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If the incentive is to support a law suit, then getting the discovery order was something they were going to need to do anyway.

They say abruptly.

And this is normal in a mistaken accelerator pedal application. You press down on the 'brake', the car speeds up, you panic stomp down on the 'brake' as hard as you can.

Typically, the manufacturer's diagnostic tool can download data from the fast stop recorder. An accident investigator should be able to access it for you.

Despite Don mentioning gravity along with deltaV he is obviously attempting to describe the classic rocket equation without scaring people away with the math.

Right, if you attempt to smuggle a listed banned item through. If you get there and say, "crap it says no ulus (knives)" no problem. Happens at ANC all day long.

Those innocuous items are banned because they are supposedly, either directly dangerous, or just too difficult to verify as safe (liquids). But you'll find TSA has no problem with you choosing to leave the airport with your oversized shampoo bottle instead of taking your flight if that's what you prefer to do.

It is absolutely true that 'the rocket equation' doesn't account for thrust. It also doesn't account for gravity gradients, aerodynamic drag, relativity, solar wind, the cosmological constant...

It's very accurate when those things contribute little, and totally inadequate for modeling spaceflight if any are significant.

There are more complex versions that account for those things, but 'the rocket equation' is always understood to mean Tsiolkovsky's equation.

>The number one thing you worry about with a launch vehicle is not ISP, it's the tyranny of the rocket equation.

The rocket equation doesn't account for thrust. It's terms are mass and ISP (or exhaust velocity).

>If this tech lowers the weight of the first stage, it might actually RAISE the ISP of the rocket overall, even if it lowers the ISP of the engine itself.

ISP is depends only on exhaust velocity. Changing the mass of the rocket cannot effect it.

>The only place owning an EV is actually environmentally friendly in North America is Quebec since 95% is generated by Hydro.

A quick check on the DOE website shows 95% of power generated in Washington is 0 CO2. And we export it to neighboring states.

Not to mention, power generation has benefits of scale. One stationary 10,000hp engine is more efficient than 10,000 mobile 1hp engines.

With $210 million for medium and heavy-duty vehicle chargers, whatever they choose may become the de-facto standard.

Bias toward moderation is a trade-off. Attempting to minimize it seems naive.

At the extreme end, a legislature consisting of communists, anarchists, facists, theocrats, and hippies wouldn't accomplish anything but igniting civil war.

Hauling trailers around isn't lossless either.

It would be a great idea, had only cryptocurrency been invented before powerlines.

In King county, there has been lots of construction in the last decade, but not enough to keep pace with immigration.

Per unit cost is an extremely important metric to an auto company.

I don't know it. Laws get written and enforced for lots of reasons, enforcing morality and protecting the population are among them.

If people don't like it, they are free to direct their governments to enact and enforce anti-trust laws that address these platforms.

It also marked the end of a major multi-year project. With Deepmind moving that team to focus on other problems I wouldn't expect immediate results.

This renderer wouldn't really help with that problem though would it? It sounds like what you could use is software to transform that curved path into a straight line so you can look at it end on.

>So the use case of 'landing on a moving sheep' is probably right up their alley

This is critical, as it's almost impossible to hold a sheep stationary while landing a drone on it.

Waste water treatment doesn't remove drugs, so they make it out into the water, and the filter feeders pick it up.

>If you rewind the universe to the same decision again and again, I will make different choices in different iterations, i.e. the choices are independent of and therefore not predictable from the state of the universe, but they are also not just random because that would not be free will either.

That is still randomness, it's a random distribution conditioned on the world state.

Pretty sure this project is dead: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/biostream/

But it has some pretty neat examples, not doing computation, but a programmable system for moving, storing, and mixing samples.

Is "mobile phone" even a relevant category? What's Apple's share of the high end smart phone market?

>I think a major effort in self driving is solving the Goldilocks issue of reacting properly to impending accidents, but also not apply uncomfortable breaking if it’s not needed.

This is also an issue with current production automatic braking system. One that was largely solved with on track testing, and on road testing logging false triggers with a driver driving. There's no need to risk lives unless you're just cutting corners to avoid the cost of a test track.

If your company is okay with the ethical/legal reality of breaking the law for a year, why not just keep at it?

TV/Cartoon mashups, AR 'stickers', plenty of silly entertainment possibities.

Do I understand correctly that an Uber driver with a 30k capital investment in a car is part of the petite bourgeoise, and a surgeon working for a hospital who has put 400k toward education is part of the proletariat? Or do you count education as capital?

>It can't be modeled using a sequence of discrete symbols, but it's also stable over time in the presence of noise.

Did you mean can be?

When you learned to be integrate continuous functions, I'm certain you learned to do it while scratching sequences of discrete symbols onto paper.

It's on its face, not a great place for a drug dealer to find new clients.

In recovery you find people that already have access, trying to stop using.