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Think about the number of times that Donald Trump got called stupid starting from when he launched his presidential campaign. You may hate the guy's politics, but he is objectively not dumb, but the "bad people are dumb, smart people are good" narrative must be reinforced relentlessly. It's the golden hammer of political propaganda because IT WORKS!

The counter for Donald Trump being stupid is that Greta Thurnberg is smart and good and everyone must listen to her and do what she says when she is at best very average.
They’re pretty great. Eg the michellean crossclimate 2. Unless you live somewhere with months and months of ice, they’re probably the way to go these days. Most of the performance, much less wear/noise/warm temp problems
China is doing fine with big science projects.

https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-spacraft-suc...

https://www.space.com/china-expanding-optical-telescope-desi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
What's the standard for "make it"?

A marginal mission that didn't do much other than get someone there could probably be done on a pretty short timeline.
OP is asking who funds Uber deals, and I offered an example
Does anybody run Tortoise on cloud serverless GPUs? If yes, can you please recommend a setup?
There's also the chance that those robots find something so compelling it reinvigorates human space flight.
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I've been using kagi for a couple months now and I'm a big fan. I never have to use Google to search because the results are good enough for me. And I enjoy that I'm not being pushed into affiliate links and ads all the time.
My issue with it is that it distracts us from real problems. Obsession with Musk, NASA, and Mars keeps people's imaginations fixated on space instead of stuff that would really improve people's lives.

Instead of encouraging people to imagine how good life could be HERE, we are focusing people's imaginations on space where corporate profits aren't threatened.

In the article, the author quotes NASA on why we should go to mars and clearly it's an answer designed to tickle people's imaginations. Why aren't we hearing similar speeches about automating food production for example? Why can't we spend a trillion dollars on a mission to do THAT?
I do not know what weapons world war three will be fought with, but the one after it will be fought with water purifiers and air filters.
A big turning point for me with Elon was actually listening to him talk. In countless interviews he's asked some variation of the question "how do you do it all" and every single time it's the most obvious softball question begging for an answer that praises all the amazing and dedicated engineers that worked on these products and every single time his answer is is some variation of "I'm just that amazing" -- "I only sleep 4 hours a night" -- "I work really hard"
Most people don't drive more than the range of most EVs a day. Once we get chargers in homes, at parking garages, and on the street we'll have covered most use cases.

Trips will require fast chargers but people often stop for food or bathroom so there's an overlap in time

Will there be extra time for most people due to a few long trips a year? Yes, a bit but that's worth it.

Finally there is a percentage of people who this will not convenient for and they should continue to use gas or diesel.
Empirically, congress has sent nobody to Mars but funds repeated successful probes.
The Artemis program, which launched its first test flight recently, indeed intends to start with a moon base.

https://youtu.be/_T8cn2J13-4
> Expanding human life to Mars (and the entire solar system) is a fantastic goal for humanity.

I think you're underestimating how great Earth is, how awful other planets are, and how big the solar system is.

> I would much rather we advance our technology in the pursuit of Mars than in the pursuit of weapons of war.

Colonization generally does not rhyme with peace. It's very likely there will be conflicts over territories. Space exploration and military production always have been tightly coupled. Where I live the space industry is dominated by "Airbus Defence and Space".
he's had a similar attitude with employees at TSLA for over a decade now - the difference is everyone who joined Tesla knew what they were getting into.

But literally his first act as CEO of Tesla in 2008 was to lay off 20% of the company. He's always been very fire-happy.
This has been trialled in modern EVs, but hasn't caught on for three reasons:

* There's no standard battery pack between makes and models.

* It is one of the more expensive components of the car, so operating a business around taking in and giving out extremely expensive equipment is a massive hurdle from a capital investment standpoint, not to mention the equipment to remove and install the batteries - you basically need the equivalent of a mechanic shop or oil-change setup

* Battery packs, as currently designed, are not always fully separable from the rest of the car- cooling systems etc. are not 100% self contained, but may pump heat elsewhere in the vehicle to be radiated off

You're basically asking a company to take on the ownership aspect of the most expensive part of an EV, to accept strangers' batteries and to give out yours in exchange.
To make this possible, major manufacturers would have to agree not only on a standard for their batteries, but also to make the batteries quickly removable.

You're asking consumers to buy a car with a brand new battery in it, then after a few hours of driving to take that battery to a third party service station and give it away for some stranger's battery that may not perform as well.

To be honest, I think if this were the present-day reality, it would eliminate pretty much all of the concerns of buying an electric car- you don't need to add a lot of time to long trips (no worries that super chargers aren't available or operating at peak efficiency), and you don't have to worry that the battery going dead due to a fault renders your vehicle worth less than the cost of a new battery- because the service station that swapped out the battery for you would be on the hook for the cost.

However, I struggle to believe it would be cost effective- your customers can charge their own batteries at home for cheaper than they can exchange them, so they aren't going to be exchanging nearly as frequently as an ICE fills up at a gas station.
What are you trying to accomplish by having 50k characters in a cell?
if you have incoming data.. you can split it among a few cells.
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The British lady voice it does (-l=en-GB option) is pretty decent.
The article spends quite a bit of space discussing why building the tech we do need to get to mars is a waste of time and resources.

Summed up by this line quite nicely:

“ Humanity does not need a billion dollar shit dehydrator that can work for three years in zero gravity, but a Mars mission can’t leave Earth without it”
One founder was pushed out, the other founder left later:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberha...

The whole interview is worth watching.
There's no feasible way to destroy the Earth that wouldn't also destroy the survivability of Martian colony for the foreseeable future
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I know one familiar-sounding, but different (without violent armed remainers) novel by Clifford Simak: "City".
Some of the early Anker USB-C stuff pulled shenanigans with USB-C specs as well.
California gave them $300 million for it:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tesla-gets-295m-in-green-su...

Once profitable from gamed subsidies and they begin expiring flee headquarters out of the state.
If you're aware of the statistics of gas fires why aren't you worried about that?

If the probability of a EV fire is equal or less than a gas or diesel car fire the concern is illogical.
That sounds suspiciously like a rebranding of "M&S rated" all-seasons.
Having an eye and a fraction of an eye wouldn’t really make much sense. I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make here.
Mars may hold evidence of a greater extinction than any on Earth. Once we've been able to identify what life existed on Mars and how it ended - then it's free real estate.

Until then, it's the best source of evidence on the Great Filter Theory.
> this is not defense of elon but indictment of media propaganda

So.. reporting unlawful conduct is propaganda?

> youre clearly antagonizing and even trolling me.

No, just clarifying your confusion.
The 56k modem was so cool
We have places on Earth, which are probably 10x if not 100x or 1000x more habitable than Mars, which we still do not and cannot inhabit long term with more than a handful of people. I'm not sure how we expect to establish any kind of working colony on Mars, where there is no atmosphere or accessible oxygen, food or accessible water, magnetic field to keep radiation away, reliable supply chain for delivering anything else we need.

Let's figure out how to house and sustain, say, 20K people in Antarctica for 100 years before we even dream about doing the same on Mars.
> getting some of our eggs the heck out of this way to fragile basket of a planet

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. If we cannot survive on earth it's impossible for us to survive anywhere else.
The closest thing I've seen is https://ampie.app/, which goes in a similar direction. I bounced off of it (too cluttered, privacy concerns w browser extensions), but it has a lot of the pieces there.
> Just look at what people said about Steve Jobs and Wozniak

People have said negative things about Jobs etc, yes. People also said negative things about Bernie Madoff, Hitler, and other people who inarguably were not changing the world for the better.

Having "haters" is not proof of success or how right you are, it's a measure of fame, and is probably closer to value-neutral than a sign of good or bad.
It is pretty clear to me that “we” in the article refers to NASA/the US Government rather than humanity.
> How do we prevent that.

why does that need to be prevented?
Looks like plenty of room for this in groceries. https://www.yahoo.com/now/kroger-reports-third-quarter-2022-...
This reminds me of the parable of the widow and the unjust judge from Luke 18, where the widow perseveres in asking the judge for a judgement in her favor and the judge eventually accedes because he's so tired of seeing her.

(The point of the parable, as I understand it, is not "One Weird Social Engineering Trick That Will Always Get You What You Want!!!11" but rather that we should persevere in prayer and petitions to God because, if even the unjust judge was eventually moved, how much more likely is our heavenly Father to grant us our heart's desire because he isn't unjust like the judge. This is an example of an "a fortiori" argument, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_a_fortiori , which are fairly common in scripture.)
Can confirm. I’ve owned front wheel and all wheel drive minivans, both with all season and proper snow tires.

Snow tires are much more effective than all wheel drive, but having both is (obviously) better.
You cannot ask your dad or my dad or WW2 vets if it's an accurate depiction? People shouldn't assume fiction is fact, but that doesn't mean fiction cannot contain facts. I don't think anyone is saying you should cite fiction alone, but it can be used to spur interest in a topic.
Remember that somebody is going to have to pay for it.
Venusian cloud cities actually seem pretty doable lately. Mars soil is essentially bleach, and the rems are a show stopper without a lot of lead. Venus has neither of those problems - if you stay in the nearly-habitable layer 50km up.
I've spent long periods of time underwater with about 120 others. I've seen how people slowly go mad under those conditions so I always come around to how they are going to keep people mentally fit during those long months in deep space. It's probably much lonelier out there between Earth and Mars vs the space station with it's constant view of Earth and of possibility of rescue.
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Some agency in the UK tested a blanket that contains the combustion, not sure if it puts it out but if your house is protected the EV can be moved.

Youtube search "bridgehill fire blanet"
> A tiny minority of places I've worked do code review for every commit.

In the past three jobs I have had, over 13 years, all changes were code reviewed before merge. I don't know the industry's general stance on this, but I wanted to describe my experience here which is very different from yours.
The point you're missing is that even after normalizing for the number of vehicles, you still need to also normalize for the age of the vehicles: the rapid growth of EV sales means most EVs on the road are relatively new.
Gas cars catch on fire with surprising frequency.

Fuel leaks, electrical shorts, you name it. A lot more frequently than EVs too.

It’s why garages are required to have auto closing fire doors.
This link seems highly suspect. In one graph they seem to be comparing number of vehicles recalled due to a potential fire hazard. That is not the same as actual number of vehicles that caught fire. You might have a model with 500,000 vehicles recalled because a faulty switch caused a fire in 5 cars.

It also tries to combine data with hybrid vehicles with ICE vehicles because they also have a gas component. They don't do the same with EV, even though hybrids also have an battery component. There is no attempt to distinguish if the fires were caused by the gas or the battery in those cases.

When I see a study fudge the numbers in one area, I am suspect of all the numbers it presents.
Is the question really that partisan?

I think most of us take it for granted that organizations will do some basic vetting of those who will be representing them in public.

I too find it strange the Republican party has largely been given a pass.

The Democratic party and the media definitely dropped the ball on this as well, but let's be honest: would it have made a difference if either group released this story during election season? We could argue whether or to what degree it is deserved, but I don't expect many (if any) people who voted for Santos would have taken an exposé from either group seriously.
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> Nope nope nope.

What an absurd way to start a comment about something that is essentially conversation 101. These are some of the most basic conversation skills imaginable, and if you think they warrant a "nope nope nope," someone should break it to you that you're probably a terrible conversation partner.
I tried it at the beginning, but found it quite complicated.
A the moment Hugin is used, which works nearly perfectly, especially on XY stage where you can disable frame rotation optimization.
> The only people I know of that are using Windows 10 at this point are primarily gamers, as they're the only people who didn't let the automatic update to 11 happen.

Are you claiming that W10 autoupgrades to W11, if you have automatic OS updates enabled? Doesn't seem right to me.

I have Windows 10 with automatic updates enabled, and it hasn't tried installing Windows 11 even once. There is an option for manually triggering the upgrade to W11 in update settings, but I haven't clicked it.
I appreciate you citing the source, but that doesn't seem to back up the statement "he commissioned it and didn't like the result". He commissioned it, was advised of a potential conflict of interest, and dispatched a different set of investigators.
The word "might" is doing a lot of work in that assertion.
The watchdog.org page is down but

> Tesla claimed the credits between 2012 and mid-2014 — part of a program designed to encourage the carmaker to promote its new battery-swap technology. The program did not require evidence the company actually provided the service.

Sounds like 300M isn't the total just for the battery swap tech, but I might be wrong.
Nobody is going to Mars. Not now, not in 100 years. Unless we invent some kind of teleportation or other sci-fi way of traveling there, it's just never going to take place.

Mars has essentially no energy sources. Everything people need to survive, and return, will have to be pre-stationed there.

If the Chinese all want to move to Mars, fine by me. I don't think it's a solid plan, but they're welcome to try.
Right I figured it would have to get authorized by the buyer group.

(But on that note … why?? If Musk thought he was overpaying, to the point he even tried to back out, wouldn’t you want as many suckers as possible to remain shareholders? Each share is $54.20 you don’t have to come up with.)
You ask people “how did you arrive at this conclusion”. That’s a good invitation to extract a walkthrough of how that conclusion was arrived at, what observations, data, evidence, references, whatever informed their conclusion about whatever subject.
Good read. Perhaps we need a competing Venus religion? Consider building a floating airship community in the upper atmosphere of Venus. Perhaps we could also control contamination easier being close to edge of space where we could put waste into an orbit for collection and disposal at a later time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operationa...

Doesn't this seem like a much more exciting and compelling option compared to landing on Mars?
It appears you can contain EVs fires with a special blanket. Youtube "bridgehill fire blanket". It does reignite if the blanket is removed but containment will protect property. I should stop as I'm not an expert I just saw the video and report.

As for probability, why are you assuming they'll be more dangerous?
Betting against other countries' investments in exploration hasn't historically worked out well.
Antarctica is not "uncolonized" due to a lack of interest; there are relatively few people there because we have collectively agreed not to allow more. If there were no such restrictions, there would be people building tourist hotels all over it, and everything that comes with that.

Mars is disconnected from Earth's biosphere. To most people, we wouldn't be ruining anything ecologically important or otherwise sacred by colonising it and bending it to our needs.

The Mars-Antarctica connection isn't particularly strong.
> There's no choice but to use your intuition.

There is an alternative: take the time and learn some emotional intelligence if it's not your strong suit. If you seriously think anyone likes your tendency to interrupt, one-up, complete disregard for their level of interest in the topic, and taking 100% of the oxygen without letting them speak, you're deluding yourself.
> Humanity does not need a billion dollar shit dehydrator

and yet, humanity also does not "need" laser stablized, automatic orbital docking (, except it was built just for the ISS so that docking modules can be done).

However, the fact that you can now have safe, cheap and effective laser eye surgery is a result of such technology being explored for one purpose, repurposed for new applications.

We did not need to spend the research dollars to figure out safety grooving to prevent hydroplaning, except that it was needed for the space shuttle landing (it went too fast otherwise). Now this research is applied to a lot of roads, as well as airports, and prevents skidding that would've otherwise happened: https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff/sa...

So the idea that "humans does not need blah" is not correct, because you don't know what humans need.
While I agree with your goal of finding analogies when teaching new concepts, I think your first paragraph is a pretty unsympathetic take on music theory. (I don't know anything about photography.)

Music theory is descriptive, not prescriptive. Is it any surprise that something we had to invent a whole new symbolic notation for is difficult to connect to concepts we can describe in natural language?

If you want to go really deep into the philosophy of music, to understand it from "first principles" so to speak, I highly recommend Leonard Bernstein's lecture series "The Unanswered Question" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unanswered_Question_(lectu... (available on YouTube).

To paraphrase Bernstein's comment from his book "The Joy of Music": we need to stop comparing Beethoven to grassy fields and mountain streams. A "major seventh" or a "plagal cadance" are themselves the description of those qualities. By all means use music as metaphor, but when you're trying to describe it you're going to be using terms specific to its domain.
Eh, idk I guess I'd like to see some sources for that. Even the Wikipedia's entry on the Roadster calls out that:

> Elon Musk took an active role within the company and oversaw Roadster product design at a detailed level, but was not deeply involved in day-to-day business operations

He was certainly the primary person keeping them afloat financially. By January of 2009 the company had raised $187 million and $70 million of that was Musk. That was just before Tesla finally caught it's big break in June of that same year when it got $465 million from the US DoE, by far its biggest investment

But even on the financial side of things he's caused many headaches for the company. Like in 2016 when he made Tesla buy his cousins' (failing) solar company, SolarCity. Of course he neglected to mention to Tesla shareholders that it was failing
The smaller peripheral eyes of spiders seem to be smaller and simpler then two (or four) "main" eyes. Processing data from more eyes requires more of the expensive brain tissue.
To add, this is the entire point of the EV tax credit that goes into effect this year, with a requirement for 50% of the raw battery material to come from North America, with it increasing 10% every year until it hits 80%.
I love it! Great roadmap too. In a previous discussion of DIY indoor air quality sensors[1] MQTT+Zigbee was brought up as a good standard interface.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773786#33775308
That doesn't solve the scenario where everyone on earth gets wiped out.
"Bottom line is people believe they're dangerous. I knew that would happen and said so: Telsa et al. needed to do the necessary education before the inevitable headlines hit. They didn't, so here we are. Got modded into the dirt for predicting this."

If people "believe" and forgive me for translating that to "feel" they are dangerous what education would Tesla have to do and why would it have worked. Especially with an entire political spectrum dumping EV fears.
> We have places on Earth, which are probably 10x if not 100x or 1000x more habitable than Mars, which we still do not and cannot inhabit long term with more than a handful of people.

That’s because there are places on Earth that similarly better than e.g. Antarctica or some desert.

The main reason for Mars is that it is not on Earth. Make „not on Earth“ a requirement that cannot be dropped and suddenly Mars makes a lot of sense.
I think there's value in doing 'cool' things. Besides the science and technology that would come out of something like this, humans are still intrinsically pushed by doing cool stuff. And there's nothing wrong with pursuing cool stuff. Not everything has to have a 'real world value' to it. Humans value cool stuff and sending humans to mars is extremely cool.
An English speaking country like Ireland? Or an English speaking country like Jamaica, Nigeria or Pakistan?
I can think of many, many things that are (1) better for humanity than going to Mars, and (2) somewhere between "exploring Mars" and "building weapons."

The pithy phrase I've seen before is "let's fix this planet up before we go and screw another one up."
This is a whataboutism
Just wait until we discover lost Martian technology.
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We found the nihilist. Thus, short of rehashing those debates, which is what you seem to desire, there is nothing here for you.
How so? Nothing comes up right away in google.