Tesla's problem would seem to be the opposite: they switched to hard tooling before the assembly bugs were worked out. Now they've got an efficient production line making cars that need substantial post-prod work.

They seemed to be carrying about 20 bomblets apiece. Each bomblet seemed to be a small charge + ball-bearings + contact detonation at around 6" above ground. So, in total, a primitive & cheap anti-personnel and unarmored target system.

Numbers like 220 actual versus 1600 predicted on a new automobile production line implies they having to rework a lot of defects by hand. Some rework is expected, but this implies that hugely capital-intensive line is running at a fraction of its capacity. That's also expected at first, in fact that why most manufacturers start with soft-tooling until they work the bugs out, then buy the most expensive hard-tools. News reports say Tesla went with hard tooling up-front, and that makes this a hellish expensive production line to be running at 15% or less.

Yeah, it's pretty insane. Our Thanksgiving dinner of technologists, financiers, accountants, and lawyers figured he has a 1%-2% chance of success without giant government subsidies. We also estimated it wasn't a good idea to short the stock: there's too much idiot money out there.

He keeps missing his own production targets, he has big negative cashflow, his tooling plan for mass market cars is bizarre to the point of crazy.

He should just call his next car the "DeLorean, Mark II." It's cool, fast, uses high technology, and defies the laws of physics.

Net neutrality has nothing to do with moderation.

You browse at -1, you get to ignore the moderation you don't seem to like. All comments are still treated equally in terms of you getting to see them. That's net neutrality.

If Slashdot starts charging money to transmit left-leaning comments, or reduces the bandwidth given to right-wing comments, that's non-neutral.

Really, it is not strange to be pro-net neutrality in a world where carriers are both bandwidth providers and content producers.

The math on explosives in the video is actually about right. 3g of shaped HE would easily drive a self-formed metal jet through skull and 5 inches of brain matter. Just Google for videos of "tiny shaped charge" and be afraid.

Total agree. In the old days, priests would fuck altar boys in the ass and no one would report it.Today, it's fashionable to complain about it rather than working with the person in a position of power, or in certain cases, around them.

You sound like an RNN trained quickly on a small dataset of popular science articles.

True. All the acceleration and braking and potholes in the air make it hard to design planes that even last 10 years.

Nah, he's just saddled with a bunch of unviable physical businesses that need huge capital. He can't raise it cheaply in the bond markets, so he needs to talk up the "revolutionary" side of things to keep the equity side going. Maybe he can do another "merger" to move capital between his startups (Tesla and batteries sort of looked like it could make sense, but roofing tiles, rockets, tunnels, hyperloop, etc, are boutique.) He needs hype to raise equity in the core businesses because their financials look grim.

This will not end well.

It's a game changer! Promising to devote $200M/yr is like $4/year for each student. I admit it's not new money, and they are spending more than that already on STEM, but still, it's a great pro-science initiative. I'm sure Betsy DeVos will spend it wisely on consultants and charter school initiatives. Liberals will be shocked at how amazing the results will be.

Well, Bing is only used to search for porn videos. Given "black people ruin porn", Bing made a noble effort to cater to my needs.

One possibility is that the women noticed that CS/engineering is pretty biased against women, even if just implicitly (orchestras noticed that when you do blind auditions women score much better; women do better in acceptance of open source code submissions when gender is not known.) High-skill women switched to equivalent high-paying jobs (medicine and law,) where there is less implicit bias because of more objective measures of competence (e.g. MCATs, LSATs, the bar exam.)

Obviously it is. As we learned from several Slashdot posters, "reasoning" is an ineffable quality possessed by male software engineers working at Google.

As a simple example, try how much vacuum a toy balloon will take compared with pressure.

That doesn't even make sense.

It doesn't make sense to you because you don't understand physics and/or math. Positive internal pressure makes shapes want to become more round - like the toy balloon you are confused about. So high pressure hoses, etc, work. Positive external pressure makes round things flatten: the physics works against you, amplifying any departure from roundness. So vacuum hoses need structural reinforcement (i.e. being thick or having internal bracing.)