The truth is that humans drink a lot of alcohol, all over the world.
No they don't. There are dramatic, hundredfold differences in alcohol consumption between countries.
Muslim countries tend to drink the least, and in some of them consumption is a crime. But even in non-muslim countries like Singapore and East Timor, consumption is very low. The highest level is in Belarus, followed closely by several other countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia.
Finns drink about as much as the French, and about a third more than Americans.
I have only been to Sweden once. As an introverted Aspie, I felt like I had found my home. Nobody tried to talk to me unless they actually had something to say. I have never been to Finland, but maybe it is even better.
Liberal, of course meaning, what Americans call "neocon-libertarian"
Nonsense. A neoconservative believes in "left" big government domestic policies combined with "right" hawkish and interventionist foreign policy. This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of libertarianism. So "neocon-libertarian" is a completely meaningless term.
EU does not need to ask permissions how to tax countries selling to their consumers.
Yes they do. It is a blatant violation of WTO rules to tax American products differently based on their origin. So they have to craft this carefully so that only American companies pay the tax and no European companies are inadvertently snagged, without explicitly saying that is their goal. One way to do this is to penalize "bigness", but that is clearly a contrived distinction, so expect this to be vigorously challenged by the US in the WTO courts.
Scholz's words will come back to haunt him. He is basically admitting to designing an illegal tax policy. It is hard to claim you are not intentionally targeting Americans when you have already clearly stated that you are.
Solar-thermal is dying and this material is unlikely to revive it. Solar PV has dramatically declined in price, and is likely to continue to do so as manufacturing improves. Solar-thermal isn't cost competitive, and has far less room for improvement, since mirrors and pipes are mature tech. Solar-thermal requires more maintenance, and requires direct sun. Unlike PV, it will produce no power on overcast days.
The only significant advantage of solar-thermal is that it can store heat and time-shift power generation. But that is not enough of an advantage to offset the higher costs.
They did not deny it, they just underestimated it.
You cannot bet on temps dropping without being a climate science denier. The two are mutually exclusive.
Nonsense. They were NOT denying global warming. They were just underestimating how quickly it would dominate other factors. There is no doubt that solar activity affects earth's temperature. There is no (reasonable) doubt that human activity affects earth's temperature. Disagreeing about the relative magnitudes does not make them "deniers".
That was the GPP's point. Software developers are not a "desperate group".
Comparing what we do to mining coal is absurd. I can go out my office door, and find several other job offers within a 10 minute walk.
I don't work many 80 hours weeks anymore, but I did it plenty of times when I was a youngling. I learned a lot, I was well compensated, and if I didn't like it, I had other options.
This basically shows that automation is actually incapable of tackling this problem.
Not really. If a company spends $10M per year fixing bugs, and this tool fixes 0.4% of them, then it just saved $40,000. Not bad for a free automated tool.
Also, the hard part of fixing bugs is not writing the patch, but replicating, locating and isolating the problem. If you can say "Here is a bug, here is how to replicate it, and it is occurring in THIS function", then that is a big help, and this tool was able to do that for over 30% of the bugs. That is huge.
It probably wasted more human time with the 10 bad patches than it saved by producing the 5
Not necessarily. If the code looks like it has a bug, then it likely needs to be refactored to make it more readable, even if there is no actual bug. It is not enough for code to be correct, it also should be clear so it can be read and maintained.
One could argue that designer and/or programmer of the algorithm is providing the creative input.
One could argue that, but there is very little legal precedent to support it. Once an algorithm is making something it is no longer "creative" in a copyrightable sense. A copyright to a software tool does not entitle the owner to copyright for the product of that tool, unless human created components such as libraries are included.
Yes, this seems like a silly way to burn money. The best way of "engaging schools and students in engineering" is to involve them in solving real world problems that will benefit many people. This isn't doing that.
How is the goal anything different than an existing rocket with wheels on its side?
It stays on the ground. That is the hard part. It is easy to make a rocket go fast. It is hard to control it.
At 1000 mph, even a small amount of airflow under the car body will lift it off the ground, and in a fraction of a second you are completely airborne. Energy goes up as the square of velocity, so at 1000 mph, you have a hundred times as much energy as at 100 mph. The result is some spectacular crashes.
That is a silly comparison. The real issue is how much of an entitlement people have to healthcare, and how much other people should pay to provide it.
Democrats generally support broadening the entitlement, and perhaps making it universal, but are not clear who will pay, how generous the system will be, or how we can transition from the bloated and expensive system that we have now.
Republicans generally support keeping Medicare (healthcare for old people), Medicaid (healthcare for poor people), and the VA (healthcare for veterans), but want to roll back the ACA, without any agreement on what will replace it.
Wait a fricking' minute -- the article says he guessed. No crime took place.
He guessed based on insider information. That is illegal.
He was smart
No he wasn't. If he was smart, he would have covered his tracks. Instead of investing under his own name, or his wife's name, he should have used a more distant relative or a friend that he trusted.
The banks (some time ago) knew of their wrong-doing before the financial crisis
No they didn't. They were astoundingly oblivious to the problems with mortgage based securities right up to the collapse.
Some people saw it coming, and made billions shorting MBSes, but they were not "the banks" (other than Goldman).
Are bigger airliners made with stronger materials?
They are both made from aluminum, usually an alloy such as 2024-Aluminum which is stronger than pure aluminum.
But an airliner will have thicker sheeting. A Cessna class plane may use 0.7mm. sheeting. A big airliner will use up to 3mm sheeting on the wing near the fuselage, tapering to about 1mm near the wingtip.
In the future, aircraft skins may be made from syntactic foam, which has a higher strength-to-weight ratio, can absorb impacts better, and does not propagate cracks or tears. But the tech isn't mature enough yet.
the the Americans would write that as given in the summary, 101,325
Not just Americans, but also most of Asia, except for Indonesia. Even in Europe, the UK and some parts of Switzerland use a decimal point, although the Swiss use an apostrophe as a thousands separator.
Here is a map. Although it looks close to a tie, it really isn't because the areas using an American style decimal point include densely populated countries such as China, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan, while the decimal-comma areas include lots of deserts, tundra, and rainforest.
But should we all have to subsidize these Luddites?
Current local telephony companies want to get rid of landlines, because maintaining all those copper lines is expensive
If it is expensive, and fewer and fewer people are using it, wouldn't it make more sense to kill POTS and use those resources to make wireless more reliable?
We shouldn't tax the future to subsidize the past.
If we really want to subsidize landlines to every location, it should be fiber broadband, not copper phone lines. The fiber can survive a massive solar flare, while the copper cannot.
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The truth is that humans drink a lot of alcohol, all over the world.
No they don't. There are dramatic, hundredfold differences in alcohol consumption between countries.
Muslim countries tend to drink the least, and in some of them consumption is a crime. But even in non-muslim countries like Singapore and East Timor, consumption is very low. The highest level is in Belarus, followed closely by several other countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia.
Finns drink about as much as the French, and about a third more than Americans.
List of countries by alcohol consumption
Waiting for the bus like Swede.
I have only been to Sweden once. As an introverted Aspie, I felt like I had found my home. Nobody tried to talk to me unless they actually had something to say. I have never been to Finland, but maybe it is even better.
Solar thermal it works in the DARK! (Efficiency isn't always about $.)
Power prices are higher during the day than at night. So cutting back on valuable power to make more cheap power isn't a good business strategy.
Also, building a storage tank that can hold billions of watt-hours of superheated steam isn't free.
Why can't they generate power during overcast days?
Because mirrors can't concentrate diffuse light.
I would think that improvements on IR light are still possible since a lot of that goes thru clouds.
IR does not go through clouds.
According to TFA, he is talking about a tax on revenue (sales), not profits.
Liberal, of course meaning, what Americans call "neocon-libertarian"
Nonsense. A neoconservative believes in "left" big government domestic policies combined with "right" hawkish and interventionist foreign policy. This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of libertarianism. So "neocon-libertarian" is a completely meaningless term.
EU does not need to ask permissions how to tax countries selling to their consumers.
Yes they do. It is a blatant violation of WTO rules to tax American products differently based on their origin. So they have to craft this carefully so that only American companies pay the tax and no European companies are inadvertently snagged, without explicitly saying that is their goal. One way to do this is to penalize "bigness", but that is clearly a contrived distinction, so expect this to be vigorously challenged by the US in the WTO courts.
Scholz's words will come back to haunt him. He is basically admitting to designing an illegal tax policy. It is hard to claim you are not intentionally targeting Americans when you have already clearly stated that you are.
Solar-thermal is dying and this material is unlikely to revive it. Solar PV has dramatically declined in price, and is likely to continue to do so as manufacturing improves. Solar-thermal isn't cost competitive, and has far less room for improvement, since mirrors and pipes are mature tech. Solar-thermal requires more maintenance, and requires direct sun. Unlike PV, it will produce no power on overcast days.
The only significant advantage of solar-thermal is that it can store heat and time-shift power generation. But that is not enough of an advantage to offset the higher costs.
then you are denying human activity is a factor.
They did not deny it, they just underestimated it.
You cannot bet on temps dropping without being a climate science denier. The two are mutually exclusive.
Nonsense. They were NOT denying global warming. They were just underestimating how quickly it would dominate other factors. There is no doubt that solar activity affects earth's temperature. There is no (reasonable) doubt that human activity affects earth's temperature. Disagreeing about the relative magnitudes does not make them "deniers".
I know you are probably joking
Yes, I was joking.
but it would not have auto-paid.
It could. Smart contracts can be pre-funded with crytocurrencies.
Blockchain knows nothing of real-world facts.
A smart contract can pull from an external data source, at a predetermined time and date.
Anyone denying the reality of anthropogenic climate change ...
They weren't denying AGW. They just thought the sunspot cycle would dominate. They were wrong.
Anyway, Annan should have used a blockchain based smart contract to implement the wager. Then it would have auto-paid, with no ability to welch.
they were exploitation of a desperate group.
That was the GPP's point. Software developers are not a "desperate group".
Comparing what we do to mining coal is absurd. I can go out my office door, and find several other job offers within a 10 minute walk.
I don't work many 80 hours weeks anymore, but I did it plenty of times when I was a youngling. I learned a lot, I was well compensated, and if I didn't like it, I had other options.
The drones could build a cloud city like Lando Calrissian administered above Bespin.
Once the city is completed, humans could colonize it and begin terraforming Venus from the cloud tops downward.
This makes way more sense than a Mars colony. Those Mars nutters need to get a grip on reality.
This basically shows that automation is actually incapable of tackling this problem.
Not really. If a company spends $10M per year fixing bugs, and this tool fixes 0.4% of them, then it just saved $40,000. Not bad for a free automated tool.
Also, the hard part of fixing bugs is not writing the patch, but replicating, locating and isolating the problem. If you can say "Here is a bug, here is how to replicate it, and it is occurring in THIS function", then that is a big help, and this tool was able to do that for over 30% of the bugs. That is huge.
It probably wasted more human time with the 10 bad patches than it saved by producing the 5
Not necessarily. If the code looks like it has a bug, then it likely needs to be refactored to make it more readable, even if there is no actual bug. It is not enough for code to be correct, it also should be clear so it can be read and maintained.
One could argue that designer and/or programmer of the algorithm is providing the creative input.
One could argue that, but there is very little legal precedent to support it. Once an algorithm is making something it is no longer "creative" in a copyrightable sense. A copyright to a software tool does not entitle the owner to copyright for the product of that tool, unless human created components such as libraries are included.
Yes, this seems like a silly way to burn money. The best way of "engaging schools and students in engineering" is to involve them in solving real world problems that will benefit many people. This isn't doing that.
How is the goal anything different than an existing rocket with wheels on its side?
It stays on the ground. That is the hard part. It is easy to make a rocket go fast. It is hard to control it.
At 1000 mph, even a small amount of airflow under the car body will lift it off the ground, and in a fraction of a second you are completely airborne. Energy goes up as the square of velocity, so at 1000 mph, you have a hundred times as much energy as at 100 mph. The result is some spectacular crashes.
That is a silly comparison. The real issue is how much of an entitlement people have to healthcare, and how much other people should pay to provide it.
Democrats generally support broadening the entitlement, and perhaps making it universal, but are not clear who will pay, how generous the system will be, or how we can transition from the bloated and expensive system that we have now.
Republicans generally support keeping Medicare (healthcare for old people), Medicaid (healthcare for poor people), and the VA (healthcare for veterans), but want to roll back the ACA, without any agreement on what will replace it.
Wait a fricking' minute -- the article says he guessed. No crime took place.
He guessed based on insider information. That is illegal.
He was smart
No he wasn't. If he was smart, he would have covered his tracks. Instead of investing under his own name, or his wife's name, he should have used a more distant relative or a friend that he trusted.
The banks (some time ago) knew of their wrong-doing before the financial crisis
No they didn't. They were astoundingly oblivious to the problems with mortgage based securities right up to the collapse.
Some people saw it coming, and made billions shorting MBSes, but they were not "the banks" (other than Goldman).
Are bigger airliners made with stronger materials?
They are both made from aluminum, usually an alloy such as 2024-Aluminum which is stronger than pure aluminum.
But an airliner will have thicker sheeting. A Cessna class plane may use 0.7mm. sheeting. A big airliner will use up to 3mm sheeting on the wing near the fuselage, tapering to about 1mm near the wingtip.
In the future, aircraft skins may be made from syntactic foam, which has a higher strength-to-weight ratio, can absorb impacts better, and does not propagate cracks or tears. But the tech isn't mature enough yet.
Problem is that they're allowing telcos to drop ALL fixed-line (copper OR fiber) service in certain locations.
Why is that a problem? You should be free to live in a remote area. You should not expect others to subsidize your lifestyle.
And wireless is only a good alternative if you like random slowdowns, high latency, and generally shit service.
They should spend their resources fixing this problem instead of maintaining lightly used but expensive legacy infrastructure.
No shanghai bitch, it's not a popularity contest.
Ok, lets go by nukes instead. Of the 9 countries known to possess nuclear weapons, 7 use the decimal point.
The dot wins again.
They're not called Luddites, they're normal people who just aren't as rich and hip as you are.
If they are poor, why not give them food or medicine or even money so they can buy what they need, instead of really expensive phone lines?
the the Americans would write that as given in the summary, 101,325
Not just Americans, but also most of Asia, except for Indonesia. Even in Europe, the UK and some parts of Switzerland use a decimal point, although the Swiss use an apostrophe as a thousands separator.
Here is a map. Although it looks close to a tie, it really isn't because the areas using an American style decimal point include densely populated countries such as China, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan, while the decimal-comma areas include lots of deserts, tundra, and rainforest.
The dot wins.
Lots of people have landlines.
But should we all have to subsidize these Luddites?
Current local telephony companies want to get rid of landlines, because maintaining all those copper lines is expensive
If it is expensive, and fewer and fewer people are using it, wouldn't it make more sense to kill POTS and use those resources to make wireless more reliable?
We shouldn't tax the future to subsidize the past.
If we really want to subsidize landlines to every location, it should be fiber broadband, not copper phone lines. The fiber can survive a massive solar flare, while the copper cannot.
He pissed his principles down the drain the minute he became ...
They are not "his" principles. They are OUR principles. You should not be so quick to abandon them. You may want them back someday.