Their like locusts that bring their failed urbanite liberal voting policies with them and blight out the local economy.
Yeah, as if Austin isn't contributing to the Texas economy...since 2004, an estimated 168,500 new jobs have been added to Austin's regional economy, and regional payroll increased by $8.46 billion.
Oh wait, might this be why it's Google themselves who are working on driverless cars?
That is one of the deepest insights I've ever seen on Slashdot. Google wants driverless cars to get 1-2 hours per day per person of more Internet advertising viewing!
I am sure he was mentally deranged. Whether he was not being able to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct if due to a mental disease or defect (the criminal defense of insanity in Connecticut) is unlikely.
Is there actual strong evidence that the North was truly ready to cut a deal, or just posturing? It isn't clear to me that North Vietnam was ever truly ready to make any deals with anyone short of complete communist rule of all of Vietnam.
If Nixon really thought that the South was getting a raw deal, what is wrong with telling them that he would be willing to support a better deal if that was the truth?
And perhaps the South thought they could get a better deal with the North with the support of Nixon. That turned out not to be true, but how could the South or Nixon know that?
Yes, there is the Logan Act that restricts private citizens from "influencing the measures or conduct of any foreign government", but the truth is that no one has ever ever been convicted of breaking the Logan Act, and the law itself is likely an unconstitutional limit on free speech. Otherwise we would have locked up all the "Free Tibet!" people.
I put this whole thing down as an interesting footnote in history. It does not really compare with Watergate and other Nixon activities that were unabashed crimes by anyone's measure.
We already know that the K-weighting of ITU-BS.1770 is a much better indicator of perceived loudness than A-weighting, and K-weighting weighs lower frequencies much higher than A-weighting.
Moreover, it is possible that the optimal frequency weighting for "annoyance" is something completely different. To date, no one has really compiled the data for that.
I have a suspicion that continuous low-frequency noise is more annoying than A-weighting or even K-weighting would indicate, but it would be a great experiment to work out.
By the way, especially with 4k resolutions coming along, I would not be surprised if we see more Consumer Electronics moving to compressed-mode interfaces (although preferably at bit rates with low visual loss).
The truth is that most content you see on television was compressed into DNxHD at 145 Mbps for editing, then compressed to MPEG-2 50 Mbps long-GOP for playback.
And of course if you are watching on a Blu-Ray, there was an H.264 compression to 25-35 Mbps, on broadcast TV an MPEG-2 compression to 10-15 Mbps, on cable or satellite and MPEG-2 compression to 6-12 Mbps or H.264 compression to 4-8 Mbps (and I'm talking HD rates here - SD is much less).
HD uncompressed is around 1.5 Gbps. The only time we ever use uncompressed interfaces in broadcast is over coaxial cables using HD-SDI between devices - we almost never store uncompressed. Uncompressed representations flow through broadcast production switchers, but only because of the need for ultra-low latency.
The French people who are employed are super efficient people. But anyone who is inefficient can't get a job. Unemployment rates over 10% are typical there, not unusual like in the US. The French labor force participation rate is 56%, in the US it is 63%.
And if you are young and non-white in France, good luck getting a job!
My understanding is that identical twins -- arising from the same zygote -- are genetically identical. Not just "pretty much identical" as the article states.
Then your understanding is wrong, see this article:
Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues closely compared the genomes of 19 sets of adult identical twins. In some cases, one twin's DNA differed from the other's at various points on their genomes. At these sites of genetic divergence, one bore a different number of copies of the same gene, a genetic state called copy number variants.
It is generally felt that copy number variation (CNV) between MZ twins is generally post-meiosis (i.e. mitosis).
Typical police forensic genetic tests look for a "fingerprint" based on lengths of DNA when cut by particular enzymes. This is unlikely to find CNVs.
Some CNVs might be discoverable with a SNP microarray chip (not super expensive to perform), but it is possible that you may need to do a complete sequence of both twin's DNA to find the needed CNV differentiator.
That link is to video of the "Hole of Fire" or "Door to Hell" at Derweze, in the middle of the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan.
Soviet geologists were drilling at the site in 1971 and tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. But the ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a hole with a diameter of 70 metres.
Fearing that the hole would lead to the release of poisonous gases, the team decided to burn it off.
It was hoped that the fire would use all the fuel within days, but the gas is still burning today.
The thing about these Tesla journey's is that they read like an newspaper column about automobile touring from 1902:
AUTOMOBILES IN BOSTON; Sixty-nine Machines Complete First Half of the Journey.
BOSTON, Oct. 11, 1902. -- The first half of the 500-mile reliability contest of the Automobile Club of America from New York to Boston ended at 5:15 to-night in a drenching rain, when Kenneth A. Skinner, in a De Dion-Bouton car, arrived at the finishing point.
Of the 75 machines which left New York Thursday morning 69 finished. The roads from New York to Springfield were excellent, but from Springfield to Boston they were poor and muddy, and the tourists were well splattered with mud when they arrive.
The severest test was Foster's Hill, a severe 12 per cent climb. Several machines went into the side ditches in an effort to clear some that were stalled. In many instances it was necessary for the riders to get out and push the cars up the incline.
Yes, but we have significant tariffs on imported sugar into the US. Beyond a small quota, imported sugar has a tariff of 150% of the sugar's value. The artificially high sugar prices due to tariffs cost the American economy $1.9 billion of deadweight loss a year, to "protect" about 3600 US jobs.
Another place where the market should be allowed to work instead of anti-trade protectionist regulation backed by a small number of fat-cat agribusinesses.
There are 120 (USA) college football teams. That's $4.16 mill spread over every college. The AVERAGE salary of a head coach is $1.6 mill
I bet though that outside of SEC, Big 12, Pac 12, and Big 10 that the coach pay drops pretty fast (although a SEC coach like Nick Saban from Alabama does get $5.48 million).
In other words, CEO's are a property tax. They make what they can take, not what they earn.
There is an argument that it costs more to find CEO's who can handle a larger corporation. Not sure if I agree or not, but I will admit the CEO's I've met have been very special people.
What you want is annual mean insolation at the surface of the Earth in watts per square meter - there is a map here.
Germany appears to be around 100 w/m^2. Most of CONUS is higher than that, with a large area of 200 w/m^2, and an area of 250 w/m^2 in the SouthWest.
So in most of the US, equivalent annual power from a 1 GW nuclear reactor could be replaced by a 100% efficient solar collector 2.2 km on a side , as opposed to Germany where it needs to be 3.1 km on a side.
You will be glad to know that there are three large solar plants being built in the Mojave desert:
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility 392MW solar thermal. It takes up an area equivalent to a square 4km on a side. It is about halfway complete with over 100,000 heliostats installed, see satellite images.
4) What they're managing isn't that important. "But football is big business"... No, it isn't. It's a money pit. They produce nothing of value short of some recreational TV time and some T-shirts. The "income" of college football comes from donations to the college.
College football playoff TV rights alone are worth $500 million. The regular season deals are harder to find about, but Notre Dame had a $9 million per year deal with NBC a long time ago. Big Ten network brings in $7 million to each school per year [all info in this post is public].
CEOs don't get big pay because of "market forces."
There is evidence that CEO pay is linked to corporate market capitalization:
Gabaix and Landier write in a new Quarterly Journal of Economics article, the sixfold increase in American CEO pay from 1980 to 2003 is almost wholly explained by the roughly sixfold increase in market capitalization of big U.S. companies over the same period...The trend lines of market capitalization and executive payouts rose and dipped in near-perfect tandem.
Frankly, I'd prefer if more foreign students went back to where they came from to improve their own communities.
Maybe you should be shipped off to some third world fungus country!
I want my doctor to actually care about my health, not just his bottom line.
I prefer having a doctor whose bottom line depends on the quality of my health, as opposed to someone who is reimbursed per procedure. I am not naive to believe that any doctor cares about my health very much.
As Adam Smith said "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
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46 states no longer mandate that districts must teach cursive in their language arts core curriculum.
Their like locusts that bring their failed urbanite liberal voting policies with them and blight out the local economy.
Yeah, as if Austin isn't contributing to the Texas economy...since 2004, an estimated 168,500 new jobs have been added to Austin's regional economy, and regional payroll increased by $8.46 billion.
Oh wait, might this be why it's Google themselves who are working on driverless cars?
That is one of the deepest insights I've ever seen on Slashdot. Google wants driverless cars to get 1-2 hours per day per person of more Internet advertising viewing!
Anyway I do not believe that he was crazy.
I am sure he was mentally deranged. Whether he was not being able to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct if due to a mental disease or defect (the criminal defense of insanity in Connecticut) is unlikely.
He's dead. His presidency is already considered a colossal failure.
Nixon's visit to China was not a failure, and helped to open up that country to the world and the market economy.
Is there actual strong evidence that the North was truly ready to cut a deal, or just posturing? It isn't clear to me that North Vietnam was ever truly ready to make any deals with anyone short of complete communist rule of all of Vietnam.
If Nixon really thought that the South was getting a raw deal, what is wrong with telling them that he would be willing to support a better deal if that was the truth?
And perhaps the South thought they could get a better deal with the North with the support of Nixon. That turned out not to be true, but how could the South or Nixon know that?
Yes, there is the Logan Act that restricts private citizens from "influencing the measures or conduct of any foreign government", but the truth is that no one has ever ever been convicted of breaking the Logan Act, and the law itself is likely an unconstitutional limit on free speech. Otherwise we would have locked up all the "Free Tibet!" people.
I put this whole thing down as an interesting footnote in history. It does not really compare with Watergate and other Nixon activities that were unabashed crimes by anyone's measure.
Well it is true that the US Libertarian Party was founded due to Nixon's announcement of wage and price controls and leaving the gold standard.
The best sound blocker is lead such as acoustilead that can attenuate 30 dB or more. Mass loaded vinyl barriers can work as well.
Most noise is going to enter your room though the window or the door.
The window you can "plug" with foam. For a big window, you may need to spray glue the foam to a flat piece of wood.
For your door, try door seals.
For your head, use NRR 31 ear muffs with NRR 33 ear plugs physically in your ears.
from right up in front of the thing you experience 105 dB of sound.
dB what? Your link is to dB(A), referencing the IEC 61672:2003 A-Weighting.
We already know that the K-weighting of ITU-BS.1770 is a much better indicator of perceived loudness than A-weighting, and K-weighting weighs lower frequencies much higher than A-weighting.
Moreover, it is possible that the optimal frequency weighting for "annoyance" is something completely different. To date, no one has really compiled the data for that.
I have a suspicion that continuous low-frequency noise is more annoying than A-weighting or even K-weighting would indicate, but it would be a great experiment to work out.
By the way, especially with 4k resolutions coming along, I would not be surprised if we see more Consumer Electronics moving to compressed-mode interfaces (although preferably at bit rates with low visual loss).
The truth is that most content you see on television was compressed into DNxHD at 145 Mbps for editing, then compressed to MPEG-2 50 Mbps long-GOP for playback.
And of course if you are watching on a Blu-Ray, there was an H.264 compression to 25-35 Mbps, on broadcast TV an MPEG-2 compression to 10-15 Mbps, on cable or satellite and MPEG-2 compression to 6-12 Mbps or H.264 compression to 4-8 Mbps (and I'm talking HD rates here - SD is much less).
HD uncompressed is around 1.5 Gbps. The only time we ever use uncompressed interfaces in broadcast is over coaxial cables using HD-SDI between devices - we almost never store uncompressed. Uncompressed representations flow through broadcast production switchers, but only because of the need for ultra-low latency.
on the other hand, 63% is still pretty shitty... it still implies 37% underemployment
Many of those out of the labor force are students, homemakers, and persons under the age of 64 who are retired.
For comparison, the French labor force participation rate is 56%.
The Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate (CIVPART) which is currently ~63%
The French are super efficient people
The French people who are employed are super efficient people. But anyone who is inefficient can't get a job. Unemployment rates over 10% are typical there, not unusual like in the US. The French labor force participation rate is 56%, in the US it is 63%.
And if you are young and non-white in France, good luck getting a job!
Then your understanding is wrong, see this article:
Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues closely compared the genomes of 19 sets of adult identical twins. In some cases, one twin's DNA differed from the other's at various points on their genomes. At these sites of genetic divergence, one bore a different number of copies of the same gene, a genetic state called copy number variants.
It is generally felt that copy number variation (CNV) between MZ twins is generally post-meiosis (i.e. mitosis).
Typical police forensic genetic tests look for a "fingerprint" based on lengths of DNA when cut by particular enzymes. This is unlikely to find CNVs.
Some CNVs might be discoverable with a SNP microarray chip (not super expensive to perform), but it is possible that you may need to do a complete sequence of both twin's DNA to find the needed CNV differentiator.
That link is to video of the "Hole of Fire" or "Door to Hell" at Derweze, in the middle of the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan.
Soviet geologists were drilling at the site in 1971 and tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. But the ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a hole with a diameter of 70 metres.
Fearing that the hole would lead to the release of poisonous gases, the team decided to burn it off.
It was hoped that the fire would use all the fuel within days, but the gas is still burning today.
The thing about these Tesla journey's is that they read like an newspaper column about automobile touring from 1902:
AUTOMOBILES IN BOSTON; Sixty-nine Machines Complete First Half of the Journey.
BOSTON, Oct. 11, 1902. -- The first half of the 500-mile reliability contest of the Automobile Club of America from New York to Boston ended at 5:15 to-night in a drenching rain, when Kenneth A. Skinner, in a De Dion-Bouton car, arrived at the finishing point.
Of the 75 machines which left New York Thursday morning 69 finished. The roads from New York to Springfield were excellent, but from Springfield to Boston they were poor and muddy, and the tourists were well splattered with mud when they arrive.
The severest test was Foster's Hill, a severe 12 per cent climb. Several machines went into the side ditches in an effort to clear some that were stalled. In many instances it was necessary for the riders to get out and push the cars up the incline.
How much TNT did it take to simulate this nuclear test?
Here is a picture of 100 tons of TNT set off before the Trinity shot to calibrate equipment.
The NK shot was 7 kt, so imagine 70 times that amount of TNT.
That's a lot of TNT....
Drop the embargo and you'll reboot the Cuban economy, most of whose sugar mills have turned to rust
Not just the embargo, but the US would have to drop it sugar tariffs that require you to pay more tariff than the imported sugar is worth.
Corn is not the only producer of ethanol.
Yes, but we have significant tariffs on imported sugar into the US. Beyond a small quota, imported sugar has a tariff of 150% of the sugar's value. The artificially high sugar prices due to tariffs cost the American economy $1.9 billion of deadweight loss a year, to "protect" about 3600 US jobs.
Another place where the market should be allowed to work instead of anti-trade protectionist regulation backed by a small number of fat-cat agribusinesses.
There are 120 (USA) college football teams. That's $4.16 mill spread over every college. The AVERAGE salary of a head coach is $1.6 mill
I bet though that outside of SEC, Big 12, Pac 12, and Big 10 that the coach pay drops pretty fast (although a SEC coach like Nick Saban from Alabama does get $5.48 million).
In other words, CEO's are a property tax. They make what they can take, not what they earn.
There is an argument that it costs more to find CEO's who can handle a larger corporation. Not sure if I agree or not, but I will admit the CEO's I've met have been very special people.
What you want is annual mean insolation at the surface of the Earth in watts per square meter - there is a map here.
Germany appears to be around 100 w/m^2. Most of CONUS is higher than that, with a large area of 200 w/m^2, and an area of 250 w/m^2 in the SouthWest.
So in most of the US, equivalent annual power from a 1 GW nuclear reactor could be replaced by a 100% efficient solar collector 2.2 km on a side , as opposed to Germany where it needs to be 3.1 km on a side.
You will be glad to know that there are three large solar plants being built in the Mojave desert:
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility 392MW solar thermal. It takes up an area equivalent to a square 4km on a side. It is about halfway complete with over 100,000 heliostats installed, see satellite images.
Mojave Solar Project 250MW concentrated solar parabolic trough plant
Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 230MW photovoltaic plant, that has been vandalized by opponents.
College football playoff TV rights alone are worth $500 million. The regular season deals are harder to find about, but Notre Dame had a $9 million per year deal with NBC a long time ago. Big Ten network brings in $7 million to each school per year [all info in this post is public].
There is evidence that CEO pay is linked to corporate market capitalization:
Gabaix and Landier write in a new Quarterly Journal of Economics article, the sixfold increase in American CEO pay from 1980 to 2003 is almost wholly explained by the roughly sixfold increase in market capitalization of big U.S. companies over the same period...The trend lines of market capitalization and executive payouts rose and dipped in near-perfect tandem.
Frankly, I'd prefer if more foreign students went back to where they came from to improve their own communities.
Maybe you should be shipped off to some third world fungus country!
I want my doctor to actually care about my health, not just his bottom line.
I prefer having a doctor whose bottom line depends on the quality of my health, as opposed to someone who is reimbursed per procedure. I am not naive to believe that any doctor cares about my health very much.
As Adam Smith said "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."