Or wait until 2030 when all the baby boomers are retried, retirees outnumbers workers (smaller tax base), and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Medicare/Social Security.
We already spend 57% of the budget on Medicare + Social Security + federal pensions. The politicians are competing to make the other party announce the inevitable need to fix this problem. Kudos to Obama for at least talking about it as a problem, but no one is showing any leadership here, as the voters are sure to kill the messenger.
Not just pedantic: there are many such feedback cycles, it just happens that the big one is fairly well understood. The cycles on shorter time-frames aren't so well understood, let alone well modeled (e.g., ocean mixing which is key to CO2 dissolution, the plankton-krill interaction with temp and CO2, etc). The scary part is the positive feedback loops, of course.
The amount of carbon in all known fossil fuels is larger than what's in the atmosphere and ocean today, IIRC. It probably matters whether we're burning through it in 100 or 1000 or 10000 years.
And I don't know where you get the notion that a slower release would make things better.
Of course slower release is better. The atmosphere is not a bottle! There are many feedback mechanisms, both positive and negative, at work. The danger is not the total amount released, but entirely the speed.
The major carbon cycle for the earth is the geological cycle. All the carbon in the air, water, all life, and all fossil fuel reserves, all of that is a rounding error compared to the carbon bound up in the crust, slowly released by volcanic activity and reclaimed by erosion. That's a feedback loop that brings temps and CO2 levels away from extremes, and one that wouldn't even notice if we burned all the fossil fuels. Sadly, it's a geological cycle, so it might take 100M years to recover, but that's just the biggest such cycle.
At every time scale, there some feedback mechanism. The problem is that we're overwhelming those in human timescales, and we care more about the climate in 100 years than 100k or 100M years.
They have - they bought Xamarin. You can build Android apps from Visual Studio now. Office is there now too (and free, I think). They are at least trying.
Maybe there's something there, but most of those would involve un-alloyed metals such as Li or Na as part of the cycle, which just won't work as something pumpable. (Gasoline isn't very safe, but at least it doesn't explode in the rain.)
BTW, metal "hydrides" are actually alloys with metallic hydrogen (at least for palladium, I think its for all the metals), which is a very different reaction than non-metallic hydrides (i.e., actual hydrides).
In practice, colocation challenges and/or a lack of demand make this only applicable in specialized circumstances. Reusing waste heat also increases capital costs.
If the demand was there, the cost barrier would be overcome to harvest those profits (more than doubling the profits on a generation plant is a heck of an economic incentive). It's all hypothetical anyway, as the logistical network almost works (i.e., doesn't work).
There is absolutely 0 appeal of EVs for people living in rural areas, or people who sympathize with that culture, or with anyone who drives a heavy truck as a matter of culture. It's just a non-starter, culturally (and practically, outside of some very narrow route-delivery use cases).
A different kind of fuel for that big V8 (bigger than the neighbors') would be a different matter. Something that's practical for pulling a load in Montana in the winter would be a different matter. There's a lot of win in any alternative fuel that isn't seen by rural America as "yet another Lefty scam".
Your post oozes "they're just not smart enough to solve their own problems" racism and/or class-ism. We already know how to solve these problems cheaply (and city housing in India isn't so cheap, at least by third world standards - Bangalore isn't cheap by anyone's standards). It is a matter of will, and to some extent education.
That doesn't automatically mean the government isn't a good way to sort it all out, but when your government is quite corrupt, maybe that isn't the right way.
You can't make compressed hydrogen work as energy storage - too little power density, too much risk. Metal hydrides can work well, but you need platinum-group metals, likely a couple hundred bucks worth in car's gas tank (much like a catalytic converter). There's no obvious way to make that work with existing distribution networks.
There's a government (open) patent on encasing small spheres of palladium in glass shells, giving you something pump-able, which is great except for that cost, and the need to recover the spent fuel from the car, and the ease of fraud there. The chemistry and physics of it all was very cool, and it actually does make sense from a technical perspective, but no one has seen a way to make the business part actually work.
Bulk commercial electrolysis hydrogen could be very cheap is there was real demand for it. Steam electrolysis is "over 100% efficient" if you're using waste steam from the power plant (you steal back some of the huge wasted heat of vaporization, making the electricity input low), so making it in vast quantities as a byproduct of power generation would work well. But no one does it because there's no distribution network.
I'm not sure how much sense home electrolysis would make from an efficiency point of view, but from a "I want off the grid, even if it costs more" point of view it's great. You can power a heavy SUV or jacked-up 4x4 pick-em-up-truck with it, which we won't see with battery power any time soon.
It was in fact a team of "over 100". Japan is Japan.
Interesting juxtaposition of stories on the Slashdot front page today. Guy discovers a vulnerability, tells the police, gets busted, his computers taken, and a 15 month suspended sentence. Guy discovers a vulnerability, goes black hat, steals $12 M in one day.
Kinda hard to miss the incentive system currently in place.
It is really endearing of Americans when they think they can use a few handguns to rise against an army having tanks, artillery and bombs.
The army and the police - those are mostly "gun guys". Pretty obvious when you think about it. And the AR-15 is the most common gun in America, not any brand of pistol. America can't have a civil war or insurrection across current political lines, because almost everyone with guns - including the military and police - are on the same side of the political divide.
H1Bs make a bit less, usually works out to the cost of the corporate lawyers processing their greencards apps and whatnot. All the salaries are public, if you know where to look.
But again, most have been here long enough to not be H1-Bs. A green card comes in just 2-3 years these days if you have a masters degree, which most do.
None of that will happen. Federal judges have been asserting themselves as a co-equal branch of government, and not the presidents bitches, for some time now. The punishments for DoJ lawyers who try to fuck with the federal court system have been growing gradually over time. They'll keep growing until those lawyers start taking the court system seriously.
The entire point of the justice system is that you game the system within the rules. The DoJ has forgotten that of late, or just doesn't seem to think that federal judges are important. Either way, we've seen more and more evidence that federal judges are pushing back, and escalating over time. Don't piss off a federal judge, and especially don't blatantly go out of your way to do so when your work for the government.
The judges will eventually win this fight. Never doubt it.
I've never worked for a company that went heavy on contractors.
None of the big 5 are contractor-heavy (unless you're talking about "IT", not software). None of the big 5 is 90% white. None of the second tier is 90% white, AFAIK.
Welcome to the meritocracy, where people who will work for less have more merit.
They don't work for less. These are among the best paying companies for software in the various published surveys. Not the very top (that's companies like WalMart that pay a premium to overcome who they are), but up there. This isn't a "they turk our jurbs" story - at each of the 5 I've been at, we interview everyone we can find, and pay enough to "almost never lose a candidate on pay" (excepting some fresh-out-of-college hires, where it's more common to lose to Google on pay).
These figures have never matched with my experience in software, unless they're talking about all the non-tech people at tech companies. In 10 years in Silly Valley and Seattle, across 5 companies, the usual mix is about 40% Indian, 35% Asian (mostly Chinese), 20% White, 5% I don't know.
People born in America are around 2%. Yup 2% - I've been the only one on the team of 50-100 born in the US, with the exception of just one company. When I see a white engineer, I automatically assume they're either Canadian or Russian/Ukrainian. All this talk about "diversity" and whatnot in the US schools has always seemed entirely irrelevant to West Coast software development jobs.
If the original was just a short clip documenting the bug, it's likely fair use. Reviews are different from Let's Plays, though you wouldn't know it from Google's content ID system.
YouTube is greatly at fault because they have a slick, nearly instant system for the claim, but counter-claims can be ignored for weeks or months for monetized content. They are systematically, and deliberately, biased against the little guy.
You'll notice I said "next output location", not "next field". The two can be the same for tables. But for the past 50 years, sure, it's been more about "next field", as you could send "forms" to high-end printers, then send the form data for each page using tabs to move from location to location (ever wonder why ASCII has both horizontal and vertical tabs?). The whole 0x08-0x0C range were commands to position the print head.
Tab should never have been a display character, but someone once got "clever" with implied tab locations on screens, and the rest is legacy.
The physical tab key has meant "move the output location to the next field" for a hundred years or so. The idea of a "literal tab character" was always goofy - an ASCII legacy like form-feed, bell, ENQ etc. I don't want to tab key to type an actual 0x09 character any more than I want the PageDown key to type an actual 0x0C character, or the backspace key to type an actual 0x08 character.
It was dumb to map backspace to back anyway. With Internet and browsers dominating existence, keyboards should be redesigned with common browser clickies built in and separate from editing keys.
Objections? Consider your useless neck broken and your body left for the wolves.
And thus the wheel of pain spins full circle. Mainframe terminals have always worked this way. The terminal is sent a non-web form, the user enters some data in fields with Tab and Return serving only and always to move the cursor around. Once you're done, there was a separate "Xmit" key to post the form.
Form submission was always explicit, and entirely compatible with high-speed touch-typists.
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Or wait until 2030 when all the baby boomers are retried, retirees outnumbers workers (smaller tax base), and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Medicare/Social Security.
We already spend 57% of the budget on Medicare + Social Security + federal pensions. The politicians are competing to make the other party announce the inevitable need to fix this problem. Kudos to Obama for at least talking about it as a problem, but no one is showing any leadership here, as the voters are sure to kill the messenger.
Not just pedantic: there are many such feedback cycles, it just happens that the big one is fairly well understood. The cycles on shorter time-frames aren't so well understood, let alone well modeled (e.g., ocean mixing which is key to CO2 dissolution, the plankton-krill interaction with temp and CO2, etc). The scary part is the positive feedback loops, of course.
The amount of carbon in all known fossil fuels is larger than what's in the atmosphere and ocean today, IIRC. It probably matters whether we're burning through it in 100 or 1000 or 10000 years.
And I don't know where you get the notion that a slower release would make things better.
Of course slower release is better. The atmosphere is not a bottle! There are many feedback mechanisms, both positive and negative, at work. The danger is not the total amount released, but entirely the speed.
The major carbon cycle for the earth is the geological cycle. All the carbon in the air, water, all life, and all fossil fuel reserves, all of that is a rounding error compared to the carbon bound up in the crust, slowly released by volcanic activity and reclaimed by erosion. That's a feedback loop that brings temps and CO2 levels away from extremes, and one that wouldn't even notice if we burned all the fossil fuels. Sadly, it's a geological cycle, so it might take 100M years to recover, but that's just the biggest such cycle.
At every time scale, there some feedback mechanism. The problem is that we're overwhelming those in human timescales, and we care more about the climate in 100 years than 100k or 100M years.
They have - they bought Xamarin. You can build Android apps from Visual Studio now. Office is there now too (and free, I think). They are at least trying.
Maybe there's something there, but most of those would involve un-alloyed metals such as Li or Na as part of the cycle, which just won't work as something pumpable. (Gasoline isn't very safe, but at least it doesn't explode in the rain.)
BTW, metal "hydrides" are actually alloys with metallic hydrogen (at least for palladium, I think its for all the metals), which is a very different reaction than non-metallic hydrides (i.e., actual hydrides).
In practice, colocation challenges and/or a lack of demand make this only applicable in specialized circumstances. Reusing waste heat also increases capital costs.
If the demand was there, the cost barrier would be overcome to harvest those profits (more than doubling the profits on a generation plant is a heck of an economic incentive). It's all hypothetical anyway, as the logistical network almost works (i.e., doesn't work).
There is absolutely 0 appeal of EVs for people living in rural areas, or people who sympathize with that culture, or with anyone who drives a heavy truck as a matter of culture. It's just a non-starter, culturally (and practically, outside of some very narrow route-delivery use cases).
A different kind of fuel for that big V8 (bigger than the neighbors') would be a different matter. Something that's practical for pulling a load in Montana in the winter would be a different matter. There's a lot of win in any alternative fuel that isn't seen by rural America as "yet another Lefty scam".
Your post oozes "they're just not smart enough to solve their own problems" racism and/or class-ism. We already know how to solve these problems cheaply (and city housing in India isn't so cheap, at least by third world standards - Bangalore isn't cheap by anyone's standards). It is a matter of will, and to some extent education.
That doesn't automatically mean the government isn't a good way to sort it all out, but when your government is quite corrupt, maybe that isn't the right way.
You can't make compressed hydrogen work as energy storage - too little power density, too much risk. Metal hydrides can work well, but you need platinum-group metals, likely a couple hundred bucks worth in car's gas tank (much like a catalytic converter). There's no obvious way to make that work with existing distribution networks.
There's a government (open) patent on encasing small spheres of palladium in glass shells, giving you something pump-able, which is great except for that cost, and the need to recover the spent fuel from the car, and the ease of fraud there. The chemistry and physics of it all was very cool, and it actually does make sense from a technical perspective, but no one has seen a way to make the business part actually work.
Bulk commercial electrolysis hydrogen could be very cheap is there was real demand for it. Steam electrolysis is "over 100% efficient" if you're using waste steam from the power plant (you steal back some of the huge wasted heat of vaporization, making the electricity input low), so making it in vast quantities as a byproduct of power generation would work well. But no one does it because there's no distribution network.
I'm not sure how much sense home electrolysis would make from an efficiency point of view, but from a "I want off the grid, even if it costs more" point of view it's great. You can power a heavy SUV or jacked-up 4x4 pick-em-up-truck with it, which we won't see with battery power any time soon.
Add some gratuitously naked French chicks, and you've made a mainstream French film.
It was in fact a team of "over 100". Japan is Japan.
Interesting juxtaposition of stories on the Slashdot front page today. Guy discovers a vulnerability, tells the police, gets busted, his computers taken, and a 15 month suspended sentence. Guy discovers a vulnerability, goes black hat, steals $12 M in one day.
Kinda hard to miss the incentive system currently in place.
Do not trust the pushing robot. He is malfunctioning.
It is really endearing of Americans when they think they can use a few handguns to rise against an army having tanks, artillery and bombs.
The army and the police - those are mostly "gun guys". Pretty obvious when you think about it. And the AR-15 is the most common gun in America, not any brand of pistol. America can't have a civil war or insurrection across current political lines, because almost everyone with guns - including the military and police - are on the same side of the political divide.
H1Bs make a bit less, usually works out to the cost of the corporate lawyers processing their greencards apps and whatnot. All the salaries are public, if you know where to look.
But again, most have been here long enough to not be H1-Bs. A green card comes in just 2-3 years these days if you have a masters degree, which most do.
None of that will happen. Federal judges have been asserting themselves as a co-equal branch of government, and not the presidents bitches, for some time now. The punishments for DoJ lawyers who try to fuck with the federal court system have been growing gradually over time. They'll keep growing until those lawyers start taking the court system seriously.
The entire point of the justice system is that you game the system within the rules. The DoJ has forgotten that of late, or just doesn't seem to think that federal judges are important. Either way, we've seen more and more evidence that federal judges are pushing back, and escalating over time. Don't piss off a federal judge, and especially don't blatantly go out of your way to do so when your work for the government.
The judges will eventually win this fight. Never doubt it.
I've never worked for a company that went heavy on contractors.
None of the big 5 are contractor-heavy (unless you're talking about "IT", not software). None of the big 5 is 90% white. None of the second tier is 90% white, AFAIK.
Welcome to the meritocracy, where people who will work for less have more merit.
They don't work for less. These are among the best paying companies for software in the various published surveys. Not the very top (that's companies like WalMart that pay a premium to overcome who they are), but up there. This isn't a "they turk our jurbs" story - at each of the 5 I've been at, we interview everyone we can find, and pay enough to "almost never lose a candidate on pay" (excepting some fresh-out-of-college hires, where it's more common to lose to Google on pay).
These figures have never matched with my experience in software, unless they're talking about all the non-tech people at tech companies. In 10 years in Silly Valley and Seattle, across 5 companies, the usual mix is about 40% Indian, 35% Asian (mostly Chinese), 20% White, 5% I don't know.
People born in America are around 2%. Yup 2% - I've been the only one on the team of 50-100 born in the US, with the exception of just one company. When I see a white engineer, I automatically assume they're either Canadian or Russian/Ukrainian. All this talk about "diversity" and whatnot in the US schools has always seemed entirely irrelevant to West Coast software development jobs.
Maybe it's different outside of software?
If the original was just a short clip documenting the bug, it's likely fair use. Reviews are different from Let's Plays, though you wouldn't know it from Google's content ID system.
Were you monetizing the video? The people affected by this are usually making money off of it.
https://www.youtube.com/result...
YouTube is greatly at fault because they have a slick, nearly instant system for the claim, but counter-claims can be ignored for weeks or months for monetized content. They are systematically, and deliberately, biased against the little guy.
https://www.youtube.com/result...
You'll notice I said "next output location", not "next field". The two can be the same for tables. But for the past 50 years, sure, it's been more about "next field", as you could send "forms" to high-end printers, then send the form data for each page using tabs to move from location to location (ever wonder why ASCII has both horizontal and vertical tabs?). The whole 0x08-0x0C range were commands to position the print head.
Tab should never have been a display character, but someone once got "clever" with implied tab locations on screens, and the rest is legacy.
I liked the large, bright green Xmit button myself (below the right shift). Dedicated hardware FTW.
The physical tab key has meant "move the output location to the next field" for a hundred years or so. The idea of a "literal tab character" was always goofy - an ASCII legacy like form-feed, bell, ENQ etc. I don't want to tab key to type an actual 0x09 character any more than I want the PageDown key to type an actual 0x0C character, or the backspace key to type an actual 0x08 character.
It was dumb to map backspace to back anyway. With Internet and browsers dominating existence, keyboards should be redesigned with common browser clickies built in and separate from editing keys.
Objections? Consider your useless neck broken and your body left for the wolves.
And thus the wheel of pain spins full circle. Mainframe terminals have always worked this way. The terminal is sent a non-web form, the user enters some data in fields with Tab and Return serving only and always to move the cursor around. Once you're done, there was a separate "Xmit" key to post the form.
Form submission was always explicit, and entirely compatible with high-speed touch-typists.