For once - actual nerd news. Something not written by a teenager aimed at the least common denominator...
Assuming I'm understanding correctly, this will allow simplified simulations of nuclear fission on a larger scale without having to run the intense calculations each time. Hopefully this leads to new understanding of the fission process and refinements to our use of nuclear power. The more we can control the fission process the more we can develop techniques to limit waste products and refine the overall use.
Nuclear fission is fairly simple and produces enormous energy for a given input...but the variables involved make plants large, safety measures redundant (by intent) and costs high. If we can simplify things and bring costs down by better understanding the atomic process then maybe 'too cheap to meter' could actually be a thing one day.
Renewable has it's place, energy storage has it's use, baseline power is important as well.
Coax has (in general terms) fixed bandwidth to your home. Cable TV is digital and going over those lines today so there's absolutely bandwidth for those channels. Perhaps some small overhead for using IP, but the actual content data is the same.
Oh, except they wouldn't be able to force you to pay for boxes for each TV. The switch to digital cable TV is how the cable companies got away from previous rules that didn't require a box per TV...it only took 15 years or so for that to come around and be questioned again.
IANAL... but he's not obstructing. Obstruction requires active participation to interrupt or hinder an investigation. He's simply declining to be forced to actively participate in gathering evidence against himself...which is typically a 5th amendment right.
I'll include the proviso that divulging passwords has not been explicitly stated as a 5th amendment right (or denied as one) by the supreme court. The SC will have enormous pressure to exclude it but from a practical standpoint it very closely aligns with the intent of the 5th amendment.
No, the warrant was served and they seized the drives. He's being held because of non-compliance with a court order based on the all writs act...which is being increasingly relied upon because it's an effective catch-all that gives courts virtually unlimited power.
I've been waiting for this to happen for ~2 years now.
I'd love a phone that's actually water proof (not just champagne-proof like the s7) down to a reasonable 5-10m. A phone I can leave in my pocket and go to a waterpark, the beach, or swimming...and so on.
It makes sense to offer audio over USB-C if you're going to keep that port anyhow...with a small adapter for 1/8" audio. I just wish they'd do it with something like a magsafe connector.
Just like the concept that exempt (salary) employees who regularly work >40 hours are supposed to be compensated as well. They can't just slap an exempt title on you and require 60 hrs/week with no additional pay.
San Francisco (Cali I should say) has some interesting OT laws anyway - much more specific than typical for the rest of the country which actually has laws on the books that would make most 'exempt' people non-exempt.
Oh, except no one really fights it and anyone who does generally is made to lose by the courts/lawyers.
What they actually need to do is start making a 40-hour work week for *everyone* standard with OT for more. If you're that highly compensated that you should be exempt - then exempt the person the other way by paying most of their salary in stock. Since they (should) be a highly critical person in the overall success of the company, doing their job well benefits the stock price and provides substantial additional income. win-win in my book.
If you want to avoid party politics, do away with the electoral college and go with a simpler popular vote.
Oh wait that'll never pass because it would take away the unreasonable amount of power that smaller (swing) states currently have in the presidential election.
So, IOW, it would probably have cost a fair bit LESS than it did to fire them all.
Welcome to how our country runs. Firing IT staff and hiring H1B companies is a great short term solution for bumping up your stock price but in the long term it's just not viable for many use cases.
Yes you do. However it's also not entirely black and white.
For one, if you're on strike, sick, or otherwise not working then you can defer until you return. Unlike how many companies treat people, you're not actually on-call 24/7/365 if they want or need something. The company could sue and obtain the password/information through the courts despite being out, though even that's not black and white.
Also, there's a difference between divulging existing passwords and intentionally locking up things. The second shows intent and is a crime.
50 lbs of fuel is ~7 gallons which is reasonable for a backpack fuel bladder.
What's not reasonable, besides the 1000HP, is fitting 4x 250HP turbines into that tiny platform of the claim that they splashing down only required replacing the electronics but not a full overhaul of the 6 turbines. Not to mention the lack of exhaust and the fact that his 'controller' looks an awful lot like a contactless thermometer.
Checks, credit, wires, and anything with a digital trail is exempt since the funds can be traced.
The underlying intent is to prevent money laundering/fraud...but it's from 1970 where $10k was significantly more money (about $60k 2016 $'s). Inflation has quietly make this law much more restrictive to the point where 'normal' people doing 'normal' things can and do trip it up and give big brother an excuse to stick their nose in.
SSME is staged combustion vs gas-generator on the Merlin 1D which is a world of difference.
SpaceX has done quite a bit endurance testing on it's engines and they are absolutely able to fly multiple missions without complete rebuilding. Their design lifetime is 25 missions if memory serves. Maintenance? Yes. Rebuild? Certainly not.
Be ask skeptical as you like but even if they stick 50% of launches, it's a major savings. I'd venture to guess the reason they aren't showing more than 30% savings is to not set investor expectations too high. New rocket = $60mil, refuel = $200K. Do the math even if you factor in maintenance.
SpaceX will (and is) doing far better privately than NASA has publicly. They're not rife with corruption, bribery, and general governmental BS that NASA was and is.
Or (gasp) ask people to stop being so freaking hung up with basic nudity. Much of the rest of the DGAF. Oh wait, the US is 'special'.
I can still accept the argument about locker rooms as reasonable. Other than the mens room usually having a shorter line I see no reason why bathrooms actually need to be separate. The argument of 'xyz might look/perv/etc' went out the window when we stopped crying about openly homosexual people using their gender's bathroom.
And this explains the fundamental flaw of perspective and why reports suck!
$2/month extra charge added for entertainment...people shrug and don't notice.
25% rate increase with lots of bold and exclamation points...makes headlines.
I'll probably be cutting off my netflix TBH. I don't watch it often and their catalog has lost a lot of things I want in the last year or two. or three. I'm lazy with these cancellation things.
Their streaming library sucks these days too...at least for me.
Somewhere between 25 and 50% of the time I go looking for a movie I can't find it. It's handy to stream TV shows...if they're on there. Otherwise I find "alternate" means of watching the content I want.
2 bucks...even 10 bucks is chump change. I'd be happier if they charged 25 and actually had all the movies I want.
What I won't do is sign up for 5 different streaming platforms, each with a separate app and login, separate payment, intermixed catalog with no way to know which has which. I'm not a prolific TV or movie watcher by any means...but it's literally a case of 'please take my money for what I want' and I can't get it. One streaming service to rule them all is needed...
No, they stayed open because the daily costs for capital loans, and overhead still exist while the daily *operation* cost is smaller.
i.e. your mortgage is $1000/month (i wish!) Your utilities are $250/month so total monthly cost is $1250
The neighborhood went to shit and you can't sell. You usually work from home and make $2k/month but got a pay cut to $1k.
Now, you could quit your job, move out, and eat the $1k/month... or you could stay and take a hit for $250/month until things get better which also protects your investment in your house.
That's why these companies are producing oil for a loss - it's less of a loss than closing up shop and the long term prospectus is still hopeful.
Because of the $billions invested in the fields and rigs and discovery. Capital investment on that scale doesn't allow you to close the plant down for a month or two because demand is low and remain in business.
Google what one sea-going drilling platform costs.
Storage facilities are being built, but they're also long-term capital assets with the larger ones being strategic reserves by country. It's actually frightening how little storage the oil industry has vs. consumption considering it touches virtually every industry. I forget the actual figures but there's something well under 6 months worth of oil in motion/storage globally.
So no, we can't just leave it in the ground or throw it all into huge tanks.
Don't worry, next year's bolt will fix at least 5 of the 500 problems.
The year after 10 more but introduce 6 new ones.
While a bit tongue-in-cheek, the underlying point remains. Car manufacturers very intentionally provide minor incremental upgrades every year and then a "large" upgrade every ~5 or so when they "refresh" a car. They simply cannot release a vehicle that breaks that tradition without interrupting the fundamentals of their whole business model.
Tesla sells a car that costs more up-front, has an impressive feature set that would generally cost more in a gas-based vehicle (if you could even find it), gets FREE upgrades that do a lot more than just fix an ignition problem that kills people, have very low maintenance (battery pack has been a worry since the Roadster yet we haven't heard any horror stories), and they sell as many as they can manufacture without having to resort to tweaking a body panel slightly every year.
Comparing something which hasn't been delivered with something that's not nearly as good.
It's a crummy comparison but still a valid one. Does anyone ELSE have production plans, designs, or the capability of launching the 3 before Tesla?
If so let me know because I will buy as much of their stock as I can afford...but in reality the answer is a resounding 'no.' There's several options for quirky first-gen type EVs with limited range and old-school detroit thinking. Tesla is building what amounts to a second-gen EV...or perhaps third-gen as the roadster as arguably more capable than "modern" EVs from any other manufacturer.
In 10 years they will still be driving. A 10-year old iPhone will not be phoning.
You're comparing durable goods with non-durable goods which is a fundamentally flawed position.
Tesla takes it even further by not coming out with a "new" version of the same car every year to attract buyers. They don't need to for one, and it's a huge, HUGE long-term benefit to buyers when it comes to maintenance and support.
1) Sure, i'm happy to help you with that (great, let's do that immediately) 2) Can you tell me why you'd like to cancel? (no, please cancel my service now. I'm not interested in any offers or providing any information) 3) but what about xyz? (Cancel my service now)
Repeat a few times but if you feed the beast any info they will keep asking more questions until they can transfer you (and thus preserve their retention statistic) to somewhere else that you'll hold for another while or get you not to cancel.
I very rarely get transferred around unless keeping a service at a discount is something I was already interested in.
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For once - actual nerd news. Something not written by a teenager aimed at the least common denominator...
Assuming I'm understanding correctly, this will allow simplified simulations of nuclear fission on a larger scale without having to run the intense calculations each time. Hopefully this leads to new understanding of the fission process and refinements to our use of nuclear power. The more we can control the fission process the more we can develop techniques to limit waste products and refine the overall use.
Nuclear fission is fairly simple and produces enormous energy for a given input...but the variables involved make plants large, safety measures redundant (by intent) and costs high. If we can simplify things and bring costs down by better understanding the atomic process then maybe 'too cheap to meter' could actually be a thing one day.
Renewable has it's place, energy storage has it's use, baseline power is important as well.
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not...
Coax has (in general terms) fixed bandwidth to your home. Cable TV is digital and going over those lines today so there's absolutely bandwidth for those channels. Perhaps some small overhead for using IP, but the actual content data is the same.
Oh, except they wouldn't be able to force you to pay for boxes for each TV. The switch to digital cable TV is how the cable companies got away from previous rules that didn't require a box per TV...it only took 15 years or so for that to come around and be questioned again.
IANAL ... but he's not obstructing. Obstruction requires active participation to interrupt or hinder an investigation. He's simply declining to be forced to actively participate in gathering evidence against himself...which is typically a 5th amendment right.
I'll include the proviso that divulging passwords has not been explicitly stated as a 5th amendment right (or denied as one) by the supreme court. The SC will have enormous pressure to exclude it but from a practical standpoint it very closely aligns with the intent of the 5th amendment.
No, the warrant was served and they seized the drives. He's being held because of non-compliance with a court order based on the all writs act...which is being increasingly relied upon because it's an effective catch-all that gives courts virtually unlimited power.
I've been waiting for this to happen for ~2 years now.
I'd love a phone that's actually water proof (not just champagne-proof like the s7) down to a reasonable 5-10m. A phone I can leave in my pocket and go to a waterpark, the beach, or swimming...and so on.
It makes sense to offer audio over USB-C if you're going to keep that port anyhow...with a small adapter for 1/8" audio. I just wish they'd do it with something like a magsafe connector.
Apparently so, but I can't even begin to tell you how often those laws are completely, utterly, totally ignored.
Hint: all the fucking time by most large companies.
Welcome to what I've seen over and over again.
Just like the concept that exempt (salary) employees who regularly work >40 hours are supposed to be compensated as well. They can't just slap an exempt title on you and require 60 hrs/week with no additional pay.
San Francisco (Cali I should say) has some interesting OT laws anyway - much more specific than typical for the rest of the country which actually has laws on the books that would make most 'exempt' people non-exempt.
Oh, except no one really fights it and anyone who does generally is made to lose by the courts/lawyers.
What they actually need to do is start making a 40-hour work week for *everyone* standard with OT for more. If you're that highly compensated that you should be exempt - then exempt the person the other way by paying most of their salary in stock. Since they (should) be a highly critical person in the overall success of the company, doing their job well benefits the stock price and provides substantial additional income. win-win in my book.
If you want to avoid party politics, do away with the electoral college and go with a simpler popular vote.
Oh wait that'll never pass because it would take away the unreasonable amount of power that smaller (swing) states currently have in the presidential election.
So, IOW, it would probably have cost a fair bit LESS than it did to fire them all.
Welcome to how our country runs. Firing IT staff and hiring H1B companies is a great short term solution for bumping up your stock price but in the long term it's just not viable for many use cases.
Yes you do. However it's also not entirely black and white.
For one, if you're on strike, sick, or otherwise not working then you can defer until you return. Unlike how many companies treat people, you're not actually on-call 24/7/365 if they want or need something. The company could sue and obtain the password/information through the courts despite being out, though even that's not black and white.
Also, there's a difference between divulging existing passwords and intentionally locking up things. The second shows intent and is a crime.
50 lbs of fuel is ~7 gallons which is reasonable for a backpack fuel bladder.
What's not reasonable, besides the 1000HP, is fitting 4x 250HP turbines into that tiny platform of the claim that they splashing down only required replacing the electronics but not a full overhaul of the 6 turbines. Not to mention the lack of exhaust and the fact that his 'controller' looks an awful lot like a contactless thermometer.
I'd just hack someone's wifi from a clean/anonymous laptop and call it a day.
There's some analogy to getting strong encryption passwords with a wrench here I think :)
The $10k threshold only applies to cash.
Checks, credit, wires, and anything with a digital trail is exempt since the funds can be traced.
The underlying intent is to prevent money laundering/fraud...but it's from 1970 where $10k was significantly more money (about $60k 2016 $'s). Inflation has quietly make this law much more restrictive to the point where 'normal' people doing 'normal' things can and do trip it up and give big brother an excuse to stick their nose in.
Before you lecture, research.
SSME is staged combustion vs gas-generator on the Merlin 1D which is a world of difference.
SpaceX has done quite a bit endurance testing on it's engines and they are absolutely able to fly multiple missions without complete rebuilding. Their design lifetime is 25 missions if memory serves. Maintenance? Yes. Rebuild? Certainly not.
Be ask skeptical as you like but even if they stick 50% of launches, it's a major savings. I'd venture to guess the reason they aren't showing more than 30% savings is to not set investor expectations too high. New rocket = $60mil, refuel = $200K. Do the math even if you factor in maintenance.
SpaceX will (and is) doing far better privately than NASA has publicly. They're not rife with corruption, bribery, and general governmental BS that NASA was and is.
Or (gasp) ask people to stop being so freaking hung up with basic nudity. Much of the rest of the DGAF. Oh wait, the US is 'special'.
I can still accept the argument about locker rooms as reasonable. Other than the mens room usually having a shorter line I see no reason why bathrooms actually need to be separate. The argument of 'xyz might look/perv/etc' went out the window when we stopped crying about openly homosexual people using their gender's bathroom.
Same here...and your cable sub was cheap!
My internet costs more than that ... mainly because I'm too lazy to call and "cancel" to get them to reduce the rate.
And this explains the fundamental flaw of perspective and why reports suck!
$2/month extra charge added for entertainment...people shrug and don't notice.
25% rate increase with lots of bold and exclamation points...makes headlines.
I'll probably be cutting off my netflix TBH. I don't watch it often and their catalog has lost a lot of things I want in the last year or two. or three. I'm lazy with these cancellation things.
Their streaming library sucks these days too...at least for me.
Somewhere between 25 and 50% of the time I go looking for a movie I can't find it. It's handy to stream TV shows...if they're on there. Otherwise I find "alternate" means of watching the content I want.
2 bucks...even 10 bucks is chump change. I'd be happier if they charged 25 and actually had all the movies I want.
What I won't do is sign up for 5 different streaming platforms, each with a separate app and login, separate payment, intermixed catalog with no way to know which has which. I'm not a prolific TV or movie watcher by any means...but it's literally a case of 'please take my money for what I want' and I can't get it. One streaming service to rule them all is needed...
I spent 10 grand on implants for my girlfriend. Can we discuss the interest there?
$1k is nothing for a "normal" adult in a 1st world country. Heck, even teens spend that on purses and shoes.
No, they stayed open because the daily costs for capital loans, and overhead still exist while the daily *operation* cost is smaller.
i.e. your mortgage is $1000/month (i wish!)
Your utilities are $250/month so total monthly cost is $1250
The neighborhood went to shit and you can't sell. You usually work from home and make $2k/month but got a pay cut to $1k.
Now, you could quit your job, move out, and eat the $1k/month ... or you could stay and take a hit for $250/month until things get better which also protects your investment in your house.
That's why these companies are producing oil for a loss - it's less of a loss than closing up shop and the long term prospectus is still hopeful.
Because of the $billions invested in the fields and rigs and discovery. Capital investment on that scale doesn't allow you to close the plant down for a month or two because demand is low and remain in business.
Google what one sea-going drilling platform costs.
Storage facilities are being built, but they're also long-term capital assets with the larger ones being strategic reserves by country. It's actually frightening how little storage the oil industry has vs. consumption considering it touches virtually every industry. I forget the actual figures but there's something well under 6 months worth of oil in motion/storage globally.
So no, we can't just leave it in the ground or throw it all into huge tanks.
Don't worry, next year's bolt will fix at least 5 of the 500 problems.
The year after 10 more but introduce 6 new ones.
While a bit tongue-in-cheek, the underlying point remains. Car manufacturers very intentionally provide minor incremental upgrades every year and then a "large" upgrade every ~5 or so when they "refresh" a car. They simply cannot release a vehicle that breaks that tradition without interrupting the fundamentals of their whole business model.
Tesla sells a car that costs more up-front, has an impressive feature set that would generally cost more in a gas-based vehicle (if you could even find it), gets FREE upgrades that do a lot more than just fix an ignition problem that kills people, have very low maintenance (battery pack has been a worry since the Roadster yet we haven't heard any horror stories), and they sell as many as they can manufacture without having to resort to tweaking a body panel slightly every year.
Comparing something which hasn't been delivered with something that's not nearly as good.
It's a crummy comparison but still a valid one. Does anyone ELSE have production plans, designs, or the capability of launching the 3 before Tesla?
If so let me know because I will buy as much of their stock as I can afford...but in reality the answer is a resounding 'no.' There's several options for quirky first-gen type EVs with limited range and old-school detroit thinking. Tesla is building what amounts to a second-gen EV...or perhaps third-gen as the roadster as arguably more capable than "modern" EVs from any other manufacturer.
In 10 years they will still be driving. A 10-year old iPhone will not be phoning.
You're comparing durable goods with non-durable goods which is a fundamentally flawed position.
Tesla takes it even further by not coming out with a "new" version of the same car every year to attract buyers. They don't need to for one, and it's a huge, HUGE long-term benefit to buyers when it comes to maintenance and support.
Exactly.
"I'd like to cancel my service"
1) Sure, i'm happy to help you with that (great, let's do that immediately)
2) Can you tell me why you'd like to cancel? (no, please cancel my service now. I'm not interested in any offers or providing any information)
3) but what about xyz? (Cancel my service now)
Repeat a few times but if you feed the beast any info they will keep asking more questions until they can transfer you (and thus preserve their retention statistic) to somewhere else that you'll hold for another while or get you not to cancel.
I very rarely get transferred around unless keeping a service at a discount is something I was already interested in.