I recently interviewed six candidates from Europe for a position that would be managed from the US. None of their CVs had an age or marital status. Perhaps they don't specify it for US based jobs. They all had graduation dates, so it wasn't hard to estimate their ages.
Once he selected NY as his state he was presented with a link to the NY site. That happened at the beginning of the federal site, before he started entering registration data. Once he got onto the NY site he had to enter registration data before he could compare plans.
My son just applied for insurance for his family through the NY exchange. I sat with him through the process just to see what it was like. The process was pretty painless and he found a plan that offered the same coverage as his current one for about $250 per month less. What I didn't like about the process is that you had to officially register in order to comparison shop.
It's not so much that they are throwing more bodies, but that for such a high profile web site they are just now bringing in the best and the brightest. Why weren't these people working on this project from the beginning? I don't know that it would have mattered though, as the main problem seems to have been that too much of the requirements were not well defined until too late in t he development cycle. Software projects get delayed all the time, but this one seems to have been pushed out before it was thoroughly tested. My guess is that plenty of people knew this thing was half baked, but that the release date couldn't slip for political reasons.
Obama is choosing what to close and what not to close. Closing these facilities, national parks, monuments, etc. is pure politics on his part. There are plenty of other things he could cut, and he could have cut a long time ago.
Without funding from a continuing resolution, how would Obama keep these facilities, national parks, monuments, etc. funded and running?
Doesn't it depend on whether the apps are considered to be something that is purchased at retail by the general consumer? Things like mechanical and powered wheelchairs, portable oxygen concentrators, glucose monitors and personal heart rate monitors are not taxed. NMR and x-ray machines are taxed.
Sea level rise is not uniform around the world. It can vary due to ocean currents and the prevailing wind patterns. The San Francisco Bay's level may also be affected by water flowing into it. Compare the graph you linked to to the following locations. They all have different rates of change. Atlantic City, NJ looks to have twice rate of increase of San Francisco. Galveston is increasing at three times the rate of San Francisco. There may be natural forces holding back the sea level rise at San Francisco, but even those can hold back the sea for only so long.
I live in upstate NY, in the Finger Lakes region. Our power is pretty reliable. There are outages, but nothing like a couple of hours monthly. Two or three times per year we lose power briefly. We lost power for several hours once in the last year. All of our power outages seem to happen during high wind events that cause trees to fall on power lines.
You don't seem to be saying that pension plans aren't underfunded, but that companies adequately funded their pension plans based on generally accepted guidelines. That may be the case, but it could be argued that those guidelines were inadequate or had so much wiggle room that it permitted companies to underfund their pension plans year after year and still say they were meeting their obligations. Many pension plans have assumed an unrealistic rate of return, which permitted them to contribute less than was needed to insure their pension plans were adequately funded. Many corporations, despite record profits, have underfunded their pension plans. Since it wasn't an immediate problems corporate boards just avoided the problem by generally ignoring it. Take IBM, for example. IBM's pension plan has obligations of $106.1 billion, it has assets of $91.7 billion. IBM could have put more into its pension plan to insure that it didn't have a $14 billion gap, but it would rather use that money towards its goal of an EPS of $20 in 2015.
Private pension plans have reached a record level of underfunding. As reported here, companies in Standard & Poor’s 500 collectively reported that at the end of their most recent fiscal years, their pension plans had obligations of $1.68 trillion and assets of just $1.32 trillion. General Electric's pensions are underfunded by over $20 billion. AT&T, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford Motor, I.B.M. and Lockheed Martin all have pension plans that are underfunded by over $10 billion. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which insures pensions, has a deficit of over $30 billion. The PBGC attributes its shortfall to its inability to charge private employers adequate premiums for insuring pensions. When a private pension plan goes bust there's no guarantee that workers will get anywhere near what they had been promised. The PBGC ensures a maximum of $45,000 a year in benefits for those who retired at 65, but considerably less for those who retired younger. The PBGC's maximum coverage for those who retire at 60 is $28,000. It's not too hard to find instances of retirees seeing their pensions falling by 50% when the company funding them goes bankrupt.
-"... using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM"
Phew.. here i was thinking it'd need some unrealisticalll high specs from my PC!!
My Thinkpad W530 has 32GB of RAM. Maybe you need a new PC.
You can't compare the entire US to France, and that wasn't my point, but France is a huge piece of Europe. I don't think you can find a similarly large portion of the US that is as dependent on nuclear. And while climate does give an advantage to Europe, I have noticed that Europeans tend to be more conservative in they ways that they use energy. I think this is a result of the US historically having such vast stores of fossil fuel and Europe being impoverished after WWII. If energy is relatively more expensive you are going to be more frugal in your use of it. The US is making progress, but it has a long way to go before it's on a par with Western Europe.
A lot of the reason there is more forest in the US is that areas like the northeast US have seen a drastic drop off in small farms. This has resulted in a lot of land reverting to forest. I live in rural upstate NY and when I hike through the woods it is not uncommon to come across the foundations of buildings or the remnants of apple orchards. A lot of fields are no longer used for grazing and are starting to revert to forest. When cities do expand it's frequently not at the expense of forests but farmland, so there is no contradiction in saying that a region's population has grown tremendously but its forest have not declined very much.
West European countries would need to significantly raise their energy consumption or the US drastically lower its to have the US start approaching European levels of energy consumption. Even comparing urban dwellers, US cities tend to be much more car centric. You just can't consider living a middle class life in a great many US cities without a car for each working person. This is much less the case in Europe. And while the US has made great strides in improving the energy efficiency of its cars, West Europeans tend to drive much more fuel efficient cars than people in the US. It's not so much that people in Western Europe are more virtuous than people in the US, but that fuel is just so much more expensive. Raise the price of gasoline to $7/gal in the US and people would be driving very fuel efficient cars in a hurry. And then consider nuclear power. While it doesn't affect total energy consumption, it does affect a country's carbon footprint. France and Sweden dwarf the US in nuclear energy per capita. The Nordic countries rival the US in energy consumption, but I suspect a lot of that has to do with heating. It would be interesting to compare Minnesota to Norway.
Many times people don't have any idea how employable a degree is until they graduate with it. Right now you hear a lot about getting a STEM degree as being a good thing to do without any differentiation between how employable the different STEM degrees are. There are various official measurements of employment and unemployment, but they're general in nature. It would be really useful for people considering going to school for various majors if the government would collect and publish data on how people who graduated with degrees in those majors were doing 1, 5, and 10 years after graduation.
Because the roof has multiple joints that would be susceptible to leaking when the tape adhesive started to fail? The whole thing looks like it is held together by adhesive tape; just how durable is that?
They're going to be injecting the air into deep reservoirs that are already pretty hot to start with. Somewhere in the paper it stated that the temperature went as high as 175C in the basalt basin.
can you quote the >80% efficiency figure?
as far as I know, the peak efficiency for gas is around 65% for modern plants. real number for electricity generation is far lower, due to the 50+ year old coal plants. efficiency of old coal (or maybe even oil) plants can be as low as 35-40%
This article claims that thermal efficiency of up to 90% can be obtained in a gas cogeneration plant.
They did what they knew. They knew tech so they went into tech. If they had come out of the Harvard business school they would have been much more likely to have started ventures that were in finance and investment.
Any passenger in the car at the time could testify that you were not using the phone. If they were talking with someone at the time of the accident the other person on the call could verify that you were not on the phone.
I would say you are wrong. Nurses who work more weekends or off shifts tend to do so for three reasons.
Family reasons, either child care or the need to care for some other family member.
Money, some hospitals have attractive shift differentials.
New grads just starting out. But in no way does new mean shitty.
Night shifts in hospitals do tend to have more errors. When they look into it it's because the nurses are tired. People make more mistakes when they are tired. Most nurses who work night shift still have friends and family who socialize during normal hours. For a nurse who regularly works third shift it can be exhausting trying to attend social events planned around the day shift schedules and still get enough sleep to be rested for work.
It has always been about making a profit. It's just that there is more profit to be made in the US today due to a general lack of transparency of costs and a disconnect between costs and outcomes. If you can get past the paywall there is a great article in today's NY Times on part of the reason why medical care costs so much in the US.
If all the CO2 being produced by people was being absorb by plants CO2 in the atmosphere wouldn't have recently passed 400ppm and the oceans would not be getting more acidic. Any CO2 produced by people above a certain amount doesn't get benignly turned into extra plant material, it hangs around in the atmosphere or absorbed by the ocean.
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I recently interviewed six candidates from Europe for a position that would be managed from the US. None of their CVs had an age or marital status. Perhaps they don't specify it for US based jobs. They all had graduation dates, so it wasn't hard to estimate their ages.
Once he selected NY as his state he was presented with a link to the NY site. That happened at the beginning of the federal site, before he started entering registration data. Once he got onto the NY site he had to enter registration data before he could compare plans.
My son just applied for insurance for his family through the NY exchange. I sat with him through the process just to see what it was like. The process was pretty painless and he found a plan that offered the same coverage as his current one for about $250 per month less. What I didn't like about the process is that you had to officially register in order to comparison shop.
It's not so much that they are throwing more bodies, but that for such a high profile web site they are just now bringing in the best and the brightest. Why weren't these people working on this project from the beginning? I don't know that it would have mattered though, as the main problem seems to have been that too much of the requirements were not well defined until too late in t he development cycle. Software projects get delayed all the time, but this one seems to have been pushed out before it was thoroughly tested. My guess is that plenty of people knew this thing was half baked, but that the release date couldn't slip for political reasons.
Obama is choosing what to close and what not to close. Closing these facilities, national parks, monuments, etc. is pure politics on his part. There are plenty of other things he could cut, and he could have cut a long time ago.
Without funding from a continuing resolution, how would Obama keep these facilities, national parks, monuments, etc. funded and running?
Doesn't it depend on whether the apps are considered to be something that is purchased at retail by the general consumer? Things like mechanical and powered wheelchairs, portable oxygen concentrators, glucose monitors and personal heart rate monitors are not taxed. NMR and x-ray machines are taxed.
Sea level rise is not uniform around the world. It can vary due to ocean currents and the prevailing wind patterns. The San Francisco Bay's level may also be affected by water flowing into it. Compare the graph you linked to to the following locations. They all have different rates of change. Atlantic City, NJ looks to have twice rate of increase of San Francisco. Galveston is increasing at three times the rate of San Francisco. There may be natural forces holding back the sea level rise at San Francisco, but even those can hold back the sea for only so long.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8534720
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8771450
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8724580
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9410170
I live in upstate NY, in the Finger Lakes region. Our power is pretty reliable. There are outages, but nothing like a couple of hours monthly. Two or three times per year we lose power briefly. We lost power for several hours once in the last year. All of our power outages seem to happen during high wind events that cause trees to fall on power lines.
You don't seem to be saying that pension plans aren't underfunded, but that companies adequately funded their pension plans based on generally accepted guidelines. That may be the case, but it could be argued that those guidelines were inadequate or had so much wiggle room that it permitted companies to underfund their pension plans year after year and still say they were meeting their obligations. Many pension plans have assumed an unrealistic rate of return, which permitted them to contribute less than was needed to insure their pension plans were adequately funded. Many corporations, despite record profits, have underfunded their pension plans. Since it wasn't an immediate problems corporate boards just avoided the problem by generally ignoring it. Take IBM, for example. IBM's pension plan has obligations of $106.1 billion, it has assets of $91.7 billion. IBM could have put more into its pension plan to insure that it didn't have a $14 billion gap, but it would rather use that money towards its goal of an EPS of $20 in 2015.
Private pension plans have reached a record level of underfunding. As reported here, companies in Standard & Poor’s 500 collectively reported that at the end of their most recent fiscal years, their pension plans had obligations of $1.68 trillion and assets of just $1.32 trillion. General Electric's pensions are underfunded by over $20 billion. AT&T, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford Motor, I.B.M. and Lockheed Martin all have pension plans that are underfunded by over $10 billion. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which insures pensions, has a deficit of over $30 billion. The PBGC attributes its shortfall to its inability to charge private employers adequate premiums for insuring pensions. When a private pension plan goes bust there's no guarantee that workers will get anywhere near what they had been promised. The PBGC ensures a maximum of $45,000 a year in benefits for those who retired at 65, but considerably less for those who retired younger. The PBGC's maximum coverage for those who retire at 60 is $28,000. It's not too hard to find instances of retirees seeing their pensions falling by 50% when the company funding them goes bankrupt.
-"... using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM" Phew.. here i was thinking it'd need some unrealisticalll high specs from my PC!!
My Thinkpad W530 has 32GB of RAM. Maybe you need a new PC.
Is there any evidence that roundup ready crops are less nutritious?
It would be interesting to see what what China's numbers would look like without its impoverished rural population.
You can't compare the entire US to France, and that wasn't my point, but France is a huge piece of Europe. I don't think you can find a similarly large portion of the US that is as dependent on nuclear. And while climate does give an advantage to Europe, I have noticed that Europeans tend to be more conservative in they ways that they use energy. I think this is a result of the US historically having such vast stores of fossil fuel and Europe being impoverished after WWII. If energy is relatively more expensive you are going to be more frugal in your use of it. The US is making progress, but it has a long way to go before it's on a par with Western Europe.
A lot of the reason there is more forest in the US is that areas like the northeast US have seen a drastic drop off in small farms. This has resulted in a lot of land reverting to forest. I live in rural upstate NY and when I hike through the woods it is not uncommon to come across the foundations of buildings or the remnants of apple orchards. A lot of fields are no longer used for grazing and are starting to revert to forest. When cities do expand it's frequently not at the expense of forests but farmland, so there is no contradiction in saying that a region's population has grown tremendously but its forest have not declined very much.
West European countries would need to significantly raise their energy consumption or the US drastically lower its to have the US start approaching European levels of energy consumption. Even comparing urban dwellers, US cities tend to be much more car centric. You just can't consider living a middle class life in a great many US cities without a car for each working person. This is much less the case in Europe. And while the US has made great strides in improving the energy efficiency of its cars, West Europeans tend to drive much more fuel efficient cars than people in the US. It's not so much that people in Western Europe are more virtuous than people in the US, but that fuel is just so much more expensive. Raise the price of gasoline to $7/gal in the US and people would be driving very fuel efficient cars in a hurry. And then consider nuclear power. While it doesn't affect total energy consumption, it does affect a country's carbon footprint. France and Sweden dwarf the US in nuclear energy per capita. The Nordic countries rival the US in energy consumption, but I suspect a lot of that has to do with heating. It would be interesting to compare Minnesota to Norway.
Many times people don't have any idea how employable a degree is until they graduate with it. Right now you hear a lot about getting a STEM degree as being a good thing to do without any differentiation between how employable the different STEM degrees are. There are various official measurements of employment and unemployment, but they're general in nature. It would be really useful for people considering going to school for various majors if the government would collect and publish data on how people who graduated with degrees in those majors were doing 1, 5, and 10 years after graduation.
Because the roof has multiple joints that would be susceptible to leaking when the tape adhesive started to fail? The whole thing looks like it is held together by adhesive tape; just how durable is that?
They're going to be injecting the air into deep reservoirs that are already pretty hot to start with. Somewhere in the paper it stated that the temperature went as high as 175C in the basalt basin.
can you quote the >80% efficiency figure? as far as I know, the peak efficiency for gas is around 65% for modern plants. real number for electricity generation is far lower, due to the 50+ year old coal plants. efficiency of old coal (or maybe even oil) plants can be as low as 35-40%
This article claims that thermal efficiency of up to 90% can be obtained in a gas cogeneration plant.
While the US still has a lot of coal plants they are rapidly being replaced by ones burning natural gas. For details see http://www.brattle.com/_documents/UploadLibrary/Upload1082.pdf .
They did what they knew. They knew tech so they went into tech. If they had come out of the Harvard business school they would have been much more likely to have started ventures that were in finance and investment.
Any passenger in the car at the time could testify that you were not using the phone. If they were talking with someone at the time of the accident the other person on the call could verify that you were not on the phone.
I would say you are wrong. Nurses who work more weekends or off shifts tend to do so for three reasons.
Family reasons, either child care or the need to care for some other family member.
Money, some hospitals have attractive shift differentials.
New grads just starting out. But in no way does new mean shitty.
Night shifts in hospitals do tend to have more errors. When they look into it it's because the nurses are tired. People make more mistakes when they are tired. Most nurses who work night shift still have friends and family who socialize during normal hours. For a nurse who regularly works third shift it can be exhausting trying to attend social events planned around the day shift schedules and still get enough sleep to be rested for work.
It has always been about making a profit. It's just that there is more profit to be made in the US today due to a general lack of transparency of costs and a disconnect between costs and outcomes. If you can get past the paywall there is a great article in today's NY Times on part of the reason why medical care costs so much in the US.
If all the CO2 being produced by people was being absorb by plants CO2 in the atmosphere wouldn't have recently passed 400ppm and the oceans would not be getting more acidic. Any CO2 produced by people above a certain amount doesn't get benignly turned into extra plant material, it hangs around in the atmosphere or absorbed by the ocean.