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Comment Make it cost to post (Score 1) 62

Make it expensive in some way for companies to post job offers. Make it expensive for them to respond in a way indicating they are moving forward in someway with a candidate. It doesn't have to be very expensive but it must hurt a tiny bit. It is the zero cost that allows spam to flourish. It is the zero cost and total lack of consequence that allows ghost job postings to flourish.

Comment I get my electricity from an outlet (Score 1) 169

Most people can get all the electricity from a standard 120v 15amp outlet.

I work in the electrical industry and we have a joke about power distribution "I get my power from a 120v outlet". We have shirts and bumper stickers with it. It means most people are totally ignorant of how the power is distributed. An apartment building does not have enough power for everyone to use all their appliances at the same time. We count on everyone not using them all at the same time. A building max power is 4-10amps per unit on average. You cannot give 20% of the people the ability to consume an additional 10amps more power starting when they get home from work. At 6pm your building will fairly often exceed 80% of it's current draw. Assume a building with lots of medium end bachelor apartments in a place without AC and 100 units. It might be 600amps at 240v service to the building. If 20% of the people pull 10amps at 120v that's 100 more amps. You are now over 90% of capacity. I don't like that margin. That's less than a Friday night where people all shower and turn on their hair driers or some other fluke synchronization of human behavior away from blowing the circuit for the entire building.

Comment summary - multicellular needs a good advantage (Score 2) 42

The most prevalent theory on multi cellular life is that it required high levels of oxygen because multi cellular organisms have less surface area, so to have a similar metabolism to free floating cells they need the higher energy gradient oxygen provides. It is currently thought that, in a low oxygen environment, the decrease in metabolism outweighs any benefit primitive multicellular organisms could possibly gain. The authors are proposing that multicellular life started before the end of the great Snowball earth and that it was the benefit of cooperation in a viscous fluid was sufficient to sacrifice the problems like lower metabolism that come with being multicellular.
Clearly multicellular organisms today have lots of advantages but for evolution to work every step along the way has to be advantageous. The big debate is what is the earliest advantage.

Comment building chargers - its the total building current (Score 2) 169

It isn't the physical charger it's everyone arriving home at 6pm and plugging into a 60amp 240V charger. High end buildings in North America have 10 amps per unit (22 100w light bulbs). It can be as low as 4amps. Yes, a unit can draw 30amps as long as 4 other units are only drawing 5 amps. A hundred unit building could have only 1000amp service. 9 chargers would draw over half the buildings current.

Comment Venus is the goal, Mars is a distraction (Score 1) 278

A floating ship in the Venetian atmosphere is far more habitable than Mars will ever be. An airship filled with breathable air will float in Venus's atmosphere at 50km above the surface where the temperature is 23C and the air pressure is one earth atmosphere. The atmosphere outside the balloon contains all the main chemicals for life and everything you need to make plastics. Solar panels would get 4 times the energy they do on earth and the Venetian atmosphere bellow your airship is so reflective you can put solar panels under your ship. The Venetian day is so long that a small amount of propulsion would allow you to always stay on the day side of the planet. Transit times between Venus and Earth are also faster and more plentiful. On Venus there is no need for radiation shielding. Holes in your balloon are not fatal. The gas on both sides is at the same pressure so there would only be diffusion through the holes. The Venetian atmosphere is corrosive to many materials but it isn't toxic like Martian dust so to leave the inside of the airship you don't need a pressure suite or anything much more fancy than an airtight hazmat suit and you can just be showered off on reentry. The two main issues with Venus are the difficulty of putting any robots on the surface for any length of time and the fact the delta V to orbit is almost as high as Earth's. Mars on the other hand is toxic, near zero pressure, radiated and cold. Venus is orders of magnitude easier to colonize.

Comment Its the distribution of consumption (Score 1) 148

It isn't about wealth or income it is about how much money each individual has for their own consumption. We as a society decided that people should be able to retire around 60 and keep consuming as if they were working. We as a society created large numbers of fairly useless government jobs, we also created subsidizes for unproductive regions and industries in our countries. Many societies created universal healthcare that is largely consumed by the elderly. We created full time work with benefits, benefits that help the old and less healthy. We created equal pay for women laws that don't consider risk, physical labor or difference in the sexes aptitudes for different work that has penalized men in general and specific industries like construction. We decided that houses should be an investment and blocked new housing where jobs are and restricted the economic mobility of each new generation.
We as a society might make more per person than ever but the amount that we are making that goes to young people and young men in particular is significantly lower than it was two generations ago. Young people don't have stable housing, the certainly don't have stable jobs and when they are done commuting to back to their small home they certainly don't have the left over time or money to create an environment for raising a family.

Comment Dress codes are needed (Score 3, Insightful) 103

There is always a need for a dress code. Do players need to wear shirts or can they be topless? How distracting can an outfit be? What about logos or advertisements? FIDE has an image they want to project, do they not have a right to enforce it? As for jeans, their image has evolved. I don't think players wearing jeans detracts from FIDE's image. I think FIDE just didn't update the dress code because policy changes, where everyone has an opinion, are so hard to change.

Comment Not employees (Score 0) 37

This has been discussed by the courts and the voters of California. Just because you think they should be employees doesn't magically make it so.
Just because you think employers are responsible for paying a living wage doesn't make it so.
Just because you want your employer to give you full time benefits like healthcare, vacation days and sick leave doesn't mean you get those
In fact all those things are against your interests!
Contract vs Employee is about control - Lyft workers set their own hours, use their own tools and can work for Uber. Compare that to most government contract workers.
Paying a living wage really means paying for the lavish retirement of the boomers who have restricted the housing supply to make themselves wealthy.
Full time benefits are a tax dodge and a transfer of income from younger healthier workers to older less healthy ones.
Your pay is what you negotiate in a fair contract, you benefits are what you negotiate. How many hours you work, where you work and what tools you use should not decide what you can negotiate for. This should all be clear and up front so you the worker can compare jobs. If only one employer is willing to hire you that's not the employers problem
Promises of future benefits are also a transfer of income from the young to the old. Things like an extra week of vacation after 5 years or the promise of consideration for a promotion if you work 70 hour weeks are bulls#!t

Comment Proof you can't store electricity economically (Score 0) 135

The maintenance/cost per cycle of any current storage system is too high to profitably store electricity. You can't get any more proof than this*. If greedy corporations can't make a profit when they are paid to take the electricity then the technology is just not up to the task yet. If you want to use unreliable renewables you have to stop subsidizing their power when the spot price is negative. You have to get demand to match supply by doing things like letting rich** people agree to pay the spot price for electricity and stop using dammed hydro for baseload. We see the spot price of electricity go negative regularly in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario and we see the spot price in many parts of North America yearly reaching $7/kwh. It is miss management by the public utility regulators with the encouragement of the "Environmentalists". As someone who has worked in this field for 15 years, my guess is the delusions of the so called environmentalists are responsible for 80 to 90% of the current green house gas emissions from electricity generation.

* technically all that matters is the absolute price difference, but this is the best proof for people bad at math, aka environmentalist.

**as Texas showed, it is "unfair" to allow poor people the choice to pay the spot price and then enforce the contract.

Comment x509 certs are already insecure - attack vector (Score 1) 31

x509 certs are written in ASN1. ASN1 is like (type, length, value) triplets on steroids. They are nested many layers deep and the length value can be set to variable. Most people think parsing them is straight forward but if the lengths of the nested elements don't match the length of the parent's most parsers have at least one instance where they won't catch the problem. Worse, for well crafted ASN1, this can be exploited such that different parsers will parse it differently. This means I can submit a certificate for a certificate authority (CA) to sign that that CA thinks is for an entity I control but which some browsers might parse as giving me access to VALUABLE_TARGET.com.

Comment Tuya is zigbee (Score 1) 53

The zigbee aliance err connectivitiy standards alliance (CSA) did such a terrible job marketing and supporting zigbee I don't t think many companies admit that that's what their products are using. Unfortunately zigbee works much better than all the rest. And CSA now controls z-wave, Thread and Matter so they can drag all those down. Wait, they already started with all the bloat to Matter and screwing up the perfectly good Thread method of getting on the network. The CSA also screws any small or medium device makers by deprecating standards or promising something new a shiny if you wait for the next version. I wish StarFlash/NearLink the best of luck.

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