Also add in their electronics and you have a pretty significant drain.
I never thought these were supposed to be cruisers though, just general department cars and maybe parking/traffic enforcement. Administrative use is reasonable; the department is huge and there are quite a few people who need to shuffle between the various sites with pool vehicles.
The H3 tunnel is technically designed a shelter, although there are obviously no supplies and it is likely more dangerous to get there than just stay put and work on your tan.
I am pretty hard pressed to come up with any country that is not somewhat dickish to at least a couple other countries. Even Sweden and Switzerland have a few dickish things about them, but generally more in commerce.
In California, liability insurance is a minimum of about $2k/year; I think it is more for the under-25 crowd. Even if parking is free at both ends, just the cost of insurance would be about twice what I would spend on Lyft per year going the ~3 miles each way to/from work. Add back gas, registration, parking, tickets... and it just isn't worthwhile economically.
(I don't own a car, haven't for over 20 years, choose to ride my bike to work, and rent a car when I need to go to distant locations where it simply doesn't make sense. I used to use my neighborhood taxi driver exclusively, but gave up after getting sick of his politics and unpredictable arrival times.)
Yes and no. Each have the power to be huge parasites, but talking to various drivers it doesn't seem like they really view the companies that way.
You definitely have two different classes of drivers-- full timers, and part timers. The part-timers seem to enjoy doing it when they want and not having to work when they don't feel up to it or when they have conflicts like school or kids soccer matches or whatever. It seems like the part-timers are more opportunistic and help out with peak demand periods. I have more trouble understanding the full-timer though. You have some that honestly seem to enjoy doing it and take pride in it, some driven to it by circumstance, and different things in between.
Maybe 10% of drivers I talk to are unhappy with it. None of them think they are getting rich, and most of them seem to understand that the mileage they put on their cars has a cost. Overall, just about like any other workplace.
All that said, I still think Lyft and Uber game their drivers to prevent them from making "too much" money. They make them drive 10 minutes for a 10 minute ride when more optimal matches should exist. They don't seem to stage drivers in areas beyond premium pricing locations. Giving me a 3-mile, 10-minute ride for $6.50 with an additional 5 miles and 10 minutes of driving to the pick-up point seems a lot like $5/hour to me, although the averages supposedly work out. The best I have seen though is $10.55/hour when it isn't peak pricing, and even factoring in premium pricing I don't think I have paid more than the equivalent of $40/hour for a "longer" trip.
Spot-on. Not sure if you are being sarcastic on a couple of the points, but when you have access to second and third or fourth derivative data rather than a simple counter you have much more valuable diagnostic data to work with to streamline a process. It might not be needed continuously, but to have it at all means you get it continuously.
Yes, it can make people lazy-- we will just tune it in the field-- but for some things a 1% delta is really important.
The training investment is sometimes impossible, especially when there is nobody available to do the training in a small shop. Also, if you invest 1,000 hours of a trainee's time plus 500 hours of an experienced person, you have effectively paid your new hire's wages for a year and likely netted about three months of useful work. If said trainee either quits or demands a 20% raise after that point, the investment has been thrown away-- they don't start to really "pay back" the training until around the end of the second year... and you are still at risk of them quitting, even if you pay a reasonable salary.
It is easier for big companies and big offices to support training. To solve your immediate need, you hire four people, do most of their training at the same time, and let them fight for a job after the first year. You keep doing this continuously.
The reason it might make sense for Google to do it with an outside "certification program" is that they can write off any investment, and they don't have labor obligations like healthcare to worry about.
Given the realities of climate change, it is immoral to oppose nuclear power
Not even close. A nuclear power plant built today needs to have an economical life of 50 years, and it will still have a discounted construction cost per kWh of over $0.07. That doesn't include operations cost, maintenance, waste disposal, or decommissioning.
The age of nuclear is over until major issues are solved. For now, 10-year life natural gas plants are the only socially (or morally if you insist) acceptable means of providing backup power. We simply need to move the grid towards less and less of their time being operational.
Routing is more efficient with point-to-point links, just terribly less economical. Going from FAT to HEL will always require at least one connection, because it is unlikely that there is even one passenger per day wanting to take that route average. Where that connection point can be somewhere in the middle, and bisect other major routes you have a natural hub.
The A380 failed because it was not effective for enough markets. It was great the Mideast carriers, but not a big hit in China. It also failed because Boeing put extra money into the 747-8 (a failure as well). Rationally, they planned for too high of an output rate, and should have started with a plan to be profitable at 12/year.
But, Airbus is astronger manufacturer for their failure. Even without the 380, they are extremely well positioned for the next 15-20 years.
It takes several miles of distribution pipe and very low recovery rates to not be a problem after 100m from the pipe. You can mix with gray water to improve things... but that just wastes gray water. You also have all the anti-fouling chemicals to contend with b
Actually, California has fared reasonably well, and has a sustainable approach to water management in general. There are some things that still need to change, and much that needs to be hardened and reformed, but they are on their way to it. California's biggest water risk is really an earthquake damaging the aqueducts, pipelines, and reservoirs.
Desalinization is a last-resort for a seaside city. It is much more efficient to trade resources with a water-rich area to serve a water-poor area than it is to run desalinization. Ultimately, to make desal not kill the local environment you need zero brine discharge which requires huge evaporation ponds. If done right, this could help to add humidity and manage the problem longer term, but you end up with about 100 tons of waste salts per million gallons of sea water.
True, and direct access to the ladder logic from the floor via an app is terrible security protocol, unless you have hardwired safety interlocks for range and sequence. You shouldn’t be able to start a pump with the suction and discharge valves closed as an example.
The wireless access is provided to address real-world problems, start-up/commissioning are the most common from the manufacturer/OEM side, giving status and supply level data to floor managers, and eliminating the need for everything to be controlled from the control room.
These things all increase attack surface, but they are ultimately part of running a lean operation, so they are here to stay.
Raw access to writing back-end registers would seem like an extremely odd design choice to be sure. There are apps that can initiate pre-programmed sequences (with safety interlocks handled upstream), adjust setpoints (with range checking still handled upstream), and pull telemetry and production data.
I can see how you could be a nuisance via tablet/smart phone app, but hopefully it would at least require a password. Re-programming safety checks though seems like terrible design.
While I have serious skepticism over "one touch make ready" rules, there need to be some checks and balances to prevent incumbents from milking the process to slow down competition. The utilities should have primary ownership and control of their services on the pole, within whatever lease rights they have to the property.
However, if they fail to act in a reasonable time frame, I see no reason why there should be no practical recourse; OTMR does that. The contractor making changes should still comply with the carriers' change-control procedures, identifying any poles they are about to touch both in advance and day-of-modification, and checking out when work is complete.
I am surprised that Nashville didn't do this in a different way since they own the poles. A lease amendment with reciprocal terms would seem reasonable for starters.
Costs would go up using your examples, but loss of life would go down. Effects are not in a Year overhear basis though, barring externalities like policy or insurance changes.
Not placing this type of equipment on a dedicated, protected VLAN with no external access and no untrusted internal access was always stupid. Sure, that might not provide bulletproof security, but it is pretty good for my backups.
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Well, they do sell the feature of full autonomous driving*.
*when available.
Also add in their electronics and you have a pretty significant drain.
I never thought these were supposed to be cruisers though, just general department cars and maybe parking/traffic enforcement. Administrative use is reasonable; the department is huge and there are quite a few people who need to shuffle between the various sites with pool vehicles.
The H3 tunnel is technically designed a shelter, although there are obviously no supplies and it is likely more dangerous to get there than just stay put and work on your tan.
I am pretty hard pressed to come up with any country that is not somewhat dickish to at least a couple other countries. Even Sweden and Switzerland have a few dickish things about them, but generally more in commerce.
In California, liability insurance is a minimum of about $2k/year; I think it is more for the under-25 crowd. Even if parking is free at both ends, just the cost of insurance would be about twice what I would spend on Lyft per year going the ~3 miles each way to/from work. Add back gas, registration, parking, tickets... and it just isn't worthwhile economically.
(I don't own a car, haven't for over 20 years, choose to ride my bike to work, and rent a car when I need to go to distant locations where it simply doesn't make sense. I used to use my neighborhood taxi driver exclusively, but gave up after getting sick of his politics and unpredictable arrival times.)
Yes and no. Each have the power to be huge parasites, but talking to various drivers it doesn't seem like they really view the companies that way.
You definitely have two different classes of drivers-- full timers, and part timers. The part-timers seem to enjoy doing it when they want and not having to work when they don't feel up to it or when they have conflicts like school or kids soccer matches or whatever. It seems like the part-timers are more opportunistic and help out with peak demand periods. I have more trouble understanding the full-timer though. You have some that honestly seem to enjoy doing it and take pride in it, some driven to it by circumstance, and different things in between.
Maybe 10% of drivers I talk to are unhappy with it. None of them think they are getting rich, and most of them seem to understand that the mileage they put on their cars has a cost. Overall, just about like any other workplace.
All that said, I still think Lyft and Uber game their drivers to prevent them from making "too much" money. They make them drive 10 minutes for a 10 minute ride when more optimal matches should exist. They don't seem to stage drivers in areas beyond premium pricing locations. Giving me a 3-mile, 10-minute ride for $6.50 with an additional 5 miles and 10 minutes of driving to the pick-up point seems a lot like $5/hour to me, although the averages supposedly work out. The best I have seen though is $10.55/hour when it isn't peak pricing, and even factoring in premium pricing I don't think I have paid more than the equivalent of $40/hour for a "longer" trip.
Spot-on. Not sure if you are being sarcastic on a couple of the points, but when you have access to second and third or fourth derivative data rather than a simple counter you have much more valuable diagnostic data to work with to streamline a process. It might not be needed continuously, but to have it at all means you get it continuously.
Yes, it can make people lazy-- we will just tune it in the field-- but for some things a 1% delta is really important.
The training investment is sometimes impossible, especially when there is nobody available to do the training in a small shop. Also, if you invest 1,000 hours of a trainee's time plus 500 hours of an experienced person, you have effectively paid your new hire's wages for a year and likely netted about three months of useful work. If said trainee either quits or demands a 20% raise after that point, the investment has been thrown away-- they don't start to really "pay back" the training until around the end of the second year... and you are still at risk of them quitting, even if you pay a reasonable salary.
It is easier for big companies and big offices to support training. To solve your immediate need, you hire four people, do most of their training at the same time, and let them fight for a job after the first year. You keep doing this continuously.
The reason it might make sense for Google to do it with an outside "certification program" is that they can write off any investment, and they don't have labor obligations like healthcare to worry about.
Not even close. A nuclear power plant built today needs to have an economical life of 50 years, and it will still have a discounted construction cost per kWh of over $0.07. That doesn't include operations cost, maintenance, waste disposal, or decommissioning.
The age of nuclear is over until major issues are solved. For now, 10-year life natural gas plants are the only socially (or morally if you insist) acceptable means of providing backup power. We simply need to move the grid towards less and less of their time being operational.
The first person I saw with one was Cameron Diaz in the airport security line. (I bought more Apple stock.)
But they are stretching out the transition era by not going USB-C for the phones as well.
I have travel dongles for HDMI, VGA, DVI, Ethernet, and serial for different needs; at least my Air doesn't need an SD adapter too...
Routing is more efficient with point-to-point links, just terribly less economical. Going from FAT to HEL will always require at least one connection, because it is unlikely that there is even one passenger per day wanting to take that route average. Where that connection point can be somewhere in the middle, and bisect other major routes you have a natural hub.
The A380 failed because it was not effective for enough markets. It was great the Mideast carriers, but not a big hit in China. It also failed because Boeing put extra money into the 747-8 (a failure as well). Rationally, they planned for too high of an output rate, and should have started with a plan to be profitable at 12/year.
But, Airbus is astronger manufacturer for their failure. Even without the 380, they are extremely well positioned for the next 15-20 years.
It is sales tax, not VAT. They are taxing the customer; the merchant is “merely” responsible for collecting and reporting it.
It takes several miles of distribution pipe and very low recovery rates to not be a problem after 100m from the pipe. You can mix with gray water to improve things... but that just wastes gray water. You also have all the anti-fouling chemicals to contend with b
Actually, California has fared reasonably well, and has a sustainable approach to water management in general. There are some things that still need to change, and much that needs to be hardened and reformed, but they are on their way to it. California's biggest water risk is really an earthquake damaging the aqueducts, pipelines, and reservoirs.
Desalinization is a last-resort for a seaside city. It is much more efficient to trade resources with a water-rich area to serve a water-poor area than it is to run desalinization. Ultimately, to make desal not kill the local environment you need zero brine discharge which requires huge evaporation ponds. If done right, this could help to add humidity and manage the problem longer term, but you end up with about 100 tons of waste salts per million gallons of sea water.
True, and direct access to the ladder logic from the floor via an app is terrible security protocol, unless you have hardwired safety interlocks for range and sequence. You shouldn’t be able to start a pump with the suction and discharge valves closed as an example.
The wireless access is provided to address real-world problems, start-up/commissioning are the most common from the manufacturer/OEM side, giving status and supply level data to floor managers, and eliminating the need for everything to be controlled from the control room.
These things all increase attack surface, but they are ultimately part of running a lean operation, so they are here to stay.
Raw access to writing back-end registers would seem like an extremely odd design choice to be sure. There are apps that can initiate pre-programmed sequences (with safety interlocks handled upstream), adjust setpoints (with range checking still handled upstream), and pull telemetry and production data.
I can see how you could be a nuisance via tablet/smart phone app, but hopefully it would at least require a password. Re-programming safety checks though seems like terrible design.
Exactly; should the utilities be able to claw back dividends paid to the pension funds?!
While I have serious skepticism over "one touch make ready" rules, there need to be some checks and balances to prevent incumbents from milking the process to slow down competition. The utilities should have primary ownership and control of their services on the pole, within whatever lease rights they have to the property.
However, if they fail to act in a reasonable time frame, I see no reason why there should be no practical recourse; OTMR does that. The contractor making changes should still comply with the carriers' change-control procedures, identifying any poles they are about to touch both in advance and day-of-modification, and checking out when work is complete.
I am surprised that Nashville didn't do this in a different way since they own the poles. A lease amendment with reciprocal terms would seem reasonable for starters.
Well, it does have "cloud" in the name... so security should not be assumed.
IIRC, the web interface also defaults to no password.
Costs would go up using your examples, but loss of life would go down. Effects are not in a Year overhear basis though, barring externalities like policy or insurance changes.
Not placing this type of equipment on a dedicated, protected VLAN with no external access and no untrusted internal access was always stupid. Sure, that might not provide bulletproof security, but it is pretty good for my backups.
Blue states are already bigger net-contributors to the federal coffers before the tax "reform." This makes it more lopsided.
My guess is the ASIC's become a lot cheaper on ebay...