That is a very good question. A look here shows we are still not as warm as it was 6000- 8000 years ago during a what they call an OPTIMUM. Inother words, we are sub-optimum right now, and we need more heat.
And if you go back further to the Pliocene, "The global average temperature in the mid-Pliocene (3.3 Ma–3 Ma) was 2–3 C higher than today, global sea level 25m higher, and the northern hemisphere ice sheet was ephemeral before the onset of extensive glaciation over Greenland that occurred in the late Pliocene around 3 Ma."
So you might want to tell the kids to buy a house at least 25 meters above current sea level, (and if you live on the west coast this is already a good idea due to the Cascadia subduction system) but other than that, life if not going to end if we get back to the Pliocene conditions.
This wouldn't seem to be at all useful in a pandemic. It's not like they spread that fast.
If you are in the affected area of a earthquake you would already know, but for an incoming tsunami it would certainly be useful. I sure hope they don't go crazy with this. I turned off the other alerts due to too many stupid alarms. 35 mph does not rate a high wind warning.
21 years ago (1997) my Ph.D. dissertation was on the same general topic. If the current data pattern was not in the training set, the output blew up in arbitrary ways. That is a natural outcome of having the regressed weights in the hidden layers. The output is non-linear with respect to the inputs, and poof, your Tesla runs full speed into a parked fire truck.
Clearly there is still no solution to the problem.
Facebook is entirely free to edit as they see fit, but they need to disclose it up front, not buried on page 79 of the EULA or whatever.
A simple banner or subtitle would do:âFacebook is a loyal servant of the All-Glorious State.â That would tell you all that you need to know about what is allowed and not allowed on the sight.
On the other side you have âoeA subdivision of Koch Industries.â And so forth. Itâ(TM)s when they claim to be impartial and then are proven not to be that gets people riled up.
The red button on my motorcycle just cuts power to the ignition coils. Itâ(TM)s a simple concept. These overly electronic cars really need the same thing.
Common knowledge, the Chinese want that NW corner of the country more settled, so they built a hydroelectric station and offered free power to any company that set up a plant there. GCL is moving a plant there too. There is no way you can make poly with a Seimens reactor for $8 a kg without free electricity.
You might also consider the amount of the tariffs. The ones you allude too were much less than 59% they put on polysilicon. You might also compare this to the way they took over the rare earth market. Same plan, simple, and it works, provided you can absorb the losses where driving the competition out of business. See also, Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, and any number of railroad barons from the 19th century.
Same here. Sky went dark in 2004. The promised digital translators never were installed I suspect because the stations decided that spending money to install, operate, and maintain transmitters is less optimal than charging Dish or Direct fees to carry the broadcast on their hardware.
By the way, there is no cable here either. Itâ(TM)s satellite or quiet. Iâ(TM)ll take the quiet, but I do occasionally wonder if something might be happening outside of sight radius that the internet is not reporting.
RECSilicon, Wacker, and Hemlock would be very pleased to sell the Chinese polysilicon. All the Chinese need to do is drop the 59% tariff they put on it.
REC can make polysilicon for less than $11/kg. Take the tariff off and they could restart the other half the plant in 3 or4 months. Currently itâ(TM)s shut down due to oversupply outside of China, which is caused by the Chinese tariffs. 80% of the demand is in China, but less than 80% of the polysilicon production is in China.
By the way, this particular trade war trade war was started by Obama.
P.S. RECâ(TM)s quarterly report has more information on the trade war. You can browse the old ones to see how it developed over the years.
They demand the end of commercial air travel. After all, it's not necessary to humanity, (we lived without it until less than a hundred years ago), and it puts out a lot of CO2, and it's not possible to electrify in the foreseeable future.
Until then, it's "make someone else change or pay so that I can keep my perks."
I hear you. My first mac was an SE-30 in 1989. My last is apparently going to be the 2009 mini. When it was my planned time to upgrade in 2013, Apple had nothing worth buying. mostly due to poor video. I waited until 2014 to see if they did better, and they downgraded the entire mini lineup. So I ended up with a Gigibyte Brix Pro, i5 version. Outfitted it to better than the highest end mini for the cost of the mid-range model. I ran it as a hackintosh for a year, then swapped out to Windows 10. Apple has about as much spyware as Microsoft now, so there is not that much difference there. And I did figure out how to make that 2-D dock-like thing useful.
So yes, they are too busy being a phone company to care about the computers. As Jobs famously said;"I'd milk the Mac for all it's worth, then get on the the next great thing." The company stayed true to that vision. And since I have no use for a smart phone, I'm done buying their products.
"Third, blue LEDs were cool when they were introduced, now they're just annoying. Blue is blinding, red is agressive. Why not switch back to green LEDs?"
I agree. Save the reds for actual faults/errors. You have orange, yellow and green LEDs to choose from for general information. If they are worried about color-blind people they could use a blue-green LED instead of pure green.
Or we relocate Callisto, as in arrange a collision between Mars and Callisto. If that isn't enough energy to remelt Mar's core, then add Mercury. Or probably bang Mercury and Mars together first, then drop in Callisto so you don't lose the water that makes up Callisto. That might get you a habitable planet once the crust hardens up again.
I continue to be amazed that people actually want to abolish nuclear weapons just so we can all-out conventional slugfests again. Just the battle of the Marne.
The best way to prevent large wars is to make sure that the old men and women get to play too. The thought of living in a bunker for a few years then ruling a world of ash seems to calm down even John McCain.
What kind of Socialist is very important. Sweden-socialist, or Venezuela-socialist, or Great Leap Forward socialist, or Pol-Pot socialist? Only one of those four flavors can be claimed to work at all.
"and the country will finally achieve equity in its public school system."
As if the inequity was due to the books. When they figure out how to motivate the parents equally, then they might get somewhere on the equal results front.
"There is virtually no competition on the content side, they set a price and demand it."
And I told them to pack sand. Them being Dish. There is no cable where I live, nor anything over the air. (I didn't check Direct TV, I saw no reason they would be better than Dish, so didn't bother.)
Don't miss it much either. I'm tired of people screeching BUY-BUY-BUY in my ear.
I ran your link, and rifles were 323, and shotguns were 356. Total is 679, so parent is correct. Bare hands (726) kill more than rifles and shotguns combined.
However, there are 1684 "undefined gun" homicides in the list. Not sure what is up with that. Never recovered the weapon, so couldn't say for sure?
Incidentally the homicide count for knives is 1694. So knives kill more people than assault rifles and assault shotguns combined by a two to one margin.
""More people are killed by 'bare hands' than by rifles or shotguns." The rifles and shotguns are the important part. Previous poster was discussing the fraction of total firearm murders done with long guns vs handguns.
So, were more than 726 people killed with rifles and shotguns? It's probably buried somewhere in that same report.
"gradually moving toward restoration of something that resembles, at least faintly, the original lake trout and perch ecosystem"
The original ecosystem was a very large block of ice as of 25,000 years ago. The repopulation of the lakes after the glaciers melted back was very like the "freshly filled reservoir in the West." The upper Mississippi could repopulate from southern reaches, but how did the native (to humans) fish get back in the Lakes in the first place?
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That is a very good question. A look here shows we are still not as warm as it was 6000- 8000 years ago during a what they call an OPTIMUM. Inother words, we are sub-optimum right now, and we need more heat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And if you go back further to the Pliocene, "The global average temperature in the mid-Pliocene (3.3 Ma–3 Ma) was 2–3 C higher than today, global sea level 25m higher, and the northern hemisphere ice sheet was ephemeral before the onset of extensive glaciation over Greenland that occurred in the late Pliocene around 3 Ma."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and
https://www.scientificamerican...
So you might want to tell the kids to buy a house at least 25 meters above current sea level, (and if you live on the west coast this is already a good idea due to the Cascadia subduction system) but other than that, life if not going to end if we get back to the Pliocene conditions.
Granted the peril may be different than originally anticipated, but still a worthy development.
This wouldn't seem to be at all useful in a pandemic. It's not like they spread that fast.
If you are in the affected area of a earthquake you would already know, but for an incoming tsunami it would certainly be useful. I sure hope they don't go crazy with this. I turned off the other alerts due to too many stupid alarms. 35 mph does not rate a high wind warning.
21 years ago (1997) my Ph.D. dissertation was on the same general topic. If the current data pattern was not in the training set, the output blew up in arbitrary ways. That is a natural outcome of having the regressed weights in the hidden layers. The output is non-linear with respect to the inputs, and poof, your Tesla runs full speed into a parked fire truck.
Clearly there is still no solution to the problem.
Iâ(TM)ve always wondered that too. Iâ(TM)ve done
7:30 to 4:00
7:00 to 3:30
And 8:00 to 5:00, plus occasional rotating shifts.
Facebook is entirely free to edit as they see fit, but they need to disclose it up front, not buried on page 79 of the EULA or whatever.
A simple banner or subtitle would do:âFacebook is a loyal servant of the All-Glorious State.â That would tell you all that you need to know about what is allowed and not allowed on the sight.
On the other side you have âoeA subdivision of Koch Industries.â And so forth. Itâ(TM)s when they claim to be impartial and then are proven not to be that gets people riled up.
The red button on my motorcycle just cuts power to the ignition coils. Itâ(TM)s a simple concept. These overly electronic cars really need the same thing.
Common knowledge, the Chinese want that NW corner of the country more settled, so they built a hydroelectric station and offered free power to any company that set up a plant there. GCL is moving a plant there too. There is no way you can make poly with a Seimens reactor for $8 a kg without free electricity.
You might also consider the amount of the tariffs. The ones you allude too were much less than 59% they put on polysilicon. You might also compare this to the way they took over the rare earth market. Same plan, simple, and it works, provided you can absorb the losses where driving the competition out of business. See also, Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, and any number of railroad barons from the 19th century.
It applies to US produced polysilicon shipped over there.
The Chinese want a monopoly on PV panels and the entire supply chain, and to that end anything goes. Daqo gets free electricity for one example.
Same here. Sky went dark in 2004. The promised digital translators never were installed I suspect because the stations decided that spending money to install, operate, and maintain transmitters is less optimal than charging Dish or Direct fees to carry the broadcast on their hardware.
By the way, there is no cable here either. Itâ(TM)s satellite or quiet. Iâ(TM)ll take the quiet, but I do occasionally wonder if something might be happening outside of sight radius that the internet is not reporting.
RECSilicon, Wacker, and Hemlock would be very pleased to sell the Chinese polysilicon. All the Chinese need to do is drop the 59% tariff they put on it.
REC can make polysilicon for less than $11/kg. Take the tariff off and they could restart the other half the plant in 3 or4 months. Currently itâ(TM)s shut down due to oversupply outside of China, which is caused by the Chinese tariffs. 80% of the demand is in China, but less than 80% of the polysilicon production is in China.
By the way, this particular trade war trade war was started by Obama.
P.S. RECâ(TM)s quarterly report has more information on the trade war. You can browse the old ones to see how it developed over the years.
They demand the end of commercial air travel. After all, it's not necessary to humanity, (we lived without it until less than a hundred years ago), and it puts out a lot of CO2, and it's not possible to electrify in the foreseeable future.
Until then, it's "make someone else change or pay so that I can keep my perks."
I hear you. My first mac was an SE-30 in 1989. My last is apparently going to be the 2009 mini. When it was my planned time to upgrade in 2013, Apple had nothing worth buying. mostly due to poor video. I waited until 2014 to see if they did better, and they downgraded the entire mini lineup. So I ended up with a Gigibyte Brix Pro, i5 version. Outfitted it to better than the highest end mini for the cost of the mid-range model. I ran it as a hackintosh for a year, then swapped out to Windows 10. Apple has about as much spyware as Microsoft now, so there is not that much difference there. And I did figure out how to make that 2-D dock-like thing useful.
So yes, they are too busy being a phone company to care about the computers. As Jobs famously said;"I'd milk the Mac for all it's worth, then get on the the next great thing." The company stayed true to that vision. And since I have no use for a smart phone, I'm done buying their products.
"Third, blue LEDs were cool when they were introduced, now they're just annoying. Blue is blinding, red is agressive. Why not switch back to green LEDs?"
I agree. Save the reds for actual faults/errors. You have orange, yellow and green LEDs to choose from for general information. If they are worried about color-blind people they could use a blue-green LED instead of pure green.
"Getting a signature that no teller ever verifies or checking the name against your ID (which again, never actually happens)?"
It happens to me if there is more than $100 at stake. And I'm a white male to boot.
Or we relocate Callisto, as in arrange a collision between Mars and Callisto. If that isn't enough energy to remelt Mar's core, then add Mercury. Or probably bang Mercury and Mars together first, then drop in Callisto so you don't lose the water that makes up Callisto. That might get you a habitable planet once the crust hardens up again.
I continue to be amazed that people actually want to abolish nuclear weapons just so we can all-out conventional slugfests again. Just the battle of the Marne.
The best way to prevent large wars is to make sure that the old men and women get to play too. The thought of living in a bunker for a few years then ruling a world of ash seems to calm down even John McCain.
What kind of Socialist is very important. Sweden-socialist, or Venezuela-socialist, or Great Leap Forward socialist, or Pol-Pot socialist? Only one of those four flavors can be claimed to work at all.
"and the country will finally achieve equity in its public school system."
As if the inequity was due to the books. When they figure out how to motivate the parents equally, then they might get somewhere on the equal results front.
Read E. C. Pielou, specifically After the Ice Age. It's a nice description of what happened last time we had climate change.
As of 1990, we were still not as warm as we were 10,000 years ago. The Milankovitch cycle still continues, and the next ice age approaches.
"Possibly more interesting to know which foods are free of DNA."
Distilled water and pure grain alcohol of course.
"There is virtually no competition on the content side, they set a price and demand it."
And I told them to pack sand. Them being Dish. There is no cable where I live, nor anything over the air. (I didn't check Direct TV, I saw no reason they would be better than Dish, so didn't bother.)
Don't miss it much either. I'm tired of people screeching BUY-BUY-BUY in my ear.
I ran your link, and rifles were 323, and shotguns were 356. Total is 679, so parent is correct. Bare hands (726) kill more than rifles and shotguns combined.
However, there are 1684 "undefined gun" homicides in the list. Not sure what is up with that. Never recovered the weapon, so couldn't say for sure?
Incidentally the homicide count for knives is 1694. So knives kill more people than assault rifles and assault shotguns combined by a two to one margin.
You didn't read the question;
""More people are killed by 'bare hands' than by rifles or shotguns." The rifles and shotguns are the important part. Previous poster was discussing the fraction of total firearm murders done with long guns vs handguns.
So, were more than 726 people killed with rifles and shotguns? It's probably buried somewhere in that same report.
"gradually moving toward restoration of something that resembles, at least faintly, the original lake trout and perch ecosystem"
The original ecosystem was a very large block of ice as of 25,000 years ago. The repopulation of the lakes after the glaciers melted back was very like the "freshly filled reservoir in the West." The upper Mississippi could repopulate from southern reaches, but how did the native (to humans) fish get back in the Lakes in the first place?