The deceit is obvious if you look at the discharge curve. Yes, if you throw it away at 1.4V under load, most of the capacity remains. But it is bullshit because nobody does that. High-drain devices will cope with much lower voltage, and low drain devices (like remote controls) will almost completely deplete the battery before you notice a drop in effectiveness. For real high-drain devices like cameras, most people use NiMH, which has a nominal 1.2V only.
since global ore reserves of current substrates such as silicon and aluminum dioxide are rare and almost depleted.
Another advantage of cellulose based wafers is that using traditional Japanese technology, they can be made even smaller, and in pretty shapes like swans.
Memo to self #2: If my license is revoked, call a cab.
It depends where you live. I have not had my license checked in many years (just breath tests), so it would be a good-odds bet to drive occasionally when needed. Might just need to make sure the car is registered in someone else's name. Of course, I'd just be risking a fine and vehicle impoundment, not arrest! In DC you can even go to prison for driving while suspended. Another reason the incarceration rate is so high in the US.
True, but when Greece joined the Euro, they ceased to be a proper independent national economy with their own monetary policy. Analogies are more likely to hold.
The funny thing is that Greece already has its budget balanced better than most other countries.
Any idiot can generate an operating surplus by borrowing money to buy income-producing assets. But if the surplus is not enough to at least cover the interest, it is a failure.
Car manufacturers are getting truly desperate trying to find new features to add to differential the models.
Wireless charging is hardly "cutting edge" when it has been used in battery toothbrushes for decades. The only reason it is popular now, aside from with people who love any gimmick, is that everybody hates the current USB plug, and is sick of trying to plug it in backwards. Bring back the old Nokia 2mm plug PLEASE!
It is easy to get out of the earth-moon gravity well from the moon with a sled, but your load will still be stuck in a solar orbit similar to the Earth's. To divert an asteroid, you would need to catch it early, on a near-miss pass of the Earth, and even then the orbit will still intersect our orbit. If we detect a large object on a direct collision course, launching rocks at it from the moon is about as useful as throwing rocks by hand at an incoming ICBM.
try to grow a non-"Roundup Ready" (TM) crop in a field that has been sprayed with massive quantities of glyphosate for years.
Monsanto may well be evil, but glyphosate is incredibly useful, and safe compared to alternatives. Soil life is short, just wait a season if it is that bad. Where do you get this absurd idea that it "poisons the soil"? I plant my veggies a couple of weeks after using glyphosate to kill all the weeds. They grow fine.
Are you really saying that children with learning disabilities or special needs should be denied an education?
I don't know the US, but in Australia a massive amount per-kid is spent on severely disabled children who learn little or nothing, and will never be independent. It is a very expensive child-minding service, but with more paperwork. They may get a full-time education assistant in the classroom, sharing a teacher with a few others, and no shortage of other resources. Then on their 18th birthday they get dumped back on their parents, with far more limited support.
The money could be far better spent spread over their lifetimes, or part on less disabled kids in regular schools, where it mighty achieve some lasting benefit.
The English Wikipedia should have user preferences to select UK / US spellings.
Why? I never heard of people having trouble with the alternative* spellings. So long as each article is internally consistent, who cares which it uses?
It would be trivial compared
Hardly! Then you will have to support Australian and Canadian spelling. And determine it by context - we program a computer, but read a TV programme. Then there are the subtle grammar differences, and vocabulary. Would need to manually edit each page, then maintain the two in parallel. Its one of those ideas that sounds OK - until you actually think about it.
(* or "alternate" as the en_US version of this comment would say.)
Lyme is not endemic here, same as malaria. The problem is that for every genuine case of Lyme (e.g. returned tourists) there are a thousand self-diagnosed fools who saw a list of vague symptoms on the internet and think they have "chronic lyme". The symptoms are varied, and far from unique to Lyme. So doctors are understandably skeptical. But if the patient has visited an endemic area, and symptoms match, testing is available, and appropriate antibiotics will be given. (Real testing, not the scam "lyme specialty" labs.)
The racial disparity in crime and incarceration is no worse than in other countries. It is the rate across the board that has risen. Incarceration rates for whites in the US used to be similar to other developed countries. Now it is a few times higher.
The online shop based in Australia can't avoid sales tax. The online shop based outside Australia can avoid sales tax.
Not so simple. It is more if it is posted from overseas there is no tax. Many local companies have overseas subsidiaries that ship from Asia and do not collect GST. More expensive items (currently over $1000) will be taxed on arrival by customs. Goods sent from overseas have the disadvantage of higher shipping cost and/or much longer delivery times, as well as loss of warranty (or expensive return shipping). So the scope is limited. It will never be like Amazon killing off local businesses in the US. And when people order online, they expect to save a _lot_ more than the 10% GST.
in Canada, you don't have to charge GST if you make less than $30,000 in revenue.
$75,000 in Australia. But passengers are paying Uber, not the driver. Uber is evading tax by operating across the border. Of course they also pay no company tax, insurance, taxi-registration or comply in any way with industry regulation.
If Uber is forced to collect GST, it will then be in the drivers' interest to register for GST so they can claim GST deductions for expenses.
Can you show that the correlation isn't to poverty, and not race?
All the data shows crime correlates to both of course. Are you confusing correlation with causality? Suppose the race correlate disappear once controlling for poverty. How much difference would that make? Black people are poorer everywhere. It is not just a local US problem you can blame on the shameful history of slavery. There is no simple fix. But getting rid of handguns and legalising drugs would be a good start.
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Don't we have antibodies for bacteria and other pathogens also? Are they somehow less interesting?
The deceit is obvious if you look at the discharge curve.
Yes, if you throw it away at 1.4V under load, most of the capacity remains. But it is bullshit because nobody does that.
High-drain devices will cope with much lower voltage, and low drain devices (like remote controls) will almost completely deplete the battery before you notice a drop in effectiveness.
For real high-drain devices like cameras, most people use NiMH, which has a nominal 1.2V only.
Chrome is not available for R Pi. Only Chromium
Thats why the GP is talking about running the x86 version of Chrome in an emulator. What did you think this conversation was about?
since global ore reserves of current substrates such as silicon and aluminum dioxide are rare and almost depleted.
Another advantage of cellulose based wafers is that using traditional Japanese technology, they can be made even smaller, and in pretty shapes like swans.
Memo to self #2:
If my license is revoked, call a cab.
It depends where you live. I have not had my license checked in many years (just breath tests), so it would be a good-odds bet to drive occasionally when needed.
Might just need to make sure the car is registered in someone else's name.
Of course, I'd just be risking a fine and vehicle impoundment, not arrest! In DC you can even go to prison for driving while suspended. Another reason the incarceration rate is so high in the US.
True, but when Greece joined the Euro, they ceased to be a proper independent national economy with their own monetary policy. Analogies are more likely to hold.
The funny thing is that Greece already has its budget balanced better than most other countries.
Any idiot can generate an operating surplus by borrowing money to buy income-producing assets. But if the surplus is not enough to at least cover the interest, it is a failure.
Car manufacturers are getting truly desperate trying to find new features to add to differential the models.
Wireless charging is hardly "cutting edge" when it has been used in battery toothbrushes for decades.
The only reason it is popular now, aside from with people who love any gimmick, is that everybody hates the current USB plug, and is sick of trying to plug it in backwards. Bring back the old Nokia 2mm plug PLEASE!
And calls to the "non-emergency number" would result in the police doing absolutely nothing
Not true. Please save the New Emergency Services number, 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 for genuine emergencies only.
It is easy to get out of the earth-moon gravity well from the moon with a sled, but your load will still be stuck in a solar orbit similar to the Earth's.
To divert an asteroid, you would need to catch it early, on a near-miss pass of the Earth, and even then the orbit will still intersect our orbit.
If we detect a large object on a direct collision course, launching rocks at it from the moon is about as useful as throwing rocks by hand at an incoming ICBM.
Keyboards? Voice recognition had rendered them obsolete. You are all living in the duck cages.
try to grow a non-"Roundup Ready" (TM) crop in a field that has been sprayed with massive quantities of glyphosate for years.
Monsanto may well be evil, but glyphosate is incredibly useful, and safe compared to alternatives. Soil life is short, just wait a season if it is that bad.
Where do you get this absurd idea that it "poisons the soil"? I plant my veggies a couple of weeks after using glyphosate to kill all the weeds. They grow fine.
Are you really saying that children with learning disabilities or special needs should be denied an education?
I don't know the US, but in Australia a massive amount per-kid is spent on severely disabled children who learn little or nothing, and will never be independent.
It is a very expensive child-minding service, but with more paperwork.
They may get a full-time education assistant in the classroom, sharing a teacher with a few others, and no shortage of other resources. Then on their 18th birthday they get dumped back on their parents, with far more limited support.
The money could be far better spent spread over their lifetimes, or part on less disabled kids in regular schools, where it mighty achieve some lasting benefit.
With annual revenue of $2.5 billion, probably.
That page shows net income of $120m in the last year, so a P/E over 36, or 2.7% yield. Must be a growth stock.
The English Wikipedia should have user preferences to select UK / US spellings.
Why? I never heard of people having trouble with the alternative* spellings. So long as each article is internally consistent, who cares which it uses?
It would be trivial compared
Hardly! Then you will have to support Australian and Canadian spelling. And determine it by context - we program a computer, but read a TV programme.
Then there are the subtle grammar differences, and vocabulary. Would need to manually edit each page, then maintain the two in parallel.
Its one of those ideas that sounds OK - until you actually think about it.
(* or "alternate" as the en_US version of this comment would say.)
Nobody wants to be 'Mr. & Mrs. Alzheimer' ...
Not so bad. At least nobody will forget your name then.
Meh. Lyme disease is not recognized in Australia.
Lyme is not endemic here, same as malaria.
The problem is that for every genuine case of Lyme (e.g. returned tourists) there are a thousand self-diagnosed fools who saw a list of vague symptoms on the internet and think they have "chronic lyme". The symptoms are varied, and far from unique to Lyme. So doctors are understandably skeptical.
But if the patient has visited an endemic area, and symptoms match, testing is available, and appropriate antibiotics will be given. (Real testing, not the scam "lyme specialty" labs.)
Maybe black youth in America should focus on ....
The racial disparity in crime and incarceration is no worse than in other countries. It is the rate across the board that has risen.
Incarceration rates for whites in the US used to be similar to other developed countries. Now it is a few times higher.
The online shop based in Australia can't avoid sales tax.
The online shop based outside Australia can avoid sales tax.
Not so simple. It is more if it is posted from overseas there is no tax. Many local companies have overseas subsidiaries that ship from Asia and do not collect GST. More expensive items (currently over $1000) will be taxed on arrival by customs.
Goods sent from overseas have the disadvantage of higher shipping cost and/or much longer delivery times, as well as loss of warranty (or expensive return shipping). So the scope is limited. It will never be like Amazon killing off local businesses in the US.
And when people order online, they expect to save a _lot_ more than the 10% GST.
in Canada, you don't have to charge GST if you make less than $30,000 in revenue.
$75,000 in Australia. But passengers are paying Uber, not the driver. Uber is evading tax by operating across the border.
Of course they also pay no company tax, insurance, taxi-registration or comply in any way with industry regulation.
If Uber is forced to collect GST, it will then be in the drivers' interest to register for GST so they can claim GST deductions for expenses.
Can you show that the correlation isn't to poverty, and not race?
All the data shows crime correlates to both of course. Are you confusing correlation with causality?
Suppose the race correlate disappear once controlling for poverty. How much difference would that make? Black people are poorer everywhere. It is not just a local US problem you can blame on the shameful history of slavery. There is no simple fix. But getting rid of handguns and legalising drugs would be a good start.
it would have to kill a million or so people on the way, so the meltdown wouldn't be that big of a deal in the larger disaster.
You could say that about Fukushima. Nearly 20,000 killed in the 2011 Tsunami, none by radiation.
Come up with a Tesla motorcycle and a Tesla light pickup truck, and then we'll have a conversation. Especially a motorcycle.
Is there a market? I did not think rednecks were into that pinko hippy enviro nonsense.
Maybe they need more factory capacity. I suggest adding 21% more to the Gigafactory...
Damn....I don't get it. Help me...please?
Just google 1.21 - the gigawatts (or "jigawatts" as the movie pronounced it) is redundant in google-space.
Yeah, I'm having trouble believing a video anything would work better in Linux.
Don't most blu-ray players and set-top boxes run cut-down versions of Linux internally?
So it cannot be that hard.