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There are a number of places currently where the government will subsidize electricity used for cars.

In Bowling Green, Ohio for example city parking lots have a couple electric car chargers that are free. Park your car & pay the meter (the parking isn't free!), plug it in, and walk downtown for some eatery.

http://bgsujournalism.com/j4200/bowling-green-grows-fond-of-...

http://www.bgsu.edu/campus-sustainability/transportation/ele...
I would argue that Groovy is Scala done right.
You wouldn't want to be accused of censoring code, would you?
Yes, you are quite right. But show me an analysis of this issue that is not based on any assumptions or guesswork.
…you are fundamentally changing information flow in your system.

And this is the key point. That the language/paradigm adds friction here is a good thing; it guides you towards a more appropriate implementation.
I think you are onto the actual causality -- McDonalds serves low quality burgers that have a certain taste that its core customers do actually like.

When I first tasted an UmamiBurger the first thing I thought was "wow, this has the mouthfeel and intense flavor of a big mac, but it's way better".

Replacing whatever meat blend is used with "Angus" is unlikely to improve the flavor -- who cares about uniformity and marbling in ground beef!

Things like never serving unripe green tomatoes or wilted lettuce would go a long way, as would avoiding serving burgers that have been sitting around too long.

I imagine that if prepared fresh (like Chipotle is) nearly anything from McDonalds would taste significantly better.
I think the biggest difference, speaking from my experience as a Leaf owner, is that electricity is much cheaper than petrol, more predictable in price/not as volatile as petrol prices, and the car itself is much more efficient than a gas car would be thanks to aerodynamics, regenerative braking and otherwise high efficiency in electric motors when compared to internal combustion engines.
In relative terms, charging an electric car from home is cheap. It is even negligible enough to where the companies that sell you electric cars will do so by comparing the purchase price of an electric car to the cost of a normal gasoline car plus the gasoline over the next several years.

The charging stations on the street usually belong to a consortium with a membership card that unlocks the charging port or it may also belong to your local energy company. Subsidies may also apply to the energy supplied by them.
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On X86_64 it's impossible not to have SSE. So unless you develop for 32bit X86 systems you can assume the availability of vector instructions.
If you scroll down, and click Europe, you see that almost all of western europe is already awash in Superchargers, and Tesla continues to push east over the next 6-18 months.
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I think that technology has been on sale since the 18th century at a gun shop near you.
This sounds naive. Most books have opportunity cost much higher than their added value.
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There's quite a few in Germany and the Netherlands, according to the map
It is unpopular because the average employee being laid off will have had much less influence than a CEO on the reasons that ultimately led to the (necessary) measure, but he/she will be the one facing the consequences.

The worst that can happen to unsuccessful CEOs is being replaced (IF the situation does not improve after the layoffs) while netting a generous severance pay.

I agree that rationally such backlash it's unreasonable, but humans are not rational beings, especially when perceiving something as unfair.
It's the line before what he quoted which says
"Now it is true that the price of white people is more expensive... but it makes the place feel classier."

I believe he has a right to be feel outraged. I do too.

This is a great example of capitalism's effect on morals: When a major investment looks risky, capitalists, instead of letting it fail and saying, "invisible hand, market, evolution, that's the way the cookie crumbles, that was a learning experience" compromise on their values and say, "Well, if I resort to playing into and supporting people's lowest tendencies with regard to race, then maybe I can recoup this investment."

In this case, it's their huge investment in housing that obviously nobody wants. They should just let it fail, but instead, they'll stoke and validate people's basest suspicions in an attempt to get their money back.

I would feel like shit if exploiting and perpetuating racialism made me millions.
I agree that this is disappointingly unimaginative.

Unless you mean you're going to make my Netflix another channel just like Fox News, which would be pretty nice. But that differs in the fact that Netflix is a video focused application that acts a lot like a channel or something. But that means you had better add a unified UI for video playback. Netflix and YouTube and everything should share the same UI widgets.

I think that's a big part of it. The distinct between "channels" and "apps" is artificial. On my Roku, most of the "channels" can be interacted with in at least some way, making it difficult to draw a line.

Most channels on Roku are offering on-demand features, and you interact with the channel to locate a feature. The Weather Underground channel has controls allowing search for locations, and viewing maps and radar. Some really big things, like Tablo, include features for programming recording; and Plex is pretty much everything but the kitchen sink.

I think if they saw that the apps/channels distinction is artificial, the rest of the design would collapse into a bunch of irrelevancies, and they'd be forced to confront the question for real.
I've gone through a phase where I've started deleting native apps from my phone and just bookmarking the mobile web page to my home screen. Not only do I love the battery life but I'm less attached to the apps with their random notifications of things that really weren't important to me.

I'm very impressed with the quality of mobile apps these days and I love the idea of mobile apps being the standard. I can move from device to device as long as it has a standards-compliant web browser.
> It's true, there are good reasons why EVs aren't mainstream. One is that if you're in an apartment or condominium EV ownership is pretty much out the window unless you can get your property managers to install charging stations.

State laws are coming online that require property managers to install charging stations if they're above a certain size. California's law is already in effect with regard to this.
It's easy to hate on McDonald's, but this is a company that actually does a fantastic job of responding to their critics. They have changed their packaging, updated the design of their restaurants, eliminated trans-fats from the fry oil, changed how they market to kids, added salads to the menu, posted calorie counts and nutrition info, etc. Despite all the hate, they listen and respond.

Even though I don't personally like their food, they are not a company that I would bet against in the long run.
Why would the prices rise? We will consume more, and then we pay more, but why would the price per kWh change? In general things become cheaper to produce at scale (though I guess the current energy consumption is already at a big scale).
What you're referring to is the advent of AI bubbles, and thus AI Winters - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Stating that a bubble cycle has emerged in the means only accentuates the importance of the end, to note that the desire for AI is so strong that futility hasn't kept people from trying.

Virtual reality is another such example.
As for null in general, you can hear it from the horse's mouth here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...

There are a number of ways to approach this topic, so I'll just give you one: in languages with more advanced static type systems, you try to encode as much semantic information as possible in the type. As you've said, the idea of null can be useful, so it deserves a place in the type system. You want to separate things that may be null from things that should never be null. This is because not-null is by far the common case. Allowing everything to be nullable by default optimizes for the lesser-used semantic, which is where errors with null come in: you assume that something isn't null, when it actually is.
I am not a native english speaker and I am wondering why is a book, which is a collection of interviews called a 'handbook'?

The definition of a handbook according to wikipedia:
"A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference."
Why should I expect OpenBSD to not suffer from the universal problems of overly large queues when they haven't documented any mitigation techniques? I can't even find out how to get OpenBSD to do ECN marking without the now-removed altq module.
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The BK veggie burger is pretty good. McDonalds will often say "we can serve you the burger without the beef pattie on it"
You do realise that not everyone is living in big vivid cities with perfect transportation?

For people in rural/urban areas cars are essential.

And don't get me wrong, i agree with everything you say, but that problem won't be solved so easily.
"Happens to be working"

Are you blaming your ISP's poor service on the inventor of DSL? I have a 6mb/s DSL connection and have a lot of frustration with it, but that's mostly due to AT&T. If it wasn't for this guy, my internet choices would be limited, incredibly slow, unreliable, and extremely overpriced.
> Facebook says it will allow more websites and other online services to join its "free mobile data" Internet.org scheme.

Great, so now other few big portals like Yahoo can also be accessed for "free". And Facebook will probably let you give their site for "free"... if you pay Facebook some $. Basically it always was clever business, is, and will be. Maybe it'd be a more palatable offering if Zuckerberg was more honest, if FB didn't masquerade internet.org as Zuck's blessing to humanity.
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That's what Five Guys does too. My partner the vegetarian is not very impressed and doesn't go there.
Rust isn't putting a lot of specific effort into embedded, but we already work on many embedded platforms. As the language matures, I expect that support to grow.
The problem with designing a language that does these sorts of implicit type conversions is that the "equality" operator violates the fundamental properties of equality. Since grade school mathematics we are all taught that equality is symmetric and transitive, and PHP's == operator is neither.
Maybe the newer Samsung ones are better, but the one I have is clunky as hell...

I only ever go into the smart functionality by mistake now - I find the Apple TV to be a way better experience (and I have a few iDevices so AirPlay a fair bit of stuff also).
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I drive a Leaf. It's actually a really great city car. I use it for all my driving (commute, shopping, exploring the city) except for one trip a month I make in my old gas car. The car basically pays for itself compared to what I paid in gas in my old car. It's also almost zero maintenance, which is a huge plus coming from my old under 12k gas car which needed oil, random part replacements, cooling system issues, etc. Worth considering if you drive less than 60 miles a day, imo.
My 2 cents:

Even w/ WPA encryption enabled, a malicious user merely needs to get the network password/access to sit on the network and sniff packets as they fly by. This could be achieved thru various network sniffing tools, or some surreptitious people hacking. So relying on encryption alone does not solve anything.

If your guest WiFi is un-encrypted, i.e. no password/WPA, there is still transport layer encryption like HTTPS, that will secure the connection between the client and server, i.e. your web browser and your bank website. HTTPS assumes that you are on an insecure connection, that's what it was designed for!

Finally, many guest networks implement client isolation, which prevents clients on the LAN from communicating directly with each other or to other private LAN's connected to the guest network. Often network admins setup wholly separate network infrastructure for guest access, totally isolating their private back office LAN from the guest LAN.

Anyways, this stuff is hard, and probably beyond the comprehension of your average business that needs to implement guest WiFi.
Sure the world you would step into when you went to Singapore would be great and fine. However if you consider the fact that Singapore has the highest gini coefficient (measures wealth inequality) [0] then the inability to speak freely might be pretty awful for the peoples at the bottom. It's easy to gloss over the weakest links in our societies (we sure do it well here in America, and probably almost everywhere) but you really have to remember that your Singapore isn't most people from Singapores Singapore and therefore it only seems fair to include a postfix: I don't agree with many of Singapore's laws but it works for me.

[0] - http://thehearttruths.com/2013/02/21/singapore-has-the-highe...
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> Take NYC for example. MTA enables transportation to just about anywhere in the city, all through an electric, mass-transit trolley system.

From my time living in a suburb with a car and living in NYC with no car, the MTA is really really inconvenient and filthy. I wouldn't want to have a car in NYC, but I also wouldn't want to be there in the first place.
Indisputably Lybia. One might also consider several regime changes and interventions in the Middle East and Europe (Ukraine) as acts of war.
It's a bit silly to argue over where materials are made when considering sustainability, as that requires an assumption that the "dirty" productive capacity would otherwise not be used for anything else.
We sure are. We can blacken the sun, wipe away the ozone layer, irradiate and poison the earth, freeze the oceans, we can drill down to nearly the mantle, introduce plagues that can ravage continents and over time, we can fracture the earth's ecosystems so badly that a meteor strike will look like a pebble drop.

Every living thing on the planet will die as a result.
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I've been pondering this for a little while -- I agree with you, and I think it's because the point being conveyed isn't the data, but the scale.
There is, but no idea why it is so hidden.

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if the author is reading this, I'd pay $40 for the audio. I'm assuming you recorded each interview so it could be transcribed. I've got 3 kids and audiobooks/podcasts during my commute is the only realistic time I can consume bulk content.
You left out the best part of that quote, which is part of that last sentence: "however they did amount "to a practice of inhuman and degrading treatment", which is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, article 3.[17]"

Even if the government didn't "torture" him (using your definitions), it's tarnish on the luster of American exceptionalism to condone this sort of behavior, regardless of it's broader classification. This is to say nothing of the hypocrisy in relying on a 1978 definition of torture, for evaluation of actions taken 30+ years later. By the same token, your "corporal punishment in school" example was legal then, but is no longer legal now. Should we go back to our 1978 laws to decide how we manage our children? If we shouldn't, then we shouldn't allow terrible (and useless [1]) degradation of fellow humans to occur at our behest.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11948-004-0011-y

By the way, I would venture to say that we are both officially "lawyering" at this point. :)
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Electricity costs are low because electricity is inherently cheaper to generate and distribute than gasoline. Big, centralized power plants enjoy economies of scale that allow them to be much more efficient and operate more cheaply. They can also use fuels that are impractical for mobile use (basically all of them). Cars don't use gasoline because it's cheap, cars use gasoline because it's dense. If you don't need density then you can use much cheaper stuff, like coal, natural gas, uranium, sunlight, water trapped in a big lake, etc.

If everybody switched to electric cars tomorrow, electricity use would go up about 30%. This is far from trivial, but it's not the sort of thing that would cause prices to spike.

Answering the grandparent, payment varies. At home, you obviously just pay it in your electric bill. When charging away from home, some chargers are free. Businesses often put them in to attract customers, and Tesla operates a vast network of chargers whose operating costs are covered by car sales. (These chargers only work on Teslas, and electricity costs are low enough that they can afford to provide lifetime charging for their customers.) Some chargers are paid, and that's typically done with an RFID card (either a regular credit card with RFID, or a card specifically for the charging network) or a smartphone app.
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Absolutely, but the car industry didn't need to innovate there much because demand already existed. The point I was getting at is that we ripped out municipal transit systems, then built spread out cities where implementing mass transit would not be cost effective (i.e. Orlando, FL) but work well with cars. I'm no expert, though. It's just a thought I frequent on whenever looking at the state of transit and where we're going.
>There are a number of places currently where the government will subsidize electricity used for cars.

So both the car and electricity are subsidized by hard working tax payers? Well, that can't last forever, so what's the REAL cost here? I think when we remove the welfare the cutsey "OMG GAS COSTS MONEY" argument will be dismissed as hyperbolic nonsense it truly is.

I think the "electric is cheaper" argument is complete bunk without government welfare. The real cost of that giant Lithium-Ion battery and energy is non-trivial. Lets remember we're talking about a $100,000 Tesla here. That's not affordable by most.

Not to mention, the money vs time cost. When I take a roadtrip or a long drive I can drive 300+miles, no issue, and refill in a couple minutes. With an electric I need to stop often and spend god knows how long getting a full charge, then go again. Imagine the costs here associated with long range trucking, delivery vehicles, etc. Or just time cut from my precious vacation time. Unless there's a massive breakthrough in battery cost, you're actually paying a lot more than an ICE car for day to day driving.

Gasoline is so energy dense, so plentiful, and so easy to work with, its going to be VERY difficult getting off it. I pity the electric guys. They know its a uphill battle and lodging themselves into the luxury high end for economic survival is very telling. The "low" end is still a $35k+ car with quarter the range of the Tesla, which is terrible from pretty much any rational metric.
That's a pretty huge assertion you are throwing in there.

I think there is a fair chance that some of the tax there is just a simple luxury tax, with accidental relief on the Tesla side (as opposed to a proper pricing of externalities).
They are not obligated to do so. They are obligated to do what the majority of the shares want to do, even giving all their money away in charity. If the CEO doesn't comply, the board elects a new CEO. Anyway the shareholders usually care about profit, even short term one, so companies as entities usually "care about getting money".

By the way, this is a quote from Facebook's IPO letter http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120... (it was pretty debated at the time so it's easy to remember it)

"[...] we frequently make product decisions that may reduce our short-term revenue or profitability if we believe that the decisions are consistent with our mission and benefit the aggregate user experience and will thereby improve our financial performance over the long term. These decisions may not produce the long-term benefits that we expect, in which case our user growth and engagement, our relationships with developers and advertisers, and our business and results of operations could be harmed."

It was easy to write that at the time of the IPO but as shareholder become more institutional I believe that the pressure for short term gains increases. I wonder where Facebook is now.
Yeah it's totally a debatable one, hence the "can." I should have listed it as a caveat or something.
Is it even a parody? It's written from the perspective of somebody who doesn't yet exist: a person who has only known electric cars for their whole life. But aside from that, it does a pretty good job of imagining what that person would think the first time they're exposed to a "normal" car.
Maybe in Libertopia, but, on the other hand, actual reality.
So, what's holding you up exactly? RC cars are cheap, people have done cool stuff with old android phones for sensor packages. If you need more horsepower, stream the data back to a PC, you've got wifi on the phone. New industrial arms are expensive, but you can scrounge one, or get a hobby one. sparkfun had a uArm that would probably work for you.
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I agree that sometimes it is necessary to lay off employees for the good of the company. But Fiorina is widely considered to have been a complete incompetent as CEO, of which the layoffs were a symptom, and she was fired by the board of directors. That's enough for me to consider her with extreme skepticism. I must also say that I'm not impressed with business school-grad tech executives who don't know anything about coding or hardware, especially if they're also proven incompetents.
Yeah but javascript has 'use strict' whereas PHP decided that the easter egg "looks like you're using the wrong language!" was more important than actually allowing a 'use strict' to force === instead of ==.
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