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There's an account bucket limit, so you'd need to create a huge number of AWS accounts with no immediate benefit.
> Note that the calculation of Bernoulli numbers can be done in several ways, one of which requires knowing π with good precision
This seems to be the catch.
It's one thing to use a medium that is being abused by malicious actors; it's another to be on a medium that suffers constant drama fostered by an owner and CEO who spends his days vocalizing an imprecise understanding of civil rights and his contempt for his customers.
Negativity aside, the article makes fair arguments against setting expectations for rail speed too high. The thing is, trains do not have to be faster than 300kph/185mph to compete with planes.
Modern trains are infinitely more comfortable than modern planes, so they do not need to match planes in travel times. A modern train features silent travel, ample leg room, unpressurized air and no seat belts. Reliability is key and that does require infrastructure investment.
Rail infrastructure will always require subsidies but the costs do not have to be astronomical. Meanwhile, the cost of air traffic emissions are carried by society, which can't go on much longer.
Of course going over the handlebars is possible with a cargo bike. The cyclist will hit the cargo area before they hit the pavement, which makes these situations no less dangerous.
The article highlights JAX as a framework to watch in several places.
From Wikipedia:
> Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or use for food preparation.
40-50L per day would seem to about cover one person's essential uses of potable water.
They will be able to recycle batteries, but that's not where much of their current order volume or materials come from. The article is a word salad that conflates a series of unrelated points.
The more accurate scenario is one where they drop everything and rapidly switched to synthetic fuels and chemicals from solar, which initially would be prohibitively expensive. Would they do that, they wouldn't sell anything as they would bankrupt their customers, lest they ate some of the costs themselves until their customers had time to adjust. That scenario, while still being hyperbolic, is in essence what we need to see. Big Oil needs to shrink; their prices need to cover the cost to society, their products need to be used less and they need to spend a whole lot of money on cleaning up their mess.
I mean it's one Kubernetes cluster. What could it cost? 300 dollars?
Who is to say that other vaccines don't have the same side-effect? That could especially be assumed of the other viral vector vaccines, so Johnson & Johnson, Sputnik and CanSino, none of which have received much scrutiny so far.
Even if the mRNA vaccines are safe, we depend on J&J and AZ doses for our reopening plans in Europe. We can expect economic damage from any wait for alternative vaccine doses.
The numbers are three healthcare workers out of 120,000 vaccinated in Norway, with one death, so the risk is 1 in 40,000 from what we know.
On top of that we can speculate that healthcare workers are more likely to seek treatment than the average vaccine recipient and they are healthy adults of average age.
Other than the oft-mentioned risks of nuclear, it is (1) not as cheap as you think and (2) not straightforward to maintain in a warming environment.
1. Nuclear power is far more expensive than renewables, due to the high costs for construction and dismantling. This does not dismiss your argument, because running a nuclear power plant is fairly cheap. The costs therefore speak towards keeping nuclear power plants running as long as they remain safe.
2. Existing nuclear power plants use huge quantities of fresh water for cooling. The required water quantity and temperature make nuclear power plants prone to droughts, which can cause shutdowns, and to flooding events, which can shut down or damage the plant. Both droughts and floods are increasing in frequency due to climate change. This speaks towards closing down power plants that are particularly vulnerable. In any case, grid operators need to be able to mitigate nuclear power plant outages. The cost of nuclear power is even less attractive when overcapacity is needed to accommodate potential outages.
You can provide the reason for your decision. If you routinely evaluate driving tests, you will have based your decision on factors that you have applied without bias.
And if you feel so inclined, you can express your understanding to that person who feels that they have been wronged because of their background. Chances are they have been right far more often than they have been wrong and it's very stressful having to deal with an ever-present potential for unprovoked adversity.
It should be a very small burden on you to acknowledge their situation.
To return to the topic, Coinbase doesn't lose a breath acknowledging their Black employees who did file complaints. If they had any sympathy for these employees — which they should have even if they were not wronged for being Black — why didn't they express it in the statement?
There's an ambition to integrate the huge European market with HVDC lines, which should allow excess capacity to be shared more efficiently.
I believe the subtext here is that Spain should use this as an opportunity to decide whether they should shift time zones altogether.
The law says that the fines should be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive". That gives companies ample room to challenge a fine that is way out of proportion to the damages caused to their users.
The "Genetic Literacy Project" is funded by a right-wing religious foundation that mixes religion and science to advance theological opinions.
If you open the original Guardian article, you have to look no further than the third paragraph to read why the EU concluded that the previous ban was not enough.
At least watered up chicken has to be labeled in the EU. Battery cages have been banned since 2012.
Can't comment on the gateway, gRPC for Python is definitely half-baked though. gRPC is great; the tooling is not. Google seems to only be updating whatever parts of gRPC they use internally. Everything else is practically unusable. While that is fair from Google's standpoint, it really hurts adoption.
Wikileaks is compromised. The source of the leaks is beside the point. Their communications on Twitter over the past year or so leave absolutely no doubt that they are willing to bend the truth to support the Russian agenda. Everything Wikileaks and Assange have written on Twitter has been pure unadulterated garbage since the days of the presidential primaries.
Here in Copenhagen we have a car sharing service called Greenmobility that offers 45 hours of driving for about $190 a month. Electricity, insurance and city-wide parking fees are included and 45 hours a month are sufficient for commuting.
The cost of owning a car would be at least thrice what this service costs. A loan on a new car starts at almost $400 a month. The electricity alone would cost a private individual around $100.
The inconvenience of having to find a car and being unable to keep it for extended periods is real and may be enough reason for many to want to own a self-driving car, but the cost of owning is certainly higher.
Is the Zoe sold in the U.S.? The pricing seems similar and it doesn't look too bad.
We're at ECMAScript 2017 now. The author is one version behind.
New capacity can be wind and solar, which is getting cheaper than conventional power in a lot of places.
From my experience, statically typed Python is quite a bit slower to write. It pays off for modules that see a lot of use in the codebase, but typing every bit of code can be a lot of work for little gain.
The cap, for one, would involve closing the borders, so we're talking about a cap of around 0 of people seeking asylum. A cap on immigration violates human rights law. Children of migrants born in Germany would not get German citizenship under the AfD program. EU citizens would be excluded from the social benefits that German citizens receive in Germany and other EU countries. That would also be unconstitutional.
Of course, having positions that violate present law does not necessarily imply xenophobia, but it is quite telling that the AfD only wants refugees that are qualified workers and does not want to give foreign citizens the rights Germans have.
Nationalist movements regularly combine widely accepted populist left-wing positions with xenophobic ideas (and proceed to disregard the left-wing ones once in power). I live in Denmark; the Danish People's Party here is also very left-wing on niche social issues and uses that to trick people into voting for them. Trump used this strategy so well that you had followers of Bernie Sanders switching allegiances to vote for him. And of course the original Nazi party adopted many socialist ideas in the beginning, stealing votes from the Social Democrats and Communists.
The latest projections have them at 42.4% of the vote vs Labour's 40.1%. They do have 48.5% of the seats because of an unfair system.