I think about it everytime I look at my 401K, and remember that it went up 400% will Bill Clinton was president. Unemployment was low, the economy was booming, the country was (mostly) at peace, and the budget was balanced. Congress was too busy focusing on oral sex, and didn't have time to screw up the economy. Thank you Monica!
Internal combustion will never pass 50% efficiency. A power plant would be above 90%.
ICEs are typically less than 20% efficient, and some more is lost in the transmission system (which electric cars don't need). The best gas turbine power plants are less than 60% efficient, and will never get near 90%.
California has about 200,000 plug-in EVs, roughly 1/2 the US total and they're not building power plants or suffering rolling blackouts because of demand.
Most vehicle charging is done at night with baseload power. So rather than more power plants, we just better utilize the power plants that we already have. My wife has a Tesla, and it is programmed to start charging at 2am. We have demand billing, so we save money by using baseload power. A full charge (240 miles) costs us about $6.
Washington State has no corporate income tax. Amazon pays all the federal income tax that they are legally required to pay, which hasn't been much, because they have not had much profit. If you don't like our tax system, then write to your congressperson, or vote for Bernie. Blaming Amazon is silly.
Maybe we should consider removing the lead from bullets to improve the situation?
America bans lead shotgun pellets for hunting waterfowl. Some states ban lead shot for all types of hunting. Steel shot is used instead. But so far none ban lead from rifle or pistol ammo. There are some proposals to replace the lead with bismuth, and some bismuth based shot and bullets are available.
The only thing this photographer is doing, is making sure nobody will ever hire him for anything ever again; too much of a legal risk.
There is no legal risk if you have half a brain. The hotel manager was an idiot to sign the original contract. If you hire someone to do any work that involves IP, you make darn sure the contract says "work for hire", and that the contractee has full rights to anything produced. If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
The real problem here is dysfunctional corporate management. Many CEOs tend to let their legal dept run amok and dictate policy, rather than treating them as advisors. Whenever you find yourself suing your own fanbase, you know it is time to rein in the lawyers.
usa imposed 266% duty on chinese steel imports in march.
These sorts of tariffs tend to be counter-productive. America has way more users of steel than producers of steel. So this will raise costs for American car companies, appliance manufacturers, and everyone else that builds stuff out of steel, making their products less competitive. So instead of importing Chinese steel, we will import more cars, and finished goods.
The gun homicide rate in America is half of what it was 25 years ago. That reduction is most strongly correlated with lower levels of exposures to lead. Some urban areas continue to have high lead exposure, and continue to have high gun homicide rates. Flint, Michigan has a murder rate NINE TIMES the national average. If the politicians want to lower gun violence, they should forget the gimmicks, and focus on what has actually worked: reducing exposure to lead. On average, black kids in America have twice the blood lead levels of white kids. That is a national disgrace. We can fix that problem for a fraction of what we will otherwise spend on prisons.
Too many times I've seen what happens when squirrels get fried on the power lines near my house.
Squirrels are rodents, and their teeth grow continuously. They have to gnaw to wear them down. Weasels don't have that problem, and don't usually gnaw, especially on something inanimate like a cable. I am skeptical that the culprit was a weasel just because a particle physicist said so.
and by the time it gets here (assuming it isn't sold out) the fallout cloud has come, dumped, and gone, and the radioiodine is concentrated in your thyroid
You should learn to plan ahead. The time to buy essential supplies is not in the middle of a crisis.
They're afraid of terrorist attacks on their nuclear plants, and are preparing by handing out iodine pills instead of eliminating the underlying threat.
You can never completely eliminate all threats. The potassium iodide tablets are a cheap and effective precaution. I have a vial of KI that cost me $2. If they buy them in bulk, they could cost far less than that. They can probably do this for less than a euro per household. So why not?
Tesla Autopilot is working in tens of thousands of vehicles, and has driven many millions of miles of public roads. That actual real-world track record should count for a lot more than a competitor's biased opinion.
so just plant a hd full of rando bits and finger someone.
They could just claim they don't know the password. Please note that the suspect in this case has NOT used that defense. He has instead said that the government has no right to compel him, whether he knows the password or not. He appears to be standing on principle, which is admirable.
I totally agree. Without EVIDENCE there is no case here.
There is evidence. Certainly not enough to convict, but enough to get a warrant to search for additional evidence. The key question is whether he can be compelled to assist in that search. The Supreme Court has ruled that a suspect cannot be compelled to provide the combination to a lock, so I don't see how this is significantly different.
That all falls apart once you have complete randomness. You would never be able to tell what piece comes next.
An obvious solution would be to use standard "start" and "stop" codons, and encode the track ID at the beginning of each DNA strand. So the data could be random, but the meta-data would not be random.
Actually what I would be more worried about is how long will it be before someone's computer file turns out encode into a real virus and we have some new, nasty disease on our hands simply because some holiday photo produces the right DNA sequence for a new variant of Ebola.
You should find something new to worry about. You could run every computer till the heat death of the universe, and it is unlikely any of them would just randomly produce a sequence for a viable pathogen.
it seems like it would make a lot more sense to etch data into crystals or glass using lasers, or other such solid state data storage that's currently being researched
The DNA can store millions of times more data per unit volume. Each nucleotide (2 bits) is 0.33 nm, and they can be packed in 3D structures. Laser etching on sapphire is dozens of nm wide, and is inherently 2D.
I think the problem is bringing them here at the same wages they make in India.
H1-B workers already make way more than they do in India. You couldn't even survive in America on typical Indian tech wages, because of the much higher prices here.
Anyway, there is no reason to expect Ted's position on this to change because of Carly. VP candidates typically have zero input on policy.
Sorry, but $10 for a few minutes late is not "fair".
A better solution would be to have a two minute grace period, and then charge $1 per minute after that. $10 seems fair if you keep someone waiting for 12 minutes.
I've had ubers go more than 5 minutes late because they decided to park in the lot across the street, how the fuck was I supposed to know that?
The Uber app shows the location of the car. You can zoom in to see where it is within a few meters. You could also use your cell phone to call them and ask.
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A blowjob! Think about it.
I think about it everytime I look at my 401K, and remember that it went up 400% will Bill Clinton was president. Unemployment was low, the economy was booming, the country was (mostly) at peace, and the budget was balanced. Congress was too busy focusing on oral sex, and didn't have time to screw up the economy. Thank you Monica!
Internal combustion will never pass 50% efficiency. A power plant would be above 90%.
ICEs are typically less than 20% efficient, and some more is lost in the transmission system (which electric cars don't need). The best gas turbine power plants are less than 60% efficient, and will never get near 90%.
California has about 200,000 plug-in EVs, roughly 1/2 the US total and they're not building power plants or suffering rolling blackouts because of demand.
Most vehicle charging is done at night with baseload power. So rather than more power plants, we just better utilize the power plants that we already have. My wife has a Tesla, and it is programmed to start charging at 2am. We have demand billing, so we save money by using baseload power. A full charge (240 miles) costs us about $6.
Taxes? We're too big to pay taxes!
Washington State has no corporate income tax. Amazon pays all the federal income tax that they are legally required to pay, which hasn't been much, because they have not had much profit. If you don't like our tax system, then write to your congressperson, or vote for Bernie. Blaming Amazon is silly.
Maybe we should consider removing the lead from bullets to improve the situation?
America bans lead shotgun pellets for hunting waterfowl. Some states ban lead shot for all types of hunting. Steel shot is used instead. But so far none ban lead from rifle or pistol ammo. There are some proposals to replace the lead with bismuth, and some bismuth based shot and bullets are available.
The only thing this photographer is doing, is making sure nobody will ever hire him for anything ever again; too much of a legal risk.
There is no legal risk if you have half a brain. The hotel manager was an idiot to sign the original contract. If you hire someone to do any work that involves IP, you make darn sure the contract says "work for hire", and that the contractee has full rights to anything produced. If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
So is this worth 3 million euros? Probably not. But it certainly isn't worth 300 euros either.
Why is it worth more than 300 euros? He was already paid 4200 euros, so 300 more would be 4500. That seems like plenty for one afternoon of work.
The real problem here is dysfunctional corporate management. Many CEOs tend to let their legal dept run amok and dictate policy, rather than treating them as advisors. Whenever you find yourself suing your own fanbase, you know it is time to rein in the lawyers.
usa imposed 266% duty on chinese steel imports in march.
These sorts of tariffs tend to be counter-productive. America has way more users of steel than producers of steel. So this will raise costs for American car companies, appliance manufacturers, and everyone else that builds stuff out of steel, making their products less competitive. So instead of importing Chinese steel, we will import more cars, and finished goods.
The gun homicide rate in America is half of what it was 25 years ago. That reduction is most strongly correlated with lower levels of exposures to lead. Some urban areas continue to have high lead exposure, and continue to have high gun homicide rates. Flint, Michigan has a murder rate NINE TIMES the national average. If the politicians want to lower gun violence, they should forget the gimmicks, and focus on what has actually worked: reducing exposure to lead. On average, black kids in America have twice the blood lead levels of white kids. That is a national disgrace. We can fix that problem for a fraction of what we will otherwise spend on prisons.
Too many times I've seen what happens when squirrels get fried on the power lines near my house.
Squirrels are rodents, and their teeth grow continuously. They have to gnaw to wear them down. Weasels don't have that problem, and don't usually gnaw, especially on something inanimate like a cable. I am skeptical that the culprit was a weasel just because a particle physicist said so.
and by the time it gets here (assuming it isn't sold out) the fallout cloud has come, dumped, and gone, and the radioiodine is concentrated in your thyroid
You should learn to plan ahead. The time to buy essential supplies is not in the middle of a crisis.
This adds a new dimension to the slashdot effect, after all...
Slashdot has a far smaller readership than it did a decade ago. I don't think the "Slashdot effect" is a real thing anymore.
There were no iodine supplements in the drug stores, or the health-food stores.
This website has iodine pills, and lots of other stuff: amazon.com.
They're afraid of terrorist attacks on their nuclear plants, and are preparing by handing out iodine pills instead of eliminating the underlying threat.
You can never completely eliminate all threats. The potassium iodide tablets are a cheap and effective precaution. I have a vial of KI that cost me $2. If they buy them in bulk, they could cost far less than that. They can probably do this for less than a euro per household. So why not?
Tesla Autopilot is working in tens of thousands of vehicles, and has driven many millions of miles of public roads. That actual real-world track record should count for a lot more than a competitor's biased opinion.
so just plant a hd full of rando bits and finger someone.
They could just claim they don't know the password. Please note that the suspect in this case has NOT used that defense. He has instead said that the government has no right to compel him, whether he knows the password or not. He appears to be standing on principle, which is admirable.
I totally agree. Without EVIDENCE there is no case here.
There is evidence. Certainly not enough to convict, but enough to get a warrant to search for additional evidence. The key question is whether he can be compelled to assist in that search. The Supreme Court has ruled that a suspect cannot be compelled to provide the combination to a lock, so I don't see how this is significantly different.
That all falls apart once you have complete randomness. You would never be able to tell what piece comes next.
An obvious solution would be to use standard "start" and "stop" codons, and encode the track ID at the beginning of each DNA strand. So the data could be random, but the meta-data would not be random.
Actually what I would be more worried about is how long will it be before someone's computer file turns out encode into a real virus and we have some new, nasty disease on our hands simply because some holiday photo produces the right DNA sequence for a new variant of Ebola.
You should find something new to worry about. You could run every computer till the heat death of the universe, and it is unlikely any of them would just randomly produce a sequence for a viable pathogen.
it seems like it would make a lot more sense to etch data into crystals or glass using lasers, or other such solid state data storage that's currently being researched
The DNA can store millions of times more data per unit volume. Each nucleotide (2 bits) is 0.33 nm, and they can be packed in 3D structures. Laser etching on sapphire is dozens of nm wide, and is inherently 2D.
I think the problem is bringing them here at the same wages they make in India.
H1-B workers already make way more than they do in India. You couldn't even survive in America on typical Indian tech wages, because of the much higher prices here.
Anyway, there is no reason to expect Ted's position on this to change because of Carly. VP candidates typically have zero input on policy.
Sorry, but $10 for a few minutes late is not "fair".
A better solution would be to have a two minute grace period, and then charge $1 per minute after that. $10 seems fair if you keep someone waiting for 12 minutes.
I've had ubers go more than 5 minutes late because they decided to park in the lot across the street, how the fuck was I supposed to know that?
The Uber app shows the location of the car. You can zoom in to see where it is within a few meters. You could also use your cell phone to call them and ask.
How is Uber going to decide who was late?
By looking at the GPS data.