Only if you're comparing full buses to empty cars. If you're comparing practical bus energy use to practical car energy use per passenger mile, Buses seem to be slightly worse, and I'm not sure it's clear that the miles themselves are equivalent - Cars go where you want them to, Buses go where the Buses go, so a trip by bus might require more miles.
Buses: 3,829 (Btu per passenger-mile) Cars: 3,122 (Btu per passenger-mile) Rail: 2,445 (Btu per passenger-mile)
My assumption is that buses are probably still reducing congestion, but in order to make use of them, there need to be enough off-peak buses that the overall ridership is not that great. I'm also gonna assume that self-driving minibuses and municipal cars could cut the off-peak energy use side of the equation.
I suggest maybe you read some Asimov again. The three laws weren't even a good idea in his novels. Although they do make for an interesting hook for a locked-room detective story.
Not really. The statement is that it is consistently effective for a specific 10% of the population. Not that it is only effective 10% of the time for everyone.
Once you identify who is in the 10% and who is in the 90%, you stop using it for the 90%, so per-use it would actually be effective quite a bit more than 10% of the time.
So diving licences are the first step to rounding up cars? They are an attempt to limit your constitutionally guaranteed right to travel around?
In fact they are. If you take away someone's driver's license you severely limit their (legal) mobility. Impound their car, even more so. There's no amendment or clause specifically denying the government this power, and while the 10th might prevent the Federal government from licensing drivers, it's not actually done at the federal level.
The next time I see someone with a wheelchair using one of the curb cuts in my town, will be the first.
If it's anything like my town, it's because they built the sidwalks through the telephone poles, so the poles are in the middle of the sidewalks and sometimes there is a stone wall on the side creating a narrow passage and sometimes the pole is in the middle of the cuts themselves.
Oh, they might've paid a lost less than a million dollars for it.
From April, 2016:
At a conference on global security in London, a moderator asked James B. Comey Jr., the F.B.I. chief, how much bureau officials had to pay the undisclosed outside group to demonstrate how to bypass the phone’s encryption.
“A lot,” Mr. Comey said, as audience members at the Aspen Institute event laughed.
He continued: “Let’s see, more than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure.”...
The F.B.I. director makes about $185,100 a year — so Mr. Comey stands to earn at least $1.35 million at that base rate of pay for the remainder of his 10-year term.
...the price-out of the support service economy since nobody can afford to be a barista on the peninsula.
Shouldn't that part, at least, be self-correcting? If there is demand for coffee then the price should rise until the baristas can be paid enough to afford the rent?
Hahaha, you think the oil barons oppose wind and solar? Every installed MW of wind and solar needs to be backed up with reliable on-demand capacity to make up for cloudy or calm days and oil and natural gas plants are the fastest to bring up to speed.
They're promoting solar and wind to keep us from bringing up nuclear (and to a lesser extent, harass coal).
You do realize that under the opposite system the rich and connected... do whatever they want and stomp on the poor, except everwhere instead of just most places.
When you create new levers of federal power, who do you think is going to be most interested and able to manipulate them?
Have you quantified the strategy of only using measurable policies vs. using "best practices" based on some other measure to determine if it is, in fact, a better strategy?
My guess is that they bought it as real estate speculation and just threw in some disposable "office stuff" to try to get some use out of it while waiting for prices to grise. There doesn't seem to be anything in those pictures that couldn't be packed up and moved out in a single day.
The software itself doesn't need to be open source, the algorithim and data need to be public knowledge. Otherwise we - the public - can't confirm whether we're just making the courts more efficient or whether we're institutionalizing undesired biases or creating other injustices.
... GZIP'd XML is more compact than uncompressed XML, so which do you think is faster to parse? Yeah, the uncompressed (LARGER) XML.
That's not strictly accurate, whatever the base format is. Whether the uncompressed version is faster to parse depends greatly on memory speed. It can take longer to pull in the uncompressed version and parse it than the compressed version due the time wasted fetching from higher-level, slower memory.
It's not intuitive that decompression + parsing should be faster than parsing alone, but it is far from improbable.
Do men "negotiate harder" or are men more likely to accept the risk of rejection? The former could be tested by having professional negotiators to separate the candidate from the employer for that part of the hiring process. But the latter can't.
If your negotiator comes back with a number and says they think they can get more with another round, at some point the decision belongs to the candidate.
I'm always suspicious of those news reports. I saw one accompanied by video of a firefighting aircraft taken from the exact trajectory the drone was reported to have followed in relation to the aircraft. The video wasn't a reconstruction or recreation, although I suppose it could've been stock footage, but the path of the observer in relation to the reported trajectory was very suspicious.
My suspicion is that the drones that the firefighters are complaining about are operated by the news organizations covering the fires (and also covering the "drone problem") and not by hobbyists. This would explain their larger size, range, and performance characteristics compared to typical commercially available drones - they're specialty drones designed for the express purpose of capturing video over long distances and altitudes.
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Only if you're comparing full buses to empty cars. If you're comparing practical bus energy use to practical car energy use per passenger mile, Buses seem to be slightly worse, and I'm not sure it's clear that the miles themselves are equivalent - Cars go where you want them to, Buses go where the Buses go, so a trip by bus might require more miles.
Buses: 3,829 (Btu per passenger-mile)
Cars: 3,122 (Btu per passenger-mile)
Rail: 2,445 (Btu per passenger-mile)
Oak Ridge Transportation Energy Data Book - Table 2.16
My assumption is that buses are probably still reducing congestion, but in order to make use of them, there need to be enough off-peak buses that the overall ridership is not that great. I'm also gonna assume that self-driving minibuses and municipal cars could cut the off-peak energy use side of the equation.
I suggest maybe you read some Asimov again. The three laws weren't even a good idea in his novels. Although they do make for an interesting hook for a locked-room detective story.
So, you're going to reward bad drivers with a mark that signals other drivers to give them extra space?
Haha, but.. a class on 1,000 creation myths actually sounds like a pretty interesting class.
Not really. The statement is that it is consistently effective for a specific 10% of the population. Not that it is only effective 10% of the time for everyone.
Once you identify who is in the 10% and who is in the 90%, you stop using it for the 90%, so per-use it would actually be effective quite a bit more than 10% of the time.
So diving licences are the first step to rounding up cars? They are an attempt to limit your constitutionally guaranteed right to travel around?
In fact they are. If you take away someone's driver's license you severely limit their (legal) mobility. Impound their car, even more so. There's no amendment or clause specifically denying the government this power, and while the 10th might prevent the Federal government from licensing drivers, it's not actually done at the federal level.
The next time I see someone with a wheelchair using one of the curb cuts in my town, will be the first.
If it's anything like my town, it's because they built the sidwalks through the telephone poles, so the poles are in the middle of the sidewalks and sometimes there is a stone wall on the side creating a narrow passage and sometimes the pole is in the middle of the cuts themselves.
Or people are ok with the trade-offs they think they're ok with and assume those are the actual tradeoffs.
Oh, they might've paid a lost less than a million dollars for it.
From April, 2016:
At a conference on global security in London, a moderator asked James B. Comey Jr., the F.B.I. chief, how much bureau officials had to pay the undisclosed outside group to demonstrate how to bypass the phone’s encryption.
“A lot,” Mr. Comey said, as audience members at the Aspen Institute event laughed.
He continued: “Let’s see, more than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure.” ...
The F.B.I. director makes about $185,100 a year — so Mr. Comey stands to earn at least $1.35 million at that base rate of pay for the remainder of his 10-year term.
F.B.I. Director Suggests Bill for iPhone Hacking Topped $1.3 Million
So, the new lower bound for the cost of the hack now that we've actually measured how much time Comey really had left is about $170,000.
...the price-out of the support service economy since nobody can afford to be a barista on the peninsula.
Shouldn't that part, at least, be self-correcting? If there is demand for coffee then the price should rise until the baristas can be paid enough to afford the rent?
what about 0/0 ?
Hahaha, you think the oil barons oppose wind and solar? Every installed MW of wind and solar needs to be backed up with reliable on-demand capacity to make up for cloudy or calm days and oil and natural gas plants are the fastest to bring up to speed.
They're promoting solar and wind to keep us from bringing up nuclear (and to a lesser extent, harass coal).
Is anyone going to try to make that argument? I bet the supremes decline to hear it, but it would definitely be interesting to see how that goes.
You do realize that under the opposite system the rich and connected ... do whatever they want and stomp on the poor, except everwhere instead of just most places.
When you create new levers of federal power, who do you think is going to be most interested and able to manipulate them?
Have you quantified the strategy of only using measurable policies vs. using "best practices" based on some other measure to determine if it is, in fact, a better strategy?
My guess is that they bought it as real estate speculation and just threw in some disposable "office stuff" to try to get some use out of it while waiting for prices to grise. There doesn't seem to be anything in those pictures that couldn't be packed up and moved out in a single day.
I'm pretty sure that notes with numerologically interesting serial numbers do get sold on auction sites for more than face value though.
Quick google search confirms
The software itself doesn't need to be open source, the algorithim and data need to be public knowledge. Otherwise we - the public - can't confirm whether we're just making the courts more efficient or whether we're institutionalizing undesired biases or creating other injustices.
... GZIP'd XML is more compact than uncompressed XML, so which do you think is faster to parse? Yeah, the uncompressed (LARGER) XML.
That's not strictly accurate, whatever the base format is. Whether the uncompressed version is faster to parse depends greatly on memory speed. It can take longer to pull in the uncompressed version and parse it than the compressed version due the time wasted fetching from higher-level, slower memory.
It's not intuitive that decompression + parsing should be faster than parsing alone, but it is far from improbable.
You can still have the best shave of your life with one, if you you've never shaved any other way.
Are you saying you're better than Hawaii?
Do men "negotiate harder" or are men more likely to accept the risk of rejection? The former could be tested by having professional negotiators to separate the candidate from the employer for that part of the hiring process. But the latter can't.
If your negotiator comes back with a number and says they think they can get more with another round, at some point the decision belongs to the candidate.
Does that require or forbid use of the Volume Shadow Service on the drives it resides on?
I'm always suspicious of those news reports. I saw one accompanied by video of a firefighting aircraft taken from the exact trajectory the drone was reported to have followed in relation to the aircraft. The video wasn't a reconstruction or recreation, although I suppose it could've been stock footage, but the path of the observer in relation to the reported trajectory was very suspicious.
My suspicion is that the drones that the firefighters are complaining about are operated by the news organizations covering the fires (and also covering the "drone problem") and not by hobbyists. This would explain their larger size, range, and performance characteristics compared to typical commercially available drones - they're specialty drones designed for the express purpose of capturing video over long distances and altitudes.
I think you'll find it listed under the 9th amendment.