While respect is something you earn, a respectful treatment of anyone until proven otherwise is probably a good stance to take. There is a difference between the two.
I don't know in what industry you work, but this makes me cringe... in finance or pharma this is just a regulatory risk waiting to turn into huge fines and more important, loss of reputation. Maybe you could point out to your managers that damage to reputation will always be much more expensive than the cost of a decent storage system.
A pretty expensive joke, but I'm sure that given the fact the entire world was laughing its collective asses off, it was well worth it in health benefits alone.
Dude, have you ever *been* to Norway? There is just NO way in hell a train will ever be able to compete with a plane, over any sort of distance. The terrain is *rugged*.
Not just Norway. When the Norwegians demonstrate that the use of these airplanes is both safe and cost effective, European airlines will order them rapidly. The main thing holding back the expansion of Schiphol Airport right now is both sound pollution and air pollution. Any airline that flies EV planes will get as many slots as they need, and will push out the other airlines when so required, because suddenly Schiphol can go from 500.000 airplane movements to "as many as they can handle", which is quite a lot more. No need for that second airport after all...
Seriously, the Norwegians have less of a problem than Schiphol or heck, Charles de Gaulle, or London City Airport. They'd all be thrilled to welcome EV planes. I bet they'd even install the infrastructure for charging in a real hurry, for free.
So what is the battery lifetime then? 5 years? Because that's when you deprecate more than half of the value of a normal car. After 10 years you're below 20%.
Tesla battery is at 92% on average after 220000 km and slowly going down with 1% every 20000 km. I drive about 40000 km per year at most, 30000 on average. I might notice a drop in battery life in, say, 15 years. That's not going to noticeably impact depreciation.
Also, my batteries in the Prius hybrid are not as good as those of the Tesla, but Toyota now provides an unlimited lifetime warranty on them. That's retroactive for all existing Priuses. They would never do that if battery life was a huge issue. The standard ICE failing is a much bigger problem. Although I have to say that at a cost of 2 eurocents/km in maintenance I can't actually complain about that part either.
If you apply for the Tesla charger to put one up at your parking lot, you get one free. No need to buy another. So it's infinitely cheaper.
Second, gas stations in densely populated areas are not recommended and often can't get zoning permits. No problem for the charger. Third, gas stations need very expensive street coverings to prevent oil spills and fuel spills contaminating the ground water. No problem for the charger.
I think 2-3 times cheaper is an understatement, depending on where you live. Locally, I'd say it would be about 10-100 times cheaper.
The non-ev competition for that roadster has less range, costs around 4x as much and requires even lower speeds if you don't want a pitstop every 2-3 rounds on the track. Comparing the roadster to a sedan is like comparing a ferrari to my prius: sure, the ferrari has worse mileage. Wanna trade?
Last week someone came up with a new way to bind a chemical to hydrogen, turning it into a rather weird powder. Then you can turn it into a fluid with a solvent and suddenly the hydrogen releases. Can't find it now though.
If they can make it work, hydrogen is a go. That would make fossil fuel companies very, very happy.
The only thing that matters for a taxi is cents per kilometer (or mile). And it needs to be compliant to regulations. Otherwise, they don't care. So apparently quite a few taxi drivers did the math. Maintenance for vehicles that drive around a lot is a large part of the picture. Depreciation even more but the standard taxi cabs are just as expensive (over here at least it's mostly Mercedes-Benz or Audi) and certainly have a lot more in maintenance cost.
Taxi drivers usually can count. If they drive a Tesla it's usually because it's a good idea in one way or another.
Well, tbh it was already a mess. The lootboxes in CS:GO are basically lottery tickets, because the loot is priced at a market and changed into real money. I've been wondering when they'd regulate that but apparently, PC games aren't a thing in the regulatory universe until newspapers pay attention.
I actually went to a meeting about this yesterday. The woman explaining things was a former addict. She used to be on cocaine. Her (now ex-)husband used to be on stronger drugs.
She had a really good presentation on what addiction to screens means, how it functions, how mobile phone time is related to, but not the same as, gaming time. She described a number of interactions between too much time spent on screens and depression. One of the things that struck me was the similarity between the dopamine release of a game on your phone, or likes on instagram, and the dopamine release of cocaine. It's milder, but similar.
She said that most addictions are caused by external things as being bullied, or being abused, parents divorcing or dying, or other bad life experiences. Normally, teenagers would have to deal with it. Not all of them did that well, but everyone was forced to cope one way or another. However, a lot of teenagers now have an escape in the screens they carry. So instead of dealing with issues, they avoid them. This leads to isolation, doing worse in school, etcetera, and can then become a vicious circle.
There are a lot more components to it, and some reinforce each other. In any case, I'm limiting the screen time for my teen at home. It's not bad that he has to actually converse with us in the evening. Or does something else besides homework and playing Overwatch.
How is a fetus an organism instead of a parasite? It's just a blob of cells without separate existence. Remove it from the woman and it's a decomposing blob. And how do you move from "random organism has no rights" to "let's kill humans"?
Well, jurisdiction is normally a good idea. If I reside in the EU and hack your computer, it is actually helpful that you can go to your own countries legal system and get redress, instead of having to go abroad for justice. Vice versa, noone would be able to afford justice in the USA if they don't live there, so it also prevents inhabitants of rich countries from abusing those of poorer countries. Well, not if the gap is too big, but if the gap is not that big you're going to be able to get justice somewhere.
Suppose it wasn't in place. That would make contracts unenforceable. How would you like to do business with anyone overseas then? That would be a huge problem. Basically, there's a good reason why jurisdictions and international treaties evolved. A lot of it is unpalatable to me, but it's not quite as insane as you'd think.
Yep. Although to be honest, while they fucked over the world, the EU did the same by trading Disney's copyright extension for continued support of EU agriculture subsidies. Equal opportunity assholes.
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While respect is something you earn, a respectful treatment of anyone until proven otherwise is probably a good stance to take. There is a difference between the two.
It doesn't matter if [...] his skin color was different.
Good. Because it is orange. I would not want to discriminate against our new Orange overlords. Especially since they rule my country already.
I don't know in what industry you work, but this makes me cringe... in finance or pharma this is just a regulatory risk waiting to turn into huge fines and more important, loss of reputation. Maybe you could point out to your managers that damage to reputation will always be much more expensive than the cost of a decent storage system.
Actually, that would be around 38% instead of the 26% avg. tax pressure in the USA.
12% more taxes is not a bad price for living in a Utopia, I feel. But feel free to continue living in Hell :)
"man made localized climate change", aka "deforestation and erosion".
Oh, this is how it ended. More juice goodness :)
http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...
Oh yeah, that one was absolutely hilarious. The Moscow embassy: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11...
A pretty expensive joke, but I'm sure that given the fact the entire world was laughing its collective asses off, it was well worth it in health benefits alone.
Burn at the stake, heretic!
Given the traffic, 12-20 seats would make a lot more sense to me.
Dude, have you ever *been* to Norway? There is just NO way in hell a train will ever be able to compete with a plane, over any sort of distance. The terrain is *rugged*.
Now I finally understand why they call it a short *haul*... thanks!
Well, let's not be too harsh on the Americans.
Not just Norway. When the Norwegians demonstrate that the use of these airplanes is both safe and cost effective, European airlines will order them rapidly. The main thing holding back the expansion of Schiphol Airport right now is both sound pollution and air pollution. Any airline that flies EV planes will get as many slots as they need, and will push out the other airlines when so required, because suddenly Schiphol can go from 500.000 airplane movements to "as many as they can handle", which is quite a lot more. No need for that second airport after all...
Seriously, the Norwegians have less of a problem than Schiphol or heck, Charles de Gaulle, or London City Airport. They'd all be thrilled to welcome EV planes. I bet they'd even install the infrastructure for charging in a real hurry, for free.
So what is the battery lifetime then? 5 years? Because that's when you deprecate more than half of the value of a normal car. After 10 years you're below 20%.
Tesla battery is at 92% on average after 220000 km and slowly going down with 1% every 20000 km. I drive about 40000 km per year at most, 30000 on average. I might notice a drop in battery life in, say, 15 years. That's not going to noticeably impact depreciation.
Also, my batteries in the Prius hybrid are not as good as those of the Tesla, but Toyota now provides an unlimited lifetime warranty on them. That's retroactive for all existing Priuses. They would never do that if battery life was a huge issue. The standard ICE failing is a much bigger problem. Although I have to say that at a cost of 2 eurocents/km in maintenance I can't actually complain about that part either.
If you apply for the Tesla charger to put one up at your parking lot, you get one free. No need to buy another. So it's infinitely cheaper.
Second, gas stations in densely populated areas are not recommended and often can't get zoning permits. No problem for the charger.
Third, gas stations need very expensive street coverings to prevent oil spills and fuel spills contaminating the ground water. No problem for the charger.
I think 2-3 times cheaper is an understatement, depending on where you live. Locally, I'd say it would be about 10-100 times cheaper.
The non-ev competition for that roadster has less range, costs around 4x as much and requires even lower speeds if you don't want a pitstop every 2-3 rounds on the track. Comparing the roadster to a sedan is like comparing a ferrari to my prius: sure, the ferrari has worse mileage. Wanna trade?
Last week someone came up with a new way to bind a chemical to hydrogen, turning it into a rather weird powder. Then you can turn it into a fluid with a solvent and suddenly the hydrogen releases. Can't find it now though.
If they can make it work, hydrogen is a go. That would make fossil fuel companies very, very happy.
It must be nice to own a car very few people will ever own.
The only thing that matters for a taxi is cents per kilometer (or mile). And it needs to be compliant to regulations. Otherwise, they don't care. So apparently quite a few taxi drivers did the math. Maintenance for vehicles that drive around a lot is a large part of the picture. Depreciation even more but the standard taxi cabs are just as expensive (over here at least it's mostly Mercedes-Benz or Audi) and certainly have a lot more in maintenance cost.
Taxi drivers usually can count. If they drive a Tesla it's usually because it's a good idea in one way or another.
... if you like my ride!
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Well, tbh it was already a mess. The lootboxes in CS:GO are basically lottery tickets, because the loot is priced at a market and changed into real money. I've been wondering when they'd regulate that but apparently, PC games aren't a thing in the regulatory universe until newspapers pay attention.
I actually went to a meeting about this yesterday. The woman explaining things was a former addict. She used to be on cocaine. Her (now ex-)husband used to be on stronger drugs.
She had a really good presentation on what addiction to screens means, how it functions, how mobile phone time is related to, but not the same as, gaming time. She described a number of interactions between too much time spent on screens and depression. One of the things that struck me was the similarity between the dopamine release of a game on your phone, or likes on instagram, and the dopamine release of cocaine. It's milder, but similar.
She said that most addictions are caused by external things as being bullied, or being abused, parents divorcing or dying, or other bad life experiences. Normally, teenagers would have to deal with it. Not all of them did that well, but everyone was forced to cope one way or another. However, a lot of teenagers now have an escape in the screens they carry. So instead of dealing with issues, they avoid them. This leads to isolation, doing worse in school, etcetera, and can then become a vicious circle.
There are a lot more components to it, and some reinforce each other. In any case, I'm limiting the screen time for my teen at home. It's not bad that he has to actually converse with us in the evening. Or does something else besides homework and playing Overwatch.
How is a fetus an organism instead of a parasite? It's just a blob of cells without separate existence. Remove it from the woman and it's a decomposing blob. And how do you move from "random organism has no rights" to "let's kill humans"?
By their own stance, logically,
Oh, the irony...
Well, jurisdiction is normally a good idea. If I reside in the EU and hack your computer, it is actually helpful that you can go to your own countries legal system and get redress, instead of having to go abroad for justice. Vice versa, noone would be able to afford justice in the USA if they don't live there, so it also prevents inhabitants of rich countries from abusing those of poorer countries. Well, not if the gap is too big, but if the gap is not that big you're going to be able to get justice somewhere.
Suppose it wasn't in place. That would make contracts unenforceable. How would you like to do business with anyone overseas then? That would be a huge problem. Basically, there's a good reason why jurisdictions and international treaties evolved. A lot of it is unpalatable to me, but it's not quite as insane as you'd think.
Yep. Although to be honest, while they fucked over the world, the EU did the same by trading Disney's copyright extension for continued support of EU agriculture subsidies. Equal opportunity assholes.