"Of the above costs, a majority is the cost of employee wages and benefits - about 70%."
Thanks for the citation. The ratio of wages to other costs is lower for trains and trams, since they usually carry more people per driver. But lower wage cost is often the rationale for deploying them instead of buses, since other costs per passenger-mile are higher. Once buses are driverless, that rationale is no longer valid, and railed public-transit makes much less sense.
In fact, once you go driverless, even full sized buses make little sense. It would make more sense to use smaller vans that can run more often and on more flexible routes. This will appeal to many people that currently drive.
Driverless tech will revolutionize mass transit, and mostly in a good way.
As I understand it, early RSA keygens produced "weak" keys because their algorithm OVERLOOKED many primes
An early implementation generated primes by picking a random odd number, and then stepping forward by twos, testing each number for primality until it found one.
This made it much more likely to pick primes that are preceded by a large interval of composites... which are probabilistically more likely to be the smaller of a pair of twin primes. Likewise, it would almost never pick the larger twin.
in larger public transport (buses, trams, trains) the cost of the drivers wages is not that significant.
A bus costs about $200k and has a service life of about 12 years. An urban bus driver makes about $40k, and they usually run in two shifts, so that is $80k. Add in benefits and overhead, and weekend shifts, and the payroll cost is $150k annually to keep one bus operating. Over the 12 year life of the bus, that is $1.8M.
For buses, the cost of the driver far exceeds the cost of either the bus or the fuel.
Did his friend's wife's company gave their employees's husband and his friends explicit permission to enter the premises?
That does NOT make it trespassing. Trespassing works the other way: Unless you cross a boundary, such as a door, fence with signs, or locked gate, then you are not trespassing unless you are explicitly told to leave, and refuse to do so.
If you enter a building with people that have permission to be there, they open the door for you, and nobody tells you to leave, then you are not trespassing.
Rule of thumb: People will complain about changes.
Later start times are correlated with better student performance. It also saves many parents money because they don't need daycare for after school, since the school day will end later. It also saves money on buses. For high school students, later start times are correlated with lower pregnancy and arrest rates, since they have less time after school to get in trouble before their parents come home.
But the people that don't like the change complain, and the (more numerous) people that benefit mostly stay silent.
I wonder if your opinion would change if one of those 5g backpack sized cells were mounted outside your home on a light post.
Not at all, since I have a working brain and an education.
Although the risk from a 4G station is infinitesimally close to zero, 5G is even less. 5G is directional, and since the frequency is higher, the absorption is higher, so they need more fine grained locations. So each station is covering a smaller area, and has lower intensity.
Anyway, even if there was a risk, why would a tax make it less risky?
Government doesn't work that way. They don't decide on the services they want to provide, and then set the tax rates accordingly. Instead, they look at the pile of money they have, and then decide what to spend it on. The list of spending options is always bigger than the money pile.
You either pay them directly, through taxes, or you pay them as passthrough
You really think they are going to see the money coming in from the telcos and say, "Hey, we can use this to reduce other taxes"?
5G deployment is in the interest of the public. It is a silly thing to tax. It is even sillier to add pointless bureaucratic delay.
No, it is not a violation of federal labor law. It may be a violation of state law, depending on your state: Connecticut and Delaware ban hidden cameras. Video surveillance of employees is generally legal. Audio surveillance is generally illegal without notification. Video surveillance is illegal if there is an expectation of privacy, such as in a restroom.
But this is only one way to steal. There are many other ways, such as taking a package to the porch, scanning it, so the GPS-enabled scanner marks it as "delivered", and then taking the package back to the truck. Then, just before returning to the distribution center, stash the sack of stolen boxes in the bushes to pick up later.
The point of the "fake package" ploy is to identify those likely to steal. By publicizing it, they make it less effective at catching dishonest drivers.
The smart plug actually sounds kind of interesting
There are already numerous plugs and switches that integrate with Alexa, Google Home, etc. I don't see anything new or different about this one... except a higher price.
because French people enjoy talking long breaks between jobs.
No. Most French unemployed are either long term (a year or more) or young people that have never had a job.
French people are rarely "between jobs" because it is difficult to fire people in France, and people rarely quit since it is hard to find new jobs. So they end up with lots of people working at jobs they don't much like, for employers who would rather be rid of them.
Whoa. Both of these are VERY misleading graphs. The are showing data collected over a very long time frame: 20 years in the first graph, and more than 40 years in the 2nd. They are mixing data points that are DECADES APART. Over time, life expectancy and productivity have gone up, while working hours in most OECD countries have fallen. That does not mean there is any causative connection between the trends.
These graphs would be WAY more useful if there was a 3rd axis for "time".
We are moving to self-checkout and cashierless stores. So why close at all? My local grocery store is open 24/7. The lights are on motion sensors, so no electricity is being used unless someone is walking down that aisle. There is a skeleton crew doing restocking, but I just self-checkout so I don't bother them.
Have you ever been to a 3rd world country? You will notice many many people selling a small collection of goods spread out on blankets or tables on the side of the road. This is WHY they are poor. Retail is unproductive and an economic dead end. It is a transaction cost, not a cost of producing goods or services. The larger the retail workforce, the poorer the country.
The purpose of jobs is to produce goods and services, not "keeping people busy", and retail doesn't produce anything. The sooner we can eliminate most retail jobs, the better. This will free up labor for actual productive activities.
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He has now given his talk, and presented his "proof". The overwhelming consensus of qualified mathematicians is that it proves nothing.
Here is a summary of the talk which includes a photo of his proof.
Googling turned up a better article:
https://www.thoughtco.com/bus-...
"Of the above costs, a majority is the cost of employee wages and benefits - about 70%."
Thanks for the citation. The ratio of wages to other costs is lower for trains and trams, since they usually carry more people per driver. But lower wage cost is often the rationale for deploying them instead of buses, since other costs per passenger-mile are higher. Once buses are driverless, that rationale is no longer valid, and railed public-transit makes much less sense.
In fact, once you go driverless, even full sized buses make little sense. It would make more sense to use smaller vans that can run more often and on more flexible routes. This will appeal to many people that currently drive.
Driverless tech will revolutionize mass transit, and mostly in a good way.
As I understand it, early RSA keygens produced "weak" keys because their algorithm OVERLOOKED many primes
An early implementation generated primes by picking a random odd number, and then stepping forward by twos, testing each number for primality until it found one.
This made it much more likely to pick primes that are preceded by a large interval of composites ... which are probabilistically more likely to be the smaller of a pair of twin primes. Likewise, it would almost never pick the larger twin.
in larger public transport (buses, trams, trains) the cost of the drivers wages is not that significant.
A bus costs about $200k and has a service life of about 12 years. An urban bus driver makes about $40k, and they usually run in two shifts, so that is $80k. Add in benefits and overhead, and weekend shifts, and the payroll cost is $150k annually to keep one bus operating. Over the 12 year life of the bus, that is $1.8M.
For buses, the cost of the driver far exceeds the cost of either the bus or the fuel.
Did his friend's wife's company gave their employees's husband and his friends explicit permission to enter the premises?
That does NOT make it trespassing. Trespassing works the other way: Unless you cross a boundary, such as a door, fence with signs, or locked gate, then you are not trespassing unless you are explicitly told to leave, and refuse to do so.
If you enter a building with people that have permission to be there, they open the door for you, and nobody tells you to leave, then you are not trespassing.
Given there have only been around 4.3 x 10^17 seconds since the big bang, it seems unlikely that they actually sorted through 10^120 options.
They could do it with aggressive pruning of the search tree.
Rule of thumb: People will complain about changes.
Later start times are correlated with better student performance. It also saves many parents money because they don't need daycare for after school, since the school day will end later. It also saves money on buses. For high school students, later start times are correlated with lower pregnancy and arrest rates, since they have less time after school to get in trouble before their parents come home.
But the people that don't like the change complain, and the (more numerous) people that benefit mostly stay silent.
I wonder if your opinion would change if one of those 5g backpack sized cells were mounted outside your home on a light post.
Not at all, since I have a working brain and an education.
Although the risk from a 4G station is infinitesimally close to zero, 5G is even less. 5G is directional, and since the frequency is higher, the absorption is higher, so they need more fine grained locations. So each station is covering a smaller area, and has lower intensity.
Anyway, even if there was a risk, why would a tax make it less risky?
Local government is going to spend X.
Government doesn't work that way. They don't decide on the services they want to provide, and then set the tax rates accordingly. Instead, they look at the pile of money they have, and then decide what to spend it on. The list of spending options is always bigger than the money pile.
You either pay them directly, through taxes, or you pay them as passthrough
You really think they are going to see the money coming in from the telcos and say, "Hey, we can use this to reduce other taxes"?
5G deployment is in the interest of the public. It is a silly thing to tax. It is even sillier to add pointless bureaucratic delay.
Violation of federal labor law.
No, it is not a violation of federal labor law.
It may be a violation of state law, depending on your state: Connecticut and Delaware ban hidden cameras.
Video surveillance of employees is generally legal.
Audio surveillance is generally illegal without notification.
Video surveillance is illegal if there is an expectation of privacy, such as in a restroom.
Why does it matter? If the item is damaged, you're not obligated to pay for it.
I order stuff because I need it. If I order a router that arrives broken, sure I can get it replaced, but I am still without a router for a week.
But this is only one way to steal. There are many other ways, such as taking a package to the porch, scanning it, so the GPS-enabled scanner marks it as "delivered", and then taking the package back to the truck. Then, just before returning to the distribution center, stash the sack of stolen boxes in the bushes to pick up later.
The point of the "fake package" ploy is to identify those likely to steal. By publicizing it, they make it less effective at catching dishonest drivers.
The smart plug actually sounds kind of interesting
There are already numerous plugs and switches that integrate with Alexa, Google Home, etc. I don't see anything new or different about this one ... except a higher price.
BTW: Where the f*cc is Middleton?
Wisconsin. It is a suburb of Madison, and about 5 km from the University of Wisconsin.
We could, but don't expect it to be pretty.
Well, everyone going back to subsistence farming is such an obvious response to improvements in technology, that I just don't see what else we can do.
Third world countries will always have subsistence farming and hunter-gather to fall back on.
Why can't the first world also go back to subsistence farming?
Life insurance has never made any sense to me.
I am alive, and healthy, and can enjoy life. So why should I give up money now, so that I can have more when I am dead?
Also, why would I want my wife to think I am worth more dead than alive?
All it would take is some country in Africa deciding to priortize their infrastructure and education
Can you let us know when that happens?
dont they already have the fabs and plans for everything anyway????
No. The big modern fabs are in Taiwan, not PRC.
because French people enjoy talking long breaks between jobs.
No. Most French unemployed are either long term (a year or more) or young people that have never had a job.
French people are rarely "between jobs" because it is difficult to fire people in France, and people rarely quit since it is hard to find new jobs. So they end up with lots of people working at jobs they don't much like, for employers who would rather be rid of them.
it's still widely discussed and often taught in intro-level classes, out of simple tradition.
... and ironically, it is often taught by people that denigrate creationism.
If you need me to walk you through the math on this, let me know. I'm happy to help.
You need to go talk to the French. Their shops close early so people can have "time off", yet they have 9% unemployment.
Whoa. Both of these are VERY misleading graphs. The are showing data collected over a very long time frame: 20 years in the first graph, and more than 40 years in the 2nd. They are mixing data points that are DECADES APART. Over time, life expectancy and productivity have gone up, while working hours in most OECD countries have fallen. That does not mean there is any causative connection between the trends.
These graphs would be WAY more useful if there was a 3rd axis for "time".
What's wrong with laziness?
Laziness has consequences. If you are willing to bear those consequences yourself, then feel free to be lazy.
The problem is that in a democracy, the lazy can vote, and they vote for bread and circuses paid for with OPM* and deficit spending.
They don't make the effort to understand the long term consequences of that because they are ... lazy.
*OPM= Other People's Money
We are moving to self-checkout and cashierless stores. So why close at all? My local grocery store is open 24/7. The lights are on motion sensors, so no electricity is being used unless someone is walking down that aisle. There is a skeleton crew doing restocking, but I just self-checkout so I don't bother them.
Have you ever been to a 3rd world country? You will notice many many people selling a small collection of goods spread out on blankets or tables on the side of the road. This is WHY they are poor. Retail is unproductive and an economic dead end. It is a transaction cost, not a cost of producing goods or services. The larger the retail workforce, the poorer the country.
The purpose of jobs is to produce goods and services, not "keeping people busy", and retail doesn't produce anything. The sooner we can eliminate most retail jobs, the better. This will free up labor for actual productive activities.