Look, at one point I lived in an old apartment building in Seattle which had these little cupboards next to each door, about 3 foot by 2 foot, with another door only the apartment dweller could open.
Found out they were icebox doors so the ice wagon could deliver ice to each house but not open them. Before that, I used to deliver papers as a boy and some houses had these boxes next to the front door you could put papers in, and then close (but not open again). These were for newspapers.
Why doesn't Amazon do the same thing?
It's the "have a key to let you in" that freaks people out. Amazon just needs to allow people to put stuff and then LOCK IT after stuff is put in, and the homeowner is the only one to unlock it. Not a key to your door.
(caveat: any decently trained person can hack your doors, they're called locksmiths, and those windows you love won't stop squat)
Pretty sure my commute is about the same as it has been for years.
If it snows, I can just walk or bike home, it's only a couple of miles.
In fact, if the weather is nice, I like to just walk along the Burke-Gilman bike trail, or maybe run, stop at Ivar's for a nice salmon bisque, maybe swing through Gas Works Park, and enjoy the sunset from Solstice Hill where people fly kites.
Recently, as in this week, they completed a low-emission earthquake-resistant timber tower in Portland, Oregon.
Fire risks tend to come from inefficient fire suppression systems and lack of coatings. Or inadequate emergency exits. As we've seen from London, England, concrete towers clad in flammable plastic are more of a fire trap than wood timber buildings are. It really depends on the full architectural design.
We have privacy rights here, and our State Constitution means you can't even put a GPS tracker on our cars without a specific individual warrant, specifically identifying the person.
My car will never talk to your car. It's better than that.
When the snow covers both the road, the trees, the buildings, and makes GPS fry out and the temps drop so vehicles drop below "standard operating temps" (as used to happen when I was a beta tester for GPS on cars, especially when you parked it for a few hours at a ski hill), lots of fun things occur.
Oh, and then a kid puts a snowman in the street and builds a ramp too. And slides into the street lying down on the toboggan out of sight and below observation level.
Second you hit one of those kids it's game over for self-driving cars in that city, that county, and probably that state.
If you've ever skidded down N 70th in Greenwood of Seattle during a snowstorm, with cars parked on both sides, or gone over an overpass with 50 mph winds and black ice, or actually gone OUT of Detroit, you'll know this isn't really a test.
It's more like the missile interception tests where we cheat and put a beacon on the warhead.
Not everyone is getting a PhD in French Literature, Poetry, or Anthropology.
That said, people forget that a PhD merely means you are able to teach yourself, and teach others, and publish academic papers or books on at least one subject. Theoretically, at least, you're supposed to be able to learn a new field of study and teach it as well. I've seen examples of PhDs who teach college in other countries in fields that are not their own original focus. Some of the best faculty and post-docs have done this.
It's like an engineering PhD who studied fossil fuel extraction (oil, LNG, CNG, coal, etc) not adapting to a downturn in fossil fuels. Many could easily transition to biofuels, and other related fields of study.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but that's the basic concept, and why most Doctorates are literally "Doctor of Philosophy" in the sciences. You're trained to think, formulate, research, learn, and then teach.
An additional 3 feet means most of Florida won't have drinkable water and will increase storm surge damage from every 2-3 year "500 year" storms.
If you can build to that standard: bottom level not for living, more resistant buildings, power systems that can operate offline for 1-2 weeks (e.g. high grade roof solar like Tesla, mobile solar, mobile wind turbines), than you're good.
The main problem is people want to be bailed out when these events happen, but we will have to stop providing insurance guarantees in Florida on the whole, with zero exceptions, not just home and boat but auto.
That's what this means.
Me, I'll have waterfront property in Seattle with a great view.
Look, the article makes a view that all those who seek PhDs not only want to go into tenure-track academia, but will continue to want to do so.
And it conflates working in top-tier academic tenure with working in academia at the college and non-tenure tracks.
And it presumes, that after ten years in academia being paid half of what industry pays, they won't want to switch to corporate with some academic participation (e.g. associate faculty at nearby locations, institute work with campus seminars, or more contract based academic participation combined with spurts of other stints).
This would be like me telling you that everyone who wants to become a medical specialist PhD/MD will wish to continue doing this or will, in fact, succeed in completing this.
But it's still far more likely than making it in a sports career.
Your path is your path. Sometimes it changes. Sometimes you realize the stuff you like to do is not what you thought it would be, so you shift to a more rewarding career, both monetarily and professionally. Sometimes you become a scientific advisor, or write books, or take up professional surfing.
The thing is, those who have little knowledge of how China works fail to understand how patronage has allowed very inefficient factories to continue to exist.
Starting with the replacement of old WW I style mills and power systems based on coal, China has literally either forced them to be replaced with cogeneration coal plants that capture excess heat, allowing an old style to produce twice the power output with the same raw inputs. They closed down those which could not be retrofitted.
Now they are doing the same with many of the factories. New factory designs are far more efficient, and cheaper to operate, allowing far fewer raw inputs to produce valuable goods, and requiring far less power.
Which makes them more competitive, dropping prices, not raising them.
This is part of why the Western US, with high investment in renewable power and modern fabrication techniques, outcompetes the old style factories in other regions.
Does it cost? For a 2-5 year cycle, sure. But it drops your operating expenses and maintenance, and it lets you outcompete the fossil factories kept up with wire and tape.
Stop focusing on the short term quarterly results, and look to the operational cradle-to-grave results. Adapt or die.
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One of the ways to hack them is to overload the computers with multiple conflicting alerts. It's pretty easy.
You can even do it with traffic cones, or little remote control toy cars with puff balls on antennae.
Reminds me of how unprepared some people were when certain armed forces used certain tactics to neutralize our firepower and intel advantages.
Look, I know you all believe everyone are rational actors, behaving rationally, and that bad stuff doesn't happen.
But it does.
There are people who will use automatic driverless vehicles. In ways you never "intended".
"Oh, but it will be hackproof."
Yeah, I heard that one before.
"Oh, but it will have a police kill switch."
Heard that one before too.
You're all very very very naive.
Yes, there are.
First, never trust a provider to own up to its own outage.
Second, use sources that check general network traffic at specified hubs.
Third, check international links the Net uses for flooding.
Look, at one point I lived in an old apartment building in Seattle which had these little cupboards next to each door, about 3 foot by 2 foot, with another door only the apartment dweller could open.
Found out they were icebox doors so the ice wagon could deliver ice to each house but not open them. Before that, I used to deliver papers as a boy and some houses had these boxes next to the front door you could put papers in, and then close (but not open again). These were for newspapers.
Why doesn't Amazon do the same thing?
It's the "have a key to let you in" that freaks people out. Amazon just needs to allow people to put stuff and then LOCK IT after stuff is put in, and the homeowner is the only one to unlock it. Not a key to your door.
(caveat: any decently trained person can hack your doors, they're called locksmiths, and those windows you love won't stop squat)
There's never ever going to be a shortage of dead dinosaurs!
And if you play your backup tape backwards it restores your backup to 1994!
For example, if you're in the EU or somewhere and you login to google.ca they can make sure those search results don't show up.
And if they don't, google in Canada will be penalized.
That judge can't do a darned thing.
Comply or leave. Those are your options.
More government welfare for the inefficient buggy whip manufacturers and kerosene users.
Pretty sure my commute is about the same as it has been for years.
If it snows, I can just walk or bike home, it's only a couple of miles.
In fact, if the weather is nice, I like to just walk along the Burke-Gilman bike trail, or maybe run, stop at Ivar's for a nice salmon bisque, maybe swing through Gas Works Park, and enjoy the sunset from Solstice Hill where people fly kites.
Don't you live where you work?
Look, HDTV works perfectly fine. Just get an HDTV antenna on Amazon for less than $50 and you can pick up 100 HD 1080p, HD 720p, and SD signals.
The reason they're going broke is they keep paying for the NFL that we don't want.
Perfectly happy using the HD Telmundo and Univision broadcasts and turning on SAP to listen to the English version, thanks. It's built into your set.
"As we've seen from London, England, concrete towers clad in flammable plastic are more of a fire trap than wood timber buildings are."
I missed the wood tower catching on fire offering that comparison. When did that happen?
During WW I and WW II when cities burnt.
Sorry you've been on another planet.
Recently, as in this week, they completed a low-emission earthquake-resistant timber tower in Portland, Oregon.
Fire risks tend to come from inefficient fire suppression systems and lack of coatings. Or inadequate emergency exits. As we've seen from London, England, concrete towers clad in flammable plastic are more of a fire trap than wood timber buildings are. It really depends on the full architectural design.
We have privacy rights here, and our State Constitution means you can't even put a GPS tracker on our cars without a specific individual warrant, specifically identifying the person.
My car will never talk to your car. It's better than that.
You all want your hands held when coding.
I used to code assembler on 2 byte registers, and I liked it.
Now go take your punchcards before I throw them on the floor in disgust.
Look, MRI scans are expensive. Interpreting them is even more expensive.
Even the cheapest headset MRI scans run 3-4 figures.
So, in terms of detection, lack of availability, and even having such scans be useful, this is just not going to change anything.
When I was 10 I lived on Grosse Isle. Still know people there.
There are such kids in the Greater Detroit area.
It's not the artificial view your TV scare shows tell you it is, or at least in the area they are talking about.
Which is what I was saying.
When the snow covers both the road, the trees, the buildings, and makes GPS fry out and the temps drop so vehicles drop below "standard operating temps" (as used to happen when I was a beta tester for GPS on cars, especially when you parked it for a few hours at a ski hill), lots of fun things occur.
Oh, and then a kid puts a snowman in the street and builds a ramp too. And slides into the street lying down on the toboggan out of sight and below observation level.
Second you hit one of those kids it's game over for self-driving cars in that city, that county, and probably that state.
If you've ever skidded down N 70th in Greenwood of Seattle during a snowstorm, with cars parked on both sides, or gone over an overpass with 50 mph winds and black ice, or actually gone OUT of Detroit, you'll know this isn't really a test.
It's more like the missile interception tests where we cheat and put a beacon on the warhead.
Not everyone is getting a PhD in French Literature, Poetry, or Anthropology.
That said, people forget that a PhD merely means you are able to teach yourself, and teach others, and publish academic papers or books on at least one subject. Theoretically, at least, you're supposed to be able to learn a new field of study and teach it as well. I've seen examples of PhDs who teach college in other countries in fields that are not their own original focus. Some of the best faculty and post-docs have done this.
It's like an engineering PhD who studied fossil fuel extraction (oil, LNG, CNG, coal, etc) not adapting to a downturn in fossil fuels. Many could easily transition to biofuels, and other related fields of study.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but that's the basic concept, and why most Doctorates are literally "Doctor of Philosophy" in the sciences. You're trained to think, formulate, research, learn, and then teach.
when did the stature of limitations run out on lying on the ipo?
When Trump became President and the SEC became toothless.
An additional 3 feet means most of Florida won't have drinkable water and will increase storm surge damage from every 2-3 year "500 year" storms.
If you can build to that standard: bottom level not for living, more resistant buildings, power systems that can operate offline for 1-2 weeks (e.g. high grade roof solar like Tesla, mobile solar, mobile wind turbines), than you're good.
The main problem is people want to be bailed out when these events happen, but we will have to stop providing insurance guarantees in Florida on the whole, with zero exceptions, not just home and boat but auto.
That's what this means.
Me, I'll have waterfront property in Seattle with a great view.
Look, the article makes a view that all those who seek PhDs not only want to go into tenure-track academia, but will continue to want to do so.
And it conflates working in top-tier academic tenure with working in academia at the college and non-tenure tracks.
And it presumes, that after ten years in academia being paid half of what industry pays, they won't want to switch to corporate with some academic participation (e.g. associate faculty at nearby locations, institute work with campus seminars, or more contract based academic participation combined with spurts of other stints).
This would be like me telling you that everyone who wants to become a medical specialist PhD/MD will wish to continue doing this or will, in fact, succeed in completing this.
But it's still far more likely than making it in a sports career.
Your path is your path. Sometimes it changes. Sometimes you realize the stuff you like to do is not what you thought it would be, so you shift to a more rewarding career, both monetarily and professionally. Sometimes you become a scientific advisor, or write books, or take up professional surfing.
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The thing is, those who have little knowledge of how China works fail to understand how patronage has allowed very inefficient factories to continue to exist.
Starting with the replacement of old WW I style mills and power systems based on coal, China has literally either forced them to be replaced with cogeneration coal plants that capture excess heat, allowing an old style to produce twice the power output with the same raw inputs. They closed down those which could not be retrofitted.
Now they are doing the same with many of the factories. New factory designs are far more efficient, and cheaper to operate, allowing far fewer raw inputs to produce valuable goods, and requiring far less power.
Which makes them more competitive, dropping prices, not raising them.
This is part of why the Western US, with high investment in renewable power and modern fabrication techniques, outcompetes the old style factories in other regions.
Does it cost? For a 2-5 year cycle, sure. But it drops your operating expenses and maintenance, and it lets you outcompete the fossil factories kept up with wire and tape.
Stop focusing on the short term quarterly results, and look to the operational cradle-to-grave results. Adapt or die.
Then it's hunter seeker robot AI tech sold to anyone.
Ka-ching!