Actually, with their losses in high courts around the world I would think their risk is pretty low. You can't on one hand say the penalties are not linked to all the profits and value tiny pieces of the phone highly on the other.
Those are all good objectives and policies, but it doesn't seem to address the issue at hand: not all people can do jobs that require "advanced" training. Roughly 10% of the US workforce is effectively unemployable today: what happens when that jumps to 15% or higher?
You effectively have two options that I see to support this ever increasing population: subsistence living (barter, hunt, scavenge), or wealth transfer. Rural people seem to prefer the former, while urban folks prefer the latter. Not sure if either is sustainable.
The only time autos can drive in the bike lane in California is when it drops from a class two bike lane to a class three shared lane bike route. Standard marking is that the white line separating the auto lane from the bike lane becomes dashed, the little "bike vector" symbol is typically painted on the shared lane, and cars can turn right.
The laws don't conflict, just the way that the transitions are done. (Arizona allows crossing the bike lane at dashed lines, but maintains a class two lane through the intersection as an example.)
An exempt employee is paid to do a week's work, not 40 hours. An exempt employee can work as few hours as they see fit to do their job; if they do it to our satisfaction in 20 hours then great!
"Exempt" employees manage their own time and do their job as they see fit. Of course everyone gets breaks and lunch-- it is just that you have to prove that "Non-Exempt" employees actually took it, away from their workstation.
It is hard to be a "professional" under non-exempt status.
Physical security: keep things that look valuable out of sight. Avoid French Doors and sliders. Keep windows small and high.
Livability: provide toilet, or at least a sink. Provide lots of windows, maybe even a garage door facing south (refer to physical security above... conflict). Highly recommend getting a Sonos (or two) if you don't like silence. TV doesn't hurt... especially if you can use it as a remote display.
IT: Provide a dedicated router/switch for the space, at least 16 ports, and a few NAS drives.
Desk: Highly recommend the Jarvis sit/stand desks. Get a 72x30" desk with the contour curve and grommet mount monitor stands-- go big with the monitors.
Other shit: natural ventilation can really be nice if you don't have too much dust. Windows low and high-- clerestory with operable windows works really well. Personally, would like to have a workbench and an indoor/outdoor "conference" table.
GSP is also fairly skewed, placing Alaska and North Dakota high based on selling natural resources, and ignoring accounting gimmicks that place Deleware and states without income tax higher.
California has plenty of issues as you say, but is hardly a "failed state" like Kansas.
Yeah... well... I'll share a different perspective. (California)
Break and meal rules are quite clear for non-exempt employees. What is much more grey is who really is exempt. The California Labor Commission takes the approach that everyone really should be non-exempt, unless they clearly fit in the exempted categories without any potential conflict.
I am an engineer (PE). We hire engineers with zero to 30+ years of experience, all with degrees, most with their EIT, and some with their PE. It is strange to consider someone with 30 years of experience (without PE) doing a higher level work as non-exempt, while someone with two years of experience (but passed their PE) could be exempt, doing lower level work. So, in our industry, it is customary to consider everyone as exempt that is not a draftsperson/CAD operator.
We got sued by an engineer who passed his PE three months after being fired for lunch and breaks... because we didn't have proof he took them. (He did take lunch, despite being ineligible for breaks.) We won, but that is the kind of crap you get to put up with as an employer.
It is 5 years with a green card to get citizenship. Getting the green card can reasonably take another two years for marriage, employment, etc; the green card lottery is another matter.
Most other countries require a very long time to get citizenship, although there are a few exceptions (Panama, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Dominican Republic, etc).
If you design a restaurant to use automated cooking/assembly, you can reduce the amount of space the kitchen takes up. You can reduce food waste/spoilage, and improve speed.
Expecting those to translate to consumer prices though is a stretch.
Yup. I made it from plane doors opening to taxi doors opening in 15 minutes at LAX in the international terminal a few months back. Global Entry is well worth it. It is stupid to need PreCheck, but that is where we are stuck now, so it becomes stupid not to have it...
On the laptops, I use a sleeve from RadTech for my MacBook Air. This makes it sufficiently distinctive that I don't need to think about if it is mine or someone else's. Stickers can do the same thing.
Aaawe, c'mon! I maintained my website* with my Palm devices, was able to store contacts that I still have records of just shy of 20 years later, and so much more...
*OK... so that was the most convoluted process I can imagine and did require manual PHP scripting with a folding keyboard and a whole lot of external workflow, but I was able to do it with a device that I could haul around in my backpack for two years and use in a sala looking out on the beach and ocean...
Maybe the Blackberry was an improvement after all...
Back OT though, when I read the summary it sounds more like FitBit bought Pebble out of bankruptcy. Shame; I think Pebble had more value than that, ESPECIALLY to FitBit. This is an opportunity for them to make their products support the next round of innovation with dedicated user base... and something that isn't as fugly as their current smart watch kind of thing...
At low voltage (400VAC), that is a nightmare to deal with. I just got yelled at for having an "ugly" transformer 150' from a standard Class 2 charger. With four of these chargers in a single location you would need a substantial utility transformer. Hopefully they will go medium voltage to simplify the deployment...
So, over 50 years it reflects 1% of GDP. Still a big number, but not end of world. It is also mostly a transfer of money within Japan, since most of the money stays with people and companies in Japan.
You can't really take the costs of all accidents worldwide and divide by all generation worldwide, as the costs don't flow through. At best, you can look at a per-country basis, and even then you should be factoring in risk somewhere as well-- is there higher risk as time goes on, and what is the (orderly) decommissioning for remaining plants.
That said, for Japan the total cost should be roughly $0.02-0.04/kWh for the accident, and another $0.01/kWh for decommissioning. The real problem though is that this $0.03-0.05 should be accumulated in an insurance fund over the project life out of reach of the operating companies. The fund also should be used for funding plans on how to deal with problems quickly and effectively when they happen.
The Hanford Site Cleanup started in 1988 (after decommissioning of the reactors in the 60's-70's). As of 2014, the remaining cleanup costs were estimated at $113.6B through 2046. I think the number is still going up.
Moreover, it will likely be 10 years before they can actually get to the core. From the info I can find, it doesn't sound like the spent fuel pools have even been emptied yet.
But seriously... other than causing chaos, does anything get accomplished with a DDoS that it provides some kind of value? I get the idea of a multi-pronged attack, but is there that much to gain?
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Twitter has been dying for years though; Trump ironically brought them back into the limelite, but they still could not profit from it.
The Unicorns will be next though, not Facebook.
Actually, with their losses in high courts around the world I would think their risk is pretty low. You can't on one hand say the penalties are not linked to all the profits and value tiny pieces of the phone highly on the other.
Those are all good objectives and policies, but it doesn't seem to address the issue at hand: not all people can do jobs that require "advanced" training. Roughly 10% of the US workforce is effectively unemployable today: what happens when that jumps to 15% or higher?
You effectively have two options that I see to support this ever increasing population: subsistence living (barter, hunt, scavenge), or wealth transfer. Rural people seem to prefer the former, while urban folks prefer the latter. Not sure if either is sustainable.
The only time autos can drive in the bike lane in California is when it drops from a class two bike lane to a class three shared lane bike route. Standard marking is that the white line separating the auto lane from the bike lane becomes dashed, the little "bike vector" symbol is typically painted on the shared lane, and cars can turn right.
The laws don't conflict, just the way that the transitions are done. (Arizona allows crossing the bike lane at dashed lines, but maintains a class two lane through the intersection as an example.)
Um... LA has a subway.
The biggest problem is usually the methane and not the seismic issues though.
The issue is PROOF that he took breaks and lunch.
An exempt employee is paid to do a week's work, not 40 hours. An exempt employee can work as few hours as they see fit to do their job; if they do it to our satisfaction in 20 hours then great!
"Exempt" employees manage their own time and do their job as they see fit. Of course everyone gets breaks and lunch-- it is just that you have to prove that "Non-Exempt" employees actually took it, away from their workstation.
It is hard to be a "professional" under non-exempt status.
When/if the Sepulveda Pass tunnel gets built, it should open transit for a larger number of commuters, but agree that density is the problem.
Tunneling systems might be ready for a shake-up. TBMs are slow... maybe there is a better way.
Physical security: keep things that look valuable out of sight. Avoid French Doors and sliders. Keep windows small and high.
Livability: provide toilet, or at least a sink. Provide lots of windows, maybe even a garage door facing south (refer to physical security above... conflict). Highly recommend getting a Sonos (or two) if you don't like silence. TV doesn't hurt... especially if you can use it as a remote display.
IT: Provide a dedicated router/switch for the space, at least 16 ports, and a few NAS drives.
Desk: Highly recommend the Jarvis sit/stand desks. Get a 72x30" desk with the contour curve and grommet mount monitor stands-- go big with the monitors.
Other shit: natural ventilation can really be nice if you don't have too much dust. Windows low and high-- clerestory with operable windows works really well. Personally, would like to have a workbench and an indoor/outdoor "conference" table.
GSP is also fairly skewed, placing Alaska and North Dakota high based on selling natural resources, and ignoring accounting gimmicks that place Deleware and states without income tax higher.
California has plenty of issues as you say, but is hardly a "failed state" like Kansas.
Yeah... well... I'll share a different perspective. (California)
Break and meal rules are quite clear for non-exempt employees. What is much more grey is who really is exempt. The California Labor Commission takes the approach that everyone really should be non-exempt, unless they clearly fit in the exempted categories without any potential conflict.
I am an engineer (PE). We hire engineers with zero to 30+ years of experience, all with degrees, most with their EIT, and some with their PE. It is strange to consider someone with 30 years of experience (without PE) doing a higher level work as non-exempt, while someone with two years of experience (but passed their PE) could be exempt, doing lower level work. So, in our industry, it is customary to consider everyone as exempt that is not a draftsperson/CAD operator.
We got sued by an engineer who passed his PE three months after being fired for lunch and breaks... because we didn't have proof he took them. (He did take lunch, despite being ineligible for breaks.) We won, but that is the kind of crap you get to put up with as an employer.
H1b to green card is a slow path; 7-10 years is about right.
Sounds like a great opportunity to go off the grid.
It is 5 years with a green card to get citizenship. Getting the green card can reasonably take another two years for marriage, employment, etc; the green card lottery is another matter.
Most other countries require a very long time to get citizenship, although there are a few exceptions (Panama, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Dominican Republic, etc).
If you design a restaurant to use automated cooking/assembly, you can reduce the amount of space the kitchen takes up. You can reduce food waste/spoilage, and improve speed.
Expecting those to translate to consumer prices though is a stretch.
Just go for the forehead. Harder to amputate for anonymity.
Yup. I made it from plane doors opening to taxi doors opening in 15 minutes at LAX in the international terminal a few months back. Global Entry is well worth it. It is stupid to need PreCheck, but that is where we are stuck now, so it becomes stupid not to have it...
On the laptops, I use a sleeve from RadTech for my MacBook Air. This makes it sufficiently distinctive that I don't need to think about if it is mine or someone else's. Stickers can do the same thing.
Aaawe, c'mon! I maintained my website* with my Palm devices, was able to store contacts that I still have records of just shy of 20 years later, and so much more...
*OK... so that was the most convoluted process I can imagine and did require manual PHP scripting with a folding keyboard and a whole lot of external workflow, but I was able to do it with a device that I could haul around in my backpack for two years and use in a sala looking out on the beach and ocean...
Maybe the Blackberry was an improvement after all...
Back OT though, when I read the summary it sounds more like FitBit bought Pebble out of bankruptcy. Shame; I think Pebble had more value than that, ESPECIALLY to FitBit. This is an opportunity for them to make their products support the next round of innovation with dedicated user base... and something that isn't as fugly as their current smart watch kind of thing...
At low voltage (400VAC), that is a nightmare to deal with. I just got yelled at for having an "ugly" transformer 150' from a standard Class 2 charger. With four of these chargers in a single location you would need a substantial utility transformer. Hopefully they will go medium voltage to simplify the deployment...
So, over 50 years it reflects 1% of GDP. Still a big number, but not end of world. It is also mostly a transfer of money within Japan, since most of the money stays with people and companies in Japan.
You can't really take the costs of all accidents worldwide and divide by all generation worldwide, as the costs don't flow through. At best, you can look at a per-country basis, and even then you should be factoring in risk somewhere as well-- is there higher risk as time goes on, and what is the (orderly) decommissioning for remaining plants.
That said, for Japan the total cost should be roughly $0.02-0.04/kWh for the accident, and another $0.01/kWh for decommissioning. The real problem though is that this $0.03-0.05 should be accumulated in an insurance fund over the project life out of reach of the operating companies. The fund also should be used for funding plans on how to deal with problems quickly and effectively when they happen.
Northridge required several hundred billions in capital investment in order to repair/withstand future quakes. Each replaced hospital alone is $1-3B.
We can limit loss of human life effectively, but economic damage is much harder.
The Hanford Site Cleanup started in 1988 (after decommissioning of the reactors in the 60's-70's). As of 2014, the remaining cleanup costs were estimated at $113.6B through 2046. I think the number is still going up.
Moreover, it will likely be 10 years before they can actually get to the core. From the info I can find, it doesn't sound like the spent fuel pools have even been emptied yet.
Cyber Monday could be interesting.
But seriously... other than causing chaos, does anything get accomplished with a DDoS that it provides some kind of value? I get the idea of a multi-pronged attack, but is there that much to gain?