Boron (boric acid) does not prevent splitting of water (which happens at a low enough rate anyway). It's used to reliably shut down the chain reaction, boron is a great neutron poison and borated water is an easy way to deliver it into the core.
As I said, water radiolysis even at full power is generally negligible. The danger is in steam-zirconium reaction, that happens when fuel rods lose cooling and fuel temperature rises past about 800C. This is a purely chemical reaction - zirconium displaces oxygen from water, releasing hydrogen.
So prices rise to cover the cost of a living wage but then you need more money to pay the higher prices so the living wage has to increase. Where does it end?
At some equilibrium wage. Calculations show that the increases in min. wage will stop to be effective at around $25 per hour.
Are you really saying that low skill people shouldn't be hired full time? Is it ok if they work two part time jobs?
No. I'm saying that the salary paid for work must be enough to be livable if worked full time.
98% of full time worker earn more than minimum wage. The other 2% are almost all entry level workers in their first 6 months of employment. So obviously employers are nearly all paying more than they have to.
You are lying by omission. This is the number of workers earning exactly the federal minimum wage and most of states have local wages that are higher. If instead you raise the cutoff to $10.10 per hour (still below the livable wage) to account for the state-specific minimum wages then you get an appalling picture: https://www.pewresearch.org/fa... - 30% of all workers are paid less than $10.10 per hour.
Go to the Home Depot parking lot at 7 AM and try to hire an illegal Mexican for less than $10 per hour. Good luck. Even desperate people know the market value of their labor.
I will never do that, I value the labor. That being said, domestic help is often illegally paid less.
No, they pay what the job is WORTH. Again, not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a family.
No. Every job that requires full-time hours is meant to be able to support family. No ifs ands or buts. Anything else is pure slavery.
And about 'worth' - that's exactly why we have minimal wage, to avoid a never-ending spiral of race to the bottom. After all, there are always desperate people who would work for a dollar a day.
That is completely ridiculous. It means that if I choose for my job to play the guitar in the park or throw rocks in the pond, I am entitled to a 'living wage' for my work.
Incorrect. If somebody hires you to play guitar in the park or throw rocks in the pond, then that person must pay you a living wage.
But the alternative is not global cooling, isn't it? Even if we somehow return to pre-Industrial concentration of CO2, the ice age won't come until the next glaciation cycle several thousand years in future.
On the other hand, unchecked CO2 emissions will result in a plethora of changes, most of them will be bad and/or require very costly mitigation. Like abandoning coastal cities (Miami, Houston, Shanghai,...) and even whole countries (Bangladesh).
There's lots of land today where humans can't survive without some serious cold weather gear.
Except that this gear is quite literally stone-age technology. Air conditioning is 20-th century technology. It also won't make near-polar areas especially better, as you still have to design with worst-case scenario in mind.
But a few degrees of warming won't make an area deadly if it's not borderline now, as highlighted by your links.
It will. A 34C wet-bulb temperature is hard non-survivable and it takes just one non-survivable event to kill a human. And around 2 billion people will live in these borderline areas by the middle of the century.
But if we're talking about end state, not migration, the question is "will there be more nice land than before". Obviously site puching a political agenda will point to all the places that become less livable, not the places that become more livable.
As far as I know, the current answer is "no".
But all of that is vastly better than a return of the glaciation that's been normal for the past 10 million years.
Technically we're still in the ice age (since Antarctica is glaciated) that has begun 34 million years ago. I'm also not sure it would be that much worse.
BTW, what part of a Warm Earth makes this "not a nice planet to live on". More plant life, more arable land, basically the current tropics as year-round weather everywhere. Seems quite nice to me.
One of the predicted outcomes of the global warming are non-survivable areas. Right now a healthy human with access to shade and sufficient water can survive natural heat anywhere on the Earth. If the climate warms some more, there'll be regions where humans can't phsyicaly survive without air conditioning.
Apparently sniffing for explosives is very tiring for dogs. They probably have to concentrate hard to find a faint smell in all of the olfactory mess that is the airport security line. So they can’t do that for long periods of time and you need quite a few dogs to replace one checkpoint.
No it hasn't. The UHI effect is corrected for in observations. James Watts tried to find the effect, but no amount of data mutilation has provided positive results. Heck, even YOUR own article states this:
We generally find weak and statistically insignificant relationships between monthly, seasonally or annually averaged T max and urban fraction (Figure 3). When T max is averaged annually, the linear relationship between this and urban fraction is insignificant (at a 97.7% confidence level) at 0.25±0.42 K. The strongest relationships are observed in the winter months with December having an urbanisation effect of 0.67±0.34 K.
On the other hand, QUIC was carefully designed with all the past experience of network protocol failures. So it tries very hard to avoid even the possibility of ossification.
TCP is bad because it's basically set in stone. It's not possible to change a single bit in the TCP/IP spec without breaking untold millions of badly designed middleboxes.
Except that it doesn't. Suppose that you have a 100W bulb, that is used for 4 hours a day. That's 146 kW*hr a year or $21 at 0.15 cents per kW*hr average US electricity cost. Even if you are using a pretty dim 50W bulb for 1 hour a day that's still around $3 a year.
Once the illegal votes where removed from the record, it is clear that Trump won the popular vote too.
Actually, removing illegal votes would move Trump even more into the hole. Fun fact, the ONLY proven voter fraud occurred in support of Trump: https://www.charlotteobserver....
Why all the hate? I quite liked Clippy, it was adding a humanizing touch to the document editing. And I remember it being useful when I was starting to use MS Office.
AWS is a business, so it wants to get some profit. Theoretically, if you run your own datacenter you can run it cheaper because you don't treat it as a profit center. That being said, these days it'll probably require company size that is great than that of Lyft.
And this is even without getting into data locality and resilience.
The police had evidence (from WF) so they got a warrant from a judge and arrested the pastor. They just chose to disbelieve the pastor's version of events.
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Boron (boric acid) does not prevent splitting of water (which happens at a low enough rate anyway). It's used to reliably shut down the chain reaction, boron is a great neutron poison and borated water is an easy way to deliver it into the core.
As I said, water radiolysis even at full power is generally negligible. The danger is in steam-zirconium reaction, that happens when fuel rods lose cooling and fuel temperature rises past about 800C. This is a purely chemical reaction - zirconium displaces oxygen from water, releasing hydrogen.
So prices rise to cover the cost of a living wage but then you need more money to pay the higher prices so the living wage has to increase. Where does it end?
At some equilibrium wage. Calculations show that the increases in min. wage will stop to be effective at around $25 per hour.
IN areas that forced $15/hr for all min wage jobs, what happened? A net loss of jobs.
Nope. WA has imposed $15/hr min wage and the number of jobs has increased.
A pro-rated part-time job will still have to be livable. So nope, no such loopholes.
Are you really saying that low skill people shouldn't be hired full time? Is it ok if they work two part time jobs?
No. I'm saying that the salary paid for work must be enough to be livable if worked full time.
98% of full time worker earn more than minimum wage. The other 2% are almost all entry level workers in their first 6 months of employment. So obviously employers are nearly all paying more than they have to.
You are lying by omission. This is the number of workers earning exactly the federal minimum wage and most of states have local wages that are higher. If instead you raise the cutoff to $10.10 per hour (still below the livable wage) to account for the state-specific minimum wages then you get an appalling picture: https://www.pewresearch.org/fa... - 30% of all workers are paid less than $10.10 per hour.
Go to the Home Depot parking lot at 7 AM and try to hire an illegal Mexican for less than $10 per hour. Good luck. Even desperate people know the market value of their labor.
I will never do that, I value the labor. That being said, domestic help is often illegally paid less.
No, they pay what the job is WORTH. Again, not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a family.
No. Every job that requires full-time hours is meant to be able to support family. No ifs ands or buts. Anything else is pure slavery.
And about 'worth' - that's exactly why we have minimal wage, to avoid a never-ending spiral of race to the bottom. After all, there are always desperate people who would work for a dollar a day.
If you don't like your job you go find a better one. If you can't find a better job because (education, training, travel, etc.)? Fix your problem.
Right now about 20% of Americans can't do it, living on a wage that is close to minimal wage. This is basically a disaster in waiting.
An employer is never obligated to fix your life problems for you.
Nope. They just must pay a living wage. If they can't do it, then they go out of the business. End of the story.
That is completely ridiculous. It means that if I choose for my job to play the guitar in the park or throw rocks in the pond, I am entitled to a 'living wage' for my work.
Incorrect. If somebody hires you to play guitar in the park or throw rocks in the pond, then that person must pay you a living wage.
Not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a household from....
Nope. If you work a job full time then you deserve to be able to live off of it. Anything else is slavery.
Dude, I spent a lot of time filling out tax forms for VAT. Merchants do NOT recover VAT during sales, they "recover" it when they make _purchases_.
VAT is paid by merchants. It's just a form of the sales tax and it works just fine with cash.
I can run my code from University days in the newest Linux. Heck, Linux still supports a.out binaries from 92!
But the alternative is not global cooling, isn't it? Even if we somehow return to pre-Industrial concentration of CO2, the ice age won't come until the next glaciation cycle several thousand years in future.
On the other hand, unchecked CO2 emissions will result in a plethora of changes, most of them will be bad and/or require very costly mitigation. Like abandoning coastal cities (Miami, Houston, Shanghai,...) and even whole countries (Bangladesh).
There's lots of land today where humans can't survive without some serious cold weather gear.
Except that this gear is quite literally stone-age technology. Air conditioning is 20-th century technology. It also won't make near-polar areas especially better, as you still have to design with worst-case scenario in mind.
But a few degrees of warming won't make an area deadly if it's not borderline now, as highlighted by your links.
It will. A 34C wet-bulb temperature is hard non-survivable and it takes just one non-survivable event to kill a human. And around 2 billion people will live in these borderline areas by the middle of the century.
But if we're talking about end state, not migration, the question is "will there be more nice land than before". Obviously site puching a political agenda will point to all the places that become less livable, not the places that become more livable.
As far as I know, the current answer is "no".
But all of that is vastly better than a return of the glaciation that's been normal for the past 10 million years.
Technically we're still in the ice age (since Antarctica is glaciated) that has begun 34 million years ago. I'm also not sure it would be that much worse.
BTW, what part of a Warm Earth makes this "not a nice planet to live on". More plant life, more arable land, basically the current tropics as year-round weather everywhere. Seems quite nice to me.
One of the predicted outcomes of the global warming are non-survivable areas. Right now a healthy human with access to shade and sufficient water can survive natural heat anywhere on the Earth. If the climate warms some more, there'll be regions where humans can't phsyicaly survive without air conditioning.
The predicted locations will be in India and Asia - the opposite of what you'd call "Western countries". See: https://insideclimatenews.org/... or http://climateguide.nl/2018/12...
Oh, and Texas is predicted to be affected too.
Apparently sniffing for explosives is very tiring for dogs. They probably have to concentrate hard to find a faint smell in all of the olfactory mess that is the airport security line. So they can’t do that for long periods of time and you need quite a few dogs to replace one checkpoint.
Laptops? Why bother? Just use vacuum-insulated bottles and fill the vacuum with explosives. You’ll also get nice shrapnel out of it for free.
We generally find weak and statistically insignificant relationships between monthly, seasonally or annually averaged T max and urban fraction (Figure 3). When T max is averaged annually, the linear relationship between this and urban fraction is insignificant (at a 97.7% confidence level) at 0.25±0.42 K. The strongest relationships are observed in the winter months with December having an urbanisation effect of 0.67±0.34 K.
How much are you being paid to spread lies?
On the other hand, QUIC was carefully designed with all the past experience of network protocol failures. So it tries very hard to avoid even the possibility of ossification.
TCP is bad because it's basically set in stone. It's not possible to change a single bit in the TCP/IP spec without breaking untold millions of badly designed middleboxes.
Except that it doesn't. Suppose that you have a 100W bulb, that is used for 4 hours a day. That's 146 kW*hr a year or $21 at 0.15 cents per kW*hr average US electricity cost. Even if you are using a pretty dim 50W bulb for 1 hour a day that's still around $3 a year.
So you prefer to pay that 20 bucks a year in electricity cost?
Once the illegal votes where removed from the record, it is clear that Trump won the popular vote too.
Actually, removing illegal votes would move Trump even more into the hole. Fun fact, the ONLY proven voter fraud occurred in support of Trump: https://www.charlotteobserver....
Why all the hate? I quite liked Clippy, it was adding a humanizing touch to the document editing. And I remember it being useful when I was starting to use MS Office.
AWS is a business, so it wants to get some profit. Theoretically, if you run your own datacenter you can run it cheaper because you don't treat it as a profit center. That being said, these days it'll probably require company size that is great than that of Lyft.
And this is even without getting into data locality and resilience.
The police had evidence (from WF) so they got a warrant from a judge and arrested the pastor. They just chose to disbelieve the pastor's version of events.