Installed OpenHAB to look at it for home automation, and I just kept cringing at how miserable the security model is and just how hard they have made it to put it in a non-routeable VLAN. While this bill doesn't address everything by any means, the "reasonable minimum protections" concept needs to be enshrined somewhere.
Sure... but wouldn't working two crews of (3) 10h days be more effective than one crew (5) 8h days? Your set-up/clean-up time is an even smaller fraction of time, and your infrastructure is more fully utilized.
Another factor is people (like myself) that cannot be effective at their primary responsibilities for six consecutive hours (or 3+3 with a break). A have productive sprints in the morning, early afternoon, and evening. The rest of my day is taken up with either random distractions or managerial tasks.
"Exempt" employees can still be paid overtime. The main incentives for having people be exempt are that you don't need to track their unpaid lunches and some other FLSO burdens.
My company does a 4-9-4 work week-- half-day Fridays. But in reality Fridays are just a skeleton crew most of the time. We compete for good engineers more than we compete for customers. It isn't perfect, but it works.
You might do well to get out of your bubble to understand why people support Republicans, because you clearly have blinders on.
Don’t get me wrong— I am a “rich” agnostic liberal all day long, but understanding people with different ideas is what makes you capable of a debate. There are good things to be taken from many ideologies.
Since I do t use Facebook, LinkedIn is the only tool for people to find me. But, it is pretty much worthless for anything useful. I am forced by my marketing person to like and comment on shit, and to reject recruiters.
It did import my contact list years ago... and I never delete anyone. Fun to see what people I met 20-30+ years ago are doing now...
Years ago and with less scrutiny in the process, I registered a.com domain with two of the seven plus one that would be offensive to a fair number of religious people. Now I am a little too old to use it as an email address, but it is still fun to have.
That is what happens when the workers fuck over the company though-- quid pro quo for the strikes.
While cost was likely a major driver, there were plenty of other business reasons that having a second major production facility outside of Washington State for the commercial aviation division made (and makes) solid business sense. There aren't enough qualified people in Puget Sound, and diversification makes sense from a natural disaster standpoint. The fact that the 787-10 wouldn't work with the Dreamlifter was another pretty big issue, although I don't know how much of that was a factor in the initial decision.
Not to say Boeing management has a clue-- but the biggest problems have been addressed for a minimum of 2 years with the CHS facility from everything I understand, hence their ability to price the frame where they are and still make a profit.
North Charleston, South Carolina... not much credibility when you even get the wrong state!
Quality issues were nearly a decade ago as the brand-new assembly line ramped up. Largely consistent quality and speed now with Everett now from what I understand.
Foxcon's iPhone factories employs over 1 million people for worldwide production. Add 40-hour work weeks, mandatory breaks and meals, sick time, holidays, and a lower talent level for workers and 1 million for US production doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. But still, at even 10% of that number where would you find the workers?
Even U6 is tracking to be at record lows not seen since the dot.com boom, currently at 8% while the low was 7%. In other words, 3 million more full time employees would put us under a very unsustainable low unemployment level.
We need to work on making the economy more resilient and balanced, not deluding ourselves about “creating jobs” at the peak.
Unless the assembly is fully automated, the number of people required to offset the China production would be easily 500k (domestic consumption only), and likely close to one million.
You couldn’t just do it overnight; you would need to design products tailored for automation, build the factories, and hire the people.
Tesla struggles to find people in Reno for the gigafactory, and they only have something like 15k employees there. What happens when you go an order of magnitude or two larger?
As are the unions. As is the management. Oh, and that recession too. And, the homeless. Oh, and cheap ride-share services that are more flexible.
Bottom line is that there are a lot of pressures on public transit, and it isn't something most people want to use.
I would say the real culprit though is poor urban/metropolitan planning. You just can't have an elevated light-rail train stop that has 100 parking spots and is walkable for ~300 people and expect it to have an economically viable ridership. Each stop you add slows the total line time and reduces viability.
If it includes "contractors," then the companies will need to do the reporting. I applaud the concept, but I can see all kinds of potential challenges.
A single 40A charger is trivial, but being able to support 2-3 200kW chargers is no small task for most stations. You quickly go from a 200A, 120/208V service from overhead pole-mount transformers to 1,200A, 480/277V with a parking space or two lost for a pad-mounted transformer. Not a big deal if you are in the middle of nowhere (with a good sized distribution circuit available), but it can be quite a challenge. Add to this the changing logistics of vehicular circulation, the need/desire for a canopy cover, the economics of demand charges... and it becomes quite an endeavor. And, still no amenities for someone to hang out for a half hour.
Not to sound like an MBA, but the average target spend for office space is about 5% of salaries.
Personally not sure what I think of it, but a number of companies are going to 6’x8’ private offices with the “barn doors” to try to balance needs. There are options...
You are unfortunately comparing bad lighting (and light) to good lighting and office orientation. My work is primarily either on my monitor or whiteboard behind my desk. I have about 5fc on my desk compared to a modern recommendation of 20-30fc, but I have fill-in lights to light up the wall in front of my desk to about 5% of the exitance from the monitor, along with a separate light that provides full-in on overcast days.
When an office is designed well, you have significantly less eye strain than a dark office. Natural light adds to it.
Unfortunately, designing good functional lighting for office spaces is a long lost art.
The infrastructure required to upgrade a gas station for any reasonable EV charging is non-trivial— likely comparable to removing a fuel tank and remediating some soil. And what exactly do you do at said gas station while waiting for reasonable charge? It might work for truck stops, but not an average station.
Not for most systems I have seen-- they work kindof like a certificate authority with a revocation list. No control communication over the IP network, just RS-485.
It is easier to have a Class 2 power supply at 24V than going the Class 1 48V route. It will start out with things like lights and usb chargers. Kitchens will hold out for a long time, but everything else is fair game.
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C'mon, that isn't secure... try "Password1!"
Installed OpenHAB to look at it for home automation, and I just kept cringing at how miserable the security model is and just how hard they have made it to put it in a non-routeable VLAN. While this bill doesn't address everything by any means, the "reasonable minimum protections" concept needs to be enshrined somewhere.
Sure... but wouldn't working two crews of (3) 10h days be more effective than one crew (5) 8h days? Your set-up/clean-up time is an even smaller fraction of time, and your infrastructure is more fully utilized.
Another factor is people (like myself) that cannot be effective at their primary responsibilities for six consecutive hours (or 3+3 with a break). A have productive sprints in the morning, early afternoon, and evening. The rest of my day is taken up with either random distractions or managerial tasks.
"Exempt" employees can still be paid overtime. The main incentives for having people be exempt are that you don't need to track their unpaid lunches and some other FLSO burdens.
My company does a 4-9-4 work week-- half-day Fridays. But in reality Fridays are just a skeleton crew most of the time. We compete for good engineers more than we compete for customers. It isn't perfect, but it works.
You might do well to get out of your bubble to understand why people support Republicans, because you clearly have blinders on.
Don’t get me wrong— I am a “rich” agnostic liberal all day long, but understanding people with different ideas is what makes you capable of a debate. There are good things to be taken from many ideologies.
Since I do t use Facebook, LinkedIn is the only tool for people to find me. But, it is pretty much worthless for anything useful. I am forced by my marketing person to like and comment on shit, and to reject recruiters.
It did import my contact list years ago... and I never delete anyone. Fun to see what people I met 20-30+ years ago are doing now...
Useless? Yes.
Years ago and with less scrutiny in the process, I registered a .com domain with two of the seven plus one that would be offensive to a fair number of religious people. Now I am a little too old to use it as an email address, but it is still fun to have.
That is what happens when the workers fuck over the company though-- quid pro quo for the strikes.
While cost was likely a major driver, there were plenty of other business reasons that having a second major production facility outside of Washington State for the commercial aviation division made (and makes) solid business sense. There aren't enough qualified people in Puget Sound, and diversification makes sense from a natural disaster standpoint. The fact that the 787-10 wouldn't work with the Dreamlifter was another pretty big issue, although I don't know how much of that was a factor in the initial decision.
Not to say Boeing management has a clue-- but the biggest problems have been addressed for a minimum of 2 years with the CHS facility from everything I understand, hence their ability to price the frame where they are and still make a profit.
North Charleston, South Carolina... not much credibility when you even get the wrong state!
Quality issues were nearly a decade ago as the brand-new assembly line ramped up. Largely consistent quality and speed now with Everett now from what I understand.
Foxcon's iPhone factories employs over 1 million people for worldwide production. Add 40-hour work weeks, mandatory breaks and meals, sick time, holidays, and a lower talent level for workers and 1 million for US production doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. But still, at even 10% of that number where would you find the workers?
Even U6 is tracking to be at record lows not seen since the dot.com boom, currently at 8% while the low was 7%. In other words, 3 million more full time employees would put us under a very unsustainable low unemployment level.
We need to work on making the economy more resilient and balanced, not deluding ourselves about “creating jobs” at the peak.
Unless the assembly is fully automated, the number of people required to offset the China production would be easily 500k (domestic consumption only), and likely close to one million.
You couldn’t just do it overnight; you would need to design products tailored for automation, build the factories, and hire the people.
Tesla struggles to find people in Reno for the gigafactory, and they only have something like 15k employees there. What happens when you go an order of magnitude or two larger?
AstroTurf somewhere else. The “most damaging” thing has nothing to do with pot. We have a “blue chip” stock that is run like a startup.
As are the unions. As is the management. Oh, and that recession too. And, the homeless. Oh, and cheap ride-share services that are more flexible.
Bottom line is that there are a lot of pressures on public transit, and it isn't something most people want to use.
I would say the real culprit though is poor urban/metropolitan planning. You just can't have an elevated light-rail train stop that has 100 parking spots and is walkable for ~300 people and expect it to have an economically viable ridership. Each stop you add slows the total line time and reduces viability.
Median wage would likely be more representative.
If it includes "contractors," then the companies will need to do the reporting. I applaud the concept, but I can see all kinds of potential challenges.
A single 40A charger is trivial, but being able to support 2-3 200kW chargers is no small task for most stations. You quickly go from a 200A, 120/208V service from overhead pole-mount transformers to 1,200A, 480/277V with a parking space or two lost for a pad-mounted transformer. Not a big deal if you are in the middle of nowhere (with a good sized distribution circuit available), but it can be quite a challenge. Add to this the changing logistics of vehicular circulation, the need/desire for a canopy cover, the economics of demand charges... and it becomes quite an endeavor. And, still no amenities for someone to hang out for a half hour.
Not to sound like an MBA, but the average target spend for office space is about 5% of salaries.
Personally not sure what I think of it, but a number of companies are going to 6’x8’ private offices with the “barn doors” to try to balance needs. There are options...
You are unfortunately comparing bad lighting (and light) to good lighting and office orientation. My work is primarily either on my monitor or whiteboard behind my desk. I have about 5fc on my desk compared to a modern recommendation of 20-30fc, but I have fill-in lights to light up the wall in front of my desk to about 5% of the exitance from the monitor, along with a separate light that provides full-in on overcast days.
When an office is designed well, you have significantly less eye strain than a dark office. Natural light adds to it.
Unfortunately, designing good functional lighting for office spaces is a long lost art.
The infrastructure required to upgrade a gas station for any reasonable EV charging is non-trivial— likely comparable to removing a fuel tank and remediating some soil. And what exactly do you do at said gas station while waiting for reasonable charge? It might work for truck stops, but not an average station.
Not for most systems I have seen-- they work kindof like a certificate authority with a revocation list. No control communication over the IP network, just RS-485.
Sadly, I agree. It is a thermodynamics problem linked to a consumerism problem.
It is easier to have a Class 2 power supply at 24V than going the Class 1 48V route. It will start out with things like lights and usb chargers. Kitchens will hold out for a long time, but everything else is fair game.
The correct term is split-phase.