It is simple. Both the left and the right believe what they like and scream that the other side if full of idiots for doing the same. anti-fracking anti-vacc and anti climate change are all in the same boat now.
So gather data, write a paper, and submit it to peer review.
If not just how are you any different from people that claim climate change is hoax in spite of the studies or that the anti vacc folks. It is called only trusting the data you like.
" Children who are behind need high-quality adult guidance more than anything else." Those are called parents. I would bet good money that children with a stable home with both parents tend to do better in school. Teachers and tech can only do so much.
Really? Maybe you did not notice that the thread title is that a German company is copying a US company?
The difference between US Centric and US exclusive. In fact I would guess that it is pretty rare to find a front page story without a US connection. The only common ones I can think of would be stories about CERN, ESA, and Airbus. I do not see why you take such offense to a site based in the US being US centric. Sure some people on the site are not from the US but that is to be expected.
In the many places thanks to the move to digital you can get all the networks for free but many people don't bother which I think is dumb. In many other locations the cable companies have changed the way TV stations work. I can get about 12 channels on my TV with a simple antenna. Only two are networks! The cost of entry is low but the major networks do not want to be in this OTA market because the cable companies have to pay to carry them now. I think that the law should change so that cable companies only have to pay for the broadcast channels that customers can get with an antenna. TV used to be free and we need to go back to that. It is insane to pay for a TV with ads!
Let's take a look at the subjects on the front page today. The Linux Foundation. Based in San Francisco and registered as a Not for profit in the US. Disney and H1B workers... US based company and H1Bs are US Visas. The Moon. Not US centric. Microsoft selling feature phones. US based company doing business overseas. The American Cancer Society's IT overhaul. GIT Hub affects people all over but the company is US based. NASA. Batterroo US based. SpaceX US based. Windows 10 Microsoft US based. How much Google is spending on lobbying the US government. Virginia and self driving cars. AMD US based company. Egyptian out ranks Google. No US centric. Making an AR-15 in the Wired offices. Guns and Wired... Seems very US centric to me. Almost every story has something to do with the US or US companies. Some effect other nations but everyone has a connection to the US.
Maybe I am wrong but something of interest has to be happening in the world that does not involve a US company and or the US government. I left out that Slashdot was founded in the US and current owner is Dice and they are located in New York. This is a US centric site. Nothing wrong with that and of course everyone is welcome but The majority of the people on this site are from the US and the majority of the stories are about US companies and the US government. Not all but the majority.
Frankly I would like to see them open one in the Palm Beach area of Florida but yes Atlanta would IMHO probably help attract a more diverse workforce as well.
" but rather than going to where the concentrations are I think it's better to try to reduce the concentrations by encouraging people to move around."
Ever think that an African American might not want to move away from where his culture is? Or a Hispanic person? Frankly I would hate to live in the SF area. I like the level of diverse culture that South Florida offers. Not just in race but economics and urban and rural lifestyles.
The Bay area just does not seem like a place I would want to live and I bet a lot of other people feel the same way.
I still think a big part of it is location. SF has large asian and white communities and only tiny African American and Hispanic communities. Oakland's African American community is also shrinking but Oakland never had a large educated African American community. If Google wants a more diverse workforce it needs to open centers in areas with more diversity like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and South Florida. Places where you have "Traditionally Black Colleges" and or a long established Hispanic community.
" This is an international forum " Really? This forum is in english and is based in the US. The news is mostly US based. Sure people from around the world come here but this is most certainly a US based forum. It is no more an international based forum than a web forum based in France and where the posts are in French is or any other forum on the Internet. Sure everyone is welcome but it is a US centric site.
I read an article on magnetic levitated flywheels in PopSci back in the 1970s. Do the math on what it would take to store 9 GWh of power. That is 16 hours of output from a small base load nuclear power plant.
If the R&D pays off. Doesn't really matter, for a company success == profit. Having enough VC to keep the lights on == surviving. Tesla is not a successful car company yet.
Frankly that makes no sense. The 10KWh battery from Tesla is only good for 50 cycles a year. It is a replacement for a back up generator at best. The 7KWh pack could work for solar storage but frankly they are not cost effective no storage method is cost effective except maybe hydro storage.
Your NUC uses a bga mobile chip in a "desktop". This is a cpu that you can throw onto a motherboard and add the video card of your choice as opposed to you NUC.
Solar and Wind both have a part to play. Solar has some real problems with supply/demand that solar fans like to gloss over but Wind backed by natural gas peaking plants works rather well in many areas. Solar does not compete for base load and can not until a massive breakthrough in storage is made and is in production. Molten salt thermal storage, batteries including Teslas, and pumping water are just not good enough to solve the problem. Nuclear and Hydro are the two lowest carbon output base load methods that work today. And who knows this may all be a none issue if Lockheed's high beta fusion reactor works. I tend to be very skeptical about Fusion but Lockheed has a really good track record at doing the amazing.
but the uber nerds are a small % of the people that go to movies. For instance I objected to Gravity being called SciFi because it was no more SciFi the the Poseidon Adventure was. Space stations and orbital space stations are real.
Actually I loved Tomarrowland. The extreme left hate it and says it is full of Ayn Rand references and the extreme right says it supports the global climate change hoax that alone makes it worth watching for me. Anything that drives those two groups into a tizzy must be good. Actually it is a fun movie that is beautiful to look at and the story is pure fantasy. Of course it is hated by a lot of people because it actually attacks the current love of dark depressing "gritty" movies and frankly culture. It was also an ode to Walt Disney's dream of what EPCOT was supposed to be, his gift to mankind and not what it because a place to eat.
The Tesla Powerwall IS not that big of a deal and not the solution for Solar! The 10kwh Powerwall is only good for 50 cycles a year! It is more of a house size UPS. The 7 will work for daily use but it is more expensive per kwh than the 10 and even Solar City is not going to sell the 7. The Tesla power wall battery still sucks. It does suck less than other battery packs but only a little. The big improvment is one of packaging and frankly hype. I know that this is going to go counter to the Church of Tesla's teachings but even the Model S really does not count. It is a 100K car for the very rich. Another fact is the simple truth that the Tesla car company is not successful car company yet. It has yet to make a profit.
No we do not need to move to low voltage wiring in our homes because of the "success" of the Powerwall. The Powerwall is the the solution to the solar production/demand problem. And frankly in most homes the biggest power users are things like AC, Hot water heaters, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, and so on. All of which work just fine on AC and I for one do not want to have to have a bus bar the size of my arm running to my dryer so it can work on 12 volts.
"2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard." Because trying to read a paper map and drive at the same time is so much safer... Sure I agree that that playing angry birds while driving is a bad plan but Things like Nav do make driving safer IMHO. For the idiots that follow nav without question and drive into a river.. Well they would have done that sooner or later anyway.
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It is simple.
Both the left and the right believe what they like and scream that the other side if full of idiots for doing the same.
anti-fracking
anti-vacc
and anti climate change are all in the same boat now.
So gather data, write a paper, and submit it to peer review.
If not just how are you any different from people that claim climate change is hoax in spite of the studies or that the anti vacc folks.
It is called only trusting the data you like.
You are paying for it.
" Children who are behind need high-quality adult guidance more than anything else."
Those are called parents. I would bet good money that children with a stable home with both parents tend to do better in school. Teachers and tech can only do so much.
Really? Maybe you did not notice that the thread title is that a German company is copying a US company?
The difference between US Centric and US exclusive.
In fact I would guess that it is pretty rare to find a front page story without a US connection. The only common ones I can think of would be stories about CERN, ESA, and Airbus. I do not see why you take such offense to a site based in the US being US centric. Sure some people on the site are not from the US but that is to be expected.
In the many places thanks to the move to digital you can get all the networks for free but many people don't bother which I think is dumb. In many other locations the cable companies have changed the way TV stations work. I can get about 12 channels on my TV with a simple antenna. Only two are networks! The cost of entry is low but the major networks do not want to be in this OTA market because the cable companies have to pay to carry them now.
I think that the law should change so that cable companies only have to pay for the broadcast channels that customers can get with an antenna. TV used to be free and we need to go back to that. It is insane to pay for a TV with ads!
Wow....
That is just search results.
Let's take a look at the subjects on the front page today.
The Linux Foundation. Based in San Francisco and registered as a Not for profit in the US.
Disney and H1B workers... US based company and H1Bs are US Visas.
The Moon. Not US centric.
Microsoft selling feature phones. US based company doing business overseas.
The American Cancer Society's IT overhaul.
GIT Hub affects people all over but the company is US based.
NASA.
Batterroo US based.
SpaceX US based.
Windows 10 Microsoft US based.
How much Google is spending on lobbying the US government.
Virginia and self driving cars.
AMD US based company.
Egyptian out ranks Google. No US centric.
Making an AR-15 in the Wired offices. Guns and Wired...
Seems very US centric to me. Almost every story has something to do with the US or US companies. Some effect other nations but everyone has a connection to the US.
Maybe I am wrong but something of interest has to be happening in the world that does not involve a US company and or the US government. I left out that Slashdot was founded in the US and current owner is Dice and they are located in New York.
This is a US centric site. Nothing wrong with that and of course everyone is welcome but The majority of the people on this site are from the US and the majority of the stories are about US companies and the US government. Not all but the majority.
Frankly I would like to see them open one in the Palm Beach area of Florida but yes Atlanta would IMHO probably help attract a more diverse workforce as well.
" but rather than going to where the concentrations are I think it's better to try to reduce the concentrations by encouraging people to move around."
Ever think that an African American might not want to move away from where his culture is? Or a Hispanic person?
Frankly I would hate to live in the SF area. I like the level of diverse culture that South Florida offers. Not just in race but economics and urban and rural lifestyles.
The Bay area just does not seem like a place I would want to live and I bet a lot of other people feel the same way.
I still think a big part of it is location. SF has large asian and white communities and only tiny African American and Hispanic communities. Oakland's African American community is also shrinking but Oakland never had a large educated African American community.
If Google wants a more diverse workforce it needs to open centers in areas with more diversity like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and South Florida. Places where you have "Traditionally Black Colleges" and or a long established Hispanic community.
" This is an international forum "
Really? This forum is in english and is based in the US. The news is mostly US based. Sure people from around the world come here but this is most certainly a US based forum. It is no more an international based forum than a web forum based in France and where the posts are in French is or any other forum on the Internet. Sure everyone is welcome but it is a US centric site.
I read an article on magnetic levitated flywheels in PopSci back in the 1970s.
Do the math on what it would take to store 9 GWh of power. That is 16 hours of output from a small base load nuclear power plant.
If the R&D pays off.
Doesn't really matter, for a company success == profit.
Having enough VC to keep the lights on == surviving.
Tesla is not a successful car company yet.
I bet the victims of the Stasi could put out the difference to you.
Funny but I think Tesla is Rio in this metaphor.
Tesla is not a successful car or battery company yet. It still has not made a profit.
Frankly that makes no sense. The 10KWh battery from Tesla is only good for 50 cycles a year. It is a replacement for a back up generator at best. The 7KWh pack could work for solar storage but frankly they are not cost effective no storage method is cost effective except maybe hydro storage.
Your NUC uses a bga mobile chip in a "desktop". This is a cpu that you can throw onto a motherboard and add the video card of your choice as opposed to you NUC.
Solar and Wind both have a part to play. Solar has some real problems with supply/demand that solar fans like to gloss over but Wind backed by natural gas peaking plants works rather well in many areas. Solar does not compete for base load and can not until a massive breakthrough in storage is made and is in production. Molten salt thermal storage, batteries including Teslas, and pumping water are just not good enough to solve the problem. Nuclear and Hydro are the two lowest carbon output base load methods that work today. And who knows this may all be a none issue if Lockheed's high beta fusion reactor works. I tend to be very skeptical about Fusion but Lockheed has a really good track record at doing the amazing.
but the uber nerds are a small % of the people that go to movies. For instance I objected to Gravity being called SciFi because it was no more SciFi the the Poseidon Adventure was. Space stations and orbital space stations are real.
huhhh?
Star Wars is pure fantasy.
Sorry but the majority of people think sci-fi = shiny space ships and fantasy = elves and knights.
Actually I loved Tomarrowland. The extreme left hate it and says it is full of Ayn Rand references and the extreme right says it supports the global climate change hoax that alone makes it worth watching for me. Anything that drives those two groups into a tizzy must be good.
Actually it is a fun movie that is beautiful to look at and the story is pure fantasy. Of course it is hated by a lot of people because it actually attacks the current love of dark depressing "gritty" movies and frankly culture. It was also an ode to Walt Disney's dream of what EPCOT was supposed to be, his gift to mankind and not what it because a place to eat.
Yep
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That being said really? It crashes at 32Gigs? That is a odd bug to not get caught in testing.
but I like dark chocolate.
I also like broccoli as well
The Tesla Powerwall IS not that big of a deal and not the solution for Solar!
The 10kwh Powerwall is only good for 50 cycles a year! It is more of a house size UPS. The 7 will work for daily use but it is more expensive per kwh than the 10 and even Solar City is not going to sell the 7.
The Tesla power wall battery still sucks. It does suck less than other battery packs but only a little. The big improvment is one of packaging and frankly hype.
I know that this is going to go counter to the Church of Tesla's teachings but even the Model S really does not count. It is a 100K car for the very rich. Another fact is the simple truth that the Tesla car company is not successful car company yet. It has yet to make a profit.
No we do not need to move to low voltage wiring in our homes because of the "success" of the Powerwall. The Powerwall is the the solution to the solar production/demand problem. And frankly in most homes the biggest power users are things like AC, Hot water heaters, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, and so on. All of which work just fine on AC and I for one do not want to have to have a bus bar the size of my arm running to my dryer so it can work on 12 volts.
"2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard."
Because trying to read a paper map and drive at the same time is so much safer...
Sure I agree that that playing angry birds while driving is a bad plan but Things like Nav do make driving safer IMHO. For the idiots that follow nav without question and drive into a river.. Well they would have done that sooner or later anyway.