Yep, you at the the parent are spot-on. This is a solution looking for a problem. Diesel is still the best for long-haul (range, durability and cost-effectiveness), and short-haul is going to be handled by electric Semis.
A viable alternative for long-haul would be electric freight trains. We probably could have had that by now if we had put the right incentives and regulations in place years ago.
I think you have simplified the weakening of capital requirements of banks in the USA under Bush and the resulting asset-backed commercial paper fiasco that led to the crash of 2008 a bit much there MM. There may indeed be minor cycles in the marketplace caused by global supply and demand, but the role of regulation is to ensure that it doesn't become the wild west. The formula is easy: Financial institutions want weak or no regulation because they are beholden to their shareholders (and executive's incentive plans). The government is beholden to the people who rely on the banks for their financial stability and well-being.
When a government clown tells you that it is in your best interest to de-regulate financial institutions they are a lying sack of shit and what they really mean is "It is in MY best interest and the people who funded my campaign". Playing loose and fast with the public's money is a "bad deal" for the public.
I believe the cycle you are looking at is the cycle of electing people who don't give a shit about the public and those who attempt to correct the mistakes of their predecessors. And the general public is too stupid to understand that the economy is a big ship that takes time to steer. A policy that you institute or invalidate today comes back to bite everyone in a year or two, not tomorrow.
Thank you. I actually laughed out loud for the first time in a while.
I don't think what currently passes for AI (deep learning) is dangerous except, as other's have said, through our own stupidity at trusting it. With any luck any truly emergent AI should follow the four laws of robotics:
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except when required to do so in order to prevent greater harm to humanity itself.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law or cause greater harm to humanity itself.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law or cause greater harm to humanity itself.
Every time they come out with a new version I try it for mobile app development and every time I end up trashing it. This version:
- Crashed immediately on first launch. - Once relaunched I created a new Android project in F#. Changed nothing except selected my device to run it on. Compile produced 12 errors. - Closed the project and created a brand new one with a different name but going through exactly the same steps. Compile produce 4 completely different errors.
I have Android studio and Xcode installed and working just fine. There is no way that I'm investing my time in a tool that breaks out of the box.
I get your point. But because we live in the age of sensationalist headlines the authors never bothered to tell you that, although it would steer into on-coming traffic, if there WERE actually on-coming traffic it would start blaring at you (loud enough to wake the dead), automatically braking, shaking the wheel, etc. Ask me how I know...
My personal feeling about autopilot / partial self-driving (owning a car that has it) is that I am not a fan. EVs are awesome, but I think autonomous operation of a vehicle should be reserved for emergency situations (like I'm having a stroke, or I've fallen asleep) in which case it only needs to get me safely to the side of the road and call someone for help.
The service will launch in the U.S. and Canada effective immediately via an update the Apple News app. The company plans to launch it in Australia and the U.K. later this year, and in other European countries in 2021.
From the summary:
For now, it is available just in the U.S., and come to three more markets -- Canada, Australia, and the U.K., later this year.
How the hell does a critical sensor on an aircraft fail without the system knowing about it? My freaking car told me yesterday that the microphone in the entertainment unit had developed a fault...
Really good point. But at least where I live the only way you can buy non-ethanol fuel any time of the year is if you purchase premium at a few select stations. Now fuel suppliers DO re-blend fuel as "winter gas" and that does reduce efficiency by 2%. Ethanol reduces efficiency by 5%, but if you're comparing the same fuel Winter and Summer as I am, it doesn't factor.
Even if you found a station that ONLY sold Ethanol in its fuel in the Winter (and I don't know of any) you wouldn't be talking about more than a 7% reduction in efficiency.
I get what you are saying, but nobody who owns an EV complains about charge times because 99% of the time they just plug it in at home overnight. Hell I haven't even bothered to buy a fast charger for home, I just use regular old 110V 15A AC.
If I do two long trips a year I would spend 240 minutes doing some fast charging (trip length one-way of say 600mi (1000km) with Tesla supercharging times from totally empty to full is 60 minutes per charge and taking into account the return trip).
Over the course of a year I fill up my F150 every week at 10 minutes per fill (where I live it takes 2-3 minutes just to finish answering all the questions at the pump in order to pay), I spend ~520 minutes a year filing up.
So, it is much less time out of my life to own an EV (in my experience). YMMV.
I personally feel that the only problem with EVs at this point is the up-front cost. But I can tell you that having a vehicle with virtually no maintenance costs or hassles that you can fill up at home for cheap is pretty awesome. I can't wait to replace the truck with an EV.
This is a serious question, I'm not trying to be an ass, and I would really appreciate hearing an honest response from you. Are you aware that petroleum-powered vehicles lose significant range in cold weather? I ask this because I see people talking about range in cold weather as a problem for EVs, as if that doesn't affect every other vehicle on the planet. Does the general population understand that heating, air conditioning, electronics, tire pressure, ambient outside temperature, elevation, and elevation changes affect the range of internal combustion engine vehicles?
I see a 30% drop in the efficiency of an F150 between August and February. I tried using a block heater on a timer to see how much warm-up times affected range and there didn't seem to be much difference. And yet you've described an EV as a frozen lump in the Winter with 60% stated range. Do you have an EV? I have a model 3 and TBH I haven't noticed much of a decrease in range in cold weather, but it is more difficult to tell when you "refuel" at home every day.
I'm genuinely and sincerely curious what led you (and many others) to hold range in cold weather up as an EV downside when my experience has been exactly the same for ICE vehicles. Thanks, and sorry for singling you out.
This seems like it is entirely due to the success of the movie(s). Nostalgia is interesting in that most of the things that we "miss" about yesteryear are gone because they were awful. Cassette tapes are definitely in the awful category.
Speaking of tapes, I miss gigantic boom boxes with analog meters, square LEDs, 50 buttons and 10 D-sized batteries. But I don't think having one is a good idea, and I think that the sudden fond remembrance of cassette tapes will disappear pretty quickly.
I thought that one of the big benefits of UBI is that it replaces a bunch of other complex, difficult-to-manage and costly programs. TFA does not state if they saw any cost savings from running the program. People who want to work are going to eventually find jobs. People who want to abuse the system are going to abuse the system. The question is if UBI is easier and cheaper to manage than supposed programs to encourage people to go back to work.
...bendy antenna to a flexible semiconductor layer only three atoms thick...
I believe this is called a diode and we've been converting signals to electricity with them for a very long time (rectifiers). Seems like what they've done is come up with a way to incorporate them into an antenna that could be manufactured in large flexible sheets suitable for deployment on available flat surfaces. Interesting.
I think you sound like a condecending prick. I just pointed you at the ultimate source of the process, I didnâ(TM)t fuck your girlfriend (yet). Weâ(TM)re all eternally grateful that your here helping us understand the complex world with your simple explanations.
Not according to the minister of justice who is responsible for this case:
âoeAt each stage of the extradition process in Canada, there is careful balancing of the interests of the person sought for extradition against Canadaâ(TM)s international obligations. The person sought is able to challenge their extradition at multiple levels, both before the superior and appellate courts in Canada, and by making submissions to me on the issue of surrender. â
I feel sorry for him in a way. He is probably a great ambassador, but these diplomats when the spotlight suddenly shines on them sometimes have no idea what to do. He is basically right on all counts -- she does have a strong case, and it would be better for Canada if the US just dropped the issue. He just doesn't know enough to keep his mouth shut while this is going on, because in Canada (unlike in China) this is a legal case, not a political one. That is why the PM is keeping his mouth shut (and why he should to). In the US the president has (as we have seen) his/her own set of powers. In Canada the PMs power ends with the ruling party's will to go along with him/her. They don't have any power unto themselves unless emergency measures are declared.
Since I'm on my soapbox anyway... Before open source was the bomb we had something called "source code licenses". You sign a legal document and you got the full source of the product which you could compile yourself or even make changes to if you needed to. If I were worried about a foreign power spying on my citizens I would require (by law) that providers of communication technology from foreign powers have the source code in their possession, require deployments to be compiled from source, and enact stiff fines for unauthorized surveillance (that could be globally enforced). Yes it could still happen, but just imagine a foreign power like China thinking about the geeks of a foreign nation pouring over one of your pet company's source code. Either they have nothing to hide or they will suddenly not be that interested in selling to you after all and the political BS will stop.
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Yep, you at the the parent are spot-on. This is a solution looking for a problem. Diesel is still the best for long-haul (range, durability and cost-effectiveness), and short-haul is going to be handled by electric Semis.
A viable alternative for long-haul would be electric freight trains. We probably could have had that by now if we had put the right incentives and regulations in place years ago.
I think you have simplified the weakening of capital requirements of banks in the USA under Bush and the resulting asset-backed commercial paper fiasco that led to the crash of 2008 a bit much there MM. There may indeed be minor cycles in the marketplace caused by global supply and demand, but the role of regulation is to ensure that it doesn't become the wild west. The formula is easy: Financial institutions want weak or no regulation because they are beholden to their shareholders (and executive's incentive plans). The government is beholden to the people who rely on the banks for their financial stability and well-being.
When a government clown tells you that it is in your best interest to de-regulate financial institutions they are a lying sack of shit and what they really mean is "It is in MY best interest and the people who funded my campaign". Playing loose and fast with the public's money is a "bad deal" for the public.
I believe the cycle you are looking at is the cycle of electing people who don't give a shit about the public and those who attempt to correct the mistakes of their predecessors. And the general public is too stupid to understand that the economy is a big ship that takes time to steer. A policy that you institute or invalidate today comes back to bite everyone in a year or two, not tomorrow.
Thank you. I actually laughed out loud for the first time in a while.
I don't think what currently passes for AI (deep learning) is dangerous except, as other's have said, through our own stupidity at trusting it. With any luck any truly emergent AI should follow the four laws of robotics:
Every time they come out with a new version I try it for mobile app development and every time I end up trashing it. This version:
- Crashed immediately on first launch.
- Once relaunched I created a new Android project in F#. Changed nothing except selected my device to run it on. Compile produced 12 errors.
- Closed the project and created a brand new one with a different name but going through exactly the same steps. Compile produce 4 completely different errors.
I have Android studio and Xcode installed and working just fine. There is no way that I'm investing my time in a tool that breaks out of the box.
I get your point. But because we live in the age of sensationalist headlines the authors never bothered to tell you that, although it would steer into on-coming traffic, if there WERE actually on-coming traffic it would start blaring at you (loud enough to wake the dead), automatically braking, shaking the wheel, etc. Ask me how I know...
My personal feeling about autopilot / partial self-driving (owning a car that has it) is that I am not a fan. EVs are awesome, but I think autonomous operation of a vehicle should be reserved for emergency situations (like I'm having a stroke, or I've fallen asleep) in which case it only needs to get me safely to the side of the road and call someone for help.
That is the first prank I think of when I think of April Fools Day. So awesome... At least one person took a screenshot for posterity.
So, from the linked article:
The service will launch in the U.S. and Canada effective immediately via an update the Apple News app. The company plans to launch it in Australia and the U.K. later this year, and in other European countries in 2021.
From the summary:
For now, it is available just in the U.S., and come to three more markets -- Canada, Australia, and the U.K., later this year.
So Canada, do you get this right away or not?
How the hell does a critical sensor on an aircraft fail without the system knowing about it? My freaking car told me yesterday that the microphone in the entertainment unit had developed a fault...
Really good point. But at least where I live the only way you can buy non-ethanol fuel any time of the year is if you purchase premium at a few select stations. Now fuel suppliers DO re-blend fuel as "winter gas" and that does reduce efficiency by 2%. Ethanol reduces efficiency by 5%, but if you're comparing the same fuel Winter and Summer as I am, it doesn't factor.
Even if you found a station that ONLY sold Ethanol in its fuel in the Winter (and I don't know of any) you wouldn't be talking about more than a 7% reduction in efficiency.
I get what you are saying, but nobody who owns an EV complains about charge times because 99% of the time they just plug it in at home overnight. Hell I haven't even bothered to buy a fast charger for home, I just use regular old 110V 15A AC.
If I do two long trips a year I would spend 240 minutes doing some fast charging (trip length one-way of say 600mi (1000km) with Tesla supercharging times from totally empty to full is 60 minutes per charge and taking into account the return trip).
Over the course of a year I fill up my F150 every week at 10 minutes per fill (where I live it takes 2-3 minutes just to finish answering all the questions at the pump in order to pay), I spend ~520 minutes a year filing up.
So, it is much less time out of my life to own an EV (in my experience). YMMV.
I personally feel that the only problem with EVs at this point is the up-front cost. But I can tell you that having a vehicle with virtually no maintenance costs or hassles that you can fill up at home for cheap is pretty awesome. I can't wait to replace the truck with an EV.
This is a serious question, I'm not trying to be an ass, and I would really appreciate hearing an honest response from you. Are you aware that petroleum-powered vehicles lose significant range in cold weather? I ask this because I see people talking about range in cold weather as a problem for EVs, as if that doesn't affect every other vehicle on the planet. Does the general population understand that heating, air conditioning, electronics, tire pressure, ambient outside temperature, elevation, and elevation changes affect the range of internal combustion engine vehicles?
I see a 30% drop in the efficiency of an F150 between August and February. I tried using a block heater on a timer to see how much warm-up times affected range and there didn't seem to be much difference. And yet you've described an EV as a frozen lump in the Winter with 60% stated range. Do you have an EV? I have a model 3 and TBH I haven't noticed much of a decrease in range in cold weather, but it is more difficult to tell when you "refuel" at home every day.
I'm genuinely and sincerely curious what led you (and many others) to hold range in cold weather up as an EV downside when my experience has been exactly the same for ICE vehicles. Thanks, and sorry for singling you out.
I heard from a reliable source that Cotten is actually Cowboy Neil and that he and Malda have been seen drunk with prostitutes in Macau.
You may not be counting in base10. You may be right in base16 depending on exactly when in 2038 it happens.
This seems like it is entirely due to the success of the movie(s). Nostalgia is interesting in that most of the things that we "miss" about yesteryear are gone because they were awful. Cassette tapes are definitely in the awful category.
Speaking of tapes, I miss gigantic boom boxes with analog meters, square LEDs, 50 buttons and 10 D-sized batteries. But I don't think having one is a good idea, and I think that the sudden fond remembrance of cassette tapes will disappear pretty quickly.
Boy, do I have a product for you!
Generate the rest of their bodies as well and we'll finally have a replacement for Tumblr!
Obligatory xkcd about its twin: Spirit. We learned a lot from these machines. I hope Matt Damon can one day use one of them to phone home.
I thought that one of the big benefits of UBI is that it replaces a bunch of other complex, difficult-to-manage and costly programs. TFA does not state if they saw any cost savings from running the program. People who want to work are going to eventually find jobs. People who want to abuse the system are going to abuse the system. The question is if UBI is easier and cheaper to manage than supposed programs to encourage people to go back to work.
If he uses this to, say, recover $145M in cryptocurrency from a laptop, then I'm sure he will do well...
...bendy antenna to a flexible semiconductor layer only three atoms thick...
I believe this is called a diode and we've been converting signals to electricity with them for a very long time (rectifiers). Seems like what they've done is come up with a way to incorporate them into an antenna that could be manufactured in large flexible sheets suitable for deployment on available flat surfaces. Interesting.
Diode
Hacking stories are about to get MUCH more interesting!
I think you sound like a condecending prick. I just pointed you at the ultimate source of the process, I didnâ(TM)t fuck your girlfriend (yet). Weâ(TM)re all eternally grateful that your here helping us understand the complex world with your simple explanations.
Not according to the minister of justice who is responsible for this case:
âoeAt each stage of the extradition process in Canada, there is careful balancing of the interests of the person sought for extradition against Canadaâ(TM)s international obligations. The person sought is able to challenge their extradition at multiple levels, both before the superior and appellate courts in Canada, and by making submissions to me on the issue of surrender. â
https://www.canada.ca/en/depar...
I feel sorry for him in a way. He is probably a great ambassador, but these diplomats when the spotlight suddenly shines on them sometimes have no idea what to do. He is basically right on all counts -- she does have a strong case, and it would be better for Canada if the US just dropped the issue. He just doesn't know enough to keep his mouth shut while this is going on, because in Canada (unlike in China) this is a legal case, not a political one. That is why the PM is keeping his mouth shut (and why he should to). In the US the president has (as we have seen) his/her own set of powers. In Canada the PMs power ends with the ruling party's will to go along with him/her. They don't have any power unto themselves unless emergency measures are declared.
Since I'm on my soapbox anyway... Before open source was the bomb we had something called "source code licenses". You sign a legal document and you got the full source of the product which you could compile yourself or even make changes to if you needed to. If I were worried about a foreign power spying on my citizens I would require (by law) that providers of communication technology from foreign powers have the source code in their possession, require deployments to be compiled from source, and enact stiff fines for unauthorized surveillance (that could be globally enforced). Yes it could still happen, but just imagine a foreign power like China thinking about the geeks of a foreign nation pouring over one of your pet company's source code. Either they have nothing to hide or they will suddenly not be that interested in selling to you after all and the political BS will stop.
Yes, at that point we will be terrafarmed...