= = = In summary, as long as you can make a sufficient number of right-hand turns, you can get away without hanging a Louie. = = =
That works in the Midwest US (where I learned to drive), but not so well in Pittsburgh. Make a right instead of a left there and it could be an hour until you get back to your starting point, which is also true for much of the northeast region of North America.
= = = Molten salt reactors are safe enough that they can be located at the edge of town, = = =
That's what Detroit Edison said about the Fermi molten salt reactor. When the local fire department showed up and was told there as a molten salt fire (really bad news) and the molten salt was radioactive they weren't too happy...
A nuclear reactor large enough to produce a useful amount of power will require security 24x7x365.3. That's a fixed cost that will not change, And so on. The BBC pebble bed would have made an excellent mini-reactor design but no one bought it due to the economics not being there.
Small nuclear designs have been available for 30 years, yet are not built in any significant number. If so advantageous for these locations why haven't any been built? Other than for a few military applications and those were not too successful due to operating requirements, waste disposal, contamination...
The "mini-reactor" idea comes around every 10 years. And every 12 year someone discovers that the fixed costs of operating any type of reactor that produces enough power to be useful (e.g. a US Air Force or Soviet "remote base" or "small town" system) mean that a somewhat larger plant is much more efficient, and a somewhat larger plant more efficient than that, and so on into the economy of scale argument for power/steam plants around... 1000 MWe (3000 MWt). Which is what tend to get built today.
The basics of power engineering, nuclear engineer, security, and waste disposal are well known and aren't going to be magically 'disrupted' by anything other than Mr. Fusion.
The SEC has a name for a privately held corporation with 4000 shareholders that trade their shares: a public corporation. That's why Microsoft had to go public in a hurry and to its majority stockholders disadvantage back in 1986: too many people were trying to trade their private shares.
I wouldn't do short selling myself, but it is a natural feature of the way joint-stock corporations and open markets for the shares thereof work. If you "have a problem with short seller" you should not take your firm public.
Did Musk make a statement about taking Tesla private without the approval of the Board of Directors, and did that statement result in significant movement of the stock price. Did Musk have a plan in place to ensure that the information was disseminated to all investors with reasonable expectation of simultaneity - usually accomplished with a temporary stock trading halt and/or an announcement when the major stock exchanges are closed. Did Tesla actually have $45 billion USD "arranged" when he announced that he did?
- - - - - Those roads would have been bid at 2 years, and at $100 million per mile, but he'd get them done in 4 years, at $200 million per mile - - - - -
The balance of the cost to be picked up by the taxpayer, natch.
MoviePass certainly has an interesting concept of how a contract works, one where they collect money upfront (the 2017 holiday promotion) and then unilaterally change the terms of the contract later. I wonder how they will fair in court with that?
I'm curious how administrators managing certified/validated systems are handling this. Generally speaking the user of such systems is not supposed to install changes that they have not tested and do not control. If Microsoft is removing the ability for system administrators to understand or manage updates how are they maintaining certification status?
China took the lead in power plant technology about 10 years ago, following Jack Welch's obsessive dismantling of General Electric's heavy industrial engineering and manufacturing arm + Westinghouse's 30 years of incompetent management. Germany had some firms that were still competing but as of this year they are going down the Welch path, leaving only China and to a lesser extent Japan in the arena.
So I'm not really sure what this guy was supposedly stealing - if anything he should have been going in the other direction.
= = = Seriously? 16GB of RAM isn't enough to quickly fiddle with family photos? = = =
In general I agree, although noting that any camera beyond a cell phone these days is generating 25 MB images and a lightweight machine does need to be able to handle them in Photoshop or just Irfan. The ultralightweight Lenovo I purchased for that purpose turned out to be unable to handle the load, so testing in Photoshop with a few modern-sized files is reasonable.
- - - - - - I honestly don't know why anyone tried running Photoshop on it; with 8 GB and 16 GB options, it's clearly not intended for serious editing. In combination with eMMC storage, I could tell you that Photoshop would run like crap without wasting time on a benchmark. It's simply not built for that. - - - - -
Because one of uses for these devices it to take on vacation/trips to allow immediate processing of photos without being concerned about leaving it in the hotel room or car.
the cost of carrying extra fuel isn't the purchase price of the material - which is usually low compared to the per kg cost of the rest of the vehicle - but the opportunity cost of the extra weight carried, the extra structure needed to carry that weight, the large control surfaces needed to manage the higher weight, and so on all the way down to the last turtle.
- - - - - The atmosphere offshore, where the Just Read the Instructions droneship was stationed 235km away - - - - - -
Someone's been reading their Iain M. Banks. But I'd still like to see the cost/benefit analysis from a Ship Mind on adding the additional fuel/oxidizer, control surfaces, and other equipment + inspections and refurbishment costs to allow stage recovery. Intuitively it doesn't seem to make sense, but perhaps a great Mind existing partially in hyperspace sees what mere humans cannot.
I took 2 years of Russian in high school, so let me translate: there will be no accountability at Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy violation, nor will Facebook change any policies or terminate any profitable contracts as a result.
= = = And honestly, I have no sympathy for people starting at $20-30 an hour but will eventually make $200-300 a year. = = =
Try counting the number of regional and short-haul airliners flying on FlightRadar24 and compare it to the number of long-haul international flights. Hint: think pyramid. It isn't as bad as the high school to NCAA Div I to NBA pyramid but it is close.
= = = A lot of the hoped-for automation was counterproductive. It's not like we knew it would be bad, because why would we buy a ticket to hell...? A whole bunch of the robots are turned off, and it was reverted to a manual station because the robots kept faulting out = = =
How could Musk have possibly known that would happen? Just because he was operating in a factory he bought from GM, which went through the exact same process in the 1980s and the failures of excess automation in the assembly process were well documented in both the trade press and business press? No One Could Have Anticipated(tm).
Sometimes the people who have been doing something for 120 years are hidebound. And sometimes they really do know what they are doing.
[IMHO the stock market has done Telsa a real disservice by bidding up the stock price beyond reasonable levels. At the time Ford needed the cash it received from selling Land Rover and Jaguar, but now it really needs a new luxury division. Tesla would make an excellent division of Ford - but at the stock price that can't happen]
Bessemer process is used to make steel. It replaced the open hearth process and both makes higher quality steel and is more efficient in energy and pollution than open hearth.
Manufacturing of aluminum always required electricity - there is fundamentally no other way known to do it so the cost is acceptable. Particularly given the recycleability of the material once refined. There are many other more efficient ways to process cash transactions than Bitcoin, so no need to use the energy hog.
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That works in the Midwest US (where I learned to drive), but not so well in Pittsburgh. Make a right instead of a left there and it could be an hour until you get back to your starting point, which is also true for much of the northeast region of North America.
Well done sir.
That's what Detroit Edison said about the Fermi molten salt reactor. When the local fire department showed up and was told there as a molten salt fire (really bad news) and the molten salt was radioactive they weren't too happy...
A nuclear reactor large enough to produce a useful amount of power will require security 24x7x365.3. That's a fixed cost that will not change, And so on. The BBC pebble bed would have made an excellent mini-reactor design but no one bought it due to the economics not being there.
Let me know how those mini-mills fare when the last blast furnace and BOF are shut down ;-)
Small nuclear designs have been available for 30 years, yet are not built in any significant number. If so advantageous for these locations why haven't any been built? Other than for a few military applications and those were not too successful due to operating requirements, waste disposal, contamination...
The "mini-reactor" idea comes around every 10 years. And every 12 year someone discovers that the fixed costs of operating any type of reactor that produces enough power to be useful (e.g. a US Air Force or Soviet "remote base" or "small town" system) mean that a somewhat larger plant is much more efficient, and a somewhat larger plant more efficient than that, and so on into the economy of scale argument for power/steam plants around... 1000 MWe (3000 MWt). Which is what tend to get built today.
The basics of power engineering, nuclear engineer, security, and waste disposal are well known and aren't going to be magically 'disrupted' by anything other than Mr. Fusion.
The SEC has a name for a privately held corporation with 4000 shareholders that trade their shares: a public corporation. That's why Microsoft had to go public in a hurry and to its majority stockholders disadvantage back in 1986: too many people were trying to trade their private shares.
I wouldn't do short selling myself, but it is a natural feature of the way joint-stock corporations and open markets for the shares thereof work. If you "have a problem with short seller" you should not take your firm public.
Did Musk make a statement about taking Tesla private without the approval of the Board of Directors, and did that statement result in significant movement of the stock price. Did Musk have a plan in place to ensure that the information was disseminated to all investors with reasonable expectation of simultaneity - usually accomplished with a temporary stock trading halt and/or an announcement when the major stock exchanges are closed. Did Tesla actually have $45 billion USD "arranged" when he announced that he did?
The balance of the cost to be picked up by the taxpayer, natch.
Apologize - mouse slipped resulted in bad moderation. Please mod this up - it is a good comment.
Watch a volcano in Iceland or Indonesia blast the still-highly-radioactive material into the atmosphere in the form of finely divided ash.
(yeah, I'm concerned about the Earth and whatever may be inhabiting it in 1000, 10,000, even 100,000 years)
MoviePass certainly has an interesting concept of how a contract works, one where they collect money upfront (the 2017 holiday promotion) and then unilaterally change the terms of the contract later. I wonder how they will fair in court with that?
I'm curious how administrators managing certified/validated systems are handling this. Generally speaking the user of such systems is not supposed to install changes that they have not tested and do not control. If Microsoft is removing the ability for system administrators to understand or manage updates how are they maintaining certification status?
China took the lead in power plant technology about 10 years ago, following Jack Welch's obsessive dismantling of General Electric's heavy industrial engineering and manufacturing arm + Westinghouse's 30 years of incompetent management. Germany had some firms that were still competing but as of this year they are going down the Welch path, leaving only China and to a lesser extent Japan in the arena.
So I'm not really sure what this guy was supposedly stealing - if anything he should have been going in the other direction.
In general I agree, although noting that any camera beyond a cell phone these days is generating 25 MB images and a lightweight machine does need to be able to handle them in Photoshop or just Irfan. The ultralightweight Lenovo I purchased for that purpose turned out to be unable to handle the load, so testing in Photoshop with a few modern-sized files is reasonable.
Because one of uses for these devices it to take on vacation/trips to allow immediate processing of photos without being concerned about leaving it in the hotel room or car.
the cost of carrying extra fuel isn't the purchase price of the material - which is usually low compared to the per kg cost of the rest of the vehicle - but the opportunity cost of the extra weight carried, the extra structure needed to carry that weight, the large control surfaces needed to manage the higher weight, and so on all the way down to the last turtle.
Someone's been reading their Iain M. Banks. But I'd still like to see the cost/benefit analysis from a Ship Mind on adding the additional fuel/oxidizer, control surfaces, and other equipment + inspections and refurbishment costs to allow stage recovery. Intuitively it doesn't seem to make sense, but perhaps a great Mind existing partially in hyperspace sees what mere humans cannot.
Let me guess: you are a senior manager at Uber.
I took 2 years of Russian in high school, so let me translate: there will be no accountability at Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy violation, nor will Facebook change any policies or terminate any profitable contracts as a result.
Try counting the number of regional and short-haul airliners flying on FlightRadar24 and compare it to the number of long-haul international flights. Hint: think pyramid. It isn't as bad as the high school to NCAA Div I to NBA pyramid but it is close.
How could Musk have possibly known that would happen? Just because he was operating in a factory he bought from GM, which went through the exact same process in the 1980s and the failures of excess automation in the assembly process were well documented in both the trade press and business press? No One Could Have Anticipated(tm).
Sometimes the people who have been doing something for 120 years are hidebound. And sometimes they really do know what they are doing.
[IMHO the stock market has done Telsa a real disservice by bidding up the stock price beyond reasonable levels. At the time Ford needed the cash it received from selling Land Rover and Jaguar, but now it really needs a new luxury division. Tesla would make an excellent division of Ford - but at the stock price that can't happen]
Bessemer process is used to make steel. It replaced the open hearth process and both makes higher quality steel and is more efficient in energy and pollution than open hearth.
Manufacturing of aluminum always required electricity - there is fundamentally no other way known to do it so the cost is acceptable. Particularly given the recycleability of the material once refined. There are many other more efficient ways to process cash transactions than Bitcoin, so no need to use the energy hog.