Donald Trump’s nomination has drawn anti-Semites from the woodwork.
I’ve experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump’s candidacy than at any other time in my political career. Trump supporters have threatened me and other Jews who hold my viewpoint. They’ve blown up my e-mail inbox with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They greeted the birth of my second child by calling for me, my wife, and two children to be thrown into a gas chamber.
I respectfully disagree -- regarding the battery issue, how much of an issue is this with proper GPU decoding? I know Netflix doesn't instantly sap the battery on my phone.
Regarding "Choose a keyframe that adequately explains the content of the video...", are you saying that's what you would prefer, or are you saying that's essentially the only thing that should be allowed by the standard? I guess there are several issues here, one is the design issue of when it is and isn't appropriate to use this -- and being a design issue, there will be plenty of disagreements. The other issue is whether or not the standard should allow one to make dubious design decisions (and likewise, whether the browser should allow you to override those -- which it of course should, in my opinion).
Personally, I wouldn't find it offensive if your website's background image had the planet slowly rotating beneath the satellite; it would add an ambiance to the page which of course would convey no real information, except for a subtle sense of immersion presumably desired to begin with (else why have a background image at all?). Of course, if I had to click on it for it to start playing, I probably wouldn't be bothered...
1. As technology evolves, should the web evolve in its capability as well? If we allow it to evolve, ok -- that's what we're seeing here. If not, where should it stop? Should we allow images to load without clicking on them, etc.? Should we allow the blink tag? Or should we just stick to text+hyperlinks?
2. Should web browsers yield more control to the end user? YES, is my answer -- we *should* be able to turn off or turn on autoplay, we should be able to disable scripts/Flash/an image file format we dislike/etc.
3. Should web developers use every feature available to them when something simpler would work? (NO is my answer 99% of the time.)
I'm not entirely sure what your angle is here (sarcasm and whatnot not translating well over the tubes), but there is a difference between facts and numbers. OP gave numbers -- which might be true, out-of-date, or flat-out wrong -- with little proof. As another poster pointed out, OP is off by a factor of ~4-5 from Tesla and GM prices for batteries.
Regarding cost for 660 kWh = $100-$200 claim, this appears (?) to be loosely based on the residential cost of electricity, not the wholesale cost, which is a factor of ~10 less. I'm not sure how buses in Ontario would work, so I can't say what the proper pricing would actually be...but using the wholesale prices from 2016, this works out to be ~$11 to fill up, using the off-peak residential rates it's ~$60, and the peak prices yield ~$120 (excluding inefficiencies).
If we want to get more into the weeds, then yes, I just gave some numbers with "proof" which may be flawed. You're welcome to disagree with my sources -- they could be wrong, and I'd appreciate any corrections to my numbers and/or reasoning.
From this site, it looks like it would be ~1.7-1.8 times worse if powered by coal (2.07-2.17 #/kWh compared to 1.22 for natural gas).
On a related note, doing the math from the Tesla-provided specs, the car should be using about half the energy/km as stated in the article, where the numbers come from the "United Nations Economic Commission for Europe R101." Sounds like someone's metrics for mileage are not terribly accurate (not picking sides, just noting).
There's a difference between being generically offensive, and being offensive by targeting specific groups.
You don't have to agree that one is more offensive than the other, but to ignore that the two cases are different isn't particularly productive.
And on the other end of the spectrum you have stuff like South Park, which basically tries to be offensive by targeting *every* group; in some strange egalitarian sense, this makes it "less offensive," as the motives are clearly for humor, rather than hatred towards a specific group.
While I tend to agree, I think there are some times when it's appropriate to have auto-playing content (maybe only restricted to silent content). For example, multimedia-rich pages such as this benefit from a tasteful (in my opinion) use of multimedia.
That said, the ability to choose click-to-play settings (either globally or domain-specific) would be a Good Thing.
And of course, there's a special place in hell for any website which allows auto-play ads with audio.
From the original paper it's around 20 Wh/L. Pretty low (lithium ion is ~200-700Wh/L or so), but this would be for grid storage, not phones/cars/etc.
This page suggests that D cells are around 20Wh. According to Wikipedia, a breadbox is (30 cm) x (15 cm) x (15 cm) = 6.75 liters, larger than the ~1L needed to match a D cell -- so it seems to pass your test =)
And with a flow cell, I believe (???) you can effectively decouple energy capacity and power capacity, unlike a conventional battery. That seems like a pretty nice feature, in terms of cost (assuming the electrolyte is cheap), expansion, and perhaps safety.
It seems that they're claiming energy densities of ~20Wh/L; wikipedia quotes 250-676 Wh/L for lithium-ion, however, TFA is referring to a flow cell, so it's a bit apples and oranges...but as far as using one of these in your phone, don't hold your breath.
I'm not sure why Robart is concerned with precedent in this case, since his reason for blocking Trump's travel ban basically came down to "Because I said so."
Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted as about 3.5% per 1,000 km, which are 30 – 40% less than with AC lines, at the same voltage levels.[22] This is because direct current transfers only active power and thus causes lower losses than alternating current, which transfers both active and reactive power.
AC is still subject to resistance, and you end up with AC problems like the skin effect. It's true that low voltage is problematic; before things like switching power supplies, the way to get from high to low (or vice versa) was to use a transformer -- AC device -- so using AC arguably made more sense.
Exactly -- I got an audio receiver (Sony) at Best Buy (it was within spitting distance of the Amazon price). And, when I realized that that particular brand/model could not properly decode Netflix DD+ audio**, I traded it in for a different (Yamaha) model. And they know that they have some added value by being brick-and-mortar -- their return process was very easy.
Of course, for everything else I tend to go to monoprice or amazon...
The funny thing is that our federal physical mail system already requires a warrant to open first-class mail -- though something tells me that a federally-run email provider might be met with some skepticism, at least by a number of/. types...;)
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I think that this is pretty easy to accomplish with a personal email server. Gmail != email. Of course, you can still set up gmail to download email, and I believe you can even uncheck the "store on server" button (though of course, who's to say that really causes them to delete the emails in a timely fashion once downloaded...).
Alternately, I believe there are numerous email providers which claim not to store your details/downloaded email (for a fee).
What about the person that followed that order? "My boss told me to do it" is not a legitimate defense.
Well, I think it depends on how it was done. It doesn't sound like the data collected was illegal per se, just the fact that it was done with no proper EULA notification/etc. The programmer shouldn't be responsible for implementing the necessary legal notifications for every new feature, at least in my opinion...for a company with two programmers, sure, they're at fault, but for one with many programmers and many departments, it's a different story.
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But by that rationale, are you saying that we shouldn't pay for items (concrete, not services) until after the warranty expires?
...though now that I think about it, anything with a lifetime warranty would be a pretty good buy!
I'm guessing 14 arc minutes, when viewed from an appropriate distance...
Ben Shapiro
In his own words:
Donald Trump’s nomination has drawn anti-Semites from the woodwork.
I’ve experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump’s candidacy than at any other time in my political career. Trump supporters have threatened me and other Jews who hold my viewpoint. They’ve blown up my e-mail inbox with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They greeted the birth of my second child by calling for me, my wife, and two children to be thrown into a gas chamber.
And here's a breitbart piece on the subject...
He has started playing the victim on Twitter and throwing around allegations of anti-semitism and racism, just like the people he used to mock.
Ben, no one hates Jewish people.
http://nextradioapp.com/suppor...
I respectfully disagree -- regarding the battery issue, how much of an issue is this with proper GPU decoding? I know Netflix doesn't instantly sap the battery on my phone.
Regarding "Choose a keyframe that adequately explains the content of the video...", are you saying that's what you would prefer, or are you saying that's essentially the only thing that should be allowed by the standard? I guess there are several issues here, one is the design issue of when it is and isn't appropriate to use this -- and being a design issue, there will be plenty of disagreements. The other issue is whether or not the standard should allow one to make dubious design decisions (and likewise, whether the browser should allow you to override those -- which it of course should, in my opinion).
Personally, I wouldn't find it offensive if your website's background image had the planet slowly rotating beneath the satellite; it would add an ambiance to the page which of course would convey no real information, except for a subtle sense of immersion presumably desired to begin with (else why have a background image at all?). Of course, if I had to click on it for it to start playing, I probably wouldn't be bothered...
I guess there are several issues here:
1. As technology evolves, should the web evolve in its capability as well? If we allow it to evolve, ok -- that's what we're seeing here. If not, where should it stop? Should we allow images to load without clicking on them, etc.? Should we allow the blink tag? Or should we just stick to text+hyperlinks?
2. Should web browsers yield more control to the end user? YES, is my answer -- we *should* be able to turn off or turn on autoplay, we should be able to disable scripts/Flash/an image file format we dislike/etc.
3. Should web developers use every feature available to them when something simpler would work? (NO is my answer 99% of the time.)
At ~100W/person (~= 2000 Calories/day), just add more people to the bus and it'll heat right up =)
(I know, I know, the human body has many inefficiencies [e.g., caloric excrement] which significantly reduce this number...)
I'm not entirely sure what your angle is here (sarcasm and whatnot not translating well over the tubes), but there is a difference between facts and numbers. OP gave numbers -- which might be true, out-of-date, or flat-out wrong -- with little proof. As another poster pointed out, OP is off by a factor of ~4-5 from Tesla and GM prices for batteries.
Regarding cost for 660 kWh = $100-$200 claim, this appears (?) to be loosely based on the residential cost of electricity, not the wholesale cost, which is a factor of ~10 less. I'm not sure how buses in Ontario would work, so I can't say what the proper pricing would actually be...but using the wholesale prices from 2016, this works out to be ~$11 to fill up, using the off-peak residential rates it's ~$60, and the peak prices yield ~$120 (excluding inefficiencies).
If we want to get more into the weeds, then yes, I just gave some numbers with "proof" which may be flawed. You're welcome to disagree with my sources -- they could be wrong, and I'd appreciate any corrections to my numbers and/or reasoning.
Or -- wait for it -- power them with methane created from the garbage itself!
Sort of like Mr. Fusion, but less awesome.
From this site, it looks like it would be ~1.7-1.8 times worse if powered by coal (2.07-2.17 #/kWh compared to 1.22 for natural gas).
On a related note, doing the math from the Tesla-provided specs, the car should be using about half the energy/km as stated in the article, where the numbers come from the "United Nations Economic Commission for Europe R101." Sounds like someone's metrics for mileage are not terribly accurate (not picking sides, just noting).
There's a difference between being generically offensive, and being offensive by targeting specific groups.
You don't have to agree that one is more offensive than the other, but to ignore that the two cases are different isn't particularly productive.
And on the other end of the spectrum you have stuff like South Park, which basically tries to be offensive by targeting *every* group; in some strange egalitarian sense, this makes it "less offensive," as the motives are clearly for humor, rather than hatred towards a specific group.
I think this makes you anti-semantic...
While I tend to agree, I think there are some times when it's appropriate to have auto-playing content (maybe only restricted to silent content). For example, multimedia-rich pages such as this benefit from a tasteful (in my opinion) use of multimedia.
That said, the ability to choose click-to-play settings (either globally or domain-specific) would be a Good Thing.
And of course, there's a special place in hell for any website which allows auto-play ads with audio.
From the original paper it's around 20 Wh/L. Pretty low (lithium ion is ~200-700Wh/L or so), but this would be for grid storage, not phones/cars/etc.
This page suggests that D cells are around 20Wh. According to Wikipedia, a breadbox is (30 cm) x (15 cm) x (15 cm) = 6.75 liters, larger than the ~1L needed to match a D cell -- so it seems to pass your test =)
From the original paper, it's around 20 Wh/L. Pretty low (lithium ion is ~200-700Wh/L or so), but this would be for grid storage, not phones/cars/etc.
And with a flow cell, I believe (???) you can effectively decouple energy capacity and power capacity, unlike a conventional battery. That seems like a pretty nice feature, in terms of cost (assuming the electrolyte is cheap), expansion, and perhaps safety.
Not sure if it's paywalled...
It seems that they're claiming energy densities of ~20Wh/L; wikipedia quotes 250-676 Wh/L for lithium-ion, however, TFA is referring to a flow cell, so it's a bit apples and oranges...but as far as using one of these in your phone, don't hold your breath.
I'm not sure why Robart is concerned with precedent in this case, since his reason for blocking Trump's travel ban basically came down to "Because I said so."
There is a 29 page ruling.
Granted, I haven't read it all (I just skipped to the DENIED at the end), but I think it's a little more nuanced than, "because I said so."
...but DC does NOT go though transmission systems very well, just ask Edison about how well Westinghouse cleaned his clock on that question.
I don't think that's correct:
Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted as about 3.5% per 1,000 km, which are 30 – 40% less than with AC lines, at the same voltage levels.[22] This is because direct current transfers only active power and thus causes lower losses than alternating current, which transfers both active and reactive power.
AC is still subject to resistance, and you end up with AC problems like the skin effect. It's true that low voltage is problematic; before things like switching power supplies, the way to get from high to low (or vice versa) was to use a transformer -- AC device -- so using AC arguably made more sense.
Exactly -- I got an audio receiver (Sony) at Best Buy (it was within spitting distance of the Amazon price). And, when I realized that that particular brand/model could not properly decode Netflix DD+ audio**, I traded it in for a different (Yamaha) model. And they know that they have some added value by being brick-and-mortar -- their return process was very easy.
Of course, for everything else I tend to go to monoprice or amazon...
** Not my post, but I had the same issue.
Uranus's core density is around 9 g/cm3, with a pressure in the centre of 8 million bars (800 GPa) and a temperature of about 5000 K.
(And yes, I get the obvious joke, lest ye "whoosh" me...)
As can the Nexus 6P (and I'm guessing the Pixel), but -- like the S7 -- that's at 720p, not 1080p.
Ah, understood.
/. types... ;)
The funny thing is that our federal physical mail system already requires a warrant to open first-class mail -- though something tells me that a federally-run email provider might be met with some skepticism, at least by a number of
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I think that this is pretty easy to accomplish with a personal email server. Gmail != email. Of course, you can still set up gmail to download email, and I believe you can even uncheck the "store on server" button (though of course, who's to say that really causes them to delete the emails in a timely fashion once downloaded...).
Alternately, I believe there are numerous email providers which claim not to store your details/downloaded email (for a fee).
What about the person that followed that order? "My boss told me to do it" is not a legitimate defense.
Well, I think it depends on how it was done. It doesn't sound like the data collected was illegal per se, just the fact that it was done with no proper EULA notification/etc. The programmer shouldn't be responsible for implementing the necessary legal notifications for every new feature, at least in my opinion...for a company with two programmers, sure, they're at fault, but for one with many programmers and many departments, it's a different story.