I have never seen a congested bike path in America. If you mean car traffic, then bikes can bypass that by riding on the shoulder. Worse traffic would explain an increase in bicycle commuting, but not a decrease.
I think most people are just lazy sloth's.
But have the become slothier since 2016? If so, that should show up in other data as well, such as people walking less, and falling gym memberships.
but when there's current issues--even driving optocouplers, it takes the fun away from it.
That is what a 74LS244 is for. If you want more than just a logical output, use a driver.
Adruinos are hearty.
You are comparing apples and raspberries. Arduinos are dedicated embedded devices. They aren't general purpose computers and don't have HDMI ports, browsers, or Python interpreters. RPs do.
Such communications from companies are always prefaced by appropriate legal disclaimers.
There is plenty of legal precedent that disclaimers provide very limited protection for false or misleading statements from public companies.
Unless they said something that was actually false at the time they said it...
They said the overstock "will be" corrected. They didn't say "maybe", or "we hope", or "if our prayers are answered". They said "will be" when they had no plan to accomplish that, and knew, or should have known, that it was unlikely to happen.
They didn't just express "optimism". They stated as fact that the overstock "will be corrected", when in fact they had no plan to fix the problem.
When you are a public company, you can't just go out and make false or misleading official statements.
They didn't have to make a statement about the overstock, but when they did make a statement, then they had a fiduciary duty to be scrupulously honest with their investors, and they didn't do that. They should have followed my grandmother's advice: "If you have nothing good to say, then STFU."
Someone modded you down, but, if I had mod points, I'd mod you back up.
He was modded down because it is a stupid point that has been made ad nauseam every time this topic comes up.
A cellphone is a way more capable spying device than a smart speaker. Cellphones have more complex operating systems, expose way more functionality to 3rd party apps, and send far more traffic that makes spying difficult to monitor. If you use a cellphone, and only worry about your speaker, you are an idiot.
Some plants HAVE evolved ways of improving CO2 capture.
The evolution of the C4 pathway happened in grasses, and they spread around the world about 6-7 million years ago. Tropical savanna replaced woodland in Africa, as the grasses outcompeted forests via more efficient photosynthesis. Hominids moved out of the forest into the expanding savanna, learning to walk upright, freeing up their hands to use tools.
The C4 pathway also meant plants could pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere, lowering global temperatures. The spread of C4-capable grasses may have been the main trigger for the ice ages.
Corn is one of the few food crops that uses the newer C4 photosynthesis engine.
Another big C4 crop is sugar cane. Millet and sorghum are also C4.
Roundup (the most GMO targeted pesticide) is by definition a poison
Roundup works by blocking a plant enzyme that does not exist in humans. So it is not "by definition" a poison to humans.
and does have ill effects on humans in concentration. It's all about the dose.
Sure. Distilled water also can have ill effects on humans. It's all about the dose.
GMO crops generally reduce the need for herbicides and pesticides.
The worst use of Roundup/glyphosate is as a crop desiccant, sprayed on green crops to dry them out shortly before harvest. This means the herbicide is on the crop as it is harvested. This is BY FAR the reason Americans are exposed to the most glyphosate. This practice is banned in many other countries.
But guess what? It only works for crops that are NOT RR-GMO. So if you want to avoid glyphosate, don't buy any soy product that says "Non-GMO".
When you have companies trying to manufacture seedless versions of plants to replace the normal ones to the point they can potentially replace a sizable portion of our food supply with them and making us dependent on them
RR seeds went off-patent in 2015. BT corn (maize) went off-patent in 2016.
No other GMO crops are even close to a "sizable portion" of our food supply.
Anyone is free to grow, save seed, whatever. Glyphosate (Roundup) is also off patent. Anyone can make it, and plenty of generics are available, even at Walmart.
The "seedless" crops do produce seeds. What they don't produce is pollen. They use a "terminator gene" to block the spread of the genetic material. This is a GOOD THING, and it is also not used or sold anywhere because of protests by hypocritical environmentalists outraged that some of their best criticisms of GMO (pollen infecting neighboring farms, genes leaking into the wild) can be easily prevented. So instead of embracing the improvement, they fought to ban it.
If you read the actual paper, you will see that this process delivers a whopping 1.84% efficiency.
The Carnot efficiency of generating power from low grade heat is terrible, and then you slap a very inefficient Seebeck semiconductor thermoelectric generator on top of that, and about the best you can do is recharge your Apple Watch from the waste heat from your furnace.
The lowering of your employment opportunities, due to your stupid posts.
If some people lose opportunities due to stupid posts, then that is counter-balanced by increased opportunities for people making intelligent posts. So there is a consequence for being stupid, but no net negative consequence for being on Facebook.
The lies that you believe, generated by foreign agents.
Do you mean like how the Russians spread stories about Hillary colluding with the DNC to cheat in the primary debates? Oh wait, that was the truth.
The curtailing of your civil rights. The overthrow of your democracy.
That is not an explanation, just a baseless assertion.
Me, it'd take $1000 to convince me to open an account - then a lot more than that to actually use it.
I would pay $1000 to not have to listen to pompous neckbeards bragging about how forgoing Facebook makes them morally superior. Nobody cares. Geez, you people are worse than vegans.
Question: If a vegan doesn't use Facebook, which will they bring up first?
No. It is what he promised to do, but did not follow through.
American coal mines are continuing to close, as they should. Production is increasingly concentrated in a few big mines in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, which produces more coal than the next four states combined.
This will hopefully drive the cost of business for US coal miners way up
Not many mines will close. The EU gets about 21% of their electricity from coal, and that isn't going to change.
Only the mines receiving taxpayer subsidies will close. Most likely the production will shift to the profitable mines, making them even more profitable.
Importing from America doesn't make much sense because of transport costs, but there are some imports.
The real question is why are we providing welfare for the mediocre?
When you combine socialism with democracy, there is pressure from the electorate to preserve jobs in declining industries. This leads to Lemon Socialism, where public funds are used to prop up losers rather than backing winners.
It is good to see the EU finally pulling the plug on subsidized coal mines, but they need to go much further.
When the cops chase a speeder and cause an accidental death, people decide that cop chases are the root of all traffic accidents. This only makes sense if you ignore the fact that speeders cause tons of death themselves.
Nonsense. Nobody is saying we should just let people speed. But there is also no need for cops to chase offenders at high speed through residential neighborhoods. The proper thing to do is to run the plates, and go arrest the guy while he is watching TV later than evening.
Same thing with the guy on the bridge. One cop could have waited at the bottom of the tower and arrested him when he descended. There was no need to involve half the police force and inconvenience thousands of people. They only did that to add drama and pat themselves on the back for being "heros".
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Or sitting in traffic.
I have never seen a congested bike path in America. If you mean car traffic, then bikes can bypass that by riding on the shoulder. Worse traffic would explain an increase in bicycle commuting, but not a decrease.
I think most people are just lazy sloth's.
But have the become slothier since 2016? If so, that should show up in other data as well, such as people walking less, and falling gym memberships.
but when there's current issues--even driving optocouplers, it takes the fun away from it.
That is what a 74LS244 is for. If you want more than just a logical output, use a driver.
Adruinos are hearty.
You are comparing apples and raspberries. Arduinos are dedicated embedded devices. They aren't general purpose computers and don't have HDMI ports, browsers, or Python interpreters. RPs do.
Such communications from companies are always prefaced by appropriate legal disclaimers.
There is plenty of legal precedent that disclaimers provide very limited protection for false or misleading statements from public companies.
Unless they said something that was actually false at the time they said it ...
They said the overstock "will be" corrected. They didn't say "maybe", or "we hope", or "if our prayers are answered". They said "will be" when they had no plan to accomplish that, and knew, or should have known, that it was unlikely to happen.
Show me where they said they knew for sure it would correct. Or where they said "we know for a fact".
There is no material difference between "We will do X" and "We know for sure we will do X" or "We know for a fact that we will do X".
They are all false statements if you are not going to do X.
No, optimism is not lying.
They didn't just express "optimism". They stated as fact that the overstock "will be corrected", when in fact they had no plan to fix the problem.
When you are a public company, you can't just go out and make false or misleading official statements.
They didn't have to make a statement about the overstock, but when they did make a statement, then they had a fiduciary duty to be scrupulously honest with their investors, and they didn't do that. They should have followed my grandmother's advice: "If you have nothing good to say, then STFU."
The summary is not so nice, because it left out an important detail: Where the eclipse will be visible.
The eclipse will be visible throughout North America, most of South America, and just before dawn in Western Europe and Northwest Africa.
Your average citizen isn't reading these, open or not.
Everyone benefits from open science and the innovations and breakthroughs enabled by widely available information.
The journals need to find a new business model. Their days of hoarding taxpayer funded scientific results are ending.
Europe, Canada and, as I understand it, the US already require open access to the results of government-funded research.
Not really. In America, only some government agencies require immediate open access. Others are open access after a year delay.
In fields such as particle physics ...
The physics community was a pioneer of open access, and is further along than most other fields.
Someone modded you down, but, if I had mod points, I'd mod you back up.
He was modded down because it is a stupid point that has been made ad nauseam every time this topic comes up.
A cellphone is a way more capable spying device than a smart speaker. Cellphones have more complex operating systems, expose way more functionality to 3rd party apps, and send far more traffic that makes spying difficult to monitor. If you use a cellphone, and only worry about your speaker, you are an idiot.
grassland has far less biomass per given area than a forest
Grasslands have far more carbon in the soil than forests.
Grasslands can grow in arid regions that don't have enough rainfall to support forests.
Some plants HAVE evolved ways of improving CO2 capture.
The evolution of the C4 pathway happened in grasses, and they spread around the world about 6-7 million years ago. Tropical savanna replaced woodland in Africa, as the grasses outcompeted forests via more efficient photosynthesis. Hominids moved out of the forest into the expanding savanna, learning to walk upright, freeing up their hands to use tools.
The C4 pathway also meant plants could pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere, lowering global temperatures. The spread of C4-capable grasses may have been the main trigger for the ice ages.
Corn is one of the few food crops that uses the newer C4 photosynthesis engine.
Another big C4 crop is sugar cane. Millet and sorghum are also C4.
Roundup (the most GMO targeted pesticide) is by definition a poison
Roundup works by blocking a plant enzyme that does not exist in humans. So it is not "by definition" a poison to humans.
and does have ill effects on humans in concentration. It's all about the dose.
Sure. Distilled water also can have ill effects on humans. It's all about the dose.
GMO crops generally reduce the need for herbicides and pesticides.
The worst use of Roundup/glyphosate is as a crop desiccant, sprayed on green crops to dry them out shortly before harvest. This means the herbicide is on the crop as it is harvested. This is BY FAR the reason Americans are exposed to the most glyphosate. This practice is banned in many other countries.
But guess what? It only works for crops that are NOT RR-GMO. So if you want to avoid glyphosate, don't buy any soy product that says "Non-GMO".
When you have companies trying to manufacture seedless versions of plants to replace the normal ones to the point they can potentially replace a sizable portion of our food supply with them and making us dependent on them
RR seeds went off-patent in 2015. BT corn (maize) went off-patent in 2016.
No other GMO crops are even close to a "sizable portion" of our food supply.
Anyone is free to grow, save seed, whatever. Glyphosate (Roundup) is also off patent. Anyone can make it, and plenty of generics are available, even at Walmart.
The "seedless" crops do produce seeds. What they don't produce is pollen. They use a "terminator gene" to block the spread of the genetic material. This is a GOOD THING, and it is also not used or sold anywhere because of protests by hypocritical environmentalists outraged that some of their best criticisms of GMO (pollen infecting neighboring farms, genes leaking into the wild) can be easily prevented. So instead of embracing the improvement, they fought to ban it.
What is that in Kessel runs?
The Kessel run can be completed in 12 parsecs. A parsec is 1/(sin(1/3600)) = 206265 AUs.
So 43 AU would be 43/(206265*12) = 0.000017 Kessel runs.
If you read the actual paper, you will see that this process delivers a whopping 1.84% efficiency.
The Carnot efficiency of generating power from low grade heat is terrible, and then you slap a very inefficient Seebeck semiconductor thermoelectric generator on top of that, and about the best you can do is recharge your Apple Watch from the waste heat from your furnace.
This is not the solution to global warming.
why the fuck wasn't this filed in state court?
IDK. It makes no sense. According to TFA, the case was filed on the basis of an Illinois law, so why was it a federal lawsuit?
The lowering of your employment opportunities, due to your stupid posts.
If some people lose opportunities due to stupid posts, then that is counter-balanced by increased opportunities for people making intelligent posts. So there is a consequence for being stupid, but no net negative consequence for being on Facebook.
The lies that you believe, generated by foreign agents.
Do you mean like how the Russians spread stories about Hillary colluding with the DNC to cheat in the primary debates? Oh wait, that was the truth.
The curtailing of your civil rights. The overthrow of your democracy.
That is not an explanation, just a baseless assertion.
You're too stupid to understand the consequences of your Facebook use.
Or perhaps you are too stupid to explain it.
Other than seeing more relevant ads (a good thing), what are the consequences?
Me, it'd take $1000 to convince me to open an account - then a lot more than that to actually use it.
I would pay $1000 to not have to listen to pompous neckbeards bragging about how forgoing Facebook makes them morally superior. Nobody cares. Geez, you people are worse than vegans.
Question: If a vegan doesn't use Facebook, which will they bring up first?
When talking about interplanetary distances, it is usually more intuitive to use AUs (the distance from the sun to the earth).
4000000000 miles = 43 AU. About 6 light-hours.
Astronomical Unit
... or are the current implementations just too sloppily done?
An obvious improvement would be to take multiple images a fraction of a second apart, and look for a pulse. Some fingerprint scanners already do this.
More importantly, any biometric identifier should be used IN ADDITION to a password or PIN for anything important.
Isn't that what trump is doing with coal?
No. It is what he promised to do, but did not follow through.
American coal mines are continuing to close, as they should. Production is increasingly concentrated in a few big mines in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, which produces more coal than the next four states combined.
This will hopefully drive the cost of business for US coal miners way up
Not many mines will close. The EU gets about 21% of their electricity from coal, and that isn't going to change.
Only the mines receiving taxpayer subsidies will close. Most likely the production will shift to the profitable mines, making them even more profitable.
Importing from America doesn't make much sense because of transport costs, but there are some imports.
The real question is why are we providing welfare for the mediocre?
When you combine socialism with democracy, there is pressure from the electorate to preserve jobs in declining industries. This leads to Lemon Socialism, where public funds are used to prop up losers rather than backing winners.
It is good to see the EU finally pulling the plug on subsidized coal mines, but they need to go much further.
When the cops chase a speeder and cause an accidental death, people decide that cop chases are the root of all traffic accidents. This only makes sense if you ignore the fact that speeders cause tons of death themselves.
Nonsense. Nobody is saying we should just let people speed. But there is also no need for cops to chase offenders at high speed through residential neighborhoods. The proper thing to do is to run the plates, and go arrest the guy while he is watching TV later than evening.
Same thing with the guy on the bridge. One cop could have waited at the bottom of the tower and arrested him when he descended. There was no need to involve half the police force and inconvenience thousands of people. They only did that to add drama and pat themselves on the back for being "heros".
What if he was using the drone to scout out soft targets to shoot at?
Why would he need a drone to do that?
Again, this isn't about the drone. It's about the idiot flying the drone.
Actually, it is about the idiotic over-reaction by the police. That is what made this newsworthy.
The drone just just small part of a bigger issue.
The bigger issue is that we have way too many police, and they don't have enough real work to do, so they go around manufacturing crises.