Be careful not to confuse the hourly rate you're paying as a customer with the hourly rate the worker is receiving. Even if they are self employed, working lawns carries several additional costs. e.g. Capital equipment (truck, trailer, mower, edger, etc.) and the maintenance on all those items, their time managing that maintenance, their time scheduling the work (and dealing with schedule changes), etc.
8 hours of pay is costing probably 12 hours of their time, which effectively brings their hourly rate from $30 down to $20. Now subtract expenses. I don't know exactly how much that would be but even if you estimate only $5/hr that brings them down to $15/hr which is only $31k/yr assuming they can work all year, which is not true for lawn care in most states.
DST is almost exactly opposite the school year. School runs through the winter, usually starting late august and ending June. DST runs through the summer, starting in early March and ending in early November. It doesn't coincide at all, unless you are confused and think that winter is when we enter DST...?
This is a perfect description of the problem, people think of email like they think of IM. I get way too many emails that could easily and effectively be replaced with a quick IM. I'm not sure if I really want that many IMs, but if it's important then of course I'd prefer the more disruptive communication method.
To be clear, neither the summary nor the article made any claims about global warming or global climate change (whichever you like to call it). Simply observation that a large portion of ice internal to this glacier is gone (assumed to have melted) and this raises a risk that the glacier will collapse into the ocean which, based on calculations, could raise sea levels very quickly by up to 2 ft. If that is the case, *why* it is gone is probably not the most important question, rather how do we protect in the event that the glacier collapses is where we should focus our attention.
It's easy to tell when a cop is there to slow traffic down as opposed to generating revenue. If the cop car is easily visible, they are trying to slow traffic down -- people will see the car and slow down. If they are hidden, they are trying to catch people i.e. generate revenue, not slow the overall traffic -- most cars won't see the cop car and will remain at high speeds.
Seriously! I don't get when people complain about insignificant crap like this because it's "not realistic" while they're playing a game where you can not only survive getting shot in the head, you can even keep fighting. BF5 lets you change your character (and they don't charge for new characters), so if you don't like the one you started with JUST CHANGE IT. The game has enough real problems, like how it crashes every other round. We don't need to be manufacturing social problems.
... in trash cans which aren't being emptied, because the people who are normally paid to empty them aren't being paid to empty them, so they are overflowing and trash is blowing around.
There have been so many bombings and mass shootings at music concerts over the past year to even remember without Googling.
So... one? I mean, I can only remember one shooting and zero bombings without googling and I'm not even sure if that one was within the past year. We have a lot of mass shootings and I can't be expected to remember them all. Or, was that your point?
"There are not enough of them" and "there are not enough being mined & refined" are not necessarily the same problem. I imagine production levels could change over the next 30 years, potentially in drastically different manner than this study is assuming. In fact, a study like this could be the catalyst for such a change in production.
Can you please provide the evidence for the first statement that proves it is rational? Specifically, where Facebook stored data for the specific purpose of using it against someone later, and have proven that mal-intent by actually using it against someone later.
It's not that there isn't possibly some justification for a rational fear in all this, but you're stating that they are storing it with the explicit reason of using it against their users in the future and while it's easy to see a case where they could use it against their users in the future but your paranoia comes in when you assume they will do it and you have provided no reason for the assumption.
Yes. The fact someone is after you does not affirm nor refute the fact you are paranoid. They are independent facts! Therefore, the original point is not accurate, because it implies a relationship that does not exist.
Just to pile on, here's an article from Mr. Money Mustache about his Uber experiment and how the math worked out. Obviously he did this as an experiment and there may be some other tricks & benefits if you're "full time", but even so, the results are not encouraging for drivers.
Ultimately his costs for his day (2 hours) of driving worked out to about $7/hr after expenses -- and that was in an electric car, not accounting for electric costs because he uses free charging stations wherever possible.
Sure they are living paycheck to paycheck, but perhaps that's because they are paying the credit card bill for the 65" flat screen TV they spend all their time watching, or the loan payments & gas for the SUV or pickup truck they drive around that gets only 12 MPG?
Hint: that is all discretionary spending. If you're living paycheck to paycheck because you chose to spend all your money, that doesn't make you poor.
If I enter your home, bypassing your obvious security measures but not breaking anything (picking your locks, perhaps?) are you arguing that I have not yet done anything illegal? In most countries, that is enough to make it criminal. In some US states, this is enough to warrant that the homeowner has the right to take the intruder's life.
Honestly, people watch too many doomsday movies. Everyone thinks everything is going to cause the world to turn out badly because that's what always happens in the movies. Even here, go down a few comments and there's one that says "The Planet of the Apes movies suggest this will not end well." For fuck's sake, real life is not a movie!
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Be careful not to confuse the hourly rate you're paying as a customer with the hourly rate the worker is receiving. Even if they are self employed, working lawns carries several additional costs. e.g. Capital equipment (truck, trailer, mower, edger, etc.) and the maintenance on all those items, their time managing that maintenance, their time scheduling the work (and dealing with schedule changes), etc.
8 hours of pay is costing probably 12 hours of their time, which effectively brings their hourly rate from $30 down to $20. Now subtract expenses. I don't know exactly how much that would be but even if you estimate only $5/hr that brings them down to $15/hr which is only $31k/yr assuming they can work all year, which is not true for lawn care in most states.
DST is almost exactly opposite the school year. School runs through the winter, usually starting late august and ending June. DST runs through the summer, starting in early March and ending in early November. It doesn't coincide at all, unless you are confused and think that winter is when we enter DST...?
This is a perfect description of the problem, people think of email like they think of IM. I get way too many emails that could easily and effectively be replaced with a quick IM. I'm not sure if I really want that many IMs, but if it's important then of course I'd prefer the more disruptive communication method.
To be clear, neither the summary nor the article made any claims about global warming or global climate change (whichever you like to call it). Simply observation that a large portion of ice internal to this glacier is gone (assumed to have melted) and this raises a risk that the glacier will collapse into the ocean which, based on calculations, could raise sea levels very quickly by up to 2 ft. If that is the case, *why* it is gone is probably not the most important question, rather how do we protect in the event that the glacier collapses is where we should focus our attention.
It's easy to tell when a cop is there to slow traffic down as opposed to generating revenue. If the cop car is easily visible, they are trying to slow traffic down -- people will see the car and slow down. If they are hidden, they are trying to catch people i.e. generate revenue, not slow the overall traffic -- most cars won't see the cop car and will remain at high speeds.
Hey, take it easy, he's been dropping LSD...
The headline is "Is screen time good or bad?" and the answer is "No." The law of questions in headlines is alive and well!
So, a la carte?
You mean it wasn't really a battle to see how long each side could keep their flag on the pole?
Seriously! I don't get when people complain about insignificant crap like this because it's "not realistic" while they're playing a game where you can not only survive getting shot in the head, you can even keep fighting. BF5 lets you change your character (and they don't charge for new characters), so if you don't like the one you started with JUST CHANGE IT. The game has enough real problems, like how it crashes every other round. We don't need to be manufacturing social problems.
... in trash cans which aren't being emptied, because the people who are normally paid to empty them aren't being paid to empty them, so they are overflowing and trash is blowing around.
So... one? I mean, I can only remember one shooting and zero bombings without googling and I'm not even sure if that one was within the past year. We have a lot of mass shootings and I can't be expected to remember them all. Or, was that your point?
"There are not enough of them" and "there are not enough being mined & refined" are not necessarily the same problem. I imagine production levels could change over the next 30 years, potentially in drastically different manner than this study is assuming. In fact, a study like this could be the catalyst for such a change in production.
I think it's roughly same amount of pressure I feel in my head when my computer is running too slow...
Can you please provide the evidence for the first statement that proves it is rational? Specifically, where Facebook stored data for the specific purpose of using it against someone later, and have proven that mal-intent by actually using it against someone later.
It's not that there isn't possibly some justification for a rational fear in all this, but you're stating that they are storing it with the explicit reason of using it against their users in the future and while it's easy to see a case where they could use it against their users in the future but your paranoia comes in when you assume they will do it and you have provided no reason for the assumption.
Yes. The fact someone is after you does not affirm nor refute the fact you are paranoid. They are independent facts! Therefore, the original point is not accurate, because it implies a relationship that does not exist.
Ok, then who decides what is morally wrong and evil? Come on, it's unethical to post without at least a little thought first. ;-)
Just to pile on, here's an article from Mr. Money Mustache about his Uber experiment and how the math worked out. Obviously he did this as an experiment and there may be some other tricks & benefits if you're "full time", but even so, the results are not encouraging for drivers. Ultimately his costs for his day (2 hours) of driving worked out to about $7/hr after expenses -- and that was in an electric car, not accounting for electric costs because he uses free charging stations wherever possible.
Sorry I don't have any mod points but thank you for the extra information, it's very helpful.
Sure they are living paycheck to paycheck, but perhaps that's because they are paying the credit card bill for the 65" flat screen TV they spend all their time watching, or the loan payments & gas for the SUV or pickup truck they drive around that gets only 12 MPG?
Hint: that is all discretionary spending. If you're living paycheck to paycheck because you chose to spend all your money, that doesn't make you poor.
If I enter your home, bypassing your obvious security measures but not breaking anything (picking your locks, perhaps?) are you arguing that I have not yet done anything illegal? In most countries, that is enough to make it criminal. In some US states, this is enough to warrant that the homeowner has the right to take the intruder's life.
Ya, wi-fi would work better for something that has to cover that much ground. Better range.
Honestly, people watch too many doomsday movies. Everyone thinks everything is going to cause the world to turn out badly because that's what always happens in the movies. Even here, go down a few comments and there's one that says "The Planet of the Apes movies suggest this will not end well." For fuck's sake, real life is not a movie!
All of Trump's tweets are clickbait, as are all the articles about them.
Perfect quote! They are both extremes. How is that not obvious?