Why split? See the linked article. Basically, massive packaging and cooling improvements. Otherwise you have to route your intake air to the back of the engine where the turbo is, or run your exhaust up to the front where the turbo is. This way, air comes in front->gets compressed->gets exploded in cylinder->exhaust…

I agree that it probably shouldn’t be murder, if only because it clearly wasn’t intentional murder and that might risk the case being thrown out entirely. Idiots that can afford fairly nice cars but don’t take them to a track to get their jollies off can rot in hell.

Tax breaks aren’t _that_ bad, since they are only a loss if the company is profitable. If someone walked up with a well-funded but doomed venture selling literal shit, I could affordably promise them two trillion in tax breaks so that their VC backers piss away money in my jurisdiction, rather than someone else’s.…

The ISS is situated deep in the earth’s magnetic field, which blocks charged particles. Anything going more than a couple thousand km above the planet needs to think about a much harsher radiation environment.

That last picture looks like the freezing rain we (southern ontarians) had last night.

Velodyne is an interesting company itself.

If it’s something that came on gradually as she aged and was consistent, she might just think “oh, I’m a bit forgetful around evening time” and not realize it’s actually being drunk.

The Concorde did the same thing - there was actually a big expansion gap just aft the cockpit, and pilots (at least on the goodbye flights) would put their hats in it: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/artic…

In context, it wasn’t disrespect - He’d just thrown a boneheaded pick when he had a decent drive happening and time left in the half to finish it up. The context was that he was pissed at himself for throwing it.

The really strange bit is that because of structural advantages of running a big taxi operation, the taxi companies should be able to beat Uber on price/quality since their costs should be lower.

This sounds theoretically awesome.

Formula E will be most interesting to me next year, when the teams can finally develop batteries. Motors, gearboxes, and motor controllers (what they can develop this season) are fairly mature, but there’s all kinds of wacky barely-out-of-the-lab battery technologies teams could try to deploy, and that’ll be good fun…

Which was prefixed by a link to the article and “tl,dr”, so I’m pretty sure an intelligent reader would realize I’m summarizing the thing I just linked to. The impression I got from the atlantic was indeed that there is a section in the koran setting out rules for what is and isn’t a caliphate, and that a huge amount…

When the leaf came out, I remember reading an article where Nissan indicated that the heated steering wheel and seat were there because it was much less electrically expensive to heat the steering wheel and seat than it was to run a blowdryer-type contraption to heat the whole car. But the effect on the driver was the…

The “random people” were quoted by the atlantic (and then those paragraphs we re-quoted by me), and were generally muslim scholars, people involved in ISIS’s international recruiting arm, or even people that tried to go to ISIS themselves.

Me: “In order to establish a caliphate, you must hold territory” -> Atlantic, Paragraph 6: “ The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)“

The atlantic has a really good writeup of ISIS’s claimed religious backing.

One of the rule changes this year was to actually make the front wings more effective, which is probably why it feels there’s been much less competitive passing and dicing this year compared to last. It made the cars much more sensitive to dirty air.

Because their short-term performance doesn’t matter anymore. Mccown is better and was the right pick while playoffs were still a remote possibility, but he only has a couple more years left in the league thanks to his age.

Investing in the stock market has a positive expected return in the mathematical sense over a huge variety of time windows. Even brainless non-skilled investing* where you just stick it in a broad-based mutual fund is expected to create positive returns of 5-6% per year in the long term.