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hey bro, where's your scholarly record of impactful publications?

Sir, this is a news website.

"Hurr durr, your physics isn't pretty enough and has too many coefficients to fit my childlike model of the universe. Clearly an approximation" - mimixco, 2020

that's not even remotely true.

That's kinda how politics works. Sorry to have to tell you :(

We already live in the diamond age. Maybe you haven't been paying attention.

How hard is it to understand that the mass of a proton isn't just because its constituent quarks have mass?

Dialogue can be very useful.

Here's what you're doing:

grizzles: I don't understand what's going on in a proton.

Physicist: actually, we know about it very well.

grizzles: I don't understand what you're saying, and don't care to find out, so I'm just going to disagree with you and say you have no experimental evidence.

Physicist: we actually have terabytes of evidence describing the different quarks and gluons within protons and neutrons.

grizzles: I don't care, and I'd rather live in Anaximander's land of indefinites and superstition.

Don't worry, He'll let all of us (and our civilization) "die" first, provided we don't somehow escape it.

Central forces don't guarantee that the universe is made of fractals. Nothing, for instance, orbits an electron within an atom (excluding spin-orbit coupling and other such quantum nonsense).

I tried averaging the weights from a bunch of differently-trained neural networks for a Loss.jpg detector once.

If you think about what sort of brain you'd get if you "averaged" a few hundred geniuses' brains by blending them into a soup and adding some gelatin to a brain-sized sample, yeah, that's about the level of intelligence I saw in the "average neural net." It was basically in a constant state of seizure.

The only valid answer to your question is "probably"

s/tuple/coordinate

He's right, though. "Norstroms" is valid. You didn't need to make such a condescending comment.

In the current world, it seems the "artist" has taken the form of a hive mind (artists and songwriters) while the "instruments" are the mechanisms of production and distribution - and monetization: microphones, pickups, mixers, autotuners, amplifiers, filters, mastering artists, distribution companies, Logic Pro, digital-to-analog converters, headphones...

Unless they're seeing a live symphony or literally sitting in the recording studio with an artist, the vast majority of people (99.999%) aren't hearing music performed by the named artist. They're hearing music recordings generated by teams of people and performed by a computer.

Local musicians (the main source of music for people earlier than about 150 years ago) just cannot compete with the supranormal stimulus of pop/rock/soul written and performed and mastered by students of psychology and music and distributed by capitalists.

I continue to be unceasingly disappointed by his failure to release Miegakure after all these years.

You can buy a 1TB SATA SSD for like $120 or a 1TB NVMe SSD for around twice that.

We were both memeing; don't worry about it.

Sorry, the "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" expression reached its expiration date in December 2019.

Epic!

Referring to yourself as "prodigiously" anything is liable to get you downvotes.

> Saying "3rd world lacks initiative" as if it's a national issue is a joke.

Yeah, I definitely said that. Continue being mad at me and America.

Replaced? Don't make me laugh. Gaming has always been bigger.

This thread is already essentially 100% Tesla marketing, both for the cars and for the stock, but maybe you'll read this comment and acknowledge there's nothing false in it. Thanks in advance to the Tesla cult for the downvotes!

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/sudden-loss-of-range...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/17892/tesla-driver-slams...

[3] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/back-to-the-old-ping...

> Every time I get a software update I'm a kid on Christmas morning. It is just such a fun experience, and for those of you who love to be on the bleeding edge, you'd probably love it too.

Same! I too get giddily excited when my $100,000 car gets software updates from an $80B company that can't design batteries properly and has to remotely reduce their capacities by 30% and charge rates by 40% (without my permission!) to prevent the car from catching on fire in my garage! [1] /s

It's so encouraging to see my self-driving car get frequent half-baked updates making it drive into highway barriers and firetrucks [2] and ping-pong between lane lines like a drunk driver! [3] /s

I just wish Apple could do the same downgrade to my phone's CPU and battery performance whenever they feel like it! It'd bring tears to my eyes, in awe of their power over me. /s

Exposing the raw battery capacity? I guess all these people who are having their 2012-2017 Model S' range reduced and charging speed cut in half or worse are just delusional: https://floridanewswire.com/battery-gate-warranty-gate-charg...

As for your speculation on EA's pricing, have you ever visited let alone used a station? You seem unaware of their membership program which offers $0 session fees and reduced prices per kWh. Given how new their network is, pricing seems completely fair.

That little table is the only place where China looks good with regards to CO2 emissions. If the US had 4x the population, ceteris paribus, we'd have even lower CO2 "per capita" than China. Doesn't change one bit the fact that China emits 40% more CO2 than the next biggest polluter.

Some relevant context (from the other post, seemingly removed):

- Model 3 deposit was $1000, ~300k pre-orders in a few days

- Model Y deposit was $2500, but pre-order numbers are still unreleased

- Cybertruck pre-order deposit is $100

- Many people are placing 3-5 orders per household [1] due to buggy pre-order forms

- Tesla explicitly states (now, not previously) that "pre-orders" are not "orders" [2]

- Many aspects of the vehicle and presentation are otherwise nonsensical [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/btsparks/status/1198453324741111810

[2] https://twitter.com/lorakolodny/status/1198410917794312192

[3] https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1197904256466112514

Many analysts (and Elon himself) put Tesla at between 10-20 months from bankruptcy at any given moment. [0]

In all likelihood it didn't matter what the truck looked like at the reveal. All that mattered was that it justified another capital raise.

[0] https://bgr.com/2019/05/20/elon-musk-tesla-cut-costs-running...

What would actually be eco-friendly (and substantially cheaper) is CNG conversion of a used truck. You can do that today for under $5k. Driving one of these instead of any other consumer car makes as much sense as driving a Hummer in the suburbs.