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The negative price doesn't help you, or your utility which is your economic proxy. Your utility is (largely) not paying the negative price because the price is negative when not much electricity is being used. Think about it, how much electricity is the average house using at 3am? Not much. So, the price being negative then doesn't save you any money. Now, if you set your dishwasher, electric dryer, etc to run at 3am then you wind up saving your utility some money.

Some industrial customers have the ability to automatically ramp equipment up and down or schedule maintenance for when they know power prices will be high.

CA having a large amount of intermittent renewable power sources means your grid has to spend more on storage or peaker plants, dirty gas plants that can ramp up and down quickly to match load. You pay for that in a higher bill.
> over the next 7-12 years there will be countries banning petrol/diesel cars

I do not think so. At most, in that timeframe we will see countries starting to ban sales of new cars which are not plug-in hybrids or better. And then remember the average lifespan of a car today is ~20 years, you will still see old pure petrol cars on the roads in 2050 is my bet. Just like you still see old cars on the road today without any catalytic converters.

If you look at the electric car market today, you have lots of small cars with reasonable-ish range, one sedan with good range and two pretend-SUVs (Model X and I-pace) with good range.

No manufacturer anywhere makes a pure electric estate car (station wagon); this is the most popular type of car in Europe. Nobody makes an electric pickup; this is the most popular type of car in the US. Nobody makes an actual SUV, Ford Expedition/Toyota LandCruiser/etc. style that can fit four mountain bikes in the trunk and tow a 9000 lbs trailer. Nobody makes an electric commercial vehicles of the type electricians, plumbers etc. drive.

What do all these have in common? Inherently terrible aerodynamics / poor mileage and a relatively frequent need to go long distance trips. If you take current battery tech and do some optimistic extrapolation of future developments, you still end up with battery packs costing $50k+ and weighing several thousand pounds. Which isn't going to work anywhere, nobody is going to buy an $80k+ electric pickup when a diesel F150 starts below $30k.

But I do think we will see reasonable plug-in hybrid versions of these car types. And Tesla will never be building cars with internal combustion engines, so they're effectively locked out of what I believe will be the biggest part of the market.
The firmest case is the Mueller indictment which mentions Georgia, but does not go into depth: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/07/Mueller...

For background on the suit and wiping of the data: https://www.apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f.
what makes you think adoption is low?
Probably you do not realize how many models you see are hybrid, most don't look different.
Yes, that's true for Vanguard. But others, like Fidelity, can and will allow shareholders to hold private shares in their brokerage acccounts, sometimes through special purpose vehicles created for the purpose.
More like 1 hour every 4 days in Germany, if I'm counting the number of hours YTD correctly.
You really don't. You just need to pace the installs to EV vehicle uptake (which you can monitor with vehicle registrations and the addresses vehicles are registered at). Install where cars are being bought and garaged (or in this case, street parked).
This is quite cool, do you know what license it's using? Seems to be generating by JS? Could need this
Where I live its about 25c (of Australian Dollar) for 1kwh but you only get 7c back. So a real battery would be much preferable.
Can someone explain how Tesla can go private while still allowing all employees and any current investor who wants to remain shareholders as Musk is saying? AFAIK there is a threshold number of shareholders after which a company is required to be public. You can't just declare that you're a private company if you have thousands of members of the general public still holding equity.
Eminent domain exists and is frequently used in China (as in the US). Do the terms of this lease somehow exempt the US consulate from it?
I and many others think she's racist and in no way take Alex Jones seriously.
Swapping a fuel tank is actually not a bad analogy to swapping the battery. Both are much more involved than a simple refill, the fitment is limited to a single model (or a few similar ones), and I wouldn't want to replace my known good unit with a random used one.

It just takes about 10x more time to refill a battery than a fuel tank. Eventually gas stations will start to be replaced with more useful establishments (grocery, coffee shop, offices) that happen to have a charger at every parking spot.
Not really. Mining has high capital costs which can't be covered if the energy source isn't reliable. Mines need to run 24/7 to be profitable.
> But if that actually happened, the price would collapse.

By that logic, you are really just saying that the market cap is an invalid number, and as such cannot be compared to anything.
>It's not like all that mass/energy would be locked into one giant indivisible entity (if that is your assumption, why?)

Yeah it is. That's the assumption right from the start here, embodied in "strong AI" and that I've repeatedly and explicitly referred to throughout including a reflection on why it might be consciously avoided and whether that could work too. A strong AI could grow to use any amount of available computational and memory capacity, and might well need to in order to accomplish some things. There would certainly be advantages to having a higher degree of thought possible. That's the whole question raised by the OP of this thread.

Again, if you want to instead theorize why strong AI might be explicitly avoided by a civilization that's fine, but that's not the premise I was replying to originally is all.
Woah, didn't realize long distance transmission was that efficient. Now I'm curious how crazy of an idea it would be to build a global solar electrical network to obviate the need for batteries (the sun is almost always shining somewhere).
> I think it's uncharitable to call it purely an emotional reaction.

I agree. I didn't call it one.
The private equity equivalent of a share of stock is...a share of stock.
Application software doesn't necessarily want to be using low-level stuff like Vulkan just yet:

the reason being is that these low-level APIs with more direct access/control to the hardware don't (currently) provide load-balancing between multiple applications, which all OpenGL implementations (via the drivers) do currently do fairly well. i.e. so you can have two differential applications open which both fairly heavily utilise the graphics card (for drawing, not compute), and both get a fair share (depending on which has focus in some cases depending on driver settings) of the GPU.

For desktop applications where you're multi-tasking with potentially multiple applications using the graphics card this is often quite important.

For games it's obviously less so.

It's definitely a reason we're not jumping on the new low level APIs in the VFX industry currently.
Bankruptcy means, among other things, selling any remaining valuables to pay lenders, full or in part.

So in theory a loan can be completely paid off through a bankruptcy. In the case of GM, it did not happen, IIRC.
>What does it change?

That is was perhaps Russia itself (the main entity in USSR) that designed, built, and put those weapons there.

>After shooting at protesters and killing over 100 of them you lose all the legitimacy that comes from being democratically elected as far as I am concerned.

So, if the Weimar Republic shot down the Nazis at Krystalnatch they'd lose their legitimacy?

Not to mention that this wasn't some "peaceful" conflict. 18 policemen where shot dead as well. If an armed revolt like that happened against the governments in many other places there would be much more than 1 to 5 ratio of police vs protesters deaths.

In the events of Mexico in 1968 for example, there were 300+ shot [1]. That government not only didn't lose its legitimacy, but enjoyed hosting the Olympics with all western nations participating. And those people were killed without such provocation (killing policemen) or toppling the government or anything, just for protesting. How's that for hypocrisy?

>Among hundreds of thousands of people someone had nazi flags.

"Someone"? 18 of the shot protestors (and thousands more in the protests) were members of neo-nazi parties and groups (e.g. Svodoba). Wikipedia: "Eighteen Svoboda members were killed in the Euromaidan protests and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution". They also got 3 ministers in the post-events government. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre#Massacre
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)#2012...
IIRC exactly this was the basis of removing selective availability on GPS signals for civilian use. The original GPS spec had two bands / channels / something: one that was encrypted, for military use, and a "fuzzy" version for civilians that would vary ±100 meters in accuracy.

Once inertial guidance for missiles became more accurate than ±100 meters, there wasn't a point to reducing the civilian accuracy anymore, so they disabled SA in 2000 and went all-in on availability in 2007.

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
They also have a terrible spongy keyboard and a horrible trackpad and cost as much as the MacBook Pro.
They added a 'z'.

Considering their security practices and cluelessness, they also seem to be mostly for fascists.
"Having a better weapon doesn't stop a shitty weapon from killing you." True

I guess that im just making an argument about the modern west.
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At the cost of money and payload loss (or a range reduction), absolutely. If you're willing to spend engineering hours and thousands of dollars per drone, you can absolutely have nearly fully autonomous drones that don't rely on GPS.

Still, not really a new risk, however.
There is a difference between being willing to work at the current pay, and tolerating exploitative conditions out of fear of destitution.

Which is where UBI comes in as the missing part of a liberal capitalist economy. Until you remove the stick of starvation and homelessness, labour markets cannot respond rationally.
I agree with that, but that’s just the difference between drawing a specific person versus drawing any bicycle. I suspect if you wanted to draw a bicycle that was recognizable as a specific type or brand of bicycle, small differences would be important.
I'd much rather have solar/wind/nuclear than solar/wind/gas.
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What about freedom of speech, or freedom of press? The government shall make no law?

I guess the convenient exception made by the FCC for regulating content shown on TV (OMG nudity!! censor this!!) will prove useful as a precedent. Sad.
> What good is information that 3 centuries ago, there was a civilization on planet X?

People go out of their way to try and uncover ancient and forgotten civilizations here on Earth already.

If we have strong AI, the probe itself will be smart enough to chat with the locals in realtime. Any local AIs might send a probe on their own and have a century-long nap here to wait for a response. If our AIs are based on some sort of mind-uploading tech (probably unlikely, but who knows) then arguably, there is no wait- if you want to go, just upload yourself to the probe and go to sleep. Upload a thousand copies to a thousand ships.
Gene editing has always been a crapshoot, from e.coli to crops. You basically perform the insertion on a large number of cells and then pick the ones that survive. I'm oversimplifying it, but the point is that there are a lot of causalities with the process.

You can't really do that with a living human being.
The V2 guidance system was an integrating accelerometer and a gyroscope. They could barely hit a target the size of London. The lack of accurate guidance made it a militarily ineffective weapon.
"Can someone please explain then why we are paying the highest prices in the continental US for retail electricity..."

I don't know if you ever look at the pamphlets PG&E send you along with your bill, but it seems every month they're announcing a rate hike, with a meeting about it that's open to the public.

Maybe someone who hasn't yet thrown away one of those pamphlets could quote the supposed reason for one of their rate hikes. They always have some excuse for doing it.

With a price hike of something like 1% to 2% every month or two, it's a wonder we're not paying much, much more.
It's not exactly a good thing to constantly be chasing short term profits and quarterly results over long term health.

That's entirely the company's decision. If they want to focus on long-term growth at the expense of profit (i.e. Amazon), they can.
So, most people are going to have to completely rework their electrical system in order to put in an EV charger, going by the Tesla specs[1], up to including a larger service. Not too many people have an extra 40 amps of capacity kicking around, much less 60 or 90. And let me tell you, it's not exactly cheap to redo an electrical panel, particularly once you get in there and then have to bring up any other things that were grandfathered in up to newer code.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/home-charging-installation
Not for anti-tank, but they have enough power to lift a hand grenade and throw it onto personnel or if very lucky into open hatch of a tank [1].

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/search?q=drone%20gren...
The Congressional hearings involving Mark Zuckerberg showed that Congress is not equipt to deal with the problems social media has brought to society. I am highly skepticle of anything the senate convinces themselves is the right way to deal with social media; it seems like an attempt to set the stage to grab more power and control than anything else.
Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
What understanding am I missing? What "facts" are being misused?

Jumping in from the sidelines, when you say "Exposure to blue light suppresses melatonin levels", I think the main thing missing is a notion of "dose response". How much blue light causes how much change in melatonin, and how does this affect sleep compared to other factors?

Others here in the thread are suggesting that a blue LED indicators on electronics are a travesty. While I hate LED's of any color in my bedroom at night, and tape over indicator lights of all colors, I'm doubtful that this level of exposure affects melatonin levels. Does you think it does?

Looking into it now, this seems like a good overview : https://medium.com/swlh/is-blue-light-destroying-your-sleep-...

And this is a good look at how melatonin supplements actually work: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

An interesting point from both of them is that in controlled studies, both melatonin supplements and blue light exposure seem to cause about a 10 minute difference in time to fall asleep. While real, this is a much smaller effect than I would have guessed from most of the popular press coverage.
I agree that cheap and expensive need context.

According to the first link I found about large scale desalination, it can be done for a wholesale price of around $0.58/cubic meter.[1]

For comparison, my local water authority (in a part of the US that is not particularly dry) charges about $0.94/cubic meter.

Without knowing exactly what the difference is between wholesale and retail rates, I feel reasonably confident that desalination technology is currently sufficient to avoid civilization collapse and/or war.

[1]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/534996/megascale-desalina...
How much of the drug taking was due to some other ill that isn't being addressed? Eg, were they draw to drugs because of high unemployment, poverty, loss of hope?
Isn't a process like this is already utilized in local areas in the US through pumping water up into a water tower?
On the one hand, the challenges of being a public company cited here are the same ones facing all public companies, and they do quite well. On the other hand, there's a ton of negative attention on the street that's probably a huge distraction.

I do think Tesla will be better served as a private company as long as Musk is CEO. He isn't public CEO material.
Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
That sure isn't what we're paying with So Cal Edison. The municipal supply I used to be on was closer, but municipal supplies tend to serve smaller numbers of customers by their nature, so I doubt they're pulling the average down much either.
I think you're right w.r.t re-usability, though I've found semi-Thue systems more useful for formulating Turing Machines in order to avoid shifting things around. The string can just expand as needed, though the complexity probably changes.
The US military's current hand grenade - the M67 - weighs 400 grams, has a kill radius of 5 meters, and a casualty radius of 15 meters. The DJI Inspire 2, chosen at random, can carry 790 grams.

Yes. It doesn't take that much explosive to kill someone.
Did you even read the study? Or just the highlights on USA today? How much did it suppress melatonin levels? You don't know any of this.
That threshold was raised from 500 to 2000 shareholders as part of the JOBS act:

http://www.lathropgage.com/newsletter-44.html
Unfortunately, almost everyone I know that would be a candidate for buying an electric vehicle doesn't own a house. Definitely a big issue in places with sky-high housing prices like San Francisco.

Almost everyone that I know in my age-group is nowhere close to being able to afford buying a house.
Yeah, honestly this looks like there's something wrong with the actual phone (not software) - those "event" sources tend to come from kernel interrupts and those issues tend to happen when a sensor or something related malfunctions. Just a guess tho.
> Dumping all shares on the market would swamp demand with excess supply.

But then it is not the comparison that is problematic, but the number, that you are claiming doesn't represent anything.

You could also argue that we can't compare these numbers because GDP are not capturing all transactions.
One way of thinking about altitude is how many mistakes you have time to recover from before hitting the ground. The higher you are the safer you are - you haven't crashed until you hit the ground.

For a single-engine plane, 500' AGL depending on the plane and wind is enough to make a 180° turn and land on the takeoff runway if its clear. 1000' AGL will let you do it on just about any suitable surface at the airport - other runways, taxiways, grass clearings adjacent to them, etc - and give you a few seconds to be confused before deciding that you need to make an emergency landing.

Most birds fly quite low, and drone-based bird abatement at airports would be a safety win if done right (DO-178-B style software quality), but I've heard of bird strikes above 20,000', and been taught to expect that you're never flying above _all_ the birds.

Edited to reply directly to your 3000' comment like I meant to: At 3000' AGL, you can almost always glide to a safe landing point, unless you're over mountains or a dense urban area. But unless you happen to already be near an airport, you probably won't be able to glide to one. Glide ratios much higher than 10:1 are uncommon, so thats 5.7 statute miles. Lots of places are more than 5.7 miles from an airport.
No, a Ponzi scheme relies on recruiting new investors to pay out the old investors at the promised rate.

This doesn't involve paying anyone out.
No, because the shares actually represent ownership in a company that's engineering and building rockets.

I believe a Ponzi scheme is when you pay "interest" to early investors, via investments from new members. There is never any income generating activity other than recruiting new members.

I don't think Ponzi applies to Spacex.
Or boil via vacuum
Note that CABF bylaws require a simple majority of browsers to vote positively for a ballot for it to pass, regardless of how CAs vote.
There's no clean cut answer here. It's all over the spectrum. Some founders get along great and some don't get along well. Obviously the better you and your cofounders get along, the higher your probability of success. I've seen plenty of bad cofounder dynamics kill companies, irrespective of the business fundamentals.
Still impressive. Be careful with any steering at that speed, you can flip over pdq.
You can audit the course.
There is zero evidence of shorts trying to damage the company.

Every time when TSLA stock was down last year it was some material news regarding missing Model 3 production estimates previously provided by Elon Musk himself or something like that.
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Right but Garbage almost certainly has a negative value so it makes sense.
I don't know whether it's accurate, but I've noticed people saying that these sorts of plants are kind of obsolete these days, because of the development of PV cells.
Obscenity isn’t protected by the first amendment.

Obviously there is disagreement over what is and isn’t obscene.
I've tried emacs a couple of times over the years, but it never really stuck for me. Not sure why. I use vim as my main editor on the job and at home. The more basic commands have become second-nature and every now and then I go read about something I haven't played with yet and make it part of my workflow.

I can't stand IDEs. I understand their benefits, but the amount of resources they take up appall me at some deep level. I'll use them and grumble if I need to. I haven't really liked an IDE since the Turbo Pascal 4.0 days. I also have a thing about not liking software that tries to second-guess me. I'll take a vim session loaded with files and another terminal window to build the project in and I'm golden. Of course, I'm not working on huge projects for the most part. Maybe it's an old-person thing.
murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.

If a legal system grants the death penalty, it isn't murder under that legal system.
You act like you are doing them a favor, they would much rather not have net metering. I also have solar panels on my roof, though not in CA. Net metering is definitely a subsidy.

They credit you the retail rate for electricity not the wholesale rate they buy it at. And the grid acts as your battery, even though you pay the same grid maintenance charges as your neighbors who don't get that benefit.