The geothermal systems also use heat pumps, using heat trapped underground rather than outside air. More expensive but also more efficient.
Over here, the geothermal systems are attractive as they can also be used as an energy efficient aircon in summer.
That's actually the advice (honest) installers here will give you: insulate walls, roof, floor, and get that triple glazing filled with unicorn farts first, before spending money on a geothermal system. It's more cost-effective. But depending on your climate, you're still likely to need heating and/or cooling.
Still it's good news if they can really cut costs for such a system by that much. If you don't have natural gas (and that's the way we're going here), geothermal heating is by far the best option.
I fully agree: the responsibility to not shoot someone just because they scare you a little applies to carrying citizens as well. We don't have those in our country though, unless you count criminals.
The officer might be a bit more wary, perhaps due to some unconscious racial bias, and it's fine if that means the cop will just be extra careful around that person. But if that translates to shooting a random guy at a traffic stop when he (rightly) informed the cop he was carrying, then that cop crossed the line. We get to be extra jumpy and fearful around a carrying but otherwise normal black guy, an officer doesn't. If he is, he's not fit for duty.
Plus, Spotify lets you store songs on your phone so they can be played offline. Most people I know pirate stuff for convenience or to play stuff offline, and services like Spotify have made that mostly unneccesary
Perhaps this is just the studios making yet another case that
- DRM is still needed
- Streaming is evil and needs to die (because they have wrested control from the studios), or at least these companies should give them a bigger slice of the pie
- Every pirate is a thief who deserves some old fashioned sharia justice.
You don't have to be sure or even worry about it much: Zuck's credibility on weighing in on this issue is about the same as yours or mine. It's a bit like Beyoncé telling you how to vote: it's advice that you can safely ignore.
That health care for a (healthy) 14 year old girl costs hundreds of thousands of dollars is your own damn fault. Or rather, the fault of your insurers. And no, Obamacare would not have made an improvement, on the contrary...
When you buy Volvo you really need to do your homework. Some production years are crap while the next year sees great cars roll off the line. My C70 with the regular 2.4 5 cylinder engine is a great car. Best part is: I bought it second hand 6 years ago, and it's still worth about the same today, due to it being of the "right" year. With the more popular models like the estates, which people buy as work horses, I've seen almost a factor 2 difference between models only 1 year apart. Because one will be crap, and the other great.
That's a "good" hybrid, just like the Mitsubishis and Volvos being sold over here. Good in the sense that they got a decent petrol engine and have a lot of of extra torque thanks to the additional electric motors, so you get very spiffy acceleration and no range issues, while still qualifying for the significant tax break. Environment? The hybrid part is just a power boost.
I do agree that hybrids are a temporary solution at best. It's a lot of extra complexity and weight for a slight environmental benefit and a bit of extra power.
Drivers get confused or misled by the silliest little things. Care is taken to design roads so that drivers do not get confused (like ensuring tunnel facades are perpendicular to the road even if the object over the road isn't), or to mislead drivers on purpose (like visually narrowing a road to make drivers slow down). Sometimes a new road opens with a confusing element, with a lot of accidents happening there as a consequence, until the situation is remedied. And on top of all that, some drivers do the craziest things if they are about to miss their exit.
So yeah, a bus that requires drivers to adjust speed to catch an exit they cannot see, while driving in a tunnel where the walls themselves move giving them a very confusing sense of speed, sounds like a great idea. If you're an ambulance chaser, that is.
The S sold like hotcakes here, partly thanks to the attractive price (due to not having the aforementioned extra tax on petrol cars). They are even used as taxicabs, as they offer a nice ride to clients while being cheap to operate. If the 3 comes in at around €35k as expected, I expect they'll sell even more. Most people here don't really need a station wagon and few people own a trailer; so most just rent a van if they have to move stuff.
The point of the Model 3 is that it isn't that expensive. It'll be in the same price range as the Bolt / Ampera, and should cost about the same as the upcoming Volvo EV. I wouldn't call it overpriced, and especially here in Europe an EV is a lot cheaper to maintain and run than a regular car.
Instead of saying that it doesn't meet the needs of most people, you could say that these vehicles almost meet the needs of many (maybe most) people. Almost but not quite. So just rent a car for the one or two longer trips you make each year. One manufacturer here includes a free rental for such longer trips. And for those buying an EV as a second vehicle this generally isn't an issue at all.
There's no need at all to test in production in this case, and no need for an additional book and bullet to reach the test objective. Simple fire the one bullet at the book with the melon placed behind it. There's only 2 possible outcomes (excluding misfires etc):
1) Book stops bullet. Then it stands to reason that it will do so regardless of what is placed behind it, a person or a melon. Test complete
2) Bullet penetrates book and destroys melon. Your test is now complete, unless you now want to find out if the bullet exits the book with enough force to still be lethal. In this case I somehow doubt that the guy would be eager to perform that test using another bullet, book and his own dumb arse.
What work exactly is being shifted from a machine to a human at the self checkout? The only difference is that the customer is doing the work instead of the cashier. And if the scanning is done with a portable hand terminal or with a smart phone (like it is in our local supermarket), self checkout takes a lot LESS human time since there's nothing to unpack; purchases are selected, scanned and bagged as you go. At the checkout you scan the bar code on your phone's screen, pay, and walk out, all of which takes a couple of seconds.
As for scarcity of labour, the fear of AI is that it is set to replace certain classes (for lack of a better word) of humans, rather than certain jobs or industries. The obsolete buggy whip maker might retrain to become a cobbler, a farm hand replaced with mechanized farming might go to the city to find a job at the assembly line. But versatile AI and robots? If your job as burger flipper, lathe operator or middle manager is replaced by a smart robot, that same robot could do pretty much any other job for which you would conceivably be qualified. Perhaps some jobs will always be unsuitable for robots, and perhaps some new humans-only jobs will be invented along the way, but the grim reality seems to be that overall there will be far fewer jobs to go around.
That would be fine if we would end up not doing any mind numbing work while still increasing our living standard. And that's a big if. As it is, labour is our chief mechanism for generating and distributing wealth. With all work done by robots, we'll need a new economic mechanism, or all wealth will end up with whomever owns the robots (Marx' means of production). Do read "Manna", a free ebook that deals with some of these issues. I for one am not convinced that if robots will slowly replace most human labour, our economic system will shift accordingly to move towards a society of abundance rather than a future with most of humanity living in cheap Terrafoam tenement blocks under robot guard, on whatever pittance is deemed the minimum to keep us docile, while the happy few get to enjoy the rest of the planet.
The sad thing is: sociology, gender studies and all that stuff are valid areas of research. Scientific research. The problem with most sociology departments is that they no longer apply scientific methods or scientific filters or indeed any filters, and you end up with crap like that paper, and everything else that resonates well in their politically correct echo chamber. A friend of mine started on a sociology major, and found out the hard way that dissent (in the form of opinion or cold hard facts) is not appreciated, as opposed to almost all other departments where fresh points of view are welcomed.
Very much this. Whether you are vegging out in front of the TV, busy with a hobby, taking the kids out to the park, or doing something incredibly self-actualizing, a good weekend is one where you are off the clock, and off the dayplanner. I know people who are rather keen to spent their time well and end up worrying every moment they aren't engaged in something "worthwhile", whatever the hell that may be. Not the best way to relax.
By the way/. you are doing your headlines wrong. Stop with the clickbait already.
Actually on an MS Surface Pro, the keyboard and mouse work just fine. Probably because the OS is written with mouse support in mind. iOS on the other hand doesn't cater for mice.
Careful with just doing mirrors and/or rotating snapshots / tapes: by the time the ransomware reveals itself, your backup process may already have cheerfully overwritten your files in backup with encrypted versions.
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The geothermal systems also use heat pumps, using heat trapped underground rather than outside air. More expensive but also more efficient. Over here, the geothermal systems are attractive as they can also be used as an energy efficient aircon in summer.
That's actually the advice (honest) installers here will give you: insulate walls, roof, floor, and get that triple glazing filled with unicorn farts first, before spending money on a geothermal system. It's more cost-effective. But depending on your climate, you're still likely to need heating and/or cooling.
Still it's good news if they can really cut costs for such a system by that much. If you don't have natural gas (and that's the way we're going here), geothermal heating is by far the best option.
I fully agree: the responsibility to not shoot someone just because they scare you a little applies to carrying citizens as well. We don't have those in our country though, unless you count criminals.
The officer might be a bit more wary, perhaps due to some unconscious racial bias, and it's fine if that means the cop will just be extra careful around that person. But if that translates to shooting a random guy at a traffic stop when he (rightly) informed the cop he was carrying, then that cop crossed the line. We get to be extra jumpy and fearful around a carrying but otherwise normal black guy, an officer doesn't. If he is, he's not fit for duty.
The 3rd Circuit now joins the 1st, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th
Something different about the even-numbered ones?
Plus, Spotify lets you store songs on your phone so they can be played offline. Most people I know pirate stuff for convenience or to play stuff offline, and services like Spotify have made that mostly unneccesary
Perhaps this is just the studios making yet another case that
- DRM is still needed
- Streaming is evil and needs to die (because they have wrested control from the studios), or at least these companies should give them a bigger slice of the pie
- Every pirate is a thief who deserves some old fashioned sharia justice.
The free press also didn't try and stifle him.
You don't have to be sure or even worry about it much: Zuck's credibility on weighing in on this issue is about the same as yours or mine. It's a bit like Beyoncé telling you how to vote: it's advice that you can safely ignore.
What the British call a "jobsworth". Great expression.
That health care for a (healthy) 14 year old girl costs hundreds of thousands of dollars is your own damn fault. Or rather, the fault of your insurers. And no, Obamacare would not have made an improvement, on the contrary...
Break the insurance companies. That is step 1.
When you buy Volvo you really need to do your homework. Some production years are crap while the next year sees great cars roll off the line. My C70 with the regular 2.4 5 cylinder engine is a great car. Best part is: I bought it second hand 6 years ago, and it's still worth about the same today, due to it being of the "right" year. With the more popular models like the estates, which people buy as work horses, I've seen almost a factor 2 difference between models only 1 year apart. Because one will be crap, and the other great.
That's a "good" hybrid, just like the Mitsubishis and Volvos being sold over here. Good in the sense that they got a decent petrol engine and have a lot of of extra torque thanks to the additional electric motors, so you get very spiffy acceleration and no range issues, while still qualifying for the significant tax break. Environment? The hybrid part is just a power boost.
I do agree that hybrids are a temporary solution at best. It's a lot of extra complexity and weight for a slight environmental benefit and a bit of extra power.
Drivers get confused or misled by the silliest little things. Care is taken to design roads so that drivers do not get confused (like ensuring tunnel facades are perpendicular to the road even if the object over the road isn't), or to mislead drivers on purpose (like visually narrowing a road to make drivers slow down). Sometimes a new road opens with a confusing element, with a lot of accidents happening there as a consequence, until the situation is remedied. And on top of all that, some drivers do the craziest things if they are about to miss their exit.
So yeah, a bus that requires drivers to adjust speed to catch an exit they cannot see, while driving in a tunnel where the walls themselves move giving them a very confusing sense of speed, sounds like a great idea. If you're an ambulance chaser, that is.
The S sold like hotcakes here, partly thanks to the attractive price (due to not having the aforementioned extra tax on petrol cars). They are even used as taxicabs, as they offer a nice ride to clients while being cheap to operate. If the 3 comes in at around €35k as expected, I expect they'll sell even more. Most people here don't really need a station wagon and few people own a trailer; so most just rent a van if they have to move stuff.
The point of the Model 3 is that it isn't that expensive. It'll be in the same price range as the Bolt / Ampera, and should cost about the same as the upcoming Volvo EV. I wouldn't call it overpriced, and especially here in Europe an EV is a lot cheaper to maintain and run than a regular car.
Instead of saying that it doesn't meet the needs of most people, you could say that these vehicles almost meet the needs of many (maybe most) people. Almost but not quite. So just rent a car for the one or two longer trips you make each year. One manufacturer here includes a free rental for such longer trips. And for those buying an EV as a second vehicle this generally isn't an issue at all.
There's no need at all to test in production in this case, and no need for an additional book and bullet to reach the test objective. Simple fire the one bullet at the book with the melon placed behind it. There's only 2 possible outcomes (excluding misfires etc):
1) Book stops bullet. Then it stands to reason that it will do so regardless of what is placed behind it, a person or a melon. Test complete
2) Bullet penetrates book and destroys melon. Your test is now complete, unless you now want to find out if the bullet exits the book with enough force to still be lethal. In this case I somehow doubt that the guy would be eager to perform that test using another bullet, book and his own dumb arse.
What work exactly is being shifted from a machine to a human at the self checkout? The only difference is that the customer is doing the work instead of the cashier. And if the scanning is done with a portable hand terminal or with a smart phone (like it is in our local supermarket), self checkout takes a lot LESS human time since there's nothing to unpack; purchases are selected, scanned and bagged as you go. At the checkout you scan the bar code on your phone's screen, pay, and walk out, all of which takes a couple of seconds.
As for scarcity of labour, the fear of AI is that it is set to replace certain classes (for lack of a better word) of humans, rather than certain jobs or industries. The obsolete buggy whip maker might retrain to become a cobbler, a farm hand replaced with mechanized farming might go to the city to find a job at the assembly line. But versatile AI and robots? If your job as burger flipper, lathe operator or middle manager is replaced by a smart robot, that same robot could do pretty much any other job for which you would conceivably be qualified. Perhaps some jobs will always be unsuitable for robots, and perhaps some new humans-only jobs will be invented along the way, but the grim reality seems to be that overall there will be far fewer jobs to go around.
That would be fine if we would end up not doing any mind numbing work while still increasing our living standard. And that's a big if. As it is, labour is our chief mechanism for generating and distributing wealth. With all work done by robots, we'll need a new economic mechanism, or all wealth will end up with whomever owns the robots (Marx' means of production). Do read "Manna", a free ebook that deals with some of these issues. I for one am not convinced that if robots will slowly replace most human labour, our economic system will shift accordingly to move towards a society of abundance rather than a future with most of humanity living in cheap Terrafoam tenement blocks under robot guard, on whatever pittance is deemed the minimum to keep us docile, while the happy few get to enjoy the rest of the planet.
No (3rd party) cookies and no tracking ought to be the default.
The sad thing is: sociology, gender studies and all that stuff are valid areas of research. Scientific research. The problem with most sociology departments is that they no longer apply scientific methods or scientific filters or indeed any filters, and you end up with crap like that paper, and everything else that resonates well in their politically correct echo chamber. A friend of mine started on a sociology major, and found out the hard way that dissent (in the form of opinion or cold hard facts) is not appreciated, as opposed to almost all other departments where fresh points of view are welcomed.
And you might still do better than that sociology doctor.
Very much this. Whether you are vegging out in front of the TV, busy with a hobby, taking the kids out to the park, or doing something incredibly self-actualizing, a good weekend is one where you are off the clock, and off the dayplanner. I know people who are rather keen to spent their time well and end up worrying every moment they aren't engaged in something "worthwhile", whatever the hell that may be. Not the best way to relax.
/. you are doing your headlines wrong. Stop with the clickbait already.
By the way
No, what they put on CDs is the "we must win the loudness war" compressed to hell made for radio master.
How is Twitter a "source"?
Actually on an MS Surface Pro, the keyboard and mouse work just fine. Probably because the OS is written with mouse support in mind. iOS on the other hand doesn't cater for mice.
Careful with just doing mirrors and/or rotating snapshots / tapes: by the time the ransomware reveals itself, your backup process may already have cheerfully overwritten your files in backup with encrypted versions.