I have discussed with friends a variety of these these issues as they relate to motorcycle helmets - it's a shame that there are not more detailed studies into the real world effects. I always wear a helmet on a motorcycle, and 99% of the time on a bicycle; on the motorcycle especially, I'd like more confidence that the helmet is designed for the most likely impacts. In truth most of the time my choice comes down to fit and (lack of) wind noise.
I have tried to see if I could get a testing organization to test an older helmet of mine to try to settle an argument, but I got no response. I have a feeling that a 10 year old helmet will still be about as effective as when new, but I have friends who disagree.
I also ride motorcycles, and I wear a helmet almost every time I ride my bicycle; I also wear a helmet when skiing. Around me (Mid Atlantic US) I'd say half or more of adults wear them, although with bikeshare that may be less since basically no one uses them on the shared bikes. I have known enough people hit by cars, concussed or (a friend of friends) killed when his his head hit a curb falling at fairly low speed that I don't even consider not wearing one unless I'm doing a short bikeshare hop. I also recently saw close up what a TBI can do when a good friend hit his head after falling in a parking lot (probable heart attack, not a bike accident) - over a year of rehab, 2 years to return to work, and he was lucky since at one point we thought he might never recover.
They are cheap and easy and the potential downside is so bad, why not?
This is different in that it's talking to your PC over Bluetooth, and you just hit a button on your phone rather than type in the code from Authenticator.
Yeah, I have Netflix and Prime (mostly for shipping) and I'm not going to subscribe to any other services. There's way more content available than I have time to watch anyway. The kids sometimes watch some reality nonsense on their friend's Hulu account, but I'm not going to actively support that!
There are a lot of obscure movies and documentaries which are still not easily available streaming. The one at a time plan is fine for me, and I can get any of the oddball stuff reasonably quickly, which is better than not at all.
The experiment involved 34 adult volunteers, who collectively participated in hundreds of trials; all tests were done in a double blind manner, and control groups were also included.
After the experiments, none of the participants said they could tell when or if any change to the magnetic field had occurred. But for four of the 34 participants, the EEG data told a different story.
As noted in the new study, the researchers recorded “a strong, specific human brain response” to simulated “rotations of Earth-strength magnetic fields.” Specifically, the magnetic stimulation caused a drop in the amplitude of EEG alpha waves between 8 and 13 Hertz—a response shown to be repeatable among those four participants, even months afterward. Two simple rotations of the magnetic field appeared to trigger the response—movements comparable to a person nodding their head up or down, or turning it from left to right.
It seems that this effect may not be present or measurable in every human brain.
What WOULD make me buy a new phone is if they had some innovative new feature, but that ship seems to have sailed as every phone in the last 5 years has fewer features than the one before it....
What phone manufacturers need to do if they want people to keep upgrading is to make the new phone feel like it's actually BETTER than the one they are getting rid of, not just newer.
One area in which they have made huge improvements is in the cameras. That was 90% of the reason I bought my Pixel 3. Pretty much all I use my phone for is basic texting, light web browsing, Waze - and taking lots of photos. I have an SLR, and a high quality compact, but I don't take them with me anymore unless there's some special reason. For 99% of day to day pictures, my phone now is just fine.
This is more a tech demonstration than anything. Those translucent walls filled with aerogel are pretty neat, and I could see them finding some specialized niche. The lightweight concrete ceiling slabs are pretty interesting too. I'm sure over the next few years architects will start using some of these technologies in more appealing designs.
I can vouch for this. A neighbor I only know in passing let me take his Model 3 for a spin a few weeks ago. He loves the thing, and is looking to spread the love. I have to admit, it's a fun car - I actually laughed out loud at the acceleration when he encouraged me to floor it. I was impressed with the auto pilot, too, although it would take me a while to trust it. I kept grabbing the wheel when I couldn't believe that it could navigate stuff like traffic calming curbs on a curvy road. He kept saying "you can trust it!" but I really didn't want to run his car up onto a curb.
If I were in the market for a sedan, I would get a Model 3 for sure.
I have a couple of schemes which I use for a lot of my passwords, but there are enough unique ones that I find Keepass extremely useful. Not to mention that I keep note of a bunch of other data and my kids' passwords there too. Also my wife could use it if she needed to if I get hit by a bus.
I've helped a bunch of people set up Keepass, and I have never seen the data disappear. But if you don't need it, your way is probably better!
I did a similar experiment back in that same time frame and came to the same conclusion - if I couldn't tell the difference between 128 & uncompressed back then, with the best headphones I could get my hands on, it's not something I will ever worry about.
You should see if you can get Kanopy through your library. They have some pretty good documentaries there, and my library gives me 3 or 4 movies a month - more than I have time to watch, anyway.
The explanation I read for the different taste is that way back when, Hershey and Nestle were both trying to get the cacao oil to bind with milk to make milk chocolate, which is actually apparently fairly tricky. Hershey managed to do it with high temperature, which resulted in a slightly burned taste; this is what US customers got used to. Nestle managed to use a lower temperature by using a vacuum chamber, and this avoided the burnt flavor.
Why the US hasn't switched to the better flavor, though, I can't explain. I grew up in the US, and I always preferred the taste of chocolate in the UK and Europe.
Every time I see a breach like this, it makes me glad I'm still using KeePass. The ease of use of LastPass is tempting, but these kinds of services are a very large target.
Sure, banning polluting cars will drop the numbers of cars. The important part will be, does it actually lead to a drop in NO2 in that area? It should, but it will be good to see actual data and even better to see if that affects the death rate there too.
Everyone I've met who purchased a new Tesla, for example, could afford the car without that credit and would, indeed, have purchased it anyway. The rest of us who own them waited to get a deal on an older, used one, which didn't qualify for the credit in the first place.
It seems to me that the existence of the tax credit is assumed in the used prices of EVs - that's one reason why their depreciation looks so bad.
Because the point of the subsidy is to kickstart a new market. EVs are under 2% of new cars, the infrastructure is still in its infancy, and the "affordable" cars like the Leaf have significant limitations. I have a Leaf, and I describe it to my friends as being like a car that gets 100 mpg, but only has a 1 gallon tank. This is not comparable to what you'd get from an average $33k car. The batteries are still expensive but as Tesla is trying to show, if you can get into mass production those costs should come down significantly. The subsidies are a way to help get to mass production.
I will say, if you can deal with the limitations, even a Leaf will make you realize that EVs are the future. The simplicity of the drivetrain and convenience of having a full battery every morning (assuming that you have a place to charge overnight), plus the fuel savings means that once the batteries are cheap enough that 250 mile ranges are affordable, I can't see why anyone would by a traditional ICE. A couple of years more subsidies should help get us to that point.
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I have discussed with friends a variety of these these issues as they relate to motorcycle helmets - it's a shame that there are not more detailed studies into the real world effects. I always wear a helmet on a motorcycle, and 99% of the time on a bicycle; on the motorcycle especially, I'd like more confidence that the helmet is designed for the most likely impacts. In truth most of the time my choice comes down to fit and (lack of) wind noise.
I have tried to see if I could get a testing organization to test an older helmet of mine to try to settle an argument, but I got no response. I have a feeling that a 10 year old helmet will still be about as effective as when new, but I have friends who disagree.
I also ride motorcycles, and I wear a helmet almost every time I ride my bicycle; I also wear a helmet when skiing. Around me (Mid Atlantic US) I'd say half or more of adults wear them, although with bikeshare that may be less since basically no one uses them on the shared bikes. I have known enough people hit by cars, concussed or (a friend of friends) killed when his his head hit a curb falling at fairly low speed that I don't even consider not wearing one unless I'm doing a short bikeshare hop. I also recently saw close up what a TBI can do when a good friend hit his head after falling in a parking lot (probable heart attack, not a bike accident) - over a year of rehab, 2 years to return to work, and he was lucky since at one point we thought he might never recover.
They are cheap and easy and the potential downside is so bad, why not?
This is using the phone for accounts on your PC.
This is different in that it's talking to your PC over Bluetooth, and you just hit a button on your phone rather than type in the code from Authenticator.
Looks like you can add Narcos - Season 1 is 4 discs.
Yeah, I have Netflix and Prime (mostly for shipping) and I'm not going to subscribe to any other services. There's way more content available than I have time to watch anyway. The kids sometimes watch some reality nonsense on their friend's Hulu account, but I'm not going to actively support that!
There are a lot of obscure movies and documentaries which are still not easily available streaming. The one at a time plan is fine for me, and I can get any of the oddball stuff reasonably quickly, which is better than not at all.
Also the FujiFilm FinePix used a similar periscope design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This Gizmodo article has some information that the Guardian article leaves out:
https://gizmodo.com/fascinatin...
The experiment involved 34 adult volunteers, who collectively participated in hundreds of trials; all tests were done in a double blind manner, and control groups were also included.
After the experiments, none of the participants said they could tell when or if any change to the magnetic field had occurred. But for four of the 34 participants, the EEG data told a different story.
As noted in the new study, the researchers recorded “a strong, specific human brain response” to simulated “rotations of Earth-strength magnetic fields.” Specifically, the magnetic stimulation caused a drop in the amplitude of EEG alpha waves between 8 and 13 Hertz—a response shown to be repeatable among those four participants, even months afterward. Two simple rotations of the magnetic field appeared to trigger the response—movements comparable to a person nodding their head up or down, or turning it from left to right.
It seems that this effect may not be present or measurable in every human brain.
You're right, especially since it looks like the robots just made the metal mesh frame & the concrete was manually added to it.
What WOULD make me buy a new phone is if they had some innovative new feature, but that ship seems to have sailed as every phone in the last 5 years has fewer features than the one before it. ...
What phone manufacturers need to do if they want people to keep upgrading is to make the new phone feel like it's actually BETTER than the one they are getting rid of, not just newer.
One area in which they have made huge improvements is in the cameras. That was 90% of the reason I bought my Pixel 3. Pretty much all I use my phone for is basic texting, light web browsing, Waze - and taking lots of photos. I have an SLR, and a high quality compact, but I don't take them with me anymore unless there's some special reason. For 99% of day to day pictures, my phone now is just fine.
This is more a tech demonstration than anything. Those translucent walls filled with aerogel are pretty neat, and I could see them finding some specialized niche. The lightweight concrete ceiling slabs are pretty interesting too. I'm sure over the next few years architects will start using some of these technologies in more appealing designs.
You should get the $37k one, it does 140.
I can vouch for this. A neighbor I only know in passing let me take his Model 3 for a spin a few weeks ago. He loves the thing, and is looking to spread the love. I have to admit, it's a fun car - I actually laughed out loud at the acceleration when he encouraged me to floor it. I was impressed with the auto pilot, too, although it would take me a while to trust it. I kept grabbing the wheel when I couldn't believe that it could navigate stuff like traffic calming curbs on a curvy road. He kept saying "you can trust it!" but I really didn't want to run his car up onto a curb.
If I were in the market for a sedan, I would get a Model 3 for sure.
I have a couple of schemes which I use for a lot of my passwords, but there are enough unique ones that I find Keepass extremely useful. Not to mention that I keep note of a bunch of other data and my kids' passwords there too. Also my wife could use it if she needed to if I get hit by a bus.
I've helped a bunch of people set up Keepass, and I have never seen the data disappear. But if you don't need it, your way is probably better!
Lockers in schools are not secure at all - usually they have the same combinations year after year, and that knowledge is passed around.
I did a similar experiment back in that same time frame and came to the same conclusion - if I couldn't tell the difference between 128 & uncompressed back then, with the best headphones I could get my hands on, it's not something I will ever worry about.
You should see if you can get Kanopy through your library. They have some pretty good documentaries there, and my library gives me 3 or 4 movies a month - more than I have time to watch, anyway.
The explanation I read for the different taste is that way back when, Hershey and Nestle were both trying to get the cacao oil to bind with milk to make milk chocolate, which is actually apparently fairly tricky. Hershey managed to do it with high temperature, which resulted in a slightly burned taste; this is what US customers got used to. Nestle managed to use a lower temperature by using a vacuum chamber, and this avoided the burnt flavor.
Why the US hasn't switched to the better flavor, though, I can't explain. I grew up in the US, and I always preferred the taste of chocolate in the UK and Europe.
Every time I see a breach like this, it makes me glad I'm still using KeePass. The ease of use of LastPass is tempting, but these kinds of services are a very large target.
This new platform can do both ICE and EV; they are "gradually fading out combustion engines to the absolute minimum", not halting them suddenly.
Sure, banning polluting cars will drop the numbers of cars. The important part will be, does it actually lead to a drop in NO2 in that area? It should, but it will be good to see actual data and even better to see if that affects the death rate there too.
Everyone I've met who purchased a new Tesla, for example, could afford the car without that credit and would, indeed, have purchased it anyway. The rest of us who own them waited to get a deal on an older, used one, which didn't qualify for the credit in the first place.
It seems to me that the existence of the tax credit is assumed in the used prices of EVs - that's one reason why their depreciation looks so bad.
Because the point of the subsidy is to kickstart a new market. EVs are under 2% of new cars, the infrastructure is still in its infancy, and the "affordable" cars like the Leaf have significant limitations. I have a Leaf, and I describe it to my friends as being like a car that gets 100 mpg, but only has a 1 gallon tank. This is not comparable to what you'd get from an average $33k car. The batteries are still expensive but as Tesla is trying to show, if you can get into mass production those costs should come down significantly. The subsidies are a way to help get to mass production.
I will say, if you can deal with the limitations, even a Leaf will make you realize that EVs are the future. The simplicity of the drivetrain and convenience of having a full battery every morning (assuming that you have a place to charge overnight), plus the fuel savings means that once the batteries are cheap enough that 250 mile ranges are affordable, I can't see why anyone would by a traditional ICE. A couple of years more subsidies should help get us to that point.