Personally, I believe that the best approach would be for the city to create and own its own municipal network and then to allow multiple companies to sell services on it to the citizens.
The major cost of broadband is trenching. So an even better solution is for the city to install public conduit, like a 6-inch PVC, and then let any bonded company pull fiber for a nominal fee. That might result in real competition.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
1. The electricity does NOT come from dirty sources. 0% of California power plants run on coal. It is gas, nukes, and renewables.
2. Even if coal were used, coal-to-battery-to-wheels is cleaner than oil-to-refinery-to-gasoline-to-ICE-to-wheels.
3. The question has been asked a thousand times before. If you were actually interested in the answer, rather than just trolling, you could have found it with Google in five seconds.
I am genuinely curious about what she could have been referring to.
The translation in TFA didn't even get her name right (it is Meng Wenzhou). Google translate would have done a better job.
The questionable phrase in Chinese literally means "... also can discuss important life events", but it is ambiguous even in Chinese, and seems to have a sexual innuendo since it follows "if you are single...", but could also mean help with "guanxi" connections to advance your career.
I did a quick image search, and I would definitely take help with professional connections over a roll in the sack.
Me either. The two Walmarts closest to me do not have delis. But they do have in-store McDonalds. I believe the burgerbot would make a lot more sense there.
It sounds like you were trying to downplay the significance of these discoveries
Not at all. It is important research. They made many important new discoveries. But they did NOT discover that "there is life down there". We already knew that.
The question now is how was this overlooked for so long?
It wasn't. This has been well known for decades. This new research didn't "discover" subterranean life, they mostly just quantified and categorized it.
From this picture, calculate the approximate length of the elephant's penis."
Bad question. When a male elephant urinates his penis is only partially extended from the preputial sheath. So a pendulum oscillation calculation would not give you the full length.
Also, NaCl only works down to about -20 Celsius. CaCl works much better.
Also, CaCl doesn't corrode cars and bridges as badly as NaCl does.
The big advantage of NaCl is that it is cheap.
Another option is to put nothing on the roads. This is common in southern states, where snowfall is infrequent, and melts quickly. So everyone just stays home when it snows.
Java was designed by professionals, like James Gosling, who knew what they were doing. In theory, I was a great solution. It was only when corporations started subverting the ideals and trying to lock in incompatibility that the dream died.
"JavaScript on the desktop" is completely idiotic, even in theory. It is an absolutely horrible thing to standardize on.
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Comcast may work just fine in some places
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Personally, I believe that the best approach would be for the city to create and own its own municipal network and then to allow multiple companies to sell services on it to the citizens.
The major cost of broadband is trenching. So an even better solution is for the city to install public conduit, like a 6-inch PVC, and then let any bonded company pull fiber for a nominal fee. That might result in real competition.
Expect Comcast to go to the state legislature to thwart this.
That might work in Alabama, but not in Massachusetts. Comcast is in bed with the Republican Party.
The 20 states with bans or roadblocks to municipal broadband are mostly Red.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
1. The electricity does NOT come from dirty sources. 0% of California power plants run on coal. It is gas, nukes, and renewables.
2. Even if coal were used, coal-to-battery-to-wheels is cleaner than oil-to-refinery-to-gasoline-to-ICE-to-wheels.
3. The question has been asked a thousand times before. If you were actually interested in the answer, rather than just trolling, you could have found it with Google in five seconds.
Listing 72 million cubic feet without some other big famous building to compare it to - I can't visualize 72 million cubic feet...
First, it is NOT 72 million cubic feet. It is 472 million cubic feet. The author of TFA apparently mismoused the 4 during the cut-and-paste operation.
The Library of Congress has 2,100,000 square feet. If we assume a floor-to-floor distance of 10 feet, that would be 21 million cubic feet.
So this factory is the size of 472/21 = 22.5 LoC.
I had never heard of April Springs...
It is 'Alice', not 'April'. Alice Springs is famous mostly for being located precisely in the middle of nowhere.
Alice Springs, Australia
Spoiler from TFA: it occupies 72 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic metres).
72 million cubic feet = 2 million cubic meters.
According to Wikipedia, it is 472 million cubic feet = 13.3 million cubic meters.
All for the SAME reason- the wrong type of cell failed, and the crappy software doesn't know how to recover.
So it is basically bad software? Are there SSD brands with less crappy software than others?
Is there data on reliability, like there is for HDDs?
To be fair, I believe this is becoming less of a problem. I saw SSDs fail often in the early days of flash, but not recently.
Ideally companies would be moving production away from corrupt countries as punishment, to less-corrupt countries as a reward.
Countries that trade internationally tend to be less corrupt. Within countries, sectors of the economy exposed to trade tend to be the least corrupt.
So depriving corrupt countries of trade, will likely make them more corrupt.
It is the percentages that matter, not the absolute amount.
If GoPro pays a worker in Mexico $100, then $40 of that comes back to America. If they pay a worker in China $100, then $20 comes back.
Also, Mexico is not building weapons targeted at America, nor are they bullying our allies.
I am genuinely curious about what she could have been referring to.
The translation in TFA didn't even get her name right (it is Meng Wenzhou). Google translate would have done a better job.
The questionable phrase in Chinese literally means "... also can discuss important life events", but it is ambiguous even in Chinese, and seems to have a sexual innuendo since it follows "if you are single ...", but could also mean help with "guanxi" connections to advance your career.
I did a quick image search, and I would definitely take help with professional connections over a roll in the sack.
I had no idea Walmart had a deli.
Me either. The two Walmarts closest to me do not have delis. But they do have in-store McDonalds. I believe the burgerbot would make a lot more sense there.
Also, a more prosperous Mexico benefits America. A more prosperous China, not so much.
40% of Mexican imports come from America. 20% of Chinese imports come from America.
More jobs in Mexico means fewer desperate immigrants to America.
It sounds like you were trying to downplay the significance of these discoveries
Not at all. It is important research. They made many important new discoveries. But they did NOT discover that "there is life down there". We already knew that.
The question now is how was this overlooked for so long?
It wasn't. This has been well known for decades. This new research didn't "discover" subterranean life, they mostly just quantified and categorized it.
The next step is to embrace the green revolution and have desks with treadmills
Desks with treadmills
and stationary bikes
Desk with stationary bike
Rather than move then to the cloud....move offices into everyone's' HOME!!
Be careful what you wish for. If your job can be done from your home, it can also be done from the home of someone in Mumbai.
Emails may be stored by who knows how many servers between the sender and the recipient.
So can faxes. The days of circuit switching ended long ago.
Obvious solution for email: Encryption
Obvious solution for faxes: There isn't one.
Haha. Length at the time, not fully extended length :D
Ok. Thanks for straightening that out.
Obviously, they have little bearing on the real world
Indeed. In my entire life, this is the number of times an interviewer has asked about my GPA: 0.
The were mainly interested in what I had done (demo with source code listing) and what I could do (whiteboard + marker).
Even applying for grad school, an impressive undergrad independent research project will help more than a perfect GPA, especially if it was published.
In grad school, your GPA means nothing. All anyone cares about is your research and publication record.
High school is the only place where your GPA is really important.
From this picture, calculate the approximate length of the elephant's penis."
Bad question. When a male elephant urinates his penis is only partially extended from the preputial sheath. So a pendulum oscillation calculation would not give you the full length.
Also, NaCl only works down to about -20 Celsius. CaCl works much better.
Also, CaCl doesn't corrode cars and bridges as badly as NaCl does.
The big advantage of NaCl is that it is cheap.
Another option is to put nothing on the roads. This is common in southern states, where snowfall is infrequent, and melts quickly. So everyone just stays home when it snows.
Oh, so it sounds like Java apps again.
No. This is much worse than Java.
Java was designed by professionals, like James Gosling, who knew what they were doing. In theory, I was a great solution. It was only when corporations started subverting the ideals and trying to lock in incompatibility that the dream died.
"JavaScript on the desktop" is completely idiotic, even in theory. It is an absolutely horrible thing to standardize on.
We call them "programs" not "apps". Stupid hipsters.
"Program" and "app" are not synonyms. An "app" is a GUI program that interacts with a user.
iMessage is an app. Grep, sed, and perl are not. They are all programs.
Electron is used for apps. You would not use it to make, say, a compiler.
Would "We're sorry! This application is not yet available for your platform" architecture be less bad than Electron?
In the short run, anything is better than nothing.
In the long run, no, it is a terrible mess, and it should not become a universal standard.
Electron fills a vacuum, but it still sucks.
That explains a lot about 2018.
It says a lot about the human condition. We have a terrible habit of settling on suboptimal solutions.
It is great to have a single cross-platform standard. But really, JavaScript? We could have done far better than that.
As nerds, we have collectively failed humanity.