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Fact 1 is utter nonsense. "Fact" doesn't mean "claim something because it sounds good for your argument". Do you see more Ferraris than Honda Civics in your neck of the woods? More Porsches than Kia Fortes?

Regarding "Fact 2", I have no idea what they're even arguing. Their core point was absurd, and they really truly seem to think it's the rich who are buying $35K cars (not "normal", despite being utterly normal for new cars), which is laughable nonsense.

This is all just a diversion. The Tesla 3 is absolutely in the center of the average new car, that normal people buy. Tesla makes, unsurprisingly, vehicles for the new car market. Tens of millions of completely normal Americans buy new cars yearly.
Part 2: Some sort of heads up display in the windshield? Could work well with self driving mode on highways.
These keywords have been censored in Chinese microblog services, along with all news mentioning Panama Papers removed, due to obvious reasons.
Well, I'm turkish and living in Sweden. I can see myself in the dumps as well as in those swedish search services.
$5000 of solar panels in the office parking lot and you get almost 0 draw from the grid for the commute.

I guess that doesn't compare favorably to $600 (~200*$3) per year for fuel, but it isn't real far out either.
And I think you're misunderstanding my posts. Where did I argue people would not be shocked or upset?

I do not think this is comparable to the Snowden leaks. Those revealed secret courts, secret interpretations of laws and showed that spy agencies are effectively above the law. Many people had no idea what those agencies had become capable of or the lengths they were going to.

But the fact that tax laws allow for offshore companies is not news. The fact that there are lots of them is not news either, these things exist in public registers. The story here is not that these things exist or that they work - which everyone knew already - it's who is using them.
£135 million is a lot of money. Hundreds of tax officers to investigate them is not actually that much. Averaging 6 months from ~300 people @ £80k /year = £12million netting £123 million.

Further discouraging this type of activity likely has indirect effects dwarfing that initial £135 million.

PS: A more realistic estimate is less than 300 people for ~15-90 days to do a quick assessment and rapidly dropping to ~10 people a year out.
This was why I thought the Chevy Volt had the right idea; having a gas-tank there as a backup, but depend on electricity 95% of the time.

But, in my opinion, the best thing to do is to move to a big city and use the trains, or campaign for a good train system in your city, which obviously can't work for everyone.
We're just getting old my friend. There are kids programming right now that were born after 9/11.
Far as I've seen they're a typical offshore consultancy that gets paid well to obstruct anyone poking around (see Nevada incident). It doesn't necessitate that their clients were doing illegal stuff, but it does heavily suggest it.

It does seem like very little will come of this in the western world, and I do agree with your last sentence.

A conspiracy theorist would note the curious timing of this high profile but low impact leak - immediately after the unaoil release implicating a lot of multinationals, even though SZ originally acquired these documents a year ago.
Assuming its 'his' to begin with. Not hers already?
This. It's the only website I've found that actually has ads relevant to the site, ads I want to see and am receptive for. My understanding from what I've gleaned from their blog, is that this really worked out for them (though PAX revenue now dwarfs their site revenue).
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"When you have extensive teams, it’s better to hire for intelligence than knowledge."

Do others agree with this?
So it's entirely pointless then. Good to know.
"The rear-wheel drive cars will be able to go zero to 60 in less than 4 seconds."

Wasn't it like 6 seconds before? Or is this the top level rear-wheel drive version?
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> it will be but only on the freeway

You're not thinking far enough into the future. We already had that, in 2015.

These cars won't exist until late 2017, so you have to improve on what we've got, today, by more than 2 years.
You are just an old fuddy duddy. If I was reading this as prose, maybe I'd agree that an author could have been more creative with word choice. But in this kind of post, the message is vastly more important than the medium, and the use of the word 'shit' doesn't obscure the message.
How is not allowing people to have influence over corporate decisions commensurate with the size of their investment not discouraging that sort of investment?
If you like riskybiz, you can also try http://www.defensivesecurity.org/ It is more rough analysis of some events during the week.
The only connection is my absolutely dreadful understanding of electronics in general :-)
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For most documents, copy and paste into a text editor is relatively straightforward. Highly technical documents are one obvious exception.
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It was tweeted by one of the journalists last night-- I can't find the source tweet easily now. Reference is to the "panama papers" so no, it is current.
And people love Antergos when compared to Manjaro.
Gas is $2 right?
OK, it boils down to "if all cars will be electric, we'll need much more electricity".

There are only two ecologically sustainable ways of increasing generating capacity: solar and nuclear. Both will be deployed on massive scale.

The new atomic age awaits us!
I can't find the paper, but the US DOE has a report from 10 years ago that ~77%~ 84% of light vehicles (cars) can be moved to the electric grid using existing generation resources.

Consider that wind and solar installations are accelerating (and that wind is so cheap in parts of Texas, its free at night!) and I can assure you, there is no electrical grid burden.

EDIT: Citation

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-n...

"The UK Department of Transport and teh Royal Academy of Engineering (2010) have both estimated that if the UK switched to battery electric vehicles, electricity demand (kWh) would rise about 16%. The US Electric Power Research Institute modeled 60% of US vehicle use being electric and found a 9% increase in electricity demand. As can be seen from the graphs above, this need not increase the system's peak capacity if most charging is off-peak, thereby greatly increasing the proportion of total generating capacity supplied by base-load plant – see below. A study conducted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy in 2006 found that the idle off-peak grid capacity in the USA would be sufficient to power 84% of all vehicles in the USA if they all were immediately replaced with electric vehicles. Areva has calculated that if 10% of cars in France were electric it would increase base-load demand by more than 6000 MWe ("four EPRs", or 10% of nuclear capacity). In the above diagrams, assuming significant move to electric cars mostly charged off-peak, the base-load demand is increased by about 35%."
Ugh... here we go again...

> Problem 1: Transportation will load the grid and generating capacity in rather nasty ways

Electric cars are not a _complete_ solution on their own. They are _part_ of the solution, along side more renewable power sources like solar and wind. I drive an electric car and I charge it almost exclusively with solar panels at a local free charging station provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (I live in Chattanooga, TN.)

Also, as for putting load on the electric grid, electric cars actually help with that. Many can be configured to feed power back into the grid, and as a result, they can balance out the grid load throughout the day with their batteries.

> Problem 2: Rapid charging is actually not so rapid, highway re-charging stations will have to be much larger than current gas stations

Shift your thinking! Electric cars won't be charged at gas stations like gas cars of the past. Most electric drivers charge at home in their own garages or driveways. I have neither, but I still manage to charge my car in street parking with an extension cord, an exterior wall outlet, and a few of those little safety mat things so strangers don't trip over my cord.

Charging stations will still be important for cross-country trips, but the average driver doesn't travel that far often enough for it to clog up charging stations across the country.

> Problem 3: Gas stations are not generally in the neighbourhood of electricity generation stations.

See above.

> Problem 4: Re-charging will not work nearly as well when vehicle utilization goes up due to sharing

See above.

> Problem 5: We don’t actually have all this infrastructure yet

Well, duh. That's why we need to build it. That's not an issue with electric cars themselves. That's a problem with our infrastructure that we need to fix.

> Problem 6: Range

This is something we need to work on, but it's not as big of a problem as people realize. More than 90% of US drivers drive far less than 100 miles per day. The few times I do need to travel farther than that, it's actually kind of relaxing to stop at a mall or restaurant with a charger, plug in, and have a 30 minute lunch while I charge.

> Problem 7: Trailers

Really? This is problem for most drivers? This is a niche problem for the few people that actually need to haul trailers. So those people can just use regular cars.

> Problem 8: Service

I drive a Nissan Leaf, and I am very active in the Leaf driver community. I have never heard of a Leaf having major maintenance problems. Chevy Volt's are known for having some issues, but in my opinion, that's your fault for buying something from GM.

> Problem 9: Tax Breaks

How is this a problem? Tax breaks will eventually go away? So what? The whole idea is to make these cars cheaper now until manufacturing gets cheaper and the prices start to go down on their own. This is really grasping at straws.
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Is there any good analysis on the impact of EV on the gas and oil demand on the world?

??% of Ca, US cars are EV, as results, ??% of Ca, US gas/oil consumptions are reduced. If the trend continue, here's what happen when % of EV reach 10, 20, 30, 50%, the global oil demand will be drop by ??,??,?? %.
I'm always 50/50 on these things. Fun to watch, and whilst I'd be wary of it giving ideas to people who might not be as responsible as the video makers, it also makes sure the general public/regulators know what's possible and how we might curb misuse in the future.
Tesla is offering free electricity to Tesla owners in a Scandinavian country under this idea (excess energy is soaked up by the electric vehicles).
Temporarily. You successfully tell me where oil prices are going to be in a year, and you'll be the richest person in the world.

http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-char...
It's transactional and mvcc, you can't say the same for most KVS around.
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An addendum to my comment above: Three days later I have now also been bitten by Google's April Fool's feature/bug!

Today I received an email from someone asking why I was not replying to the other email thread started on April 1st. The person had clicked the 'drop the mic' button, and was not seeing any further replies to that thread. Not good!
You mean trailers.
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Solar installations will double every two years (globally), so let's hope that will be enough to keep up with EV growth.

I still think the bigger bottleneck will be the installation of chargers, though, even though it shouldn't be because they aren't that expensive. But Tesla is just one small car maker installing its own, and the other manufacturers don't seem all that interested in building them for the same reason they've been rather slow in pushing EVs on the market, too. I think governments should have a bigger role in building EV infrastructure.
> deliberately poop into the internet

Take a look at the Youtube Poop movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop
I have never thought about the fact that electric cars are really just portable batteries. You just blew my mind.
I'm really curious why browsers can't handle 18mb of comment data.

I've observed the problem myself when trying to load up old fb conversations to search for some detail I knew was there.

What's 18mb when my machine has 12gb ram?
Chevy Volt goes a step further and has the gas powered engine hooked up to the wheels. I prefer the approach taken by the BMW i3 where the (optional) gas powered range-extender is purely used to generate electricity, but there's room for both in the transition period and PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) seems like it might be an important market segment.
The same way it goes forward?

2 autonomous cars could negotiate which has the shorter trip, an autonomous car encountering a human could default to timidity.
It wasn't very useful because it didn't actually force streaming. The "rarest-first" rule was still respected.

It wasn't optimal for the swarm. Yet, the user didn't really get what he/she wanted.
Pre-trump, which dates it.
ICE cars will go first. Most personal cars are only driven a small mileage per day and don't need to carry much weight. Needing to go more than 350 miles in a day, or needing to tow a trailer are statistical outliers to most users. Anyone who occasionally needs to go really far or carry more weight will find another solution.

As you said, I doubt ICE cars will go away completely. There's too much hobby/enthusiasm behind them for that to happen.

Trucks, buses, and planes will take much, much longer to phase out because of their extreme needs; e.g. light, compact power with a huge range.

Any other problems outside the vehicles themselves will be solved very quickly as they gain more market share.
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Interesting project, but any reason you went for a nodejs build of jekyll? Jekyll doesn't require sudo for npm, doesn't require dependences, like nodejs in the first place, and would require very little setup. Even something like octopress could have been used better here.
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One stop-gap hybrid solution for a number of these issues would be a gas station that has a small power generation station powered by diesel fuel.

This would cancel out the ecological benefits of running an EV, even if the power station had more efficiency than a combustion engine.
The content that accompanies the worst kind of advertising tends to be the worst kind of content. If adblocking kills that kind of content I'm all for it. For example the number of sites that scrap stackoverflow and cram 30 different ads onto the page.
I really hate the long tailpipe argument every time it comes up.

Here in WA state the large majority comes from Hydro so an EV is much greener than traditional forms of transportation.
> and it is already difficult to navigate those places
> as a human

I don't know why a machine that has 3d perfect vision and knows exactly how big it is relative to its surroundings would be worse at this that a human bean.
Nobody from the US mentioned? This doc was definitely scrubbed.
This is not the type of in depth though that I expect from this author, whom I usually find to be brilliant. These are first-level concerns of somebody who just realized electric cars exist and is looking for the "problems", however in practice most of these are mitigated by tech curves, and the true problems are going to be far different.
The 'current farce' is really only benefiting the licensing agencies and content publishing corporations - not the creatives.
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It looks like a parallel implementation of TiDB, which they had built in Go. I would assume that avoiding garbage collection and reducing heap usage were valid motivations for the project. But it doesn't really have enough information on the repo to tell what their motivations are.
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Scandinavian countries are the exception (and Canada could be) because of the amount of hydropower they produce.
That depends, RWD is harder to control even if the weight is on the back. Understeer is much safer than oversteer, unless you're a talented driver who knows what they're doing, and oversteer is way more likely in a RWD car.
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It's kind of bonkers that this works. It suggests that the whole belief that layers are learning different representations is completely wrong: if layer three is expecting a certain kind of intermediate representation from layer two, and is then given the raw input, one would expect layer three to choke.

Instead, the depth seems to be giving something like a progressive unwinding of the feature space.

It would be interesting to compare the trained networks to networks trained in the usual way, to see if they're coming up with similar coefficients in spite of the different training methods, out if this is producing something completely different.
Defending people from drones?

Or using drones to defend people?

(Or both?)
A thing to note on looks: there will be a number plate to complete the looks. And remember there are at least US and European versions of that to consider in the design.

This is entirely subject to personal taste, but

Alfa Romeos' (e.g. 147) fronts look nice in PR, but look hideous with a number plate attached literally "wherever there is some space for it".

New Audis suffer from similar problem: even though the number plate does not look hideous it still looks sort of out of place on the asphalt reaching grilles.
How about horses? Tried and true method, reliable for millenia, green and sometimes majestic.
Good point. Doing that would require at least a firmware change on the handset as I suspect the baseband code is built around the ARFCN (Arbitrary Radio Frequency Channel Number) which enforses that separation. It probably wouldn't be that hard to change the ARFCN formula on a handset, though the easy way would make it not compatible with regular networks.
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Agreed. As an aside, the popped blazer lapels were cringeworthy.
openrtmp wouldn't dump the stream (because it was an rtsp stream). Perhaps I was doing something wrong?

Then openRTSP wouldn't output an MP4 file properly.

So I used ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://stolaf-flash.streamguys.net/vod/academic/academic/2016-03-31_ifc_symposium_one-4" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mp4 2016-03-31_ifc_symposium_one.mp4

Note the "rtsp_transport" option; without that, I was getting UDP packet drops. Not good for archival purposes. Used the option for TCP to prevent said drops.
That's a silly and un-applicable example. How many tire startups are there?
It isn't "gate checking" as your bag will show up in baggage claim with the other checked bags. They'll sometimes do real gate checking for people in first but it usually isn't necessary.
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"A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity"

"The women are just three of the thousands of TXU Energy customers who are at the vanguard of a bold attempt by the utility to change how people consume energy. TXU’s free overnight plan, which is coupled with slightly higher daytime rates, is one of dozens that have been offered by more than 50 retail electricity companies in Texas over the last three years with a simple goal: for customers to turn down the dials when wholesale prices are highest and turn them back up when prices are lowest.

It is possible because Texas has more wind power than any other state, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the state’s generation. Alone among the 48 contiguous states, Texas runs its own electricity grid that barely connects to the rest of the country, so the abundance of nightly wind power generated here must be consumed here."
These are relatively minor problems however. The gas station problem for example is solved by charging your car at home or work. Gas stations exist because we can't refuel our cars at home.
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I have to disagree with many points in that article. My point of reference is the German grid, so it might be different in the US.

- switching all cars to electrical would increase the total electricity consumption by 20%, while currently we export about 10% of our production. All the changes are going to happen over a timeframe of more than 20 years, because that is how long it takes to replace the cars at minimum, a long time to make any necessary adjustments to the grid.

- in general, electrical cars should be rather beneficial to the grid. There is no reason to charge them at dinner time. Electrical cars have timers and current control, it is very easy to have them charge at times where the grid is underloaded. Many power companies have rebates at night anyway to get rid of excess electricity. (Assuming a car with a reasonably sized battery, like the Model 3)

- long term, the speed of charging could be controlled remotely by the power company (for a rebate) so they could use this further to stabilize the grid.

- The Model X is available with a tow hitch, and it seems that the Model 3 might have one too (Elon tweeted something to that extend)

- Most Tesla owners seem to be happy with the combination of range and the Supercharger network, and the range is going to improve by about 5% per year.
To compete with car ownership, the possible solution should be:

— available end-to-end (no waiting for the train and changing lines)
— allowing for some privacy (in a car, I am always in good company; not so much in trains)
— protect from the elements (riding a bike uphill in cold rain is less than pleasant)

Trains, buses and bicycles are quite inferior options in this regard. Only Uber provides a tolerable alternative (but owning a car is still way cheaper).
I'm pretty much sure this software wouldn't get a lot of attention if it was not built in rust. Darn I need to build something in rust and get some attention!