bronz

Why have so many people down-voted this? Lots of major news outlets openly regard the development of an Apple EV as factual. And one can see why after reviewing the evidence. Is this all wrong? What am I missing?

I appreciate your honest feedback but I have to disagree. The article was about software. The comments:

> (him) This software was written in Matlab. Here is a link.

> (me) Why do you think they wrote it in Matlab?

I really don't understand how the intention of my question is ambiguous to anyone. But luckily this issue is completely trivial anyway I suppose.

I think you misread my question or something.

Someone down-voted me just for asking. I have no idea about any of this stuff and I was just genuinely curious. Apparently people are pretty polarized about Matlab. Thanks for explaining that to me.

Why do you think they wrote it in Matlab?

The most profound thing that the internet can do for the world is create a single monolithic repository of documents that is designed to take a dedicated reader from basic principles of math to a high degree of understanding in any subject. This is such an easy task compared to all of the other projects that happen on the internet, it is astonishing that we don't have anything like it yet. Wikipedia comes close. Khan Academy might become what I just described after they add more content. But nothing really hits the nail on the head yet. If Facebook spent a few billion on it then we would have it. It's so fucking simple. I would trade in Instagram many, many times over in exchange for such a repository. It is one of the easiest things to do and out of all the things we could do has the greatest impact on society and yet it has not been done. Amazing.

I think that intellectual pissing contests are disgusting. In upper middle-class institutions such as Berkley people seem to revel in it. Everybody embraces the imaginary hierarchy so completely that watching them do it makes me gag. I think that this phenomenon has been intensified by the relative disappearance of the middle class. People no longer aspire to academic excellence because of their passion or enjoyment for the subject they study. Instead they believe that they need to be among the elite in order to have a happy and satisfying life.

Do modern western countries even have monogamy anymore? Cheating is so widespread that I almost want to laugh at the idea of monogamous America. Perhaps polygamy is just taking the dirty, hidden aspects of a supposedly monogamous system and bringing them out in the open.

I understand. But I didn't mean it that way. Gay people were left out of this analysis completely.

The result of this study really resonates with me. The accuracy of the conclusions it draws may be questionable, but it resonates none the less. I think that we may be finally experiencing the consequences of our irresponsible behavior in earlier decades. Many good changes have been brought about, sure. But we threw away the sanctity of the family unit. We taught everyone that making a modest living is for "losers." We let our schools become daycare centers. And in many ways I feel that we lost our morality. And now that all the money is gone it doesn't work anymore.

Whatever you get, make sure you have an antenna lined up for it. It's completely useless if it does not have an antenna. And many of these dongles use weird antennas that you can only get online. So mind that.

This is disgusting.

It was when the DK2 first came out that I realized VR was not the slam dunk it is often portrayed as. The DK2 was bought by many people, many more than the DK1. And once all of those customers started posting feedback on the internet it became clear that motion sickness was still a huge problem. And motion sickness will not be resolved with higher frame rates or lower latency as most of us believed prior to the DK2. Oh well.

"For storage a $65 lead acid automobile battery does the trick. It’s 12V so can be charged directly from the solar panel, and holds 420Wh, way more than I use in a day. That’s $0.15 / Wh so I don’t see why everyone is so excited about Tesla charging $0.43 / Wh for the Powerwall, sans inverter and installation."

I would like to refer you to this wonderful article. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

I switched to Safari on my Macbook a long time ago because I noticed it was a lot warmer whenever I used Chrome to watch Youtube. It's kinda cool to see these graphs confirm my crude assumption.

Thank you.

What is racing?

The batteries are actively liquid cooled.

The effective cost for Tesla is around $300. There was a paper in Nature Climate Change about it.

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n4/full/nclimate25...

This must be the best episode of Frontline I have ever seen. It was riveting. And in my opinion, the very best part of it is when they show Michael Hayden walking amongst the crowd right before President Bush presented his public response to the torture accusations. They made no commentary on Hayden, but they showed him very deliberately. Hayden played a key role in the NSA spying program that would eventually be revealed to the world by Edward Snowden, and seeing Hayden immediately added that entire enterprise of deception to the context of the story being told. That single shot of him added a huge amount of depth and gravity to the whole thing.

I bought a Realtek SDR a while ago. It didn't come with an antenna, so what little signal it receives is overshadowed by all the noise my computer makes. I really need to get that thing working. Incredibly cool stuff.

I will save everyone some time and quote the only definitive statement in the entire article.

>"Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save them money or make them green, or both. But the truth is that rooftop solar shouldn’t be saving them money (though it often does), and it almost certainly isn’t green. In fact, the rooftop-solar craze is wasting billions of dollars a year that could be spent on greener initiatives. It also is hindering the growth of much more cost-effective renewable sources of power."

He then goes on to explain that the costs are low only because of unsustainable federal subsidies. He does not mention what source of renewable power it is that is so much more cost effective than solar. Nor does he mention what the "greener initiatives" are or why solar is not green. No evidence provided whatsoever. Solar is in fact "green" and sustainable. And in my opinion it is the best source of renewable energy available to us. The rest of this article is spent talking about the subsidies and why they are bad. And he says that if the utilities erected solar farms, we could have sustainable energy at 5 cents per kWh. This is true, but the utility companies have refused to implement solar in any meaningful way. Whether it is because of greed or red tape does not matter. Continuing to burn fossil fuels to generate our energy is out of the question and if the utility companies do not reform themselves people are going to buy those panels and eventually prune themselves from the grid entirely. And everyone knows that the utility companies are going to drag their feet until the brink of disaster.

I wonder if the fabric is machine washable.

I was a very dedicated supporter of VR from 2012 to 2014. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that VR will flounder, especially in the coveted "seated experience" category. When the DK2s began to land on the doorsteps of developers and fans, feedback began to pour into the forums. There are two kinds of people: there are people who do not get simulator sickness and those who do. After reading the feedback and stories regarding the DK2 I realized simulator sickness was a much larger problem that I thought, and that it wasn't going to disappear with better tracking, pixel density and refresh rate. Some people simply cannot tolerate VR, and I doubt that even the CV1 will be able to change that. But these are only the people at the extreme end of the spectrum, there are many others who straddle the boundary between being sick immediately and never feeling sick at all. The problem for people on the fence is that lateral movement in the game world is a major trigger for nausea. If your virtual body accelerates from standing to running, your real body expects to feel a sensation of acceleration. What this means is that if you move around too much you get sick. And for people who don't feel sick as soon as they put the head set on, movement is often the tipping point. This is a huge problem because there is no way to simulate that kind of sensation (within practical limits) and almost all of the VR experiences that people want to engage in involve moving around in some way.

This conclusion is based solely on rational observations, and it was arrived at in spite of huge optimism and engagement with VR and the VR community.

Here is another article by the same guy.

https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-tesla-wont-be-able-to-scale

He argues that Tesla will not be able to scale for two reasons.

The first and most credible reason is that Tesla has already established an overhead structure for low volume, high margin cars and that it will not be able to change this structure for Model 3. This is a legitimate point, but it cannot be said that this is a reason why it would be impossible for Tesla to scale. The title suggests that it is.

The second point he made was that because Tesla "dealers" are in the business of making money, they will always give higher priority to selling the more expensive, higher margin cars than cheaper ones. He is saying that this is going to be a major impediment to the success of Tesla in their high volume aspirations. I think it is obvious that this is a laughable argument. Even if we pretend for a moment that customers have absolutely no control over what they buy, this argument falls flat. Tesla has exercised more control over their retail experience than any other car company that I know of. And they do this in spite of huge resistance from the automotive establishment. It is bizarre to propose that the Model 3 will fail because Tesla won't be able to get their own sales people in line. And the arguments in the "golf cart" article are just as vapid.

The warranty lasts 10 years. It is basically guaranteed to work for ten years. This is probably analogous to the 60k mile warranty that comes with a Prius. Nobody is junking their Prius after 60 thousand miles.

Look at the press kit for more information.

http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy?via=newslett...

To those who say that this battery doesn't do anything new and lead acid is cheaper, I would like to refer you to this article.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

his reasons: load shifting, self consumption, backup, (saving the planet from global warming)

Like many important things in America, children are neglected. Everybody gets divorced even if they have kids. And everybody works even if they have a spouse that works, even if they have kids. And we send our kids to public schools where they learn nothing besides how to be thick skinned. And we are surprised when the next generation is filled with even more stupid ass holes.

Does the autopilot handle bridge inspections?