The article mentioned that this was meant for places off the grid, so I'd assume they're using something like solar to charge the cells.

If that's the case, then there's nothing really wasted, since the sun will shine anyway.

Back in the 1980s it occupied a more unique space, offering what seemed to be much more of true centrist position, equally critical of the left and the right. At some point it seemed to slide from that position into a more left wing position and losing the intelligence that the center gave it.

But it's not alone, the National Review has crapped out, too, becoming the print edition of Fox News with a little sophomore-level pseudo intellectualisn sprinkled on top after the death of Buckley.

The reduction in hours is exactly what France did several years ago in an attempt to decrease unemployment and it didn't work. The comment about reductions in hours not increasing unemployment was related to the French experience.

I still think the cost factor for hiring more employees vs. paying overtime is still cheaper for overtime. I think there are a lot aspects in finding and training employees that have second order effects (like, draining a manager's time from management tasks) which have costs associated with them that are hard to measure.

It may work in some simple labor environments and in some specific kinds of firms have a labor structure built around temporary and seasonal labor but it's much harder in white collar environment like IT.

And when it's done, it's very expensive. I work for an IT consultancy -- we're far from "high end" so it's not unusual that when we are called in for a project it's less about the specialized knowledge involved and more about the on site IT not having the time to do the project. But we often bill $180/hr for 40-50 hour projects -- that's more than double (maybe triple even) the overtime pay the onsite would people get if they just worked "overtime" on the project.

I work as an IT consultant and it's less about total hours than when those hours are. I would rather have 50 hours in a 5 day week if they are contiguous hours than 40 hours during a work week with only 5 extra hours thrown in at random all hours of the night and weekend.

It's chaotic scheduling and short, just-enough-to-ruin-my-time-off hours that's more annoying than extra hours.

And I remember this quote which is apocryphally attributed to Soviet-era workers:

"They can never pay me less than I can work."

I think economists have debunked the idea that working hours are zero sum and that reducing them (eg, to 35 hours a week from 40) gets you more jobs.

I would assume it would be much cheaper to pay 1.5x for extra time than to hire more employees. More employees means benefits and additional work resources (desks, phones, computers, office space, supervisory time, etc).

I think the blue collar OT incentives are mostly about low pay to begin with -- they don't make much money to begin with, so the OT is seen as welcome additional income. With otherwise well-paid white collar workers, there would be less of an incentive but that's highly individual -- I'm sure there are many people with kids in college, people that want a new car, etc would love the extra pay.

I think you're right, but with nickel-iron batteries space becomes an issue with the capacities and output power you want for a single family household.

What does 75 kWh of nickel-iron batteries look like and can you draw 10kW peak from them?

Lame duck sessions are the ideal time to get controversial bills passed. Lame ducks can vote on anything they want without giving a shit about constituents, contributions, or their caucus. They can vote their conscience, such as it is, without any concerns of political liability. He might get enough lame duck support to create a groundswell of support plus the public PR necessary to sway returning legislators who were otherwise on the fence or even opposed.

He's also taking advantage of the (at least as of today, until the next batch of nude celebrities comes out) the current wave of unpopularity with law enforcement generally. "A child will die" is laughable in most cases, but it's possible that right now many people might look at that and say "Yeah, when you choke them or shoot them for writing on the sidewalk with chalk." Sympathy for the police isn't real high right now.

The primary downsides are the length of the lame duck session and the lame ducks who don't bother showing up for roll calls. The session length can be mitigated by lame duck support that moves the bill forward enough that it can be easily resurrected in the next session without starting all over again.

What's the math to be applied to LBAs? How big is an LBA? A 512 byte sector?

My nearly 4 year old Samsung shows just under 2 TB written if I multiply the SMART-provided Total LBAs written against a 512 byte block.

AFAIK, most cars have a reserve quantity that goes below the gauge's calibrated "empty" level. I'd suppose it's to allow for a few extra miles once you hit E but may just be to motivate you to fill up again before you put all the crud/water/etc that is at the bottom of the tank once you get near empty.

Maybe batteries should work like this -- have an extra 10-20% of charge beyond the 0% charge level. It could both keep you from going dead and maybe protect the battery from whatever wear occurs at the extreme end of the discharge cycle.

Of course the downside would be you'd actually have to *have* 10-20% more battery to get 10-20% more battery but since that won't happen we'd get a battery gauge that just shorted us by 20%.

Wouldn't it help if you moved the trigger percentage up to some higher value, maybe even as high as 66%? That way you cut the drain before your battery is at some critical level and can use the rest of the battery more sparingly. I agree that at 20% or some other low value it's too late.

Wouldn't rate of drain need to be combined with battery remaining? At 99% battery, I might not care about high drain levels because I'm so close to a full charge. At 66% it might start to matter.

I'm also curious how the drain rate is accounted for -- is it just the wattage consumption of battery, or do you filter it by source so that you exclude high wattage components like the screen and backlighting?

You're really going to argue that after the Hobby Lobby case?

Because almost everyone who opposes abortion is almost never in favor of cheap, easy and widely available contraception, sex education that's not abstinence or welfare benefits to support all these seemingly valuable babies that MUST get born. I won't even include the handful who take it a step further and think that sexual assault, the health of the mother or severe birth defects aren't acceptable justifications, either.

What possible reason can you have for opposing abortion AND contraception AND sex education AND the welfare of these unplanned families if not for creating an existential threat to women for engaging in sexual intercourse?

The EASIEST way to prevent abortions is contraception and education yet you almost NEVER hear of someone who is stridently opposed to abortion who is also a strident advocate of contraception and sex education. The only person I can think of like this is (ironically) my own mother-in-law who is a 3-day-a-week Catholic yet also advocated for and ran the low-cost contraceptive clinic in her North Dakota town.

How is abortion still an issue? Who are these people that lay awake at night worrying about whether someone will have an abortion?

In a historical way, I can see why it might have been agitating in pre-sexual revolution era (since it was probably always less about dead babies than keeping some kind of existential threat of pregnancy as a way to limit women's sexuality), but now? Do they think making abortion illegal now is going to actually change sexual behavior or have any kind of cultural impact?

I'm beginning to think that there basically is no security on the Internet. What security there is is a facade only.

Cops are trained to hit center of mass. Most handgun fights are within 10 feet and over within seconds. You don't have time to overthink "Should I wound him or kill him?"

If you tried for a wounding shot like the legs or arms, you'd likely miss. And even if you shot to wound and hit their legs, who's saying you wouldn't hit the femoral artery and have them bleed out faster than an ambulance could get there?

The rest is just tl;dr. The cops collectively are out of control with their authoritarianism, civil forfeiture and paramilitary fetishism but I feel some sympathy for most of them individually because it's an impossible job to begin with and made worse when every action is put under a PC microscope and second guessed by people who have never even done a ride along let alone done the job.

And the black community has to quit with both the victimhood and the total denial of the road warrior lifestyle in "the community". Racism can't explain bulk importing Mexicans by the millions to do jobs blacks won't do. Tell me why racists won't hire a black guy to roof houses or work in a kitchen but they will hire Mexicans who are at best marginally literate in Spanish and most likely completely illiterate in English.