Correct. The prepaid ones could work during the shutdown for as long as their contract continues. The post-paid ones could not: that would violate the anti-deficiency act, which says people can't do work for the government in anticipation of congress later deciding to pay them.
They do not work for free, billable hours will be billed.
Right. But it is ILLEGAL for them to bill hours if Congress has not authorized payment, so "do not work for free" translates to "do not work."
A contracting company HAS to pay their employees and agency contracts, even if they were temporarily unpaid are invoiced because the contracts say so.
Right. If they had a funded contract, they can continue working. It's only the ones that are on contracts that have not been funded that were a problem. (And the ones on contracts that were scheduled to be renewed after the new year, but the paperwork hadn't been completed yet).
It's one of the reason so many governments use contractors because they aren't counted as headcount and contracts cannot be affected by legislation.
Half right. Contractors indeed aren't counted as headcount, but my god no, contracts sure CAN be affected by legislation. In particular, if there is no funding, there is no contract.
The result is, some contractors continued working, because their contracts were already funded, and they could continue working until whenever the contract was up for renewal (nobody could renew it, of course: no funding for it, and no civil servants to do it.) Some contractors could not.
IIRC 'Custer's Last Stand', on the Atari 2600 involved a rapey lowres 'cutscene' between levels.
That was more a troll than a game.
'Duke Nukem' required a sense of humor, hence it was clearly a 'no feminists' game.
You have it exactly. If you never hire women, you don't even know that gang rape seems aren't funny to women. Or that trolls stop being funny when they're saying "I'm going to stick a knife up your cunt, you bitch". You'll think "oh, it's only people with no humor that have problems with this."
Nobody is doing what you are saying though. That's the problem. Show us one game where the developers said "fuck women, we hate em, so we are going to make our game men only."
If you have only men in the company, you'll never know if your game is driving away women.
(Actually, the evidence is pretty clear that games are driving away women. I should have written "If you have only men in the company, you'll never know why your game is driving away women.)
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One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
The problem is a mismatch between expectations and reality. SJWs believe without qualifications that men and women are equal. But it's been empirically proven that they're wrong - men and women prefer different types of games.
You just made my point.
If men and women prefer different kinds of games, a gaming company that hires almost entirely men is missing half the market
I'm really not sure what this is supposed to prove.
Has anybody ever suggested, or is there any reason to believe, that seeds would not sprout on the moon?
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One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
Instead of salt, try some lateral thinking. Build your properties above major roads and turn building lots into parks. Safe travel in all weathers and you are directly above transport corridors for easy social and business access, you also recover than land value under roads.
Good idea, but note that you will now need to illuminate your roads. That takes energy.
I think the original poster was intending to be ironic.
However, since the problem with driving on ice is mostly that 10% of drivers that don't have a clue of how to drive in slippery conditions, actually self-driving cars would probably help.
Or maybe not. I think 100% of the software for self driving cars comes from Southern California, where they don't bother programming for unlikely events like ice on the roads.
People still use sodium chloride as a deicer? Around here, pretty much all municipalities have switched to calcium chloride, which deices better than sodium chloride, and tends to not kill everone's grass.
I see that/. revised the headline: when I posted that comment, the headline was "Mapping the Infinitely Large Address Space of IPv6 Networks". Now it's been revised to remove the "infinitely large" phrase: "Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks."
So, if it seems like the comment doesn't make sense-- that's why.
The headline says "infinitely large IPv6 address space," but the summary says " IPv6 has an address space of 2^128".
Which? Infinity is larger than2^128.
Even that is only half of the truth. The other half is how much of Western world started treating electric generation vs consumption. On many spot markets, wind and solar get "first dibs", in that no one else gets to sell their generation until all of wind and solar are sold. This is followed by various power generation systems that are ranked in order of CO2 emissions. That means coal lands on the bottom, and is legally forbidden from selling when others are producing enough to cover the consumption.
May be true for Finland, I guess, but it's not the general case. In general, natural gas is outcompeting coal.
... That's why CCGTs are popping up. They can spin up and take load much faster, so when wind drops out of the grid, they can pick up the load and get paid premium for peaking, and they can also economically produce during longer periods of higher consumption.
Yes, you nailed it here. That fast spin-up capability makes gas turbines much more flexible, and therefore preferred.
(nb: "CCGT"=combined-cycle gas turbine)
Also, many coal generation plants are old, and less-than profitable because they're old tech.
Add to that the unique situation in North America where fracking is producing massive amounts of natgas that is essentially free as a byproduct of oil extraction, and you have a situation where in developed countries, coal is really struggling.
The summary is a little misleading. A portion of the competition for coal is indeed the "falling cost of renewables", but that ignores the other competition that's the main reason coal is not profitable: the low cost of natural gas, and the low cost of building turbines that produce electrical power with natural gas.
Natural gas power plants also spin up and spin down more quickly than old coal plants, allowing them to track the short-term changes in the demand curve better.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
So, you're proposing the opposite of the "wall" idea to keep foreign immigrants out because they might be criminals: you're suggesting finding foreign criminals and importing them in.
No, not quite. The "amount of the economy of any nation" (your phrase) can be expressed as proportional to the energy use times the energy intensity of the economy, where the energy intensity is simply units of GDP per unit energy.
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Contractors are either prepaid or postpaid.
Correct. The prepaid ones could work during the shutdown for as long as their contract continues. The post-paid ones could not: that would violate the anti-deficiency act, which says people can't do work for the government in anticipation of congress later deciding to pay them.
They do not work for free, billable hours will be billed.
Right. But it is ILLEGAL for them to bill hours if Congress has not authorized payment, so "do not work for free" translates to "do not work."
A contracting company HAS to pay their employees and agency contracts, even if they were temporarily unpaid are invoiced because the contracts say so.
Right. If they had a funded contract, they can continue working. It's only the ones that are on contracts that have not been funded that were a problem. (And the ones on contracts that were scheduled to be renewed after the new year, but the paperwork hadn't been completed yet).
It's one of the reason so many governments use contractors because they aren't counted as headcount and contracts cannot be affected by legislation.
Half right. Contractors indeed aren't counted as headcount, but my god no, contracts sure CAN be affected by legislation. In particular, if there is no funding, there is no contract.
The result is, some contractors continued working, because their contracts were already funded, and they could continue working until whenever the contract was up for renewal (nobody could renew it, of course: no funding for it, and no civil servants to do it.) Some contractors could not.
It's the way unrestrained capitalism works.
At some point, you guys just have to accept the obvious : Guys and gals just don't enjoy the same kind of stuff.
And that, in a nutshell, is why you want to have both men and women work at your game company.
IIRC 'Custer's Last Stand', on the Atari 2600 involved a rapey lowres 'cutscene' between levels.
That was more a troll than a game.
'Duke Nukem' required a sense of humor, hence it was clearly a 'no feminists' game.
You have it exactly. If you never hire women, you don't even know that gang rape seems aren't funny to women. Or that trolls stop being funny when they're saying "I'm going to stick a knife up your cunt, you bitch". You'll think "oh, it's only people with no humor that have problems with this."
Nobody is doing what you are saying though. That's the problem. Show us one game where the developers said "fuck women, we hate em, so we are going to make our game men only."
If you have only men in the company, you'll never know if your game is driving away women.
(Actually, the evidence is pretty clear that games are driving away women. I should have written "If you have only men in the company, you'll never know why your game is driving away women.)
And that fact is what some people are trying to change. There's no particular reason to actively work at driving away one gender from your game.
Sounds sexist, but that's all in your head.
What if, get this, no one is actively working to drive away any gender from particular games.
OK, so what you're saying is that you didn't read the article, which gave many examples of women being harassed.
Got it.
... One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
The problem is a mismatch between expectations and reality. SJWs believe without qualifications that men and women are equal. But it's been empirically proven that they're wrong - men and women prefer different types of games.
You just made my point.
If men and women prefer different kinds of games, a gaming company that hires almost entirely men is missing half the market
I'm really not sure what this is supposed to prove. Has anybody ever suggested, or is there any reason to believe, that seeds would not sprout on the moon?
... One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
Only thing that puzzled me was the phrase "collapsed into administration". What does that even mean? Their new product line helps administrators?
but a commentator upstream said it's a British phrase, meaning a third-party administrator is appointed and now running the show to avoid bankruptcy.
The BMDO missiles in question are not intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs); nor even intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBM).
"ballistic missile" is usually shorthand for ICBM.
Instead of salt, try some lateral thinking. Build your properties above major roads and turn building lots into parks. Safe travel in all weathers and you are directly above transport corridors for easy social and business access, you also recover than land value under roads.
Good idea, but note that you will now need to illuminate your roads. That takes energy.
And your scare headline is wrong.
However, since the problem with driving on ice is mostly that 10% of drivers that don't have a clue of how to drive in slippery conditions, actually self-driving cars would probably help.
Or maybe not. I think 100% of the software for self driving cars comes from Southern California, where they don't bother programming for unlikely events like ice on the roads.
People still use sodium chloride as a deicer? Around here, pretty much all municipalities have switched to calcium chloride, which deices better than sodium chloride, and tends to not kill everone's grass.
In general it's the chloride that's the problem, not the sodium ion, so CaCl2 is not much better than NaCl for the environment. It does de-ice at a lower temperature, though. https://stormwater.pca.state.m... https://www.oxycalciumchloride...
Pure racism. Why single out the Chinese when, for example, Facebook does it?
Because Facebook merely wants to sell you ads. China actually is an authoritarian dictatorship.
It's easy enough to blur the two together, but really, it's false equivalency.
I see that /. revised the headline: when I posted that comment, the headline was "Mapping the Infinitely Large Address Space of IPv6 Networks". Now it's been revised to remove the "infinitely large" phrase: "Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks."
So, if it seems like the comment doesn't make sense-- that's why.
The headline says "infinitely large IPv6 address space," but the summary says " IPv6 has an address space of 2^128". Which? Infinity is larger than2^128.
I think it is just we have a bigger data requirement.
^^^
this.
It's Parkinson's law: data requirements expand to fill the bandwidth available.
Whether or not there's any reason you need more data.
Even that is only half of the truth. The other half is how much of Western world started treating electric generation vs consumption. On many spot markets, wind and solar get "first dibs", in that no one else gets to sell their generation until all of wind and solar are sold. This is followed by various power generation systems that are ranked in order of CO2 emissions. That means coal lands on the bottom, and is legally forbidden from selling when others are producing enough to cover the consumption.
May be true for Finland, I guess, but it's not the general case. In general, natural gas is outcompeting coal.
... That's why CCGTs are popping up. They can spin up and take load much faster, so when wind drops out of the grid, they can pick up the load and get paid premium for peaking, and they can also economically produce during longer periods of higher consumption.
Yes, you nailed it here. That fast spin-up capability makes gas turbines much more flexible, and therefore preferred.
(nb: "CCGT"=combined-cycle gas turbine)
Also, many coal generation plants are old, and less-than profitable because they're old tech.
Add to that the unique situation in North America where fracking is producing massive amounts of natgas that is essentially free as a byproduct of oil extraction, and you have a situation where in developed countries, coal is really struggling.
Yes, that too.
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Natural gas power plants also spin up and spin down more quickly than old coal plants, allowing them to track the short-term changes in the demand curve better.
Here's a graph. Notice that the drop in coal is mirrored by a rise in gas. https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
If they haven't sold the coffee to you, then there is no debt, and therefore they don't have to accept your legal tender.
Most restaurants I go to, you get your meal first, and then you pay.
I guess you're right about coffee shops, though-- it's counter service, usually, where you pay then get your coffee.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
So, you're proposing the opposite of the "wall" idea to keep foreign immigrants out because they might be criminals: you're suggesting finding foreign criminals and importing them in.
Energy intensity is not a constant.
Problems that people have to solve together are hard.