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.

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.