kind of Musk (though he's almost outside the real of tech as it's normally thought of)
Musk leads teams that design more-physical assets (rockets and cars). So he's like Wernher von Braun and Henry Ford. That's the realm of tech as it's more-traditionally though of, not as it's been thought of in the digital/web-centric period of the last 2 - 3 decades.
"Tech as it's normally thought of" might someday return its focus to things other than digital devices and the web.
the External Tank contains a small pyrotechnic device which causes its load of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to combine and combust.
I have often wondered -- and this makes me wonder once again -- how did the Challenger's H2 and O2 become an explosive mixture? Inside the External Tank were actually a LOX tank (above) and a separate LH2 tank (below).
The cause of the disaster was explained as a faulty O-ring that allowed a jet of hot gas to escape out the side of one of the solid rocket boosters, impinging on the External Tank. Fine, but that could cause a breach of the O2 tank or the H2 tank -- not both.
And even if both were breached, wouldn't the breaches have to happen in a very unlikely configuration, to allow the escaping O2 and H2 to travel toward each other and become an explosive mixture?
Maybe the Destruct System played some part in this after all.
If Net Neutrality is repealed, your ISP may charge you more to simply unblock any of the above -- you're not guaranteed access, because they will no longer be required to treat all bytes the same way. They may also charge the site (not you) money just to allow them onto the ISP's network. Once they're allowed, the ISP may charge you yet again to make one site -- but not other sites -- go faster for you so you can effectively use it. This is on top of the subscription fees you may already pay to the ISP and the service... Don't like it? Get another ISP that offers a different package. (haha, you only have one ISP to choose from.),
Well in fact, I have several ISPs to choose from, and if my current ISP decided to pull shenanigans like you describe, I would quickly switch to a competitor.
If everyone had several ISPs to choose from, would you trust the free market (rather than a regulatory bureaucracy) to prevent such shenanigans?
If I write a check for $1000 and give it to someone, and he accidentally destroys the check before cashing it... All I need to do is write him another check.
And, to protect yourself from having both checks cashed, you would stop payment on the first check.
Is it possible that the ability to "stop payment" on a lost coin is a feature that could be added to cryptocurrencies in the future?
If there are large fissures, instead of merely small cracks, wouldn't that vaporized glass just escape into space with no hope of ever sealing up the fissures?
Consumer Reports gives each car it tests a score that falls within a scale of zero to 100.
When the 2013 Model S came out, it got a score of 99 -- which has never been exceeded before or since -- with one Consumer Reports representative gushing that "If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110." Ridiculous to say, when the scale only goes up to 100. But such were the Tesla goggles voluntarily donned by the staff of CR back then.
Why go to so much trouble to identify Satoshi? My source tells me that the Obama administration was concerned that Satoshi was an agent of Russia or China -- that Bitcoin might be weaponized against us in the future.
Whether you agree with what that motive or not, it's good someone was concerned about such things.
no new competition arises, because everyone knows that the minute they enter the market the monopolist can drop prices long enough to drive you out of business, so trying to compete is just an exercise in throwing away your startup investment, which could have been better spent entering a market not dominated by a monopolist.
Obviously that's not always the case. United Launch Alliance had a monopoly on launching U.S. government payloads. Then along came SpaceX, whose low prices ULA is unable to match.
You have to love the attitude of COO Gwynne Shotwell:
Ms. Shotwell was asked why the company claimed to be able to offer its services for 25 per cent of the ULA price. "It's hard for me to say," Ms Shotwell replied. "I don't know how to build a $400 million rocket. The more difficult question would be to say that I don't understand how ULA are as expensive as they are."
Right now, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex all compete users. From a consumer's standpoint, processing fees can never be too low, but rest assured they'd be even higher if it weren't for the forementioned competition.
Do you know what the constitution actually requires?
Yes. The Wikipedia article on this, which is pretty reliable, describes three types of international agreements.
1. Treaties. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 says that treaties negotiated by the president must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
2. A Congressional-executive agreement (CEA) have a lower bar for ratification -- a simple majority of both houses.
3. A sole-executive agreement can be ratified by the President alone. This type of agreement can also be nullified by a President alone.
Thomas Jefferson said that treaties are "are forever irrevocable but by joint consent," and that CEAs are sometimes preferable because "when they become too inconvenient, can be dropped at the will of either party."
Sole-executive agreements are even more ephemeral and temporary than CEAs. U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Agreement was a sole-executive agreement. One could argue that was a poor choice on the part of the previous president. But depending on your perspective, it may have been the best choice, given the fact that Congress never would have approved it as a CEA, let alone as a treaty.
Oh, got it. I'm surprised a long cable run had that profound of an impact on the number of stations you can receive. One time I experimented with swapping a 100-ft piece of coax for a short piece, and the attenuation was not too bad.
Anyway, I have a mast-mounted high gain amp, which more than overcomes all the splitters and long cable runs in my setup. You might want to try one too. Maybe you can get yourself up to 70 channels.
The US, with 350m people and 99% economic engagement
That sounds like a made-up number. The most recent figure I saw was a 62.7% labor force participation rate, which is approximately as bad as it was 38 years, ago, when Jimmy Carter was proclaiming an economic "malaise."
So, 37.3% of Americans are not in the labor force. They are being provided for by some combination of the following: (a) family members who are in the labor force, (b) living off savings, or (c) government entitlement programs.
The unemployment rate reported by the media (the U-3 rate) is not 37.3%, because it uses a very narrow definition of "unemployed": those who have applied for a job in the past four weeks. It excludes those who have become too discouraged to look for work. A large pool of discouraged workers is certainly bad sign, so the U-3 rate (which buries its head in the sand when it comes to discouraged workers) is a very poor way to measure unemployment.
You are correct to call it a "treaty." And because it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.S. was never a signatory to this treaty.
The former president personally thought it was a good idea (which has nothing to do with what the Constitution says about how treaties are entered into). But now, it has neither Senate ratification nor the personal approval of the current, Constitutionally-elected president. So the US' hands are rather tied.
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said "We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs and the amount spent on those programs."
Bloomberg fraudulently inserted a period to make it seem like that was the full quote. It was not. The full quote is:
"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but the number of people we help get off of those programs."
Bloomberg's cut-off, altered version doesn't make sense. But the full quote demonstrates an understanding of what true compassion is all about.
For the first 593 miles it was in the hands of a private enterprise: âoeBestway Parcel Services.â This took 14.1 hours. Average speed: 42 miles per hour
Then an agency of the government got hold of it (the United States Postal Service). The last 72 miles took 192 hours. Average speed: 0.37 miles per hour
I sent feedback to USPS.com. Since I was able to provide the package tracking number, one would think they would want to investigate where the process went so wrong, The reply I got told me that they were profoundly disinterested in doing so.
Another recent experience I had was applying for passports at my local post office. They accepted passport applications from 7:00 - 16:00, according to the hours posted online. When I called ahead to confirm this, I was warned that "sometimes we close as early as 2 p.m." Dodgy, but whatever... I made sure my family arrived well before 2 p.m. Upon arriving as 12:55, we were turned away. I protested that I was told they would remain open until at least 2 p.m. They were very unsympathetic to that fact.
On my next attempt there was a ridiculously-long wait, but at least I didn't get turned away. The person who had stood behind me in line for hours wisely commented, "To think that some people want government to administer our healthcare!"
Your ability to get a dollar out of the BTC market today for a dollar put in yesterday depends heavily on the participation of others putting their dollars in today.
Sounds like you are characterizing BTC as something of a Ponzi scheme. Is that about right?
Asian-Americans have lower default rates than whites, in spite of the fact that universities actively discriminate against them.
Members of one minority (Asian-Americans) need to score a whopping 450 SAT points higher than members of another minority (African-Americans) for an equal chance of admission to private universities. Source: The Economist
Slashdot Mirror
You're my favorite Slashdotter. And I'll be in Reykjavik May 27, May 28 and June 7... may I buy you lunch?
(Sorry to spam a bunch of your posts, but I wanted to be sure you saw my invitation.) Reply to GPSpilot1@NOsPam.gmail.com.
And you're right... it's ridiculous that we can't type a thorn here.
You're my favorite Slashdotter. And I'll be in Reykjavik May 27, May 28 and June 7... may I buy you lunch?
(Sorry to spam a bunch of your posts, but I wanted to be sure you saw my invitation.) Reply to GPSpilot1@NOsPam.gmail.com.
And you're right... it's ridiculous that we can't type a thorn here.
kind of Musk (though he's almost outside the real of tech as it's normally thought of)
Musk leads teams that design more-physical assets (rockets and cars). So he's like Wernher von Braun and Henry Ford. That's the realm of tech as it's more-traditionally though of, not as it's been thought of in the digital/web-centric period of the last 2 - 3 decades.
"Tech as it's normally thought of" might someday return its focus to things other than digital devices and the web.
the External Tank contains a small pyrotechnic device which causes its load of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to combine and combust.
I have often wondered -- and this makes me wonder once again -- how did the Challenger's H2 and O2 become an explosive mixture? Inside the External Tank were actually a LOX tank (above) and a separate LH2 tank (below).
The cause of the disaster was explained as a faulty O-ring that allowed a jet of hot gas to escape out the side of one of the solid rocket boosters, impinging on the External Tank. Fine, but that could cause a breach of the O2 tank or the H2 tank -- not both.
And even if both were breached, wouldn't the breaches have to happen in a very unlikely configuration, to allow the escaping O2 and H2 to travel toward each other and become an explosive mixture?
Maybe the Destruct System played some part in this after all.
If Net Neutrality is repealed, your ISP may charge you more to simply unblock any of the above -- you're not guaranteed access, because they will no longer be required to treat all bytes the same way. They may also charge the site (not you) money just to allow them onto the ISP's network. Once they're allowed, the ISP may charge you yet again to make one site -- but not other sites -- go faster for you so you can effectively use it. This is on top of the subscription fees you may already pay to the ISP and the service... Don't like it? Get another ISP that offers a different package. (haha, you only have one ISP to choose from.),
Well in fact, I have several ISPs to choose from, and if my current ISP decided to pull shenanigans like you describe, I would quickly switch to a competitor.
If everyone had several ISPs to choose from, would you trust the free market (rather than a regulatory bureaucracy) to prevent such shenanigans?
If I write a check for $1000 and give it to someone, and he accidentally destroys the check before cashing it... All I need to do is write him another check.
And, to protect yourself from having both checks cashed, you would stop payment on the first check.
Is it possible that the ability to "stop payment" on a lost coin is a feature that could be added to cryptocurrencies in the future?
If there are large fissures, instead of merely small cracks, wouldn't that vaporized glass just escape into space with no hope of ever sealing up the fissures?
Consumer Reports gives each car it tests a score that falls within a scale of zero to 100.
When the 2013 Model S came out, it got a score of 99 -- which has never been exceeded before or since -- with one Consumer Reports representative gushing that "If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110." Ridiculous to say, when the scale only goes up to 100. But such were the Tesla goggles voluntarily donned by the staff of CR back then.
TFA explains why:
Why go to so much trouble to identify Satoshi? My source tells me that the Obama administration was concerned that Satoshi was an agent of Russia or China -- that Bitcoin might be weaponized against us in the future.
Whether you agree with what that motive or not, it's good someone was concerned about such things.
no new competition arises, because everyone knows that the minute they enter the market the monopolist can drop prices long enough to drive you out of business, so trying to compete is just an exercise in throwing away your startup investment, which could have been better spent entering a market not dominated by a monopolist.
Obviously that's not always the case. United Launch Alliance had a monopoly on launching U.S. government payloads. Then along came SpaceX, whose low prices ULA is unable to match.
You have to love the attitude of COO Gwynne Shotwell:
Ms. Shotwell was asked why the company claimed to be able to offer its services for 25 per cent of the ULA price. "It's hard for me to say," Ms Shotwell replied. "I don't know how to build a $400 million rocket. The more difficult question would be to say that I don't understand how ULA are as expensive as they are."
Higher prices create an incentive for more Uber drivers to go out and drive -- quickly alleviating an imbalance between supply and demand.
Wouldn't you want lots of Uber drivers to be incentivized to help evacuate a city?
"Gouging" is a populist, and unfortunate, name for the practice.
since you're the only person whose writing in barely or totally incomprehensible gibberish
You're new here, aren't you?
On PCs with Office installed, VBA is often the only programming language available.
Better than nothing for kids to play around with, like how they played around with QBASIC a generation ago.
Yes, you can create macros in LibreOffice too, but it's not as easy and performance is dog slow.
Right now, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex all compete users. From a consumer's standpoint, processing fees can never be too low, but rest assured they'd be even higher if it weren't for the forementioned competition.
If credit cards were nationalized, watch costs go through the roof. Not only would all competition disappear; any incentive to operate efficiently would disappear. A nationalized credit card system would be the SLS of credit card systems. (Falcon Heavy "can can get more into space than the SLS for a fraction of the cost.")
Do you know what the constitution actually requires?
Yes. The Wikipedia article on this, which is pretty reliable, describes three types of international agreements.
1. Treaties. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 says that treaties negotiated by the president must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
2. A Congressional-executive agreement (CEA) have a lower bar for ratification -- a simple majority of both houses.
3. A sole-executive agreement can be ratified by the President alone. This type of agreement can also be nullified by a President alone.
Thomas Jefferson said that treaties are "are forever irrevocable but by joint consent," and that CEAs are sometimes preferable because "when they become too inconvenient, can be dropped at the will of either party."
Sole-executive agreements are even more ephemeral and temporary than CEAs. U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Agreement was a sole-executive agreement. One could argue that was a poor choice on the part of the previous president. But depending on your perspective, it may have been the best choice, given the fact that Congress never would have approved it as a CEA, let alone as a treaty.
Oh, got it. I'm surprised a long cable run had that profound of an impact on the number of stations you can receive. One time I experimented with swapping a 100-ft piece of coax for a short piece, and the attenuation was not too bad.
Anyway, I have a mast-mounted high gain amp, which more than overcomes all the splitters and long cable runs in my setup. You might want to try one too. Maybe you can get yourself up to 70 channels.
abandoning any leading role it may have in the development of clean energy tech... takign a machete to the US clean energy tech sector.
How does withdrawing from the Paris accord preclude any U.S. company from doing R&D in clean energy tech?
In your mind, is not providing taxpayer subsidies to a sector of the economy the same thing as "taking a machete" to that sector of the economy?
The US, with 350m people and 99% economic engagement
That sounds like a made-up number. The most recent figure I saw was a 62.7% labor force participation rate, which is approximately as bad as it was 38 years, ago, when Jimmy Carter was proclaiming an economic "malaise."
So, 37.3% of Americans are not in the labor force. They are being provided for by some combination of the following: (a) family members who are in the labor force, (b) living off savings, or (c) government entitlement programs.
The unemployment rate reported by the media (the U-3 rate) is not 37.3%, because it uses a very narrow definition of "unemployed": those who have applied for a job in the past four weeks. It excludes those who have become too discouraged to look for work. A large pool of discouraged workers is certainly bad sign, so the U-3 rate (which buries its head in the sand when it comes to discouraged workers) is a very poor way to measure unemployment.
You are correct to call it a "treaty." And because it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.S. was never a signatory to this treaty.
The former president personally thought it was a good idea (which has nothing to do with what the Constitution says about how treaties are entered into). But now, it has neither Senate ratification nor the personal approval of the current, Constitutionally-elected president. So the US' hands are rather tied.
I get nearly perfect reception on 56 TV stations now, vs questionable reception from about 20 before.
I'm an over-the-air enthusiast too, but I'm missing something here.
How does a set-top box that runs Kodi improve the quantity or quality of OTA stations that you can receive?
From your link ( https://www.bloomberg.com/poli... )...
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said "We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs and the amount spent on those programs."
Bloomberg fraudulently inserted a period to make it seem like that was the full quote. It was not. The full quote is:
"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but the number of people we help get off of those programs."
Bloomberg's cut-off, altered version doesn't make sense. But the full quote demonstrates an understanding of what true compassion is all about.
I recently tracked a package.
For the first 593 miles it was in the hands of a private enterprise: âoeBestway Parcel Services.â This took 14.1 hours. Average speed: 42 miles per hour
Then an agency of the government got hold of it (the United States Postal Service). The last 72 miles took 192 hours. Average speed: 0.37 miles per hour
I sent feedback to USPS.com. Since I was able to provide the package tracking number, one would think they would want to investigate where the process went so wrong, The reply I got told me that they were profoundly disinterested in doing so.
Another recent experience I had was applying for passports at my local post office. They accepted passport applications from 7:00 - 16:00, according to the hours posted online. When I called ahead to confirm this, I was warned that "sometimes we close as early as 2 p.m." Dodgy, but whatever... I made sure my family arrived well before 2 p.m. Upon arriving as 12:55, we were turned away. I protested that I was told they would remain open until at least 2 p.m. They were very unsympathetic to that fact.
On my next attempt there was a ridiculously-long wait, but at least I didn't get turned away. The person who had stood behind me in line for hours wisely commented, "To think that some people want government to administer our healthcare!"
Your ability to get a dollar out of the BTC market today for a dollar put in yesterday depends heavily on the participation of others putting their dollars in today.
Sounds like you are characterizing BTC as something of a Ponzi scheme. Is that about right?
Asian-Americans have lower default rates than whites, in spite of the fact that universities actively discriminate against them.
Members of one minority (Asian-Americans) need to score a whopping 450 SAT points higher than members of another minority (African-Americans) for an equal chance of admission to private universities. Source: The Economist
If you're interested in Mac abandonware, Macintosh Garden is for you.
My favorite is Lunar Rescue which runs in the Mini vMac emulator.