If the goal is the best and brightest, why deny anyone based on luck?
Leave the work of determining who to bring in to the H1-b sponsors. If they want to pay $50,000 to get their guy in, and another company wants to pay $60,000 for their guy, then it's pretty obvious who we should let in.
I never understood why there's such a thing as standing, and why you have to have it to sue someone. If someone is hurting a psychologically, physically or financially weak individual, then the victim will probably not sue, and the aggressor will probably get away with it. Also, if the district attorney is too busy or biased against the victim, then a bunch of crime will just be ignored, since nobody else has standing.
A lot of the anger behind the BLM movement was because of this. The district attorney was basically in bed with the cops, and since he's the only one with standing to sue, he could give the cop a free pass.
More theoretically, if there's a clearly unconstitutional federal law being passed, nobody can overturn it because nobody has violated it or be sued under it, so nobody has standing to sue. To get it overturned, you have to intentionally violate it, be sued for a felony, and appeal to the supreme court. In other words, you'll be taking a huge risk on a court that doesn't hear most of the cases they get. So the more likely scenario is that someone will eventually unintentionally violate it, but that could be a very long period of time, and the unconstitutional law will be limiting all sorts of legal behavior until then.
A bumblebee colony is a super organism. Any single worker bee is expendable. I think you can argue you didn't really harm them unless you damaged the beehive, which is what is necessary for them to continue to reproduce.
At 70 MW, it's not really a small scale installation anymore. You can afford to have 3 people to watch the thing in shifts. The AC / DC converters and night-time storage are all expensive. And panels will need replacing eventually.
I think they chose PV solar because they own Solar City, and not for any other reason.
MP3 and FLAC assume some sort of digital storage media.
And we should ignore digital media because...?
You can probably fit 50 micro-SD cards in the space of one cassette. At 256 GB each, they hold enough music for 2.5 years of non-stop playback at uncompressed CD quality.
If you actually want something big to look at and hold, then just attach your micro-SD card to a cardboard box of your choosing, then print out some fancy album art and decorate the box with it. Personally, I would consider that even more hipster than cassettes or vinyl since it must be hand made rather than mass produced. Bonus points for chopping down your own tree for the cardboard.
They did license a bunch of other anime with non-exclusive contracts, like Rurouni Kenshin and Mushi-shi. Their library is obviously much smaller than Crunchyroll's since they just started, but Amazon has a lot of money and things might change after a few seasons.
Nice to see even more competition in this space. This has gone from the realm of science fiction to (soon to be) reality.
With LIDAR, these cars should see better than any human possibly can and shouldn't run into the problem of differentiating clouds and trucks, or be blinded by the sun, rain or fog. So all that's left is the software, and Google's been working on that for ages. Of all the self-driving cars around, I think this is the closest to a truly self-driving car, one that doesn't need a driver to babysit it constantly.
And before all the cynics start moaning about bad weather performance, let me just remind everyone how well humans drive in the snow.
Investing is more than trying to make the most money long term. It must also take into account when you need to spend that money. If you're on the verge of retirement and you suspect there's disaster coming, then putting 20% of your money in gold is perfectly reasonable, because if the economy crashes, then you have something to fall back on.
The idea that you can diversify away all risk using traditional investment vehicles is provably false. Bonds depend on the issuer not going bankrupt, currency depends on the country's economy, real estate can become worthless and obviously stocks can fluctuate wildly even in good years. With an increasingly global economy, if one large country fails, then you will see a chain of failures all around the world. All of your investments will fail at once, leaving you with absolutely nothing. At that point, that $50k you put into a stable currency substitute is going to put food on the table until everything recovers.
Yes, you'd lose out on maybe 3% of income if disaster never comes to pass, but that 3% isn't worth nearly as much to you if the rest of your investments are doing fine.
That's just not true. Of the 538 electors, 438 are proportioned according to state population, or 81%. Is this better than a pure popular vote? Yes. Does it really protect the less populous states from the more populous ones? Not at all. And if you think this system is working, just wait until California and Texas finds something they agree on.
In this large population-based cohort, living close to heavy traffic was associated with a higher incidence of dementia, but not with Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis.
The road noise early in the morning is really bad for sleep, which we know has a huge effect on brain function. How do we know that's not the main cause? Car pollution likes to stick around and pollute the entire city, so even if you live far away, you'd still be hit with some pollution.
The other article they mentioned tested children's working memory and how classroom pollution affects it. None of the children had dementia, which is what this study measured.
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or you know nothing about asteroids. Hint: they are very very heavy. An 100 m diameter asteroid is 6,000,000 tons. The largest rocket we ever built, the Saturn V, ($1.1 billion per launch) can launch 50 tons of payload to an Earth escape orbit. Let's say that 50 tons is just a rocket engine (Isp 450 s) and fuel, and you attach it to the asteroid, then by turning on the rocket engine and burning all of the fuel, you can change the asteroid's velocity by 0.037 m/s. To bring the asteroid into the geosynchronous orbit, you will need to change its velocity by at least 2000 m/s, which means 10's of thousands of Saturn V's.
Even if you target a small asteroid, it doesn't change the equation all that much until it's in the 500-ton range. In which case, why bother? Just launch a few Saturn V's full of rocks.
Truth is many climate scientists do not agree with global warming; I can point to dozens, and that is not an exhaustive list by any means.
Dozens out of how many thousands?
Every fossil fuel that is burned today was once living matter, either plant or animal (undisputed fact). Thus it was once part of the natural CO2 planetary cycle and at a time when life was flourishing. But somehow, re-adding that carbon to the planetary system after being trapped in coal or oil or natural gas deposits will throw the world out of balance and make the world too hot to be habitable?
Yes, life was flourishing. But what kind of life? And how many of them are still around today? The world was 30 F hotter back in the Cretaceous, and no humans were around. Think about it: if the hottest day in the summer is 100 F, then you'd be baking at 130 F with the Cretaceous climate.
And by the way, even if humans didn't cause global warming, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it. When lightning sets your house on fire, do you say, "I didn't start it, it's a natural fire," or do you try to put it out?
The rest of us would like to keep our day jobs.
Ah I see, so you work in the fossil fuel industry and are obligated to spout denialist nonsense. I guess there's no point trying to convince you then.
If there's one thing I don't like about the Minecraft modding scene is that everything is closed source. Over time, the less popular mods die because their developer doesn't have the time to update it to be compatible with the newest version. That update process takes forever too, so if you want to play with mods, you'll have to run an older version of Minecraft. Just compare that to the KSP modding community, where dead mods gets resurrected all the time by other developers and new versions of the game gets updated mods within a week or two.
A car's speedometer is never completely accurate, in fact it has a margin of error of about 10 km/h.
I don't think this is true, at least for newer cars. A quick search of various articles online indicates the error should to be about 1-2%, which is only 1-2 km/h at a 100 km/h speed. You can use your phone GPS to corroborate your speedometer. You can also time your car by driving a known distance at a known speed. So if it your car just happened to have a wildly inaccurate speedometer you can find out.
Practically speaking, if you want to avoid a ticket, just drive a bit slower than the guy passing you on the left, and keep an eye out for any cop cars behind you. If they do ticket you, they'd have a hard time proving their radar didn't pick up the other guy.
I agree with your point, but that's not a great analogy. The Corolla is one of the best selling cars out there, but it's not low quality or low tech. You'd think it's easy to make Corollas with their tiny 140 HP engines, but to make it do 40 mpg highway requires a lot of engineering talent, and even more so if you want to do it with cheap materials and have it last a long time.
Go take a look at what goes into the engine design. If Mercedes or BMW had the same tech, why wouldn't they go after this enormous market?
The problem HDMI solves is the problem of shuffling data from one device to another. We've had 100 Gbit/s ethernet for years now, and those solve the exact same problem. USB and Thunderbolt also solve the same problem, but provides DC power on top of it. TV's are basically small computers at this point, there's absolutely no reason they need a specialized port just to receive data.
I wonder if the theater playback quality is actually better. I'm pretty sure the screen is not as bright. Does it have better color reproduction than your average LCD TV? The sound system is great, but then they also turn it up to deafening loudness, to the point where it distracts you.
OK, that makes it very clear that you're dishonest.
If you bothered to read any of my other posts, you'll see I fully support liberal ideas such as UBI, abortion, marijuana legalization, stemming global warming, electoral college reform, and many others. However, that does not mean I support Clinton. I would've voted for Sanders, but people like you and the DNC decided a corrupt, lying, scumbag was going to be our nominee.
Clinton lost because the things she did made her look as bad as Trump, and Trump is the better liar. The money the Clinton Foundation took while she was the SoS would have had her jailed for corruption in many countries. Just because it's legal here makes no difference to me. Same goes for her private Wall Street fundraisers.
It seems to me that something that might have had an illegal significant effect on the election should be investigated.
Unfortunately, the truth had a significant effect on elections. I still haven't heard anyone in the Clinton camp say those emails were fake or made up. The Russians were not wrong to reveal it. If anything, they did us a service.
Whether the prediction is true or not, this is a propaganda piece with no data backing it. Even by their own charts, solar is currently much more expensive than everything else. They basically drew a bunch of lines with coal and natural gas trending up and solar trending down, completely ignoring the fact that coal and natural gas are also trending down.
Take a look at their cost breakdown. The "other hardware" cost had tripled since 2009 (currently 20% of the total cost), but they conveniently made it fall by 2/3rds by 2025 with no explanation at all.
The 4th amendment is there to prevent exactly this type of abuse:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
They're asking for the records of everyone who used the exchange, without evidence that any law has been broken. Why hasn't this been thrown out yet?
* Cheaper by 55%
* Slightly more likely to explode
Seems like a good thing to me.
Which option is better really depends on what you're launching and what "slightly" is exactly. If you're launching the $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope and the risk is 10% higher with SpaceX, then the extra $90 million is going to be worth it.
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If the goal is the best and brightest, why deny anyone based on luck?
Leave the work of determining who to bring in to the H1-b sponsors. If they want to pay $50,000 to get their guy in, and another company wants to pay $60,000 for their guy, then it's pretty obvious who we should let in.
I never understood why there's such a thing as standing, and why you have to have it to sue someone. If someone is hurting a psychologically, physically or financially weak individual, then the victim will probably not sue, and the aggressor will probably get away with it. Also, if the district attorney is too busy or biased against the victim, then a bunch of crime will just be ignored, since nobody else has standing.
A lot of the anger behind the BLM movement was because of this. The district attorney was basically in bed with the cops, and since he's the only one with standing to sue, he could give the cop a free pass.
More theoretically, if there's a clearly unconstitutional federal law being passed, nobody can overturn it because nobody has violated it or be sued under it, so nobody has standing to sue. To get it overturned, you have to intentionally violate it, be sued for a felony, and appeal to the supreme court. In other words, you'll be taking a huge risk on a court that doesn't hear most of the cases they get. So the more likely scenario is that someone will eventually unintentionally violate it, but that could be a very long period of time, and the unconstitutional law will be limiting all sorts of legal behavior until then.
A bumblebee colony is a super organism. Any single worker bee is expendable. I think you can argue you didn't really harm them unless you damaged the beehive, which is what is necessary for them to continue to reproduce.
You should replace it with a meme. This is the internet after all.
At 70 MW, it's not really a small scale installation anymore. You can afford to have 3 people to watch the thing in shifts. The AC / DC converters and night-time storage are all expensive. And panels will need replacing eventually.
I think they chose PV solar because they own Solar City, and not for any other reason.
MP3 and FLAC assume some sort of digital storage media.
And we should ignore digital media because...?
You can probably fit 50 micro-SD cards in the space of one cassette. At 256 GB each, they hold enough music for 2.5 years of non-stop playback at uncompressed CD quality.
If you actually want something big to look at and hold, then just attach your micro-SD card to a cardboard box of your choosing, then print out some fancy album art and decorate the box with it. Personally, I would consider that even more hipster than cassettes or vinyl since it must be hand made rather than mass produced. Bonus points for chopping down your own tree for the cardboard.
Just off the top of my head: LOGH, Death Note, Psycho-Pass, Nausicca, One Punch Man, Lelouch of the Rebellion and Attack on Titan.
It's nobody else's fault you only watch moeshit.
They did license a bunch of other anime with non-exclusive contracts, like Rurouni Kenshin and Mushi-shi. Their library is obviously much smaller than Crunchyroll's since they just started, but Amazon has a lot of money and things might change after a few seasons.
Nice to see even more competition in this space. This has gone from the realm of science fiction to (soon to be) reality.
With LIDAR, these cars should see better than any human possibly can and shouldn't run into the problem of differentiating clouds and trucks, or be blinded by the sun, rain or fog. So all that's left is the software, and Google's been working on that for ages. Of all the self-driving cars around, I think this is the closest to a truly self-driving car, one that doesn't need a driver to babysit it constantly.
And before all the cynics start moaning about bad weather performance, let me just remind everyone how well humans drive in the snow.
Investing is more than trying to make the most money long term. It must also take into account when you need to spend that money. If you're on the verge of retirement and you suspect there's disaster coming, then putting 20% of your money in gold is perfectly reasonable, because if the economy crashes, then you have something to fall back on.
The idea that you can diversify away all risk using traditional investment vehicles is provably false. Bonds depend on the issuer not going bankrupt, currency depends on the country's economy, real estate can become worthless and obviously stocks can fluctuate wildly even in good years. With an increasingly global economy, if one large country fails, then you will see a chain of failures all around the world. All of your investments will fail at once, leaving you with absolutely nothing. At that point, that $50k you put into a stable currency substitute is going to put food on the table until everything recovers.
Yes, you'd lose out on maybe 3% of income if disaster never comes to pass, but that 3% isn't worth nearly as much to you if the rest of your investments are doing fine.
That's just not true. Of the 538 electors, 438 are proportioned according to state population, or 81%. Is this better than a pure popular vote? Yes. Does it really protect the less populous states from the more populous ones? Not at all. And if you think this system is working, just wait until California and Texas finds something they agree on.
In this large population-based cohort, living close to heavy traffic was associated with a higher incidence of dementia, but not with Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis.
The road noise early in the morning is really bad for sleep, which we know has a huge effect on brain function. How do we know that's not the main cause? Car pollution likes to stick around and pollute the entire city, so even if you live far away, you'd still be hit with some pollution.
The other article they mentioned tested children's working memory and how classroom pollution affects it. None of the children had dementia, which is what this study measured.
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or you know nothing about asteroids. Hint: they are very very heavy. An 100 m diameter asteroid is 6,000,000 tons. The largest rocket we ever built, the Saturn V, ($1.1 billion per launch) can launch 50 tons of payload to an Earth escape orbit. Let's say that 50 tons is just a rocket engine (Isp 450 s) and fuel, and you attach it to the asteroid, then by turning on the rocket engine and burning all of the fuel, you can change the asteroid's velocity by 0.037 m/s. To bring the asteroid into the geosynchronous orbit, you will need to change its velocity by at least 2000 m/s, which means 10's of thousands of Saturn V's.
Even if you target a small asteroid, it doesn't change the equation all that much until it's in the 500-ton range. In which case, why bother? Just launch a few Saturn V's full of rocks.
Truth is many climate scientists do not agree with global warming; I can point to dozens, and that is not an exhaustive list by any means.
Dozens out of how many thousands?
Every fossil fuel that is burned today was once living matter, either plant or animal (undisputed fact). Thus it was once part of the natural CO2 planetary cycle and at a time when life was flourishing. But somehow, re-adding that carbon to the planetary system after being trapped in coal or oil or natural gas deposits will throw the world out of balance and make the world too hot to be habitable?
Yes, life was flourishing. But what kind of life? And how many of them are still around today? The world was 30 F hotter back in the Cretaceous, and no humans were around. Think about it: if the hottest day in the summer is 100 F, then you'd be baking at 130 F with the Cretaceous climate.
And by the way, even if humans didn't cause global warming, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it. When lightning sets your house on fire, do you say, "I didn't start it, it's a natural fire," or do you try to put it out?
The rest of us would like to keep our day jobs.
Ah I see, so you work in the fossil fuel industry and are obligated to spout denialist nonsense. I guess there's no point trying to convince you then.
If there's one thing I don't like about the Minecraft modding scene is that everything is closed source. Over time, the less popular mods die because their developer doesn't have the time to update it to be compatible with the newest version. That update process takes forever too, so if you want to play with mods, you'll have to run an older version of Minecraft. Just compare that to the KSP modding community, where dead mods gets resurrected all the time by other developers and new versions of the game gets updated mods within a week or two.
Good thing we're not in Civ then. Their winning doesn't mean our losing.
A car's speedometer is never completely accurate, in fact it has a margin of error of about 10 km/h.
I don't think this is true, at least for newer cars. A quick search of various articles online indicates the error should to be about 1-2%, which is only 1-2 km/h at a 100 km/h speed. You can use your phone GPS to corroborate your speedometer. You can also time your car by driving a known distance at a known speed. So if it your car just happened to have a wildly inaccurate speedometer you can find out.
Practically speaking, if you want to avoid a ticket, just drive a bit slower than the guy passing you on the left, and keep an eye out for any cop cars behind you. If they do ticket you, they'd have a hard time proving their radar didn't pick up the other guy.
I agree with your point, but that's not a great analogy. The Corolla is one of the best selling cars out there, but it's not low quality or low tech. You'd think it's easy to make Corollas with their tiny 140 HP engines, but to make it do 40 mpg highway requires a lot of engineering talent, and even more so if you want to do it with cheap materials and have it last a long time.
Go take a look at what goes into the engine design. If Mercedes or BMW had the same tech, why wouldn't they go after this enormous market?
48-gigabit-per-second cable
The problem HDMI solves is the problem of shuffling data from one device to another. We've had 100 Gbit/s ethernet for years now, and those solve the exact same problem. USB and Thunderbolt also solve the same problem, but provides DC power on top of it. TV's are basically small computers at this point, there's absolutely no reason they need a specialized port just to receive data.
I wonder if the theater playback quality is actually better. I'm pretty sure the screen is not as bright. Does it have better color reproduction than your average LCD TV? The sound system is great, but then they also turn it up to deafening loudness, to the point where it distracts you.
OK, that makes it very clear that you're dishonest.
If you bothered to read any of my other posts, you'll see I fully support liberal ideas such as UBI, abortion, marijuana legalization, stemming global warming, electoral college reform, and many others. However, that does not mean I support Clinton. I would've voted for Sanders, but people like you and the DNC decided a corrupt, lying, scumbag was going to be our nominee.
Clinton lost because the things she did made her look as bad as Trump, and Trump is the better liar. The money the Clinton Foundation took while she was the SoS would have had her jailed for corruption in many countries. Just because it's legal here makes no difference to me. Same goes for her private Wall Street fundraisers.
It seems to me that something that might have had an illegal significant effect on the election should be investigated.
Unfortunately, the truth had a significant effect on elections. I still haven't heard anyone in the Clinton camp say those emails were fake or made up. The Russians were not wrong to reveal it. If anything, they did us a service.
Whether the prediction is true or not, this is a propaganda piece with no data backing it. Even by their own charts, solar is currently much more expensive than everything else. They basically drew a bunch of lines with coal and natural gas trending up and solar trending down, completely ignoring the fact that coal and natural gas are also trending down.
Take a look at their cost breakdown. The "other hardware" cost had tripled since 2009 (currently 20% of the total cost), but they conveniently made it fall by 2/3rds by 2025 with no explanation at all.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
They're asking for the records of everyone who used the exchange, without evidence that any law has been broken. Why hasn't this been thrown out yet?
* Cheaper by 55% * Slightly more likely to explode
Seems like a good thing to me.
Which option is better really depends on what you're launching and what "slightly" is exactly. If you're launching the $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope and the risk is 10% higher with SpaceX, then the extra $90 million is going to be worth it.
It might not even be the family... could be those greedy lawyers they hired.