Debian package versions usually lag behind Ubuntu. AWS's whole thing is reacting quickly to changes - and a good way to do that is to use a distro which tends to be more up to date.
The oceans produce 70% of the oxygen on this planet. A huge portion of those "worrying about their next meal" depend on ocean ecosystems for that meal. And most of that plastic is produced by the first world, not the third.
And you know, they're also capable of speaking for themselves. You, a first-worlder, have food security. So what's your excuse for not using your privilege and means to do something about this problem?
Also speaks volumes to the mental stability of the gun owners in said fictional society.
It's polite because...what, someone who didn't like what you said might decide to murder you for it? Seems surprisingly incompatible with freedom of speech.
Quite possibly it'll be the ultimate thing which buries the company though. Toxic workplaces tend to be very good at ultimately pursuing bad ideas that sink them, because they eventually drive away anyone who might have the drive to try and fix or oppose them. Drone delivery might be the first sign of that with Amazon. Plus - we haven't seen the fallout of a genuine crash in cloud hosting yet, and there's a lot of business being built on the idea that Amazon will always exist. Inject some genuine uncertainty and you have to wonder if they're in a position to deal with that.
This is how the labour market is supposed to work.
I would never work for Amazon - I accept lower pay in exchange for work/life balance. But for those people for whom money is more important, Amazon provides them with that opportunity. To each their own....and to those who didn't know what they were getting into when they started working at Amazon, that's their own fault. Amazon's working conditions are pretty well-known.
This is all well and good, but the executives at places like Amazon have the ear of government policymakers. Sure, it's not slavery if you can quit...but it is when everywhere else can act the exact same way.
If you break it down like that everything in the modern world looks like a lot of work for "something so simple". Consider the mechanicals of that air conditioner for "just some cool air in a car".
AC motors are very efficient but in no way are they enabled by AC line voltages - efficient AC motors always do multiple conversion steps to produce AC current matched to the present speed and position of the motor. The simple AC motors you find in cheap power tools are nowhere near as efficient (and a DC motor is usually better anyway because it'll torque its way through just about anything).
Maybe so, but big data centers are starting to have big solar installations and a bunch of Google and Facebook ones are notionally self-sufficient if still grid tied.
So plus a few base-load nuclear power plants and they automatically become coal-free, which becomes more practical with reduced residential electrical demand.
The line losses are a NIMBY problem, people don't want power plants near their houses.
The fuel-source problem is people not being willing to pay for more expensive renewables, or in electing politicians that oppose them while continuing to subsidize fossil-fuels.
Those things can be fixed only if people as groups are willing to accept these differences and their costs, or if someone decides to put solar panels, at increasing personal expense given the utility companies' objections, on their property.
No a NIMBY problem is one which is stupid, like people not wanting nuclear plants anywhere near them "just in case". Living near an actual coal power plant is actually dangerous for your health in all sorts of ways including radiation.
A cubesat launcher modified with manoeuvering thrusters so it could do multiple deployments would work. The question is how small and low-power can you make the atomic clocks?
In practice though, You could get away with some lower orbit probes and synchronize your manouevers to only those times they're overhead providing positioning coverage.
You know, other then spray of buckshot/bullets you're sending on a ballistic trajectory over your neighboring residences and commercial districts, ensuring they maintain their lethality if on the downward slope they happen to hit a person.
This is because bandwidth is still a bigger problem then processor power overall, and at the moment we're very much in a local maxima where the situation seems slightly reversed.
You can get to the Moon for circa 800 ms-1 for a flyby. Injection is more but can be done for well under 3000 if you're willing to wait.
You are right - obviously you can't actually land on that, and manoeuvering/circularization adds more, but there's been a lot of work on this.
The 3000 figure is if you're using the classic, fast approach of the Apollo missions. But you can also do it very cheaply - so cheaply you could get enough delta-V out of a sufficiently high orbit Cubesat with arc-thrusters.
The Saturn V was intended to beat the Russians there, not necessarily be cost efficient. This type of mission almost certainly is based on using a commerical crew mission and 1 or 2 additional launches of a service module + propulsion module to go there. Once you're in orbit, after all, it only takes something like an extra 800 ms-1 of delta-V to get to the moon (less if you want to get really tricky about it, but with humans speed is a factor too).
Because all MASERs are inefficient, and little progress has been made on that front. Conversely you can stack microwave antennas across huge areas cheaply and easily and as a bonus don't create a giant invisible air hazard.
"High crime in Republican states" can mean high crime in Democratic-run areas within Republican states.
Yeah it could. Of course he doesn't know that, because he didn't do even a cursory review of the data before he formed his opinions. Of course I don't either, but that's also because who runs a district is pretty irrelevant to a discussion of whether district, state and federal policy combinations are leading to a particular outcome.
For comparison: mass shootings of the type the US have do not occur in the developed world at anything like the frequency they do in the US. And the US has had to redefine "mass" in the media to mean more then 3-4 people at the same time.
The loans were not a favor. The loans were to pay back German and French private investors and transfer their exposure to Greek insolvency to the IMF and ECB.
Greece didn't actually get "billions in loans". It got billions of dollars laundered through it's account books and back out to private investors to protect French and German interests.
But I'm mostly ranting at the internet tough guy outlook which is why Greeks are voting down austerity measures as they are: they are a sovereign nation, no you don't own them, and if you're wondering where you tax-dollars are maybe you should ask why your government loaned them all to Greece in the first place?
I think you should worry more that nationalistic sentiment is once again on the rise amongst all this. People on the internet bringing this type of thing up is not an isolated feeling, you may have noticed.
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
Only problem is that the same oligarchs, rich people, big companies etc that are not paying their taxes in Greece are also lobbying the EU under the table asking the EU to reject any Greek bailout plans that involve collecting these taxes.
Great: Greece defaults, leaves the Euro by fiat, the IMF and ECB take a bath (as well as any creditors who weren't important enough graciously bailed out by those two entities), and then Spain, Portugal and Italy do the same only this time the private creditors get to the wear it.
So buy buy any bank in Europe still exposed to that. Was your bank smart enough to avoid exposure like that? Are you sure?
People who think the solution is "stop giving them money" clearly don't know what a debt default actually is. Hint: it's when you stop giving them money.
Except for the fact the Greeks voted the Anti Austerity party into power.
And so why not?
Austerity is code for "fuck the poor, the middle class, and anyone who can't afford a private yacht and an overseas bank account".
Why should the Greek people suffer for the whims of French and German financiers and their ability to manipulate their governments to shield them from their mistakes at the expense of the Greek people?
A default looks pretty god damn similar to austerity measures, with the massive benefit that suddenly you can trade in your own currency again, and because it's so cheap you have a competitive advantage.
Bingo. Euro exit is on the table now because the ECB and IMF have handily ensured that all private deb exposure to Greece has been transferred to the government's of the EU.
No, no they shouldn't. The Federal government exercises federal power over AIG (or can, if they chose to wield it). Banks do not exercise federal power over the Greek federal government, which is thus the problem. In this situation, a floating currency is good because it lets regular market signalling hit the Greek government and allows business and investors to set their prices appropriately. Sans that, with the Euro, and you've got this situation where the Greek government cannot simply let it's currency devalue and (mostly, sans huge corruption) let natural market forces sort things out.
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Debian package versions usually lag behind Ubuntu. AWS's whole thing is reacting quickly to changes - and a good way to do that is to use a distro which tends to be more up to date.
The oceans produce 70% of the oxygen on this planet. A huge portion of those "worrying about their next meal" depend on ocean ecosystems for that meal. And most of that plastic is produced by the first world, not the third.
And you know, they're also capable of speaking for themselves. You, a first-worlder, have food security. So what's your excuse for not using your privilege and means to do something about this problem?
You do understand how the global climate varies with latitude right? Do you also frequently wonder why so few people live at the north pole?
Also speaks volumes to the mental stability of the gun owners in said fictional society.
It's polite because...what, someone who didn't like what you said might decide to murder you for it? Seems surprisingly incompatible with freedom of speech.
Quite possibly it'll be the ultimate thing which buries the company though. Toxic workplaces tend to be very good at ultimately pursuing bad ideas that sink them, because they eventually drive away anyone who might have the drive to try and fix or oppose them. Drone delivery might be the first sign of that with Amazon. Plus - we haven't seen the fallout of a genuine crash in cloud hosting yet, and there's a lot of business being built on the idea that Amazon will always exist. Inject some genuine uncertainty and you have to wonder if they're in a position to deal with that.
This is how the labour market is supposed to work.
I would never work for Amazon - I accept lower pay in exchange for work/life balance. But for those people for whom money is more important, Amazon provides them with that opportunity. To each their own. ...and to those who didn't know what they were getting into when they started working at Amazon, that's their own fault. Amazon's working conditions are pretty well-known.
This is all well and good, but the executives at places like Amazon have the ear of government policymakers. Sure, it's not slavery if you can quit...but it is when everywhere else can act the exact same way.
If you break it down like that everything in the modern world looks like a lot of work for "something so simple". Consider the mechanicals of that air conditioner for "just some cool air in a car".
AC motors are very efficient but in no way are they enabled by AC line voltages - efficient AC motors always do multiple conversion steps to produce AC current matched to the present speed and position of the motor. The simple AC motors you find in cheap power tools are nowhere near as efficient (and a DC motor is usually better anyway because it'll torque its way through just about anything).
Maybe so, but big data centers are starting to have big solar installations and a bunch of Google and Facebook ones are notionally self-sufficient if still grid tied.
So plus a few base-load nuclear power plants and they automatically become coal-free, which becomes more practical with reduced residential electrical demand.
The line losses are a NIMBY problem, people don't want power plants near their houses.
The fuel-source problem is people not being willing to pay for more expensive renewables, or in electing politicians that oppose them while continuing to subsidize fossil-fuels.
Those things can be fixed only if people as groups are willing to accept these differences and their costs, or if someone decides to put solar panels, at increasing personal expense given the utility companies' objections, on their property.
No a NIMBY problem is one which is stupid, like people not wanting nuclear plants anywhere near them "just in case". Living near an actual coal power plant is actually dangerous for your health in all sorts of ways including radiation.
A cubesat launcher modified with manoeuvering thrusters so it could do multiple deployments would work. The question is how small and low-power can you make the atomic clocks?
In practice though, You could get away with some lower orbit probes and synchronize your manouevers to only those times they're overhead providing positioning coverage.
I'd settle for a "command space" key and a custom terminal. "Caps Lock" specifies I'm entering a new string in a new array position for argv,
You know, other then spray of buckshot/bullets you're sending on a ballistic trajectory over your neighboring residences and commercial districts, ensuring they maintain their lethality if on the downward slope they happen to hit a person.
This is because bandwidth is still a bigger problem then processor power overall, and at the moment we're very much in a local maxima where the situation seems slightly reversed.
Nope: http://www.esa.int/esapub/bull...
You can get to the Moon for circa 800 ms-1 for a flyby. Injection is more but can be done for well under 3000 if you're willing to wait.
You are right - obviously you can't actually land on that, and manoeuvering/circularization adds more, but there's been a lot of work on this.
The 3000 figure is if you're using the classic, fast approach of the Apollo missions. But you can also do it very cheaply - so cheaply you could get enough delta-V out of a sufficiently high orbit Cubesat with arc-thrusters.
The Saturn V was intended to beat the Russians there, not necessarily be cost efficient. This type of mission almost certainly is based on using a commerical crew mission and 1 or 2 additional launches of a service module + propulsion module to go there. Once you're in orbit, after all, it only takes something like an extra 800 ms-1 of delta-V to get to the moon (less if you want to get really tricky about it, but with humans speed is a factor too).
Because all MASERs are inefficient, and little progress has been made on that front. Conversely you can stack microwave antennas across huge areas cheaply and easily and as a bonus don't create a giant invisible air hazard.
...People tout the superiority of Visual Basic?
I think you're hanging out with a weird crowd of "young coders".
"High crime in Republican states" can mean high crime in Democratic-run areas within Republican states.
Yeah it could. Of course he doesn't know that, because he didn't do even a cursory review of the data before he formed his opinions. Of course I don't either, but that's also because who runs a district is pretty irrelevant to a discussion of whether district, state and federal policy combinations are leading to a particular outcome.
For comparison: mass shootings of the type the US have do not occur in the developed world at anything like the frequency they do in the US. And the US has had to redefine "mass" in the media to mean more then 3-4 people at the same time.
The loans were not a favor. The loans were to pay back German and French private investors and transfer their exposure to Greek insolvency to the IMF and ECB.
Greece didn't actually get "billions in loans". It got billions of dollars laundered through it's account books and back out to private investors to protect French and German interests.
But I'm mostly ranting at the internet tough guy outlook which is why Greeks are voting down austerity measures as they are: they are a sovereign nation, no you don't own them, and if you're wondering where you tax-dollars are maybe you should ask why your government loaned them all to Greece in the first place?
I think you should worry more that nationalistic sentiment is once again on the rise amongst all this. People on the internet bringing this type of thing up is not an isolated feeling, you may have noticed.
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
Only problem is that the same oligarchs, rich people, big companies etc that are not paying their taxes in Greece are also lobbying the EU under the table asking the EU to reject any Greek bailout plans that involve collecting these taxes.
Great: Greece defaults, leaves the Euro by fiat, the IMF and ECB take a bath (as well as any creditors who weren't important enough graciously bailed out by those two entities), and then Spain, Portugal and Italy do the same only this time the private creditors get to the wear it.
So buy buy any bank in Europe still exposed to that. Was your bank smart enough to avoid exposure like that? Are you sure?
People who think the solution is "stop giving them money" clearly don't know what a debt default actually is. Hint: it's when you stop giving them money.
Except for the fact the Greeks voted the Anti Austerity party into power.
And so why not?
Austerity is code for "fuck the poor, the middle class, and anyone who can't afford a private yacht and an overseas bank account".
Why should the Greek people suffer for the whims of French and German financiers and their ability to manipulate their governments to shield them from their mistakes at the expense of the Greek people?
A default looks pretty god damn similar to austerity measures, with the massive benefit that suddenly you can trade in your own currency again, and because it's so cheap you have a competitive advantage.
Bingo. Euro exit is on the table now because the ECB and IMF have handily ensured that all private deb exposure to Greece has been transferred to the government's of the EU.
Great, start a war over it and see how much money that nets you (hint: it's none. You'll get less then nothing from that adventure).
You want to make money? Stop making stupid loans because you think people are going to lie down and sell you back their first born.
No, no they shouldn't. The Federal government exercises federal power over AIG (or can, if they chose to wield it). Banks do not exercise federal power over the Greek federal government, which is thus the problem. In this situation, a floating currency is good because it lets regular market signalling hit the Greek government and allows business and investors to set their prices appropriately. Sans that, with the Euro, and you've got this situation where the Greek government cannot simply let it's currency devalue and (mostly, sans huge corruption) let natural market forces sort things out.