be cheaper than a 2 gram drone?
Second, it may be possible to use tubing and vacuum to collect pollen to a central point before redistributing, without requiring flying bots to constantly return to their docks.
Bees don't return to their hive after each flower, so there is no reason for drones to do that either.
When one looks at all the dense pack housing going up...
Nonsense. The problem is exactly the opposite. The NIMBYs have used zoning laws and permit restrictions to effectively ban dense housing, so we get low density sprawl instead.
Neonicotinoids are not particularly persistent. They are already banned in much of Europe. The are not banned in America mainly because of bureaucratic inertia. They don't need to be banned for all crops. For instance, it should be okay to use them on crops that don't attract bees, like corn. But for crops like alfalfa, they should not be used, and there should be penalties for misapplication.
These drones would not replace bees. Bees pollinate randomly, and that can be a problem when you need targeted pollination to produce hybrid seeds. Hybrid seeds are often expensive because hand pollination is used. These drones could automate that, and may be cheap enough that individual farmers could produce their own hybrids.
Anyway, the engineer who said, that in order to scale, these may have to be mass-produced, certainly has an incisive intellect. That guy should be promoted immediately, since nothing is more important than a firm grip on the obvious.
Right means conservative. Left means liberal. Conservative means "let's do the things we have always done." Liberal means "let's change how we do everything"
That has never really been true, and it certainly isn't true today, when many liberals want go back to the social policies of the 1960s and the economic policies of the 1950s.
I think the main difference between right and left is not the policies, but the justification for the policies. The right justifies their policies by saying they are good for the country, while the left says their policies are good for the citizens. The actual policies are not that different. Donald and Bernie have much more in common with each other than either has with moderates.
Because we're not talking about a flaw in a human, we're talking about a flaw in a piece of technology that is supposed to be designed to be safe.
Tesla Auto Pilot has already killed people, and other driver assistance technology has as well. The insurance companies paid up. So what you are saying has not been true so far.
Insurance companies cover human error, not technical error.
Hogwash. insurance companies pay according to their contract. Standard auto insurance includes coverage for mechanical failure.
If a car's accelerator pedal fails and sticks on and someone dies, insurance companies don't pay for that the car company does
Car companies carry insurance to cover those liabilities. So an insurance company (maybe even the same insurance company) still pays... and that is only if the manufacturer is found liable. If the failure was the result of normal wear-and-tear or poor maintenance, then that is unlikely.
Price is related to cost for taxis because they are heavily regulated. Remove the regulation and the cost skyrockets.
Uber/Lyft are basically unregulated taxis. They are cheaper than taxis. So your assertion that the price will "skyrocket" is absurd. That is exactly the opposite of what has actually happened. In the absence of regulation, anyone can offer rides.
Further, what makes you think it will ever be forbidden to drive manually? I think revoking the right to bear arms in the US will be easier.
The right to drive and the right to bear arms are not really comparable. Gun owners tend to be geographically concentrated in rural states where they have disproportionate political power. It is also not clear that many "gun control" proposals would actually leads to less gun violence.
The "right to drive" is more like the "right to smoke". Smokers are geographically dispersed, so have little political power, smoking is clearly dangerous, and restrictions on smoking have been effective in reducing harm. More restrictions and taxes cause fewer people to smoke, and as people stop smoking, they also stop caring about "the right to smoke", so there is even less resistance to further restrictions on tobacco.
It will be the same with human-driven-cars. As more people switch to SDCs, or forego car ownership to use self-driving-taxis, there will be less and less support for the "right-to-drive". So there will be more and more restrictions, starting with banning HDCs from express lanes and charging higher insurance premiums. Then they will be banned from congested roads during commute hours, etc. Finally, some drunk human will run into a van containing eight blonde honor students, and the moral outrage will compel the politicians to ban all human drivers.
If you think summoning a self driving car will be cheaper than taking a taxi today you're dreaming.
Most of the cost of a taxi is to pay the driver. A self-driving-taxi will not only be cheaper, but likely by an order of magnitude. Instead of a $30 ride to the airport, it will be $3. For most people, that will be cheaper than owning a car. My family has 3 cars (mine, my wife's, and my daughter's). Once SDTs are available, we will likely get rid of at least one of them, and maybe two.
1. Credit/debit cards cannot be used for peer-to-peer transactions. 2. Credit/debit cards require trust. How do I know that some random website isn't going to resell my CC info to criminals? Or charge additional fees to my card without my approval? Or store my info unencrypted on their insecure server? None of these are issues with Paypal.
It will only take 30-40 years after the virus is released...
There is no virus. A gene drive works by modifying the genome of the target organism, in this case, mice. They usually work using homing endonuclease to target genes that do or do not have a specific sequence at a specific location in the genome.
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Why is a third party monitor having problems a big blow to apple?
Because Apple no longer makes monitors, and other monitors don't use USB-C for video.
I don't recall ever using an apple branded monitor let alone some mythical "apple approved" one.
You traitorous scum!
Most of the nations food can be easily grown in the midwest.
If you want tomatoes in January, you aren't going to get them from the Midwest. You also aren't going to get grapes, almonds, or a wide range of vegetables. You will get sweet corn in July and August, and nothing the other 10 months.
The #2 state for agriculture is Texas, #3 is Iowa. In dollar value, California produces more than both of those combined.
No but the exterior often is in the winter and that's usually where the car spends most of its time. Plus who wants a mobile which will not work outside half the year?
These flow batteries are not for mobile phones and cars. They are for grid storage, which can be installed in a heated area.
They don't make money if you're not replacing your batteries all the time.
These flow batteries are targeted for home and grid storage, which is a market that currently barely exists. No powerful incumbents are being threatened. Utilities would be affected, but in a good way, since more grid storage would diminish the need for unprofitable "peaker" generators.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else.
You should work on being less oblivious to reality. Over the last decade, batteries have become far cheaper, higher capacity, and more reliable. This progress was the result of those "breakthroughs" that you read about.
It is not money that gives Elon credibility, but his list of accomplishments.
He has a track record of turning ideas into reality, so people pay attention.
To be fair, China's decline predated Mao by several generations. You can't blame Mao for the Opium Wars.
To be fair, China's decline predated the Opium Wars by a few centuries as well. You can't blame Opium for the Manchu conquest.
In public, I typically try not to do anything I wouldn't do in public.
That is NOT the issue. Right now, this tech is being justified by using it to keep bad people from behaving badly. But once it is deployed, it may also be used to track who is going to a political rally or protest, or who is visiting a dissident.
Don't be complacent just because we have a benevolent government that serves the interests of all citizens. In the future things may change, and it is even possible that we could be ruled by a narcissistic plutocrat that tries to divide the people and is intolerant of criticism.
The data is unlimited, not the speed.
That is sophistry. If the speed is limited, then obviously the data is as well.
No FTC required here.
The word "unlimited" has a common, everyday meaning that is understood by nearly everyone. Advertisers should not be allowed to make up a new meaning that is basically the opposite.
It's unlimited, but once you hit the threshold of 22GB, they throttle your speeds.
Then it is not unlimited. The FTC really should ban these companies from using such blatantly misleading terms.
It is not a product. Its not even a prototype. Its just an idea.
No. RTFA. There is working prototype.
We can ignore your list of reasons why it can't possibly work, since it already does.
Depending on the facility it would probably just be cheaper to construct a building with an integral bridge-crane
Are you serious? You really believe that a building size industrial gantry system would "probably" be cheaper than a 2 gram drone?
Second, it may be possible to use tubing and vacuum to collect pollen to a central point before redistributing, without requiring flying bots to constantly return to their docks.
Bees don't return to their hive after each flower, so there is no reason for drones to do that either.
When one looks at all the dense pack housing going up ...
Nonsense. The problem is exactly the opposite. The NIMBYs have used zoning laws and permit restrictions to effectively ban dense housing, so we get low density sprawl instead.
If we can even figure out what they are
We know what they are: Neoniotinoids.
and if there are replacements
There are plenty of good replacements.
and if chemicals still in the environment
Neonicotinoids are not particularly persistent. They are already banned in much of Europe. The are not banned in America mainly because of bureaucratic inertia. They don't need to be banned for all crops. For instance, it should be okay to use them on crops that don't attract bees, like corn. But for crops like alfalfa, they should not be used, and there should be penalties for misapplication.
These drones would not replace bees. Bees pollinate randomly, and that can be a problem when you need targeted pollination to produce hybrid seeds. Hybrid seeds are often expensive because hand pollination is used. These drones could automate that, and may be cheap enough that individual farmers could produce their own hybrids.
Anyway, the engineer who said, that in order to scale, these may have to be mass-produced, certainly has an incisive intellect. That guy should be promoted immediately, since nothing is more important than a firm grip on the obvious.
Right means conservative. Left means liberal. Conservative means "let's do the things we have always done." Liberal means "let's change how we do everything"
That has never really been true, and it certainly isn't true today, when many liberals want go back to the social policies of the 1960s and the economic policies of the 1950s.
I think the main difference between right and left is not the policies, but the justification for the policies. The right justifies their policies by saying they are good for the country, while the left says their policies are good for the citizens. The actual policies are not that different. Donald and Bernie have much more in common with each other than either has with moderates.
Because we're not talking about a flaw in a human, we're talking about a flaw in a piece of technology that is supposed to be designed to be safe.
Tesla Auto Pilot has already killed people, and other driver assistance technology has as well. The insurance companies paid up. So what you are saying has not been true so far.
Insurance companies cover human error, not technical error.
Hogwash. insurance companies pay according to their contract. Standard auto insurance includes coverage for mechanical failure.
If a car's accelerator pedal fails and sticks on and someone dies, insurance companies don't pay for that the car company does
Car companies carry insurance to cover those liabilities. So an insurance company (maybe even the same insurance company) still pays ... and that is only if the manufacturer is found liable. If the failure was the result of normal wear-and-tear or poor maintenance, then that is unlikely.
Price is related to cost for taxis because they are heavily regulated. Remove the regulation and the cost skyrockets.
Uber/Lyft are basically unregulated taxis. They are cheaper than taxis. So your assertion that the price will "skyrocket" is absurd. That is exactly the opposite of what has actually happened. In the absence of regulation, anyone can offer rides.
There are use cases that automatics just can't do. Downshifting in anticipation of a corner is the main one.
That is because the transmission doesn't know about the corner. But a SDC will know, so it can pre-shift just like a human can.
Further, what makes you think it will ever be forbidden to drive manually? I think revoking the right to bear arms in the US will be easier.
The right to drive and the right to bear arms are not really comparable. Gun owners tend to be geographically concentrated in rural states where they have disproportionate political power. It is also not clear that many "gun control" proposals would actually leads to less gun violence.
The "right to drive" is more like the "right to smoke". Smokers are geographically dispersed, so have little political power, smoking is clearly dangerous, and restrictions on smoking have been effective in reducing harm. More restrictions and taxes cause fewer people to smoke, and as people stop smoking, they also stop caring about "the right to smoke", so there is even less resistance to further restrictions on tobacco.
It will be the same with human-driven-cars. As more people switch to SDCs, or forego car ownership to use self-driving-taxis, there will be less and less support for the "right-to-drive". So there will be more and more restrictions, starting with banning HDCs from express lanes and charging higher insurance premiums. Then they will be banned from congested roads during commute hours, etc. Finally, some drunk human will run into a van containing eight blonde honor students, and the moral outrage will compel the politicians to ban all human drivers.
If you think summoning a self driving car will be cheaper than taking a taxi today you're dreaming.
Most of the cost of a taxi is to pay the driver. A self-driving-taxi will not only be cheaper, but likely by an order of magnitude. Instead of a $30 ride to the airport, it will be $3. For most people, that will be cheaper than owning a car. My family has 3 cars (mine, my wife's, and my daughter's). Once SDTs are available, we will likely get rid of at least one of them, and maybe two.
Dual clutch automatics are more or less manual transmissions with the clutching and gear movement automated.
Exactly. Other than being automated, they aren't really automatic.
Uh, credit card? Debit card?
1. Credit/debit cards cannot be used for peer-to-peer transactions.
2. Credit/debit cards require trust. How do I know that some random website isn't going to resell my CC info to criminals? Or charge additional fees to my card without my approval? Or store my info unencrypted on their insecure server? None of these are issues with Paypal.
The fix is simple
Not everyone believes that anything needs to be "fixed", or that scalping is a problem at all.
Make it illegal to sell tickets for higher than face value. It has worked amazingly well here.
Why should the police and courts get involved in supporting and subsidizing a broken business model?
Should the police also arrest people that resell used cars for prices not approved by the auto manufacturers?
It will only take 30-40 years after the virus is released ...
There is no virus. A gene drive works by modifying the genome of the target organism, in this case, mice. They usually work using homing endonuclease to target genes that do or do not have a specific sequence at a specific location in the genome.