Why is AI and robotics expected to dominate? Because costs are reducing vs gov has made it too expensive to hire labor. Minimum wage hikes have accelerated this. The Obamacare disaster has made health insurance impossibly expensive. So, why hire a human when a kiosk is more efficient. Adding UBI or work requirements will accelerate this trend to reduce labor.
Without capital, who can buy the goods that robots create? Why bother creating things if there are no buyers? There will be a natural cap on the extent of AI, but mucking around with income levels will encourage higher rates of robots, as more goods are consumable per customer.
Basic Universal Income must come from somewhere, via wealth redistributuon (taxes) or inflation. If you get a free $1000/mo, are you bringing price controls too? Why bother cutting costs when the market has free capital to spend? A business will have to raise prices to cover the taxes to support UBI, which will balance at a new higher price for everything. When everyone has money, money is worthless.
But not everyone is going to get money, just citizens of the government. So you are incentivizing immigration. Since every new entry is added cost of UBI, legal immigration will cease, births should be taxed, and end of life exit encouraged. Illegal immigration would go insane, as people try to enter the system by any means.
So a job guarantee is the better choice, but just as bad. An individual would be guided into a career that the central gov will choose for them, based on skill and demand. Field labor, infrastructure, mining, utilities is hard work. Someone must gather materials to make new robots. Not the cushy desk jobs or art programs that everyone expects. If everyone works, then there is the same demand for entertainment not more, and there are enough unemployed artists already. So you go into a career or you are forever returning to academics for retraining to find one you like. That costs money too, so expect lock in period requirements to stick with a job, and reductions in personal freedom.
And when a job is given, how is it taken away? Exit protection in Germany today makes it near impossible to fire a bad worker, so businesses are very reluctant to add workers, which leads to extremely high entry requirements. This pushes overqualified people into easy jobs, and displaced the average citizen. So expect total control of everything, since the gov will need to allocate labor better than the individual. You will be told where to work, so donâ(TM)t expect to like it.
Historically, every time these top down practices are tried, the people eventually try to escape it for other countries with more freedoms. Or they are crushed. What is the value of a life when everything about it is an expense?
How? Because he is less of a moron than Hillary Clinton was.
Trump didn't hide classified emails on a private server. Trump didn't violate a subpoena when the server backups were found. Trump didn't use the DOJ to direct the FBI to gloss over the investigation during an election cycle. Trump didn't make Huma Abedin save all of her classified emails to her pedophile husband's laptop, including those sent from Clinton's private server, where they could be discovered by the NY AG. Trump didn't make the FBI lie about their investigation and be forced to reopen the case. Trump didn't make Clinton be so overconfident in her polling that she skipped campaigning in key "blue" states. Trump didn't make Clinton verbally insult her voters.
And to answer your question, Amazon pays for zone injection shipping at the same rate that everyone else does. The zone injection rate year-over-year change is capped by law, and has not kept pace with the increase in actual costs. So yes, everyone gets the same rate, and the USPS loses money (the $1.50/package figure) on every zone injection parcel delivery. The problem is not Amazon, it is the USPS. And the President has the legal authority to audit the USPS and find out why this happened.
Two days later, CBS is now reporting that the Trump Campaign only used the CA data for a targeted online advertising and a single TV ad buy during the primaries, because they were playing the CA data off of the RNC, in case the RNC pulled a "resistance" and didn't want to share with the Trump campaign. They ended up not using the CA data for the general election because they didn't trust it coming from Facebook.
“This was unequivocally not a data breach,” tweeted Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook executive. “No systems were infiltrated, no passwords or information were stolen or hacked.”
So, what really happened is that a bunch of people installed a bunch of Facebook apps, and the users authorized their personal data to be used by the app. What happened after that was standard Facebook Business Model stuff, they sell your eyeballs to advertisers and take a 30% share of sales. It's how all social media stays in business, by passively collecting data about you, where you eat, your income levels, what you buy, etc. All in the name of "targeted advertising", which we as users frankly embrace. We love seeing ads for things that may interest us, companies like the opportunity of us buying stuff, FB loves collecting data and giving it to the govern.... I mean collecting data.
So, if we the public are clicking Accept every time we want to do a survey, or use a service, or install an app.... the horse is out of the barn. Then we get to Cambridge Analytica, who is accused of using personality quiz apps to gather information.. yeah, which is pretty much the whole purpose of those little quizzes to find your interests. The user answers a bazillion personal questions, and it spits out "Your Medieval Name Would Be Patsy", but what do you think happens to all that data after you click Commit? They aren't even building a profile of you, because Facebook already did that work by getting you to fill it out yourself. CA figured out, like Obama did in 2012. What do you think "big data" is really all about? Joining all these little data sets, like purchased this here, travelled there, likes flying, hates TSA, lives here, people that live here tend to earn this much, people that travel there and live here tend to vote this way, so hook them up with some targeted political ads and bam, you've increased your probability of an election win.
So, our company contracts long-term weather forecasts from DTN, which is a company that produces weather outlook for industrial utilities and agriculture in the US and Europe. They use a variety of information to estimate future weather (monthly to decade scale), and in the process, comment on how current year weather matches historical weather. They look at multi-decade trends, and point out how this season is very similar to the 1950s, etc.
The comment in last quarter's winter forecast had to do with the "polar vortex" event that is leading to the "extreme" cold snaps across the US over the last 4 years or so. There are two factors at stake here, one being the "tightness" of the high-altitude wind currents around the arctic, and a secondary "rotation" effect. Imagine that there is an oval above the arctic that oscillates short and wide, mostly centered over the pole. The boundary is like a ripple that we see as wind currents. When it is circular, cold air is trapped up by the pole, and we have mild winters in the northern continents. However, over time, the polar winds oscillate north and south, which leads to daily oscillations in weather over the winter. What we see as large temperature swings are just the wind currents oscillating past.
If the oval becomes elongated, it allows the cold air to be pulled farther south, what we call the "polar vortex" with "abnormally" colder weather than average. Cold air is pulled down from the north, then hot air is pulled up from the south, and the intersection results in more winter storms than average, depending on humidity. But that dip pattern is also not stationary, it rotates on a multi-decade-long scale. In the 1990s, the polar vortex was over Russia / East Asia, and they observed the temperature swings. The North Americans (in our short-sightedness) think that if it didn't happen here, it didn't happen. But now two decades later, the elongation has rotated over us, and suddenly we're all freaking out about catastrophic weather changes.
The forecaster's point was all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
First, sorry for this guy getting smacked for going off message. He should have known that Facebook Ad campaigns are serious money makers for FB and Twitter, and the business of "selling influence for cash" is what keeps social media alive. If we admit that a single Russian company of maybe 90 employees can sway a US election, well, then EVERYONE will want to buy more FB ad campaigns so THEY can sway the next election.
Second, it's about time that we admit that the Democrafts colluded with the Russians to sway the election against Trump. It was the DNC that paid Perkins Coie, as a shell company to pay Fusion GPS (ex-CIA opposition researchers), who contracted Christopher Steele and Nellie Ohr to complete the "dossier". Nellie Ohr (member of the CIA Open Source Group) worked with Christopher Steele (ex-MI6 Orbis Ltd) to procure information from Russian diplomats to form the "dossier", then fed that information back through her husband Brian Ohr (DOJ) to the FBI. It was the FBI that used the "dossier" to open the FISA 702 Title 1 on Carter Page (former FBI informant against Russia Gazprom), and it was the Clinton-allied team in the FBI that spied on the Trump campaign headquarters. and we're only beginning to find out now how they used that information. That is the group that used Russian mis-information to try to sway the election, broke dozens of laws, and frankly should be in jail already.
When the colonists first came to the Americas, the coastal areas were overflowing with Lobsters, with stories of 100s washing up on the shore at a time. By the late 1700s, lobsters were considered "prison food", because there was so many of them. Lobsters begin to rot almost immediately when killed which is why they are cooked alive in the pot, and the shells horribly stink... in a culture without refrigeration and modern sanitation, these would quickly turn into a strong negative.
After the US Civil war (1860s), canning was invented and cooked lobster would last for a long time. With the expansion of the railroads, the interior and west coast of the US began to demand canned lobster for its high-protein value. Then they realized that it tastes even better live, and with refrigeration, lobsters began to ship live all over the country. After that, the demand for lobsters skyrocketed, and we have the high prices we see today.
Since the 1990s, apparently the Maine lobster crops have been booming, some say proportional to the rising sea temperatures, combined with sustainability policies restricting farming of female (only chicks that have not yet spawned, male or female, are allowed to be legally caught). Also, humans have overfished the cod stocks in the northeast, which have been known to eat lobster for food. By killing the predators, we've turned lobsters into the chickens of the sea.
Are you insane? This is to clean out the EXACT people who have no regard for the Constitution, who will actively use the intel apparatus to violate the 4th amendment rights of citizens, who will withhold information from judges, who openly conspire with one political party against another political party. These people have corrupted the DOJ and FBI, from the top down, and need to be cleaned out for the good of us citizens.
Comey is the problem, not some poor innocent guy who was pushed out, and has too much free time to tweet out poetry and quips about liberty. He signed the FISA applications knowing that the DNC paid for the dossier, and withheld that information from the FISA court. He used media reports on the dossier as evidence the dossier was true when it was time to renew the FISA application? He misled the congress, those who by constitution are empowered to oversee him. He misled the chief executive, when asked why he didn't work to disavow the Russia investigation (which is alleged by the way).
There's a very good reason why the FBI and DOJ has lost the trust of the people. What proof do we REALLY have that there was any Russia involvement by anyone, other than the word of the same people who openly lied?
And this is just the tip. This openly proves that the FBI was "wiretapping" the Trump Campaign. They sniffed the whole campaign headquarters to get conversations of one person, Carter Page. What did the DOJ do with the results of the FISA 702 evesdropping of the Trump campaign? Inside information says that it went straight to the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) reports, where names were unmasked by the DOJ and fed back to the DNC. Just wait for the next round.
The DNC fed Fusion GPS, who fed Steele. Steele met with DOJ Brian Ohr several times. And Brian Ohr's wife Nellie (Russian language specialist) was an employee of Fusion GPS, and there is evidence she got a ham radio license specifically to communicate with Steele. Steele turns around and sends the data back to the FBI, who use it as evidence to spy on Carter Page. Steele then shops the document to the media and the FBI uses the media reports as evidence to renew the Carter Page spying.
The bigger question is what did the FBI do with the information that they retrieved by spying on Trump's campaign? It gets included in the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) document, where the DOJ is allowed to unmask the names. And it trickles back to the DNC.
Are you insane? This is to clean out the EXACT people who have no regard for the Constitution, who will actively use the intel apparatus to violate the 4th amendment rights of citizens, who will withhold information from judges, who openly conspire with one political party against another political party. These people have corrupted the DOJ and FBI, from the top down, and need to be cleaned out for the good of us citizens.
Comey is the problem, not some poor innocent guy who was pushed out, and has too much free time to tweet out poetry and quips about liberty. He signed the FISA applications knowing that the DNC paid for the dossier, and withheld that information from the FISA court. He used media reports on the dossier as evidence the dossier was true when it was time to renew the FISA application? He misled the congress, those who by constitution are empowered to oversee him. He misled the chief executive, when asked why he didn't work to disavow the Russia investigation (which is alleged by the way).
There's a very good reason why the FBI and DOJ has lost the trust of the people. What proof do we REALLY have that there was any Russia involvement by anyone, other than the word of the same people who openly lied?
And this is just the tip. This openly proves that the FBI was "wiretapping" the Trump Campaign. They sniffed the whole campaign headquarters to get conversations of one person, Carter Page. What did the DOJ do with the results of the FISA 702 evesdropping of the Trump campaign? Inside information says that it went straight to the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) reports, where names were unmasked by the DOJ and fed back to the DNC. Just wait for the next round.
It has everything to do with Hillaryâ(TM)s unsecured email server. But for the DNC leak, weâ(TM)d never know that the email server existed, or that Stonetear was trying to scrub VIP addresses from his logs, before the server was wiped. We now know President Obama himself emailed at least 20 Special Access Program documents and had his own account. If Hillary goes down, Obama goes down. Therefore everyone has to go into defense mode. A prosecution will expose it, so there canâ(TM)t be a real investigation or even a crime. Thatâ(TM)s why Comey and Strzok scrubbed âoegrossly negligentâ and wrote the result before the first interview (which was conducted by Strzok, the one whoâ(TM)s texts are now being discovered). Thereâ(TM)s your conspiracy and textbook obstruction of justice.
Don't index your objects using Natural Keys that are a function of slowly changing values. Yes, the naming convention has a value in identifying location as a function of geographic location, but it's a function of a projected geolocation (magnetic field strength) that turns out to move.
Instead of spending all the money renaming/renumbering the runways, and renumbering them again a couple of decades from now, an engineer would say create a surrogate key that will be constant for all time. Heck, Alpha Beta Gamma, etc would be just as useful in this world of GPS.
Drug testing are insanely expensive because if you screw something up, you will be sued to oblivion. So, these niche products never make it to production because the consumers (limited size) cannot absorb that cost. Solution: Create a class of drug licenses that waive the Phase 3 human trial requirements, and allow the patients to sign off on a document that absolves the drug company from liability.
And, we should extend the "treatment of last resort" laws. Phase 4 cancer patients should get immediate access to trials and experimental medicines. I have a friend who's 7yo son died of a brain tumor (DIPG) while on a waiting list for a trial. They should not just cut the red tape, but eliminate it, with government funding backstops proportional to the severity of the illness.
Next you have people who can't afford the cutting edge medicine. This is pretty much pure R&D for the drug companies, which is expensive. For that, there should be a risk pool set up by the government that covers these extremely rare conditions, that will pay for the cost of the development. Like everything else the government touches, this fund would be ripe for abuse, so you may have to link the payments to number of cured patients.
We should also rank drugs / medical solutions by avoided total costs, i.e. if this drug were given, does it displace a cost from another sector? Laser eye surgery means never needing glasses again, so if it is cheap enough, the insurance companies should be paying us to get the laser, not the other way around. If every blind person could be cured by this treatment, how much money could be saved in ADA compliance requirements? That's pie in the sky, but what if there was a diabetes medicine? We need to stop thinking in terms of chronic management (where nothing is ever cured) and think about the total cost.
Most generators also have a voltage regulator, which changes the excitation / power angle. The generator produces MVA, which in polar notation is real (MW) and reactive (MVAR) power. Most generators try to operate near unity (MW/MVA = 1) to maximize income, but the controllers at each power plant probably twitched a bit to supply reactive power to keep the voltage levels stable.
Not quite. The original coal plant tripped, so the power that it was injecting ceased to be. In the very short term (tens of cycles), the energy demand on the system outweighs the supply, and frequency begins to drop. The remaining synchronized generating resources next engage "primary frequency response", which is an automated (governor) response that temporarily increases the output of the generators. By governor, there is a device in the generator controller that regulates the steam pressure to keep the rotation constant, so the energy imbalance creates mechanical drag that the governor attempts to correct. Each generator twitches up a tiny amount, the frequency decline is arrested, and the system stabilizes. You then have secondary systems that engage that drive the system back to a pre-loss state.
The battery in this contributed primary frequency response, as a direct response to the observed low frequency. In the United States, Energy Storage devices are not required to provide primary frequency response, since almost all frequency response is provided by steam units. As more coal plants are retired and replaced by Wind and Solar (inverter-based units), the US grid will need to adapt and modify its requirements.
Feel free to point out exactly where the calculations have gone wrong.
I don't have to. All this week, stories are running how every global climate model has been proven wrong by observation, you know, how actual science is performed? Make the model fit the data, not the data fit the model . . .
In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of 10 researchers, led by Richard Millar of the University of Oxford, recalculated the carbon budget for limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above temperatures seen in the late 19th century.
Interesting. This is the same Steve Pearlman who invented QuickTime and WebTV.
OnLive Inc. was a cloud-based gaming platform around 2009, that users could play full versions of games, but required dedicated hardware per users on the server side. They never got the costs down before it folded.
Apparently the "declared it bankrupt" involved a legal loophole calld Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors that absolved Perlman of any debt responsibilities by transferring ownership to Lauder Partners. Employees were essentially terminated without pay, with some rehired by the new firm headed by Gary Lauder. Lauder would soon fire Perlman, who would return to his incubator company Rearden Labs to invent DIDO/pCell (under the name Artemis).
So, if one could prove that MOVA was truly an asset of OnLive, then Rearden's argument falls apart, since that asset would have been transferred in the bankruptcy assignment. I assume the courts could not prove this.
The claim is Rearden, LLC (Pearlman) invents the MOVA technology, and licenses it to Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG). Pearlman hires LaSalle and become friends, but the MOVA technology doesn't quite catch on in the VFX world. In 2012, DDMG goes bankrupt, and reforms out of bankruptcy in China as Digital Domain Holdings Limited (DDHL).
Pearlman moved MOVA to OnLive Inc., declared it bankrupt, and moved the tech ownership to OL2 (a holding company operated by Lauder). In 2012, one of the Rearden partners (LaSalle) wanted to sell the technology to DDHL claiming Rearden wasn't doing anything with it. Lauder sells MOVA to Lauder Partners, who sells it to LaSalle's company MO2 LLC. DDHL instead arranged for MOVA to be sold from MO2 to SHST (Chinese subsidiary of DDHL), who licensed the technology back to DD3 (American subsidiary of DDHL). LaSalle then goes to work for DD3.
In 2015, DD3 sells the MOVA service to Disney. Disney uses the technology in several live-action movies and makes a crap-ton of money. Pearlman now claims whaa? and reforms as Rearden MOVA, claming that they still own the tech. Pearlman claims that LaSalle violated his contract's inventions agreement by selling intellectual property owned by the parent company.
In 2015, SHST attempts to preemptively sue Rearden that it has the rights to MOVA, and Rearden should stop using the name. Meanwhile they transfer MOVA to Virtue Global Holdings Limited (VGH, subsidiary of DDHL). In court, SHST/VGH fails to provide documentation that they owned the software, are counter-sued, and lose; VGH and SSTL are told to stop claming they own the software. DDHL later comes under investigation by Chinese regulators for creating a ton of shell companies to hide profits from the Chinese government.
Rearden claims that 1) they have the rights to MOVA, not DDHL, 2) that DDHL violated software export laws and shouldn't have been allowed to sell MOVA to SHST in the first place, 3) that DD3 didn't have the rights to license the MOVA technology to Disney, and 4) Disney owes a share of their revenue to Reardon MOVA, the parent of Reardon, LLC.
The only thing clear to me is that all of the parties involved are playing the "Hollywood profit hiding" game of creating shell companies to change who declares the revenues, moving profits among the shell companies, then declaring them bankrupt.
TFA says they *would* take a 4th solar farm, but the "photovoltaic panels were proposed just 50 feet from residential homes, and the project was too close to State Route 258 leading into town." The developer is going to increase the easement distances and resubmit.
It's AGW week. "Climate change refugees" for something that hasn't happened yet is more PC than saying they moved to the USA because it's the "land of opportunity", providing jobs and education, with "chain immigration" policies making it easy to import thousands relatives once the first legal immigrant arrives.
Being in the industry, the reason I was given was (1) the electrolyte is very expensive right now and (2) investors need a demonstration of return. The flow devices scale much better than Lithium batteries, store more energy, and can discharge over longer periods of time. This makes them eligible for capacity markets, but we are coincidentally in a period of over-supply in the energy markets, so capacity clearing prices are not supporting their cost of entry. Secondly, as a storage device, they need to arbitrage the energy prices, charge at low prices and discharge at high prices.
Minecraft doesn't have any built-in API hooks in the core executable; the entire modding community is built around people who have reversed-engineered the Java to insert hooks for tools like Forge, etc. The modding community has been begging for a clear API for years, but Notch didn't see the value in it.
Having the application coded in Java immediately gives you the cross-platform functionality in the desktop world, but it's a killer for the console world. The XBox version is basically incompatible with the entire modding community, and their feature set is behind the vanilla desktop. Additionally, most modded minecraft launchers (Java) are limited to 2GB of RAM, when 64-bit systems can easily go beyond this. This is purely a limitation of using Java.
Moving the code base to.Net would unify the desktop and console worlds, would unify the modding community, and would do nothing but improve quality for players. Almost all mods are built core 1.7.10, when the vanilla version is already up at 1.8. It's insanely difficult to keep mods up to date, to the point that many popular ones simply say they won't support the 1.8 branch. Most mods are hacks upon hacks, relying on "ore dictionaries" and the like to unify identifiers so one mod doesn't step on another mod's space.
The pre-requisite for all of this is getting a functional.Net framework out on the Mac and Linux, which Microsoft has already committed to do.
That's what we feel too. When wind units are allowed to bid negative offers, because their operations costs are offset by government-funded renewable energy credits, it distorts the market to the point that traditional generation cannot compete. This is why the "expiration" of the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit was such a big deal, in that everyone had to "break ground" by 12/31/2014, which is why there is a flood of windpower energy this year. You cannot build transmission this fast.
As someone who works in the wholesale power industry, the problem is more complex.
We are in a unique period of overcapacity, as new technologies are displacing the old. Nuclear capital costs of new construction are astronomical, which is why in the deregulated open markets of the USA, new construction is natural gas powered and government backed wind. The wind is being build in areas of the country (Illinois) that were historically heavy industry (pre existing ehv transmission), but with factory load moving overseas, the Midwest has more generation than demand. The energy is being bottled due to lack of transmission investment, which is leading to negative wholesale pricing. That's great for consumers, terrible for base load nuclear. New nuclear is being built at an existing site in a regulated southern state, where the costs can be passed on to consumers in the rate base.
Actually, it depends on the time of year. Demand is only highest (peaks) in the daylight hours during the summer, when air conditioning load is at its highest. During the spring and fall, when the temperatures are moderate, it's not uncommon that the peak is in the evening with lighting load (really lights + TV + commercial resteraunt use). In winter, it's definitely evening peaks with higher overnights with electric heating load. So, from a wholesale power perspective, you only need to cover that 7pm to 9pm period before load drops off (bedtimes) to smooth pricing.
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Why is AI and robotics expected to dominate? Because costs are reducing vs gov has made it too expensive to hire labor. Minimum wage hikes have accelerated this. The Obamacare disaster has made health insurance impossibly expensive. So, why hire a human when a kiosk is more efficient. Adding UBI or work requirements will accelerate this trend to reduce labor.
Without capital, who can buy the goods that robots create? Why bother creating things if there are no buyers? There will be a natural cap on the extent of AI, but mucking around with income levels will encourage higher rates of robots, as more goods are consumable per customer.
Basic Universal Income must come from somewhere, via wealth redistributuon (taxes) or inflation. If you get a free $1000/mo, are you bringing price controls too? Why bother cutting costs when the market has free capital to spend? A business will have to raise prices to cover the taxes to support UBI, which will balance at a new higher price for everything. When everyone has money, money is worthless.
But not everyone is going to get money, just citizens of the government. So you are incentivizing immigration. Since every new entry is added cost of UBI, legal immigration will cease, births should be taxed, and end of life exit encouraged. Illegal immigration would go insane, as people try to enter the system by any means.
So a job guarantee is the better choice, but just as bad. An individual would be guided into a career that the central gov will choose for them, based on skill and demand. Field labor, infrastructure, mining, utilities is hard work. Someone must gather materials to make new robots. Not the cushy desk jobs or art programs that everyone expects. If everyone works, then there is the same demand for entertainment not more, and there are enough unemployed artists already. So you go into a career or you are forever returning to academics for retraining to find one you like. That costs money too, so expect lock in period requirements to stick with a job, and reductions in personal freedom.
And when a job is given, how is it taken away? Exit protection in Germany today makes it near impossible to fire a bad worker, so businesses are very reluctant to add workers, which leads to extremely high entry requirements. This pushes overqualified people into easy jobs, and displaced the average citizen. So expect total control of everything, since the gov will need to allocate labor better than the individual. You will be told where to work, so donâ(TM)t expect to like it.
Historically, every time these top down practices are tried, the people eventually try to escape it for other countries with more freedoms. Or they are crushed. What is the value of a life when everything about it is an expense?
How? Because he is less of a moron than Hillary Clinton was.
Trump didn't hide classified emails on a private server. Trump didn't violate a subpoena when the server backups were found. Trump didn't use the DOJ to direct the FBI to gloss over the investigation during an election cycle. Trump didn't make Huma Abedin save all of her classified emails to her pedophile husband's laptop, including those sent from Clinton's private server, where they could be discovered by the NY AG. Trump didn't make the FBI lie about their investigation and be forced to reopen the case. Trump didn't make Clinton be so overconfident in her polling that she skipped campaigning in key "blue" states. Trump didn't make Clinton verbally insult her voters.
And to answer your question, Amazon pays for zone injection shipping at the same rate that everyone else does. The zone injection rate year-over-year change is capped by law, and has not kept pace with the increase in actual costs. So yes, everyone gets the same rate, and the USPS loses money (the $1.50/package figure) on every zone injection parcel delivery. The problem is not Amazon, it is the USPS. And the President has the legal authority to audit the USPS and find out why this happened.
Two days later, CBS is now reporting that the Trump Campaign only used the CA data for a targeted online advertising and a single TV ad buy during the primaries, because they were playing the CA data off of the RNC, in case the RNC pulled a "resistance" and didn't want to share with the Trump campaign. They ended up not using the CA data for the general election because they didn't trust it coming from Facebook.
“This was unequivocally not a data breach,” tweeted Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook executive. “No systems were infiltrated, no passwords or information were stolen or hacked.”
So, what really happened is that a bunch of people installed a bunch of Facebook apps, and the users authorized their personal data to be used by the app. What happened after that was standard Facebook Business Model stuff, they sell your eyeballs to advertisers and take a 30% share of sales. It's how all social media stays in business, by passively collecting data about you, where you eat, your income levels, what you buy, etc. All in the name of "targeted advertising", which we as users frankly embrace. We love seeing ads for things that may interest us, companies like the opportunity of us buying stuff, FB loves collecting data and giving it to the govern.... I mean collecting data.
So, if we the public are clicking Accept every time we want to do a survey, or use a service, or install an app.... the horse is out of the barn. Then we get to Cambridge Analytica, who is accused of using personality quiz apps to gather information.. yeah, which is pretty much the whole purpose of those little quizzes to find your interests. The user answers a bazillion personal questions, and it spits out "Your Medieval Name Would Be Patsy", but what do you think happens to all that data after you click Commit? They aren't even building a profile of you, because Facebook already did that work by getting you to fill it out yourself. CA figured out, like Obama did in 2012. What do you think "big data" is really all about? Joining all these little data sets, like purchased this here, travelled there, likes flying, hates TSA, lives here, people that live here tend to earn this much, people that travel there and live here tend to vote this way, so hook them up with some targeted political ads and bam, you've increased your probability of an election win.
So, our company contracts long-term weather forecasts from DTN, which is a company that produces weather outlook for industrial utilities and agriculture in the US and Europe. They use a variety of information to estimate future weather (monthly to decade scale), and in the process, comment on how current year weather matches historical weather. They look at multi-decade trends, and point out how this season is very similar to the 1950s, etc.
The comment in last quarter's winter forecast had to do with the "polar vortex" event that is leading to the "extreme" cold snaps across the US over the last 4 years or so. There are two factors at stake here, one being the "tightness" of the high-altitude wind currents around the arctic, and a secondary "rotation" effect. Imagine that there is an oval above the arctic that oscillates short and wide, mostly centered over the pole. The boundary is like a ripple that we see as wind currents. When it is circular, cold air is trapped up by the pole, and we have mild winters in the northern continents. However, over time, the polar winds oscillate north and south, which leads to daily oscillations in weather over the winter. What we see as large temperature swings are just the wind currents oscillating past.
If the oval becomes elongated, it allows the cold air to be pulled farther south, what we call the "polar vortex" with "abnormally" colder weather than average. Cold air is pulled down from the north, then hot air is pulled up from the south, and the intersection results in more winter storms than average, depending on humidity. But that dip pattern is also not stationary, it rotates on a multi-decade-long scale. In the 1990s, the polar vortex was over Russia / East Asia, and they observed the temperature swings. The North Americans (in our short-sightedness) think that if it didn't happen here, it didn't happen. But now two decades later, the elongation has rotated over us, and suddenly we're all freaking out about catastrophic weather changes.
The forecaster's point was all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
First, sorry for this guy getting smacked for going off message. He should have known that Facebook Ad campaigns are serious money makers for FB and Twitter, and the business of "selling influence for cash" is what keeps social media alive. If we admit that a single Russian company of maybe 90 employees can sway a US election, well, then EVERYONE will want to buy more FB ad campaigns so THEY can sway the next election.
Second, it's about time that we admit that the Democrafts colluded with the Russians to sway the election against Trump. It was the DNC that paid Perkins Coie, as a shell company to pay Fusion GPS (ex-CIA opposition researchers), who contracted Christopher Steele and Nellie Ohr to complete the "dossier". Nellie Ohr (member of the CIA Open Source Group) worked with Christopher Steele (ex-MI6 Orbis Ltd) to procure information from Russian diplomats to form the "dossier", then fed that information back through her husband Brian Ohr (DOJ) to the FBI. It was the FBI that used the "dossier" to open the FISA 702 Title 1 on Carter Page (former FBI informant against Russia Gazprom), and it was the Clinton-allied team in the FBI that spied on the Trump campaign headquarters. and we're only beginning to find out now how they used that information. That is the group that used Russian mis-information to try to sway the election, broke dozens of laws, and frankly should be in jail already.
When the colonists first came to the Americas, the coastal areas were overflowing with Lobsters, with stories of 100s washing up on the shore at a time. By the late 1700s, lobsters were considered "prison food", because there was so many of them. Lobsters begin to rot almost immediately when killed which is why they are cooked alive in the pot, and the shells horribly stink... in a culture without refrigeration and modern sanitation, these would quickly turn into a strong negative.
After the US Civil war (1860s), canning was invented and cooked lobster would last for a long time. With the expansion of the railroads, the interior and west coast of the US began to demand canned lobster for its high-protein value. Then they realized that it tastes even better live, and with refrigeration, lobsters began to ship live all over the country. After that, the demand for lobsters skyrocketed, and we have the high prices we see today.
Since the 1990s, apparently the Maine lobster crops have been booming, some say proportional to the rising sea temperatures, combined with sustainability policies restricting farming of female (only chicks that have not yet spawned, male or female, are allowed to be legally caught). Also, humans have overfished the cod stocks in the northeast, which have been known to eat lobster for food. By killing the predators, we've turned lobsters into the chickens of the sea.
Are you insane? This is to clean out the EXACT people who have no regard for the Constitution, who will actively use the intel apparatus to violate the 4th amendment rights of citizens, who will withhold information from judges, who openly conspire with one political party against another political party. These people have corrupted the DOJ and FBI, from the top down, and need to be cleaned out for the good of us citizens.
Comey is the problem, not some poor innocent guy who was pushed out, and has too much free time to tweet out poetry and quips about liberty. He signed the FISA applications knowing that the DNC paid for the dossier, and withheld that information from the FISA court. He used media reports on the dossier as evidence the dossier was true when it was time to renew the FISA application? He misled the congress, those who by constitution are empowered to oversee him. He misled the chief executive, when asked why he didn't work to disavow the Russia investigation (which is alleged by the way).
There's a very good reason why the FBI and DOJ has lost the trust of the people. What proof do we REALLY have that there was any Russia involvement by anyone, other than the word of the same people who openly lied?
And this is just the tip. This openly proves that the FBI was "wiretapping" the Trump Campaign. They sniffed the whole campaign headquarters to get conversations of one person, Carter Page. What did the DOJ do with the results of the FISA 702 evesdropping of the Trump campaign? Inside information says that it went straight to the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) reports, where names were unmasked by the DOJ and fed back to the DNC. Just wait for the next round.
Not just unverifiable rumors, but planted rumors.
The DNC fed Fusion GPS, who fed Steele. Steele met with DOJ Brian Ohr several times. And Brian Ohr's wife Nellie (Russian language specialist) was an employee of Fusion GPS, and there is evidence she got a ham radio license specifically to communicate with Steele. Steele turns around and sends the data back to the FBI, who use it as evidence to spy on Carter Page. Steele then shops the document to the media and the FBI uses the media reports as evidence to renew the Carter Page spying.
The bigger question is what did the FBI do with the information that they retrieved by spying on Trump's campaign? It gets included in the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) document, where the DOJ is allowed to unmask the names. And it trickles back to the DNC.
Are you insane? This is to clean out the EXACT people who have no regard for the Constitution, who will actively use the intel apparatus to violate the 4th amendment rights of citizens, who will withhold information from judges, who openly conspire with one political party against another political party. These people have corrupted the DOJ and FBI, from the top down, and need to be cleaned out for the good of us citizens.
Comey is the problem, not some poor innocent guy who was pushed out, and has too much free time to tweet out poetry and quips about liberty. He signed the FISA applications knowing that the DNC paid for the dossier, and withheld that information from the FISA court. He used media reports on the dossier as evidence the dossier was true when it was time to renew the FISA application? He misled the congress, those who by constitution are empowered to oversee him. He misled the chief executive, when asked why he didn't work to disavow the Russia investigation (which is alleged by the way).
There's a very good reason why the FBI and DOJ has lost the trust of the people. What proof do we REALLY have that there was any Russia involvement by anyone, other than the word of the same people who openly lied?
And this is just the tip. This openly proves that the FBI was "wiretapping" the Trump Campaign. They sniffed the whole campaign headquarters to get conversations of one person, Carter Page. What did the DOJ do with the results of the FISA 702 evesdropping of the Trump campaign? Inside information says that it went straight to the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) reports, where names were unmasked by the DOJ and fed back to the DNC. Just wait for the next round.
It has everything to do with Hillaryâ(TM)s unsecured email server. But for the DNC leak, weâ(TM)d never know that the email server existed, or that Stonetear was trying to scrub VIP addresses from his logs, before the server was wiped. We now know President Obama himself emailed at least 20 Special Access Program documents and had his own account. If Hillary goes down, Obama goes down. Therefore everyone has to go into defense mode. A prosecution will expose it, so there canâ(TM)t be a real investigation or even a crime. Thatâ(TM)s why Comey and Strzok scrubbed âoegrossly negligentâ and wrote the result before the first interview (which was conducted by Strzok, the one whoâ(TM)s texts are now being discovered). Thereâ(TM)s your conspiracy and textbook obstruction of justice.
Don't index your objects using Natural Keys that are a function of slowly changing values. Yes, the naming convention has a value in identifying location as a function of geographic location, but it's a function of a projected geolocation (magnetic field strength) that turns out to move.
Instead of spending all the money renaming/renumbering the runways, and renumbering them again a couple of decades from now, an engineer would say create a surrogate key that will be constant for all time. Heck, Alpha Beta Gamma, etc would be just as useful in this world of GPS.
My armchair solution is risk exposure mitigation.
Drug testing are insanely expensive because if you screw something up, you will be sued to oblivion. So, these niche products never make it to production because the consumers (limited size) cannot absorb that cost. Solution: Create a class of drug licenses that waive the Phase 3 human trial requirements, and allow the patients to sign off on a document that absolves the drug company from liability.
And, we should extend the "treatment of last resort" laws. Phase 4 cancer patients should get immediate access to trials and experimental medicines. I have a friend who's 7yo son died of a brain tumor (DIPG) while on a waiting list for a trial. They should not just cut the red tape, but eliminate it, with government funding backstops proportional to the severity of the illness.
Next you have people who can't afford the cutting edge medicine. This is pretty much pure R&D for the drug companies, which is expensive. For that, there should be a risk pool set up by the government that covers these extremely rare conditions, that will pay for the cost of the development. Like everything else the government touches, this fund would be ripe for abuse, so you may have to link the payments to number of cured patients.
We should also rank drugs / medical solutions by avoided total costs, i.e. if this drug were given, does it displace a cost from another sector? Laser eye surgery means never needing glasses again, so if it is cheap enough, the insurance companies should be paying us to get the laser, not the other way around. If every blind person could be cured by this treatment, how much money could be saved in ADA compliance requirements? That's pie in the sky, but what if there was a diabetes medicine? We need to stop thinking in terms of chronic management (where nothing is ever cured) and think about the total cost.
Most generators also have a voltage regulator, which changes the excitation / power angle. The generator produces MVA, which in polar notation is real (MW) and reactive (MVAR) power. Most generators try to operate near unity (MW/MVA = 1) to maximize income, but the controllers at each power plant probably twitched a bit to supply reactive power to keep the voltage levels stable.
Not quite. The original coal plant tripped, so the power that it was injecting ceased to be. In the very short term (tens of cycles), the energy demand on the system outweighs the supply, and frequency begins to drop. The remaining synchronized generating resources next engage "primary frequency response", which is an automated (governor) response that temporarily increases the output of the generators. By governor, there is a device in the generator controller that regulates the steam pressure to keep the rotation constant, so the energy imbalance creates mechanical drag that the governor attempts to correct. Each generator twitches up a tiny amount, the frequency decline is arrested, and the system stabilizes. You then have secondary systems that engage that drive the system back to a pre-loss state.
The battery in this contributed primary frequency response, as a direct response to the observed low frequency. In the United States, Energy Storage devices are not required to provide primary frequency response, since almost all frequency response is provided by steam units. As more coal plants are retired and replaced by Wind and Solar (inverter-based units), the US grid will need to adapt and modify its requirements.
Feel free to point out exactly where the calculations have gone wrong.
I don't have to. All this week, stories are running how every global climate model has been proven wrong by observation, you know, how actual science is performed? Make the model fit the data, not the data fit the model . . .
Global warming may be occurring more slowly than previously thought, study suggests -- Independent
Scientists admit that world is warming more slowly than predicted -- London Times
In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of 10 researchers, led by Richard Millar of the University of Oxford, recalculated the carbon budget for limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above temperatures seen in the late 19th century.
Interesting. This is the same Steve Pearlman who invented QuickTime and WebTV.
OnLive Inc. was a cloud-based gaming platform around 2009, that users could play full versions of games, but required dedicated hardware per users on the server side. They never got the costs down before it folded.
Apparently the "declared it bankrupt" involved a legal loophole calld Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors that absolved Perlman of any debt responsibilities by transferring ownership to Lauder Partners. Employees were essentially terminated without pay, with some rehired by the new firm headed by Gary Lauder. Lauder would soon fire Perlman, who would return to his incubator company Rearden Labs to invent DIDO/pCell (under the name Artemis).
So, if one could prove that MOVA was truly an asset of OnLive, then Rearden's argument falls apart, since that asset would have been transferred in the bankruptcy assignment. I assume the courts could not prove this.
The claim is Rearden, LLC (Pearlman) invents the MOVA technology, and licenses it to Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG). Pearlman hires LaSalle and become friends, but the MOVA technology doesn't quite catch on in the VFX world. In 2012, DDMG goes bankrupt, and reforms out of bankruptcy in China as Digital Domain Holdings Limited (DDHL).
Pearlman moved MOVA to OnLive Inc., declared it bankrupt, and moved the tech ownership to OL2 (a holding company operated by Lauder). In 2012, one of the Rearden partners (LaSalle) wanted to sell the technology to DDHL claiming Rearden wasn't doing anything with it. Lauder sells MOVA to Lauder Partners, who sells it to LaSalle's company MO2 LLC. DDHL instead arranged for MOVA to be sold from MO2 to SHST (Chinese subsidiary of DDHL), who licensed the technology back to DD3 (American subsidiary of DDHL). LaSalle then goes to work for DD3.
In 2015, DD3 sells the MOVA service to Disney. Disney uses the technology in several live-action movies and makes a crap-ton of money. Pearlman now claims whaa? and reforms as Rearden MOVA, claming that they still own the tech. Pearlman claims that LaSalle violated his contract's inventions agreement by selling intellectual property owned by the parent company.
In 2015, SHST attempts to preemptively sue Rearden that it has the rights to MOVA, and Rearden should stop using the name. Meanwhile they transfer MOVA to Virtue Global Holdings Limited (VGH, subsidiary of DDHL). In court, SHST/VGH fails to provide documentation that they owned the software, are counter-sued, and lose; VGH and SSTL are told to stop claming they own the software. DDHL later comes under investigation by Chinese regulators for creating a ton of shell companies to hide profits from the Chinese government.
Rearden claims that
1) they have the rights to MOVA, not DDHL,
2) that DDHL violated software export laws and shouldn't have been allowed to sell MOVA to SHST in the first place,
3) that DD3 didn't have the rights to license the MOVA technology to Disney, and
4) Disney owes a share of their revenue to Reardon MOVA, the parent of Reardon, LLC.
The only thing clear to me is that all of the parties involved are playing the "Hollywood profit hiding" game of creating shell companies to change who declares the revenues, moving profits among the shell companies, then declaring them bankrupt.
TFA says they *would* take a 4th solar farm, but the "photovoltaic panels were proposed just 50 feet from residential homes, and the project was too close to State Route 258 leading into town." The developer is going to increase the easement distances and resubmit.
It's AGW week. "Climate change refugees" for something that hasn't happened yet is more PC than saying they moved to the USA because it's the "land of opportunity", providing jobs and education, with "chain immigration" policies making it easy to import thousands relatives once the first legal immigrant arrives.
Being in the industry, the reason I was given was (1) the electrolyte is very expensive right now and (2) investors need a demonstration of return. The flow devices scale much better than Lithium batteries, store more energy, and can discharge over longer periods of time. This makes them eligible for capacity markets, but we are coincidentally in a period of over-supply in the energy markets, so capacity clearing prices are not supporting their cost of entry. Secondly, as a storage device, they need to arbitrage the energy prices, charge at low prices and discharge at high prices.
Minecraft doesn't have any built-in API hooks in the core executable; the entire modding community is built around people who have reversed-engineered the Java to insert hooks for tools like Forge, etc. The modding community has been begging for a clear API for years, but Notch didn't see the value in it.
Having the application coded in Java immediately gives you the cross-platform functionality in the desktop world, but it's a killer for the console world. The XBox version is basically incompatible with the entire modding community, and their feature set is behind the vanilla desktop. Additionally, most modded minecraft launchers (Java) are limited to 2GB of RAM, when 64-bit systems can easily go beyond this. This is purely a limitation of using Java.
Moving the code base to .Net would unify the desktop and console worlds, would unify the modding community, and would do nothing but improve quality for players. Almost all mods are built core 1.7.10, when the vanilla version is already up at 1.8. It's insanely difficult to keep mods up to date, to the point that many popular ones simply say they won't support the 1.8 branch. Most mods are hacks upon hacks, relying on "ore dictionaries" and the like to unify identifiers so one mod doesn't step on another mod's space.
The pre-requisite for all of this is getting a functional .Net framework out on the Mac and Linux, which Microsoft has already committed to do.
That's what we feel too. When wind units are allowed to bid negative offers, because their operations costs are offset by government-funded renewable energy credits, it distorts the market to the point that traditional generation cannot compete. This is why the "expiration" of the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit was such a big deal, in that everyone had to "break ground" by 12/31/2014, which is why there is a flood of windpower energy this year. You cannot build transmission this fast.
http://energy.gov/savings/rene...
http://www.nrel.gov/electricit...
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mi...
As someone who works in the wholesale power industry, the problem is more complex.
We are in a unique period of overcapacity, as new technologies are displacing the old. Nuclear capital costs of new construction are astronomical, which is why in the deregulated open markets of the USA, new construction is natural gas powered and government backed wind. The wind is being build in areas of the country (Illinois) that were historically heavy industry (pre existing ehv transmission), but with factory load moving overseas, the Midwest has more generation than demand. The energy is being bottled due to lack of transmission investment, which is leading to negative wholesale pricing. That's great for consumers, terrible for base load nuclear. New nuclear is being built at an existing site in a regulated southern state, where the costs can be passed on to consumers in the rate base.
Actually, it depends on the time of year. Demand is only highest (peaks) in the daylight hours during the summer, when air conditioning load is at its highest. During the spring and fall, when the temperatures are moderate, it's not uncommon that the peak is in the evening with lighting load (really lights + TV + commercial resteraunt use). In winter, it's definitely evening peaks with higher overnights with electric heating load. So, from a wholesale power perspective, you only need to cover that 7pm to 9pm period before load drops off (bedtimes) to smooth pricing.