Typically they are placed on shallow water far from the coast... There is plenty of this space to go around:)
Let's take one problem at the time... Besides wind energy can't be the only solution... I was just reading how Denmark sells a lot of surplus electricity abroad for cheap when wind is high and energy demand is low...
I WANT your electricity bill... Mine is like $1000 a quarter.
How do you manage to get that? Electric heating? A/C?
Have you considered energy saving light bulbs? Do the math it pays of...
And do the same for electrical appliances like fridge, washing machine, and things that is always on or used often.
Electricity Bill. $107/mo (2012). I suspect most people who have things like refrigerators, ovens, electric lights might object to seeing their electric bills go up 300 bucks a month.
When I lived in Denmark (studio) my electric bill was 200 USD per year or so... Of course I had proper insulation, no electric heating (remote heat by water), and my appliances weren't shitty old and of decent quality and energy friendly. Here in the US, my expensive studio has an old shitty fridge... Old stove and old dish washer... None of it with any energy labeling...
I don't bother looking up the stats, but I suspect the problem is shitty old appliances, electric heating, A/C and poor isolation.
As someone who has lived in Denmark for 20+ years I don't remember energy prices ever being something anybody cared about... With all the different kinds of taxes and fees mixed in, nobody even knew what they were paying for...
Btw, I suspect price is higher because energy delivery was suddenly privatized... So you could choose who to buy your energy from, though connection fee is the same... Essentially nobody cares... and different pricing schemes are all a waste of time... Because you're literally buying the exact same product from all vendors...
For starters, China, russia, India, and South Africa continue to build out massive new coal plants. They have NO intention of shutting these down for the next 50-70 years.
How about you just get your own house in order first... EU have set high goals for reducing emissions, this will prompt research and make renewable energy sources cheaper... If the US followed along, then then price will eventually drop to a point where the third world can play along.
Denmark pays a whopping 41 cents per kilowatt hour.....3.5 times the avg cost in the U.S.
Do you even care about the size of your electricity bill... Mine is mainly an annoyance, it's like 10-15 USD / month.
Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.
Also buildings have strict isolation requirements, and incandescent bulbs have been banned through out EU (presumably you can still get them, but not through regular retail; I'm not sure).
What is the point? And what's the plan, dig out all the coal and ship it off somewhere?
Coal in Denmark... Ha:) there is like no natural resources in Denmark... A little oil at sea along with some fish, I think that's about it... And wages way to high for mining to be profitable...
It's a shame that Denmark can't get off of natural gas sooner than coal.
Denmark does have a little oil in at sea, being drilled up mærsk, along with some natural gas. If I'm not mistaken Denmark is self sufficient when it comes to gas and oil...
but it's data on foreigners, not citizens. that's a little different
So no US citizenship no human rights? No wonder the rest of the world hates the US.
and to steal an american's job at a fraction of the pay.
That does not apply in all cases!
Ironically, some people got a great education for free somewhere else, the left the country thinking why not try something new... Whilst politicians in their home countries are less enthusiastic about people who just got 5 years tuition + educational support for free leaving the country to work somewhere else and pay less tax:)
(In fact there have been suggestions that people leaving after university, should pay some of the educational support back)
It's ironic that the country you leave, wants you to stay and country you visit wants to go home. Both of them argues that it's best for the economy.
At the end of the day, mobility on this planet is important...
Is the data public information? if so, why not just make it publicly available, and whoever cares can download it. If the data is valuable, it will be mirrored and survive. if not, it won't.
It's not public, it's not useful, it's not accurate...
But it is private and sensitive data from honest hardworking residents.. Hey yeah, why don't we throw information about every Americans salary range online?
Once H1-Bs get used to working for peanuts to fulfill their "American dream".
Not all H-1Bs work for peanuts... There are also H-1Bs from Canada and various wealthy countries in Europe. I'm one of those.
Either way, after looking at my LCA (I just dug it up) I can tell you that only interesting thing specified there is the salary range. Which can be very inaccurate, I currently make well above the salary range specified in my LCA.
Note, as someone who have submitted everything from bank statements, criminal records, occupation and addresses of family, and an amazing load of other private documents to the US in order to get a visa; I'm very happy that the US doesn't plan to store this information indefinitely.
(Not that any of my documents are remotely interesting, but in general privacy needs to be respected)
Keep in mind that this so called "evidence" is also sensitive and private documents from hardworking residents and former residents (now citizens, green card holders or foreign residents). It's not something you can just hand over to researchers. Besides considering the level of institutional incompetence perpetuated in most American companies and agencies it's probably all stored on paper:)
Call me when they can make an automated car that car drive in snowy conditions when no lane landmarks are visible.
Should you drive in a snow storm? Either way, with GPS, etc this is not impossible, though I suspect the car would refuse to drive automatically under these circumstances... But keep in mind not all cars on the roads today can be driven under snowy conditions, try driving without a roof:) he he..
Or one that can turn into a lane of busy traffic that currently requires you to make eye contact with another driver to get them to slow down and let you in-
Is this even technically legal to do that? If you're behind a stop or yield sign, you cannot proceed forward if your interfere with ongoing traffic in any way. In practice it can be a bit different as someone should be nice and help you in; in which case an automatic car could move in too... Acting on eye contact or perceived signals like hand weaving does not hold in court and in case of an accident you would be fully liable.
Legalization is trivial compared to the technical challenges. Personally, I suspect that there won't be a truly automated cars in my lifetime.
Any language that doesn't require carriage return + linefeed can do anything in one line.
Exactly... In fact there is a lot of very complicated one-line javascript libraries just download one of those.min.js files:)
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Seriously, a readable 30 line implementation would have been more impressive...
I fully expect it [Javascript] to eclipse every other language in terms of popularity over the next ten years, for exactly the reasons you state. Driving down the cost of labor, and unifying skill sets so that people are even more interchangeable.
It pains me to say this, but Javascript is not that bad... I used to really hate it; but over the last year I've done a lot of node.js development. And if done right, it can be really nice. I usually write classes that takes a JSON object and does something... Then I can be very declarative when I put things together. Also asserts helps:)
But yes, static type safety seems to be underrated these days.
As for driving down cost of quickly writing something, I think that is good... Lots of administrative tasks, etc aren't done electronically because it's too expensive to write a shitty web-application. Don't be afraid for your job, the need for qualified developers won't disappear... Mostly there'll probably just be more tasks that it is feasible to develop (at least that is also a factor).
Why the hell are we still stuck using Javascript for the web? Why have we not got some virtual machine...
asm.js is a subset of javascript that is easily translated to low-level instructions... And runs at near native speed in browsers that optimize asm.js.
Don't get me wrong, I totally agree that asm.js is a messed up construction... One can think of it as a bytecode encoding in Javascript...
But it works, it's fast, and it's backwards compatible... Though anyone trying to use large asm.js programs in browsers with a poor javascript engine will get an extraordinary poor performance:) In in practice it might not be "backwards compatible" as speed is a feature.
Am I the only one who thought the prison population was at an all time high?
Don't worry it's still troubling high... You still have more people incarcerated than various not-so-popular dictators have had...
So don't worry, America is still evil, he he:)
On-topic, it's a shame the falling prison population isn't the headline... But instead the headline is empty prisons for sale...
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Ocean no, shoreline yes.
Typically they are placed on shallow water far from the coast... There is plenty of this space to go around :)
Let's take one problem at the time... Besides wind energy can't be the only solution... I was just reading how Denmark sells a lot of surplus electricity abroad for cheap when wind is high and energy demand is low...
I WANT your electricity bill... Mine is like $1000 a quarter.
How do you manage to get that? Electric heating? A/C?
Have you considered energy saving light bulbs? Do the math it pays of...
And do the same for electrical appliances like fridge, washing machine, and things that is always on or used often.
Electricity Bill. $107/mo (2012). I suspect most people who have things like refrigerators, ovens, electric lights might object to seeing their electric bills go up 300 bucks a month.
When I lived in Denmark (studio) my electric bill was 200 USD per year or so... Of course I had proper insulation, no electric heating (remote heat by water), and my appliances weren't shitty old and of decent quality and energy friendly. Here in the US, my expensive studio has an old shitty fridge... Old stove and old dish washer... None of it with any energy labeling...
I don't bother looking up the stats, but I suspect the problem is shitty old appliances, electric heating, A/C and poor isolation.
I'd like to see some proof of that. Assuming you're not in a studio apt living alone and spend all of your time at work
Guilty... Also live in San Francisco.. so heating is rarely needed, and but heating is electric which sucks...
btw, is 10 USD / month high or low?
The "surplus" heat is heat generated as a bi-effect from producing electricity.... - from coal.
And wood... which is farmed responsibly, so CO2 neutral.
As someone who has lived in Denmark for 20+ years I don't remember energy prices ever being something anybody cared about... With all the different kinds of taxes and fees mixed in, nobody even knew what they were paying for...
Btw, I suspect price is higher because energy delivery was suddenly privatized... So you could choose who to buy your energy from, though connection fee is the same... Essentially nobody cares... and different pricing schemes are all a waste of time... Because you're literally buying the exact same product from all vendors...
For starters, China, russia, India, and South Africa continue to build out massive new coal plants. They have NO intention of shutting these down for the next 50-70 years.
How about you just get your own house in order first... EU have set high goals for reducing emissions, this will prompt research and make renewable energy sources cheaper... If the US followed along, then then price will eventually drop to a point where the third world can play along.
Denmark pays a whopping 41 cents per kilowatt hour.....3.5 times the avg cost in the U.S.
Do you even care about the size of your electricity bill... Mine is mainly an annoyance, it's like 10-15 USD / month.
Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.
Also buildings have strict isolation requirements, and incandescent bulbs have been banned through out EU (presumably you can still get them, but not through regular retail; I'm not sure).
I think it's great what Denmark's doing, but it saddens me to realize that political will in the rest of the world is so far far off the mark.
The goals set fourth by the EU aren't that bad either... Just saying the only major industrialized nation with decent goals is the US.
WInd is unreliable and takes up loads of space.
Yes, but still... It'll be a while before we run out of ocean :)
The only wind turbines build on land in Denmark are for testing and development...
What is the point? And what's the plan, dig out all the coal and ship it off somewhere?
Coal in Denmark... Ha :) there is like no natural resources in Denmark... A little oil at sea along with some fish, I think that's about it... And wages way to high for mining to be profitable...
It's a shame that Denmark can't get off of natural gas sooner than coal.
Denmark does have a little oil in at sea, being drilled up mærsk, along with some natural gas. If I'm not mistaken Denmark is self sufficient when it comes to gas and oil...
but it's data on foreigners, not citizens. that's a little different
So no US citizenship no human rights? No wonder the rest of the world hates the US.
and to steal an american's job at a fraction of the pay.
That does not apply in all cases! :)
Ironically, some people got a great education for free somewhere else, the left the country thinking why not try something new... Whilst politicians in their home countries are less enthusiastic about people who just got 5 years tuition + educational support for free leaving the country to work somewhere else and pay less tax
(In fact there have been suggestions that people leaving after university, should pay some of the educational support back)
It's ironic that the country you leave, wants you to stay and country you visit wants to go home. Both of them argues that it's best for the economy.
At the end of the day, mobility on this planet is important...
Because the private of the people why submitted those forms is insignificant?
Is the data public information? if so, why not just make it publicly available, and whoever cares can download it. If the data is valuable, it will be mirrored and survive. if not, it won't.
It's not public, it's not useful, it's not accurate...
But it is private and sensitive data from honest hardworking residents.. Hey yeah, why don't we throw information about every Americans salary range online?
Once H1-Bs get used to working for peanuts to fulfill their "American dream".
Not all H-1Bs work for peanuts... There are also H-1Bs from Canada and various wealthy countries in Europe. I'm one of those.
:)
Either way, after looking at my LCA (I just dug it up) I can tell you that only interesting thing specified there is the salary range. Which can be very inaccurate, I currently make well above the salary range specified in my LCA.
Note, as someone who have submitted everything from bank statements, criminal records, occupation and addresses of family, and an amazing load of other private documents to the US in order to get a visa; I'm very happy that the US doesn't plan to store this information indefinitely.
(Not that any of my documents are remotely interesting, but in general privacy needs to be respected)
Keep in mind that this so called "evidence" is also sensitive and private documents from hardworking residents and former residents (now citizens, green card holders or foreign residents). It's not something you can just hand over to researchers. Besides considering the level of institutional incompetence perpetuated in most American companies and agencies it's probably all stored on paper
Call me when they can make an automated car that car drive in snowy conditions when no lane landmarks are visible.
Should you drive in a snow storm? Either way, with GPS, etc this is not impossible, though I suspect the car would refuse to drive automatically under these circumstances... But keep in mind not all cars on the roads today can be driven under snowy conditions, try driving without a roof :) he he..
Or one that can turn into a lane of busy traffic that currently requires you to make eye contact with another driver to get them to slow down and let you in-
Is this even technically legal to do that? If you're behind a stop or yield sign, you cannot proceed forward if your interfere with ongoing traffic in any way. In practice it can be a bit different as someone should be nice and help you in; in which case an automatic car could move in too... Acting on eye contact or perceived signals like hand weaving does not hold in court and in case of an accident you would be fully liable.
Legalization is trivial compared to the technical challenges. Personally, I suspect that there won't be a truly automated cars in my lifetime.
How old are you ? :) Just kidding...
How can we have a story about lava without pictures? I'm not sure how this is supposed to scare me :)
Any language that doesn't require carriage return + linefeed can do anything in one line.
Exactly... In fact there is a lot of very complicated one-line javascript libraries just download one of those .min.js files :)
br Seriously, a readable 30 line implementation would have been more impressive...
I fully expect it [Javascript] to eclipse every other language in terms of popularity over the next ten years, for exactly the reasons you state. Driving down the cost of labor, and unifying skill sets so that people are even more interchangeable.
It pains me to say this, but Javascript is not that bad... I used to really hate it; but over the last year I've done a lot of node.js development. And if done right, it can be really nice. I usually write classes that takes a JSON object and does something... Then I can be very declarative when I put things together. Also asserts helps :)
But yes, static type safety seems to be underrated these days.
As for driving down cost of quickly writing something, I think that is good... Lots of administrative tasks, etc aren't done electronically because it's too expensive to write a shitty web-application. Don't be afraid for your job, the need for qualified developers won't disappear... Mostly there'll probably just be more tasks that it is feasible to develop (at least that is also a factor).
Why the hell are we still stuck using Javascript for the web? Why have we not got some virtual machine...
asm.js is a subset of javascript that is easily translated to low-level instructions... And runs at near native speed in browsers that optimize asm.js. :) In in practice it might not be "backwards compatible" as speed is a feature.
:)
Don't get me wrong, I totally agree that asm.js is a messed up construction... One can think of it as a bytecode encoding in Javascript...
But it works, it's fast, and it's backwards compatible... Though anyone trying to use large asm.js programs in browsers with a poor javascript engine will get an extraordinary poor performance
Anyways, why not? It works
What is the difference between being in prison and jail? Just curious...
Wow and really bad and a really scary way to put it, I envision authorities dreaming up ways to fill jails.
Nor authorities... Companies running prisons... :)
But yeah, "prisoner shortage" is a phrase you'll only hear in America
Agree... The cops needs predator drones to terminate long highway car chases... We'll all me much safer :)
Am I the only one who thought the prison population was at an all time high?
Don't worry it's still troubling high... You still have more people incarcerated than various not-so-popular dictators have had... :)
So don't worry, America is still evil, he he
On-topic, it's a shame the falling prison population isn't the headline... But instead the headline is empty prisons for sale...