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Uh, no thanks man. The fact things have gotten worse in some aspects of our lives doesn't mean we need to regress the things that are actually working so well you didn't even know it was an issue. If anything this is an argument for the opposite of what you're suggesting.

What I don't get is why you're advocating for your own freedoms to be taken away. Don't carry water for the car companies, if they want more freedoms they can use their money and lobby for it. You don't need to do their job pro bono, leave that up to Citizens United.
I agree with both the parent and gp parents to some extent. I put a dollar amount on my free time, although for most people I think it's a mistake to say that the value of my time is $salary/(40*52)

However if you work a salaried job, saving an hour on cleaning won't necessarily increase your income by $salary/2080. Maybe if I spent that time working I'd get a bonus or something, but the hours have diminishing returns.

On the other hand, I used to work at a job where I could choose to work overtime, so it was true to say that if I paid $X more in monthly rent to shorten my daily commute by Z minutes I could treat it as an "investment" by working an extra Z minutes per day.
I always tend to check airbnb options nearby before booking a hotel. I almost never find a cheaper option through Airbnb. At least that is comparable in quality to the hotels I would be interested in.
You give me too much credit there. I only heard of the Internet2 (looong time ago and I understood it as a response of academia to the Eternal September). From the Wikipedia article and cursory reading of the information provided at https://internet2.edu/network it isn't entirely clear to me, whether the Internet2 network infrastructure (provided now by Level3 if I got that right) is indeed part of The Internet. Iiuc, it uses the IPv6 protocol, but I don't know whether nodes on Internet2 are reachable directly from nodes on The Internet (which would defeat the purpose, I'd think). And if it is only accessible via gateways, can one still say that it is part of The Internet? In that case, all kind of specialized networks (military, research, private/commercial leased lines, etc.) could be considered to be part of The Internet too, whether they use the IP protocol or not. Not sure, whether that makes sense.

Or maybe I'm not sufficiently appreciating the internet aspect of The Internet and confuse it with the IP-only Internet back-bone. ;-}
I've found that the most useful discussions I've had are around how the people up the ladder think about the junior persons area/projects and how it fits into the bigger picture.

The junior person knows more about the details and the senior person should understand more about the strategy so both have a chance to learn from each other and to each walk away with a better overall perspective.

As a skip level manager myself it's also seems like a better use of everyones time than me answering generic questions.
The problem is the number of taxpayers who are covering the costs. A road that handles heavy traffic generally has a lot of commercial activity to support it. A cul-de-sac that has 6-10 homes, means only 6-10 tax payers. And it's not just roads, it's pipes, copper/fiber, EMS, etc. Even if the maintenance cycle is 2x longer, the tax base isn't there to pay it.
According to the label on the box? Sure. In practice WiFi in a noisy RF environment with their router tucked into a cabinet on the far side of their house? Doubt they'll usually see more than a few hundred Mbit.
> Their website only publishes a subset of their API data so that missing data is provided to 3rd parked and curious users but not the public.

The majority of the data available to download is superfluous to most people hence why only a subset is shown on any weather app or website including forecast.weather.gov or Accuweather or whatever.

> It’s reasonable to separate providing data to providing data to the public

The NWS actually does provide visualizations for most of their data, and at this point I feel you don't know much about weather data/forecasting and are just looking to argue online. I provided a bunch of links below that allow curious people to look through American model data without having to use a company or having to program their own software. This list doesn't even include free to use apps/sites made by companies. American weather data is easy to access and view for free, Where as European model data is harder to access because you have to pay for it.

[1]: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/READY_animations.php

[2]: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

[3]: http://weather.utah.edu/

[4]: https://prism.oregonstate.edu/

[5]: https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/

[6]: https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
Coca-Cola privatises the profits from sales and socialises the plastic costs.

Even if people don't litter, there are landfills increasingly filling with plastic not being reused. The solution is quite mundane, a plastic bottle tax to pay for processing it. People litter and makes processing cost more? Increase tax.

They need to figure out ways to reduce this tax burden beyond lobbying. Ie campaign to avoid littering, glass bottles, etc. Currently they wage multi million campaigns against this simple tax all over the world, even in Australia where tax is 10c per bottle.
TL;DR: Tesla has no IP or differentiation available _currently_, and has a billion dollar plant in Buffalo idling with Panasonic completely pulling out, and in 2020, just hitting the demand Musk predicted for 2018, 500K/year.

The advantage they have is _at least they're on the road_, but, it's going to be tough even going in as the incumbent against a breakthrough and true differentiator like this - if Elon was 100% sober and on point on Battery Day, they still have a shot of not getting _too_ far behind for 3-5 years. But they'll need to figure out how to get to solid state long term without the associated IP or research. :/

nostradamus at this point, don't take it literally, but seriously: You can imagine they'd start looking like Blackberry - niche success among affluent users, ultimately, a stepping stone to the iPhone that'll revolutionize the industry wide, and hopefully Waymo decides to build 1P cars by 2030 and buys out Tesla for $80 billion.
> I own a 2020 Supra and I've been concerned its value will tank if electric sports cars take over. It's a fantastic car with unbelievable price to performance, but this is clearly on the way out.

Why'd you buy a re-badged BMW if you are worried about re-sale value and not just buy a MK4 Supra as an investment that holds its Toyota tax value as well as the Landcruisers have?

EV is finally making even the non-believers aware that the paradigm shift is happening, what I fail to see is how well those ICE to EV conversions will be. Much of the excitement of a ICE is how it makes you feel from the sound to the vibration you feel, when its all dialed in its an inexplicable feeling that satisfies all 5 senses.

You get none of that driving an EV, I did 1000 miles in a performance Model 3 when it first came out and while it was fun, and you have to have a different approach to driving a car with 100% torque at 0 RPM.

The raw feeling of man and machine coming into one wasn't there at all, although it was a lot of fun to drive, which is why I'm giving up my collection of ICE stuff besides my first car and bike and getting a Cybertruck.
pretty intense, yes. for each user who uses it, they take several hundreds of actions per day that each require a database write. we could optimize those but it's not worth it.
i'm sure they could. But apple wants to own the vertical.
Tesla's current insane valuation crashes, and the company probably folds too. They're heavily invested in Li-Ion's production chain, and this would essentially go right around that.

It's always seemed clear to me that what would kill Tesla dead is Toyota moving into EVs in a big way - the reputation alone would carry them for a good long while.
Your experience matches mine exactly.

I tried to use DDG for a whole year only to realize I was constantly typing !g
With respect to point (1) you're neglecting that you actually have to make an investment into the ecosystem. You can't really go somewhere else that easily because you've paid for all the apps you use -- and all the data contained therein. This isn't possible or easy to port, and is therefore forfeit. This could be a few extra hundred or thousands of dollars.

With respect to point (2) nobody's saying you can't continue to shop exclusively in the walled garden. On macOS you can opt for the walled garden via App Store, or download from anywhere else. Being able to download from anywhere else doesn't devalue or detract from thew walled garden. If you like your little nook you can keep it.
This article reads like hype and totally devoid of content. [1] from earlier in the year indicates this isn’t targeting production for another five years at least so I’m skeptical anything has really changed (it also makes nissan’s 2028 entry less late to the game)

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.caranddriver.com/news/amp33...
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It would be bad. But honestly Battery Tech to me is "I'll believe it when I see it". Lots of tech isn't a durable or as manufacturable as companies hope. Lab->product is difficult.
Sorry, when I saw this (just kidding, realized it long before), I knew this was not serious journalism.

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This dude built a retractable lightsaber and I need it for Christmas

I'll give you that lightsaber, buddy -- double if you're riding a bike!

Maybe you would be of more use back in your village, raking turds or carrying water. Please.
I expected that article to be about how companies are fleecing investors by juicing or manipulating reported cashflows (https://www.ft.com/content/40eb1369-5b14-40b9-a3d5-478ca3420...) but its Finance 101 from b-school curriculum not "cashflow games"

I second, Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

Its may be a bit dense/academic but its a great read for anyone interested in value creation and looking through the 'value' lense should underpin every single business decision.
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Parts of the binary on the App Store are encrypted so we can only get limited information from it, but the whole app bundle is available and the rest of the files are not encrypted. We’re building a startup to help monitor, analyze and reduce app size and I was able to quickly grab these statistics from the tool we’re working on, here’s a link to a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-hLxxUNm8
That’s very condescending
Last time I checked you couldn't even organize tests in different folders, I wonder if they finally fixed that. I always find it odd using test frameworks developed by a for profit company. They pick and choose what code to merge and bugs to fix based on their own priority, not what's best for the users.
They will have to buy solid-state batteries from someone else.

Volkswagen will be getting their solid-state batteries from QuantumScape: https://electrek.co/2020/12/08/tesla-co-founder-jb-straubel-...

BMW will be getting their solid-state batteries from Solid Power: https://insideevs.com/news/438664/solid-power-all-solid-stat...
Sadly glass costs more, is more breakable and is quite heavy relative to its contents and therefore leads to higher CO2 emissions.

Glass is also theoretically close-loop recyclable but it's again cumbersome and expensive. It's usually downcycled into building materials.
The other big thing is - even assuming you can scale up your income and work slightly more if you want to - the additional value of each dollar earned is not $1, it is $0.48-$0.60 for most people in this thread. I wrote a bit of an explanation downthread if anyone's curious (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25382210)
Glass bottles are arguably worse for the environment.

More drink foundations where you bring your own bottle, and more convenient recycling options (smart bins everywhere that credit you 10c for every bottle you deposit... then raise this to 15c, 25c, etc).
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> The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions

500km = 310 miles. That's not even remotely twice the range of a Tesla. Heck, it's not even that much more than my Chevrolet Bolt gets.

Everything else about this sounds great, especially the charge times. That takes a lot out of the hassles of a long distance trip in an electric car. ~250 miles is a fine point for getting out, taking a restroom break, stretching legs etc. Get back and the car is all topped up? Sounds perfect.

The main problem here is that it's still dependent on Lithium, and we've really got to get off that.
They have the biggest brand. Brand shaming could lead to change not just them but ripple effect on other plastic using companies.
Will instantly fail if you need to nav to a different domain at any point in your test .

Say you have happysite.com , but your using parentsite.com to authenticate, Cypress will explode instantly. If your test will ever leave your first domain, same thing.

Don't take shortcuts, use Puppeteer or it's successor Playwright
One thing Joe mentioned was the potential for illicit activity within the encrypted data inherent in blockchain.

He brought up an example whereby some user could hide something very illegal within the encrypted data.

To be honest, I don't know enough about block chain or the blockchain economy, but the idea of hiding data/URLs related to very illicit content definitely makes me think it could be abused. Especially since decryption would be necessary to uncover the abusive usage (i.e. the concealing of illicit content/URLs to illicit content)
+ when we start building homes, we are building over what used to be water sheds, farmland, habitat, grazing land. All land is not suitable for building. So we take the best soils that had taken centuries to build its top soil and we pave them over. It’s a tragedy and a travesty.

More numbers = more water. We don’t live near water and that has to be bought to where people live. Do you know what we have to do get water to people’s taps so it’s water on demand. Potable water.

We have to dig for rare and precious metals. Build more factories to make our cars and steel roofs and pipes and plastic thingies.

For every person born, their foot print is not just the home they live in..but water, land for food, everything from their daily porn to their smart phone to cute teapots and our recreational activities and schools. I mean... let’s make a list. From cradle to grave, what it realLy cost to assure basic living foot print for every individual.

So.. no. We are way past our carrying capacity. We need to be 2-3 billion to achieve. Carrying capacity. In 1975, population of the world was 3.5 ish billion. Roughly half of what it is now. That’s a good goal.

We should incentivise people to live quality lives and not focus on quantity. Only church and state needs more and more lives and people for souls to save and taxes to collect. If we remove the blinders, it is human nature to want to procreate and give the best lives possible to our children who are nothing but extensions of ourselves. But we are leaving a compromised and crumbling world. And robbing them of a future and defeating the chances we have of our species perpetual survival by depleating our resources, habitats and environment.

What we are doing is not unlike sitting on the top most branch of the tree of life as an apex predator and saw off the trunk underneath us because we have been made to believe by church and state that ‘it’s all fine’.

No. We are not fine. That’s all.
Supposedly Qualcomm’s licensing costs are even more egregious for PCs, it makes it impossible to blanket include modems.
QuantumScape doesn’t go into mass production for VW for another 3-4 years, SolidPower and BMW 5-6 years (from your links).

That’s a long time to catch up to Tesla, who can pull billions from capital markets on a whim.
How does this compare to existing batteries for environmental impact?
I don’t see how any car battery charges in 10 minutes. Assuming a 75 kWh battery in the car, charging in 10 minute means providing 450,000 watts for 10 minutes. At 1000V (higher than any DC charger today) would require 450 amps of current. The wire needed to provide 450A would be unmanageable for a car charger. And this is all assuming 100% efficiency, when in reality there will be various losses from charger to battery.

Battery tech aside, how does any auto maker plan to get 10 minute charge time when just getting they much power through a cable is a huge challenge.
> I own a [car]

> and I've been concerned its value will tank

A car is a depreciating asset.
Kind of light on details; what chemistry? What's the watt hours per kilogram they're expecting to get? Is Toyota pursuing a particular research path that is releasing its findings to the public yet, or is it all a closely-held secret?

A full recharge in 10 minutes means it will be charging at 6C, which is impressive.

I'm not a battery expert, but in a few years I guess their main competition will be whatever Tesla manages to accomplish with lithium ion (assuming they don't switch to something completely new), and lithium sulfur if someone figures out how to manufacture it in a way that's durable and cheap. Maybe there are other promising alternatives I'm not aware of (possibly including other solid state chemistries).
I can only say how much I look forward to the announcement of your $101 billion dollar app sale.

Sadly I fear it is as grounded in reality as the rest of this ... scrawl.
The answer for that one is real simple, it was mostly a function of what your first target platform was.

Back in that era X360 had the edge by coming out slightly ahead schedule wise so most engines targeted that first and then had a brutal slog to cram things down to the SPUs on the subsequent PS3 port.

If you went the other way though your nicely linearized SPU friendly data code fit in-cache on the X360/PC and usually ran remarkably better.
Please do not use this kind of language when talking to any other humans.
Great that you represent all consumers. I guess the debate's over then.
I don't follow your logic. If a Gecko-based browser could be installed on iOS, there would be more Gecko users, which would mean developers would be slightly more likely to check rendering in Gecko. By what logic would more developers test against Gecko in the status quo. The only losers would be Safari and a good chunk of Apple's "services revenue" for selling the default search engine setting.
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It has the sexiness factor right now, especially in the southeast.
Fortunately, even if competing app stores were allowed in the iphone, nobody is forcing you to use them.

All you have to do is only use the apple app store.

This way, everyone wins! You can use the apple app store, and other people can use other app stores.
I don't understand the reasoning for the author's conclusion:

"I think no amount of bandaging with higher tax rates or user fees is going to be a long-term solution. ... With any luck, we can use a Strong Towns-inspired analysis to back up these sentiments with hard-hitting fiscal facts."

Why isn't taxing an acceptable solution?
Yes, neither do Toyota's. Toyota is just showing them next year in conjunction with the Olympics.
At a contract job, I had to use ReAgent, ClojureScript's "this compiles into ReactJS" framework. Wow, what a pain-- all I could think is "Why don't we just use Reactjs?".

Clojure itself is decent. But as you mention-- "n practice everyone expects you to use poorly-maintained clojure-ish libraries to paper over the java/javascript bits, which get out of date quickly.'

That is indeed the problem I saw.
Very interesting and I hope this leads to actual recompense/compensation for people "thanklessly maintaining" OSS. Not sure how it possibly fits into Google's newfound profit-at-all-costs motive, but the gesture is an important first step towards some semblance of justice.
Why can’t you have N cables supplying power to N cells in parallel?
That's a bad comparison and I'm not sure why people are making it - you're mistaking fundamentals. This isn't a UI problem, it's datastructures and algorithms. There are plenty of desktop apps with similar issues (representing a complex problem as a set of constraints and writing a solver to find a solution, and querying the solution for the data to display to a user).

I don't reject that there are troubles in concerting real world data into a representation for the constraint solver. But this isn't untrodden ground, and there's no reason a front end developer should need to care about it. The problems you're describing are far behind the UI; and if they're not your organization has immense problems.
> What happens to Tesla if this works as promised?

That they finally fulfilled a big part of their mission statement and got the biggest (single) Auto Manufacture to develop the battery tech to pivot their entire lineup to EV.

> It would be bad. But honestly Battery Tech to me is "I'll believe it when I see it".

Agreed. GM invested in the Badger to compete with the Cybertruck only for everything to fall apart at the last minute, I want to see this tech proven and on the road in the 100s of thousand of Camrys and Corollas they sell a year before I think it can pose a threat to Tesla. But maybe a merger happens?

The factory in Fremont used to be a Toyota factory after all. And Toyota's CEO has a 'real chef and kitchen' [0] and has its sight on them.

0: https://electrek.co/2020/11/06/toyota-ceo-goes-after-tesla-e...
The thing that strikes me as weird about Cypress is that, while the DX is quite nice, their core claim of being an end-to-end testing experience is, for the most part, not true. You can see that in how most events are simulated instead of native. As such, we're not really simulating user experience, and in fact the accuracy of testing doesn't seem to be meaningfully better than what's available in Karma.

DX is fantastic, of course, but I'd feel quite uncomfortable in committing to a commercial offering that I thought was being less than fully honest in what they were offering, just as a matter of trust.

It really is a great test runner on its own merits, though.
Tesla has $20B warchest, I think they'll be fine.
Disposible bags were banned from stores in california, they were replaced by significantly heavier bags made of the same plastic but thicker. Now many stores have pandemic signs “no reusable bags”.

So the outcome of banning disposable bags is a whole lot of extra plastic being disposed.
They’d be tarred and feathered if they do it in California. And then taxed punitively for taking land out of housing market.
Maybe for some cities... but definitely not for the every case.

There are are multiple small towns around me which are very suburban and have low density houses. They are independent, so they have their own budget -- and they to keep it pretty balanced, at least judging by their road condition. They get a tiny amount from federal/state level (less than 1% of their income). And you cannot say "it is all subsidized by high-density areas", because those towns do not have such areas.

As far as "taxes to the local city" -- the city their residens are likely commuting to gets plenty of money from the all the commercial housing taxes (in 2020, it got 65% of the taxes from the commercial properties)

Seems pretty sustainable to me. Yep, it is expensive and I (for example) cannot afford to live there, but they have no problems selling houses. And they have great parks, too, so I like that they are around.