No shit. I particularly appreciated this though: "Dr. Ceballos emphasized that he and his co-authors, Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo, both professors at Stanford University, are not alarmists"
In short, WD and Toshiba had a joint venture on NAND Flash (Toshiba designed and manufactured the chips, while Western Digital packaged them and sold them inside SSDs). Toshiba's main parent is having financial issues because of unexpected losses in its nuclear reactor division (because of a botched up acquisition of Westinghouse which included a construction company which was hiding massive losses). Western Digital bid too low. The Japanese government wants Japanese investors to step up and buy the company. Other companies in the bidding included Hon Hai (i.e. Foxconn China), and Broadcom. WD allegedly sued because they want to make sure when the NAND Flash division is spun off and sold they retain rights they had under the joint venture.
The problem is installation costs and hassle with heat pumps. Plus a lot of people in Germany live in cities. Good luck asking your apartment condominium for permission to drill a hole in the ground to install one in an already existing building. Compare that to a regular air conditioner where you only need to drill a hole in your wall.
If you are worried about the insulation being biodegradable you can use cork. It can be quite expensive but since it is wood bark it is completely biodegradable plus the insulation is quite excellent.
Yeah a ground source heatsink is typically a lot more efficient than just a regular air conditioner with a fan using the atmosphere as the heatsink. Plus it also make it possible to heat buildings to room temperature even in cold places like, say, Sweden. I am kinda of curious about the efficiency of Google's proposed solution though. It is not like I haven't heard of people drilling for aquifers before and their solution seems kinda similar.
Just use a credit card, set a low limit on the volume of outstanding transactions, and check the if the expenses listed are legit before you pay up. If not then report it.
While in France or Germany their governments intervened to get the companies over the hump, saving jobs in the process, and the companies recovered, in the UK they just let everyone fail and get purchased.
Do you think the common man lived any better under the various feudal systems that predate the modern capitalist economies? Back then taxes for the peasants were 30%. And the nobles quite often paid no taxes.
Typical mistake. Me, I still want to know if they kept that obnoxious display sticking out of the middle of the dashboard. Like in the Model 3 prototype. I wonder who'll be the first one who'll get impaled into that thing on a crash: http://www.starkinsider.com/20...
The NEET phenomenon (like they call it in Japan) is due to several reasons. One is that with smaller one-child families it becomes less important to get your own house since there is room to spare. Also houses have become a lot more expensive. Where like 3-4 decades ago in the West someone could buy a house with 3 years work now it takes like 8 years work for the average citizen to get a house. In addition studies take a lot longer so you graduate college at 21 years. Two generations ago someone who was 16 years old typically was in an apprenticeship while at 18 they were employed. If this person then takes a Masters degree they graduate even later and meanwhile they aren't working. Another factor is that it is much harder to find a steady job, or even an entry level job, which pays enough for someone to constitute his own family, especially for those without qualifications, even those with the studies for it are typically required to have prior experience, and even those who are employed typically do not enjoy full employment. Without job security it is hard to be able to pay a loan and get a house. If you only need enough money for clothes and food you only need to work a couple hours per week.
Also typically modern companies to do not pay for overtime and quite a lot of people don't want to get in the rat race because of this.
Computer games has little to nothing to do with it. It's not like you couldn't play football or fish on your spare time like they did a couple generations ago. Back then it was also common for people to drive around to spend their time. This became less common as fuel prices went up. Because of higher fuel prices youngsters and the unemployed started holing up indoors, stopped buying cars, and online gaming became more common.
There was a lot more pressure to leave your parents house with large families with several people in each bedroom and this was a lot easier to do back when houses were cheaper. I have as much room for myself on my parents house today as my parents did when were married. I got a whole floor for myself. So why should I get my own house and lose the advantages of shared living? Even those who don't want to live with their parents today sometimes live in youngster communities once they leave college because of this.
I got my own car, which I bought brand new and paid for it with cash, I own a plot of land that's over twice the area of my parents house, I can use as much floor space in their house as they did when they got married, and I have like 3 years savings in the bank. Why should I slave away in a thankless job? Fuck em. If the job is interesting I do it, if it's not I don't.
The CZ-5 uses LOX/Kerosene in the first stage. AFAIK most older Chinese rockets use liquid hypergolic propellants in the first stages. With the exception of Long March 3 and KT-1 which use solids.
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He's already going to build a huge battery in Australia:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/0...
So he's getting there.
For those not familiar with it Paul R. Ehrlich wrote the book The Population Bomb.
No shit. I particularly appreciated this though:
"Dr. Ceballos emphasized that he and his co-authors, Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo, both professors at Stanford University, are not alarmists"
Ahahah. Nice joke.
In short, WD and Toshiba had a joint venture on NAND Flash (Toshiba designed and manufactured the chips, while Western Digital packaged them and sold them inside SSDs). Toshiba's main parent is having financial issues because of unexpected losses in its nuclear reactor division (because of a botched up acquisition of Westinghouse which included a construction company which was hiding massive losses). Western Digital bid too low. The Japanese government wants Japanese investors to step up and buy the company. Other companies in the bidding included Hon Hai (i.e. Foxconn China), and Broadcom. WD allegedly sued because they want to make sure when the NAND Flash division is spun off and sold they retain rights they had under the joint venture.
You can read these articles to get the full picture of the Toshiba deal (why it matters and how it happened):
http://www.eetimes.com/documen...
http://www.eetimes.com/documen...
http://www.eetimes.com/documen...
I would try to improve insulation before going into radical overhauls like this.
The problem is installation costs and hassle with heat pumps. Plus a lot of people in Germany live in cities. Good luck asking your apartment condominium for permission to drill a hole in the ground to install one in an already existing building. Compare that to a regular air conditioner where you only need to drill a hole in your wall.
The problem with rockwool is possible asbestos like health issues.
Good enough that cork is used in some spacecraft and space launcher thermal protection systems.
If you are worried about the insulation being biodegradable you can use cork. It can be quite expensive but since it is wood bark it is completely biodegradable plus the insulation is quite excellent.
Yeah a ground source heatsink is typically a lot more efficient than just a regular air conditioner with a fan using the atmosphere as the heatsink. Plus it also make it possible to heat buildings to room temperature even in cold places like, say, Sweden. I am kinda of curious about the efficiency of Google's proposed solution though. It is not like I haven't heard of people drilling for aquifers before and their solution seems kinda similar.
Just use a credit card, set a low limit on the volume of outstanding transactions, and check the if the expenses listed are legit before you pay up. If not then report it.
What happened? Thatcher happened.
While in France or Germany their governments intervened to get the companies over the hump, saving jobs in the process, and the companies recovered, in the UK they just let everyone fail and get purchased.
Do you think the common man lived any better under the various feudal systems that predate the modern capitalist economies?
Back then taxes for the peasants were 30%. And the nobles quite often paid no taxes.
Oh really? I guess you've never heard of Weibo, WeChat, or Huawei.
You want to know of a non-sequitur? The whole premise of this article where they claim that you need to work long hours to be successful.
Typical mistake. Me, I still want to know if they kept that obnoxious display sticking out of the middle of the dashboard. Like in the Model 3 prototype. I wonder who'll be the first one who'll get impaled into that thing on a crash:
http://www.starkinsider.com/20...
Edison was also building a device to speak with the dead when he was old. So he basically went mad.
Some of them do. Ever looked at Kickstarter or Patreon?
That is only until it becomes mandatory much like systemd itself.
The NEET phenomenon (like they call it in Japan) is due to several reasons. One is that with smaller one-child families it becomes less important to get your own house since there is room to spare. Also houses have become a lot more expensive. Where like 3-4 decades ago in the West someone could buy a house with 3 years work now it takes like 8 years work for the average citizen to get a house. In addition studies take a lot longer so you graduate college at 21 years. Two generations ago someone who was 16 years old typically was in an apprenticeship while at 18 they were employed. If this person then takes a Masters degree they graduate even later and meanwhile they aren't working. Another factor is that it is much harder to find a steady job, or even an entry level job, which pays enough for someone to constitute his own family, especially for those without qualifications, even those with the studies for it are typically required to have prior experience, and even those who are employed typically do not enjoy full employment. Without job security it is hard to be able to pay a loan and get a house. If you only need enough money for clothes and food you only need to work a couple hours per week.
Also typically modern companies to do not pay for overtime and quite a lot of people don't want to get in the rat race because of this.
Computer games has little to nothing to do with it. It's not like you couldn't play football or fish on your spare time like they did a couple generations ago. Back then it was also common for people to drive around to spend their time. This became less common as fuel prices went up. Because of higher fuel prices youngsters and the unemployed started holing up indoors, stopped buying cars, and online gaming became more common.
There was a lot more pressure to leave your parents house with large families with several people in each bedroom and this was a lot easier to do back when houses were cheaper. I have as much room for myself on my parents house today as my parents did when were married. I got a whole floor for myself. So why should I get my own house and lose the advantages of shared living? Even those who don't want to live with their parents today sometimes live in youngster communities once they leave college because of this.
I got my own car, which I bought brand new and paid for it with cash, I own a plot of land that's over twice the area of my parents house, I can use as much floor space in their house as they did when they got married, and I have like 3 years savings in the bank. Why should I slave away in a thankless job? Fuck em. If the job is interesting I do it, if it's not I don't.
Disable unused services? Like DNS in this case? Good luck using your computer to browse the web without it.
Superstitious Woman Throws Coins Into Airplane's Engine For Good Luck:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sup...
Scratch that. Long March 3 also uses hypergolics. It's just KT-1 and Long March 11 which use solids.
The CZ-5 uses LOX/Kerosene in the first stage. AFAIK most older Chinese rockets use liquid hypergolic propellants in the first stages. With the exception of Long March 3 and KT-1 which use solids.