Employment is an agreement between two people or legal entities. You do what I say and I'll pay you. If the employees don't want to do what the employer says they need to find another job.
As you orbit the earth rotates underneath you. Having a large cross range allows you multiple landing attempts at the same place on earth in consecutive orbits.
SpaceX has tried this. The problem is landing in the water is violent. They kept destroying their rockets. The Shuttle SRB's can do it only because they are made of about 1/2" thick high strength steel. Even then when they built one for ARES IX test it went higher and landed harder and this was the result.
Don't forget to include the following for the Shuttle. 7 people to LEO for 2 weeks AND 50,000 lbs of payload AND Dock and service a Satellite AND bring back 30,000 lbs of payload AND Land on runway with 1,000 miles cross range capability
The real issue isn't robots taking jobs it is robots taking jobs when there are unemployed people. If everyone is employed you have to automate at least partially to increase productivity. So why is automation increasing while we have so many unemployed? The answer lies in the monetary system Krugman advocates which is a Central Bank making cheap credit available.
I worked as an engineer for a company that built automation equipment. When we did a study for a company to determine if it made sense to automate there were two big factors that we had to take into account. First is the labor rate and the second is the interest rate. The higher the labor rate and the lower the interest rate the more favorable the decision to automate was.
If we had an interest rate set by a free market it would be based on the supply of funds available to loan and the demand for those funds. This provides a natural way to regulate a sustainable rate of automation. When there is low unemployment and savings are high interest rates are low and labor rates are high. This is a good time to automate. When there is high unemployment and low savings labor rates will be low and interest rates high. It will make it more advantageous for companies to hire people than automate.
Right now we have high unemployment and low savings. But we also have a central bank keeping rates artificially low. This makes it advantageous for companies to automate when the real economics don't support it. Also these companies will find out as they ramp up automation and production there won't be enough people with money to buy their products. This is the same thing that happened with the housing market bubble and collapse.
The point is not that companies in the private sector are always better. But those that don't deliver eventually go out of business. When you screw up in government you get more money.
I think that patents do not increase technological advance but only change how they are released. If patents did not exist there would always be pressure to make a better product. This would happen in smaller but quicker steps. Patents don't increase the rate of innovation. What people do is hold back releasing products until the advances are enough to get a patent. This results in larger but less frequent advances. In the modern world there is no reason for any patents. If your technological advance is sufficiently large you will gain a natural monopoly as the competition tries to catch up.
The WBC should never be prosecuted by the government. But that doesn't mean that they get to act like a-holes. If they were picketing a kids funeral and the father or uncle went up and punched them in the nose and I was on the jury I would find them not guilty. If I was on a jury of the government trying to put them in jail for hate speech I would side with the WBC.
There is a natural regulator on the pace of automation. It is the interest rate. If interest rates (prices) were set on a free market with a hard currency it would be based on how much money people had saved (supply) and how much people wanted to borrow (demand). This works out nicely because any automation involves a large expenditure of money to increase productivity. If there is low unemployment and people have high wages and money saved it will lead to low interest rates. This causes businesses to want to invest in capital equipment because labor is expensive and money is cheap. On the other hand if you have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings you will have a high interest rate. This leads businesses to hire people because it's more profitable. This is a natural balance of sustainable automation.
What we have now is the Federal Reserve setting artificially low interest rates. This causes businesses to invest in automation at a time in which we have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings. This is exactly the wrong approach. It causes lots of malinvestment by automating production to increase capacity but nobody has enough money to buy these goods.
If interest rates (prices) were set on a free market with a hard currency it would be based on how much money people had saved (supply) and how much people wanted to borrow (demand). This works out nicely because any automation involves a large expenditure of money to increase productivity. If there is low unemployment and people have high wages and money saved it will lead to low interest rates. This causes businesses to want to invest in capital equipment because labor is expensive and money is cheap. On the other hand if you have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings you will have a high interest rate. This leads businesses to hire people because it's more profitable. This is a natural balance of sustainable automation.
What we have now is the Federal Reserve setting artificially low interest rates. This causes businesses to invest in automation at a time in which we have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings. This is exactly the wrong approach. It causes lots of malinvestment by automating production to increase capacity but nobody has enough money to buy these goods.
Libel starts with the assumption you own "your" reputation. But what is your reputation really? It's what other people think about you. You do not own what other people think about you. If someone writes a bad or even false review of someone you shouldn't be able to sue them. No real damage is done. You have just attempted to change peoples opinions of you or your work. Heck movie reviewers do it all the time. You don't think a bad movie review hurts box office?
The solution to libel is more speech. The contractor gets to tell his side of the story and try to win back his reputation. I see this often on Angie's List. A contractor has overall positive reviews and then there are one or two F's. The contractor follows up with their opinion on what happened and it's up to you to figure out who you believe.
My view is that there are two ways to look at College. One is as an investment the other as personal growth.
From an investment standpoint you need to look at the return on the investment. This decision should be treated as any investment decision.
From a personal growth standpoint you have to look at the cost with the full knowledge you won't get that money back. This should be treated like any purchase of leisure like taking golf or cooking classes.
The problem is some people confuse the two. It is irresponsible to go into debt for personal growth. That is the same as taking on debt you have no hope of paying off to go on a trip. If you have the means to pay for it there is no issue with taking the trip.
A separate helium loop is used for the cooling. Looking at the diagram it also shows the helium being used to run several turbo pumps. Each of these removes energy and converts it to mechanical work.
Hydrogen has a very high specific heat and heat of vaporization. From reading the wiki it says there is more hydrogen used for cooling than is needed for combustion. But part of the engine design has a part of the air bypass the compressor as well. The hydrogen is mixed and burned with this air outside the combustion chamber to recover some of these losses.
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Mod Up. I missed your post and wrote the same thing below.
Employment is an agreement between two people or legal entities. You do what I say and I'll pay you. If the employees don't want to do what the employer says they need to find another job.
Is there an open source platform that will contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware, software, and money to help stage the event?
As you orbit the earth rotates underneath you. Having a large cross range allows you multiple landing attempts at the same place on earth in consecutive orbits.
SpaceX has tried this. The problem is landing in the water is violent. They kept destroying their rockets. The Shuttle SRB's can do it only because they are made of about 1/2" thick high strength steel. Even then when they built one for ARES IX test it went higher and landed harder and this was the result.
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Don't forget to include the following for the Shuttle.
7 people to LEO for 2 weeks
AND
50,000 lbs of payload
AND
Dock and service a Satellite
AND
bring back 30,000 lbs of payload
AND
Land on runway with 1,000 miles cross range capability
The real issue isn't robots taking jobs it is robots taking jobs when there are unemployed people. If everyone is employed you have to automate at least partially to increase productivity. So why is automation increasing while we have so many unemployed? The answer lies in the monetary system Krugman advocates which is a Central Bank making cheap credit available.
I worked as an engineer for a company that built automation equipment. When we did a study for a company to determine if it made sense to automate there were two big factors that we had to take into account. First is the labor rate and the second is the interest rate. The higher the labor rate and the lower the interest rate the more favorable the decision to automate was.
If we had an interest rate set by a free market it would be based on the supply of funds available to loan and the demand for those funds. This provides a natural way to regulate a sustainable rate of automation. When there is low unemployment and savings are high interest rates are low and labor rates are high. This is a good time to automate. When there is high unemployment and low savings labor rates will be low and interest rates high. It will make it more advantageous for companies to hire people than automate.
Right now we have high unemployment and low savings. But we also have a central bank keeping rates artificially low. This makes it advantageous for companies to automate when the real economics don't support it. Also these companies will find out as they ramp up automation and production there won't be enough people with money to buy their products. This is the same thing that happened with the housing market bubble and collapse.
The point is not that companies in the private sector are always better. But those that don't deliver eventually go out of business. When you screw up in government you get more money.
Almost as good as Slick Willie.
I think that patents do not increase technological advance but only change how they are released. If patents did not exist there would always be pressure to make a better product. This would happen in smaller but quicker steps. Patents don't increase the rate of innovation. What people do is hold back releasing products until the advances are enough to get a patent. This results in larger but less frequent advances. In the modern world there is no reason for any patents. If your technological advance is sufficiently large you will gain a natural monopoly as the competition tries to catch up.
The WBC should never be prosecuted by the government. But that doesn't mean that they get to act like a-holes. If they were picketing a kids funeral and the father or uncle went up and punched them in the nose and I was on the jury I would find them not guilty. If I was on a jury of the government trying to put them in jail for hate speech I would side with the WBC.
There is a natural regulator on the pace of automation. It is the interest rate. If interest rates (prices) were set on a free market with a hard currency it would be based on how much money people had saved (supply) and how much people wanted to borrow (demand). This works out nicely because any automation involves a large expenditure of money to increase productivity. If there is low unemployment and people have high wages and money saved it will lead to low interest rates. This causes businesses to want to invest in capital equipment because labor is expensive and money is cheap. On the other hand if you have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings you will have a high interest rate. This leads businesses to hire people because it's more profitable. This is a natural balance of sustainable automation.
What we have now is the Federal Reserve setting artificially low interest rates. This causes businesses to invest in automation at a time in which we have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings. This is exactly the wrong approach. It causes lots of malinvestment by automating production to increase capacity but nobody has enough money to buy these goods.
If interest rates (prices) were set on a free market with a hard currency it would be based on how much money people had saved (supply) and how much people wanted to borrow (demand). This works out nicely because any automation involves a large expenditure of money to increase productivity. If there is low unemployment and people have high wages and money saved it will lead to low interest rates. This causes businesses to want to invest in capital equipment because labor is expensive and money is cheap. On the other hand if you have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings you will have a high interest rate. This leads businesses to hire people because it's more profitable. This is a natural balance of sustainable automation.
What we have now is the Federal Reserve setting artificially low interest rates. This causes businesses to invest in automation at a time in which we have high unemployment, low wages, and low savings. This is exactly the wrong approach. It causes lots of malinvestment by automating production to increase capacity but nobody has enough money to buy these goods.
That is still my all time favorite game.
Even after the main story I play melee to this day.
Said no one.
Libel starts with the assumption you own "your" reputation. But what is your reputation really? It's what other people think about you. You do not own what other people think about you. If someone writes a bad or even false review of someone you shouldn't be able to sue them. No real damage is done. You have just attempted to change peoples opinions of you or your work. Heck movie reviewers do it all the time. You don't think a bad movie review hurts box office?
The solution to libel is more speech. The contractor gets to tell his side of the story and try to win back his reputation. I see this often on Angie's List. A contractor has overall positive reviews and then there are one or two F's. The contractor follows up with their opinion on what happened and it's up to you to figure out who you believe.
On Mars it's known as Outside.
I'd consider that an investment as well. Basically anything where you expect a financial return.
"Granted, for expensive procedures, there is no way around third payer. It is what it is."
Yes if there way only a way to pay for expensive things like cars and houses without having to save for it.
My view is that there are two ways to look at College. One is as an investment the other as personal growth.
From an investment standpoint you need to look at the return on the investment. This decision should be treated as any investment decision.
From a personal growth standpoint you have to look at the cost with the full knowledge you won't get that money back. This should be treated like any purchase of leisure like taking golf or cooking classes.
The problem is some people confuse the two. It is irresponsible to go into debt for personal growth. That is the same as taking on debt you have no hope of paying off to go on a trip. If you have the means to pay for it there is no issue with taking the trip.
I have my 48GX sitting next to me as I type.
When I don't have it I have my phone with the following apps. 48GX emulator, Wolfram Alpha, and Octave. I'm covered.
A separate helium loop is used for the cooling. Looking at the diagram it also shows the helium being used to run several turbo pumps. Each of these removes energy and converts it to mechanical work.
Hydrogen has 14 times the heat capacity of air.
Hydrogen has a very high specific heat and heat of vaporization. From reading the wiki it says there is more hydrogen used for cooling than is needed for combustion. But part of the engine design has a part of the air bypass the compressor as well. The hydrogen is mixed and burned with this air outside the combustion chamber to recover some of these losses.
The engine doesn't exist yet. This was a test of the pre-cooler. It is a critical component and it was important.