Comment Re:Can't wait (Score 1) 122
I think the BMW is ugly but it is revolutionary because its frame and body are carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic.
I think the BMW is ugly but it is revolutionary because its frame and body are carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic.
Here is a cool page, evidently 225 mph at 20 psi below the optimum is a bad idea.
It sucks, but I'm intentionally throwing more of my time now into learning the latest languages and development environments. Are they better? Not really. But you will never, ever convince anybody that fuddy-duddy is actually cool. They'll just think you're irrelevant. Every career has some drawbacks, and spending your life chasing fads, coupled with others' disdain for everything you did or learned over a decade ago, is a drawback of this one. (Heck, why didn't you start a successful startup or at least move into management by now, anyways?)
Presenting this as some sort of coup fosters the notion that he system ought to be idiot-proof. No sudo rm -fR / for you! We'll put a thousand annoying and ultimately useless obstacles in the way to doing any little thing!
Don't blame the car for not protecting itself from you.
"We are going to proceed with at least two locations in parallel, just in case one of them encounters some issues after breaking ground," Musk said. He said Panasonic was likely to be Tesla's partner in battery production.
The fact that construction started and then stopped makes it sound more like this is that - who else would do such a thing?
Morgan Stanley is excited about the potential use of gigafactory batteries for home energy storage and grid independence, and thinks they might make more on that than on cars. (I would have thought good old lead acid car batteries were cheaper for this?)
But it makes more sense to filter the air at the inlet if you can, or at least as it recirculates through the HVAC system already built into your home. Check your air filter once in a while, people!
Before music recordings, if you wanted to hear music, somebody had to play it. A more popular musician could make somewhat more than an average musician - maybe substantially more - but the top handful couldn't entertain the entire planet singlehandedly. Now they can. The economy of agrarian farmers - where a 20% more productive farmer makes 20% more money - is over. Now it's winner-takes-all.
I think growing tolerance to drugs is practically universal. I've known several people who started Prozac etc. and told me, "wow, so THIS is what I've been missing! Life is so great!" But fast forward a year, and they don't seem that much happier. Yet they still have a costly prescription for the rest of their lives.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.