For anyone who's tempted to dismiss the AC because he's an AC, research backs him up. The average white collar worker does a few of hours of productive work a day. Judging by the highway construction guys, it doesn't seem like blue collar workers do much more.
The Uber one was the only one that surprised me. 3x more revenue is probably partly due to not have to worry about things like employee benefits, fleet maintenance, etc., but with that big a difference surely quite a few more people are using cabs than before.
The others... meh. Expedia has more "rooms for offer" and fewer employees than all the major hotel chains put together, AND as many airline seats as all the airlines! That's because, just like AirBnB, they don't actually have any rooms for offer. They're a booking service.
Some union dude getting attention in the court of public opinion, Kickstarters, data analysis... meh. No surprises there.
Congress can pick another person to act as president, but they can't call another presidential election, even if both the president and vice president are dead, impeached or quit.
Maybe congress could create some kind of special position, call an election to fill it, then put that position next in line for president, but I strongly suspect the supreme court would put the kibosh on that kind of shenanigan (which is what they're supposed to do). You'd just end up with the speaker of the house or the president of the senate as president.
Judging by what happened when the US congress pulled that on Obama, it would just be a big mess. As an outside observer, less political cooperation doesn't seem to be what the US needs.
One change: my running mate would not be a traditional candidate, but would be like-minded. One of the bills that must pass would require another election to be held to determine who becomes President and Vice-President immediately after the bill is passed. I don't want the candidacy of my running mate to become an issue.
I don't think you can do that. IIRC the schedule of presidential elections in the US is fixed in the constitution. To do what you say you'd need a constitutional amendment, passed by two thirds of the state legislatures or equivalently by constitutional conventions in 2/3 of the states.
Option 3: Put in a little bit of effort, find relevant sponsors, and display their static logo or advertising text tastefully.
I know of several small websites that do this. Adblockers don't block it, users generally won't want to, and the whole thing comes across as much more professional than a roll of "Top Ten Celebrity Nosejobs Gone Wrong!" on every page.
In twenty years health care will consist of expert systems, nurses, and surgeons. Twenty years after that, the surgeons will be gone too. The breakthrough will probably occur when an HMO somewhere in the US realizes that it can cut costs by eliminating highly paid MDs. Then the stats will show that those patients are actually getting better care, and the rest of the world will follow.
Yes, the summary is apparently wrong. They're atoms, not Xeons. TDP varies a lot among Xeons, but a reasonably recent quad core one is going to be around 100 watts. 22 of those plus support hardware would make for a very warm suitcase.
The average person isn't very good at math, and is very bad at understanding scientific evidence. To the vast majority of people, 60 > 40 so working 60 hours is more productive than 40. Even though it's demonstrably not true. One commenter on this story admitted there's probably a point where productivity doesn't increase. He used 110 hours a week as an example. Working 110 hours a week is 15.7 hours a day, every day.
I'm not sure what a Duggar family is, but since you said they're reality stars, they're being supported by private industry as entertainers. If you can make a profit having kids, go for it.
The reality for almost everyone is that kids are expensive. You might get some time off from Netflix for having one, but it's going to cost you much more than that in the long run.
You do know that lots of countries in the world have parental leave policies similar to this one, right? Strangely, those countries aren't infested by professional breeders, and if anything have fewer Duggars.
There's lots of research that suggests anyone who works more than about 40 hours a week is handicapping themselves. Working 60 hours a week drops your productivity by enough that you're falling behind the people just working 40. Not per hour worked, in total.
The "some level" you're looking for is 40 hours a week. Fifty if you're in 1942 England making bombs and airplanes as fast as you can.
It's very short sighted. The average white collar worker in the US does something like 2-3 hours of actual productive work per day. Healthy, happy, rested workers easily outperform that, and more than make up for the vacation or leave they take.
Yes. It's better for everybody. Mandatory leave and vacation time maintains workers' mental and physical health, makes sure there's no unofficial pressure not to take time off, and ends up being beneficial for the company too, because healthy workers are more productive.
"So, what projects did you work on during the last five years?" Uh, mostly changing diapers and cleaning vomit.
"Hi, I'm calling in regards to a reference for Mr. Thaylin." Who? Oh, him. I've only been here a few years. Apparently he went on leave well before that.
Estrogen seems to make you cold. A menopausal secretary and I were discussing this once. I mentioned that the way she was experiencing most rooms as too hot was the way many men feel throughout life.
The real sexism seems to be that some businesses still require males to wear one or two layers of wool over a layer or two of cotton and the entire body except hands and face to be covered with clothing, while the female uniform is somewhere along the lines of "whatever, so long as we can't see nipple, but preferably thinner fabric and more exposed skin." Evening that out would go a long way to making everyone more comfortable at a given temperature.
These are silly questions. Humans learn their sense of right and wrong from their parents and community, as children. It's somewhat malleable in adulthood, also through their experiences of their environment.
We don't all share the same sense of right and wrong, and we certainly don't all share the Christian version of it, which is really pretty nasty by western standards.
That law is similar around the world. It has some interesting implications. I fly hang gliders and, since they're unpowered, we're effectively always "landing."
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For anyone who's tempted to dismiss the AC because he's an AC, research backs him up. The average white collar worker does a few of hours of productive work a day. Judging by the highway construction guys, it doesn't seem like blue collar workers do much more.
Sure, except that's not what Uber does.
The Uber one was the only one that surprised me. 3x more revenue is probably partly due to not have to worry about things like employee benefits, fleet maintenance, etc., but with that big a difference surely quite a few more people are using cabs than before.
The others... meh. Expedia has more "rooms for offer" and fewer employees than all the major hotel chains put together, AND as many airline seats as all the airlines! That's because, just like AirBnB, they don't actually have any rooms for offer. They're a booking service.
Some union dude getting attention in the court of public opinion, Kickstarters, data analysis... meh. No surprises there.
Strangely, materials don't evolve on their own. They require research funding.
A lot of the development in superconductors and cryogenic magnet systems has been funded by large research efforts like fusion and the LHC.
Congress can pick another person to act as president, but they can't call another presidential election, even if both the president and vice president are dead, impeached or quit.
Maybe congress could create some kind of special position, call an election to fill it, then put that position next in line for president, but I strongly suspect the supreme court would put the kibosh on that kind of shenanigan (which is what they're supposed to do). You'd just end up with the speaker of the house or the president of the senate as president.
Judging by what happened when the US congress pulled that on Obama, it would just be a big mess. As an outside observer, less political cooperation doesn't seem to be what the US needs.
I don't think you can do that. IIRC the schedule of presidential elections in the US is fixed in the constitution. To do what you say you'd need a constitutional amendment, passed by two thirds of the state legislatures or equivalently by constitutional conventions in 2/3 of the states.
Option 3: Put in a little bit of effort, find relevant sponsors, and display their static logo or advertising text tastefully.
I know of several small websites that do this. Adblockers don't block it, users generally won't want to, and the whole thing comes across as much more professional than a roll of "Top Ten Celebrity Nosejobs Gone Wrong!" on every page.
In twenty years health care will consist of expert systems, nurses, and surgeons. Twenty years after that, the surgeons will be gone too. The breakthrough will probably occur when an HMO somewhere in the US realizes that it can cut costs by eliminating highly paid MDs. Then the stats will show that those patients are actually getting better care, and the rest of the world will follow.
Yes, the summary is apparently wrong. They're atoms, not Xeons. TDP varies a lot among Xeons, but a reasonably recent quad core one is going to be around 100 watts. 22 of those plus support hardware would make for a very warm suitcase.
A superconducting cable with insulation and cryogenic cooling would most certainly be unwieldily.
The average person isn't very good at math, and is very bad at understanding scientific evidence. To the vast majority of people, 60 > 40 so working 60 hours is more productive than 40. Even though it's demonstrably not true. One commenter on this story admitted there's probably a point where productivity doesn't increase. He used 110 hours a week as an example. Working 110 hours a week is 15.7 hours a day, every day.
I'm not sure what a Duggar family is, but since you said they're reality stars, they're being supported by private industry as entertainers. If you can make a profit having kids, go for it.
The reality for almost everyone is that kids are expensive. You might get some time off from Netflix for having one, but it's going to cost you much more than that in the long run.
You do know that lots of countries in the world have parental leave policies similar to this one, right? Strangely, those countries aren't infested by professional breeders, and if anything have fewer Duggars.
There's lots of research that suggests anyone who works more than about 40 hours a week is handicapping themselves. Working 60 hours a week drops your productivity by enough that you're falling behind the people just working 40. Not per hour worked, in total.
The "some level" you're looking for is 40 hours a week. Fifty if you're in 1942 England making bombs and airplanes as fast as you can.
It's very short sighted. The average white collar worker in the US does something like 2-3 hours of actual productive work per day. Healthy, happy, rested workers easily outperform that, and more than make up for the vacation or leave they take.
Yes. It's better for everybody. Mandatory leave and vacation time maintains workers' mental and physical health, makes sure there's no unofficial pressure not to take time off, and ends up being beneficial for the company too, because healthy workers are more productive.
"So, what projects did you work on during the last five years?" Uh, mostly changing diapers and cleaning vomit.
"Hi, I'm calling in regards to a reference for Mr. Thaylin." Who? Oh, him. I've only been here a few years. Apparently he went on leave well before that.
Estrogen seems to make you cold. A menopausal secretary and I were discussing this once. I mentioned that the way she was experiencing most rooms as too hot was the way many men feel throughout life.
It's the socks.
The real sexism seems to be that some businesses still require males to wear one or two layers of wool over a layer or two of cotton and the entire body except hands and face to be covered with clothing, while the female uniform is somewhere along the lines of "whatever, so long as we can't see nipple, but preferably thinner fabric and more exposed skin." Evening that out would go a long way to making everyone more comfortable at a given temperature.
They help. I like to work on a notebook on my balcony. In the fall, fingerless gloves help.
Thing is, if a privateer attacked a neutral, the captain and crew were hanged as pirates.
He covered that with "stupid."
I doubt he hates the OPs god. He hates the things the followers of that god do in it's name.
These are silly questions. Humans learn their sense of right and wrong from their parents and community, as children. It's somewhat malleable in adulthood, also through their experiences of their environment.
We don't all share the same sense of right and wrong, and we certainly don't all share the Christian version of it, which is really pretty nasty by western standards.
Hey, I think I saw that in a movie once. It was called "Wanted." Angelina Jolie could curve bullets around obstacles.
That law is similar around the world. It has some interesting implications. I fly hang gliders and, since they're unpowered, we're effectively always "landing."