but will they even notice 40 000 additional workers in such a big city?
There will not be 40,000 additional workers. The workers will just be displaced from other businesses... or potential business that will now never be created.
The constraint on business in NYC is availability of employees, and the constraint on new employees is housing cost, and the constraint on housing is the lack of new construction, and the constraint on new construction is the denial of most building permits.
This is why subsidies on the DEMAND side of employment, while simultaneously constricting the SUPPLY side of employment, is completely idiotic.
Voters need to be educated on basic economics so corrupt politicians that support these giveaways can be held to account.
there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels.
Did you sleep through high school physics? Increasing the intensity of radiation does not make it ionizing. Only increasing the frequency can do that.
Disclaimer: Yes, if you increase the intensity enough, you will get thermal ionization. But then you no longer need a furnace or an oven. Just set the turkey on the kitchen counter, and let the cell tower cook it!
Why are you on Slashdot, if you hate science this much?
"Hating" science is not the same thing as disagreeing with how it is funded. Something is wrong with our society when space science funding is suspended because of a political disagreement over "The Wall". It is hard to imagine two things that should be more unrelated.
Also, the delivery app records the GPS location. They may not need to walk it to the porch, but they will need to be at your house.
I have a motion-activated camera on my porch, which sends me a notification when someone approaches. When the delivery guy scans the package and marks it as "delivered", I get another notification. These two instant messages usually arrive within seconds of each other. If I get one without the other, then it is obvious who stole the package.
law enforcement will love that sharing a movie will now provide a financial incentive, as that will make it a crime instead of a violation.
This is incorrect. Damages depend on whether the copyright holder was deprived of profits, not whether the violator made any profit. Severity also depends on whether the violation was "willful": Did the violator know at the time that they were infringing?
I thought it was illegal to reverse engineer software?
No. Disassembling software is not, and has never been, illegal in America.
It may be illegal to use the result of the disassembly, especially to bypass security, but also by incorporating copyrighted or patented code into your own products, or accessing functionality that you are not licensed to use. But the disassembly itself is not illegal.
Some products have terms in their license that forbid disassembly, but those are untested by the courts, are only binding if you are a party to the contract, and violation is a civil tort, not a crime.
You apparently don't know what "staying home" means.
Look, I understand your fixation on literal meanings. I am an Aspie myself. But when I said Mexicans are "staying home", I didn't mean that every single Mexican refuses to leave their house, and has food delivered by drone.
I meant it figuratively. They are emigrating at far lower rates than in the past, and emigration is more than balanced out by Mexicans returning to Mexico to take advantage of the greater economic opportunities.
I apologize if this went over your head. In the future, I will try to use language more precisely.
The brain has way more connections, but a synapse triggers, on average, less than once per second. A high end GPU is clocked at several gigahertz.
Also, many neurons have nothing to do with "thinking". They are engaged in background tasks, like keeping your heart beating, and monitoring your need to eat and breathe.
More/faster hardware won't get you different answers, just faster answers. So if hardware was the bottleneck, we would have really smart AI engines that take a long time to think. That is not happening, because the real bottleneck is our knowledge of how intelligence works.
If you're retarded enough to characterise 130,000 Mexicans arrested trying to cross the border in 2017 as "Mexicans staying home", then there's certainly no helping you.
Do you know what "net migration" means? In 2017, the number of Mexican immigrants living in America went DOWN by 300k, from 11.6M to 11.3M.
I was wondering why I keep seeing bottled water with their PH value on the packaging. It's just water that is more expensive and designed for morons. Good to know.
Multiply the pH by ten, and then subtract it from 100. That will tell you the IQ of the targeted customer.
The only way that you will ever stem the flow of economic, political, and poverty refugees and migrants it's too achieve the same level of development, freedom, and security of person as their origin country.
Bullcrap. Mexico is an obvious counterexample. Their economy is no where near America's level, but it is "good enough" for people to stay home.
Illegal migrants are now coming from countries further south that are much poorer and dangerous than Mexico. El Salvador has the world's highest murder rate, and Honduras the 2nd highest, both driven by illegal drug demand in the USA. Comprehensive legalization would be a far better solution than a wall.
I use LS because I bought a 5 pound "grab bag" of salvaged chips for $10 when WeirdStuff went out of business, and they are "good enough" for hobby projects.
I thought HC & HCT were the default families used by most hobbyists now.
The "default" is what is on the shelf. HC/HCT is what you get if you have money to burn and are willing to wait a week for DigiKey to deliver.
I know some folks into homeopathy and it's been because they couldn't afford real doctors and medicine.
Homeopathy is WAY more popular in the UK and many EU countries that it is in the US. These are countries with mostly single-payer healthcare. There is no evidence that homeopathy is driven by affordability.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that you're stupid enough to think that a wall is as ineffective as homeopathy. Intelligent people understand their utility.
History has shown it is wise to constructively engage with your neighbors. Building walls is the opposite of that.
Also, net migration from Mexico is near zero. The main reason for that is economic growth and better job opportunities in Mexico.
Today, most illegals are coming from further south: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. $25B spent on economic cooperation with these countries would do infinitely more good than the same money spent on a wall.
"Alternative medicine" vendors should have to provide valid, reliable evidence that their claims are correct
They ARE required to do that, IF they are selling medicine. But they aren't.
First, they make no specific claims that their product cures anything. They may imply that it will help, but they don't actually say it. So they don't have to support their claims, since there are no claims.
Second, there is nothing to regulate. Homeopathic "medicine" doesn't have any active ingredients. There is nothing in it.
You can only go so far in protecting stupid people from themselves. In a free society, at some point you have to accept that some people will make stupid decisions.
Btw, the new money hole for stupid people is "alkaline water". My neighbor bought a $4000 water ionizer. She was disappointed when I showed her she could get the same effect with a 50 cent box of baking soda, and that there is zero evidence that "alkaline water" is healthy in any way.
If you believe in homeopathy and are an antivaxxer, you probably get your left and right mixed up.
Homeopaths are only harming themselves (and their children who presumably carry the same defective genes). Anti-vaxxers endanger all of us. So they aren't really comparable.
I mean, employers just throw out most resumes they get for an opening.
They throw out most resumes because they are poorly written or from people that aren't even remotely qualified for the position.
We auto-reject, without feedback, any resume that has spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, or doesn't contain the word "Java" when someone is applying to be a Java programmer. That cleans out 60-70% of them, leaving far fewer for a human to read.
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but will they even notice 40 000 additional workers in such a big city?
There will not be 40,000 additional workers. The workers will just be displaced from other businesses ... or potential business that will now never be created.
The constraint on business in NYC is availability of employees, and the constraint on new employees is housing cost, and the constraint on housing is the lack of new construction, and the constraint on new construction is the denial of most building permits.
This is why subsidies on the DEMAND side of employment, while simultaneously constricting the SUPPLY side of employment, is completely idiotic.
Voters need to be educated on basic economics so corrupt politicians that support these giveaways can be held to account.
there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels.
Did you sleep through high school physics? Increasing the intensity of radiation does not make it ionizing. Only increasing the frequency can do that.
Disclaimer: Yes, if you increase the intensity enough, you will get thermal ionization. But then you no longer need a furnace or an oven. Just set the turkey on the kitchen counter, and let the cell tower cook it!
And the answer is to decentralize the funding sources.
That is one solution.
Another is to create endowments for basic science, so funding is not buffeted by every political tantrum.
Yet another solution would be to ban peacetime deficit spending, so that the proposed wall would require an immediate tax increase.
Tell Pelosi and Schumer to stop putting a damper on science in Seattle!
Or maybe Donald should keep his campaign promises. He said the Mexicans would pay for the wall, and now he wants my taxes to pay for it.
Nancy and Chuck should hold him to his word. Good for them.
Why are you on Slashdot, if you hate science this much?
"Hating" science is not the same thing as disagreeing with how it is funded. Something is wrong with our society when space science funding is suspended because of a political disagreement over "The Wall". It is hard to imagine two things that should be more unrelated.
How big is your CNC if you need to put it in your garage?
Size is not the only issue. I kept my Sherline CNC in the living room for a while. But my wife didn't like the metal shavings in the carpet.
Also, the delivery app records the GPS location. They may not need to walk it to the porch, but they will need to be at your house.
I have a motion-activated camera on my porch, which sends me a notification when someone approaches. When the delivery guy scans the package and marks it as "delivered", I get another notification. These two instant messages usually arrive within seconds of each other. If I get one without the other, then it is obvious who stole the package.
And good grud, people, "4K" UHD is virtually indistinguishable from FHD/1080p from across the living room.
Not everyone uses it from across the room. I use a 43 inch 4K UHD TV as my desktop computer monitor. That doesn't work with 1080.
law enforcement will love that sharing a movie will now provide a financial incentive, as that will make it a crime instead of a violation.
This is incorrect. Damages depend on whether the copyright holder was deprived of profits, not whether the violator made any profit. Severity also depends on whether the violation was "willful": Did the violator know at the time that they were infringing?
I thought it was illegal to reverse engineer software?
No. Disassembling software is not, and has never been, illegal in America.
It may be illegal to use the result of the disassembly, especially to bypass security, but also by incorporating copyrighted or patented code into your own products, or accessing functionality that you are not licensed to use. But the disassembly itself is not illegal.
Some products have terms in their license that forbid disassembly, but those are untested by the courts, are only binding if you are a party to the contract, and violation is a civil tort, not a crime.
If your vaccines actually work then you'll be protected against the disease, so why worry?
Because vaccines are not 100% effective, and some people can't take them for legitimate medical reasons.
Vaccines work primarily through herd immunity, not individual immunity.
"No shots = No school" needs to be enforced. Religious freedom doesn't give anyone the right to endanger my kid.
I think the biggest tech failure of 2018 was Theranos.
Here is a list of 25 other tech flameouts. I never heard of most of them.
Outside of tech, I think the biggest failure was Sears.
Lots of rich liberals have walls around their homes and/or neighborhoods, so they seem to believe that they work.
They are wrong. Gated communities don't have less crime.
Walls don't work.
You apparently don't know what "staying home" means.
Look, I understand your fixation on literal meanings. I am an Aspie myself. But when I said Mexicans are "staying home", I didn't mean that every single Mexican refuses to leave their house, and has food delivered by drone.
I meant it figuratively. They are emigrating at far lower rates than in the past, and emigration is more than balanced out by Mexicans returning to Mexico to take advantage of the greater economic opportunities.
I apologize if this went over your head. In the future, I will try to use language more precisely.
The brain has way more connections, but a synapse triggers, on average, less than once per second. A high end GPU is clocked at several gigahertz.
Also, many neurons have nothing to do with "thinking". They are engaged in background tasks, like keeping your heart beating, and monitoring your need to eat and breathe.
More/faster hardware won't get you different answers, just faster answers. So if hardware was the bottleneck, we would have really smart AI engines that take a long time to think. That is not happening, because the real bottleneck is our knowledge of how intelligence works.
If you're retarded enough to characterise 130,000 Mexicans arrested trying to cross the border in 2017 as "Mexicans staying home", then there's certainly no helping you.
Do you know what "net migration" means? In 2017, the number of Mexican immigrants living in America went DOWN by 300k, from 11.6M to 11.3M.
I was wondering why I keep seeing bottled water with their PH value on the packaging. It's just water that is more expensive and designed for morons. Good to know.
Multiply the pH by ten, and then subtract it from 100. That will tell you the IQ of the targeted customer.
The only way that you will ever stem the flow of economic, political, and poverty refugees and migrants it's too achieve the same level of development, freedom, and security of person as their origin country.
Bullcrap. Mexico is an obvious counterexample. Their economy is no where near America's level, but it is "good enough" for people to stay home.
Illegal migrants are now coming from countries further south that are much poorer and dangerous than Mexico. El Salvador has the world's highest murder rate, and Honduras the 2nd highest, both driven by illegal drug demand in the USA. Comprehensive legalization would be a far better solution than a wall.
Do people still *use* "LS" chips?
I use LS because I bought a 5 pound "grab bag" of salvaged chips for $10 when WeirdStuff went out of business, and they are "good enough" for hobby projects.
I thought HC & HCT were the default families used by most hobbyists now.
The "default" is what is on the shelf. HC/HCT is what you get if you have money to burn and are willing to wait a week for DigiKey to deliver.
I know some folks into homeopathy and it's been because they couldn't afford real doctors and medicine.
Homeopathy is WAY more popular in the UK and many EU countries that it is in the US. These are countries with mostly single-payer healthcare. There is no evidence that homeopathy is driven by affordability.
Use of homeopathy across the world
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that you're stupid enough to think that a wall is as ineffective as homeopathy. Intelligent people understand their utility.
You should ask the Chinese about the effectiveness of walls.
History has shown it is wise to constructively engage with your neighbors. Building walls is the opposite of that.
Also, net migration from Mexico is near zero. The main reason for that is economic growth and better job opportunities in Mexico.
Today, most illegals are coming from further south: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. $25B spent on economic cooperation with these countries would do infinitely more good than the same money spent on a wall.
The only thing absolutely certain is that water has a 0% cure rate for any illness other than dehydration, and always will.
Water is also effective against kidney stones and gout.
"Alternative medicine" vendors should have to provide valid, reliable evidence that their claims are correct
They ARE required to do that, IF they are selling medicine. But they aren't.
First, they make no specific claims that their product cures anything. They may imply that it will help, but they don't actually say it. So they don't have to support their claims, since there are no claims.
Second, there is nothing to regulate. Homeopathic "medicine" doesn't have any active ingredients. There is nothing in it.
You can only go so far in protecting stupid people from themselves. In a free society, at some point you have to accept that some people will make stupid decisions.
Btw, the new money hole for stupid people is "alkaline water". My neighbor bought a $4000 water ionizer. She was disappointed when I showed her she could get the same effect with a 50 cent box of baking soda, and that there is zero evidence that "alkaline water" is healthy in any way.
If you believe in homeopathy and are an antivaxxer, you probably get your left and right mixed up.
Homeopaths are only harming themselves (and their children who presumably carry the same defective genes). Anti-vaxxers endanger all of us. So they aren't really comparable.
I mean, employers just throw out most resumes they get for an opening.
They throw out most resumes because they are poorly written or from people that aren't even remotely qualified for the position.
We auto-reject, without feedback, any resume that has spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, or doesn't contain the word "Java" when someone is applying to be a Java programmer. That cleans out 60-70% of them, leaving far fewer for a human to read.