Single data point, 2005 BMW 320d, Service every year after 22000 miles (much motorway, that distance is what the cad decided), current total mileage 304,000
What science does is attempt to provide a model that can be used to understand how reality operates, but the model is not the thing it models.
Its been very successful at creating those models, and they are very useful, but no one who isnt trying to create a strawman is under any illusion that they are in some sense true. Truth is a mathematical concept not a scientific one.
IMHO, the central flaw to your reasoning is the assumption that we need to understand something 100% before we can create it. We can make a firework (and did) before we understood the chemistry that is involved in gunpowder. Evolution (the process that caused us to exist) is not conscious, it just rolls the dice and then applies a measure (survival) as to the value of the outcome. So the simple can create the (more) complex.
I would have thought thermal noise in a resistor or semiconductor (which is in itself generated by subatomic so quantum, events) would be just as random.
"winning by one-thousandth of a second is boring, lads, unless quite literally it was a head-to-head photo-finish with no other competitors near, and a rare exception."
Not sure how you can win an F1 race by a thousandth of a second without a competitor a thousandth of a second behind.
That's measuring by meal count, which I believe is most practical.
Well, maybe most practical in terms of supporting your idea that you are 80% vegan, but I think a more representative way would be to look at the food consumed over a larger time, say a month. I could just as easy argue that I am 95% vegan, as I spend less that 72 minutes a day eating, but when I eat my diet is 100% animal based. if you are vegan, you dont consume animal products, if you are not vegan the chances are you are a omnivore. Being 80% vegan is functionally equivalent to not being a vegan. Most folk would just say they don’t eat much meat, but I suspect you think "80% vegan" says something better about yourself.
"I didn't think May could be that devious or smart. It may just be an unintended consequence she didn't understand but will come to realize what a smart move it was."
I don't think you understand just how devious an smart you need to be to get near the top of the Tory party. Yes there is a lot of inherited privilege and insider dealings, but that applies to the competition as well, and May is not from the Eton set, so that makes here rise even more indicative of cunning and guile.
"No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books."
I think you should read more of the actual books. The idea of the robots protecting humanity by removing control from them was covered in the latter caves of steel novels.
Then watch the film again, they didn't turn against, they took over control.
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So you do agree that its possible to live again after being dead, its just a matter of arguing about the duration of the "short while"
And of course blood transfusions would like to have a word.
"The one constant is that they'll often work long hours because they usually have no family,"
And that is in the companies interest because?
Single data point, 2005 BMW 320d, Service every year after 22000 miles (much motorway, that distance is what the cad decided), current total mileage 304,000
So, is a photon a wave or a particle?
What science does is attempt to provide a model that can be used to understand how reality operates, but the model is not the thing it models.
Its been very successful at creating those models, and they are very useful, but no one who isnt trying to create a strawman is under any illusion that they are in some sense true. Truth is a mathematical concept not a scientific one.
"#3 I don't think Tesla had much to say about the "secrets of the universe" but yes, it is interesting."
If you read some of his writings, he had a lot to say on many things. Most of them come over as the words of a crazy man,
Hey, lets invent wind powered ships, they could catch on.
"The point to remember is that limitations imposed by theoretical physicists are tentative at best."
The problem with your story is that the limitations of capacitor size was not constrained by theoretical physicists but by available material tech.
Plants are warm as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20160715-organisms-might-be-quantum-machines
"but statistically beautiful people are far more likely to have beautiful children."
So where did all these ugly people you talk about come from?
"I challenge anyone to come up with a more fun name to same than Francois Mitterand."
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"A word made up by sjws"
And this used to be a tech site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism
"While HTS conductors are superconducting at 77K (liquid nitrogen) they will always work better the colder they are."
Given that they are superconducting at 77K, exactly how will they be "better" at a lower temperature? Are they less resistive than 0 ohm?
No, but a trend does prove a trend.
IMHO, the central flaw to your reasoning is the assumption that we need to understand something 100% before we can create it. We can make a firework (and did) before we understood the chemistry that is involved in gunpowder. Evolution (the process that caused us to exist) is not conscious, it just rolls the dice and then applies a measure (survival) as to the value of the outcome. So the simple can create the (more) complex.
I would have thought thermal noise in a resistor or semiconductor (which is in itself generated by subatomic so quantum, events) would be just as random.
"winning by one-thousandth of a second is boring, lads, unless quite literally it was a head-to-head photo-finish with no other competitors near, and a rare exception."
Not sure how you can win an F1 race by a thousandth of a second without a competitor a thousandth of a second behind.
"No space elevators require "unobtanium" just to fricking work."
I think you will find they all do. Would you like a spare comma?
It has to be posted
https://xkcd.com/927/
He ain't sacrificing shit, he's richer now than he's ever been.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/
Well that just makes him smart then...
That's measuring by meal count, which I believe is most practical.
Well, maybe most practical in terms of supporting your idea that you are 80% vegan, but I think a more representative way would be to look at the food consumed over a larger time, say a month. I could just as easy argue that I am 95% vegan, as I spend less that 72 minutes a day eating, but when I eat my diet is 100% animal based. if you are vegan, you dont consume animal products, if you are not vegan the chances are you are a omnivore. Being 80% vegan is functionally equivalent to not being a vegan. Most folk would just say they don’t eat much meat, but I suspect you think "80% vegan" says something better about yourself.
I'm about 80% vegan
So are most omnivores. But if it makes you feel better they you call yourself a 4/5th Vegan.
The explanation is simple, read and try and understand the Dunning–Kruger effect.
I will make it simple, here is a a link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
"I didn't think May could be that devious or smart. It may just be an unintended consequence she didn't understand but will come to realize what a smart move it was."
I don't think you understand just how devious an smart you need to be to get near the top of the Tory party. Yes there is a lot of inherited privilege and insider dealings, but that applies to the competition as well, and May is not from the Eton set, so that makes here rise even more indicative of cunning and guile.
"No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books."
I think you should read more of the actual books. The idea of the robots protecting humanity by removing control from them was covered in the latter caves of steel novels.
Then watch the film again, they didn't turn against, they took over control.
1. You suggest more people buy used cars than news one. Just where do these used cars appear from?
2. Just because someone is not driving this year model, doesn't mean they didn’t buy the car new last year or five years ago.