At this point there is no reason any system should be using anything less than a 64bit value for time moving forward.
So you're saying it should take over a second to transmit the time? GPS has 50 bps data rate (100 bps in some configurations) according to table #1 at https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia.... I'm pretty sure there are other circumstances such as communicating with Mars or further or a submarine deep down with low bit rates as well.
Although making one integer smaller is not going to save you anything measurable even on a system from the 70's. Its one integer.
In 1984, Apple released the ProDos disk operating system which packed day, month and year into 2 bytes to save room. I'd guess going further back that packing more then the date into an integer happened as well as systems such as the PDP-1 that used 6 bit bytes.
The US Federal Government was designed to stay out of the way of the individual States having their own individual religions. Read the 1st amendment, it only banned Congress, not the States, from enacting certain laws infringing on speech and religion. Now look at current US politics, where religion plays a large part, larger then many (most?) western nations. I'm only aware of one Canadian politician who stated his religious believes whereas almost every American politician asserts their religion, and it is very hard for a non-Christian sect politician to get elected and it was a big deal when a Catholic got elected back in 1960. You have become more accepting of Jews though and it is mostly tradition rather then law that makes the USA a religious based country.
Perhaps you have some more recent figures as the most up to date I find quickly are from 2014 which show the USA emitting over twice the carbon on a per capita basis as China, 16.5 tonnes per year vs 7.5 tonnes per person per year with India at 1.7. The data I'm looking at doesn't lump the EU together, but has Poland at the same level as China, Germany and even Finland higher and the UK, Italy and the less developed parts of the EU lower. The idea of someone bitching about someone else emitting half or close to 10% seems biased at least, especially considering that both China and India seem to be promoting nukes and renewables more then America which has elected a leader to push coal and has mostly just happened to replaced coal with gas for economic reasons rather then for environmental reasons. https://data.worldbank.org/ind...
Sure, we reached peak per capita CO2 production with nowhere to go but down while China and especially India are still relatively low per capita. The real problem is how much CO2 we produce compared to the Vatican if we're going to compare countries without considering size or population.
Actually, if the climate supports it, that would be a good idea. Problems include growing a hedgerow being labour intensive as you have to partially cut the stems and weave them together, but you could hire illegals and taking a while to grow. Besides the traditional Hawthorne, you could plant a Barberry or Pyracantha hedge. I knew someone with a Barberry one, it was impassible without a chainsaw and even with, those 2 inch needle sharp thorns were horrible, go right through most shoes.
Try asking your doctor about drinking a cup of willow bark tea each morning with your high blood pressure and back aches. He'll tell you it works, suggest a baby Asprin instead, it could go either way since they are the same thing.
Actually they're only similar as the Willow contains Salicin which is metabolized into salicylic acid whereas Aspirin contains acetylsalicylic acid. The salicyclic acid is much harder on the stomach then the acetylsalicylic acid though they do have basically the same medical qualities. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Salicylic acid was also isolated from the herb meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria, formerly classified as Spiraea ulmaria) by German researchers in 1839.[33] While their extract was somewhat effective, it also caused digestive problems such as gastric irritation, bleeding, diarrhea and even death when consumed in high doses.
They can do like in Canada, rather then throttling, charge 25-50 cents a MB. I'd love to get throttled rather then charged an arm and a leg for going over my cell limit.
There's a problem at the other end of the spectrum of exaggerating or grabbing on the less likely scenarios to claim things are going to be worse then is likely. Claims that all the ice will permanently be gone soon or that an extreme event is proof. There are error bars in the best models and the good models do have variation and the smart thing is to put the brakes on CO2 emissions, but extreme claims in either direction is unproductive and can be counter-productive.
I said I had heard it somewhere, not that I believed it, though to a degree there is truth. Shit, I've gone across saying (and intending) it was a quick trip and then stayed a week, which strictly made me an illegal I believe. Even with out a visa requirement, you're supposed to declare how long you're planning on staying.
There are a lot of Canadians who go to Florida, Arizona and such for the winter and overstay their visa. I've also heard somewhere that Canada is one of the major sources of illegals. The difference is that they are mostly illegal tourists rather then illegal workers so not considered a problem. Googling, I can't find much besides 65000-85000 Canadians living down there by one estimate.
Here, the government had the 10 years in writing so roughly on the 10th year+1 day, they announced they were moving and thanks for the billions of dollars. Actually, they didn't even bother saying thanks
Until the Supermarket gets bought out by someone who puts it far into debt, declares bankruptcy and those pensions and healthcare is at the bottom of the list of debtors. Happened here with Sears. One of the last unionized grocery chains is currently closing all their stores, firing, I mean laying off all their employees with plans to reopen them as bargain grocery stores. Possibly with the same workers working for lower wages. Veteran, our last government managed to balance the budget unexpectedly on the backs of the veterans. Close almost all Veteran Affairs Offices, make it very hard to collect benefits and a few other moves and they had billions not spent. Earlier government had already changed a lot of pensions into cash payouts. Current government restored a lot of services, but they had to remove some of the tax cuts to do it as well as run a deficit and are likely to be voted out by the "lower taxes and only we can run a deficit" crowd.
All these taxes and especially fees hit the poor more. Gas tax, well the poor are more likely to be using an older vehicle that gets crappy mileage as well as living further from work. Usage fees have similar problems, around here it's the roads from the working class areas that get tolls. Other fees usually take a larger chunk of a low income persons income. People like the person I answered believe fair is everyone paying the same percent, which is a type of fair but leads to more income disparity which overall doesn't seem good for society as a whole.
Not until they put FedEx and UPS out of business, then they can focus on putting the other competitors out of business so they can exploit everyone from workers to producers.
You should look it up. Amongst the developed nations, America is actually one of the worst. Basically, Americans are most likely to earn the same income as their parents. The income mobility is largely myth based on a few successes. You do do better then the UK though. To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However a more recent paper (2007) found a person's parents is a great deal more predictive of their own income in the United States than other countries.[7] The United States had about 1/3 the ratio of mobility of Denmark and less than half that of Canada, Finland and Norway.[3] France, Germany, Sweden, also had higher mobility, with only the United Kingdom being less mobile.[3]
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Economic mobility is everywhere correlated with income and wealth inequality.[16][17]
There's at least 26 definitions of species. When you get down to it, defining a species is a problem. The observation of the AC about lions and tigers being able to hybridize with only one sex being fertile is an example that may apply to the different hominoids. There's also horses and donkeys where the offspring are almost always infertile but there has been rare cases of mules getting pregnant and producing offspring. Ring species where the neigbours can breed but further apart specimens can't. Plants get more complex. Dandelions IIRC skip generations so parent and offspring can't breed but grandparent and grandchild can. Then there's the organisms that are asexual.
I meant supporting various CPU's dynamically in the same binary, and who wants to update hardware every time a new video codec comes out or your browser update includes an update to the JavaScript JIT. I'm running 10 year old hardware with even older OS and am happy that libavcodec can render 1080 video with about 1/3rd CPU use.
I think nobody wants to go where warlords behead you. I bet people are very busy avoiding Somalia right now.
Only if you can't come up with the arbitrary tax they decide on or it takes long enough that feeding you isn't cost effective. Once you pay, they release you to the next warlord.
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At this point there is no reason any system should be using anything less than a 64bit value for time moving forward.
So you're saying it should take over a second to transmit the time? GPS has 50 bps data rate (100 bps in some configurations) according to table #1 at https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia.... I'm pretty sure there are other circumstances such as communicating with Mars or further or a submarine deep down with low bit rates as well.
Although making one integer smaller is not going to save you anything measurable even on a system from the 70's. Its one integer.
In 1984, Apple released the ProDos disk operating system which packed day, month and year into 2 bytes to save room. I'd guess going further back that packing more then the date into an integer happened as well as systems such as the PDP-1 that used 6 bit bytes.
The US Federal Government was designed to stay out of the way of the individual States having their own individual religions.
Read the 1st amendment, it only banned Congress, not the States, from enacting certain laws infringing on speech and religion.
Now look at current US politics, where religion plays a large part, larger then many (most?) western nations. I'm only aware of one Canadian politician who stated his religious believes whereas almost every American politician asserts their religion, and it is very hard for a non-Christian sect politician to get elected and it was a big deal when a Catholic got elected back in 1960. You have become more accepting of Jews though and it is mostly tradition rather then law that makes the USA a religious based country.
Perhaps you have some more recent figures as the most up to date I find quickly are from 2014 which show the USA emitting over twice the carbon on a per capita basis as China, 16.5 tonnes per year vs 7.5 tonnes per person per year with India at 1.7.
The data I'm looking at doesn't lump the EU together, but has Poland at the same level as China, Germany and even Finland higher and the UK, Italy and the less developed parts of the EU lower.
The idea of someone bitching about someone else emitting half or close to 10% seems biased at least, especially considering that both China and India seem to be promoting nukes and renewables more then America which has elected a leader to push coal and has mostly just happened to replaced coal with gas for economic reasons rather then for environmental reasons.
https://data.worldbank.org/ind...
It's a good example of how the market does not always result in the cheapest prices.
Yes it makes them grow fast, tall and spindly and fall over. Oh wait, maybe that's not good.
Sure, we reached peak per capita CO2 production with nowhere to go but down while China and especially India are still relatively low per capita.
The real problem is how much CO2 we produce compared to the Vatican if we're going to compare countries without considering size or population.
Actually, if the climate supports it, that would be a good idea. Problems include growing a hedgerow being labour intensive as you have to partially cut the stems and weave them together, but you could hire illegals and taking a while to grow.
Besides the traditional Hawthorne, you could plant a Barberry or Pyracantha hedge. I knew someone with a Barberry one, it was impassible without a chainsaw and even with, those 2 inch needle sharp thorns were horrible, go right through most shoes.
Somebody posted this up the page, https://www.businessinsider.co...
Try asking your doctor about drinking a cup of willow bark tea each morning with your high blood pressure and back aches. He'll tell you it works, suggest a baby Asprin instead, it could go either way since they are the same thing.
Actually they're only similar as the Willow contains Salicin which is metabolized into salicylic acid whereas Aspirin contains acetylsalicylic acid. The salicyclic acid is much harder on the stomach then the acetylsalicylic acid though they do have basically the same medical qualities.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They can do like in Canada, rather then throttling, charge 25-50 cents a MB.
I'd love to get throttled rather then charged an arm and a leg for going over my cell limit.
I just tried with NS 4.61, nothing but broken pipe messages. Found NS 2.02, same thing except the popup said network error, broken pipe.
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You need to read up on science and how it works.
There's a problem at the other end of the spectrum of exaggerating or grabbing on the less likely scenarios to claim things are going to be worse then is likely. Claims that all the ice will permanently be gone soon or that an extreme event is proof.
There are error bars in the best models and the good models do have variation and the smart thing is to put the brakes on CO2 emissions, but extreme claims in either direction is unproductive and can be counter-productive.
I said I had heard it somewhere, not that I believed it, though to a degree there is truth. Shit, I've gone across saying (and intending) it was a quick trip and then stayed a week, which strictly made me an illegal I believe. Even with out a visa requirement, you're supposed to declare how long you're planning on staying.
There are a lot of Canadians who go to Florida, Arizona and such for the winter and overstay their visa. I've also heard somewhere that Canada is one of the major sources of illegals. The difference is that they are mostly illegal tourists rather then illegal workers so not considered a problem.
Googling, I can't find much besides 65000-85000 Canadians living down there by one estimate.
Here, the government had the 10 years in writing so roughly on the 10th year+1 day, they announced they were moving and thanks for the billions of dollars. Actually, they didn't even bother saying thanks
and news sites would show me news I'm interested in
Keeping you in a nice safe bubble is the danger of that.
Until the Supermarket gets bought out by someone who puts it far into debt, declares bankruptcy and those pensions and healthcare is at the bottom of the list of debtors. Happened here with Sears. One of the last unionized grocery chains is currently closing all their stores, firing, I mean laying off all their employees with plans to reopen them as bargain grocery stores. Possibly with the same workers working for lower wages.
Veteran, our last government managed to balance the budget unexpectedly on the backs of the veterans. Close almost all Veteran Affairs Offices, make it very hard to collect benefits and a few other moves and they had billions not spent. Earlier government had already changed a lot of pensions into cash payouts. Current government restored a lot of services, but they had to remove some of the tax cuts to do it as well as run a deficit and are likely to be voted out by the "lower taxes and only we can run a deficit" crowd.
All these taxes and especially fees hit the poor more. Gas tax, well the poor are more likely to be using an older vehicle that gets crappy mileage as well as living further from work. Usage fees have similar problems, around here it's the roads from the working class areas that get tolls. Other fees usually take a larger chunk of a low income persons income.
People like the person I answered believe fair is everyone paying the same percent, which is a type of fair but leads to more income disparity which overall doesn't seem good for society as a whole.
There's the Walmart model too. They strive to be your only customer, at which point they start demanding cheaper and cheaper prices.
Not until they put FedEx and UPS out of business, then they can focus on putting the other competitors out of business so they can exploit everyone from workers to producers.
You should look it up. Amongst the developed nations, America is actually one of the worst. Basically, Americans are most likely to earn the same income as their parents. The income mobility is largely myth based on a few successes. You do do better then the UK though.
To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and
There's at least 26 definitions of species. When you get down to it, defining a species is a problem. The observation of the AC about lions and tigers being able to hybridize with only one sex being fertile is an example that may apply to the different hominoids. There's also horses and donkeys where the offspring are almost always infertile but there has been rare cases of mules getting pregnant and producing offspring.
Ring species where the neigbours can breed but further apart specimens can't.
Plants get more complex. Dandelions IIRC skip generations so parent and offspring can't breed but grandparent and grandchild can.
Then there's the organisms that are asexual.
I meant supporting various CPU's dynamically in the same binary, and who wants to update hardware every time a new video codec comes out or your browser update includes an update to the JavaScript JIT.
I'm running 10 year old hardware with even older OS and am happy that libavcodec can render 1080 video with about 1/3rd CPU use.
I think nobody wants to go where warlords behead you. I bet people are very busy avoiding Somalia right now.
Only if you can't come up with the arbitrary tax they decide on or it takes long enough that feeding you isn't cost effective.
Once you pay, they release you to the next warlord.