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Comment Re:I think it is a shame.. (Score 1) 53

Then your hands are just as dirty.

Problem is people won't stop trying to kill you, take your stuff and destroy your culture and way of life just because you don't happen to like it. Do you also criticise Ukrainians developing new munitions to repel Putin's troops?

If not where do you draw the line?

Comment Maybe Re:smart! (Score 1) 226

Canada should do this with their temporary foreign worker program. I predict employers would magically start hiring from the domestic pool of available workers and at competitive wages.

That's one possibility. Another is that the companies will offshore the labor. Another is that they will simply shut down that part of their business because it's no longer economical.

That said, some jobs simply must be done and they must be done locally or in-country for an economy to funciton. If you don't grow your own food, someone has to transport it from the farm to your table. Some medical work simply must be done where the patient is. If you have roads, then repair crews must be local. Anything dealing with highly-classified/state-secret material should be done by loyal citizens of that country and, where possible, in the country itself.

You get the idea.

But most other jobs are vulnerable to either offshoring-to-cheaper-labor and/or we-can-do-without-it if local/domestic labor is too expensive.

Comment Re:Read the Text (Score 1) 90

Well, shit. My phone are my reply which was quite long. So sorry my second go will be worse.

The EMF requirement is yours not mine. I don't see why an emf of 0 is a problem. Just a special case of complex impedances. But given your requirement capacitors fit.
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I've also never heard the term "series loop" before, and that only holds for a pair. What would you call it work 3, 4,5 or more capacitors connected how I specified as parallel?

When you say"no it only behaves that way", that's what I was talking about. A paralleled set of capacitors can be plugged in and behaves as one capacitor too am external circuit. Circulating currents or not ate part of that. A parallel R And C behave as a single complex Z externally, and certainly have circulating currents even in the ideal case.

As for describing it with a single capacitor, this is where pedantry falls because it goes all the way down.You can't describe a single real capacitor as an an ideal point lumped element. So one night as well say "good luck describing any real capacitor as a single capacitor". To preclude one and not the other you have to pick a very specific level of approximation to make your definition of parallel.

Though this of course is where the OPs answer comes from. A pair of ideal capacitors connected in parallel is a single capacitor. The ideal model doesn't work for only having the left half of a capacitor charged in isolation. Or alternatively implies infinite currents. But since it's not ideal...

Imagine you have R, C on series with a battery. R charges C too 10V and then C2 is connected in parallel with C. You are I presume on with that. Now let R get very large. At some point, say 10^12 ohms, it becomes indistinguishable from a cut wire. So at what point does it become not parallel?

On to the switches. I have a DC powered device with some input filtering, namely a couple of capacitors in a series loop with the pair of those forming a series loop with the rest of the circuit. Is that how I should describe it when off? I can assure you any EE would look at me like I had sprouted an extra head of I said that when the circuit was off, and parallel when on. It's the same circuit diagram after all!

Comment Re:200 million angry, single disaffected young men (Score 1) 103

I think for all his faults, Xi does genuinely hate poverty and desire to lift people out of if. Maybe it's for selfish reasons like cementing his place in Chinese history, I have no way of knowing, but he is succeeding at it. His methods can be extreme of course, amounting to genocide in some cases, but the fascists got the trains running on time...

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 242

But if you are using it as a dumb TV then why do you need the interface? All you need is to change channels and inputs, and maybe the volume (I use my Nvidia Shield remote for that via CEC). I barely ever touch my TV's remove.

As for the lag, it depends on the model. The older and cheaper ones are bad, the newer ones are fine. I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

Comment Re:Two letters: (Score 1) 113

But also failure to deploy renewables faster enough. This week we have had two periods of free electricity due to the abundance of renewables. The things keeping retail prices high are mostly gas and a bit of nuclear. Our system works on the basis that everyone gets paid the price of the most expensive source, which is always gas or nuclear (we don't have any coal).

Another example of NIMBYism making things worse for everyone. Every objection to renewables is forcing prices to remain high.

Comment Re:lol, no thanks (Score 1) 26

Tesla started doing it, now everyone is at it. At least with Xiaomi they don't change the behaviour of the system unless it's actually broken. It's not like Tesla were one week it does a stretch of road perfectly and lulls you into a false sense of security, then the next week it's broken and you die in a firey wreck.

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