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I don't see how this is unique to EVs... Couldn't any car have this kind of tracking?

I completely agree. I've run into a lot of people who say something like the following:

> But dude, you just have to get through the first 3 seasons and the show gets so good.

No, I'm really fine not wasting 15-30 hours of my life when there's hundreds of other incredible shows, movies, books, and video games.

Like the sibling comment said, it is a little less "clacky". The harder you tend to type the larger the difference you will notice. I tend to type lighter without bottoming out too much, so the difference wasn't as stark. Also, the key travel is cut down just a little, but I didn't mind one way or another.

So this wouldn't work with blues, but for browns, blacks, and reds you can always get O-rings to put under the keys. In college I played lots of video games late at night while my roommate was sleeping and once I installed O-rings on my MX reds he never had issues again.

> That is: I expect to have a whole working life where I don't need to put aside anything. As long as I afford my house, car, holidays etc - I'm fine.

As an American, I think this may be the hardest thing to wrap my head around. Since I was a kid I (and anecdotally, many of my peers) have been told to never rely on a government or business-sponsored pension. What happens if the government swings in a different direction in the 3 decades before I retire? What if a couple bad administrations screw things up? What if the company who has my pension goes under or poorly invests it?

It seems that having nothing saved for yourself for your decades-away end of life care is putting A LOT of trust in a system that is less than 100 years old. I think this is where my desire to trade earnings for government services comes from... I can't guarantee that the services will be there for me, but if I manage my money conservatively I can more-or-less guarantee that it will be there.

Keep in mind that I'm also a software engineer, giving me the privilege to choose higher earnings over government services. If I were lower-income or in a line with less future earnings potential I might feel differently.

With enough pressure I could see a reusable-dishes-as-a-service type company. A restaurant could pay this service $x per month and the service would come daily to drop off clean containers and pick up used containers for cleaning and sterilization. Restaurants could have a deposit upon getting a meal, say $3. When you bring your containers back you get your $3 back (or $3 towards your next meal there?).

If multiple restaurants in your area used the same service, or if the dishes were standardized enough, then you could drop off your used dishes at multiple different places whenever you get take-out again.

Obviously this is "in an ideal world" thinking, but it seems like with enough economic pressure on the take-out industry it could start being feasible.

Related to the idea of prioritizing your time, something a family member told me and stuck with me: saying "I don't have time for that" is another way of saying "I have other things that are more important than that."

The US did not break an international treaty. It was a "deal" from Obama, which he never put in front of the Senate to actually become an international treaty... Likely because the Senate would not have confirmed it as it was.

I'm glad you elaborated on this because I also interpreted it as an overly negative attitude towards modules. He was definitely a little nervous while talking!

Not the OP, but I think he's referring to the potential for an automated service spamming thousands (or more) accounts enough to lock them.

I'm not sure Invader Zim and Futurama are tip offs of being old... My peers and I are in our mid-20s and lots enjoy both of those shows.

Tangentially, some car manufacturers have done prototypes of this as well. Look up the Porsche GT3R Hybrid or the Volvo S60 prototype for an example... Unfortunately it appears that for one reason or another no one has decided to move forward with these into actual consumer cars.

This works until you need to plug something into the back of a computer with vertical ports.

Assuming someone's income is that low, they can't just spend multiple months saving up for each and every article of clothing. That also means forgoing saving for anything else. What good is just a warm jacket when it is below 10F outside? Or when my car breaks down and I need to choose between that single jacket and a new alternator?

There is no long term if I can't survive the short term to get there. So in this situation, you buy the cheapest you can to ensure that you can at least make it to tomorrow.

Although I don't think it's official, I know some police departments encourage community members to do Craigslist-type sales in their parking lots. It's not escrow, but I think you'd have to be very bold to steal something in view of police surveillance.

I don't think this was whataboutism... The previous comment made a claim and he showed concrete evidence going against that claim.

> Yea... it's like that except neither AWS nor Google have phone numbers to call.

At my current company we have access to AWS support. I'm not high enough on the ladder to know the specifics (separate contract, size threshold?), but when we've had issues in Aurora we've had personalized support. I have no doubt if you're scaling to thousands of instances you would have personalized support, if for no other reason that a cloud provider would not want to lose such a huge customer.

> It's huge, slow to startup, and creates a larger install size.

I think these tradeoffs are okay for backend services, but I agree that they don't belong in user-facing applications if it can be avoided.

That's the plan, but this article is way too premature and the title is a little misleading. They want to put it into solar orbit at Mars' distance.

However, they are going to wait 6 hours to fire the second stage for a third burn which would actually put it in orbit. They want it to be exposed to radiation and test how well the booster holds up before the final burn.

As someone who's been trying to pick up a consistent task tracking system, I have a question: Do you just always have a notepad with you? I tried something similar to this with a pocket-size notepad, but it was annoying and didn't fit very well with a pen.

So far the closest I've gotten is having a Google Doc, but it doesn't have the same flexibility that a hand-written notepad does (e.g. symbols, indexes, ease of writing/ access).

It's impossible to understate how much your comment has oversimplified the gun debate in the US.

However, let's assume that the government has ideologically came to the same conclusion you've made and drafted a new constitutional amendment which outlawed gun ownership. There are incredible practical issues with actually enforcing it. How do you expect to collect 300 million firearms[1]? What do you do with 300M firearms once you have them?

There are also high rate of illegal (and therefor untracked) gun ownership in gang controlled areas. How do you expect people to feel about being disarmed when they live in an area surrounded by violent, illegal gun owners who haven't been disarmed?

What about the people who are gun collectors? Who may have spent their entire lives tracking down and collecting antique guns? Who's personal wealth may be largely in gun assets? Does the government pay them for each gun? Who the hell is going to trust the government to set a fair price for these guns? How much would it cost to buy 300 million gun and all of the related accessories and ammunition?

I'm barely scratching the surface here and this is assuming that Congress has already passed a constitutional amendment! Banning guns in the United States will never happen, because before any of these practical implications become relevant a new amendment needs to be passed in order to override what our founding fathers and a lot of the country see as the second most important amendment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...

I think the main issue with structuring a curriculum like this (assuming the classes are sequential) is that it would take 2.5 years of university to cover it all. That's a A LOT of class time to cover only one programming paradigm when the average CS curriculum is already heavy and lacking slots for electives.

Someone would need to start this Sophomore year and not miss a single course until graduation in order to complete this... While that's fine for core classes like Chemistry which have multiple timeslots offered per semester, having such a brittle pathway for a less-taught topic would cause some grief to plan around.

I'm fairly utilitarian about cooking and I see where OP is coming from... After working a full day I don't want to take more time to cook and clean. I want to relax or do something fun, and cooking isn't that for me. Being able to make a meal that lasts 2ish days is pretty excellent way of not having to spend time on cooking while still getting a good (if repetitive) set of meals.

On the other hand my wife enjoys cooking so she'll end up doing most of that and it's my job to clean up afterwards. Time-wise it works out to about what it would take for me to make something simple. When she leaves town for a few days I go back to my utilitarian ways.

Easy to do, but hard to do well. And as a layperson in the photography world it's hard to know what you're missing until you compare an amateur and a professional side-by-side.

If I remember right, it's also due to the fact that the type of parent that will spend the money and time to enroll their child in a charter school is much more likely to be the type of parent that takes an active role in their children's education.

There's an argument that a charter school's real advantage is that it attracts a higher proportion of parents who want to push their kids for achievement and have the resources to do it as well.

Don't forget about jQuery. Webscale bro.

All of those cars are not even close to recent except for the NSX. And even the NSX was dead for over a decade before they brought it back! Honda used to have some interesting, fun, simple sports cars... But those days are pretty far behind them at this point.

One low-volume, $150k+ car does not make it seem like they "make interesting cars". They certainly have in the past, but at the moment they really don't from a sports car perspective.

If the effectiveness is high enough, then for some people it could be as, or more, important. To create a overly ideal example as a counterpoint:

There is a WMD of some sort hidden in a major city center. We have captured and are 100% sure that the head people who did the planning and planting of the WMD are in our custody. We have a morally reprehensible, but 100% effective torture method.

1. It is guaranteed that these people know the exact information.

2. Tens of thousands or more will be harmed or killed if it is not disarmed.

3. These people are the reason why the WMD is there to begin with.

In this case I think that taking more drastic measures would be justified.

Wow this sounds huge. I remember people speculating about this since it came to light... But people always talked about it like it was a vague hypothetical that only scary 3-letter agencies would figure out. I'm curious to see what kind of access they need in order to actually make use of this. If they somehow don't need physical access this is going to be nuts.

I think the downvotes are more to do with how vague your answer is. Before I saw your other responses I thought that you were being sarcastic.