Do you doubt that the Sun shines due to hydrogen fusion? The scientific consensus says it does, based on models. It is not repeatable, testable, confirmable, or anything else-able. Perhaps the electric universe guy is right.
A couple of effects, wind, which can pile up water at the coast, so if there were steady westerly winds blowing on the east coast, the water will rise, and the opposite also holds true. Lots of places have steady winds. Gravity, seems the ocean levels by Finland are actually dropping due to the glaciers melting and having less mass to pull the water closer. Gravity is actually somewhat uneven all over the world and as the Earth is an oblique sphere, weaker at the poles. There's also barometric pressure, lower pressure raises the sea level
Not really. A lot of the time Slashdot doesn't show the modifier. The post below is at 3 but I had to click the 3 to see it had been marked informative.
Now I'm no European citizen, and maybe they think differently, but if Amazon working conditions were way out of line - I'd do my best to get a job elsewhere. Seems the logical approach when the job is going away, either way.
I agree, the problem is if you are just average, like most people, and don't have a trade, finding another, better, job can be tough, and it sounds like its just going to get tougher. Things seem to be getting worse all over, unless you're really good at what you do. Businesses are in a race to the bottom, the idea of companies respecting workers seems to have gone away, along with the idea of sharing some of the profits. The future doesn't look too bright, my parents did better then me, even without any education and my son is likely to do worst then me, even with more education.
America, with its no-fly list, its sex offender list where taking a pee or a selfie can fuck your life, your criminal thing where being arrested and released is enough to fuck you, your employment laws that allow you to be fired for posting the wrong thing somewhere? The right to own a gun with how many exceptions? Not to mention the political system that gives a choice of Coke or Pepsi and everyone is judged by their political affiliation. As someone posted up the page, great rights written into your Constitution, shitty in practice. For someone like you, with a good social credit standing, your country seems great, wait till you get wrongly arrested, especially if you can't afford a lawyer.
So to use the train analogy, you think it is ok for Google to build and maintain the tracks and then be prevented from running trains on them? With rules like that Google is not going to build any more tracks.
The problem is that Google can bid a billion dollars as they're paying themselves. Not sure how the bidding could be made fair. Another idea is that Google, as the owner of the tracks, gets to use them but there is a randomization process to make sure that Google doesn't always get the prime times, or the top of the page in search terms. Something like the top 4 bidders and Google get randomized, or just Google is randomized, for the 5 placements. Perhaps these numbers need tuning. It's a problem, especially the part where Google was screwing with the actual search rankings, but even only having Googles stuff on the ad section. Ideally would be more competition. It's why I started using Google back in the day as the other search engines were crap and full of ads. Now I use DDG as the search results are usually good enough, and the ads seem less intrusive, though they seem to be getting worse as well. As a bonus, searching from SeaMonkey means that DDG gives a few cents to the SeaMonkey foundation. They need the money since Mozilla cut them off.
Read the article? Anyways my apologies for maintaining the tradition of being wrong by not reading the article. The auctioning seems best as long as Google isn't allowed to bid.
Google agreed to auction off the right to use its rails as there is only room for so many. They also agreed not to put the other rail companies terminals in the back of beyond but to fairly go by usage. No free rides, just no abuse of the monopoly of having the only tracks in an area.
The Earth has also been remarkably stable over its lifetime, having liquid water on the surface for most of its history apparently. Evolution seems slow and takes time.
Besides all you mention, the fact that the Earth seems to have been quite stable over 4.5 billion years is likely a rarity. Based on our sample size of one, it seems to take billions of years for complex life to evolve and the Earth has remained mostly at temperatures etc that allow liquid water on the surface, even as the Sun has increased its output by 25% or so. The Sun has also stayed in the habitable zone of the galaxy for the same time. The rare Earth hypothesis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yea, someone else pointed out they're planning to service up to the 70 latitude with 18 hour a day coverage. We'll see how it goes. At least it is relatively flat up there.
Mountains and trees in the way and according to my neighbours, the LTE connection is much better, faster, lower latency and cheaper if you use it much. They all dropped satellite as quick as they could after testing.
I doubt that Musk will have much interest in servicing the far north, at least until last. There's not much money in it. Best maybe is a few satellites using Molinya orbits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So am I, an hour to downtown Vancouver with good traffic. We finally got cell coverage a year ago, which allowed me to get off of dial up. The only thing that the cell providers seem to excel at is having the highest prices in the world. I don't get many dropped calls because I can't afford to use cell much.
Will he bother putting enough over the far north where there is little profit due to few customers or will he put them where the population is? 10,000 isn't really that many to cover a whole planet with redundancies and such, it's not like they're going to be in Geo-synchronus orbit where a good chunk of the Earth is visible.
It takes more then a few to cover an area. They're going to be something like 500 miles up, a satellite will be visible for what, 15 minutes? Perhaps half an hour, so 50 in an orbit to cover one strip. 10,000 isn't actually that many if you want to cover the whole planet and I'd guess the profitable populated areas will be higher priority. What's really needed is 3+ satellites in those weird Moinya orbits but they have drawbacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They're doing that, at least in BC. It's how I now get my internet (rural LTE plan, 250 GB limit, up to 25Mb/s, usually about half that, for close to a hundred a month) but for the really rural areas where there is no infrastructure or a household every 100 miles on average, it isn't good enough. Then there's the far north where there might be a 1000 km between neighbours.
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Usually, those ships crews were very desperate or suckered/forced into being crew.
Do you doubt that the Sun shines due to hydrogen fusion? The scientific consensus says it does, based on models. It is not repeatable, testable, confirmable, or anything else-able. Perhaps the electric universe guy is right.
A couple of effects, wind, which can pile up water at the coast, so if there were steady westerly winds blowing on the east coast, the water will rise, and the opposite also holds true. Lots of places have steady winds.
Gravity, seems the ocean levels by Finland are actually dropping due to the glaciers melting and having less mass to pull the water closer. Gravity is actually somewhat uneven all over the world and as the Earth is an oblique sphere, weaker at the poles.
There's also barometric pressure, lower pressure raises the sea level
Not really. A lot of the time Slashdot doesn't show the modifier. The post below is at 3 but I had to click the 3 to see it had been marked informative.
So like the bullshit over the Y2K supposed problem. All that money and effort put in and then nothing happened, what a waste of resources.
Now I'm no European citizen, and maybe they think differently, but if Amazon working conditions were way out of line - I'd do my best to get a job elsewhere. Seems the logical approach when the job is going away, either way.
I agree, the problem is if you are just average, like most people, and don't have a trade, finding another, better, job can be tough, and it sounds like its just going to get tougher.
Things seem to be getting worse all over, unless you're really good at what you do. Businesses are in a race to the bottom, the idea of companies respecting workers seems to have gone away, along with the idea of sharing some of the profits.
The future doesn't look too bright, my parents did better then me, even without any education and my son is likely to do worst then me, even with more education.
Care to comment on what happens when people are on strike about bad working conditions with a company that is going the robotic route?
The same thing that happens if they don't strike, the company replaces its workers with robots as quick as possible.
Somebody else informed me that they'll be up to the 70th parallel with 18 hour a day coverage. We'll see how it goes.
America, with its no-fly list, its sex offender list where taking a pee or a selfie can fuck your life, your criminal thing where being arrested and released is enough to fuck you, your employment laws that allow you to be fired for posting the wrong thing somewhere? The right to own a gun with how many exceptions?
Not to mention the political system that gives a choice of Coke or Pepsi and everyone is judged by their political affiliation.
As someone posted up the page, great rights written into your Constitution, shitty in practice.
For someone like you, with a good social credit standing, your country seems great, wait till you get wrongly arrested, especially if you can't afford a lawyer.
So to use the train analogy, you think it is ok for Google to build and maintain the tracks and then be prevented from running trains on them? With rules like that Google is not going to build any more tracks.
The problem is that Google can bid a billion dollars as they're paying themselves. Not sure how the bidding could be made fair.
Another idea is that Google, as the owner of the tracks, gets to use them but there is a randomization process to make sure that Google doesn't always get the prime times, or the top of the page in search terms. Something like the top 4 bidders and Google get randomized, or just Google is randomized, for the 5 placements. Perhaps these numbers need tuning.
It's a problem, especially the part where Google was screwing with the actual search rankings, but even only having Googles stuff on the ad section.
Ideally would be more competition. It's why I started using Google back in the day as the other search engines were crap and full of ads. Now I use DDG as the search results are usually good enough, and the ads seem less intrusive, though they seem to be getting worse as well. As a bonus, searching from SeaMonkey means that DDG gives a few cents to the SeaMonkey foundation. They need the money since Mozilla cut them off.
I believe I just answered you in another thread. Expecting us to read the article, what next.
Read the article?
Anyways my apologies for maintaining the tradition of being wrong by not reading the article. The auctioning seems best as long as Google isn't allowed to bid.
Google agreed to auction off the right to use its rails as there is only room for so many. They also agreed not to put the other rail companies terminals in the back of beyond but to fairly go by usage.
No free rides, just no abuse of the monopoly of having the only tracks in an area.
You do realize that the compromise reached was to auction off these spots, not give them away free.
They went public, so now the unwritten motto is "do whatever necessary to increase the stock price"
The Earth has also been remarkably stable over its lifetime, having liquid water on the surface for most of its history apparently. Evolution seems slow and takes time.
Besides all you mention, the fact that the Earth seems to have been quite stable over 4.5 billion years is likely a rarity. Based on our sample size of one, it seems to take billions of years for complex life to evolve and the Earth has remained mostly at temperatures etc that allow liquid water on the surface, even as the Sun has increased its output by 25% or so. The Sun has also stayed in the habitable zone of the galaxy for the same time.
The rare Earth hypothesis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yea, someone else pointed out they're planning to service up to the 70 latitude with 18 hour a day coverage. We'll see how it goes. At least it is relatively flat up there.
Interesting, have to see how it goes and how long it takes.
Mountains and trees in the way and according to my neighbours, the LTE connection is much better, faster, lower latency and cheaper if you use it much. They all dropped satellite as quick as they could after testing.
I doubt that Musk will have much interest in servicing the far north, at least until last. There's not much money in it.
Best maybe is a few satellites using Molinya orbits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(I'm Canadian, in a megalopolis suburb.)
So am I, an hour to downtown Vancouver with good traffic. We finally got cell coverage a year ago, which allowed me to get off of dial up.
The only thing that the cell providers seem to excel at is having the highest prices in the world. I don't get many dropped calls because I can't afford to use cell much.
Will he bother putting enough over the far north where there is little profit due to few customers or will he put them where the population is? 10,000 isn't really that many to cover a whole planet with redundancies and such, it's not like they're going to be in Geo-synchronus orbit where a good chunk of the Earth is visible.
It takes more then a few to cover an area. They're going to be something like 500 miles up, a satellite will be visible for what, 15 minutes? Perhaps half an hour, so 50 in an orbit to cover one strip. 10,000 isn't actually that many if you want to cover the whole planet and I'd guess the profitable populated areas will be higher priority.
What's really needed is 3+ satellites in those weird Moinya orbits but they have drawbacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They're doing that, at least in BC. It's how I now get my internet (rural LTE plan, 250 GB limit, up to 25Mb/s, usually about half that, for close to a hundred a month) but for the really rural areas where there is no infrastructure or a household every 100 miles on average, it isn't good enough. Then there's the far north where there might be a 1000 km between neighbours.