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Will this be followed by large-scale lay-offs of mechanical engineers? I would gather a large portion of the workforce (those working on ICE) are ill-suited to electric.
That is completely dependent on the energy mix used to generate the electrical power. In case coal is used the effect on climate probably is worse than what we have now.
Im my brief play with using GPU graphics for compute (e.g. render to texture) vs specialized compute on GPU was that the latter required tweaking, but was still slower.

My sense is that paralelization still isn't solved in general, so (a bit like NP "reduction") if you can't cast your problem in terms of an "embarrassingly parallelizable" (ep) case like rendering, it's not going to be very fast. Plus, the rendering pipeline has had all hell optimized out of it.

Put another way: what features could a GPU general language have that are ep, but with no equivalent available in GPU graphics languages?

I think there are some trivial ones, e.g. older openGL ES (mobile) don't have render-to-float-texture - a crucial and ep feature for general compute.
I run https://officesnapshots.com --

It is a content site which publishes office design projects from around the world. We organize the projects and tag photos to make them useful for professionals in the industry.

Been running it for just over 10 years and it has been my full-time work for the last ~5.
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Does this mean that they will offer electric versions of each model of their cars, or that they will not sell any gas powered cars at all?
Nvidia PhysX?
To be clear, just like the previous Volvo and Lincoln announcements, some version of each line of car will be available with a hybrid or all-electric propulsion system.
I don't think I've ever been at an engineering company that didn't have whiteboards, at the very least in conference rooms--I infer from that that some portion of employees find them valuable.

Clearly someone who is good at solving problems is preferred. However, between someone who is good at solving problems, and someone who is good and can explain/demonstrate their process is more desirable.
Revocation for being three days late in implementing a new standard would be a massive overreaction. It would harm thousands of businesses in the process and would be extremely petty. Symantecs misdeeds are far worse than this.
Even if it was efficient for myself to, it is not allowed to immunise them I believe? Anti-Vax to the max.

I could not for instance voluntarily give them a schooling level that is mother fucking compulsory in the USA?

And Europe of course, just picked USA cause it's very libertarian but STILL makes education compulsory.
This is the company that pioneered the automotive gasoline engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

It's pretty clear (once you drive an EV) that a sea change is coming - they have reached the point where they are a superior driving experience most of the time.

As other evidence, Tesla announced today that they are planning a major expansion of their supercharging network.

https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

I wonder if we'll be talking about Tesla in a hundred years the same way we talk about Mercedes today?
Thank you, this seems excellent.
If we're talking about intellectual honesty, please refrain from putting words in my mouth. I didn't say any of those things.
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Every time "separation of concerns" and HTML, CSS and JS come up, I want to scream. I don't think I've ever seen so many people have such a shallow understanding of what a term means. It's practically a trigger at this point.

Everyone who is confused: HTML, CSS and JS are not concerns. They do not represent an intelligent way of separating your application code. Every time you write the ID of an HTML tag, or a component- or feature-specific class name, you are violating "separation of concerns."
> The quest for spiritual enlightenment – as with much else in San Francisco – is fuelled by the desire to increase productivity

Uhm... really? I have strong doubts that seeking spiritual enlightenment is motivated by increasing productivity, or that those who microdose are predominantly doing it for spiritual purposes at all. To my mind, those things are in diametrical opposition. What is the author even trying to say with this?
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^ This. The California government likes to regulate away things it thinks will be dangerous, or that it's citizens will be too ignorant to avoid doing. Honestly I'm kinda surprised they didn't specify armored car transport as the only acceptable option.
> I come to find out that my business partner had been paying himself 450K/year (instead of the 125K he told me about), he drained our bank account, sent out fake financials to investors, bounced employee paychecks, told me he was paying my taxes (I was W2, but he spent them) and took out 150K in loans again the company to keep everything going so he could continue with his bullshit lies.

That's alarming. How did you meet / find your Business Partner? Did you vet him?
Including commercial vehicles? It would be a truly significant change, but at this point, probably too little too late. Still, it would be a shocking change, and it would also potentially greatly reduce city pollution around world, reduce deaths and illness from related effects.

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/car-emissions-and-globa...
No, why should it? First, apparently they mean they will offer an "electrified version", additionally to the combustion engine models. Second, electrified can mean a hybrid, which still has a combustion engine.
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According to the mail, they have claimed to check CAA much earlier, so it's not just CAB guidelines they have broken, but their own word, which can be seen as worse.
This means that every car will have an (additional) electric motor.
This does not seem intuitive to me. Would not having a longer lifespan allow a subset of a population to better care for itself through social means?
The inverter can pull 150W out. That doesn't mean it does. His main load is a swamp cooler, which doesn't even seem to be using the inverter.
There are few applications like lets say the component renders a D3 graph and all you need is style contained only to that but I tend to always place my styles globally than keeping it in each Vue file.
Well, that's certainly a suitably nerdy analogy :-)

I never lived in Senior House, but I hung out with friends there quite a bit. From what I've read, I've tentatively, and sadly, come to the same conclusion: there were persistent problems with the culture of the dorm, and the administration probably had no choice.
They can’t do that with their current license either.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but PWA's support 'offline mode'. React's official tool, `create-react-app` comes with this boilerplate enabled by default.
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Yes, they should. You know someone in SV wanted to be the Uber of weed delivery through drones.
It's that Samsung/LG don't have the production capacity to make OLED screens at the volumes Apple will need to put it on a mass-market phone.

To give you an idea of the discrepancy: Samsung's two flagship phones (S8/S8 Edge) sold roughly 12MM in their first quarter of availability (April-June 2017), while the current iPhone models sold 40+ million units in their third quarter of availability (same time frame).
This is not politics theater as in Democrats or Republicans. Money is bipartisan.
> You don't have to create a native app because PWAs now offer all the functionality of a native app

This is a blatant lie

> Starbucks PWA: ~600KB

2.1 MB just the initial page, with no cards. The preview.js file is 751 K

I do agree, however, that it's much smaller than an iOS app.
Might make sense to adjust that to "She" instead of I.
This is just in five years. Considering that new models take about that amount of time to be designed (on known combustion platforms), that sounds like high speed to me!

Does that include their cargo line, too?
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Most of us know about it, and don't see an advantage to it that outweighs the many advantages of doing CSS-in-JS.
This large-body-text trend is getting ridiculous. I had to zoom out to 67% to make it comfortable to read.
If the articles' portrayal is accurate, I have doubts that there ever was a problem.

Yes, the rate of drop-outs was 3x the average (20% vs 7%). But it appears as if this dormitory draws its population from a subset of freshman that already starts out different than the average population.

College admission should make a few bets on misfits with potential here and there. And if the mark of MIT's drug-infested den is that only 80% of them graduate MIT, it seems like they're still doing ok in absolute terms.

The only real problem is that Wall Street has apparently infected MIT, and they're taking the love-yourself (and keel over with heart failure) drug.
> Check your cardholder agreements.

Only some of us haven't kept those in many, many years. And the one I had back then certainly didn't have such things, but it might have changed since the late 90's. For myself personally, it doesn't seem worth the hassle. Another bill every month that is non-necessary when I could just save some money to cover such things or get it repaired. It kinda sucked not having an actual card in the US, but here it isn't.

Is this sort of thing common on credit cards nowadays? I saw two replies mentioning their banks, and I'm now wondering how widespread such a thing is.
That's not how it works, assuming your nephew is an adult. You, as an adult, are making a decision to give another adult a lot of money. That gift creates zero obligations on any third party, and should not even create any obligations by your nephew unless you explicitly arranged for this in advance.

From what I hear, a lot of parents have your attitude. They call up the school asking about grades and performance with the attitude that they deserve to know because they're paying for it. They inevitably get shot down, because not only is giving out this information to paying parents not what's expected, but it's explicitly illegal to do so under federal law without the student's written permission.
I don't honestly see anything out right incorrect or difficult about the code you posted other than it's clojure. Mind expanding on that?
> Other than an Ada example, or dependently-typed languages that aren't use in production...

Every time someone gives you an answer, you modify the question to exclude it. Eventually you will have excluded everything that refutes the fallacy in your original post, but it is still there.
The interesting question, at least for now, is how it would impact air quality in cities. Electric cars are not as eco-friendly as you might think, their production is very energy intensive and currently at least electricity comes in large parts from fossil fuels.

However, inner city air quality is pretty bad, with particulates and NOx killing thousands every year. Electric cars have the immediate benefit that they move pollution somewhere else.
Speed bumps are hell on cars even when they are going slowly. This can reduce the wear on the suspension and ride components without removing the "Go slower" motivation of the bump
How many countries will have a grid capable of serving an electronic fleet by 2022? 5 years is very optimistic.
Patents are government granted monopolies. When you create monopolies on intangibilities, you get results like this, where monopoly owners do what they can to keep and extend their monopolies, as the framers of the Constitution anticipated.

The problem is beyond one company's or sovereign nation's actions. What they're doing is likely legal, which suggests the law is the problem.

The problem is a system that creates monopolies out of ideas, enforced by law.
Most of my ideas revolve around the need for better transportation.

Ideal (for me) but completely impractical: the interstate exits end in giant parking garages. Everyone walks, bikes, or takes light-rail/buses to get around the city. Only vehicles allowed in the city are deliver vehicles between 11pm-7am. This would probably only work in very small cities, sadly.

More realistic:

Las Vegas has the right idea on the Strip, though it definitely needs improvement. Cars and pedestrians should never have to compete for street-crossing opportunities. Pedestrian bridges to cross major avenues. Ground-level entrances should lead to parking garages or elevators.

All customer-centric stuff should be on the "second" level where the pedestrians walk. Imagine just taking every sidewalk and jacking it up 12 feet. You aren't walking on the street, you're walking on a raised sidewalk that goes from building to building. This completely eliminates the need for pedestrians to stop and wait to cross the street, while still allowing cars free reign below. You could turn entire intersections into courtyards, freeing up more real estate for street vendors.

This also frees up real estate for larger building footprints -- you don't need as many street-level parking spaces if every building's ground-floor is a giant parking lot!

I'm sure all of the above is totally impractical and that you'll all shoot it down with pesky facts... but a man can dream... :)
Wow, I saw that headline too and only realizing now from your comment what was meant!
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That’s true no matter what.

Without a patent grant you’re in the same situation.

You’d still be covered by the (less powerful) implicit grant in the license anyhow as the license doesn’t get revoked.

You can’t have it both ways: both with and without the grant can’t be bad.
Then you should expect the school to tell you these things because the student asked them to, not because you're paying for it. The first and second halves of your first sentence are unrelated to each other.
There is a little more to a car than the engine.
You are. The control you're allowed is the right to decide to stop paying.
This really depends on what the app is. A few of my friends use apps to look up when the next bus is coming. I use the official website. There's zero need for their apps to be available offline, they only thing they're for is looking up the next bus, which requires an internet connection. The app in this case gives absolutely no advantage to the website. I find that's the case for a lot of phone apps
You don't have to change users, you have to get Google and Apple to change. There's no technical reason they couldn't include web apps in their app stores. In the article the author speculates that both Google and Apple are working on this. I could see Google embracing web apps, but I'd be surprised if Apple does.
Govmnt just imposes the existence of a common protocol for social networks. The justification is to ensure a free market and competition in the social network service.

The protocol itself can be designed as other market standard protocols are defined, no gvmt intervention required there.

It also applies to basic messaging.

Question: It's bad or good that you can send text msgs between different carriers and phone brands?
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I met him at a meet up initially, he went to a Ivy League B-school and I met many of his friends and family (wife, kids, father-in-law) over the years before all of this shit came out.

Since his friends and family invested in this company, I figured that he had skin in the game so I let my guard down, turns out he fucked them over too.
Your reading is absolutely wrong.

I urge you to reread the Patent Grant: no-where does it even come close to saying that.
If you read those, there's a common thread.
Three days over a weekend, though. Context matters. Even if it's the most critical incident, you can't force employees to work outside of business hours.
I suspect it'd be negligible. You still require a lot of energy for creating and disposing of the batteries, manufacturing the vehicles, and of course charging them. Most of that power (for the time being) comes from non-renewables[1]. I don't have data to back it up, but I suspect that the lifetime energy required to build a fully electric car is still greater than that of an efficient ICE car.

Furthermore, according to the EPA, 27% of greenhouse gas emissions are for transport[2], however there's no breakdown by things like airplanes vs trains vs cars.

IMO, if people really want to 'change the world', we need to shift away from automobiles, consumerism, plastics, and conspicuous consumption. Live close to work, ride a bicycle, stop buying McMansions.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_home

[2]: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Yeah, bacteria should not be taken lightly, they can evolve drills to chop through hazmat suits any moment.
"Citizen" might be the best analogy for students: Neither the pay-and-be-served attitude of consumers, nor the shut-up-and-work of labor. Instead, a sense of both empowerment as well as responsibility.
This would be great. I have a 2014 Volt and I love-ish it. I live close enough to the office that and can charge in both locations so I've gotten up to 5000MPG. I'd like to buy a more luxury electric car but refuse to drive that weird blue embossed BMW.

nb4 Wut about Tesla? I ain't made of money, son.
It's right in line with the commodification of meditation and yoga. They are being marketed as a means of improving productivity instead of ends in themselves. Even scarier is the implication that if your job is stressing you out, the only solution is to meditate -- i.e. you are the problem, not your job.
And yet everyone preaches the value of diversity...
You still get some fine particle emissions from the wear of rubber tires and road surface, and the brake pads. But this might be a small fraction compared to what gas engines emit.
Gwern's fascinating self experiment on LSD microdosing is always worth a read when this topic is brought up. He found that there was no measurable effect.

https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
turn evil? Patents aside, isn't there a fair amount of FB behavior that already falls in that bucket?
That text wouldn't cover accidental damage due to your own fault.
Those are significantly rare outliers and not the reality for the vast majority of people.
It would probably impact city pollution much more than global warming, which means it will also impact healthcare costs (as in reducing them).
Why are companies not announcing auto-pilot? I think the most attractive feature of Tesla is auto-pilot (more than it being EV).
I don't know about globally, but in California the carbon emissions from light vehicles are the largest component of the emissions inventory, and the only component that is growing. If entire fleet was electrified and entire grid converted to renewable, that would knock ~25% off emissions.
I've been wronged as well when poor. You can't be made whole through the legal system if you don't have money.
Time is a factor. You have to charge for 1.5 hours to be able to pull in 1 hour (minus system losses)
It would be interesting to cross-reference this with the genetic dissimilarity between enemies, but that's problematic for obvious reasons.
Nigerian dollars?
I think AWS is the majority of their profit but not revenue, it basically allows them to subsidize the rest of their business to gain market share off the absurd AWS profit margin.
> The Real Answer: Better CSS Practices...
> If you're new to this space, some of the practices to check out include OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM, ITCSS, and ECSS

This is not a real answer. It's an attempt to fix the broken screwdriver with ducktape, bird poo, and spit.
How would you even go by looking people to do this? Especially someone familiar with the tech field for example? "hiring manager technology" doesn't return the best results in trying to find someone.
So, a PWA is a massively bloated web page? Yeah, that is exactly the kind of thing I want to run on a browser in my phone.

Sure, a decade with Moore and it might actually become usable - but do we really want to set the bar that low?

Installing an app is cumbersome, but when going to his example I'm forced to create an account just to see what it is.
In Argentina and Brazil taxes are so high that it's often cheaper to travel to the US just to buy a laptop like a MBP (for instance, the cheapest touch bar model is about $3k USD). And to give some perspective: the average salary over there is ~10 times lower than here in the US.
I'm not really sure where you get your information. Anyone can get Heath insurance from the healthcare.gov marketplace.

Your salary requirements factor into the price. Someone making only 17k a year is capped at $54 a month premium. There are caps at certain salary intervals.

> Whereas in the part of Europe where I live, the less you have the less healthcare costs you.

100% true for the US as well. Please don't listen to news or internet comments. Verify the facts!
> The author also points out (correctly) that web apps are smaller than their equivalent native app.

Well, the author straw-mans that web apps are smaller. Yes, web apps are lighter than equivalent native apps. But not to anywhere near the degree described in the article.

There's no legitimate reason for the Starbucks app to be 100MB. None. A native Android app equivalent to the PWA in the article would come in at about about 2MB, for instance.

Starbucks app is huge because they stuffed it with something (same for Twitter, Facebook, etc). Starbucks new PWA is clean and light because it hasn't (yet) been stuffed with the equivalent junk. It's not a technology difference, it's a political/corporate one.
Looks like there are several different stories going on at once, but one major story is the fact that MIT abused a mental health survey to gather data about the inhabitants of this dorm.

Imagine if you responded to an "anonymous" mental health survey stating that you abused some drug, and then the city kicked you out of your house because they used that survey to determine that there were too many drug users on your block.
>> Yes, but that is all the CSS you will ever need to have.

Just make sure everybody else in the company is on board with that thought.
Tesla compares probably more to the developer of the modern Tire. I think their main innovation is mass producing batteries. And I also believe that car ownership in Cities is going away with self driving cars. Google will probably go for offering free rides for sponsored destinations and become a major portal to the offline world.
That would entail the USPTO making up new law on the spot, which it can't do. Not to mention the fallout for multi-national companies, or US companies legitimately selling patents to foreign entities.

This is a problem for Congress to solve - they created the mess with bad laws, now they need to fix them.
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We have that breakdown in California statistics and 91% of transport is private cars. Trains, planes, trucks, and off-road equipment is tiny.
the author doesn't seem to discuss Android's "instant app" feature
https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html

Android Instant Apps allows Android users to run your apps instantly, without installation
This! I feel like everyone forgot about CSS Modules, while I think this is the cleanest and nicest solution to all CSS problems and doesn't make you cringe like CSSinJS or styled components and others.
A former housemaster at Senior House, Jay Keyser, wrote a memoir (Mens et Mania), in which about a quarter of the book was about how much he loathed the place. While reading it, I imagined a version of Animal House where Dean Wormer had to live with the Deltas and try to do research while a toga party was going on around him.
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