Since he needs 1000ms response on storage isn't ethernet the better option? It can reach 400gb/s on fastest hardware now. I thought Infiniband was only reasonable to use when machines need to quickly access other machines primary memory. I would like to know if I'm wrong about this though.
Agreed and at this point with ROCE there's little reason to go with infiniband given you can find fast ethernet hardware that'll go toe to toe with infiniband on latency and throughput.
If anything the lifetime cost of electric deters me. Usually they come with 10 year warranties for the power side of the car, but I kept my last car for 20 years. If I buy electric I assume I essentially need to buy a new car or pay for an expensive overhaul after a decade. So the math is more along the lines of 20k for a gas car that will last for 20 years, or 40k for an electric car that will probably last 10 years. Yes, you save some on energy but probably won't offset total cost difference.
Battery lifetimes were initially cast at 5 years and more than half the car cost to replace. They have both got cheaper to replace, and have retained value after out of the car, and have had lifetimes extended. So, your input maths needs some adjustment. Maybe not "its zero" but its not as bad as you fear.
You didn't calculate TCO for the ICE maintenance costs and you need to: EV have significantly smaller maintenance so the component of high cost in a retained old petrol engine or diesel motor, is strongly in favour of the EV. I had two clutches and a gearbox replaced across the 17 year retention of my Mazda 6 on top of the expensive six monthly motor service.
Not downvoting you, but noting, you skewed the cost exposure risks i believe, quite badly.
Elaborate what? The car had six monthly service cycle and it was not cheap. The clutches and gearbox were down to careless driving technique. Electric motors don't get deployed with clutches and are mostly electronic continuously variable gearing and the service costs are significantly cheaper on average than for an ICE. It's that simple.
Please elaborate what you mean by expensive six monthly service. Did your regular service visits include additional items? What and why? And how much did they cost? I am curious what makes Mazda 6 regular service more than other ICE cars.
It was a 2003 model, we kept 17 years. Oil and filter and fluids and engine mounts and that nasty judder which developed. We never got out the door under $300.
If you're keeping your car for 20 years, there are at least three or four timing belt/chain replacements and a ton of maintenance if you are putting typical miles on. Plus you're always one bad part away from blowing the engine, and there's no way to stop the inevitable long term decline of engine compression and replacing your transmission/clutch.
Electric vehicles outperform ICE powered vehicles on every metric, including price. Electricity is getting cheaper and cleaner over time, and so are batteries. In 10 years today's $10k battery pack might be twice as potent and half the price. I would stick with VW or other manufacturers, as Tesla is being cheap about battery chemistry for long term performance.
> Tesla also uses a different battery chemistry — aluminum, in addition to the standard nickel and cobalt — than other major automakers. The battery researchers said that choice has led to maximum range because of a higher-capacity battery chemistry, though downsides included a higher fire risk and shorter cycle life, or life span over hundreds of charges.
I think that's a reasonable fear, dunno what the failure rate on large components will look like, especially batteries. One problem is that electric cars are bound to advance more quickly than something as mature as ICE-based ones. It would be easy to end up with something that's obsolete or poorly supported from a parts standpoint.
Banks are the most law breaking entities in the United States. They constantly have to make enormous settlements for the insane number of laws they break. These are just the settlements for Bank of America:
Forgive my vagueness- I wasn't complaining that banks don't launder money - only that the original links didn't support that thesis. You have rectified that.
Do you also claim that banks are the biggest thieves?
Wait.. really? I'd love to dive into some of those numbers. I'm not saying you are wrong - otoh, I want to see if I can screen for behaviors that are preparatory.
> HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to pay a record $1.92 billion in fines to U.S. authorities for allowing itself to be used to launder a river of drug money flowing out of Mexico and other banking lapses.
This is what I'm saying. The banks are more than happy to pay fines and add regulations to their practices because they don't want the government to shut them down. Coinbase will be no different. They make too much money to have any principals around standing up for a "Permissionless and Decentralized financial system"
What? Banks lobby heavily against regulation and their lobbyists write the regulations that do exist. They also often commit crimes themselves, are accessories to others, and work in grey areas. This seems well known.
Most do so now supported by the infrastructure of modern society that requires them to carry less than ten days of food with them at any given time. And most of those hikers will travel into towns and cities and take long vehicle rides or even plane rides during their long hikes.
The set "easy problems iterated" is a subset of "hard problems" and I would argue a very small and uninteresting subset. Biotech, energy, next gen computing physics; I don't see any of those as iterating on a simple problem.
It's "ingredient branding" now. I think the foundaries are becoming the "ingredient" more consumers and looking at, similar to how Intel famously pushed their CPU as the important ingredient in PCs. I think it will be a very good decade for TSMC/Samsung/GF(?) similar to Intel's 90's/2000's.
I believe in extreme cases such as this the hospital considers it an academic/research/prestige/security cost and would essentially charge the patient nothing or standard daily rates. I know when the Ebola scare happened in the US the prestigious hospitals near me were throwing $1,000,000's into constructing state of the art rooms for preparedness and to impress the CDC and get federal approval and academic recognition.
Also the hospitals can write these costs off of their taxes in various ways. If outbreaks like this cost them millions in expenses they have tax loopholes and it ends up costing them nothing.
I agree, I oversimplified for the sake of brevity. I also don't know the details for hospital accounting, only the generals and that it is very complicated. In reality it would be they spend say $1 million on these cases. They could then say it was a public service and take it off their overall income. CDC or other grants might pay the rest depending on the severity of the outbreak. Whatever isn't covered would still be potatoes for most hospitals and worth more in prestige than the hospital could have bought with the cash. Again, I literally saw hospital executives fight over Ebola patients.
You need to do basic reading into the doomsday clock. The primary concerns right now are catastrophic climate change and technological threats, including nuclear technologies. Regardless, many nuclear theorists and academics including Noam Chomsky (known war hawk and military industrial complex supporter) also think we are at an increasing threat of nuclear war.
