Is there any blockchain system that is not the absolute electricity hog that is Bitcoin? Modern cash registers and credit card swipe machines use a trivial amount of electricity. The world cannot afford to dump a substantial fraction of its available power into bitcoin-type computations.
= = = The Verge writes that "the case may be litigated for years to come to figure out how to account for the over 10,000 state jurisdictions that govern sales tax across the country. = = =
You subscribe to a service that takes the 9-digit zipcode and the Dept of Commerce product classification and returns the appropriate tax amount. Such services are available as single-transaction web pages up to 1,000,000 transaction/hour back end services. At the end of the quarter the service provides you with a list of what counties and how much tax to remit (sales taxes, including state sales tax where applicable, are typically collected at the county level and redistributed). It is part of doing business if you are selling stuff.
I see no reason why an online "entrepreneur" should not have to pay sales tax the same as a gal who sets up a food truck that drives around a county selling hotdogs.
It has already been documented that the sensors provided data about the obstacle to the control module in plenty of time to stop the car or change lanes. Even if no action were taken by the primary control system the backup sensor provided 1.5 seconds of warning which is enough for 18 ABS actuation cycles and probably 10-15 mph of speed scrub-off. The obstacle happened to be a human - who was killed- so the car was not badly damaged or the occupant injured. If it has been a piece of machinery that fell off a truck? A total failure by the Uber Corporation in every way.
The cost of electricity and routine maintenance on the dewatering pumps for a deep underground tunnel alone will exceed your total revenue calculation.
Take your bets on: 1) the year they throw a bunch of public money at it to keep it going 2) the year they throw a bunch more public money at it despite it being clear it will never be built 3) the year everybody knows it will never be built 4) the year they finally pull the plug 5) just how high will the per-trip operating subsidy be?
The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago (now the Midwest Water Reclamation District - I liked the old name better) was during the 1970s and 80s the world's leading user of tunnel boring systems for non-train-tunnel purposes such as the gigantic (wait for it) Deep Tunnel Project. They were a consultant to Fermilab on that organization's Superconducting Supercollider bid which involved a circular tunnel 100 miles in diameter. There's plenty of experience in Chicago in building and operating large deep tunnels under northern Illinois - and none of it has tried to sell the ridiculous system Musk is proposing. Maybe there's a reason?
= = = The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is one of the most annoying things about Agile. "You're not doing it right" has become a mantra for explaining away any shortcomings, of which there are more than a few. = = =
Yes, but of course the Waterfall and One True Spec adherents said exactly the same thing for 30 years in the face of evidence of failure rates over 50% as well. So perhaps there is no perfect method?
The wisdom of the industrial organization I once worked for that split any division that grew larger than ~ $100 million US/year into two divisions or product lines, each with an on-site and engaged general managers, appears greater to me as the years pass.
You have to read pretty deep into the details of the Apollo missions before you come across full descriptions of the day-to-day life on those spacecraft. It was uncomfortable, unpleasant, and often disgusting. Since there has been no miracle breakthrough in propulsion the weight constraints in 2020 are essentially the same as in 1964, and if built a Space-X around-the-moon tourist vehicle will be more like living inside a discarded can of ham and beans for a week than flying on a luxury aircraft.
The will cooperate with DOT and the NTSB to thoroughly investigate the accident and improve their system.
Although I'm pretty sure the Big 3, along with BMW, Toyota, etc will have tested the 'suddenly appearing obstacle' scenario among others before they put their semi-autonomous vehicles on public roads. Sometimes you can't replace 120 years of accumulated knowledge with "disruption".
Aggressive drivers and generally bad drivers tend to be excessively self-confident bro-types who will never engage a self-driving mode on any car they own anyway, so that group factors out. Additionally, programming an automated vehicle to make the decisions necessary to handle when it encounters an aggressively bad driver requires real AI - which doesn't exist - and takes the designer deep into trolley problem space.
Over the past two weeks, 10 wells have been quenched, and capped with a heavy steel plate. The work required removing the massive wellhead valves tested to resist 3,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, something that will now be accomplished by a column of water more than a mile high to resist lava entry into the well underground.
That’s the working theory anyway, and company and government emergency management officials consulted experts worldwide from New Zealand to California to Iceland on the best response to imminent lava inundation.
The trouble is, “to our knowledge, no one’s faced this before,” Travis said.
The last wellhead – Well 14 – stymied all efforts Monday to quench and cap the well. More than a mile of cold water was not enough. Ditto more than a mile of denser salt water.
“Something has happened down there in the last two weeks that won’t let it (quench),” Travis said.
Drilling mud, a highly complex and heavyweight chemical compound used extensively in oilfield drilling, is the next line of attack. Travis was confident the mud would work because it hardens and thickens under heat and pressure, he said.
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/... Lava erupting from the Kilauea volcano has reached the property of a geothermal power plant where toxic gas lurks in underground wells, the head of the state emergency management agency said Monday.
So far, a berm has halted the advance of the lava at about 200 to 300 meters from the wells of Puna Geothermal Venture.
Searching electric vehicle ems training brings up quite a few resources from DOE, NFPA, and many other organizations. 15 years after the widespread introduction of the Prius as the first modern electric car to sell in large volumes I expect all certified safety organizations have procedures in place for handling electric vehicle accidents.
= = = Unlike gasoline or diesel, which can still ignite after being drained from the tank, electricity is pretty much harmless once you've discharged it into a ground, like say the ground. = = =
There's a pretty common belief, probably stemming from how we are taught about electricity in 2nd and 3rd grade, that Gaia maintains reservoirs of electrons and positrons at the Earth's core and that electricity will "seek a path to ground", presumably to be stored in this reservoir for future deployment by the various gods/goddesses of lightning, the ghosts of Edison, and Tesla, etc. This is to put a fine point on it not true; if you connect a Tesla battery 'to the ground' (presumably by sticking some sort of metal toothpicks in the nearest soil and connecting the battery leads to it) at best you will get some slightly warmer soil in the vicinity of those toothpicks while the battery pretty much holds its original charge. The emergency services would have to carry around 1 MW resistors to use as the energy sink, and those things are not small or cheap ( http://www.jovyatlas.com/ja/Te... )
= = = Difference is Amazon was forging into unexplored territory. Nobody had built an Internet-based store of that scale before. Everything was new = = =
Amazon was exactly the Sears, Roebuck catalog order model circa 1890, except with a dial-up modem in place of a mailbox. And at the time a much less capable distribution network than Sears'.
= = = You train and equip a SWAT team, you end up using that SWAT team. For something. If not that night, then some other night. If not that house, some other house.
I asked you to remind us why a specific police detachment was on specific call that night. Not a general discussion of whether or not Kansas police departments are over-militarized. This matters, because if I were being held hostage by a hard right wing fanatic I would certainly want my local police to mobilize their SWAT team in hopes of rescuing me.
So again, explain what the root cause of this specific incident in Kansas was.
= = = The root cause is that police are dangerous and willing to shoot people without knowing what's going on. = = =
"root cause" - I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
Remind us why the police were at a house. Whether the right house or wrong house for the call they received doesn't matter - just remind us why they were on a response. Thanks.
What has absolutely nothing to do with the legality of the actions taken by the person who called police units armed for deadly force and falsely claimed that there was a hostage situation in progress. That person is responsible for his own actions and if his actions directly resulted in death or injury he is legally responsible for those under various criminal and civil laws as well.
Michael Moore? They guy who was right about a higher percentage of what he said from 1985 to 2008 than 99.9% of the US' leaders, journalists, and commentators? Note that to get back on track and become a good car maker again GM essentially had to undo everything Roger Smith did, just as Moore predicted. And he was right about GM's electric car: a good percentage of the patents in the 1st gen Toyota Prius were licensed from GM.
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Is there any blockchain system that is not the absolute electricity hog that is Bitcoin? Modern cash registers and credit card swipe machines use a trivial amount of electricity. The world cannot afford to dump a substantial fraction of its available power into bitcoin-type computations.
Eagle was earlier than Compaq - until the founder drove his brand-new Ferrari over a cliff.
No, that doesn't follow from anything I wrote. Nice try though.
I'd be happy to help:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sales+tax...
You subscribe to a service that takes the 9-digit zipcode and the Dept of Commerce product classification and returns the appropriate tax amount. Such services are available as single-transaction web pages up to 1,000,000 transaction/hour back end services. At the end of the quarter the service provides you with a list of what counties and how much tax to remit (sales taxes, including state sales tax where applicable, are typically collected at the county level and redistributed). It is part of doing business if you are selling stuff.
I see no reason why an online "entrepreneur" should not have to pay sales tax the same as a gal who sets up a food truck that drives around a county selling hotdogs.
It has already been documented that the sensors provided data about the obstacle to the control module in plenty of time to stop the car or change lanes. Even if no action were taken by the primary control system the backup sensor provided 1.5 seconds of warning which is enough for 18 ABS actuation cycles and probably 10-15 mph of speed scrub-off. The obstacle happened to be a human - who was killed- so the car was not badly damaged or the occupant injured. If it has been a piece of machinery that fell off a truck? A total failure by the Uber Corporation in every way.
I think the point was more that Uber's openly stated method of business is to deliberately break laws it finds inconvenient.
1. Move fast
2. Break things
3. Ignore laws
4. Beg for forgiveness not permission
5. ???
6. Go to prison
Any words of wisdom for Uber HQ employees?
The cost of electricity and routine maintenance on the dewatering pumps for a deep underground tunnel alone will exceed your total revenue calculation.
As political analyst Duncan Black said:
The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago (now the Midwest Water Reclamation District - I liked the old name better) was during the 1970s and 80s the world's leading user of tunnel boring systems for non-train-tunnel purposes such as the gigantic (wait for it) Deep Tunnel Project. They were a consultant to Fermilab on that organization's Superconducting Supercollider bid which involved a circular tunnel 100 miles in diameter. There's plenty of experience in Chicago in building and operating large deep tunnels under northern Illinois - and none of it has tried to sell the ridiculous system Musk is proposing. Maybe there's a reason?
Yes, but of course the Waterfall and One True Spec adherents said exactly the same thing for 30 years in the face of evidence of failure rates over 50% as well. So perhaps there is no perfect method?
The wisdom of the industrial organization I once worked for that split any division that grew larger than ~ $100 million US/year into two divisions or product lines, each with an on-site and engaged general managers, appears greater to me as the years pass.
You have to read pretty deep into the details of the Apollo missions before you come across full descriptions of the day-to-day life on those spacecraft. It was uncomfortable, unpleasant, and often disgusting. Since there has been no miracle breakthrough in propulsion the weight constraints in 2020 are essentially the same as in 1964, and if built a Space-X around-the-moon tourist vehicle will be more like living inside a discarded can of ham and beans for a week than flying on a luxury aircraft.
The will cooperate with DOT and the NTSB to thoroughly investigate the accident and improve their system.
Although I'm pretty sure the Big 3, along with BMW, Toyota, etc will have tested the 'suddenly appearing obstacle' scenario among others before they put their semi-autonomous vehicles on public roads. Sometimes you can't replace 120 years of accumulated knowledge with "disruption".
Aggressive drivers and generally bad drivers tend to be excessively self-confident bro-types who will never engage a self-driving mode on any car they own anyway, so that group factors out. Additionally, programming an automated vehicle to make the decisions necessary to handle when it encounters an aggressively bad driver requires real AI - which doesn't exist - and takes the designer deep into trolley problem space.
Much useful information in this article at Hawaii Civil Beat: http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/...
Short quote (there's a lot more at the link):
Searching electric vehicle ems training brings up quite a few resources from DOE, NFPA, and many other organizations. 15 years after the widespread introduction of the Prius as the first modern electric car to sell in large volumes I expect all certified safety organizations have procedures in place for handling electric vehicle accidents.
Here's a good summary from the DOE: https://www.energy.gov/sites/p...
There's a pretty common belief, probably stemming from how we are taught about electricity in 2nd and 3rd grade, that Gaia maintains reservoirs of electrons and positrons at the Earth's core and that electricity will "seek a path to ground", presumably to be stored in this reservoir for future deployment by the various gods/goddesses of lightning, the ghosts of Edison, and Tesla, etc. This is to put a fine point on it not true; if you connect a Tesla battery 'to the ground' (presumably by sticking some sort of metal toothpicks in the nearest soil and connecting the battery leads to it) at best you will get some slightly warmer soil in the vicinity of those toothpicks while the battery pretty much holds its original charge. The emergency services would have to carry around 1 MW resistors to use as the energy sink, and those things are not small or cheap ( http://www.jovyatlas.com/ja/Te... )
Amazon was exactly the Sears, Roebuck catalog order model circa 1890, except with a dial-up modem in place of a mailbox. And at the time a much less capable distribution network than Sears'.
Try "I shot him because the gun was just lying there Your Honor" in court and see how it works out for you.
I asked you to remind us why a specific police detachment was on specific call that night. Not a general discussion of whether or not Kansas police departments are over-militarized. This matters, because if I were being held hostage by a hard right wing fanatic I would certainly want my local police to mobilize their SWAT team in hopes of rescuing me.
So again, explain what the root cause of this specific incident in Kansas was.
"root cause" - I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
Remind us why the police were at a house. Whether the right house or wrong house for the call they received doesn't matter - just remind us why they were on a response. Thanks.
What has absolutely nothing to do with the legality of the actions taken by the person who called police units armed for deadly force and falsely claimed that there was a hostage situation in progress. That person is responsible for his own actions and if his actions directly resulted in death or injury he is legally responsible for those under various criminal and civil laws as well.
Michael Moore? They guy who was right about a higher percentage of what he said from 1985 to 2008 than 99.9% of the US' leaders, journalists, and commentators? Note that to get back on track and become a good car maker again GM essentially had to undo everything Roger Smith did, just as Moore predicted. And he was right about GM's electric car: a good percentage of the patents in the 1st gen Toyota Prius were licensed from GM.