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I honestly don't know why someone hasn't done a diesel-electric[1] truck yet with a moderate size battery.

You'd have more torque than is possible, could ditch the transmission/transfer case/etc and it would allow you to build out a platform to understand the motor/electrification side of things with reasonable energy density until the battery curve catches up with high duty cycle usage.

I mean locomotives moved to that powertrain decades ago(which is why the VFDs in current EVs are so fantastic) so it seems like a reasonable way to approach things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%E2%80%93electric_transm...
Which aren't peas or nuts.
The article mentions this solution. It might be pretty secure but hard to automate and currently requires a human on the other side.
I think I get it.

The idea is that you assign capabilities based on whatever authentication mechanism. Access to read email sent to this email address, access to withdraw money from this bank account, etc.

The way a lot of people think about this is that a set of permissions is associated with a person with a Real Name and then a person with a Real Name is associated with an account or some other context.

But the middle step is irrelevant from a technical perspective. Your name isn't a secret and can't reasonably be used for any kind of authentication. It's effectively an alphabetic account number.

Using the same Name for all of your accounts is only useful if you want to give companies the ability to correlate them all, which is often the opposite of what you want.

If you take it out you're left with a set of capabilities associated with an authentication context, which works just as well from a technical perspective and doesn't have that problem.
This was the case with all the trials, not just the AZ one. However, there was a difference in side effects between the vaccinated and controls in all three. The difference was larger for the Moderna/Pfizer vaccines.

Also, there wasn't one AZ trial. There were 8 or 9 in different countries. But for reasons only known to AZ/Oxford, their studies are based on data only from 2 and part of the data from a third.
The UK, where the main difference is the approval of the AZ vaccine, is forecast to reach herd immunity four months before the United States.[1] America is currently averaging 3500 deaths per day.[2] That's an unecessary 127 deaths per 100,000 persons.

Since we're comparing total worldwide deaths from Thalidomide, that would result in 6 million unnecessary deaths if FDA policies were adopted globally.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
[2]https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths
It’s unclear what happens to the batteries after such a long period. The first modern EVs are still only 5-6 years old. That said the battery degradation on EVs with active thermal management looks pretty good. It’s plausible that batteries in the future will last the entire lifespan of the vehicle: at least 200k miles.

The most common repairs on an EV can be done at your regular mechanic. The only thing that will probably require going to the dealership will be main battery work. But here’s the thing, EVs have so many fewer moving parts that they’re far less likely to have severe mechanical breakdowns. All of the data to date shows that the expected cost of maintenance over the life of a typical car will be drastically less for EVs.

The grid will be adapted as people electrify. It won’t happen overnight. I’m not worried about the price of electricity. The cost of renewables has fallen by 90% in the last decade and will continue to decrease in the next decade. Fossil fuels for cars and light trucks will not be economic by the middle of this decade period. That’s without heavy subsidies or taxes.

Electric vehicles will help lower income people because their total cost of ownership is significantly less than ICE vehicles. While they’re more expensive today, by the time electrification goes mainstream there will be a wide range of used electric cars for people to buy at all price points. Also, in the near term no one is saying you have to get rid of all gas cars. Most families could get by with one gas car and one electric.
You underestimate the power of manufacturers to use DRM to prevent "unauthorized" repairs.
With the agonizingly slow rollout of the current vaccine, we wouldn't be administering billions of vaccines without soon finding out if it is efficacious or not.

> Can we afford

Evidently we can afford to spend several trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of deaths waiting 6 months for the vaccine trials.
Looks a lot like Australia and New Zealand during the 2019-2020 bushfires: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/new-zealand-gl...
GM and Ford have billions of man hours assembling cars... and a super-tight battery supply chain they share with every other car maker scrambling to secure battery supplies right now. They can assemble the fuck out of those car parts, but in the end they are cranking out expensive cars with crappy range because they have no reliable battery source.

Tesla has spent the past 15 years getting their battery supply chain squared away. You think GM and Ford are going to pull that out of their ass tomorrow?
The R value of wood is not great [1] and would depend on the type of wood used and thickness. Double pane windows tend to have an R value of 1-2, which increases if filled with a gas [2]. Your hypothesis that we'd curb more energy loss is a bit misplaced without more nuance.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/types-homes/energy-effici....
[2] http://www.engext.ksu.edu/buildingenvelope/windowsanddoors
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> A few kilometers away, the Chinese coast was faintly visible from Lin’s boat. He was on the lookout for Chinese sand-dredging ships encroaching on waters controlled by Taiwan.

Right. The mainland is less than 6 miles from Matsu. Taiwan is over 100 miles away. This was something Nixon and Kennedy were arguing about on television in 1960. Taiwan decided it wants control of these islands right up against the mainland, and has been going through contortions to control the coastal zone around them for 70 years. Control which China has never recognized (well Taiwan's position is that the mainland belongs to it too).
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can borrow one at open library https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18180546W/Theory_of_computat...
And as the article mentions, they used a marine epoxy. I haven't met a marine epoxy (or poly resin) yet that doesn't have to be coated to avoid UV damage.
> but an electric vehicle isn't something that can be casually repaired right

There is aftermarket batteries to put life back in a Nissan leaf.

> can our grid handle that?

Not in the few hours of peak though there are charges that understand the time of day costs and will only charge in certain times when the grid is cheaper.

Some electric vehicles such as the Nissan leaf also have V2G which will help the grid in times of need.

> cannot see how it would be cheaper than gas

It already is.

> I just see this hurting low-income people.

You are right it will as people transition off gas it will no longer have economies of scale so the price of gas will rise.
> What we do know is that mental health, and mental health problems, exist entirely in the mind and in the body

So do physical illnesses.
Sure but you could also just make a window out of plastic.
I've finished it. I thoroughly loved it. I don't want to go into any spoiling detail if you haven't read it?

It's only been some hours, so I'm honestly still processing a lot of it. I'll definitely be rereading it. It's considerably grander in scale than Snow Crash, his only other Novel I've read so far, but I'm quite excited to read his other novels.
Venus still deserves another atmospheric probe. The last time we sent an atmospheric probe was 1985[0] and tech has greatly improved since then. Still, it is hard to get funding for such missions because such missions do not last much more than a couple hours. However, even such a short mission could have great scientific return.

Sending better and more sensitive instruments could solve long standing questions about Venus even if the instruments do not live long. For example, a big question is whether Venus had large amounts of water this could be answered by determining if Venus has granite.

Granite can only form in the presence of water. We have found terrain on Venus that could maybe be granite. Just sending back enough data to confirm for sure that it is or not answers many questions about Venus.
Unfortunately, such terrain is quite extreme so sending a mission there is risky[1]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_2
[1]http://ia800304.us.archive.org/35/items/VenusIntrepidTessera...
Nearly all aircraft have that problem with the tail.

A major exception is aircraft with an inverted V tail, like the Lazair ultralight and the MQ-1 Predator drone.

Another exception is the flying wing, like the B-2 Spirit, but that certainly isn't an aerodynamically low-risk design.

Another exception is weight-shift ultralights that look like tricycles hanging under flying wings.
Why not both? Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs, range extended EVs, that general class of vehicle) give you the flexibility to run on whatever you can find, and also function nicely enough as a reasonably efficient generator for electrical power.

But if you have to pick one, no question, electric. The supply chains for refining and delivering gasoline far, far exceed the supply chain for charging an electric: Sun, solar panels, inverter, car. Probably some batteries on the house side in there, but if you're charging during the day when the sun is out, those are more or less skipped if you have enough panel.

Mad Max has plenty of problems. "Oh no, guzzoline is in short supply, let's use it as fast as we possibly can!" is not a particularly useful way of approaching resource limits. On the other hand, it makes for some absolutely spectacular cinema! I love that Fury Road was almost entirely practical effects - the giant vehicles driving across the desert look absolutely right, because... well, they were giant vehicles driving across the desert. I understand the Doof Wagon (gigantic wall of speakers on wheels) tended to get stuck an awful lot, though.
I've swapped engines before and it's usually a weekend job costing around $1000-1500 and you essential bring your mileage back down to 0 (assuming you rebuilt the engine before installing).

I could see dropping the battery pack and getting it repaired be a comparable option in the future.
Fixing a beater DIY style might work for the small number of people that have the tools and patience to learn all the quirks of it (maybe with the exception of things like changing oil and other small things that EVs won't have for the most part)

Yes, batteries will need to be recycled if we want a sustainable solution

Not sure how EVs will age and how things will work in the end. It wouldn't be surprised to have shorter range ones with refurb batteries
Leave one side of this transparent wood unpainted and termites would be easy to spot.
Knowing what’s important, and having the discipline to focus on it is one of the most important skills to acquire.
+1, or with cognitive impairments like ADHD, learning disorders...

Accessible design helps everyone.
This! This is the reason we don't breed competent programmers often. The system has dumbed down most roles that a programmer is little more than a plumber. When there's that one occasion where it makes sense to write smart code folks aren't trainer for it and it becomes a viacious cycle.
I leased a 2020 Leaf last year due to the killer deals. I went with the S-Plus for the extra range. Now driving it around for a few months, I’d rather go with the lower range model because: 1- cost, 2-I’ve found that 99% of my driving falls within 75 miles, and 3-charging infrastructure is improving quickly.

If you’re going to do long distance road trips or drive for Uber or something then you should probably buy a Hybrid. Otherwise, 150 miles feels pretty good to me, 250 is almost overkill.
Possibly true. However, while the IRS is not really analogous to the SEC, they do appear to audit EITC claimants (low income) at a very high rate relative to high income individuals. I have no evidence either way, but I wouldn't be surprised if the dollar value of tax fraud is skewed to higher incomes. https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-...
Is that open-source, or do you have a reference to one that might be? I've heard of punctuator, but keen to see what else people are using.
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I took this course with Prof. Andrea, clearly the best course ever.
I wonder how it works on Huawei phones that shipped with Android after they weren't allowed to ship with Google services. I think P40 was the last phone to ship with Google services?
Please stop. You could have quoted his exact words so that we can each form our own opinion. You didn't, apparently because you have your own interpretation that you wish to promote here.

I appreciate skygazer quoting his exact words so that I can form my own opinion.

It happens to differ from yours.

The world isn't black and white. New information is obtained. Sometimes experts have to change their recommendations.

I, personally, do not believe Fauci was lying on 60 minutes. I think he was making a recommendation based on the information he had at the time. Soon after, that changed. He changed his recommendation.
It’s not Marks foul. You have the money transferred to an exchange to mage a transaction not to hold it and wait for >40k. You would sold at 200,1000,10000.....
I already do this. Block and ignore sources that have proven to be untrustworthy. There should be a mechanism to share this but I am pretty such that the more powerful would try to eliminate it.
> the placental barrier is probably the weakest such barrier

At least, in humans (and other primates and rodents, but not most mammals). Human embryos/fetuses receive more nourishment and achieve more growth during prenatal development in part because the placenta invades the uterine wall much more—for lack of a better word—parasitically than in other mammalian species. That's great for a lot of developmental stuff for the fetus, but it does make transfer of (say) drugs considerably easier. (It also is the source of a lot of the common maternal complications in human pregnancy and is the reason one should at least be in contact with medical doctors while pregnant, even if a low-intervention or home birth plan is intended....)
Given that those exact words are the first line of the tweet and that it is almost the entire point of the post, what alternative title would have been better?
No of course not. I guess I meant they could use each others' experience.

And it's not about simply assembling things. Ford and GM have tons of engineering and experience on hand.
> Every time I compare European manufacturers to Tesla and Nissan, they are such a bad joke

The Renault Zoe was the best selling BEV in Europe in 2020 and Volkswagen Group was the best selling BEV maker in Europe overall:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/01/europe-december-2020.h...
Pandas isn't great, but I find it significantly nicer to use than normal Python. Why do you want to write a 100 lines of dumb loopy code when you can probably solve the same problem with a couple lines of Pandas?

If you really just want to use loops and stuff (which I would discourage) just use a list or a dict or something.
Same with veggie grill in southern california
There was evidence from other countries that masks and social distancing work. Trump and his ilk (including the author) refuse to accept that because it conflicts with their world view.
I think that the price of gas would go down. You'd still need refineries for jet fuel, heating oil, etc -- other parts of the distillate -- and existing wells don't really need that much attention to keep producing. But maybe there would be taxes imposed.
"There are a couple of hundred different passports issued by a variety of countries and organisations."

Judging from the linked Wikipedia page there are even more. Because at least in the case of Germany what you see is a "Reisepass" that is commonly used for traveling but when you are to prove your identity typically you use your "Personalausweis" which is a small plastic card like a credit card. As far as I know many countries have similar identity cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_document
Tesla is just going through the growing pains of ramping production so their repair story is still a work in progress at the moment. They make it work as needed, but it’s not always ideal nor as widely available everywhere as people hope yet. It will get better.

Disabling supercharging for DIY battery fix/hack jobs I assume is done to protect the network so that other cars are not impacted by a potentially incorrect or incomplete repair job.

I believe it’s usually a heathy practice in life to look for the straightforward explanations that don’t assume bad motives in the part of the actor you are looking at. Disabling supercharging is not great in this respect but they have to weigh it against the downside of how it could possibly affect other drivers.
And flammable.
It's not even about performance, writing vectorized code is just superior. The array language model is very powerful and you can literally write a couple lines of code that would take hundreds of lines of normal Python.

That being said, Pandas isn't a very good array language. I really like kdb+/q and find it better and more expressive than almost any other language I've used.
If you are interested in the potential tragedy of modern electronics longevity, look-up “tin whiskers”.

My prediction is that the RoHS regulations that brought us lead-free solder will go down in history as the cause of massive environmental contamination around the world. In other words, exactly opposite what they thought they would achieve.
What are your favorite battery related stocks? Lithium mining companies? I've been reading on solid state batteries to find some new trends, but it seems they are using same composition as lithium ion technology.
Nile Red has a video where he makes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838

As you can see from the video it is basically impossible to scale this process to large pieces of wood. Discussions about replacing windows with this are pretty pointless I think.
As captchas continue to have trouble staying ahead of machine learning while companies/governments realize (and fully invest in) the absurdly high value/power that controlling social media gives them, I think we'll be entering some pretty rough times with respect to Internet identity and anonymity (as if it isn't already a mess).

One of the slightly nicer solutions we may converge on is to verify identities at various layer(s), and then disassociate them with the user afterwards, preferably using many of the tools that modern cryptography gives us to achieve levels of verification and pseudonymity/anonymity at once, depending on what is required. This is nowhere near perfect, but I think it beats having to give your true identity to anyone/everyone to use the Internet.
Well I would totally buy that car myself. I love the vision of course.
Dude with two sons under the age of 3 here. God a divorce sounds like heaven to a man boiling in hell but I cannot bare to think of making those two kids sad/not being there for something.
To be fair, Apple isn’t great at all about booting bad apps (without media attention). I’ve emailed them about blatant scam apps (descriptions detailing a different app, fake VPNs linked to from popup “you’re vulnerable” scam ads, etc.), and their response is essentially: “It’s not our fault if developers are inaccurate with their descriptions. You need to take that up with the developer.” I used the word, “scam” multiple times in my messages, with clear evidence, but they don’t care.

I like Apple, but their approach to the App Store is very much like Google, and that’s not what I want. I choose the iPhone for quality, and not removing scams is not indicative of that.
This reads like finance buzz bingo
Side note: paris-traceroute is unmaintained and no longer builds with recent versions of GCC:

https://bugs.debian.org/957663
https://bugs.debian.org/970290
Yes, Australia has cases popping up but it now has 25 or deaths per million vs. 1300 for the US. I think the outcomes are pretty different here.
I agree with you; it is easy solving sitting at the computer, but in front of a group of interviewers might be stressful like that.

The method to solve it depends on the programming language. In this case, I would use Haskell; however, this would likely be a part of a larger program, and in that case the programming language that the larger program is written in would be used instead.
I think the first sale doctrine is the answer you're looking for. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-first-sale-doctrine-a... https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-first-sale-doctr...
One thing I wish for in Charles (or maybe it’s there but hidden) is the ability to generate full working curl commands with all headers, cookies, and body data. I guess it can generate intermediate formats (I forget the name, h something) and then there are web sites that can convert that to curl but it would be nice to have it built in. Remember that it’s easy to copy/paste straight from iOS to macOS.
There's a reason why BGAs are inspected with x-rays, doing this kind of soldering is quite hard
It doesn’t run on iPad or iPhone… which is the niche these sites fill
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Are you... serious? I am really not sure how to ask this question without it sounding offensive. I am not sure, and wikipedia suggests that Discordianism is a parody of a religion.
It depends on whether the battery sourcing and assembly is a harder problem than car assembly.

The reason, may be, why Tesla had a lot of issues is that they are blazing a new trail. Now that it's been shown that batteries are viable to make at scale, the capital will be available, and it's just sourcing mines and raw materials. I fail to believe Tesla can monopolize the world entire supply.
The former replaces the latter 1:1.

That's a solution on the product level. It's not a solution on the systemic level, but that's not what I meant.

It's at the same level as "cut your intake 50%", but more effective.
What about increased deaths due to people taking more risks because they think they are safe? Most deaths are in over 65s. AZ has released absolutely no data on over 65s, nada. There is independent data from Germany that shows the AZ vaccine is essentially indistinguishable from placebo in over 65s.

What you are suggesting may be the right thing to do somewhere other than the US, so long as its accompanied by an effective warning that the vaccination may or may not work so you still have to be careful. The important operative word regarding the warnings being effective. My comments are entirely in response to an earlier commenter stating that the FDA should approve AZ, which means it's US specific. The single biggest bottleneck right now is vials, not vaccine production. AZ vaccine production will compete for this.

Besides, do you really think AZ is going to be able to magically scale up from 0 in the US with the UK and EU already fighting over production and do this faster than an absolute lazer focus on increasing Pfizer/Moderna production and distribution? The US is currently doubling the number of people vaccinated per day every 2 weeks. We did this despite a massive snowstorm on the East Coast. It might seem bad but the rate of vaccinations is growing exponentially. It's mostly a solved problem. You just don't see it yet. Exponential growth! It's the same thing that makes high R0 epidemics so bad, only in reverse.
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