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What?

The towing capacity of a Model X is around 5k pounds. It's illegal to tow more the door sticker says on public roads in the US. For comparison, depending on what kind of Ford F-150 you get, you can tow from 5k to 8k pounds. According to some [1], you're also looking at a 45-60% decrease in range if you tow something like a camper.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1122487_towing-a-camper...
> Investors keep pretty much all of their money invested pretty much all of the time, or the banks that they store their money in do by proxy.

That's only true when banks actually lend. In the wake of the Great Recession, however, many banks drastically cut back on their lending — and to that extent they were no more than giant virtual mattresses into which their depositors' money was stuffed. As a Federal Reserve official said in 2015 about the Great Recession's aftermath: "... the sharper decline in outstanding bank loans to businesses that I mentioned earlier was likely a contributing factor to the slower economic recovery we have observed this time around." [0]

[0] https://www.bis.org/review/r150417b.pdf
I have an intuition that « we deserve it », is the modern equivalent of « gods are punishing us for our sins », but in this case it’s nature.

Not to judge whether we’re actually running to a catastrophy or not, but i can’t help think many people are somehow « happy » if we were, because they hate our current civilisation so much.
Not around here. I've never seen it offered for a non top of the line luxury vehicle.
Why does there seem to be a pack of Examine employees swarming this comment section? That's not a good look, guys.
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That is based on the assumption that jobs MUST be downtown, thus all traffic converging towards that area.
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> Droogie hasn't done anything wrong

That's arguable, actually. The article states, but doesn't provide evidence, that Droogie "hoped it might confuse automatic license plate readers or the DMV's ticketing system".

If this was done in an attempt to evade enforcement of existing laws, then sorry: that's a crime, folks. You aren't allowed to pen test live systems!
Pretty much every regulation exists because of an abuse or harm to someone.
Good luck, so many of us have tried and failed, or punted it off for another try in the future again. I wish you all the very best success.
I had a Leaf for 4 years and had no scheduled maintenance. The only thing I had to do was rotate the tires, put air in them, and put washer fluid in.

I assume the Volt requires at least an oil change every year?
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> In this country, people get a unique number when they’re born

Fun fact, social security numbers are not unique. [1] Apparently 40 million of them have been assigned to multiple names, and there's a 1 in 7 chance that any given SSN is not unique.

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/odds-someone-else-has-your...
Staten Island and the western halves of Queens and Brooklyn are not what I would call "high density". I don't think the northern part of the Bronx would count, either.
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You can fight the tide with the help of someone looking after you and helping keep you on the straight and narrow. Parenting and life at home have a far greater influence on a child's future than the neighborhood does. The real opportunity zone is the one under the roof.
Are there any vr programs to practice getting dumpstered in interviews?
I think the Google's answer is, "it isn't supposed to work"

They pretty clearly believe that they should be the only ones controlling the web experience.
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Aren't there county property taxes in addition to city taxes that should create a more balanced situation? If I recall correctly, the places I've lived in (where those weren't the same entity) had both.
> We already got gender neutral pronouns in English, for which we are seeing a wide adoption now, and new pronouns feel like a pretty big change, much bigger than an evolution of the MITM expression.

Huh? We don't have such pronouns in English. The closest is perhaps the plural "they". I've heard some mutterings about weird, made-up ones, but they seem very fringe and pushed solely for political reasons rather than as a natural evolution of language.

More importantly, what purpose would a "gender-neutral" pronoun serve?
Sadly not. We have not seen a lot of demand for this yet. It'd be great to hear more about your use case.
My Model 3 charges at ~240v/48a, which is around 11kW.

At peak times in our house, say, heat on, lights on, TV on, cooking, doing laundry, we pull perhaps 3kW. Our house is pretty efficient; gas appliances, LED lights, no air conditioning, etc.

The car charges after 9pm, but that's just because our rate drops then. If midnight was even cheaper, it would charge then. We don't charge every day, but if we did, it would take perhaps 1 hour. And this is for a car we drive 18,000 miles on in its first year.

3-4x the demand of a 'normal' household is not nothing, but it's not insane, either. Considering EVs don't need to charge every day, or every hour of every night, it's not that tricky to see the aggregate load as fairly similar to peak afternoon/evening hours in your average suburb as people return home from work.

To be sure, if everyone started charging their EVs at 6pm, we might have a problem. Likewise, if everyone had an EV and they all clicked on at midnight, we might have a problem. But the load on the grid is not that huge from an instantaneous perspective, and can be managed by variable pricing and/or some kind of grid scheduling tech.
There's a few big reasons, at least in tech.

One is that your investors may want you to start your business somewhere close by, especially if they want to be involved in your business.

Another is that you need to start your business somewhere where you can acquire employees - if there are very few software engineers in an area already, you now need to convince people to move to your area for work. That's kind of a bad value proposition for employees because they need to relocate their lives to move somewhere that has only a single employer they could realistically work at. Usually the people running these businesses also are motivated by doing this to save money, so you might also be making about half of what you would in a big city.

Further, being in a big city has a lot of benefits from infrastructure and network effects. It is easier to acquire some of your first customers if they are close by. You have international airports which allow you to travel the world more easily than somewhere with an airport that only feeds into a hub. Your employees will appreciate having the ability to work at other places should their employer fail/they get fired/etc. so it's easier to convince people to move there.

What should be done, but which almost never is done, is that employers in small cities should start paying truly competitively with those in big cities. If your target employee could make 300k in NYC or the Bay Area, pay them that much in the cheaper city. Make the cost of living difference actually become a real perk, rather than a way to be miserly with how you pay employees.
> Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com. “It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.”

Not surprising, but in light of that statement one wonders what the value proposition of this acquisition is aside from an acquihire.
Compared with most European countries, the bar for being granted a driver's licence in the US is extremely low. It makes sense that it would be this way, given how difficult life is without a car in most places here, but I am often shocked at the standard of driving. In particular, the level of disregard for users of the road who are not in cars. But then, that also makes sense, since many people do not have much experience with using the road without a car.
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How exactly do you think a self-signed certificate addresses this problem? I connect to BANKOFAMERICA.COM. It presents me a self-signed certificate. How do I know if that's BofA's self-signed certificate, or any active attacker's?
> But maybe he should just get a job at the DMVs IT department instead :)

Ew.
I don't necessarily disagree that tactile feedback is important in many applications, but in a ship borne system tactile feedback is almost all manufactured and not real if it exists at all. A team of 10 people couldn't turn a rudder on a large ship with mechanical means only, it requires power of some sort, typically electric or hydraulic with a fly-by-wire interface. And feedback is not as usable in a ship based platform as it is in say a small car or boat. Even in cars today, steering is already being adjusted as to feel and responsiveness by the computer in most newer vehicles, typically to help prevent drivers from oversteering. So again, it goes to the right UX for the right job, and I agree not a one size fits all.

To be clear, no where did I say that the UX should solely be touch screen all the time, just that in this case I do not think the failure was the touch screen type interface as much as the UX it provided. For example, most modern yachts and super yachts have more than one helm station. And to take control at one station over another you need to push a button (or possibly a couple) to take control. So if you run out to a starboard station and forget to mash the control button and start trying to turn you are shit outta luck, no different than the touchscreen the Navy was using overall (and there are lockouts etc on these). The advantage is in the yacht systems it is generally really obvious really fast you don't have control, whereas in a very large ship it takes significantly longer for the correction to take hold, exception being an all stop or powered stop where the ship will feel quite different. But a simple turn is not as obvious since it isn't like a car, especially in dark, dusk or fog. You have to watch your instruments to see if you are really turning and what the rudder position is etc, as well as what the power is at each screw etc, so the touchscreen interface in this case isn't out of line in my view and is more informative in many ways. And for automobiles, the UX may require a joystick or steering wheel for the foreseeable future, but that doesn't mean we should ditch touch screens for all the other functions which can be properly designed and laid out to reduce driver distractions. And who knows, maybe we find a new style of interface that works better for automobiles in the future.

To me saying there is no quality solution in a touchscreen for cars is a ridiculous statement. There are probably certain functions that may be better left to traditional controls for now based on our current methods, that seems reasonable, but absolutes don't make sense here.
> Make a function async and your entire call graph has to be made async, unless they handle the future manually without await.

You can "handle the future manually without await" very easily, it's just one function call. The same sort of thing is available in most other languages with async/await- you can prevent async from going up the call stack by synchronously blocking on a future instead of awaiting it.

The caller is absolutely in charge of whether something runs asynchronously. The only difference is a syntactic default- and in fact some languages even make async functions calls default to synchronous execution. For example take a look at Kotlin's `suspend fun`s.
The main issue with rule of seven in an abstract field is that you can always invent more complex words and concepts, which chunk less readily:

1. Name ten types of animal

2. Now name ten programming constructs

The first will surely come more quickly than the second, and that indicates that our working memory is related to our experience: familiar ideas can be recalled and reused faster and more fluidly.

The trade is the same one when choosing between copy-pasted and abstracted code: Lots of obvious steps, versus one big black-box step which has been given some name. You need to justify the new vocabulary to start justifying the black-box.
I don't really care about tracking within a session and private browsing had other downsides (e.g. limited history support). It's the cross session stuff that tends to be creepier in my experience.
I do not understand how Canary Islands are less of a tourist trap than, say Cuba? Granted, there are no volcanoes in Cuba but that does not make it's nature less interesting. And tourism in Canary Islands is definitely much higher developed industry than in Cuba.
How do you know this is what Google uses to determine how accurate the information is? Assumptions here are worthless since all they do it lead towards uninformed theories.

Examine.com is a very trustworthy website with good research, unbiased information and very good citations that are summarized in a scientific way.

Regardless of the heuristics they use to determine misinformation, they definitely messed up here and it should be re-evaluated.
>they retired by machine-gunning the BRIT Award audience (with blanks)

I thought you were joking. Holy cow. (And holy chao.) https://youtu.be/h_I0b05zpJ4?t=160
To me, more capital is a good thing. If that creates competition which forces us to improve, that's even better.

My point is that investors who hide their incentives by obfuscating that they have outside sources of funding are exhibiting bad behavior. Founders should know about this pattern so that they can make decisions with as much information as possible.
I could add so much to this, and in fact, recently closed a text file enumerating issues I had with Teams because I felt it wasn't a good use of my time, since I felt like I was the only one having problems with it.

A few more points, in case anybody in the Teams team is reading:

1. Implement filters. Filters for teams, filters for channels, filters for search results. I can't filter my Files by file type, so it's a mishmash of Word documents, OneNotes, Excel, Microsoft Project files, and PDFs. I can't even filter by channel, or search within a specific channel.

2. Search results: Implement filters, as above, but add the ability to sort by anything other than Date Modified. Unless I know a good portion of the document name or it's been modified recently, I'm forced to scroll through the list.

3. Skype integration: We already use Skype for Business. Why is Teams also reporting my missed Skype calls in addition to Outlook and Skype telling me the same?

4. Meetings: Is Outlook transitioning to an email-only client, or are we just going to have all functionality replicated across Teams/Skype/Outlook?

5. T-Bot: I've got this entity in my Chat sidebar; I guess it's the Teams version of Slackbot? Anyway, it sits there saying "What can I help you with today?" Slackbot gives me an example question to begin interacting with it, but T-Bot has the entry window greyed out with the text "Sending new messages to this bot has been disabled." It's not clear whether that's a Teams thing, or something my org did, but why is it even there if I can't interact with it?

While we're on Chat, there's a bunch of people listed in here that I sent a couple one-off emails to. I talk to more people than this; where are those? Why aren't they pulled from my Skype calls?

6. Calls: I see some contacts from one of my Skype groups, but it's also got contacts who a) I've already removed from that list, and b) don't even work at this company anymore. They're still crowding out the people I actually interact with regularly.

7. API integrations: I'm not even sure where to begin. Teams uses the Microsoft Graph API, which requires use of the Azure portal, and if you're already familiar with all that it might work for you. For the rest of us just trying to write a simple Python script integration (a la Slack webhook), it's a bit much.

I'm sure I could think of more, but this non-blog-post is already long enough.
I don't have a problem with any of those representations, and also no problem with all of them at the same time.

But not only the value representation keeps the types ambiguous, also there is no off-channel place to disambiguate the types, and no value-independent rules for deciding on the types. If any of those was different, there wouldn't be a problem.
> or the houses along the Mississippi

This one is different from the rest.

People have lived along the Mississippi for hundreds of years and the river reliably floods beyond its banks every. single. year.

The problem with dwellings along the Mississippi is the "moral hazard" by allowing the US Federal Government to insure these houses without preconditions and never denying a claim, despite the fact that one property has flooded more than 53 times in the last 50 years (claiming on flood insurance every single time).

I would argue that it's just not politically sexy to say "I am going to maintain this X" as it is to say "We are going to build this Y". They are the "blocking and tackling", but the voters are in the stands waiting for the quarterback drops back to pass long.
Is it accurate to interpret from the article that if an angel investor is in fact backed by money from LPs, her fiduciary responsibility to her own investors is greater than the flexibility she might have toward the company if she were just running her own money, and therefore these incentives can put her interests at odds with founders?

Further, is there an implication that it's the SAFE itself that sets this up in the first place? The example I'm thinking of is an institutional LP who can't do risky deals like startup SAFEs, but they can buy into "established," funds where the risk is distributed over other partners who can, and this angel front gets them the startup portfolio exposure they need.

The downside is the SAFE explodes into giving up more equity than founders anticipated to their proxied angel, whose partners' risk appetite causes complexity and conflicts with potential A-round participants.

I've only read about this stuff, but what would you correct about these interpretations?
Other basic needs include

* dry land to live on

* air that is cool enough for sweating to work to cool you off so you don’t die of heatstroke (< 100-140f, depending on humidity - high humidity lowers the threshold)

* oxygen to breathe

This year’s been seeing record high temperatures all summer. And scarily early melt cycles in the icecap. And the world’s major forests keep on getting cut down faster and faster.
> (I don't consider the Volt a PHEV, btw, but a range extended electric vehicle. It is the only "plugin hybrid" on the market that can operate purely electric without using the gas engine. And even when the gas engine kicks in, it performs like an EV.)

Not true at all: Prius prime, Pacifica Hybrid can all run on the battery without the engine.

I can get 30 miles on my Pacifica hybrid without the engine turning on, I even drive it at highway speeds without the engine turning on.
> 3. How exactly do I prove someone is real?

A link to his biography at his alma-mater, doctor profile at
the hospital or clinic where he works, his personal web-site. There are a few things that would inspire confidence.
No, it only needs an only change when the number of hours logged on the motor necessitates it, or every 2 years, whichever comes first.

I've had my Volt for 2.5 years, almost 70,000km. Have done one oil change. Only one visit to dealer, which was oil change and some cleaning of the brakes since they barely get used.
Sigh, it's this kind of response that makes me convinced you have no arguments to the contrary.

Rice yields are up 40% since 1988: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...

Corn's up 60%: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...

Wheat is up 48% since '88: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld....

Cattle inventory looks steady: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattle/inv.php
Hey, it looks great! The Readme is really thorough, thanks.

What's been your rationale for building it, what does it better than the rest?
Sorry, not night - evening - when everyone is all headed home and when one typically would fill up one's car.
More like 4.3 million. A lot of people don't feel strongly about density. They just live wherever makes the most sense based on the pros and cons. This is why people move out of the city when they have to raise a family.
In California, at least, yes, energy demand seems to be declining. I can't find the graph I saw a year or two ago.

Peak usage was in 2006, although it sounds like Sep 1 2017 usage was ALMOST as high. State population is growing overall, but not fast. I think it's roughly flat now, but has grown since 2006 for sure.

> Energy consumption of the state's residential sector per capita is lower than that of any other state except Hawaii thanks to relatively mild climate.

> California's peak electricity demand occurred on July 24, 2006, at 2:44 pm, with 50,270 megawatts. Since then measures to reduce peak load have resulted in decreased peak demand, even as the state's population has continued to grow.[28] In 2017, the peak load was 50,116 MW, on September 1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California
They offered a Spark BEV from 2013-2016 model years, maybe they intended to offer the battery only option sooner.
Or use Juggolo face paint.
You don’t even have to go particularly north to see plug in block heaters. Pretty sure I’ve seen them as far “south” as Toronto. Guess they’re all ready for the EV generation.
"clearer pedestrian paths" seems like a really bad trade-off for putting public infrastructure on private property (and all the right of way / access issues involved). I wonder if, since the wiring is clearly there, something on-sidewalk could be added (something parking meter-ish).
How about all of the following:

Python GIL takes away lots of viable solutions.

Lack of metaprogramming / code generation at runtime.

Lack of performance forcing me to severely compromise or implement things in C.

Type system is probably among the worst in the dynamic language space (compare to Common Lisp and Erlang).

Python is not an interactive programming language and can not be used to implement rapid feedback loops as is possible in Common Lisp, Smalltalk and Erlang.

The object system is very basic and error-prone compared to CLOS.

The error handling system is very limited.

I've found that all of these points translate into loss of flexibility and severely constrain the solution space. Having worked extensively in all of the alternative languages that I mentioned, there is not a single day that goes by where I'm programming in Python that I don't curse the language for being so limited / badly designed.
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>Yet, taxis in Colombia are incredibly dangerous...drive unsafely in cars that don't meet any security guidelines (a large number of passengers have died on rear-collisions given that the most common Bogota taxi has no rear-reinforcement).

This doesn't follow for me. Most Uber drivers drive their own cars, no? That means the cars are the same as are sold in the country, which given the regulated taxi companies are using supposedly less safe version of fleet vehicles sounds a lot to me like a country specific problem with lax regulations on fleet vehicle specifications.

Unless Uber is also making available U.S. market/road legal cars available to drivers in Colombia too.

I don't know squat about the regulatory framework in Colombia though. So I could be totally wrong based on the flawed assumption on how extensive this "taxi mafia's" regulatory capture purportedly is.