No disagreement there. Management still is responsible and often times when something is portrayed as impossible there is some bright exec who finds a solution that works to point to elsewhere... the attitude should be that the management needs to change if they can't find solutions.
That said, efficiency is not the goal. Gainful employment is the #1 goal. #2 is security/stability. #3 (to the majority of people) is doing something meaningful.
Competition is supposed to encourage efficiency which is the justification for it; but it's reason for having an impact is that it undermines the top 2 priorities. One shouldn't lose sight of why it matters and simply focus on efficiency alone. It's easy when you get fixated to ignore why you are doing it in the 1st place. Some of us have higher priorities on waste by the nature of how we rank priorities; maybe that is why we did well in sciences or with technology, but that doesn't mean it is always the right thing to do (just because it aligns with our natural biases.) Sure, it's annoying to have loser coworkers wasting or under performing... but your whole job making some app for vapid consumers distracting them while they drive it is not important if you save them some battery life or make your owners more $.
The union perspective is not wrong; it is different and certainly it rubs against the owners and management's obsession with "productivity" above all else. The balance between them is important because neither is ideal (even if they think so.) Today in the USA, the culture and language has a massive bias. people celebrate higher productivity gains without even realizing that usually means that workers were screwed... withing a whole industry it's often not a good thing (no relative difference) but on a larger long term scale it can be a good thing (like being affordable to more people.... flip side being the masses think they are doing better with shrinking $$$ because of cheaper commodities... they can have TVs, cell phones, be fat but both parents MUST work full time...buy trash food, products... have less connection with their family, no time for friends, fill the void with consumption... less happy etc. )
Slowing winning the battle to misunderstand and misapply basic science into a political philosophy... because it fits the belief in a meritocracy measured by wealth, which happens to largely be generational. We have to keep maintaining the status quo, can't destabilize those with the wealth.
Never mind the evolved tribalism and social skills that were proven successful, lets literally act like Neanderthals despite that their nuclear family approach led them to extinction despite larger brains.
Rationing healthcare is better when you have limited resources; everybody in an emergency survival situation does rationing after the group deals with the anti-social pricks... since humans scale poorly, it gets more difficult to manage; as the anti-social cliche villains end up banding together to create a gang (which is a weaker social group dependent upon exploiting others to limit internal strife; being made up of anti-socials... The rational tends towards rank by power to justify external behaviors and is likely applied within the group too.) Just my observation.
The arguments for the existence of the corporation as well as the capitalist approach to economics run deeper than whatever the current societal and legal definitions/expectations are. John Smith and others argued using socialist reasoning as justification; which shouldn't be a surprise since few people are anti-social.
Today it's a completely unspoken contract, let the capitalists and corporations exist for the greater benefit of all. (anything for the greater good of all is socialism.) THAT is the reason they are justified in doing everything they've done and it's implied when they say you are anti-capitalist or anti-corporatist that you are a fool who can't see the benefits they provide society; most often labeling the fool as a communist of some sort.
It's incredibly dumb and almost beyond recognition what thinking is really behind it (but not so much by the people parroting the buzz phrases.) It is hard to have a discussion at all when the language has been 1984'ed (FYI, biggest theme of the book was language - Why do you think Orwell added an addendum to the story on NewSpeak?)
Public companies exist as government defined/enforced legal entities; indirectly, they are government and can therefore be made to do whatever the people wish them to. Germany for example, forces corporations to include worker representation on the board. You could allow workers to vote on firing a CEO; or REQUIRE they hire X people per $X profit... ultimately ending up with something like "The Jetson's" where robots do everything and workers are just there to play office politics so they can have a "job".
The reason they get paid huge amounts is supposed to be because MANAGEMENT are responsible. THEY must deal with every problem; however, corporate culture always rewarded the people who were talented at shifting blame away from themselves (and taking credit for others... the culture got worse too.)
So we have administrations loaded with people who do not take responsibility publicly or privately and even spend $$$ promoting blame on others. It is to the point today where you have organizations blaming their customers/users for not liking their dictates (think of software companies pointless UI changes.) You don't even need MBA training in sociopathy to pick up the habits anymore.
The unions are NOT the problem; they don't get much say - even if they promote stupid, management has to own it because the decisions are made by them. Externalizing costs is more than outsourcing; it's the MBA philosophy for everything. Workflows get mechanized into "legos" so it is easy to swap out low skill workers and never be at their mercy; additionally, it makes automation far easier. Same lessons were not being learned by industrial revolution are not being learned today. You think the MBA reads history? They don't have to think, just play office and investor politics (today PC babies are a new factor in the political game.)
The real purpose for a company is to provide gainful employment; despite that not being explicitly or culturally stated anymore. Look at all the socialist arguments used by the champions of capitalism-- and the reason people support it is because the flawed system produced the best results for the most people. Today, it's a religion with zero thought except to defend emotional attachment to a brand... like how religion to many is merely a brand name you identify with (or politics.) The purpose is long forgotten and it's popularity is running on fumes. It keeps getting worse until the majority fully wakes up. Look at Trump and the dimwitted and cowardly Republicans; he is just a symptom of a social cancer... remove the Tumor without addressing the cancer and another one predictably happens... progressively worse each time until death.
Bones compost just fine; obviously, at a slower rate. Properly composted it only takes about a month to get rid of chicken bones-- probably faster if optimized. The process produces heat which has to be kept below a certain temp or the bacteria die. Oxygen is needed as well because anaerobic bacteria do not do the job well enough.
Think about how many creatures with bones have died and how few bones we dig up... fossils are only mineralized bones; hardly any bones relative amount of natural death exist. SOMETHING has to be recycling all of them... for all time..
Yeah, most Germans were not Nazi either... even though they did their part to support it. Especially when it all fell down... See "I was not a Nazi Polka" then check out "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan."
The smart side of the stupid republicans now are "independent" again and back to saying "both sides are corrupt." Like they were at the end of the Bush years! It is a false equivalence that can't be left alone so they go into hiding without learning anything until their next horrible mistake pushes them into denial again. Not being in touch with reality is how this stuff repeats and it has been getting worse each cycle. Their defense reactions keep them from learning from their own history, let alone recorded history.
We need oil sold in US $ simply to keep propping up that history which adds value to the US $ and at a time when it's going to need it more than it used do.
n00bs hacking javascript examples from stack exchange for web dev into an incomprehensibly large OS running at 1MHz on a remote cluster having with months long build cycles, years long test cycles with extremely poor test coverage.
But we're confident because we managed to get some lights to flicker on some of the boxes and our deployments never completely crash and we never lose money no matter how badly it performs anyway; even, if it fails to integrate properly with other systems. We can just go to work upgrading the other systems! profit!
People say how bad software engineering is compared to all other kinds of real engineering... but genetic engineering is the worst of all...
Silicon Dioxide is all over the place! Most abundant stuff on earth. We also have a lot of aluminum which is easy to recycle.
Lithium might be an issue for a while until we adapt... as we did in history. Recycling will eventually be the future. Rare magnets are NOT at all required for generators; or electric motors for that matter; it's not the end... maybe of cheap Chinese neodymium which might even be found as cheaply elsewhere.
Besides, all these matters are usually about CHEAP easy sources running out taking us away from the peak low price -- possibly forever but it doesn't prohibit the use of it until it becomes crazy expensive... which usually creates a stronger market drive to deliver it (with proper competition, bringing prices down.)
When it was done in such an easy to detect way one has to question the motives. If it was a state based attack, they are capable of doing a much better job than illustrating how the FCC didn't filter it's comments for duplicate emails...
If they want to be caught on 1 level, it can undermine the side they are supporting by lowering the credibility of that side as a bunch of hackers and not REAL people. On another level it can look like the SuperKendall thinks it does because they assume you think they really are that sloppy.
Helping the telcos only makes people upset and stand up more against the corruption; Russian tactics are the opposite. They want you to feel powerless and cynical as hell. So helping telcos cheat can do that to some degree but past a certain point it does good long term; as reforms can happen. The goal is to make reform so pointless people won't bother. Killing grassroots reform by undermining it does far more damage; getting the culture to discourage all traits that keep things functioning.
Like having provocateurs throwing rocks at cops in a peaceful protest; encouraging the fools and nutcase fringe to unknowingly harm their side by empowering them; otherwise, they'd be largely ignored by their own side. This way protesters and cops get divided even more despite it becoming public later that only 2 people involved; or even if 1 of the two was fake.
We should have PSAs run showing Nazi, pedophiles, etc. saying to the camera "I'm voting!."
If you are a nation of bad people, then the government should reflect their choice. The government represents it's people... Yes, Trump is America. The darker side of it you don't want to admit exists but that is just hiding from the truth. Dictators are also; just not by direct consent.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Douglas
Most the wind is indirectly solar powered. Hydro only works because water moves by air blowing it around.
Now if you store a million years of solar and you get fossil fuels... Nuclear is the only non-solar power source. (massive space explosions etc are not solar even if they involve stars.)
Just thought I'd point out a little less obvious facts given how some fool is always talking down to the rest of us by reminding us that the sun sets at night or the wind doesn't always blow... with a smug "checkmate" look on their face.
Hydro messes with a few large areas where it's possible to use it. Nuclear can be installed anywhere including in really foolish locations and by dangerous parties.
Hydro does some long term harm to relatively small local ecosystems; but it's not that big of a deal even if the physical space impacted is relatively large. Nature very slowly does a lot more changes to the landscape... a volcano or a massive fire... they have big quick natural impacts too... but nuclear fall out, political cover for weapons, unnaturally strong concentrations of super toxic waste that lasts longer than our civilization will is a bigger problem.
Furthermore the corruption involved around nuclear power companies seems to me to be more than hydro power. Needing new fuel all the time and dealing with waste, I think is a big factor.
Governments issue corporation documents and reasonably track that information. I remember needing a state ID along with paperwork to incorporate.
The government can relatively CHEAPLY use open source tools and some existing servers to digitally sign things.... SSL should be using MULTIPLE signing parties with the government incorporation data and it's "stamp of approval" for the corporation behind the site existing. At least then you can trace it back to the government and then to the business owners.
3rd parties signing off on network security, storage security, malware security, privacy or BBB or whatever they do to approve. These should involve classes of approval: a simple string indicating the class of approval, start with a standard list that the browsers can react appropriately to. Such as warning users if a credit card is entered into a site that lacks a certification for that purpose; address info, etc.
In addition, there isn't enough seaweed to feed all the cows and the cost is a big factor. This would have to be mandated in a big way to even make a dent.... Sure they can isolate the specifics to bring down costs and create something cheaper but without mandating it there is a snowball's chance in hell.
The reality is that we will just have to TAX meat by warming impact and only the people who can afford it will eat a lot of it. This wouldn't be different than truffles etc.
BTW, global warming is going to price more people out of products like truffles or natural coffee (which is already being padded with fillers.) To create a direct artificial cost burden on a product is a political hurdle but we are indirectly forcing price hikes on thousands of other products as supply dwindles... due to in part to us not limiting meat production... Arguably, we are subsidizing meat at the price of everything else because we aren't smart enough to see we MUST choose winners and losers. Doing nothing is a choice. You see meat prices now, adjust to your budget if it actually impacts you and bitch regardless... but you'll not think of all the other costs down the road that are staring you in the face at this moment.
Human teams have limited mental capacity and time, even capable teams do not like unnecessary cognitive load or TIME getting in the way; therefore, libraries are linked and C++ OOP is used.
You can text and you can drive but you can't do both at 100% at the same time.
The backlash is from competent people who are defensive about needing the crutches other languages force upon you. They may NOT need them; however, they are choosing to distract themselves like a texting driver. Very few deeply technical situations require attention at this level of detail. A hybrid compromise is why C++ became so huge... but it needs to address this problem by default before it finally adds the kitchen sink. Place too many complex issues on developers and they will make errors beneath their skill level (which is likely higher than non-C programmers.)
We could have used all this work back when internet was SLOW! Now we really do not need all these changes that only matter to a massive company; create more technical headaches, developer work, upgrades and the expected phase out of old fully functional HTTP 1. Not everything requires encryption.
NOTE: google needs tracking and do not expect privacy to improve simply because they added encryption. Roaming IP addresses would be a nice feature but it'll make it easier for them to track everybody.
I heard it quite some time before/. had something a year ago; possibly another time before that?
It is NOT Tetris specifically, Tetris was used in the 1st study I read about. It's possible a non-Tetris study existed that didn't get noticed decades ago!
It's keeping your mind from dwelling / meditating on the trauma which is how memories are cemented. The way it works means that all other known science can be applied for greater impact; such as poor quality sleep that night because a healthy sleep cycle rehashes the day's events and cements them better somehow (other studies on sleep process on memory.) At some point if not already, there is a pill that will mess up sleep enough that you weaken this memory hardening effect and playing audio while sleeping probably has an impact as well. Future studies...or rediscovery and application... A masters thesis for example, never gets read.
People will think it's only Tetris for decades... and most people don't play it that long so it won't help them much; although, you can't really know how much it helps without attempting to compare 2 events. So when 5 minutes of Tetris is tried and doesn't seem to help the TV news viewer will think science failed them again instead of science reporting failing. again.
The definition of bully needs work because people are using it too broadly. I've learned it by context which until recent times has always been an intimidation tactic used by the weak or lazy who at least can project a perception of power/confidence.
Pressuring somebody is normal and being assertive is good thing. Today, somebody FEELING stress from another who is merely being assertive or pushy is being labeled as bullying. The shades of gray of reality are hard to put into words (easier to use numbers in a range like %) but we have imprecise WORDS that mean areas on the spectrum.... or we USED TO. The language really is degrading over time so that our words lose their meaning when people don't correct others, discuss and attempt to maintain the shades of gray.
A lot of people have many reasons for up/down voting something. Without saying WHY you are doing that nobody knows your intent and therefore it can not be bullying whatsoever. It's really pathetic if things have degraded to the point where a downvote is bullying. Next thing you know we'll be removing the use of red ink grading school work, because "think of the children!"
If you can't handle having people vote you up/down then you shouldn't look or allow such options in the 1st place. You might have a point as to why we give feedback on things by clicking these votes. I think the reality of it is that we don't think it's worth commenting on and the simple vote is an easy thing to do. It encourages feedback and a comment posting allows one to explain themselves; perhaps you could require a comment if there is a vote? At least then you get motivated.... but then people are who more motivated will tend towards extremes while the moderate majority will just do nothing. Giving a false sampling of the audience... so then you put in easier feedback.... lots of issues involved in this stuff... depends on what you want from the audience and what you can actually get gather from them. Perhaps the better position would be just to have a hit count of some kind and skip all the rest. since what usually matters is audience size and not if they like or hate it.
When you are so corrupt that the ONLY way to do what the majority wants is to let the people vote on it directly--- that is when a constitution amendment is the solution. You can't pass a law because the system is too corrupted and the wealthy elites are too powerful they can hack the system. It's not clean but the system is dirty and polluting your constitution with a few popular amendments gets stuff DONE without waiting for the system to be cleaned... if that is even possible anymore.... you may want a clean simple constitution but that isn't a good enough reason for many of us who are fed up from decades of corruption stopping common sense obvious policy shifts. Sure, we should fix the system but people just are not motivated, informed or smart enough to do that yet. if ever. If that ever does happen, then you can pass laws and undo amendments... the fact you can't undo an amendment that is not relevant also speaks to how broken the system would be.
I thought compression was an extremely wasteful process? did they find ways that involved less losses? I'm only guessing expansion works better because steam power is quite good.
What about exploring tanks that leverage deep water pressure to cut down costs?
The minority in every context has to face the results of peer pressure. It's subjective as to how horrific that pressure may be. You special isolated snow flakes might freak out over relatively nothing. You also might be anti-social and need that popular peer pressure to trigger EVOLVED emotions so you either adapt to function in the social group or you leave and try to survive alone (which is easy in our modern disconnected abstracted society.)
The majority power sets the guidelines... unless authoritarian, then the power is disproportionate... which to the minority perspective looks like almost the same thing since the way such things are carried out are not by seeing the whole majority crowd acting as one-- they are almost always represented in some way by a few entities.
Up/Down voting is NOT bullying. Peer pressure / social pressure can seem similar to bullying but are not the same; although, depending on how you define it and the situation it can be the same. Bullying can be a parent forcing rules upon a child; trying to define it so it can't apply to that but also applies everywhere it's used is not so easy. Question is then, is all bullying bad? or do we play legal games trying to define it so it allows stuff we approve of? (like terrorism for example which ends up being subjective hypocrisy because that approach doesn't work.) The reasonable end position is that bullying is not always bad (by far better than accepting hypocrisy-- something we now seem to be doing instead.)
Correction: prices TODAY are higher during the day. With increased solar driving down daytime demand those prices will drop and with enough solar the sunny daytime prices will become the lowest price; while the night and overcast days will raise prices. DEMAND is not the only factor setting rates and nothing says in the future it has to be as much of a factor or at all. Think ahead.
Massive energy storage is horrible for electricity. For heat, is very efficient. They don't store heat as steam, duh!! Heat transfer and conversion is simple and efficient; heat to electricity conversion is best done using steam.
Mirrors can't concentrate AS MUCH light when it's diffused; they do not turn black when it's overcast. A tower concentrator has enough mirrors why can't they still have enough to boil a little steam? A low temperature mode. When I asked, I was hoping for somebody with more knowledge than I speak up.
More likely, if Faux News echos this then Trump will echo back and fools caught in the feedback loop will have another target of their hate. The whole time while all parties point elsewhere or worst case at each other but they will never accept responsibility (not likely even false statements saying they accept responsibility.)
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No disagreement there. Management still is responsible and often times when something is portrayed as impossible there is some bright exec who finds a solution that works to point to elsewhere... the attitude should be that the management needs to change if they can't find solutions.
That said, efficiency is not the goal. Gainful employment is the #1 goal. #2 is security/stability. #3 (to the majority of people) is doing something meaningful.
Competition is supposed to encourage efficiency which is the justification for it; but it's reason for having an impact is that it undermines the top 2 priorities. One shouldn't lose sight of why it matters and simply focus on efficiency alone. It's easy when you get fixated to ignore why you are doing it in the 1st place. Some of us have higher priorities on waste by the nature of how we rank priorities; maybe that is why we did well in sciences or with technology, but that doesn't mean it is always the right thing to do (just because it aligns with our natural biases.) Sure, it's annoying to have loser coworkers wasting or under performing... but your whole job making some app for vapid consumers distracting them while they drive it is not important if you save them some battery life or make your owners more $.
The union perspective is not wrong; it is different and certainly it rubs against the owners and management's obsession with "productivity" above all else. The balance between them is important because neither is ideal (even if they think so.) Today in the USA, the culture and language has a massive bias. people celebrate higher productivity gains without even realizing that usually means that workers were screwed... withing a whole industry it's often not a good thing (no relative difference) but on a larger long term scale it can be a good thing (like being affordable to more people.... flip side being the masses think they are doing better with shrinking $$$ because of cheaper commodities... they can have TVs, cell phones, be fat but both parents MUST work full time...buy trash food, products... have less connection with their family, no time for friends, fill the void with consumption... less happy etc. )
Slowing winning the battle to misunderstand and misapply basic science into a political philosophy... because it fits the belief in a meritocracy measured by wealth, which happens to largely be generational. We have to keep maintaining the status quo, can't destabilize those with the wealth.
Never mind the evolved tribalism and social skills that were proven successful, lets literally act like Neanderthals despite that their nuclear family approach led them to extinction despite larger brains.
Rationing healthcare is better when you have limited resources; everybody in an emergency survival situation does rationing after the group deals with the anti-social pricks... since humans scale poorly, it gets more difficult to manage; as the anti-social cliche villains end up banding together to create a gang (which is a weaker social group dependent upon exploiting others to limit internal strife; being made up of anti-socials... The rational tends towards rank by power to justify external behaviors and is likely applied within the group too.) Just my observation.
The arguments for the existence of the corporation as well as the capitalist approach to economics run deeper than whatever the current societal and legal definitions/expectations are. John Smith and others argued using socialist reasoning as justification; which shouldn't be a surprise since few people are anti-social.
Today it's a completely unspoken contract, let the capitalists and corporations exist for the greater benefit of all. (anything for the greater good of all is socialism.) THAT is the reason they are justified in doing everything they've done and it's implied when they say you are anti-capitalist or anti-corporatist that you are a fool who can't see the benefits they provide society; most often labeling the fool as a communist of some sort.
It's incredibly dumb and almost beyond recognition what thinking is really behind it (but not so much by the people parroting the buzz phrases.) It is hard to have a discussion at all when the language has been 1984'ed (FYI, biggest theme of the book was language - Why do you think Orwell added an addendum to the story on NewSpeak?)
Public companies exist as government defined/enforced legal entities; indirectly, they are government and can therefore be made to do whatever the people wish them to. Germany for example, forces corporations to include worker representation on the board. You could allow workers to vote on firing a CEO; or REQUIRE they hire X people per $X profit... ultimately ending up with something like "The Jetson's" where robots do everything and workers are just there to play office politics so they can have a "job".
The reason they get paid huge amounts is supposed to be because MANAGEMENT are responsible. THEY must deal with every problem; however, corporate culture always rewarded the people who were talented at shifting blame away from themselves (and taking credit for others... the culture got worse too.)
So we have administrations loaded with people who do not take responsibility publicly or privately and even spend $$$ promoting blame on others. It is to the point today where you have organizations blaming their customers/users for not liking their dictates (think of software companies pointless UI changes.) You don't even need MBA training in sociopathy to pick up the habits anymore.
The unions are NOT the problem; they don't get much say - even if they promote stupid, management has to own it because the decisions are made by them. Externalizing costs is more than outsourcing; it's the MBA philosophy for everything. Workflows get mechanized into "legos" so it is easy to swap out low skill workers and never be at their mercy; additionally, it makes automation far easier. Same lessons were not being learned by industrial revolution are not being learned today. You think the MBA reads history? They don't have to think, just play office and investor politics (today PC babies are a new factor in the political game.)
The real purpose for a company is to provide gainful employment; despite that not being explicitly or culturally stated anymore. Look at all the socialist arguments used by the champions of capitalism-- and the reason people support it is because the flawed system produced the best results for the most people. Today, it's a religion with zero thought except to defend emotional attachment to a brand... like how religion to many is merely a brand name you identify with (or politics.) The purpose is long forgotten and it's popularity is running on fumes. It keeps getting worse until the majority fully wakes up. Look at Trump and the dimwitted and cowardly Republicans; he is just a symptom of a social cancer... remove the Tumor without addressing the cancer and another one predictably happens... progressively worse each time until death.
Bones compost just fine; obviously, at a slower rate. Properly composted it only takes about a month to get rid of chicken bones-- probably faster if optimized. The process produces heat which has to be kept below a certain temp or the bacteria die. Oxygen is needed as well because anaerobic bacteria do not do the job well enough.
Think about how many creatures with bones have died and how few bones we dig up... fossils are only mineralized bones; hardly any bones relative amount of natural death exist. SOMETHING has to be recycling all of them... for all time..
Yeah, most Germans were not Nazi either... even though they did their part to support it. Especially when it all fell down... See "I was not a Nazi Polka" then check out "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan."
The smart side of the stupid republicans now are "independent" again and back to saying "both sides are corrupt." Like they were at the end of the Bush years! It is a false equivalence that can't be left alone so they go into hiding without learning anything until their next horrible mistake pushes them into denial again. Not being in touch with reality is how this stuff repeats and it has been getting worse each cycle. Their defense reactions keep them from learning from their own history, let alone recorded history.
We need oil sold in US $ simply to keep propping up that history which adds value to the US $ and at a time when it's going to need it more than it used do.
n00bs hacking javascript examples from stack exchange for web dev into an incomprehensibly large OS running at 1MHz on a remote cluster having with months long build cycles, years long test cycles with extremely poor test coverage.
But we're confident because we managed to get some lights to flicker on some of the boxes and our deployments never completely crash and we never lose money no matter how badly it performs anyway; even, if it fails to integrate properly with other systems. We can just go to work upgrading the other systems! profit!
People say how bad software engineering is compared to all other kinds of real engineering... but genetic engineering is the worst of all...
Silicon Dioxide is all over the place! Most abundant stuff on earth. We also have a lot of aluminum which is easy to recycle.
Lithium might be an issue for a while until we adapt... as we did in history. Recycling will eventually be the future. Rare magnets are NOT at all required for generators; or electric motors for that matter; it's not the end... maybe of cheap Chinese neodymium which might even be found as cheaply elsewhere.
Besides, all these matters are usually about CHEAP easy sources running out taking us away from the peak low price -- possibly forever but it doesn't prohibit the use of it until it becomes crazy expensive... which usually creates a stronger market drive to deliver it (with proper competition, bringing prices down.)
When it was done in such an easy to detect way one has to question the motives. If it was a state based attack, they are capable of doing a much better job than illustrating how the FCC didn't filter it's comments for duplicate emails...
If they want to be caught on 1 level, it can undermine the side they are supporting by lowering the credibility of that side as a bunch of hackers and not REAL people. On another level it can look like the SuperKendall thinks it does because they assume you think they really are that sloppy.
Helping the telcos only makes people upset and stand up more against the corruption; Russian tactics are the opposite. They want you to feel powerless and cynical as hell. So helping telcos cheat can do that to some degree but past a certain point it does good long term; as reforms can happen. The goal is to make reform so pointless people won't bother. Killing grassroots reform by undermining it does far more damage; getting the culture to discourage all traits that keep things functioning.
Like having provocateurs throwing rocks at cops in a peaceful protest; encouraging the fools and nutcase fringe to unknowingly harm their side by empowering them; otherwise, they'd be largely ignored by their own side. This way protesters and cops get divided even more despite it becoming public later that only 2 people involved; or even if 1 of the two was fake.
We should have PSAs run showing Nazi, pedophiles, etc. saying to the camera "I'm voting!."
If you are a nation of bad people, then the government should reflect their choice. The government represents it's people... Yes, Trump is America. The darker side of it you don't want to admit exists but that is just hiding from the truth. Dictators are also; just not by direct consent.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-Frederick Douglas
Most the wind is indirectly solar powered.
Hydro only works because water moves by air blowing it around.
Now if you store a million years of solar and you get fossil fuels... Nuclear is the only non-solar power source. (massive space explosions etc are not solar even if they involve stars.)
Just thought I'd point out a little less obvious facts given how some fool is always talking down to the rest of us by reminding us that the sun sets at night or the wind doesn't always blow... with a smug "checkmate" look on their face.
Hydro messes with a few large areas where it's possible to use it. Nuclear can be installed anywhere including in really foolish locations and by dangerous parties.
Hydro does some long term harm to relatively small local ecosystems; but it's not that big of a deal even if the physical space impacted is relatively large. Nature very slowly does a lot more changes to the landscape... a volcano or a massive fire... they have big quick natural impacts too... but nuclear fall out, political cover for weapons, unnaturally strong concentrations of super toxic waste that lasts longer than our civilization will is a bigger problem.
Furthermore the corruption involved around nuclear power companies seems to me to be more than hydro power. Needing new fuel all the time and dealing with waste, I think is a big factor.
Governments issue corporation documents and reasonably track that information. I remember needing a state ID along with paperwork to incorporate.
The government can relatively CHEAPLY use open source tools and some existing servers to digitally sign things.... SSL should be using MULTIPLE signing parties with the government incorporation data and it's "stamp of approval" for the corporation behind the site existing. At least then you can trace it back to the government and then to the business owners.
3rd parties signing off on network security, storage security, malware security, privacy or BBB or whatever they do to approve. These should involve classes of approval: a simple string indicating the class of approval, start with a standard list that the browsers can react appropriately to. Such as warning users if a credit card is entered into a site that lacks a certification for that purpose; address info, etc.
In addition, there isn't enough seaweed to feed all the cows and the cost is a big factor. This would have to be mandated in a big way to even make a dent.... Sure they can isolate the specifics to bring down costs and create something cheaper but without mandating it there is a snowball's chance in hell.
The reality is that we will just have to TAX meat by warming impact and only the people who can afford it will eat a lot of it. This wouldn't be different than truffles etc.
BTW, global warming is going to price more people out of products like truffles or natural coffee (which is already being padded with fillers.) To create a direct artificial cost burden on a product is a political hurdle but we are indirectly forcing price hikes on thousands of other products as supply dwindles... due to in part to us not limiting meat production... Arguably, we are subsidizing meat at the price of everything else because we aren't smart enough to see we MUST choose winners and losers. Doing nothing is a choice. You see meat prices now, adjust to your budget if it actually impacts you and bitch regardless... but you'll not think of all the other costs down the road that are staring you in the face at this moment.
Dreaming is ok if it doesn't go too far. Mars is impossible in the next century; at least. Impractical possibly forever.
The HARM is planning life around your grandchildren leaving the Earth you wrote off as disposable.
Human teams have limited mental capacity and time, even capable teams do not like unnecessary cognitive load or TIME getting in the way; therefore, libraries are linked and C++ OOP is used.
You can text and you can drive but you can't do both at 100% at the same time.
The backlash is from competent people who are defensive about needing the crutches other languages force upon you. They may NOT need them; however, they are choosing to distract themselves like a texting driver. Very few deeply technical situations require attention at this level of detail. A hybrid compromise is why C++ became so huge... but it needs to address this problem by default before it finally adds the kitchen sink. Place too many complex issues on developers and they will make errors beneath their skill level (which is likely higher than non-C programmers.)
We could have used all this work back when internet was SLOW! Now we really do not need all these changes that only matter to a massive company; create more technical headaches, developer work, upgrades and the expected phase out of old fully functional HTTP 1. Not everything requires encryption.
NOTE: google needs tracking and do not expect privacy to improve simply because they added encryption. Roaming IP addresses would be a nice feature but it'll make it easier for them to track everybody.
I heard it quite some time before /. had something a year ago; possibly another time before that?
It is NOT Tetris specifically, Tetris was used in the 1st study I read about. It's possible a non-Tetris study existed that didn't get noticed decades ago!
It's keeping your mind from dwelling / meditating on the trauma which is how memories are cemented. The way it works means that all other known science can be applied for greater impact; such as poor quality sleep that night because a healthy sleep cycle rehashes the day's events and cements them better somehow (other studies on sleep process on memory.) At some point if not already, there is a pill that will mess up sleep enough that you weaken this memory hardening effect and playing audio while sleeping probably has an impact as well. Future studies...or rediscovery and application... A masters thesis for example, never gets read.
People will think it's only Tetris for decades... and most people don't play it that long so it won't help them much; although, you can't really know how much it helps without attempting to compare 2 events. So when 5 minutes of Tetris is tried and doesn't seem to help the TV news viewer will think science failed them again instead of science reporting failing. again.
The definition of bully needs work because people are using it too broadly. I've learned it by context which until recent times has always been an intimidation tactic used by the weak or lazy who at least can project a perception of power/confidence.
Pressuring somebody is normal and being assertive is good thing. Today, somebody FEELING stress from another who is merely being assertive or pushy is being labeled as bullying. The shades of gray of reality are hard to put into words (easier to use numbers in a range like %) but we have imprecise WORDS that mean areas on the spectrum.... or we USED TO. The language really is degrading over time so that our words lose their meaning when people don't correct others, discuss and attempt to maintain the shades of gray.
A lot of people have many reasons for up/down voting something. Without saying WHY you are doing that nobody knows your intent and therefore it can not be bullying whatsoever. It's really pathetic if things have degraded to the point where a downvote is bullying. Next thing you know we'll be removing the use of red ink grading school work, because "think of the children!"
If you can't handle having people vote you up/down then you shouldn't look or allow such options in the 1st place. You might have a point as to why we give feedback on things by clicking these votes. I think the reality of it is that we don't think it's worth commenting on and the simple vote is an easy thing to do. It encourages feedback and a comment posting allows one to explain themselves; perhaps you could require a comment if there is a vote? At least then you get motivated.... but then people are who more motivated will tend towards extremes while the moderate majority will just do nothing. Giving a false sampling of the audience... so then you put in easier feedback.... lots of issues involved in this stuff... depends on what you want from the audience and what you can actually get gather from them. Perhaps the better position would be just to have a hit count of some kind and skip all the rest. since what usually matters is audience size and not if they like or hate it.
When you are so corrupt that the ONLY way to do what the majority wants is to let the people vote on it directly--- that is when a constitution amendment is the solution. You can't pass a law because the system is too corrupted and the wealthy elites are too powerful they can hack the system. It's not clean but the system is dirty and polluting your constitution with a few popular amendments gets stuff DONE without waiting for the system to be cleaned... if that is even possible anymore.... you may want a clean simple constitution but that isn't a good enough reason for many of us who are fed up from decades of corruption stopping common sense obvious policy shifts. Sure, we should fix the system but people just are not motivated, informed or smart enough to do that yet. if ever. If that ever does happen, then you can pass laws and undo amendments... the fact you can't undo an amendment that is not relevant also speaks to how broken the system would be.
I thought compression was an extremely wasteful process? did they find ways that involved less losses? I'm only guessing expansion works better because steam power is quite good.
What about exploring tanks that leverage deep water pressure to cut down costs?
The minority in every context has to face the results of peer pressure. It's subjective as to how horrific that pressure may be. You special isolated snow flakes might freak out over relatively nothing. You also might be anti-social and need that popular peer pressure to trigger EVOLVED emotions so you either adapt to function in the social group or you leave and try to survive alone (which is easy in our modern disconnected abstracted society.)
The majority power sets the guidelines... unless authoritarian, then the power is disproportionate... which to the minority perspective looks like almost the same thing since the way such things are carried out are not by seeing the whole majority crowd acting as one-- they are almost always represented in some way by a few entities.
Up/Down voting is NOT bullying. Peer pressure / social pressure can seem similar to bullying but are not the same; although, depending on how you define it and the situation it can be the same. Bullying can be a parent forcing rules upon a child; trying to define it so it can't apply to that but also applies everywhere it's used is not so easy. Question is then, is all bullying bad? or do we play legal games trying to define it so it allows stuff we approve of? (like terrorism for example which ends up being subjective hypocrisy because that approach doesn't work.) The reasonable end position is that bullying is not always bad (by far better than accepting hypocrisy-- something we now seem to be doing instead.)
Correction: prices TODAY are higher during the day. With increased solar driving down daytime demand those prices will drop and with enough solar the sunny daytime prices will become the lowest price; while the night and overcast days will raise prices. DEMAND is not the only factor setting rates and nothing says in the future it has to be as much of a factor or at all. Think ahead.
Massive energy storage is horrible for electricity. For heat, is very efficient. They don't store heat as steam, duh!! Heat transfer and conversion is simple and efficient; heat to electricity conversion is best done using steam.
Mirrors can't concentrate AS MUCH light when it's diffused; they do not turn black when it's overcast. A tower concentrator has enough mirrors why can't they still have enough to boil a little steam? A low temperature mode. When I asked, I was hoping for somebody with more knowledge than I speak up.
IR DOES go through clouds.
More likely, if Faux News echos this then Trump will echo back and fools caught in the feedback loop will have another target of their hate. The whole time while all parties point elsewhere or worst case at each other but they will never accept responsibility (not likely even false statements saying they accept responsibility.)