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Pardon my coarseness, but the author has his head so far up his own ass as he can’t tell whether the sun is up or down. I say this as a person who ordered a Nissan Leaf the first day they were available, has way too many shares of TSLA in their portfolio, and would love nothing more than watch Exxon Mobile go out of business. But they won’t be dismantling the Keystone pipeline any time soon, let alone in eight years.

Sure, ICEs are complex. But it is a known complexity. So well known that our 80K Scion xB has never had the valve cover off (IOW, nothing internal to the engine has broken). In fact, we’ve done nothing to it but tires and oil. Having never done it, from the shop manual I’d guess I could have the engine of our 200K mile VW camper van on the ground in about 30 minutes, have it rebuild over a weekend, and it’s good for another 100K miles. Complicated though they might be, ordinary humans can figure them out. Hell, the inner workings of an Intel CPU surpassed my understanding years ago, but they still sell millions of them, and my ignorance doesn’t stop me from writing software for them.

Look at the list of common repairs in the article. Almost all of them have one thing in common: the repairs are dictated by emissions testing, not because they’ll leave you at the side of the road. O2 sensor? The car is likely to still run, just poorly. The driver might not even notice. Catalytic converter? Unless it’s plugged from flooding the engine (raw gas will plug a cat), the car will still run. And yada yada for the rest. Of the items on the list, only an ignition coil is going to leave you at the side of the road. Let me put another way: I like our old VW because it gives an opportunity to still work on cars once in a while. The rest of our vehicles, modern cars and motorcycles all, are fucking appliances that don’t need the tender care of an old mechanic. So let’s discard the “ICE cars are complex and unreliable” argument, shall we? And there’s more to the ICE world than passenger cars, as you won’t be plowing a field with an electric tractor anytime soon.

Using a Prius as an argument for EVs is just dumb, because you know what else a Prius has under the hood beside an electric motor? So the more one makes the case with the longevity of a Prius, the more one argues that ICEs are pretty reliable.

By the time I got to the self-driving car portion, I checked out. In six years, new car sales will drop to near zero? That’s not an argument worth having, because you’re arguing with a kook.
> There will be significant additional load on the Electric grid.

True, but people will be charging their cars most often when they're asleep, so it's less of an impact on peak load. It may be more of a base load/duty cycle impact.

However, even then, this type of load is also easily interruptible and automatically controlled by modern hardware. This makes it more serviceable with renewable power, more easy to make price-sensitive, and more able to provide demand response. (Potentially to the extent of being able to put power back into the grid and act as a negative load.)

(That said, the original idea of a household outlet is a stretch... I understand charging a Tesla at 120V/15A to be glacially slow.)
Yes, that was a good interview. Much better than the interview with the other guy, mentioned in this article.
One reason users flag stories is because the discussion is rife with things like "privileged white bro" being tossed around without consideration. If we're going to hope for a reasonable discussion, we have to comment thoughtfully and substantively.
Sadly, it is.
PIA has a kill switch on its client. That makes it for me. Lose the VPN connection and you lose the internet connection.
Stallman reminds me of a king who has everything done by servants and knows only what his courtiers tell him. Being free of menial tasks like installing software leaves him more time to tackle serious issues. But it also insulates him from the problems that real people face.
Note it says "alt-right", not "right wing". The alt-right is a thinly veiled label for a hate/white-supremacy group.
> Have a regular US household power outlet anywhere in your garage or home exterior?

The irony here is that people living in cities, who would most benefit from the advantages of EVs, are also more likely to live in Condos or Apartments, many of which do not have outlets in their garage.

I had to rule out an EV purchase for just that reason.
Because Tunnelblick isn't the greatest UX?
I would suspect it's sniffing for the window-size suddenly changing in certain ways, perhaps along with watching for the normal dev-tools keyboard shortcuts via keydown listeners. I can't actually remember off the top of my head if Chrome suppresses the event in that case, but it wouldn't be surprising if it didn't.

The easy check for this would be to see whether opening the devtools in detached mode via the menus makes it notice.

Note that this would actually be quite a pain to hide from the page, just because it's something the page needs to know to display some stuff and make rendering calculations. If it was hidden from the page, we'd suddenly be complaining about debugging floating footers which are hiding under the devtools.
What are you more likely to remember a week from now? Meatpistol, or motherfuckingshitcunt?
1400 watts for a plug in hybrid or someone that doesn't drive longer distances everyday.

For full electric with higher mileage 5,000-10,000 watts would be a lot more likely (Tesla sells a 17 KW charger).
I suspect electric infrastructure is already more widespread in rural areas than gas stations.

How many houses are next to a gas station? How many houses away from these can sustain 2kW load of their electric supply at night?
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Or a massive satellite internet constellation that provides internet access everywhere [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
LOL just use ruby motion you fool
Excellent distillation of its core concept and its free speech nature. Just as much as decss for example.
The first half of the article addresses this specifically. BEVs last longer.

There's plenty of other things to break of course, but when the business model includes selling mobility the incentives are aligned toward durability and reliability (versus selling cars, which incentivizes planned obsolescence). It's worth putting in that extra 5% to make the car last twice as long.
The cell coverage isn't even required. If there is no driver waiting for me, I could affordably schedule the car in advance to wait at the trailhead until I arrive: all day if need be. It'd be no more expensive than having rented the car for the day.
You should ask your wife/girlfriend/daughter if she is planning on getting into a self-driving car with no ability to control it.
> Sure ski resorts and malls and park and rides might put in 1000s of chargers in their parking lots eventually, but it certainly won't happen by 2023

We drove a plugin hybrid to go skiing last winter.

Once we got to the hotel we were surprised to find a level 2 charger. We plugged in and 30 percent of our miles while up there were pure electric.

If anything, given that ski resorts tend to serve higher income clientele, they are likely to be ahead of the curve with charging stations, especially if they can charge $ for it.
Yes, but an employee can still file a wrongful termination lawsuit if they believe that the "no reason" termination was bullshit and that they were actually fired for an illegal reason.

Like, if someone decides to come out of the closet on social media and their co-workers find out and their boss hears about it and fires themthe next day but claims that it's a "no reason" termination, it would certainly raise suspicion that they were actually being fired for being gay and they might win a wrongful termination lawsuit, even in an at-will employment state.
> The big advantage of Gas is you can transport/store the product without the product losing energy.

So gas tankers and carriers run on unicorn farts now? ;)

> Living in Tennessee, it's difficult to ignore the power lines everywhere in otherwise abundant greenery. Electric cars will only add more power lines & infrastructure.

Continue at the current rate of emissions and pollution, and the only greenery left in Tennessee or anywhere else will be brownish algae.
Why is Google pandering to the social justice left? I thought they were a loud and insane minority. Is fake racism, sexism etc mainstream now on the left? Was Trump's election not a big enough wake up call?
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Correct, her publicly shaming someone (which caused that person to be fired) backfired spectacularly (and led to her being fired). That's what I meant by this sort of suppression having consequences of their own. No one won anything.
Is the telephone party line protected free speech?
Launchpad has quite a bit of git support now.
I don't disagree about the future, but today the US has more cars and consumes more oil than China and India combined.
Here's a benchmark for you to consider. In Los Angeles, if your commute is 10 miles or less, the monthly cost of using Lyft for commuting is less expensive than TCO of an inexpensive compact car. That's with current tech.
You can hover over the circles to see the breakdown. I need to add click support for mobile though.
That's definitely a fair way to describe things (even if it is strictly less precise than just saying "log_32") but if you're going to do that, you should call all of the logarithmic-in-size operations "effectively constant". Having a bounded max of e.g. 30 lookups isn't markedly different from having a bounded max of 6. Basically... my claim is that it's misleading for the Scala docs to draw the distinction where they've drawn it.

Edit: Ah! I messed up the first sentence of my original comment but it seems to be too late to edit it! I meant to say "log_2(x) is only a constant factor of 5 off of log_32(x)".
What do mean by 'loosing control of their business ... to their employees'?
What's the on call and the compensation model?
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I wouldn't call the lifestyle of 20% of the planet a "small problem". Also, just because someone lives in a city (which can be as small as 2500 people and isolated[0]) doesn't mean that they never leave it.

0. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...
Phoenix in Elixir seems to be really appreciated. The Play framework in Scala is also often mentioned as a very performant tool if latency/throughput/reliability is really what you are after.
> We should double our annual infrastructure budget...new roads

No mention of maintenance.

https://www.strongtowns.org/nonewroads/

https://www.strongtowns.org/infrastructure/
This is gate keeping at its finest. Email is a clunky tool to do development with compared with what is available. A persons willingness to use email (and all the quirks for submitting a patch) for patching the kernel has nothing to do with the quality of code that they write.
The author acknowledges this, and says oil usage will decline but not go away. Oil is used for a lot more than gasoline. But the contraction of the market will put a lot of companies in a world of hurt.
The grid can manage electric cars. They can actually make the grid more stable since it's not difficult to ask the cars to slow their charging at certain times. You don't even have to build this into the grid layer: just take these network connected vehicles and tell them to stop charging for 5 minutes out of the hour.

You can even go so far as to have the cars soak up the capacity. If you have a 2kW capacity circuit in the house, you can have the car drop it's draw as the fridge compressor clicks in.
Someone desperately needs to come up with an open source replacement for GitHub that is completely decentralized. Sure GitLab exists and the repo is decentralized since it's Git, but issues, merge requests, comments, etc aren't Git based (though they could be)
If you had a self-driving car, you could let it take you to the beginning of the hike, and then let it drive itself to the end of the hike where you could take it home.
Here’s the thing about the camera argument: if the new-fangled camera doesn’t work out, you’re out a few hundred bucks. How risk averse are you going to be when $30K is on the line?
4. Check that all votes in the tally belong to actual, eligible voters.

Verifying your vote is in the sum, and tallied, is not good enough if the result is swamped with, or more craftily, the balance just tipped by fake votes.

I have no idea how you would implement that.
Question:

I use a commercial VPN primarily so that my IP is shared across hundreds of other users (as opposed to using it so that my data is safe being transmitted through coffeehouse WiFi), and thus would make it at least marginally more difficult for someone to track me.

Is this reasoning false?
If a car can withstand very high mileage, you get the full economic benefit of those miles only if you drive them before the car loses its value from sheer chronological age.

That means driving as much as a NYC taxi (70K mi/year) instead of as much as a normal car owner.
Considering your claim to be interested in producing a quality analysis of the various services and clients, and in other reviews you took pains to point out that connections were made to Google analytics servers, I found it pretty disappointing that you didn't explain what the servers that PIA were pinging actually are.

Are they, as I suspect (as a PIA user), pinging their own servers worldwide, to find the fastest options available? Are they pinging third parties?

Your review basically says "pings are bad m'kay" without demonstrating any understanding of what the client is doing.

Furthermore, your questioning of the use of port 80 makes me wonder about your own security knowledge. You really don't understand why a commercial VPN product designed to be used by portable devices in unexpected environments might commence a connection on port 80?

These 'objections' you have make me sceptical of your attention to detail in general.
I wish more people used Fossil. I find it much better than Git and if it had more developers you may get a much better replacement.
> The problem is that people just buy the cheapest shit possible anyway

Yes, they do. And regulations can control that. Regulations around building codes stop people from building shanties everywhere. Regulations around new vehicle safety means people can't put new, unsafe vehicles on the road.

What makes you think that the garment industry is any different? "Oh, I have to pay $7 for this T-shirt instead of $6? In that case, I'm going to import my own from overseas!". Nonsense. It is insane, the level to which people in this thread are defending gruelling child labour as some sort of unavoidable consequence of the supply chain.
The built-in VPN clients support old broken insecure protocols (PPTP) and expensive, hard to implement and hard to deploy protocols (IPSEC-LLTP), whereas public vpn providers tend to use simple, secure, easy(er) OpenVPN for the bulk of their connections. So you need a addon client to use them for their best features.
Property is subject to bubbles, and in almost any economic recession prices of real estate tend to fall (demand drops, and sellers/supply grows). Bitcoin is a far better asset hedge, as it possesses almost every property of commodities, like gold, without almost all of their negatives.
Agreed - I'd love to see it more widely adopted. It's a great language.

Once both ABI stability and a native concurrency model have been implemented, Swift would be in an even stronger position to take on these languages. I'm not sure that's the sole reason a stronger push hasn't been made yet, but waiting another few years to go after this goal would in some ways be tactful.
Probably because the process is at best dull and at worst, a massive PITA; either way it has little to no relevance to his actual work. If I had the chance, I'd avoid any kind of software installation/maintainence as well...
You're correct in that even today, rural kids that live in, say, New England, take boats out all the time. But there's a difference between sailing to fish for sustenance and racing "long distance to Bermuda and down both of America’s coasts."
It's definitely empirically true, and you've got a vague anecdote to prove it.
To the best of my knowledge, the only thing in SC2 that requires pixel-level precision is selecting units. Everything else can just as easily be represented as a fairly coarse grid with no loss of expressiveness. Buildings are explicitly snapped to a grid, and moving your units several pixels to either side simply doesn't matter. So calling SC2 "continuous" in terms of space is misleading.

I don't think there is anything that requires super-fast response times either, so you could conceivably get ~1 frame per second and not lose much information.

Well, IIRC, there are some visual indicators that rely on blinking, but I don't think they are crucial.
Where he goes wrong is that he conflates statistical significance with clinical significance. Yes, his sources show that there are differences between men and women. However, the measured difference is so minute, there is little to no practical distinction.
Here's what I do with my phone before heading to DEF CON (yes, I don't bother with burners anymore):

1) Make sure it has an Apple logo on the back and is up to date. I'm serious on this one. Too many Android phones don't get updated by the carrier and that's why I'm not a fan. Yes, if you have the latest phone from Google, you are fine. From another manufacturer, very questionable. The sheer number of Android phones which have connected to my open research WiFi networks over the years and exposed some secret is just tragic, from user PINs thanks to a carrier installed warranty app to e-mail passwords thanks to broken Samsung KNOX TLS middling implementations.

2) Shut off all background activity from apps when not on and in front of me: settings -> general -> background app refresh. Slide that one to off for everything.

3) Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth.

4) For added paranoia, put it in airplane mode when not being used.

5) Make sure it doesn't have any information or accounts on it which I'd not like to be made public.

6) Back it up.

7) A quick audit of apps I'll be using at the con to ensure they are reasonably secure on the wire by using working TLS exclusively. Yeah, very few people will ever do this but thankfully 1-6 should be sufficient.
Exactly. I don't think the guy who said "nobody uses a burner phone" has ever been to DEFCON. And given that phones cost $10.00 why not?

If people are on iPhones, they're on their old one.
One option for streaming services with thinner content libraries is just to subscribe for a month or two every so often and binge watch their limited good content. The first month is usually free.

> do people really think "I'd like to see a Disney movie tonight" or do they just want to see a particular movie or genre?

As sibling comment mentions, kids of a certain age do want to watch Disney all day. Disney's biggest streaming lure should be the live sports from ESPN which also has lots of loyal viewers. I could envision paying $19/month to both Disney and Netflix in 2020 assuming Netflix's content continues to ramp.
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Same. Self-driving cars/vans would be brilliant for trailhead use. In 2016, hiking Trans Zion, we paid US$120+tip to get two of us from our car to a starting point about 60-90 minutes away. Earlier this year, my brother and I hitched three separate times to save 10 hours of road walking in a storm to get back to our car after Buckskin Gulch. We were lucky with the timing of each ride.

I've been deterred from hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim by needing to either hike all the way back, or have two cars and add a 5-hour drive. Salt Creek in Canyonlands is another where a shuttle is a help, or crossing from The Maze over the river to The Needles (avoiding many hours of driving back).

Being able to call a self-driving car to affordably make these trips would be great.
Seems this was post was buried. Was the repost the reason? Or the flaming? Energy discussion not interesting to YC?
wonder if this is related to mike johnson leavin?
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I assumed they were talking about UIDynamics (https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/uidynamics-in-swift/)
Yeah, corruption runs amok. May be Americans don't need corrupted FCC more?
I saw all sorts of attempts to pwn me when I was there this year!
US Congress passed a law earlier this year that dismantled FCC internet privacy protections which prevented peoples' internet service providers from fully capitalizing on peoples' internet history. VPN use is a way to encrypt your internet traffic, use not-your-ISP's-DNS, and protecting private information from being siphoned and ultimately sold.

Hope this helps explain the fetish!

Disclosure: I am a PIA employee.
Most people never change their router's password
Well, in this case:

1) The PR backlash is going to be gigantic.

2) If you fire someone on the spot (I have), you'd better have a damn good reason (I did--repository sabotage) as the company is now going to have to pay money to defend/payoff this.

3) Suddenly firing important people disrupts daily business functions for weeks or months.

4) Unless you think they are going to actively sabotage something, you can wait until they get home to reprimand or fire people.

All told, some manager is getting thrown under the bus for this.
Your list of things is fantastic and I could see the benefit of each and every one of them.

But here's the issue.

When you tell non-tech-savvy people about "provid[ing] openVPN service for [your] entire family" they go wall-eyed. That's the best-case scenario. In the worst case scenario (e.g. politicians and telecom execs), people become suspicious about what you might be hiding.

Increasingly (for going on 50 years now), the US is an authoritarian state with low tolerance for people who insist on exercising the rights granted them in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. (I'm thinking of the right be secure against illegal searches expressed in the 4th Amendment and the use of cryptography as a munition protected by the Second Amendment.)
And, similarly, you can't go to any sort of multiprocess architecture (or multithread) model if extensions can mutate more or less anything at any point, and that's not just about security, that's also about what plenty of users have been asking for for years—performance.
California labor code section 201 (a): "If an employer discharges an employee, the wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately."

Firing someone in California requires that they be paid in full right then and there. This includes payment for accrued vacation time, comp time, etc. Were these employees paid off properly?
The former, because it is both risque and clever. The latter is just rude and unrelated, and will be forgotten with the rest of the mental trash.
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> For full electric with higher mileage 5000-10,000 kilowatts would be a lot more likely.

I don't think so. Sure, it's technically possible to use that much power, but most people aren't going to empty their Tesla battery every single day, for the same reason most people don't buy a whole tank of gasoline every single day.

You can charge a Tesla on a 1.4kw US household outlet, just like every other car. It will still give you 50+ miles a night. Bump that to just a 3.3kW charger and you'll be pulling over 100 miles of charge nightly. 3.3kW is more than enough to cover 92% of all commuters nationwide, according to USDOT.

Superchargers are awesome and all, and are great for roadtrips, but 99% of people will have no need to pull 17kW down in their home. That's an insane amount of power.