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> Are you comparing the Tesla 21700s with all the commercially available 18650s, or with the specific 18650s Tesla uses? It's possible Tesla doesn't use the most energy dense 18650s available, so their 21700s could be an improvement for them.

For reference, Tesla's current cells are about 215 to 225 Wh/kg; they are not the most energy dense cells you can get. What I'm comparing are Tesla's new cells to the best cells out there. The reason why I do this is because that's what Tesla fans - and Elon Musk - repeatedly do. Also, I'm almost certain that Tesla's new cells will have a higher energy density than 215-225 Wh/kg; if they didn't, they'd be on par with batteries from a decade and a half ago, which would be pretty pathetic.

> Also, are they currently limited by the heat dissipation? If not, increasing the volume per cell might not be as much of a problem. The linked article mentions that they doubled the number of cooling loops per module, which might already be anticipating an increase in heat to be removed.

It's complicated. Technically, at the rate of discharge that Tesla uses right now, they shouldn't be. Teslas right now discharge their 65-100kWh pack in 3.5 to 5 hours. That's about 20 kW power continuous. There are roughly 6000 to 9000 cells per pack, so very roughly you discharge, while driving, between 2 and 3.5 watts per cell, so around 0.2C discharge. However, Teslas have their packs in an enormous, insulated, heavily managed sealed blob of batteries. This confines the heat to the pack, which requires their water cooling system.

Another complicating factor is that heat dissipation matters in a few different contexts. First, there's the important matter of getting the heat from the inside of the battery to the battery surface; this is a matter of battery design and solved by the people that make the batteries. Then, there's the matter of what you do with the heat once it's at the battery surface (Tesla water-cools their cells); this is a problem for whoever makes the battery pack. Then there's the problem of what to do with the heat in general; now that you've drawn the heat away from the batteries and into the heatsinks or water, how do you cool your hot water/hot heatsinks?

Switching to 21700s 'only' changes the first part of the equation - heat dissipation within the cell - but this is one of the trickiest parts to deal with. You can put a water cooling system on the outside of your battery, but you can't put a water cooler in individual cells. You can change the chemistry of the battery to better dissipate heat, but changing the chemistry of course also changes the battery's characteristics: energy/power density, cycle life, weight, cost, etc.
It's also that THC isn't very psychoactive until it's been decarboxylated. The process of heating it within a particular temperature does this (e.g smoking, vaping, baking)
Feels like shallow reasoning to me to be honest. What can the author say about problem with 2nd/3rd generation of young immigrants' kids/large ghettos in Paris? Is it fictional problem? Probably not as my Parisian friends are saying and you can see burning cars from time to time. Police no-go zone seems to me like reasonable issue to be worried about. The problem imho is that the issue is not so close in time, but a bit further, 2+ generations (40y) from now. Similar to Rio de Janeiro favelas who is there to blame for all of the massive mess? Children don't choose where they want to be born. First immigrants are seniors/not here anymore. Politicians rotated dozen times.

In general I think that mass relocations of any kind for any reason are bad and should be throttled to sustainable throughput. This way churches, schools, hospitals and what not can keep up.
The money is in the... moneyed part of that market.
If you give it to your lawyer, it's still half truth, and still you can break and call him to mail the headers to you. If this is so important, setup a server that you control with your data encrypted on it, and enter the US with a clean Ubuntu system, or even a Chromebook with a fresh account.
It's hard to take someone like this seriously when he comes from the elite banking class that has long been at war with the Chavez/Maduro faction.

He's about as partisan as you can get.
You believe that the brightest children helping their more unenlightened peers will result in society losing out?
Don't lump abortion in with those other issues that involve denial of either rational thought or scientific evidence. It's an issue where rational people can disagree. The only way that it verges on that is in the fact that people will try to do it anyways, in ways that are historically very dangerous. In that way, it becomes like prohibition of drugs and legalization becomes a harm-reduction strategy. But, like drugs, that doesn't mean that it's a fundamentally good thing.

FYI...I say this as someone who is intentionally ambivalent on the issue of abortion. Had abortion been safe, legal and reliable in 1940, I would not be alive to write this since my mother would have never been born. And yet my grandmother would have never been forced to marry her rapist, which basically ruined the majority of her life. In confronting the issue of abortion, I'm forced to weigh my grandmother's life against that of my mother and I. I haven't figured out a way of doing that yet. But it really bothers me when people like you who've likely never had any personal connection to the issue imply that only one side of the debate is rational.

Personal nit...life does start at inception, since that's a tautology. The beginning is the beginning. It's life starting at conception that's usually debated.
> But I think a lot of people dislike preppers because of the implication that this effort is a substitute for being involved in preventing the disaster in the first place

I had literally never heard of this criticism until I read this article and the ensuing discussion.

It seems a little odd, too, like saying, 'why hedge the risk of an unfriendly regime when you can vote?' Even Bill Gates or Carlos Slim can't ensure that a disaster won't happen to him or his family; while I'm sure that they take steps to prevent them, I'm equally sure that they also have plans in place for how to respond to unprevented disasters.
"It's something employers do because they can't fill those jobs otherwise."

What if they did something crazy, like offer higher wages to attract employees?
I feel like we're more likely to die from old age than anything from space or zombies. Maybe I just can't do the level of paranoia that some people take on.

Or maybe you just settled on different hobbies. I'm not being facetious, we all spend our time and money on different things, and from my POV many put together a narrative that "requires" them to buy fun gadgets. For you, perhaps home automation. For others, prepping for an end-of-world scenario that they themselves know is unlikely to happen.

Or maybe they are all a little nutty, I dunno.
Gifted means generally high IQ. While one can trained and raise its IQ, from my understanding, it can help just for a few points.

I can relate to the IQ wall in communication, I can relate to fail education, I can relate to stupid people with great education, I am lucky to have a good paying job considering my lack of formal education.

If not properly handled, above than average IQ is actually more a problem than a great asset in western system (I won't talk about Asian countries, as I don't have first hand experience but the competition mindset should help)
If you don't mind I'm going to go a bit 'architect' on you :-) Do you need a software architect or do you need a senior engineer. Interview questions are about finding out if you should say 'no', by definition if someone is called in for an interview you've tentatively said yes to them for the job you just want to know if you should change that to a no. So the problem set is understanding if the applicant in front of you will be able to do the job you need done.

Your comment that "in our org ... they are also hands-on" is the an echo of the Joel Spolsky 'architecture astronaut' type. Someone who spends all day architecting and none of their time coding. But here is the thing, at the end of the day its about how much product the organization ships at the end of the day and whether or not that product had does the job it needs to do right? So there is some nuance there to consider.

I certainly believe that anyone who considers themselves to have software architecture skills, should also be able to do anything a senior engineer can do caveat a deep discipline/subject matter engineer[1]. So interviewing for senior engineers will also get candidates who show architecture tendencies, and you will recognize them because of the questions they ask. If you want to provoke those questions then leave some of your coding or puzzle questions a bit ambiguous to see if they let their ideas play out or if they are sticking with the task.

Here is the thing though, you can have lots of really good programmers and all they need is a bit of structure around where they are going so that together they can make something awesome. That needs an architect who is spending all of their time keeping everyone on the same page, and if changes need to be made, moving to the new page. If your programming team is fairly senior and just "gets it" and will work out amongst themselves which parts need to fit with the other parts, then you just need another senior engineer like that. In my experience though group 1 is more common than group 2.

[1] There are irreplaceable senior engineers who have become so deeply expert in a particular technology you don't want them to do anything but own that code.
I think it's around 5 years too late to prevent the complexity explosion :)

JS has been object oriented since the beginning it just has an insane prototype based inheritance hierarchy that they're increasingly trying to hide/pave over.
"Freezing federal hiring literally will cost jobs"

Jobs in government, not in private industry. Would you rather we all go on the gov payroll?
Cameroon has shut down the internet in its English-speaking regions
By scientists you do mean Elsevier shareholders, right?
I am not sure, but it could be that the arts programs have a different acceptance rate than the engineering programs.
Works for me with the Anti-Adblock killer list and the Adblock Warning Removal list that are available in uBlock Origin's dashboard.
Viruses, spyware found in 'alarming' number of Android VPN apps
My daughter attends an expensive prep school and gets a chunk of it covered by financial aid. I am indeed grateful, but I would suggest there's another possible way to frame it, which is that the wealthy parents of my daughter's classmates are paying extra to place their own children with the smartest, hardest-working students, regardless of socio-economic background (which in turn creates a more diverse student body, which is also a benefit). So while I respect that there is a charitable component, I also believe there is a transaction taking place that benefits all parties. Consequently, singling financial aid kids out as somehow special or lesser would, I think, be as unfair as either customers or wait staff in a restaurant to somehow be made feel inferior to one another.
Type systems (e.g. TypeScript) expose complexity well. Maybe I don't understand your comment - are you writing only simple apps which don't use objects?
Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes
Offer to stay the extra 2 weeks or so and extend our your departure date. Paid time. It's good for your references and will leave you with goodwill at the company. That can come in handy if you cross paths again with your team at different company. Plus you get to build something that's not a tire fire train wreck.
> I maintain that a large reader base here does not actually... read.

I would disagree.

Although there's often a fair number of commenters who clearly read the title of an article, and then just start commenting on that, in this case we can see that people have read (at a minimum) your opening statement and whichever list item they're taking issue with.

I believe that if a large set of people are misinterpreting what I've written, it's a sign that I probably wrote it poorly. Not in the sense of arguing for the wrong thing, but in the sense that I'm not conveying my argument well enough. This is easy to do, because when I'm writing something, I know what I mean. This sounds obvious, but it's hard to read what I've written tabula rasa, without bringing that "of course I mean X" view to it.

So, the feedback you're getting here is that your opening statement colors the rest of your piece. That "Incompetence? Politics? Both?" aside obviously makes a large subset of readers assume that you're saying "all of these complaints in my list must be unaddressed due to incompetence or politics". That's at odds with the later "just an opinion" statement, and people are sticking with the more-inflammatory initial claim.
or for a really quick high level overview you can use this: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/kdb+/

it's a really beautiful little language once you get into it :-)
Will try it too.
Defining a new class takes tons of boilerplate. Just calling some existing code looks pretty much like any other C-style language; it's fine.

Python has a pretty tedious class definition syntax too, and nobody ever accused Python of having a bad REPL!
>> I did not see a single engineer promoted to management

Good engineers don't necessarily mean good managers
The front low-angle picture is the one Trump fans use to "disprove" the story. Its angle hides the swaths of empty space that were filled during Obama's first inauguration. Not to mention that the low-angle front picture obscures the Obama 2009 crowd spilling out the sides.

The picture you linked was taken earlier in the day, but is not the one used in the comparisons on news sites. That picture was taken around the time the Obama 2009 one was taken and shows Trump's crowd slightly more filled in:
http://i.imgur.com/17nLdRl.jpg

Obama's inauguration broke all records and Trump's didn't come close. The scary point is that Trump felt the need to lie about it. They even admitted it with their "alternative facts" line. Openly lying about things that are demonstrably false is his way of distracting from other issues.
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4
The 2170 would be marginally less power dense. It would probably be easier just to use more 2170's than try to engineer some complicated mix.
It seems as if the Ionic team is planning to support the desktop in the fuure:

> Coming next we are working on new features to add proper desktop and electron support, something we’ve dipped our toes into in the past but will be making a bigger priority going forward.

That being said, there is Electron, but that "only" provides you with the runtime to run a web app as a natively integrated desktop app, not with visual components and the like.
I am not the GP, and I do not endorse the argument therein, but some evidence for some of his/her claims are provided by this article[1] by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and Thierry Verdier. I think Acemoglu and Robinson are the foremost experts in institutional state capacity, although I was not terribly persuaded by the model set forth in this paper (although I read an earlier revision a while ago). Some more easily readable press coverage of this paper is at [3] and [4].

As for the Pax Americana thesis, that is harder to get empirical evidence for [5], but some evidence for this thesis is that the NATO alliance explicitly has 1% GDP military expenditure minimums, which the non-US NATO allies have been shirking on for some while now[2]. So at least the underlying agreements that make up the international system do, on some level, endorse the "collective action" thesis of enforcing the pax.

[1]: Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent
World, http://economics.mit.edu/files/11377

[2]: Please do not misconstrue this statement to be some kind of endorsement of the current administration's dislike of NATO; I mean no such thing. President Obama acknowledged this, and lobbied multiple NATO members to increase their spending to meet the minimum, and he was no enemy of NATO.

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/americans... and here:

[4]: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/wil...

[5]: While this article by Dan Drenzer is overall skeptical of the thesis from the perspective of this being a good deal for America, it does provide a lot of citations to articles that claim that this is a good deal for the rest of the world, and is a great start to examine the related work in this area: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00124...
Sad but not surprising. Looking at the Turkish society overall it seems to be a regression to the mean. Even Gülen - the new designated enemy, former best friend of the AKP regime - had a book written about how wrong evolution is. And that guy is is a champion of education.

Turkish civil society unfortunately never got strong enough to counter these cranks. Always torn apart by militarists, communists, and now islamists again.
edit: oops forgot to mention the ethnic nationalists, they deserve special mention, fuckers.
"freeloaders" is a bit of a strong term if you're not complaining.
Taxes also go to things like healthcare, because most of us recognize that living in a world where having people dying in the street is sub-optimal. And most people who are in a 50+% bracket are still getting a bargain, because their personal effort and skill contribute much less than 50% of their income.
I understand that you want to salvage Python, but it's time to look around and smell the roses. It's okay that we have non-Python languages. Some of them are pretty cool. For example, in Monte:

foo.onClick(fn { x += 1 })

Totally legal, because there are no statements; it's an expression language.
All politicians lie, what's seemingly different about Trump is the scope and frequency of those lies, and his refusal to admit he even said them given evidence.

Just the refusal to admit them would be bad enough, but since he's gotten away with it just about every time, it shows a worrying trend of there being no accountability. Combined with the frequency, the problem is just multiplied.

I find a politician that can't seem to be held accountable for his actions and that trades on this for more political power very troubling.
> Also that logo looks familiar?

Dr Manhattan? http://imgur.com/a/EQNya
I'm curious how far from just dropping to sexps you are looking. While I will not claim that lisp is the be all of languages, when you have a literal syntax that is literally made for linked structures, it becomes a lot easier to represent whatever you are wanting to do. And it you can keep yourself from having tons of "pseudo languages" that are used for different structures.
About the LGBT bit

>TIME MAGAZINE: There was a back and forth in which another delegate argued for LGBT inclusive language and someone else responded to her, alleging that she was suggesting everyone who didn’t agree with her was a bigot. People clapped in agreement. She said that wasn’t her intention, but it was tense. What were you thinking during that exchange?

>Rachel Hoff: The reality is that all of us who support LGBT rights got frustrated. Another member offered an amendment to stand with LGBT people around the world who are targeted by violence and terrorism, and that went down in flames. In another section, the Orlando attack was mentioned, so I offered an amendment to describe it as ‘the terrorist attack on the LGBT community in Orlando.’ And they wouldn’t even do that. We knew that the platform committee wasn’t our home turf, and I did not expect to win every amendment, but I also did not expect the rigidity with which the committee would refuse to even mention the LGBT community more broadly in a positive way.

Later in the article

>time: You mentioned that you had given some thought to being an Independent over the last couple days as these meetings went on. What frustration brought you to that point?

>RH: It wasn’t the marriage stuff. I had anticipated that my amendment would not pass. It was the amendments where the committee members refused to even stand with the basic human rights of LGBT individuals. We name so many individual groups in that document, and let’s name LGBT people. When they refused to even do that, I thought, what do we even stand for? Why am I even here? ... These last few days is the first time I ever thought about leaving the Republican Party. But I’ve decided not to.

This is the Republican Party, in July 2016. I thought the article was interesting coming from an openly gay GOP member.

Link - http://time.com/4405261/gay-republicans-convention-rachel-ho...
Use of Wine with QEMU was still a recurring topic even on Intel Macs (until this release) because 64-bit Windows binaries use a calling convention that isn't compatible with macOS.
Reply to below: Since I'm fairly young (23) the amount of stress I get from working is relatively low.

Sure I could take unpaid days off probably, but that would just decrease my earnings for that year. I normally take one week long vacation a year with my family, but would honestly like to travel more.

We only get the 25th off of December off, and 6 holidays not including a floating holiday that we can choose to take off (and if we don't we get another day of paid time off)
Electron would be analogous to Cordova, which is what ionic is based on.
Something like Microsoft fabric or similar, or even bootstrap would be the analogous thing for desktop.
Uninformed by sound teleology, and unguided by divine revelation regarding The Last Things, it would seem many women and men feel driven to construct their own eschatology ~ largely shaped by fear and other basic instincts ~ which is then coupled to rational actions based on that foreseen/considered-probable ending.
Before anyone thinks Switzerland is some bastion of democracy, I'd like to point out that they've been very conservative in some areas. Women didn't have federal voting rights until 1971, and received nation-wide local voting rights fairly recently in 1991. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_in_Switzerlan...
it's really just for Angular2? which is overly complex for many. I'm using vue which has different similar frameworks.
Kiwi here - no thanks. The last thing New Zealand needs is more politicized money flowing into the country.

C.f: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/323098/'exceptional-c... and http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/323107/nz-back-at-top-of... are both headlines on most major NZ news websites today.

It didn't work out too well for Kim Dotcom either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Arrest_and_extradit...).
I have a hard time finding a hire date for Poettering at Red Hat BTW. It looks like Jeff Johnson was hired at Red Hat in 1998.
Wow, they are some incredibly impressive numbers. Great write up. HT to Mark
There are just too. many. damn. cars. Just run the numbers. In the LA area there are 16 million people. National average is 2 cars for every 3 people. That's over 10 million cars. If we take that an average parking space is 7 feet by 15 feet, that's 105 square feet per space. 10 million spaces is 1 billion square feet. That's 36 square miles. That's literally a square 6 miles on a side--just to park the cars once. There is probably 3 times that many spots in LA, when you consider that every place a car goes it needs a spot. That's over 100 square miles just to park cars. That's not even to drive them!

Get the cars off the road, get them the hell out of the city, take back that parking space and road space, and replace it with taxis, trains, subways, trams, bicycles, busses, and literally _everything_ else but cars. The last thing LA needs is another freeway, above or below ground.