Quite a few of them. Some didn't get their timing right but I can introduce you to economists and financial analysts that I know personally that were warning about a likely crash in the housing market and knock on effects as far back as 2003.
Hell, I predicted that the housing market would crash well before that (after a hi-rise condo developer I knew told me that 20% of their sales were to speculators who never had any intention of moving in). Does that make me right when the prices kept going up for years before crashing to levels still above the prices that were typical when I first thought it was going to crash?
Putting that stuff near "science" or "maths" is an insult to those fields of endeeavour.
Not any more than meteorology or ecology or geology or any other field that gets its data from complex and chaotic empirical sources.
The thing is, when scientists publish theories and mathematical models about meteorology or ecology or geology, people using those models and theories to make predictions don't affect the meteorology or ecology or geology. When economists publish theories and mathematical models of the economy, people acting on those models can change the behavior being modeled.
The roundabout they built to replace a 4-way stop nearby my house may let you slow down to 5 mph rather than stopping and eliminated the odd drunk driver blowing through the stop sign, but it is more difficult to maneuver than stop signs, and has also resulted in more crashes.
It's like being on a escalator at the airport or train station. Two folks don't know where they are going. So they stop dead in their tracks at the end of the escalator, blocking the path for all the other folks on the escalator.
That is a well known problem in architectural design. Give a clear path for people to exit and clear escalators and the like, and place directional signs where people have space to stop to read them. There's an art to finding a way to entice people away from stairs and escalators after they exit them.
The implicit right of The People to violent revolution against an evil government was the principal intent.
A bigger part of the intent was the idea that a standing army tends to lead to abuse, but that a populace with experience using firearms and able to quickly join a well-trained militia was necessary for preservation of the republic from enemies abroad and within.
If only politicians selling themselves as conservative typically followed those views, then maybe there would be less "lack of understanding what a conservative is on slashdot".
The US got nation-wide railroad network, flush toilet, telegraph, commercial air-travel, and massively-affordable personal car [wikipedia.org] under laissez-fair economy.
Let's see:
Nation-wide railroad network: To incentivize its' constrcution, the US government gave away huge land grants (much of it land of various Indian tribes) to corporations. The US maintains a federal bureaucracy to support rail transportation.
Flush toilets: Flush toilets existed for hundreds of years before the US did. Improved designs became popular and mass produced as governments built water supplies and sewers run to each house.
Telegraph: Before it was commercially built in the US, a demonstration line between Washington and Baltimore funded by Congress was built by Morse. Early commercialization was protected by patents.
Commercial air travel: Early commercial air travel was supported by US mail delivery. Massive government investments in airports, air traffic control, and safety bureaucracy support it now.
Massively-affordable personal car: Useful for travel because of the government construction and control of roads and bridges.
"poor families to not have to work all of the time"... Do you include the tens of millions of families which have parents who never work, and are on government assistance?
"The number of families with at least one member unemployed decreased to 6.5 million in 2014 from 7.7 million in 2013."
"In 2014, about 43 percent of all families included children under age 18."
"Among the 34.4 million families with children, 88.7 percent had at least one employed parent in 2014."
"Mothers with younger children are less likely to be in the labor force than mothers with older children. In 2014, the labor force participation rate of mothers with children under 6 years old (64.2 percent) was lower than the rate of those whose youngest child was 6 to 17 years old (74.7 percent). . . . However, the unemployment rate for married mothers of infants, at 4.1 percent, was considerably lower than the rate for mothers with other marital statuses, at 15.6 percent. "
I needed some work done for a kitchen. They standard rate was between $100hr - $150 an hour.
Which typically translates to around $40 to $60 and hour to the person actually doing the plumbing work, the rest going to benefits, taxes, overhead, & profit (assuming the particular business is actually profitable).
The actual memos were full of "According to the informant . . . " and the like, so, no, they didn't read the books - it seems like they didn't even try to verify what the informant said.
I've never have suspend or hibernation issues while running Windows based OS.
I have: By closing the lid on my XP laptop after clicking shutdown but before it shut down, the hard drive got corrupted. I'm guessing it tried to suspend after the shutdown process had started and therefore saved to an inconsistent state. I must have had perfect bad timing, because doing that hadn't been a problem before. After some frustrating hours downloading SystemRescueCD on my work computer and using it to save the important files (my backup was a month old - live and learn), it turned out that chkdsk fixed it, no problem.
No, technically, heat is that energy being transferred from one body to another. The kinetic energy of the molecules in a body is the Internal Energy. Heat transferred can do work on the body, so it does not all get translated into kinetic energy - you have to take into account the Enthalpy (Internal Energy + Pressure*Volume). Also look into Gibbs Free Energy and Helmholtz Free Energy to take into account the effect entropy has on the possibility of using that energy.
From TFA: "for regulatory reasons, Uber in Saudi Arabia does not work with contracted drivers using their own cars—all Uber rides go through existing companies"
So Uber can follow local laws when they're forced to. Who would've guessed?
Uber is stealing jobs from real employees that have benefits.
You've never been a taxi driver, have you? At least in the US, they are usually treated as independent contractors and do not usually get any benefits.
Not that I have any love for Über - I honk they need to start playing by the same rules taxis/limos have to.
Gotta pick something, and 72F is a decent average.
72F is a little on the warm side in the winter, but it is way too fucking cold in the summer. I've seen many control systems that use 72F as a setpoint, but the heat doesn't go on until the room drops at least 2F below that, and the A/C doesn't kick in until the space temperature rises at least 2F above.
There are many differences in preferences for comfort among men and women, different clothing, individual preferences, and the uncertainty in the "data" (apparently based on one man) ASHRAE has used for a standard metabolic equivalent (btuh per sq ft of skin or W per sq m). More importantly However, people get accustomed to the climate. When I worked on projects in Phoenix, they would put on sweaters and complain if you let the temperature drop much below 78F. In colder climates, many people prefer indoor temperatures at or below 70F in the winter,especially at night when sleeping.
However, the best attempt at a solution to the problem is to have good HVAC systems that control humidity well and have good localized temperature controls. You will still get people disagreeing when they share a thermostat in open office areas (which is why most larger offices use a temperature sensor with no display or local setpoint adjustment rather than thermostats) but you can't please everyone all of the time.
Personally, I bring a sweater to work every day all year round because the temperature in the morning train seems to be inversely proportional to the outside temperature the evening before (unless the heating & A/C is out, as it often is) and the temperature in the office varies randomly. It's no big deal to carry the sweater.
So we're back to God being a deliberately cruel SOB
I prefer Kurt Vonnegut's take on god (in which book, I forget), which is kind of like what school guidance counselors say about many of their smart students.
To paraphrase: God is all-knowing and all-powerful, but he is somewhat apathetic and an underachiever.
The (few, but expanding) bike paths in downtown Chicago are surprisingly well used in cold, snowy weather, as soon as they are cleared of snow, even when the temperatures drop into the teens (deg F).
I know the feeling.
Many years back, I was involved in the design of a university chemistry lab where the lab equipment was pre-wired and UL labeled. However, the City of Chicago had different electrical requirements (they're somewhat less rigid and arbitrary these days) so it had to be re-wired. The kicker is, the City of Chicago required it to be UL labeled, so after re-wiring, the contractor had to pay around $5,000 (in 1980s dollars) to get UL to come to the job site, inspect & test the equipment, and slap a UL label on it.
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Hell, I predicted that the housing market would crash well before that (after a hi-rise condo developer I knew told me that 20% of their sales were to speculators who never had any intention of moving in). Does that make me right when the prices kept going up for years before crashing to levels still above the prices that were typical when I first thought it was going to crash?
The thing is, when scientists publish theories and mathematical models about meteorology or ecology or geology, people using those models and theories to make predictions don't affect the meteorology or ecology or geology. When economists publish theories and mathematical models of the economy, people acting on those models can change the behavior being modeled.
The roundabout they built to replace a 4-way stop nearby my house may let you slow down to 5 mph rather than stopping and eliminated the odd drunk driver blowing through the stop sign, but it is more difficult to maneuver than stop signs, and has also resulted in more crashes.
That is a well known problem in architectural design. Give a clear path for people to exit and clear escalators and the like, and place directional signs where people have space to stop to read them. There's an art to finding a way to entice people away from stairs and escalators after they exit them.
How about just figuring out how to spell his name, the editors can't even seem to get it consistently wrong.
A bigger part of the intent was the idea that a standing army tends to lead to abuse, but that a populace with experience using firearms and able to quickly join a well-trained militia was necessary for preservation of the republic from enemies abroad and within.
If only politicians selling themselves as conservative typically followed those views, then maybe there would be less "lack of understanding what a conservative is on slashdot".
Let's see:
Nation-wide railroad network: To incentivize its' constrcution, the US government gave away huge land grants (much of it land of various Indian tribes) to corporations. The US maintains a federal bureaucracy to support rail transportation.
Flush toilets: Flush toilets existed for hundreds of years before the US did. Improved designs became popular and mass produced as governments built water supplies and sewers run to each house.
Telegraph: Before it was commercially built in the US, a demonstration line between Washington and Baltimore funded by Congress was built by Morse. Early commercialization was protected by patents.
Commercial air travel: Early commercial air travel was supported by US mail delivery. Massive government investments in airports, air traffic control, and safety bureaucracy support it now.
Massively-affordable personal car: Useful for travel because of the government construction and control of roads and bridges.
Tens of millions? Not even close, according to the Bureau of Labor Statics:
"The number of families with at least one member unemployed decreased to 6.5 million in 2014 from 7.7 million in 2013."
"In 2014, about 43 percent of all families included children under age 18."
"Among the 34.4 million families with children, 88.7 percent had at least one employed parent in 2014."
"Mothers with younger children are less likely to be in the labor force than mothers with older children. In 2014, the labor force participation rate of mothers with children under 6 years old (64.2 percent) was lower than the rate of those whose youngest child was 6 to 17 years old (74.7 percent). . . . However, the unemployment rate for married mothers of infants, at 4.1 percent, was considerably lower than the rate for mothers with other marital statuses, at 15.6 percent. "
Which typically translates to around $40 to $60 and hour to the person actually doing the plumbing work, the rest going to benefits, taxes, overhead, & profit (assuming the particular business is actually profitable).
But writing that algorithm before confronted with the problem that the human figures out, that's the hard part.
In what fantasy world does that even come close to making sense? It seems like an oxymoron to me.
The actual memos were full of "According to the informant . . . " and the like, so, no, they didn't read the books - it seems like they didn't even try to verify what the informant said.
Yeah, as often as not, my Win7 work laptop doesn't suspend turn and just stays on when I close the lid and walk to the train station.
I have: By closing the lid on my XP laptop after clicking shutdown but before it shut down, the hard drive got corrupted. I'm guessing it tried to suspend after the shutdown process had started and therefore saved to an inconsistent state. I must have had perfect bad timing, because doing that hadn't been a problem before. After some frustrating hours downloading SystemRescueCD on my work computer and using it to save the important files (my backup was a month old - live and learn), it turned out that chkdsk fixed it, no problem.
No, technically, heat is that energy being transferred from one body to another. The kinetic energy of the molecules in a body is the Internal Energy. Heat transferred can do work on the body, so it does not all get translated into kinetic energy - you have to take into account the Enthalpy (Internal Energy + Pressure*Volume). Also look into Gibbs Free Energy and Helmholtz Free Energy to take into account the effect entropy has on the possibility of using that energy.
From TFA: "for regulatory reasons, Uber in Saudi Arabia does not work with contracted drivers using their own cars—all Uber rides go through existing companies"
So Uber can follow local laws when they're forced to. Who would've guessed?
You've never been a taxi driver, have you? At least in the US, they are usually treated as independent contractors and do not usually get any benefits.
Not that I have any love for Über - I honk they need to start playing by the same rules taxis/limos have to.
But the original article, which the posted article was based on, was not.
72F is a little on the warm side in the winter, but it is way too fucking cold in the summer. I've seen many control systems that use 72F as a setpoint, but the heat doesn't go on until the room drops at least 2F below that, and the A/C doesn't kick in until the space temperature rises at least 2F above.
There are many differences in preferences for comfort among men and women, different clothing, individual preferences, and the uncertainty in the "data" (apparently based on one man) ASHRAE has used for a standard metabolic equivalent (btuh per sq ft of skin or W per sq m). More importantly However, people get accustomed to the climate. When I worked on projects in Phoenix, they would put on sweaters and complain if you let the temperature drop much below 78F. In colder climates, many people prefer indoor temperatures at or below 70F in the winter,especially at night when sleeping.
However, the best attempt at a solution to the problem is to have good HVAC systems that control humidity well and have good localized temperature controls. You will still get people disagreeing when they share a thermostat in open office areas (which is why most larger offices use a temperature sensor with no display or local setpoint adjustment rather than thermostats) but you can't please everyone all of the time.
Personally, I bring a sweater to work every day all year round because the temperature in the morning train seems to be inversely proportional to the outside temperature the evening before (unless the heating & A/C is out, as it often is) and the temperature in the office varies randomly. It's no big deal to carry the sweater.
TFA linked in TFS is not so great, but it does contain a link to the original article original article which is more informative.
If I hadn't already replied to a couple of posts, I would have modded up the above post.
I prefer Kurt Vonnegut's take on god (in which book, I forget), which is kind of like what school guidance counselors say about many of their smart students.
To paraphrase: God is all-knowing and all-powerful, but he is somewhat apathetic and an underachiever.
I like "I AM" as the name of god, because "I AM" is really the only thing you can say about the origin of existence.
The (few, but expanding) bike paths in downtown Chicago are surprisingly well used in cold, snowy weather, as soon as they are cleared of snow, even when the temperatures drop into the teens (deg F).
I know the feeling.
Many years back, I was involved in the design of a university chemistry lab where the lab equipment was pre-wired and UL labeled. However, the City of Chicago had different electrical requirements (they're somewhat less rigid and arbitrary these days) so it had to be re-wired. The kicker is, the City of Chicago required it to be UL labeled, so after re-wiring, the contractor had to pay around $5,000 (in 1980s dollars) to get UL to come to the job site, inspect & test the equipment, and slap a UL label on it.