rmah

69 ms·

751.
by rmah 8y ago
That will be a long long time coming. Gasoline is about 46 MJ/KG or 34 MJ/L. The best lithium-metal batteries are about 2 MJ/KG or 5 MJ/L. The best lithium-ion batteries, about half that. Gasoline is extremely energy
752.
by rmah 8y ago
Amazon co-mingles different retailer's inventory when amazon handle fulfillment for them?!?!? Are you sure? That's insane.
753.
by rmah 8y ago
Youtube wasn't even close to first -- it started in 2005. They were more like third or fourth. Youtube (and later google) got the formula and right -- they learned from the mistake the first movers made. Sort of like Facebook, Dropbo
754.
by rmah 8y ago
From a couple people I know at SpaceX, the political environment there is pretty republican-leaning. I've been told that a lot of people there voted for Trump. So I don't think there will be any sort of protest/work stoppa
755.
by rmah 8y ago
Chinese courts and law enforcement won't enforce an arrest order from a subsidiary Deleware court in a foreign country. Just as a US courts and law enforcement wouldn't enforce a Chinese provincial subsidiary court order.
756.
by rmah 8y ago
Problem is, those players will still incur the compliance costs. The GDPR rules are not simply penalties for bad behavior. They mandate proscriptive actions companies must take, policies they need to design, services they must perform on
757.
by rmah 8y ago
"64,000 took a basic online logic test to qualify for entry. More than 20,000 passed, but the school only accepted the top 3,000 due to space constraints. Those 3,000 compete in pools of 1,000 for a month to see who best completes the
758.
by rmah 8y ago
Tesla doesn't make the batteries, Panasonic, Samsung and Hitachi does. IIRC, Panasonic is the firm building batteries at Tesla's new gigafactory facility. Tesla simply slaps their name on the battery packs.
759.
by rmah 9y ago
But not in Finland. So at least their tax law has symmetry in this regard.
760.
by rmah 9y ago
Or the fact that they don't seem to be aware of the Case-Shiller index which measures the same thing, is the industry standard, and is widely reported in the financial media.
761.
by rmah 9y ago
Why not just use the Case–Shiller index? It's been around for 18 years, has data from 1890 to today, has a solid methodology that has been scrutinized by many economists, and is the industry standard for US residential home prices. O
762.
by rmah 9y ago
It is a myth that the Vietnam war was mostly a war between US conventional forces against Vietnamese guerrilla forces. In point of fact, the majority of the battles the US military and ARVN engaged in were against the NVA (North Vietnamese
763.
by rmah 9y ago
While I empathize with your situation, do you not seem to realize that the vast majority of men won't help other men in the way you want help either. Unless they're getting something they value in return. That's the key. W
764.
by rmah 9y ago
What I don't understand is why it matters if people believe you or not. Could you provide some insight?
765.
by rmah 9y ago
They do already. The EU proposal is that Twitter also pays taxes on that ad revenue, on a pro-rated basis, where the users reside. This is very different.
766.
by rmah 9y ago
It really is a tax on global revenues. It's a tax on global revenues that is enabled by the fact that EU residents get services for free, which enable the global revenues. But the companies are also paying a VAT/GST/sales
767.
by rmah 9y ago
I bet they had to search long and hard to find such an example. For the simple fact is that after your first job (and usually not even then), no one cares about your university grades. All they see is what school attended and what you maj
768.
by rmah 9y ago
Haha, I do not trust machines -- I check the calculator by doing the math by hand.
769.
by rmah 9y ago
If by "very few people" you mean thousands of people, then sure.
770.
by rmah 9y ago
Didn't they say they would do this five years ago?
771.
by rmah 9y ago
You can disagree but you would be wrong. I have personally taught people to diagnose and repair systems. Many others have as well. There are are also formalized methods of teaching how diagnostics. And training on how to teach it. So ye
772.
by rmah 9y ago
How is this baffling? 99% of people who buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies don't care about freedom, disrupting the financial system or any of that other ideological issues. They simply want to make money (USD, EUR, JPY, what hav
773.
by rmah 9y ago
Given the OP's description of the situation, I strongly agree with eldavido. Both his assessment that the time to convince them to step back is past, how to think about the current situation, and how to handle subsequent events seems
774.
by rmah 9y ago
1) No one ever said "electric cars will never happen". There were electric and hybrid vehicles before Tesla even existed. 2) SpaceX is no more a "private space company" than the United Space Alliance/United Launch
775.
by rmah 9y ago
The currently proposed CME and CBOE futures are cash settled. No actual bitcoin is involved. Neither the buyers or sellers of the futures, nor any other entities involved, will need to buy/sell/hold any bitcoin.
776.
by rmah 9y ago
Neither CME or CBOE bitcoin futures are directly connected to bitcoins. Both will be cash settled (i.e. no bitcoin delivery). There will be no need for buyers, sellers or intermediaries dealing in bitcoin futures to buy/sell/own
777.
by rmah 9y ago
Bitcoin cannot become "widely used money". It is technically impossible. It is transaction rate limited to 6 txn/sec. Worldwide. Even band-aids such as increasing the block size won't help enough. I'm not saying
778.
by rmah 9y ago
You partner with someone whom you 1) respect and 2) have worked with well in the past. I really don't understand how anyone could possibly partner with a stranger no matter how stellar their resume or how skilled they are.
779.
by rmah 9y ago
I'd rather that the software sense it's surroundings and make an assessment of risk for various possible actions. In this case, backing up a bit since there was no one behind it would have been the safest option.
780.
by rmah 9y ago
That happened about 50 years ago in the developed world. A well off family in the mid-1800's would purchase a new set of clothing once or twice a year. Each person would have maybe two or three pairs of shoes. They had enough funds

More ›