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Most Japanese do not live in single family residences with dedicated garage space. Most live in apartments with shared parking, where is no way to get electricity from "your" EV to "your" home. The buildings are simply not wired up that way. Maybe newer apartments can be wired so an EV charger in your assigned parking slot gets tied in to the meter (and wiring) of your apartment. But that seems like it'd be excessively complicated - I imagine most such chargers will simply tap into the building's main power line, and its dedicated meter is added up with the apartment unit's meter to calculate the monthly power bill.

Unfortunately, this 1:1 transference of electricity from your EV to your home is necessary if you want people to conserve the power to stretch it out through a multi-day power outage. If you turn the electricity into a shared resource, the tragedy of the commons kicks in. And people start using all the electricity they can giving little thought to conserving it. Japanese culture might help counter that (they place a high emphasis on responsibility to society). But one bad apple in the apartment drawing lots of wattage for an AC, water heater, and playing games on his high-end PC could put a significant dent in the available power across all EVs powering the building.

Clearly you pay too much attention to latitude and not enough to longitude.

Also, if you assume the outer atmosphere as a solid sphere of (mostly) constant density, the moon could qualify as that hypothetical solid spherical atmosphere, out to the orbit of the moon! Right?

This isn't correct. What they're describing isn't an atmosphere at all; it's an exosphere. The difference being that an atmosphere is dominated by particle collisions (and thus behaves like a gas) while an exosphere is dominated by collision-free travel (and thus behaves like individual particles). If at the given temperature, the average particle traveling upwards will experience less than one collision before it reaches the upward end of its arc, it's an exosphere; otherwise, it's an atmosphere.

Dunning-Kruger effect

I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence

The thermal velocity of the particles will follow a Boltzmann distribution, and some of them move fast enough to escape earth's gravity. Lighter gases like hydrogen and helium will leak away much faster than N2 or O2.

The earth's atmosphere must have been much hotter in the past, because the atmosphere contains almost no neon, which is very common in the rest of the solar system. This may have happened in the aftermath of the Theia collision.

I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence

The thermal velocity of the particles will follow a Boltzmann distribution, and some of them move fast enough to escape earth's gravity. Lighter gases like hydrogen and helium will leak away much faster than N2 or O2.

The earth's atmosphere must have been much hotter in the past, because the atmosphere contains almost no neon, which is very common in the rest of the solar system. This may have happened in the aftermath of the Theia collision.

devalue their currency to steal our jobs and manufacturing,

Anyone actually living in China can tell you that the country has been trying hard, really hard, to pop UP their currency, e.g. by restricting the annual maximum of foreign currency an individual can *send out* of China. Otherwise, Yuan would be worth as much as Yen. so you should thank them for popping up their currency, else made in China products would be much cheaper.

use that advantage to steal our manufacturing technology,

Joint venture requirement is allowed under WTO treaty which they and the US have both signed up to. And requiring tech transfer is not "steal". In practice, companies only transferred enough peripheral tech so to allow manufacturing to happen. If a manufacturer doesn't know how to make the product, how can it start manufacturing for you? the core tech such as source code and semiconductor design are still been done in the Silicon Valley and never transferred. In accordance with WTO commitments, China has gradually narrow down the catalogs of industries requiring JVs over time. Bottom line: walk away and give up the market or lower labor cost if you don't like the deal, China did not put a gun at your head, blame your own (or the top 1% Americans') greediness

hack our infrastructure/businesses,

Read the TFA

international business,

Maybe you learned your English writing in the fake US education system?

steal our ICBM technology, industrial and tech IP, and siphon our wealth.

So did the US

Of and hire a sockpuppet using the nick "ShanghaiBill"

Personal attack is a sign of paranoia

I don't know,

You are absolutely right on this! You don't know anything but keep spitting out BS.

Dazzle pattern camoflage.

How? How is someone who isn't vaccinated harmful to someone who is? Isn't that the whole point of vaccinations? Or, do they not work?

Vaccinations work, but they are not 100% effective. An important measure of infectious diseases is the basic reproduction number, or R-nought. This represents the average number of infections that one sick person will create. Suppose mumps has an R-nought of 5, and you have a vaccine with 90% effectiveness, then the effective R-nought, after vaccination, is 0.5.

The critical point is an R-nought of 1. If you get below that, the diseases is expected to die out over time. If it is higher, then the disease is expected to grow. Getting the value from 5 to 0.5 will make a huge difference, which you would get if everybody is vaccinated. If too few people are vaccinated, R-nought will grow, and disease can spread, and will also infect 10% of the vaccinated population.

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

Any scientist who proposes a hypothesis that goes against the prevailing ides without evidence is ignored. If they are loud and insistent but still have no evidence, then they are shunned.

What happens to those scientists that have evidence for ground breaking ideas that go against established scientific principles? Accolades, reknown, and sometimes a Nobel prize. See Raymond Davis Jr who devised a way to measure solar neutrinos that were created by the Sun’s nuclear fusion. His results showed that there something fundamental wrong with the Standard Model when it came to neutrinos.

Was he shunned? Was he obstracized? No. Other scientists were skeptical as they should be until his results were verified by Mataoshi Koshiba. For their work, they got 1/2 of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Any scientist who proposes a hypothesis that goes against the prevailing ides without evidence is ignored. If they are loud and insistent but still have no evidence, then they are shunned.

What happens to those scientists that have evidence for ground breaking ideas that go against established scientific principles? Accolades, reknown, and sometimes a Nobel prize. See Raymond Davis Jr who devised a way to measure solar neutrinos that were created by the Sun’s nuclear fusion. His results showed that there something fundamental wrong with the Standard Model when it came to neutrinos.

Was he shunned? Was he obstracized? No. Other scientists were skeptical as they should be until his results were verified by Mataoshi Koshiba. For their work, they got 1/2 of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Why not start with a formally verified kernel instead of the relative chaos that is Linux kernel development?

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

The kernel and proofs are licensed under GPLv2, and tools are BSD 2-clause.

Is it important to you to "see who gets it"?

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The argument will be that greenhouse gas regulations (like many air pollution regulations) fall under the Interstate Commerce Clause.

That's probably correct, although one could also cite promotion of the general welfare.

... or the adaptation worked out as intended

There is no intent to natural selection. It happens but it's not a process with a design.

I think the next step is to see if the same applies to smaller animals. take a cat, paint a white stripe down its back and see what happens...

They've tried that and it results in amorous skunks with bad French accents.

If he means money made of paper, then he's probably right, but wrong otherwise.

This. Most new bank notes series issued today are made from polymer.

Even US notes aren't and I'm pretty sure, were never made from paper. They're made from linen, hence they were once called "rag money".

Actually, it's NASA, not NOAA. The ice shelf gets monitored by the Landsat mission, which is a NASA/USGS program.

It's a joint NASA/USGS mission, as per the summary. But even so, NASA's original mission statement could be interpreted as to cover earth science as well.

Since it isn't, the rest of your rant is moot.

Serious question here....just how much shit is packed between your ears? I just mentioned Tamir Rice and John Crawford by name, who weren't holding real guns, much less threatening cops with them, when they were gunned down on sight. But even if they were holding real guns, Ohio is an open-carry state and it would have been legal for them to do so. No charges for the cops that murdered them.

There's also Philandro Castile and Emantic Bradford just off the top of my head. Hell, cops have even gunned down people holding fucking garden nozzles on their own fucking property.

No charges for any of the cops that murdered these people minding their own business, some on their own property, and some in open carry states. There is no right to bear arms if using that right means you're subjected to an instant death sentence from cops who will suffer no consequences for murdering you.

Where did you find a browser that doesn't leak RAM like a sieve?

lynx

Sia has her own inflight entertainment channel? With a camera, so she can watch you while you're watching her? I didn't know they had that on planes. (not that there's anything wrong with that)

So Nestle is making a fuss over videos of kids eating lollipops?

Nestle, the company who knowingly killed how many thousands of babies, pushing baby formulae in third world counties?
And have made billions stunting the development of millions of babies by promoting the same products to mothers who were capable of breast feeding?

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England? Now? Australia introduced those as a complete set for general circulation 27 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Holy shit I'm getting old. I remember that.

I referenced the same Wikipedia article for other countries. England was just the first country that came to mind -- I think I remember reading an article about a security measure in the bank notes (or bank notes in general), which also noted them being polymer.

England? Now? Australia introduced those as a complete set for general circulation 27 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Holy shit I'm getting old. I remember that.

Free neutrons are the result of fission events. Natural fission events are relatively rare in natural, unenriched Uranium.

"For naturally occurring thorium-232, uranium-235, and uranium-238, spontaneous fission does occur rarely, but in the vast majority of the radioactive decay of these atoms, alpha decay or beta decay occurs instead. Hence, the spontaneous fission of these isotopes is usually negligible, except in using the exact branching ratios when finding the radioactivity of a sample of these elements. "

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

Stop embarrassing yourself...

Wide swings in value is not a "con" - it's a non-starter for the general public. Ask the Weimar or anyone unfortunate enough to live in Venezuela.

...or anyone that used gold for that matter. People want a currency that has stable value, and that means the currency supply must expand with demand for said currency. Bitcoin's creators assumed rising demand for Bitcoin would spur more mining activity. However, they made it too costly to mine, and the supply dried up. New currencies can learn from this and make mining less expensive to stabilize prices.

Solving this money supply issue would be a very useful and novel invention. This is currently a task that's performed by humans, and far from perfect.

"Microsoft security: An oxymoron if I ever saw one."

You are making a mistake. Don't think of Microsoft as a software company. That's not it's prime goal. Microsoft is primarily an ABUSE company.

Criticism of Windows 10.

If he means money made of paper, then he's probably right, but wrong otherwise.

Case in point, the Bank of England now uses polymer banknotes for their current £5 and £10 denominations and will use that for higher ones in 2020. Many other countries have done the same for their currencies. Polymer notes are (reportedly) cleaner and stronger (allowing them to last longer) and safer (can incorporate more security features).

If he means money made of paper, then he's probably right, but wrong otherwise.

Case in point, the Bank of England now uses polymer banknotes for their current £5 and £10 denominations and will use that for higher ones in 2020. Many other countries have done the same for their currencies. Polymer notes are (reportedly) cleaner and stronger (allowing them to last longer) and safer (can incorporate more security features).

• The German Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit organisation. They're lobbyists.
• The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit think tank. They're lobbyists.
• The German Marshall Fund is a self-proclaimed nonpartisan American public policy think tank. They're lobbyists.

There is nothing democratic about them. Two of them are literally Americans trying to steer European politics. All of them have been founded to exert more than their fair share of political influence.

• The German Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit organisation. They're lobbyists.
• The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit think tank. They're lobbyists.
• The German Marshall Fund is a self-proclaimed nonpartisan American public policy think tank. They're lobbyists.

There is nothing democratic about them. Two of them are literally Americans trying to steer European politics. All of them have been founded to exert more than their fair share of political influence.

• The German Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit organisation. They're lobbyists.
• The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit think tank. They're lobbyists.
• The German Marshall Fund is a self-proclaimed nonpartisan American public policy think tank. They're lobbyists.

There is nothing democratic about them. Two of them are literally Americans trying to steer European politics. All of them have been founded to exert more than their fair share of political influence.

You are confusing elements created in a reactor from enhancing the neutron flux and introducing various materials to capture those neutrons with natural decay products. There was a completely different process happening in these buckets than you would see in a reactor.

The U-238 decay chain doesn't have a single gamma emitter in it. It's all alpha and beta decay. And by the way, neither does U-235.

The most common emitter of gamma from nuclear decay is Cobalt-60 which is an artificially made isotope created by having a chunk of Cobalt-59 capturing a "slow" neutron - basically requiring a moderator to be used. These were steel buckets of natural uranium ore, not purified cobalt buckets filled with refined reactor grade fuel dunked in water.

If the GP poster knows nothing about this, you clearly know less than nothing, including not knowing how to google something before spouting incorrect information.

You are confusing elements created in a reactor from enhancing the neutron flux and introducing various materials to capture those neutrons with natural decay products. There was a completely different process happening in these buckets than you would see in a reactor.

The U-238 decay chain doesn't have a single gamma emitter in it. It's all alpha and beta decay. And by the way, neither does U-235.

The most common emitter of gamma from nuclear decay is Cobalt-60 which is an artificially made isotope created by having a chunk of Cobalt-59 capturing a "slow" neutron - basically requiring a moderator to be used. These were steel buckets of natural uranium ore, not purified cobalt buckets filled with refined reactor grade fuel dunked in water.

If the GP poster knows nothing about this, you clearly know less than nothing, including not knowing how to google something before spouting incorrect information.

The Simpsons, where else? ;)

The Japanese sport of Kendo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... using a bamboo sword called a shinai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is very close to lightsaber fighting.

The Japanese sport of Kendo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... using a bamboo sword called a shinai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is very close to lightsaber fighting.

Uranium decays through alpha emission.

But the story doesn't end there. There are beta emitters on uranium's decay chain. Still, not that much of a radiation hazard, but more that just alpha.

We don't go around calling your cities "Nouveau York" or "Laveington/Laverton".

It's spelled "épée" not "epee".

An Anonymous Coward objected to gtall's statement:

Libertarians had a field day....before 2007. Then their principles helped the banks dip the U.S. economy in shit and roll the rest of us. There was nothing the Bush Administration felt needed adult oversight in the banking industry.

by pointing out:

Uhhh, you are aware that Libertarians have never had much representation in the government, right? Like, in the last election we managed a whopping 3.3% of the vote. They currently hold 0 seats in the senate and 0 seats in the house. If you're blaming Libertarians for the crisis in 2008, I'd like some of what you're smoking. I do find it somewhat satisfying though that you're so terrified of us, even though we are not a large party.

You're conflating the Libertarian political party with adherents of economic libertarianism, as espoused by Alan Greenspan, friend and adoring devotee of Ayn Rand (and dedicated opponent of government oversight of banks and brokerages).

You may recall him as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the Fed's determinedly hands-off policy towards regulation and oversight of the financial industry (which is, ironically, among its explicitly-defined core duties, as laid out in its charter) during the era of the housing bubble, the implosion of which tanked the world economy (a policy that Ben Bernanke, his devoted acolyte and successor as Fed Chairman, unswervingly followed)? The guy who, in the aftermath of that disaster, admitted in Congressional testimony that he was convinced the mortgage bankers and the Wall Street clowns who "securitized" toxic, sub-prime-rate mortgages and pimped them to their customers as absolutely safe investments (because the underlying "assets" were insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) would never act in ways that could harm the economy, because Ayn Rand said so? That guy?

That's the kind of libertarianism to which gtall is referring - the "unfettered, free-market capitalism is an unqualified benefit to society that must never be doubted or questioned" economic philosophy kind. Not the "I voted for Gary Johnson and all I got was this stupid sticker" variety ...

(Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

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The core issue here is Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing. Qualcomm has patents on what is considered to be the best (if not the only) way for that wireless stuff.

You may like or you may hate both Apple and/or Qualcomm, but let's discuss the real problem: is Qualcomm trying to screw Apple on the price because they're bigger than the other manufacturers, or is Apple trying to screw Qualcomm on the price because they're bigger than the other manufacturers?

Strict scrutiny

Ad hominem! I WIN!
No, you lose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I stated a fact, you are an idiot. But I accept if you feel insulted. However I did not use an ad hominem fallacy :P

...just play this on your super-power, multistream, internet connected, CD impaired boom box.

Here's another wikipedia article you might want to read. Maybe you won't miss one again.

Thanks, that explains why I always get messed up prints with this command:

cat file_with_unix_line_endings >/dev/old_fashioned_typewriter

Except I don't. The mechanical properties of typewriters aren't relevant for digital text files.

According to Wikipedia this is the origin of the CRLF line ends:

The sequence CR+LF was in common use on many early computer systems that had adopted Teletype machines, typically a Teletype Model 33 ASR, as a console device, because this sequence was required to position those printers at the start of a new line. The separation of newline into two functions concealed the fact that the print head could not return from the far right to the beginning of the next line in one-character time. That is why the sequence was always sent with the CR first. A character printed after a CR would often print as a smudge, on-the-fly in the middle of the page, while it was still moving the carriage back to the first position. "The solution was to make the newline two characters: CR to move the carriage to column one, and LF to move the paper up."[1] In fact, it was often necessary to send extra characters (extraneous CRs or NULs, which are ignored) to give the print head time to move to the left margin. Even many early video displays required multiple character times to scroll the display.

Note that no current standard for line endings contains the extraneous CRs or NULs. It obviously doesn't make sense to have mechanical properties of some devices determine file formats. For the same reason it doesn't make sense to retain the CR either. Multics did the sensible thing and used a driver to add whatever a device needed to correctly print text and used a single character (LF) for line endings. Unix followed that convention.

They figured this out in the 1960's, well before Microsoft existed. Windows inherited CRLF from MS-DOS, which I suspect used CRLF because CP/M did. The right thing as far as I'm concerned is what the Multics people did: pay attention to details and do what actually makes most sense.

Unsettled...
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Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like the sort of comically evil plot Montgomery Burns might try, sending Smithers to tap kids' arms while they sleep?

You're probably subconsciously thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feud_(The_Simpsons)

Mr. Burns falls ill with hypohemia (a fictional life-threatening condition in which the body starts failing to produce enough blood, though it is akin to a real condition called hypovolemia) and needs a blood transfusion. His blood type, double O negative, is very rare, however, and none of the employees at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant have it. Homer discovers that Bart has double O negative blood and urges his son to donate, promising that he will be handsomely rewarded. Bart reluctantly agrees and his blood donation saves Mr. Burns' life. Mr. Burns is rejuvenated by the blood and he sends the Simpson family a thank you card. Enraged at Mr. Burns' paltry gesture, Homer writes an insulting reply, but Marge convinces him at the last minute not to send it. The next morning, Homer discovers that the letter is gone as Bart has mailed it.

Bart explains that he knew Homer would probably change his mind, and decided to send the letter before that could happen. Homer desperately tries to prevent the letter from reaching Mr. Burns, but fails. Mr. Burns becomes furious and demands that Homer be punished. However, Smithers calls off the beating on the grounds, meaning that it's no way to thank the man who saved Mr. Burns' life. But soon, Mr. Burns soon realizes the favor Homer did for him was something good, and comes to his senses. He shakes hands with Smithers and tells him not to punish Homer, but to reward the Simpsons instead.