But the real question is will they include the sound stage the moon landing took place in /s. I am actually a bit sad that stamps are not as big a deal as they used to be. I always enjoyed getting weird stamps as a kid on letters. It seems like a loss for society that these little bits of art aren't as popular.
Beyond burger does not taste like meat, it's just good tasting (to my family). Impossible tastes meaty and I don't like it, nor does my family. I've been a vegetarian for over 15 years and seen veggie burgers go from hockey pucks or green mush to what we have today. The ability to use these replacements means less changes in ingredients for recipes, easier for everyone including meat eaters when planning large get togethers, and less comments when in public. Believe it or not I really don't enjoy explaining to everyone why I choose to eat the way I do, these make it easy. When you're a minority in a society, there more options to seamlessly blend into that society, the easier life is. You also seem to be in the minority of people who don't want a sugar replacement. Diet soda is popular for a reason.
He hates on it because it impacts the profits of the products he sells. That's it. Never trust someone who is motivated by profit to believe a particular narrative.
Which is kind of his/her point. You can't just say x is unhealthy because it contains y like the Twitter twit does. You have to take into account actual usage criteria in which case the entire Twitter storm falls apart because it's comparing beef and vegetables.
No. Amazon is pushing smaller sellers into their marketplace platform which is ride with counterfeits, thieves, and garbage products with fake reviews purchased on Facebook. My wife and I stopped going to Amazon because product quality started getting so bad. It's to the point that I trust Alibaba or eBay over Amazon, which is a shame. I suspect there's a lot of less vocal people in the same boat who've started exploring other merchants.
Most meat has dyes of some sort. I'm not sure this is really that big of a bugaboo. A lot of food in general has food colorants that are entirely made in a lab.
I never made the claim that you needed to learn the newest language. Some of the books competing for shelf space are great, long useful coding books. The section in most libraries for coding though is small.
I also never said you couldn't text yourself programming by going to the library, but most of the people who would go to the library to learn coding don't have home computers themselves, I'd wager, and need to use online IDEs which would mean having access to the internet with more up to date resources typically than what's available on the shelves.
In another comment on this topic I brought up that I personally use a blended approach of books for the why's and online for the how's. There's a ton of great coding books out there. Many unfortunately don't make it into library collections and the ones that do typically require either ordering via a hold or just buying outright beggar the library doesn't have it. I'm a huge library lover, you won't find me cheering for their demise.
It's funny, as someone who grew up with books and the burgeoning world wide web, I hadn't thought of this. When I'm learning a topic I tend to buy or print books so I can soak it in. When I to learn a quick task I go online. Books tend to be great for the why's of something but not the how's. Online is great for the how's but not the why's. I think a blended approach has ended up being the best way for me to learn. I do have a genuine love of books though.
I'd wager most coding languages are described in their website docs rather than in physical books long before they reach libraries. Only the most popular languages get a full write up more than a few times and then you've got to compete against shelf space already occupied by long useful books. While library organizations orgs have our can get most books, your have to know what you were looking for in advance.
I mean it sounds like the game is attracting the type of people who would be attracted to the title, and then sticking around for the challenge. I don't think that's a problem you really need to invest in solving. Eve online has a similar problem with the ability to rob entire months of work with betrayal. Any game where lying can lead to a positive outcome is generally going to encourage a mindset. If your players like the game then it's the niche that you're serving, doesn't seem to be anying wrong with that, they're having fun. My question to you would be are you enjoying running the game and building it, you're there now important person in this.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but don't a lot of the ultra-dense cities have some form of areas of makeshift or very unhealthy living situations? Sao Paulo was a city like this, as are many in ultra dense places in Asia, Tokyo excluded but they built down as well as up and routinely demolish relatively new buildings.
California really does have a major problem now with wildfires and encroachment. I was amazed how fast the Camp Fire moved (an acre a second burnt at one point). There's just no way to really escape something like that. This is why I think building down as well as up is a good idea for many cities, Californian cities may have dinner different issues due to their tectonic activity but it should at least be explored.
I agree with your point regarding density in general. I always find it silly when people say America doesn't have space for more people. We have entire states with less population than some cities. I think improving infrastructure between the "flyover" states and coastal states might be one improvement that's overdue, but I don't know what the best solution would be off the top of my head.
Back Bay of Boston is really a marvel. I have literally no idea about California so I'll have to take your word for it. My concern is that the only people who seen willing to build are those who stand to make the most money. It would seem that the effective way to do this would be to require as part of codes for building different cost zoning to be taken into account. When I was in Tokyo they had elevators sectioned off by floor access, which would provide the ability to have luxury, shopping, and lower/mid income mixed into the same building. When I've traveled to Europe I've been interested in how businesses have been lower levels with hosting above, something I've not seen much of in the US.
Your response is fair as far as the waste to power output. I really don't have an idea. Thanks for putting it into perspective.
The information came from literally Wikipedia, which bring honest claimed equipment fails in the same area as meltdowns. I want attempting to be facetious in saying I don't know if you can claim a nuclear event to be facetious, I'd have to agree that claiming an equipment failure in the same category as a release of nuclear material into the atmosphere doesn't seem fair.
Thank you for taking the time to write this up. I really want to be pro nuclear because it's already on the planet and it's the best solution for space travel that I can think of, I'm just really concerned like you correctly surmised about the major disasters. Like you pointed out it always seems to be human error or something that should have been avoided. To be completely fair most of the reasons I've got concerns about nuclear are the same concerns I have about fossil fuels, when things go bad, they go really, really bad and a lot of that seems to depend of the type of reactors we've built. Something that softened me a lot on nuclear was watching a movie on a nuclear test facility where they discussed testing different types of reactors. I have realized that there even were different types. Thanks so much for the info.
I was not aware what this feature did. Thanks for pointing it out. I generally enjoy reading things even if I disagree with them because they tend to at least give me something to think about.
I deleted my account after someone who was obviously just being a dick to me in a subreddit got me temp banned for trying to reach out to them in a PM and be civil. The guy posted the message which was entirely civil and claimed it was harassment. No threats, no name calling, suggested based on his public posts that we had a lot in common and it looked like in another topic we might be good friends, how that leads to a site wide temp ban I don't know, but his completely dick, personally insulting comments because he disagreed about a software feature we're apparently wanted. Thanks Reddit I'll pass, honestly most social media is pretty much a cess pool which is why, present company excepted, I avoid it.
I mean, the game itself sounds like the type that would draw people who wanted to prove to others how smart or good they are from your description(PvP). I find that community/coop based games (PvE) tend to draw less assholes because of the type of people who enjoy those games.
Because clean is only if you don't include the waste and you never have a disaster. Literally the only way nuclear is clean is in the best possible case scenario, which happens for the most part because of the training and safety that are in place in most countries, but when it doesn't it's bad and impacts huge chunks of the planet. We have had nearly 100 accidents, most occurring in the United States according to Wikipedia. That's not a small number of accidents considering how long nuclear power has been around, it's more than one a year with the majority within the last 40. Most aren't major events, but I'm not sure how minor you can really claim a nuclear event to be. This isn't too say the fossil fuel alternatives are better, but nuclear boosters aren't really doing themselves any favors by glossing over the negatives.
Questions I really have never gotten an answer I find satisfactory with regards to nuclear. What's the long term storage costs for spent fuel rods? Is this factored into the price? Is post plant cleanup factored into generation costs (we're paying for a nuclear plant closing nearby in our electric bills now on top of generation costs)? Can we possibly reuse those spent fuel rods for something else useful? Can we prevent disasters like Fukishima? Can we prevent every single disaster?
Thorium reactors aren't currently economically viable. Molten salt reactors come with their own downsides but are safer from what I understand, but honestly can't say for sure. Fusion reactors would be base case scenario as far as I understand but aren't currently viable.
We already had one problem by not thinking about long term negatives, I don't want to replace one problem for another, far bigger, far longer term problem. Nuclear problems tend to last longer than carbon problems, disasters like Chernobyl will cost money for literally generations even with it's new cap as it will be constantly needing to be replaced. Solar has it's own problems with messy pollution on creation, wind seems cleanest long term, storage for renewables will probably end up being some type of multi-lake hydro as the "battery" in places where it's viable. Maybe underground aquifers where evaporation is an issue?
I'm all for nuclear in places that already have radiation issues, i.e. space, moon. But I really want to avoid contamination of the only planet we can currently live in as a species.
Can the land actually handle building up? Wouldn't building down be the better way to go? I mean most of those cities are already threatened by rising sea levels. Boston and New York are pretty dense areas who's home do you want to tear down to build new more expensive high rises that the working poor can't afford.
Disney+ will include Hulu apparently which means all the adult shows and movies, along with kid specific context. HBO is being gutted by AT&T. I enjoyed some Netflix originals but they really cut back on the shows I liked and had virtually no movies of note. Now they'll have less. If you watch primarily television Netflix might be a good option. If you want movies Disney is probably going to be the way to go. Unfortunately Disney should be broken up as a monopoly, but that would never happen nowadays.
To be completely accurate the Constitution doesn't apply anywhere within 100 miles of a U.S. border, which includes airports. This covers something like 60% of the population of the United States.
No one expects to be in a situation until they're in it. It's a Faustian bargain to be sure. There's no good outcome to come of either men sexually harassing women in any situation, and cutting out female coworkers isn't the solution either but plainly this was an expected result. If people are rational their first reaction is to be selfish and protect themselves and their family. In a few years there will be a new normal and things will start changing, but social change always does.
Changing culture is significantly harder than learning a new skill set. Culture isn't a defined set of rules that applies to the different people the same each time. People skills are generally one of the hardest skills to learn for the reason. Plainly there's no reason for people to learn most cultural shifts, while this shift is necessary and right, there's also an extreme variance of what's allowed or expected based on age and political leanings. While there are some really obvious lines that get crossed i.e. sexual favors, making comments about physical appearance, blatant sexist comments, most of what's being debated are things like what's appropriate physical contact? Is a supportive tap on the arm allowed? Is hugging a close co-worker allowed? What if a female coworker makes a sexually suggestive comment? What do you do if you are falsely accused and automatically assumed guilty because we're supposed to automatically believe all women? What path is there for redemption for reformed harassers? To suggest that questions like these are easily answered or even that they have a single answer among women isn't justifiable.
Excel has some real limitations with large datasets and multiple users accessing it. It's far better to use something like Access or SQL for these purposes. It's also nicer in access when creating a form for people to use that pulls data from multiple input tables. For smaller data sets or sharing access quickly Excel is a champ and even when it fails it tends to try to do so gracefully. VBA does add a great amount of usefulness and is wonderful as an entry scripting language.
This isn't uncommon... Sadly. This is what happens when politics in a company is more important than deliverables the customers pay for. It's generally a sign the company is in a death spiral.
By driving his car uncontrolled on a public way surrounded by people? Nope not an option. He's flaunting his wealth by putting other people at risk. That makes him an asshole. Just because you happen to like bullies and assholes didn't make that any less true. On a race track or deserted road? Maybe that's kind of fun and cool, you're generally only putting yourself at risk.
All of which makes Google liable for theft. They created the system, they run the system, they transfer the money. It's all facilitating copyfraud. Just because Google agrees to host the content doesn't mean that they are incapable of being able to be sued for their intentional actions.