All this, not to take a new compound through testing but just to assure that your compound is the same one that is already on sale by the original patented manufacturer? There is now way this process should take "5 to seven years."
But I do like being able to verbally ask my phone to navigate to a contact, without having to squint at a screen in the sun, and get turn by turn directions. Digital assistants have slipped into a place in my life where they do a few useful things. As time goes on, this set will grow larger.
But I know: "If it works, it's not AI!" "If it's AI, it won't work!"
So how about a specific example: pharma lobbyists and the FDA cooperating to drag out the process of allowing new generic drugs, which are compounds already tested and approved for use, to be sold, thereby giving companies like Mylan the ability to overcharge people for medications they need because the competing generics are rotting away in the approval pipeline.
"Deep state" is just a newfangled term for bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists quietly agreeing to cooperate to preserve their own fiefdoms while screwing over the rest of us. This is not a newfangled problem.
We of the dark side are quietly relieved that Trump has now turned against Sessions. When the AG was first nominated, it was we who brought up the issue that Sessions supports civil forfeiture. When Trump was asked about this, it was found that he was apparently unaware of what the term meant.
But we can't exclude Trump as a problem here. There is no subject more contentious than energy and climate, but the only thing that everyone in the debate agrees on is that the worst alternative would be coal.
So guess which energy choice Trump glommed onto as his favorite toy from the toybox?
The only renewable that can be paired with wind and solar to load-follow during their dips is hydro (and in a few select places, geothermal). In the developed world, all the available hydro has been exploited. So absent new hydro, we are slipping into the use of gas as a pairing. That represents a savings of carbon over coal, but it's still an emitter.
Objecting to nukes because of economics makes much more sense. They are far too expensive, and the cost is going up while the cost of solar, wind, and storage is falling.
US costs are going up because each nuke is still a site-built science fair project that requires individual plant approval. China is building them for less, and will probably be the first country to offer factory-built modular reactors.
The first two were found in the basement turbine room a few days after the accident. But if "out of Fukushima" implies "out of" as opposed to "in", sure.
Those two drowned in the tsunami. The safety of seawater is not at issue here.
We can dig very deep holes and put the high level waste in the ground.
We could do that, but it would be wasting 95% of the energy in the original fuel. The long-term radiation in nuclear waste represents more exploitable energy. We need breeder reactors and isotope separation to turn it into new fuel.
I'm no longer in corporate life, but I had to undergo innumerable time-wasting conference calls back in the day. Usually we would have to wait for Laura from Accounting to unfutz her headset, wait for Chad from Marketing to finish his three-microbrew client lunch, and then work around the problem of Karl the Codemeister beaming in from the München affiliate and having trouble with the international connection. Typically it took about twenty minutes of "Can you hear me" in a variety of thick accents before business cold commence.
Why not replace conference calls with conference group texting? You circulate a detailed agenda and then go from there. The advantages would be:
1. Text conversations are not interrupters. 2. No need to wait for people who aren't ready yet until some critical input is needed from one such person. You can then indicate the specific nature of the input. When the missing person appears, he can easily scroll back to know what has happened so far. 3. Text unambiguously communicates part numbers, DHL destinations, lines of code, and links to external videos and PDFs. Try getting these right over a voice line when the Georgian, the Geordie and the German are the ones talking. 4. Everyone has an automatic and instant transcript of the meeting. 5. Text excels at getting through over degraded communication links, even if that means SMS from a hotel room in Prague.
One of the major bulk cargos cited was bauxite, aluminum ore. Though most ores are smelted near the mine, the economics of aluminum are weird because this element requires vast amounts of electricity to refine. It actually pays to mine bauxite in Australia but smelt it in places like New Zealand, where there is cheap hydro, or Iceland, where there is cheap geothermal electricity.
the obvious solution to this is to have partitions inside the ship, to limit the amount of shift possible.
Take a look at the commentary on Ars. Partitions in the hold are the first thing every nerd proposed, but apparently maritime cargo operates by the same bean-counting rules as the automobile industry: any innovation that costs more than pennies per unit is rejected as too costly. Losing a rusty freighter with a developing-nation crew every so often is just a cost of doing business.
An independent judiciary doesn't get replaced with every election, as Trump is finding out right now. It's supposed to be a reserve of institutional continuity, of long-term thinking, that does not have to follow each popular fad. The concept of 'standing' is a key element in judicial independence: the people who should bring cases to court where technical issues are concerned are those who know what the hell they're talking about.
Living near a project that some random blogger has decided is scary should not give you standing to use the courts for your narrow self-interest. What good will it do you to prevent construction of a nuclear plant on your seacoast if enough glacial ice melts to put your property underwater?
We have never used Skype In, just Skype out to PSTN and cell lines. The calling function still works, at least before this update, but you can't add phone-only contacts or edit the ones you have.
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All this, not to take a new compound through testing but just to assure that your compound is the same one that is already on sale by the original patented manufacturer? There is now way this process should take "5 to seven years."
Thanks for proving my point for me.
Now try to get permission in those places to build some of these. In Germany, really?
But I do like being able to verbally ask my phone to navigate to a contact, without having to squint at a screen in the sun, and get turn by turn directions. Digital assistants have slipped into a place in my life where they do a few useful things. As time goes on, this set will grow larger.
But I know: "If it works, it's not AI!" "If it's AI, it won't work!"
So how about a specific example: pharma lobbyists and the FDA cooperating to drag out the process of allowing new generic drugs, which are compounds already tested and approved for use, to be sold, thereby giving companies like Mylan the ability to overcharge people for medications they need because the competing generics are rotting away in the approval pipeline.
So why is this discussion about conference calls?
Anyone ever seen wind blowing in sharp corners?
It's not an 'anomaly', it's totally ARTIFICIAL, that is, it is not something that was created by NATURE.
Those corners are sharp only when seen from interplanetary distances. Up close, there is plenty of room for natural phenomena to operate.
"Deep state" is just a newfangled term for bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists quietly agreeing to cooperate to preserve their own fiefdoms while screwing over the rest of us. This is not a newfangled problem.
We of the dark side are quietly relieved that Trump has now turned against Sessions. When the AG was first nominated, it was we who brought up the issue that Sessions supports civil forfeiture. When Trump was asked about this, it was found that he was apparently unaware of what the term meant.
But we can't exclude Trump as a problem here. There is no subject more contentious than energy and climate, but the only thing that everyone in the debate agrees on is that the worst alternative would be coal.
So guess which energy choice Trump glommed onto as his favorite toy from the toybox?
The only renewable that can be paired with wind and solar to load-follow during their dips is hydro (and in a few select places, geothermal). In the developed world, all the available hydro has been exploited. So absent new hydro, we are slipping into the use of gas as a pairing. That represents a savings of carbon over coal, but it's still an emitter.
Your geographic situation is different from ours. We don't have a nuclear country next door to keep our grid topped up through dark, cloudy winters.
Objecting to nukes because of economics makes much more sense. They are far too expensive, and the cost is going up while the cost of solar, wind, and storage is falling.
US costs are going up because each nuke is still a site-built science fair project that requires individual plant approval. China is building them for less, and will probably be the first country to offer factory-built modular reactors.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
How much would your next vacation cost if Boeings had to be built at each airport and then individually qualified?
The first two were found in the basement turbine room a few days after the accident. But if "out of Fukushima" implies "out of" as opposed to "in", sure.
Those two drowned in the tsunami. The safety of seawater is not at issue here.
We can dig very deep holes and put the high level waste in the ground.
We could do that, but it would be wasting 95% of the energy in the original fuel. The long-term radiation in nuclear waste represents more exploitable energy. We need breeder reactors and isotope separation to turn it into new fuel.
I'm no longer in corporate life, but I had to undergo innumerable time-wasting conference calls back in the day. Usually we would have to wait for Laura from Accounting to unfutz her headset, wait for Chad from Marketing to finish his three-microbrew client lunch, and then work around the problem of Karl the Codemeister beaming in from the München affiliate and having trouble with the international connection. Typically it took about twenty minutes of "Can you hear me" in a variety of thick accents before business cold commence.
Why not replace conference calls with conference group texting? You circulate a detailed agenda and then go from there. The advantages would be:
1. Text conversations are not interrupters.
2. No need to wait for people who aren't ready yet until some critical input is needed from one such person. You can then indicate the specific nature of the input. When the missing person appears, he can easily scroll back to know what has happened so far.
3. Text unambiguously communicates part numbers, DHL destinations, lines of code, and links to external videos and PDFs. Try getting these right over a voice line when the Georgian, the Geordie and the German are the ones talking.
4. Everyone has an automatic and instant transcript of the meeting.
5. Text excels at getting through over degraded communication links, even if that means SMS from a hotel room in Prague.
But it's receive only, not really useful for a communication device.
But great potential for radioastronomy.
Can we nationalize the oil companies first?
When a company is nationalized, it generally turns to shit. So nationalizing oil companies might be the push we need to get away from carbon.
One of the major bulk cargos cited was bauxite, aluminum ore. Though most ores are smelted near the mine, the economics of aluminum are weird because this element requires vast amounts of electricity to refine. It actually pays to mine bauxite in Australia but smelt it in places like New Zealand, where there is cheap hydro, or Iceland, where there is cheap geothermal electricity.
the obvious solution to this is to have partitions inside the ship, to limit the amount of shift possible.
Take a look at the commentary on Ars. Partitions in the hold are the first thing every nerd proposed, but apparently maritime cargo operates by the same bean-counting rules as the automobile industry: any innovation that costs more than pennies per unit is rejected as too costly. Losing a rusty freighter with a developing-nation crew every so often is just a cost of doing business.
Not in this state, you don't.
Predicted the wrong thing, I'm assuming.
Don't like the moderation on Reddit - or for that matter, on /.? Then be glad you're not on Slate.
I love it when you people let the mask slip. Thanks for politicizing Twitter and helping send it to the bottom.
An independent judiciary doesn't get replaced with every election, as Trump is finding out right now. It's supposed to be a reserve of institutional continuity, of long-term thinking, that does not have to follow each popular fad. The concept of 'standing' is a key element in judicial independence: the people who should bring cases to court where technical issues are concerned are those who know what the hell they're talking about.
Living near a project that some random blogger has decided is scary should not give you standing to use the courts for your narrow self-interest. What good will it do you to prevent construction of a nuclear plant on your seacoast if enough glacial ice melts to put your property underwater?
We have never used Skype In, just Skype out to PSTN and cell lines. The calling function still works, at least before this update, but you can't add phone-only contacts or edit the ones you have.