Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

If you are a nation-state, it's prudent to assume any unfriendly nation-state is doing whatever it can to prepare for conflict, including laying the groundwork for a future attack that may or may not ever happen.

Wrong. It is not the cause of Global Warming, and it is not caused by Global Warming. So far you would be right. But it is a problem whose consequences get worse due to Global Warming. So yes, it has to do with Global Warming.

Sensitive data should be hard to steal in bulk.*

Put the data warehouse behind a slow-speed link - one that's just fast enough for normal, expected traffic. "Slow speed link" may vary by time-of-day or other circumstances.

The goal is that if there's a big rush of traffic, requests will get queued or dropped and someone will notice and be able to hit the "emergency stop" button.

Sensitive data that will never be needed "in real time" should be stored in a system that can only be accessed by a few people (or robots serving the same purpose) who have the job of taking requests, copying the data to temporary storage, then moving the temporary storage to someplace where the person who needs it can get to it. Think of it as a cache with a 5-minute loading time.

If industry does this, some things will be less convenient and more expensive to run, but the risks of large-scale, hit-and-run data thefts will go way down. This won't fix small-scale thefts or slowly-drain-the-data-warehouse attacks, but it will help.

* Sensitive data should be hard to steal, period, but that may be too much to ask.

You are not here. You are at a place where a back-of-the-envelope calculation states is the minimum required. The real thing is probably at least twice as large.

Reaching Mars requires at least planetary escape velocity (11.2 km/s). That means you need a three stage rocket. Usually, the lower stage is about five times the next one. Starting from Mars requires only one stage (escape velocity 5.0 km/s). But still, you need a rocket large enough to carry a fully loaded ICBM as payload to get this one to Mars. A very small ICBM like the Midgetman weighs about 17 metric tons, the usual sized Minuteman twice that. Carry this one on a three stage rocket, your first stage has to have about 125 times the size of a Midgetman or Minuteman, thus between 2000 and 4000 metric tons. This would easily be in the size range of the Saturn V (2200 to 2900 metric tons).

In fact, the Atlas Centaur which carried Mariner 6 and 7 to Mars, weighted 136 metric tons while carrying just 400 kg of payload. At this ratio, we would need more than 300 times the payload, hence a rocket able to carry an ICBM to Mars would weigh between 6000 and 12000 metric tons or four times Saturn V.

It's a cool idea and they stand for a lot of great ideals, but laptops are incredibly hard to get right, drivers are hard to get right, and they are a small team trying to support a large number of possible configurations. Hardware gets more complicated by the year: forget the CPU and various GPUs, just look at how many other devices in a modern computer have a full-on processor, e.g. fancy touchbars, displays, even hard drives! Hell, your CPU probably has its own secondary general-purpose processors for things like security, and our CPUs themselves get firmware updates now to change how their instructions function. They are doing great work, but the deck is so stacked against them that it's not funny.

Really?

That seems crazy to me--electricity is so much cheaper these days. Where are you getting that stat? If it's true, it's FASCINATING. Like, why even BUY a PHEV if you're not going to plug it in?

There need to be more PHEVs for the transition. After researching cars for the last year, I've decided that my next one will be a PHEV of some kind, because none of the errands I run will ever take me more than the 60km-ish range of the battery, and then when I do actually have to drive somewhere far away (my Mother lives 1000km away), I don't have to worry about fuelling. I'm also planning to lease it, because the landscape will be completely different in 3 years.

FWIW, when the power goes out, a lot of modern EVs can power your house for a few days. And solar could basically make you fully independent. But honestly, I don't think you should have to bear that cost.

(And, as usual, keeping something that's already working is nearly always better than getting something new from a carbon standpoint. Why replace anything if your shit works? I'm only planning to buy a car because I haven't had one for 10 years, but I've moved to a city where I could use one more often.)

Yeah, it's worse and stupider because we could be building rail to those places and making PHEVs more available, but we're not. But besides that, we DO have urban Vancouver (2.9 million people), urban Toronto (9.7 million people in the region), urban Montreal (4.6 million people), plus Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and a few others close to 1 million each. EIGHTY PERCENT of Canadians live in urban centres.

We love to make excuses for our inaction here in Canada. "Oh, the country is SO BIG. This problem is intractable! Let's just give our money to oil companies and hope they voluntarily lower emissions so we meet our global obligations! Wah!"

We do nothing and demand that the government does nothing either.

Carbon tax? Forget it! Promote EVs! No way! What we want is the good ol' status quo, planet be damned.

I hear a lot about "made in Canada" solutions, and frankly, so far, they all suck. Why don't we just do what other countries have learned have worked: build more bike lanes, make better public transit, build high-speed rail lines. And yeah, phase out SELLING petrol cars in the next 11 years. Just do it. Stop complaining unless you have an actual solution that isn't some BS slogan like "axe the tax".

Honest to god, we're a nation of absolute defeatists sometimes. We want to outsource the building of everything to corporations and do nothing ourselves. It's absurd.

Casted boy groups were nothing new in the 1990ies. There are examples of those going back at least 100 years. At latest with the widespread availability of recorded music, the marketable boy group was born.