The U.S. had hundreds of soldiers in the South by 1955, and thousands by 1960. The French, of course, had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the South in the early 1950s, until a string of military defeats forced them to withdraw. It's not like the West was just minding its own business when North Vietnam suddenly invaded a previously-entirely-independent South, forcing the West to respond. The West was already there with a large military presence since the '40s, supporting a series of corrupt (not to mention incompetent and murderous) colonial-lackey dictators, from Bao Dai up through Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu.
On a day-to-day and month-to-month accounting basis, my utility (Salt River Project in Arizona) gives me a kWh-for-kWh credit. If I generate 20 kWh during the day, use 15 kWh during the day, and another 5 kWh during the night, I have net zero usage.
The fair price for net-zero usage is more than $0. You are deriving a service from the grid, which is presumably why you're connected to it. In this case, you're using it to time-shift your energy usage, rather than buying your own batteries and going off-grid. So if you draw 20 kWh from the grid at some point, and feed 20 kWh back into it at another point, and are paying $0 for that, you are being subsidized.
The correct accounting would be that you should be charged retail rates for what you draw out of the grid, but reimbursed only at wholesale rates for what you feed into the grid, like any other power producer who feeds into the grid is paid.
That's not an entirely fair assessment. Solar feed-in is during peak power rates and the owner is at best reimbursed at the fixed residential rate which is frequently 1/4 to 1/8 of the peak rate.
They should really be paid at the going wholesale rate, though, since they're selling electricity into the grid, just like any other power plant is. I don't get why the feed-in tariffs are based on retail rates, rather than wholesale rates.
An Exxon office building is not really "critical infrastructure". The Houston area does have some plants that could produce nasty results if someone did something nefarious to them, but they aren't located where these cameras are being put in (and have their own security, anyway).
If you want a yellow CFL or LED, you can buy one. They're labeled with color temperature nowadays; just buy the color temp you prefer. 6500K or "daylight" gives you essentially white light (which indoors often perceptually comes across as blue-ish or harsh), lower color temps give progressively more yellow colors. About 2700K or so, also marketed as "warm white" or "soft white", will give roughly the same yellowish color as an incandescent.
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When Google sells some ads to an Italian company, it is not really a Bermuda company conducting business. Deeming the transactions to take place in the location of the customer isn't the only possible rule you could come up with, but it's a vaguely sensible one, and at least more sensible than the status quo.
Only a single CPU, despite using the more expensive line of dual-CPU capable Xeon E5 processors (so you are paying for the added circuitry to handle dual procs without the corresponding benefit).
This is a bit of a bummer, but I think they nonetheless went with the Xeons over the desktop-class Intel processors because of the support for ECC RAM.
It's rarely for cost savings on the company's side; contractors are almost always more expensive when you've added up the overhead on both sides. Among other things, contractors typically bill at higher rates, and also bill for commute and travel time: if they send a contractor on a business trip, the entire time he or she is on the plane, in the security line, etc. is billable at full engineering rates, while salaried employees don't get any overtime for that.
The main budgetary advantage of contractors is that they're much easier to flex as staffing needs vary.
It'd be interesting to see statistics, but my guess is that self-taught technologists are over-represented in the self-employed. Many companies make it harder to get hired if you don't have a degree when you're applying as an employee, but if you're an LLC doing contract work it goes through a different route and suddenly degrees aren't even in the equation.
Alas, the Slashdot tribe, whatever its merits or faults might once have been, no longer survives as an independent tribe. Through a complex intriguing, its once-leader, Cmdr. Robert "Taco" Malda, committed treachery and sold the tribe into slavery. After changing hands at several slave markets through a series of owners dissatisfied with their purchase, the entire tribe is now, believe it or not, owned by a pair of dice.
True, although not every suspicion of that type has turned out to be well founded. For example, many people were uncomfortable with the NSA-initiated changes to DES during its design in the 1970s, but rather than a backdoor, those turned out to be correct changes that strengthened its security. The NSA already knew about differential cryptanalysis, which wasn't yet publicly known, and the requested changes strengthened DES against that attack (something that was finally realized publicly in 1990).
That was my read of the statement as well. Essentially all they're denying is that they openly sold the rights to backdoor their software. It could still be the case that they wink-wink sold those rights. Or it could be the case that they were just dupes rather than in cahoots with the NSA; it's not entirely implausible that they thought they were helping out the NSA by making the change for a reason unrelated to backdooring the software.
Good Lisp compilers have long done this as well. If the compiler can determine that certain variables don't escape the current execution context, it can even stack-allocate them rather than put it on the heap and have to GC it at all. You can help the compiler out by promising that's the case with the dynamic-extent declaration.
We're not very good at looking through solid substances yet. Not only don't we know what's under the Greenland ice, we don't even know what's under many of our cities. For example, construction of the Thessaloniki metro recently discovered an entire Roman city center buried beneath the modern-day city center. In limited cases you can find some of this kind of stuff with ground-penetrating radar, but in general mapping out stuff that's covered by solid dirt/ice/etc. is not easy, even in the 21st century.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Isn't that true of any future promise? You could have a business model where you sell a contract for delivery of oil on February 1, but you don't really have that oil right now and plan to buy it later. If the price goes up too much from the contract price you can't afford it, and you declare bankruptcy instead of delivering the oil.
Typically we consider that up to the buyer's due diligence to sort out: you shouldn't buy oil futures contracts from fly-by-night operations where you don't have confidence they are actually going to deliver the oil. Basically, let the market handle assessing and pricing the counterparty risk.
It's also weird to oppose it if you're a libertarian, as Byrne claims to be. A "naked short" is just a contract written against a stock. Why should the government interfere to prevent people from writing such contracts? Requiring that short sellers have the underlying security as "cover" is just a government regulation.
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That "peace agreement" was an instrument of surrender in all but name, and everyone on all sides knew it.
The U.S. had hundreds of soldiers in the South by 1955, and thousands by 1960. The French, of course, had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the South in the early 1950s, until a string of military defeats forced them to withdraw. It's not like the West was just minding its own business when North Vietnam suddenly invaded a previously-entirely-independent South, forcing the West to respond. The West was already there with a large military presence since the '40s, supporting a series of corrupt (not to mention incompetent and murderous) colonial-lackey dictators, from Bao Dai up through Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu.
On a day-to-day and month-to-month accounting basis, my utility (Salt River Project in Arizona) gives me a kWh-for-kWh credit. If I generate 20 kWh during the day, use 15 kWh during the day, and another 5 kWh during the night, I have net zero usage.
The fair price for net-zero usage is more than $0. You are deriving a service from the grid, which is presumably why you're connected to it. In this case, you're using it to time-shift your energy usage, rather than buying your own batteries and going off-grid. So if you draw 20 kWh from the grid at some point, and feed 20 kWh back into it at another point, and are paying $0 for that, you are being subsidized.
The correct accounting would be that you should be charged retail rates for what you draw out of the grid, but reimbursed only at wholesale rates for what you feed into the grid, like any other power producer who feeds into the grid is paid.
That's not an entirely fair assessment. Solar feed-in is during peak power rates and the owner is at best reimbursed at the fixed residential rate which is frequently 1/4 to 1/8 of the peak rate.
They should really be paid at the going wholesale rate, though, since they're selling electricity into the grid, just like any other power plant is. I don't get why the feed-in tariffs are based on retail rates, rather than wholesale rates.
An Exxon office building is not really "critical infrastructure". The Houston area does have some plants that could produce nasty results if someone did something nefarious to them, but they aren't located where these cameras are being put in (and have their own security, anyway).
If you want a yellow CFL or LED, you can buy one. They're labeled with color temperature nowadays; just buy the color temp you prefer. 6500K or "daylight" gives you essentially white light (which indoors often perceptually comes across as blue-ish or harsh), lower color temps give progressively more yellow colors. About 2700K or so, also marketed as "warm white" or "soft white", will give roughly the same yellowish color as an incandescent.
Depends in where in the West you were. I have friends whose parents were murdered by Pinochet...
That's because they're bad, so defecting from them is good, whereas we're good, so defecting from us is bad. :)
Spelling is not properly within the jurisdiction of the Grammar Nazis; we apologize for any overstepping of boundaries in this regard that may have occurred in the past.
When Google sells some ads to an Italian company, it is not really a Bermuda company conducting business. Deeming the transactions to take place in the location of the customer isn't the only possible rule you could come up with, but it's a vaguely sensible one, and at least more sensible than the status quo.
This is a bit of a bummer, but I think they nonetheless went with the Xeons over the desktop-class Intel processors because of the support for ECC RAM.
No wonder the economy is going downhill. Lazy kids these days think they deserve two sundays a month off?
It's rarely for cost savings on the company's side; contractors are almost always more expensive when you've added up the overhead on both sides. Among other things, contractors typically bill at higher rates, and also bill for commute and travel time: if they send a contractor on a business trip, the entire time he or she is on the plane, in the security line, etc. is billable at full engineering rates, while salaried employees don't get any overtime for that.
The main budgetary advantage of contractors is that they're much easier to flex as staffing needs vary.
It'd be interesting to see statistics, but my guess is that self-taught technologists are over-represented in the self-employed. Many companies make it harder to get hired if you don't have a degree when you're applying as an employee, but if you're an LLC doing contract work it goes through a different route and suddenly degrees aren't even in the equation.
Alas, the Slashdot tribe, whatever its merits or faults might once have been, no longer survives as an independent tribe. Through a complex intriguing, its once-leader, Cmdr. Robert "Taco" Malda, committed treachery and sold the tribe into slavery. After changing hands at several slave markets through a series of owners dissatisfied with their purchase, the entire tribe is now, believe it or not, owned by a pair of dice.
True, although not every suspicion of that type has turned out to be well founded. For example, many people were uncomfortable with the NSA-initiated changes to DES during its design in the 1970s, but rather than a backdoor, those turned out to be correct changes that strengthened its security. The NSA already knew about differential cryptanalysis, which wasn't yet publicly known, and the requested changes strengthened DES against that attack (something that was finally realized publicly in 1990).
In Soviet America, individuals are devalued and the only thing that counts is your numerical contribution to The American Economy.
That was my read of the statement as well. Essentially all they're denying is that they openly sold the rights to backdoor their software. It could still be the case that they wink-wink sold those rights. Or it could be the case that they were just dupes rather than in cahoots with the NSA; it's not entirely implausible that they thought they were helping out the NSA by making the change for a reason unrelated to backdooring the software.
We dont need the government telling us what is best for us
I thought that was the whole idea Thatcher was trying to push. What good is a goddamn anti-government party if they don't even believe that?
Good Lisp compilers have long done this as well. If the compiler can determine that certain variables don't escape the current execution context, it can even stack-allocate them rather than put it on the heap and have to GC it at all. You can help the compiler out by promising that's the case with the dynamic-extent declaration.
We're not very good at looking through solid substances yet. Not only don't we know what's under the Greenland ice, we don't even know what's under many of our cities. For example, construction of the Thessaloniki metro recently discovered an entire Roman city center buried beneath the modern-day city center. In limited cases you can find some of this kind of stuff with ground-penetrating radar, but in general mapping out stuff that's covered by solid dirt/ice/etc. is not easy, even in the 21st century.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Isn't that true of any future promise? You could have a business model where you sell a contract for delivery of oil on February 1, but you don't really have that oil right now and plan to buy it later. If the price goes up too much from the contract price you can't afford it, and you declare bankruptcy instead of delivering the oil.
Typically we consider that up to the buyer's due diligence to sort out: you shouldn't buy oil futures contracts from fly-by-night operations where you don't have confidence they are actually going to deliver the oil. Basically, let the market handle assessing and pricing the counterparty risk.
It's also weird to oppose it if you're a libertarian, as Byrne claims to be. A "naked short" is just a contract written against a stock. Why should the government interfere to prevent people from writing such contracts? Requiring that short sellers have the underlying security as "cover" is just a government regulation.
Maybe you're already referencing this, but shorting OSTK makes their CEO very angry.