Whoever told you that is mistaken.
Even in “incineration-friendly” countries, less than a quarter of all trash is incinerated.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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Even in “incineration-friendly” countries, less than a quarter of all trash is incinerated.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Paper bags have a worse impact in a very few, small, narrow metrics such as "ocean de-nutrification".
Everyone blurts this out because of a study done in Europe that looked only at a very limited range of environmental factors specifically suited to the country that commissioned the study.
Also, the vast majority of "savings" plastic bags realized over other forms of bag is the energy density of the petroleum used to produce them and the fact that that energy could be recovered by the massive network of refuse-to-power incineration stations in (the country that did the study, I can't remember).
But most plastic bags don't end up mindfully collected, sorted, and incinerated.
When taken as a whole, paper bags are much, much better for the environment than plastic bags.
In 100 years, the paper bag I (HYPOTHETICALLY) threw out my car window is long gone, worm food, turned into soil.
The plastic bag I (HYPOTHETICALLY) threw out my car window is now several billion flakes of microplastics and the world is struggling with the health ramifications of a century of build-up in the environment.
For that matter, the glass bottle is now harmless beach glass or sand (or a valuable collectible on ebay-next), and the aluminum beer can is now its 10,000th reincarnation-- having been picked up by a bum and traded in for cash.
My favorite "HOT TAKE" from that study is that "yOu HaVe To ReUsE a ClOtH bAg 500 tImEs" for it to be more efficient (in a very narrow spectrum of categories, remember) like that's an insurmountable hurdle.
My made-in-USA cotton totes I got on Amazon for $13.99 in 2010 have been used once a week since I got them.
You do the math.
The article does a bad job at explaining it, but companies that take aid cannot pay dividends or buy back stock until they return the aid.
This is so that aid is not redirected into the pockets of shareholders and is instead used to keep people employed.
>The Government and all parties to the Parliament agree that the extended and extended fixed cost scheme introduces a condition in the Compensation Orders that applicants, as a condition of receiving compensation for the extended period, must declare by faith and laws, that the companies will not pay dividends or buy back shares for the financial years 2020 and 2021. The condition will apply to companies that receive more than DKK 60 million. in compensation in 2020 in the compensation scheme for fixed costs. Companies will later be able to free themselves from these restrictions by repaying paid aid under this scheme in excess of DKK 60 million.
Translated from: https://www.fm.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2020/04/regering...
DKK 60 million is about 8.8 million dollars.
If you have money to pay dividends, you have money to pay back your government aid.
After all, I'm not _SURE_ I know what it's doing.
Perhaps you don't particularly care about that risk, or you don't feel the risk is plausible enough to warrant the loss of one's computer, which is fair, but the risk is there nonetheless.
Why would a l33t haxxor waste their time on an esoteric and academic attack when they can just get their victim to click on something?
If someone is on your machine and you don't know it, they don't have to use side-channel attacks.
They'll can just use any of the thousands of other ways of privilege escalation to read the super-secret information you have stored in RAM, or find it when it is written to disk.
The OpenBSD folks disabled SMT by default because of TLBleed.
A non-datacenter/cloud user disabling SMT to avoid TLBleed is like a normal person carrying a fireman's rescue saw around with them 24 hours a day in case they get into a situation they have to saw themselves out of.
Yes.
>For what feature or benefit?
By the time I pull into my driveway my garage door has opened and the lights in my hallway have turned on.
If I'm working from home, my thermostat stays at its "comfy" setting. If I leave the geofence between certain hours during the week it goes into "ultra cheap-ass energy miser" mode.
When I am at a meeting, and I have another meeting in a different location, my Maps application checks the traffic to the route and tells me if I have to leave early due to congestion. This is especially useful for dentist appointments made six months ago that have slipped my mind.
When I turn on my car and my phone connects, it knows if I am likely to be heading to work or if I am heading home and will suggest the best of three routes to take depending on traffic.
If I am somewhere and have an idea, I hold my smartwatch up to my face and ask it to "remind me when I get to X to do Y" and then when I get to X a notification pops up to tell me to do Y.
I get hyper-local weather notifications. Just 5 minutes ago on my smartwatch a notification popped up saying that rain was starting. It then started raining. There have been times when I have been outside not expecting rain, had my watch say "oh man rain's a-comin!" and then I looked around at the clear skies and said "nuhuh... I looked at the forecast today and there's no rain" but then I went inside to check on the computer again and it started raining.
While driving I can just ask: hey give me directions to the nearest gas station, and it will. No looking at screens required.
>With what risks?
None. There are literally zero risks. Evil Ruskie hackers could haxxor all of my data and know that I go to work every (non-quarantined) day and go to Safeway every Sunday afternoon, and it would not change or endanger my life in any way whatsoever. Anything they could do with the data, they can do without.
If your employer pays less than unemployment, or schedules employees for fewer hours than unemployment-- it is the problem, not the unemployment benefit.
People can still buy the book.
Independent researchers can get their copy from a library, or any other bookseller.
Amazon is not determining what information is available to the public.
On many aircraft those parts are left unpainted anyways.
If you picture a simple vehicle with teeny-tiny wheels on the front and big wheels on the back, and Old MacDonald in overalls and a straw hat on a bucket seat then no, out-of-control tractors aren't a huge problem.
Of course, none of the "tractors" like that are locked out.
If you picture a gargantuan technological wonder weighing tens of tons, guided by GPS, with robotic arms and machine-vision guided implements and and an enclosed, air conditioned cabin that is the size of Old MacDonald's "tractor" by itself, then yes it is.
The dirty little secret of the farm equipment "right to repair" movement is that "Old MacDonald" farmers don't want the right to modify their farm equipment so that they can fix things when they break-- large corporate farmers want access to software tools so they can strip out emissions equipment and safety features to more cheaply operate their machinery and they're funding a fake "grassroots" movement to try and get their wishes.
All of these locks started about 10 years ago, about 10 years into the fully-computerized phase of farm equipment. Farmers were chipping and otherwise modifying their vehicles to increase horsepower, lower fuel usage, enable "dirty fuel", and circumvent emissions warnings. Engines and turbos were blowing left and right and the dealers and manufacturers were left on the hook to pay for things because the farmers would pay for service contracts, chip their harvester to get 10-25 extra h.p., blow the engine, take off the chip, and then send it in for repair with a sheepish "oh geez I have no idea what happened LOL" look on their face.
So the manufacturers starting locking everything up.
Why do people think stripping Section 230 protections will make companies more likely to allow comments on their sites?
It will make them less likely.
Particularly from the segment of the population who thinks it is funny and appropriate to post "Michelle Obama is a male gorilla" memes.
This is exactly why the policy is needed.
If a baby is born with its spinal column outside of its body, a quivering mass of braindead flesh, unsustainable, destined for a slow and lingering death-- it should be terminated.
That is infanticide. Humane infanticide.
People going around yelling about "Ralph Northam endorsing infanticide" don't care about that. They don't care about the baby, and they CERTAINLY don't care about the mother.
They just want to stir up shit and get people yelling.
And because they assume that all people are as amoral (or immoral) as they are, people shouting about "infanticide" think that women are rushing to the doctor late in their third trimester to abort healthy babies for no good reason.
Berkeley: "Ok, we've freed our minds and want to focus on diversity. No Gods or Kings, Only Man amirite?"
Reason: "No, not like that."
Yes.
Basic human ability can only change over evolutionary timescales so that a human will always be fooled by a projected image until such time that they start ignoring suspected projected images and plowing into cars and people.
The software and hardware in the Tesla, and all self-driving platforms, can be constantly and iteratively updated to better detect spoofing attempts.
The House didn't sit on it. It has been undergoing the normal process. USMCA is replacing NAFTA. NAFTA took six years to negotiate and ratify.
So far, USMCA has taken about two.
The final negotiations weren't even finished until mid-December.
Mexico ratified the final version of USMCA last month after negotiations had ended, and Canada has yet to vote on it.
If anyone has been telling you that the House has been holding things up, they are either wrong or deliberately lying to you.
Ten trillion years of unending stellar-scale nuclear fusion could pass and less energy would have been released into the entire Universe than has been expended in one femtosecond as impotent rage by Stack Exchange contributors being "fired" and then complaining about it.
If Hacker News implemented a policy wherein I had to refer to everyone as "cutie pie" and I questioned it and then they nuked my account-- so what?
If you read the white paper, which apparently nobody else did, they say (paraphrased) "Look, this thing is online but we recognize that not everyone has a computer or cellphone so part of the system is a physical card like a debit card that poor people can use".
Even with cash, in the vast majority of cases you physically hand over the cash to someone you can see at a location you can return to. In the event of a transaction for physical goods at least you have the good in hand, and in the event of services thanks to government regulations most expensive services require licenses so you can later find the person who failed to perform the service you paid for in cash to your satisfaction. Also, one can create an actual, literal, "paper trail" by requesting a physical receipt-- one that serves as evidence of the exchange and would ideally contain contact information.
With your un-named payment system, can I do a "charge back" if I order some totally legit good or service from an unknown actor in an unknown location in the event of the non-delivery or fraud?
Also, no payment system that requires an internet-connected device (and a powerful one at that if no third parties with the ability to store and process large amounts of transaction data are involved) will ever, ever, despite the protestations of its acolytes, between now and the heat death of the universe, ever be able to serve the unbanked.
That why with the IVL part of the proposal is a physical card that can be used, if a patron is poor and unbanked and does not have an internet-connected device, to transact with the ledger via a trusted intermediary.
Because not only does my employer have unlimited PTO policy, it has a mandatory minimum PTO policy.
It also has a mandatory minimum duration PTO policy.
As an employee, I MUST take at least 20 working days off per year, and among that time off there must be AT LEAST 10 working days taken off in a row, measured Monday - Friday for two weeks.
And federal holidays don't count for those 20 working days (though they do count for the two week minimum).
If I want to take two days off to binge-watch Seinfeld, I mark Thursday and Friday as "off" in our company app and my manager swings by my office and says "How's Project-X going?" and I say "on schedule" and he taps "approve" on his phone and then we talk about how I'm just going to lay around in my boxers and watch Seinfeld for four days in a row.
Of course, he already knows that Project-X is on schedule because he's in Mattermost the same as I, he just happened to pass by on his way to the cafeteria and wanted to chat about his new OneWheel and how awesome it is.
If, in December, you have not met your quota of 20 working days off, they order you to not come in for the balance counted back from New Year's Eve, not counting Christmas Day, and that is non-negotiable. They even suspend your accounts for the last two weeks of the year if you haven't met your two week obligation.
I mean, I wouldn't re-write code to support hardware-accelerated video transcoding on Ryzen+GPU if I knew that in 2-3 years I was moving from x86-64 to ARM64.
>Given that Intel doesn’t have any processors (aside from the Stratix 10 FPGAs) that support the PCIe 4.0 interface, the developers obviously don't have access to an Intel-driven test platform with the new interface
Beyond that, Stratix 10 is "shipping" in the sense that low-volume samples are being distributed to large partners, but it is practically impossible for anyone to buy a Stratix 10 in any formfactor other than dev kits.
And the non-$10,000 dev kits don't have PCIe 4.0.
The article is obviously about the lag Intel is experiencing with getting PCIe 4.0-capable products to the larger market.
You can get Zen 2 and POWER systems with PCIe 4.0 today, and it is highly likely that ARM-based motherboards supporting PCIe 4.0 will be available on the general market for actual purchase before Intel releases something.
One-offs, samples, test gear, and dev kits don't "count".
If they did, then PCIe 4.0 was first "available" in early 2016 because engineers got their first PLDA dev kits which allowed them to start prototyping their designs.
The board of utilities says that as a regulated monopoly I have to provide power to every parcel within the regulated area.
I charge more than the average cost+ rate so that, on the whole, the denser areas that require less infrastructure can subsidize the less dense rural areas where individuals may require kilometers of dedicated transmission line to service their location.
But you come along and charge less (or give power away), but you only do so in areas where it is either profitable or minimally loss-making.
>but Spooner dropped his rates even lower -- delivering many letters for free.
And you don't do this to run a competing enterprise, but to make a socio-economic/political point.
So all of my customers in the limited areas that you serve, naturally, switch to you.
But the areas you choose to serve, the densely-populated ones, are the areas that I need to fulfill my mission of delivering electricity to everyone.
No longer able to subsidize sparsely-populated areas, I either have to raise rates or give up.
"Well that's just the free market" is baloney. A utility's purpose is to serve its population.
A mail service's purpose is to deliver letters to everyone.
In countries where postal service is "privatized" there is still only one letter delivery service-- it's just run by a board instead of the government.
And those "privatized" postal services still have a universal service mandate, required by the law that privatized the formally nationalized entities.
As an aside, the UK's Royal Mail was privatized a couple of years ago. It was sold off at bargain-basement prices, ripping off the taxpayers, to investors who just happened, coincidentally, to be donors to politicians who were in charge at the time. Its "universal service" mandate expires next year.
We'll see how the FrEe MaRkEt handles universal service when not forced to by law.
The American Letter Mail Company wasn't competition. It was a vanity project launched for political purposes that wasn't even in the same game as the USPO, much less in competition with it.
Perhaps racism isn't the right descriptor.
Japan has a caste system that puts India's to shame. It's smaller in the number of people living in the lower tiers, but the effects are amplified to a high degree.
At least India puts some effort, futile or not, into forcing representation for its untouchables.
In Japan, a member of the untouchable caste is actual, literal, human garbage especially in the western parts of the country.
It is illegal for parents to investigate the background of their children's potential marriage partners in order to determine if they are a member of an untouchable caste.
Investigations still occur regularly.
Anyone who claims that it is not still a problem is either lying, or is a Japan-obsessed foreigner whose impressions of the country are based on a weeklong trip to Tokyo.
I'm willing to bet that many of the children refusing to go to school are those with the "wrong" family name.
Not only that, but the ancient proto-corporations were not partners with government, they were governments.
For about 20 years, the Mississippi Company was worth between $5-7 trillion, adjusted for inflation. That's about 6 Microsofts, and at the time of the Mississippi Company there were many chartered trading companies that ruled over their dominions with iron fists. Microsoft doesn't have a private army.
How did puny little Microsoft/Google/Apple/BP/GE/Chase/whoever/whatever "end" the class war when Standard Oil did not?
The first steps are being taken today with similar systems for automated drug discovery, and the same amount of effort should be thrown into genetic research.
Not only do I want my DNA in a database making up a genetic version of DigitalCorpora.org, freely available to researchers (commercial and non-profit alike), I also want it available to law enforcement so that when a familial match pops up for a sample in a rape kit or crime scene they can catch the person.
If a critical mass of genetic information could be gathered and sufficient computing power thrown at it, live-saving discoveries could become so routine they aren't even reported on anymore.
I am excited, too.
How much for a live passenger pigeon?
Whenever I don't have a choice, they disappoint me.
Just last week, I had a Fedex shipment that was late. One of the reasons it was late was that it passed through almost two dozen Fedex locations.
Seven in three days.
My package spent three days traveling from Coal City, IL (9:11am 11-Dec) to Swatara Township, PA, (10:59pm 13-Dec) a distance of 741 miles, on an EPIC UNFORGETTABLE 12-day adventure on its route from California to Maryland.
61.75 hours to travel 741 miles is an average speed of 12 mph.
Just a taste of the epic journey: https://i.imgur.com/C0NlH9K.png
Anecdotes are nice but this happens so frequently I've given up on Fedex and will only use them as a last resort.
I live in an area where Amazon Prime delivery is so fast that I swear that sometimes they deliver the damned thing I order before I actually order it.
They're quote quotes.
The BBC follows a journalistic style guide that requires the use of quotes when directly quoting someone else when the attribution is not clear.
That makes it easier to determine, when reading an article, if the substance of an article is based on a journalist's own research and observations or those of another.
It is actually the right way to do things.
BBC News style guide: https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307021121335...