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This is the future of energy - nothing else comes close.

I got excited about it this spring, and I don't understand why this isn't getting more attention and funding. This is all coming from MIT, not the ramblings of some random crank:

http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/whyte.html
Benefits of ownership and other such fundamentals are decoupled from an open market, which creates an ever changing inside market (bid and ask) and beyond (buy and sell walls in cryptocurrency parlance) based on buying and selling pressure. Not to state the obvious, but the “value” at a given time is actually directly based on the ever changing decisions of willing market participants. Sentiment drives such demand which has increased of late.

You may be right fundamentally but the market can easily make a short seller insolvent before “rationally” discovering true pricing based on your thesis.
> Another minor cons is that just came to mind is that there is no longer
> an indicator on the keyboard's bezel giving you the position of the
> ports.

On the 2016 MacBook Pro 15 the top of the speaker grill lines up with the top edge of the Touch Bar which lines up with the top edge of the plugs on Apple USB C cables.

To my eyes, this "line" seems characteristic of Apple engineering.
I can't take this author seriously. There is no way that Tesla is paying $1/kw. That is way past the retail rate, and I bet that they are paying much less than the retail rate in many of their markets.
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No doubt the science has linked that to it, but you also regularly fill faults whilst drilling for core or hell even when drilling water bore holes. If the grounds crap you just pump mud with some additives in till the holes are blocked or your at least retain some pressure. I'm gonna throw it out there also, having worked amongst it most drillers/holes that are drilled...we know piss all about whats going on down there. Hell we had one hole that was LITERALLY within 50m of the side wall of an open cut mine, we drilled down past the open cuts depth from surface because our targets were for next to segments of the underground mine that went off the open cut. We lost water pressure/return for a good week, had to cart loads in and mix it plenty thick to try and plug the hole. Few weeks into the job, the other offsider went for a walk in a direction we didn't usually go for a piss, about 100m away he came across all our drilling fluid forming a small lake in the windrows above the open cut. Geologists had no clue why it had happened or why we had lost water in the first place leading up to that discovery.

The point is, drilling sure as shit isn't an exact science, you should probably be more skeptical about its effects than not. Most drillers aren't some highly educated academic that knows exactly whats going on down hole...most of them have been hired because they have the mechanical aptitude to fix just about anything that can go wrong with a rig or have the perseverance to push through the horrible conditions, both above ground and down hole to get the job done. Drilling be it through the process itself or the result of its action definitely plays a role in the problem.
Your downside I don't think applies in this case. Because it's a single application wanting to make a single reliable connection. So if there was any packet loss at all it would have to stall the whole connection anyways regardless of whether it's wrapped in SSH, OpenVPN, or nothing.
Super interesting conversation. I wonder why Google bought and then resold Boston Robotics...
I am shocked to see this number. It seems insanely high. Is it really possible they pay anywhere near that for electricity?
Nothing you said in any way justifies not paying tax.
This works because a bookseller can return unsold books. So, he is not stuck with unsold stock that accumulates.

Other kinds of products may be more difficult to fit into this scheme.
> It was fine when it was just the R key. Sort of. I set up bash scripts to copy-paste "r" to my clipboard, and just pressed command-V instead of "r". But then the T key went out.

I admire your adaptability; I certainly wouldn't be able to call it "sort of fine" if I had use a shortcut just to type a letter.
You are referring to Earnings/Share, not Price/Earnings. It doesn't matter much anyway, if they can make the same amount of money with less invested capital that should increase their metrics. And there are good tax reasons to prefer share buybacks over dividends as a way to return cash to shareholders.
Meh, I think other companies just don't have the bravoure a man like Musk has. Also it helps if your company is a start-up and no heads will roll if you don't make a profit. Established companies don't have that luxury.
You can already see the results in several states. It’s pretty ugly so far, and likely to only get worse. Teachers are trending less qualified and less experienced, move from district to district more, turnover is higher, everyone is more stressed out, parents and students are less satisfied and less successful, schools are still poorly maintained and supplied, more money than ever gets siphoned off by business consulting firms etc. The super-wealthy in those states get a bit of a tax cut, but nobody else really sees any advantage.

The primary way that charter schools juke their stats (to the extent they are able – often their outcomes are just objectively mediocre) is by selecting out a collection of students likely to be successful and kicking out the rest. Of course, there is a spectrum, and some charter schools (just like some regular public schools) are quite successful.

Valuing “public education” means that you value education of the broad citizenry, instead of only valuing education for your own kids and screw everyone else.
I remember a Simpsons episode where Bart cheats his way into a special school. The teacher tells a maths joke and he is the one not to get it.

This is a whole another level though.

Thanks for the detailed reply!
I used to tell myself I couldn't code or write without the perfect font. I'd spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I'd forget about the font completely.

I have a (rather lazy) friend who's been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I've promised to after he
produces his first block of content, and he keeps saying he can't write if he doesn't feel the design is aesthetically pleasing. If he'd spent his time writing instead of worrying about this, he'd have a crappy initial draft, several revised drafts, and probably something decent by now. But no, that prohibitively unattractive font!

It was nice of iA to write this up, and design posts are a fun read, but does anyone who's busy actually writing care about this?
What about a put instead of a short? There aren't any options markets yet, but that might be interesting.

Also a smart shorter will always put in a stop loss price, but stop losses can slide because cryptocurrencies move fast.
While I see some crazy talk in that article, I'm actually pleased with the idea of getting the point across that this requires technical advances.

So many people just nonchalantaly act like they just tossed a few more 18650s in there that it is nice to see someone point out how improbable that is. I'm really looking forward to hearing how this is actually happening.
grass is greener.

Kids in isolated tribes or areas are running away from their parents lifestyle as fast as possible. They don't see the beauty in the old ways and are unable to see the lies in modern cities, too much shiny.

Surely nothing is perfect but modern society has reached a point of diminishing returns IMO. Somatic and mental health issues, absurd jobs, absurd structures influenced by remote financial games; etc etc

Whenever I see some guy that bought a piece of land and fixed an old barn I get dreams. All I'd need a bit more mileage in ceramics and electronics so I can get just enough modern science, the rest is already there.
One can have numerous Bitcoin wallets. I have dozens of active ones. I'm not a speculator, so I don't keep anything substantial in exchange accounts. Unless you're holding more than a few Bitcoin, you don't even need to go full offline. Linux VMs on Linux hosts are not likely pwned. You clearly wouldn't keep much on a phone.
What's their fair share? You think you're worthy to determine that?
Large corporations introduce massive negative externalities (Walmart employees are on welfare, sugar industry hides and fakes scientific research, advertising). If you contribute to small, local businesses, it's very easy to hold them accountable if they do something bad (they don't have the protection of corrupt governments, for example).
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> To meet Tesla’s claim of 400 miles in 30 minutes for a semi carrying 80,000 pounds would require its new Megachargers to achieve output of more than 1200 kW

1200 kw is a lot of power. That's the average amount of power used by 600 homes, or half of the output of a large wind turbine here in the Midwest, to charge a single truck.

If they use a 440 V supply to charge it, that'd be over 2700 amps.
There are two possibilities when buying a commodity-backed security like this.

You could buy a representation of the actual commodity, such that every $X you own represents $X of Bitcoin. That's known as a "cash commodity", or an "actual", or various other terms.

Or, you could buy what amounts to a bet on the future value of the commodity. Those don't need to correspond to any actual amount of the commodity. Those are called "futures", which are one type of "derivative" (because they're derived from the value of the commodity without directly representing an amount of the commodity).
Thanks, this helps clarify. It doesn't make the FCC comment much less bizarre, since aside from potential for violating an existing law, my comment seems to roughly go through with "rule" substituted in for "law".
'elevated' is an absolute marvel of a demo...
Eh, there's 20 120kW stalls in the Centralia Supercharger so while it's a lot I don't think it's crazy-talk.
There's a pretty decent explanation from the article

> If you buy an oil futures contract on the CME, and you hold it when it expires, then someone hands you 1,000 barrels of oil, and you have to find a place to put them. If you buy a bitcoin futures contract, and you hold it when it expires, nobody hands you the 5 bitcoins underlying the contract. Instead, CME computes a daily "Bitcoin Reference Rate," "which aggregates the trade flow of major bitcoin spot exchanges during a calculation window into the U.S. Dollar price of one bitcoin as of 4:00 p.m. London time," and if the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the expiry of your futures contract is higher than the Bitcoin Reference Rate when you opened the contract, you get paid the difference ... and vice versa. In dollars.

If you have any specific questions related to that paragraph, I'm happy to try and explain what I know.
No, LEDs are missing spectrum emitted by incandescent:

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2016/October/le...
Yes, three acres is a farm. In fact, in much of the world 3-4 acres is the average size of a farm. It doesn't need to be a 1200 acre corn field to be a farm. There was and is nothing micro about an 80 acre farm, that's just a plain old farm. Just because your boss didn't make money, doesn't mean everyone else can't. Around here 80 acres is a normal potato farm that easily provides for a family.
I've never heard that. I have often heard it as Piece Of Crap, though.
Yeah, that's definitely bullshit, esp considering residential power in the PNW is $0.07/kWh.
Until you start buttering your bread, I have no desire to eat an American sandwich (with the obvious exception of the excellent reuben).
I do not believe this is true at all. A lot of people do not supercharge their car often because it is super inconvenient. You need to wait at least 30 minutes to get over 50% charge. One of the great things about electric cars is that you can charge them at home just like your phone and never need to worry about “do I need to fill up to get to work?” You only need super charger when you are on road trips. So most people use superchargers only once or twice a year.

According to /r/teslamotors this perk is worth less then $1000 for the total lifespan of the car for most users (there are a few taxis which use significantly more but not normal users). This is not a lot of money considering the car starts at $70k, can easily go up to $120k and maxes out at about $260k.

Edit: the price per kWh is also wrong. Tesla currently sells electricity for an average of 20¢ kWh to consumers which do not qualify for the free super charging perk and they have said they will sell it for 7¢ to semi truck customers. So we can assume Tesla pays between 5¢ and 15¢, depending on the location and whether they have solar and powerpacks installed.

Supercharging for free is really a gimmick and free advertising for them because a lot of people who buy such expensive cars value their time above what it takes to recharge it every week. The only reason Tesla built supercharger is because they wanted to enable long distance travel for electric cars.
Good point about hyphenation, except it should probably be used the other way around: your example should be spelled "automatic donut-maker" (which looks more natural to me than "Computer-History").
Personally, I use Terminus in my text editor and terminal. Bitmap fonts just look much crisper and cleaner to me.
How do I go about it? I'm running linux. I've tried lspci, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
0d:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 08)
Perhaps it includes a portion of the capital cost for the chargers along with the associated operational costs?
Look at newfies dialer, also python and solid open source project
The decision to go to USB-C was the last straw for me. It just means they can sell overpriced dongles when I have a significant amount invested in Thunderbolt and HDMI. I went to Asus, and back to Windows. With the Subsystem for Linux and Docker support, I couldn't be happier.
But futures aren't like that; futures are supposed to be one of the lower layers of the financial "abstraction stack", not the top layer.

Grandma doesn't buy futures; grandma invests in a mutual fund that buys futures. But Harold the wheat farmer does buy wheat futures directly, because his whole business is delivering wheat down a manufacturing pipeline, and the wheat future delivers wheat just like his own fields will, so either can be used as an input to said manufacturing pipeline. That's the original point of [commodities] futures, after all—to let Harold hedge his wheat-growing risk. The fact that they can be traded like any other instrument to make money without ever coming into possession of any commodities at all, is just a weird side-effect.
Not only does Tesla negotiate their electrical rate, they use PowerPacks at several supercharger sites to shave peak load to reduce and/or eliminate demand charges.
I'm a little surprised you're getting downvoted so much, but I suspect it has to do with:

> the entirety of the current bitcoin ecosystem is built on and around fraud. If we are to remove fraud and clearly currently defined as illegal activities from this ecosystem bitcoin and its value will collapse through the floor.

While I agree with pretty much everything else you've said about BTC being somewhere on the not-so-good end of the "insanity" spectrum, and I've had similar experiences talking to technologists regarding PoS vs. PoW (heck, finding one who could coherently explain either was an exercise in futility). You sound like someone who probably knows the difference and it's also been my experience that those who do, generally believe the state of BTC (with regard to its current price) is overvalued[0].

I disagree that the ecosystem, as a whole, is built around fraud, or that the technology/purpose of BTC is generally for fraud. I look at BTC the same way I look at paper money. The same kinds of fraud can be performed with paper money. The same kinds of problems, such as permanent loss due to failure to secure it, can happen with paper money. The one, major thing, you can't do with paper money (easily, anyway) is buy something online with it. You can do that, in a lot of places, with BTC (and to a lesser extent, other cryptocurrencies). You can buy illegal drugs with cash and BTC but your local drug dealer doesn't take Visa (or maybe they do, now ... I don't buy illegal drugs).

I fully subscribe to the belief that we're going to see a large crash happen, probably in the near future. Any time you have something that looks like an investment that's skyrocketing as much as this has and the "investors" can't tell you the first thing about "what" it is they're investing in, that's the pretty much the secret formula for a crash. And I don't think (outside of the large amount of lost money) that a crash would be a bad thing. The fact that the price continues to soar is hampering the ability for the BTC and other cryptocurrencies to be used as anything other than as something to hold onto hoping for it to grow in value as it has for the last year.

There's another side to this, though ... I've been saying BTC would/should crash since it was about USD$100 and I've been wrong. I'm willing to accept that I'm wrong here, but unwilling to bet my own money on that chance.

[0] Where by "overvalued", I mean, more overvalued than anything in the history of the known world.
This should apply to physical goods such as blind bags, mystery boxes, baseball cards...
still check if pitch to zoom available every week from FF. My eyes is not good without zooming :(
Even oil futures are still settled with actual oil though. The distinction here is they are cash settled, which is pretty weird for an asset that is easily delivered.
You are confusing illegal stuff with being a criminal and also subestimating the market size of just the casino industry.
If you are interested in these questions I think it will be worth it to spend some time and do a bit of research, no?

You can look up Peter Singer and Yuval Noah Harari to start with and read what they have written about this. I mention them because they write well and mainly stick to scientifically supported ideas.

I haven't decided where I stand on the issues yet, but with a little research it has become apparent that you can have a very healthy diet without any protein form animals.

I've also discovered that more and more philosophers, ethicists, biologists etc, are starting to make the argument that our factory farming of animals may be the the worst crime in human history.
> If another company rolled a 200kwh car out of the back of a truck ...

That's the thing. They didn't. The roadster concept didn't have 200kWh in it at all.
The BTC future will settle against a spot reference price so you cannot take delivery.

My big issue with this is if the reference price is manipulated by exchanges (there is a lot of speculation about that exchanges aren't being honest with their trades) there is no way for the future to correct this. Shorting the future would do nothing. The future is a prediction on that settlement index and not the actual price of BTC. The usual move would be to take delivery and sell elsewhere or carry the underlying.

I really wish BTC wasnt financially settled. I have no trust in the current BTC exchanges. They really don't deserve it.
I’m sure you could get odds in Vegas, though probably not long terms.
Not if they are melted, or softened. It might have taken millions of close orbits around a hot body for that shape to form.
Go long in real currency or physical commodities?
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Well, the article makes it sounds like they are defying physics - "breaks laws of batteries"? Then also quotes

>“I don't think they're lying,” Jaffe said. “I just think they left something out of the public reveal that would have explained how these numbers work.”

There are no laws here, just advances in battery tech, and people believe Tesla is at the forefront of that AFAIK. Sure, they might be making claims that are hard to believe, but isn't the point of Tesla doing exactly that?
The difference is stocks vs. flows. $100 capex only shows up in year one, but the balance sheet goes up permanently (depreciating of course). When the parent mentions "level of infrastructure" it refers to the balance sheet account, which is why I mentioned P/B.
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You’re a bit behind the times old friend. Nihilism and existential crisis is only the first half. Dig further for the truth. ;)
What would prevent the battery from having a segmented design so that multiple segments can be charged in parallel? Is there something about the chemistry that requires the entire vehicle battery to be a single unit?
Worth looking at ZeroTier (commercial - actually running a hardware IndieGoGo right now) and WireGuard (IPSec - 'The Next Generation' / 'Voyager' or whichever you thought was best) as modern options.