For California, it isn't ultimately at the employer's discretion (as I personally though on the previous thread), but it does factor in if you will be denied a claim.
It looks like conserving cash and focusing energy to me... although my perspective might be biased.
For SolarCity, that business needs laser focus if it is to grow in volume and generate profit. Residential rooftops are not where it will find the cash flow it needs. While I have no idea what positions were eliminated, I am guessing they can't afford to touch anything smaller than 500kW now, and fewer, larger installs would eliminate many positions.
For Tesla, it looks to me like it is either union busting, performance, or strategy. None are obvious winners yet, although the Shanghai factory may be telling.
That gives you personally confidence that your data is random... but can you prove it? Not just for "compliance" purposes, but to know that you have the best possible starting point.
While far from my area of expertise, you always risk that the process you do actually reduces randomness-- using your example, maybe the collection of information will not yield random distribution of the SHA512 hashes.
This isn't what causes homelessness; it is the fact that far too many live paycheck to paycheck, and can't survive "bad things" happening to them. It can quickly spiral out of control. Add in mental illness and addictive behavior and it only gets worse.
There are of course people that do choose to be homeless, but it is not a major percentage on a collective scale. (Places like the Haight used to be disproportionately this type of person, not sure about today-- but it is a local phenomenon.)
There were many heavy oil power plants close to refineries or where oil was readily available, such as Southern California. Most of them started the transition to natural gas around 2003-4. Other locations must have been similar due to economic benefits, although where coal was readily available this might not have dominated policy.
Industry needs an impartial assessment in many ways. This assessment eventually gets corrupted and stops serving its purpose... but government agencies tend to take longer than private institutions.
The predictions pushed money into phasing out heavy oil power plants (and presumably coal, although that was likely more influenced by fracking), along with less efficient gas power plants. While this may seem like a good thing on the surface, it has led to excess capacity of these sources; some of them should have been retired altogether.
More importantly, it likely pushed us back 3-5 years on planning for a higher percentage of renewables on the grid both in terms of policy and technology. The CAISO "net energy" graph http://www.caiso.com/Pages/Tod... (bottom of page for yesterday) represents a number of the challenges that were completely underestimated.
I would call it a success story personally. Renewables matured beyond expectations, changing the economics.
The problem is that poor predictions skew energy policy. Too much money may have been invested in the wrong types of gas power plants, too many incentives may have been created for rooftop solar, and adequate grid hardening may not have been undertaken to prepare for these issues. (All true.)
The biggest hangover I see coming is the lack of an intelligent strategy for what electric utility companies will be in the next 10 years, outside high density cities. The research that was being done as recently as 5-6 years ago was going the wrong direction in this regard, and it doesn't seem like it has caught up (beyond economic policy changes to net metering).
Yeah... as much as I am an Apple fan, I really hate my new iMac's keyboard.
Don't get me wrong-- I love the built-in battery, lightning charging, integrated numeric keypad... and the shape isn't bad.
But without auto-correct I would never stand a chance at anything I type being understandable... and the moron that eliminated the bottom-left function key should be shot. The keys and layout are a huge step backwards in typing accuracy from the original cordless keyboard with two AA batteries.
I wouldn't go that far, but some unions sure feel that way. IBEW would be a counter-example of a union that serves to train and develop its members in an industry that has significant cycles. I might see some hall hires come onto a job that are flat-out bad, but they generally are dealt with.
Is that across all states? In California we "terminate with cause" certain employees, which might not be illegal behavior, and we "layoff" others. Terminate with cause is reserved for people that are simply unable to perform their job, and is generally within the 90-day review window. Layoff is for people we want to be able to get unemployment, which covers the vast majority.
I think the GGP's numbers are way off in terms of shooting deaths; GP's link indicates 11,000-11,100 firearm related homicides per year, 19,300-19,800 firearm related suicides per year. (Interestingly, or not, roughly 5,000 "other" homicides per year.) Police shootings account for less than 500 deaths per year based on the best available information-- CDC data shows 258 in 2011 and 412 in 2010; Washington Post tracks 400 per year in the last few years.
Another interesting tidbit-- if you look at total death rate by state, the highest rates are by far the rural states.
I imagine ultimately the sensor array, whatever it may be, will consume around 2-500W; the processing will likely end up with redundant systems, coming in around 2-300W. You will have communication to share information between cars in order to improve distance data, and that may add another 20-50W. Generally manageable, although city driving might take some real time to mature to the point that it fits within this energy profile.
Not really-- they build on the basis of subsidy and regulation. It is common for renewables to be double-booked in this way, once for the installed location and once for the energy offset credits.
On-site renewables are better and provide actual offset. Credits just make you feel good.
Economically, the credits do lower costs for installing renewables, but nobody is building based on the credits.
They used to be much more aggressive in blocking inbound ports considering them "servers" (as upstream bandwidth is what kills their system performance).
I agree that history is on your side-- but I am not sure how long that will hold true in this environment. "As long as" there are no protectionist barriers to a competitor setting up shop and stringing lines it can happen. The deployed costs of high speed service are much lower today than they were two or three years ago, and the low end of service is stuck at the same speeds.
Making it easier to provide wireless service in rural and suburban settings, easier to add aerial cables in overhead environments and easier to dig in others is ultimately what it takes to get competitors in.
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Reprocessing increases waste... which is a large part of why it is uneconomical.
No, we have to fund the train some way...
Mahalo.
For California, it isn't ultimately at the employer's discretion (as I personally though on the previous thread), but it does factor in if you will be denied a claim.
It looks like conserving cash and focusing energy to me... although my perspective might be biased.
For SolarCity, that business needs laser focus if it is to grow in volume and generate profit. Residential rooftops are not where it will find the cash flow it needs. While I have no idea what positions were eliminated, I am guessing they can't afford to touch anything smaller than 500kW now, and fewer, larger installs would eliminate many positions.
For Tesla, it looks to me like it is either union busting, performance, or strategy. None are obvious winners yet, although the Shanghai factory may be telling.
That gives you personally confidence that your data is random... but can you prove it? Not just for "compliance" purposes, but to know that you have the best possible starting point.
While far from my area of expertise, you always risk that the process you do actually reduces randomness-- using your example, maybe the collection of information will not yield random distribution of the SHA512 hashes.
How do you test on your RNG to make sure it is random without FIPS?
Scattergood, LA DWP (2015); NRG El Segundo (2007). Don't know the full history on Scattergood, but it was originally heavy oil.
This isn't what causes homelessness; it is the fact that far too many live paycheck to paycheck, and can't survive "bad things" happening to them. It can quickly spiral out of control. Add in mental illness and addictive behavior and it only gets worse.
There are of course people that do choose to be homeless, but it is not a major percentage on a collective scale. (Places like the Haight used to be disproportionately this type of person, not sure about today-- but it is a local phenomenon.)
There were many heavy oil power plants close to refineries or where oil was readily available, such as Southern California. Most of them started the transition to natural gas around 2003-4. Other locations must have been similar due to economic benefits, although where coal was readily available this might not have dominated policy.
Industry needs an impartial assessment in many ways. This assessment eventually gets corrupted and stops serving its purpose... but government agencies tend to take longer than private institutions.
The predictions pushed money into phasing out heavy oil power plants (and presumably coal, although that was likely more influenced by fracking), along with less efficient gas power plants. While this may seem like a good thing on the surface, it has led to excess capacity of these sources; some of them should have been retired altogether.
More importantly, it likely pushed us back 3-5 years on planning for a higher percentage of renewables on the grid both in terms of policy and technology. The CAISO "net energy" graph http://www.caiso.com/Pages/Tod... (bottom of page for yesterday) represents a number of the challenges that were completely underestimated.
I would call it a success story personally. Renewables matured beyond expectations, changing the economics.
The problem is that poor predictions skew energy policy. Too much money may have been invested in the wrong types of gas power plants, too many incentives may have been created for rooftop solar, and adequate grid hardening may not have been undertaken to prepare for these issues. (All true.)
The biggest hangover I see coming is the lack of an intelligent strategy for what electric utility companies will be in the next 10 years, outside high density cities. The research that was being done as recently as 5-6 years ago was going the wrong direction in this regard, and it doesn't seem like it has caught up (beyond economic policy changes to net metering).
Off by a day... long week... but wow, looking at Apple's performance today I think I need to play the lottery!
Options expire tomorrow. Bears need to get the stock at least under 160 by close of market tomorrow-- but ideally closer to 155.
Yeah... as much as I am an Apple fan, I really hate my new iMac's keyboard.
Don't get me wrong-- I love the built-in battery, lightning charging, integrated numeric keypad... and the shape isn't bad.
But without auto-correct I would never stand a chance at anything I type being understandable... and the moron that eliminated the bottom-left function key should be shot. The keys and layout are a huge step backwards in typing accuracy from the original cordless keyboard with two AA batteries.
Well, previous advice was to "file early."
Not that you can file faster than a bot polling from your payroll data...
I wouldn't go that far, but some unions sure feel that way. IBEW would be a counter-example of a union that serves to train and develop its members in an industry that has significant cycles. I might see some hall hires come onto a job that are flat-out bad, but they generally are dealt with.
Is that across all states? In California we "terminate with cause" certain employees, which might not be illegal behavior, and we "layoff" others. Terminate with cause is reserved for people that are simply unable to perform their job, and is generally within the 90-day review window. Layoff is for people we want to be able to get unemployment, which covers the vast majority.
That is partially why the banks want to play.
This will end well...
I think the GGP's numbers are way off in terms of shooting deaths; GP's link indicates 11,000-11,100 firearm related homicides per year, 19,300-19,800 firearm related suicides per year. (Interestingly, or not, roughly 5,000 "other" homicides per year.) Police shootings account for less than 500 deaths per year based on the best available information-- CDC data shows 258 in 2011 and 412 in 2010; Washington Post tracks 400 per year in the last few years.
Another interesting tidbit-- if you look at total death rate by state, the highest rates are by far the rural states.
Reading comprehension fail.
The truth is generally somewhere in the middle.
I imagine ultimately the sensor array, whatever it may be, will consume around 2-500W; the processing will likely end up with redundant systems, coming in around 2-300W. You will have communication to share information between cars in order to improve distance data, and that may add another 20-50W. Generally manageable, although city driving might take some real time to mature to the point that it fits within this energy profile.
Not really-- they build on the basis of subsidy and regulation. It is common for renewables to be double-booked in this way, once for the installed location and once for the energy offset credits.
On-site renewables are better and provide actual offset. Credits just make you feel good.
Economically, the credits do lower costs for installing renewables, but nobody is building based on the credits.
They used to be much more aggressive in blocking inbound ports considering them "servers" (as upstream bandwidth is what kills their system performance).
I agree that history is on your side-- but I am not sure how long that will hold true in this environment. "As long as" there are no protectionist barriers to a competitor setting up shop and stringing lines it can happen. The deployed costs of high speed service are much lower today than they were two or three years ago, and the low end of service is stuck at the same speeds.
Making it easier to provide wireless service in rural and suburban settings, easier to add aerial cables in overhead environments and easier to dig in others is ultimately what it takes to get competitors in.