..when the US finds out it has no leverage over China anymore..

+ ultracapacitors could also be used..for storing the energy while breaking and release it when pulling away from a station.

..and you will get a completely different picture of the world..e.g. Irak has roughly doubled in population since being invaded by the US..so they lost the war but won something else..same thing with Afghanistan..Japan, Italy on the other hand are on the way down..

Well, in fact, training wheels are counterproductive if you want to learn yourself or teach your kid to cycle. Do not use them.

It seems the controversy comes from people not using Python..its like people arguing that a bicycle should have more than 2 wheels otherwise you fall over..its not that the arguments are necessarily wrong, its just that in practice they are not very relevant..you adjust to it and once you know how to bike its perfectly natural and effortless..

power wise the battery is cheaper 100MW for 66million vs 900MW for 2 billion, but storage size is much smaller 129 MWh vs 20000MWh

I can explain this very easily for you: the reason why it is so popular is because the broken bits are offset by a huge margin by the nice bits, But frankly what is baffling is that there apperently there are still huge tribes hung up on the whitespace thing. Just accept that you have less freedom with the formatting, don't do tabs and watch out for the few gotcha's that can happen. For the rest all the complaints about it are complete non-issues, bit like complaining that there is no proper way to put a saddle on a car.

I never understood what happened to Psycho (I think it was a JIT for python 2.6 or so)..I used it at the time (~2010) with great results to speed up python code..but it was never ported to newer python versions..

"Worse? Worse? How can it be worse?"

its as good a way of indicating code blocks as any other..and by far the most elegant and readable..but ok opinions..

..I think open source software has a problem defending against malicious contributions. I am not sure the kernel development team's response shows that they can handle this..some commits were already accepted into stable tree apparantly..

not really, the uncertainty in e.g. the local circular velocity is in the second digit.. furthermore the navigation errors quoted in the paper depend on the relative positions of 20 or so nearby star and their relative motion depends on the local mass distribution, which is also poorly constrained (error in the first digit)

Author assumes stars are moving on unaccelerated or at least predictable orbits; this is not true, it may be a good approximation for a limited time (thus maybe for relativistic travel speeds), but certainly not for any realistic travel speeds..

the rest of the world is also not saying Taiwan is independent, btw...very few countries (hint: not any you hear of) recognize Taiwan...

I think you cannot properly call Taiwan part of China till Xi Jinping can freely go there, eh?