pounds are sometimes used as a mass measure, but they are by far more often used for force (weight) - though the circumstances are such that they're pretty interchangeable (which is also why kilograms get used for weight when the proper unit is really newtons).
Since pounds are already force, I would say it exerts 2 pounds of force. Now, if you mean something massing 1/16th of a slug, that's a different matter...
yeah, but while you reduce the losses between the generator and the storage, you increase the losses from the storage to the consumer. Either way, you wind up losing about the same amount, right? So then the difference is which location is cheaper to build storage at (including both the difficulties of working underwater and the difficulties of working in people's back yards/sightlines).
That's garbage if the interviewer isn't actually wanting to see your mental processes. If they do want to, and aren't trying to see if you've memorized the same trivia, what's wrong with it?
so basically, you're expecting deflation. That'll be... fun...
You're also assuming that this new sector which will be hard to just automate from the get-go will nevertheless be feasible for existing service workers to pick up and perform - essentially, it must be based in something that's easy for the ordinary human but hard for a robot. Any ideas? Personally, the only thing I can see that may meet both of those qualifications is artistic creation. (Which puts me in mind of Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson...) Better crank those art classes back up in elementary school.
Any given portion of it has the same lateral velocity as a satellite with a 24 hour period; the center of gravity will be 23k miles (from the surface; 27k miles from the center of Earth), and doing about 3km/sec (mach 9). That's three times as fast as the SR-71, and that got hot enough to deform (in an expected fashion; the fuel tanks leak until friction heat causes the panels to expand). The sources I found said that friction got it up to 232+ Celsius; the cockpit was at 338C. Carbon fiber ignites about 300C, so let's say that SR-71 speed is enough to cause burning in atmosphere to elevator materials. That's achieved at 9k miles from earth's center or 5k miles up.
So if the elevator breaks up, the lowest levels won't be moving fast and will fall into the ocean (assuming they did the sane thing and based it in an ocean). The higher levels will be doing a good clip, and by the time they get down to hit atmosphere will be doing more, and should burn up nicely. The stuff below 5k miles but above say 100 miles is where it gets interesting. Something at 5k miles altitude doing 24 hour orbits is doing about 1km/sec. Since it was staying up before, assume it starts with 0 up/down velocity. Ignoring lateral effects it'll fall to the surface in 1260 seconds. Lateral velocity would tend to carry it 1260km east, but the earth's rotation will eat up about 580km of that, so really it'll only go about 700km east of the base, less than 500 miles.
Every home with a phone line has a separate phone cable to a regional routing node already; that's where the line for you and the lines for your neighbors get connected to the upstream data trunk. Every neighborhood has a separate cable line to a regional routing node already; that's where (ignoring the stuff everyone gets like basic cable channels) the data for your neighborhood is split out from the data for the next neighborhood over. Where the "regional routing node" for this hypothetical metropolitan data grid would be probably depends on the size of the grid, but the data provider would only need to provide as many links as they need to carry their data to the grid. I assume that, just as now the end users pay for the last mile lines, the end users would still be paying for the last mile lines, just not hidden in the cable/ISP bill.
no, the supposition is that at least some subset of people operating self-driving cars will be people who never touch the controls (perhaps are not allowed to touch the controls), and the question is why you assign the human primary responsibility for insurance when they have not done anything to affect the vehicle's behavior.
With the caveat that "observe something" also includes "observe the effects of something that we can't (yet) observe directly", I will agree with this. (Supporting examples: dark matter, dark energy, the discovery of Pluto and if I recall correctly Neptune, etc).
Another, less nasty, is that Linus merely forked/reimplemented something that was already there. From scratch, so not stolen, but not really a new idea. Which has some merit; as I recall Linus said the wrote the original kernel as a fun project. Since then, there's been a whole lot of "have an idea, put in a lot of work to make it work".
However, to the original AC's comment I will point out git.
wouldn't you also have to replace the (presumably solid; the battery shell has to be solid or it gets messy, and some point(s) on it have to conduct) electrodes?
The only mention I can find of industrial design in IP is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which says it protects the visual appearance (interfaces don't have them) of something that's not purely utilitarian (which an interface is pretty much supposed to be). I don't see how it applies.
As I understand it, you could use some of the gold to activate for a month (I've heard there's an option on the character select screen for that), use the rest to turn into credit, then let it shut back down at the end of the month.
If you buy a token with gold, you bought it on the auction house and you can't sell it again, you can only turn it into blizzard credit. If you buy a token with cash, you can only list it on the auction house; you can't sell it (or give it away) directly. This lets them ensure the price is stable.
aside from a brief spike over the last day or so the ratio has been more in the 50-60k gold / $15 area. But yeah, inflation has definitely been a thing. The expansion before the current one was noted for making it easier to earn gold, and the current one has accelerated it further (one of the updates was to increase the maximum gold a character or guild could hold by a factor of 10, and there's already folks who have capped that limit).
In a sense. The process is player A buys a token with cash, puts it on the in-game auction house. Player B buys the token from the AH with gold, and uses it for game time or whatever. At this point the gold is still in the economy, it's just moved from B to A. But presumably A has a purpose in mind, and that purpose most likely involves running gold into/through one of the processes that do take it out of the economy - buying stuff from in-game vendors, buying stuff from other players (aside from tokens, when something is bought on the AH part of the purchase price is skimmed off as the auction house's cut), buying repairs to gear, buying appearance changes to gear or character...
So yeah, the token system does seem like it would tend to move gold from hoarders to spenders and thence to gold-sinks. Whether it does so fast enough I don't know, but Blizzard seems fairly content for the most part...
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pounds are sometimes used as a mass measure, but they are by far more often used for force (weight) - though the circumstances are such that they're pretty interchangeable (which is also why kilograms get used for weight when the proper unit is really newtons).
But yeah, it was a smartass answer :)
yeah, but now you can't update wikipedia til you have a kid. And if mom and dad have conflicting edits, watch out...
Since pounds are already force, I would say it exerts 2 pounds of force.
Now, if you mean something massing 1/16th of a slug, that's a different matter...
yeah, but while you reduce the losses between the generator and the storage, you increase the losses from the storage to the consumer. Either way, you wind up losing about the same amount, right? So then the difference is which location is cheaper to build storage at (including both the difficulties of working underwater and the difficulties of working in people's back yards/sightlines).
That's garbage if the interviewer isn't actually wanting to see your mental processes. If they do want to, and aren't trying to see if you've memorized the same trivia, what's wrong with it?
so basically, you're expecting deflation. That'll be... fun...
You're also assuming that this new sector which will be hard to just automate from the get-go will nevertheless be feasible for existing service workers to pick up and perform - essentially, it must be based in something that's easy for the ordinary human but hard for a robot. Any ideas? Personally, the only thing I can see that may meet both of those qualifications is artistic creation. (Which puts me in mind of Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson...) Better crank those art classes back up in elementary school.
Any given portion of it has the same lateral velocity as a satellite with a 24 hour period; the center of gravity will be 23k miles (from the surface; 27k miles from the center of Earth), and doing about 3km/sec (mach 9). That's three times as fast as the SR-71, and that got hot enough to deform (in an expected fashion; the fuel tanks leak until friction heat causes the panels to expand). The sources I found said that friction got it up to 232+ Celsius; the cockpit was at 338C. Carbon fiber ignites about 300C, so let's say that SR-71 speed is enough to cause burning in atmosphere to elevator materials. That's achieved at 9k miles from earth's center or 5k miles up.
So if the elevator breaks up, the lowest levels won't be moving fast and will fall into the ocean (assuming they did the sane thing and based it in an ocean). The higher levels will be doing a good clip, and by the time they get down to hit atmosphere will be doing more, and should burn up nicely. The stuff below 5k miles but above say 100 miles is where it gets interesting. Something at 5k miles altitude doing 24 hour orbits is doing about 1km/sec. Since it was staying up before, assume it starts with 0 up/down velocity. Ignoring lateral effects it'll fall to the surface in 1260 seconds. Lateral velocity would tend to carry it 1260km east, but the earth's rotation will eat up about 580km of that, so really it'll only go about 700km east of the base, less than 500 miles.
... and new housing is blocked, don't forget that one.
Every home with a phone line has a separate phone cable to a regional routing node already; that's where the line for you and the lines for your neighbors get connected to the upstream data trunk. Every neighborhood has a separate cable line to a regional routing node already; that's where (ignoring the stuff everyone gets like basic cable channels) the data for your neighborhood is split out from the data for the next neighborhood over. Where the "regional routing node" for this hypothetical metropolitan data grid would be probably depends on the size of the grid, but the data provider would only need to provide as many links as they need to carry their data to the grid. I assume that, just as now the end users pay for the last mile lines, the end users would still be paying for the last mile lines, just not hidden in the cable/ISP bill.
"Movie party! Gonna rent [flick]. Fred, you bring popcorn and milk duds; Larry, bring some sodas."
So you're unwilling to answer a hypothetical question. Noted.
no, the supposition is that at least some subset of people operating self-driving cars will be people who never touch the controls (perhaps are not allowed to touch the controls), and the question is why you assign the human primary responsibility for insurance when they have not done anything to affect the vehicle's behavior.
With the caveat that "observe something" also includes "observe the effects of something that we can't (yet) observe directly", I will agree with this. (Supporting examples: dark matter, dark energy, the discovery of Pluto and if I recall correctly Neptune, etc).
"internet" != ARPANET. http://amsterdam.nettime.org/L... indicates that Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn agree with Gore.
Another, less nasty, is that Linus merely forked/reimplemented something that was already there. From scratch, so not stolen, but not really a new idea. Which has some merit; as I recall Linus said the wrote the original kernel as a fun project. Since then, there's been a whole lot of "have an idea, put in a lot of work to make it work".
However, to the original AC's comment I will point out git.
wouldn't you also have to replace the (presumably solid; the battery shell has to be solid or it gets messy, and some point(s) on it have to conduct) electrodes?
ah, but do they know they're just cat videos?
The only mention I can find of industrial design in IP is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which says it protects the visual appearance (interfaces don't have them) of something that's not purely utilitarian (which an interface is pretty much supposed to be). I don't see how it applies.
well, if interfaces aren't fair use, the entire software industry is screwed.
Could be. The antipode of Tianjin is in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
They have. https://www.irs.gov/businesses...
As I understand it, you could use some of the gold to activate for a month (I've heard there's an option on the character select screen for that), use the rest to turn into credit, then let it shut back down at the end of the month.
If you buy a token with gold, you bought it on the auction house and you can't sell it again, you can only turn it into blizzard credit.
If you buy a token with cash, you can only list it on the auction house; you can't sell it (or give it away) directly. This lets them ensure the price is stable.
aside from a brief spike over the last day or so the ratio has been more in the 50-60k gold / $15 area. But yeah, inflation has definitely been a thing. The expansion before the current one was noted for making it easier to earn gold, and the current one has accelerated it further (one of the updates was to increase the maximum gold a character or guild could hold by a factor of 10, and there's already folks who have capped that limit).
In a sense. The process is player A buys a token with cash, puts it on the in-game auction house. Player B buys the token from the AH with gold, and uses it for game time or whatever. At this point the gold is still in the economy, it's just moved from B to A. But presumably A has a purpose in mind, and that purpose most likely involves running gold into/through one of the processes that do take it out of the economy - buying stuff from in-game vendors, buying stuff from other players (aside from tokens, when something is bought on the AH part of the purchase price is skimmed off as the auction house's cut), buying repairs to gear, buying appearance changes to gear or character...
So yeah, the token system does seem like it would tend to move gold from hoarders to spenders and thence to gold-sinks. Whether it does so fast enough I don't know, but Blizzard seems fairly content for the most part...