Quick question before I reply to the topic here. I noticed that you had a period placed where it shouldn't be. I have been having the same issue, and my autocomplete is turning into a real pain in the ass, even completing my sentences on occasion. And often deciding to put periods where they don't belong. Are you having the same problem?

Anyhow, the matter of what a trade is or isn't is kind of fluid. If you look at Wikipedia, they have a good definition, which is:

"A tradesperson or tradesman/tradeswoman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade. Tradespeople (tradesmen/women) usually gain their skills through work experience, on-the-job training, an apprenticeship program or formal education."

Okay so far, I'd think we would agree.

The contrast that with Professionals "from professionals in that the professionals require more education and have a higher duty of care and routinely make decisions "on the basis of expertise and ability in complex situations where there may be no, or little, previous history"

I'm a professional. But unlike many, I consider tradespeople my equal. But that's an aside.

Now the Wikipedia page I was at didn't have IT as a trade. But it isn't a comprehensive list either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now Joe Dragon or I consider IT and coding a trade. Hope I'm not putting words in your mouth Joe! But we aren't the only ones. https://www.bestcollegereviews...

Might you be conflating trades with manual labor? Definitely a different category.

Do you have the numbers to assert your assertion? Citations please.

Sounds exactly like a trade to me. In today's world, people with trades are looked at as mentally deficient. When in fact, many of us have great respect for tradespeople, who despite the narrative, are not subnormals. But the strange thing about your statement - your hypothetical person who self trained and exhibits proficiency might never have stepped on a campus, nor earned that degree that signifies they are an Übermenchen.

So they have a trade, not a college degree. And your hypothetical is almost certainly much smarter than the presumed Übermenchen, because he had to perform, not major in taking tests.

TIFO that wherever you go, that's where you are at!

Threw needs to be a DoD level investigation, and if classified data has been compromised, there needs to be arrests and trials, and if convicted, jail time. And in that event, Microsoft must be blocked from ever having access to sensitive data again. Microsoft might just be sitting on the biggest classified information handover since forever.

Well I guess if John Goodenough invented it then it should be adequate.

The UK is great for EVs: distances are short and while roads are busy EVs don't idle and use much less power when stopped in traffic. Also the climate is very mild so there is much less need to heat the batteries and car interior in winter and less use for AC in the summer.

However, not everywhere is like the UK. Where I live in Canada we regularly get -20 to -30C highs in winter and some years we drop down below -40C. This really impacts the range of an EV since now the batteries have to be heated to function as does the car's interior so humans can function. The population density is also much lower so we tend to drive further.

The solution is simple though - just sell EVs in the UK vs Canada with appropriate sized batteries for the typical use in each region. Just because you can give an EV a 1,000km range does not mean that you have to. Installing a lower battery capacity is almost certainly much easier than switching the side of the car that the steering wheel is on!

Simple, many of us drive a lot more than 500km in one day and while I doubt many people do that without stopping where we stop for a break and to e.g. have a picnic, is not somewhere that comes with a charger. This means that either now you have to have two breaks, one for the humans and one for the car or you have to forgo a picnic and just stop in a town with a charger which now means you are planning your travel around the needs of the car and not the needs of the family.

If you could drive 1,000km without stopping we can stop wherever we want for breaks and just plug the car in to charge overnight at the hotel. It's either that or they need a charging station that can recharge as quickly as a petrol station can fill an ICE's tank which seems unlikely given the thickness of cables needed to deliver that much electrical power plus fast charging is not great for batteries either.

Then we just lose money on other things. Either way, the money leaves.

Fscking autocorrect! He strikes me as a pretty smart person.

No, by restricting your consideration to only people who lived to be 122 you have applied a selection criterion to select your sample that you are then using to test the hypothesis that smokers do not live as long. Hence, you have selected a sample size of one. You then use this sample size to see if these really old people are smokers - that's the test because the hypothesis we are testing is whether smokers live shorter lives not how likely are you to live to be 122.

They probably already have to do it with the chips they import from taiwan

While he might be one on the list, you have to remember that several billionaires of all political parties are in that list as well, and they're all pressuring trump to shut it down, besides himself wanting to shut it down.

Besides all the metal gear tier bullshit of politics, there's the simple fact that, assuming AMD can assemble it in the US, they won't have to pay for the shipping of the components to the US.
I bet that does lower the total cost a bit.

Dude, your claim that I am poorly uneducated is silly. Yes, Celsius is an SI unit. So is Kelvin. Did you see anywhere I posted either wasn't? A degree Centigrade up or down is is the same as a degree Kelvin up or down, just with added increments for Kelvin. You'll see if you looked, I noted that you can convert Kelvin to Centigrade by adding 273 degrees to it in other posts. (273.15+.01 to be more precise.) There are actually some more precise measurements based on the triple point of water, but all I wrote so far is close enough for this exampleI have used it all the time in the past, because if you are doing High temperature or Low temperature research, you use Kelvin. You'd be laughed at if you tried that in cryogenics research - sometimes it is converted to C for people who can't grok that. Psst - that would apparently be you. Claiming I am uneducated while you show without a doubt that you are not is priceless. Now gimme a hug you big old brute.

Now make my day by posting more insulting and stupid stuff while trying to appear intelligent. Entertain me.