You have to think of it in context - the 1.5tn inflation loss on the lent central bank money enabled China to keep its currency cheap and stable. This enabled them to attract FDI and know-how to build exporting factories, which increased the aggregate wealth of China and the Chinese from $4-8tn to about $20tn in the same ten years. A worthwhile investment.
Transparent aluminium? It's called aluminium oxynitride and it's widely used for transparent armor and roofs. Still a bit expensive though ($2k per square foot or so).
Or letting petty "deals" guide your decision when going for a normal cost event
This works for the company that is advertising the deals - but it is at best a zero-sum game for restaurants/shops, probably a negative-sum game once every restaurant starts to give deals.
In the long run, the only sustainable sales-increasing promotion is one that segments the market: It has to bring in customers who couldn't afford it previously -- but it has enough low-status signals not to be taken up by customers who can afford the non-discounted version.
The surveillance cameras are concentrated in the City, the West End and Westminster. Guess which areas have been entirely devoid of looters (despite having the most valuable loot).
[The typical guy who left is someone who] moves on to other ventures, gets married and leaves the website
Yeah right. The ones who left are people leaving in frustration when their contributions get deleted wholesale by script kiddies like Betacommand who are allowed to go postal with killbots.
Don't forget the ones leaving in frustration when the Arbitration Committee decides in favour of people who get paid to "own" a topic and who have the time to astroturf/argue/discuss about their biased edits as long as is needed to drive any honest contributor away. Hint: discussion page activity is in inverse proportion to how unbiased the contributor is....
You don't have doctors in the UK expecting to be millionaires... Your doctors are salaried, pretty well, but not $500/hour
Salaries for family doctors/GPs are pretty comparable - somewhere between $80k and $180k depending on overtime and experience both in the US and the UK (and much more for dentists and senior specialist doctors, of course). The savings in the UK come from the other sources that you mentioned, and in my opinion especially from the NICE guidelines of what drugs or treatments offer bang for the buck -- keeps pharma and equipment firms much more on their toes than the Cadillac plans in the US.
There might be a solution D: stretch out the peak hours to sufficiently flatten the peaks.
Mandate flexible working hours across major employers, maybe institute peak-hour congestion charges on roads. It might be perceived as evil government meddling by some, but it would internalize some congestion externalities...
I think the equivalent scanner for OS X would be OS X Rootkit Hunter.
You will need different removal tools of course, because BSD rootkits operate differently from Windows rootkits...
Booom, you just shot your credibility. GP asked for a cite to back up some extremely unlikely statistics, you tell him to read five books and however many it takes to become an expert in those seven fields... Which means you were probably full of excrement when you proclaimed those hypothetical crime statistics.
Umm... wrong. There is no way your statements can be true both today and five years ago. Ag and Au prices have changed by a factor of five, whereas suits, handguns or 8 hours of minimum wage have changed by maybe 30% one way or the other.
Currently, the price of gold is about six times of what I've paid for my bespoke suit; whereas the price of silver is still nowhere near a day's minimum wage -- and it especially wasn't five or ten years ago at a price of $7/tr oz...
By the way, I assume you meant "skeptic" rather than someone prone to suffering from inflammations.
By the way, you are wrong to assume. "Septic" is a very common word in rhyming slang, it's short for "septic tank". The rhyming is left as an exercise to the reader.
He was a major in part of Nazi Germany's armed forces (the SS); his rocket launches were part of a declared war. If he can be called a terrorist, Butcher Harris (or for that matter Rumsfeld and every other US SecDef since WW2) deserves the moniker much more.
You forget the fundamental tenet of information technology: All software sucks, all hardware sucks.
Thus, there needs to be a way to administer firmware updates and software security patches. That selfsame way (whether that is wifi, USB, serial bus, or dip switches controlled by smoke signals) is always a vector for malware.
Compound documents still exist in MS Word -- they are called "Master Document"/"Subdocument". EndNote does the citation management/conversion for all Word versions (though not for free).
And of course you could use one of the myriad TeX GUIs... But there's a trade-off between universal accessibility and capabilities.
Since plugs now last well over 36,000 miles in new vehicles, it seems trying to improve on an inexpensive technology with a high tech solution is anything but economical
Don't think cars, think ginourmous gas turbines with hundreds or even thousands of horse powers. If a spark plug can save just 2% of fuel, it can be worth thousands in cost savings over its lifetime.
Power-efficient spark plugs (like e.g. multitorch spark plugs) can indeed cost up to hundreds of dollars each - and the engine manufacturers still pay it without even flinching...
I don't think there are any specific entrance exams apart from the free-form "personal statements". It's the same SATs and SAT Subject Tests as everywhere else in the US. The elite universities in the UK occasionally have specific tests, Cambridge makes you take its STEP mathematics test for many science courses, and the SAT-style "thinking skills assessment" for some others. They have some past STEP papers available.
Harvards last vestages of the classical education. By 1975, it was gone. Now you have to go elsewhere for the classical education. Probably some small private college, because nearly everyone followed Harvard's lead and cut the core to just a few broad subjects.
Harvard still has the best classics department in the US, if you want a classical education - it just isn't part of the canon anymore. So paying customers aren't forced to learn Ancient Greek anymore, but can focus on compiler design or underwater basket weaving, if they so wish -- just like in any other college. Not a big loss, in my opinion.
Can someone explain the use cases IPad-like finger-only tablets are intended for to me?
Laptops I understand: you can use them to code, do your e-mail, ssh into machines to get stuff done etc.
Phones I get: you can use them to read your e-mail `on the go' and perhaps even send quick replies to important things, read maps, and do skype if you're the adventurous kind who likes voice communication.
Tablets with pens I also get: you can read and annotate papers/books with them or draw.
But I don't understand the use cases for finger-only tablets. They seem to be selling well, so my guess is that it's games or porn. Does anyone have experiences with these fingery tablets?
They are useful as a computer replacement for those who are tech-incompetent or just don't want to become power users. They do e-mail, facebook, web browsing/commenting, book reading, simple games etc. Sales staff like it as a lightweight photo album/video screen.
They are inferior in terms of input methods, extensibility and raw processing power - but most people who are on-the-go or on-the-couch are willing to make that sacrifice.
Radiation levels inside reactor two were recently gauged at 1,000 millisieverts per hour — a level so high that workers could only remain in the area for 15 minutes under current exposure guideline."
So the right thing to do would be to change the current exposure guideline. Right?
I know you're being facetious, but 250 mSv in a day is already far beyond the normal exposure limits for nuke employees (normally 100 mSv in five years), and far beyond the limit where radiation becomes carcinogenic. The 250 mSv guideline is a limit set for extreme radiological emergencies, in order to prevent irradiation of many more people.
I'd say that wind turbines are much quicker to build (2-3 years?) than nuclear plants, so why on earth would you need
- use nuclear as a stopgap for renewable/fusion
for anyway.
Because you can't run your base load off of wind right now: Wind doesn't always blow, pumped storage is scarce due to geographic limitations, and we are 15-25 years away from either a superconducting continental grid or a continent-wide storage composed of electro-car batteries.
Since the other renewables are very location-dependent at the moment (hydro, tidal, geothermic) or intermittent (solar), that leaves us with fossil or nuclear as a base load stopgap.
I pay the same amount per month for garbage collection, recycling, water, and sewer that they do,...
You're talking bullshit if you think that's the universal truth. If you live 40 miles out of town here in the west you haul your own garbage or burn/compost it as needed. You haul your own recycling. Your water comes from a well. You have a septic tank.
I know, that's what I grew up with.
We're not talking about life on a farm in the outback, we're talking about suburban sprawl in McMansion land, where roads/telephone/electricity/water/sewerage are subsidized on the net by city-dwellers.
That the destruction hasn't been worse, or even that the reactors have held mostly intact this long is a testament to Japans stringent design codes and standards
The Fukushima reactors have remained intact throughout the quake and tsunami -- a quake seven times more powerful than they were designed for. Ironically, the point of failure were the fossil fuel backup generators that were installed to cool the reactor cores after they were scrammed as a precautionary measure -- those were washed away by the tsunami and the truck-mounted replacements could not be connected properly...
How does your link invalidate his statement? Even if you count Chapelcross, it's one plus two partial meltdowns -- and Chapelcross was fixed and operating within a year or two...
Say, a GPS unit on each car, which records distance, 200 km per month inside the city is free, then increasingly taxed.
Wha...? I don't even... Please think the issue through before you make suggestions! What advantage does this proposal have compared to a gas tax, maybe combined with a yearly rebate for the first 60 gallons? I see none, but I see massive crippling drawbacks:
- Total loss of privacy for every citizen, worse than any police state ever in history
- No incentive to economise on fuel -- get the Hummer out, we're not paying by the gallon, but by the mile!
- No incentive for technological innovation or investment - see above
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You have to think of it in context - the 1.5tn inflation loss on the lent central bank money enabled China to keep its currency cheap and stable. This enabled them to attract FDI and know-how to build exporting factories, which increased the aggregate wealth of China and the Chinese from $4-8tn to about $20tn in the same ten years. A worthwhile investment.
Transparent aluminium? It's called aluminium oxynitride and it's widely used for transparent armor and roofs. Still a bit expensive though ($2k per square foot or so).
Or letting petty "deals" guide your decision when going for a normal cost event
This works for the company that is advertising the deals - but it is at best a zero-sum game for restaurants/shops, probably a negative-sum game once every restaurant starts to give deals.
In the long run, the only sustainable sales-increasing promotion is one that segments the market: It has to bring in customers who couldn't afford it previously -- but it has enough low-status signals not to be taken up by customers who can afford the non-discounted version.
That's not a Times article, that's a NYT article. (Be glad that it is, the Times is paywalled off these days.)
The surveillance cameras are concentrated in the City, the West End and Westminster. Guess which areas have been entirely devoid of looters (despite having the most valuable loot).
[The typical guy who left is someone who] moves on to other ventures, gets married and leaves the website
Yeah right. The ones who left are people leaving in frustration when their contributions get deleted wholesale by script kiddies like Betacommand who are allowed to go postal with killbots.
Don't forget the ones leaving in frustration when the Arbitration Committee decides in favour of people who get paid to "own" a topic and who have the time to astroturf/argue/discuss about their biased edits as long as is needed to drive any honest contributor away. Hint: discussion page activity is in inverse proportion to how unbiased the contributor is....
You don't have doctors in the UK expecting to be millionaires... Your doctors are salaried, pretty well, but not $500/hour
Salaries for family doctors/GPs are pretty comparable - somewhere between $80k and $180k depending on overtime and experience both in the US and the UK (and much more for dentists and senior specialist doctors, of course). The savings in the UK come from the other sources that you mentioned, and in my opinion especially from the NICE guidelines of what drugs or treatments offer bang for the buck -- keeps pharma and equipment firms much more on their toes than the Cadillac plans in the US.
Mandate flexible working hours across major employers, maybe institute peak-hour congestion charges on roads. It might be perceived as evil government meddling by some, but it would internalize some congestion externalities...
I think the equivalent scanner for OS X would be OS X Rootkit Hunter. You will need different removal tools of course, because BSD rootkits operate differently from Windows rootkits...
Booom, you just shot your credibility. GP asked for a cite to back up some extremely unlikely statistics, you tell him to read five books and however many it takes to become an expert in those seven fields... Which means you were probably full of excrement when you proclaimed those hypothetical crime statistics.
Umm... wrong. There is no way your statements can be true both today and five years ago. Ag and Au prices have changed by a factor of five, whereas suits, handguns or 8 hours of minimum wage have changed by maybe 30% one way or the other. Currently, the price of gold is about six times of what I've paid for my bespoke suit; whereas the price of silver is still nowhere near a day's minimum wage -- and it especially wasn't five or ten years ago at a price of $7/tr oz...
By the way, I assume you meant "skeptic" rather than someone prone to suffering from inflammations.
By the way, you are wrong to assume. "Septic" is a very common word in rhyming slang, it's short for "septic tank". The rhyming is left as an exercise to the reader.
He was a major in part of Nazi Germany's armed forces (the SS); his rocket launches were part of a declared war. If he can be called a terrorist, Butcher Harris (or for that matter Rumsfeld and every other US SecDef since WW2) deserves the moniker much more.
Thus, there needs to be a way to administer firmware updates and software security patches. That selfsame way (whether that is wifi, USB, serial bus, or dip switches controlled by smoke signals) is always a vector for malware.
And of course you could use one of the myriad TeX GUIs... But there's a trade-off between universal accessibility and capabilities.
Since plugs now last well over 36,000 miles in new vehicles, it seems trying to improve on an inexpensive technology with a high tech solution is anything but economical
Don't think cars, think ginourmous gas turbines with hundreds or even thousands of horse powers. If a spark plug can save just 2% of fuel, it can be worth thousands in cost savings over its lifetime.
Power-efficient spark plugs (like e.g. multitorch spark plugs) can indeed cost up to hundreds of dollars each - and the engine manufacturers still pay it without even flinching...
I don't think there are any specific entrance exams apart from the free-form "personal statements". It's the same SATs and SAT Subject Tests as everywhere else in the US. The elite universities in the UK occasionally have specific tests, Cambridge makes you take its STEP mathematics test for many science courses, and the SAT-style "thinking skills assessment" for some others. They have some past STEP papers available.
Harvards last vestages of the classical education. By 1975, it was gone. Now you have to go elsewhere for the classical education. Probably some small private college, because nearly everyone followed Harvard's lead and cut the core to just a few broad subjects.
Harvard still has the best classics department in the US, if you want a classical education - it just isn't part of the canon anymore. So paying customers aren't forced to learn Ancient Greek anymore, but can focus on compiler design or underwater basket weaving, if they so wish -- just like in any other college. Not a big loss, in my opinion.
Can someone explain the use cases IPad-like finger-only tablets are intended for to me?
Laptops I understand: you can use them to code, do your e-mail, ssh into machines to get stuff done etc. Phones I get: you can use them to read your e-mail `on the go' and perhaps even send quick replies to important things, read maps, and do skype if you're the adventurous kind who likes voice communication. Tablets with pens I also get: you can read and annotate papers/books with them or draw.
But I don't understand the use cases for finger-only tablets. They seem to be selling well, so my guess is that it's games or porn. Does anyone have experiences with these fingery tablets?
They are useful as a computer replacement for those who are tech-incompetent or just don't want to become power users. They do e-mail, facebook, web browsing/commenting, book reading, simple games etc. Sales staff like it as a lightweight photo album/video screen.
They are inferior in terms of input methods, extensibility and raw processing power - but most people who are on-the-go or on-the-couch are willing to make that sacrifice.
Radiation levels inside reactor two were recently gauged at 1,000 millisieverts per hour — a level so high that workers could only remain in the area for 15 minutes under current exposure guideline."
So the right thing to do would be to change the current exposure guideline. Right?
I know you're being facetious, but 250 mSv in a day is already far beyond the normal exposure limits for nuke employees (normally 100 mSv in five years), and far beyond the limit where radiation becomes carcinogenic. The 250 mSv guideline is a limit set for extreme radiological emergencies, in order to prevent irradiation of many more people.
I'd say that wind turbines are much quicker to build (2-3 years?) than nuclear plants, so why on earth would you need
Because you can't run your base load off of wind right now: Wind doesn't always blow, pumped storage is scarce due to geographic limitations, and we are 15-25 years away from either a superconducting continental grid or a continent-wide storage composed of electro-car batteries.
Since the other renewables are very location-dependent at the moment (hydro, tidal, geothermic) or intermittent (solar), that leaves us with fossil or nuclear as a base load stopgap.
I pay the same amount per month for garbage collection, recycling, water, and sewer that they do, ...
You're talking bullshit if you think that's the universal truth. If you live 40 miles out of town here in the west you haul your own garbage or burn/compost it as needed. You haul your own recycling. Your water comes from a well. You have a septic tank.
I know, that's what I grew up with.
We're not talking about life on a farm in the outback, we're talking about suburban sprawl in McMansion land, where roads/telephone/electricity/water/sewerage are subsidized on the net by city-dwellers.
That the destruction hasn't been worse, or even that the reactors have held mostly intact this long is a testament to Japans stringent design codes and standards
The Fukushima reactors have remained intact throughout the quake and tsunami -- a quake seven times more powerful than they were designed for. Ironically, the point of failure were the fossil fuel backup generators that were installed to cool the reactor cores after they were scrammed as a precautionary measure -- those were washed away by the tsunami and the truck-mounted replacements could not be connected properly...
How does your link invalidate his statement? Even if you count Chapelcross, it's one plus two partial meltdowns -- and Chapelcross was fixed and operating within a year or two...
Say, a GPS unit on each car, which records distance, 200 km per month inside the city is free, then increasingly taxed.
Wha...? I don't even... Please think the issue through before you make suggestions! What advantage does this proposal have compared to a gas tax, maybe combined with a yearly rebate for the first 60 gallons? I see none, but I see massive crippling drawbacks:
- Total loss of privacy for every citizen, worse than any police state ever in history
- No incentive to economise on fuel -- get the Hummer out, we're not paying by the gallon, but by the mile!
- No incentive for technological innovation or investment - see above