For that to be true the inflation rate would have to be almost 4.5%. If inflation was that high interest rates would be much higher, not 3%. The best measure of inflation is bond markets.
It's also worth noting that the vast majority of Tesla fires involved severe accidents that totaled the car as a whole.
It would be informative to know the rate at which incidents that "total" an ICE vehicle also result in a fire. I know that what an insurance company considers a loss is not necessarily a complete loss. A severely damaged vehicle can be used for salvage parts; in fact, a friend's father once bought two "totalled" vehicles of the same model, one with front end damage and one with rear end damage and made one working car out of them. Once you light it on fire, parts become less useful as salvage.
My comment gets modded down with no explanation? How about the modder explain how my facts are wrong or write a counter explanation? I guess they think those Amazon boxes magically fall from the sky onto their porch and didn't require any actual work be done to get it there.
I think they might be the same people who freak out when one Tesla caught fire, while petrofueled vehicles burn up every day.
There are orders of magnitude more ICE cars substantially older than Teslas on the road (just this morning I saw two different cars on the road that are 50 years old.) Given the fact that the oldest possible Tesla S is seven years old and their small relative numbers, the even one catching on fire should be disturbing.
While bad things happening to an older car are often attributable to wear, bad things happening to a fairly new car usually point to a design flaw.
I'm anxiously awaiting companies to start releasing electrified pickups and EVs with at least 50-100 miles of electric range or preferably completely EV. I'm watching the Rivian and Tesla offerings closely and hoping they motivate Ford/GM/FCA to get seriously busy with EV versions of their trucks too.
I believe the pickups of which you speak are the ones driven by people as transportation, not the ones that do actual work. The Diesel duallys that pull work trailers have a 48 gallon tank for Diesel fuel. Diesel has 1.5e8j/gallon so one tank of fuel is 7.2e9j. That is 2000kwh of energy or 23 P85 Tesla batteries. At only 1200 lbs per battery, that is ~25,000 lbs of batteries. Many people who own these trucks for work purposes add a tank in the truck bed that adds another 50 gallons. Now you are talking about 50,000 lbs worth of batteries. All this on a truck that only weighs 7000 lbs.
As a transportation fuel (meaning a fuel that has to be carried) batteries suck from an energy per unit of mass standpoint. If scientists can double the energy per unit of mass twice they might be viable for doing actual work.
If feminists actually wanted progress they would want nothing said at all about this. True equality means the best person does the job without consideration of gender, ethnicity or any other personal factor. Pointing out that a task was completed only by women makes it seems as though there was some question whether it could be completed without a man. Long gone are the days when the prevailing thought is that women are incapable of technical or mechanical tasks. The battery will not be installed any differently because of the gender of the people are doing it. Concrete progress in social justice will be measured by the day when an article can say "Astronauts Shannon Miller and Marion Cruz completed a spacewalk" and we don't even know the genders of the people involved.
It isn't just higher latitudes, its everywhere in Canada. Canada ranks number 230 on a list of 241 defined regions sorted by population density. More people live in Tokyo than the entire country of Canada.
In theory, it should be very easy to distinguish a meteor impact from a nuke.
Nukes also start on the ground. If we can detect launches then a "down" without a corresponding "up" should make a meteor easy to detect. If we can't detect launches then you can use all your fancy gamma ray detectors.;-)
Assuming you aren't joking, this is a terrible idea. In all fields, the universe progresses through competition. Always has, always will. Removing competition will only slow progress.
This is a survey that scores a community in large part upon its level of public services, said services being almost the definition of a welfare state. Should it be any surprise that a city in a welfare state country or welfare state in the United States score high on that list?
If I made a survey of cities based upon freedom of activity, low tax burden and lack of government restriction and oversight not one of those cities would make the list. I know in which group I would rather live.
This isn't surprising. Many systems have a minimum password length of six characters so a user attempting "12345" would naturally use "123456" to meet the requirement. As "12345" was not an option it would naturally be seen less as a password.
I'm all for keeping walled gardens out of the Oscars.
If the Oscars are supposed to be about recognizing the best work in a field, why should it matter where it is shown? Is a work of art any less valid because it is performed for a select audience?
This means that if a calm day is predicted for tomorrow, you would know to put off running the oven and the dryer for another day.
What would in fact happen is that the wind farm, knowing it will have less power to deliver, will offer less for sale so the power grid will contract with baseload providers for the difference. What messes up electricity service is rapid and unexpected change.
Rand's philosophy is difficult to buy into because it is incomplete. It has a substantial amount of good ideas that are not wrong but they are lacking. I corresponded with Nathaniel Branden, one of her top followers, about this and he helped me to work Objectivism into a more coherent world view. I wish I still had his emails as he is now deceased.
I am aware that this is a fantasy tale. That said, superheroes that count on strength look like circus strongmen. Mr. Incredible is this idea taken to an extreme. Male superheroes and villians that don't rely on strength don't *look* strong, think Professor Xavier, Magneto, Lex Luthor, Hawkeye and Cyclops. How a character is visualized is an indicator of their superpower. You will not see a strong superhero that looks like Steve Erkul. Even though given supernatural powers there is no reason Steve Erkul couldn't be strong, our subconscious mind screams bullsh*t. We just won't accept it.
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One year is a short timeline to declare success. This is a positive development but it will be instructive to see how this works over a multiyear period.
So you spent 10 minutes doing some VERY high level discrimination to determine, in the context of the problem as understood by your brain, which already written solution fits your particular problem
and only then copy
If you copied it, somebody else wrote it in the first place.
Step one is a really, really big deal. The copied code isn't too small a deal either.
Indexes are magic when a developer doesn't utilize them. Nothing has quite an impact on management as a report than runs in 15 minutes instead of two hours. They are happy to write the check for your fee.
A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
The problem isn't leading ladies but plausibility. Women in general are not physiologically strong. An exceptional female is at the level of a merely above average male. Superman is supernaturally strong, but he also looks like he works out. The same is true of Captain America. Much is made visually of his musculature. Same with Black Panther. Each of these presents an image that strong men have bodies that appear to have enlarged muscles. There is a mental disconnect between the visual of a woman physically dominating men and the same happening in reality. The reality is that in a fight with Natasha Romanov a tank would take her first punch on his raised forearms, grapple her to the ground and beat the $#%^ out of her. I think this is a large part of the appeal of a hero like Katniss Everdeen. She is smart, focused and skilled in the use of weapons. This is a believable female hero.
The SJW culture is trying to tell us that men and women are equal and Hollywood is trying to confirm through film. Our brains are telling us "Something just isn't right here..."
What would be really interesting is to see how the data gets skewed when the subset of the technically competent is removed from the population dataset.
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For that to be true the inflation rate would have to be almost 4.5%. If inflation was that high interest rates would be much higher, not 3%. The best measure of inflation is bond markets.
It's also worth noting that the vast majority of Tesla fires involved severe accidents that totaled the car as a whole.
It would be informative to know the rate at which incidents that "total" an ICE vehicle also result in a fire. I know that what an insurance company considers a loss is not necessarily a complete loss. A severely damaged vehicle can be used for salvage parts; in fact, a friend's father once bought two "totalled" vehicles of the same model, one with front end damage and one with rear end damage and made one working car out of them. Once you light it on fire, parts become less useful as salvage.
My comment gets modded down with no explanation? How about the modder explain how my facts are wrong or write a counter explanation? I guess they think those Amazon boxes magically fall from the sky onto their porch and didn't require any actual work be done to get it there.
I think they might be the same people who freak out when one Tesla caught fire, while petrofueled vehicles burn up every day.
There are orders of magnitude more ICE cars substantially older than Teslas on the road (just this morning I saw two different cars on the road that are 50 years old.) Given the fact that the oldest possible Tesla S is seven years old and their small relative numbers, the even one catching on fire should be disturbing.
While bad things happening to an older car are often attributable to wear, bad things happening to a fairly new car usually point to a design flaw.
I'm anxiously awaiting companies to start releasing electrified pickups and EVs with at least 50-100 miles of electric range or preferably completely EV. I'm watching the Rivian and Tesla offerings closely and hoping they motivate Ford/GM/FCA to get seriously busy with EV versions of their trucks too.
I believe the pickups of which you speak are the ones driven by people as transportation, not the ones that do actual work. The Diesel duallys that pull work trailers have a 48 gallon tank for Diesel fuel. Diesel has 1.5e8j/gallon so one tank of fuel is 7.2e9j. That is 2000kwh of energy or 23 P85 Tesla batteries. At only 1200 lbs per battery, that is ~25,000 lbs of batteries. Many people who own these trucks for work purposes add a tank in the truck bed that adds another 50 gallons. Now you are talking about 50,000 lbs worth of batteries. All this on a truck that only weighs 7000 lbs.
As a transportation fuel (meaning a fuel that has to be carried) batteries suck from an energy per unit of mass standpoint. If scientists can double the energy per unit of mass twice they might be viable for doing actual work.
Aye, and that's a good model for the rest of us to follow.
What additional tax are you willing to pay to subsidize EV buyers?
Obama said immigrants are supposed to learn English. Are you telling me our Southern invaders didn't listen to him?
If feminists actually wanted progress they would want nothing said at all about this. True equality means the best person does the job without consideration of gender, ethnicity or any other personal factor. Pointing out that a task was completed only by women makes it seems as though there was some question whether it could be completed without a man. Long gone are the days when the prevailing thought is that women are incapable of technical or mechanical tasks. The battery will not be installed any differently because of the gender of the people are doing it. Concrete progress in social justice will be measured by the day when an article can say "Astronauts Shannon Miller and Marion Cruz completed a spacewalk" and we don't even know the genders of the people involved.
Canada is mostly deserted at higher latitudes
It isn't just higher latitudes, its everywhere in Canada. Canada ranks number 230 on a list of 241 defined regions sorted by population density. More people live in Tokyo than the entire country of Canada.
In theory, it should be very easy to distinguish a meteor impact from a nuke.
Nukes also start on the ground. If we can detect launches then a "down" without a corresponding "up" should make a meteor easy to detect. If we can't detect launches then you can use all your fancy gamma ray detectors. ;-)
My bad. Thanks for the clarification.
Assuming you aren't joking, this is a terrible idea. In all fields, the universe progresses through competition. Always has, always will. Removing competition will only slow progress.
This is a survey that scores a community in large part upon its level of public services, said services being almost the definition of a welfare state. Should it be any surprise that a city in a welfare state country or welfare state in the United States score high on that list?
If I made a survey of cities based upon freedom of activity, low tax burden and lack of government restriction and oversight not one of those cities would make the list. I know in which group I would rather live.
This isn't surprising. Many systems have a minimum password length of six characters so a user attempting "12345" would naturally use "123456" to meet the requirement. As "12345" was not an option it would naturally be seen less as a password.
The rules were originally there to keep out low-quality TV movies.
Don't low quality movies remove themselves from competition simply by being low quality?
I'm all for keeping walled gardens out of the Oscars.
If the Oscars are supposed to be about recognizing the best work in a field, why should it matter where it is shown? Is a work of art any less valid because it is performed for a select audience?
This means that if a calm day is predicted for tomorrow, you would know to put off running the oven and the dryer for another day.
What would in fact happen is that the wind farm, knowing it will have less power to deliver, will offer less for sale so the power grid will contract with baseload providers for the difference. What messes up electricity service is rapid and unexpected change.
So while I never bought into Rand's philosophy
Rand's philosophy is difficult to buy into because it is incomplete. It has a substantial amount of good ideas that are not wrong but they are lacking. I corresponded with Nathaniel Branden, one of her top followers, about this and he helped me to work Objectivism into a more coherent world view. I wish I still had his emails as he is now deceased.
I am aware that this is a fantasy tale. That said, superheroes that count on strength look like circus strongmen. Mr. Incredible is this idea taken to an extreme. Male superheroes and villians that don't rely on strength don't *look* strong, think Professor Xavier, Magneto, Lex Luthor, Hawkeye and Cyclops. How a character is visualized is an indicator of their superpower. You will not see a strong superhero that looks like Steve Erkul. Even though given supernatural powers there is no reason Steve Erkul couldn't be strong, our subconscious mind screams bullsh*t. We just won't accept it. .
One year is a short timeline to declare success. This is a positive development but it will be instructive to see how this works over a multiyear period.
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So you spent 10 minutes doing some VERY high level discrimination to determine, in the context of the problem as understood by your brain, which already written solution fits your particular problem
and only then copy
If you copied it, somebody else wrote it in the first place.
Step one is a really, really big deal. The copied code isn't too small a deal either.
Indexes are magic when a developer doesn't utilize them. Nothing has quite an impact on management as a report than runs in 15 minutes instead of two hours. They are happy to write the check for your fee.
Why do you think that they wouldn't themselves use the cheap solar panels they're exporting to us?
Actually, they do. Because of the size of their population, China's approach to increasing their supply of energy is "all the above."
A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
The problem isn't leading ladies but plausibility. Women in general are not physiologically strong. An exceptional female is at the level of a merely above average male. Superman is supernaturally strong, but he also looks like he works out. The same is true of Captain America. Much is made visually of his musculature. Same with Black Panther. Each of these presents an image that strong men have bodies that appear to have enlarged muscles. There is a mental disconnect between the visual of a woman physically dominating men and the same happening in reality. The reality is that in a fight with Natasha Romanov a tank would take her first punch on his raised forearms, grapple her to the ground and beat the $#%^ out of her. I think this is a large part of the appeal of a hero like Katniss Everdeen. She is smart, focused and skilled in the use of weapons. This is a believable female hero.
The SJW culture is trying to tell us that men and women are equal and Hollywood is trying to confirm through film. Our brains are telling us "Something just isn't right here..."
What would be really interesting is to see how the data gets skewed when the subset of the technically competent is removed from the population dataset.