Just imagine the absence of police and you need to protect your home and property with your puny glocks and private security force. Then you would realize how low the taxes are and what a bargain police force paid by your taxes is.
There is a reason India leads the world in UPS and battery backups.
Indian homes use truck batteries and inverters to power their home during their periodic, regular, announced and un announced power cuts. Indian grid is woefully inadequate to handle charging loads of so many battery cars.
I read a piece on Karachi, Pakistan, (I know Pakistan is a different country, not a province of India) where families gets into their air-conditioned cars and drive around aimlessly to escape the mid day heat when the scheduled power cut kicks in. I am sure that is common in India too.
It could take a while for battery cars to take hold in India. Capital is very expensive in India. But the government is likely to encourage it. India is self sufficient in dirty coal, but needs to import oil for petrol and diesel. From balance of trade and foreign exchange perspectives, they really would like pure electric cars to take hold.
See, government enforces property rights, that is how rich people get to keep their riches. Poor people dont benefit by enforcement of property rights. They would rather the government breaks down in chaos so that they go with pitchforks and whack the nearest rich person and take whatever he had.
US Government protects 100 trillion worth of property. It should be paid in proportion to the net worth of people who need that government.
Government expenses should be divided into two categories. Property rights enforcement, to be paid by networth. Individual liberty and rights enforcement. That will be paid by equal dollar amount per person.
I have been heavily using cygwin for ages. So much so that most people think I am on a linux machine. Cygwin X server too. I have been copy/pasting text between Linux machines' spawning XTerm on Cygwin X server windows, and windows. Also Remote Desktop Windows copy/paste too.
In fact cygwin terminals, COM terminals, Xterms all copy/paste, but with annoyingly different key combinations. Control-X,/Control-V, shift-ins/control-ins, middle mouse click.... But in theory the text gets copied.
Anyone migrating from Cygwin to access local Windows machine to WSL? Any special reason to use WSL over cygwin?
Even with rudimentary purchase history and correlation, Target was able to know whe.n the girl was pregnant before her dad. With the comprehensive tracking and combining purchase histories of goods, services, travel they can predict a lot more. Even the plain address reveals so much, 3.1 person household, 16.2 years of education, 2.7 cars, mean income 85K, std dev 15K etc.
Combine it all the stores will know precisely how much they can charge you, and how much you can be forced to pay.
If Quakers thought it is immoral to charge different people different prices, model corporations think it is their primary mission to charge based on the customers' ability to pay, not based on reasonable profits.
Facebook has built shadow profiles of people who never even created a facebook page. So if you delete your account, it just gets moved to a very rich shadow account that is all. Anyway the data that has been exfiltrated out of facebook is the proverbial horse that got stolen, while facebook servers are the stables those horses had been at some point in the past.
The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.
I have flex timings, I can come and go as I please, constantly go off for doctor appointment or go home to wait for the proverbial cable guy. I can smoke if I want to between jobs breaks.
That makes me a contractor! I can float a LLC that will contract with my employer. Then I can control the income stream, call it "Carried interest". I can defer the income, deduct all sorts of expenses....
Can I, can I, can I, please please please pretty please with a bow on top?
Lawyers are circling Tesla. Deep pockets, arrogant company...
They killed all the small private aircraft companies that made small planes with the active help of NTSB. Boeing liked small pesky competitors being killed off.
Night owls might die sooner, but the make most of their life. The early birders get up early, show up for appointment on time and wait for the masters of the world, us, night owls, to show up late. They waste so much of their time, the extra years they live is probably not worth it.
An interesting story from Hindu scriptures. When a childless couple prayed to Lord Shiva, He gave them a choice, a dimwit who will live for 100 years, or a genius who will die in 16 years. The couple chose the short lived genius, thus was born Markandeyan. Makes you think about what is more important.
Why these guys casually change the look and feel without worrying about users?
Using wordless icons makes sense in a 5 inch mobile screen. Here I have two 24 inch full def screens, and I need to guess "will this create a new message? or this? Or will it reply all? Where is that stupid gear icon? Oh, they changed it to ham-sandwich. Now ham-sandwich is gone and we got kebab. There is a + in a circle. Or sometimes there is a pencil. "
There is no clear demarkation of where the clickable area ends. There is no delineation of clickable areas. Who designs these swipe gestures? swipe up down left right pinch and expand roll....
They will not rest till we all spend all our days learning new GUI every day.
If the autopilot determines the driver is not paying attention, it should go to a safe mode. Decelerate to some safe speed and pull over at the first available opportunity. It should have a few levers and buttons and ask the driver to press yellow button or pull the blue lever once in a while. It could also ask the driver to turn the a/c on of off, open and close the windows, etc. It can have a driver monitoring camera detecting duration of blinks, and ask the user to look left or right, or read out a high speed limit sign coming in.
If driver attentiveness is a critical part of auto pilot, it should have self checks.
Who are we kidding, Tesla knows this more than you and I. If it bugs the driver with as many checks, they would rather drive than demonstrate their attentiveness. I am an ardent supporter of Tesla, and I am buying the Tesla I can afford. But auto pilot is a distraction. I want it to concentrate on bringing down battery prices. Find a use for depleted auto batteries and increase the residual value of batteries coming off the cars. That would bring down the price of electric cars.
Range is no longer the issue with electric cars. Price is. I would like Tesla to concentrate on this central issue instead being distracted by auto pilot.
We know if 100 years since the days of steam locomotives. Drivers, if they don't have to steer. They miss signals, fall asleep. They invented a variety of deadman switches to check for driver alertness. They do it even now in diesel and electric locomotives.
Tesla should be issuing challenges and driver should respond correctly, if not it should pull the car over and stop.
If alert driver is a necessary requirement for safety, the system should check for alertness and stop the car safely if the driver is not alert. It is weaseling out if it allows the car to stay on auto pilot even after its request for manual take over is not honoured. But it knows the appeal of auto pilot will be greatly reduced if it enforces alertness rules
This is why I did not order autopilot when my Model 3 offer came through last Sunday. I am a great supporter of Tesla but the auto pilot is misnamed, and promotion of its use is not correct.
Passwords continue to be one of the weaker points in online security. A hacker may phish a target's password and log into their account, or take passwords from one data breach and use them to break into accounts on another site.
So the solution is to remove the passwords and replace it with something unchangeable if hacked. You know, whatever hash they use to store the immutable personal characteristics like fingerprints and retinal scans and brain wave Fourier transforms and voice print hash can never be hacked, not in a lifetime of the person. Yeah, sure.
So if these things get hacked or stolen, there is no way for you to change the user name, or password.. Can people be this idiotic?
All these finger prints and retina scanning or even social security number are just identifiers. They identify a person. The authentication is different. Authentication is like a signature, of the old pen and ink era. It should be at the control of the person.
They seem to be nearly doing 2000 cars a week, short of 2500 a week goal, but no small thing to ramp up to 100,000 a year rate.
There are enough fanbois like me to feel we need to chip in and show our commitment to Tesla. My home has a 200 amp service and I am not sure I can take two Teslas charging at the same time. But seriously considering convincing the missus to give up the BMW for a four wheel drive model 3, later this year. My hope is she will take over the model3 and hand-me-down the bimmer to me. Then I will be free to replace it with a AWD model 3.
I missed the 8PM PST reservation and booked on 6AM EST next day,
My turn came yesterday. It said I can have the premium in production model 3 in three to six weeks, or dual motor in late 2018 and the regular standard battery model 3 in early 2019.
Looks like they predict there is enough demand for the higher end versions to soak up all the production in 2018.
I am not waiting, no pricing is announced.
Price was, 35K base, +9K for extended 310 mile battery, +5K for premium interior that has open pore wood trim and two extra usbs. Some special cruise control is 6K and auto pilot is another 4 K on top of that. Desitnation charge of 1000$. Wanted an immediate payment of 2500$ to book it.
Quick calculation shows, 15 min at 60 fps at 4000x2000 frames works out to 4.32e11 pixels. With a 24 bit color, you need 1.04e13 bits. or 1.3 Terabytes, uncompressed.
If you have a 50 Mbps upload service, and if Youtube server is absorbing it at that full speed, you are looking at 208000 seconds, or 2.4 solar days. You say it takes three hours. That works out to a compression ratio of 20.
Looks like it is not reasonable to expect anything faster, at this resolution and frame rate.
Lots of people don't realize how quickly numbers grow when you chain multiplications. "Four trace widths, three trace gaps, four via diameters, six frequencies, 8 excitations... OK your parametric sweep will run 2304 simulations, each needing half a TB of memory and 2 days of run time".
Or my users asking for 100 micron resolution mesh on a model that is a couple of meters across. "User specified a 8 trillion element mesh. No wonder mesh maker ran for 8 hours and ran out of memory. Not a defect" is the resolution.
No comparing Windows 10 with unix as they stand today.
Back in 1990, DOS was a poor OS compared to Unix. The only thing it had was it could run in tiny cpus. As Moore's Law expanded the cpu capabilities it soaked it up like nobody's business. By the time the chips were powerful enough to run real unix, there was a huge install base for Windows, that could not be dislodged.
That is my claim to say inferior product that defeated a superior product.
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Just imagine the absence of police and you need to protect your home and property with your puny glocks and private security force. Then you would realize how low the taxes are and what a bargain police force paid by your taxes is.
Indian homes use truck batteries and inverters to power their home during their periodic, regular, announced and un announced power cuts. Indian grid is woefully inadequate to handle charging loads of so many battery cars.
I read a piece on Karachi, Pakistan, (I know Pakistan is a different country, not a province of India) where families gets into their air-conditioned cars and drive around aimlessly to escape the mid day heat when the scheduled power cut kicks in. I am sure that is common in India too.
It could take a while for battery cars to take hold in India. Capital is very expensive in India. But the government is likely to encourage it. India is self sufficient in dirty coal, but needs to import oil for petrol and diesel. From balance of trade and foreign exchange perspectives, they really would like pure electric cars to take hold.
Among Netflix customers original vs non original viewing splits 20 - 80.
I think the file permission quirks of cygwin will be gone too.
US Government protects 100 trillion worth of property. It should be paid in proportion to the net worth of people who need that government.
Government expenses should be divided into two categories. Property rights enforcement, to be paid by networth. Individual liberty and rights enforcement. That will be paid by equal dollar amount per person.
In fact cygwin terminals, COM terminals, Xterms all copy/paste, but with annoyingly different key combinations. Control-X, /Control-V, shift-ins/control-ins, middle mouse click .... But in theory the text gets copied.
Anyone migrating from Cygwin to access local Windows machine to WSL? Any special reason to use WSL over cygwin?
Combine it all the stores will know precisely how much they can charge you, and how much you can be forced to pay.
If Quakers thought it is immoral to charge different people different prices, model corporations think it is their primary mission to charge based on the customers' ability to pay, not based on reasonable profits.
Every one who followed Detroit ended up bankrupt. Including several divisions of GM, Ford and Chrysler.
There you go! Just deserts for all those pointy haired bosses who kept giving recursion problems in job interviews.
Facebook has built shadow profiles of people who never even created a facebook page. So if you delete your account, it just gets moved to a very rich shadow account that is all. Anyway the data that has been exfiltrated out of facebook is the proverbial horse that got stolen, while facebook servers are the stables those horses had been at some point in the past.
The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.
I have flex timings, I can come and go as I please, constantly go off for doctor appointment or go home to wait for the proverbial cable guy. I can smoke if I want to between jobs breaks.
That makes me a contractor! I can float a LLC that will contract with my employer. Then I can control the income stream, call it "Carried interest". I can defer the income, deduct all sorts of expenses ....
Can I, can I, can I, please please please pretty please with a bow on top?
They killed all the small private aircraft companies that made small planes with the active help of NTSB. Boeing liked small pesky competitors being killed off.
The Early worm gets eaten by the bird.
Night owls might die sooner, but the make most of their life. The early birders get up early, show up for appointment on time and wait for the masters of the world, us, night owls, to show up late. They waste so much of their time, the extra years they live is probably not worth it.
An interesting story from Hindu scriptures. When a childless couple prayed to Lord Shiva, He gave them a choice, a dimwit who will live for 100 years, or a genius who will die in 16 years. The couple chose the short lived genius, thus was born Markandeyan. Makes you think about what is more important.
Using wordless icons makes sense in a 5 inch mobile screen. Here I have two 24 inch full def screens, and I need to guess "will this create a new message? or this? Or will it reply all? Where is that stupid gear icon? Oh, they changed it to ham-sandwich. Now ham-sandwich is gone and we got kebab. There is a + in a circle. Or sometimes there is a pencil. "
There is no clear demarkation of where the clickable area ends. There is no delineation of clickable areas. Who designs these swipe gestures? swipe up down left right pinch and expand roll ....
They will not rest till we all spend all our days learning new GUI every day.
If driver attentiveness is a critical part of auto pilot, it should have self checks.
Who are we kidding, Tesla knows this more than you and I. If it bugs the driver with as many checks, they would rather drive than demonstrate their attentiveness. I am an ardent supporter of Tesla, and I am buying the Tesla I can afford. But auto pilot is a distraction. I want it to concentrate on bringing down battery prices. Find a use for depleted auto batteries and increase the residual value of batteries coming off the cars. That would bring down the price of electric cars.
Range is no longer the issue with electric cars. Price is. I would like Tesla to concentrate on this central issue instead being distracted by auto pilot.
Tesla should be issuing challenges and driver should respond correctly, if not it should pull the car over and stop.
If alert driver is a necessary requirement for safety, the system should check for alertness and stop the car safely if the driver is not alert. It is weaseling out if it allows the car to stay on auto pilot even after its request for manual take over is not honoured. But it knows the appeal of auto pilot will be greatly reduced if it enforces alertness rules
This is why I did not order autopilot when my Model 3 offer came through last Sunday. I am a great supporter of Tesla but the auto pilot is misnamed, and promotion of its use is not correct.
Passwords continue to be one of the weaker points in online security. A hacker may phish a target's password and log into their account, or take passwords from one data breach and use them to break into accounts on another site.
So the solution is to remove the passwords and replace it with something unchangeable if hacked. You know, whatever hash they use to store the immutable personal characteristics like fingerprints and retinal scans and brain wave Fourier transforms and voice print hash can never be hacked, not in a lifetime of the person. Yeah, sure.
All these finger prints and retina scanning or even social security number are just identifiers. They identify a person. The authentication is different. Authentication is like a signature, of the old pen and ink era. It should be at the control of the person.
Well, when missus is preg, disable the car being used as back up, or set minimum charge level, or call uber, or an ambulance ...
There are enough fanbois like me to feel we need to chip in and show our commitment to Tesla. My home has a 200 amp service and I am not sure I can take two Teslas charging at the same time. But seriously considering convincing the missus to give up the BMW for a four wheel drive model 3, later this year. My hope is she will take over the model3 and hand-me-down the bimmer to me. Then I will be free to replace it with a AWD model 3.
My turn came yesterday. It said I can have the premium in production model 3 in three to six weeks, or dual motor in late 2018 and the regular standard battery model 3 in early 2019.
Looks like they predict there is enough demand for the higher end versions to soak up all the production in 2018.
I am not waiting, no pricing is announced.
Price was, 35K base, +9K for extended 310 mile battery, +5K for premium interior that has open pore wood trim and two extra usbs. Some special cruise control is 6K and auto pilot is another 4 K on top of that. Desitnation charge of 1000$. Wanted an immediate payment of 2500$ to book it.
Amazon spent 22.6 billion dollars and called it research.
If you have a 50 Mbps upload service, and if Youtube server is absorbing it at that full speed, you are looking at 208000 seconds, or 2.4 solar days. You say it takes three hours. That works out to a compression ratio of 20.
Looks like it is not reasonable to expect anything faster, at this resolution and frame rate.
Lots of people don't realize how quickly numbers grow when you chain multiplications. "Four trace widths, three trace gaps, four via diameters, six frequencies, 8 excitations... OK your parametric sweep will run 2304 simulations, each needing half a TB of memory and 2 days of run time".
Or my users asking for 100 micron resolution mesh on a model that is a couple of meters across. "User specified a 8 trillion element mesh. No wonder mesh maker ran for 8 hours and ran out of memory. Not a defect" is the resolution.
Back in 1990, DOS was a poor OS compared to Unix. The only thing it had was it could run in tiny cpus. As Moore's Law expanded the cpu capabilities it soaked it up like nobody's business. By the time the chips were powerful enough to run real unix, there was a huge install base for Windows, that could not be dislodged.
That is my claim to say inferior product that defeated a superior product.
Agree completely. It's a case where the inferior product won, sadly.
Dont agree with you in the "sadly". Windows itself is an inferior product that defeated a much better OS, unix. So it is just deserts.