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If we are using car brands as analogies, sure, in some way a BMW is a status symbol on public road, but on race tracks, pretty much every non-SUV BMW model would excel. Look at how many non-purpose-built BMW production cars that entered the 2019 VLN race series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_VLN_Series

After a car leaves the showroom, it's ultimately up to the owner to decide what to do with the car. A Corolla is great at getting groceries, but a BMW can not only take you to supermarkets but also win races on Sundays.

Oh BTW, BMW has just won the 24 Hours of the Nürbergring this past Sunday.


Planes can actually land themselves with ILS and MLS systems. Autoland is usually used during bad weather or poor visibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OJ-rPDXNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=151fGX4xazs


And some cars can auto-park nowadays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_parking

But neither planes nor cars with autopilot + autoland/park functionality are fully autonomous.

The only place where we have this today is on some on rails systems (trains like in Paris, buses on fixed rails like in Tokyo's Yurikamome or some amusement parks, etc.).


But for this they depend on a lot of (expensive) ground infrastructure, that is not available on roads.


1. Run on 1000, or 100000 files: `docker run -it --entrypoint=bash -v ${PWD}:tmp python:3.7`

You can simply mount your current directory to docker.

2. Docker doesn't ONLY support web-accessible services:

For example, you can run aws cli without python with this alias.

aws() { docker-run --entrypoint="aws" infrastructureascode/aws-cli:1.16.309 "$@" }

3. When you need to debug python code live with your IDE: Check these out https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/debug-common https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/using-docker-as-a-rem...


For 1, this runs a new docker container for each file. This is like 0.3 seconds on my PC for example - or 5 minutes for 1000 files. And only current directory is not enough, you may want to “convert input.foo /sev/webroot/output.jpg”.

So you need a better script. The one which will keep container running and use “docker exec”, and rewrite command lines for absolute paths. The one which will relaunch it as needed to map more dirs, and will shut it down eventually. Once you write it, you’ll likely end up with something way harder than just setting pyenv.

2. Yes, I know. See above. This command will be super annoying, as things like “aws s3 cp” would not work and it would not even see your authorization. So you need to make it longer and more complex. And then it will be harder than just a venv install.

3. Neat! It does look workable if your dependencies are very complex. In most cases, however, I’d say venv is still nicer, as you can use pydoc3, graphics, don’t have to worry about mapping input/output files, can use related command line tools and so on.


"Like many people, Armenians have a tendency to compare the worst aspects of life in Armenia with the best aspects of life in America, or elsewhere abroad."

This is usually the case in America vice versa, comparing the best aspects of life in America with the worst in other countries. In reality, an individual living an ordinary life might actually be happier than those in America.


This definitely depends on who you spend a lot of time around, and where you consume your news/media/entertainment from. I experience the opposite. Where I only hear mostly negative things about the US, and positive things about most other countries. Of course, some perception bias could come into play here too.


Yes, this is my experience. I rarely if ever read anything good about the US on HN.


Stop spreading the conspiracy theories, please.

(Even those that say it started from the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...)

There is absolutely no evidence showing the virus started from a lab, regardless of Chinese or American.


> Curious how you get this impression, do you have specific examples in mind? For example, bats, wolves and civet cats are consumed in Wuhan, which is not the case in Hong Kong.

There you go. Even in Guam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food

Australians eat crocodiles and kangaroos. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australian-food/index.htm...


No one is perfect. No one can check all the boxes. Having the desire to try to check them all is the key. Quoting the last part of the article here.

To me, whoever checks most of the boxes defined in this article and has a good mindset would make the cut.


+1

This move barely makes a dent to the automobile or racing industry.

VW doesn't really have extensive racing programs comparing to other marques like BMW, Mercedes, and of course VW group's own Audi and Porsche.


Well, they won the FIA WRC Driver Championship in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. So there is that.


Racing car market is much bigger than WRC.

Look at any semi-successfull touring car series: its prettu much guaranteed that a third of grid will be race cars from VW group.


I think it's not so much its impact on racing, it's just an indication that VW doesn't care anymore about showing off its internal combustion cars.


Agree. Big meh in the sport. Eco considerations aside it's amusing that they're using this as a platform. Racing is largely not about the powertrain. And emissions are... whoops we made them up.


How very far we’ve come in the last 15 years that “racing is largely not about the powertrain” and that an electric racing car is unremarkable.


My fault for not pointing out the irony more explicitly. VW is reportedly paying $15bn+ for cheating on emissions. If they had said they are axing all of their diesel vehicles and replacing them with electric I would be jumping for joy. They basically chose to take the smallest pain point for the largest reward by touting these credentials. Having actually built F1 cars you should think of them as aeroplanes that never take off. All of the top racing is aero dependant more than anything nowadays.


I know my comment will be downvoted for sure because it isn't a popular idea, but I'm still gonna comment on this.

Reading news about any foreign country, including China, only from US MSM, is inherently biased (sampling bias). Maybe consider reading news from Chinese outlets in this case?

I know people will start arguing that Chinese outlets are mainly propagandas because they are controlled by governments and they are not independent...

But, but are we sure that Deutsche Welle or Japan Times are unbiased?

For example, Deutsche Welle is funded by German government. [1], and the editors of the Japan Times were appointed by their government [2].

Yes, German and Japanese governments are more trustworthy than the Chinese government, but every country has its own foreign policy and political agenda. Are we sure that we are not being "brainwashed" by those media outlets?

This is happening within the US as well. Think conservative news outlets vs liberal outlets.

Citations: [1] https://www.dw.com/en/what-kind-of-company-is-deutsche-welle... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064544/http://www.fccj.o...


Basically the entire world except for China including independent non profits is reporting on the internment camps. At this point you have to be actively trying to excuse them to believe they are fictional.


+1, on top of that

Car killing people -> mostly accidents.

Gun killing people -> mostly intentional.


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