Honestly given the rapid changes of technology in the last 20 years, I'd contend that 20 years is far too long and inaccurate characterization of generations. I've seen Millenials defined in the early 80s so I fall into that group.
But it's weird talking to some of my colleagues who can't remember 9/11 or didn't even grow up with dial up. I feel like there is somewhat of a cultural divide between mid 80s kids and mid-late 90s kids. Who was hit by the 08 recession vs who wasn't. I suppose time will tell.
Leisure industries should be campaigning for reduced working hours in developed economies if they want people to spend more money on things.
A week has 168 hours. If I'm lucky, 40 go to work. Let's say 5 hours to commuting (for me) and is much worse for many. Let's say 7 hours a night for sleep but round to 50 hours. Right there I'm at 73 hours. But I also have meals, hygiene, and other errands to run - let's call that 25 hours. I'm down to 48 hours to spend on other things. You're competing with everything else, including reading/movies/tv/naps/friends/exercise! If I had kids and a worse commute? I basically don't have any time to relax!
One thing that stops my significant other and I from playing as many games as we could is lack of local multiplayer. We don't live together so we're not going to schlep bigger consoles back and forth. The Switch sort of works as a solution but Steam or Playstation ain't happening unless we move in.
Everyone submits their needs, sort by salary highest->lowest and take the first 85,000. At the end of the year, interview the employee and look at their tax and bank records to ensure they are receiving that salary (bank to make sure they aren't passing money on to a non-family third party). Companies that fail to deliver the proper salary will be fined 10x the proposed salary and jail someone(s) for lying on a government form.
The only way I can really make sense of it is to use my Fire tablet so I can filter to Prime only and tell my TV to start playing. That is not how I would prefer to interact with things.
Currently, manufacturers are incapable of building the required AMOUNT of panels, wind turbines and/or battery storage required to replace the US' power infrastructure.
Honestly I'd be interested in seeing the US government go in for a project that's the level of scale like the Hoover Dam based around home grown solar manufacturing and battery production. Say 500 acres to start somewhere that gets heavy solar intensity throughout the year. If that's too small, then go to 1,000 and so on.
Once business ramp up to meet that kind of demand, they'll be able to easily support the rest of the US.
Takeoff is around full throttle. Climb is usually around 85%. Those are your two most demanding portions of the flight. Cruise is probably around 75% and descent is largely idle. So it really just depends on how well the energy consumption throttles.
Why not set it equal to 10 years. And you can renew every 10 years until the end of time but the cost of renewing doubles every time. Say a copyright costs $100. For 10 years, it's $100. Next 10 is $200. Then $400, $800, $1600, $3200, $6400 after 70 years.
After some point, the value of a property is going to not justify the costs of renewal. Maybe the major rights holders keep holding on to properties indefinitely in hopes of a remake/cover/etc. But so much of that stuff will be a cost sink that rights holders will have to let some things go.
Maybe the rate increase isn't high enough. Or perhaps the initial cost to file a copyright isn't high enough. But surely we can come up with something.
For now. I can imagine seeing Disney requiring a year long contract for their service and then everyone else following in because it's obviously an easy money grab. But who knows, maybe it turns into an interesting bit of ad wars between services.
"These guys want you to pay for a year but what's the point when you've binged your shows in two weekends?" "Those guys don't have enough content you want to watch so they don't care if you stick around. We always have stuff year round."
Alternatively that would be the big plus of the Google Store. You should be able to access it on all devices whereas the Samsung, LG, HTC, Moto stores are likely to only work on their devices so if I want full app access, I'd want to use Google's store over anyone elses.
Nothing says freedom like compulsion! Have you ever considered that many people who don't vote do so consciously because they don't like any of the available choices?
I wish ballots had an option of 'no confidence' for every position. And if it gets some sizable portion of the population, both candidates are tossed and new ones have to be presented. In the case of the Presidential election, I would propose those electoral votes become available to no one but they still have to get 270 EV. If neither candidate can get 270, then a new election occurs nationally with new candidates.
That makes sense. I was curious about thresholds since I'm less familiar with Waymo's approach. Say a city put up portions of protected bike lanes one night (as they did in my area) would that disrupt things for a morning commute. Or if a foot of snow fell (presumably they aren't there for testing yet) whether the car could handle that change.
I imagine that would be a logical solution for updating maps since I imagine the sensors for driving and mapping are similar. Still a bit concerned as it is likely the market will end up fragmented and won't get regular drivers as often. But I reckon they'll know what regions aren't getting those updates and do more runs there.
How much does the environment need to change before the maps are no longer good? I feel like needing really good maps is a huge limitation towards overall usability - if I need good maps, I potentially couldn't self drive cross country. Granted regions in the middle of nowhere might need less frequent mapping compared to a major city.
My understanding (which is limited to things I've read) of the nuclear cost issues stemmed from a few factors: NIMBYism lawsuits delaying work/political interference, limited manufacturing of specific reactor designs so benefits of scale could never take effect (most operating reactors are somewhat different designs), and retroactive regulatory compliance for plants under construction (not that I'm apposed to regulatory compliance but it did require a lot of reconstruction).
Surely a standardized reactor design that can be built quickly is simple in comparison to what was historically done. Would all that still be cheaper than alternatives? That I really don't know.
Couldn't home or business users take advantage of the negative power rates to charge batteries that would be used to provide power during non-free times? And if enough users opted for this approach, the rates would become positive during those current negative rate periods and other periods might reduce due to lower power demand?
There is something wrong with people who are moderating 100+ subs.
That's something I've found utterly crazy with reddit. I wish they would implement a policy of limiting moderators to some number of subs of specific sizes. I could probably moderate 10 subs of 100 people each pretty easily. But there's no way I could effectively moderate 10 subs of 10,000 people at all. One sub was enough.
Look at/r/science with 1500 something mods. I understand the rationale but it's utterly absurd that there's no segmentation of authority there.
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So given the American obesity epidemic, who can you throw further?
Honestly given the rapid changes of technology in the last 20 years, I'd contend that 20 years is far too long and inaccurate characterization of generations. I've seen Millenials defined in the early 80s so I fall into that group.
But it's weird talking to some of my colleagues who can't remember 9/11 or didn't even grow up with dial up. I feel like there is somewhat of a cultural divide between mid 80s kids and mid-late 90s kids. Who was hit by the 08 recession vs who wasn't. I suppose time will tell.
Leisure industries should be campaigning for reduced working hours in developed economies if they want people to spend more money on things.
A week has 168 hours. If I'm lucky, 40 go to work. Let's say 5 hours to commuting (for me) and is much worse for many. Let's say 7 hours a night for sleep but round to 50 hours. Right there I'm at 73 hours. But I also have meals, hygiene, and other errands to run - let's call that 25 hours. I'm down to 48 hours to spend on other things. You're competing with everything else, including reading/movies/tv/naps/friends/exercise! If I had kids and a worse commute? I basically don't have any time to relax!
One thing that stops my significant other and I from playing as many games as we could is lack of local multiplayer. We don't live together so we're not going to schlep bigger consoles back and forth. The Switch sort of works as a solution but Steam or Playstation ain't happening unless we move in.
Everyone submits their needs, sort by salary highest->lowest and take the first 85,000. At the end of the year, interview the employee and look at their tax and bank records to ensure they are receiving that salary (bank to make sure they aren't passing money on to a non-family third party). Companies that fail to deliver the proper salary will be fined 10x the proposed salary and jail someone(s) for lying on a government form.
Yondre didn't do well in focus groups.
It's soooo bad on a Fire Stick.
The only way I can really make sense of it is to use my Fire tablet so I can filter to Prime only and tell my TV to start playing. That is not how I would prefer to interact with things.
By your standard people with red hair are abnormal.
We are. The daylight hurts us.
Currently, manufacturers are incapable of building the required AMOUNT of panels, wind turbines and/or battery storage required to replace the US' power infrastructure.
Honestly I'd be interested in seeing the US government go in for a project that's the level of scale like the Hoover Dam based around home grown solar manufacturing and battery production. Say 500 acres to start somewhere that gets heavy solar intensity throughout the year. If that's too small, then go to 1,000 and so on.
Once business ramp up to meet that kind of demand, they'll be able to easily support the rest of the US.
Takeoff is around full throttle. Climb is usually around 85%. Those are your two most demanding portions of the flight. Cruise is probably around 75% and descent is largely idle. So it really just depends on how well the energy consumption throttles.
Why not set it equal to 10 years. And you can renew every 10 years until the end of time but the cost of renewing doubles every time. Say a copyright costs $100. For 10 years, it's $100. Next 10 is $200. Then $400, $800, $1600, $3200, $6400 after 70 years.
After some point, the value of a property is going to not justify the costs of renewal. Maybe the major rights holders keep holding on to properties indefinitely in hopes of a remake/cover/etc. But so much of that stuff will be a cost sink that rights holders will have to let some things go.
Maybe the rate increase isn't high enough. Or perhaps the initial cost to file a copyright isn't high enough. But surely we can come up with something.
I've never had Corona with lemon. Just lime. Is lemon better?
You can cancel at any moment though.
For now. I can imagine seeing Disney requiring a year long contract for their service and then everyone else following in because it's obviously an easy money grab. But who knows, maybe it turns into an interesting bit of ad wars between services.
"These guys want you to pay for a year but what's the point when you've binged your shows in two weekends?"
"Those guys don't have enough content you want to watch so they don't care if you stick around. We always have stuff year round."
Alternatively that would be the big plus of the Google Store. You should be able to access it on all devices whereas the Samsung, LG, HTC, Moto stores are likely to only work on their devices so if I want full app access, I'd want to use Google's store over anyone elses.
Nothing says freedom like compulsion! Have you ever considered that many people who don't vote do so consciously because they don't like any of the available choices?
I wish ballots had an option of 'no confidence' for every position. And if it gets some sizable portion of the population, both candidates are tossed and new ones have to be presented. In the case of the Presidential election, I would propose those electoral votes become available to no one but they still have to get 270 EV. If neither candidate can get 270, then a new election occurs nationally with new candidates.
That makes sense. I was curious about thresholds since I'm less familiar with Waymo's approach. Say a city put up portions of protected bike lanes one night (as they did in my area) would that disrupt things for a morning commute. Or if a foot of snow fell (presumably they aren't there for testing yet) whether the car could handle that change.
I imagine that would be a logical solution for updating maps since I imagine the sensors for driving and mapping are similar. Still a bit concerned as it is likely the market will end up fragmented and won't get regular drivers as often. But I reckon they'll know what regions aren't getting those updates and do more runs there.
How much does the environment need to change before the maps are no longer good? I feel like needing really good maps is a huge limitation towards overall usability - if I need good maps, I potentially couldn't self drive cross country. Granted regions in the middle of nowhere might need less frequent mapping compared to a major city.
Doh! I completely forgot about that nonsense.
The Martian? I'm trying to remember which movie this is from.
Oh my, this is fun. Thanks for sharing!
They probably paid Microsoft more for access than you did for your operating system. Enjoy being captive to this new customer experience!
I'd written my senator to complain and he basically told me this was good. What a do nothing.
I'm pretty convinced the wage freeze is just to get the good people out of government. When that happens, we're going to be super fucked.
My understanding (which is limited to things I've read) of the nuclear cost issues stemmed from a few factors: NIMBYism lawsuits delaying work/political interference, limited manufacturing of specific reactor designs so benefits of scale could never take effect (most operating reactors are somewhat different designs), and retroactive regulatory compliance for plants under construction (not that I'm apposed to regulatory compliance but it did require a lot of reconstruction).
Surely a standardized reactor design that can be built quickly is simple in comparison to what was historically done. Would all that still be cheaper than alternatives? That I really don't know.
Couldn't home or business users take advantage of the negative power rates to charge batteries that would be used to provide power during non-free times? And if enough users opted for this approach, the rates would become positive during those current negative rate periods and other periods might reduce due to lower power demand?
There is something wrong with people who are moderating 100+ subs.
That's something I've found utterly crazy with reddit. I wish they would implement a policy of limiting moderators to some number of subs of specific sizes. I could probably moderate 10 subs of 100 people each pretty easily. But there's no way I could effectively moderate 10 subs of 10,000 people at all. One sub was enough.
Look at /r/science with 1500 something mods. I understand the rationale but it's utterly absurd that there's no segmentation of authority there.