I suggest a table and chair, and a bookcase. Situate the table and chair such that you can gaze out a window.
Avoid west facing windows, unless you want to be incinerated at 4pm every afternoon. A good architect would keep this sort of thing in mind.
1. South facing windows keep a building warm in the winter. (high solar heat gain coefficients keep a building warmer.)
2. East facing windows warm a building in the morning, when it's generally the coldest outside.
3. North facing windows only make a building colder, but may provide nice, glare free, views since the sun doesn't shine from this direction.
4. West facing windows get sun exposure at the hottest point in the day. This will make you miserable in the summer. Avoid if possible. Shade with trees if possible.
This is of course assuming the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere swap north and south windows.
Evidently you haven't had to deal with them as much as I have. USPS is clumsy and inefficient. Their workers don't work quickly and shipping anything through them is a pain in the ass. Shipping packages through USPS is generally more expensive for equivalent service to UPS or FedEx. USPS "tracking service" is generally utterly useless. It tells you that it's been shipped and that it's been delivered and nothing in between most of the time. USPS does a fine job with letters but they are the only ones allowed to handle those so it's not like there is any alternative unless you want to hire an expensive private courier.
Anecdote time!
My wife ships a lot of packages for her business. She recently sent a small package USPS from Chicago to Southern Indiana. She was able to track the package online, but only when the package arrived at a USPS facility. UPS and FedEX scan the packages when they arrive and depart any facility. The package was scanned at Evansville, Indiana, and then in Anchorage, Alaska! That is way out of the way! Frustrated, my wife looked into sending a new package UPS. For a package USPS chared $3 for, UPS wanted $9. However, USPS did eventually get the package to its destination.
Moral of the story is, you get what you pay for. No, UPS and FedEx aren't always cheaper. USPS can be much cheaper, but their tracking is not nearly as good.
So I am surprised Musk and Kalanick decided to work with him. Did they forget what happened to Brendan Eich?
They're not campaigning for him, they are advising (read lobbying) him. Like it or not, Trump will be President. If you get the opportunity to voice your opinion to the President, you take it.
Furthermore, Trump seems to be in a state of flux where he can be easily persuaded. With a good enough argument, they might be able to persuade him to be favorable to their causes.
So let me see if I understand the sheer genius of this move: we're going to be legislated into reducing millions of acres of food crops while millions the world over are starving, reduce those millions of food acres to fuel additives and then burn them to increase greenhouse gasses. Brilliant!
There is no global food shortage, otherwise everyone would be farming to strike it rich. Most of the world's poor are farmers that aren't competitive. Giving away free food only means their crops are even more worthless. Driving up the price of food means they stand a greater chance of making a profit.
Now this doesn't help the non-agrarian poor, but flooding the market with cheap food doesn't help people with zero money. They need an opportunity to earn a living.
If you want to give something away, give away opportunity. Give away education, or an interest free loan to an entrepreneur. The ancient proverb was on to something. "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
Don't forget the shipping cost of those 300 gallons of diesel per day, the maintenance and parts required for the generators, etc.
300 gallons of diesel per day isn't very much. That's about the fuel consumption of two semi trucks. Maybe 300kW by my math. Assuming 3kw per house, that's 100 houses. Makes sense since TFA says there are only 600 residents.
When I went to the Saint Thomas, they had two EMD 645 engines sitting near the dock. The two of those could likely burn through 300 gallons of diesel in an hour.
Why does the US continue to try to make voting as difficult and complex as possible? Is it really the end goal of the US government to prevent people from voting?
This chart doesn't show bias by the news outlets, it shows bias of the audience. Saying the news outlet is biased biased on its audience's bias is a fallacy.
The problems is free news. Or more correctly, people not wanting to pay for news.
When most "new organizations" rip the articles off the AP or Reuters feed, it's hard to justify paying them. The few that do actual journalism might be able to make a sale. The trick is, they have to provide consistently better coverage than the wire services.
Social networks already know a lot about their users. Why would their users want to include their wages too? Sounds like one step closer to identity theft to me.
They imply it only collects the public data available-- not the private data. It is therefore only useful as a tool to make associations with, and make inferences, using otherwise beniegn data points.
The fact this is publicly available data is key here. An NPR article I heard earlier wasn't clear on that fact. If it's simply data mining what is already out in the public, I can see how it wouldn't be valuable. If it has some sort of high level access that can see conversations marked private, that's a different story.
Yes, this is a poor choice of words. Canaries are used to detect outside influences. That is not what this is. Google is testing on these volunteers. Everyone knows a test subject is a guinea pig. Therefore, this is actually a "guinea pig channel".
The jobs aren't going away because people here are being replaced by better technology, the jobs are going away here because people are being replaced by workers in other countries who can work for less. These actions are of course being rewarded by the boards of the companies who are doing this.
Also, the world doesn't have an endless supply of people willing to work for pennies. Sooner or later, people in developing countries will demand a higher standard of living. When that happens, labor costs increase dramatically.
I'm curious if there are any home brew open source firmware options for these devices. Like DD-WRT only for CCTV. That way owners of these systems have an alternative.
I would point out Ocean Cleanup makes no mention about a control sample of ocean. They surveyed a portion of ocean they believe to have a high concentration of garbage. Do they have data on the amount of garbage in the rest of the ocean?
It ends up being one step away from "a wizard did it."
The ending is a bit thin. At least there was foreshadowing. It wasn't like they wrote the whole movie, couldn't figure out an ending and just said "Deus Ex Machina" and it was over.
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I suggest a table and chair, and a bookcase. Situate the table and chair such that you can gaze out a window.
Avoid west facing windows, unless you want to be incinerated at 4pm every afternoon. A good architect would keep this sort of thing in mind.
1. South facing windows keep a building warm in the winter. (high solar heat gain coefficients keep a building warmer.)
2. East facing windows warm a building in the morning, when it's generally the coldest outside.
3. North facing windows only make a building colder, but may provide nice, glare free, views since the sun doesn't shine from this direction.
4. West facing windows get sun exposure at the hottest point in the day. This will make you miserable in the summer. Avoid if possible. Shade with trees if possible.
This is of course assuming the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere swap north and south windows.
Evidently you haven't had to deal with them as much as I have. USPS is clumsy and inefficient. Their workers don't work quickly and shipping anything through them is a pain in the ass. Shipping packages through USPS is generally more expensive for equivalent service to UPS or FedEx. USPS "tracking service" is generally utterly useless. It tells you that it's been shipped and that it's been delivered and nothing in between most of the time. USPS does a fine job with letters but they are the only ones allowed to handle those so it's not like there is any alternative unless you want to hire an expensive private courier.
Anecdote time!
My wife ships a lot of packages for her business. She recently sent a small package USPS from Chicago to Southern Indiana. She was able to track the package online, but only when the package arrived at a USPS facility. UPS and FedEX scan the packages when they arrive and depart any facility. The package was scanned at Evansville, Indiana, and then in Anchorage, Alaska! That is way out of the way! Frustrated, my wife looked into sending a new package UPS. For a package USPS chared $3 for, UPS wanted $9. However, USPS did eventually get the package to its destination.
Moral of the story is, you get what you pay for. No, UPS and FedEx aren't always cheaper. USPS can be much cheaper, but their tracking is not nearly as good.
Hosting is not Wikipedia's largest expense. Salaries are. They spent $32 million on salaries. Total expenses were $67 million.
Even considering all of the expenses, their net income was positive $16 million last year.
Anyone who's stumbled across the TV show Shipping Wars knows this already exists. It's called uShip.
So I am surprised Musk and Kalanick decided to work with him. Did they forget what happened to Brendan Eich?
They're not campaigning for him, they are advising (read lobbying) him. Like it or not, Trump will be President. If you get the opportunity to voice your opinion to the President, you take it.
Furthermore, Trump seems to be in a state of flux where he can be easily persuaded. With a good enough argument, they might be able to persuade him to be favorable to their causes.
Being awesome, most likely.
His Instagram account has a picture of him wearing a belt and suspenders. Those astronauts really believe in redundancy of critical systems.
Joking aside. I hope he's OK.
Correct. This is a totally sensationalist story.
So let me see if I understand the sheer genius of this move: we're going to be legislated into reducing millions of acres of food crops while millions the world over are starving, reduce those millions of food acres to fuel additives and then burn them to increase greenhouse gasses. Brilliant!
There is no global food shortage, otherwise everyone would be farming to strike it rich. Most of the world's poor are farmers that aren't competitive. Giving away free food only means their crops are even more worthless. Driving up the price of food means they stand a greater chance of making a profit.
Now this doesn't help the non-agrarian poor, but flooding the market with cheap food doesn't help people with zero money. They need an opportunity to earn a living.
If you want to give something away, give away opportunity. Give away education, or an interest free loan to an entrepreneur. The ancient proverb was on to something. "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
Don't forget the shipping cost of those 300 gallons of diesel per day, the maintenance and parts required for the generators, etc.
300 gallons of diesel per day isn't very much. That's about the fuel consumption of two semi trucks. Maybe 300kW by my math. Assuming 3kw per house, that's 100 houses. Makes sense since TFA says there are only 600 residents.
When I went to the Saint Thomas, they had two EMD 645 engines sitting near the dock. The two of those could likely burn through 300 gallons of diesel in an hour.
Gotta start somewhere...
Why does the US continue to try to make voting as difficult and complex as possible? Is it really the end goal of the US government to prevent people from voting?
The Republican party tries to make it more difficult for people to vote in the US. It statistically makes it easier for them to win elections.
The reasons that Obama won't pardon Snowden are two: First, he doesn't want to. Second, it would beg the question of pardoning Hillary Clinton.
Pardoning Hillary Clinton is a separate issue. "...A pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries an imputation of guilt." If Clinton ever wants to hold a political office again, she cannot accept a pardon. It's really her decision.
That's not an issue for Snowdon. He's owned up to what he has done.
Here's why: http://www.pewresearch.org/pj_...
This chart doesn't show bias by the news outlets, it shows bias of the audience. Saying the news outlet is biased biased on its audience's bias is a fallacy.
Asphalt? Really? How long do those last?
Most last 20-30 years.
The problems is free news. Or more correctly, people not wanting to pay for news.
When most "new organizations" rip the articles off the AP or Reuters feed, it's hard to justify paying them. The few that do actual journalism might be able to make a sale. The trick is, they have to provide consistently better coverage than the wire services.
Sounds like Apple doesn't want to follow standards again...
Social networks already know a lot about their users. Why would their users want to include their wages too? Sounds like one step closer to identity theft to me.
We hear up to about 20 kHz - ultrasound is above that. To avoid wasting bandwith, nobody sample above 20kHz.
CD audio quality is defined as a sampling rate of 44.1kHz. That Nyquist frequency solves for a reproduceable sound of 22.05kHz. That would provide a very narrow band at which humans wouldn't be able to hear. Furthermore, most audio compression algorithms currently in use filter out sounds that aren't audible to humans even further.
I'm calling this story bogus.
The loans program office had already wiped out the Solyndra loss just two years later.
The loan program was actually profitable for the government.
They imply it only collects the public data available-- not the private data. It is therefore only useful as a tool to make associations with, and make inferences, using otherwise beniegn data points.
The fact this is publicly available data is key here. An NPR article I heard earlier wasn't clear on that fact. If it's simply data mining what is already out in the public, I can see how it wouldn't be valuable. If it has some sort of high level access that can see conversations marked private, that's a different story.
I was expecting a Warrant canary.
Yes, this is a poor choice of words. Canaries are used to detect outside influences. That is not what this is. Google is testing on these volunteers. Everyone knows a test subject is a guinea pig. Therefore, this is actually a "guinea pig channel".
The jobs aren't going away because people here are being replaced by better technology, the jobs are going away here because people are being replaced by workers in other countries who can work for less. These actions are of course being rewarded by the boards of the companies who are doing this.
Simply not true. Improvements in automation have made it more economical to automate than to send jobs overseas.
Also, the world doesn't have an endless supply of people willing to work for pennies. Sooner or later, people in developing countries will demand a higher standard of living. When that happens, labor costs increase dramatically.
...unless enough interested people have the same hardware to work on it together.
An article earlier this year revealed that 70 security camera vendors are using the same hardware. The firmware is compatible between all of them.
I'm curious if there are any home brew open source firmware options for these devices. Like DD-WRT only for CCTV. That way owners of these systems have an alternative.
I would point out Ocean Cleanup makes no mention about a control sample of ocean. They surveyed a portion of ocean they believe to have a high concentration of garbage. Do they have data on the amount of garbage in the rest of the ocean?
It ends up being one step away from "a wizard did it."
The ending is a bit thin. At least there was foreshadowing. It wasn't like they wrote the whole movie, couldn't figure out an ending and just said "Deus Ex Machina" and it was over.