You are assuming that every dollar is of equal value to me. This is not the case. This is an instance of diminishing returns.
As the business earns more money, I can make the decision to either do the work myself or to hire someone to do it. Initially to meet my living expenses, I'll do all the work myself ( yes, there were times when I did 80+ hour weeks ). But, after earning a comfortable living, I am now making the decision: do I want more time or more money. When I hire the new employee, I do less work.
If I had more disposable income, I would buy more time. ( ie: I would hire an additional person )
Furthermore, employees do not exist in a vaccuum. They require places to work. And real estate cannot be allocated piecemeal like ram. One cannot assign a profit-per-person value to an employee and expect to implement it repeatedly. If one could, then every business would be crammed with employees like sardines in a can.
As the subject is regulation, I should add that due to unneeded regulations my business is much less efficient than it could be. It is not nearly as easy to quantify as the losses to taxes, but I estimate it is a job loss for one part-time person.
I own a small business. I spend at least 1/3 to 1/2 of my time doing govt paperwork, or complying with some govt standard which is either 1) an obviously good business practice that does not need to be legislated or 2) irrelevant or 3) stupid or 4) #2 and #3.
These legislators live in a hypothetical world of zero risk. Any problem that they see, they try to legislate out of existence. But they don't have to pay the bills. They don't have to make the decisions of how limited resources are applied to problems.
With all the taxes that I pay, I could hire another employee. But these well-meaning legislators have effectively fired him before I could ever hire him.
Laws have consequenses. And someday the consequence may be your job.
The article won't help, however... It is not nearly detailed enough for learning anything. For the recent immigrants from Windows, it is a great roadmap.
"... other moons orbiting Saturn in the opposite direction."
From what I recall of planetary formation, moons all came from an accretion disk, and should be all orbiting the same direction. I suspect that more likely the materials coating the dark side came from same-direction objects that were in eccentric orbits.
Liberal/leftist? What are you smoking? The most prominent feature about slashdot politics is the disroportionately large number of libertarians, not liberals.
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I suspect that they were lying to you to prevent panic. Mines are a favored place to study earthquakes. Indeed, being in a mine probably gets you closer to the epicenter, as most eathquakes are centered miles below ground.
from iopd.og:
Hundreds to thousands of small to moderate earthquakes per day are recorded in a typical deep mine; the strongest may reach an intensity of magnitude 5. Given that many of these earthquakes are controlled directly by the mining activity, their location, timing, and magnitude can be forecast, and instruments can be installed at sites where earthquakes of interest are predicted to occur. The mine infrastructure provides access to the earthquakes' source region and allows three-dimensional mapping of the fault zone. It also allows installation of a three-dimensional array of instruments 1-100 m from an anticipated hypocenter to monitor fault activity before, during, and after an earthquake. Most expected earthquakes exhibit a moment-magnitude range (-2 to 4) that bridges the scale gap between laboratory experiments and tectonic earthquakes in the crust. The mine infrastructure provides an opportunity to investigate the effects of fracturing during earthquakes on fault fluid, gas chemistry, and microbiological communities. These promising conditions have led to the building of an earthquake laboratory in the TauTona gold mine in January 2005 as part
of the DAFSAM-NELSAM project From the Southern California Earthquake Center:
Northridge earthquake had a hypocentral depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles), deep for a California earthquake, but considered shallow compared to other regions. ( In California even the earthquakes are shallow. )
A quick google revealed the following:
The deepest oil well penetrates a mere six miles (ten kilometers) into the crust (the center of the Earth is about 4,000 miles [6,000 kilometers] deeper). Russian scientists dug the deepest hole on the planet in Siberia, but bottomed out at about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) below the surface. The Mohole project, a 1950s-era U.S. plan, called for drilling a hole 25 miles (40 kilometers) down to the Mohorovicic discontinuity, the boundary between the hard rocks of the crust and the gooey mantle. Sadly, the only discontinuity Mohole ever encountered involved government funding.
It gets harder and harder to drill deep into the Earth because rocks get softer and softer. Brittle at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust--about 52,800 pounds per square inch (3,700 kilograms per square centimeter) at a depth of ten miles (16 kilometers), says drilling consultant William Maurer--collapses deep wells, making further drilling impossible.
The fault is between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, both of which IIRC are more than 50 miles thick. Why are we looking at only the upper 5%? ( Modern oil wells are drilled as deep as 6 miles or more now. )
It's been predicted for years: the cost of an RFID tag will drop to 5 cents and the world will be revolutionized. I did some calculations years ago, and 5 cents seems to be about the point at which the cost of the tag on every item is worth the benefits gained in inventory tracking.
But the price seems frozen at 10 cents. And that is the cheapest tags in HUGE quantities. For a small business like mine, 20 cents seems to be the current rate.
I don't recall mentioning software. Did I mention software anyplace? If I had, then they might be poor analogies.
What I said was: "This whole idea of 'choice overload' is..." I was writing about the concept, not the particulars of the concept as applied to software.
I'll agree with you that there are problems in making the choice about software, but they are concensus issues, not overload issues.
This whole idea of 'choice overload' is so much drivel, IMHO. And, no, I'm not trying to flame here.
Have you ever known anybody to say: "There are just too many girls to choose from, I guess I'll go hide in the basement."?
Or: "There are ten thousand restaurants in this city. I just can't cope. I'm going to stop eating."?
A better label for the whole subject would be: " How a small minority of people fail to learn tree-pruning techniques, and dissolve in panic." Then we all could say: "Yep, sounds like my ex-girlfriend. Been there, done that. Next?"
To me, extinction of lots of languages is a good thing ( especially if it includes COBOL:). With one common language, we may have a better chance of understanding each other. Remember the biblical tale of Babel, in which the profusion of languages was supposedly a punishment? How did we acquire the idea that languages have some values of their own? A language is a tool, to be replaced with a better one when it comes along.
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On a per weight basis Aluminum is about 6 times better than gold. Gold conducts about 20% better, but weighs about 7 times as much.
Thanks!
Your calulations are overly simplistic.
You are assuming that every dollar is of equal value to me. This is not the case. This is an instance of diminishing returns.
As the business earns more money, I can make the decision to either do the work myself or to hire someone to do it. Initially to meet my living expenses, I'll do all the work myself ( yes, there were times when I did 80+ hour weeks ). But, after earning a comfortable living, I am now making the decision: do I want more time or more money. When I hire the new employee, I do less work.
If I had more disposable income, I would buy more time. ( ie: I would hire an additional person )
Furthermore, employees do not exist in a vaccuum. They require places to work. And real estate cannot be allocated piecemeal like ram. One cannot assign a profit-per-person value to an employee and expect to implement it repeatedly. If one could, then every business would be crammed with employees like sardines in a can.
As the subject is regulation, I should add that due to unneeded regulations my business is much less efficient than it could be. It is not nearly as easy to quantify as the losses to taxes, but I estimate it is a job loss for one part-time person.
I own a small business. I spend at least 1/3 to 1/2 of my time doing govt paperwork, or complying with some govt standard which is either 1) an obviously good business practice that does not need to be legislated or 2) irrelevant or 3) stupid or 4) #2 and #3.
These legislators live in a hypothetical world of zero risk. Any problem that they see, they try to legislate out of existence. But they don't have to pay the bills. They don't have to make the decisions of how limited resources are applied to problems.
With all the taxes that I pay, I could hire another employee. But these well-meaning legislators have effectively fired him before I could ever hire him.
Laws have consequenses. And someday the consequence may be your job.
Ummm...what happened? This was a first post when I wrote it.
Theory once again gets crushed by facts. Thanks.
"... other moons orbiting Saturn in the opposite direction."
From what I recall of planetary formation, moons all came from an accretion disk, and should be all orbiting the same direction. I suspect that more likely the materials coating the dark side came from same-direction objects that were in eccentric orbits.
Assuming that you might fire some unnamed editor, what are the job specs for his replacement? Pay? Bennies? Hours? Qualifications?
Liberal/leftist? What are you smoking? The most prominent feature about slashdot politics is the disroportionately large number of libertarians, not liberals.
Because he is better than KDawson
When will the over/underrated mods be mettamodded?
Thanks
Somebody mod parent up. I couldn't have said it better.
from iopd.og: Hundreds to thousands of small to moderate earthquakes per day are recorded in a typical deep mine; the strongest may reach an intensity of magnitude 5. Given that many of these earthquakes are controlled directly by the mining activity, their location, timing, and magnitude can be forecast, and instruments can be installed at sites where earthquakes of interest are predicted to occur. The mine infrastructure provides access to the earthquakes' source region and allows three-dimensional mapping of the fault zone. It also allows installation of a three-dimensional array of instruments 1-100 m from an anticipated hypocenter to monitor fault activity before, during, and after an earthquake. Most expected earthquakes exhibit a moment-magnitude range (-2 to 4) that bridges the scale gap between laboratory experiments and tectonic earthquakes in the crust. The mine infrastructure provides an opportunity to investigate the effects of fracturing during earthquakes on fault fluid, gas chemistry, and microbiological communities. These promising conditions have led to the building of an earthquake laboratory in the TauTona gold mine in January 2005 as part of the DAFSAM-NELSAM project From the Southern California Earthquake Center: Northridge earthquake had a hypocentral depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles), deep for a California earthquake, but considered shallow compared to other regions. ( In California even the earthquakes are shallow. )
An interesting map is at http://seismo.berkeley.edu/istat/ex_depth_plot/
It gets harder and harder to drill deep into the Earth because rocks get softer and softer. Brittle at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust--about 52,800 pounds per square inch (3,700 kilograms per square centimeter) at a depth of ten miles (16 kilometers), says drilling consultant William Maurer--collapses deep wells, making further drilling impossible.
The fault is between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, both of which IIRC are more than 50 miles thick. Why are we looking at only the upper 5%? ( Modern oil wells are drilled as deep as 6 miles or more now. )
It's been predicted for years: the cost of an RFID tag will drop to 5 cents and the world will be revolutionized. I did some calculations years ago, and 5 cents seems to be about the point at which the cost of the tag on every item is worth the benefits gained in inventory tracking.
But the price seems frozen at 10 cents. And that is the cheapest tags in HUGE quantities. For a small business like mine, 20 cents seems to be the current rate.
Ex-girlfriend was a nightmare. It can have her back.
I don't recall mentioning software. Did I mention software anyplace? If I had, then they might be poor analogies.
What I said was: "This whole idea of 'choice overload' is..." I was writing about the concept, not the particulars of the concept as applied to software.
I'll agree with you that there are problems in making the choice about software, but they are concensus issues, not overload issues.
This whole idea of 'choice overload' is so much drivel, IMHO. And, no, I'm not trying to flame here.
Have you ever known anybody to say: "There are just too many girls to choose from, I guess I'll go hide in the basement."?
Or: "There are ten thousand restaurants in this city. I just can't cope. I'm going to stop eating."?
A better label for the whole subject would be: " How a small minority of people fail to learn tree-pruning techniques, and dissolve in panic." Then we all could say: "Yep, sounds like my ex-girlfriend. Been there, done that. Next?"
Hey, it's not our fault that we were taught the universal language as children.
To me, extinction of lots of languages is a good thing ( especially if it includes COBOL :). With one common language, we may have a better chance of understanding each other. Remember the biblical tale of Babel, in which the profusion of languages was supposedly a punishment? How did we acquire the idea that languages have some values of their own? A language is a tool, to be replaced with a better one when it comes along.
Most economists believe that a healthy 2-3% inflation is the optimum for bankers.
There, fixed that for you.