I have no idea why people want to buy brown diamonds. I'm not sure they do want to buy them at all or if it is just a massive ad campaign to try and create demand. No woman I've asked likes the way brown diamonds look- even if you call them "chocolate".
When the program was started, the minimum salary was set at $60,000. Adjusted for inflation, it would be $110,000 today.
Not many bachelor's degree programmers with less than 7 year experience make $110,000.
Any fixed value we set it too would quickly become cheap again due to inflation.
So we need to set it at a quintile. If we said that H1B's had to be paid a minimum of top 10% income, then companies would only import workers they really needed (as was intended).
However, the cow is out of the barn. If wages go up in the U.S., many companies will simply offshore the work. Try to ban it, and they'll set up "separate" companies under the corporate umbrella offshore which do the work.
The number of charge cycles and the capacity of batteries has been improving by 5-8 percent per year for a while. That's slow enough that you don't notice it but 2016 batteries last 2 to 3 times as many charge cycles as 2008 batteries lasted.
For example: 300 cycles MacBook (Mid 2007)
500 cycles MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008)
1000 cycles MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016)
Capacities of the batteries have also increased similarly (if not even more). Some laptops ran off of batteries with the capacity in milliamp hours that we now run our smartphones with.
And the cost of the batteries has dropped by over 75% during the same time period.
Just FYI, the officer may need to be in a position where they can see the light turn red so they can testify the person definitely ran the red light. The person running the red may literally honestly believe it was green by the time trial arrives or there could be some mechanical fluke or these days even hackers messing with the light.
I was on a jury for a red light case and the map showed us the officer set up to where he could see the light and the people running the light.
I have seen some horrific red light accidents. I'm extra wary at feeder road intersections because I've seen so many people run red lights seconds after the light changed at speeds well over 50 mph. In the closest accident the people ahead of me started to cross the intersection and a pickup truck coming from the left took out 3 cars including a suburban hard enough to push it sideways and break the light poll on the corner.
And the driver of the pickup truck wasn't killed either.
I also read (unconfirmed) that the tesla vehicle accelerated in the last few seconds. It couldn't see the truck and thought it had open road. That might speak to the optics systems.
Really tho, anything you say could be said in abundance with any younger driver, or any distracted driver (tired driver, driver arguing with passengers, driver glancing at cell phone after it beeped, eating driver who just dropped something in their lap): "you don't know what their capabilities are or how they might react or what dangers they potentially pose".
The thing is, once a tesla makes a mistake and they figure out why, after the next update, no other tesla will make that mistake again.
Automated cars will only get better (and fairly quickly) until their accident rate is vanishingly small compared to human drivers.
I had a friend who was nearly killed (months of therapy) after a driver behind her dropped their cell phone on the floor and bent over to pick it up and so plowed into her from behind so hard that the rear passenger seats were sandwiched into the driver seats (anyone in the rear would have been killed).
Humans mistake rate is known and will continue. Autonomous drivers is unknown and will get better.
At some point, insurance for autonomous cars will be substantially cheaper than for human drivers.
From what I recall the truck driver was ticketed for making an illegal left turn.
A human driver could have also failed to react in time if they were distracted for just a few seconds by an incoming text, changing the radio etc.
I'll be the first to agree that automated vehicles are not perfect yet but there are already indications that they are safer than many classes of human drivers. And by safer, I mean they have a lower accident rate and a lower fatality rate per 100,000 miles.
Automated vehicles are not yet equal to well rested humans whose cell phone is turned off who have 5+ years of experience driving and who have no mental challenges.
Which we have no more clue about how they will really work or decommission in 50 years. It's all roses and lilacs up front.
Then 30 years later, suddenly the public has to pony up 500 million dollars when the original projected cost was $6 million ($39 million adjusted for inflation) because the utility company and executives took all the money for 3 decades and then skipped on the cost. . I'm all for building some small reactors (5,000 houses) which are impossible to fuck up and then letting them run for a couple decades and optimizing them as long as they are backed up by a breeder reactor in a crazy secure place like on a major military base.
So I watched Dr Who S9E3 on my phone while walking last night. It made the miles evaporate, it was flawless (so fast enough!), on my Metropcs phone which is on the Tmobile network. Used very little of my 16gig alotment to boot. I used to be Tmobile but they were more expensive. And verizon was even more expensive than Tmobile.
Crazy compared to even 10 years ago.
What is the "metropcs" equivalent for the Verizon network? I go to a convention yearly which only has Verizon repeaters and is surrounded by 2' of concrete and also underground under the hotel! Would be nice to have a 'drop' phone for the con.
Which is why we are way behind the standards in many other countries now.
Regarding Coal, it's not coming back. The most expensive coal that set the price isn't needed any more so every other coal mine is less profitable.
Natgas is the way to go for the next decade.
Nuclear is 500% more expensive to decommission than was projected. And after that there are millions in costs to protect the decaying nuclear waste lest it be taken by terrorists.
If we had a breeder reactor then we could at least reduce nuclear waste volume by 99% (while also dramatically shortening the half life tho it would still be over 3x longer than the lifespan of the united states to date) while also producing plutonium oxide that could be used to create nuclear batteries for space again.
Alternative energy plus batteries/molten storage is the way to go after 10 years from now.
Tho it won't really matter. As the limits to growth on metals kick in, we are likely to see really bad times by 2050. .
Having known young people who tried to become electricians, Pay is not as good as you think for the first 20 years and getting in the field is very hard on top of it. I don't know any plumbers or carpenters but those professions have been seeing the highest fatality rates in years lately.
Specifically https://www.bls.gov/news.relea... Fatal injuries among construction and extraction occupations rose by 2 percent to 924 cases in 2015â"the highest level since 2008. Several construction occupations recorded their highest fatality total in years, including construction laborers (highest since 2008); carpenters (2009); electricians (2009); and plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (2003).
Wages for carpenters in most states is in the $18,000 to $37,000 range-- which doesn't indicate a shortage. And high end wages are $67,000 in states like NY. Where $50,000 will get you a very bad apartment so $67,000 isn't as great as it sounds due to the high cost of living.
Between 1970 and 2000, manufacturing employment was relatively stable, ranging from 16.8 to 19.6 million when it peaked and began to decline\, falling to roughly 12 million jobs by 2010.
Meanwhile U.S. manufacturing output (in trillions of dollars) is higher than it's ever been. It's up 33% to 4 trillion now vs 3 trillion back in only 2009. (or 2006 if you ignore the dip due to the great recession).
Meanwhile, manufacturing robot shipments have skyrocketed from a low of 5,000 per year in 1996 to over 140,000 per year just recently (against a background of 240,000 shipped globally each year).
So despite a growing GDP and population, manufacturing employment has declined by over 7 million jobs.
Automated vehicles are likely to eliminate 3 million driving jobs rapidly at some point in the near future as well (5-15 years).
Any kind of a labor glut (even a small one) results in severe downward pressure on wages.
Will it be a problem forever? Who knows.
It might be because half the population isn't smart enough to do theorhetical physics or higher level mathematics or create artistic masterpieces. And they would need to bring something to a job which couldn't be automated or turned into self service.
But even if things worked out long term and we found new jobs 40 years from now, humans don't remain peaceful on that time scale. High unemployment is a strong predictor of civil unrest.
The point is, we don't need to eliminate human jobs to have a problem. Eliminating a small number (say 10%) of them rapidly would create severe social disruptions.
Authoritarian personality is a state of mind or attitude characterized by belief in absolute obedience or submission to one's own authority, as well as the administration of that belief through the oppression of one's subordinates.
An authoritarian leadership style is being used when a leader dictates policies and procedures, decides what goals are to be achieved, and directs and controls all activities without any meaningful participation by the subordinates. This leader has full control of the team, leaving low autonomy within the group.The leader has a vision in mind and must be able to effectively motivate their group to finish the task. The group is expected to complete the tasks under very close supervision, while unlimited authority is granted to the leader. Subordinate's responses to the orders given are either punished or rewarded.
In only a few weeks, Mr. Trump has checked off almost every aspect.
Roughly half his supporters show strong authoritarian behavior. The one that is most striking is the rapid flip from opposing Russia to supporting Russia quickly after Mr. Trump performed a similar flip (from 2014- tweets strongly opposed russia to 2015- tweets and statements strongly support russia).
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At the very least, very high quality cam recordings would come out of this.
I have no idea why people want to buy brown diamonds. I'm not sure they do want to buy them at all or if it is just a massive ad campaign to try and create demand. No woman I've asked likes the way brown diamonds look- even if you call them "chocolate".
When the program was started, the minimum salary was set at $60,000. Adjusted for inflation, it would be $110,000 today.
Not many bachelor's degree programmers with less than 7 year experience make $110,000.
Any fixed value we set it too would quickly become cheap again due to inflation.
So we need to set it at a quintile. If we said that H1B's had to be paid a minimum of top 10% income, then companies would only import workers they really needed (as was intended).
However, the cow is out of the barn. If wages go up in the U.S., many companies will simply offshore the work. Try to ban it, and they'll set up "separate" companies under the corporate umbrella offshore which do the work.
If the cost to mow your lawn goes down, do you get it mown more and more frequently?
If the cost to mow your lawn was $1, would you get it mown 50 times a week?
The number of charge cycles and the capacity of batteries has been improving by 5-8 percent per year for a while.
That's slow enough that you don't notice it but 2016 batteries last 2 to 3 times as many charge cycles as 2008 batteries lasted.
For example:
300 cycles MacBook (Mid 2007)
500 cycles MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008)
1000 cycles MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016)
Capacities of the batteries have also increased similarly (if not even more). Some laptops ran off of batteries with the capacity in milliamp hours that we now run our smartphones with.
And the cost of the batteries has dropped by over 75% during the same time period.
Just FYI, the officer may need to be in a position where they can see the light turn red so they can testify the person definitely ran the red light. The person running the red may literally honestly believe it was green by the time trial arrives or there could be some mechanical fluke or these days even hackers messing with the light.
I was on a jury for a red light case and the map showed us the officer set up to where he could see the light and the people running the light.
I have seen some horrific red light accidents. I'm extra wary at feeder road intersections because I've seen so many people run red lights seconds after the light changed at speeds well over 50 mph. In the closest accident the people ahead of me started to cross the intersection and a pickup truck coming from the left took out 3 cars including a suburban hard enough to push it sideways and break the light poll on the corner.
And the driver of the pickup truck wasn't killed either.
I also read (unconfirmed) that the tesla vehicle accelerated in the last few seconds. It couldn't see the truck and thought it had open road. That might speak to the optics systems.
Really tho, anything you say could be said in abundance with any younger driver, or any distracted driver (tired driver, driver arguing with passengers, driver glancing at cell phone after it beeped, eating driver who just dropped something in their lap): "you don't know what their capabilities are or how they might react or what dangers they potentially pose".
The thing is, once a tesla makes a mistake and they figure out why, after the next update, no other tesla will make that mistake again.
Automated cars will only get better (and fairly quickly) until their accident rate is vanishingly small compared to human drivers.
I had a friend who was nearly killed (months of therapy) after a driver behind her dropped their cell phone on the floor and bent over to pick it up and so plowed into her from behind so hard that the rear passenger seats were sandwiched into the driver seats (anyone in the rear would have been killed).
Humans mistake rate is known and will continue. Autonomous drivers is unknown and will get better.
At some point, insurance for autonomous cars will be substantially cheaper than for human drivers.
Yes, but due to the illegal left turn, the human driver would have had very little time to react as well.
I read the truck driver was ticketed for turning in front of the tesla on a divided highway.
From what I recall the truck driver was ticketed for making an illegal left turn.
A human driver could have also failed to react in time if they were distracted for just a few seconds by an incoming text, changing the radio etc.
I'll be the first to agree that automated vehicles are not perfect yet but there are already indications that they are safer than many classes of human drivers. And by safer, I mean they have a lower accident rate and a lower fatality rate per 100,000 miles.
Automated vehicles are not yet equal to well rested humans whose cell phone is turned off who have 5+ years of experience driving and who have no mental challenges.
Which we have no more clue about how they will really work or decommission in 50 years. It's all roses and lilacs up front.
Then 30 years later, suddenly the public has to pony up 500 million dollars when the original projected cost was $6 million ($39 million adjusted for inflation) because the utility company and executives took all the money for 3 decades and then skipped on the cost.
.
I'm all for building some small reactors (5,000 houses) which are impossible to fuck up and then letting them run for a couple decades and optimizing them as long as they are backed up by a breeder reactor in a crazy secure place like on a major military base.
So I watched Dr Who S9E3 on my phone while walking last night. It made the miles evaporate, it was flawless (so fast enough!), on my Metropcs phone which is on the Tmobile network. Used very little of my 16gig alotment to boot. I used to be Tmobile but they were more expensive. And verizon was even more expensive than Tmobile.
Crazy compared to even 10 years ago.
What is the "metropcs" equivalent for the Verizon network? I go to a convention yearly which only has Verizon repeaters and is surrounded by 2' of concrete and also underground under the hotel! Would be nice to have a 'drop' phone for the con.
Which is why we are way behind the standards in many other countries now.
Regarding Coal, it's not coming back. The most expensive coal that set the price isn't needed any more so every other coal mine is less profitable.
Natgas is the way to go for the next decade.
Nuclear is 500% more expensive to decommission than was projected. And after that there are millions in costs to protect the decaying nuclear waste lest it be taken by terrorists.
If we had a breeder reactor then we could at least reduce nuclear waste volume by 99% (while also dramatically shortening the half life tho it would still be over 3x longer than the lifespan of the united states to date) while also producing plutonium oxide that could be used to create nuclear batteries for space again.
Alternative energy plus batteries/molten storage is the way to go after 10 years from now.
Tho it won't really matter. As the limits to growth on metals kick in, we are likely to see really bad times by 2050.
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Some people are "bitter" tasters.
If artificial sweeteners taste bitter to you, then you may be as well.
Only 0.02% americans live to age 100 so that's pretty good.
(the oldest Americans are a small group, comprising just 0.02 percent of the population, or 55,000 people)
That's hard data.
Projections are that 25% of people who are age 20 will reach age 100. I don't really find that credible.
82 is the inflection point, or it was a couple years ago when I dug into it.
71 is young.
less than 2% make it to age 90.
I'm estimating 78-79 right now based on a mixture of fitness and the age my parents and grandparents died.
Jeez.
How invasive of your privacy do they have to get before you stop using them?
I saw this issue and stopped using facebook years ago when they required my real mobile phone to continue using the account.
My advice is to never start using Facebook in the first place.
Man... your post doesn't really sell becoming a construction worker!
Are they serious?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
Yes but salaries have been flat for decades and many of the new jobs are still targeted for removal.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
http://www.powerretail.com.au/...
Service jobs are on the chopping block in increasing numbers.
http://www.powerretail.com.au/...
The median annual salary for a customer service representative was $31,720 in 2015. That's not enough to live in several states.
http://www.zmescience.com/othe...
Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
Keep in mind.. these were workers earning under $5,000 per year. How is that going to work with U.S. labor?
Having known young people who tried to become electricians, Pay is not as good as you think for the first 20 years and getting in the field is very hard on top of it. I don't know any plumbers or carpenters but those professions have been seeing the highest fatality rates in years lately.
Specifically
https://www.bls.gov/news.relea...
Fatal injuries among construction and extraction occupations rose by 2 percent to 924 cases in 2015â"the
highest level since 2008. Several construction occupations recorded their highest fatality total in years, including construction laborers (highest since 2008); carpenters (2009); electricians (2009); and plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (2003).
Wages for carpenters in most states is in the $18,000 to $37,000 range-- which doesn't indicate a shortage. And high end wages are $67,000 in states like NY. Where $50,000 will get you a very bad apartment so $67,000 isn't as great as it sounds due to the high cost of living.
Between 1970 and 2000, manufacturing employment was relatively stable, ranging from 16.8 to 19.6 million when it peaked and began to decline\, falling to roughly 12 million jobs by 2010.
Meanwhile U.S. manufacturing output (in trillions of dollars) is higher than it's ever been. It's up 33% to 4 trillion now vs 3 trillion back in only 2009. (or 2006 if you ignore the dip due to the great recession).
Meanwhile, manufacturing robot shipments have skyrocketed from a low of 5,000 per year in 1996 to over 140,000 per year just recently (against a background of 240,000 shipped globally each year).
So despite a growing GDP and population, manufacturing employment has declined by over 7 million jobs.
Automated vehicles are likely to eliminate 3 million driving jobs rapidly at some point in the near future as well (5-15 years).
Any kind of a labor glut (even a small one) results in severe downward pressure on wages.
Will it be a problem forever? Who knows.
It might be because half the population isn't smart enough to do theorhetical physics or higher level mathematics or create artistic masterpieces. And they would need to bring something to a job which couldn't be automated or turned into self service.
But even if things worked out long term and we found new jobs 40 years from now, humans don't remain peaceful on that time scale. High unemployment is a strong predictor of civil unrest.
The point is, we don't need to eliminate human jobs to have a problem. Eliminating a small number (say 10%) of them rapidly would create severe social disruptions.
From the wiki and studies...
Authoritarian personality is a state of mind or attitude characterized by belief in absolute obedience or submission to one's own authority, as well as the administration of that belief through the oppression of one's subordinates.
An authoritarian leadership style is being used when a leader dictates policies and procedures, decides what goals are to be achieved, and directs and controls all activities without any meaningful participation by the subordinates. This leader has full control of the team, leaving low autonomy within the group.The leader has a vision in mind and must be able to effectively motivate their group to finish the task. The group is expected to complete the tasks under very close supervision, while unlimited authority is granted to the leader. Subordinate's responses to the orders given are either punished or rewarded.
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In only a few weeks, Mr. Trump has checked off almost every aspect.
Roughly half his supporters show strong authoritarian behavior. The one that is most striking is the rapid flip from opposing Russia to supporting Russia quickly after Mr. Trump performed a similar flip (from 2014- tweets strongly opposed russia to 2015- tweets and statements strongly support russia).
SNL did a great "spicer press conference" this weekend.
Spicer really is a joke at this point.
Trump is authoritarian, he's not a nazi.
Spencer is the one behaving like nazi's.
It's going to end badly however the left acts.