I'd be happy with a self driving car that could just safely stay in a single lane on a freeway for an hour in good weather while I did something else.
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I work on two microservice cloud systems at the moment: the first I was the first person working on it day one, and have been involved in every aspect including devops & support for the past seven years - I'm far and away the most producive developer on this system.
With the second system, there's another developer that's driven the team for the past few years and designed everything from the start, and they are easily the most productive person on this team. Probably 3x everyone else and its a strong team.
Its just that I know the second system less - I know roughly how everything works, but haven't poked around in every corner of the system like I have the first. For larger systems this kind of knowledge can take years to build up.
In New York City the price-to-income-ratio is still under 10. Chinese cities are severely overpriced.
In China's major cities, the price-to-income-ratio is around 40 or 50.
These are figures considered inconceiveable in Western countries, so its understandable why economists think that this is unsustainable.
To make matters worse, in China you only lease the property for 80 years, you don't own it.
So in summary you pay 50 years of a full income to get an 80 year lease on a property.
Its better than the Windows client because it just works as another desktop in the Mac OS, with no bar at the top, and you can jump in to and out of various remote session quickly just by switching desktops with Cmd+left or right arrows. Its a really simple, nice to use implementation.
With the energy industry changing so rapidly at the moment, that's a huge risk for anyone wanting to invest.
In that ten years for construction its likely that battery, solar, and wind prices all drop by two or three times. So by the time that the nuclear plant is completed its very likely to be far too expensive.
As the article mentions, the only future for nuclear is going to be small, cheaper reactors that are quick to construct.
Their Wifi patent alone brought in $430 million dollars: https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/tools-resources/case-studies/...
The study found that the people on the UBI payments we're more likely to be employed than the reference group - Its clearly wildly incorrect to say that there's zero incentive to find work
No reports of fraud that I know of - A handful of people trying to steal ballots, but they were just invalidated and sent out again
"For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It's like comparing a cup of water to the ocean - they just don't compare."
Modern Gas turbines can also act as a good backup for solar in times where there is unusual demand because they can start up on under a minute
Solar + battery backup is currently cheaper than coal, and seems to be continuing its pattern of halving in price around every seven to ten years
It doesn't make economic sense to build coal power plants for most of the world
It takes on average six years to build a coal or gas power plant. During that six years, the price of solar will have almost halved again
Along the east coast the El Nino/La Nina cyles are becoming much, much more pronounced. Droughts are longer and more severe during the El Nino cycle, floods and rains are also stronger during the wet La Nina cycle.
While this lowers the risk of fire during the La Nina cycle, it also significantly increases it during the El Nino cycle because: 1. Drier conditions mean more fire. A lot of trees are shedding their bark, a lot more flammable material generally 2. Less backburning & fire prevention measures can be done during the La Nina cycle because conditions have become too wet to do so, meaning that fires are becoming more intense because more leaf matter and debris are building up during those years
Fire is a pretty regular part of the Australian bushland, but in the past they used to be more regular and not as severe (And very rarely get completely out of control like it has done the last couple of times)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/why-insec...
Under fair-use laws (which vary country to country), you can usually copy a small portion of the work for non-profit educational use
Google sounds like they are using their control of the Android store to prevent an application being published that competes with their Google Maps Mobile App, which also offers similar public transport tracking and time-table information
They are all really nice countries to live in too
In Australia I can't just stick a giant billboard in front of my house or shop without local government permission
Any signs need to be in keeping with the existing streetscape and usually kept to reasonable proportions
They can start up in around a minute to provide base-load at times when renewables are not able to provide enough energy
Not to mention that there are many other already public & private records that already can provide information on wealth (company ownership records, house ownership records, etc...)
They seem to have tried to intentionally tried to create a much more complicated ballot paper for IRV
Here's a sample of an Australian IRV voting form:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/20...
In fact I could be that other engineer (I'm not, but I'm in a very similar sounding situation)
I was the most senior engineer and first to join a new startup with a bunch of colleagues from an old work place. I put in ridiculously long hours for the first year and a bit to get the product started, and got completely burnt out and my family life suffered
After we brought on a few more engineers I reduced my hours to a more normal 40 hours a week, and made use of the flexible start-up hours to pick up my kids from school some days and come in late on others (A great way to manage the stress of being in a busy startup)
Now I also spend a lot less time writing code and more time managing product requirements, an overseas team, on system architecture, and all those dev-ops tasks (big time-sink) that no-one else wants to do
I don't completely know the original-poster's situation, but quite often the senior person on the team is often shielding the other developers from all the daily crap that is going on in a company so that they can be as productive as possible, and you might not be completely aware about everything that is going on
Why was VB.Net & .Net needed at all? Why didn't Microsoft just continue development on Visual Basic 7 & incorporate some of the VB.Net features into it?
Personally I'd still prefer to be on .NET Core than on some hypothetical Visual Basic version 16, with a ton of compromises made for some slowly changing Frankenstein language of various backward compatibility hacks built in
I'd easily pay 10 Euros extra over an iPad for a fully functional computer - Seems like an easy choice
The builders benefit because they then wont pay any income tax on the job
This is one of the main reasons that governments are pushing for cashless systems, because there is less evetax evasion and increased revenue
There are many, many cases where a journalist has tracked down specific wikipedia edits to a particular office or intranet in a government building all from their IP address
You can find a ton of stories with a quick google search: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-w... https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/investigation-into-o...
It wasn't the DailyBeast conducting the investigation, they are just reporting on it