iplaw · HackerTrans

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I think that everyone is curious, and the reasoning is likely not as complex as the author says it is. I'd wager that it's either an embarrassing use case, or that he wanted to avoid having people tell him how he should have done it - can't do that with any level of confidence if you don't know the circumstances.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Which is a common knowledge substitution that the OP overlooked.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I am seeking a dual SIM variant that supports all bands of AT&T and Sprint. This does not currently exist.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I will say that, despite its many shortcomings and after I was able to overcome the netbook-induced Atom stigmas, I really do like the Atom for small-business NAS applications.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Just delete "is" and add an "s" to "fight".

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Sounds like a disincentive for paving with impenetrable ground cover. Rainfall is not absorbed when the ground is paved. Instead, it collects and increases flash flood risk. To compensate for this, the rainfall collection and pumping infrastructure must be more robust. Perhaps this tax will be spent on such improvements?

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Or that a large portion of the solutions to said problems require R & D spend in the hundreds of millions, if not billions.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

These are very likely long exposures that captured groundings over time. It'd look much less impressive in person, and more in line with what you've seen reproduced.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

No joke. My mom is the first person to LIKE anything that I post -- and then make an inappropriate comment on it.

I have added all of my family to a family group. I'll see if I can post to friends/publically and exclude an entire group of contacts.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

The new A8 looks quite a bit like the new Lincoln Continental. If you integrated the door handles on the A8 with the window trim, it'd be hard to distinguish between the two cars from an appreciable distance - at least the rear, profile, and 3/4 views. The rear light arrangement, the integrated dual exhaust ports, the silver trim character lines, even the A/B/C columns.

A8: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/1--FKfJ3y71OTTYIz91rno4mYNs=...

Continental: https://www.cstatic-images.com/stock/1170x1170/99/img-122263...

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks for this concise comparison. As others have noted, you also need to account for batteries, and battery churn. When the batteries need to be replaced, you have quite a bit of additional payload that needs to be delivered. I am sure that nuclear fuel rods (or pellets, or whatever fuel type they are using) will be dramatically lighter and easier to transport.

Dust will need to be cleaned off of the panels daily, which adds further expense associated with dedicated external missions to the array of panels.

Most of the ancillary considerations weigh in favor of the nuclear option.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Ultimately, Uber did not want to establish a precedent for liability. What they should have done is settled for $4,000 and forced the victim to sign an NDA, ensuring that this little conflict remained private.

Instead, in usual Uber fashion, the legal and HR team worked their magic and created a lose-lose-lose situation for themselves:

1. They established precedent for liability;

2. They obstructed justice, which could be used as fodder in subsequent lawsuits; and

3. They did nothing to prevent this story from being broadcasted far and wide.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I think that he is referring to the immediate weight loss effects associated with depleting the glycogen stores in your liver (400 grams) and muscles (100 grams). Each gram of glycogen is bound to 3 - 4 grams of water.

Thus, depletion of your glycogen stores results in the loss of 2.0 - 2.5 kilograms (4.4 - 5.5 pounds) of "water (and glycogen) weight" within the first week of a low-carb diet. Larger individuals often retain even more glycogen and water, which can result in immediate losses of 6 kilograms (13.2 pounds) or more.

His point is that some studies, particularly short term studies, do not account for this non-fat weight loss.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Both the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf have two displays, a driver display and a center display. Further, the driver displays are particularly large and robust, even when compared to more expensive vehicles. The Tesla Model 3 completely lacks the driver display.

Bolt: http://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/c...

Leaf: https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/nissan/leaf/2017/ot/2017_...

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Two things -

1) I highly recommend Intentio, http://www.intentioipi.com, if you decide to pursue creation of patent drawings for fictional devices.

2) Be careful you don't tread on copyrights and/or trademarks.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

That's something that I hadn't considered. Have we received confirmation that the Model 3 will be available with the optional full suite of self-driving sensors?

On the Model S, this includes two high-priced options:

1. Enhanced Autopilot ($5000) quadruples the number of cameras from 1 to 4 and adds 12 ultrasonic sonar sensors and additional computing power to crunch the data.

2. Full Self-Driving Capability ($3000) doubles the number of cameras from 4 to 8.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

No, the 180-200 mph was an observation that I added. I've seen Mercedes AMGs, M3s, M5s, RS6 Avants, R8s, Porsche Turbos, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, motorcycles, and similar performance vehicles doing 180-200 mph on the Autobahn. In person and in videos posted to forums.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I had to convert units to miles per hour to get a handle on the situation. For others in my boat:

You're going 80-93 mph in the center lane, and the unsafe driver impeding you is going 80 mph. In order to overtake this erratic driver, you need to move to the left lane and accelerate to 93-110 mph. The trouble is, on the Autobahn, drivers in the left lane are usually traveling at speeds of 110-137 mph, and often times even higher, up to 200 mph.

With those numbers in mind, I can entirely see your point. Early morning traffic in Dallas flows at 80-85 mph in the left lane. People don't always treat the left lane as a "fast lane" or a "passing lane." Some people cruise at 50 mph without a care for the speed of traffic around them. In order to merged into traffic in the middle lane while rapidly approaching the dangerously slow car in front of me, I sometimes have to accelerate to 90-100 mph.

I was reading a traffic study that showed that the single factor that contributes the most to traffic accidents is delta-speed. That is, the |relative speed| of the vehicle in comparison to the average speed of traffic. If traffic is flowing at 75 mph, a car traveling at 85 mph (10 delta) is less dangerous that a car traveling at 50 mph (25 delta). My anecdotal evidence confirms this. Slow drivers are often scared, timid, inexperienced, oblivious, and unpredictable. They'll change lanes without regard for the speed of anyone around them. They cause faster drivers to rapidly change lanes around them. They cause road rage incidents and reckless driving.

Anyway, I went off on a tangent, but I agree with what you're saying.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Almost every vehicle, even budget sub-compacts, have driver displays now. The utilization of that display varies from nigh useless (odometer, oil minders, etc.) to very useful (navigational directions, at-a-glance music selection via steering wheel based controls, etc.).

Removing this display from the Model 3 seems like a design choice intended to artificially distinguish and demote the Model 3 from the Model S.

iplaw

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

There is a misconception that the Model 3 is the most advanced Tesla model simply because it is the newest Tesla model. This was cannibalizing the sales of the Model S more than Tesla expected it to. Buyer who could afford a Model S or Model X were waiting for the Model 3 because they were under the mistaken belief that the Model 3 would offer all the newest, cutting edge technologies and self-driving capabilities.

As Musk said via Twitter, the Model S is on Gen. 4, and continues to offer the most advanced technologies.

That said, most people are waiting for the Model 3 because they can't (or do want to) afford a $100,000-$165,000 (with the self-driving packages) vehicle.

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