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How did they achieve the impressive 40-percent improvement in EV range?

"Like mass, which comes off by the tenth of a gram," say Tim Grewe,
Chevy's general director of electrification, "range goes up with every detail.
Our motors are more efficient, our battery discharge is more efficient,
our inverter efficiency is higher and our drive-unit spin losses lower.
Yet we also improved [the] fun-to-drive [aspect], with 30-percent better
launch and low-end acceleration, because that's a very pleasing feel."

In a nutshell, EV range is all about energy efficiency because current battery energy density is a few orders of magnitude less than fossil fuels and efficiency matters a lot with all things considered when energy capacity is given.

And Germans know this much better. It's why BMW custom developed an brand new chassis and majority of the components being used in BMW i3 with super lightweight but much sturdier carbon fiber reenforced plastic body[1] and other designs to achieve that goal whereas GM uses steels and traditional materials for Volt. Similarly by contrast, GM uses existing vehicle platform to cut down cost[2] instead of custom design one for Chevy Volt.

The end results of BMW's effort are very self-explanatory: BMW i3 with 124 MPGe is THE MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT [3] vehicle of all vehicles rated by US EPA in all classes in the United States for 3 years straight. On the other hand, GM Chevy Volt's 98 MPGe is ranked far behind.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#cite_note-BMW0410-15

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt#Second_generati...

[3]: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/best-worst.shtml

Full disclosure: I had owned BMW ActiveE (an engineering prototype comparable to Volt in terms retro-fitting EV components into existing ICE car platform (BMW 1-series) with traditional material being used.) and have driven BMW i3 since ActiveE's retirement in their field trial.
Seconded. An AirPort Time Capsule is so worth the investment. I can't praise it enough and you can't get me to shut up about it. My wife and I had our Macbooks (our only computers) stolen this weekend and we are back up and running with new Macbooks with all our data intact. My only regret is not turning on FileFault, thinking it would make our computers slow.
>> They might have done a little better had they sold the Volt under the Cadillac moniker instead

GM sells the Cadillac ELR - they only sold about 2,000 over them over the last 2 years, and it was canceled this year. It's too close to the volt and has a way higher MSRP. They might have been better off just releasing the Cadillac version, and then released the Volt later as a cheaper alternative. The Volt MSRP'ed at $39,900 but you could get a $7,500 tax credit and $4,000 incentive from GM, effectively making it a $28,000 car.
Please stop working so hard to piss in my soup.

I plan to keep using Python 2.* until the sun grows cold or I die (whichever comes first.) So this entire effort seems like a busybody with nothing better to do working hard to screw me over.

Knock it off!
This was the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
That's basically Chromebooks for most people, and incidentally they just started outselling Macs.

Most of us "power users" will never be using one, but they're designed for people who aren't going to be personally maintaining their computer.
Sounds like Appeal to Authority to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

FWIW I am also someone who knows what he's talking about, as I am a seasoned professional in the same line of work.

This guy's accomplishments don't make the Chebyshev inequality any less true (nor all the other theorems involving variance), so I don't see how he can claim something like this and be taken seriously by people in the field.
GM interiors are actually quite good now, but it takes a while to reputationally recover from making cheap, tacky, rattle-prone pieces of crap from 1969 to ~2008.
The author has the tone of a consultant but gives the scenario of "If I charge you $10,000 to build a web app". On a budget of 10k to design and implement an entire webapp there is no money spare for a consultant.

Besides, anyone can easily work out a ball park figure: "I charge X per day. This project sounds like it is in the scale of multiple days/weeks/months. Therefore it will be in this rough range..."

This is pretty much how I respond to all business enquiries (I'm a freelance UX consultant). It cuts out a lot of time wasting.

Cached version of article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S23YKe1...
At some point people were excited about agents, and conversational agents.

Well this is the first bits of that. That means some code somewhere has to read what you are saying. Then it helps you. The trade off seems clear to me.

And ultimately I do trust Google. The US government less so, but the solution to that isn't with encryption and crippling technology, but expanding privacy rights in the 21st century. Look forward not backwards.
What kills me is, they decided to make breaking changes, and they still kept the damn global interpreter lock! It's like saying "Sorry guys, it's 2016, and you have to port all your code, but no parallelism for you!"

Beatings will continue until morale improves...
Are you stepping into invisible pink unicorn territory?
To answer your questions in order:

1. Public perception of a contentious disagreement where both sides levied serious accusations and reputations may be relevant in future business dealings.

2. Because if they don't want people making up their own theories they'll at least say something in unison other than "we aren't saying anything" as it pertains to Answer #1.

I'm not saying they owe any explanation - I'm just saying if they don't give one then they don't have room to bemoan idle speculation.
They all get hungry - they generate a demand for goods and services such as restaurants - which is really good for their downtown economy.
Fall of friction: Google’s foray into beacons is a
That life. As in, that's life as it has always been. There's always been people that remind others, and there are always those that remember things easier than others. What difference is there whether it's an application or your mother reminding you? You still need to make a choice whether it's worth it to you,the app isn't forcing you to do anything. It can alter the influence we apply to certain actions when deciding how much someone cares, but it doesn't take away our ability to show we care. So what if more people will remember birthdays or illnesses, the people that really care will make an effort to show that in some manner. If just remembering is no longer a bit deal, they'll do something else.

> With too much automation of our social lives and relationships, many actions may simply become meaningless.

So we stop doing those actions. We'll find new actions, or reinterpret old ones to mean something more.

> Your not actually thinking about who you want to spend time with and why.

Then you must not care about the people involved. You devote time to what you care about. Reminders aren't going to change that.

These reminders are really just alleviating cultural busywork, which is really only needed because these cultural norms developed when we lived in much smaller communities. Rememdering birthdays and meeting in celebration of all your friends was much easier when we lived in villages of 100 people. Now we have cultural baggage from different economic developmental stages, and it creates a lot of extra work just to do what's culturally expected, as it doesn't fit the environment so many of us find ourselves in. In the end, that's just busy-work, we'll find ways to make those that matter to us know it.
you're missing the point, i'm just talking about information
List of developer questions to ask prospective employers
To all new founders, get a legal agreement in place from day 1 with your collaborators. Here are some amazing free resources (vetted for Canada, a million times better than nothing in the US, pass it by a lawyer if you have the money):

http://wiki.velocity.uwaterloo.ca/Legal

@sama - could YC spearhead creating US versions of the founder IP agreements?
> There was, however, one problem with such a plan. Any market where you yourself are the chief liquidity provider and in which flows remain pretty one-sided is also a market where you end up taking on the risk, regardless of whether or not you’re front-running your customers, benefiting from privileged information or setting withdrawal limits — this is largely because you’re dealing with paper profit creation. In some cases, a self-fulfilling feedback loop might even occur in which no matter how much bitcoin you pre-buy to sell to your customers at a premium, the underlying capital needed to acquire the bitcoin becomes proportionally ever larger in ratio terms. So you end up short-squeezing yourself to ruin.

So they speculate that he started with a bitcoin shortfall and attempted to buy bitcoins on his own exchange to buy his way out of the shortfall, but in doing so exacerbated the problem by increasing the price of bitcoin because mt. gox was really the only buyer of any size on teh exchange?

I can't think of another market where this has occurred. Can anyone else come up with a similar scenario that's played out like this in the past?

Worth reading the referenced article as well:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/19/behind-the-...
That can be constructed logically with win conditions on what efficiency is.
Then I would argue the biggest threat to safe and effective fracking is Saudi Arabia. As long as fuel prices are low, people are more willing to cut corners to make a profit. If prices are high, the added costs of effective regulation are an easier sell.

Otherwise, you make a great point.
I think it's a bit of an open question whether density will end up cutting average commute times.

It hopefully enables more people to have short commutes but the lower density housing around cities doesn't go away.
There's a lot of subtext behind zoning in Palo Alto, some of it between people who still want to live in the 1970s version of the city.

In this case, the issue is what happens to non-tech businesses in downtown. When there are a large supply of small and medium professional services business, the bars, restaurants, barbers and small shops do well. The Palantir employees tend to eat in their own cafeteria, and are perceived to purchase less from the local businesses. This is why there's an element of the population that prefers smaller businesses whose employees go downtown during the lunch hour.

The city does have space though, they just choose not to build on it. Another research park could be built and zoned for. (As could more housing)

The article also doesn't quote the many Palo Alto residents who like being a short commute to work, rather than taking Caltrain to SF for tech jobs.
tldr; : don't use social networks on your smartphone or you're going to miss out on real life.
Not if their company provides free food/beer.
But marriage also imparts many other rights not directly related to children, and not all marriages can or will produce children, hetero or otherwise. This has always been true, so arguments relating to children as the reason for marriage are quite tenuous.

Ed: in this case brendan eich either made a mistake with his donation, or is anti gay rights.
I disagree. The early 2016 MacBook (just refreshed) with the maxed-out BTO m7/512GB config is entirely satisfying.
About discovery:

These days, the barrier to entry for discovery is lower than it's ever been. If you get your music on all of the various internet music services and some of the internet-radio programming, you are much more heavily distributed worldwide than any garage-band in the 70s or 80s could ever have been at the time.

The 'bar for discovery' has two parts: The bar for potential discovery is now very, very low. But for actual discovery it is high because the "signal-to-noise" ratio is very low: by that I mean there is so much crap (noise) to wade through before you find a great band (signal) that the work of curating has shifted from the radio stations and record labels to the consumer. The nice thing is that you can find excellent music the major labels will simply ignore. The not so nice thing: it requires work on your part to seek out and engage with the curators of content.

This is why finding the internet radio programs that feature the genre you enjoy, and following the music-programmers who curate with taste that you share, is vital to a good discovery experience.
I'm still confused on what Ethereum really is and how likely it will succeed.
I really like your response. I feel out of place on the front end because I'm a minimalist and I tend to keep things very clean and simple. A lot of the time it feels like I'm doing everything wrong.
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"Meaning" always exists relative to a background. If the average person doesn't remember but you do, you stand out, and your actions have extra meaning. Just because the background decreases doesn't mean you can't stand out. You can always go beyond what the app suggests; for example, in additional to sending flower you could appear in person and sing to them.
Magistral is so unfair. At any moment a blue car can come up from behind and rear-end you, including instantly after you respawn.

Is this by design, a sort of Soviet nihilistic humor?
If you're a good an scrupulous contractor, you'll also be able to be able to tell them how much app you can build for them for the money they have available, which is completely valid for a client who needs something but has only a small budget. Often scope is negotiable, but your expertise will be important in helping define the scope.
> The one valuable point from the article is "You’re focused on the wrong thing.". Yes, you should help the business owner focus on the ROI.

OTOH, the business owner probably already has a (possibly inaccurate, and that may need correcting) idea of the value they expect to receive -- otherwise they wouldn't be talking to you at all. When they are asking for an estimate of the cost to realize that value, they are filling in the bit they need to have a picture of the ROI.
Android Instant Apps - apps without installation
Don't get me wrong, I see the reasoning, my comment was just me musing on how I'd have to break the habits I've learnt from other languages.
This is entirely unrelated to marriage, so brendan eich should be spending his money on other lobbying efforts if that was his goal.
1. there is a free version.
2. "We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map." is a very old statement. CSS 2.1 is implemented in full.
I gave a popular science reference in another comment:

http://www.popsci.com/ichip-new-way-find-antibiotics-and-oth...

From that you should have enough keywords to chase up papers, labs, other discussion, etc.
The problem with this article is not any of the facts or reasoning which is all very spot on. The problem is the tone. From the very opening of the title "Dear Client" it's hard not to read this in a sneering, condescending tone. At best, it preaches to the choir, and will never be discovered by the people who need it most.

A necessary component of a good client-consultant relationship is mutual trust and respect. If the client is well-intentioned but ignorant, then there is a much nicer way of educating them, on the other hand if the client is stubborn and arrogant then you don't want to work with them anyway. On the flip side, you should respect your client's expertise, not pretend like running a consultancy is the same as running other types of business.

I understand the emotional appeal of writing a screed like this, I've worked with my fair sure of clueless and bull-headed clients (eg. many realtors during 2006-2007 bubble), but if you are as good as you think you are you can't let yourself get dragged into this embittered attitude as it will turn off potentially good clients as well.
Few questions,

1>how do you handle cellphones?

I found there is few option that you can have LTE network without giving up your identity.

2>how do you handle online payment/shopping such as Amazon?
I'd tax rent-seeking, and the most effective way to do that is a land value tax.
I think you're referring to very different products or services than custom software development. Or would you be satisfied with "$200 per hour billed"?

For fixed, static products or existing and relatively simple services? I absolutely agree that a clear pricing model is a reasonable expectation.
No, I think neither the tools we use nor our cultural norms really define what we are, just what we do, philosophically speaking. I think we're a a race of culture creating tool users that strive to advance. The tools we currently use and the cultures we find ourselves currently creating at most stages in a progression, and possibly not even that, but just fleeting memes in the story of our species (if we don't dead-end ourselves).
Truly, central planning at its most refined.
How about this the Tesla Model 3 costs just as much as the volt and has a 215 mile electric range. Which one do you want?

IMO, hybrid car with an ~80 mile range and a ~50 HP gas engine that only runs at a single RPM and charges the battery's would be a great option. Instead the volt is just a 1997 Prius with a slightly larger battery. Yay for stagnation.

Note: Less than 40 HP can maintain ~85MPH on the highway. The battery can also kick in for a little extra acceleration, but you want some extra to recharge the battery ahead of time.

Instead, they add a 'full' engine and a full transmission which costs extra and adds more weight.
Shame too. The ATS and the CTS both look a good car that's getting screwed by Cadillac branding.
I see your point and I guess I hadn't thought of it like that. In my case, I pay for Spotify as a replacement for pirating. I probably buy more music now in a physical form now that cassettes and records have become available. I would point out that the reason I pay for Spotify is not due to the access to music (I could get most of it for free online), but for the convenience... I can't store all the music I want to hear on my phone and I don't want to run a Plex server or whatever 24/7 to deal with that problem (let alone buy a bunch of drives and fill them with music!). I also appreciate the curation they provide (the Discover Weekly is a regular source of artists I've never heard of before), so I think there are some intangible benefits to the artists from Spotify beyond the meager pay. I've definitely gone to shows based solely on having heard an artists on Spotify.

I'm not sure how sold I am on the idea that Spotify converts more people away from buying music "the old fashioned way" than it does convert former pirates into now (meager) paying customers, but I can definitely see it as a possibility. Unfortunately buying music sucks. Having to keep track of, discover, and store music (in any medium!) sucks. Especially if you aren't a collector of some kind. Spotify/Google Play/Apple music make that easier and that's why people are going to pay for it.
965 bytes for mine. I should (but didn't, will tonight) minify the CSS, which will bring it down to 650 bytes. My site is very much in line with BMFW and IMO it looks pretty nice. But it's also very, very basic.

There are very few things that I would style for a text-based website:

1) The h1, h2, p, strong, and a elements. Font-family, font-size, color, a:hover, and line height attributes only.

2) Create a container (eg: max-width 44em, margin: 0-auto, width: 100%) to wrap everything in.

From there the "heaviest" parts of the blog would be navigation and how accessible you want a complete archive list to be or if Previous/Next links would be suffice.

E:

800px -> 44em, see response below.
Is there any zoning for safe space? Does anyone know? Or do i need to build my own bunker like Switzerland did for each and every one of their citizens.... during cold war. Btw is cold war over yet? Or is it just a going through a thaw right now
I was really interested in ChromeOS. We have a loads of laptops and tablets onboard for entertainment, navigation, schooling, and boat management.

I saw that the Chromebooks were really popular and figure it might replace one or two of our laptops that are slowly dissolving in the salty air. But working offline for months at time is essential. This old battle axe of a Macbook Pro will have to keep on trucking. I've already lost the SD-card slot and glass is cracked (dropped from a motorbike)
It's not massive.
I don't get your point. You're satirizing someone caring about the cost of a project by comparing it to someone caring about the number of lines of code written?
For those, like me, who hadn't heard of Hungarian notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

(Not suggesting you're one of them.)
SQLite Client for Node.js Apps /w Built-In SQL Migrations
Tiny robot bees can now land anywhere thanks to static electricity
Good on you, Mayor Burt. We can no longer allow vibrant young professionals with expendable income to ruin our dining/nightlife center.
NFL star Patrick Willis thriving in retirement as a Silicon Valley tech worker
Life is more complicated then Keynes at places.
SARDAR title is bestowed after 5 generations for example in PUNJAB regarldess of what 3 of them did with their money.
Tungia – Marketing de afiliado ¿Qué es y cómo funciona?
At a price, though: high-index plastic has much higher dispersion than the lower-index materials. This causes a greater "prism effect" near the edges of the lens, which interacts very badly with the new RGB-backlight monitors [0].

[0] http://scottlburson2.blogspot.com/2016/01/lcd-backlights-and...
I do know why it works. Because the bootstrap team spend 100s of man hours getting it to work.
I don't hate Twitter. I actually have gotten a lot out of it. But I struggle to understand it and I think this is part of why there is friction. It if fundamentally different from other social platforms that I have experience with. And trying to figure out how to relate to it effectively has been work.

To me, a big piece of this has to do with social mental models and I think Twitter would work better if someone were talking about how to relate to it effectively. It doesn't work like you typical forum. Trying to relate to it like other social media simply doesn't work.

I am still figuring out how to interact with it effectively, but it has been a really positive experience for me. That doesn't mean it couldn't be improved in some manner. But I see a large piece of this as people just not having the right mental framework for interacting effectively with it.
ClipAway: Restore your distorted audio files
Someone needs to make a script which runs through a git repo's commit history and looks for commits which add invisible Unicode characters. Maybe some existing exploits could be found in the wild.
No one needs this product. It's designed to sell tokens to the clueless.
totally unrelated events, troll!
Teach writing code first
I always remember this from Slaughterhouse Five.

God, I love Kurt Vonnegut.
How about the landlord just pays tenants directly for not having a car in the area? Would the incentives come out wrong in such an arrangement?
I see I need to back that up: some merchants ask you if you would like to pay in your local curreny at POS when you are travelling abroad with a credit card. DCC, dynamic curreny conversion at Visa/Mastercard or similar.

The gains on higher fees are then split between the merchant and the processor.

Edit: Yes I think the fees are exorbitant - hence some lawsuits in the US and some EU countries with regulated, lower interchange fees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
Wow, that's truly evil. Would other languages like Ruby that support overloads like that be susceptible(I'm no Ruby expert)?
Google and Levi’s create “connected” jacket that answers calls and use maps
US First Basic Income Drawing 5/31 SF
That wouldn't be a _Decentralized_ _Autonomous_ Organization... short DAO...