Or, maybe native Arabic speakers just prefer to read in French?
This is one of the points made in the cited Economist article. Books written in Arabic mostly use a formal and archaic version of the language, that is so different from the informal vernacular that it is almost like a foreign language. Many parents do indeed think that their children's time is better spent learning French (in Lebanon, Algeria and Morocco) or English (everywhere else).
As fewer people learn formal Arabic, fewer Arabic books are published, which reduces the incentive to learn to read it even more. So it is in a death spiral.
Proper reverse-osmosis filtration will remove fluoride but the resulting water is too soft and should be buffered salts/electrolytes
The "bring-your-own-bottle" machines at the grocery store do not use reverse osmosis. They use cheap activated charcoal filters, which do not remove fluoride even when they are changed regularly, which usually aren't. The input is tap water, and the output is, well, basically tap water.
The water sold in the grocery store is usually filtered tap water. The filtering does not remove fluoride. In fact, there is no evidence that it removes anything other than money from your wallet.
The island has 17 tons of trash, which is about one truckload, and an area of 37 sq km. That actually doesn't sound like much trash. And that is the worst. Everywhere else has even less.
Also, free air disrupts the sale of bottled oxygen. Free water from drinking fountains disrupts the sales from nearby soda machines. The sun disrupts the sales of light bulbs.
There was a recent article in the Economist about publishing in the Arab World. With the turmoil in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, Arabic publishing is dying. In Beirut bookstores, 40% of the books are in English, 40% in French, and only 20% in Arabic. Part of this is because Arabic is designed to be written by hand, and not printed. The shape of individual "letters" depends on the preceding and following "letters", much like English cursive, except even worse.
Peak pricing is 2pm to 7pm. So you can pre-chill your house in the morning and then "coast" through the afternoon. Even if you need cooling during the peak, you won't use as much. Also, you can use a programmable thermostat, so you should not need to turn it on manually.
And in the winter, don't touch the heater until 2 PM.
I'd be happy to charge my electric car at night if my stupid electric company would offer that rate.
Many power companies charge a flat rate by default, but will offer variable pricing if you ask. Check their website. You may need to upgrade to a "smart meter".
If you have an electric car, and avoid excessive daytime AC use, then variable pricing will almost certainly be a better deal.
Saying that a conspiracy of vested interests is the "principal barrier" to alternative energy is hyperbole. If anything, the media tends to gloss over the significant challenges with wide adoption of solar and wind. Nobody is deciding against putting solar on their roof because a WSJ article said it was evil. That is just nonsense.
There is a simple solution to "peak load": Demand based pricing. Most current calculations assume that the demand curve will remain the same, and the supply must be adjusted to fit it. That is nonsense. With variable pricing, the demand can be changed to fit the supply.
Many locations already have prices that vary by the time of day, and many commercial users pay prices that can change by the minute. I have variable pricing, with the peak price between 2-7pm. I have a device, installed by my power company, to automatically shut off my A/C compressor if demand is too high.
In the future, more power consumption will go to electric cars, which will make the demand curve much more flexible. They can be programmed to charge when surplus power is available (and the price is low) and stop charging, and possibly even feed power back into the grid, when demand (and prices) peak.
Uh... no. That paragraph says nothing meaningful. Blaming everything on a vast media conspiracy is the second refuge of the scoundrel. The linked article is informative, but it would have been better without the persecution theory.
The US mil tried to save money and advance with Ada.
I worked for several years for DoD contractors in the late 1980s, and we did several projects with Ada before it faded away. The only way we got anything done was to first write the project in C which was way faster for development, get it working, get client sign-off on interface and functionality, and then rewrite it into Ada. The Ada version was always three times the size and half the speed. The number of bugs was about the same. Ada doesn't have the pointer and memory allocation bugs, but with proper coding standards, those aren't much problem in C either. Most bugs are in logic or misunderstood specs, not anything language specific.
When the client asked why they were paying extra for delay, bloat, and slowness, we explained that Ada was their requirement, not ours.
That leaves... Javascript used for different website apps. I would be surprised if anything much of anything else was published through this program.
Instead of spouting off your ignorant (and incorrect) opinion about what is on code.gov, why didn't you just take 30 seconds to go there and have look before posting?
If this was a result of a "software vulnerability" then a lot of people at the CIA need to be fired and/or jailed. There is absolutely no reason that a list of double agents should be stored online or even on a computer at all. The "need to know" actual identifying information should be limited to the each asset's direct handler. Even the handler's boss doesn't need to know. Instead, the asset himself can be given secondary contact information and a code word to use if the main handler goes silent. Knowledge segmentation is standard spook tradecraft. How could they possibly screw up something so simple so badly?
For no particular reason we cannot have headlines written like that for at least the next 4 years...
Proper Headlines: Massive Chinese Data Breach Cripples CIA Administration in Chaos Over Chinese Hack Did Russia Pass Hacked Information to China Crippling CIA Hack Leaked, Did Trump Know? Trump Failed to Act On Chinese Hacking Allegations
None of those are "proper" headlines, because there is no actual evidence that they are true. TFA does not contain a single named or quoted source. It consists entirely of rumors, conjecture, and innuendo.
The reason that Betteridge's Law of Headlines is generally accurate is that using a question as a headline is a great crutch for weak journalism.
How hard would it be to use a generative autoencoding NN to write unique complaints? We could train the network with some human written samples, and then turn it loose to generate millions more using the same basic arguments, but with different wording. Then the FCC could implement an adversarial network to read and analyse the letters. We could automate democracy.
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Or, maybe native Arabic speakers just prefer to read in French?
This is one of the points made in the cited Economist article. Books written in Arabic mostly use a formal and archaic version of the language, that is so different from the informal vernacular that it is almost like a foreign language. Many parents do indeed think that their children's time is better spent learning French (in Lebanon, Algeria and Morocco) or English (everywhere else).
As fewer people learn formal Arabic, fewer Arabic books are published, which reduces the incentive to learn to read it even more. So it is in a death spiral.
Amazon is what we get in an environment with weaker unions.
Well, Java doesn't have unions at all. Gosling explicitly excluded them from the language.
But then again, tourists bring money to the island.
There are no tourists. The island is uninhabited. The trash comes from the ocean, and is washed onto the beaches by the waves.
Proper reverse-osmosis filtration will remove fluoride but the resulting water is too soft and should be buffered salts/electrolytes
The "bring-your-own-bottle" machines at the grocery store do not use reverse osmosis. They use cheap activated charcoal filters, which do not remove fluoride even when they are changed regularly, which usually aren't. The input is tap water, and the output is, well, basically tap water.
Most tap water is poisoned with fluoride.
The water sold in the grocery store is usually filtered tap water. The filtering does not remove fluoride. In fact, there is no evidence that it removes anything other than money from your wallet.
Here you have much richer deposits of hydrocarbons right here
You don't mine asteroids for hydrocarbons. You mine them for siderophile metals.
just recently switched to refilling water at my local store. At 50 cents a gallon ...
Could please you explain your rationale for doing this instead of just getting water from the faucet in your kitchen?
The island has 17 tons of trash, which is about one truckload, and an area of 37 sq km. That actually doesn't sound like much trash. And that is the worst. Everywhere else has even less.
Also, free air disrupts the sale of bottled oxygen.
Free water from drinking fountains disrupts the sales from nearby soda machines.
The sun disrupts the sales of light bulbs.
There was a recent article in the Economist about publishing in the Arab World. With the turmoil in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, Arabic publishing is dying. In Beirut bookstores, 40% of the books are in English, 40% in French, and only 20% in Arabic. Part of this is because Arabic is designed to be written by hand, and not printed. The shape of individual "letters" depends on the preceding and following "letters", much like English cursive, except even worse.
in my experience there is absolutely a correlation between the use of that font and elevated douchitude.
There was a famous incident when several thousand people were laid off, and their dismissal notices were printed in Comic Sans.
Disclaimer: I can't find a citation, so this is probably not actually true, but still, it is a good story.
If we all just wait until 2 AM to run the AC
Peak pricing is 2pm to 7pm. So you can pre-chill your house in the morning and then "coast" through the afternoon. Even if you need cooling during the peak, you won't use as much. Also, you can use a programmable thermostat, so you should not need to turn it on manually.
And in the winter, don't touch the heater until 2 PM.
Who uses electricity for heat?
I thought the article was going to be about how a capital "I" and a lowercase "L" look the same
Even worse are the old people that learned to type on manual typewriters, and use a lowercase "L" instead of a one.
According to my will, my obituary will be published in Comic Sans.
I love to annoy Font Nazis, and that will be my last opportunity.
Is it really a shock that the human race is full of a bunch of morally corrupt douche bags?
Actually, this is evidence for the opposite: That people are generally good.
There are over a billion people on Facebook, and only 54,000 sextortioners. That is only 0.0054% or about one out of every 19,000 users.
Why a NN?
Because NNs are way cooler.
You aren't going to impress the chicks by saying you know how to use a Markov Chain.
I'd be happy to charge my electric car at night if my stupid electric company would offer that rate.
Many power companies charge a flat rate by default, but will offer variable pricing if you ask. Check their website. You may need to upgrade to a "smart meter".
If you have an electric car, and avoid excessive daytime AC use, then variable pricing will almost certainly be a better deal.
Saying that a conspiracy of vested interests is the "principal barrier" to alternative energy is hyperbole. If anything, the media tends to gloss over the significant challenges with wide adoption of solar and wind. Nobody is deciding against putting solar on their roof because a WSJ article said it was evil. That is just nonsense.
There is a simple solution to "peak load": Demand based pricing. Most current calculations assume that the demand curve will remain the same, and the supply must be adjusted to fit it. That is nonsense. With variable pricing, the demand can be changed to fit the supply.
Many locations already have prices that vary by the time of day, and many commercial users pay prices that can change by the minute. I have variable pricing, with the peak price between 2-7pm. I have a device, installed by my power company, to automatically shut off my A/C compressor if demand is too high.
In the future, more power consumption will go to electric cars, which will make the demand curve much more flexible. They can be programmed to charge when surplus power is available (and the price is low) and stop charging, and possibly even feed power back into the grid, when demand (and prices) peak.
Pretty much says it all.
Uh ... no. That paragraph says nothing meaningful. Blaming everything on a vast media conspiracy is the second refuge of the scoundrel. The linked article is informative, but it would have been better without the persecution theory.
The US mil tried to save money and advance with Ada.
I worked for several years for DoD contractors in the late 1980s, and we did several projects with Ada before it faded away. The only way we got anything done was to first write the project in C which was way faster for development, get it working, get client sign-off on interface and functionality, and then rewrite it into Ada. The Ada version was always three times the size and half the speed. The number of bugs was about the same. Ada doesn't have the pointer and memory allocation bugs, but with proper coding standards, those aren't much problem in C either. Most bugs are in logic or misunderstood specs, not anything language specific.
When the client asked why they were paying extra for delay, bloat, and slowness, we explained that Ada was their requirement, not ours.
That leaves... Javascript used for different website apps. I would be surprised if anything much of anything else was published through this program.
Instead of spouting off your ignorant (and incorrect) opinion about what is on code.gov, why didn't you just take 30 seconds to go there and have look before posting?
If this was a result of a "software vulnerability" then a lot of people at the CIA need to be fired and/or jailed. There is absolutely no reason that a list of double agents should be stored online or even on a computer at all. The "need to know" actual identifying information should be limited to the each asset's direct handler. Even the handler's boss doesn't need to know. Instead, the asset himself can be given secondary contact information and a code word to use if the main handler goes silent. Knowledge segmentation is standard spook tradecraft. How could they possibly screw up something so simple so badly?
For no particular reason we cannot have headlines written like that for at least the next 4 years...
Proper Headlines:
Massive Chinese Data Breach Cripples CIA
Administration in Chaos Over Chinese Hack
Did Russia Pass Hacked Information to China
Crippling CIA Hack Leaked, Did Trump Know?
Trump Failed to Act On Chinese Hacking Allegations
None of those are "proper" headlines, because there is no actual evidence that they are true. TFA does not contain a single named or quoted source. It consists entirely of rumors, conjecture, and innuendo.
The reason that Betteridge's Law of Headlines is generally accurate is that using a question as a headline is a great crutch for weak journalism.
How hard would it be to use a generative autoencoding NN to write unique complaints? We could train the network with some human written samples, and then turn it loose to generate millions more using the same basic arguments, but with different wording. Then the FCC could implement an adversarial network to read and analyse the letters. We could automate democracy.