bronz

im sorry to break this to you but electric motors are more reliable than combustion engines. they require less maintenance and last longer because of their inherent advantages. and the number of moving parts and lack of explosions/chemical reactions is basically why. you call my argument stupid but you fail to raise a single valid argument against it. all you can say is that modern engines do pretty well, which has nothing to do with how they do compared to electric motors. in fact im pretty sure the reason you resort to name calling is because you know youre wrong...

and brake lines still require less maintenance for the same reason that pads and disks do. balls in your court.

brakelines dont exist on a tesla. the brakes are electromechanical. the pads and disks last much, much longer because most braking is done with regen. software errors are handled over the air. batteries now last a long time and they will last much, much longer without needing any improvement in technology. the battery in a tesla can be replaced in literally seconds. try that with anything from an ICE that has to be mechanically linked to other parts.

you see, you dont really know anything about EVs. but this very simple principle should be enough to settle things: ICEs use many moving parts and use explosions. electric motors have one moving part. so as you can see, the best ICE is worse than the best EV even when you include cost efficiency in the definition of best. EVs are already way better than ICEs. And even if you spent a million dollars making a very reliable ICE it would still be less reliable than a run of the mill EV...

It wont temper the claim that EVs are maintenance free because it has nothing to do with how much maintenance EVs require. The premise is that the best implementation of an EV will require much less maintenance than the best implementation of an ICE.

yeah, they say that the stem cells actually disappear after about a month but improvement continues well afterward. and they say its because of growth factors released by these cells.

when are they going to perform a launch with a recycled booster?

wow. that is so fantastic. i wonder how they came to the 40% figure.

i mean, there is indeed a trend in the news industry today to exploit tragedies for ad money. im not ok with that either. but obviously gawker took exploitation to an entirely other level which is the source of my outrage.

i never defined journalism as something i agree with. not here or anywhere else.

its always refreshing to see incremental improvements in technology unfolding before me.

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gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and heartbreak, their endeavour to make the world a better place, for clicks. they hosted a video of hulk hogan having sex on their website despite him not wanting them to. maybe people dont realize just how fucked up that is because people tend to dehumanize celebrities. these are not journalists. these people are fucking scum. good riddance. the fact that a billionaire funded hogans case doesnt bother me at all. it reminds me more of bill gates funding malaria research than anything. another parasite wiped out for the betterment of humanity.

all the people saying this is creepy because its a billionaire shutting down journalism -- dont make me laugh. these werent journalists. and they sealed their own doom by doing things that were not only mean and cruel but super illegal. they did this to themselves. hogan was going to win that case no matter what.

i would have donated to his case given the opportunity.

it might be awkward if gawker or valleywag staffed journalists.

dont get me wrong, i will never go against any kind of improvement or expansion of basic education. However, seeing how i have invested quite a lot of time and money into my computer science degree (finishing up in about a year), i am a little concerned that soon programming is going be devalued as a profession because of programs like these. is that wrong? also they said that they have been doing this in isreal since 2000, anybody know how that turned out?

fuck this. services like this one are not some inevitable result of having high technology. if they are, then governments tracking the movements of every citizen with face recognizing security cameras is inevitable as well. its ok because it stops terrorism, right? no. i think it needs to come to a halt. laws must be enacted. the sanctity of our privacy must be protected deliberately now that it is not protected by barriers of technical infeasibility.

what is the current status with driver support for vulkan? are they being rolled out steadily at this point? and does anyone have an opinion on how quickly we will see vulkan drivers become reliable and ubiquitous?

also, check out this awesome demo of DOOM using vulkan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3LaLJoo0s

gamasutra provides a link to the blog post where this actually came from. i just want to say that his blog is one of the best i have ever seen and that you should check it out. it has tons of posts that are just as interesting as this one except about getting hired at naughty dog, implementing a physics engine and much more.

Would you mind explaining what he meant when he said "[...] there is now no denying that lawyers can no longer be permitted to regulate one another." I don't know anything about the law so I don't understand how lawyers are regulating themselves.

i dont understand why ceos get paid so much. companies are always trying to cut costs -- we see outsourcing to mexico and massive layoffs fairly frequently -- but ceos never seem to get cut as a cost. when one is fired another is hired and paid just as much. 40 million for being the ceo? how is it possible that you could never find someone who could do the job just as well who would take 20 million?

I am fascinated by TruCrypt and Bitcoin -- they had a very big impact on the world but their authors are completely unknown. Are there any other instances of things like that?

This is really profound. I made a rough estimate of when I will die and ticked the box that corresponds to it. Being able to see each individual week that I have left really gave me pause. Wow. And this graph is generous. Your perception of how long a week is decreases with time. So if this were a graph of how much perceived time you have left it would be even smaller...

No. It can be assumed that people here enjoy working on projects. Projects that interest them. The deeper meaning of this statement, in my opinion, is that every day you spend doing something that you dont like is a very big deal because, as this graph illustrates, there aren't really that many days available to waste.

Wow. The interior is absolutely jaw dropping. It looks so fucking good.

Thank you for simply correcting it instead of just deleting it. I didn't mean to do that.

Or they could just be collecting marketing data.

This is actually a very good point because these events have started late more than once.

Yes.

Actually the title was originally "Model3 Unveil Live-stream [video]" but it mysteriously changed to what it is now. I'm not complaining though.

I have waited 4 years for this moment. I can hardly believe it's finally happening. Cheers.

If you are going to spend 600 dollars you might as well get a hooker.

I remember when TF2 first rolled out support for the DK1. Good times. It was magical. Although most people reported that playing as the scout was not a good idea.