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Go to a trade show and find an invite to one of the trade show parties. There will be lots of sales people there with "sales person" personalities. Talk with them. They're usually good at talking so you should not need to feel stress to keep the conversation going. You might pick up some techniques.

PS it's usually easy to score a trade show party invite. Just ask at any friendly booths where the best party is that evening.
Great point. I wonder how often people shoot emails out without serious editing.
Well, reduced resale values increase the total cost of ownership, so it matters to anyone looking to spend less by going electric. A Nissan leaf fairs particularly poorly, especially compared to its ICE counterpart, the Versa [1]. The resale values are plummeting more than the incentives given.

It also matters to anyone looking at buying a used electric car (Me), since the rapid depreciation makes me hesitant to jump in, as patience can get me more features for the same price (range etc), or save me a lot of money.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/nissan/leaf/2017/st-401695947/cost-t... vs https://www.edmunds.com/nissan/versa/2012/st-101396336/cost-...
The fuel price is the difference between Europe and the US. I don't think I've ever spent 150€/month on fuel in the car I commute in, despite it getting terrible mileage (~12L/100km) due to its age.
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Yeah, they’d press it, but they had no distribution. Rendering them meaningless.
A pound is also a measure of mass [1]. Unless you're thinking of the 'pound-force' which is just the force of gravity applied to one pound-mass. The same definition exists for kilograms (kilogram-force) but is not part of the international unit system. Gravity is slightly different close to the poles etc so a *-force unit will never be precise in this context.

The majority of humanity has absolutely no idea what 'one pound' is when not referring to the currency, and will merrily say they weigh X kilograms.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
Thought: Isaac Newton was an alchemist. He was looking for the secret, most especially, of transmuting base elements into gold.

Instead, he discovered the law of gravity.

Which, as expressed in neutron star formation and collisions, is what transmutes base elements into gold.

Score one for the alchemists.
Sized up to population/GDP it is also something like the cost of two London Olympics, or for the US maybe $120B.

Being able to say you possess the world's biggest island probably is not worth $400 per citizen (which is before factoring in the costs it has incurred). On the other hand it does facilitate maritime claims that are becoming extremely valuable as the Arctic melts and opens up to shipping and other economic activity.
I've heard that some minor internet celebrities will call their police department when moving to a new area to warn about potential swatting calls. You could try to do the same, but it's probably hit-or-miss.
It already feels out of date

More than that, after six years of Leaf ownership it feels downright primitive. In our ‘81 VW it’s acceptable because, hey, it’s an old vehicle. You know, back when you could really feel what a car’s doing, blah, blah, blah. But in a modern $50K car? Turning mechanical gears to get that rattling contraption of an ICE going, gawd, I’m surprised you didn’t make me crank it by hand. To refuel it, I have to go out of my way to a specialist vendor? Not just plug it in when I get home?

Sounds silly unless you’ve owned an EV, but it truly represents my feelings even when driving our smooth, reliable Scion. But as the old canard goes, if I have to explain then you wouldn’t understand.
> There is no proof that the accused party intended to kill

Who are you trying to fool here?

Trying to get the target "accidentally" shot is the entire point of SWATting. If it weren't, they would have called family and child services to fraudulently report child sex abuse, animal control to report an escaped rabid panther, or any number of other government bodies that don't show up to the party with fully-automatic assault rifles.
> The Model S easily outsells any competitor's luxury car in the same class, you'd have to combine all A6 / 5 series / E Class sales to even hope to show the same numbers.

In the US, Tesla's home market, yes. But if you go to Europe, it changes completely - those three models you listed average a combined annual European sales volume north of 300 000, which is more than the global total of all Tesla cars ever sold.

The only way Tesla will be anything but an SV-hype-fueled anecdote is if they can actually deliver on the Model 3 next year, and it ain't looking too peachy. I mean, GM's outselling them on chargeable vehicles in the US this year.
I agree, I think we have at least another one, perhaps two decades with gasoline engines. The sad news is that displacement will continue to get smaller, even in sports cars. The transition from the Porsche 981 to 718 is a great example of how to ruin the perfect sports car.
I question the association between maintenance and mediocrity. It’s much easier to start a new project than to work effectively with a large codebase you didn’t write.
I'm missing the crucial design bits which would influence embeddability:

Do pointers move? How is the GC? How is the FFI? What are the FFI callback limitations?

With FFI callbacks, calling back into Lua functions and using Lua data you need either refcounting or a slow mark & sweep. Or just for FFI accessible data. Of you provide an API for this data to propagate moved pointers back to C.
Its best practice in HR for serious cases for those accused to be put on administrative leave prior to any investigation -just firing some one who then turns out to be innocent would lead to expensive lawsuits.

Though being put on house arrest and being treated as on duty whilst on leave is on dodgy grounds I am surprised the police unions haven't challenged this in court.
Why is callerID spoofing possible or legal? That's a rhetorical question BTW, I don' think there is a legitimate use for that or even blocking it.
> paper is on life-support, and is going to be DOA in another decade or two.

I'm not sure what the indicators of this would be, for or against, but extrapolating the current trend to zero seems premature.

I can see paper use continuing it's rapid decline, but I genuinely believe it will plateau at a relatively high level. I think paper will always have it's place, in some fashion.
> I hear that a lot (especially from anti-legalization people), but I don't believe it makes any difference.

Oh, it does. A pre-rolled joint at a coffeeshop from 2017 is far more potent than a pre-rolled joint at a coffeeshop from 1997 or the 70s/80s. Beginners often cannot roll their own, and think that they should finish the whole pre-rolled joint all by themselves or together with that one friend.

Beginners: everyone who smoked was once a beginner. Do yourself a favour and take one puff. Then use an ash tray to put the joint off.

Nevermind the people who want to try spacecake, or make their own hash oil.

Also, not everyone's as sensitive, and stomach/sugar has effect as well.

It also has a long half-life, and I've witnessed people starting to believe all kind of paranormal/new age shenanigans thanks to regular cannabis usage. Heck, I've done that myself as well.

Problem with the advice "don't make it a habit" is that many drug users have serious mental problems which they combat (successfully or not) with self medication.
>Unless you live under a rock, you're aware of the controversy about armed police response in the US. Surely this gamer knew that

That seems difficult to prove. I used to spend a shitload of time on WoW where I wouldn't watch what was going on with the world. Some people lose touch by immersing in games, and Trump has taken over the news anyway within the last year. Not that I'm defending the dude, but wouldn't bringing up something that's difficult to prove hurt your case overall (IANAL obviously)?

There should be more than enough to simply get the guy on calling in a fake hostage situation, or hopefully homicide.
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Depends on the likelihood that had OP not purchased the vehicle, that the person who would would be using it to replace their own end of life car.

Also depends on how likely the OP will drive their gasoline car to completion.

Basically all comes down to how much the energy/carbon/pollution cost of the gasoline vehicle will be amortized over its useful life.
Earlier this week I was at a mall with a Tesla shop and about 5 supercharger in the parking lot. Something that I never really considered was that if electric car are set to replace ice car in the next decade(s), basically half the parking lot would need to have electric recharging capability i.e. several thousand slots. Street parking will need the same as will office and residential parking lots.

What happens currently is a multiplication of private charging network, which is good, except that you need to pay a monthly fee for access, then a fee per connection and finally a fee per minute or kWh. It costs 10 GBP extra fee if you haven't a monthly registration. So if you need to charge your Tesla (let's assume 60 kWh) on a network you are not registered that's going to cost you: 31.80 GBP ! OK it is still less expensive than petrol, but that's not longer an order of magnitude under.

I'm a bit afraid that in parallel to the legislation terminating the sales of ICE cars, there isn't any kind of legislation for the charging networks being put in place. Those private network will have to fight to install point on the public road, meaning the competition will be to win the local authorities, not on the consumer side. Failure to do something will lead to a situation quite similar to broadband in the US, with car driver required to pay several monthly fees to various network in order to make sure they can top up their car.

It is a bit offtopic, but until that day it never occurred to me that the golden age of electric car ownership is today! With lots of free goodies thrown your way, but all of that will dry up by the time the common folk get their EV and the future will look much like the present in term of cost of driving hidden in a few extra monthly fees tacked to your account. At least it's a win for the environment.
That's for the court to determine. Practically speaking though, it's hard to imagine any other reason for doing what he did.
Jed McCaleb has been selling tens of thousands of ripples a day for years. Anyone investing in buying is just making Jed richer.
Yes. That would have been the most short-sighted deal in human history.
Given that it is common knowledge that american police officers shoot first and ask questions later[1], intentionally sending them to a residence under the false pretext that there is a dangerous murderer actively killing people at the location should be at least second degree murder + some type of "fraud with intent to harm".[2]

It is crimes like this that make me think we've got to break down the walls protecting anonymity on the internet -- which makes me sad, because I've always kind of liked anonymity on the internet...

[1]which is entirely wrong and should absolutely be stopped and as a nation we need to have a real conversation about this...

[2]I'm not a legal expert, I just have a functioning sense of morality...
There’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music.

But the next thing you talk about creates an environment not conducive to developing really tasteful ones.

The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s good has become near impossible for everyone. Popular music used to focus on scenes, the internet made sure to stomp that into the dirt.

Given an environment like that, how is someone going to develop good taste? There are still music scenes, BTW. They are distinctly non-mainstream, however.
Since people rely on docker containers as an isolation layer between potentially unfriendly services, a linux bug that allows breaking that isolation barrier is a relevant thing. It’s worth being called “docker container escape”
The EV market is increasing. First half of 2016 was 64,736 and first half of 2017 was 90,302 [1]. That's about 1% of the market. That there are Many Models tells you car companies think there are More Buyers rather than Few Buyers.

I drive a 2013 Leaf so I know about range anxiety. My next car will be an S.

My only complaint about the Leaf is that if I put $6000 worth of new batter I don't get 2018 technology. It doesn't get better. I get the exact same battery.

[1] https://www.fleetcarma.com/electric-vehicle-sales-united-sta...
I think I like the word marvelous more than the word awesome. Would be marvelous if it would make a comeback!
> You just added bunch of layers to architecture for no reason

The sandbox doesn't do the isolation that docker can. It uses user isolation like I mentioned. The difference is that Binder is Java on top of the kernel, while docker is isolating from the kernel itself.

Without access to the service, it is impossible, sans-kernel-exploit, to escape the permissions jail, or even tell if you are in a permissions jail if someone gives your app fake contact information by routing it to a different service.

Docker isn't perfect. It had a serious CVE recently. I'm certainly not saying it is absolutely better. I'm just saying that I think they are fundamentally different and that process level isolation is superior to user level isolation.
After test driving a Tesla, and seeing how much better the simple driving experience will be in a decent electric car (one pedal driving, heating and cooling divorced from a running and wasteful/toxic engine, a car that gets software updates for more than 6 months...), I don’t think I can ever consider buying another ICE. If I still commuted, I’d find some way to justify a Bolt, Leaf, or Model 3.
Making TRust-DNS faster than BIND9
Holo: Minimalistic configuration management
Something that I never really considered was that if electric car are set to replace ice car in the next decade(s), basically half the parking lot would need to have electric recharging capability i.e. several thousand slots.

Not really. You plug your electric car in at home overnight, you start every day on 100%. You only need to re-charge at the mall or somewhere if you are driving beyond your car's range. That happens sometimes but not enough to need half a car park of chargers. Also, range will improve a lot in the next few years as battery prices/weights drop.

Cities where people don't have off-street parking at night (e.g. London) are a bit of an issue though. I suspect that can be solved though.
Denmark can't really do anything, as Greenland has been granted self-rule and very wide autonomy, with Denmark retaining control over foreign relations and defence.
hope you don't live in Germany then http://www.mth-partner.de/wettbewerbsrecht-anwalt/cyber-law-...
Does this still require you to essentially nerf application signing in order to spoof some google play crap? If so, that's really not a viable solution.
> The caller is certainly an asshole and is even culpable for homicidal intent, but I don't think that their conduct is tantamount to murder - more like involuntary manslaughter.

The difference between second degree murder and manslaughter is intent. If he's culpable for "homicidal intent" then he's committed murder.
> all of the ICE cars look with steam coming out of the exhaust on a cold morning

but the cold-start is the best part!

reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exenWWOK_2o
> should take a couple hundred seconds before Apple Watch drifts out of sync. Should be long enough for Siri to record your note :)

I wouldn’t be so sure. First of all, siri is pretty slow already in the best of times. Second, the watch doesn’t do the recognition onboard; it sends the audio (or some processed version, I don’t know) to your phone. And a neutron Star, especially a spinning one with lots of junk around it, we be generation an ENORMOUS amount of RF interference. I can definitely see it getting out of sync.

Then again it (and you) are not really rated for neutron sta4 conditions and the tidal forces would definitely tear you apart; just moving your arm would distort the watch, 7nless perhaps you purchased the extra expensive ceramic version.
Not only are murdering people with guns illegal, so are guns themselves regulated wrt possesion; ie the mechanism is regulated.

In what sense is a call to SWAT regulated?
That is fair.

You'll notice the people that consider themselves top performers that responded to this post lean towards moving on rather than doing primarily maintenance work for years on end. I've seen similar sentiments echoed by others, hence the distinction.
I think it's less of an unfamiliarity and more of an outdated development practise. Plus, completing the entire page in under 750ms (measured in Firefox) is still faster than some other pages out there (reddit: 4s, HN: 1.2s, etc)

I would personally say the website has it's charm, even if it's a bit dated in design.
As a Tesla owner this logic seems very strange to me. I hardly ever use the superchargers at a location like a mall unless I'm stopping at the mall specifically for the charging station. So it's clear to me that the mall has the supercharger to drive traffic to the mall, not because people at the mall need to charge their cars. When I'm just doing day-to-day driving I always charge at home, and don't even do so every day.

In fact, the beauty of owning an electric car for me has been the fact that my home acts as the "gas station" and I almost never need to think about charging my car elsewhere.

I think the focus, instead of being the mall or on-street parking, would be apartment buildings/multi-family homes. Having a parking spot per unit with a charger, or at least some equitable way of sharing chargers within a building, will be a necessary step to electrification.
On my current project, I spent a lot of time fighting with flexbox and could never get it to do exactly what I wanted, in both Firefox and Chrome, at the same time (Firefox was much easier to deal with using flexbox than Webkit/blink, actually)

Then CSS Grid finally became available accross all major browsers. I'd never used it, but decided to try it and managed to have my layout working the way I had always wanted it to in a couple of minutes. In fact, it took more time for me to explain to my concerned wife why I suddenly burst out howling and laughing like a lunatic than it did to actually swap out flexbox for CSS-grid.

Still using bootstrap for a good portion of the UI, of course :)
Yes and I addressed this. If you are a Nascar driver, you can confidently say that you are a better than average driver.

If enough companies have been willing to hire you as a lead developer or an architect and you haven't gotten fired, you can can say with some confidence that you are better than average.
The typical dish washer repair video on YT with 10-100k views makes $10-100 in total. And many don’t even have ads enabled. So these are hardly going to be affected.

Now, I‘m not sure YouTube itself will survive in its current form if ad money dries up.
“It might be fairer to multiply every figure by 60, to get a range from $180b to $960b”... uhmmm but you can’t just multiply random numbers when you’re talking about real, actual money in a real, actual bank account.
If this guy isn't aware of what happens during an armed police response, why does he keep trying to provoke more of them?

Clearly, he's well aware of what happens.
Yes, I’ve long said that if you can't trust the rigorously tested and surely unbiased observations of heavy weed smokers, what can you trust?
Up more than 120% with my stock trading robots, my best year by far...
One of the few things left in a modern American home that can stop bullets from modern firearms is a bookshelf full of books. There are a number of experts who advocate creating cover from gunfire coming from particular directions and making sheltering and escape plans.
Not necessarily true. Some want to get famous with their videos, some want to express themselves in a creative way, or spread ideas, or build an online following to capitalize later on...
And governments wont want to lose the tax revenue that's going to have to be replaced.

I am sure that government will want to be able to track these smart cars and trucks you know "think of the children" and possibly to disable them to reduce the risk of another Truck based suicide attack as happened in France
I've visited small towns. I disagree. Most businesses aren't immediately profitable when they start.

On the topic of cash flow: Let's pretend that you build houses. You are paid by your customers only after you finish each house. Before you can even start to build one of these homes, you must first buy and pay for the house's materials. If you don't have enough money to buy these materials, then you can no longer build houses for your customers.

This means that you would be in trouble if one of your customers doesn't pay you (i.e. a hypothetical real estate developer who dabbles in reality tv). In this situation, you have a couple of choices. You can decide to go out of business. Alternatively, you could try to find more money in the form of a loan or investment, which would allow you to rebuild your business and recover. If you don't have any way to get this money, your only choice is to close down.
In healthcare, all the time: https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/10/30/16228054/american... . Faxes help impede competition and raise provider profits.
These old habits also concern ways of indexing and duplicating information, such that it is always available nearby when needed.

Of course, that meant sometimes a business process took as long as a day per step of processing, and the shipping time between locations the information had to be.

Processes sensitive to time have pretty much all been replaced by now.

Processes that depend more upon cheap and consistent presentation, or reliability, have been kept on paper for the simple reason that it's better.

Processes prone to exceptional circumstance, or in need of rapid redesign, or quick notes, may find that paper suits their needs better due to the overhead of developing appropriate software. I'm not sure if this is Human Error, or an actual machine deficiency.
> Reporting your transaction volume as revenue is really infantile and should get you laughed out of the room, but here we are.

It’s not GAAP so as long as you’re private it’s merely stupid — if they tried that when public the SEC would be involved. Of course they couldn’t go public that way in the first place.
I feel like the gas/oil/mineral rights alone would be worth at least a few billion
This is one of the reasons so many people in execution videos seem resigned to their fate; because they are. Just listen to stories people tell about narrowly escaping these kinds of deaths. Many of them talk about how they knew what was coming and had come to terms with it.
I've been meditating for a year or so. I think it's important to be clear about what meditation is and is not. I don't look at meditation as a way to clear my mind, as you said, that's nearly impossible to force; rather, I think of meditation as changing the way I associate with the thoughts that pass through my mind. Instead of stopping and engaging with each one, I let them pass on by like clouds in the sky. Disconnecting from the thoughts like that has allowed me to arrive at a clear mind.
Why do you believe this?

I can't imagine paper being used for things like documents or communication 100 years from now at all. I could imagine it still being used for arts but if there aren't other widespread uses for it then it will probably be rare enough to be pretty expensive for artistic usage.

I'm also not convinced all that many people will even want to use it for artistic purposes when, by then, you'll have things Google's Tilt Brush but with 100 years of advances on top of it.
erm How? the density of car owners in London isn't that high as well