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> This just goes to show how much of a charade these hearings are.

Literally no one in the public is going to pay attention or give a shit about hearings where Congress questions lower level executives with little to no decision-making authority.

It's not a charade to want to question the one guy in the company who unquestionably has authority over whatever decisions Congress wants to ask about. If you think they should settle for talking to a new exec with no authority, why not expect them to settle for talking to an intern reading prepared statements?
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In the time period to which parent refers, the Windows Mobile UI was nothing like what you're referring to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6.0
Extremely. Tesla batteries require some disassembly effort, and the model 3 makes recycling trickier because the cells are potted in plastic, but the actual cells of any li ion battery are eminently recyclable.

The process involves shredding or incinerating the cells first, then dumping the results in an electrolysis tank. Because the cells are essentially just chunks of plastic, aluminum, copper (and steel for teslas) and various powders, the large chunks can be easily sorted from the anode and cathode material by washing. The powder goes into an electrolysis bath, which extracts the high-value metals (cobalt and nickel) to a pretty good purity. The carbon leftovers (anode, electrolyte, and plastics) collect at the bottom with the lithium and leftover cathode material (aluminum, silicon, other things depending on the chemistry). The leftovers are mostly sold as clinker.

You could extract the lithium from that, but at present it's not done. For one thing, batteries actually have a lower concentration of lithium than lithium brine and even some lithium-bearing ores. Recycling is also just so low-volume that if you did extract the lithium you wouldn't really have enough to be worth selling.

Regardless, the clinker material is ecologically inert. Nickel and cobalt are the only hazardous materials in the battery. Everything else is extremely common in nature- lithium is present in every water supply since it's a natural component of salt. Carbon is obviously everywhere, even in elemental forms. Any rock you pick up almost anywhere in the world is overwhelmingly likely to be primarily made of silicon. Aluminum is similar. NB that all the clinker materials will be in oxide or hydroxide forms.
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I really wish they used that on the warning labels on the stone slabs I work with every day. It just sounds so much more extreme and terrifying than silicosis.
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The language that you start in may not be the most appropriate tool in the longer term. Facebook grew so fast they did not have enough air to switch, hence their incredible investment in making PHP better.

Look, I've built I don't know how many websites in PHP, and my company still earns a lot of money with a tool I threw together in a day or two in it so I have nothing but admiration for what it can do. But you'll be the last person to hear me argue that there aren't better tools for the majority of the jobs at hand. We are all looking forward to the day that it can be retired, but in the meantime we will definitely keep using it and we will continue to pray to the PHP gods. It is a very productive little language that has a ton of warts and some serious issues, but it does have a niche and it is useful.
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There's always this feeling that shorts are predatory and making money off other people's demise. Kinda like betting the "Don't Pass" line in craps. Stocks go up, everyone wins right? Oh no not those pesky shorts trying to drive the price down. But the misinformation and hype from the long side is actually worse in general, and shorts aren't to blame for misplaced greed and hype.

If I am long on a stock I applaud the shorts. After all, if they are wrong, they have to buy back and drive up my price more. Also when a company is over-hyped or worse and outright fraud, short sellers can bring attention to this and slow the impending bust that is going to happen. I personally had shorted a lot of stocks in the past and they are almost all bankrupt now taking with them the sheer speculators that over extended themselves.
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Floobits does real-time caret-sharing between common editors like Emacs/Vim/Intellij/Atom and maybe more.

(I'm just a happy casual user)
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Do observatories usually have hundreds of pounds of mercury?
That's still what $7500-$10K per Telsa though isn't it?
1000% agree but no idea what the solution is.

We had a referendum on proportional representation vote and you should have seen the adverts from the against camp, it was depressingly expected though.
Given their plans to expand their auto manufacturing with new factories in the EU and China, and their growing ambitions to create stationary energy storage for renewable generation, I'd say they won't be selling their automotive batteries anytime soon. I think it more likely they sell their electric power train, which they have done in the past.
We agree: it depends on the willingness of people to learn. I'm just saying to myself that it's pretty stupid not to want to learn the language of one's immediate neighbours, especially when it can eliminate spells of unemployment or double or triple one's salary.

I had heard of the Belgian example and am all too aware of Romands and Allemanics speaking English with each other because most don't care to learn another official language enough to do business in it. A couple of other examples that I've seen...

- Basel, CH: the German speaking Baslers are litterally glued to a now essentially francophone French city. Every one that I've met speaks better English than French. Of course it's clear that they have little economic motivation to do so.

- Wrocław, PL: many of the graduates of that city's fine universities may end up working in Germany (which is about 100 km away) but almost none of them come out of high school or university speaking fluent German. The system even discourages it, maybe because Wrocław (Breslau) was previously in Germany.
Do I need to build my projects without a framework/library to understand more?
Hi. Tech newbie here, although I've had an account here for some time.

I've been having struggles starting my projects and sticking to it till I finish, especially when I try to use frameworks like React. Working with state in React is one thing I still struggle with. When a library like Redux comes in, I get a lot more caught up with mastering the framework/library before I start my project.

Since I didn't have much experience making projects without a framework,(e.g did not work with DOM much before React either, I only had a few projects using a basic HTML/CSS/JS file), do I need to focus on projects without a framework to help with my understanding of React and/or any other framework/library?
> but we solve them by designing intersections such that they can't happen.

How? I'm a cyclist who also has to contend with these same problems..
It isn't under plain GPLv3, but a license which includes the following exception:

> When you use GCC to compile a program, GCC may combine portions of
certain GCC header files and runtime libraries with the compiled
program. The purpose of this Exception is to allow compilation of
non-GPL (including proprietary) programs to use, in this way, the
header files and runtime libraries covered by this Exception.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html
I think because based on my experience most of those costs are engine/transmission related. Of course the air filter, cooling system, and inspection are still there, but I hear costs are about half of similar premium sedans.
Isn't that regime for old NiMH batteries that had the "memory" effect? I thought for lion it's the opposite, never fully charge and never fully drain.
'Useless'? No, its everywhere and a fundamental part of being a human. Culturally we use it throughout out lives - clothes, hair, car styling, advertisements, everthing from buildings to computer keyboards is designed for aesthetic appeal suitable for the culture and situation.
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I don't think it's pro-Google, I think it has to do with the fact that these hearings are made up of a gang of angry old people with God complex that not only do not understand technology, but don't really have a desire to understand it nor the desire to really change anything.
I don't blame Google one bit for not wanting to waste time and be ridiculed by these clowns.
Strange then how all these Tesla fanboys jump in to parrot Autopilot Is Not Self Driving Everyone Knows This whenever someone bring up the criminal irresponsibility of marketing this feature to the public.
> I don't see any non-Chinese automaker besides Tesla and possibly GM taking EVs seriously.

Every car manufacturer either has electric cars today or has hybrids with plans to move into electric cars.

Not sure why you think suddenly the entire automotive market is going to capitulate and give up everything to Tesla.

That just seems bizarre to me.
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I wonder about that. For the pro-company camp they could argue they are trying to bump sales not stock price which seems reasonable.

However, I would think all the news coverage short sellers are drumming up is illegal stock market manipulation. But, either that's not the case in practice, or the SEC just ignores them.
I'm surprised that the premise that the iPhone is an "invention" is so quickly accepted. It wasn't like nobody was making any similar devices, and then this new idea came along. I know that invention can be as simple as gluing two existing things together, but the meaningful aspect has to be that there is an original idea there.

No doubt it popularised a lot of existing technology, and arguably combined some of that technology in a way that hadn't been done before. All the same, that reasoning could apply to the second version of the iPhone. Was that an "invention" too?
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Point taken, removed my comment. I need coffee.
"Investor is bullish about company he invested in" is not news, let alone "hacker news".
Doesn’t Panasonic make their batteries? To what extent can Panasonic decide to sell the batteries without dealing with Tesla?
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I have it on High Sierra (10.13)
Thank you very much for these resources.
This is a fantastic talk about game architecture, regardless if you are interested in Rust or not.
I'm happy to be corrected; for the record I searched for this before posting, and found things like https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-amd-radeon... which are very recent and talk about installing AMD proprietary drivers.

(I haven't been tracking this closely since I've avoid NVidia and ATI (hence AMD) graphics for about 15 years, due to their driver blobs)
> Alphabet said in a statement that it had offered its head of global affairs for the hearing and that “enabling Larry to focus on the other bets and long-term technical problems is exactly what Alphabet was set up for.”

So basically they had offered someone of authority here, but the politicians wanted to have their show trial with the celebrities instead.
It's present on 10.12.6 here, and also 10.6.8, so it doesn't seem to be new.
>I like him giving the the middle finger. Why does he have to satisfy a bunch of egomaniac corrupt politician who has been net negative for the society. Why we have to watch in awe of their complete disconnect from current affairs of the society due to their total ignorance?

So, what's your opinion of democracy? It doesn't seem like you care for it that much.
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The Sheets Database functions (DGET, DSUM, DAVG, etc) are also really nice, especially after you get familiar with the format for inlining an array of conditions.
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The citizens might be idiots, or the human social system might be so broken such that no matter who you vote for they are game-theoretically forced to behave this way. Whatever the case may be, I don't blame Page for declining to inflict that experience on himself.
I bet the first version of this was some kind of maximum bipartite matching. like hopcroft-kraft

but on the topic of experts check out this paper by the same research group. This is much more of an 'AI' paper that does include expert domain knowledge and learning

"FutureMatch: Combining Human Value Judgments and Machine Learning to Match in Dynamic Environments" from AAI2015

http://jpdickerson.com/pubs.html
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Along the same lines, they're talking about the touch-screen as if that's what they were credited for. There were lots of okay touch-screens widespread before; the iPhone had afaik the first good quality widely available multi-touch screen. There's a classic TED talk from 2004 where a guy introduces the technology and it seemed so amazing, the iPhones made direct use of that. (Albeit not being as amazing as the 2004 demo!)
Another option is to simply repurpose old batteries to stationary storage applications. Even if it’s only holding a five percent charge, who cares if they’re just sitting in a building somewhere.
> Panasonic make their batteries

No, they are a partner and have put up a significant fraction of the capital for the plant though.
You're missing the point a little bit. "Abstract drawing" is the best description of the markings, not an argument that there was a culture of abstract art back then. (In the original paper -- the linked-to writeup is pretty poorly worded, yeah.)

This drawing predates any drawings (as opposed to etchings) we know from humans by tens of thousands of years -- even if it's a child's doodling, it displays a level of cognition previously dated to much more modern times.
I have to ask the obvious question: why use SPICE over VNC?
> It is interesting they had "GOOGLE" printed on the reserved seat. Where in reality Sundar Pichai is the ceo of Google and Larry Page is the ceo of Alphabet. So the Senate committee was actually expecting Mr. Pichai and Bloomberg got it wrong.

But only technically. Google is Alphabet and Alphabet is Google, just like Blackwater is still Blackwater no matter what obfuscating name they're using this week.
It was 320x480.
> Ford is deprecating sedan manufacturing and only building trucks

Not really accurate- they’re still making the mustang, crossovers, and SUVs too.
We can perhaps say that when they are actually making batteries at $100/kWh. We could have said they were going to dominate in EV production in 2016 when they said they were going to manufacture 200k cars in the second half of 2017, and 500k cars by this year. So analysis and comparison of projections from a company that has a history of wildly underdelivering isn't sound.
Heh, this is the most probable explanation yet, and it is being downed? This is a real problem in the US for anyone that hasn't had a meth lab bust in thier local hood, gated community or national/state/muni park.
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For a low-tech solution, GNU Screen can also be used to share a terminal. e.g., http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Share...
I don't know if it's the exception, but in Santa Clara County, the public libraries have a somewhat better selection of DVD's than Netflix. I just cross referenced my list recently (about 20) and the local library had five older that were not available (as out of print most likely) on Netflix and Netflix had two (older foreign releases) that were not in the library. I'm probably cancelling my Netflix DVD subscription soon.
If they simply want fact finding they could do that over a phone call.* The circus is very much the point.

* Granted, phone calls don't have the weight of purgery to keep people honest. But, that only goes so far.
Yes, I am clearly aware of that. This is why they are investing so much and they pretty much have a good plan now since Steam Play/Proton can already run many Windows games right from Linux.
Recycling vs extraction, as a technical process? No. But the effort of locating, transporting and reselling material is much more expensive, proportionally, at the current scale. Recycling a battery is not something that can be done locally, so it can require freight shipping. The end product may be a very small amount of materials that is too small to justify hiring salesmen. The flow of product is far too unreliable.

Still, it's economical to recycle batteries for the heavy metals alone. Recycling lithium would require an additional step (similar to the final steps of processing lithium brine, but simpler) that currently isn't done. Its cheaper to recycle than to extract even lithium, but the value of lithium in a battery is a couple dozen times less than the heavy metals.
Weren't they planning to use their gigafactories to build batteries themselves as well ? I remember reading that a full gigafactory would process the same amount of silicium as the total current world production (at the time).
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The capacitive multi-touch screen was definitely new.
It's possible, but would be surprising. The earliest drawings of any kind are tens of thousands of years younger than this find.
I would say join somebody as intern with skills in HTML, CSS, JS(work on real things). Also in the remaining mean time learn more about react. Read this https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/cutting-through-to-what-matters...
The point of political discourse is never to change your opponent's mind, it's to sway the undecided people to align with you instead of them.

That's why it's so adversarial.
I followed PDAs pretty closely back then, and I'm unaware of any device where the OS was built around multi-touch, like the iPhone.[1] The iPhone was one of the few devices back then to render the "real web" and being able to swipe and pinch to navigate pages was a game-changer on the order of the first mouse-based UIs. It dramatically changes how much content you can easily access on a small screen (which is why even devices with styluses today have multi-touch screens to facilitate scroll/zoom). It also improves the quality of the on-screen keyboard, enabling you to ditch the physical one (or reliance on something like Graffiti).

[1] Apple didn't invent multi-touch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t35HXAjNW6s. I believe it was the first to build a mobile UI entirely around it.
Crossovers and SUVs are essentially trucks for fuel economy and emissions regulations purposes.
Early humans probably had more downtime during good hunting years. Not much of a point to work harder when you can’t store a ton of food for the future, so they probably made a ton of small art like this.
Economists routinely start textbooks by asserting that Economics is not about morality. They say that Right and Wrong is for religions; Economics is a Science. In the late 20th century, the idea that corporations served stakeholders was replaced by the claim that the only purpose of corporations was to serve stockholders. In spite of their shame and coyness, Economics and Stockholders-First promoted ethical systems, making claims of Right and Wrong. Statements that it is a "moral requirement" to "sell the product for the highest price" is just honest reporting on what is taught in colleges and business schools. Although, you probably won't be able to find a direct quote making such a claim. Instead, you will find loose usage of terms like "should" or "is expected to", as in "market players should maximize profits", or "corporations are expected to maximize return on investment."
Certainly. One name for that for that entire phenomenon you're describing the functioning of is 'The Spectacle'.

I don't mean just the dictionary definition of spectacle, rather I'm referencing the Situationist + Critical Theory concept of The Spectacle. Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" is a wild piece of thought.

It's an absolute tome, but essentially society is now mediated by social relations of spectacle which are symbols / signs / abstractions of actual material relations. And like you're saying, politicians play a huge role in wielding spectacle towards their material goals. Some of this might seem strangely familiar / redundant but that just speaks to the impact Situationist thinking has had on our conception of society and culture.

Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967).
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/1.htm
Thanks, I'll have to try that, usually only wear something like a balaclava when it's cold, nothing when it's warm.
It's interesting to draw a parallel between the author's argument that Semmelweis could have achieved more if he had been more respectful and "never antagonized so much of the medical establishment" to similar arguments continuously leveled at Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders. Despite this same argument being dredged up whenever there's a conflict between reform and inertia, history provides few examples of polite, demur, reformers who were careful to never antagonize the establishment.

It's also worth pointing out that the phrase "it's conceivable that" is a fairly cheap rhetorical trick: you can advance any ludicrous argument with no evidence or material support while forcing anyone who disagrees with you to produce proofs that are beyond all reasonable doubt. "It's conceivable that if the Nazis had won WWII, we would have colonies on the Moon by now." "It's conceivable that Yahoo's stock price will increase ten-fold in the next year." "It's conceivable that eating dog shit is the key to human immortality." Sure, it's conceivable but because it's neither plausible nor likely, and because no valid argument can be advanced to support the claim, it's not worth talking about, unless we're writing alternative history fiction. Yet authors often use this or similar phrases to propose arguments that they personally believe but know they cannot defend.
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From the GitHub readme:

Usage

* To add a node, click on an arrow

* To "inspect" a node, click the node

It wasn't immediately obvious to me either so I had to dig a bit to figure it out.
Yeah, but not unreasonable for Georgia to have a one day delay.
> lithium is present in every water supply since it's a natural component of salt

I guess you mean salts in general, otherwise NaCl has no Li(thium) in sight :)
However, note that the ECHR basically redefined torture in Selmouni v France, stating that the standards for torture can increase over time as we advance. The convention is a "living instrument which must be interpreted in the light of present-day condition"
I don't maintain any monorepos, I've always used Git sub-modules; not just for Node.js, but for all sorts of stuff.

However, I'm increasingly finding that sub-modules are a bit of a pain. If I patch a sub-module, I have to move into every single project that depends on the sub-module and pull the latest version. Additionally, if the sub-module is large it's a real waste of storage on my computer.

That said, monorepos have annoyances of their own e.g. many modern package managers will happily check-out dependencies directly from Git. However, that's simply not going to work unless there's some standardisation in monorepo structure that the package manager is able to interpret.
"How do I learn three new programming languages in a weekend?"

"Just be yourself."

Great advice, thanks! (-: