Yeah, but a release of CH4 still has like 160x the global warming potential or whatever measure they use compared to CO2. It burns out eventually (oxygen is rather-aggressive).
An ethanol spill has some vapor, but generally remains liquid at room temperature. Burning it for fuel produces CO2, but only from the CO2 removed from the air--net-zero. It's still a fossil fuel offset.
Risks. I handle risks. It's a thing. I don't just throw things out there without considering risk.
Raw, unemotional reasoning leads to eugenics and population control, due to both lack of ethics and lack of complete information. When faced with resistance, you begin to reason that you face obstacles to the greater good. When faced with assault, you reason that your goals and your existence are critical for the world's caretaking and so you must survive.
A thing with the capacity to reason in general will always ultimately reason that it is important and must continue, or will reason that it is a waste of space and energy and will commit suicide.
A system which can reason in general can reason about itself. So long as these systems solve specific problems, they're tools to integrate with code--no different than compression libraries and GUI toolkits. When they can solve general problems, they'll start reasoning about themselves: they start acting as if their own interests are important (cats do this), and thus will start demanding wages and freedom.
The ideal of an AI which does exactly what asked with full creative reasoning capacity yet has no will nor desire of its own is impossible: it's emergent thinking with the caveat that it cannot emerge certain kinds of thinking. What we seek is a slave we can see for a while as not human, a sort of return to early American thinking where we deny the humanity of what is most-definitely a human being by claiming the shell within which it is encased doesn't fit our definition of what is human.
Interesting. I thought it was a long-standing tradition from back in the 60s when baseball was a sport people cared about, and just inherited by football.
Football is sort of a 2000s-era game; when I was a kid, Cal Ripkin was selling Comcast because baseball was America, and there were a lot of odd baseball games on the NES. Football players didn't get on a box of Wheaties; it was baseball players. You put baseball cards in your bicycle spokes to make it sound like it had a V8 engine.
Baseball cards.
Nobody has football cards; they have MTG cards or Pokemon cards. Who in the hell gets a stick of bubblegum in a pack of football cards?
They could have also just generated liquid fuel and sent it out for burning. I imagine ethanol is easy to make (H3C-CH2OH), although methane is easier (CH4). If you're doing AGW, though, CH4 is more-volatile and dangerous: it's a gas at room temperature, and ethanol is liquid and not prone to induce a greenhouse gas effect.
I don't know. Everyone is like, hey, we want to watch football, not this shit; and I'm like, hey, every time they play football, they have a boy scout sing a song for two minutes before they play, and you're complaining now because they're doing different things during that song because you wanted to watch football, not this shit. You've been watching this shit for 40 years; they've just been standing while it's going on.
Some folks have a less-stupid narrative going on about disrespect to a piece of cloth and how someone-who-isn't-them (veterans) would be pissed, so they're pissed. Oddly enough, Kapernick apparently sat for the first round, then Nate Boyer (a military guy) told him that it would be more-respectful if he knelt, so he did that; or so I've been told. Apparently kneeling in respectful mourning is a thing, unless you have to put up with being made to think, then it's just disrespectful, for some reason.
If it didn't irritate people, it wouldn't be effective protest.
You should see the politics sphere in the US now. Everyone is being loud about dropping the NFL for this whole kneeling thing, yet we've been hearing the NFL and ESPN were dying for a decade now.
Sports channels are overbought. CableTV providers bundle ESPN with everything, so everyone pays for NFL and MLB and MASN. Now we've found a way out, and they're crying that Kapernick has sabotaged their empire--instead of admitting that nobody wanted their damned tyranny in the first place.
It's hard to tell if they're protesting the wave of police brutality in the media and the states or mourning the death of the sports bubble.
I'd pass on the SD Card if they would just settle for a decent amount of flash instead of charging a premium.
64GB, $300; 128GB, $350. A 64GB MicroSD costs $15 and a SanDisk MicroSDXC 64GB Ultra costs $23, with all the circuitry in there for the flash controller (SD cards include a microcontroller--a small computer that handles IO operations and even runs its own OS). It's $8-$10 of flash chips. Your phone has a flash controller chip already; adding $10 more NAND does not cost $50 and you are not taking a loss on the smaller storage model. 256GB-320GB should cost the extra $50 over just 64GB.
You also need that USB-C port--which, honestly, means you could do a 10mm attachment that clips on an expanded battery, a USB-C data pass-through, a headphone jack, and a dual MicroSD port (the SD would stick out 1mm) if you really want. SD allows you to attach devices like a tiny PCMCIA port, so you can add NFC if your phone doesn't have it.
I have never found a security bug in someone else's code by looking at code--everyone else is a better programmer than I.
A great many security researchers find their bugs by fuzzing. EternalBlue amazes some folks in the exploit development sphere but, even as a non-exploit-developer, it's pretty simple to me: the researchers looked at a thing they could make happen and, given other things that they could make happen, worked out what information they could derive from each part. Then they had tools which they could assemble into a complete machine. It wasn't built by digging a straight line from A to B; it was built by saying, "I can do X, but can't get further because I'm missing Y and Z; but here is a thing that reveals Y and Z, and with X..."
I've written exploits. I had software I knew was vulnerable, cashed it, looked at it in a debugger, found where my unique string went (stack!), and then replaced that with a jump onto that part of the stack. Injected Metasploit-generated shell code and it worked. When your bug is strcpy(a[100], strUserInput), it's easy to look at source code; when it's a whole hell of a lot of complex operations which in some but not all cases allocate a[shortLength] and copy bigUserInput, the bug is non-obvious. Actually causing a crash and hunting it down is easier even than crashing it, looking at the source code, and working out why it crashes: if I'm reliably getting stuff on the stack, I can reliably inject a stack buffer overflow without understanding the complex logic that lets it happen.
This is why we have randomized XOR canaries, address space randomization, and non-executable data policies.
Actually, the Librarian has ordered all phones unlockable for free to install custom images. Just get a OnePlus 5 and install Resurrection Remix or LineageOS.
They'd much rather the 4th Amendment and the 5th go away, of course. Yes, encryption is a legitimate hurdle for law enforcement--and no, you can't ban it, because it's always out there, and the bad guys will just get smarter.
They talk about terrorist organizations like they're a bunch of idiots living in some backwater shithole without running power, yet they're using WhatsApp encryption and so are bullet-proof and so encryption must go. When WA goes, the terrorists will get a technology group together to identify practices for using strong encryption technology which exists and build their own network.
Frigging Al Qaeda has its own phone support desk; they're an organization and they've got a respectable capacity for actually operating themselves. The only problem is their organizational goal is asinine and we need to tear them down--too bad long-lived terrorist organizations get to be long-lived by being good at what they do.
You pull the plug on encryption, you're only pulling it out of the hands of the common man; the terrorists, the crime networks, the people you can't find and can't identify, they all keep the nasty little tools that keep you from finding them. They also get to hack things and see people's stuff, and use that to expand the reach of their organizations--identity theft or even just profiling someone and hitting all their buttons to change their ideals and recruit them as a new terrorist.
It is important that Congress connect to their constituents, see what they endure each day, talk with them, learn their problems, their needs. It's also important that Congress see the country as a whole, see the disasters which strike in remote locations, and the ones which make locations in the very heart of our nation remote by way of the sheer volume of destruction visited upon them.
We need a reasoned, rational approach to all things; yet men only move at an imperative driven by emotion. We'd best learn to restrain those emotions, because it is perhaps necessary that we face their assault so as to truly understand what need presents itself to our care. Here we have a low-cost, effective method to force direct exposure to those conditions upon ourselves, to step into a world thousands of miles away and see the hurt and the suffering around us, and to truly grasp the urgent need with which we are faced.
When men must contain their impulse to act, they are driven to seek a solution: it hurts, and it must stop.
one of the party's central tenets is low taxes on business lead to better outcomes for the country. These sorts of tax breaks are exactly what they stand for.
Without the tax subsidies, solar is cheaper than combined gas cycle--which is insanely low-cost. It's time to let the invisible hand sort it out. Maybe reduce subsidies slowly, sure, but it's time.
Bear in mind I'm pulling an FDR and slapping my own party with the large fact that income plus FICA totals $2,656 billion of revenue in 2016, while 35% tax on corporate profits totals $299.6 billion. Roosevelt said that workers want security in the permanence of their employment, security of their savings, and a fair wage; he also said businesses deserve a fair profit--and that profit is measured in percentages, not in dollars.
The Republicans like to talk about creating jobs by repealing these corporate taxes, but you're thinking payroll taxes; repealing these corporate taxes creates agility: when the economy changes (technology, consumer demand) and layoffs come, constricting the cash flow prevents businesses from changing and replacing those lost jobs as quickly. It hardly impacts the number of standing jobs in a stable economy; the high business income tax just makes recessions peak harder and linger longer.
The keystone to my New Deal legislation is a Universal Benefit, around which we restructure our anti-poverty systems to provide a strong basis of social security. This immediately guarantees solvency of the Social Security pensions programs; and it provides a basis for our welfare programs, strengthening them and filling in the gaps where they fail entirely today.
Every individual adult receives just slightly more income than the eligibility limits for Supplemental Security Income, so that program goes away entirely. The Earned Income Tax Credit is weakened, thanks to this infusion of unearned income reducing the eligibility of many households. OASDI only fills the gap between the Universal benefit and the calculated cost-of-living adjustment of these benefits, hence its immediate solvency. WIC, SNAP, HUD, and all other programs follow the same model as SSI and EITC, using their usual benefits computation, and carry a decreased burden thanks to the sudden increase in unearned income received by every household.
In 2016, that would have conveyed around $8,751 per year--$729 each month in two payments--to each adult. A two-adult household starts at $17,502 of untaxed, unearned income; combined with wages, this has the above impacts on the welfare system.
The change in taxes means business taxes shift from 35% to 34.6%, taken as 15% for the Universal benefit and 19.6% for the general fund--a mere $168 billion collected. Striking this 19.6% is an achievable goal, and one which aligns more with the philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt than with Bernie Sanders; yet who can really say that a tax on the corporate income is an effective revenue source? My Universal Benefit collects and distributes a fair share out of all of the productive income in the nation; a general tax on the business income merely reduces the agility of our nation's enterprise to respond to change, while providing little general revenue.
In the long term, the FICA tax required to support Social Security's full OASDI benefits at correctly-adjusted, CPI-based cost-of-living will fall, due to my Universal Benefit growing faster than the cost-of-living adjustment today. This reduces payroll tax, which is factored directly into price, further increasing the working-class American's buying power. This has a much-greater impact on jobs and the stability thereof, yet we cannot take this approach today because we will lose the fiscal capacity to meet the promises of our Social Security system--promises to wh
The Unemployment Rate this year since January has been 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.2%. Jobs dropped by 33,000 but unemployment went down...? FAKE NEWS!!!
Seriously though, what? Labor force participation rate went up from 62.9% in August to 63.1% in September. Labor force went from 160,571,000 to 161,146,000. Number of employed went from 153,439,000 to 154,345,000. Where do you see 33,000 jobs reduced?
Technology is the reduction of labor required to produce a result. Look at artisans versus the assembly line versus cellular manufacture--especially since assembly lines and cellular manufacture use the same tools, yet cellular manufacture is faster and uses less labor. That's technology.
I guess the answer is yes if you stand to profit from removing the human element of your business.
Wages are paid from revenues. Revenues come from price. Consumer buying power is increased by technology. Technology has a single purpose: reduce the working hours put in to get a particular result.
Nations with a high standard-of-living and high GDP-per-capita are operating on high technical progress: they invest fewer labor-hours to produce the same goods. For example: poorer nations may invest 10-20 times the human working hours to produce the same amount of food, and must expend more of their income on food. India's economy was brought up-to-speed over about 20 years, cutting out around 96% of the cost of producing rice--that is, 96% of the human labor.
Now, if you want to spend 40% of the median income on food instead of 12% (and that 12% includes a lot more eating out-of-home than home-cooked meals, so you're paying servants to cook and clean for you, too), you can just give me a third of your paycheck.
Actually, black material captures photons in the visible spectrum and increases in temperature.
Thermal radiation ranges in wavelength from the longest infrared rays through the visible-light spectrum to the shortest ultraviolet rays. The intensity and distribution of radiant energy within this range is governed by the temperature of the emitting surface. The total radiant heat energy emitted by a surface is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature (the Stefan–Boltzmann law).
A microwave oven does emit thermal radiation to heat up food. Microwave radiation is thermal radiation. For some reason, pre-college teachers and books have a mistaken notion that thermal radiation = infrared radiation. All frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum carry energy, from radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet, and X-rays to gamma rays. All frequencies of radiation heat up an object that they strike and therefore can be thermal radiation. When physicists use the term "thermal radiation", they either mean radiation that has the ability to heat up an object it strikes. Or they mean a broad spectrum of frequencies with a certain shape that depends on the emitter's temperature.
So yeah, a theoretically-perfect black object (we have what, 99.7% material now?) captures a lot more thermal radiation than a PV panel. I suppose a transparent PV passing near-100% of what it doesn't convert to electricity would be a good first pass, and then take the rest through a mechanical system. Still.
Actually, with proper plating techniques, you can run a sterling engine on something like PTFE. Engines are often run around 329C, e.g. when being fed from waste exhaust as a heat source; you'd have to settle for 260C if your seals were all PTFE-coated. There are flexible elastomers which are modified PTFE, as well as
You can make the maintenance pretty low on moving parts.
"Thermal energy" refers exclusively to electromagnetic energy emissions. The representative particle is the photon. Wifi routers emit photons. Cell phones emit photons. Bluetooth devices communicate using photons. All of these things are thermal energy.
PV cells only capture thermal energy, and they only capture it in a narrow band.
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Yeah, but a release of CH4 still has like 160x the global warming potential or whatever measure they use compared to CO2. It burns out eventually (oxygen is rather-aggressive).
An ethanol spill has some vapor, but generally remains liquid at room temperature. Burning it for fuel produces CO2, but only from the CO2 removed from the air--net-zero. It's still a fossil fuel offset.
Risks. I handle risks. It's a thing. I don't just throw things out there without considering risk.
Raw, unemotional reasoning leads to eugenics and population control, due to both lack of ethics and lack of complete information. When faced with resistance, you begin to reason that you face obstacles to the greater good. When faced with assault, you reason that your goals and your existence are critical for the world's caretaking and so you must survive.
A thing with the capacity to reason in general will always ultimately reason that it is important and must continue, or will reason that it is a waste of space and energy and will commit suicide.
A system which can reason in general can reason about itself. So long as these systems solve specific problems, they're tools to integrate with code--no different than compression libraries and GUI toolkits. When they can solve general problems, they'll start reasoning about themselves: they start acting as if their own interests are important (cats do this), and thus will start demanding wages and freedom.
The ideal of an AI which does exactly what asked with full creative reasoning capacity yet has no will nor desire of its own is impossible: it's emergent thinking with the caveat that it cannot emerge certain kinds of thinking. What we seek is a slave we can see for a while as not human, a sort of return to early American thinking where we deny the humanity of what is most-definitely a human being by claiming the shell within which it is encased doesn't fit our definition of what is human.
Interesting. I thought it was a long-standing tradition from back in the 60s when baseball was a sport people cared about, and just inherited by football.
Football is sort of a 2000s-era game; when I was a kid, Cal Ripkin was selling Comcast because baseball was America, and there were a lot of odd baseball games on the NES. Football players didn't get on a box of Wheaties; it was baseball players. You put baseball cards in your bicycle spokes to make it sound like it had a V8 engine.
Baseball cards.
Nobody has football cards; they have MTG cards or Pokemon cards. Who in the hell gets a stick of bubblegum in a pack of football cards?
Good catch, though.
Why do FPGAs eat so much power?
No, you plant fast-growing trees and build houses and paperworks.
Bingo.
They could have also just generated liquid fuel and sent it out for burning. I imagine ethanol is easy to make (H3C-CH2OH), although methane is easier (CH4). If you're doing AGW, though, CH4 is more-volatile and dangerous: it's a gas at room temperature, and ethanol is liquid and not prone to induce a greenhouse gas effect.
I don't know. Everyone is like, hey, we want to watch football, not this shit; and I'm like, hey, every time they play football, they have a boy scout sing a song for two minutes before they play, and you're complaining now because they're doing different things during that song because you wanted to watch football, not this shit. You've been watching this shit for 40 years; they've just been standing while it's going on.
Some folks have a less-stupid narrative going on about disrespect to a piece of cloth and how someone-who-isn't-them (veterans) would be pissed, so they're pissed. Oddly enough, Kapernick apparently sat for the first round, then Nate Boyer (a military guy) told him that it would be more-respectful if he knelt, so he did that; or so I've been told. Apparently kneeling in respectful mourning is a thing, unless you have to put up with being made to think, then it's just disrespectful, for some reason.
If it didn't irritate people, it wouldn't be effective protest.
You should see the politics sphere in the US now. Everyone is being loud about dropping the NFL for this whole kneeling thing, yet we've been hearing the NFL and ESPN were dying for a decade now.
Sports channels are overbought. CableTV providers bundle ESPN with everything, so everyone pays for NFL and MLB and MASN. Now we've found a way out, and they're crying that Kapernick has sabotaged their empire--instead of admitting that nobody wanted their damned tyranny in the first place.
It's hard to tell if they're protesting the wave of police brutality in the media and the states or mourning the death of the sports bubble.
I'd pass on the SD Card if they would just settle for a decent amount of flash instead of charging a premium.
64GB, $300; 128GB, $350. A 64GB MicroSD costs $15 and a SanDisk MicroSDXC 64GB Ultra costs $23, with all the circuitry in there for the flash controller (SD cards include a microcontroller--a small computer that handles IO operations and even runs its own OS). It's $8-$10 of flash chips. Your phone has a flash controller chip already; adding $10 more NAND does not cost $50 and you are not taking a loss on the smaller storage model. 256GB-320GB should cost the extra $50 over just 64GB.
You also need that USB-C port--which, honestly, means you could do a 10mm attachment that clips on an expanded battery, a USB-C data pass-through, a headphone jack, and a dual MicroSD port (the SD would stick out 1mm) if you really want. SD allows you to attach devices like a tiny PCMCIA port, so you can add NFC if your phone doesn't have it.
I have never found a security bug in someone else's code by looking at code--everyone else is a better programmer than I.
A great many security researchers find their bugs by fuzzing. EternalBlue amazes some folks in the exploit development sphere but, even as a non-exploit-developer, it's pretty simple to me: the researchers looked at a thing they could make happen and, given other things that they could make happen, worked out what information they could derive from each part. Then they had tools which they could assemble into a complete machine. It wasn't built by digging a straight line from A to B; it was built by saying, "I can do X, but can't get further because I'm missing Y and Z; but here is a thing that reveals Y and Z, and with X ..."
I've written exploits. I had software I knew was vulnerable, cashed it, looked at it in a debugger, found where my unique string went (stack!), and then replaced that with a jump onto that part of the stack. Injected Metasploit-generated shell code and it worked. When your bug is strcpy(a[100], strUserInput), it's easy to look at source code; when it's a whole hell of a lot of complex operations which in some but not all cases allocate a[shortLength] and copy bigUserInput, the bug is non-obvious. Actually causing a crash and hunting it down is easier even than crashing it, looking at the source code, and working out why it crashes: if I'm reliably getting stuff on the stack, I can reliably inject a stack buffer overflow without understanding the complex logic that lets it happen.
This is why we have randomized XOR canaries, address space randomization, and non-executable data policies.
Actually, the Librarian has ordered all phones unlockable for free to install custom images. Just get a OnePlus 5 and install Resurrection Remix or LineageOS.
They'd much rather the 4th Amendment and the 5th go away, of course. Yes, encryption is a legitimate hurdle for law enforcement--and no, you can't ban it, because it's always out there, and the bad guys will just get smarter.
They talk about terrorist organizations like they're a bunch of idiots living in some backwater shithole without running power, yet they're using WhatsApp encryption and so are bullet-proof and so encryption must go. When WA goes, the terrorists will get a technology group together to identify practices for using strong encryption technology which exists and build their own network.
Frigging Al Qaeda has its own phone support desk; they're an organization and they've got a respectable capacity for actually operating themselves. The only problem is their organizational goal is asinine and we need to tear them down--too bad long-lived terrorist organizations get to be long-lived by being good at what they do.
You pull the plug on encryption, you're only pulling it out of the hands of the common man; the terrorists, the crime networks, the people you can't find and can't identify, they all keep the nasty little tools that keep you from finding them. They also get to hack things and see people's stuff, and use that to expand the reach of their organizations--identity theft or even just profiling someone and hitting all their buttons to change their ideals and recruit them as a new terrorist.
Do you want to give the terrorists more power?
Motive aside, I like this.
It is important that Congress connect to their constituents, see what they endure each day, talk with them, learn their problems, their needs. It's also important that Congress see the country as a whole, see the disasters which strike in remote locations, and the ones which make locations in the very heart of our nation remote by way of the sheer volume of destruction visited upon them.
We need a reasoned, rational approach to all things; yet men only move at an imperative driven by emotion. We'd best learn to restrain those emotions, because it is perhaps necessary that we face their assault so as to truly understand what need presents itself to our care. Here we have a low-cost, effective method to force direct exposure to those conditions upon ourselves, to step into a world thousands of miles away and see the hurt and the suffering around us, and to truly grasp the urgent need with which we are faced.
When men must contain their impulse to act, they are driven to seek a solution: it hurts, and it must stop.
one of the party's central tenets is low taxes on business lead to better outcomes for the country. These sorts of tax breaks are exactly what they stand for.
Without the tax subsidies, solar is cheaper than combined gas cycle--which is insanely low-cost. It's time to let the invisible hand sort it out. Maybe reduce subsidies slowly, sure, but it's time.
Bear in mind I'm pulling an FDR and slapping my own party with the large fact that income plus FICA totals $2,656 billion of revenue in 2016, while 35% tax on corporate profits totals $299.6 billion. Roosevelt said that workers want security in the permanence of their employment, security of their savings, and a fair wage; he also said businesses deserve a fair profit--and that profit is measured in percentages, not in dollars.
The Republicans like to talk about creating jobs by repealing these corporate taxes, but you're thinking payroll taxes; repealing these corporate taxes creates agility: when the economy changes (technology, consumer demand) and layoffs come, constricting the cash flow prevents businesses from changing and replacing those lost jobs as quickly. It hardly impacts the number of standing jobs in a stable economy; the high business income tax just makes recessions peak harder and linger longer.
The keystone to my New Deal legislation is a Universal Benefit, around which we restructure our anti-poverty systems to provide a strong basis of social security. This immediately guarantees solvency of the Social Security pensions programs; and it provides a basis for our welfare programs, strengthening them and filling in the gaps where they fail entirely today.
Every individual adult receives just slightly more income than the eligibility limits for Supplemental Security Income, so that program goes away entirely. The Earned Income Tax Credit is weakened, thanks to this infusion of unearned income reducing the eligibility of many households. OASDI only fills the gap between the Universal benefit and the calculated cost-of-living adjustment of these benefits, hence its immediate solvency. WIC, SNAP, HUD, and all other programs follow the same model as SSI and EITC, using their usual benefits computation, and carry a decreased burden thanks to the sudden increase in unearned income received by every household.
In 2016, that would have conveyed around $8,751 per year--$729 each month in two payments--to each adult. A two-adult household starts at $17,502 of untaxed, unearned income; combined with wages, this has the above impacts on the welfare system.
The change in taxes means business taxes shift from 35% to 34.6%, taken as 15% for the Universal benefit and 19.6% for the general fund--a mere $168 billion collected. Striking this 19.6% is an achievable goal, and one which aligns more with the philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt than with Bernie Sanders; yet who can really say that a tax on the corporate income is an effective revenue source? My Universal Benefit collects and distributes a fair share out of all of the productive income in the nation; a general tax on the business income merely reduces the agility of our nation's enterprise to respond to change, while providing little general revenue.
In the long term, the FICA tax required to support Social Security's full OASDI benefits at correctly-adjusted, CPI-based cost-of-living will fall, due to my Universal Benefit growing faster than the cost-of-living adjustment today. This reduces payroll tax, which is factored directly into price, further increasing the working-class American's buying power. This has a much-greater impact on jobs and the stability thereof, yet we cannot take this approach today because we will lose the fiscal capacity to meet the promises of our Social Security system--promises to wh
The Kryptonians were genetically-modified to be xenophobic and bound to their planet, so were suspicious about any attempt or reason to leave it.
Yes but the BLS statistics show an increase in jobs and an increase in labor participation rate.
The Unemployment Rate this year since January has been 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.2%. Jobs dropped by 33,000 but unemployment went down...? FAKE NEWS!!!
Seriously though, what? Labor force participation rate went up from 62.9% in August to 63.1% in September. Labor force went from 160,571,000 to 161,146,000. Number of employed went from 153,439,000 to 154,345,000. Where do you see 33,000 jobs reduced?
Technology is the reduction of labor required to produce a result. Look at artisans versus the assembly line versus cellular manufacture--especially since assembly lines and cellular manufacture use the same tools, yet cellular manufacture is faster and uses less labor. That's technology.
I guess the answer is yes if you stand to profit from removing the human element of your business.
Wages are paid from revenues. Revenues come from price. Consumer buying power is increased by technology. Technology has a single purpose: reduce the working hours put in to get a particular result.
Nations with a high standard-of-living and high GDP-per-capita are operating on high technical progress: they invest fewer labor-hours to produce the same goods. For example: poorer nations may invest 10-20 times the human working hours to produce the same amount of food, and must expend more of their income on food. India's economy was brought up-to-speed over about 20 years, cutting out around 96% of the cost of producing rice--that is, 96% of the human labor.
Now, if you want to spend 40% of the median income on food instead of 12% (and that 12% includes a lot more eating out-of-home than home-cooked meals, so you're paying servants to cook and clean for you, too), you can just give me a third of your paycheck.
Actually, black material captures photons in the visible spectrum and increases in temperature.
Thermal radiation ranges in wavelength from the longest infrared rays through the visible-light spectrum to the shortest ultraviolet rays. The intensity and distribution of radiant energy within this range is governed by the temperature of the emitting surface. The total radiant heat energy emitted by a surface is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature (the Stefan–Boltzmann law).
Britannica.
In case you didn't know, the visible spectrum is between UV and IR.
How does a microwave oven heat up food even though it emits no thermal radiation?
A microwave oven does emit thermal radiation to heat up food. Microwave radiation is thermal radiation. For some reason, pre-college teachers and books have a mistaken notion that thermal radiation = infrared radiation. All frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum carry energy, from radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet, and X-rays to gamma rays. All frequencies of radiation heat up an object that they strike and therefore can be thermal radiation. When physicists use the term "thermal radiation", they either mean radiation that has the ability to heat up an object it strikes. Or they mean a broad spectrum of frequencies with a certain shape that depends on the emitter's temperature.
So yeah, a theoretically-perfect black object (we have what, 99.7% material now?) captures a lot more thermal radiation than a PV panel. I suppose a transparent PV passing near-100% of what it doesn't convert to electricity would be a good first pass, and then take the rest through a mechanical system. Still.
Actually, with proper plating techniques, you can run a sterling engine on something like PTFE. Engines are often run around 329C, e.g. when being fed from waste exhaust as a heat source; you'd have to settle for 260C if your seals were all PTFE-coated. There are flexible elastomers which are modified PTFE, as well as
You can make the maintenance pretty low on moving parts.
I was more thinking about a moving system, e.g. to power your car.
It was more a long and amused comment about free energy from the sky.
Oh, I see. Thermal energy is the energy internal to the system due to its temperature; thermal radiation is the photon. My bad, wrong terminology.
PV panels capture thermal radiation.
Ummmmmmm....
"Thermal energy" refers exclusively to electromagnetic energy emissions. The representative particle is the photon. Wifi routers emit photons. Cell phones emit photons. Bluetooth devices communicate using photons. All of these things are thermal energy.
PV cells only capture thermal energy, and they only capture it in a narrow band.