I tourist'd DC about 7 years ago and the bikeshare program there utterly transformed the city for monument access and getting around. Faster and closer dropoffs to the sights, getting to Georgetown was easy, faster than traffic most of the time.
An electric scooter would be even better. Manhattan too would be fantastic.
I personally don't need around-town self driving. I really wish highway and congested highway automation would be worked on first, it is way way way way easier to do.
Automated taco bell drivethru? I can do that for now.
Another environmental article, another round of crickets from the cognescenti of hacker news.
I love that the oil and gas industry pretends that shoving a bunch of CO2 gas in the ground is effective carbon capture. As if gas won't leak out. Hey look! We "captured" it! Sure we're not measuring the entire countryside to see if it gets out some other way... And we'll be sure to plug that hole extra special tight, because we are oil and gas: we dot our Is and cross our Ts and
... so CAP theorem is disproven? This would imply that linearizable distributed transactions (in less byzantine networks) would be possible beyond what CAP enables. Or are they relying on availability assumptions?
And coal fire plants are experiencing massive pressures from alternative energy, not just natural gas. And they should. Coal fire plants release more radiation than nuclear plants do.
One of the main problems with missle defense is probably achieving intercept speed. Ground based means you need to fight gravity.
Why not have high flying solar powered long endurance drones that can swoop down and use gravity to get speed, in addition to rocket fuel? You put the drones up there. Kind of like the smart space rock, but you don't need to put it in orbit. Or you can use balloons to keep them up there. Lasers are just stupid retreads of failed spacewars.
Or maybe balloons that can spread out with nanotubes or strong wires that will slice up an incoming warhead. I've wondered about setting up such things for a cheap anti-aircraft defense for guerilla warfare. Like if you make a huge balloon-lofted array of basically dental floss.
"In the style of existing systems such as Cassandra and
Bayou, programmers can embed application-specific conflict
resolution logic into the merge function of a Anna ValueLattice.
Anna gives the programmer the freedom to program
their ValueLattices in this ad hoc style, and in these cases
guarantees only replica convergence. We define this level of
ad hoc consistency as simple eventual consistency."
So... is that kind of like Riak where (I believe Riak would do this) would send all conflicting values to the client for resolution, but instead you provide resolution strategies as part of the query? My understanding of vector clocks is admittedly pretty shitty though.
Yes, why would centralization not be good for efficient delivery of healthcare services, particularly where multidisciplinary treatment is involved? It's basically why the cancer centers were set up.
This seems like obsolete dirtburner Car and Driver logic based on soon-to-be-outmoded standards.
Same antipattern would appear with aerodynamic designs to save fuel in the 80s. The Car and Driver old stodgies would complain about the nontraditional styling, despite the clear direction and engineering advantages. Reality eventually overcame the car review collective delusion.
Teslas are the only car that fundamentally is a totally different driving experience than every other dirtburner you listed. You can tell the second it almost magically and constantly accelerates. Faster than supercars for 1/10th the price in real world driving (people buy HP and drive Torque, remember?). Sure the economics of the battery mean there isn't a spare $50,000 for the interior.
Oh, and just wait for the maintenance bill differentials. Those high-end dirtburners assume you don't mind $5,000/year in repairs and maintenance. They hardly even engineer them for reliability.
An electric scooter would be even better. Manhattan too would be fantastic.