While I 100% agree with your post, this situation seems different.
If I understand you correctly, you are balancing the issue of offshore workers -vs- American workers. Disney is totally within their rights to offshore workers. But this case is about *how* the offshoring is done. Disney contracted H1B workers to shadow the Disney employees and learn their jobs. That work should not have been done by H1B workers. So what will the plaintiffs get if they win? Compensation for that period of time where Disney abused the H1B system? Or maybe the government will file criminal charges and Disney could get a fine? But it won't bring back the jobs.
Rockoon is either trolling or totally misreading the conversation, ignore him. No one in this thread said that there were not blackouts. This thread is a discussion about the cause of the blackouts, and weighing the risks of interconnected grids in light of the Northeast blackout of 2003. It's a good discussion, keep that part going.
That article about the 2003 blackout does not say that the cause was the interconnected grids. Based on that article, it sounds like interconnected grids are a good thing, they just need appropriate fault protections.
Besides, blackouts are *great* for the reducing carbon emissions.:-)
You are right that scaling a single plant is cheaper on paper. But practically, it is very difficult. Building smaller might help.
The problem is that large plants are too darned expensive, and take too long to build to be practical. By the time you build one and start it, the economics have changed. Other plants have likely been built to fill the power need. They are super expensive to decommission. So expensive that we drag our feet until they become unsafe. Since they take so long, we don't iterate through designs quickly, so we build the same obsolete reactor for decades. Heck, it takes so long it is probably obsolete by the time the zoning permits are stamped. When a safety issue does come up, it's a matter of national security because the scale is so large. And since we don't build them often enough, it is hard to keep a trained work force. Nobody is going into school for it since it is seen as a dead end.
The engineer can point to a large plant and say "This 2200MW nuclear plant cost less to build per megawatt than building 100 smaller plants, and has a lower cost per kilowatt-hour than 2200MV of coal." But a smart economist will point out that efficiency doesn't matter if the plant never gets built.
This issue also depends on the definition of "small."
The navy builds small nuclear engines for subs. They build them on their own and park them in the ports of major cities where you could never get a permit to build such a plant. Heck, they should just build some cheap subs and deploy them around the country and connect them to the power grid. Those subs are like 30MW instead of 1000MW, but at least we would be building them, learning, and reducing the costs.
Fair enough. But isn't this the same argument people make against illegal immigration? While H1-B visas replace college-educated white-collar workers, illegal immigrants replace blue-collar workers. It's the same problem, just with different paperwork involved.
(I won't limit this to white males, because I have worked at places where I was the only white-male on the team, surrounded by Asians.)
What distinguishes science and pseudoscience is the scientific method.
The quack inventors aren't using science to propose a new idea like a sub-space field, then creating a test to confirm it. They are usually building something that science can already explain perfectly, then hand-waving away the difficult bits, and drawing an unsupported conclusion. By contrast, when someone asks a question, writes a theory, then builds a device to test that theory -- that's not a quack, that's a scientist.
Example: The EM drive. While everyone was skeptical, it was real scenc. It dealt with an area of physics that there wasn't 100% agreement on, there was a written formula, and it was testable.
Source goes in source control, so that should take care of the "syncing hassles" regardless of what IDE is used. I'm unclear how online IDEs work with source control. I am trying to think of what other things you are talking about syncing.
Perhaps my confusion is the definition of "grid tie." I think the clarifying question might be "what is the difference between the fees paid by a power supplier and a resident?"
Remember, the coal power station doesn't pay a grid tie.
Is that true? Are you sure? That seems strange. One of the objections to remote power stations is the cost of building power lines to them. But here you are saying they don't pay for those lines. I'm confused.
When I use node.js I want 100% of node.js available
It would be.
The OP is referring to features of the JavaScript engine, not features of the node environment. Think of it as the difference between the compiler and the platform. I can write C++ code on Windows using gcc, msvc, or llvm. Each compiler offers different features. But either way, 100% of the Windows API is available. Using another platform as an example: I can write C++ code on Linux using gcc or llvm. Both offer different features. But both support 100% of the POSIX APIs.
Node.js' use cases are not limited to running a Node.js server. Embedding the core inside a bigger application
Ding ding ding!!!
I am working on a project that needed an internal scripting engine. We first looked at nodeJS, but then realized exactly the limitation you point out: we can't "embed" node inside of an app. So I can't make in-process calls to/from JavaScript. There are various other wrappers that allow you to embed V8 into apps, and we went with one of those. But if Node supported that mode of operation, we would have used it. Most other scripting languages work this way: They are in-process libraries that let you call into and out of the language.
There is no standard Javascript engine implementation, and no standard for linking to JavaScript engines. So that isn't really an option here. I suppose someone could create a standard interface for linking to JavaScript engines, and make node.js support that. Then someone would have to either update V8 and ChakraCore to support that, or make an adapter.
Hmm... now that you fooled me into proposing a way to make it possible to do as you suggest, I actually like that approach
Why would a right suddenly not apply, just because someone put "on the internet" on the end? Are you one of those people who adds "on a computer" or "on the internet" to the end of patents?
Even if that is true, it is irrelevant in a comparison of video games, where a quality video card driver is almost exclusively the only relevant factor.
Well said. I will be forwarding this post to friends and family. And next time my son is off school, he is coming to work with me - no matter how bored he may get.
, but, seriously, at what point do we have to ask our legislators to step in and call BS on this kind of stuff?
What exactly would you ask a legislator to do? How is the DMCA relevant to transmission fluid?
It seems like the free market is already solving this problem. One solution you listed was starting a company that makes and sells the fluid cheaper. Another, that you indirectly mentioned already, is to reduce the car's value by $500. Another is to buy a car that doesn't have this expensive lubrication cost.
If I had control of loudspeakers that could cover a large area like that, I would have it repeat a recording of someone saying "ok google show me silly pictures of Kim Jong-un." Unfortunately, they probably don't have too many smart phones over there.
I use private/incognito mode to access my bank, so that I can be sure there are no XSS attacks. It's also useful for browsing pages you are working on so that you know nothing is cached. Plus you can have two simultaneous sessions going with the same browser, but cookies and history won't be shared. It is also good for testing supercookies.
I kinda like the idea of every tab being a "private mode" tab. It's kinda how the web was intended to be in the first place.
Also consider that they were willing to move to another state. They may be more likely to vote, speak out, donate to political groups, and run for office. Half the problem in the US is that almost no decent normal human being will dare run for office. (Obligatory Douglas Adams quote)
I need a digital pantry that can tell me the contents. I get sick of my wife coming home telling me there was a sale where she got 2 containers of mustard for the price of 1, because I inevitably go into our pantry and find 5 containers of mustard already there, buried way in the back.
So let me get this straight: You think the song is Metamorphosis Five. Someone else thinks it is Metamorphosis One. There is an external citation that says it is Metamorphosis One. You think your opinion should win, even though they have a citation and you don't.
This is no different from how Slashdot discussions go quite regularly. Someone posts "According to peer reviewed research posted in a presigious journal (include link here), X+Y = 7." Some Slashdotter posts "My name is PonyUnicorn75, and I say X+Y = 8 and I've got 20 years of experience in the industry to prove it!" Who would you believe?
You have confirmed for me that wikipedia is working perfectly. If you really care about that article so dang much, find some proof. Or contact the author of the citation and show they are wrong. Just making the change isn't editing. Editing isn't about posting your opinion: editing is work! It's research! The reason Wikipedia is losing editors is because the burden of proof has increased, and that is hard.
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While I 100% agree with your post, this situation seems different.
If I understand you correctly, you are balancing the issue of offshore workers -vs- American workers. Disney is totally within their rights to offshore workers. But this case is about *how* the offshoring is done. Disney contracted H1B workers to shadow the Disney employees and learn their jobs. That work should not have been done by H1B workers. So what will the plaintiffs get if they win? Compensation for that period of time where Disney abused the H1B system? Or maybe the government will file criminal charges and Disney could get a fine? But it won't bring back the jobs.
Rockoon is either trolling or totally misreading the conversation, ignore him. No one in this thread said that there were not blackouts. This thread is a discussion about the cause of the blackouts, and weighing the risks of interconnected grids in light of the Northeast blackout of 2003. It's a good discussion, keep that part going.
That article about the 2003 blackout does not say that the cause was the interconnected grids. Based on that article, it sounds like interconnected grids are a good thing, they just need appropriate fault protections.
Besides, blackouts are *great* for the reducing carbon emissions. :-)
You are right that scaling a single plant is cheaper on paper. But practically, it is very difficult. Building smaller might help.
The problem is that large plants are too darned expensive, and take too long to build to be practical. By the time you build one and start it, the economics have changed. Other plants have likely been built to fill the power need. They are super expensive to decommission. So expensive that we drag our feet until they become unsafe. Since they take so long, we don't iterate through designs quickly, so we build the same obsolete reactor for decades. Heck, it takes so long it is probably obsolete by the time the zoning permits are stamped. When a safety issue does come up, it's a matter of national security because the scale is so large. And since we don't build them often enough, it is hard to keep a trained work force. Nobody is going into school for it since it is seen as a dead end.
The engineer can point to a large plant and say "This 2200MW nuclear plant cost less to build per megawatt than building 100 smaller plants, and has a lower cost per kilowatt-hour than 2200MV of coal." But a smart economist will point out that efficiency doesn't matter if the plant never gets built.
This issue also depends on the definition of "small."
The navy builds small nuclear engines for subs. They build them on their own and park them in the ports of major cities where you could never get a permit to build such a plant. Heck, they should just build some cheap subs and deploy them around the country and connect them to the power grid. Those subs are like 30MW instead of 1000MW, but at least we would be building them, learning, and reducing the costs.
Fair enough. But isn't this the same argument people make against illegal immigration? While H1-B visas replace college-educated white-collar workers, illegal immigrants replace blue-collar workers. It's the same problem, just with different paperwork involved.
(I won't limit this to white males, because I have worked at places where I was the only white-male on the team, surrounded by Asians.)
FYI: Theranos has quite a controversial background of articles here at Slashdot:
In October, they were called "vaporware."
In November, they were "disruptive."
In December, they had alleged data manipulation.
What distinguishes science and pseudoscience is the scientific method.
The quack inventors aren't using science to propose a new idea like a sub-space field, then creating a test to confirm it. They are usually building something that science can already explain perfectly, then hand-waving away the difficult bits, and drawing an unsupported conclusion. By contrast, when someone asks a question, writes a theory, then builds a device to test that theory -- that's not a quack, that's a scientist.
Example: The EM drive. While everyone was skeptical, it was real scenc. It dealt with an area of physics that there wasn't 100% agreement on, there was a written formula, and it was testable.
How about online voting?
: 1) No syncing hassles across machines.
What do you mean by that? Syncing what?
Source goes in source control, so that should take care of the "syncing hassles" regardless of what IDE is used. I'm unclear how online IDEs work with source control. I am trying to think of what other things you are talking about syncing.
Could a blockchain be used to create a tamper-proof log file?
Perhaps my confusion is the definition of "grid tie." I think the clarifying question might be "what is the difference between the fees paid by a power supplier and a resident?"
Remember, the coal power station doesn't pay a grid tie.
Is that true? Are you sure? That seems strange. One of the objections to remote power stations is the cost of building power lines to them. But here you are saying they don't pay for those lines. I'm confused.
When I use node.js I want 100% of node.js available
It would be.
The OP is referring to features of the JavaScript engine, not features of the node environment. Think of it as the difference between the compiler and the platform. I can write C++ code on Windows using gcc, msvc, or llvm. Each compiler offers different features. But either way, 100% of the Windows API is available. Using another platform as an example: I can write C++ code on Linux using gcc or llvm. Both offer different features. But both support 100% of the POSIX APIs.
Node.js' use cases are not limited to running a Node.js server. Embedding the core inside a bigger application
Ding ding ding!!!
I am working on a project that needed an internal scripting engine. We first looked at nodeJS, but then realized exactly the limitation you point out: we can't "embed" node inside of an app. So I can't make in-process calls to/from JavaScript. There are various other wrappers that allow you to embed V8 into apps, and we went with one of those. But if Node supported that mode of operation, we would have used it. Most other scripting languages work this way: They are in-process libraries that let you call into and out of the language.
There is no standard Javascript engine implementation, and no standard for linking to JavaScript engines. So that isn't really an option here. I suppose someone could create a standard interface for linking to JavaScript engines, and make node.js support that. Then someone would have to either update V8 and ChakraCore to support that, or make an adapter.
Hmm... now that you fooled me into proposing a way to make it possible to do as you suggest, I actually like that approach
Why would a right suddenly not apply, just because someone put "on the internet" on the end? Are you one of those people who adds "on a computer" or "on the internet" to the end of patents?
Even if that is true, it is irrelevant in a comparison of video games, where a quality video card driver is almost exclusively the only relevant factor.
Well said. I will be forwarding this post to friends and family. And next time my son is off school, he is coming to work with me - no matter how bored he may get.
, but, seriously, at what point do we have to ask our legislators to step in and call BS on this kind of stuff?
What exactly would you ask a legislator to do? How is the DMCA relevant to transmission fluid?
It seems like the free market is already solving this problem. One solution you listed was starting a company that makes and sells the fluid cheaper. Another, that you indirectly mentioned already, is to reduce the car's value by $500. Another is to buy a car that doesn't have this expensive lubrication cost.
They didn't ban it. They were just misapplying a completely unrelated law.
If I had control of loudspeakers that could cover a large area like that, I would have it repeat a recording of someone saying "ok google show me silly pictures of Kim Jong-un." Unfortunately, they probably don't have too many smart phones over there.
I use private/incognito mode to access my bank, so that I can be sure there are no XSS attacks. It's also useful for browsing pages you are working on so that you know nothing is cached. Plus you can have two simultaneous sessions going with the same browser, but cookies and history won't be shared. It is also good for testing supercookies.
I kinda like the idea of every tab being a "private mode" tab. It's kinda how the web was intended to be in the first place.
Also consider that they were willing to move to another state. They may be more likely to vote, speak out, donate to political groups, and run for office. Half the problem in the US is that almost no decent normal human being will dare run for office. (Obligatory Douglas Adams quote)
I need a digital pantry that can tell me the contents. I get sick of my wife coming home telling me there was a sale where she got 2 containers of mustard for the price of 1, because I inevitably go into our pantry and find 5 containers of mustard already there, buried way in the back.
Thank you for finally posting an example.
So let me get this straight: You think the song is Metamorphosis Five. Someone else thinks it is Metamorphosis One. There is an external citation that says it is Metamorphosis One. You think your opinion should win, even though they have a citation and you don't.
This is no different from how Slashdot discussions go quite regularly. Someone posts "According to peer reviewed research posted in a presigious journal (include link here), X+Y = 7." Some Slashdotter posts "My name is PonyUnicorn75, and I say X+Y = 8 and I've got 20 years of experience in the industry to prove it!" Who would you believe?
You have confirmed for me that wikipedia is working perfectly. If you really care about that article so dang much, find some proof. Or contact the author of the citation and show they are wrong. Just making the change isn't editing. Editing isn't about posting your opinion: editing is work! It's research! The reason Wikipedia is losing editors is because the burden of proof has increased, and that is hard.