Should the tax affairs of an unimportant person like me be made public? Probably not - I don't have things to hide, but how much would it benefit society?
There is a general culture for employees to not discuss salary for a particular role, and when it is discussed it tends to be a fuzzy number rather than an exact one.
That lack of transparency in pay deals is what allows employers to pay women less for doing the same role, it allows executives to be paid orders of magnitude more than the average employee because an awful lot of people don't realize just how big that gap really is.
I realize I'm talking about pay and you are talking about tax, but they are closely related. Having that sort of information publicly available would help a lot with equality in society.
Yeah, missing information about the technical side of the project but also missing any details about why the project is so delayed. Is it a specific system integration causing the problem, or quality issues showing up in testing or feature creep.
No useful information included in the summary or the original article.
I don't know about that these days. The terrorist can certainly kill more people if they get a bomb on a plane, but all the media reports about it happen after the fact and without very much distressing photos and video being shown because everything gets destroyed with the plane.
Compare that to this mornings attack, far less casualties but video from inside the building, video of people running for their lives outside the building, video of armed troops being deployed outside the PM's residence. etc all within 15 minutes of the first detonation.
Aren't those sort of images being displayed everywhere what terrorists want?
Key assets in games, such as characters or vehicles, will be developed for that game specifically but all those generic objects that get added into games to provide the environment just come from a library of models. People aren't remodeling street furniture or cutlery or footballs for every game, they just download the model to use.
Those models are easily accessible and normally conveniently tagged to make them easy to find but that makes them more useful for someone developing a learning system.
Mechanical engineers cannot make as much as programmers. The cost of replication of the work-product of a programmer is $0. The cost of replication of the work product of a mechanical engineer is the cost of materials (>$0).
Surely that affect would have the opposite outcomes that you have stated.
What you've just stated is that once a programmer has produced a product that does what it needs to do, he is completely redundant because there is no significant cost to continually reusing that product. It's only a constant need for new features/bug fixes that keeps programmer gainfully employed
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers on the other hand, have a product which cost money to produce and will wear out over time. Therefore even if the product is functionally perfect, there will always be a need to refine the product to at least make future manufacturing costs cheaper.
I never got why they would ask those being shafted to train their replacements
It always surprised me as well, but from the other end.
Rather than being surprised that the company would trust the training given to H1B by their existing staff, I'm surprised their legal departments let them do it given the pretty much the only legal precondition needed to use H1B is that you can't find the skill set in the local population.
If you are having to use your local staff to training the people coming in, surely you have already proven the local population has the sort of skills need for the roles.
Personally, if I was going to harness kilometers of road surface for energy generation, I think I'd go for embedding pipes under the surface and pumping liquid through them to move the heat back to a Stirling engine.
I don't know what your idea of significantly less than 100% of the population is, but according to this admittedly old link The Guardian. About 64% of the households receive some sort of government benefit.
The problem is, it costs a lot to accurately work out who should be earning each of the benefits, for every one of those 64% of UK households:
You need positively identify everyone claiming
Assess their situation in terms or dependent children, work situation, housing, health, pensions
Reassess everytime one of those conditions changes
Reassess everyone everytime a new Tax Year starts since the rules are often changed
And all that is for people who are honestly trying to claim benefits, it hasn't covered the costs of checking people who are intentionally trying to claim more by not declaring work or making up illnesses etc.
The savings for UBI come from eliminating pretty much all of that stuff, you just need to identify each person and record which bank account to pay the money into.
The point is to recover the stage for easy future use. How easy will it be to reuse a stage which has been floating in the sea for several hours (minimum).
Also, a longer term plan is to be able to touch down on land, the sea provides a good environment to practice soft landings because when you fail you are a really long way from any people/infrastructure and because with the motion of the landing ship, once you can reliably do sea landings, surface landings should be relatively easy
Exactly, a Pardon for Alan Turing is just the UK government saying he was still wrong for being Gay, but he was a significant enough historical figure that they wanted a happier ending to his story.
But if you aren't a significant enough person to be recorded in the history books then tough, you are wrong for being gay. Full Stop
I don't understand why these workhorses ( or the Space Shuttle, for that matter ) can't *evolve* ?
I would guess, and it really is a guess, that having parts interchangeable between vehicles is a very worthwhile thing in a combat situation. The moment you start operating different versions of the same aircraft you need to start stockpiling and moving far more stuff around to keep the same number of vehicles in operation. That might not be a big deal when operating from homeland bases, but it starts getting really expensive if you need to do maintenance at forward operating bases.
Why add a massive logistical headache for a small incremental improvement in performance.
They found a way to show that a model of car behaved differently inside and outside of a test, they have not provided a way to test 2 different cars and directly compare the results which is part of the point of the rolling road tests.
I suspect new tests will be introduced which still uses the rolling road for the baseline test results, but then some sort of real road test in which the cars must be within a different limit, either an absolute limit or within a percentage of what ever they get in the rolling road test.
The 'design' here was done before engines became computerized and hasn't been changed since.
What was a meaningful way to compare different vehicles, because they are all following the exact same profile, became a weakness once the cars could recognize the test by themselves because of the suite of sensors cars now carry.
The way this was discovered (*1) was by an independent university group taking purchased vehicles and connecting it up with sensors and running it over real roads in real traffic conditions over long periods of time and comparing it to the rolling road test results. It's not an astronomical cost but if you are just looking for basical emission data then there are much simpler methods (namely a rolling road).
*1 - assuming this wasn't a case of parallel construction and the real road test data is just collecting evidence for what somebody already knew was happening.
Are we top predators? We are certainly the dominant species but that is not the same thing.
It seems like our success has been brought about by our ability to engineer the environment to our liking. After we were able to increase our population due to agriculture we started impacting on predator species partly by hunting them directly but more by crowding them out of their ideal territory.
The partially evacuated pipe is what makes the entire system perhaps better suited to earthquake zones compared to trains.
With a train, there is no way of knowing whether both tracks are still intact short of a visual survey over the entire length of the line. Forcing all trains to stop immediately.
With the hyperloop, any breach of the pipe, will let air into the tube, which increases the atmospheric pressure and forces the pod to slow down. It's a nice passive safety system for everything running in the pipe and is really easy and cheap to monitor centrally because you just need a few pressure sensors dotted along the length of the each pipe section.
It doesn't tell you where the leak might be if there is a leak, but if you can maintain a low pressure you know the pipe is probably still intact.
I seems to me the real saving here is that powdered plastic is a lot denser than hollow aerodynamic plastic shapes and so won't take up anywhere near as much storage space.
Rather than trying to store 1000 small drones on board, you just have a big tank with enough powdered plastic to make 1000 small drones and the various non-printable bits (electronics, batteries and motors), which are smaller and easier to store anyway
Then you just keep 10-20 drones ready and print more off as you use up the stock of ready made drones.
I don't disagree with you about the external costs, but I've never been able to work out why the approximate external costs of an industry isn't directly charged to that industry as a licensing fee or additional tax charge.
Effectively, you are picking a possible winner (in this case Solar) instead of making the industry with lots of external costs pay their way fully and letting the market find the best alternative to that (whether it be Solar, or Geothermal, or even tiny little fusion reactors in every electric toothbrush)
That's missing the point. Identifying 1 or 2 differences in approach between experts and non-experts shows 1 or 2 things you can tell the non-experts to do to greatly improve security overall.
In this case, the take away action would seem to be to make sure you keep all the software updated.
The car drivers and motorcyclists right? Since the in UK at least, pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders have a right to use the roads and everything motorized above a certain power limit requires permission (for both the operator and the vehicle).
You'd stick the habitation where there are resources you need. If you can't find all the resources you need in one place then you will have to have habitats spread out and sharing those resources between bases.
For Example, Water collection near the poles, but Solar power collection and orbital launch pads near the equator.
That doesn't necessarily mean the other habitats are were someone would live permanently, especially not if you have good transport links. I see it more like Oil Rig work, people are shipped out to the supporting bases for fixed periods of time then shipped back to the main base whether living conditions are less sparse (relatively speaking)
If you mean recovery time based on how long you are cooped up for, then yes it should help (although this will be a far more claustrophobic plane to fly in).
If you mean recovery time based on Jet Lag, surely it would be worse in this plane?
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There is a general culture for employees to not discuss salary for a particular role, and when it is discussed it tends to be a fuzzy number rather than an exact one.
That lack of transparency in pay deals is what allows employers to pay women less for doing the same role, it allows executives to be paid orders of magnitude more than the average employee because an awful lot of people don't realize just how big that gap really is.
I realize I'm talking about pay and you are talking about tax, but they are closely related. Having that sort of information publicly available would help a lot with equality in society.
Yeah, missing information about the technical side of the project but also missing any details about why the project is so delayed. Is it a specific system integration causing the problem, or quality issues showing up in testing or feature creep.
No useful information included in the summary or the original article.
I don't know about that these days. The terrorist can certainly kill more people if they get a bomb on a plane, but all the media reports about it happen after the fact and without very much distressing photos and video being shown because everything gets destroyed with the plane.
Compare that to this mornings attack, far less casualties but video from inside the building, video of people running for their lives outside the building, video of armed troops being deployed outside the PM's residence. etc all within 15 minutes of the first detonation.
Aren't those sort of images being displayed everywhere what terrorists want?
Key assets in games, such as characters or vehicles, will be developed for that game specifically but all those generic objects that get added into games to provide the environment just come from a library of models. People aren't remodeling street furniture or cutlery or footballs for every game, they just download the model to use.
Those models are easily accessible and normally conveniently tagged to make them easy to find but that makes them more useful for someone developing a learning system.
Surely that affect would have the opposite outcomes that you have stated.
What you've just stated is that once a programmer has produced a product that does what it needs to do, he is completely redundant because there is no significant cost to continually reusing that product. It's only a constant need for new features/bug fixes that keeps programmer gainfully employed
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers on the other hand, have a product which cost money to produce and will wear out over time. Therefore even if the product is functionally perfect, there will always be a need to refine the product to at least make future manufacturing costs cheaper.
It always surprised me as well, but from the other end.
Rather than being surprised that the company would trust the training given to H1B by their existing staff, I'm surprised their legal departments let them do it given the pretty much the only legal precondition needed to use H1B is that you can't find the skill set in the local population.
If you are having to use your local staff to training the people coming in, surely you have already proven the local population has the sort of skills need for the roles.
Personally, if I was going to harness kilometers of road surface for energy generation, I think I'd go for embedding pipes under the surface and pumping liquid through them to move the heat back to a Stirling engine.
And that of course would be the other problem with hitting a jackpot, you suddenly have to question the motives of everyone you interact with.
The problem is, it costs a lot to accurately work out who should be earning each of the benefits, for every one of those 64% of UK households:
And all that is for people who are honestly trying to claim benefits, it hasn't covered the costs of checking people who are intentionally trying to claim more by not declaring work or making up illnesses etc.
The savings for UBI come from eliminating pretty much all of that stuff, you just need to identify each person and record which bank account to pay the money into.
The point is to recover the stage for easy future use. How easy will it be to reuse a stage which has been floating in the sea for several hours (minimum).
Also, a longer term plan is to be able to touch down on land, the sea provides a good environment to practice soft landings because when you fail you are a really long way from any people/infrastructure and because with the motion of the landing ship, once you can reliably do sea landings, surface landings should be relatively easy
Exactly, a Pardon for Alan Turing is just the UK government saying he was still wrong for being Gay, but he was a significant enough historical figure that they wanted a happier ending to his story.
But if you aren't a significant enough person to be recorded in the history books then tough, you are wrong for being gay. Full Stop
I would guess, and it really is a guess, that having parts interchangeable between vehicles is a very worthwhile thing in a combat situation. The moment you start operating different versions of the same aircraft you need to start stockpiling and moving far more stuff around to keep the same number of vehicles in operation. That might not be a big deal when operating from homeland bases, but it starts getting really expensive if you need to do maintenance at forward operating bases.
Why add a massive logistical headache for a small incremental improvement in performance.
I use BTSync to synchronise my own files to my various devices.
They found a way to show that a model of car behaved differently inside and outside of a test, they have not provided a way to test 2 different cars and directly compare the results which is part of the point of the rolling road tests.
I suspect new tests will be introduced which still uses the rolling road for the baseline test results, but then some sort of real road test in which the cars must be within a different limit, either an absolute limit or within a percentage of what ever they get in the rolling road test.
The 'design' here was done before engines became computerized and hasn't been changed since.
What was a meaningful way to compare different vehicles, because they are all following the exact same profile, became a weakness once the cars could recognize the test by themselves because of the suite of sensors cars now carry.
The way this was discovered (*1) was by an independent university group taking purchased vehicles and connecting it up with sensors and running it over real roads in real traffic conditions over long periods of time and comparing it to the rolling road test results. It's not an astronomical cost but if you are just looking for basical emission data then there are much simpler methods (namely a rolling road).
*1 - assuming this wasn't a case of parallel construction and the real road test data is just collecting evidence for what somebody already knew was happening.
Are we top predators? We are certainly the dominant species but that is not the same thing.
It seems like our success has been brought about by our ability to engineer the environment to our liking. After we were able to increase our population due to agriculture we started impacting on predator species partly by hunting them directly but more by crowding them out of their ideal territory.
The partially evacuated pipe is what makes the entire system perhaps better suited to earthquake zones compared to trains.
With a train, there is no way of knowing whether both tracks are still intact short of a visual survey over the entire length of the line. Forcing all trains to stop immediately.
With the hyperloop, any breach of the pipe, will let air into the tube, which increases the atmospheric pressure and forces the pod to slow down. It's a nice passive safety system for everything running in the pipe and is really easy and cheap to monitor centrally because you just need a few pressure sensors dotted along the length of the each pipe section.
It doesn't tell you where the leak might be if there is a leak, but if you can maintain a low pressure you know the pipe is probably still intact.
I seems to me the real saving here is that powdered plastic is a lot denser than hollow aerodynamic plastic shapes and so won't take up anywhere near as much storage space.
Rather than trying to store 1000 small drones on board, you just have a big tank with enough powdered plastic to make 1000 small drones and the various non-printable bits (electronics, batteries and motors), which are smaller and easier to store anyway
Then you just keep 10-20 drones ready and print more off as you use up the stock of ready made drones.
I don't disagree with you about the external costs, but I've never been able to work out why the approximate external costs of an industry isn't directly charged to that industry as a licensing fee or additional tax charge.
Effectively, you are picking a possible winner (in this case Solar) instead of making the industry with lots of external costs pay their way fully and letting the market find the best alternative to that (whether it be Solar, or Geothermal, or even tiny little fusion reactors in every electric toothbrush)
That's missing the point. Identifying 1 or 2 differences in approach between experts and non-experts shows 1 or 2 things you can tell the non-experts to do to greatly improve security overall.
In this case, the take away action would seem to be to make sure you keep all the software updated.
The car drivers and motorcyclists right? Since the in UK at least, pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders have a right to use the roads and everything motorized above a certain power limit requires permission (for both the operator and the vehicle).
You'd stick the habitation where there are resources you need. If you can't find all the resources you need in one place then you will have to have habitats spread out and sharing those resources between bases.
For Example, Water collection near the poles, but Solar power collection and orbital launch pads near the equator.
That doesn't necessarily mean the other habitats are were someone would live permanently, especially not if you have good transport links. I see it more like Oil Rig work, people are shipped out to the supporting bases for fixed periods of time then shipped back to the main base whether living conditions are less sparse (relatively speaking)
If you mean recovery time based on how long you are cooped up for, then yes it should help (although this will be a far more claustrophobic plane to fly in).
If you mean recovery time based on Jet Lag, surely it would be worse in this plane?