Supposedly they never could find any study or any evidence that all this tech was things anybody actually wanted.
Many of these features are not standard, and millions of people have paid to have them as add-ons. When I bought my last car, I paid about $1500 for the electronics package, that included backup camera, navigation, parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, etc. It was money well spent.
More than 30,000 people die in traffic accidents every year, just in America, and more than a million are injured. "Smart cars" can reduce that, and full self-driving cars can reduce it every further.
A kg is roughly two pounds. So 250g is about half a pound.
If you want it a little more accurate, add 10% when going from kg to lb, and subtract 10% when going from lb to kg. So 250g is 0.55 lb, or about 9 ounces.
It is, because the only way to replace carbon-based energy, at our current level of consumption, is a massive move to nuclear
The reason nukophiles insist that nuclear is the only option, is because solar and wind cannot provide base load. But for charging cars, you don't need base load. You can use a smart charger that charges the car battery when, and only when, cheap power is available. Car charging is an easy way to shift demand to fit the supply of intermittent power.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress"...
Too late. 20th Century Fox is already working on a film adaption. It is tentatively called "Uprising". Besides, there is no reason to have only one film about moon colonization. I will see both, as will many others. The scifi film market is huge. If you look at the biggest movies off all time, the list is dominated by scifi and fantasy.
Nope. Even the surface of Saturn is about 120K, which is far warmer than -450F. But this "rain" is happening deep within Saturn where the temperature is several thousand K, hot enough to melt iron.
Volumetric energy density is what matters for cellphones. For electric cars, weight density is more important. Lithium-sulfur batteries tend to have short lifetimes, which isn't so important for cellphones, because they are replaced every year or two. It is a bigger issue for cars, which are expected to last at least 10 years.
Let me know when there are factories building these batteries, until then, *yawn*
This is a site with "news for nerds". If you are not interested in reading about interesting scientific research then go elsewhere. I am just happy that it is Friday, and so far there are no SJW articles.
Btw, the summary is muddle-headed. It compares "lithium compounds" to "sulfer compounds" when the Sony battery is actually Lithium-Sulfur, with both lithium and sulfer. Lithium-Sulfur batteries are not new, but they are not widely used because they tend to degrade and have short lifetimes. Maybe Sony figured out a solution to that.
How about we work on making them last at least 1 day on a full charge?
I have a Galaxy 5. After a full day, it is typically still about 90% charged. I turn off Bluetooth and Wifi when I am not using them. I don't play games on my phone, and I don't use it to watch Youtube.
Its creepy as hell and needs to be made illegal yesterday.
In principle, how is it any different from sharing photos on Facebook? I don't see how they can make this illegal without also banning many popular and commonly accepted activities.
The tax breaks make sense for each individual state. Just like when you are arrested, and offered a plea deal to rat on your partners, it makes sense to do so: This is the Prisoner's Dilemma. It would be best if the states would all agree to mutually stop the tax breaks, but in the absence of such an agreement, it makes sense for an individual state to defect, and offer a break.
It is unfortunate that the courts don't ban these special tax breaks under the constitution's equal protection clause. No company should get a "special deal" that is not available to any other company. They should all be treated equally.
Wouldn't it be quicker to just blow up the lenders?
But even for that you do not need a Death Star. Even with our primitive technology, we could easily wipe out a planetary civilization with a few thousand tonnes of lithium deuteride and a plutonium trigger. The total cost would be less than $1B. The Death Star likely costs at least a few quadrillion dollars. The Death Star was a great plot device, but from the viewpoint of an economist, it made very little sense.
Work on real problems, and if you can't see any and you're an economist, you're also fired.
Well, it does illustrate a basic economic concept: If you buy guns instead of butter, you cannot later change your mind and transmogrify the guns into butter. It is surprising how many people don't understand the principle of sunk costs.
So if it's semi-private, it probably means regular people won't be able to mine, which means that corrupted banks will try to take over
No, that is not what this is about. This is not a takeover of bitcoin by the banks. This is about using a separate semi-private blockchain to verify non-bitcoin transactions. Currently, financial transactions, such as stock or bond sales, can take several days to clear, and involve significant transaction costs. By using a blockchain, these transactions could be verified in seconds, and at lower cost.
The problem with the study is the selective use of calorie as a measure instead of nutrient.
There are many problems with this study. Comparing cucumbers to pork is silly, since people don't eat cucumbers as a substitute for bacon. If you want to compare something to bacon, then you should compare tofu, beans, tempeh, or peanuts. But then you would find that per calorie or per gram of protein, the veggie option is far better for the environment, and then there is no shocking headline to generate clicks.
No, the spending bill needs to be voted on by both the House and the Senate. So nothing passed yet.
Correct. But since it is a budget bill, it can pass the senate with a simple majority, and does not require the normal 60 votes for cloture. This is an underhanded way of passing something that is not legitimately part of a budget.
Low IQ and poverty are strongly correlated. Just because the correlation isn't 1.0, doesn't mean there is no relationship. Sure, a few dumb people get rich, but most don't.
Now you and I have have to pay to provide them all with bottled water?
That is a lot cheaper than paying for all the police and prisons that will be required if we let kids get poisoned with lead. Lead causes a significant drop in IQ and a rise in violent anti-social behavior. Getting lead out of our kids' blood is one the most cost effective public health measures imaginable.
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Supposedly they never could find any study or any evidence that all this tech was things anybody actually wanted.
Many of these features are not standard, and millions of people have paid to have them as add-ons. When I bought my last car, I paid about $1500 for the electronics package, that included backup camera, navigation, parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, etc. It was money well spent.
More than 30,000 people die in traffic accidents every year, just in America, and more than a million are injured. "Smart cars" can reduce that, and full self-driving cars can reduce it every further.
Imperial units?
A kg is roughly two pounds. So 250g is about half a pound.
If you want it a little more accurate, add 10% when going from kg to lb, and subtract 10% when going from lb to kg. So 250g is 0.55 lb, or about 9 ounces.
I need my car to be ready to go at morning when I'll leave for work. That means the battery needs to start charging as soon as I'm home.
If you have a typical 10-20 mile commute, your car can recharge in about an hour.
the grid will need to provide power when I need it, not when it happens to be available.
Sure, as long as you are willing to pay extra, you can charge whenever you want.
Long term investment is thought to be encouraged by higher taxes on capital gains
Why should "long term" investing be encouraged? Is there any evidence whatsoever that long term investing is better for the economy?
It is, because the only way to replace carbon-based energy, at our current level of consumption, is a massive move to nuclear
The reason nukophiles insist that nuclear is the only option, is because solar and wind cannot provide base load. But for charging cars, you don't need base load. You can use a smart charger that charges the car battery when, and only when, cheap power is available. Car charging is an easy way to shift demand to fit the supply of intermittent power.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" ...
Too late. 20th Century Fox is already working on a film adaption. It is tentatively called "Uprising". Besides, there is no reason to have only one film about moon colonization. I will see both, as will many others. The scifi film market is huge. If you look at the biggest movies off all time, the list is dominated by scifi and fantasy.
That's so cool. Like, -450 F.
Nope. Even the surface of Saturn is about 120K, which is far warmer than -450F. But this "rain" is happening deep within Saturn where the temperature is several thousand K, hot enough to melt iron.
it's using volumetric energy density for both:
Volumetric energy density is what matters for cellphones. For electric cars, weight density is more important. Lithium-sulfur batteries tend to have short lifetimes, which isn't so important for cellphones, because they are replaced every year or two. It is a bigger issue for cars, which are expected to last at least 10 years.
Let me know when there are factories building these batteries, until then, *yawn*
This is a site with "news for nerds". If you are not interested in reading about interesting scientific research then go elsewhere. I am just happy that it is Friday, and so far there are no SJW articles.
Btw, the summary is muddle-headed. It compares "lithium compounds" to "sulfer compounds" when the Sony battery is actually Lithium-Sulfur, with both lithium and sulfer. Lithium-Sulfur batteries are not new, but they are not widely used because they tend to degrade and have short lifetimes. Maybe Sony figured out a solution to that.
How about we work on making them last at least 1 day on a full charge?
I have a Galaxy 5. After a full day, it is typically still about 90% charged. I turn off Bluetooth and Wifi when I am not using them. I don't play games on my phone, and I don't use it to watch Youtube.
Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.
You get Skynet anyway. The only question is who gets there first: The Western democracies, or China.
instead some pictures are being shared without your consent.
It is a good thing that never happens on Facebook.
Retailers post pictures on their wall saying "Do not accept checks from this person".
Are there any retailers that still accept checks?
Its creepy as hell and needs to be made illegal yesterday.
In principle, how is it any different from sharing photos on Facebook? I don't see how they can make this illegal without also banning many popular and commonly accepted activities.
WHICH government?
Where does almost all computer equipment get made?
They found malicious code in the source code to the OS. It is irrelevant where the hardware is assembled, since that is not what was compromised.
The tax breaks make sense for each individual state. Just like when you are arrested, and offered a plea deal to rat on your partners, it makes sense to do so: This is the Prisoner's Dilemma. It would be best if the states would all agree to mutually stop the tax breaks, but in the absence of such an agreement, it makes sense for an individual state to defect, and offer a break.
It is unfortunate that the courts don't ban these special tax breaks under the constitution's equal protection clause. No company should get a "special deal" that is not available to any other company. They should all be treated equally.
Wouldn't it be quicker to just blow up the lenders?
But even for that you do not need a Death Star. Even with our primitive technology, we could easily wipe out a planetary civilization with a few thousand tonnes of lithium deuteride and a plutonium trigger. The total cost would be less than $1B. The Death Star likely costs at least a few quadrillion dollars. The Death Star was a great plot device, but from the viewpoint of an economist, it made very little sense.
Work on real problems, and if you can't see any and you're an economist, you're also fired.
Well, it does illustrate a basic economic concept: If you buy guns instead of butter, you cannot later change your mind and transmogrify the guns into butter. It is surprising how many people don't understand the principle of sunk costs.
Except really you need to eliminate soy because it has other undesirable effects.
Soy also has some desirable effects. It contains genistein, which can make women grow bigger boobs.
So if it's semi-private, it probably means regular people won't be able to mine, which means that corrupted banks will try to take over
No, that is not what this is about. This is not a takeover of bitcoin by the banks. This is about using a separate semi-private blockchain to verify non-bitcoin transactions. Currently, financial transactions, such as stock or bond sales, can take several days to clear, and involve significant transaction costs. By using a blockchain, these transactions could be verified in seconds, and at lower cost.
The problem with the study is the selective use of calorie as a measure instead of nutrient.
There are many problems with this study. Comparing cucumbers to pork is silly, since people don't eat cucumbers as a substitute for bacon. If you want to compare something to bacon, then you should compare tofu, beans, tempeh, or peanuts. But then you would find that per calorie or per gram of protein, the veggie option is far better for the environment, and then there is no shocking headline to generate clicks.
No, the spending bill needs to be voted on by both the House and the Senate. So nothing passed yet.
Correct. But since it is a budget bill, it can pass the senate with a simple majority, and does not require the normal 60 votes for cloture. This is an underhanded way of passing something that is not legitimately part of a budget.
If low IQ and poverty were related ...
Low IQ and poverty are strongly correlated. Just because the correlation isn't 1.0, doesn't mean there is no relationship. Sure, a few dumb people get rich, but most don't.
the last thing we want is a town full of angry poor people
Yes, and the lead causes both the poverty and the anger.
Now you and I have have to pay to provide them all with bottled water?
That is a lot cheaper than paying for all the police and prisons that will be required if we let kids get poisoned with lead. Lead causes a significant drop in IQ and a rise in violent anti-social behavior. Getting lead out of our kids' blood is one the most cost effective public health measures imaginable.