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Specifically, up to 800 MHz of bandwidth in the 26.5-29.5 GHz, 27.5-28.35 GHz, and 37-40 GHz spectrum bands.

See: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/United_States_Frequency_Allocations_Chart_2016_-_The_Radio_Spectrum.pdf

White Power!

Let's counter with an ethnic look. I personally dig Mayan art. I can see it with a sort of Next Generation (Trek) feel.

It's almost like you have to beam something to space and back, and convert the signal multiple times across multiple hops.

There are lots more orbits than you realize.

Nah, I think we should be going back to switches on the front console. Now, that was a user interface!

Pft, you kids and your switches and lights and visage ledgers.

This UI has been time tested for over 3000 years!

You're replying to a clear and obvious troll attempt.. But then again, it's not like there was an embargo (that was absolutely not imposed by a capitalist country either) that kept Cuba at a level of development from 1950, and led to wide spread poverty. Totes didn't happen.

Yep blame socialism. (Though blaming socialism is usually the right answer.. just not in this case.)

Sure it is.

Let's split a country in two. Make one side capitalist, the other side socialist. Then come back in 70 years and see what happened.

List of countries by gross national income per capita:

South Korea: 28
North Korea: no data

List of countries by per capita purchasing power:

15: South Korea
118 North Korea

It's been pretty flat for several thousands of years. Except recently it's been rising and is accelerating.

Someone's really not a fan of the facts to have modded this down to 0. The Holocene data is from Fleming et al. 1998, Fleming 2000, & Milne et al. 2005. The more recent data is from CSIRO. The fact that sea level rise is accelerating may not be popular, but it should not be surprising. It's a natural consequence of thermal expansion and melting land ice due to global warming.

It's been pretty flat for several thousands of years. Except recently it's been rising and is accelerating.

You provided irrelevant references. Here is a picture of a duck.

I'm shocked to hear that, shocked I tell you.

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Even the city of Cupertino has their own flag. This does not mean Cupertino is not part of California, nor does California's flag mean it is not part of the US. (I'm sure California's contributions to GDP and federal taxes are appreciate, even if their politics are not welcomed)

Taiwan can have a flag, and China can claim that Taiwan is part of them. The two positions are no worse than the usual double-think that goes on in the Communist Party of China (CPC). It's kind of sad that freedom-loving American companies have a love for money that overrides principle.

just like the mediaval warm period never happened eh. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Here's a more detailed graph.

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then explain why sea levels were 10 meters higher 10,000 years ago. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

just the graph will do. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Okay, fair enough. But then is this a computer, too? It can perform computations.

Don't you know? Vertical is the wave of the future.

Black Butte is a "butt" of a mountain, nothing but steep lava talus, if a hike that jarring cannot dislodge the Butt Plug then nothing can. perhaps your Crohn's Disease super-organism is retaining the camera for study.

Beautiful Black Butt -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

You can have increasing temperatures and melting ice caps or you can have decreasing temperatures leading to the next ice age. You can't, historically speaking, have a steady climate.

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But right before then, Intel was seen as the dying giant.

No serious observer regarded Intel as a dying giant, though you'd have my vote for a Napoleonic (Itanium) psychopath (RDRAM), sleeping off a boozy bender (Prescott, Caminogate).

One humble phone call to their Israeli design center ("maybe let's just put the engineers back in charge for a short while"), and Intel bounced right back off the matt again, big time, rocking those giant abulous fabs we all knew they were still packing under their delirious anti-competitive power-grab.

For about a five year period, during their Hewlett Packard joint venture, that must have been one hell of dysfunctional board room, perhaps even arcing as high as 100 mFi (milli-Fiorinas).

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I can never review that chart without hearing Julie Andrews in my inner ear chirruping gaily away about kettles of kittens and mittens of string.

It sounds something like:
Dammph.. P->Louder-ER

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People who are sticking to film (other than the hipsters) are probably using medium format equipment. 35mm stuff in good shape is available at garage sales cheap. The larger format gear prices are holding up quite nicely.

Lots of Medium and large format going around but also lots of artist film photographers too in my experience. It does have a certain look and feel and they even tweak that by shooting with ten or twenty year old expired film to give weird effects. There is cachet in the art world that certainly includes getting into shows and even selling by being able to say you shoot film and everything is done in camera or developing. Film photography will probably always be around, much as oil painting will also always still be around.

People who are sticking to film (other than the hipsters) are probably using medium format equipment. 35mm stuff in good shape is available at garage sales cheap. The larger format gear prices are holding up quite nicely.

you know, pope fuck shit, every time i read your fucking lies and the rest of you gun grabbing lying fuckers i make it a point to train another person with a firearm. i have gotten pistols and rifles for hundreds of people (i help them buy and train) and use the kleck research and other FACTS from the FBI to show what a fucking liar you are.

and if you took blacks out of the crime numbers gun crime is near zero. again, a fact. facts cant be "rayciss"

another thing - non suicide gun deaths are minute, and if you take out gang/drug shit, its almost zero. and the chances of being in a school shooting much less killed is less than dying on a plane crash

YOU FUCKING GOD DAMNED FUCKING LIAR FUCK.

Stop with this shit. you are an EVIL, vile fucking lying soviet seditious traitor. and i pray every day you pieces of shit start the civil war so we can bury you and your cancerous weakness and your disgusting progeny in the dirt half way to hell where you belong. FUCK YOU.

keep it up. you will NEVER take my RTKBA away, MOLON LABE, you fucking pussy cunt.

MOLON FUCKIN LABE.

dc vs heller, and its going to get worse in court, cunt.

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Molon Labe,sedition,treason, lies by gun grabbers

Perhaps we should stop painting them on the side and back of booze buses too?
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The police already do that
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Uhhhh ... since your engines are running when you enter the gate and when you leave, presumably you'd want your wing tips folded _before_ entering the gate, ne? And unfolded after you leave.

Incidentally, the Japanese A6M Zero had folding wingtips (albeit very small) in its early models. Later removed for simplicity, but there they were.

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Again, it hardly seems worth the effort, but Boeing should know what they're doing.

she means, No Free Lunch

Here's one fantasy alternative: The Free Lunch, although the summary here doesn't provide the necessary details. In a nutshell a dying future sends it's tech and personnel back into the past.

If it were real I'm sure that Disney would already have a 28, 42, 55, 75, 95, 105, 170, unlimited copyright on it. Heck, maybe that was the original CAUSE of their problem to start with.

Um, maybe it's different where you live, but where I live, you do get a warning when the cross traffic doesn't stop. Something like this. 4-WAY stop is a useful indicator letting me know that, after having come to a stop, I can start moving without waiting for the other guy to go, because if I came to a stop first, now I have the right-of-way. Without the 4-WAY stop indicator, I would have to try to look for the other guy's stop sign, before I feel safe to go after having stopped for my own stop sign.

Nearly half of Hong Kong's 7.8 million population lives in public housing.

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There's nothing really wrong with grains and carbohydrates if you ask me. They're not the devil people have made them out to be.

I'm assuming you're eating the fibre-rich whole-grain stuff though.

And assuming this image is what you are talking about.

...Where's the potato in that pyramid though? Seems like a glaring omission.

Oops, for some reason, the PNG version displayed readably to me in Firefox. The axes are labeled, it's just not clearly visible. Is the SVG version better at least?

Usually the changes have been gradual such that life had time to adjust.

Not really, temperature reconstruction is a bit of black magic. The error bars are so huge that it's hard to determine a lot. See for example, the Greenland ice core series, there are multiple periods where the temperature fluctuated very rapidly. Here is another selection of various reconstructions to give you an idea of the difficulty of coming up with an accurate picture. Which temperature record is the most accurate? Here's another one that is older, but shows temperature changes coming on very quickly. (An interesting thing about that graph is that CO2 changes follow temperature changes).

Usually the changes have been gradual such that life had time to adjust.

Not really, temperature reconstruction is a bit of black magic. The error bars are so huge that it's hard to determine a lot. See for example, the Greenland ice core series, there are multiple periods where the temperature fluctuated very rapidly. Here is another selection of various reconstructions to give you an idea of the difficulty of coming up with an accurate picture. Which temperature record is the most accurate? Here's another one that is older, but shows temperature changes coming on very quickly. (An interesting thing about that graph is that CO2 changes follow temperature changes).

Zero correlation between CO2 and temperature.

Like in this graph?

Those are questions you should have searched for instead of asking me. I'll help you by giving you a start with this graph.

If their idea is to promote a language that "follows the brand's core philosophy of simplicity over complexity", shouldn't they be using this as their logo? That has good brand recognition and has been around for years.

Another suggestion for a logo for Go would be this.

Some information here is incomplete.

There is no single one official cursive script in Germany. There were attempts to do this, but since every state had their own ideas on how to improve things and make writing curse more fluent different scripts were introduced over the time. This can lead to a lot of confusion between generations and people from different states because all scripts are valid. Working as an assistant to a professor at a German university I get to correct exams from time to time. And since students come from all over Germany and their scripts can be different I had to learn all of them. Fortunately for me, electric engineering does not require a lot of writing, but mostly mathematics and physics, which have their own conventions.

The cursive T that I learned during the early 90's in a German school looks exactly like this one here http://loopsandtails.com/cursi...
The script I learned here is the "Lateinische Ausgangsschrift", which loosely translates to 'Latin script' and was introduced in 1953. This script was developed from the "Deutsche Normalschrift" which was forced as a standard in 1941. Given only the minor differences between these two scripts it can still be considered to be modern today, depending on the state you're in.

A big issue is this: Coal has been steadily automating its mining systems. In 1950 underground mining was at the rate of 0.68 tons per man hour and surface mining was at the rate of 1.9 tons/manhour. By 2011 underground mining was at the rate of 2.76 tons/man hour and surface mining was at 8.8 tons/man hour. There were productivity peaks in 2003 of 4.04 and 10.75 tons/man hour.

Pretty much this. It is nothing short of amazing how quickly a few men can tear a mountain apart to extract the coal in it. I had a lot of relatives that worked in coal back in the day. Now, not one. Even jobs you would think were safe have been eliminated by just making the machines bigger. Like this http://www.mining.com/belaz-la...

A mere 450 tonne payload, twin turbo diesels, and 65 Km/Hr speed. These trucks can be filled by the likes of "Big Muskie" (no longer in service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which could do 220 cubic yards per scoop. We can build 'em as big as you want - in fact bigger than most mines will ever need

The only way that the Trumpian/Miner coal jobs wet dream will ever materialize is by returning to the good old days of this: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/af/2... , this, https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DAHJ... and this https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Gains in employment will be obtained by using mules in the mines, making the use of steam drills and jumbos and road headers illegal, just human and mule power, picks and shovels.

Otherwise, as you point out, coal mining is pretty darn automated. This is yet another "jerbs, Jerbs, JERBS! event, where people who might not think out the whole situation are promised jerbs, and are pursuaded to vote for people who have no intention of making jobs for them, or perhaps aren't thinking either.

The math is simply not there.

Yeah, it's definitely a fetish. ;)

Who cares, I just found this camera pigeon

Actual headline should be: "Decades Later, We're Still Underestimating the Enemy"

This reaction implies law enforcement and citizens think terrorists will stamp "TNT" on their bombs, run around in unusual clothes, attack in the same way they did last time, and name their detonators "remote detonator".

The truth is terrorists are way smarter than that. When doing the act, they will blend in. I'd feel much safer if everyone was ready for that.

"The last century has seen more change than in any given ten million year period. "
In this you're entirely wrong. Do you realize that? Entirely, completely, thoroughly, colossally wrong. From where did you get such hyperbole (and think it was right)?

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

Specifically, https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Look, the current spike has been replicated barely 100k years ago (note in particular the decptively changing scale of that graph...the rightmost 20% of the graph covers 20k years, the next section 1.98 MILLION and the next about 7.5 million, etc.). If our current temperature changes were compressed to the same degree as the 20k-1mill section, you'd see almost precisely the same spike in climate change happening periodically around every 120-140k years....and then stretch back and see that SAME cycle happening for what, about 3 MILLION years?

So please, while I may agree with you that trillions have been wasted that could have been better spent, let's start the discussion with actual facts perhaps?

While there is a place for electronic communication: emails, 'phone calls, on-line group messaging, what is far more satisfying is meeting people in the flesh to: chat, eat together, dance, go for walks, ... that is how true friendships are nurtured and grow. When you are with people you more easily learn their true nature. We are a social species -- this need has been exploited by social media, with the unfilled promise that using it will make us more socially successful: whereas the result is often the opposite.

Even if it's true NASA has become more risk averse, which I don't believe, that's not what's going on here. The problem is that they tried to save money and ended up spending more.

They refurbished the mobile launch platform they built for the cancelled Ares rocket to carry the SLS rockets, but when they finished the design of the larger SLS 1B rocket it no longer fit. And it's not like you can go down to the local welding shop and have them whip up one of these. So they're limited to the smaller Block 1 rockets until they can build another one.

NASA was plenty risk-averse in the Space Race days. They delayed the Apollo program for 20 months after the Apollo 1 fire, which pretty much used up all the program slack they had if they were to land a man on the Moon "before the decade was out." Lunar module Eagle landed on July 20, 1969. The big advantages back then was that they had a clear goal everyone was committed to, and were willing to spend fabulous amounts of money achieving it.

Adjusted for inflation, NASA budgets in the 60s were over twice the size of the current budget, and the majority of that budget was going to Apollo. That's over 20 billion a year in current dollars. Throw 20 billion dollars a year at Mars for as along as it takes to get there, and we'd have a good chance of seeing a manned landing attempted in the 2035 launch window. The problem is 17 years may be within most of our lifetimes, but that's too long for politicians to delay gratification.

That's why the Moon. Sure we already did it fifty years ago, and there's not many compelling reasons to land massive human habitats down in that particular gravity well now that we're so good at robotics. But it's something that could be done with spare change in the political lifetimes of people now in office.

have millions of drivers become mini electricity traders, charging up when rates are cheap and pumping energy back into the grid during peak hours

Transportation accounts for about 70% as much energy consumption as electricity. If you convert all those ICE cars into EVs, the electric rates won't be cheap during the night when they're charging. Overnight will become the new peak consumption hours, when electricity is most expensive.

No... If the system is properly designed, with everyone trying to buy low/sell high, and large amounts of storage in cars, there won't BE any peaks/slumps in demand. Not under normal operation, anyway. There's still the "a hurricane's coming, so everyone sets their cars to charge to full and not discharge" type scenarios to deal with. Even then, though, the power prices would spike to the point where a lot of people would probably still want to sell to make a buck.

have millions of drivers become mini electricity traders, charging up when rates are cheap and pumping energy back into the grid during peak hours

Transportation accounts for about 70% as much energy consumption as electricity. If you convert all those ICE cars into EVs, the electric rates won't be cheap during the night when they're charging. Overnight will become the new peak consumption hours, when electricity is most expensive.

It's a catch 22. The FDA usual process is slow and plodding but results in medications and medical procedures which are generally safe and effective by reducing as much risk as possible. However it takes a LONG time to perform all the necessary studies and clinical trials and critically ill patients die while they wait. The catch is that if you are trying to get approval for a novel medication that saves lives of the critically ill, how do you justify the delay needed to do all the safety and effectiveness studies? People will die if you don't try, but you might also kill and/or cure. What to do?

What you should do is put all the responsibility for making a mistake on the bureaucrats responsible for safety protocols, and all the costs associated with those safety protocols should be borne by the drug manufacturers.

You do realize that higher the penalty ...

Magic 8 Ball says "Don't count on it"

Yeah I didn't really expect a useful response when asking for actual evidence to back a claim. So here's a couple of quick citations that I found when looking myself (remember to check the sources).

This is what an economy of scale looks like. It's not modest. And production has been increasing by 50% annually so I have no idea why you think it's "scarce" either.

There were claims from "analysts" years ago that solar "couldn't possibly" get below $1.30/W because trillions would have to spent to scale it up enough. It's funny how wilfully blind people can be.

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You are FAKE NEWS!

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Obvusly you have none offices here. There is no offices here.