Well, then you obviously don't live in a cold climate. There are a few times it's happened: bought a second hand car and the engine cut out as I was accelerating onto the highway from a ramp - no power brakes, abs or power steering in the middle of a snow storm with ~2cm ice on the road. The second time I had to avoid someone who suddenly slid into my lane from an on-ramp (student, first time in a cold climate from California, she tried to brake but obviously that doesn't work on a frozen highway).
Neither times did anything get hit but we regularly have sheets of ice on our highway for weeks or even months at a time, especially the smaller 2-lane highways less often traveled.
My GPS system does get live traffic updates including road closures and detours. There's this thing called cell phone modems, they allow you to exchange data on mobile devices.
In the first case, you brake, how many times have you had to make that decision in traffic and what would you do? In the few cases I've been in life-threatening situations in car, I try to brake first and then aim for the lightest/smallest object or anywhere that has more open space - you don't really get to think about the repercussions of a moral decision when your car is doing 360's on a frozen highway.
Most likely because Volvo is the only manufacturer that seems to actually working on useful sensors in cars (not just overpriced overhyped TensorFlow chips).
The reason former full time employees are working 20h a week is because of the increases in wages and benefits. ObamaCare forced most mom-and-pop quick service food places (pizza shops and the like) to start taking on people part time in order to avoid the excessive taxes. In the mean time, chains are popping up all over the place since they have big enough margins on crap food to take care of it.
Yeah, because nobody ever shopped for an elder or sick neighbor or family member.
I could easily shop for ~10 people at a time, there are about 3 stores for ~100,000 people and I often need to get through all three of them to get my groceries. What's more, two of those three deliver your groceries outside for free (a lot of stores are experimenting with this, since if successful, they could easily decimate the amount of space the stores take while preventing theft).
Moreover, my gas cost for grocery shopping is ~$5, if I can pay $5 to get my groceries delivered by one of my neighbors and 10 others do the same, the neighbor is getting $50 for driving back and forth to the store and all he has to do is pick up and deliver marked boxes.
This is the US, you always have welfare. A minimum income is practically guaranteed by the government these days, signing up for these contracts is not a full time job for any of those people.
Project managers in most cases are just a layer between two sets of other managers. If you have a good manager, you donâ(TM)t need a project manager.
Project managers are there to make sure that interactions between different managers on multi-departmental projects happen smoothly, they should not manage or get involved with what exactly the IT department produces, just make sure that they develop a solution that fits the needs for the overarching system. Make sure that the cleaning manager talks to the datacenter manager etc. get metrics on every teamâ(TM)s status but when project managers get involved with individual team members they have failed.
The main problem with projects and project managers is that most of them are micro-managers, the project is too small in scope to be considered a proper project or there is a serious breakdown in managerial skills.
If they're rough around the edges, they shouldn't be sold as a new product, but only given away to a test audience.
Microphones have been able to do noise cancellation for a few decades now, especially things that close to someone's jawbone, that shouldn't be an issue anymore today.
The iPhone screen system includes a false touch detection system. That way, if your phone is in your pocket and you brush a body part against it, it doesn't detect it as a touch or swipe. The problem with a sudden temperature differential (please note, differential, the phone would probably do the same at really hot temperatures) is that it is a similar read to the hardware as "holding an entire body part on the screen".
Many people working in hardware development have had to deal with similar issues at one point. Temperature differentials are very hard to distinguish on these type of hardware from a touch, hence why a lot of 'extreme environment' tools (eg. GPS units etc) still use resistive or infrared touch detection even though it's more expensive and less precise.
With capacitive touch screens, especially multi-touch and pressure-sensitive ones we're talking about plates that are micrometers apart. Temperature still has a physical impact (contraction/expansion) which causes your touch screen to require temperature calibration in software.
Most speakers these days are overdriven, the DSP simply compresses the sound, which also results in a buzzing and crackling sound when you do it too much.
Youâ(TM)re probably overdriving the speaker. With phones having to power over every other sound - like those people walking down the street with their phones on speaker - at some point you canâ(TM)t drive the coils in the speakers any harder and you get a buzzing or crackling sound at the peaks.
Every amp has that âoeproblemâ if itâ(TM)s more powerful than the speaker it drives.
Turn down your freaking phone, there is no reason to have your phone at maximum volume anywhere, hopefully the patch knocks the maximum volume down about 10dBm.
a) Amazon buckets didn't always come that way, it took some pressure for Amazon to accept that this was a poor default setting. b) In most of these cases, it's simply incompetence - I can't get OAuth to work, let's just set it to public and hope nobody guesses the bucket name.
Off course people distrust the media, CNN and Fox News is just a blog for left-wingers with some stuff from Reuters and AP thrown in there once in a while. Original reporting is hard to find and often you will find true investigations only on private blogs.
I think the point is to be concerned about the issues at hand that each candidate is trying to solve. Youâ(TM)re always going to have propaganda and nobody is truly qualified to lead a nation, they all promise lower taxes and more jobs, when you accept those things then all you can end up doing is look at what are they going to do, what can you hold them to.
Compare what Trump and Hillary say (because all evidence points to the next election being just that again) and how they are going to do it or how they are currently working on doing it. Are they working on uniting the nation, healthcare, bringing in better economies and jobs, even though not elected as president I believe that Johnson there is doing a lot more for his country than either of the majority party clowns.
This works on both sides though. Information is easier to disseminate whether it is true or false. The problem is that in politics, itâ(TM)s probably all true, from Benghazi to Pizzagate and from bankruptcies to pissing on some prostitutes; Iâ(TM)m willing to go out on a limb and say: thereâ(TM)s probably an air of truth in all of it and to deny that Clinton and her band is thoroughly corrupt or that Trump is a thoroughly perverted tax-evading capitalist is also true; statistically speaking they both have teh gays amongst their staff and they both have child molesters, murderers and idiots on their staff.
Actually research shows the opposite is true. People now have more access to information than ever and can think more critical about it.
Think back to the 80s/90s if you are old enough, how many newspapers did your house hold have? 1? 2 if your parents were in some sort of well paid business job. How many TV stations did you watch for the news? Again, 1 or 2.
People relied more on word of mouth which is much more powerful than even Facebook is. If your grandparents voted republican, everyone including your parents and extended family voted republican because the issues at hand and information within your community was just one big echo chamber. And if other people came over politics was one of those things that was taboo to even touch, right there with the fact uncle Franky was gay.
Now people are much more used to sharing their sentiments, thanks primarily to the predecessors of Facebook (IRC, NNTP etc) the younger generation voices their own opinions even if they are different than their peers and family.
Word of mouth and any type of media was much more powerful in the past. To point the blame at modern tools that allow for much more dissent is deflecting the facts, rejecting reality and substituting your own.
The system in the US is set up around communities of people. The vast majority of communities (typically farming and blue collar communities) in the US votes republican.
If it were a popular vote, we would only have protections for apple, orange and avocado farmers because those are what comprises California and New York.
The system in the US works around equal protection from mob rule. It also protects against anyone stealing the vote in any particular region or certain regions being locally corrupted, if certain counties in Texas reports millions of extra voters because they allow illegal immigrants to vote or simply pay Mexicans to come across the border to vote, you donâ(TM)t want that to be influencing the vote across the nation.
Iâ(TM)d rather have a bunch of false information than the government controlling it. You call for oversight, most intelligent people see that as a direct path to censorship.
There are a variety of factors. The Chinese are getting better at homegrown education, more and more research is coming up from their institutions rivaling US research.
The primary goal of Chinese students is for their brightest to study in the US and then bring that talent back home, their entire US education is often state-funded. It sometimes backfired but overall, itâ(TM)s a pretty good pathway, now a majority of those students from the last few decades are in the Chinese state institutions as faculty themselves, much better positions and faster than they could ever attain a position here in the US (less red tape and buddy-networks)
Who is paying the cost right now for these "externalities"? How about the "externalities" of making PV panels in China by practical slave labor under horrendous health conditions.
We use primarily hydro-power and local townships have bought out a bunch of hydro power through long term contracts. In my neck of the woods, dealing with electric inspectors is a pain though and nobody local would ever sign off on an install they have not installed or overseen fully themselves.
I've tried during the renovation to get an electrician to come out to review my work and they all refused, I just had to have the electrical inspector come twice. I don't think any electrician wants to lose their license or talk to their insurance company over a shoddy hidden wire. I've looked into doing PV myself but I would have to study and apply for an electrician's license because you can't DIY any type of generator on the net according to local code.
$8000 barely pays for the worker cost. The panels are relatively cheap, but half or more of the cost is actually spent on contractors, linemen and licenses.
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Well, then you obviously don't live in a cold climate. There are a few times it's happened: bought a second hand car and the engine cut out as I was accelerating onto the highway from a ramp - no power brakes, abs or power steering in the middle of a snow storm with ~2cm ice on the road. The second time I had to avoid someone who suddenly slid into my lane from an on-ramp (student, first time in a cold climate from California, she tried to brake but obviously that doesn't work on a frozen highway).
Neither times did anything get hit but we regularly have sheets of ice on our highway for weeks or even months at a time, especially the smaller 2-lane highways less often traveled.
My GPS system does get live traffic updates including road closures and detours. There's this thing called cell phone modems, they allow you to exchange data on mobile devices.
In the first case, you brake, how many times have you had to make that decision in traffic and what would you do? In the few cases I've been in life-threatening situations in car, I try to brake first and then aim for the lightest/smallest object or anywhere that has more open space - you don't really get to think about the repercussions of a moral decision when your car is doing 360's on a frozen highway.
Most likely because Volvo is the only manufacturer that seems to actually working on useful sensors in cars (not just overpriced overhyped TensorFlow chips).
The reason former full time employees are working 20h a week is because of the increases in wages and benefits. ObamaCare forced most mom-and-pop quick service food places (pizza shops and the like) to start taking on people part time in order to avoid the excessive taxes. In the mean time, chains are popping up all over the place since they have big enough margins on crap food to take care of it.
Yeah, because nobody ever shopped for an elder or sick neighbor or family member.
I could easily shop for ~10 people at a time, there are about 3 stores for ~100,000 people and I often need to get through all three of them to get my groceries. What's more, two of those three deliver your groceries outside for free (a lot of stores are experimenting with this, since if successful, they could easily decimate the amount of space the stores take while preventing theft).
Moreover, my gas cost for grocery shopping is ~$5, if I can pay $5 to get my groceries delivered by one of my neighbors and 10 others do the same, the neighbor is getting $50 for driving back and forth to the store and all he has to do is pick up and deliver marked boxes.
Only 2000 people of malnutrition? Plenty of people die from obesity, that's also malnutrition.
There is no way in the US you are starving involuntarily.
This is the US, you always have welfare. A minimum income is practically guaranteed by the government these days, signing up for these contracts is not a full time job for any of those people.
Project managers in most cases are just a layer between two sets of other managers. If you have a good manager, you donâ(TM)t need a project manager.
Project managers are there to make sure that interactions between different managers on multi-departmental projects happen smoothly, they should not manage or get involved with what exactly the IT department produces, just make sure that they develop a solution that fits the needs for the overarching system. Make sure that the cleaning manager talks to the datacenter manager etc. get metrics on every teamâ(TM)s status but when project managers get involved with individual team members they have failed.
The main problem with projects and project managers is that most of them are micro-managers, the project is too small in scope to be considered a proper project or there is a serious breakdown in managerial skills.
If they're rough around the edges, they shouldn't be sold as a new product, but only given away to a test audience.
Microphones have been able to do noise cancellation for a few decades now, especially things that close to someone's jawbone, that shouldn't be an issue anymore today.
The iPhone screen system includes a false touch detection system. That way, if your phone is in your pocket and you brush a body part against it, it doesn't detect it as a touch or swipe. The problem with a sudden temperature differential (please note, differential, the phone would probably do the same at really hot temperatures) is that it is a similar read to the hardware as "holding an entire body part on the screen".
Many people working in hardware development have had to deal with similar issues at one point. Temperature differentials are very hard to distinguish on these type of hardware from a touch, hence why a lot of 'extreme environment' tools (eg. GPS units etc) still use resistive or infrared touch detection even though it's more expensive and less precise.
With capacitive touch screens, especially multi-touch and pressure-sensitive ones we're talking about plates that are micrometers apart. Temperature still has a physical impact (contraction/expansion) which causes your touch screen to require temperature calibration in software.
Most speakers these days are overdriven, the DSP simply compresses the sound, which also results in a buzzing and crackling sound when you do it too much.
Youâ(TM)re probably overdriving the speaker. With phones having to power over every other sound - like those people walking down the street with their phones on speaker - at some point you canâ(TM)t drive the coils in the speakers any harder and you get a buzzing or crackling sound at the peaks.
Every amp has that âoeproblemâ if itâ(TM)s more powerful than the speaker it drives.
Turn down your freaking phone, there is no reason to have your phone at maximum volume anywhere, hopefully the patch knocks the maximum volume down about 10dBm.
a) Amazon buckets didn't always come that way, it took some pressure for Amazon to accept that this was a poor default setting.
b) In most of these cases, it's simply incompetence - I can't get OAuth to work, let's just set it to public and hope nobody guesses the bucket name.
Off course people distrust the media, CNN and Fox News is just a blog for left-wingers with some stuff from Reuters and AP thrown in there once in a while. Original reporting is hard to find and often you will find true investigations only on private blogs.
I think the point is to be concerned about the issues at hand that each candidate is trying to solve. Youâ(TM)re always going to have propaganda and nobody is truly qualified to lead a nation, they all promise lower taxes and more jobs, when you accept those things then all you can end up doing is look at what are they going to do, what can you hold them to.
Compare what Trump and Hillary say (because all evidence points to the next election being just that again) and how they are going to do it or how they are currently working on doing it. Are they working on uniting the nation, healthcare, bringing in better economies and jobs, even though not elected as president I believe that Johnson there is doing a lot more for his country than either of the majority party clowns.
This works on both sides though. Information is easier to disseminate whether it is true or false. The problem is that in politics, itâ(TM)s probably all true, from Benghazi to Pizzagate and from bankruptcies to pissing on some prostitutes; Iâ(TM)m willing to go out on a limb and say: thereâ(TM)s probably an air of truth in all of it and to deny that Clinton and her band is thoroughly corrupt or that Trump is a thoroughly perverted tax-evading capitalist is also true; statistically speaking they both have teh gays amongst their staff and they both have child molesters, murderers and idiots on their staff.
Actually research shows the opposite is true. People now have more access to information than ever and can think more critical about it.
Think back to the 80s/90s if you are old enough, how many newspapers did your house hold have? 1? 2 if your parents were in some sort of well paid business job. How many TV stations did you watch for the news? Again, 1 or 2.
People relied more on word of mouth which is much more powerful than even Facebook is. If your grandparents voted republican, everyone including your parents and extended family voted republican because the issues at hand and information within your community was just one big echo chamber. And if other people came over politics was one of those things that was taboo to even touch, right there with the fact uncle Franky was gay.
Now people are much more used to sharing their sentiments, thanks primarily to the predecessors of Facebook (IRC, NNTP etc) the younger generation voices their own opinions even if they are different than their peers and family.
Word of mouth and any type of media was much more powerful in the past. To point the blame at modern tools that allow for much more dissent is deflecting the facts, rejecting reality and substituting your own.
The system in the US is set up around communities of people. The vast majority of communities (typically farming and blue collar communities) in the US votes republican.
If it were a popular vote, we would only have protections for apple, orange and avocado farmers because those are what comprises California and New York.
The system in the US works around equal protection from mob rule. It also protects against anyone stealing the vote in any particular region or certain regions being locally corrupted, if certain counties in Texas reports millions of extra voters because they allow illegal immigrants to vote or simply pay Mexicans to come across the border to vote, you donâ(TM)t want that to be influencing the vote across the nation.
Iâ(TM)d rather have a bunch of false information than the government controlling it. You call for oversight, most intelligent people see that as a direct path to censorship.
From what I understand this system is basically a train on the road. You basically have n number of trucks following each other with a single driver.
There are a variety of factors. The Chinese are getting better at homegrown education, more and more research is coming up from their institutions rivaling US research.
The primary goal of Chinese students is for their brightest to study in the US and then bring that talent back home, their entire US education is often state-funded. It sometimes backfired but overall, itâ(TM)s a pretty good pathway, now a majority of those students from the last few decades are in the Chinese state institutions as faculty themselves, much better positions and faster than they could ever attain a position here in the US (less red tape and buddy-networks)
Winners donâ(TM)t have to apologize. I donâ(TM)t see any Italians or Greeks or Scandinavian people apologizing for their war crimes.
Who is paying the cost right now for these "externalities"? How about the "externalities" of making PV panels in China by practical slave labor under horrendous health conditions.
We use primarily hydro-power and local townships have bought out a bunch of hydro power through long term contracts. In my neck of the woods, dealing with electric inspectors is a pain though and nobody local would ever sign off on an install they have not installed or overseen fully themselves.
I've tried during the renovation to get an electrician to come out to review my work and they all refused, I just had to have the electrical inspector come twice. I don't think any electrician wants to lose their license or talk to their insurance company over a shoddy hidden wire. I've looked into doing PV myself but I would have to study and apply for an electrician's license because you can't DIY any type of generator on the net according to local code.
$8000 barely pays for the worker cost. The panels are relatively cheap, but half or more of the cost is actually spent on contractors, linemen and licenses.