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The material cost is actually a fairly small part of it

Are you seriously thinking that covering high-traffic road with glass-panes filled with electronics will keep the material costs small compared to a regular road?

The per area cost of these things is insanely high and they haven't even been able to demonstrate that these things can survive a single semi rolling over them, let alone thousands per day, while at the same time retaining their optical clarity so that the energy creation rate does not drop insanely due to scratching and dirt.

I have seen no material calculations or durability calculations of these things which would not make the whole project insanely inefficient and expensive, nor do any of the materials provided by the companies themselves change this. They've done no heavy-testing nor given out any reliable lifespan estimates etc etc... The idea is cool for sure, but the practical specs they've given inspire no confidence in it whatsoever,

It has been suggested that solar roadways can save money by replacing the substantial cost of building a road surface. Most of the cost of a road is in the road bed, the load bearing structure that gets hammered millions of times by trucks with only superficial damage. It is not possible, even in non-freezing climates, to build a load-bearing road without this base, so at best solar roadways requires the replacement of only the surface of the road (inexpensive bitumen and gravel) with concrete and steel, then tiles. LA freeways were originally built with concrete, but are now repaired with tarmac, aptly illustrating the price differential involved.

If a regular expressway costs about a million dollars per mile, solar roadways will add to this cost
$400,000 for concrete (at $75/cubic meter)
$250,000 for steel rebar and support pillars (conservative estimate at $1/foot)
$17,000,000 for 170,000 tiles, at an incredibly conservative cost estimate of $100/tile. Actual cost is likely more like $1000/tile.
Lets say when you throw in cabling, trenches, and margin for defective tiles it's $20m/mile. If you wanted to pave just Route 5 between LA and SF, that's $10b.

For the same price, you could, instead, install a real solar power plant in the high desert north east of LA that generated around 4GW of power (twice the size of Hoover dam, another renewable plant in the region). For the same price, you get 100x the power, 10x the lifetime, and Route 5 continues to be usable.

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If you think these things are economically viable at the current level of tech/traffic amounts, you are the one that I'm sorry to say has no understanding of the unit-costs involved.

(Grassy knoll OP) I agree completely. I don't think most people realize just how fragile rockets like this are. e.g. one of the reasons rockets are fueled after their readied for launch (besides safety) is that most are not designed to support the weight of the propellant in a horizontal configuration. i.e. if you take a fully fueled Atlas rocket and turn it on it's side, the fuel tanks will come loose and the rocket will be destroyed. This is one of the reasons portable rockets always use solid fuels.. besides the safety factor the fuel is a load bearing member in the structure. Honestly I think most people would be shocked at how "flimsy" space faring rockets are. Anything that is not absolutely needed for safety or function is discarded... and I mean everything. The rough cost of a space launch in 2016 was ~$20k per kg (actually a remarkably detailed post for quora). Just launching an iPhone 6 into space would cost ~$2600. At that cost, if you don't need it... it's gone.

Some people while astutely point out that rockets eventually go from the horizontal to the vertical in flight. This is true but rockets burn through propellants very quickly. The first stage of the Atlas V burns for ~253 seconds. So 1/4 of the propellant is gone in the first minute. By the time it starts to tip over the rocket already ways substantially less than it did on the ground. Additionally, the major force (the thrust from the rocket engine) is still compressing the structure.

Physicist Hal Lewis; Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara:

There are 1.7 million post-secondary teachers in the US. Certainly a few hundred thousand full professors in the sciences.

The fact that one 87 year old retired professor called it a scam a year before he died is hardly an effective appeal to authority.

(and yes, I read his actual reasoning, it doesn't hold up)

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://www.tnooz.com/article/...
https://www.quora.com/Who-buil...
https://www.concur.com/en-us/a...

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Hopefully you're not suggesting using a barometer to do that, because that's simply not possible. It doesn't have that level of accuracy.

You're utterly, totally and completely wrong, and spreading completely backwards misinformation.

Barometers in phones are highly accurate and can quickly, easily and accurately determine which floor of a building you are on with very high precision. Far more accurately (and much faster) than approximating altitude with GPS signals (even when you're outside and can even get a sat fix).

https://www.quora.com/How-accu...

http://www.extremestorms.com/i...

It would probably be considered an act of piracy in international legal terms.

Pirates were, customarily, hung by the neck until dead. Can't do that in zero-gravity...

Throwing one out of an airlock is rather cruel — and unusual too. Wasting your own crew's sole means of evacuation on transferring the captured pirates to Earth is not only wasteful, but may well condemn the said crew to death.

Keeping the detained pirates up there — and feeding them food at $17,000-20,000 per kilogram? Talk about waste of taxpayers' money!

Letting them "go", as we now do in our vegetarian times with most maritime pirates, is not going to be an option either — where are they going to go and what'll keep them from coming right back to your space-station after you leave?

Quite a dilemma, actually... Unless you handle it the Russian way — "release" the bastards, but make sure, they die before reaching the shore.

Perhaps you didn't know what to type into google? Happens from time to time. Just google "roman empire arms control"

Here is an article.
https://www.quora.com/Were-Rom...

I was surprised too. That historian also had a good set of facts to consider over abortion. However let's not get into that, one controversy at a time.

Never the less we don't need to go that far back, though it certainly shows historical experience. They aren't gun nuts. Just do a lookup of cities and gun control and reference murder/crime stats. Chicago, Washington DC, those are your biggies, and they have the worst problem. Then go down the line to some cities that require gun ownership. For the most part they have no crime.

BTW, if you look further you'll find that gun control is also racist. It's used to hold down minorities a great deal. So if you're for gun control, people might think you're also racist. Fits right in with the Democratic Jim Crowe laws of the south.

Yes, you are right. Except for cows, I believe that pastured cows are not the source of pollution that industrial cows are as they are in balance with the pastures they are raised on. You are right in a larger sense regarding the impact on pollution a planet-wide scale, however on a local scale the impacts are decidedly tangible:
http://web.uvic.ca/~gsteeves/e...
https://www.quora.com/Whats-th...
I am all for getting rid of most cars and replacing them with bicycles and a massively increased clean public transportation infrastructure. Also, I persist in my main statement that our major problems are (those I listed, there are others of course) here on earth and there is no conceivable scenario in which expending resources on space-flight are going to solve them.

That University of California IT workers actually are making only $13 an hour.

Maybe the junior people who pull wires and hook up monitors and such. Not the sysadmins and other senior people.

That the Indian workers are somehow magically going to be paid LESS than $15 an hour (since the rates are going up and that's your justification, we have use $15 as the rate now).

The outsourcing will probably move the servers to India, and whoever works on the servers will make whatever the going rate is in India. That may well be less than $15 per hour; a Quora answer says that engineering graduates can expect to be paid $15 to $25 per day. I don't see IT specifically, but another answer on that same URL says that software engineers make 500K Rupees per year, which would seem to work out to less than $5/hour.

(But the outsourcing company will almost certainly have more servers per sysadmin than a University IT department, and that calculation has nothing to do with minimum wage.)

The junior people will simply lose their jobs, and instead of having IT employees, contractors will be called in from time to time. The contractors will make more per hour, but won't be paid 40 hours a week.

If UCSF had a lot of junior IT people, the minimum wage change likely affected the decision; if not, then not.

If you don't like their decision, look for another manufacturer.

Yes, like a manufacturer who ships products with BEOS, who Microsoft threatened to squash by the power of monopoly. Oh wait, there are none left. These days you can buy a device that ships with Android and pony up only a nominal Microsoft tax. Plenty of options!

https://www.quora.com/Spoiler-...
"Testing for NASA's helmets included dropping an 8 lb steel ball from 6 feet."

As for the micrometeoroid - let's assume it is 1g, travelling at 40000 km/h. This is 11111m/s. This means around 61kJ
For comparison, 5.56 bullet is around 4g and travels below 1000m/s. We are talking about less than 2kJ
Steel ball will reach around 4.5m/s at point of impact, which gives 36J (not kJ)

Fracture process is complicated and depends on many factors, but from what I understand it depends more on kinetic energy (as given above) as opposed to momentum (where steel ball still loses to micrometeoroid, but wins with bullet).

From above, micrometeoroid seems to be many time more dangerous than point blank shot from m4 rifle. I would obliterate the helmet from what I can understand. It wouldn't neccesarily go much futher (like 10 astronauts in row) due to destruction of meteroid itself.

What is bit surprising is that 11.1km/s is considerably larger than escape velocity in near Earth orbit (7.something km/s). This would suggest it was of external origin, rather than part of orbiting debris?

We're not somehow backwards just because don't use fucking metric.

Well, umm, actually we are. The only countries in the world that don't use the metric system are the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.

So yes, we're about as backwards as it gets in that respect.

And France, Germany, and many other countries. Matter of fact, Airbus and many others. It's around more than people think.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-...

There really is nothing special about metric, except it's the base 10. We now know that the whole basis of a meter was supposed to be 1 millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the equator is wrong. So it's clearly just a made up system, by the French. Imagine that, using a French standard. I've heard things like it's more accurate, and such. Nope, all the measuring systems are the same in accuracy. More data points, consider temperature, Farenheight has more.

Personally I don't care. I have both sets of tools. I can go between them without much thought. Still kind of a pisser when I pick up a 10, 13 or 15 and it's not that. I have to get the standard socket (3/8, 7/16 and 1/2 are the usual suspects, then there is the 8mm and 1/4"). I suppose Metric is easier for people with an IQ below 100. I'd say even an idiot could do it, however I've met honest to goodness idiots. Their grasp on things is very light. Most of life gets by them. Sad really.

Would be nice if we'd all just use the same thing. Don't care which, just pick one.

Just a few years ago it was way warmer, and in just a few years it will be way cooler.

It's like these climate scientists don't know anything!

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...

Leigh Christie's post on this is great.
After tons of useful graphs and information...

"Note: I have not actually done a curve fit, so I can not comment on the exact percentage. But given that it's doubling roughly every 9-14 years, I'd say 5-8% sounds about right!"

Batteries are continuing to improve in dramatic ways. Dropping in price by about 5-8% per year, increasing in capacity about 5-8% per year.

Coming from the automotive industry, this is a bit of a cop-out. We have razor thin margins and enormous complexity. And, while modern automobile electronics like infotainment and navigation systems are somewhat poorly designed from a UI/UX perspective (a problem the industry seems to be working on from my time in Ford's research division), the vehicle as a whole cannot suffer massive problems on launch.

Just because cars are expensive, don't think that automakers make a lot on each car. You need volume to make real money, just like computer games. This article suggests that VW only makes about $500 Australian on each car and this quora answer estimates a similar figure for Toyota. Car margins are very small, much smaller than computer games, even indie games.

So, just like video games, automobiles have tremendous complexity, tremendous software complexity (even in the vital and semi-vital control systems in the vehicle), thin margins (much thinner than computer games), high volumes with enormous amounts of in-field hours upon launch (this adds to the likelihood that rare bugs are encountered) and high pressure from competitors. Relatively rare bugs, which are the bane of the auto industry are not the issue here. The issue is widespread malfunctioning. It is a total cop out to say that game studios cannot deliver a better experience on average on launch, especially big ones (I know we're talking about an indie dev game, but your comment is about all AAA games). The game studios deliver a shit experience on launch because they know people will still buy it. If the consumers didn't accept this, AAA games would not launch this way. Because the whole industry sees that consumers still buy buggy products from their competitors and time (to launch) is money, everyone has to deliver a buggy product prematurely to compete. Everyone working in software deals with many orders of magnitude more complexity than 25+ years ago. It's because consumers accept this "move fast and break things" crap that it keeps happening. For garbage like Facebook, I really couldn't care less, so "move fast and break things" does have it's place, but I think most of us would agree that it's place is not in video game launches.

Video games could and should deliver a smoother launch experience, even the most complex AAA, online games. They deliver a terrible launch experience because the consumers tolerate it.

We already have empirical data from previous periods with high greenhouse gas numbers, and we know what happened: plant life flourished, died, got buried, turned into coal, and served as a carbon sink. Anyone arguing that this won't happen again is making an extraordinary claim that demands extraordinary proof.

It's not entirely clear that coal can be replenished at anywhere near the scale we've been using it.

This interesting bit of info on coal's formation came to my attention not long ago:

Trees invented lignin -- the tough fibrous component in bark -- millions of years before bacteria and fungi invented ways to break down and digest lignin. (Even today, lignin takes a long time to break down and only a few organisms can digest it, but there are enough that it gets recycled eventually.) That meant for millions of years, trees that died didn't rot and get recycled as they do today; instead, they just piled up and eventually got buried and became coal.

Better source:

Now a new genomic analysis suggests why Earth significantly slowed its coal-making processes roughly 300 million years ago—mushrooms evolved the ability to break down lignin.

Well, that makes their reluctance to engage in sexual activity quite understandable.

Maybe we should put them on a slippery slope?

I find the idea that lack of money makes people celibate rather odd. If that were hte case, the great depression of the 1930's should have made foro birth rates near zero.

Another possibility is that many young men have checked out altogether. https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/men...

https://www.quora.com/Are-men-... Men giving up on women pisses women off http://rense.com/general49/fal...

You can google men giving up on women and get a hellava lot of links.

A big problem today is that normal males have been scared off from females. Sad to say, the bad ones haven't. But I watched a show recently where a group of young women were asked if being asked on a date by a man was sexual harassment. To a women, they said if you didn't want to go out with that guy, it was sexual harassment. Well now, isn't that cute?

That pretty much sums it up. Feminism has succeeded on a number of fronts, but ended up way over reaching. Normal males have been pretty well cowed. Most males would like a relationship, but when you can be committing a crime for the simple act of asking a woman out, you've lost from the start. Russian roulette. Perhaps a Pyrrhic victory?

Another woman in an NPR interview made the comment, when a friend went with her to a coffee shop in Seattle, and was reaking at the Butch women there. She told her friend Don't worry - These are just the women who have become men, because men won't. Deal with it.

Having married at a different time, to an alpha chick who has gone on to have asucessful career, the previous example of a liberated woman. we get along just fine, and as equals. But in today's atmosphere, where men are as likely as not considered public enemy number one, I can say that I would be one of the guys opting out of any relationship with women. I could spend my money on what I like, do what I want as long as I avoid women, and avoid all of the pitfalls of marriage and children and divorce and child support. It really isn't worth it.

It sounds terrible, but hey, in a country where all men are considered at best latent rapists and child molesters, who in the hell in their right mind would want to take a chance interfacing with the opposite sex?

And by the way - for people who want to claim that money = ability to engage in sex, my SO and I managed quite well when we had virtually nothing.

https://www.quora.com/Can-busi...

Yes, they can and do. There are portions they can't store (your PIN) but your account number and name can be stored and used. MasterCard and Amex provide feeds of aggregate data and Oracle does too aggregate and sell transaction information.

A cell phone is not a product. It is a component of a product.

How many of the old analog phones were in use in the previous system? Did anyone care or talk about it?

What about the road system? Surely that is the most popular man-made product ever. Two-tenths of one percent of the Earth is covered by roads/parking lots.

Except it wouldn't fly in the US

The situation in Spain seems even worse than in the US — whereas we have multiple locally-dominating behemoths, they have a single giant formerly state-owned one.

they were since bought up by a larger ISP and no longer allow you to reshare/resell your bandwidth.

Yes, and they refuse your money, when you say you wish to use them for uplink, right...

Copyright infringement is not stealing. Whatever you might think about the ethics of it, the definitions of the terms are different. See for example - https://www.quora.com/Intellec...

Another key difference between US and UK chocolate is that much US chocolate uses milk that has undergone lipolysis, a process that partially breaks down the fatty acids in milk. This is another historical anomaly in the evolution of chocolate production. In the early 20th century, the process of partially souring milk through lipolysis was used to stabilize milk chocolate, as the resulting milk chocolate could be stored for longer periods of time before its taste changed for the worse. [..] The advantage of the process is that further breakdown of fats in milk is slowed, and subsequent fermentation is reduced. The "milk" taste also lasts longer, before either fading or turning into bad-tasting compounds. The down-side is that the process releases butyric acid [my emphasis], one of the fatty acids present in milk. Butyric acid is the fat component responsible for the smell of parmesan cheese and baby vomit.

See also this article or Google American chocolate butyric.

In short, US production techniques improve the long life stability at the expense of producing compounds that- to those not used to them- smell like baby sick et al, but to those brought up on baby-sick-flavoured-"chocolate" since childhood probably seems normal.

I guess I was lucky when I tried some imported Reese's peanut butter "Christmas tree" confectionery, and the "chocolate" coating- can't even remember for sure if it was "chocolate" (by the US definition of the word!) or "chocolate flavor"- merely tasted like sweetened wax.

In some countries, the driver's test can only be passed on a MT unless the driver has some physical disability that requires the use of an AT.

In other countries, you can take the test using an AT but that gets you a restricted form of license, and since 80% of all vehicles in some countries have a MT, most people want a license that lets them drive any vehicle.

Why not? It is happening with gun control bills in the US that keep getting voted down...

The people never voted on a referendum on gun control.

It would be interesting to see what a referendum on the issue would look like if you took out all the people who are being funded by the NRA.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/03/...

erm... you mean that big scary organization that is really mostly funded by average citizens? (https://www.quora.com/Where-does-funding-for-the-National-Rifle-Association-NRA-come-from). I'm not a fan of lobbyists and I wish we could get rid of all of them but the NRA is one that is actually working as intended (giving a group of average citizens a collective voice).

So you're suggesting we exclude the people average gun owners have chosen to support (through donations to the NRA) when it comes to the specific issue they have chosen to support them for?

they write that the current online copyright law has allowed YouTube and other sites to "generate huge profits by creating ease of use for consumers to carry almost every recorded song in history

How many songs have been recorded since the beginning of time?

James Piazza, Music Archivist, Audiophile
Paul Mawhinney's record collection consists of ~1 million LPs and ~1.5 million singles. The Library of Congress conducted a study of Mawhinney's collection and found that only 17% of the titles were available to the public on CD. A smaller fraction still were made commercially available in a digital file format like MP3 or FLAC.

And to take it one step further, the majority of the LPs in Paul's collection are American and UK recordings. That doesn't even begin to consider the musical output of the rest of planet earth.

The iTunes library (or that of Spotify for that matter) comprise a tiny, tiny fraction of the history of recorded music. 26 million digital songs is a starting point, but the world's catalog of recorded sound extends so much farther than that.

And once you've finished the lifetimes it would take to play through official recordings from the Library of Congress and other national archives, you could then move on to the libraries of the universities of the world which will open you up to demos and performances from some of the greatest composers in the world, none of which are available commercially.

Without some concrete figures from the LOC, national archives and from universities, I cannot provide even a ballpark of an exact total track duration, but I hope my answer gives you some perspective beyond the limitations of digital music.

IQ tests are country specific [...] There is no such thing as a country with a higher IQ than another country.

Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://jakubmarian.com/averag...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

https://fellowshipoftheminds.c...

Bullshit.

Average speaking speed is 110-150wpm (see https://www.quora.com/Speeches... )

No, you can not type at 550wpm. No.

https://freedomgeek.quora.com/...

In the Israeli pride parade a year ago, a Haredi Jewish man assulated a young girl with a knife and killed her

The cited Leviticus 20:13 passage says nothing about women. Whatever motivated that lunatic, it was not the scripture — certainly not that part of it. Fail.

Israelis are actually smart enough to have gun control, unlike the US.

Another fail. Israel makes it very easy for citizens to own weapons. In fact, they just made it even easier — so that civilians can better help authorities subdue terrorists. Israel has a lot of guns, but very little violence — the fact, America's anti-weapon zealots are struggling to explain because it tears apart their cliches...

But I'm still not believing that there's any market at all for such things.

If there is a market for fire trucks with long ladders, there is a market for this device.

You do not understand the current economics of being a pilot.

Basically, there is NO SUCH thing as a 'non-wealthy pilot.

About the cheapest you can do is get one for $90k plus $15k a year. ( https://www.quora.com/How-much...)

But you won't do that if you are poor, because that cost assumes you use it very rarely. The more you use it, the more it costs for fuel and maintance.

The poorer pilots are already flying all the time other wise they wouldn't pay for the expense of their own plane.

It is true that there will be a FEW more flights from using this, but we are not even talking a doubling of the number of flights.

More importantly, flying - even small planes - is still a lot safer than driving on a per mile basis.

If the current flights were not dangerous, then doubling them would not be dangerous. Your basic assumptions are wrong.

It's way easier to broadcast emergency instructions over FM to three million people in a metro area, than to support three million active streams over a data network, especially in an emergency.

Or you could just use sms to text them (or use a combination of text and text-to-speech).

After all, even if their chip supports FM, the physical phones themselves haven't been built with the required FM antenna, so they must rely on wired headphones/earbuds (which most people don't have, or have stashed somewhere they have no idea where - comes the time of a disaster).

See subject & https://www.quora.com/Is-Andro... & it surely not Windows or MacOS X etc.!

* Google tries caring but drops the ball quite a lot... & from what I hear around here, as far as Android patches, it's mostly phone makers that aren't pushing patches to users as often as they ought to.

APK

P.S.=> Operating System are MORE than just a kernel as well... apk

You might want to look at the LBJ quote regarding certain minority voting DNC for the next 200 years.

You might want to look it up yourself.

It's widely discredited, and there's a matching quote in the reverse sentiment. Namely that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a Generation.

So which is it? Well, I will quote Abe Lincoln, and say, you should not believe everything you read on the Internet just because it has a picture next to a quote.

Or in this case, because somebody printed it in a book. I get it, you want to take a side. It's exactly what you want to believe. It makes you feel better at night.

Take a look at who ran on the GOP vs DNC for the ticket this year, four old white people vs a diverse group of 17, black, white and hispanic. But the GOP is racist!

Good idea, use the list of Presidential candidates to completely understand the political parties, man, your analysis is so deep and probing it can't possibly be questioned.

Why don' t you just pass around the chain letter where Charles Guiteau and John Wilikes Booth are both called liberals? Trow in a slice of whining about Robert Byrd, while never mentioning Strom Thurmond to make it really apparent.

I honestly don't get it, do Fauxbitarians like you fail to realize you're actually sucking the partisan teat, or are you just false-flagging to make your professed side look bad?

empirical evidence

The US up until FDR qualifies, in my not so humble opinion.

If look at the most successful societies, like the Scandinavian countries

You are begging the question yourself... Are they "successful"?

For example, they can not defend themselves from Russia — not without NATO (American) help...

Perhaps I can get better deals than my local stores have on products/items that I use. Maybe my employment could be down from home - thus saving me the time/expense of going to/from work. Perhaps I have a security system

This may all be true — no disagreement here. What I do not understand, is why do you feel justified using the money, that government takes from others at gun-point, to help you with these things?

It is actually worse then that. The article mentions:

Liberty Reserve fell into the U.S. government's sights, because it ran such a huge operation without oversight. In the post-9/11 world, law enforcement was keen to keep track of every dollar to avoid it ending up funding terrorists.

The US government is the biggest hypocrite; they themselves have become terrorists, having directly and indirectly funded ISIS:

* http://www.newsweek.com/2014/1...
* https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...
* http://thefreethoughtproject.c...

Maybe this is part of the reason BitCoin creator's Satoshi Nakamoto won't publicly come forward? He doesn't want to get charged with "domestic terrorism" (sic.)

https://www.quora.com/When-wil...

Um, Libertarians are a branch of the Republican Party. The TEA party is a Libertarian movement.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there...

Look at the chart on the bottom of the first answer, Libertarians can be right or left, but are primarily right.

North Korea is:

- provides a level of living to all its citizens (socialism/communism)
- has socialized medicine
- is not capitalist.

North Korea is a Authoritarian Left state...just like China used to be, and Russia used to be. Just because you seem to think Authoritarian is the opposite of Left, doesn't make it true, as Authoritarian is the opposite of Libertarian. Right is opposite Left.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there...

https://www.quora.com/Is-there...

So, since you seem to think NK is not Left, please point out where on the chart at the bottom of the first answer NK belongs instead.

Perhaps you are the one who doesn't understand that there is a left and right, and authoritarian and libertarian dimensions to the political spectrum. NK is Authoritarian Left.

Talk to Europe and Asia, not the US. Most of the ME oil goes to Europe and Asia; the US is a small percentage of the total (we get most of our oil from domestic wells, followed by Canada, Mexico and Venezuela). You're getting the immigrants because you're buying their oil.

Government manipulates money, interest rates, taxes income and wealth, redistributes, runs huge deficits and debts, borrows and prints for various military excursions that enrich a number of very well connected companies and individuals, bails out entire markets time after time after time.

What has that to do with Mayer?

Here's how she got hired: Stanford degree (A must in Silly Valley these days), Google on her resume and this.

Please read up on the role of the "Halo Effect"

It with with men too. Taller is always better.

I've seen occasional questions about IFTTT security issues (link, link, link), but nothing that isn't theoretical or speculative. Seems like there are a lot of avenues for compromising your network security and privacy. I'd love to see some hard facts about IFTTT security.

wow that's so many compared to Google's 28,457 other software engineers. -_-

A true nerd would also know that slowing down after the iceberg was spotted was one of the things that caused the disaster, and therefore would have told the first officer on watch to maintain speed to stay maneuverable and change course to avoid the collision. Alternatively, they could have slowed down or stopped well in advance of spotting the iceberg and also been fine.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there... Link is a google doc. Which appears to be able to track visitors logged in with a google account. Sorry about your emails.

There's a bit more to the story than that.

While Boeing was developing its own supersonic airliner, they were faced with the tough task of competing against Concorde, which was already established and flying. Instead of competing, the entrenched US aviation industry smeared the supersonic airline industry and encourage an FAA sanction prohibiting Concords (or any supersonic airliner) from flying supersonic over land.

It's funny that they are now looking into this again, and all their old fear-mongering is biting them on the ass.

FAA information.

Concorde.

An example of how there is a lot of confusion regarding take off noise (which was indeed very loud) and the sustained sonic-boom during supersonic flight. The author of that page also states that he's been unable to acquire data detailing the noise at ground level caused by the sonic boom from a Concorde. My own search has also been futile...

Missed the Quora link. Sorry about that.

At $100 million, that's roughly the cost of 40 airstrikes against ISIS. It's too bad we're such a trigger-happy country, we aren't willing to let our thumbs rest for two weeks and use the money we saved to launch a scientific mission instead.