..with it's throttle stuck wide open.
For fucks' sake, I fully understand that China is so corrupt and screwing us (and other countries) over, in more than just trade (militarily, human rights [comma, lack of], and so on, and so on) but there's got to be a better way to handle this than this.
Any ideas? We've tried the WTO many times and that went pretty much nowhere. It's hard to counteract a country that is stealing IP rampantly. Doing it right back to them wouldn't be that useful. Putting in place restrictions on how much a Chinese company can own of a US subsidiary would hurt the US economy without affecting China much. The WTO is basically toothless, the only recourse they can provide is allowing the victim country to put up tariffs or subsidizing the affected industry, neither of which really hurts the aggressor country much. And the US is now doing both of these.
Recent nontraditional actions, such as the ZTE ban, have real teeth and get China's attention. I'm strongly in favor of these sorts of actions against patent violators.
I think the jury is still out on the broad tariffs that were imposed. We're still working through the "order more now before the tariffs take effect!" period on a lot of products. Next year will be when we start to see actual effects.
I have a Lexus CT, aka the Prius Deluxe. It isn't terribly fast. . I thought the CVT would be a downer, but it is very responsive and the electric motor makes a sound similar to a turbocharger during hard accelerations. Cornering is tight and the car has boatloads of grip. It's one of the more fun cars I have owned, despite getting a big "meh" from most auto critics.
In the power industry, under rate base (power industry jargon for 'cost plus %') the expression was: 'We can make a profit remodelling the executive offices.' So they did, every year or two, at great expense.
I haven't heard that one in a while.
When I was building plants the experession was "We'll give them the plant for nothing and make a killing on the change orders..."
I was in a group that sold turbines, and that was not the intent when we sold them. Power plant bidding is very competitive most of the time. We frequently bid projects at between 0 and 5% margin just to have something to keep people busy.
Change orders do tend to rack up cost, but that is generally due to issues with project management of either the prime or a subcontractor. One delay can quickly cascade through the entire project. Good project management is hard.
I hate both parties. Both parties suffer from personality worship disorder. Some one needs to invent slime-antivirus to clean out DC.
The only hope I see at this point is for each state to overhaul their election system. Ranked choice, Approval-type voting, proportional systems, etc would help to make 3rd parties more viable.
Or maybe 2400G to fit in a tiny case. Some decent onboard vega punch and just say no to Apple's external GPU, what a bad idea.
External GPUs are a fantastic idea. Reduce the number of configurations of the computer (reducing costs), and allows you sell another accessory at good margin (increasing revenue). You're just looking from the wrong perspective.
Each step up also came with a lot of extra work (think getting into an Ivy is easy and that no personality traits that would be helpful in the long run were present?).
So your âimpliedâ(TM) comment is made up and not based on any real data.
Wealth helps out with that too. Private tutors, the benefit of having accessible successful role models, the means to have kids shuffled from one after-school activity to another, even personality coaches. Even if the parents aren't good parents, the kid is probably surrounded by people whose job it is to help them be successful. The wealthy have a huge leg up on getting into top schools.
Google must have a big boner over this. They love bringing communist tyranny to America:
I'm sure it will be abused, but a benign use of this is for visual avatars for Alexa, Google assistant, Cortana, Siri, etc. You will probably be able to choose between visual likenesses to suit your personal tastes. It may not be this year, or the next, but someone is going to do it eventually. The tech seems "good enough" to deploy at this point. The only problem remaining to solve is that the big companies will want to keep the rendering cloud-based to keep the most valuable IP off consumer devices. 5G may make it more viable, at least in places where mobile data is unlimited.
plastic seats at the bus station with a TV built in and 25 cents for 30 minutes. That's $5.00 an hour today. Cable/Satellite are good deals. Subscribe TO-DAY for all you can eat and be one of the beautiful people.
I remember seeing one of those once at a Greyhound station. It looked horribly antiquated when I saw it 20 years ago.
There's those who love to drive, and those who hate driving and hate cars. Guess who there's more of. Yeah. This is why cars are maybe 5% of the cars out there, and the rest are lumbering land-cows called "SUVs" and "Crossovers."
And of those 5%, maybe 1% of those are sports car. What the hell happened? What's with all the land cows?
I've owned small cars, sport sedans, motorcycles, and hatchbacks all my life. I looked down upon large vehicles as unnecessary. Until last month when I started a concrete business and had to trade up for a truck. While I love the cornering of a small car and shuffling through the gears of a manual transmission, it just doesn't make sense in some places. My knee was in constant pain when I had a manual transmission Miata in Houston. If I had gotten into any accident in my CRX I would have probably been killed. All of my vehicles were fine for a single guy or a couple without kids who rented, but beyond that they had some serious drawbacks. And several of the places I have lived had a monopoly on straight, flat roads so driving wasn't particularly fun anyway.
If I'm spending 4 hours a day in a vehicle making sales calls, I want a vehicle that completely isolates me from the road, the traffic, and any other unpleasantness outside. As a bonus, my truck isn't especially high end but it has 400HP and is respectably fast in a straight line.
Current price paid on the energy markets per megawatt-hour: GBP65.36
(Source: https://www.apolloenergy.co.uk... - year ahead electricity price for 2018)
GBP1bn will therefore take 1,000,000,000 / 65.36 =
15,299,877 hours to pay back, at full generative capacity.
15,299,877 hours = 637,495 days = 1,746 years.
So... if this windfarm is able to run at full capacity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until the year 3764, without any further ongoing costs, then it might just pay back the amount it cost to build.
You forgot to divide by the 659 MW, which changes things to a 2.65 year payback at 100% capacity factor. At a more realistic capacity factor, the payback period is probably between 5 and 7 years. That's on par for most power plants. The maintenance will start to really hit at the 8-10 year mark though, and may make continued operation nonviable without subsidies.
The Li-Ion battery prices are following a 7 year half life curve. We are at the cusp 100 $/kWh at pack level magic number right now. Tesla claims it is at 120$/kWh at pack level and below 100$/kWh in cell level. Others are close or ahead. Even at this price, batteries can stabilize the grid and take care of sudden changes in wind or solar generation. It has already saved Southern Australian grid several million dollars in the spot market for electricity. And with some financial engineering and capitalization of revenue streams, solar panel companies are viable in many places where the utility prices are high.
What I'm hearing you say is that companies have been using battery storage for high frequency trading on the energy market, and somehow that is a good thing.
We went for over 100 years without needing grid stabilization on the microsecond scale. It isn't something that is really needed. Electric grids in most developed countries are more than reliable enough. HFT in the energy markets is about as useful as HFT in stock markets- not very much.
I don't know how much time you've spent offshore, but sea spray is highly corrosive and requires constant maintenance to keep things made of metal and carbon fiber and fiberglass from literally falling apart in a matter of a few years.
Got any more off topic strawmen you'd like to eviscerate? Yes they require maintenance. So what? You think coal or gas plants require no maintenance? Those boilers don't magically run without some serious upkeep. Maintenance is a cost for every form of power generation. Nuclear plants have huge maintenance costs. At the end of the day the maintenance is just one factor among many in determining the economic viability. Increased maintenance is (often more than) offset buy not having to buy any fuel stocks.
There's an enormous difference in maintenance. Fossil plants maintenance patterns are usually around 10 days annually, and 21-45 days every other year, in a centralized location with easy personal vehicle and truck access. Offshore wind needs basically continual maintenance due to the large number of machines- once you finish all of them you need to go back to the first one. This is on hundreds of individual towers, possibly hundreds of miles offshore, requiring an enormous offshore crane and extensive shipping logistics to change out parts. Big onshore crawler cranes can cost $50k a day. Big offshore cranes can cost $200k a day.
It's not Amazon's fault the industry is so inefficient. Wages are padded through bonding and other insurances, which give the consumer piece of mind, but drives up the cost of labor by limiting the labor pool. Amazon is essentially replacing the bonding and insurance, thus driving down costs to where they should be.
Fixing shit around the house is something every man in the 50s was just expected to do. It doesn't deserve anything more than $10/hr.
You must be fun at parties. Some companies (usually the large ones) charge astronomical prices for home improvement projects, but if you're wanting to pay $10 an hour for a window or siding installer you are going to get exactly what you pay for.
I have a small business and I pay my concrete finishers $18 an hour, and I have a hard time finding good people even at that rate.
There was a military experiment years ago trying to teach a computer to distinguish between friendly and enemy tanks. They showed it thousands of photos of each, and in the test bed, it was very, very accurate. When used under battlefield conditions, however, it went to hell in a handbasket.
Turned out they hadn't taught it to distinguish between US and Russian tanks, they had taught it to distinguish between high quality photos (used for marketing meetings with Congresscritters for funding), and crappy, grainy Polaroids (which was all they had of the Russian tanks).
They'll learn what you teach them, but what you teach them may not have anything to do with what you want them to learn.
That's a great story and perfectly illustrates the pitfalls of machine learning. I (a mechanical engineer) took a data science class and the main takeaway I got was that machine learning basically fits a curve of predicted behavior based on input variables. The "training" dataset is what you feed it to figure out the curve. Then you test it on a different dataset to make sure it isn't bonkers. Removing or adding one input variable can dramatically change the influence strength or even the sign (+/-) of the other variables in the prediction formula that the process generates. If you have hundreds of input variables it becomes completely impossible for a human to understand all the relationships between the variables in the prediction function. So even if the machine learning software can generated a good predictive function, a human may not be able to understand how that predictive function works if few or none of the input variables are dominant.
I work with SIP and PBX professionally. I can pass anything I want out to my provider, but you can be assured that they know with absolute certainty what DIDs I SHOULD be passing out legitimately.
My provider could stop all spoofed numbers from me before they go out anywhere, and eliminate ~90% of all this scam/spam/spoofing overnight. Providers only need to police their own networks to reduce spoofing and all the crap that comes with it.
Any legitimate need to spoof a number (which are a vanishingly small number) should be documented and legally approved.
There isn't much incentive for providers in India or other countries to do such a thing. Especially if they are on the bribe or all the external calls are going to US numbers. Why would they turn down that business?
If they can't verify it, pass that knowledge along to the user. Smartphones could easily show a trust banner for phone calls like browsers do for web sites. Most people rarely get random calls from outside the country, so it would be an immediate red flag.
I registered a DBA about a month ago. Almost immediately, I have been bombarded by call centers in India who claim to be from Google and will help me upgrade my Google profile. Caller ID always shows spoofed numbers from the US. I run a business, so I have to answer the phone or risk losing a lead. People move around a lot more and a non-local area code doesn't mean they don't live in my area.
They aren't held to the rules of the Do Not Call list, since they are from out of the country. And it is always a different number, so I can't just block the number. If I'm not busy, I try to run them down a rabbit hole of wasted time. But they are reasonably smart about catching my BS and just hang up.
Sure, some very vocal fans make a lot of noise about notches and headphone jacks, myself included, but do they represent the majority?
The number of companies introducing notches and removing headphone jacks suggests that they must be getting some market feedback. Contrary to popular belief they don't all just copy Apple, they do extensive market surveys and testing with potential customers all through the prototype stage.
It sucks but I have a feeling us notch hating headphone jack lovers are in the minority here. Most would prefer a bigger screen, battery and the like.
I can't understand why manufacturers didn't go down to a 2.5mm jack, if they were so concerned about space. A 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapter is very small and can easily stay on your headphone cable, and it allows charging and listening at the same time.
If you want a bit more sun after work, you should just go to work a bit earlier.
Making DST the standard time would mean that much of western Europe would end up using Eastern European Time. Currently France, Spain and the Benelux are using Central European Time, which is one hour off for them, but it's practical because of Germany. But if Germany does the crazy thing and actually moves to Eastern European Time, I think I'd prefer if we just stuck to Western European Time again. With the UK and Portugal, I guess. But using St Petersburg time in Paris is just stupid.
I suspect people's opinions on this may differ depending on where they are at within a given time zone. There is a huge difference between US Central time in Alabama and US Central time in West Texas. And there are plenty of examples of US states that really should be in the neighboring time zones, but aren't because reasons.
And even at the same longitude within a timezone, different latitudes may have very different opinions. At higher lattitudes, sunrise can be extremely early- 4:30AM in some US locations, with a sunset at 8:30PM. If I lived in such a place I would prefer to have an extra hour (or even 2) of light in the evening.
There is. There was a legislation n Poland that tried to end time saving time, and someone pointed out that EU requires all countries to be consistent. So it has to be all-or-nothing from what I know.
There's nothing stopping them from recommending or requiring that businesses shift their operating hours forwards and back in the opposite direction of daylight savings time. It's a little convoluted but the EU can't do diddly about it.
Nothing looks at all like what I saw here. It looks like a tunnel, a boring tunnel constructed by The Boring Company. So allow me to pose a question instead. What makes this short tunnel so worthy of praise?
The tunnel itself is not exciting. But we live in the Golden Era of Marketing and Musk seems to be a marketing master.
First time I've heard "neat" applied to coffee. Pouring it at room temperature seems pretty strange to me, but who am I to play gatekeeper?
I couldn't find a better word (not a native English speaker) to describe coffee without any mixers. "Black coffee" is a tautology because coffee is black by itself, like "black coal" or "black African-American". If you make coffee not black, then it's no longer coffee, hence it shouldn't be counted as drinking coffee.
I hope you are not serious. Does putting butter on a baked potato make it something other than a baked potato? Does adding mustard and bread to a sausage make it something other than a sausage? Adding a garnish or condiment does not change the item of food/drink, unless the amount is so excessive as to become a joke.
How about an external light system by which a car is marked as red, yellow or green based on occupancy ?
If you commute for any length of time in Japan, you quickly learn which cars will be more packed on your route. It generally depends on where the platform stairs/escalators are in the previous busy station, and where they are located at your boarding station. It only took me a couple weeks to figure out. And it doesn't make much difference (other than comfort) anyway. There is always room for one more person, just face away from the train and back in.
Recently a train in Japan departed 20 seconds off its expected time, and it was in the national news, with much hand-wringing.
This is not a joke: it's a real event.
That's actually a bigger deal than you might think, because the train timetables are all set up to give you exactly enough time to change trains. I once took a shinkansen from Tokyo to Fukuoka. There was a 3 minute connection in Kyoto. I was sweating bullets because unlike the frequent subways/short-distance city trains I had used for months, if I missed the connection I would be waiting 2 hours. Turns out that 3 minutes is plenty of time if you walk at a normal or slightly slower than normal pace. It is all planned out to be as efficient as possible.
When I commuted to work, I knew down to the minute when I had to leave my apartment. It sounds bizarre but over time I came to trust that the trains were always on time and the connections were always achievable. 20 seconds late (or early) could make people miss connections and then be late for work.
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..with it's throttle stuck wide open. For fucks' sake, I fully understand that China is so corrupt and screwing us (and other countries) over, in more than just trade (militarily, human rights [comma, lack of], and so on, and so on) but there's got to be a better way to handle this than this.
Any ideas? We've tried the WTO many times and that went pretty much nowhere. It's hard to counteract a country that is stealing IP rampantly. Doing it right back to them wouldn't be that useful. Putting in place restrictions on how much a Chinese company can own of a US subsidiary would hurt the US economy without affecting China much. The WTO is basically toothless, the only recourse they can provide is allowing the victim country to put up tariffs or subsidizing the affected industry, neither of which really hurts the aggressor country much. And the US is now doing both of these.
Recent nontraditional actions, such as the ZTE ban, have real teeth and get China's attention. I'm strongly in favor of these sorts of actions against patent violators.
I think the jury is still out on the broad tariffs that were imposed. We're still working through the "order more now before the tariffs take effect!" period on a lot of products. Next year will be when we start to see actual effects.
Ditto -- but replace "children" with "wife".
I'll be happy to take your wife off your hands for a couple of hours.
But how are you going to entertain her for the other 117 minutes?
I've driven a pius, they suck.
I have a Lexus CT, aka the Prius Deluxe. It isn't terribly fast. . I thought the CVT would be a downer, but it is very responsive and the electric motor makes a sound similar to a turbocharger during hard accelerations. Cornering is tight and the car has boatloads of grip. It's one of the more fun cars I have owned, despite getting a big "meh" from most auto critics.
In the power industry, under rate base (power industry jargon for 'cost plus %') the expression was: 'We can make a profit remodelling the executive offices.' So they did, every year or two, at great expense.
I haven't heard that one in a while.
When I was building plants the experession was "We'll give them the plant for nothing and make a killing on the change orders..."
I was in a group that sold turbines, and that was not the intent when we sold them. Power plant bidding is very competitive most of the time. We frequently bid projects at between 0 and 5% margin just to have something to keep people busy.
Change orders do tend to rack up cost, but that is generally due to issues with project management of either the prime or a subcontractor. One delay can quickly cascade through the entire project. Good project management is hard.
I hate both parties. Both parties suffer from personality worship disorder. Some one needs to invent slime-antivirus to clean out DC.
The only hope I see at this point is for each state to overhaul their election system. Ranked choice, Approval-type voting, proportional systems, etc would help to make 3rd parties more viable.
Or maybe 2400G to fit in a tiny case. Some decent onboard vega punch and just say no to Apple's external GPU, what a bad idea.
External GPUs are a fantastic idea. Reduce the number of configurations of the computer (reducing costs), and allows you sell another accessory at good margin (increasing revenue). You're just looking from the wrong perspective.
Each step up also came with a lot of extra work (think getting into an Ivy is easy and that no personality traits that would be helpful in the long run were present?).
So your âimpliedâ(TM) comment is made up and not based on any real data.
Wealth helps out with that too. Private tutors, the benefit of having accessible successful role models, the means to have kids shuffled from one after-school activity to another, even personality coaches. Even if the parents aren't good parents, the kid is probably surrounded by people whose job it is to help them be successful. The wealthy have a huge leg up on getting into top schools.
Google must have a big boner over this. They love bringing communist tyranny to America:
I'm sure it will be abused, but a benign use of this is for visual avatars for Alexa, Google assistant, Cortana, Siri, etc. You will probably be able to choose between visual likenesses to suit your personal tastes. It may not be this year, or the next, but someone is going to do it eventually. The tech seems "good enough" to deploy at this point. The only problem remaining to solve is that the big companies will want to keep the rendering cloud-based to keep the most valuable IP off consumer devices. 5G may make it more viable, at least in places where mobile data is unlimited.
plastic seats at the bus station with a TV built in and 25 cents for 30 minutes. That's $5.00 an hour today. Cable/Satellite are good deals. Subscribe TO-DAY for all you can eat and be one of the beautiful people.
I remember seeing one of those once at a Greyhound station. It looked horribly antiquated when I saw it 20 years ago.
Especially when there's only one law: Brannigan's Law.
I believe you are neglecting to include an equally and perhaps more important field of law - Bird Law.
There's those who love to drive, and those who hate driving and hate cars. Guess who there's more of. Yeah. This is why cars are maybe 5% of the cars out there, and the rest are lumbering land-cows called "SUVs" and "Crossovers."
And of those 5%, maybe 1% of those are sports car. What the hell happened? What's with all the land cows?
I've owned small cars, sport sedans, motorcycles, and hatchbacks all my life. I looked down upon large vehicles as unnecessary. Until last month when I started a concrete business and had to trade up for a truck. While I love the cornering of a small car and shuffling through the gears of a manual transmission, it just doesn't make sense in some places. My knee was in constant pain when I had a manual transmission Miata in Houston. If I had gotten into any accident in my CRX I would have probably been killed. All of my vehicles were fine for a single guy or a couple without kids who rented, but beyond that they had some serious drawbacks. And several of the places I have lived had a monopoly on straight, flat roads so driving wasn't particularly fun anyway.
If I'm spending 4 hours a day in a vehicle making sales calls, I want a vehicle that completely isolates me from the road, the traffic, and any other unpleasantness outside. As a bonus, my truck isn't especially high end but it has 400HP and is respectably fast in a straight line.
Found it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
And my comment:
A GBP1bn wind-farm.
"It can generate 659 megawatts"
Current price paid on the energy markets per megawatt-hour: GBP65.36 (Source: https://www.apolloenergy.co.uk... - year ahead electricity price for 2018)
GBP1bn will therefore take 1,000,000,000 / 65.36 =
15,299,877 hours to pay back, at full generative capacity. 15,299,877 hours = 637,495 days = 1,746 years.
So... if this windfarm is able to run at full capacity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until the year 3764, without any further ongoing costs, then it might just pay back the amount it cost to build.
You forgot to divide by the 659 MW, which changes things to a 2.65 year payback at 100% capacity factor. At a more realistic capacity factor, the payback period is probably between 5 and 7 years. That's on par for most power plants. The maintenance will start to really hit at the 8-10 year mark though, and may make continued operation nonviable without subsidies.
The Li-Ion battery prices are following a 7 year half life curve. We are at the cusp 100 $/kWh at pack level magic number right now. Tesla claims it is at 120$/kWh at pack level and below 100$/kWh in cell level. Others are close or ahead. Even at this price, batteries can stabilize the grid and take care of sudden changes in wind or solar generation. It has already saved Southern Australian grid several million dollars in the spot market for electricity. And with some financial engineering and capitalization of revenue streams, solar panel companies are viable in many places where the utility prices are high.
What I'm hearing you say is that companies have been using battery storage for high frequency trading on the energy market, and somehow that is a good thing.
We went for over 100 years without needing grid stabilization on the microsecond scale. It isn't something that is really needed. Electric grids in most developed countries are more than reliable enough. HFT in the energy markets is about as useful as HFT in stock markets- not very much.
I don't know how much time you've spent offshore, but sea spray is highly corrosive and requires constant maintenance to keep things made of metal and carbon fiber and fiberglass from literally falling apart in a matter of a few years.
Got any more off topic strawmen you'd like to eviscerate? Yes they require maintenance. So what? You think coal or gas plants require no maintenance? Those boilers don't magically run without some serious upkeep. Maintenance is a cost for every form of power generation. Nuclear plants have huge maintenance costs. At the end of the day the maintenance is just one factor among many in determining the economic viability. Increased maintenance is (often more than) offset buy not having to buy any fuel stocks.
There's an enormous difference in maintenance. Fossil plants maintenance patterns are usually around 10 days annually, and 21-45 days every other year, in a centralized location with easy personal vehicle and truck access. Offshore wind needs basically continual maintenance due to the large number of machines- once you finish all of them you need to go back to the first one. This is on hundreds of individual towers, possibly hundreds of miles offshore, requiring an enormous offshore crane and extensive shipping logistics to change out parts. Big onshore crawler cranes can cost $50k a day. Big offshore cranes can cost $200k a day.
It's not Amazon's fault the industry is so inefficient. Wages are padded through bonding and other insurances, which give the consumer piece of mind, but drives up the cost of labor by limiting the labor pool. Amazon is essentially replacing the bonding and insurance, thus driving down costs to where they should be.
Fixing shit around the house is something every man in the 50s was just expected to do. It doesn't deserve anything more than $10/hr.
You must be fun at parties. Some companies (usually the large ones) charge astronomical prices for home improvement projects, but if you're wanting to pay $10 an hour for a window or siding installer you are going to get exactly what you pay for.
I have a small business and I pay my concrete finishers $18 an hour, and I have a hard time finding good people even at that rate.
There was a military experiment years ago trying to teach a computer to distinguish between friendly and enemy tanks. They showed it thousands of photos of each, and in the test bed, it was very, very accurate. When used under battlefield conditions, however, it went to hell in a handbasket.
Turned out they hadn't taught it to distinguish between US and Russian tanks, they had taught it to distinguish between high quality photos (used for marketing meetings with Congresscritters for funding), and crappy, grainy Polaroids (which was all they had of the Russian tanks).
They'll learn what you teach them, but what you teach them may not have anything to do with what you want them to learn.
That's a great story and perfectly illustrates the pitfalls of machine learning. I (a mechanical engineer) took a data science class and the main takeaway I got was that machine learning basically fits a curve of predicted behavior based on input variables. The "training" dataset is what you feed it to figure out the curve. Then you test it on a different dataset to make sure it isn't bonkers. Removing or adding one input variable can dramatically change the influence strength or even the sign (+/-) of the other variables in the prediction formula that the process generates. If you have hundreds of input variables it becomes completely impossible for a human to understand all the relationships between the variables in the prediction function. So even if the machine learning software can generated a good predictive function, a human may not be able to understand how that predictive function works if few or none of the input variables are dominant.
It is 100% controllable by the phone companies.
I work with SIP and PBX professionally. I can pass anything I want out to my provider, but you can be assured that they know with absolute certainty what DIDs I SHOULD be passing out legitimately.
My provider could stop all spoofed numbers from me before they go out anywhere, and eliminate ~90% of all this scam/spam/spoofing overnight. Providers only need to police their own networks to reduce spoofing and all the crap that comes with it.
Any legitimate need to spoof a number (which are a vanishingly small number) should be documented and legally approved.
There isn't much incentive for providers in India or other countries to do such a thing. Especially if they are on the bribe or all the external calls are going to US numbers. Why would they turn down that business?
If they can't verify it, pass that knowledge along to the user. Smartphones could easily show a trust banner for phone calls like browsers do for web sites. Most people rarely get random calls from outside the country, so it would be an immediate red flag.
I registered a DBA about a month ago. Almost immediately, I have been bombarded by call centers in India who claim to be from Google and will help me upgrade my Google profile. Caller ID always shows spoofed numbers from the US. I run a business, so I have to answer the phone or risk losing a lead. People move around a lot more and a non-local area code doesn't mean they don't live in my area.
They aren't held to the rules of the Do Not Call list, since they are from out of the country. And it is always a different number, so I can't just block the number. If I'm not busy, I try to run them down a rabbit hole of wasted time. But they are reasonably smart about catching my BS and just hang up.
Sure, some very vocal fans make a lot of noise about notches and headphone jacks, myself included, but do they represent the majority?
The number of companies introducing notches and removing headphone jacks suggests that they must be getting some market feedback. Contrary to popular belief they don't all just copy Apple, they do extensive market surveys and testing with potential customers all through the prototype stage.
It sucks but I have a feeling us notch hating headphone jack lovers are in the minority here. Most would prefer a bigger screen, battery and the like.
I can't understand why manufacturers didn't go down to a 2.5mm jack, if they were so concerned about space. A 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapter is very small and can easily stay on your headphone cable, and it allows charging and listening at the same time.
If you want a bit more sun after work, you should just go to work a bit earlier.
Making DST the standard time would mean that much of western Europe would end up using Eastern European Time. Currently France, Spain and the Benelux are using Central European Time, which is one hour off for them, but it's practical because of Germany. But if Germany does the crazy thing and actually moves to Eastern European Time, I think I'd prefer if we just stuck to Western European Time again. With the UK and Portugal, I guess. But using St Petersburg time in Paris is just stupid.
I suspect people's opinions on this may differ depending on where they are at within a given time zone. There is a huge difference between US Central time in Alabama and US Central time in West Texas. And there are plenty of examples of US states that really should be in the neighboring time zones, but aren't because reasons.
And even at the same longitude within a timezone, different latitudes may have very different opinions. At higher lattitudes, sunrise can be extremely early- 4:30AM in some US locations, with a sunset at 8:30PM. If I lived in such a place I would prefer to have an extra hour (or even 2) of light in the evening.
There is. There was a legislation n Poland that tried to end time saving time, and someone pointed out that EU requires all countries to be consistent. So it has to be all-or-nothing from what I know.
There's nothing stopping them from recommending or requiring that businesses shift their operating hours forwards and back in the opposite direction of daylight savings time. It's a little convoluted but the EU can't do diddly about it.
Nothing looks at all like what I saw here. It looks like a tunnel, a boring tunnel constructed by The Boring Company. So allow me to pose a question instead. What makes this short tunnel so worthy of praise?
The tunnel itself is not exciting. But we live in the Golden Era of Marketing and Musk seems to be a marketing master.
First time I've heard "neat" applied to coffee. Pouring it at room temperature seems pretty strange to me, but who am I to play gatekeeper?
I couldn't find a better word (not a native English speaker) to describe coffee without any mixers. "Black coffee" is a tautology because coffee is black by itself, like "black coal" or "black African-American". If you make coffee not black, then it's no longer coffee, hence it shouldn't be counted as drinking coffee.
I hope you are not serious. Does putting butter on a baked potato make it something other than a baked potato? Does adding mustard and bread to a sausage make it something other than a sausage? Adding a garnish or condiment does not change the item of food/drink, unless the amount is so excessive as to become a joke.
How about an external light system by which a car is marked as red, yellow or green based on occupancy ?
If you commute for any length of time in Japan, you quickly learn which cars will be more packed on your route. It generally depends on where the platform stairs/escalators are in the previous busy station, and where they are located at your boarding station. It only took me a couple weeks to figure out. And it doesn't make much difference (other than comfort) anyway. There is always room for one more person, just face away from the train and back in.
Recently a train in Japan departed 20 seconds off its expected time, and it was in the national news, with much hand-wringing.
This is not a joke: it's a real event.
That's actually a bigger deal than you might think, because the train timetables are all set up to give you exactly enough time to change trains. I once took a shinkansen from Tokyo to Fukuoka. There was a 3 minute connection in Kyoto. I was sweating bullets because unlike the frequent subways/short-distance city trains I had used for months, if I missed the connection I would be waiting 2 hours. Turns out that 3 minutes is plenty of time if you walk at a normal or slightly slower than normal pace. It is all planned out to be as efficient as possible.
When I commuted to work, I knew down to the minute when I had to leave my apartment. It sounds bizarre but over time I came to trust that the trains were always on time and the connections were always achievable. 20 seconds late (or early) could make people miss connections and then be late for work.