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>It's pretty hard to fake a vehicle's range.

No it isn't. There are so many variables that go into range, from road conditions, weather, driver habits, wind, that nobody actually gets the exact stated range anyway.

I'm not saying they're faking it, but it certainly wouldn't be pretty hard.
rigged market is one argument. another is that price discovery is still in process, it's still a relatively new commodity, there's as much reason for it to go up as there is to go down. bull run of 2017 was no different from one in 2013 and 2010 before that - there's no strong argument to say 2017 was the last one.
I have to ask this, do you see yourself as the norm at Google throughout your whole employment time there?

In my experience as both interviewee and interviewer, there is a lot of power struggles involved. Just like any other interaction betweeen engs like code reviews.
This is the kind of statement that comes from a well-connected, upper class dictator supporter who enjoys reaping the benefits but tries to come up with a different reason for why the status quo must remain.
Toyota's debt to equity ratio is three times that of Tesla's.
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But the failure of democracy in Iraq isn't due to systemic failure of democracy. That can quickly be falsified. It was due to interest groups. Not differentiating here is a mental short circuit. It would have failed with any other form of governance. A democracy isn't guaranteed to succeed, like any form of governance. Autocratic regimes however are destined to fail at some point.
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Several of the 'traditional' automakers have EV models just to comply with the EU average emission targets agreements [1]. Fiat Chrysler paid Tesla a handsome sum to have its production 'pooled' [2], and others produce subpar EV and low emission vehicles because of the perversity of 'Super credits' (one produced EV can be counted more than once when the the average is calculated).

[1]"Fiat Chrysler taps Tesla to avoid EU emission fine" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fiat-chrysler-taps-tesla-t...

[2] "Reducing CO2 emissions from passenger cars" https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...
low volume means price can be relatively easily manipulated.
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Is there a website that anyone uses that focuses on the United States?
Indeed. Instead of contributing a patch to qemu with better defaults, or even support for config files, someone wrote tens of thousands of lines of complex code.

People forget that software is malleable. Bend it to your needs, instead of adding fragile wrapper layers.
> The challenge is not to ship more of them, the challenge is to ship one.

Of course, if you believe what Elon said two days ago, the fascinating thing is that every Tesla shipping right now is already a robotaxi, it just needs a fee software OTA update at some point.

So in that regard the more Teslas they can get on the road in the next ~2 years, the more robotaxis there will be at "Autonomy Launch" (...whenever that happens to be)
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I am giving a course on software security for advanced bachelor students and master students in computer science, and I am looking for one or several textbooks to use as a base for the course.

Previous incarnations of the course used “Secure and Resilient Software Development” by Merkow and Raghavan, but it is outdated and frankly not very good.

The course covers both secure design, implementation, and common vulnerabilities in software.

Any suggestions on (preferably quite recent) books which cover these topics in good detail?
I heard it is a hangover from the days of using mineral oil.

Modern synthetic oils last much longer.
If you think you are about to get kidnapped, the earlier you attempt to escape the more likely you will succeed. The longer you wait the harder it will get. So try to escape right away.
>Independent researchers have already proven Musk to be 100% right about LIDAR.

Well, you better let all the other smart people doing this work know! They're all doomed!

Why do you think it's one or the other-neural nets and LIDAR-, and not both? The more sensors the better.
Interesting article. I kept reading hoping it would get to a strong conclusion or some clear definition, but just like athletes can't explain it, its conclusion was vague and all over the place.
I think it is sad, it comes from your own employer (I understand you work for Google, correctly if I am wrong).
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I grew up in Geneva, and I blame this on way German is taught over here.

What you learn in middle-school is fairly casual, but it doesn't go very deep. Then high-school switches to a more academic approach even though you're still lacking conversational skills. While I loved reading Zweig or Kafka, this was an extremely inefficient way to teach me the language. I'd have had a lot more fun focusing on speaking in German (and Swiss German). It might have been a little hard back then, but nowadays it'd be fairly trivial to have regular videochat sessions between students on both sides of the language border.

English is a lot easier. First, whether you want it or not, you'll get exposure and interaction, especially in a city like Geneva. The learning curve is a lot less steep as well. I could read proper, non-simplified books after only 2 years of high-school classes.

I believe some cantons are doing better (Fribourg, Bern, maybe Jura and Valais). But nothing beats the system in Luxembourg where a good chunk of classes are taught in German during middle-school, then French in high-school.
The opposition party is clearly motivated to misrepresent what they see, though. If you think trust in media is bad, this would be exponentially worse.

And as nice as it is to think that technology is the answer, it already isn't. All meetings could be livestreamed online very cheaply but very few are. It's going to be a long time before automatic transcription technology has any kind of impact. At least part of this is because many politicians don't want to be held accountable, so they're not about to help these efforts.
Yeah but ultimately it's the government who enable license fee collection as it currently stands with their blokes in a van who come around to harrass you if you've not coughed up. There's a special legal framework around TV licensing which more or less ensures the BBC's success - taking that away and forcing them to operate like a normal private company would inevitably massively harm their revenue and force them into finding external private investors, advertisers within the UK and such. So I think it's fair to say that the BBC's operations certainly are dependent on government good-will even if they don't officially control it.

I think there is some value in having a network like this, however, in that it adds to the diversity of networks in that it's not just "yet another privately owned network".

I find it interesting, however, that Channel 4 is state owned yet they (maybe I just mean Jon Snow in particular) seem to have an easier time being more critical of the government. It is likely that this is because it's not totally dependent on any one form of revenue given that it also has adverts on its main channels, but also it probably sees less pressure because of its smaller viewership and I suppose generally less serious tone of programmes.
> Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news?

I don't think Samsung would have done something like this for a mass consumer device, take for instance their recent S10. So no.

Galaxy Folds are different though. They are not 100% ready yet -- I'm pretty sure they knew about some of the shortcomings -- but this is still a major leap in mobile display technology and the Fold's release is anything, but, a typical, or 'classical' release. Based on their announcement on bold pricing, limited availability by reservation only, with different support and service model, it is fairly evident that the release is targeting those self-selected tech-savvy folks who want access to the incomplete product just to get a glimpse into the future. And, I'm surprised by the bold move that Samsung is willing to serve such niche group of customers.

That being said, I've never been so excited about a mobile device since I got my first iPhone in 2008. If I had a couple of grands to spare, I would be more than happy to sign up, just to see what it's like.
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Consult the N apologies Zuckerberg has issued on things like privacy for some examples.
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> As people have theoretically become freer, they seem to seek more security. Blanketing a city with CCTV seems to be a pragmatic trade-off for personal safety.

Is there informed consent for CCTV, or does it just happen when technology vendors end up working with politicians, the former caring only about selling their product, the latter caring about only getting re-elected?

My son's kickboard scooter was stolen last month, he left it parked less than 20 paces from the front entrance to his school, in a courtyard with only one way in and out.

There's no CCTV.

Despite the theft, I'm still against the use of CCTV, particularly around schools.
Not more psychotic than most war veterans out there. Seeing kids, women or generally innocent civilians blown to pieces, machined down etc. numbs any moral compass. So unless somebody dies or they cut fingers or ears off, this might look like a good and OK job moral-wise to them.
They can be. They've been able to be for a decade or so. They aren't.

Some of that is budgetary, but a lot of it is that a lot of politicians don't actually have an interest in being held accountable, so you need someone to go down there and do it.

Besides, how many people are going to read a full meeting transcript every month? Very few, and typically only those motivated and thus biased by what's going on. You need a summary for a broad audience and you certainly can't trust those running the meetings to make one.
Perhaps there is no democratic will to remove content on social media. I know at least one person.

I would see it as negative if opinions are removed for political reasons. And that is what I see advocated here.
>Lying at such a stage would risk their reputation.

But the thing is, the fans never say it's a lie.

Battery swaps, Solar Shingles, Alien Dreadnought factory producing so quickly you need strobe lights to see machines, Full-Self Driving, profits forever, robot taxis...these are not lies, they are simply things that haven't happened yet.

Years ago the guy literally walked onto a Hollywood set and demonstrated the Solar shingles. Now they are writing down Solar City and getting in trouble for not producing enough or providing the promised jobs at the subsidized factory in New York. Lie?
The tech industry constantly lobbies congress to import hundreds of thousands of “hi-tech” workers. They just want to make themselves (ceos and the boards) richer and richer.
I think I'll take a look at it, my guess is the layouts might be tricky to translate but with some sensible hard coding perhaps not too bad. Sadly the state of C#'s Qt and GTK libraries weren't great last I looked.
The featured runner's (Yuki Kawauchi) highest profile victory was the 2018 Boston Marathon. He and his agent put together an excellent strategy to take advantage of the horrible conditions to nullify his much faster opponents.

Great read on this here: http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-it-happened...
most cities in the central valley are growing. My hometown has grown from a population of 27k in 1970 to 133k today, with massive developments on West side replacing walnut groves. Same story pretty much everywhere. Farmers can make a lot of cash selling land to developers, and people complain about the dust and smell and other pollution from farms neighboring their new homes.
Another one: https://launch.blendle.com

But in the end, big companies who own the smartphone experience, such as Apple and Google will probably own the biggest news/content platforms.
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As far as I'm concerned, 500ms is normal latency (once setting aside network delay -- clearly a 200ms one way trip from Europe to NZ will add to that)

I'd say ultra low latency would be sub-frame, so <40ms. Low latency on the 1 frame to half a second, normal upto say 1.5s, and high latency beyond that.

But that's for point to point or multicast circuits, and ISPs don't like multicast as they can't charge for it.
I guess the problem is that if the government doesn't represent the people it will become a far greater risk to the average person's safety than criminals ever were.
True. I use vmware and my ubuntu vm is faster than my windows host. This makes hyper-v and docker on windows incompatible, though. I run i3 inside vmware. I would expect virtualbox to be ok too, for this use case.
I've just spent three years driving through 35 countries in Africa. Before that I spent 2 years driving through 16 countries in Latin America.

I completely agree with your comment.

It's fascinating to sit in a third world country watching the developed world preach on and on about capitalism and democracy being the greatest thing since sliced bread, while on the news we get to see extremely violent protests in France, Brexit completely grinding the UK to a halt, the longest government shutdown in US history, Australia have 7 Prime Ministers in 10 years[1], fears of another giant economic collapse, etc. etc.

These are supposed to be the leaders of the free world, and for all intents and purposes they're dysfunctional.

From the outside looking in, Democracy hasn't turned out to be the "magic" solution it was marketed as.

This was never more true than when I was sitting with a bunch of locals watching the violent protests in DC when Trump was inaugurated. None of the locals could understand why there was violence, and kept asking me "But don't they have democracy there?" ... "Why are they being so violent"?"

[1] I like to say Australia has had more Coups can the Congo.
> A democracy isn't guaranteed to succeed, like any form of governance. Autocratic regimes however are destined to fail at some point.

This is a powerful manifestation of implied bias. This and the whole preceding sentence make it all seem weirdly propaganda-y. Like trying to say "no government will succeed forever" and yet also the doublethink that democracy is special, despite autocratic rule dominating human history. For example, consider the opposite and whether it sounds "normal":

> Autocracy isn't guaranteed to succeed, like any form of governance. Democratic regimes however are destined to fail at some point.

Edit: I am pro-democracy but have no delusions that it is free (as in beer), natural (as in humans will naturally tend towards it), nor easy (as in effort is required to maintain it). It's none of the above.
It's also a benefit to existing Microsoft customers because it let's them utilize their existing personnel to expand their audience without costly training or hiring on people who develop exclusively for the target platform. That's the benefit that Xamarin puts forth regarding mobile development.

With the rise of Azure, Microsoft cares less about Windows being the dominant server ecosystem than being the choice for server hosting and having a competitive ecosystem of tooling.
There are other ways to survive in the case of an emergency. Blankets, food, candles and whatnot should be in your emergency kit regardless of what you're driving.

Besides, how is this different than a gasoline-powered vehicle? In your situation, you'd still be reducing your range by X% in order to survive N hours in case something happens- your gas tank is not infinite, after all. I suppose you could make the case that you currently have more refueling options than recharging options, but I don't think it will always be that way, and it's not currently that was in some locations, such as Norway.
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Casting a vote in a "real" democracy means putting your trust in a person or group with the promise of representing you and your interests. Without the ability to define your interests in a practical way, you are voting for the most charismatic, most loudly speaking representative.

Not being able to define your interest can be due to lack of education, unwillingness to take part in the political process, etc.
It’s illegal for companies to donate to political candidates. What’s listed as company contributions in that list is contributions by company employees. Lobbying spending is also not political donations. It goes to lobbyists who represent the company.

What Apple is saying is that it doesn’t have a PAC that raises money from its employees, which is legal.
How was I reaching? I have two examples of companies who had trademarks, their marks were knowinglying infringed, they lost their otherwise legal right to enforce the mark for failure to do so timely.

>yeah, I"m going to find in favor of the would-be infringer here because Nintendo didn't go after that C64 port that one time in 2019."

That’s not how Law works. Your mixing confusion in the market place and laches...the jury doesn’t pick and decide what laws apply.

If I saw a T-shirt with Mario on it for example, or a Mario game...I would surely think the owners of the Mario marked either created or licensed the work...that’s the definition of confusion anyway, but that’s not the issue being discussed.
How does the fuel end up on your hands, because I've never had that happen in 10 years of driving and refueling ?
Yes, I have a few close friends hopping jobs every 1-2 years. Part of their secret is be involved with interviews to keep all this crap fresh in their minds and also be part of this sub-industry of tech interviews.

Good for them financially maybe. Professionally, I didn’t see they go beyond the average senior dev. But that just me being sour.
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> Compare to the Audi e-Tron, which has a fairly massive 95kWH battery but only scores 204 miles of EPA range. They claim they're only using 88% of the battery capacity so that charging is faster and battery longevity is preserved, but thats a really weird engineering decision that belies the fact they have made a terribly inefficient (and perhaps rapidly degrading?) battery pack/drivetrain.

Audi chooses to limit charging thresholds to preserve battery life and your conclusion is that they must have a rapidly degrading battery pack? More likely is they're being ultra-cautious because they don't have their own data in place for how the batteries will respond.

> Turns out making EVs is harder than everyone thought. We were told the traditional automakers would just wade in and obliterate Tesla...

This is all based on the new Model S having a range 80 miles higher than the e-Tron and 50 miles higher than the I-Pace.

The danger to Tesla's ability to dominate the EV market isn't these two models, the danger is a swamp of competition. Just VW is planning to launch 50 different models by 2025 on its modular electric platform, from multiple brands and in every price point from $30k to $100k. I'd expect Tesla to still be the largest selling model within its particular niches, but its one crossover will be nipped at the heels by 20 different crossovers from competitors, all serving different use cases and price points, and the same for SUVs. It won't even launch a small city hatchback, where VW alone will have 5-10 different models.

Although I’m not even sure this should be characterised as a threat, Tesla was never going to maintain a total dominance in electric cars and that’s not required for it to become a significant and profitable manufacturer.

The question really is at what level of scale and profitability Tesla is happy to end up. The I-Pace is actually doing well for Jaguar, because Jaguar is a niche producer, it's currently providing 10% of global Jaguar sales. I'd expect Tesla to settle in as something around BMW, luxury price points, decent profit margins, solid but not massive sales numbers. The model 3 has ended up solidly within that price bracket.
I have not upgraded to the latest VMWare Workstation -- should I take a look at QEMU first or is this something meant for a completely different use case? (I use VMWare Workstation for contracting/consulting and build out a workstation to match the client engagement rather than pollute my base OS with five different versions of Visual Studio; IntilliJ, Eclipse, AND Android Studio; multiple version of SQL Server/PostgreSQL/Mongo/MySQL... and I can dump those VMs off to network storage when I'm done with the engagement and reclaim the storage space on my laptop.)
Democracies are the most transparent, free societies with the least amount of violence. Are you living in a first world country? Probably yes.
The title "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations" was the title of his talk where he first presented his proof. He chose that title because he wanted to keep the fact the he'd actually proven FLT as a surprise twist for the end of his talk and did want and 'spoilers'

The 'Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves..." part of the title comes from the fact that Wiles' approach wasn't to directly prove FLT. What he did was prove something called Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture, which is a statement about the connections between modular forms and elliptic curves. It was already known at the time (thanks to Ribet's Theorem) that Taniyama–Shimura–Weil being true also would mean that FLT had to be true as a consequence of the conjecture.
What they do is calculate an oil lifetime based on running conditions of the engine. How long it's been on, what temperatures its running at, what RPM....

Point is that nobody should be changing their oil ever 3-5k.
In states that don't have their head up a certain bodily orifice "pre-smog" is a rolling window. Requiring people to maintain emissions systems in their stock configuration on cars pushing 50 is insane. If you really are hell bent on making people smog stuff that's old and uncommon to the point of being a rounding error to the big picture then just stick a sniffer in the tail pipe and pass it as long as it meets or exceeds the standards it was built for.
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That assumes there's some state that accepts or claims the responsibility of arbitrating issues of cryptocurrency ownership, and has both the capability and the will to enforce its rulings.

Which seems like just the kind of dependency many crypto-enthusiasts are trying to avoid; and it's unclear to what extent states are interested in taking on that responsibility.

Without that, it really is a wild west out there, where anyone who can guess my key is free to claim my wealth. That model may appeal to some people, but I doubt the general public will care for it.
The GP’s description sounds much more human ego driven than AI. There’s likely common use of gaslighting and lying in a company where impressions matter more than delivery.
I think that this problem, that you fear will cause no local reporting to happen, will cause local reporting to still happen. It's just that the local reporting will be poor quality.
>from our knowledge GM and Ford are sending back 0 data

Yes, two of the autonomous vehicle leaders are not using any data whatsoever.

I thought this was the smartest forum on the internet?
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