Aside from watersheds, there are also nature preserves and so on (e.g. a habitat for an endangered species) where the land is public (government owned) but closed to human use.
Closed to human use except for those humans who drive Mercedes and BMWs?
It's sounding like this purported watershed... isn't. The whole thing is a scam to hide rich people's houses, from the tampering in Google Maps to the alleged designation as a protected watershed.
Is it just me, or are the assholes starting to realize they're fucking the general population over just a little bit TOO hard if they think they have to resort to measures like this to hide where they live?
You wrote "The costs to make it superconduct are so much higher than electricity losses in comparable HVDC line of that length, it's not even funny. " I apparently misread that as being a claim about energy use. My apologies.
You have nothing to apologize for. Luckyo was drooling his ignorance all over you while making an ass of himself. The Long Island superconducting cable operates at 130 kV AC and has 150 times the power capacity of the same size conventional copper conductor, which means the right of way required to run it safely is much much narrower. They're moving 574 MW through a right of way just 4 feet wide. In New York City, that's incredibly valuable because the real estate required to operate a conventional line would be dramatically more expensive. Prohibitively more expensive, in fact. To operate a conventional cable, the voltage required to carry the same amount of power is much higher, which requires a correspondingly wider right of way for safety.
The Department of Energy helped pay for it. It went live in 2008 and the Long Island Power Authority has decided to keep it permanently, even though it was intended as a demonstrator. It's still in operation today. That tells you that it's cost effective to operate. LIPA will eventually install more such lines on the island in other locations that physically can't be replaced with a conventional HVDC line of the same capacity. There isn't room for one.
Ultimately, superconducting power cables will be HVDC installations themselves. Experiments out of Japan in 2010 demonstrated that HVDC over superconductors is 10 times more efficient than HVAC over the same size lines. There are still losses in superconductors. They're very very small compared to conventional lines, but they're non-zero.
I've reported to FCC and others that carrier maps in my city are blatently wrong and provided specific gps coordinates and reasons what the blockage is. They include areas that never have service due to hills and obstructions...these areas are not small. The response I got was, the carrier says they do have correrage of that location.
Ah, but you are a plebian. A commoner. A mere consumer. You are nothing. When the Rural Wireless Association complains, that means businesses are being affected. And businesses are real people. So something must be done. It will be a very minimal something because the businesses being affected are tiny and not good campaign donors, and the business doing the lying is huge and a very very good campaign donor. But something will be done. A one time fine of $10,000 was mentioned. That sounds about right for Ajit Pai's master. He sure as fuck can't allow any penalty that will noticeably affect profits.
The reason the first versions of DOOM brought down networks was its use of broadcast packets, it was patched out in later versions.
There was one specific problem those broadcast packets caused. HP network printers on IPX. Their tiny little CPUs couldn't handle that much traffic not meant for them, so they clogged up and nobody on the lab network could print while a game was under way. We got yelled at more than once to shut down so some poor sod could print their term paper. Printing done, we started right back up again.
For the same reason, we wouldn't consider a piano competition a sport either, even though it requires a level of skill, accuracy, and practice on par with any Olympic sport and has been around for nearly as long.
I would definitely pay to see people throw pianos in a competition. In all four categories: spinet upright, studio upright, baby grand, and grand. The distance is when they first hit the ground, and not after they tip over.
The costs of many of the cheaper solar panels in use absolutely did NOT take into account all of the associated costs of producing them! One of the problems the industry has struggled with are all the cheap Asian panels on the market, often sold at below cost, thanks to government subsidies from China.
These circumstances applied only to panels from specific manufacturers for a fairly limited period of time. Most solar panels are not "dumped", not even from China.
I've never heard of these banks you speak of, who would allow a person to take out a larger home loan if they felt the person might use less electricity thanks to solar panels (or anything else)?
You may be unaware of it, but all banks consider the monthly expenses of every prospective loan recipient. Power very much factors in to their loan-making decisions, varying only by the demands of the local power company for money.
As for battery technology? I looked into that, but it's really too costly to make much sense in many situations. When the financials work out on it? It's usually only because that person's utility company decided to arbitrarily give discounted electric rates for power used at night ("off peak").
Which applies to quite a few people's houses. You may not be one of them, but millions upon millions are, including all of California. Even I am subject to time-of-day billing here in the Midwest.
A solar system installation similar to what I've got (a 7.64Kw sized setup) will typically cost a person around $34,000 to install.
That is indeed a stupidly high price, and it's largely an artifact of yesteryear's panel prices. When a solar panel cost $5/watt, installers could demand premium prices and know their demands would be lost in the noise. Now that panels are right around $1/watt (post Trump tariffs), installers charging double or triple what the equipment costs is really noticeable. It will change. It will obviously change. There were a whole helluva lot of people clambering around on my roof when I replaced my shingles after the last hail storm made a hash out of them, and it didn't cost me any $20,000. It cost half that, including the price of shingles. So $28,000 to install less than $8,000 of panels is ludicrous, and can't last.
Not only did that probably cost them FAR more money than they'll ever recoup
They didn't. Ground-mounted solar panels are far cheaper to install, even in this over-inflated installer market, and as stated above, installation price is the expensive part right now. Installing on the ground is incredibly easier than a roof-mount install. There's zero money or effort required to evaluate the load-bearing capabilities of the roof, since there's no roof. The insurance costs are dramatically lower since no one is climbing around on a roof. Even the time required is much lower since there are no logistics of dragging heavy, awkward panels up onto a roof to worry about.
It would be a really BAD idea to mandate solar panels in our state, and even worse for Missouri, where I was born and raised. They get less sun than we do.
Fact checking you, I see that NREL shows that Missouri is at least one category better than Maryland in almost every month of the year for solar insolation.
All of your opinions seem to be informed by your personal experience, which is obsolete or inapplicable. A decade ago, you were suffering early adopter tax, and definitely paying more for the non-financial benefits than any financial benefit you could hope to gain. Today and in the coming years, things are different and will become still more different. It will be (and already is) considerably easier to buy solar panels for the financial benefits, as well as the quality of life benefits.
You should definitely buy the geothermal heat pump system though.
To do what? Provide power for the entire US? The US uses around 10,000,000 MWh/day, so I think you're going to need a couple extra...
To balance the ebbs and flows of power in the current US grid, just as this battery is doing for Australia. Like for like. And it only takes 16 because there are three grids in the US, rather than one.
Lithium and Aluminum have similar purification processes and both consume a LOT of energy, electrical energy. Where do you suppose all that electricity comes from?
Anywhere. Literally anywhere. Electricity is fungible, more fungible even than oil, more fungible even than natural gas, both of which are extracted in a plethora of grades. But electricity is good anywhere, no matter where it came from.
Lithium can be and is refined from the same power sources aluminum is refined from—hydroelectric dams. But it could come from a fleet of windmills backed by batteries just as easily, and probably less environmentally destructively (nothing gets flooded to install more windmills and batteries). Or it could come from a few nuclear reactors. Doesn't matter.
You act like no one could build a new coal plant because the grid was powered almost exclusively by coal.
Wave-particle-dualism, morphing spacetime, magnetism, electricity and light being the same thing -- all of those have been fringe ideas at first (or as Max Planck once put it: acts of desperation).
And wave-particle dualism still sounds hinky. There has to be a better explanation for the double slit experiment. Wave-particle dualism sounds like a bad analogy for whatever is really happening.
Consequently, nobody is going to build a radio system into a cop car that's so hard to remove that it's actually difficult. Most likely they'd build it into the light bar, or it would be a dash-mounted device. Either way, it wouldn't take long to steal.
Or somebody can just steal the police car. Vanish it, then dismantle it at their leisure. Cop cars get stolen with astonishing regularity, though they're usually recovered quite quickly. But for the prize of a "stop any car any time" device, organized crime gets interested. With just a little bit of effort pursuit can be delayed long enough to lose sight of the vehicle, which then vanishes into a handy suburban garage somewhere. I'm sure the detailed planning and pulling off such an operation isn't trivial, but I'm quite certain it could work, right down to suppressing hidden transponders with a Faraday cage preinstalled in the destination garage.
There are some deaf people that don't want their own deaf children to get cochlear implants or to have other types of procedures that could restore their hearing.
Yes, and that's child abuse. Some cultures are not worth preserving. Deaf culture is one of them. Any culture built around a debilitating disability is a coping mechanism, not some precious thing that must be maintained at all costs. (Except for the people using it to cope, badly.)
I would vote for a law, many years hence after the human genome is well understood, that makes it a felony to bring a baby to term with any disability that could have been removed by CRISPR (or its successor techniques). Is that anti-freedom? Sure. Suck it up. No freedom is unlimited. There sure as hell should be no "freedom" to severely damage another person's life before they're born, even if they're your own child. Maybe especially if they're your own child.
I will hope that societal norms will trend that way anyway, making a law unnecessary.
It's just a matter of time before Netflix, Google, Amazon, Vudu and all these other companies spin up a new ISP and send it out into the world to compete with Comcast.
Welcome back, Rip Van Winkle! I see you had a nice nap.
This already happened. Google created Google Fiber. They went out into the world and tried to compete. They gave it the fuck up in 2016.
Google doesn't have the tenacity to do anything that doesn't instantly have 1 billion users. Their expectations are completely divorced from reality, on all fronts, and running an ISP was the worst possible fit for Google attitudes.
But regardless of Google's cultural problem, they couldn't make it work because doing all that physical work is really expensive and because the incumbents are really really REALLY good at keeping any potential competition out indefinitely by every kind of political skullduggery you can imagine.
Now Google did give a presentation in August about an upgrade to passive optical networking that supposedly improves amplification to the point where a single optical loop goes from 64 customer up to 20 kilometers to 1024 customers up to 50 kilometers, which reduces the first half of the problems they ran into, and Google is now flirting with the idea of resuming Google Fiber expansion.
Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. The cultural problems remain.
If you want those features without it sucking, you need to build a separate power distribution system into the home, that just does the lighting, has limited power, and uses solid state relays, and soft switches. You can't use the solid state relays on circuits that support full power, and you can't have mechanical actuators+fire safety without also spending a lot of money. And you probably don't even want AC; maybe a 12V lighting circuit, controlled directly by the digital meter.
Can we CRISPR it out of us then? They can do that kind of stuff now yeah?
Yes. And that's probably a bad idea. When a condition is so widespread in a species, there's a very good chance it's a species survival trait. Especially something that in an advanced form appears to be anti-survival. Heavily ADHD people have problems relating to people and so have problems reproducing. If the traits of ADHD are so important that an exaggeration of them is anti-survival, yet they're still present, they must matter quite a lot.
As I'm involved in a major international effort to start measuring the global Carbon cycle systematically I was somewhat surprised about the claim about emissions in the article. So, I checked the publication. You are spot on: The major CO2 driver in this study is a simple fixed fraction of GDP.
And this right here is why skepticism refuses to go away. This isn't science. It's not even economics. It's an incredibly stupid bad oversimplification. But since it got published, and somebody hung the "science" label on it, the general public will be bludgeoned if they don't accept it as gospel.
The United Nations Environment Programme is not a peer reviewed journal, but is that going to be mentioned anywhere? Fuck if Vice would acknowledge it. No, they quote it and generate a whole FUD article using it as the basis. There is far FAR too much of this happening since climate research was politicized in the '80s, and it's the reason why the push-back is getting more and more stiff.
It's irrelevant how good the climate science is when climate journalism is so fantastically, incredibly, absurdly, running-out-of-adverbs poor.
In the SciMark testing, the AWS system-on-chip was twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on Linux 4.14.
So twice as fast as a 35 dollar computer that can run off of a cell phone charger. Ok yeah I know, more ram, better storage, better networking. But we're being sold on the CPU itself rather than the system.
Yes, that's a completely useless comparison. Datacenters of cloud providers are not full of Raspberry Pis.
There is no historical evidence of the creative aggression of women on any level that has meaning in the large. Every device and entity that they occupy was created and pushed forward by men.
You write this on a comment thread about the fab AMD is using? AMD, the company headed by Dr. Lisa Su? The company that's going to cause Intel to lose a double digit market share percentage in 2019? For the second time in the company's history? That AMD?
She joined the company in 2012, became CEO in 2014, and is widely credited with driving the company to commit to and complete the Zen architecture. She took over from Rory Read, a business wonk who did businessy things... and drove AMD into the ground in the process by failing to invest in new development. She's a match for Dirk Meyer, the CEO prior to Rory Read who gave AMD their first big lead over Intel with the Athlon family.
It may be that men have created more things this way than women, but it's not "creative aggression" so much as it is risk-taking. Men take more risks than women. They have to, to reproduce it nothing else. Many of them fail in their aggression. Enough succeed that stuff gets made. But across the spectrum of risk-takers, there are women right up there at the high end of the spectrum, right along with the men. Dr. Su is one of them. So no, not "every device and entity".
Impeachment is very unlikely though, as is Trump stepping down voluntarily.
Impeachment is very likely. Conviction is the unlikely part.
There's been a call for House Democrats to pick one of Trump's illegal activities and impeach him for it, then let the Senate Republicans refuse to convict, just to prove to everyone everywhere what Republicans really are. "Rule of law" party my ass...
They're going to have to do better than "Russian Collusion" though. But Trump's taxes are shady enough, that'll be easy.
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Aside from watersheds, there are also nature preserves and so on (e.g. a habitat for an endangered species) where the land is public (government owned) but closed to human use.
Closed to human use except for those humans who drive Mercedes and BMWs?
It's sounding like this purported watershed... isn't. The whole thing is a scam to hide rich people's houses, from the tampering in Google Maps to the alleged designation as a protected watershed.
Is it just me, or are the assholes starting to realize they're fucking the general population over just a little bit TOO hard if they think they have to resort to measures like this to hide where they live?
They use this for some of the wealthy people's vacation homes and hunting lodges in closed (purportedly a watershed) public area near where I live.
"closed" "public area". Wat? What's that? 'cause it sounds illegal.
You wrote "The costs to make it superconduct are so much higher than electricity losses in comparable HVDC line of that length, it's not even funny. " I apparently misread that as being a claim about energy use. My apologies.
You have nothing to apologize for. Luckyo was drooling his ignorance all over you while making an ass of himself. The Long Island superconducting cable operates at 130 kV AC and has 150 times the power capacity of the same size conventional copper conductor, which means the right of way required to run it safely is much much narrower. They're moving 574 MW through a right of way just 4 feet wide. In New York City, that's incredibly valuable because the real estate required to operate a conventional line would be dramatically more expensive. Prohibitively more expensive, in fact. To operate a conventional cable, the voltage required to carry the same amount of power is much higher, which requires a correspondingly wider right of way for safety.
The Department of Energy helped pay for it. It went live in 2008 and the Long Island Power Authority has decided to keep it permanently, even though it was intended as a demonstrator. It's still in operation today. That tells you that it's cost effective to operate. LIPA will eventually install more such lines on the island in other locations that physically can't be replaced with a conventional HVDC line of the same capacity. There isn't room for one.
Ultimately, superconducting power cables will be HVDC installations themselves. Experiments out of Japan in 2010 demonstrated that HVDC over superconductors is 10 times more efficient than HVAC over the same size lines. There are still losses in superconductors. They're very very small compared to conventional lines, but they're non-zero.
I've reported to FCC and others that carrier maps in my city are blatently wrong and provided specific gps coordinates and reasons what the blockage is. They include areas that never have service due to hills and obstructions...these areas are not small. The response I got was, the carrier says they do have correrage of that location.
Ah, but you are a plebian. A commoner. A mere consumer. You are nothing. When the Rural Wireless Association complains, that means businesses are being affected. And businesses are real people. So something must be done. It will be a very minimal something because the businesses being affected are tiny and not good campaign donors, and the business doing the lying is huge and a very very good campaign donor. But something will be done. A one time fine of $10,000 was mentioned. That sounds about right for Ajit Pai's master. He sure as fuck can't allow any penalty that will noticeably affect profits.
Introducing... the Rubik's Chastity Belt!
Somebody would just put a How To Solve video on Youtube. Sounds like an entertaining skit for one of the late late shows.
The reason the first versions of DOOM brought down networks was its use of broadcast packets, it was patched out in later versions.
There was one specific problem those broadcast packets caused. HP network printers on IPX. Their tiny little CPUs couldn't handle that much traffic not meant for them, so they clogged up and nobody on the lab network could print while a game was under way. We got yelled at more than once to shut down so some poor sod could print their term paper. Printing done, we started right back up again.
For the same reason, we wouldn't consider a piano competition a sport either, even though it requires a level of skill, accuracy, and practice on par with any Olympic sport and has been around for nearly as long.
I would definitely pay to see people throw pianos in a competition. In all four categories: spinet upright, studio upright, baby grand, and grand. The distance is when they first hit the ground, and not after they tip over.
The costs of many of the cheaper solar panels in use absolutely did NOT take into account all of the associated costs of producing them! One of the problems the industry has struggled with are all the cheap Asian panels on the market, often sold at below cost, thanks to government subsidies from China.
These circumstances applied only to panels from specific manufacturers for a fairly limited period of time. Most solar panels are not "dumped", not even from China.
I've never heard of these banks you speak of, who would allow a person to take out a larger home loan if they felt the person might use less electricity thanks to solar panels (or anything else)?
You may be unaware of it, but all banks consider the monthly expenses of every prospective loan recipient. Power very much factors in to their loan-making decisions, varying only by the demands of the local power company for money.
As for battery technology? I looked into that, but it's really too costly to make much sense in many situations. When the financials work out on it? It's usually only because that person's utility company decided to arbitrarily give discounted electric rates for power used at night ("off peak").
Which applies to quite a few people's houses. You may not be one of them, but millions upon millions are, including all of California. Even I am subject to time-of-day billing here in the Midwest.
A solar system installation similar to what I've got (a 7.64Kw sized setup) will typically cost a person around $34,000 to install.
That is indeed a stupidly high price, and it's largely an artifact of yesteryear's panel prices. When a solar panel cost $5/watt, installers could demand premium prices and know their demands would be lost in the noise. Now that panels are right around $1/watt (post Trump tariffs), installers charging double or triple what the equipment costs is really noticeable. It will change. It will obviously change. There were a whole helluva lot of people clambering around on my roof when I replaced my shingles after the last hail storm made a hash out of them, and it didn't cost me any $20,000. It cost half that, including the price of shingles. So $28,000 to install less than $8,000 of panels is ludicrous, and can't last.
Not only did that probably cost them FAR more money than they'll ever recoup
They didn't. Ground-mounted solar panels are far cheaper to install, even in this over-inflated installer market, and as stated above, installation price is the expensive part right now. Installing on the ground is incredibly easier than a roof-mount install. There's zero money or effort required to evaluate the load-bearing capabilities of the roof, since there's no roof. The insurance costs are dramatically lower since no one is climbing around on a roof. Even the time required is much lower since there are no logistics of dragging heavy, awkward panels up onto a roof to worry about.
It would be a really BAD idea to mandate solar panels in our state, and even worse for Missouri, where I was born and raised. They get less sun than we do.
Fact checking you, I see that NREL shows that Missouri is at least one category better than Maryland in almost every month of the year for solar insolation.
All of your opinions seem to be informed by your personal experience, which is obsolete or inapplicable. A decade ago, you were suffering early adopter tax, and definitely paying more for the non-financial benefits than any financial benefit you could hope to gain. Today and in the coming years, things are different and will become still more different. It will be (and already is) considerably easier to buy solar panels for the financial benefits, as well as the quality of life benefits.
You should definitely buy the geothermal heat pump system though.
To do what? Provide power for the entire US? The US uses around 10,000,000 MWh/day, so I think you're going to need a couple extra...
To balance the ebbs and flows of power in the current US grid, just as this battery is doing for Australia. Like for like. And it only takes 16 because there are three grids in the US, rather than one.
Lithium and Aluminum have similar purification processes and both consume a LOT of energy, electrical energy. Where do you suppose all that electricity comes from?
Anywhere. Literally anywhere. Electricity is fungible, more fungible even than oil, more fungible even than natural gas, both of which are extracted in a plethora of grades. But electricity is good anywhere, no matter where it came from.
Lithium can be and is refined from the same power sources aluminum is refined from—hydroelectric dams. But it could come from a fleet of windmills backed by batteries just as easily, and probably less environmentally destructively (nothing gets flooded to install more windmills and batteries). Or it could come from a few nuclear reactors. Doesn't matter.
You act like no one could build a new coal plant because the grid was powered almost exclusively by coal.
Wave-particle-dualism, morphing spacetime, magnetism, electricity and light being the same thing -- all of those have been fringe ideas at first (or as Max Planck once put it: acts of desperation).
And wave-particle dualism still sounds hinky. There has to be a better explanation for the double slit experiment. Wave-particle dualism sounds like a bad analogy for whatever is really happening.
And so we have this argument.
Consequently, nobody is going to build a radio system into a cop car that's so hard to remove that it's actually difficult. Most likely they'd build it into the light bar, or it would be a dash-mounted device. Either way, it wouldn't take long to steal.
Or somebody can just steal the police car. Vanish it, then dismantle it at their leisure. Cop cars get stolen with astonishing regularity, though they're usually recovered quite quickly. But for the prize of a "stop any car any time" device, organized crime gets interested. With just a little bit of effort pursuit can be delayed long enough to lose sight of the vehicle, which then vanishes into a handy suburban garage somewhere. I'm sure the detailed planning and pulling off such an operation isn't trivial, but I'm quite certain it could work, right down to suppressing hidden transponders with a Faraday cage preinstalled in the destination garage.
I'd estimate that at least half of the U.S. (by population) has either no broadband at all, or has broadband of little utility.
And every Comcast subscriber fits in that "of little utility" category.
My only concern is Starlink satellites won't be capable of servicing the avalanche of demand from monopoly refugees.
There are some deaf people that don't want their own deaf children to get cochlear implants or to have other types of procedures that could restore their hearing.
Yes, and that's child abuse. Some cultures are not worth preserving. Deaf culture is one of them. Any culture built around a debilitating disability is a coping mechanism, not some precious thing that must be maintained at all costs. (Except for the people using it to cope, badly.)
I would vote for a law, many years hence after the human genome is well understood, that makes it a felony to bring a baby to term with any disability that could have been removed by CRISPR (or its successor techniques). Is that anti-freedom? Sure. Suck it up. No freedom is unlimited. There sure as hell should be no "freedom" to severely damage another person's life before they're born, even if they're your own child. Maybe especially if they're your own child.
I will hope that societal norms will trend that way anyway, making a law unnecessary.
It's just a matter of time before Netflix, Google, Amazon, Vudu and all these other companies spin up a new ISP and send it out into the world to compete with Comcast.
Welcome back, Rip Van Winkle! I see you had a nice nap.
This already happened. Google created Google Fiber. They went out into the world and tried to compete. They gave it the fuck up in 2016.
Google doesn't have the tenacity to do anything that doesn't instantly have 1 billion users. Their expectations are completely divorced from reality, on all fronts, and running an ISP was the worst possible fit for Google attitudes.
But regardless of Google's cultural problem, they couldn't make it work because doing all that physical work is really expensive and because the incumbents are really really REALLY good at keeping any potential competition out indefinitely by every kind of political skullduggery you can imagine.
Now Google did give a presentation in August about an upgrade to passive optical networking that supposedly improves amplification to the point where a single optical loop goes from 64 customer up to 20 kilometers to 1024 customers up to 50 kilometers, which reduces the first half of the problems they ran into, and Google is now flirting with the idea of resuming Google Fiber expansion.
Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. The cultural problems remain.
But it also degrades the thing that eating out is meant to culture: a shared social experience that rejuvenates, rather than harms, its participants.
Shared social experiences are enervating, not rejuvenating. I'm an introvert you insensitive clod.
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THIS IS AN OUTRAGEE!! WE DEMAND THE TOOTH!
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Yes, I know. It's a joke, son.
If you want those features without it sucking, you need to build a separate power distribution system into the home, that just does the lighting, has limited power, and uses solid state relays, and soft switches. You can't use the solid state relays on circuits that support full power, and you can't have mechanical actuators+fire safety without also spending a lot of money. And you probably don't even want AC; maybe a 12V lighting circuit, controlled directly by the digital meter.
USB-PD?
Can we CRISPR it out of us then? They can do that kind of stuff now yeah?
Yes. And that's probably a bad idea. When a condition is so widespread in a species, there's a very good chance it's a species survival trait. Especially something that in an advanced form appears to be anti-survival. Heavily ADHD people have problems relating to people and so have problems reproducing. If the traits of ADHD are so important that an exaggeration of them is anti-survival, yet they're still present, they must matter quite a lot.
As I'm involved in a major international effort to start measuring the global Carbon cycle systematically I was somewhat surprised about the claim about emissions in the article. So, I checked the publication. You are spot on: The major CO2 driver in this study is a simple fixed fraction of GDP.
And this right here is why skepticism refuses to go away. This isn't science. It's not even economics. It's an incredibly stupid bad oversimplification. But since it got published, and somebody hung the "science" label on it, the general public will be bludgeoned if they don't accept it as gospel.
The United Nations Environment Programme is not a peer reviewed journal, but is that going to be mentioned anywhere? Fuck if Vice would acknowledge it. No, they quote it and generate a whole FUD article using it as the basis. There is far FAR too much of this happening since climate research was politicized in the '80s, and it's the reason why the push-back is getting more and more stiff.
It's irrelevant how good the climate science is when climate journalism is so fantastically, incredibly, absurdly, running-out-of-adverbs poor.
In the SciMark testing, the AWS system-on-chip was twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on Linux 4.14.
So twice as fast as a 35 dollar computer that can run off of a cell phone charger. Ok yeah I know, more ram, better storage, better networking. But we're being sold on the CPU itself rather than the system.
Yes, that's a completely useless comparison. Datacenters of cloud providers are not full of Raspberry Pis.
if your chip designs are that sensitive for national security you better have your own Fab.
ROC is a solid America ally, so there isn't much "national security" risk. American defense contractors can't afford their own fabs.
Right up until the PRC decides to heat up the civil war again and end it in their own favor...
There is no historical evidence of the creative aggression of women on any level that has meaning in the large. Every device and entity that they occupy was created and pushed forward by men.
You write this on a comment thread about the fab AMD is using? AMD, the company headed by Dr. Lisa Su? The company that's going to cause Intel to lose a double digit market share percentage in 2019? For the second time in the company's history? That AMD?
She joined the company in 2012, became CEO in 2014, and is widely credited with driving the company to commit to and complete the Zen architecture. She took over from Rory Read, a business wonk who did businessy things... and drove AMD into the ground in the process by failing to invest in new development. She's a match for Dirk Meyer, the CEO prior to Rory Read who gave AMD their first big lead over Intel with the Athlon family.
It may be that men have created more things this way than women, but it's not "creative aggression" so much as it is risk-taking. Men take more risks than women. They have to, to reproduce it nothing else. Many of them fail in their aggression. Enough succeed that stuff gets made. But across the spectrum of risk-takers, there are women right up there at the high end of the spectrum, right along with the men. Dr. Su is one of them. So no, not "every device and entity".
Impeachment is very unlikely though, as is Trump stepping down voluntarily.
Impeachment is very likely. Conviction is the unlikely part.
There's been a call for House Democrats to pick one of Trump's illegal activities and impeach him for it, then let the Senate Republicans refuse to convict, just to prove to everyone everywhere what Republicans really are. "Rule of law" party my ass...
They're going to have to do better than "Russian Collusion" though. But Trump's taxes are shady enough, that'll be easy.
Sorry, that's how memes work, nothing I can do about it. Same way pepe the frog is now racist.
Memes die when enough people take a look at it and say, "Well that's a stupid fucking interpretation. Let's ignore it forever."