This is false. The best maps are balanced, such that every weapon has the potential to be well used, if the player is skillful, and wasted if the player is not. That's not what this is about though. This is like allowing a player to buy a nuke, and be matched into a game where everyone else is trapped in a stadium with only knifes and police batons.
All of those rounds, primers and powder have a shelf life of about 10 years under optimum storage conditions. That gives you a pretty good window for either civilization to be reestablished or to practice with a crossbow, but it is not an indefinite supply.
*Citation Needed*
Under horrible storage conditions I would expect powder bullets and primers to last at least triple that, as long as the packaging is original.
I think you might have missed the point of the parent here... parent's argument is that these things are insecure, thus having the ability to turn them off completely makes you safer.... to leave these features always turned on would be to pretend you are immune to the vulnerabilities. Perhaps the sarcasm confused you?
Those masks aren't pressurized. They provide "positive pressure", but not total pressure. Air pressure outside an airplane at 30,000 is around 4-5 psi at sea level it's 14. What is the pressure inside the hyperloop? Wikipedia suggests it operates at 1 millibar, or 0.0145038 psi. One of these environments you can inhale in, the other you can't. The air escaping the mask has no reason to enter your lungs because your mechanism of breathing is to create a pressure differential between your insides and your outsides. When pressure outside is zero, you can't create a pressure differential by expanding your diaphragm. You. Can't. Breathe.
This might be true when the system is all shiny and new... but think about the trains running in new york/new jersey, and what happens to infrastructure when it gets neglected.
Start with this: who makes the decision to emergency pressurize the system? Computer? Human? If human, what happens when an emergency occurs? How long does it take before the human decides to hit the button? There is a professional incentive not to hit the button because if there isn't an emergency and you stop the trains, there's a lot of cost of recovery, bad PR, etcetera. If you wait too long then you fail to save their lives. If a computer makes the decision, what thresholds do you set? If the computer sees a drop in pressure, does it wait for confirmation? What if multiple sensors disagree? These are trivial things to ask when talking about a theoretical system, but when witnessing the rotting infrastructure of most large urban transportation systems, you realize failures occur all the time because the issues aren't so simple. Finally, how do you re-pressurize the tube? If you have only one hatch on each end of the tube, it takes a while for the pressure to reach the pod. If you have multiple hatches, then you have multiple failure points where leaks can develop, and a complicated control infrastructure to automatically open them. What do you do about stuck valves that haven't operated in a few years? What do you do when a pod goes incommunicado? That could be a sign of a serious problem, or it could be a solar flare. Perfect knowledge is not something you will ever have with a system like this.
One last theoretical question: When you watch movies about airplane crashes, when the doors flip down and the masks drop, does every single mask seems to be operational? If I'm ever on a crashing plane, I'm going to assume that sometimes the doors don't open, sometimes the masks get tangled and won't reach the user's face. Sometimes the hose isn't attached to the other end, so you're wearing a mask but not getting oxygen. The integrity of the entire system is dependent on the lowest educated, lowest paid, blue collar worker doing his thing and getting it right. Forgot to pull that safety tab? forgot to put a speed wire on that nut? Too bad for the people who were counting on that work being done right. In theory all these problem can be overcome, but in reality they won't be.
I suspect that if the vacuum failed at the moment the pod was drawing near, it would feel more like hitting a big air cushion, like at an amusement park. Not fun, but not fatal. We're talking about a multi-ton carriage with relatively small frontal area. If the rupture occurred further on down the line, the effect would be less violent, because in a tube, you're going to get a pressure gradient, not a "wall" as most people are describing it. Ironically, if the rupture occurs behind the pod, it would probably have no effect at all, as the pod would be outracing the pressure wave, and if the pod happened to not be traveling at full speed, the air would be trying to accelerate the pod, not slow it down.
Actually, I suspect the most likely fatal failure is going to be loss of passenger pressurization, resulting in *loss of cargo*. Cabin depressurization of an airplane is bad, but still not as bad as being exposed to total vacuum, and a plane can dive to regain air pressure. When a hyperloop pod looses pressure, there's no place to run.
On an annual basis, research productivity is declining at a rate of about 6.8 percent per year in the semiconductor industry. In other words, we're running out of ideas.
Actually, I think that implies we're running out of physics. Why equate the topic of "ideas" strictly with the semiconductor industry? Seems like it's not analogous.
Alternative interpretation: People will eat shit when shit is the only thing available to eat. People will still spend money on a mediocre film if there is nothing else to watch. This is why all the foreign films and artsy stuff steers clear of summer releases... otherwise they'd get trounced by DC, Marvel, et al. I'm pretty confident that if you control for the season of the release date, and the other films you compete with on release, you'd find the correlation you are looking for.
It is an imperfect national identifier because not everyone in the nation has one. It is an imperfect national identifier because you cannot change it when compromised. It is an imperfect national identifier because the nation allowed it to be hijacked as a commercial identifier. Banks and creditors in general should have to fend for themselves if they want to properly identify a debtor, rather than relying on a number that was issued for a completely different purpose.
You've got it backwards. You're supposed to baby the one you love, and drive hard/put away wet the one you rent (also true of the one you leave the money on the night stand for)
At the risk of sounding extremely pedantic, "poor" is a state of mind, not a state of wallet. Time is money. If you believe that your time has value, then consider what 9 hours (each way?) of your time is worth? This is why rich people fly and poor people don't. Rich people spend 8 of those hours making money, then they fly to where they want to go with the last hour. Now, I'm not trying to call you poor, I'm just trying to elucidate the point of the GP. For me personally, if I'm going it alone, I won't drive more than 6, because flying becomes more economical. If I'm traveling with family then I'm willing to go a lot more because a) increased costs to fly, and b) there is value for me in spending time with family, even if it is in the car, because I make it a trip rather than a drive(fun stops, games, loud music, whatever).
While this post is funny, I actually kind of think that Musk probably is a little bit tickled by this. Remember that this is the guy that gave away a bunch of patents related to charging and what-not... and I've never seen Tesla themselves do "head to head" competitive events to prove how the Tesla is better than... he usually leaves it to the magazines and pundits to do that for him. I think the reason is that he wants to make a better world(s) more than he wants to make money. Therefore electric semi trucks that compete with his trucks are still achieving his goal.
Not any different than the "Get your MCSE Certifications" of the early 2000s - they're not interested in placing people in jobs... they're interested in getting paid. They're a business and they'll be happy to take your money.
This is false. iOS allows you to disable notifications... in fact the "settings" menu is not allowed inside of apps... it's always contained within the iOS settings menu, so the app maker can't deny you the ability to control it.
I came here to say this! I don't use android, but I believe it works similarly... you can control notifications. Lyft lasted a whole 4 days for me before I squelched it. Email and Text are the only things that I allow popover for, and Instagram can put a badge on their icon... that's it for me and this entire story seems like a cry for help from someone with a first world problem.
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... if apple had stuck to it's skeuomorphic design principles.
This is false. The best maps are balanced, such that every weapon has the potential to be well used, if the player is skillful, and wasted if the player is not. That's not what this is about though. This is like allowing a player to buy a nuke, and be matched into a game where everyone else is trapped in a stadium with only knifes and police batons.
I'm hopeful that they've only patented this idea to prevent other companies from using it and have no intent to use it themselves. </sarcasm>
Every new card I've had printed in the last year has been without the raised numbers... I don't think card impressions are a thing anymore.
***Selection bias alert***
News outlets don't report on something so mundane as a hunter taking game with a rifle after some major catastrophe.
All of those rounds, primers and powder have a shelf life of about 10 years under optimum storage conditions. That gives you a pretty good window for either civilization to be reestablished or to practice with a crossbow, but it is not an indefinite supply.
*Citation Needed*
Under horrible storage conditions I would expect powder bullets and primers to last at least triple that, as long as the packaging is original.
That's weird... it almost sounded like you were talking about a civilized society... something completely ruled out by a SHTF scenario.
I think you might have missed the point of the parent here... parent's argument is that these things are insecure, thus having the ability to turn them off completely makes you safer.... to leave these features always turned on would be to pretend you are immune to the vulnerabilities. Perhaps the sarcasm confused you?
You're just trolling me right? You aren't really serious about that? Maybe you should read different books from the one in your sig.
Those masks aren't pressurized. They provide "positive pressure", but not total pressure. Air pressure outside an airplane at 30,000 is around 4-5 psi at sea level it's 14. What is the pressure inside the hyperloop? Wikipedia suggests it operates at 1 millibar, or 0.0145038 psi. One of these environments you can inhale in, the other you can't. The air escaping the mask has no reason to enter your lungs because your mechanism of breathing is to create a pressure differential between your insides and your outsides. When pressure outside is zero, you can't create a pressure differential by expanding your diaphragm. You. Can't. Breathe.
This might be true when the system is all shiny and new... but think about the trains running in new york/new jersey, and what happens to infrastructure when it gets neglected.
Start with this: who makes the decision to emergency pressurize the system? Computer? Human? If human, what happens when an emergency occurs? How long does it take before the human decides to hit the button? There is a professional incentive not to hit the button because if there isn't an emergency and you stop the trains, there's a lot of cost of recovery, bad PR, etcetera. If you wait too long then you fail to save their lives. If a computer makes the decision, what thresholds do you set? If the computer sees a drop in pressure, does it wait for confirmation? What if multiple sensors disagree? These are trivial things to ask when talking about a theoretical system, but when witnessing the rotting infrastructure of most large urban transportation systems, you realize failures occur all the time because the issues aren't so simple. Finally, how do you re-pressurize the tube? If you have only one hatch on each end of the tube, it takes a while for the pressure to reach the pod. If you have multiple hatches, then you have multiple failure points where leaks can develop, and a complicated control infrastructure to automatically open them. What do you do about stuck valves that haven't operated in a few years? What do you do when a pod goes incommunicado? That could be a sign of a serious problem, or it could be a solar flare. Perfect knowledge is not something you will ever have with a system like this.
One last theoretical question: When you watch movies about airplane crashes, when the doors flip down and the masks drop, does every single mask seems to be operational? If I'm ever on a crashing plane, I'm going to assume that sometimes the doors don't open, sometimes the masks get tangled and won't reach the user's face. Sometimes the hose isn't attached to the other end, so you're wearing a mask but not getting oxygen. The integrity of the entire system is dependent on the lowest educated, lowest paid, blue collar worker doing his thing and getting it right. Forgot to pull that safety tab? forgot to put a speed wire on that nut? Too bad for the people who were counting on that work being done right. In theory all these problem can be overcome, but in reality they won't be.
I suspect that if the vacuum failed at the moment the pod was drawing near, it would feel more like hitting a big air cushion, like at an amusement park. Not fun, but not fatal. We're talking about a multi-ton carriage with relatively small frontal area. If the rupture occurred further on down the line, the effect would be less violent, because in a tube, you're going to get a pressure gradient, not a "wall" as most people are describing it. Ironically, if the rupture occurs behind the pod, it would probably have no effect at all, as the pod would be outracing the pressure wave, and if the pod happened to not be traveling at full speed, the air would be trying to accelerate the pod, not slow it down.
Actually, I suspect the most likely fatal failure is going to be loss of passenger pressurization, resulting in *loss of cargo*. Cabin depressurization of an airplane is bad, but still not as bad as being exposed to total vacuum, and a plane can dive to regain air pressure. When a hyperloop pod looses pressure, there's no place to run.
On an annual basis, research productivity is declining at a rate of about 6.8 percent per year in the semiconductor industry. In other words, we're running out of ideas.
Actually, I think that implies we're running out of physics. Why equate the topic of "ideas" strictly with the semiconductor industry? Seems like it's not analogous.
Alternative interpretation: People will eat shit when shit is the only thing available to eat. People will still spend money on a mediocre film if there is nothing else to watch. This is why all the foreign films and artsy stuff steers clear of summer releases... otherwise they'd get trounced by DC, Marvel, et al. I'm pretty confident that if you control for the season of the release date, and the other films you compete with on release, you'd find the correlation you are looking for.
It is an imperfect national identifier because not everyone in the nation has one. It is an imperfect national identifier because you cannot change it when compromised. It is an imperfect national identifier because the nation allowed it to be hijacked as a commercial identifier. Banks and creditors in general should have to fend for themselves if they want to properly identify a debtor, rather than relying on a number that was issued for a completely different purpose.
NOW can we stop using SS# as a national identifier? Jeez!
Well said. Wish I had mod points for you.
You've got it backwards. You're supposed to baby the one you love, and drive hard/put away wet the one you rent (also true of the one you leave the money on the night stand for)
At the risk of sounding extremely pedantic, "poor" is a state of mind, not a state of wallet. Time is money. If you believe that your time has value, then consider what 9 hours (each way?) of your time is worth? This is why rich people fly and poor people don't. Rich people spend 8 of those hours making money, then they fly to where they want to go with the last hour. Now, I'm not trying to call you poor, I'm just trying to elucidate the point of the GP. For me personally, if I'm going it alone, I won't drive more than 6, because flying becomes more economical. If I'm traveling with family then I'm willing to go a lot more because a) increased costs to fly, and b) there is value for me in spending time with family, even if it is in the car, because I make it a trip rather than a drive(fun stops, games, loud music, whatever).
While this post is funny, I actually kind of think that Musk probably is a little bit tickled by this. Remember that this is the guy that gave away a bunch of patents related to charging and what-not... and I've never seen Tesla themselves do "head to head" competitive events to prove how the Tesla is better than ... he usually leaves it to the magazines and pundits to do that for him. I think the reason is that he wants to make a better world(s) more than he wants to make money. Therefore electric semi trucks that compete with his trucks are still achieving his goal.
Not any different than the "Get your MCSE Certifications" of the early 2000s - they're not interested in placing people in jobs... they're interested in getting paid. They're a business and they'll be happy to take your money.
This is false. iOS allows you to disable notifications... in fact the "settings" menu is not allowed inside of apps... it's always contained within the iOS settings menu, so the app maker can't deny you the ability to control it.
I came here to say this! I don't use android, but I believe it works similarly... you can control notifications. Lyft lasted a whole 4 days for me before I squelched it. Email and Text are the only things that I allow popover for, and Instagram can put a badge on their icon... that's it for me and this entire story seems like a cry for help from someone with a first world problem.
I'm pretty sure it should be called MicroBur$t.