Luckily I'm on a flexible schedule and adjust it based on sunrise. I drive east in the morning and west in the afternoon so I like to drive in before sunrise and leave while the sun is still relativly high in the sky.
I guess I should have been clearer. I would like a clock that serves the purpose of coordinating events. Changing it all the time defeats that purpose.
You may have missed or misunderstood what I mean by primary structure. In my line of work primary structures are ones that if they fail do fail catastrophically because there is no way to build in redundancy. The way we mitigate these risks is by performing a comprehensive analysis, material testing, proof loading, and regular maintenance and inspections.
We use the term secondary and tertiary structures in regards to those that can have redundancy and backups should they fail
I don't think you are correct. A bitcoin address has an associated public and private key. The hashing algorithm is a part of the standard. So someone could theoretically take a bitcoin address on the block chain and try to brute force solve for the private key. Right now it costs more to break than to generate a new coin so why do it? Also in the future the encryption will get more difficult. Finally you can always break up the amount you store in any address which makes it not cost effective to break.
Who gives a crap what the clock says? We could all just use Coordinated Universal Time. On the east coast I'd wake up at 1000 UTC have lunch at 1700 eat dinner at 2200 and go to bed at 0300.
Nature has deposited all of these radioactive toxic chemicals all over the place. Mining is just cleaning up this mess by taking the material out of the ground to purify the ground.
I used that in a meeting once when management asked how we can get the project finished by the arbitrary deadline. I said we could build a time machine. The great part is that it doesn't matter when we finish that project because all of the other ones will be on time.
That reminds me of a design review I was in. The "safety" engineer asked me what the backup was if a primary structure failed. I said it's a primary structure it's designed not to fail. They responded "What if it magically fails?". I said "We roll for damages".
The insurance companies pay for it so they better understand the costs involved in insurance different cars. I don't see why they wouldn't do the same thing for software.
It depend on the commercial companies goals. If their goal is to persuade the consumer of politician to buy their product (ie drugs or environmental products) then their motivation is to lie about results.
BUT....
If the research is going to be incorporated into a product in which the results are easily verified they will seek the truth. For example semi-conductors. I don't know much about how semi-conductors or display screens are made. But the company that figures out the chemistry and physics and make a faster or better screen will be rewarded based on how good their product is. They can try to lie and say their technology is superior but if anyone can easily compare the results in the form of a product it won't matter.
If people just go to their favorite travel website and sort flights by cost this will continue to happen. Consumers are giving the signal they care about nothing other than cost. If it becomes uncomfortable enough that people select airlines based on comfort over price the airlines will respond. They just want the money. If they could get away with charging more for bean bag seats they would respond.
Milk doesn't go "bad" if it was collected and handled in a native way. The natural microbiology in it would start consuming the sugars and turn it "sour" in a tasty way.
Only with modern mechanical pasteurized and homogenized milk do you have this problem. The milk is completely sterilized so is open to any microbiology taking over.
It is always helpful to know how what you do affects the companies profits. When I worked in the private sector that was the question I would ask my boss at review time. It is a good check to see if your boss knows what they are doing. It's simple to ask "how does my performance affect our bottom line?" What can I do in the next performance review period to help this company make more money?" "How do we measure this?" "Can I get a reward based on these measurements?"
I have never worked for a boss that could answer these questions. I assume someone somewhere could have. But at least I knew then it was a dead end job with this guy in charge.
I do not think it means what you think it means. Insurance is for people with assets they want to protect from loss. You have life insurance to help protect your family from the loss of your income if you die. You have car insurance to protect the loss if your car if you have an accident or protect your personal assets if you are liable. Same with homeowners insurance.
Healthcare should not require insurance. Health insurance should only be needed to protect your assets in case you run up lots of expenses. If you have no assets you don't need insurance. If you don't have assets and you run up bills who cares? Don't pay them!
Agreed. And if this about waste I have a drawer full of Nokia and Motetola chargers that I use everyone in a while for a low current power supply. Everyone of my Apple chargers is in use somewhere. Car, home, office. I have a 4S so I don't have the lightning charger but I have iPod chargers still in use somewhere.
If you are an Airplane! Fan you must watch Zero Hour. Airplane! is completely based in this movie scene for scene. It's supposed to be a drama but once you know all of Airplane jokes it basically acts like the straight man where you can supply they punch lines.
Hi Joey. Have you ever been in a cockpit?
Johnny, how about some coffee?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop smoking.
The one thing is the data they get is based on claims. So lets say a particular undeveloped area had a flood 1 out of every 20 years. The insurance companies wouldn't know about it because nobody makes a claim. Now a developer puts 500 homes there. Sure enough the flood happens and now they have 50 claims. Is it the weather or climate changing or is poor development practices.
His statement on beachfront property is a clue. People never built nice houses,with the exception of the very wealthy, on the actual beach because you knew either a hurricane or North Easter was going to wipe it out. Most people built beach shacks that were just a place to sleep and were pretty cheap. But states started regulating insurers to force them to insure beachfront property. The states liked it because the new houses were much more valuable and paid higher taxes. We are seeing the result.
I work at Kennedy Space Center. When there were Space Shuttle Launches I would adjust my work schedule to get in about 6 hours before launch or leave about 4 hours afterwards so I wouldn't be stuck in traffic for hours.
Now it doesn't matter. No matter what is launched there is never traffic. Sure the die hard space geeks like myself still manage to watch every launch but the crowds are not there.
Sorry. I'm not going to sacrifice my kids life for your obsession with equality. Our former school wanted to put my son in special Ed and "suggested" we have him tested for ADHD. This is mostly because he was in a class full of kids that didn't want to be there and whose parents didn't care either.
We moved and now he's in the gifted class and aced the standardized test in Math.
I read my post and I can almost see where you think I'm OK with the system we have. I'm not. I'm just explaining what a lot of people are forced to do when they are rich enough to move but not rich enough to pay property taxes and private school tuition.
The question to ask is what happens to the price of a laptop and a Tesla if the price of the batteries increases.
A laptop uses maybe 6 cells which retail on amazon for about $10. So a doubling of prices would at most cost a laptop owner another $10 which is almost in the noise.
A Tesla if using 2000 times the number would cost about $20k more. That is pretty significant.
There is competition in US public schools. If you don't like the school move. That's what I did once our kids became school age. I didn't pay for private school but just moved to where parents actually care about education so the school is better. It has nothing to do with funding or even the teachers abilities. It all has to do with having kids that grew up in homes that value education. You see this all the time in charter schools. They take the kids in a poor neighborhood whose parents give a shit and put them in one school and all of a sudden they learn. Imagine that. You get rid of all the kids that are impediments to learning and work can get done.
What about poor people that win the lottery? They now have all of their needs met yet so many end up broke again. According to the theory this shouldn't happen because since they don't worry about money they are suddenly smart.
Here is the problem with your logic. It takes resources for you to go to college, resources someone has to provide. If you use those resources in some way which doesn't give you an increase in productivity it is a net loss in wealth. Now people do this all the time, it's called leisure and there is nothing wrong with it. But going to college without increasing your earning potential is the same as going to spend a year in Europe. Sure it's a great thing, if you can afford it.
Let's say you make $40k a year. You are deciding if you should go to college. Say you have to borrow $40k to go. If you do this without expecting any increase in earning potential you may as well spend it on travel or any other leisure activity. The problem for you is once you have blown that $40k and are now in debt and are stuck making payments which assuming a 10 year payback at 4% interest will cost over $4k a year. Now you have to live the next 10 years with a lower income than before.
This doesn't change if someone else pays for the education it just redistributes the effects. If enough people do this the net effect is a poorer economy.
It would be interesting to see what each candidate spends on getting elected vs the increase in wealth for them and friends/family 5 and 10 years after election.
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I can't even find a students version.
Luckily I'm on a flexible schedule and adjust it based on sunrise. I drive east in the morning and west in the afternoon so I like to drive in before sunrise and leave while the sun is still relativly high in the sky.
I guess I should have been clearer. I would like a clock that serves the purpose of coordinating events. Changing it all the time defeats that purpose.
You may have missed or misunderstood what I mean by primary structure. In my line of work primary structures are ones that if they fail do fail catastrophically because there is no way to build in redundancy. The way we mitigate these risks is by performing a comprehensive analysis, material testing, proof loading, and regular maintenance and inspections.
We use the term secondary and tertiary structures in regards to those that can have redundancy and backups should they fail
I don't think you are correct. A bitcoin address has an associated public and private key. The hashing algorithm is a part of the standard. So someone could theoretically take a bitcoin address on the block chain and try to brute force solve for the private key. Right now it costs more to break than to generate a new coin so why do it? Also in the future the encryption will get more difficult. Finally you can always break up the amount you store in any address which makes it not cost effective to break.
Who gives a crap what the clock says? We could all just use Coordinated Universal Time. On the east coast I'd wake up at 1000 UTC have lunch at 1700 eat dinner at 2200 and go to bed at 0300.
Nature has deposited all of these radioactive toxic chemicals all over the place. Mining is just cleaning up this mess by taking the material out of the ground to purify the ground.
I used that in a meeting once when management asked how we can get the project finished by the arbitrary deadline. I said we could build a time machine. The great part is that it doesn't matter when we finish that project because all of the other ones will be on time.
That reminds me of a design review I was in. The "safety" engineer asked me what the backup was if a primary structure failed. I said it's a primary structure it's designed not to fail. They responded "What if it magically fails?". I said "We roll for damages".
I don't get invited to meetings often.
Quite a few of the crash tests are done by the I Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highway_Safety
The insurance companies pay for it so they better understand the costs involved in insurance different cars. I don't see why they wouldn't do the same thing for software.
It depend on the commercial companies goals. If their goal is to persuade the consumer of politician to buy their product (ie drugs or environmental products) then their motivation is to lie about results.
BUT....
If the research is going to be incorporated into a product in which the results are easily verified they will seek the truth. For example semi-conductors. I don't know much about how semi-conductors or display screens are made. But the company that figures out the chemistry and physics and make a faster or better screen will be rewarded based on how good their product is. They can try to lie and say their technology is superior but if anyone can easily compare the results in the form of a product it won't matter.
If people just go to their favorite travel website and sort flights by cost this will continue to happen. Consumers are giving the signal they care about nothing other than cost. If it becomes uncomfortable enough that people select airlines based on comfort over price the airlines will respond. They just want the money. If they could get away with charging more for bean bag seats they would respond.
Milk doesn't go "bad" if it was collected and handled in a native way. The natural microbiology in it would start consuming the sugars and turn it "sour" in a tasty way.
Only with modern mechanical pasteurized and homogenized milk do you have this problem.
The milk is completely sterilized so is open to any microbiology taking over.
It is always helpful to know how what you do affects the companies profits. When I worked in the private sector that was the question I would ask my boss at review time. It is a good check to see if your boss knows what they are doing. It's simple to ask "how does my performance affect our bottom line?" What can I do in the next performance review period to help this company make more money?" "How do we measure this?" "Can I get a reward based on these measurements?"
I have never worked for a boss that could answer these questions. I assume someone somewhere could have. But at least I knew then it was a dead end job with this guy in charge.
I do not think it means what you think it means. Insurance is for people with assets they want to protect from loss. You have life insurance to help protect your family from the loss of your income if you die. You have car insurance to protect the loss if your car if you have an accident or protect your personal assets if you are liable. Same with homeowners insurance.
Healthcare should not require insurance. Health insurance should only be needed to protect your assets in case you run up lots of expenses. If you have no assets you don't need insurance. If you don't have assets and you run up bills who cares? Don't pay them!
Agreed. And if this about waste I have a drawer full of Nokia and Motetola chargers that I use everyone in a while for a low current power supply. Everyone of my Apple chargers is in use somewhere. Car, home, office. I have a 4S so I don't have the lightning charger but I have iPod chargers still in use somewhere.
If you are an Airplane! Fan you must watch Zero Hour. Airplane! is completely based in this movie scene for scene. It's supposed to be a drama but once you know all of Airplane jokes it basically acts like the straight man where you can supply they punch lines.
Hi Joey. Have you ever been in a cockpit?
Johnny, how about some coffee?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop smoking.
A hospital what is it?
The one thing is the data they get is based on claims. So lets say a particular undeveloped area had a flood 1 out of every 20 years. The insurance companies wouldn't know about it because nobody makes a claim. Now a developer puts 500 homes there. Sure enough the flood happens and now they have 50 claims. Is it the weather or climate changing or is poor development practices.
His statement on beachfront property is a clue. People never built nice houses,with the exception of the very wealthy, on the actual beach because you knew either a hurricane or North Easter was going to wipe it out. Most people built beach shacks that were just a place to sleep and were pretty cheap. But states started regulating insurers to force them to insure beachfront property. The states liked it because the new houses were much more valuable and paid higher taxes. We are seeing the result.
I work at Kennedy Space Center. When there were Space Shuttle Launches I would adjust my work schedule to get in about 6 hours before launch or leave about 4 hours afterwards so I wouldn't be stuck in traffic for hours.
Now it doesn't matter. No matter what is launched there is never traffic. Sure the die hard space geeks like myself still manage to watch every launch but the crowds are not there.
Sorry. I'm not going to sacrifice my kids life for your obsession with equality. Our former school wanted to put my son in special Ed and "suggested" we have him tested for ADHD. This is mostly because he was in a class full of kids that didn't want to be there and whose parents didn't care either.
We moved and now he's in the gifted class and aced the standardized test in Math.
I read my post and I can almost see where you think I'm OK with the system we have. I'm not. I'm just explaining what a lot of people are forced to do when they are rich enough to move but not rich enough to pay property taxes and private school tuition.
The question to ask is what happens to the price of a laptop and a Tesla if the price of the batteries increases.
A laptop uses maybe 6 cells which retail on amazon for about $10. So a doubling of prices would at most cost a laptop owner another $10 which is almost in the noise.
A Tesla if using 2000 times the number would cost about $20k more. That is pretty significant.
There is competition in US public schools. If you don't like the school move. That's what I did once our kids became school age. I didn't pay for private school but just moved to where parents actually care about education so the school is better. It has nothing to do with funding or even the teachers abilities. It all has to do with having kids that grew up in homes that value education. You see this all the time in charter schools. They take the kids in a poor neighborhood whose parents give a shit and put them in one school and all of a sudden they learn. Imagine that. You get rid of all the kids that are impediments to learning and work can get done.
What about poor people that win the lottery? They now have all of their needs met yet so many end up broke again.
According to the theory this shouldn't happen because since they don't worry about money they are suddenly smart.
Here is the problem with your logic. It takes resources for you to go to college, resources someone has to provide. If you use those resources in some way which doesn't give you an increase in productivity it is a net loss in wealth. Now people do this all the time, it's called leisure and there is nothing wrong with it. But going to college without increasing your earning potential is the same as going to spend a year in Europe. Sure it's a great thing, if you can afford it.
Let's say you make $40k a year. You are deciding if you should go to college. Say you have to borrow $40k to go. If you do this without expecting any increase in earning potential you may as well spend it on travel or any other leisure activity. The problem for you is once you have blown that $40k and are now in debt and are stuck making payments which assuming a 10 year payback at 4% interest will cost over $4k a year. Now you have to live the next 10 years with a lower income than before.
This doesn't change if someone else pays for the education it just redistributes the effects. If enough people do this the net effect is a poorer economy.
It would be interesting to see what each candidate spends on getting elected vs the increase in wealth for them and friends/family 5 and 10 years after election.