The "Invisible Hand" only works well as long as there are significant numbers of people who do enough stuff for the greater good. "Invisible Hand" theory isn't very useful- how it works depends on understanding something that it doesn't really explain.
Q) How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb? A) Free market economists don't change lightbulbs, they write their papers in the darkness while waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.
That's often a good test of a database server ( both the software and hardware).
If someone pulls the plug and whatever was supposedly committed (e.g. the DB server tells a client over the network that stuff is committed ) turns out to not actually be committed to disk when power comes back up then the server is not fit for many critical database tasks. You may have to reconfigure or change/update the software/hardware.
For stuff like Facebook/Twitter that sort of data loss scenario doesn't matter - people grumble that their post doesn't show up, they post it again.
Yeah and it's better than nothing - quite often the conventional hard drives don't fail catastrophically. So the backups on the same drive might still be accessible. Don't count on this though.
Passengers on private planes don't go through TSA screening right? So would this be a business opportunity?
Hmm googling gives me this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaPort_Airlines http://www.forbes.com/sites/edzitron/2011/06/29/planered/ Looks like it would be hard to get as much economies of scale with 9 passengers though.
I wonder what the maximum practical efficiencies are.
If they are very high then they might be better than battery vehicles. You go electricity/whatever-> butanol/hydrocarbon. Then at the car you do butanol/hydrocarbon -> electricity. Otherwise batteries would beat them.
If the efficiencies are high but not high enough for cars, it still could be good enough for some aircraft. I don't think you'll have battery powered vehicles flying near the speed of sound any time soon.
Currently the people who install ad-blocker aren't the sort who'd buy stuff advertised in ad banners. So it's not really a big loss - less wasted bandwidth in fact.
BUT someone has to pay for the stuff and I don't think most of us here would like to pay for subscriptions, so we shouldn't go around installing ad-blocking for other people unless they really want/need it.
When you're talking about approximate speeds near the speed of light it's usually safer to report lower figures. Rounding down is better than rounding up. Otherwise you might cause unnecessary excitement...
Assuming seat belts are worn, side impact airbags are still helpful for preventing head injuries. But I suspect steering wheel airbags aren't as useful - and could also cause significant injury as per this story.
You may not be driving in a standard crash test dummy position - turning the steering wheel etc.
Wan Bentai, the chief engineer for China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, said heavy metal from smelter chimneys, water run-offs and tailings has polluted in total about 10 percent of the countryâ(TM)s farmland, and the pollution levels have exceeded government limits, according to Southern Metropolitan Daily.
To me when they are even allowed to say and publish stuff like this it means the situation is so crap that the top are considering it a serious enough matter. And such announcements are made to help prepare the way for possibly draconian/drastic actions in the future.
They're also building more nuclear power stations.
but I would also not suggest that this man's employment problem is fictitious, or even that employers are necessarily acting unreasonably.
Without knowing details, it's hard to tell whether his complaint is valid or not.
Perhaps when you type his name, Google "autocorrects it" and suggests bad stuff. In which case I'd prefer Google to fix the problem. Same if an enemy or prankster somehow "google bombed" the suggestions.
But if his name is a synonym or euphemism for bad stuff or there was actually a notable person who did bad stuff with his name, then Google shouldn't change anything, since they would be what normal people would want to get. Then maybe the real reason he lost his job because he was a big complainer about trivial stuff and annoyed too many people?;)
And I'm not sure how this regurgitator guy does all that stuff - part of his illusions are achievable using the usual tricks (duplicate lock and keys), but the other stuff he does... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ethCJ4bfJkg
This one is not as amazing but still good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmraxBgEZog I hate to be the one practising it every day though - imagine setting up all those cards over and over again.
I know he's taking the cards from his suit (and I think there are a few mistakes), but it's still impressive.
Many magicians have been using cutting technology for their tricks. They do it well so audiences don't realize it. Powerful magnets, projectors, cameras (to peek at stuff) etc.
If that BBC video is a good example of his tricks, I'm not impressed at all. _obvious_ projections, videos on iphones. I've seen better projector tricks (3D projection mappings) that didn't even call themselves magic. Even Penn and Teller's "magic reveals" are more interesting (I think there was at least one where they reveal the trick but then later do something which makes you go "wait, how the heck did they do that?" since the trick they revealed can't apply to that scenario).
My question is on average does a steering wheel airbag+seat belt set up result in less damage to the driver than if the driver just wore a decent seat belt properly? I understand how the side impact airbags are useful (belt doesn't save you from side impacts).
So far it seems most of those crash tests have the dummies sitting in "classic" positions.
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Actually losing power at 100m is often worse than losing power at 1000m. 1000m gives you more time and thus more options.
The "Invisible Hand" only works well as long as there are significant numbers of people who do enough stuff for the greater good. "Invisible Hand" theory isn't very useful- how it works depends on understanding something that it doesn't really explain.
Q) How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A) Free market economists don't change lightbulbs, they write their papers in the darkness while waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.
That's often a good test of a database server ( both the software and hardware).
If someone pulls the plug and whatever was supposedly committed (e.g. the DB server tells a client over the network that stuff is committed ) turns out to not actually be committed to disk when power comes back up then the server is not fit for many critical database tasks. You may have to reconfigure or change/update the software/hardware.
For stuff like Facebook/Twitter that sort of data loss scenario doesn't matter - people grumble that their post doesn't show up, they post it again.
They can't provide very good reasons to copy stuff backwards, yet they insist on doing it and it breaks stuff.
For similar stupid problems (and responses) sometimes I get the impression that the Linux Desktop bunch are actually sabotaging Desktop Linux.
Overwriting your only backup to make a newer backup is a sin ;).
No, all you have to do is buy another drive and restore it on to that drive.
If your time and data is valuable enough, the cost of another drive is not a big deal even post thailand flood.
Yeah and it's better than nothing - quite often the conventional hard drives don't fail catastrophically. So the backups on the same drive might still be accessible. Don't count on this though.
Passengers on private planes don't go through TSA screening right? So would this be a business opportunity?
Hmm googling gives me this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaPort_Airlines
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edzitron/2011/06/29/planered/
Looks like it would be hard to get as much economies of scale with 9 passengers though.
Careful, or you might make the hoax story real -"gay man arrested after ejaculating while being patted down"...
"Both parties claim they are victorious"
Nice, a "win-win" verdict.
I wonder what the maximum practical efficiencies are.
If they are very high then they might be better than battery vehicles. You go electricity/whatever-> butanol/hydrocarbon. Then at the car you do butanol/hydrocarbon -> electricity.
Otherwise batteries would beat them.
If the efficiencies are high but not high enough for cars, it still could be good enough for some aircraft. I don't think you'll have battery powered vehicles flying near the speed of sound any time soon.
And what percentage do you regard as "large energy loss"?
I doubt butanol creation and "transmission" losses will be lower than 6.5%:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses
Currently the people who install ad-blocker aren't the sort who'd buy stuff advertised in ad banners. So it's not really a big loss - less wasted bandwidth in fact.
BUT someone has to pay for the stuff and I don't think most of us here would like to pay for subscriptions, so we shouldn't go around installing ad-blocking for other people unless they really want/need it.
Yeah, last I heard there's one size called commando.
When you're talking about approximate speeds near the speed of light it's usually safer to report lower figures. Rounding down is better than rounding up. Otherwise you might cause unnecessary excitement...
Assuming seat belts are worn, side impact airbags are still helpful for preventing head injuries. But I suspect steering wheel airbags aren't as useful - and could also cause significant injury as per this story.
You may not be driving in a standard crash test dummy position - turning the steering wheel etc.
There's a theory that overuse of profanity makes it less effective at reducing pain: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1913773,00.html
To get around that maybe you could invent your own profanity to use in the hopefully rare cases where pain mitigation is desired.
I see some increase in environmental interest in China.
See: http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2011-11/07/content_23843392.htm
Wan Bentai, the chief engineer for China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, said heavy metal from smelter chimneys, water run-offs and tailings has polluted in total about 10 percent of the countryâ(TM)s farmland, and the pollution levels have exceeded government limits, according to Southern Metropolitan Daily.
To me when they are even allowed to say and publish stuff like this it means the situation is so crap that the top are considering it a serious enough matter. And such announcements are made to help prepare the way for possibly draconian/drastic actions in the future.
They're also building more nuclear power stations.
I have a truly remarkable rebuttal to your argument that your mind is too small to contain.
but I would also not suggest that this man's employment problem is fictitious, or even that employers are necessarily acting unreasonably.
Without knowing details, it's hard to tell whether his complaint is valid or not.
Perhaps when you type his name, Google "autocorrects it" and suggests bad stuff. In which case I'd prefer Google to fix the problem. Same if an enemy or prankster somehow "google bombed" the suggestions.
But if his name is a synonym or euphemism for bad stuff or there was actually a notable person who did bad stuff with his name, then Google shouldn't change anything, since they would be what normal people would want to get. Then maybe the real reason he lost his job because he was a big complainer about trivial stuff and annoyed too many people? ;)
Bandwidth is overrated. Latency is the hardest problem to solve so far.
;)
Where's my ansible?
This street one is cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwqJlv0bIjE
It's likely the burger is coming from an assistant behind that "display", but it's done quite well.
And I'm not sure how this regurgitator guy does all that stuff - part of his illusions are achievable using the usual tricks (duplicate lock and keys), but the other stuff he does...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ethCJ4bfJkg
This one is not as amazing but still good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmraxBgEZog
I hate to be the one practising it every day though - imagine setting up all those cards over and over again.
Not every card trick would be a joke. Try doing this guy's card trick with e-paper playing cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmraxBgEZog
I know he's taking the cards from his suit (and I think there are a few mistakes), but it's still impressive.
Many magicians have been using cutting technology for their tricks. They do it well so audiences don't realize it. Powerful magnets, projectors, cameras (to peek at stuff) etc.
If that BBC video is a good example of his tricks, I'm not impressed at all. _obvious_ projections, videos on iphones. I've seen better projector tricks (3D projection mappings) that didn't even call themselves magic. Even Penn and Teller's "magic reveals" are more interesting (I think there was at least one where they reveal the trick but then later do something which makes you go "wait, how the heck did they do that?" since the trick they revealed can't apply to that scenario).
BTW something simple like pulling out cards from "nowhere" can be impressive when taken to the extreme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmraxBgEZog
My question is on average does a steering wheel airbag+seat belt set up result in less damage to the driver than if the driver just wore a decent seat belt properly? I understand how the side impact airbags are useful (belt doesn't save you from side impacts).
So far it seems most of those crash tests have the dummies sitting in "classic" positions.