Timmah

You're only making it harder on the wage slave behind the check stand. Theyre required to ask.

You don't need verifiable facts to know that retail and warehouse workers are wage slaves. Thats why unions are needed. Need a verifiable fact? Try living on $10/hr and tell me how that works out for you.

I think rather than a sideways elevator, they should make one that runs on an electrified track without a cable or counterweight. Just a motor that runs on a cog or something. You could then have multiple elevators on the same shaft, going the same direction. Then at a couple places, have switches that go sideways to the other track, just like a train.

So for instance you could have 10 elevators going up and 10 going down, using 2 tracks. With switches at the bottom, top, and middle. After someone is dropped off, the elevator moves to the down track until called. You could fit way more elevators and have more floor space for real estate. Plus you could harvest the electricity going down instead of burning it on the brakes. It would just need a really good safety to guarantee it won't plummet in a motor/power/computer failure.

Elevators have huge counter weights that weigh more than the whole cab. I've read that it takes more energy for an elevator to go down than up, depending on the load. I think (dis)engaging these weights all day would be one of the most difficult aspects.

To me what's interesting about elevators is the mathematics. First the control system and how it matches the cab to the floor level within millimeters. Especially on tall shafts where the cable undoubtedly stretches.

Second is how they activate the control system. For instance if you push the button while it's moving full speed, it has to know which stops it can make in time.

Also handling erroneous input, ie 12 year old me pushing all floors on a 30 storey building, at some point it becomes wise to my antics and cancels all the calls.

Then you have the (linear programming?) optimization of where to put the cars. Statistically most calls originate at the bottom floor. So you optimize time by not allowing all 4 cars to loiter near the top. This gets even more complicated if 2 elevators are moving simultaneously down and someone below presses Down. Which one should stop?

I have no idea how they actually do this stuff, but I know it's more complicated than it appears.

Another important difference is the free-labor-from-your-kids benefit. From what it appears, Indian families are more cohesive and their kids are less rebellious (at least 1st generation). I'm aware there are also American children who work in their parents small businesses, but I think they are more likely to demand compensation.

> no amount of noise-cancelling headphones can stop me noticing movements in my periphery

Or the shaking of the floor. I worked in a "modern" high-rise of a well known company with open offices and the floor felt like it was made of Ikea particle board skin of an under-floor giant African drum.

Isn't TCP a lossless protocol? I thought it ended the session if the packets were dropped.

Edit: downvoted for asking a question. Thanks reddit.

How else are you going to parallel construct a case against someone if you can't intercept their communication using extralegal means?

One reason they do this is so bad fw can't brick an expensive CPU

You have no proof that the accident wouldn't have occurred anyway without the update. Or that their updates didn't save one or more lives.

That's my point. Not an "accurate" but misleading accusation at the software without considering the hidden variables.

Saying it caused "a fatality" is being disingenuous. It's along the same false pretense as "we shouldn't use self driving cars at all, if they lead to even one fatality".

Fatalities aren't good things, but they're inevitable consequences of driving. And it's disingenuous to expect anyone's code to be guaranteed to work on every mile of road in the US, under all conditions, at all times. If autonomous vehicles substantially reduce overall fatalities we are better off.

(Nobody talked about banning combustion vehicles after the pinto or banning Fords over their side mounted fuel tanks or their explorers that rolled over when the defective tires blew out)

Asking how much was due to a specific cause isn't "reducing the problem". Anxiety is among the most treatable of all mental illness.

> no free elections.

Neither do the US. Ask Bernie Sanders.

How do they mitigate narco subs? Sonar patrols I presume?

I haven't seen a techdirt article on here in years. Were they banned or something?

But you could find out who is legitimately using that copyright on YT and retaliate against them. For instance, if you use a clip of a Prince song that is taken down, and you determine that BMG music owns the Prince catalog, you could send automated infringement requests against PrinceVEVO or any official BMG uploads.

Even better if you created a "burner" corporation. Ie P.O. box in Delaware and act on their behalf. They have to take you seriously because corporation, amirite?

Hopefully the agencies have already thought of this, but it would be pretty easy to set up a honeypot with a veteran TS or higher clearance employee and tell him to set up fake accounts and see who comes knocking.

I lose way more sleep thinking about the dirty deeds committed against us by our domestic intelligence agencies. I don't give 2 fucks if China gets blueprints for a defective, overpriced fighter jet that kills it's own pilots.

Would be excited to see this technology combined with the "underbelly bubbles" technology that I heard about a few years ago where they reduce drag by releasing air bubbles under the hull. Yeah it takes energy to do it but the decreased resistance is supposedly a net gain. Two 10% gains would be awesome.

The increasing cost of a service has nothing to do with climate change. The cost of everything has gone up since 1985.

I read $SOMEWHERE that most sea level rise is/will be due to thermal expansion of water, not melting ice.

Go see a neurologist.

Sounds like you're projecting a lot of your own issues with that reply. Someone asked for instructions. Someone else gave a rough sketch. Stop reading more into it than there is.

You could probably recreate that with a web scraper and browser plugin:

Use the bloated webpage several times while a learning algorithm watches which links you click. Once it's trained, it then renders the document in an invisible frame buffer, extracts the clickable links, and presents them to you on a clean UI.

If privacy weren't a concern, the plugin could aggregate clicks to the same site among different users and learn much faster. So it watches 500 users visit yelp.com and notices none of them click on the ad or the privacy policy, so the ad link us stripped from the simplified view.

Something similar could be done with news sites. Render that bloat off screen, extract the article, render it in a 1990's style page (or just a json file that can be rendered however you like, say in lynx)

I don't disagree. I think that a full mitigation plan could help. For example showing that fiber can be easily chopped up if a pipe clogged. Maybe biofilm could be mitigated with an electric charge on a conductive outer sheath? I can't see how a single cable or 2 would ever require digging into the street.

I don't know if laying cable is one of your biggest challenges, but I assume it would be along with right-of-way.

What do you think about the idea of using the sewer system to lay either fiber or 10+gb copper? Before you think about how gross that is, consider the advancements in drone robotics. You would need to devise a cable-laying robot that could traverse the sewer via remote control. Mount fixtures to the top of the pipes and string the cables through, connecting neighborhoods.

This would require convincing the city to lease you the right-of-way and put up a bond to cover any repairs to damage caused by the cables. But it would solve both the bandwidth problem and the "those are our telephone poles!" Problem. What do you think?