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Who are they buying used cars from, if “almost no one” do buy new cars? I think Germany is a net exporter of used cars.

Edit: I found figures for 2013, with 7.1 million used cars sold. The number of new passenger cars sold was 3.0 million. What I find surprising is that most new cars are indeed bought by businesses (I can find figures for 2013, but last year private cars represented 37% of new registrations). So around 1 in 7 private car sales are new cars. I don’t know if it qualifies as “almost no one”, but it’s lower than I expected.
Do you care to provide any actual arguments?

Don't get me wrong, your post just doesn't sound too helpful
You know that and I know that, but often it's easier said than done to convince them of it. I've had users get indignant because I dared criticise their favourite enterprise bloatware like I insulted their mothers. Even as they themselves were struggling with some misfeature keeping them from doing their actual work.

But it does mean that it's easy to exceed their expectations, for example by making the browser back button take the user back to the previous view instead of crashing the entire user session. I tend to try to justify spending time solving technical debt by making development of new dazzling features faster and cheaper, but as long as the users (and more importantly their managers) are sufficiently dazzled if you only throw them a pittance once in a while, that becomes hard to sell.
One small but exciting step in the right direction.

Can you imagine in the future, we could have translations from logical code to biochemical pathways. You could specify the dependencies of a cell you are building in a similar fashion to (maven, npm, make).

Using bioinformatics data to configure your cells behaviour.

There would be compilation errors were cells would not be stable or materialise, and runtime errors in which a metabolic or other type of pathway fails, causing the cell to throw an exception (dies/ or emits other action).

I would truly relish the moment when my cell gets a virus.
Yes, only Chrome and Safari are fully supported right now. It should tell you actually. Thanks for asking!
A picture is worth a thousand words, or in your case, an example.
This is a bit off-topic, but on another occasion, Scott Hanselman infamously used the term "5:01 developers" targetted at many of the same people ;)
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Wasn't that already illegal prior to GDPR?
> if we learn some day how to efficiently store energy

But we do. Redox batteries basically solve the problem of storage and scale very well [1], it's just the question of commercialization now (which is ongoing)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
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Right, but that's total energy use rather than electricity use.

Energy consumption tends to drop significantly where fossil fuel applications can be converted to electric. An electric vehicle is dramatically more efficient than a fossil-fuel burning one, for example. Likewise, an electric heat pump is much more efficient than a gas boiler.
No, the obvious alternative is for government to invest these money directly into production and own the profits.
I have an ABS button, I believe.
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I use them in a Vulkan API for node.js to handle 64bit interopability when mapping Vulkan memory. Mapping Vulkan memory returns you a numeric address to the memory region. To handle the address I use BigInt, which can then be used to create an ArrayBuffer as a direct JS-side memory view where you can write e.g. your texture data into. See [0] how its used on node-side and [1] the C++ implementation using the V8 API

[0] https://github.com/maierfelix/node-vulkan/blob/master/exampl...

[1] https://github.com/maierfelix/node-vulkan/blob/master/genera...
Bingo! From a computational perspective, the non-computable reals are objects that not only require an infinite amount of memory to represent a single one, but also require an infinite amount of memory to even describe an algorithm to produce a single one. How could such an object possibly be constructed?
In contrast to tesla they don't have an unfiltered musk on an official twitter channel. So their official statements are still closer to reality in the general case.
Good Analysis. What is the optional thing a 2x programmer can do now to stop if possible or atleaset delay such a totalitarian regime to happen ?
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That would be a nicer way to do it, but it doesn't contradict what I said.
It's OK for different people have different impressions about the speed of dogs. On x64 for 64-bit registers, built-in assembly DIV is about 10 times slower than MUL, and 10 times faster than a lookup from RAM. Whether this makes it fast or slow depends on what you are trying to do.

I'm interested in your comment that "some architectures" have a fast divmod. Do you actually know of one where it's faster than a shift and a multiplication? Or the same? We're finishing up a paper where this would be very relevant information.
Here's the concept of HN: https://interface.fh-potsdam.de/future-retro/HN/ if someone missed it
> They've ... invested a lot in marketing.

False. Elon Musk frequently states in interviews that Tesla spends nothing on marketing. There are no Tesla television commercials, no online ads, no billboards and no paid placements. Tesla doesn't even participate in automotive trade shows. 100% of what you passively interpret as "marketing" is unpaid, organic news coverage, social media buzz and seeing actual Tesla vehicles on the road.
Well in the UK had committed in the 80's maybe.

And if the UK didn't do silly thing like selling profitable nuke companies to Japan (source senior guy at Sellafield) - and allow you junior collation partners to kill of a key project to placate the green wing of the libdems.

BTW I worked on research for fast breeders in my first job in fact one of the few times I went into our labs was to wrap a dummy fuel pin for two-phase flow tests.
In my experience many people take out a loan, yes. And after that you try to get most of your money back when selling the car - which is why most people won't buy new, since new cars lose a lot of their valuation immediately after purchase.
You'd be wanting to look into ARM-64 boards like the ROCKPro64:

https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=61454

There's others that are pricier (> $100) with x86 arch the UDOO boards if you really want a SBC with much more RAM too.
>I think 'who holds the power?' is a good lens to try to judge this through.

Eventually some one with bad intentions will end in power even if started with a pretty good guy(Example: US president start and end). Its better to think of the worst and place the checks at the earliest (like the constitution)
Since in the USA. Assuming you already need to pay for data. And don't want to make voice calls to other countries.
Hinkley C is cheaper than the proposed seven barrage £80 per MW vs £150 estimated for the barage.
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This is awesome, this guy just DIY'd Project Long Now (ah further reading makes think it's part of Long Now)
Ionide, the F# plugin for VSCode, added autocomplete via .NET Core about a year ago. Only thing you need mono for is the REPL, and that's being worked on.
I'd be interested in knowing where you've been getting your information from. Teslas don't have engines but the AC induction motors they use are substantially more advanced than anything that existed before [1]. Tesla is also fairly famous for having a $0 marketing budget.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/11/tesla-model-3-motor-in-...
The "need more pixels" message is quite frustrating. I get that it might be not practical to support small resolutions, but I was unable to see the demo even on "desktop mode" in landscape on a really big phone. How many pixels do you need? If it's still not practical to support that, a demo video player would be a great fallback.
> Nuclear waste isn't a huge problem, because there isn't much of it

You just changed your argument. You originally said nuclear waste is less toxic than “‘regular’ waste from chemical industry,” not just that there was less of it.

Even a smaller amount of highly toxic waste that stays that way for thousands of years is a huge problem.
Good enough for 99% of civilian cars, maybe, but I'm a lot more skeptical about the ability of battery-electric power to replace trains, long-haul trucks, etc. The expectation as far as range for those is high enough that enough batteries would either add too much weight or just flat-out not fit.

I expect long-term we'll probably settle on something like 75% batteries / 25% hydrogen for ground transportation, and the reverse of that ratio for aircraft (although I wouldn't expect hydrogen planes to be using fuel cells).
It depends who the press is talking to, whether they generally agree, and therefore listen as students, or whether they generally disagree, and therefore act as being part of a debate.
You're a better person than me. Since you responded, I tried to read the OC. Word salad.

To your point, I now believe all design problems are human problems, which sometimes involve math and science.

I read Neal Postman's Technopoly and Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things around the time I was figuring out that computers weren't delivering on their promises in the areas I care about (CAD for A/E/C, education), and in some cases made things worse. Validation for what I was experiencing, observing.

I credit Postman and Donald Norman for my conversion from technophile to humanist.

I don't have anything to say about rationality. I gave up (forfeited) after the 2016 USA elections.
Which cloud performs better, AWS, Azure or Google?
Fuck cnn they've been fake since day 1. Alex Jones got banned for less.
Do you have any statistics, theories or anecdotes to support your claim?

Afaik, Chinese government had a track record of achieving what they want. If counterterrorism is one of the goals of such program, I would predict positive results, i.e. less violence in the region.
That is fully captured in the notion of a universal deserialization gadget chain. However, for those not familiar with the concept of gadgets, yes, I can see how it might be a bit confusing at first.
I've only done Ruby half as long and yeah, this is my experience as well.

It's tough to think of a use case where anybody would even want to do this. "Hey, let's let users upload.... arbitrary binary representations.... of.... Ruby objects? And then deserialize them! YEAH! PROFIT!!!! SYNERGY!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!"
It’s a complete and utter trash/fake news.
The Chevy bolt sold 1225 unit in August while the model 3 17800.
So the model 3 is outselling the bolt almost 15:1.
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

Please verify your sources to avoid spreading misinformation.
GDP is a good baseline but it’s not all and be all.

Russia has a space program because historically they did had a high GDP they were the 2nd upto the fall of the Soviet Union, GDP per capita was still pretty bad but not as bad as it is today, the per capita GDP of the US was only about double that of the USSR in the 1980’s but it’s 6 time that of Russia today.

The reason why many people in Russia romanticize the days of the USSR today isn’t just Kermlin propaganda in 1989 their GDP per capita was ~$8700 today it’s only $2000 higher than what it was before the wall fell, adjusted for infalation they are considerably poorer today than they were in the past at the same time period the US went form $18,000 to $60,000 per capita.
Technology is an amplifier of human nature (for better / or worse)
Nobody wants one is what's holding them back.
Oh they have always been involved like wise with CND back in the 50's - the though CND did go off book and started demanding the USSR get rid of its nukes.
https://blog.github.com/2018-11-08-100M-repos/#top-open-sour...

What does the "Contributors" column depict? 19K (19000) cannot be people. Are these commits?
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They're the apple of cars. They've designed the cars extremely well (much like apple's products are well designed) and provide a lot of support in case anything goes wrong. And by design I don't just mean aesthetics - the safety, the experience, even the over-the-air updates all contribute to the total package.

Or in other words, the quality of the experience is so high that the product pretty much sells itself.
Size is not the problem. Toxicity over centuries is the problem. Apples are a poor reference because it’s safe to be near them and they decompose within a year.
I’ve had them as a voip provider for about 10 years. We have a landline number that my family has had forever parked with them with a flat annual rate. I’d rate them as medium, there are some rare issues but it mostly works well. Residential voip seems like it’s dead though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they sunset the service.
Final call should be parents' decision all the time, so "could" would be more correct. Or should it be forced by government? But that's yet another can of worms... "That sperm is 50% likely to vote for [insert wrong party]."
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That has almost nothing to do with the topic at hand. On top of that, SurveyKing's landing page isn't exemplary at all.
No I haven't, but anxiety is experienced on a spectrum.

Are you saying only people who have had panic attacks have known what 'real' anxiety is?

That is not a plausible claim. There are plenty of people who are anxious, but have never had a panic attack.
In some sense, for some people, I think that's true. FB and IG certainly foster certain types of mimetic desires. But I think for the rest, it's less homogeneous in what we're seeing. When people used to watch TV, there was much more of a consensus on how we defined ourselves. That's going away.
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Perhaps because it's only 2ms per direction. I assume that someone that sensitive to latency wouldn't use satellite communications in the first place.
7000 pictures at 5 seconds per picture is "only" 10 hours of work. Possibly per-picture time can be lower than that too. Seems quite doable over 2-4 afternoons.

Props for doing the project end2end, including the non-trivial (and typically skipped) part of collecting training data.
There’s more than one sensor, expecting one to give bad readings is something that should be handled.
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LinkedIn is going the way of Facebook

StackOverflow uses badges and fake internet points as the mechanism to encourage usage.

Not sure what Slacks pulling factor is
Israel defends itself, though, unlike Japan, S. Korea, or Germany. The tens of thousands of troops in those countries are not counted as foreign aid. But having them there, their guns and equipment, food,etc, is a lot more than direct aid to Israel.
I'm very sorry you are experiencing panic attacks, but you are arguing from marginal cases.

It is possible to be predisposed to anxiety without ever having a panic attack.
2 or 3 it would seem: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36141/why-does-...
Tiny generator compared to overall reactor power. Standard diesel engines also produce far more motive power than electrical capacity.
Mayor issues that were thought to use over the years are that fuel is not easy and ecologically good to mine. And it will run dry in two or three generations and where should we put the radiating waste.

Usually users from the states in these comments downplay the issue of radiation and the European media / society says it's a big problem.

Probably because Tschernobyl has shown many people what happens when it's going wrong.

I would like a good pro/contra argumentation for this issue.
As someone eager to start (properly) learning C#, is doing so on Mac actually viable? It sounds like it from your post but would be eager to hear your thoughts (I only have a Mac at home to practice on).
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As a pen tester, I wholeheartedly disagree. It’s probably more common to see unsafe YAML deserialization, rather than directly deserializing marshaled Ruby objects, but both are impactful and these types of vulnerabilities do exist. Just recently I assessed an application that used unsafe serialization to pass around an object encoded in the value of a cookie. It contained transient data related to the user’s session (e.g. what page they last visited). Last year I assessed an application that allowed users to upload YAML files, which would get parsed and deseralized as Ruby objects. Unfortunately I didn’t have a universal gadget chain then, so I had to note it as theoretically exploitable in my report. That’s troublesome because some clients may take it less seriously.

I’m personally very impressed with this research and I think it does a net good, demonstrating that deserialization of Ruby objects in any form is unsafe when you can’t trust the input.
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Egress data as well?
> unpaid, organic news coverage, social media buzz

if you think that, they're doing a really good job.
Besides that, the nice thing about nuclear waste is that it's so easy to detect if something is contaminated. Anyone can locate radiation sources with a relatively cheap Geiger counter. We also have a pretty good understanding of it's harmful effects.

On the other hand, there are so many cases of contamination with persistent environmental toxins that aren't as easy to detect, or who's toxic effects are initially not understood. Just look the sad history of PCBs or at 3M's ongoing saga with PFOA and PFCs.
But proliferation is a legitimate concern, no?
> All reactors generate steam.

The Soviet Alfa-class used molten lead-bismuth coolant. (Which was run through a separate steam generator to generate steam, granted).

Though there's no principal reason why steam has to be the working fluid. Supercritical CO2, for instance, has many attractive properties.

> Naval reactors are smaller than civilian reactors, but are far more efficient

Hmm, define "efficient"? Efficient as in conversion of heat to mechanical power? Or use of uranium fuel? Or what?
I doubt it’s any consolation but I have the same carrier and don’t have that problem.

I used to be really frustrated with a few things a few years back but thinking back on it they’ve improved a lot since.

The only thing that still bothers me is the coverage. It’s usually fantastic where I live/work and outside of that it’s ok to great with really rare dead spots. To their credit it used to be non-existent/terrible to great.
If you listen to some of the DotNet Rocks podcasts around when they started open sourceing so many things, some of the higher ups like ScottGu and Scott Hanselman talk about this issue of trust. They said to the effect that they understood the lack of trust and intended to earn it. I really believe the old guard is gone and there is a core group there that is 100% dedicated to open source.

I looked for the stat to back this up, but I believe either AspCore or NetCore was one of the most active in terms of community pull requests for a while. I mean first, there is the sense that it _is_ open. If they do anything too evil, take it and fork it. You may say that is a huge undertaking, which leads to my second point:

In my day to day I don’t have time to contribute much to such a large project. Having the backing of a large company does present some issues, but it also lends some stability you need for a large project. This isn’t some mall pet project that takes off and fizzles. I feel the same way about Angular- I don’t like some of what they do- I prefer Vue- but can be confident it’s not _going away_ soon because Google backs it. In the case of .NET Core, though, even more so since it’s such a large part of core operations. So while even more community support would be nice, from a standpoint of trusting the product, it’s enough that it’s open source and the process is transparent even if dev hours are paid for by MS.

In the end, I think some distrust is valid, but some of it is kneejerk reaction to old MICROSOFT that is gone now.
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That is why i said most. The new trend is towards "all electric" drive. But even there, the power isnt being turnef into clean a/c for general use. The reactor, generator, and electric motor are all a tight unit designed to throttle together.
Wrong. Tesla famously invests nothing in marketing. No TV commercials, no online ads, nothing.
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Maybe a skid control button? Those are common, but I've never seen a car that has a button to disable ABS.
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Nitpick: Aircraft crashes aren't actually that rare, but Commercial Scheduled aircraft crashes are very rare. If you buy plane tickets you're far more likely to die driving to the airport than in a plane crash. But if your friend takes you for a fun trip in their Cessna that's a different story.

General Aviation is dangerous the same way private automobiles are dangerous. The operators take silly risks, they lack advanced skills, corners are cut on maintenance, procedures are not followed correctly. They usually have just one engine (if it fails this may be survivable but it's not good) one pilot (who doesn't need to be as fit and healthy as a commercial pilot, nor as well trained) and they aren't required to file a flight plan, which means they may not really even have a plan A let alone plan B.
Nope! But looking into it now :) Thank you sir !
We used them years ago for VoIP services but subsequently switched to Vitelity.
> It's really even worse than that, because when you say you make $60,000 in the US vs. $40,000 in Europe, the $60,000 doesn't include employee benefits like employer-provided health insurance, whereas the $40,000 doesn't include the taxes you have to pay for the equivalent government services.

And the 40'000€ also doesn’t include your employer’s contributions to public social security (approx. half of health insurance, half of unemployment insurance etc.).
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I think if you’re a destination country you’re better off with brains than culture.
If you don't think that, they're doing a really good job.
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> VW has spent the last ten years figuring out how to build dozens of models

..whilst also managing to squeeze in figuring out how to cheat emissions tests! What a company.
or as Thiel puts it:

"To believe yourself invested with divine self-sufficiency is not the mark of a strong individual, but of a person who has mistaken the crowd’s worship – or jeering – for the truth. The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom."

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>I believe that their cars having a single central ECU vs. the general trend of multiple interconnected modules is fairly novel for a major car maker?

Ford was doing that in the late 80s when they started making electronically controlled transmissions (and I doubt they were the first). I doubt they were first.

Functionality gets integrated to the ECU. Then engineers decide that the ECU doesn't need to care about the windows and the HVAC so it gets its own module. Then they decide that there's no reason to have all these extra modules when the ECU can just do it. Wash, rinse repeat. Everything old is new again the cycle time is just long enough that most people don't remember.

Edit: Why is this down-voted?
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Google Cloud Spanner is a counterexample. It can take close to 2 seconds to establish a server connection.