> The result is the next step in the development of Unix
I smell a plan 9 here...
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The real answer is 42!
42 MJ/kg, that is, the energy content of gasoline. This is one of the highest chemical energy densities to be found anywhere. The chemical processes in a battery must be perfectly reversible many times, which makes it basically impossible to reach the same ordner of magnitude. Think about it this way: pumping gasoline delivers around 25 MW. Don't expect an electric charger like that.
"Language does matter"
Yes and no.
It matters how you use it within the established framing. But trying to change the framing to permanently change its impact, that doesn't work. It boils down to the disproven Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: the linguistic structure of your language does *not* limit your thinking.
A lockdown reduces the number of cases, it does *not* reduce the number of deaths resulting from the infections which happened anyway.
If (if!) we are to believe the official figures, then the Case Fatality Rate is an astonishingly low 1 / 100000. If all 25 Mio locked down people were infected, that would be 250 dead. As deaths lag behind infections and sloppy counting, make that 2500.
For comparison. The UK death toll is 320. Currently. Every single day.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~GBR
Applying the very same logic you could claim that Remain was supported by 36%(ish).
Remember: Non voters by definition do not count. And what little research exists on their hypothetical votes, it appears that they would not change results too much. After all, they did not even bother to vote, so why would you expect strong opinions either way?
Crossing borders is easy for money.
Crossing borders stealthily ... not so much.
You need lots of it and pay a lot for it - ask you local mafia don.
Actually, this is the *only* advantage of Bitcoin for the savvy: illegal money transfers are cheaper and harder to trace.
The central banks only create the actual cash. All the other money on the books is created by the commercial banks. The central bank interest rate just sets the incentive for them to grant credit aka create money.
Cryptocoiners may not have noticed, but we are beyond simple token money, be it cowrie shells or bitcoins.
> They still work and require surprisingly little
> in the way of personal info to use
>
Think again.
Modern automated sorting machines must scan the recipient's address to do their job. While they are at it, the may as well scan the sender. Ah. And store the records. Now, they wouldn't do that, would they?
Well, here a German Post competitor was caught with the fingers in the sweet data cookie jar: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/postfirma-pin-mail-hortet-millionen-briefdaten/7795758.html
Will never happen again, of course.
It says "findings shed light on how water-repelling substances behave under high pressures, such as those found at the ocean floor" but then the pressure is 20 times that of the Mariana trench.
Which ocean floor are they talking about? Or did I miss the part where boffins are already exploring extra-solar ocean floors?
systemd
'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
I second FogBugz http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
It has a perfect email integration. And clever full text analysis, e.g. the spam filter engine for incoming mails also automatically files non-spam to the proper work queues. It much favours full-text search and reporting over explicit fields to keep the number of dedicated fields as lean as possible. Most other trackers offer a byzantinian maze of fields and drop downs which are a pain to fill in and a complete waste of screen space. Ever received a trouble ticket email from a big ISP? Where you have to scroll endlessly to get beyond the form boilerplate and read about the real issue?
This actually also is its biggest disadvantage: management loves to code its local idea of proper procedure into ever more custom fields. Which FogBugz wouldn't let you easily...
Just for the record:
* Dropbox' underlying storage is Amazon S3
* Ubuntu One's storage is ... Amazon S3
So if you want to be sure that No Such Agency has a direct tap into your files [not], you need to look into an encrypted service:
* Wuala - 5GB free, encrypted storage in Switzerland et al, Java sync client works on all major platforms - albeit not as smooth as Dropbox :(
Any other?
> At which point I remembered that it's banned in Germany.
>
Which is not true: it is legal to have. It's just that the owner of the copyright is the state of Bavaria. And they suppress it by simply not publishing it. In 2016 the copyright will expire. The Bavarian government any republication then will face trials for nazi propaganda, cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Republication_in_Germany_after_2015
> And we just don't know. Given that collectively we can't seem to
> predict the weather accurately 7 days in advance anywhere,
> can we really model climate change successfully?
> Do you honestly believe that we can?
>
The old worn out weather == climate argument.
If you are so convinced about its merits,
then there is a good money saver tip for you:
book you beach vacation for January/February in Sweden.
You should get really good rates.
After all, who can predict the weather 7 months from now?
Might as well be 30 degrees and you win!
... by installing alternatives like Cyanomodgen. Having such a Plan B is a strong point of Android. Unless you are stuck with vendors like Motorola, which allow only signed boot images. So you can have devices less than 2 years old and are stuck with Android 2.1 on no way out. *That* is bad.