Please let me know where these sensors are that work well. Most of them I've dealt with change the light for nobody and then fail to detect cars. I can't tell you how many red lights I've sat through unnecessarily waiting for a left turn arrow that no one was waiting for...
Yeah, those people with short commutes in the 60s and 70s killed all the highway development because they didn't want to split neighborhoods and highways back then were loud and polluting. Now it's too expensive to get the right of way to expand and add new highways so we are all screwed.
Look at Atlanta vs cities like Houston and LA. At least in Houston and LA there are multiple highways and alternate routes. If the downtown connector gets shut down due to a pinhole camera on a bridge, the entire city is screwed because the ONE perimeter route is already clogged with just local traffic.
There is some truth to that. As you build more capacity, traffic in that spot gets worse, but traffic *in general* gets better. The traffic on the main throughfare gets worse, but the traffic on the side streets and alternate routes improves. The key is to expand multiple roads and not just the one.
Except new developments, new jobs, and new residents mean more tax revenue. Local governments all want that and they don't want to spend it on infrastructure. They want to spend it on nice offices, pay raises, pensions, parks, signs, chambers of commerce, and anything except roads, schools, police, fire, or water services.
Could this problem be solved by using a private verification key and a dummy key that is recorded when you register to vote? With this verification key as the last step to submitting your ballot, if you enter the dummy key the system marks the vote as valid and submitted so if someone is coercing you they are satisfied. Then later on you can redo the ballot with your verification key and it will actually be recorded as your vote. I propose we call the dummy key the "safe word".
Assuming the extra terrestrial life is well more advanced than we are, it stands to reason that they can detect us whether we broadcast a beacon or not. Given sufficient technology to travel between star systems, they probably have sufficient technology to properly scout out star systems before starting the journey...
Where is this company town where every potential sexual partner works for the same company? That certain level of promotion person needs to get out of the office and find someone else to fuck.
I lost it when they left the ship to go to Space Monte Carlo and do a side quest... Wait, you mean they can just fucking get on a ship and leave without the Discount Empire noticing? Why don't they all abandon the ship and go to Space Monte Carlo? Maybe find some legit parking so they don't get thrown in jail too. Hide out with the arms manufacturers seeing as how the Discount Empire is unlikely to attack the people that supply them.
A common misconception, but even Hoover Dam works on just weight alone. It is arch shaped, but it is more for aesthetics as it's not required to hold back the water. A straight dam the same weight as Hoover Dam would work just as well.
One issue with modern concrete is that adding steel increases the strength, but it also causes stress during temperature changes.
Actually one of the reasons steel reinforced concrete works so well is that steel and concrete have very similar thermal expansion coefficients and thus aren't subject to a lot of stress from temperature changes. I would love to see a citation for your temperature induced stress issue.
I gave up on it when it became about the relationships between the guys and the girls and everything else went out the window... They turned what was an entertaining show about some geeks into "Friends with SCIENCE!"
I agree with your points about characters becoming toxic. Howard should have been in jail, not married. Raj is a horrible racial stereotype. Penny is a character for slut shaming jokes. Bernadette had a character until they decided to turn her into Howard's creepy mom/girlfriend/wife.
Yep, but when it was discovered the added an additional safety factor on top of what they had already and the cables are probably way over conservative now. Which probably is why the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing and probably will for another century.
Boy there are a lot of mods throwing out troll points at anyone who dare question the inevitability of the climate apocalypse... Yeah, mods. Keep believing you are defending science.
I agree wholeheartedly. Humans are very adept at change. And as far as geologic timescales go, very rapid change. In a geologic blink of an eye, humans have developed science, medicine, society, culture, and spread across the globe. In fact if you look at the spread of humans across the globe, there is a distinct increase of population density in warmer climates. In fact, there is far more land area on earth that is uninhabited because it is too cold than the land uninhabited because it is too hot. We have thriving megacities in the hottest, harshest deserts, and isolated research posts in the frozen wastelands.
If humans do encounter issues over climate change it will be more likely to be over fresh water resources, not temperatures. And as energy becomes more abundant, so too does transportation of water, access to non-traditional water (desalination primarily), and efficient use of water. The biggest solution to humanities problems is abundant and cheap energy resources. This has been true in the past and will likely continue to be true into the future.
This is probably incorrect. Houses in Europe are likely less insulated because they are older than houses in the US. In the US, a house that is older than the mortgage is old... The reason the per house spending on utilities is less in Europe is likely due to the houses being much smaller than ones in the US. Less volume to heat and cool is a bigger factor than the insulation value.
Pokemon Go players disagree... I need to keep my phone constantly charging if I'm playing for more than an hour or so or the battery won't last the day.
Sure it works the first few times... But just like the "make sure you software eject your flash drive before ripping it out" warnings, most people might be hesitant the first few times and then say fuck it and start ripping the life out of computers and ignoring the pleas.
I wish I could have visited the lab where they made the gemstones. That would have been awesome.
As for the actual procurement process, the ring was made by Krikawa https://www.krikawa.com/ and they did a fantastic job using one of their existing designs in Palladium for my wife. The actual diamond I was able to select myself from their synthetic diamond supplier D.NEA http://d.neadiamonds.com/ . Surprisingly, the detail page link is still active http://d.neadiamonds.com/lab-c... 5 years later. The side stones are lab grown sapphires manufactured by Chatham.
For the wedding bands we have anodized titanium rings with each others' ring finger print laser engraved onto the inside of the band.
Specifically they lurk in my wife's engagement ring. Go ahead Slashdot trolls... Bring on the hate for being married on Slashdot.
But in all seriousness, that's the beauty of lab created gemstones. You want a blue diamond? Not really any different than creating a clear one. You can even pick from different shades of blue.
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Please let me know where these sensors are that work well. Most of them I've dealt with change the light for nobody and then fail to detect cars. I can't tell you how many red lights I've sat through unnecessarily waiting for a left turn arrow that no one was waiting for...
Yeah, those people with short commutes in the 60s and 70s killed all the highway development because they didn't want to split neighborhoods and highways back then were loud and polluting. Now it's too expensive to get the right of way to expand and add new highways so we are all screwed.
Look at Atlanta vs cities like Houston and LA. At least in Houston and LA there are multiple highways and alternate routes. If the downtown connector gets shut down due to a pinhole camera on a bridge, the entire city is screwed because the ONE perimeter route is already clogged with just local traffic.
There is some truth to that. As you build more capacity, traffic in that spot gets worse, but traffic *in general* gets better. The traffic on the main throughfare gets worse, but the traffic on the side streets and alternate routes improves. The key is to expand multiple roads and not just the one.
Except new developments, new jobs, and new residents mean more tax revenue. Local governments all want that and they don't want to spend it on infrastructure. They want to spend it on nice offices, pay raises, pensions, parks, signs, chambers of commerce, and anything except roads, schools, police, fire, or water services.
Could this problem be solved by using a private verification key and a dummy key that is recorded when you register to vote? With this verification key as the last step to submitting your ballot, if you enter the dummy key the system marks the vote as valid and submitted so if someone is coercing you they are satisfied. Then later on you can redo the ballot with your verification key and it will actually be recorded as your vote. I propose we call the dummy key the "safe word".
Assuming the extra terrestrial life is well more advanced than we are, it stands to reason that they can detect us whether we broadcast a beacon or not. Given sufficient technology to travel between star systems, they probably have sufficient technology to properly scout out star systems before starting the journey...
Where is this company town where every potential sexual partner works for the same company? That certain level of promotion person needs to get out of the office and find someone else to fuck.
Which he sold as an antique... The point was that he valued the classic idea of having reading glasses, not that they were required.
I lost it when they left the ship to go to Space Monte Carlo and do a side quest... Wait, you mean they can just fucking get on a ship and leave without the Discount Empire noticing? Why don't they all abandon the ship and go to Space Monte Carlo? Maybe find some legit parking so they don't get thrown in jail too. Hide out with the arms manufacturers seeing as how the Discount Empire is unlikely to attack the people that supply them.
A common misconception, but even Hoover Dam works on just weight alone. It is arch shaped, but it is more for aesthetics as it's not required to hold back the water. A straight dam the same weight as Hoover Dam would work just as well.
One issue with modern concrete is that adding steel increases the strength, but it also causes stress during temperature changes.
Actually one of the reasons steel reinforced concrete works so well is that steel and concrete have very similar thermal expansion coefficients and thus aren't subject to a lot of stress from temperature changes. I would love to see a citation for your temperature induced stress issue.
I say we go with Boss/Lackey
Would you rather be a Primary Slave or a Secondary Master though?
Why is it that people believe taxing tobacco reduces people's desire for smoking, but that taxing income doesn't reduce people's desire to work?
Yes, but back then they had fewer lobbyists. They know better now. They have bought the politicians to make it legal!
I gave up on it when it became about the relationships between the guys and the girls and everything else went out the window... They turned what was an entertaining show about some geeks into "Friends with SCIENCE!"
I agree with your points about characters becoming toxic. Howard should have been in jail, not married. Raj is a horrible racial stereotype. Penny is a character for slut shaming jokes. Bernadette had a character until they decided to turn her into Howard's creepy mom/girlfriend/wife.
Yep, but when it was discovered the added an additional safety factor on top of what they had already and the cables are probably way over conservative now. Which probably is why the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing and probably will for another century.
People who do not own the knowledge of the skills to solve a problem offer a "solution" for a problem they do not understand or know how to solve
I think you just defined "politics".
Boy there are a lot of mods throwing out troll points at anyone who dare question the inevitability of the climate apocalypse... Yeah, mods. Keep believing you are defending science.
I agree wholeheartedly. Humans are very adept at change. And as far as geologic timescales go, very rapid change. In a geologic blink of an eye, humans have developed science, medicine, society, culture, and spread across the globe. In fact if you look at the spread of humans across the globe, there is a distinct increase of population density in warmer climates. In fact, there is far more land area on earth that is uninhabited because it is too cold than the land uninhabited because it is too hot. We have thriving megacities in the hottest, harshest deserts, and isolated research posts in the frozen wastelands.
If humans do encounter issues over climate change it will be more likely to be over fresh water resources, not temperatures. And as energy becomes more abundant, so too does transportation of water, access to non-traditional water (desalination primarily), and efficient use of water. The biggest solution to humanities problems is abundant and cheap energy resources. This has been true in the past and will likely continue to be true into the future.
This is probably incorrect. Houses in Europe are likely less insulated because they are older than houses in the US. In the US, a house that is older than the mortgage is old... The reason the per house spending on utilities is less in Europe is likely due to the houses being much smaller than ones in the US. Less volume to heat and cool is a bigger factor than the insulation value.
Pokemon Go players disagree... I need to keep my phone constantly charging if I'm playing for more than an hour or so or the battery won't last the day.
Sure it works the first few times... But just like the "make sure you software eject your flash drive before ripping it out" warnings, most people might be hesitant the first few times and then say fuck it and start ripping the life out of computers and ignoring the pleas.
I wish I could have visited the lab where they made the gemstones. That would have been awesome.
As for the actual procurement process, the ring was made by Krikawa https://www.krikawa.com/ and they did a fantastic job using one of their existing designs in Palladium for my wife. The actual diamond I was able to select myself from their synthetic diamond supplier D.NEA http://d.neadiamonds.com/ . Surprisingly, the detail page link is still active http://d.neadiamonds.com/lab-c... 5 years later. The side stones are lab grown sapphires manufactured by Chatham.
For the wedding bands we have anodized titanium rings with each others' ring finger print laser engraved onto the inside of the band.
Specifically they lurk in my wife's engagement ring. Go ahead Slashdot trolls... Bring on the hate for being married on Slashdot.
But in all seriousness, that's the beauty of lab created gemstones. You want a blue diamond? Not really any different than creating a clear one. You can even pick from different shades of blue.