Works OK in the UK, to a point. Businesses that send a lot of post get a preferential rate, hence all the junk mail we enjoy (well, I enjoy putting it in the shredder). I guess that's not "neutral" as it charges differently to different customers.
seriously? USPS operates at a loss, Trumps says they should charge more then to be profitable (or not run at a loss) and its an attack on fake news from a left-wing news site?
Maybe he's more interested in the fiscal issues of subsidising the postal service and hitting the near-monopoly (and tax avoiding) user of the service is a good soundbite. But I guess it doesn't matter what he does, you're so indoctrinated Trump will always be bad. He could hand out free puppies to all children, and you'd scream and complain that he should be handing out kittens and he was only doing it to further profiteering from the pet food industry.
And so we seer the bias, you could have also described how CNN spent all the campaign airing uncritical claims against Trump, but you didn't.
This is the bias we're talking of, the idea that the bad stuff only happens from one side, whilst casually ignoring the same crap from the other side.
the only solution today is to read as much different places as you can, read both a Breitbart and a Guardian (or a Fox and a CNN). They are both as shit as each other, but once you view them both equally, you realise what a propaganda mess the whole thing is, and then you'll be saved.
Not even that, but the biomass that is waste from logging, say, would release carbon into the atmosphere even if left on the ground as it decays. Better to get energy from it.
He's right though, those kind of storage solutions are either very inefficient or require huge amounts of money spent of building the infrastructure.
there are storage solutions, such as Vanadium redox flow batteries that are perfectly suited to grid-scale storage, but even they are expensive at the moment. The good news is that they have hit the target price for long-term storage so its starting to be used, but generally for local generation that is not grid-connected.
Ahh, I see... so if you create a little list of enemies that's bad... but if you ask your supporters to shop their neighbours and enemies to you, that's OK.
So its not very Nazi, its Stazi instead, completely different, phew.
Except the only decision on whether the targetted "trolls" were Nazis is that the so-called "hunter" simply chose some people he didn't like and added them to his little list.
Were they Nazi trolls or just people with an opinion that he disagreed with?
Hell, our pointy-haired boss outsourced to India, and a few were so bad we had to send them home. That wasn't even as software developers as you could just sit them in the corner and let them chat on skype all day long - better than letting them do anything. No, these got sent home because they were abusive towards anyone they considered beneath therm in status, their attitude towards the female admin staff was so horrible even old pointy realised they had to go.
mind you the ones we sent work to in India were pretty bad, triple the time taken to do anything simple and when it came back, it often had extra features someone had decided they wanted to learn just slapped on. The best was a dialog we wanted, it returned with a slider that set the opacitiy of the dialog, and this was for a very serious enterprise product.
The Orange one might have brought tech jobs back to the USA and they might be very expensive, but I know the tech companies can afford these people (ie us) as they make so much money they don't know what to do with it besides stuff it into some island bank account.
Salaries seems to be a reasonable destination for the spare cash, and the tech workers will then spend it. that's far better for the economy than a race to the bottom for the peasantry while our new aristocrats get so rich they couldn't spend it all even if they really really tried (and frankly, looking at Theranos and Uber's continued funding, they're really trying)
exactly, what is fake news these days if not news someone simply disagrees with. Hence the need for places like Breitbart to tell us the stuff that the mainstream media would rather not let anyone hear about.
I wish the MSM reported this stuff as equally as the stuff they usually print, and that I didn't have to defend Breitbart for the right to say what they do.
No worries there - you'll provide the links to how they were wrong, surely.
and I'm not just doing the usual "citation needed" designed to make you run round in rings, I am genuinely interested because the only part of fake news Breitbart was accused of turned out to be a trivial mistake where they said "church" to refer to a cathedral.
I thought Breitbart held itself to better journalistic integrity than most, simply because any error on their part would be seized upon by the mainstream eager to discredit it.
I doubt its got anything to do with the language, and more to do with the architecture they're using (and/or implementing modern features from scratch rather than hacking them in to an old engine)
Or maybe they decided that a tenth of a second to render CNNs homepage was good enough and didn't bother optimising it.
I think you're giving the right wing too much credit. They'd never come up with anything quite so hypocritical, stupid and ultimately self-defeating as the SJWs.
I mean, we have gays and feminists defending extremist Islam, FFS.
Its a sickness of mind that has afflicted some people.
An example: a while back there was a shop opening in part of London called"Best of British" that sold British tat that appealed to tourists mainly, nothing particularly extraordinary.,
It was in the news because some people were complaining that the place was racist. The interviewed shop-owner told that middle class white people would come into the shop and shout abuse at him. He also told that foreign people would come into the shop and tell him how happy they were that such a place existed (as I suppose they wanted to buy the kind of tourist tat he stocked).
So the people complaining about racism nowadays are not coloured/black/whatever they're called this week, but a certain type of "virtue-signalling" fools who have taken on this stuff as a battle to be fought on others behalf. I think its just that once they wage class war against the rich, found themselves to be the rich and so changed their focus to "rich racists" instead so they could continue to "fight the system" whilst pretending they weren't part of it. Its all a bit sad really.
that's interesting - because if member states do not have to have it, why is Lithuania not just scrapping it regardless. Having been to Lithuania (great place BTW, go try their beer) they still have more in common with Russia, which has its own ideas about DST, so I doubt it really matters that Lithuania would be disadvantaged by not being compliant.
maybe its one of those "you don't have to do as we say as long as you do as we say" rules the EU has:-)
The argument against is more light in the morning - we "fall back" and suddenly it gets dark (round here at least) at 4pm, but... its light at 8am. If we kept DST all year round, it would be light at 5pm, but it would still be dark at 8am.
Originally the extra light in the morning was to help farmers who get up early (IIRC), but today its more about the commute. the morning commute is already pretty scary, now imagine all those drivers shouting at each other, still drowsy, hung over, etc, but driving along in the dark.
An extra hour of light in the evening during summer... meh, big deal. An extra hour of light in the morning during Winter... really is a big deal.
The idea of ditching it int he winter is to return some daylight to the morning. I think it was originally for farmers, but nowadays I'd rather they had light for the morning commute rather than the evening one - drowsy, miserable morning drivers going to work in the dark... what could go wrong?!
So yes, but keep the standard time all year round instead. So what if we turn the lights on instead of having daylight at 10pm? Lighting today is a lot more energy efficient than the past.
1) the original link to the Guardian article 2) your link to the Guardian article.
The Guardian is the worst kind of "lets tell the truth, but just leave out this bit and that bit, those facts are never relevant to the story"... Read a few other newspapers takes on the same story and you'll see the misrepresentation the Guardian loves to peddle.
Anyway, only the other day they were saying Russia spent 73p on adverts designed to mess with British politics, its laughable how much they were blamed and how little they did.
Guido has a piece on it where the FT (A very pro-EU paper) admits:
This is the latest evidence-based story countering the meme being pushed by Remainers that somehow Russia caused Brexit. Over the last few weeks:
Twitter said only one Russian account spent any money promoting tweets during the referendum, and they only bought six adverts.
It emerged that most Russian Twitter activity about Brexit actually took place after the referendum.
And a number of the Russia-linked Twitter accounts were actually pro-Remain.
Google told the Electoral Commission it had found no evidence of any paid Russian activity during the referendum.
Facebook said Russia spent a total of 73p on adverts during the referendum, and they reached 200 people.
An account accused by one pro-Remain outlet of being a Russian troll turned out to be a run by a security guard in Glasgow.
But hey, these days somebody has to be Eurasia, and its been decided that Russia fits the "bogeyman" profile.
The point is that javascript as a language is fucked up, and that if we tried to get rid of it we could replace it with a proper language that had some determinism to it. Something that we could rely on to work without hack after hack after hack, and that might be more optimisable to work at native speeds.
What we have today is just a mess caused by history, and yes, people are using it, but only because we have no choice.
if only you had the ability to open your eyes to the fascist totalitarianism that is the SJW's position - you can think whatever you like, as long as its proscribed and approved to be acceptable by us.
No point is storing anything unless you can generate excess. And right now, even on the best day of the year for renewables, they just about managed to hit 50%.
So that means we have to double the existing capacity, and even then it will not generate enough to be worth storing.
We'd have to build 4x the capacity to have enough to be able to store it for the following day, and even then I think most of the winter or even half the year would require fossil fuel generation every day.
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Works OK in the UK, to a point. Businesses that send a lot of post get a preferential rate, hence all the junk mail we enjoy (well, I enjoy putting it in the shredder). I guess that's not "neutral" as it charges differently to different customers.
seriously? USPS operates at a loss, Trumps says they should charge more then to be profitable (or not run at a loss) and its an attack on fake news from a left-wing news site?
Maybe he's more interested in the fiscal issues of subsidising the postal service and hitting the near-monopoly (and tax avoiding) user of the service is a good soundbite. But I guess it doesn't matter what he does, you're so indoctrinated Trump will always be bad. He could hand out free puppies to all children, and you'd scream and complain that he should be handing out kittens and he was only doing it to further profiteering from the pet food industry.
And so we seer the bias, you could have also described how CNN spent all the campaign airing uncritical claims against Trump, but you didn't.
This is the bias we're talking of, the idea that the bad stuff only happens from one side, whilst casually ignoring the same crap from the other side.
the only solution today is to read as much different places as you can, read both a Breitbart and a Guardian (or a Fox and a CNN). They are both as shit as each other, but once you view them both equally, you realise what a propaganda mess the whole thing is, and then you'll be saved.
nothing is truly benign, but I think vanadium is a lot better than the stuff they make other batteries from.
Not even that, but the biomass that is waste from logging, say, would release carbon into the atmosphere even if left on the ground as it decays. Better to get energy from it.
He's right though, those kind of storage solutions are either very inefficient or require huge amounts of money spent of building the infrastructure.
there are storage solutions, such as Vanadium redox flow batteries that are perfectly suited to grid-scale storage, but even they are expensive at the moment. The good news is that they have hit the target price for long-term storage so its starting to be used, but generally for local generation that is not grid-connected.
Ahh, I see... so if you create a little list of enemies that's bad... but if you ask your supporters to shop their neighbours and enemies to you, that's OK.
So its not very Nazi, its Stazi instead, completely different, phew.
Except the only decision on whether the targetted "trolls" were Nazis is that the so-called "hunter" simply chose some people he didn't like and added them to his little list.
Were they Nazi trolls or just people with an opinion that he disagreed with?
Hell, our pointy-haired boss outsourced to India, and a few were so bad we had to send them home. That wasn't even as software developers as you could just sit them in the corner and let them chat on skype all day long - better than letting them do anything. No, these got sent home because they were abusive towards anyone they considered beneath therm in status, their attitude towards the female admin staff was so horrible even old pointy realised they had to go.
mind you the ones we sent work to in India were pretty bad, triple the time taken to do anything simple and when it came back, it often had extra features someone had decided they wanted to learn just slapped on. The best was a dialog we wanted, it returned with a slider that set the opacitiy of the dialog, and this was for a very serious enterprise product.
The Orange one might have brought tech jobs back to the USA and they might be very expensive, but I know the tech companies can afford these people (ie us) as they make so much money they don't know what to do with it besides stuff it into some island bank account.
Salaries seems to be a reasonable destination for the spare cash, and the tech workers will then spend it. that's far better for the economy than a race to the bottom for the peasantry while our new aristocrats get so rich they couldn't spend it all even if they really really tried (and frankly, looking at Theranos and Uber's continued funding, they're really trying)
exactly, what is fake news these days if not news someone simply disagrees with. Hence the need for places like Breitbart to tell us the stuff that the mainstream media would rather not let anyone hear about.
I wish the MSM reported this stuff as equally as the stuff they usually print, and that I didn't have to defend Breitbart for the right to say what they do.
No worries there - you'll provide the links to how they were wrong, surely.
and I'm not just doing the usual "citation needed" designed to make you run round in rings, I am genuinely interested because the only part of fake news Breitbart was accused of turned out to be a trivial mistake where they said "church" to refer to a cathedral.
I thought Breitbart held itself to better journalistic integrity than most, simply because any error on their part would be seized upon by the mainstream eager to discredit it.
I doubt its got anything to do with the language, and more to do with the architecture they're using (and/or implementing modern features from scratch rather than hacking them in to an old engine)
Or maybe they decided that a tenth of a second to render CNNs homepage was good enough and didn't bother optimising it.
I think you're giving the right wing too much credit. They'd never come up with anything quite so hypocritical, stupid and ultimately self-defeating as the SJWs.
I mean, we have gays and feminists defending extremist Islam, FFS.
Its a sickness of mind that has afflicted some people.
An example: a while back there was a shop opening in part of London called"Best of British" that sold British tat that appealed to tourists mainly, nothing particularly extraordinary.,
It was in the news because some people were complaining that the place was racist. The interviewed shop-owner told that middle class white people would come into the shop and shout abuse at him. He also told that foreign people would come into the shop and tell him how happy they were that such a place existed (as I suppose they wanted to buy the kind of tourist tat he stocked).
So the people complaining about racism nowadays are not coloured/black/whatever they're called this week, but a certain type of "virtue-signalling" fools who have taken on this stuff as a battle to be fought on others behalf. I think its just that once they wage class war against the rich, found themselves to be the rich and so changed their focus to "rich racists" instead so they could continue to "fight the system" whilst pretending they weren't part of it. Its all a bit sad really.
Rust: the scientology of programming?
that's interesting - because if member states do not have to have it, why is Lithuania not just scrapping it regardless. Having been to Lithuania (great place BTW, go try their beer) they still have more in common with Russia, which has its own ideas about DST, so I doubt it really matters that Lithuania would be disadvantaged by not being compliant.
maybe its one of those "you don't have to do as we say as long as you do as we say" rules the EU has :-)
The argument against is more light in the morning - we "fall back" and suddenly it gets dark (round here at least) at 4pm, but... its light at 8am. If we kept DST all year round, it would be light at 5pm, but it would still be dark at 8am.
Originally the extra light in the morning was to help farmers who get up early (IIRC), but today its more about the commute. the morning commute is already pretty scary, now imagine all those drivers shouting at each other, still drowsy, hung over, etc, but driving along in the dark.
An extra hour of light in the evening during summer... meh, big deal. An extra hour of light in the morning during Winter... really is a big deal.
Probably better to change the time we start work to be an hour after sunrise. Then we've all got an excuse for being late :-)
The idea of ditching it int he winter is to return some daylight to the morning. I think it was originally for farmers, but nowadays I'd rather they had light for the morning commute rather than the evening one - drowsy, miserable morning drivers going to work in the dark... what could go wrong?!
So yes, but keep the standard time all year round instead. So what if we turn the lights on instead of having daylight at 10pm? Lighting today is a lot more energy efficient than the past.
2 problems here:
1) the original link to the Guardian article
2) your link to the Guardian article.
The Guardian is the worst kind of "lets tell the truth, but just leave out this bit and that bit, those facts are never relevant to the story"... Read a few other newspapers takes on the same story and you'll see the misrepresentation the Guardian loves to peddle.
Anyway, only the other day they were saying Russia spent 73p on adverts designed to mess with British politics, its laughable how much they were blamed and how little they did.
Guido has a piece on it where the FT (A very pro-EU paper) admits:
But hey, these days somebody has to be Eurasia, and its been decided that Russia fits the "bogeyman" profile.
The point is that javascript as a language is fucked up, and that if we tried to get rid of it we could replace it with a proper language that had some determinism to it. Something that we could rely on to work without hack after hack after hack, and that might be more optimisable to work at native speeds.
What we have today is just a mess caused by history, and yes, people are using it, but only because we have no choice.
if only you had the ability to open your eyes to the fascist totalitarianism that is the SJW's position - you can think whatever you like, as long as its proscribed and approved to be acceptable by us.
but I wonder how much was spent... covering up what they found.... mouhahaahaaaa!
No point is storing anything unless you can generate excess. And right now, even on the best day of the year for renewables, they just about managed to hit 50%.
So that means we have to double the existing capacity, and even then it will not generate enough to be worth storing.
We'd have to build 4x the capacity to have enough to be able to store it for the following day, and even then I think most of the winter or even half the year would require fossil fuel generation every day.