If it is cost effective to store energy, wouldn't power companies be doing it?
Of course they would. It would be far cheaper to store up generated energy at night and release during the day at peak usage than it would be to build another plant to handle the increased needs of the day. However, it is not economically viable to store energy in this fashion, even in the economies of scale of a power plant. Therefore, it is much less cost effective on an individual consumer basis.
I'm not aware of any such law in the U.S. that would limit contract rates. But then if somebody is willing to work for that much and somebody else is willing to pay them that much then I don't see why the government should say that they can't have that arrangement.
That is a lot of RAM. My system is generally running about 25 applications on the task bar, plus whatever is running in the background for the OS. The system is using just under 6 GB of memory. I have 8 GB on board. I have occasionally contemplated going to 16 GB, but more than half of it would be sitting idle most (all, really) of the time. The only time I have ever used all 8 GB it was due to svchost hogging all the memory.
There are probably some switches you can set to turn your leftover RAM into swap. I know there is on Windows Server.
You know Cable TV started on the premise of "no ads", right? Now they have nothing but ad channels. The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
Yes, it was ad-free and it cost less than 1/5th of what it does now. They must be enjoying some seriously crazy profits after bumping the price up 500% AND charging the advertisers.
1.) Don't invest your money with that Mutual Fund that lost your retirement fund.
2.) Don't work for the company that you put millions of dollars of overtime into for 10 years that promised ownership and bonuses and then let you go with a pitiful two month's severance.
That advice doesn't work so well in personal relationships.
Of course it does. if you ask permission, you will 100% never get what you want. If you ask forgiveness, you will get to do what you want 100% of the time and will get forgiveness greater than 0% of the time.
Then you lose your offer when you're asked for a recent pay stub.
I've never had a company ask for a recent paystub, but if they did, I sure would want to know what possible business of theirs it would be. Of course, I wouldn't lie about my salary either. I would just say it wasn't applicable.
Poaching is just entirely the wrong word. Poaching is a legal term which describes the unlawful killing of a wild animal. It would be illegal (in the U.S.) to make a law which made it illegal to hire away an individual from another company. It is NEVER illegal to hire an individual from another company. It is sometimes against a contract to do so. So the word poaching definitely does not apply because there is no illegal activity.
So then who can CMU hire to replace the people that Uber hired?
Both CMU and Uber want 40 people with these skills, there are only (at least according to Uber's hiring practices) 40 people available. That's 80 jobs, and 40 people. In what way is that not a skills shortage?
There are more than 40 people available.They may have to raise the salary high enough to attract people away from whatever they are currently doing, but in a country of 350 million people, there are probably thousands of people with a PhD in AI.
The problem with your line of reason is that most Taxi drivers are NOT paid by the hour. They rent the Taxi, and have to pay for the fuel as well.
Getting paid by the hour, they would make money.
I cannot speak to how its done in New York City, but in this state drivers are contract labor with no benefits and pay by the hour.
Being a Taxi driver is very much like being a Truck driver and they are both jobs that no one who has ever done would WANT to do.
Most times it's that they need 'quick' money to pay bills and don't have the time or money to get a better education since in this county you have to PAY quite a bit for that education.
I believe that lower income contract jobs are basically a way to get around the minimum wage. If you look at places that pay contract rates for things like taxis, newspaper delivery, magazine subscriptions, envelope stuffing etc., you will often find if you do the math that they are not making the minimum hourly wage. Not only that, but because they are contract labor, the company "employing" them does not have to pay Social Security, Medicare or Unemployment insurance.
Some of these jobs it is POSSIBLE to make more than minimum wage if you really work your butt off.
the underlying economic principle behind replacing humans with machines is that humans (in this case, taxi drivers) won't be needed no more so they'll go back to school and get a better job with more value added to the overall economy. on the short run it may hurt (because yeah, 60yr old taxi driver won't become a doctor...) but on the long run its what makes economies evolve. thats why the average american is more educated and has a better job than the average chinese... FOR NOW.
And it has worked so well that we have gone from the 1960s model of a single earner working 40 hours a week bringing home more than enough money to support his family, to the current model of two earners working 60+ hours a week struggling to survive.
I found it rather amusing, especially the part where they among the listed "benefits" of upgrading is how Windows 10 enables you to "multitask like a master - with the ability to snap up to four things on the screen, at once". I literally lol:ed.
Snap? Is that supposed to mean something? As far as multitasking, 4 sounds like a downgrade. I have 25 applications open on my Windows 7 system at this moment in time.
Apart from that, it is not uncommon to deliberately avoid upgrading, certainly in the UNIX world.
Well, of course, if it ain't broke why bother fixing it? Especially since "not broke" is kind of a rare condition for Microsoft software? Plenty of people have been burned by upgrading a perfectly good version of the OS to the latest and greatest. With Microsoft, this has definitely been the case of "fool me once, shame on you...Fool me 4, 5, 6 times, shame on me."
A database administrator? You ask them to grant you the required permissions to do your work and then you ask them every now and then to restore some data, why the database is performing so terribly and if they have any idea why the database crashed again (if it's an Oracle database anyway).
You don't seem to be talking about a real database administrator. Maybe a MS SQL database installer, I mean administrator. I've known people who put data into a GUI who think they are database administrators. Plenty of people who do the job you described above also fancy themselves database administrators. It goes far beyond that.
The good news about automating Computer Programming jobs is that for every programming job that gets automated it takes 1.01 Programmers to maintain the automation.
Of course it is actually illegal in the United States to automate Telemarketing. It's been done before and legislated out, but plenty of companies still do it and it is not going to end anytime soon.
How good did they think it was going to do against San Andreas? I mean, I know everybody here likes to pretend they hate action movies and CGI flatulence, but lots of lowest common denominator people are more likely to see San Andreas than Tomorrowland.
As it happens, I went and saw a matinee with a friend, and watched San Andreas, and it actually wasn't bad. I suggested he call his wife (who was in L.A.) and tell her to go see it.
Well some of us live in the real world and can't just hide under a rock because, ya know, we need to interact with people for personal and professional reasons
Excellent point!
via popular social media sites.
Oops, this part of the post was completely unnecessary and only demonstrates one way, and a particularly piss poor and antisocial way to interact with people.
Yes, I am aware of the Medicaid thing. they will also make you sell your house to pay for medical treatment. My kids did get on state medical program, so that is one good thing, but we are still paying full price for our insurance.
You are correct. It depends on income. In my case, once I bacame unemployed, our household income dropped to $50K/yr because I was only getting income from rental income and investments. My wife does not work in a full time job either.
I don't think I ever want to be an employee again (And probably won't unless the ACA is repealed). Even though employers are the ones taking the risks,
the rewards are tilted too far in thier favor, the tasks they assign to you are not very challenging for the job requirements they ask for, and there's too much
office politics. I'm having too much fun doing open source projects.
My wife works as well, but our income with just her working is only $25k. However, we still did not qualify for assistance, not even tax credits. I think these commercials they are showing with all the happy people saying they got assistance with the payments, and the commercial itself stating that "most qualify for assistance" is quite clearly an out and out lie. We need to do a class action suit against the government for this outrageous lie.
Which definition of "unlimited" are they using. The one where they start charging you after a certain number of GB? The one where they slow down your internet service after a certain number of GB? The one where they automatically stop you at a certain number of GB? Or is "unlimited" 15 GB, as I have seen elsewhere in this article? Surely it can't be the original use of "unlimited", meaning literally "without limit", which is no longer in use in the business world.
They had already gotten what they worked for. They were stamping their feet and demanding severance money from a company that didn't have the money, and not caring if they destroyed the company and the lives of the superior employees who still worked there. Nasty, stupid children acting just as expected.
They were demanding severance pay that was already owed them by the company and had not been paid. The financial condition of the company is of no consequence.
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If it is cost effective to store energy, wouldn't power companies be doing it?
Of course they would. It would be far cheaper to store up generated energy at night and release during the day at peak usage than it would be to build another plant to handle the increased needs of the day. However, it is not economically viable to store energy in this fashion, even in the economies of scale of a power plant. Therefore, it is much less cost effective on an individual consumer basis.
I'm not aware of any such law in the U.S. that would limit contract rates. But then if somebody is willing to work for that much and somebody else is willing to pay them that much then I don't see why the government should say that they can't have that arrangement.
That is a lot of RAM. My system is generally running about 25 applications on the task bar, plus whatever is running in the background for the OS. The system is using just under 6 GB of memory. I have 8 GB on board. I have occasionally contemplated going to 16 GB, but more than half of it would be sitting idle most (all, really) of the time. The only time I have ever used all 8 GB it was due to svchost hogging all the memory.
There are probably some switches you can set to turn your leftover RAM into swap. I know there is on Windows Server.
cable tv you see ads.
You know Cable TV started on the premise of "no ads", right? Now they have nothing but ad channels. The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
Yes, it was ad-free and it cost less than 1/5th of what it does now. They must be enjoying some seriously crazy profits after bumping the price up 500% AND charging the advertisers.
1.) Don't invest your money with that Mutual Fund that lost your retirement fund.
2.) Don't work for the company that you put millions of dollars of overtime into for 10 years that promised ownership and bonuses and then let you go with a pitiful two month's severance.
That advice doesn't work so well in personal relationships.
Of course it does. if you ask permission, you will 100% never get what you want. If you ask forgiveness, you will get to do what you want 100% of the time and will get forgiveness greater than 0% of the time.
Then you lose your offer when you're asked for a recent pay stub.
I've never had a company ask for a recent paystub, but if they did, I sure would want to know what possible business of theirs it would be. Of course, I wouldn't lie about my salary either. I would just say it wasn't applicable.
No, this is why non-competes ought to be illegal.
Poaching is just entirely the wrong word. Poaching is a legal term which describes the unlawful killing of a wild animal. It would be illegal (in the U.S.) to make a law which made it illegal to hire away an individual from another company. It is NEVER illegal to hire an individual from another company. It is sometimes against a contract to do so. So the word poaching definitely does not apply because there is no illegal activity.
So then who can CMU hire to replace the people that Uber hired?
Both CMU and Uber want 40 people with these skills, there are only (at least according to Uber's hiring practices) 40 people available. That's 80 jobs, and 40 people. In what way is that not a skills shortage?
There are more than 40 people available.They may have to raise the salary high enough to attract people away from whatever they are currently doing, but in a country of 350 million people, there are probably thousands of people with a PhD in AI.
We will just automate the passenger as well! No more confusion.
The problem with your line of reason is that most Taxi drivers are NOT paid by the hour. They rent the Taxi, and have to pay for the fuel as well. Getting paid by the hour, they would make money. I cannot speak to how its done in New York City, but in this state drivers are contract labor with no benefits and pay by the hour. Being a Taxi driver is very much like being a Truck driver and they are both jobs that no one who has ever done would WANT to do. Most times it's that they need 'quick' money to pay bills and don't have the time or money to get a better education since in this county you have to PAY quite a bit for that education.
I believe that lower income contract jobs are basically a way to get around the minimum wage. If you look at places that pay contract rates for things like taxis, newspaper delivery, magazine subscriptions, envelope stuffing etc., you will often find if you do the math that they are not making the minimum hourly wage. Not only that, but because they are contract labor, the company "employing" them does not have to pay Social Security, Medicare or Unemployment insurance.
Some of these jobs it is POSSIBLE to make more than minimum wage if you really work your butt off.
the underlying economic principle behind replacing humans with machines is that humans (in this case, taxi drivers) won't be needed no more so they'll go back to school and get a better job with more value added to the overall economy. on the short run it may hurt (because yeah, 60yr old taxi driver won't become a doctor...) but on the long run its what makes economies evolve. thats why the average american is more educated and has a better job than the average chinese... FOR NOW.
And it has worked so well that we have gone from the 1960s model of a single earner working 40 hours a week bringing home more than enough money to support his family, to the current model of two earners working 60+ hours a week struggling to survive.
I found it rather amusing, especially the part where they among the listed "benefits" of upgrading is how Windows 10 enables you to "multitask like a master - with the ability to snap up to four things on the screen, at once". I literally lol:ed.
Snap? Is that supposed to mean something? As far as multitasking, 4 sounds like a downgrade. I have 25 applications open on my Windows 7 system at this moment in time.
Apart from that, it is not uncommon to deliberately avoid upgrading, certainly in the UNIX world.
Well, of course, if it ain't broke why bother fixing it? Especially since "not broke" is kind of a rare condition for Microsoft software? Plenty of people have been burned by upgrading a perfectly good version of the OS to the latest and greatest. With Microsoft, this has definitely been the case of "fool me once, shame on you...Fool me 4, 5, 6 times, shame on me."
Saw San Andreas and was pleasantly surprised they didn't moralize it or make it the Republican's Fault.
Yes, it is nice to know that Hollywood understands that occasionally natural disasters just happen and it is not always mankind's fault.
A database administrator? You ask them to grant you the required permissions to do your work and then you ask them every now and then to restore some data, why the database is performing so terribly and if they have any idea why the database crashed again (if it's an Oracle database anyway).
You don't seem to be talking about a real database administrator. Maybe a MS SQL database installer, I mean administrator. I've known people who put data into a GUI who think they are database administrators. Plenty of people who do the job you described above also fancy themselves database administrators. It goes far beyond that.
The good news about automating Computer Programming jobs is that for every programming job that gets automated it takes 1.01 Programmers to maintain the automation.
Of course it is actually illegal in the United States to automate Telemarketing. It's been done before and legislated out, but plenty of companies still do it and it is not going to end anytime soon.
How good did they think it was going to do against San Andreas? I mean, I know everybody here likes to pretend they hate action movies and CGI flatulence, but lots of lowest common denominator people are more likely to see San Andreas than Tomorrowland.
As it happens, I went and saw a matinee with a friend, and watched San Andreas, and it actually wasn't bad. I suggested he call his wife (who was in L.A.) and tell her to go see it.
Well some of us live in the real world and can't just hide under a rock because, ya know, we need to interact with people for personal and professional reasons
Excellent point!
via popular social media sites.
Oops, this part of the post was completely unnecessary and only demonstrates one way, and a particularly piss poor and antisocial way to interact with people.
Tiles and Apps don't work? Well, that is at least some good news. Hopefully applications and the start menu work, though.
Yes, I am aware of the Medicaid thing. they will also make you sell your house to pay for medical treatment. My kids did get on state medical program, so that is one good thing, but we are still paying full price for our insurance.
You are correct. It depends on income. In my case, once I bacame unemployed, our household income dropped to $50K/yr because I was only getting income from rental income and investments. My wife does not work in a full time job either.
I don't think I ever want to be an employee again (And probably won't unless the ACA is repealed). Even though employers are the ones taking the risks, the rewards are tilted too far in thier favor, the tasks they assign to you are not very challenging for the job requirements they ask for, and there's too much office politics. I'm having too much fun doing open source projects.
My wife works as well, but our income with just her working is only $25k. However, we still did not qualify for assistance, not even tax credits. I think these commercials they are showing with all the happy people saying they got assistance with the payments, and the commercial itself stating that "most qualify for assistance" is quite clearly an out and out lie. We need to do a class action suit against the government for this outrageous lie.
Which definition of "unlimited" are they using. The one where they start charging you after a certain number of GB? The one where they slow down your internet service after a certain number of GB? The one where they automatically stop you at a certain number of GB? Or is "unlimited" 15 GB, as I have seen elsewhere in this article? Surely it can't be the original use of "unlimited", meaning literally "without limit", which is no longer in use in the business world.
They had already gotten what they worked for. They were stamping their feet and demanding severance money from a company that didn't have the money, and not caring if they destroyed the company and the lives of the superior employees who still worked there. Nasty, stupid children acting just as expected.
They were demanding severance pay that was already owed them by the company and had not been paid. The financial condition of the company is of no consequence.