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Surely it can be seen why this comes off as shady. Browser vendor inks deal w/ third party company. Deal includes special provisions company will not otherwise provide users of its service. Browser vendor promises to give preference to third party company. Details of deal, at least to me, are not very transparent.

In general I agree that using other DNS providers besides the ISPs has benefits. But not sure I think it should funnel to a single, preferred company. Nor do I think that they should collect anything at all, reduced compared to their original or not. I think some transparency is deserved here about the contract if/when a regular FF release is shipped encouraging users to use Cloudflare, specifically around the motives of wanting this data. Granted, I am a bit more paranoid than most.
Between this, the recent Google thing, and the Apollo movie flag thing... it's interesting how "Chinese influence of American entities" is a recent news trend.
They can charge 1100 for the phone. Their revenues went up not because they are selling more phones, but Average Selling Price went up. If people are willing to pay 1k why not 1.1 or 1.2. At some point people will stop, but you can find the price point that maximizes profit.
I think it would be more effort to write your vision of the submission process than what is probably there.

The algos is presumably a straight up string compare with some url decoding, but any amount of idiotic GET key value pairs can screw that up.

I find Occam's razor the best explanation for these kind of things - I suggest not taking it to heart too much.
They do far more transactions, in contrast to Bitcoin which is used for speculation.
It does depend on your audience, but I've gotten good mileage out of these questions, so personally vouch for them. I got them from the book "Switch"[0], which has better phrasing than I jotted down in my comment. I highly recommend the book.

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It's all made up. Perception. (Disclaimer: I own both Apple and Amazon stock)
This is still only the US though. A big part of the global car market, sure, but it would be interesting to know how it works elsewhere. It doesn't work that way in Europe (at least I don't think there are EU states with the US setup)
Which would mean the government and tax payers paying the full up front investment and operating costs. The purpose of bringing in firms is to attract investment and give them an incentive to apply their technology and expertise. If you don’t want any of those things then sure, do it as a fully public sector project, but if you do then you have to at least offer the possibility of a profit.
Badge engineered vehicles with extras tacked on are bad news because there isn't any real ownership from engineering. Trade it in for a Tahoe and you wouldn't have these problems.
Limping? Which other manufacturers produce 10k electric cars a week? How many Chevy bolts are produced a week? 1000?
A rugged, fun electric that can be repaired by mortals would be the real sell. An all-electric should be simpler than an IC, not more complicated.
I completely agree. Although, alternatively, you can keep BGE and just move your head a lot more when in the crowded city environment, if that isn't your primary driving environment. It isn't nearly as big of a problem to look sideways in the low urban speed environments, IMO.
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When this became known, I asked on the aviation stackexchange about whether there were any circumstances under which it might be expected for a 787 to remain powered on for 248 days: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/14494/in-what-c...

The answer seems to be that it is very unlikely, but not impossible.
Yeah but would you trust an 8 year old electric Benz? Nobody has more experience at this than Tesla.
That is correct, my morning brain mixed it up because of writing of MoltanVK started me off on Metal on Vulkan.

I bought it up because of the general topic of Vulkan and Metal, not because of gfx-rs itself. MoltanVK deserves a mention due to Khronos Group sponsoring it.
The thing about the error is that it's very standard sort of error but an error which apparently formal methods didn't catch.

I've just been looking up TLA+ (model verification language) and I'm not sure how it would deal with avoiding overflow; it's approach is proving that a system will always be in a required state but avoiding overflow in most practical approaches involves effectively staying far enough away from the overflow condition that it never appears (as the other comments here go into). Done right, overflow will never be impossible, just unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B
The thing is, EV people actually prefer to plug in for 15 minutes (while taking a coffee). Tesla did test battery swap stations in real world conditions but stop because the demand wasn't there when you have superchargers https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shuts-down-battery-swap-prog...

As for the closing superchargers, that goes contrary to everything Tesla customers reports (https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/forums/florida.91/) and crowdsourced data (plugshare.com and others)
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Did you take into account that the Mustangs can be negociated at a good 20% off if done at a proper time? E.g. previous year model, mid-year cycle / during the winter. Seems like it would put it on par with the Tesla.
I heard that the Tesla's are not negociable (I may be wrong).
In case of using AI for drones and warfare I am glad that people decided to standup against it. Although there is a big moral question here the technology is there even some of the tools are open sourced. Google employees decided to raise their hand and say it is wrong but there is no checks if a dictator decided to make use of AI in a bad way. Technology is constantly evolving and there is no oversight when misuse happens. CEO's will sign contracts like these as long as there is a big dollar sign attached to it.
Agreed on all fronts. A single provider for tests makes plenty of sense. Time will tell whether the deal amongst the two companies has legs beyond this test.
There is no lock on the door of Apple's walled garden. Speaking as someone who lives quite happily inside - I have no plans on leaving.

Different people like different things. You liking things that aren't Apple is no stranger than me liking things that are Apple.
Just out of curiosity, what have you seen from GM in their EV program to date that gives you that impression? I look at their efforts and see the absolute minimum and a complete lack of compelling vision or differentiating features.
thank you, could easily be that.
These are great! Thanks for pointing them out!
Sure, but what's not known is whether that's primarily because the majority of programmers learn to program on languages inspired by C syntax.
I find it amazing that Linear Regression in scikit-learn doesn't return standard errors/t-scores for the coefficients

Case in point! You don't typically need those for machine learning, so why bother with them in a machine learning toolkit/library?
I fully expect the maintenance costs to go up over time, as the market becomes more competitive. EV may have low baseline maintenance requirements, but what's the force that will keep them low when the pressure to cut corners and make manufacturing cheaper increases?
We would if they only had dark colored lights on!

The minimum standard for lighting on bikes is really inadequate, IMO.
How does the USD getting stronger lead to economies in other countries collapsing? This is a real question, I really don't understand how or why this would happen.
I had heard that 98.6 °F was the result of rounding to 37 °C before converting, and that maybe the actual temperature is a bit lower.

This article mentions 97.7 °F, 99.5 °F, and 100.4 °F, which also look like they were rounded to the nearest half-degree Celsius. Some numbers might not have as much precision as it looks like.
> idk it's a very well-established 92-year-old luxury brand number 1 in their category

On one hand I guess yeah, on the other - is it really anymore?

I mean their latest endeavor, the X class, is nothing more than a fancier Renault Alaskan, and an expensive one at that.

I haven't seen any high-risk effort from them in years. During the last twenty years Toyota and Honda invested heavily in hybrids and hydrogen-powered cars, Renault-Nissan in EVs, BMW in carbon-fiber bodies. What did Mercedes do aside from making good-looking, well put together cars for the affluent?
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The pilot programs we see now are sort of a month-to-month lease and include maintenance and periodic vehicle swaps from a pool, much like you can often swap your short-term rental in the midst of a contract. That might appeal to the type of driver who doesn't keep their car in immaculate condition for the duration of their lease or ownership.

I would expect to see market segmentation not only by model but by average car age and care standards, so the fleet operator can potentially demote cars from one tier to another to get more service life out of them. I imagine you will see budget subscriptions that are more likely drawing from a pool of 3-6 year old cars and more premium subscriptions that are drawing from a pool of almost new cars, as well as potential tiers in between.
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I'd actually argue the opposite. If you sacrifice retirement savings in your 20s, it's going to hurt a lot more than sacrificing some contributions in your 40s.
Europeans typically form alliances, standards and legislation when facing these kind of problems.

EU has EV-CONNECT roadmap with mandate to develop infrastructural system with the interoperability of plugs and vehicles. EU is going to spend €800 million to help set up the infrastructure. It's likely that there will be legislation that mandates that every charging station must sell to everyone else the basic charging. Of course it's possible to offer different charging options for different cars.

In the battery front they have already formed alliances that include big Asian investors and Berkshire Hathaway to build number of huge battery pack and cell factories inside EU.
30,000 ft view. [0]

It's interesting to see market's reaction post management issues were brought to light.

[0] https://imgur.com/ZdRpdiZ
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Your sibling comment describes a link to the nervous system. If there is a feedback loop then there could be some influence. Personally, I am far from arguing that this is true.
Straight from the Wikipedia article:

Pinker identifies five "historical forces" that have favored "our peaceable motives" and "have driven the multiple declines in violence." They are:

The Leviathan – the rise of the modern nation-state and judiciary "with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force," which "can defuse the [individual] temptation of exploitative attack, inhibit the impulse for revenge, and circumvent ... self-serving biases."

Commerce – the rise of "technological progress [allowing] the exchange of goods and services over longer distances and larger groups of trading partners," so that "other people become more valuable alive than dead" and "are less likely to become targets of demonization and dehumanization."

Feminization – increasing respect for "the interests and values of women."

Cosmopolitanism – the rise of forces such as literacy, mobility, and mass media, which "can prompt people to take the perspectives of people unlike themselves and to expand their circle of sympathy to embrace them."

The Escalator of Reason – an "intensifying application of knowledge and rationality to human affairs," which "can force people to recognize the futility of cycles of violence, to ramp down the privileging of their own interests over others', and to reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won."
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>In the USA, parents don't typically arrange an adult daughter's marriage without asking her what she thinks either.

Same in India also. Arranged marriage doesn't mean forced marriage. It's unfortunate people have this perception. Even in arranged marriage, men and women agree for marriage only if they are ok.
Some may not use the word luxury, but there are a few nicer ones out there.

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Tesla is supply-constrained and delivered a record 40,000 vehicles in Q2 2018. Mercedes-Benz delivers just under 30,000 vehicles per month. And MB isn't even an especially high volume manufacturer.
If you can replace your car's driver's side mirror with aspheric european mirror, do so. (Assuming you're in the US).

I had the euro glass on my Golf, and the ability to see more than just a massive grille filling up your entire mirror glass on the driver's side is a godsend. I can actually see a car 2 lanes over moving into the same lane I'm trying to move into, using just my mirrors.

I've used this mirror adjustment method forever, and it really does eliminate blind spots, especially given correct mirrors. It depends on the car, though -- our Tesla 3 has pretty bad blind spots in the peripheral area because the glass doesn't adjust far enough out, and they haven't started selling the car in Europe yet, so you can't get the correct glass for it.
Employee protests over hot button issues are one thing, grievances over working conditions and general dissatisfaction with Bay Area living conditions are another, and mentioned in the article.
Me too. The idea of being able to sneak in and out of a campsite with no ICE noises appeals as does the ability to make use of the electrics for HVAC/cooking/watching TV etc.

Have you seen any worthwhile NV200 conversions? Nope! The NV200 was designed for ICE and it still has the old fashioned bonnet out the front, and it isn't a 'frunk'. The space of a camper van only really worked in the VW bus format with the engine at the back, everything subsequent is a bit small due to the bonnet.

If you go large with the camper van then you can't park so easily hence the original VW bus form factor makes sense, particularly if there is no roof extension as then you can park in multi-storey car parks.

My ideal Tesla based camper van also has structural elements so rather than 'bits of wood' attached to the vehicle the framework for the internal bits is also there to strengthen the vehicle.
Yup. Well put.

For more, if want to do a startup with the advantage of some original research that is not yet a fad or hot topic, research you are likely the only who will do it, there's no rush, under 30 won't have the prerequisites. The problem to be solved doesn't have to be new, hot, or a fad but in whole or in significant part so far just solved poorly or not at all and where some good research can get the first good or a much better solution.

Such research is not the well worn path down Sand Hill Road to $1 T, but so far not even Sand Hill Road has such a well worn path. There are only a few $1 T cases or candidates so far; the patterns are not attractive; and from elsewhere, especially US national security, research has a much more promising track record. Uh, for Silicon Valley, how old was Shockley? How old was Tukey when he did the FFT? How old is Irving?
I don’t know of any country which is able to which does not enforce immigration policy, including Mexico, Canada, as well as Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, etc... Never mind Japan, Koreas, China, etc.
Those symptoms would be more likely caused by a memory leak and/or fragmentation, not by memory corruption or a buffer overflow.
There is no 'them'. The Wikipedia community comprises everyone who wants to participate. WMF is small in comparison.
If there is one thing I've learned it's never under estimate how frivolous people are with their money.
Cue the WALL-E movie.
> The discussion isn't about whether having more will make anyone more or less happy

This thread of discussion literally began because you wrote "Money definitely does not make people any happier."
Is that true, though? Here (UK) Kia and Hyundai offer seven year warranties, and most of their products are competitive against Peugeot/Renault.
I would. Because Benz has far more experience with customer success, repairs and supply chain than Tesla. Getting even simple body parts for a Tesla can be an exercise in extreme patience. Benz also knows scale. Tesla -- we don't even know if the company will still exist in 10 years, but a reasonable person would have little doubt that Mercedes will be.

Mercedes has been around almost 100 years. A new powertrain isn't a big deal if the processes are in place.
I wonder if the same thing which happened to John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly will happen to tech.

Amazon and Google are becoming more like a technology holding/investment company (like Berkshire).
"Owning Tesla outside of Warranty is worse than owning Benz outside warranty."

What a terrifying statement! I owned an AMG Benz for about 3 years and it was nerve racking towards the end. Glad I kept it in good shape and nothing blew up on my watch.
What Cloudflare wants is the most people/consumers possible using their DNS. Doing so will make lookups and translations faster for their customers than anyone else as the content is basically on the same network as the DNS lookup. When they go sell Enterprise content delivery services to their big customers they can tout a huge base of users tied to their DNS and sell on the performance enhancement these people will see when accessing Cloudflare customers content. CDN is all about shaving milliseconds off of content delivery and having a huge base of consumers using Cloudflare for DNS differentiates them and provides a measurable performance increase.
> The actual cost of running it is lower for premium cars than it is for others. Disclaimer though after about 6-7 years of heavier use repairs do start comming up and they can be costly but that is to be expected if you want to run for another half decade or so.

I mean if we're just comparing anecdotes, I bought an entry-level model Toyota Yaris 6 years ago, I've driven it 140000 km, and i've only done the maintenence the manual suggests (oil, filters, other fluids, brake pads..) and it's still running like new. The rest of my family drives Japanese cars (toyota, honda, suzuki) and they have had very similar experience - no extra maintenance for years except a few initial bathtub curve manufacturing defects that got fixed under warranty.
You're more qualified and so am I. The competition right now is crazy compared to what it used to be in fields like pure software.

You're fully capable of starting a bio-computing or quantum computing startup, though.

Something I think about constantly is if it would be better to just go back to university for a field I'm 50-80% certain is going to be huge and combine it with my strengths in software and physical engineering.

The problem is that I didn't make a conscious choice to study software because of where the world was going. I just liked computers as a kid. How do you replicate that?

I don't know enough about quantum to be sure that that's going to be the next field until I've already learned it, and the only proxy I can have that seems to be right about the general direction of any of this is DARPA, but they're usually unhelpful about timing.

The one major problem I don't know how to solve, let alone make money from, is how to square capitalism with cybersecurity. The incentives point in other directions after a sigma or three.
You can write Verilog or VHDL (the two main hardware description languages used to design circuits) in any text editor you choose and verify the basic functional correctness (verifying that it implements the logical behavior you want) in a simulator like Icarus Verilog.

However to verify the behavior on the FPGA and actually program it into the device you'll usually need some vendor specific tools, for Xilinx (what I'm familiar with) you'll need a software package called Vivado. It provides information on whether or not the timing you've requested is possible, whether any part of the chip will get too hot, whether the design actually fits in the limited resources of the FPGA, as well as implementing, optimizing and outputting the design to the FPGA.

Lattice has an open source toolchain available at least for some of their devices, for Xilinx there are efforts to produce a reverse engineered toolchain but I don't know how functional they are, there are free (but not libre) versions of Vivado as well but you'll need to fill out US export paperwork and it doesn't support all Xilinx FPGAs unless you pay. I don't know what the story is with Altera.
There already is a standard charging system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System
I think the the younger folks are more likely to spot an outsize opportunity where no one was looking at all,

I hear variations of this refrain a lot. But I wonder, is there any particular evidence to support this, or even a reasonable sounding theory to explain why it is likely to be so?
Could be the exception that proves the rule. Tesla car reliability is above average in its class (and that is improving over time as Tesla gains experience): https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

We'll see what happens with EVs made by legacy automakers, but they have far less experience in this space.
I'm curious where you feel Amazon has a monopoly? Google and Microsoft offer compelling alternatives for cloud infrastructure and the retail market has tons and tons of competitors. I have a lot of concerns about the power corporations like Amazon, but I'm not sure I see where the monopoly exists.
By saying "algorithmic," I used the wrong word. Lazy IO is a great example of what I meant.
Well when you say “I” do you mean that you work alone? I find when I do, I do not need type systems, safety checks, etc. to understand the code, but if I need to review others code them having type annotations replaces the documentation that they didnt write.
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