To answer my own question, the reason is that the amount of energy that can be captured is based on the temperature differences. So, if you could increase the temperature difference you could make energy.
As for the demon, just like Maxwell's, it would decrease entropy and, in doing so, increase the amount of energy available.
This is just another in an example of XKCD falling down on explaining to me. I don't get the thermodynamics argument at all. My model is that I can take photons and put them where I want to by having a demon move around a mirror and shot them all at one spot (kind of like Maxwell's demon, but this one has a mirror). Yes, this creates a super hot spot, but it didn't use any energy that didn't already exist. It just put it all in one place.
I have no idea what you are saying or why people uprooted you. Nobody, "bought in" at 0% interest. The Fed offers that interest rate to banks. So a bank can go to the Fed and say, "I want money" and the Fed gave them a loan for a very low (just above 0%) interest rate.
Currently a 30 year bond has an interest rate of about 3%. This is an incredibly good deal for the US. Inflation over that time is likely to be a few percent, so this is like a 1% real interest rate. But, lots of the debt is not in 30 year bonds. Lots of it is in short term bonds and will have to be renewed. because of that, the interest rate on the debt will go up. It could go way up. e.g. it could double. This would make current expenditures (made at a 3% interest rate) look stupid when we are paying 6% of the money in a few years.
If this makes you think the Fed should lengthen our bond obligations, I agree. It's like free money now. But it won't last.
A 30 year treasury currently plays 3%, a bit above the likely 30 year inflation rate. But if the Fed keeps raising interest rates the 30 year interest rate could easily double. That would make interest on the debt go from $200 billion / year to $400 billion per year. And, $200 billion per year is a huge amount of money. It is a large chunk of the economy.
What problems are there with defense? We can fight wars in three theaters while nobody else can even fight one (and win). The only defense priority we actually have is preventing countries form getting nukes and Trump is slashing the budget for that.
It's more like asking an expert pianist to tune a piano. Yes, some can, and that's great. But others can't, and it's usually not relevant--because you usually hire a piano tuner to tune the piano. Just like how you really should use an existing function for sorting.
thermals are actually quite easy to shield from, anything high in boron will do it. It's the high energy ones that you can't (economically) shield from.The issue with high energy neutrons is that what people use as gamma shields tend to make more neutrons. Basically, you need a swimming pool over your computer to shield from them.
Also, the build tool I used was a button. I would click the button and then a pdf would appear. It's really not that hard. check out TexShop, it's quite nice.
There is also all the second guessing MS imposes on you.
Me: I want to save this in a new location, also called 'save as...' MS: OK, I've made a new dialog that asks what folder you want to put that in before you get to the dialog that asks you what folder you want to put that in. Me: Can I please just save this file now MS: nope, you're stuck clicking and clicking for the simplest tasks
It's also just sad how far behind the Mac OS they are in terms of what happens after a restart. On my Mac there is almost no reason to save anything because everything just relaunches to an identical state.
On windows it can take 10-20 minutes to get things going after a crash.
" all the other reasons for using latex are no longer that relevant."
Yes, MS copied most ideas from LaTeX. But there is the whole part where your text looks like shit smeared on the page because of the lack of ligatures and the way the "justified" setting works.
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To answer my own question, the reason is that the amount of energy that can be captured is based on the temperature differences. So, if you could increase the temperature difference you could make energy.
As for the demon, just like Maxwell's, it would decrease entropy and, in doing so, increase the amount of energy available.
This is just another in an example of XKCD falling down on explaining to me. I don't get the thermodynamics argument at all. My model is that I can take photons and put them where I want to by having a demon move around a mirror and shot them all at one spot (kind of like Maxwell's demon, but this one has a mirror). Yes, this creates a super hot spot, but it didn't use any energy that didn't already exist. It just put it all in one place.
Right, but the F-35 (where most of the money goes) is worthless.
I have no idea what you are saying or why people uprooted you. Nobody, "bought in" at 0% interest. The Fed offers that interest rate to banks. So a bank can go to the Fed and say, "I want money" and the Fed gave them a loan for a very low (just above 0%) interest rate.
Currently a 30 year bond has an interest rate of about 3%. This is an incredibly good deal for the US. Inflation over that time is likely to be a few percent, so this is like a 1% real interest rate. But, lots of the debt is not in 30 year bonds. Lots of it is in short term bonds and will have to be renewed. because of that, the interest rate on the debt will go up. It could go way up. e.g. it could double. This would make current expenditures (made at a 3% interest rate) look stupid when we are paying 6% of the money in a few years.
If this makes you think the Fed should lengthen our bond obligations, I agree. It's like free money now. But it won't last.
A 30 year treasury currently plays 3%, a bit above the likely 30 year inflation rate. But if the Fed keeps raising interest rates the 30 year interest rate could easily double. That would make interest on the debt go from $200 billion / year to $400 billion per year. And, $200 billion per year is a huge amount of money. It is a large chunk of the economy.
What problems are there with defense? We can fight wars in three theaters while nobody else can even fight one (and win). The only defense priority we actually have is preventing countries form getting nukes and Trump is slashing the budget for that.
There is this thing called interest, and we'll have to pay it, see...
Hey, this is /., you're supposed to just crap on ideas, regardless of their actual merits. Also, no fair reading the article. 2 demerits!
yeah, the roof just appeared. As did the supports in the walls.
yeah, about that, i determined the momentum of where it was coming from exactly, so you're not going to find it.
I'm unsure if you didn't read, "known space rocks" or find it hard to make lists.
It's more like asking an expert pianist to tune a piano. Yes, some can, and that's great. But others can't, and it's usually not relevant--because you usually hire a piano tuner to tune the piano. Just like how you really should use an existing function for sorting.
my iPhone does that at 10 failed attempts. Trust me, 3 is too low.
because he is an Amazon script kiddie?
thermals are actually quite easy to shield from, anything high in boron will do it. It's the high energy ones that you can't (economically) shield from.The issue with high energy neutrons is that what people use as gamma shields tend to make more neutrons. Basically, you need a swimming pool over your computer to shield from them.
OK, so exactly what the GP said is the problem?
Can lead be leached out of glass? Generally glass is a pretty good state for keeping things from leaching out.
I might ask if there is a correct thing to do and if anyone actually does that.
The article mentions neutrons, but these seem to be mostly muons.
Neutrons are not muons. Nor are muons the problem in bit flips.
It's amazing how much astroturf grows on /. these days
Also, the build tool I used was a button. I would click the button and then a pdf would appear. It's really not that hard. check out TexShop, it's quite nice.
There is also all the second guessing MS imposes on you.
Me: I want to save this in a new location, also called 'save as ...'
MS: OK, I've made a new dialog that asks what folder you want to put that in before you get to the dialog that asks you what folder you want to put that in.
Me: Can I please just save this file now
MS: nope, you're stuck clicking and clicking for the simplest tasks
It's also just sad how far behind the Mac OS they are in terms of what happens after a restart. On my Mac there is almost no reason to save anything because everything just relaunches to an identical state.
On windows it can take 10-20 minutes to get things going after a crash.
" all the other reasons for using latex are no longer that relevant."
Yes, MS copied most ideas from LaTeX. But there is the whole part where your text looks like shit smeared on the page because of the lack of ligatures and the way the "justified" setting works.
Also, secretaries are about 1:100 in offices now. Not exactly the average user.
FOSS maybe 10 years away, but Windows is unlikely to ever get there.