Well, to clarify, they shouldn't build nuclear reactors and desalination plants. The geologically-more-stable midwest should build nuclear reactors, and then use that power to fuel coastal desalination plants. I've thought it reasonable that, if there are supposed security risks associated with nuclear reactors, then some of those fears could be assuaged by locating newer, LFTR or other breeder-style reactors inside the security perimeter of military installations, several major of which are conveniently located in the midwest.
The purpose of government is not profit. However, to a certain extent, the government must compete with the market to attract employees, so the wages do tend to reflect the market. That the government offers less than the market is because of its other benefits as an employer, primarily extreme stability.
And come on -- given how much publicity there was over the dude who was killed by the falling tree branch/tire swing, how many deaths from fire at an Airbnb property do you really think could sneak under the radar? That's why I challenged you to simply find one.
The reason that one incident got so much publicity was because the family of the victim was able to recover "sufficient" renumeration from the insurance company of the property owners. They never signed any agreements with AirBnB.
The articles about that death covered the fact that AirBnB sweeps in with cash in exchange for confidentiality in the event of mishap, effectively hiding most deaths' associations with AirBnB.
Actually, what *I* want is for the government to leave alone owner-occupied homes that they rent out all or part of for part of the year, while cracking down entirely on short-term rentals in residential zoning for houses and apartments that aren't owner occupied.
If you're renting it short term, and you aren't doing so as a secondary use to your own residence as the owner, then your doing commercial renting and should be subject to all commercial renting rules and regulations, including zoning regulations.
Post your address. I would like to render pig carcasses upwind. Don't worry, I'll be incorporated and cash out long before my offal pond floods your property.
Or do you actually believe in zoning regulations? Okay then, let's zone long-term housing differently than short-term housing.
Democrats controlled the senate with a supermajority for about 17 weeks, from the delayed confirmation of Al Franken to the death of Ted Kennedy.
Just exactly how much legislation do you think they should have crammed in to those weeks? The fact that they only got one piece of major legislation through is to me testament to the fact that they were taking their time to do things right instead of pushing through more pre-written, unread garbage.
Anecdotal, but what I've seen is that the panels survive better than a typical asphalt roof. Those get beat up pretty bad in hail storms, but it takes a lucky strike at just the right angle to crack a solar panel; otherwise the hail just bounces off.
Now a tin roof of course would last longer than either, but most people don't invest in those.
One 35-year old working unit isn't proof, it's an anecdote. For proof you need statistics. And those are... math!?!?!
Interestingly enough, you might not even need one unit to have reached 35 years old for the statistics to yield that age. For example, do you not believe that the half life of Thorium 229 is 7340 years? We certainly haven't observed a sample that long, yet we understand how the decay process works and can thus use statistics to extrapolate a relevant average decay period. Similarly, if we humans understand the aging mechanisms of solar panels well enough, including knowledge that there are no threshold events that cause the decay to change to a newer, faster model, then it's reasonable to look at the start of the curve, fit it to the known methods, and advance it to extrapolate a useful life.
Not that I like bitcoin, but it's farming ASICs aren't magic money-printing machines. They are electricity-consuming (pseudo-)money-printing machines.
Someone could conceivably design and build the ASIC, and sell the ASIC, but not want to invest the resources or pay the costs associated with actual farming. It's sort-of like multi-level marketing companies like Mary Kay or whatever. They could sell their own products and keep more of the revenue, but then they'd have to pay the costs associated with retail business (salary, shipping) when instead they can sell the raw product and let some third-party person try to make the rest while taking on all the costs.
Not only that, but the sovereign debt of the U.S. is issued in U.S. dollars. Lots of governments and individuals around the world own U.S. debt, and they are all invested in the dollar remaining strong so as to maintain the value of that investment.
And this ignores commerce conducted in U.S. dollars, like the international oil market, which while beneficial to the dollar as a whole, could probably be swapped out for another currency (the yuan renminbi I assume at this point, given that the euro doesn't look too good) if given enough notice.
You are defining "driving" to mean exactly what you want it to mean. To the vast majority of people operating the gas pedal is a component of "driving" yet you just dismissed cruise control as not "[taking] the driving from you and [doing] it for you." Same for adaptive cruise control (automatic acceleration and braking), lane keeping (automatic steering decision). Go back enough decades and ABS brakes (automatic brake pumping), timed windshield wipers (automatic periodic windscreen cleaning), auto tranmissions (automatic shifting) are also "doing the driving for you".
I think we're wired to see new things as annoyances once we get old enough. That's why people stop liking new things. In every case of something that existed when I learned to drive, it's a useful component that lets me concentrate on something else (except automatic transmissions - those just make driving less fun), while everything that's come along later (adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, Tesla's autopilot) could be seen as new annoyances. Same for whatever that music stuff is they put out on the radio now between the DJs laughing.
One guy has died. There will be an NTSB investigation into this accident due to its unique nature. They may find that the accident was unavoidable i.e. neither the driver nor the car would have seen the trailer and stopped in time.
Meanwhile, Tesla likely has reams of data showing the vehicle using adaptive cruise or lane changes to avoid accidents, and there's growing data (only possible because this feature hasn't been banned yet) showing that Tesla cars are statistically safer when using this mode.
Eventually that data will trump knee-jerk gut-feel reactions and should be used for sensible regulation. We'll see. The government is good at banning things in ways that make it difficult to research why they should be unbanned.
So I'm going to a special outdoor event and a guy is directing me to turn right up a dirt ramp that's bridging a curb to take me into a grassy field where another guy tells me to turn left into a row being formed by the cars parking on it where a third guy tells me to turn right and angle-in park.
Until we have a singularity no vehicle AI could manage that.
The aftermarket cruise control in my '97 Miata shuts off when I tap the break but not the clutch; the car just revs to max if I put the clutch in without turning cruise off first (oops).
The parents react as if they are meeting the definition of autistic, why would the children be any different? Its not genetic, its environmental in these cases.
Autistic parents having autistic children is pretty much the goddamn definition of genetic, dumbass.
That's not what he meant. He's describing neurotic parents having neurotic children, and assuming that sufficient neuroses are indistinguishable from autism.
My friends who have used Uber said that they were getting like 3-4 mail advertisements a week about this, plus emails, texts, etc. Some who otherwise wouldn't care voted against it because they were so annoyed at the spam.
Austin still has a driver service besides taxis. Get Me operates here and complies with the background checks.
The term "gadget" usually implies a connotation of "small", whereas "appliance" in the traditional sense does not. An electric can opener, for example, is both a gadget and an appliance, and in that way they are synonyms, but a fridge is an appliance but not a gadget, just like an iWatch is a gadget but not an appliance.
Exactly. People who point out that Canada will become more arable (eventually) don't usually realize that Canada might not want a large influx of Americans, nor will America want a large influx of Mexicans who can no longer farm their lands. Even assuming the same total amount of land remains capable of producing food, the migrations necessary to get people near those lands will spark several wars and lots of pain and suffering.
Slashdot Mirror
Need to update your partisan copypastas dude. The Obama administration doesn't like or dislike anything.
Well, to clarify, they shouldn't build nuclear reactors and desalination plants. The geologically-more-stable midwest should build nuclear reactors, and then use that power to fuel coastal desalination plants. I've thought it reasonable that, if there are supposed security risks associated with nuclear reactors, then some of those fears could be assuaged by locating newer, LFTR or other breeder-style reactors inside the security perimeter of military installations, several major of which are conveniently located in the midwest.
The purpose of government is not profit. However, to a certain extent, the government must compete with the market to attract employees, so the wages do tend to reflect the market. That the government offers less than the market is because of its other benefits as an employer, primarily extreme stability.
It's no one's fault, yet. There's no conclusions to the report.
The trailer was perpendicular across the road.
I have never given any social networking app access to my phone contacts. I assume you are on Android?
And come on -- given how much publicity there was over the dude who was killed by the falling tree branch/tire swing, how many deaths from fire at an Airbnb property do you really think could sneak under the radar? That's why I challenged you to simply find one.
The reason that one incident got so much publicity was because the family of the victim was able to recover "sufficient" renumeration from the insurance company of the property owners. They never signed any agreements with AirBnB.
The articles about that death covered the fact that AirBnB sweeps in with cash in exchange for confidentiality in the event of mishap, effectively hiding most deaths' associations with AirBnB.
Actually, what *I* want is for the government to leave alone owner-occupied homes that they rent out all or part of for part of the year, while cracking down entirely on short-term rentals in residential zoning for houses and apartments that aren't owner occupied.
If you're renting it short term, and you aren't doing so as a secondary use to your own residence as the owner, then your doing commercial renting and should be subject to all commercial renting rules and regulations, including zoning regulations.
Wow, that covers all of your extreme examples.
Post your address. I would like to render pig carcasses upwind. Don't worry, I'll be incorporated and cash out long before my offal pond floods your property.
Or do you actually believe in zoning regulations? Okay then, let's zone long-term housing differently than short-term housing.
This is an example of the type of thing commercial rentals are inspected for that AirBNB homes are not:
https://medium.com/matter/livi...
Democrats controlled the senate with a supermajority for about 17 weeks, from the delayed confirmation of Al Franken to the death of Ted Kennedy.
Just exactly how much legislation do you think they should have crammed in to those weeks? The fact that they only got one piece of major legislation through is to me testament to the fact that they were taking their time to do things right instead of pushing through more pre-written, unread garbage.
To not exceed the speed limit, when any "auto" feature is enabled.
There should be a rule that unless the car is totally under manual control, it cannot exceed the speed limit.
As soon as that's mandatory for the cruise control in your current car first, amiright?
Anecdotal, but what I've seen is that the panels survive better than a typical asphalt roof. Those get beat up pretty bad in hail storms, but it takes a lucky strike at just the right angle to crack a solar panel; otherwise the hail just bounces off.
Now a tin roof of course would last longer than either, but most people don't invest in those.
One 35-year old working unit isn't proof, it's an anecdote. For proof you need statistics. And those are... math!?!?!
Interestingly enough, you might not even need one unit to have reached 35 years old for the statistics to yield that age. For example, do you not believe that the half life of Thorium 229 is 7340 years? We certainly haven't observed a sample that long, yet we understand how the decay process works and can thus use statistics to extrapolate a relevant average decay period. Similarly, if we humans understand the aging mechanisms of solar panels well enough, including knowledge that there are no threshold events that cause the decay to change to a newer, faster model, then it's reasonable to look at the start of the curve, fit it to the known methods, and advance it to extrapolate a useful life.
Not that I like bitcoin, but it's farming ASICs aren't magic money-printing machines. They are electricity-consuming (pseudo-)money-printing machines.
Someone could conceivably design and build the ASIC, and sell the ASIC, but not want to invest the resources or pay the costs associated with actual farming. It's sort-of like multi-level marketing companies like Mary Kay or whatever. They could sell their own products and keep more of the revenue, but then they'd have to pay the costs associated with retail business (salary, shipping) when instead they can sell the raw product and let some third-party person try to make the rest while taking on all the costs.
Not only that, but the sovereign debt of the U.S. is issued in U.S. dollars. Lots of governments and individuals around the world own U.S. debt, and they are all invested in the dollar remaining strong so as to maintain the value of that investment.
And this ignores commerce conducted in U.S. dollars, like the international oil market, which while beneficial to the dollar as a whole, could probably be swapped out for another currency (the yuan renminbi I assume at this point, given that the euro doesn't look too good) if given enough notice.
Yeah. Same with cruise control.
You are defining "driving" to mean exactly what you want it to mean. To the vast majority of people operating the gas pedal is a component of "driving" yet you just dismissed cruise control as not "[taking] the driving from you and [doing] it for you." Same for adaptive cruise control (automatic acceleration and braking), lane keeping (automatic steering decision). Go back enough decades and ABS brakes (automatic brake pumping), timed windshield wipers (automatic periodic windscreen cleaning), auto tranmissions (automatic shifting) are also "doing the driving for you".
I think we're wired to see new things as annoyances once we get old enough. That's why people stop liking new things. In every case of something that existed when I learned to drive, it's a useful component that lets me concentrate on something else (except automatic transmissions - those just make driving less fun), while everything that's come along later (adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, Tesla's autopilot) could be seen as new annoyances. Same for whatever that music stuff is they put out on the radio now between the DJs laughing.
One guy has died. There will be an NTSB investigation into this accident due to its unique nature. They may find that the accident was unavoidable i.e. neither the driver nor the car would have seen the trailer and stopped in time.
Meanwhile, Tesla likely has reams of data showing the vehicle using adaptive cruise or lane changes to avoid accidents, and there's growing data (only possible because this feature hasn't been banned yet) showing that Tesla cars are statistically safer when using this mode.
Eventually that data will trump knee-jerk gut-feel reactions and should be used for sensible regulation. We'll see. The government is good at banning things in ways that make it difficult to research why they should be unbanned.
So I'm going to a special outdoor event and a guy is directing me to turn right up a dirt ramp that's bridging a curb to take me into a grassy field where another guy tells me to turn left into a row being formed by the cars parking on it where a third guy tells me to turn right and angle-in park.
Until we have a singularity no vehicle AI could manage that.
The aftermarket cruise control in my '97 Miata shuts off when I tap the break but not the clutch; the car just revs to max if I put the clutch in without turning cruise off first (oops).
The parents react as if they are meeting the definition of autistic, why would the children be any different? Its not genetic, its environmental in these cases.
Autistic parents having autistic children is pretty much the goddamn definition of genetic, dumbass.
That's not what he meant. He's describing neurotic parents having neurotic children, and assuming that sufficient neuroses are indistinguishable from autism.
My friends who have used Uber said that they were getting like 3-4 mail advertisements a week about this, plus emails, texts, etc. Some who otherwise wouldn't care voted against it because they were so annoyed at the spam.
Austin still has a driver service besides taxis. Get Me operates here and complies with the background checks.
The term "gadget" usually implies a connotation of "small", whereas "appliance" in the traditional sense does not. An electric can opener, for example, is both a gadget and an appliance, and in that way they are synonyms, but a fridge is an appliance but not a gadget, just like an iWatch is a gadget but not an appliance.
Exactly. People who point out that Canada will become more arable (eventually) don't usually realize that Canada might not want a large influx of Americans, nor will America want a large influx of Mexicans who can no longer farm their lands. Even assuming the same total amount of land remains capable of producing food, the migrations necessary to get people near those lands will spark several wars and lots of pain and suffering.