ArchStanton

Thank you for your valuable input.

No mystery. You can simply make the claim that Apple would detect anything that's anti-Apple. Why not? It isn't like that the company has anything approaching morality, aside from perhaps the occasional craziness from the worker-drones there.

>I think your perception of what qualifies as motoring performance is sadly lacking.

lol. I think you'd be surprised.

Mostly I'm referring to the mass-produced engine itself here, not the car. After all, we live in a world of 1000 BHP turbo LS engines stuffed into old Ford Fairmonts turning single digit quarter miles.

Having said that, at what point is there legislative pressure to limit new cars. JDM is an existing model.

I'll have to look into it.

Given both the financial value of image compression (given the amount of video shoved down the net) and the asymmetry of codec (it's OK to use resources to compress, not so much for decompress), I'd expect some real money to be spent in this area.

Ideally the whole car collapses simultaneously.

This seems like a pretty obvious thing to do for some small-run auto maker.

Thinking out loud. At what point are legislative controls ever put on car performance, if ever? They've kind of hit the limits on ICE engines with the Hellcat Dodges (for example) but there's no reason an EV couldn't have power to weight ratios that are actually dangerous.

So what happens when you can buy a street-legal F1 car?

I was thinking along the lines of getting city council members to agree with insane concepts. The committee all nodding at the wisdom of the new town monorail would be funny as hell.

I'll improve that...

...detect people who might be unstable through paranoid ramblings about how Apple is out to _fill_in_the_blank_.

The spice must flow to keep those stock options in Cupertino rising.

Imagine how small the file would be if it were a couple of for loops. Compression can take advantage of the colors of adjacent/near by pixels, adjacent pixels in time (for video), less bits for more common situations, removing differences that are invisible, etc.

Gotta ask. Has anyone worked on image compression using machine learning? (that sounds like an obvious thing to do). It would be funny to end up with an algorithm no one understands.

I can imagine the advertising value of watching for depression and cognitive decline. In the latter case, you could probably sell a dozen extended warranties for the same item.

EZ prediction of the day.

Combine depression, cognitive decline, anger, etc. values against a database of gun owners (picked up through registration, social media posts, ATF background checks, etc.). Send police to house when some crossover point is hit. It's for the children.

You know, a person could have a lot of fun cutting in their own video and audio on a talking head in one of these youtube council meetings.

That's a good point, but do Catholics account for more than their share of births in Nigeria (5.5 children per woman, or, as we say in the brave new world, 'people who menstruate')?

hah. Partly answered.

https://paa2015.princeton.edu/papers/151197

One that isn't thrown into gmail's spam folder?

I wish I were smart enough to self-host.

Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.

I've mostly been keeping an eye out on the aircooled VW conversions (or that EV 1968 Mustang on youtube).

It'll really get interesting when you see more from-scratch cars that don't have the ICE history built in. There are a lot of changes that could be made in design. If the government didn't love to get in your business so much, maybe there could be a world of street-legal EV karts.

Fine. We'll design a control system for EVs where you can feel that a fake clutch actually does something. We can supply speakers and a simulated tach to give the full sports car experience.

Really my own guess is that the manual trans will continue on the way out due to emissions law if nothing else (and lack of interest). Modern cars have little visceral interest in any case, probably better to buy a hemicuda with a stick or a Cobra kit.

I'm speaking outside of my bailiwick here, but are browsers now the equivalent of Microsoft Windows? Great big, crufty, no-one-really-knows-how-they-work, security risk laden, feature-fat, clumps of software that everyone uses?

That may be, but is it better to be 'fair' or to save the world's ecology? The coral reefs don't much care if some places are poorer than others.

Perhaps one answer would be to allow people to swap citizenships. If you are feeling guilty enough, you could move to Lagos and someone there could move to Palo Alto.

>someone driving a priceless exotic like a '69 Boss Mustang V8 could end up paying less tax and insurance than your Average Joe middle classer pays on his 10 year old 1.6L family econobox.

lol. It's funny to think of them as a 'priceless exotic' as those cars are basically mass produced items with an engine option.

Let's consider the cost. A decent Boss 429 is probably around $250k-$300k. The sales tax in California is around 10 percent, about $2k/year for the license, $4-$5/gallon for gas at around 8 mpg, collector car insurance at roughly 1% of stated value.

>It's not hard to find highly opinionated people making assumptions while confidently believing they're right. If you look closely, you'll notice this all the time on HN and Reddit and basically anywhere that allows people to comment.

C'est la vie. The internet allows millions of people to opine on barstools.

It might simply be that our standards for the written word were too high before as it required a large investment to write/print/distribute a magazine or book.

That makes sense.

I keep wondering why we haven't seen an EV Miata, but you'd probably end up with a small, 4000lb car.

Lacking significant battery improvements, I'm thinking the electric F150 is going to be the game changer in all this.

It doesn't seem to me that local populations or organizations have much say in the matter.

To be fair, US Catholics appear to have roughly the same birthrate as US Evangelical Protestants, although that might change as Catholic demographics shift to Latino.

What we (the world) will be awash in is Moslems and sub Saharan Africans unless those curves get bent via behavior changes, resource depletion, or war. I can't say that the Pope is much involved in that situation.

That's an argument that stems more from a concept of 'fairness' than one that might save the world.

You'd have to ask what the Navajo did to the Pueblo People who they displaced.

>Europeans came and nearly wiped out the existing peoples

The existing peoples wiped out the existing peoples in many cases.

What this all rotates around is a simplistic (and Victorian) view of 'peoples'. 'Red' = the Americas, 'White' = Europe, 'Black' = Africa, etc.

Truth is, a Navajo is not a Hopi, a Celt is not a Saxon is not a Norman. Most of these current fights are simply wordgames played to achieve political power or to suit some peoples' needs for self-flagellation.

>True, but if they all went Democratic, it would tip the scales considerably.

It would be a tricky thing. You'd have to convince Catholics that Oregon-style abortion law (legal right up until birth) was reasonable and that the normalization of mental illness was desirable (the current rage for transsexuals).

OTOH, as a trans-national organization, I could see shifting the Catholic hierarchy into thinking that unlimited mass immigration to Western countries was desirable. More membership, more souls to save and all that.

>New coal plants aren't built

The US isn't the world.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants

Considering that the US share of greenhouse gases is fairly small (15% of world total), has decreased quite a lot over time, and becomes harder on the margin, I'd say it's mostly just slinging words for political power at this point.

My own take is that you can avoid ecological devastation only through population reduction and in the short term by not up-leveling the Third World via mass immigration and industrialization.

>Owing largely to the culture war, American Catholics have provided decisive support to the party that calls global warming a hoax. This isn't a political statement on my part, but just a statistical one.

Than why are 44% of Catholics Democrat and only 37% Republican?

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/party-aff...

Methinks your own POV poisons your opinions.

Wait, what? Do people actually work in conditions like that article's picture shows? Good Lord.