Excuse me while I hijack this comment.

You should QUIT while you can. Start you own business while you are able to live with your parents, sleep in a car, eat beans and rice, etc.

If you wait until you have a spouse and kids, you are locked in. Your options become limited.

Also, LISTEN when you are told to start a retirement account NOW. Don't wait even a month.

If you are not the entrepreneurial type then get your attitude adjusted. You are part of a team and not just some cog. It's easy to think that but you'd be surprised at what happens when you stop thinking that and act like a team member. People start coming to you, relying on you, and you start getting promoted. Don't sit in your cubical and bitch and moan. If your environment that precludes that, then find another environment. You've already decided that you are not going to work for yourself so find the best people to work for.

Yea, managed by assholes like that ... Knowing how they already treat their employees/drivers ...

They didn't get top researchers, that got the idiots to stupid to realize how much your fucking yourself over by willingly going to work for Uber.

Are you really that stupid? You think leaving a stable Uni to go work for "the most punchable management shit weasels" is a smart plan? You think they'll follow through on all their promises and standard social contracts for these guys ... But otherwise will shit on all the rest of society world wide?

There's a VERY solid chance uber won't exist in a couple years when governments finally get tired of their bullshit and fine them into oblivion ... At which point your just fucked because everyone else in your field knows about the morons who jumped ship for a big paycheck at a really shitty company.

Who would have thought having trees, shrubs and other natural barriers between an airport and the people would reduce noise levels?

It's as if clear cutting was found not to work.

Who thinks that? People that have never studied noise abatement and think their cleverness is enough to allow them to intuit the science.

Trees and shrubs do very little. A thorough study from the state of Virginia showed

No matter how the sites were examined, there was no measurable difference in road noise. All differences at the more distant measurement locations were due simply to the distance effect rather than to any additional mitigating effects of trees, whether measured by planting density, age, height, or average tree diameter.

Give it up AC, we know who you are

Sounds like it's pretty much a transponder in an airplane.

I wonder why they are even logging this information?

Let me drop a 2 pound drone on your head from just 10 feet above you.

IF you survive it is unlikely you'll make such ignorant statements ever again, and I'm not even talking about loading it up with ordinance or even simply flying into you at high speed.

It's is trivial for a 2 pound drone to kill you by accident, all it takes is the most minimal effort to do it intentionally.

No, it doesn't.

DC is in fact absolutely shitty for long hauls, and that is in fact why we use AC.

Power plants run alternators at specific RPMs intentionally to produce AC. There are no American hydro power generation stations using DC. That would be stupid. Every single one of them uses 3600 hertz multiphase output, one of those phases will give you 60hz AC.

The parasitic losses of DC over long distance is reason enough that it's not done, when you couple in the fact that it HAS TO BE AC in order to do any sort of reasonably efficient voltage conversion just seals the deal.

It's used in SHORT haul international interconnects when each side uses different frequencies for their grid OR when they don't want to stay phase synced.

DC is stupid for normal people for anything other than the last leg, like between your Wallwart and device.

There are three ways to cut down DC voltage: convert to AC and use a transformer, use PWM and large capacitor bank to smooth it back to DC... Or resistive and essentially turn the extra voltage into waste heat. All of those suck, the last most of all, but also the one that can handle large loads best.

There is one way to boost DC voltage. Convert it to AC, or at least half wave AC and use a transformer.

Heh I should have read your whole post before replying to the first line, but let me pick you apart in another one instead.

Absolutely wrong. The first thing most power supplies do is step down from high voltage AC to something in the general range of whats needed on the highest output value. They step down with a transformer. That transformer only works with AC, if you put DC in it, you're just going to burn it up as it turns into a magnet carrying more current (because its not AC, so the there is no inductive resistance, so there is more current). Please don't give anyone advice on electricity. Ever.

... You do realize those batteries you're referring to are actually made up of a bunch of smaller batteries right? There is no single cell at 200v. You aren't charging one 200v batter, you're charging a handful of 12v batteries that you're just blissfully ignorant of.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The conversion from DC to AC is THE BIGGEST LOSS in the inverters you're referring to. The actual transformer itself is pretty damn efficient if designed properly. Dealing with high voltage DC is extremely dangerous. It ARCs over distances that AC won't. You can put 200v AC traces on a circuit board with little space between them. Do the same thing with the same DC voltage and the board is going to randomly arc all over itself.

The first part is true, larger wires are better for lower current loss. The rest of this is false. DC has different properties than AC. Insulators, wire spacing, and load will behave differently at 200v AC versus DC. You CAN NOT use the same wiring unless you want to burn the building down. Please don't ever tell people anything about electrical wiring, you're going to get someone killed.

The rest of your post is pretty much factually incorrect in everyway as well, but I'm tired of pointing out how little you seem to know about the subject. Again, please stop trying to tell people things like this, its fraking dangerous and people could die from this ignorance.

No, we don't.

120v AC will kick you off of it if you touch exposed wires.

120v DC will cause you to clamp down if you grab onto a wire or device that electrocutes you, and worse still, it'll kill you at much lower voltages than AC.

On that alone, HVDC is stupid in the home.

Thats ignoring things like how circuit breakers and switches behave under DC verses AC.

AC has a ridiculous number of safety advantages that are not present in DC, which is why you RARELY see high voltage DC.

Couple in the resistive losses of DC and HVDC suddenly looks really stupid to anyone with a clue.

Did you seriously just use a list of tabloids as an example of 'fooling millions'?

If so, you must have been born yesterday since tabloids aren't exactly new and are in fact designed around 'fooling millions' on a daily basis.

Just because they print a lot doesn't mean they're reputable news sources.

Oh, and by the way, Katie Holmes is an alien. She didn't used to be, but Tom Cruise has her DNA manipulated by Xenu so now she's like the chick from Species. Its all over the cover of Daily Star.

Its like you guys thought that line in MiB where he says all the best news comes from tabloids wasn't fictional. You know MiB was just a movie too, right?

Getting 1500 watts out of 12 volts DC is WAY more dangerous than 1500 watts from 120 AC, by an order of magnitude.
1500w @15v == 100 amps. That means all your in home wiring would need to be ATLEAST 6 gauge wire to be able to carry the current, more likely its going to be 4
gauge wire, and its STILL GOING TO GET HOT.

At just 100 watts, you know, like a high powered light bulb, thats STILL 10 amps, which requires AT LEAST 10 gauge wire ... when most homes are wired with 12 or even 14 gauge!

We're not going to design homes around the Tesla charger and charging our iPhones, we're going to design it around our fridge, microwave, washer and dryer, and air-conditioning.

This entire article is stupid. The conversion losses are nothing compared to the resistive losses from carrying 10 or 100 amps across the wire, even only a 100 feet or so in your home.

I have several 3000 watt devices in my home, which is FILLED with 100 watt light bulbs. In the real world, this shit won't fly.

What it really forbids is the transfer of information or objects through space at a speed greater than that of light in a vacuum.

What was the point of all this? Did anyone ever express an interest in FTL that did not include information or objects?

I want the last 5 minutes back please.

Oracle must have contributed to the right Administration official.

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Are you trying to be cute or just ignorant and talking out your ass?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Specifically

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

I.E. Silica is the naturally occurring thing that gets refined into silicon for the substrate.

... CPUs are small enough that they don't need to be flexable, the CPU is not that big hunk of a thing you pull out of the socket, thats the package, and it has to be big and string to hold all those pins or balls in the right place under the pressure of the lock on the socket. The CPU is a little chip inside of there with wires connected to it so small that you can't see them without good vision or assistance.

Also, silica doesn't require or create toxic chemicals by working with it, had you bothered to read my statement, you'd see that its the doping agents that make the silica actually do something other than not conduct electricity that come with all the toxic effects.