Thank you, that is actually a pretty neat resource. However, I would contend my point still stands. That 7pm peak is for today, in the middle of the winter. In August, the peak is at 4:30, and is 66% higher than the February peak. In June and July the peak times seem to be around 5pm, well within the time solar is active for those months.
That is a chart for Oregon, which is has relatively little air conditioning demand. In contrast Los Angeles has a "high peak" at 1 to 5 pm, and "low peak" from 10am to 8pm, and in Atlanta peak is between 2pm and 7 pm. Even cities like New York and Boston see their biggest loads from summer air conditioning. Oregon is somewhat of an outlier.
No, this is a great Republican strategy, we will just name all beneficial things after Democrats! First there will be Obamacare, and Goresat, and then maybe something like Hillaryrail - a high speed rail network, or Elizabethbucks - A system of guaranteed federal income. Soon everything that Americans have come to depend on will be named after some Democrat! Ha!
Heck, probably just by running around and beating random people with a piece of rebar considering how unlikely it is for the orbitally delivered rebar to both retain significant energy and actually hit a target.
I laughed, then I imagined said person running around hitting people with rebar screaming "RODS FROM GOD! RODS FROM GOD!", and I laughed again.
Not really. This is an article/thread about the product, awareness of it can be assumed. Marketing would certainly rather keep the discussion in this location on its features or positive attributes, complaining that it is named Dell 34-342355-9 does nothing useful for them here. If the Grandparent poster was to start a thread in another location to talk about how stupid the name is, then that would be helpful, as it would be raising product awareness.
There is an entire branch of poetry that uses computers to generate poems, though I can't recall if it has a particular name. (I think it might just be computer-generated poetry) So not only is this not about the Turing test, not novel, it's not even subversive: You could be a legitimate poet and do this very thing, and no one would bat an eye. Though I imagine a legitimate poet would have a better success rate with their (computer generated) submissions.
At the end the legal procedure is still susceptible to public scrutiny. For the country, and most if not all states, there is such a thing as a pardon - which exists completely outside of the normal system of justice and is exercisable by an elected official. Obama could sign a paper and Ulbricht could walk out of jail tomorrow morning a free man (at least until Maryland picked him up but that's another issue) It's a heavily scrutinized power, used sparingly, and certainly wouldn't come up in this case, but it exists and is a part of the judicial landscape.
Divided up over the week, 15 miles is like 3 hours for a slow runner. I used to run over 2 hours a week and I am certainly not an elite athlete. My cousin, also not an elite athlete, used to run double (or more) than this weekly while training to run marathons.
I'm sorry, parents must be stated as integers. Genetic material is taken from 3 people, quantities aren't really what we're discussing. Not to mention seeing as how human DNA is 99.9% identical between individuals we will always be talking about a very small number of genes affected. Also, 'batteries"? Are we fighting old ignorance with new ignorance?
I'll throw my $0.02, before you decide whether to homeschool or not, look at your local public school system. My mother was a public educator, and I was a student in the public system. For me and those I knew it was excellent. The caveat is that I was in one of the best public school systems in the nation, and as I've grown older I've seen many school systems that are on the other end of the curve. I lived in a state where public education is highly valued, in many it is not, and the schools suffer as a result. So bad failing schools beware yada yada, everyone says this, but the converse is more important - if you live in an area where the schools are excellent, then take advantage! Your local school system may be excellent, you won't know unless you investigate. Keep in mind also that standardized tests scores are only part of this. You need to look in depth at what other opportunities for studies are being offered, how individual schools are run and taught. Don't get anecdotes from people on slashdot, get them from the people in your neighborhood.
This involves a bit of legwork, but if it's too much to handle then put your kid in public school anyway because teaching them properly at home will be far more work than this.
Your math doesn't work out. The global population is roughly 7 billion, 1% of that is 70 million. There are more than 70 million people with flushing toilets, computers, and homes in the US alone, and there are other places where our standard of living, or better, is just as common (i.e. Canada, Japan, a surprising amount of the Mideast, most of Europe, ect.) At best what you describe is the global 1% is now the global 10%, and is probably more like the global 25%. Why do I bring this up? Because the old "you don't know how good you have it" is getting really old. Americans have been told that for fifty years now, as other countries have steadily overtaken us in quality of life, and as more and more of our income flows to fewer and fewer of our citizens. It's nothing more than a distraction, a rhetorical trick to try and avoid conversation about what's really been going on.
I also cannot believe that the companies producing these compounds do not know what is in them, or that the government would allow them to be employed or transported with no knowledge of what they contained. I would, however, expect that once they are applied to any number of materials in a high-temperature environment with ongoing combustion that all bets are off, is it possible this is what they are looking for?
Give this "AT GUNPOINT!" thing a rest. Yes we know that if you do not pay your taxes you will face sanctions (though it is highly unlikely guns will be drawn unless you draw first) This is entirely different from the government going door to door extorting the helpless residents. If you don't want the local government spending money on anything except cops then find a locale where the other residents share your view and you can all exercise your civil rights to elect a local government that will do only that. What you cannot do is ignore the government that your neighbors democratically elected because you don't like it.
Ditto on the Cuba thing... It was a brilliant move but totally unexpected. Only afterwards was it apparent that he was trading the older Cuban refugee bloc (which was trending republican anyway) for the younger bloc, and forcing the Republicans, who have been aggressively re-branding in search of younger voters, to choose between the two. The anti-communist sentiment inherent in the right will most likely end up shackling to the former, and thus a dwindling percentage of Florida voters. If I were a republican strategist, my goal would be to avoid talking about Cuba altogether.
You're completely off-base on the Hillary thing. To help Hillary, Obama need to take the party further left. It relates to the concept of the Overton window , the range of ideas that the public sees as palatable "centrist" positions. If you drag the dialog of the extreme edge further, then it makes less extreme ideas seem more reasonable. The Democrats need to get on this, as the right has been doing this for some time. People like Limbaugh and Hannity push the edges out so their candidates don't have to.
By pushing "anti-business claptrap" Obama gives her room to distance herself from him, room she can use in the election as she sees fit.
Personally, I don't feel that closing tax loopholes exploited by multinationals is "anti-business", more like "pro-fairness", if you allow one business to cheat, you force all to cheat to stay competitive.
There is actually research into this that proves more or less what you're saying, basically that people tend to forget negation. ie. "Do not buy a red car" is remembered as "Buy a red car". In particular it has applications for people trying to deny false information, an outright denial "I did not do this" ends up reinforcing the initial accusation by way of repeating it.
I'm not really sure what you are saying, but TFS is the CERN courier, reporting on an article in Physical Review Letters. I think your clickbait fears are more than a little unfounded.
I assume his plan will be introduce a lot of "original" legislation, which is really just copied legislation he found somewhere else and slapped a huge watermark on.
First of all, Lewin is guilty of violation of the MIT code of conduct, no doubt.
Full stop.
That is all that needs to be said in this discussion. I could care less about whether what transpired was on the level between the two of them, and I certainly don't feel it's the jumping off point for some wider discussion of sexual politics. An employee of a college did something he was explicitly told not to and was terminated. fin.
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Thank you, that is actually a pretty neat resource. However, I would contend my point still stands. That 7pm peak is for today, in the middle of the winter. In August, the peak is at 4:30, and is 66% higher than the February peak. In June and July the peak times seem to be around 5pm, well within the time solar is active for those months.
That is a chart for Oregon, which is has relatively little air conditioning demand. In contrast Los Angeles has a "high peak" at 1 to 5 pm, and "low peak" from 10am to 8pm, and in Atlanta peak is between 2pm and 7 pm. Even cities like New York and Boston see their biggest loads from summer air conditioning. Oregon is somewhat of an outlier.
Fair enough. I am still curious what definition this device would fall under.
Why does the linked paper refer to it as a "robot"? It seems to be a projectile at best. Is there some definition of robot I'm not aware of?
No, this is a great Republican strategy, we will just name all beneficial things after Democrats! First there will be Obamacare, and Goresat, and then maybe something like Hillaryrail - a high speed rail network, or Elizabethbucks - A system of guaranteed federal income. Soon everything that Americans have come to depend on will be named after some Democrat! Ha!
You'll see, it will pay off in the end.
Not sure about the test, but the summary was certainly awkward.
I laughed, then I imagined said person running around hitting people with rebar screaming "RODS FROM GOD! RODS FROM GOD!", and I laughed again.
Not really. This is an article/thread about the product, awareness of it can be assumed. Marketing would certainly rather keep the discussion in this location on its features or positive attributes, complaining that it is named Dell 34-342355-9 does nothing useful for them here. If the Grandparent poster was to start a thread in another location to talk about how stupid the name is, then that would be helpful, as it would be raising product awareness.
There is an entire branch of poetry that uses computers to generate poems, though I can't recall if it has a particular name. (I think it might just be computer-generated poetry) So not only is this not about the Turing test, not novel, it's not even subversive: You could be a legitimate poet and do this very thing, and no one would bat an eye. Though I imagine a legitimate poet would have a better success rate with their (computer generated) submissions.
At the end the legal procedure is still susceptible to public scrutiny. For the country, and most if not all states, there is such a thing as a pardon - which exists completely outside of the normal system of justice and is exercisable by an elected official. Obama could sign a paper and Ulbricht could walk out of jail tomorrow morning a free man (at least until Maryland picked him up but that's another issue) It's a heavily scrutinized power, used sparingly, and certainly wouldn't come up in this case, but it exists and is a part of the judicial landscape.
Divided up over the week, 15 miles is like 3 hours for a slow runner. I used to run over 2 hours a week and I am certainly not an elite athlete. My cousin, also not an elite athlete, used to run double (or more) than this weekly while training to run marathons.
I hear there are some guys in Scotland with really good form.
I'm sorry, parents must be stated as integers. Genetic material is taken from 3 people, quantities aren't really what we're discussing. Not to mention seeing as how human DNA is 99.9% identical between individuals we will always be talking about a very small number of genes affected. Also, 'batteries"? Are we fighting old ignorance with new ignorance?
I'll throw my $0.02, before you decide whether to homeschool or not, look at your local public school system. My mother was a public educator, and I was a student in the public system. For me and those I knew it was excellent. The caveat is that I was in one of the best public school systems in the nation, and as I've grown older I've seen many school systems that are on the other end of the curve. I lived in a state where public education is highly valued, in many it is not, and the schools suffer as a result. So bad failing schools beware yada yada, everyone says this, but the converse is more important - if you live in an area where the schools are excellent, then take advantage! Your local school system may be excellent, you won't know unless you investigate. Keep in mind also that standardized tests scores are only part of this. You need to look in depth at what other opportunities for studies are being offered, how individual schools are run and taught. Don't get anecdotes from people on slashdot, get them from the people in your neighborhood.
This involves a bit of legwork, but if it's too much to handle then put your kid in public school anyway because teaching them properly at home will be far more work than this.
Your math doesn't work out. The global population is roughly 7 billion, 1% of that is 70 million. There are more than 70 million people with flushing toilets, computers, and homes in the US alone, and there are other places where our standard of living, or better, is just as common (i.e. Canada, Japan, a surprising amount of the Mideast, most of Europe, ect.) At best what you describe is the global 1% is now the global 10%, and is probably more like the global 25%. Why do I bring this up? Because the old "you don't know how good you have it" is getting really old. Americans have been told that for fifty years now, as other countries have steadily overtaken us in quality of life, and as more and more of our income flows to fewer and fewer of our citizens. It's nothing more than a distraction, a rhetorical trick to try and avoid conversation about what's really been going on.
I also cannot believe that the companies producing these compounds do not know what is in them, or that the government would allow them to be employed or transported with no knowledge of what they contained. I would, however, expect that once they are applied to any number of materials in a high-temperature environment with ongoing combustion that all bets are off, is it possible this is what they are looking for?
Give this "AT GUNPOINT!" thing a rest. Yes we know that if you do not pay your taxes you will face sanctions (though it is highly unlikely guns will be drawn unless you draw first) This is entirely different from the government going door to door extorting the helpless residents. If you don't want the local government spending money on anything except cops then find a locale where the other residents share your view and you can all exercise your civil rights to elect a local government that will do only that. What you cannot do is ignore the government that your neighbors democratically elected because you don't like it.
Ditto on the Cuba thing... It was a brilliant move but totally unexpected. Only afterwards was it apparent that he was trading the older Cuban refugee bloc (which was trending republican anyway) for the younger bloc, and forcing the Republicans, who have been aggressively re-branding in search of younger voters, to choose between the two. The anti-communist sentiment inherent in the right will most likely end up shackling to the former, and thus a dwindling percentage of Florida voters. If I were a republican strategist, my goal would be to avoid talking about Cuba altogether.
You're completely off-base on the Hillary thing. To help Hillary, Obama need to take the party further left. It relates to the concept of the Overton window , the range of ideas that the public sees as palatable "centrist" positions. If you drag the dialog of the extreme edge further, then it makes less extreme ideas seem more reasonable. The Democrats need to get on this, as the right has been doing this for some time. People like Limbaugh and Hannity push the edges out so their candidates don't have to.
By pushing "anti-business claptrap" Obama gives her room to distance herself from him, room she can use in the election as she sees fit.
Personally, I don't feel that closing tax loopholes exploited by multinationals is "anti-business", more like "pro-fairness", if you allow one business to cheat, you force all to cheat to stay competitive.
Please, there are children reading
There is actually research into this that proves more or less what you're saying, basically that people tend to forget negation. ie. "Do not buy a red car" is remembered as "Buy a red car". In particular it has applications for people trying to deny false information, an outright denial "I did not do this" ends up reinforcing the initial accusation by way of repeating it.
I'm not really sure what you are saying, but TFS is the CERN courier, reporting on an article in Physical Review Letters. I think your clickbait fears are more than a little unfounded.
He's not asking about the detector
I assume his plan will be introduce a lot of "original" legislation, which is really just copied legislation he found somewhere else and slapped a huge watermark on.
Full stop.
That is all that needs to be said in this discussion. I could care less about whether what transpired was on the level between the two of them, and I certainly don't feel it's the jumping off point for some wider discussion of sexual politics. An employee of a college did something he was explicitly told not to and was terminated. fin.