True, but in my experience, even the top developers spend some of their time "dicking around" online rather than "working". Nobody can focus 100% of the time.
Leaving doors open while running makes passengers less comfortable in hot or cold weather, makes them worry about falling out, and barely increases speed. So it's not recommended.
At-grade crossings of rail lines are rare, so not much is gained by ignoring safety rules at them.
Driving while people are still paying their fares is a good idea. But really people shouldn't be paying their fares at the front of the bus. There should be fare payment machines scattered throughout the bus, so people can get on by any door and pay there shortly after boarding. Occasional inspectors will make sure that fare evasion is minimal. This system is widespread in Europe, but the only US city that I know of to implement it (on more than a handful of routes) is San Francisco.
The mechanisms that *really* increase bus speed do so by impacting the speed/capacity of a smaller number of car users. These include separate bus lanes, and traffic signals that automatically turn green when a bus approaches. These are politically difficult to implement in the US.
Looking at NYC because it's the closest peer to Moscow: NYC claims it is impossible to run more than 30 trains per hour on its most crowded subway lines, while Moscow routinely runs 42-44 trains per hour on its lines. NYC subway stops are routinely dumps; Moscow stops are architectural marvels. So it's not surprising that Moscow's subway has 60% more riders per mile.
As for smaller US cities, they typically consist of just buses except for maybe one central corridor. The buses are clean, but they usually run once every half hour or hour, so they are useless for getting anywhere in a timely manner, and almost the only people who use them are those who can't afford cars.
Because "giving a shit" implies that you do things which will likely make a person happy. Visiting them in their nursing home is among those things. Assuming the nursing home is paid for, I suspect this employee does not feel the need for more money. Nursing homes are impersonal and often humiliating and cruel, and I suspect it would mean a LOT more for this employee to be visited by people who still care about him, who are still willing to see him as their mentor, than it would to receive some dollars. "The company" consists of people, and the mentee in particular had a personal relationship with their mentor and received something from the mentor. And for them now to not visit the mentor in a nursing home? That's sort of like not visiting your parents in a nursing home, in terms of impact.
The main reason for the existance of NK was to break up Korea and prevent a unified Korea from being an economic powerhouse dominating North Asia. People look at NK today and its a basket case. But if Korea hadn't been broken up and that unified Korea had been under an economic management such as developed in South Korea, the agricultural wealth of the south and the mineral wealth of the north would have resulted in a nation which would be able to challenge even China, would have dwarfed Japan and would have been seen by the Soviet Union as a threat to their Eastern maritimes.
Really? 75 million North+South Koreans would have dwarfed 125 million Japanese, and challenged 1.3 billion Chinese? Hard to believe.
For me, the main problem with paperless statements is that they don't email you the statement - they require you to login to some website (with a name/password you might not remember), then navigate around the site until you find the statement, then download it. That's a real pain. I would much prefer to see a new email in my inbox, click on it to read it, then press "Archive" and be able to search for it (by company name) whenever I wanted in the future.
I understand the reasons for this - email has historically been insecure. But nowadays major email providers like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all use STARTTLS. So there should be no obstacle to sending statements and notices by email to most people's addresses.
If this technology works, I can see it being required for all guns in the future. You don't need long range to defend yourself against a mugger or home intruder, right?
Once again user "mdsolar" is back to spread FUD about alternatives to his solar energy business. In this case the "logic" is particularly absurd: some radioactive material is unaccounted for -> terrorists could make a radioactive bomb -> all radiation is bad -> nuclear energy also involves radiation -> you should use solar.
Perhaps it's time for user "mdnuclear" to post about how the sun is dangerous because some people in Australia got skin cancer?
One huge national company in any industry simply needs fewer support people, customer service people, lawyers, accountants, custodial workers, etc. than the same geographic footprint served by multiple smaller businesses.
That's fundamentally a good thing - less labor is required in order to create the same product, so the world is richer.
The problem is that the resulting wealth is more unevenly distributed. But inequality can be fixed by using a more progressive tax system and providing a social safety net. That is a much more productive approach than trying to preserve redundant jobs.
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I have one question for you. How has voting 90% helped blacks get out of places like Chicago and Detroit?
A huge number of blacks have gotten out of those places. That's why the slums are now full of abandoned buildings, and empty lots where other abandoned buildings used to be.
Meanwhile, India is planning to build a single nuclear facility that will produce 62 times as much power, for less than three times the cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Half the speed means you can have twice as many cars traveling safely, due to the "two-second rule" which allows for smaller gaps between cars at lower speeds. So it ends up being about a wash.
Um... the US spends more money on R&D than any other country, and more money per person than any other country except Israel and South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Three-meter-high pylons are cheap. But when you're climbing a thousand-meter mountain range, either your pylons have to be hundreds of meters high (and thus VERY expensive), or else you need to navigate curves at lower speed.
California is a strange place to start the hyperloop project. There are two mountain ranges between LA and San Francisco, and the dominant cost of the high-speed rail project is bridges and tunnels to cross the mountain ranges. Hyperloop is designed to go over twice as fast as high-speed rail, which means the curves have to be much more gradual, meaning longer and more expensive tunnels and bridges.
Musk should really think about starting the project in a flatter area, perhaps between Chicago and Dallas, where it really could be cheaper than rail.
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The only thing that they really messed up was the track gauge, not using the standard gauge but a more or less unique for the BART system.
That, and the cylindrical wheels which are much louder and need more maintenance, compared to the conical wheels used on most other railways.
If India wants to get rid of pollution, maybe they should start first with their sewage problem.
True, but in my experience, even the top developers spend some of their time "dicking around" online rather than "working". Nobody can focus 100% of the time.
Road shoulders for bus use already exist.
Leaving doors open while running makes passengers less comfortable in hot or cold weather, makes them worry about falling out, and barely increases speed. So it's not recommended.
At-grade crossings of rail lines are rare, so not much is gained by ignoring safety rules at them.
Driving while people are still paying their fares is a good idea. But really people shouldn't be paying their fares at the front of the bus. There should be fare payment machines scattered throughout the bus, so people can get on by any door and pay there shortly after boarding. Occasional inspectors will make sure that fare evasion is minimal. This system is widespread in Europe, but the only US city that I know of to implement it (on more than a handful of routes) is San Francisco.
The mechanisms that *really* increase bus speed do so by impacting the speed/capacity of a smaller number of car users. These include separate bus lanes, and traffic signals that automatically turn green when a bus approaches. These are politically difficult to implement in the US.
Actually, he was 100% right.
Looking at NYC because it's the closest peer to Moscow: NYC claims it is impossible to run more than 30 trains per hour on its most crowded subway lines, while Moscow routinely runs 42-44 trains per hour on its lines. NYC subway stops are routinely dumps; Moscow stops are architectural marvels. So it's not surprising that Moscow's subway has 60% more riders per mile.
As for smaller US cities, they typically consist of just buses except for maybe one central corridor. The buses are clean, but they usually run once every half hour or hour, so they are useless for getting anywhere in a timely manner, and almost the only people who use them are those who can't afford cars.
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Because "giving a shit" implies that you do things which will likely make a person happy. Visiting them in their nursing home is among those things. Assuming the nursing home is paid for, I suspect this employee does not feel the need for more money. Nursing homes are impersonal and often humiliating and cruel, and I suspect it would mean a LOT more for this employee to be visited by people who still care about him, who are still willing to see him as their mentor, than it would to receive some dollars. "The company" consists of people, and the mentee in particular had a personal relationship with their mentor and received something from the mentor. And for them now to not visit the mentor in a nursing home? That's sort of like not visiting your parents in a nursing home, in terms of impact.
So, have you ever visited this mentor in his nursing home?
If not, you're part of the problem.
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The main reason for the existance of NK was to break up Korea and prevent a unified Korea from being an economic powerhouse dominating North Asia. People look at NK today and its a basket case. But if Korea hadn't been broken up and that unified Korea had been under an economic management such as developed in South Korea, the agricultural wealth of the south and the mineral wealth of the north would have resulted in a nation which would be able to challenge even China, would have dwarfed Japan and would have been seen by the Soviet Union as a threat to their Eastern maritimes.
Really? 75 million North+South Koreans would have dwarfed 125 million Japanese, and challenged 1.3 billion Chinese? Hard to believe.
For me, the main problem with paperless statements is that they don't email you the statement - they require you to login to some website (with a name/password you might not remember), then navigate around the site until you find the statement, then download it. That's a real pain. I would much prefer to see a new email in my inbox, click on it to read it, then press "Archive" and be able to search for it (by company name) whenever I wanted in the future.
I understand the reasons for this - email has historically been insecure. But nowadays major email providers like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all use STARTTLS. So there should be no obstacle to sending statements and notices by email to most people's addresses.
...And let's not get started on college football coaches.
If this technology works, I can see it being required for all guns in the future. You don't need long range to defend yourself against a mugger or home intruder, right?
Once again user "mdsolar" is back to spread FUD about alternatives to his solar energy business. In this case the "logic" is particularly absurd: some radioactive material is unaccounted for -> terrorists could make a radioactive bomb -> all radiation is bad -> nuclear energy also involves radiation -> you should use solar.
Perhaps it's time for user "mdnuclear" to post about how the sun is dangerous because some people in Australia got skin cancer?
One huge national company in any industry simply needs fewer support people, customer service people, lawyers, accountants, custodial workers, etc. than the same geographic footprint served by multiple smaller businesses.
That's fundamentally a good thing - less labor is required in order to create the same product, so the world is richer.
The problem is that the resulting wealth is more unevenly distributed. But inequality can be fixed by using a more progressive tax system and providing a social safety net. That is a much more productive approach than trying to preserve redundant jobs.
I have one question for you. How has voting 90% helped blacks get out of places like Chicago and Detroit?
A huge number of blacks have gotten out of those places. That's why the slums are now full of abandoned buildings, and empty lots where other abandoned buildings used to be.
Meanwhile, India is planning to build a single nuclear facility that will produce 62 times as much power, for less than three times the cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Half the speed means you can have twice as many cars traveling safely, due to the "two-second rule" which allows for smaller gaps between cars at lower speeds.
So it ends up being about a wash.
Um... the US spends more money on R&D than any other country, and more money per person than any other country except Israel and South Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Three-meter-high pylons are cheap. But when you're climbing a thousand-meter mountain range, either your pylons have to be hundreds of meters high (and thus VERY expensive), or else you need to navigate curves at lower speed.
California is a strange place to start the hyperloop project. There are two mountain ranges between LA and San Francisco, and the dominant cost of the high-speed rail project is bridges and tunnels to cross the mountain ranges. Hyperloop is designed to go over twice as fast as high-speed rail, which means the curves have to be much more gradual, meaning longer and more expensive tunnels and bridges.
Musk should really think about starting the project in a flatter area, perhaps between Chicago and Dallas, where it really could be cheaper than rail.
Biblical law allows for stoning babies resulting from rape or incest at birth.
I'm pretty sure that's not true, so [citation needed]
It's 85% in general and 50% in pedestrian-heavy areas.
So what communities are *more* thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific nowadays? If you can name some, I'd like to frequent them.
Sounds like a good project for New Hampshire.