You know who I think should be essential? The guy at the airport who delivers the lemon-soaked napkins. My flight has been delayed like twice now and we are still waiting.
"Essential" in the government sense means that the tasks they do are time sensitive. Can your job be put off until tomorrow? Then you are non essential. Someone at NOAA who monitors satellite readings for storms is essential, someone who chugs data and creates long term rainfall forecasts is not. Both are performing important functions, but one has a much shorter time horizon.
The only thing I can think of is that these people had a lack of drive. If you know that you can automate your job, and if other people share a similar job, then leave and become a contractor. As a contractor you can negotiate be paid based on results, then if you can take on the work of ten people, you can make up to ten times as much.
As a thought experiment, imagine a company hires an employee to fill a job. By some kind of magic, the employee can do their job without any actual effort exerted -- the mere presence of the employee causes the work to get done even though the employee seems to perform no actual labor, they just need to be present. Does the company fire the employee because they don't "work"?
The answer is of course, no. You've just described a good percentage of Business Development positions.
Corrosion is actually the number 1 issue with reinforced concrete. There is a process in concrete called carbonation, wherein carbon dioxide from the atmosphere starts to permeate through the matrix. As it does it lowers the pH, promoting corrosion. Cracks and low density promote quicker carbonation.
Modern rebar is frequently coated to help avoid corrosion, but the best defense is generally depth - keeping rebar away from the surface. Once the rebar begins to corrode, rust jacking will introduce additional cracks and the process will reinforce itself.
Getting anyone to pay 3x for 3x lifetime is going to be a stretch. Time discount values get pretty ridiculous after 30 years or so, and people also tend to be skeptical of lifetime claims much beyond that.
That is substantially different than the type of compaction they are taking about for this material. In common concrete compaction isn't strictly necessary, it is just a means of reducing entrained air, and in some mixes it is actually discouraged since you are attempting to retain air. Also in normal pours over compaction will actually segregate the particles making up the concrete and weaken it. The compaction they are talking about here seems to be required over the entire surface, and is necessary to cure the product. It could be useful for precast applications but wouldn't be useful for form and pour, or future 3D printing applications.
The more I hear "We need to stop net neutrality/government oversight because it will prevent us from serving poor rural customers" the more I wonder if telcos have been withholding service from these areas strategically, so that they can promise to get them service every few years in exchange for regulatory favor or just money, then renege on their promises only to bring up the same areas a few years later when they want something else.
You are joking, but the ubiquity of printing presses in the colonies was a huge factor in the eventual revolution. Whereas gun are dangerous in that they allow a concentration of forces that can cause bodily harm, communications allow a concentration of efforts that can lead to danger and harm. Concentrating efforts is necessary for society, but when a tool becomes dangerous, the question is does the tool have any uses besides destruction?
When the subject of meetings comes up here I am always baffled by the number of comments where people complain about meetings. Am I alone at working somewhere where meetings generally have point and result in important decisions being made? I can only think of one meeting I have attended in the past year I would call a waste of time (and that one was hosted by a client) The rest were by and large necessary in order to proceed on projects. Is this because I don't work in software development?
Pretty sure they are just spoofing random cell numbers. I have called some of these numbers back and they go to ordinary people, and I suspect I had one call where my number was being spoofed as a person called me asking who I was and why I called them.
So New York City took a historic step in cutting all building emissions? I was very interested to find out more, as this would certainly affect my company's business in New York, but it quickly became clear the this article was about draft legislation that had not even been finished, much less submitted to the council. If this is a "historic step", I cannot imagine what Huffington will call it when (and if) the bill is submitted, and will they even be able to describe the earth-shattering relevance if it passes into law?
I will be upset that google has that information when they have a police force, a military, and prisons. Also add in a broad immunity to legal action for a number of criminal acts.
In terms of power to cause harm, Google and the government are nowhere near equivalent.
No need to panic, this is a method that uses a purposefully arraigned setup of wifi antennas to detect objects roughly 2 feet away, not some miracle technology that makes your home wifi able to scan your house. It's basically like cheaper version of an x ray machine at the airport monitored by an algorithm.
This is a common argument against 99% type solutions, however you are misusing in this case. Using this device when the items are "flagged", all that means is that a human will have to check the item. In the current system, humans have to check every item, so by your numbers they will be checking 100,000 the items, with a detection rate of 0.1%! Using this system as a prescreener can reduce the number of items humans must check by 100 times, improving the detection rate by almost as much.
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She had a surveillance camera as well, presumably watching her door, that the could correlate with the fitbit timeline
You know who I think should be essential? The guy at the airport who delivers the lemon-soaked napkins. My flight has been delayed like twice now and we are still waiting.
"Essential" in the government sense means that the tasks they do are time sensitive. Can your job be put off until tomorrow? Then you are non essential. Someone at NOAA who monitors satellite readings for storms is essential, someone who chugs data and creates long term rainfall forecasts is not. Both are performing important functions, but one has a much shorter time horizon.
Also, one assumes there are management employees left. So at minimum 25% of their staff were management.
The only thing I can think of is that these people had a lack of drive. If you know that you can automate your job, and if other people share a similar job, then leave and become a contractor. As a contractor you can negotiate be paid based on results, then if you can take on the work of ten people, you can make up to ten times as much.
The answer is of course, no. You've just described a good percentage of Business Development positions.
Control is a spectrum.
Modern rebar is frequently coated to help avoid corrosion, but the best defense is generally depth - keeping rebar away from the surface. Once the rebar begins to corrode, rust jacking will introduce additional cracks and the process will reinforce itself.
Getting anyone to pay 3x for 3x lifetime is going to be a stretch. Time discount values get pretty ridiculous after 30 years or so, and people also tend to be skeptical of lifetime claims much beyond that.
That is substantially different than the type of compaction they are taking about for this material. In common concrete compaction isn't strictly necessary, it is just a means of reducing entrained air, and in some mixes it is actually discouraged since you are attempting to retain air. Also in normal pours over compaction will actually segregate the particles making up the concrete and weaken it. The compaction they are talking about here seems to be required over the entire surface, and is necessary to cure the product. It could be useful for precast applications but wouldn't be useful for form and pour, or future 3D printing applications.
Wow, you don't seem to be able to handle disagreement very well.
I am assuming he would use the payout to move to a less-expensive area, leaving him with excess equity to pay off his loan.
The more I hear "We need to stop net neutrality/government oversight because it will prevent us from serving poor rural customers" the more I wonder if telcos have been withholding service from these areas strategically, so that they can promise to get them service every few years in exchange for regulatory favor or just money, then renege on their promises only to bring up the same areas a few years later when they want something else.
You are joking, but the ubiquity of printing presses in the colonies was a huge factor in the eventual revolution. Whereas gun are dangerous in that they allow a concentration of forces that can cause bodily harm, communications allow a concentration of efforts that can lead to danger and harm. Concentrating efforts is necessary for society, but when a tool becomes dangerous, the question is does the tool have any uses besides destruction?
That is interesting. I assume the idea is that people will more likely pick up for a number that is from their area.
When the subject of meetings comes up here I am always baffled by the number of comments where people complain about meetings. Am I alone at working somewhere where meetings generally have point and result in important decisions being made? I can only think of one meeting I have attended in the past year I would call a waste of time (and that one was hosted by a client) The rest were by and large necessary in order to proceed on projects. Is this because I don't work in software development?
Pretty sure they are just spoofing random cell numbers. I have called some of these numbers back and they go to ordinary people, and I suspect I had one call where my number was being spoofed as a person called me asking who I was and why I called them.
So New York City took a historic step in cutting all building emissions? I was very interested to find out more, as this would certainly affect my company's business in New York, but it quickly became clear the this article was about draft legislation that had not even been finished, much less submitted to the council. If this is a "historic step", I cannot imagine what Huffington will call it when (and if) the bill is submitted, and will they even be able to describe the earth-shattering relevance if it passes into law?
This is a very good point. There was no reason to target Google/Android users, pretty much the dead giveaway of a complete fishing expedition.
I will be upset that google has that information when they have a police force, a military, and prisons. Also add in a broad immunity to legal action for a number of criminal acts.
In terms of power to cause harm, Google and the government are nowhere near equivalent.
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No need to panic, this is a method that uses a purposefully arraigned setup of wifi antennas to detect objects roughly 2 feet away, not some miracle technology that makes your home wifi able to scan your house. It's basically like cheaper version of an x ray machine at the airport monitored by an algorithm.
This is a common argument against 99% type solutions, however you are misusing in this case. Using this device when the items are "flagged", all that means is that a human will have to check the item. In the current system, humans have to check every item, so by your numbers they will be checking 100,000 the items, with a detection rate of 0.1%! Using this system as a prescreener can reduce the number of items humans must check by 100 times, improving the detection rate by almost as much.
It's also worth noting that the area encompassed by the "Bermuda Triangle" is huge.