It looks like the observed temperatures are at the low end of the error bars of the most optimistic projection. But it's kind of hard to tell because of the thickness of the line.
We need to replant trees by the sides of roads. You know, the ones they dug out because drivers kept hitting them. This will give inattentive drivers something better to crash into than other road users, hopefully removing only one set of DNA from the gene pool.
According to the USA's National Transit Database, this kind of "demand response" system costs Los Angeles $7.83 per passenger mile, compared with $1.43 for buses and 42 cents for commuter buses. So it's very costly.
This is about transliterating to Latin. What's needed is to transliterate each name all possible ways and store all the transliterations in the database as alternate spellings for the same name.
The higher the minimum wage, the more incentive there will be to automate those minimum-wage jobs.
Ever since the Luddites, people have claimed that automation would put people out of work, but so far this hasn't happened. All it does is create new low-wage jobs as the money saved from automation goes back into the economy and creates new things for people to spend the money on. Or at least it used to back when income inequality was lower. But raising the minimum wage takes care of that.
In a socialist country, you have a strong state sector in the economy, private ownership of companies, of resources and even of tools is frowned upon... Stop your clueless musings about how socialist the U.S. would be.
To this day, many cities continue to use exclusionary zoning to keep minority groups out of certain neighborhoods. In Silicon Valley, is density tightly controlled? Are minimum parking requirements in place? If so, this could help explain Silicon Valley's lack of diversity.
Set belt and air bag requirements are only so you can be a good consumer by driving faster, consuming more fuel, which allows you to contribute more to the GOP's donors. Notice how these safety measures only protect the people in the car and not pedestrians or bicyclists (who are disproportionately Democrats).
It's kind of a form of genocide if you think about it.
It makes sense for a government to protect people from other people, but is protecting people from themselves really worth the loss of freedom?
...would be to internalize the full cost of burning fuel into the price of the fuel, then use that revenue to pay the external cost of burning fuel. Then people would drive less and the people who get respiratory illnesses would have their health care and lost work days paid for. (In single-payer countries, the revenue to the government should be offset by lower tax rates.)
This is a better plan if you believe that a market-based solution to the economic problem is better than rationing, and if you believe that markets are most efficient when their failures are corrected.
An electric blanket that uses 200W costs only 19 cents to run for 8 hours if your electricity costs 12 cents per kilowatt-hour. Even if the price of electricity doubles, it will still be very affordable to sleep warmly, provided you aren't trying to keep a drafty house toasty warm.
In the USA, a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs an average of only 12 cents. Even if that doubled, the poor would still be able to afford some electricity.
Not being inelastic means that the remaining 67% of the supply could somehow stretch to fill the whole demand, which it clearly won't.
If you'll recall from Econ 101, as the price of something rises, demand for it falls. If the price rises enough, demand will fall to the level of supply, even if the new level of supply is 67% of the old level. Therefore, 67% of supply will easily fill the whole demand, absent perfect price inelasticity of demand and absent anything to prevent the price from reaching market equilibrium.
Pipes can freeze in a well-insulated house if there is no heat.
Whenever you walk into a building, you've just added a source of heat.
Powered by unicorns on treadmills eating organic oats and hay.
Demand for electricity isn't perfectly inelastic, so absent any price ceilings, eliminating coal as an energy source won't cause a shortage of electricity.
Spoken by someone who apparently has never had to get up to do anything (pee, e.g.) in the middle of the night
Heated toilet seats are awesome in a cold house.
or who has never seen the damage from frozen water pipes.
You can be sure that a rise in electricity prices will improve the economics of improving your home's insulation or replacing resistive heating with a heat pump which is multiple times more energy efficient.
So you see, wonderful things happen when market failures, such as negative externalities, are corrected.
The use case for such a tower is not difficult to make with the University, or with local emergency services who would no doubt love to have space on such a tall tower in such a prime 'top of the hill' geographical location.
It looks like you have two customers already. You could also put up some WiFi antennas and become a wireless ISP. So all you need now is to write a business plan and find investors or take out a loan.
While Tohoku Electric learned from past earthquakes and tsunamis--including one in Chile on February 28, 2010--and continuously improved its countermeasures...Tepco "resorted to delaying tactics, such as presenting alternative scientific studies and lobbying."
If the slow motorists all drove in the same lane--the one next to the entry/exit lane--they would have a negligible effect on traffic speeds. In Europe, they enforce this by making it illegal to cruise in the left lane or pass on the right. (This is also what makes the Autobahn safe, despite the lack of speed limits.) The USA only has unenforceable laws like "if you're obstructing traffic, move to the right," but if traffic can pass on the right, you are arguably not obstructing anyone.
So let's place the blame where the real blame is due: on the driving laws.
Schools in (some) downtowns are bad because the poor and minorities are zoned out of the suburbs through zoning laws that raise the cost of suburban housing. Besides raising the cost of housing, laws such as minimum parking requirements and prohibitions against accessory dwelling units reduce property rights and restrict economic mobility, all in the name of keeping the riffraff (i.e. the poor and minorities) out.
Another factor that makes schools in poor areas perform poorly is the fact that often freeways are funded in part by regressive sales taxes such as Measure R in Los Angeles rather than 100% by user fees alone. Therefore, freeways tend to move wealth from the poor to the rich, further restricting economic mobility and trapping people into a cycle of poverty.
So the suburbs seem like a nice place to raise a family, but only because the cost is greater than what those who live there pay.
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1. The scroll wheel beats both Chromecast's software slider and Roku's remote, but it's still no substitute for proper chapter stop buttons.
2. No H.265 support means this model of FireTV will become obsolete later this year.
Besides reducing or eliminating the need to stop at intersections, roundabouts are much safer and often take up less space on the streets approaching the intersection than traffic signals or 4-way stops.
So we already have the technology to "save fuel and lower emissions without any physical changes to the car."
It looks like the observed temperatures are at the low end of the error bars of the most optimistic projection. But it's kind of hard to tell because of the thickness of the line.
We need to replant trees by the sides of roads. You know, the ones they dug out because drivers kept hitting them. This will give inattentive drivers something better to crash into than other road users, hopefully removing only one set of DNA from the gene pool.
According to the USA's National Transit Database, this kind of "demand response" system costs Los Angeles $7.83 per passenger mile, compared with $1.43 for buses and 42 cents for commuter buses. So it's very costly.
This is about transliterating to Latin. What's needed is to transliterate each name all possible ways and store all the transliterations in the database as alternate spellings for the same name.
Ever since the Luddites, people have claimed that automation would put people out of work, but so far this hasn't happened. All it does is create new low-wage jobs as the money saved from automation goes back into the economy and creates new things for people to spend the money on. Or at least it used to back when income inequality was lower. But raising the minimum wage takes care of that.
So it all works out nicely.
That's true. In the USA, we have strong government influence over the means of production. This type of government is dirigism, which is associated with fascism.
So you're right, the USA isn't socialist. It's closer to fascist. Thanks for the clarification!
To this day, many cities continue to use exclusionary zoning to keep minority groups out of certain neighborhoods. In Silicon Valley, is density tightly controlled? Are minimum parking requirements in place? If so, this could help explain Silicon Valley's lack of diversity.
Set belt and air bag requirements are only so you can be a good consumer by driving faster, consuming more fuel, which allows you to contribute more to the GOP's donors. Notice how these safety measures only protect the people in the car and not pedestrians or bicyclists (who are disproportionately Democrats).
It's kind of a form of genocide if you think about it.
It makes sense for a government to protect people from other people, but is protecting people from themselves really worth the loss of freedom?
...would be to internalize the full cost of burning fuel into the price of the fuel, then use that revenue to pay the external cost of burning fuel. Then people would drive less and the people who get respiratory illnesses would have their health care and lost work days paid for. (In single-payer countries, the revenue to the government should be offset by lower tax rates.)
This is a better plan if you believe that a market-based solution to the economic problem is better than rationing, and if you believe that markets are most efficient when their failures are corrected.
An electric blanket that uses 200W costs only 19 cents to run for 8 hours if your electricity costs 12 cents per kilowatt-hour. Even if the price of electricity doubles, it will still be very affordable to sleep warmly, provided you aren't trying to keep a drafty house toasty warm.
In the USA, a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs an average of only 12 cents. Even if that doubled, the poor would still be able to afford some electricity.
If you'll recall from Econ 101, as the price of something rises, demand for it falls. If the price rises enough, demand will fall to the level of supply, even if the new level of supply is 67% of the old level. Therefore, 67% of supply will easily fill the whole demand, absent perfect price inelasticity of demand and absent anything to prevent the price from reaching market equilibrium.
Whenever you walk into a building, you've just added a source of heat.
Demand for electricity isn't perfectly inelastic, so absent any price ceilings, eliminating coal as an energy source won't cause a shortage of electricity.
Heated toilet seats are awesome in a cold house.
You can be sure that a rise in electricity prices will improve the economics of improving your home's insulation or replacing resistive heating with a heat pump which is multiple times more energy efficient.
So you see, wonderful things happen when market failures, such as negative externalities, are corrected.
Demand for energy isn't perfectly inelastic, so in the absence of a price ceiling, there's no such thing as "won't meet the demand."
Electric blankets? It seems wasteful to heat the whole house while you sleep.
The number two is ridiculous and can't exist.
It looks like you have two customers already. You could also put up some WiFi antennas and become a wireless ISP. So all you need now is to write a business plan and find investors or take out a loan.
Doesn't this sound very familiar?
When you've used up the 4TB, you'll be able to get a 40TB drive and copy over your old data so you won't need to have two drives always on.
I'm saying inner-city schools are horrible because of de facto segregation.
If the slow motorists all drove in the same lane--the one next to the entry/exit lane--they would have a negligible effect on traffic speeds. In Europe, they enforce this by making it illegal to cruise in the left lane or pass on the right. (This is also what makes the Autobahn safe, despite the lack of speed limits.) The USA only has unenforceable laws like "if you're obstructing traffic, move to the right," but if traffic can pass on the right, you are arguably not obstructing anyone.
So let's place the blame where the real blame is due: on the driving laws.
Schools in (some) downtowns are bad because the poor and minorities are zoned out of the suburbs through zoning laws that raise the cost of suburban housing. Besides raising the cost of housing, laws such as minimum parking requirements and prohibitions against accessory dwelling units reduce property rights and restrict economic mobility, all in the name of keeping the riffraff (i.e. the poor and minorities) out.
Another factor that makes schools in poor areas perform poorly is the fact that often freeways are funded in part by regressive sales taxes such as Measure R in Los Angeles rather than 100% by user fees alone. Therefore, freeways tend to move wealth from the poor to the rich, further restricting economic mobility and trapping people into a cycle of poverty.
So the suburbs seem like a nice place to raise a family, but only because the cost is greater than what those who live there pay.
If there is demand for freeways, let private industry invest to get it done.