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This leaves the question: why does work start so early? If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults.
If you work 7-15h (3pm american), you still have some daylight time left at home, after work so you can do other, non-work stuff that requires daylight. If you sleep until 9 and work 10-18h, you get zero off-work daylight for most of the year.
Tetra is the "mobile phone" that our emergency services (well, police and firefighters atleast, not sure about ambulances) use. It offers "normal" calls and messages, ut it also offers push-to-talk, and group talks (needed for teamwork).
5G is set to replace tetra, with dedicated frequencies for emergency services, and those features implemented - so this will become the "mobile phone", using dedicated frequencies on current basestations, while the data in the backend will be transfered via 5G standards (with additional moficiations for PTT and group talk).
So yes, the technology behind is different, but the usecase will be the same.
Nah, usually it works, just the calls don't get through.
Even after the Boston bombing, the people there couldnt get/take calls, because the network was flooded with other people calling.
Mobile networks survive most of the "shits hitting the fans", but usually the sheer amount of calls to/from that area makes them useless for emergency communication (unless you get a dedicated channel... or have "QoS" set up very very well)
Perhaps other than tracking concerns, I'm totally not convinced with the reasoning.
Tracking is not an issue, if you keep your phone in airplane mode (wifi and bluetooth can be enabled on most phones, but mobile network stays disabled), or if you just remove the sim card, and put it back, on those rare occasion when you need it (so you don't have to bother other people)
5G works perfectly fine on same long distances as 2G/3G/4G did.
But it adds a dedicated frequency range for emergency services, so when shit hits the fan, and everybody is calling everybody, the emergency workers can still communicate.
Compared to TETRA, pretty much everything is an upgrade.
Nah... it's just that we've got flashy new devices to communicate with, and "noone" cares about the old ones.
The same thing is happening to every other tech, from IRC to SMS.
Neither does hackernews* (the threads are readable by the public).
*yes, yes, https, username, passwords... i know.. but you write a block of text, post it, and it's shown here... no encryption needed for that.
What about communicating during a disaster? ..as in the article?
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Hmm...
We might be laughing now, but this kind of things bring us new laws, limitations and regulations.
Drones are a great tool, even in the hands of a total amateur. Some regulation is needed (eg. not flying over crowds of people), but otherwise a top-down view shows many, many interesting things, from far crash remains (missing people, atleast finding a body) to illegal dumping operations (eg. a company pouring toxic waste into a river), etc.
Honestly, knowing how much taxes you pay is important (and as i said in a comment above, problematic, if people don't know).
But this can be solved by autofiling taxes, and then sending a yearly report: you earned X, paid Y taxes, out of those, Z goes to this, Q to that, W to that other thing, you've used these government services this year, that cost that much money, etc.
is that if paying taxes gets too easy the average American will be less likely to push their representatives to lower taxes or to oppose new taxes that get proposed.
This is problematic here (small EU country). People have no idea how much taxes they pay, and believe free (healthcare, schooling,...) is actually free, and that government can pay for anything. If average Joe (Janez here) would know how much taxes he pays for (eg.) health, and what kind of a shitty service he gets for that, he'd be protesting already,... but since it's 'free', it's ok, just so he doesn't have to pay for it (out of pocket directly).
Googles algorithms should penalize them hard for that... but they probably wont. Random users clicking a reddit link in search results, and coming back after two seconds and clicking on another result, should bring their "site score" down.... but considering it's google .. and it's reddit.. it probably wont.
Problem here is, if person #1 can do something, and gets away with it, then person #2 does that, and gets away with it, many more people will do the same.
Spending more on the crimes with negative ROI, makes the total ROI higher because it acts as a deterrent for future would-be criminals.
Reddit was full of video of really trashy kids, driving their bicycles through malls and stores harrassing random people there, and "nobody could do anything" about them. If those kids were arrasted, sent to juvie, given community service (or maybe even just shown on tv crying in court, instead of acting all badass on their bikes), that would sure stop many others from repeating what they did.
There should be only once choice, either you're a platform or a publisher.
A platform should be open, and only illegal stuff should be removed. No preferences, no nothing.
A publisher can be closed, can be whatever they want it, can filter whatever, promote whatever and censor whatever.
...but!
If you're a publisher, you've decided what to publish, and you should be responsible for all content published on your webpage. Fake news? Illegal porn? Nuclear bomb plans? Your problem, your responsiblity, you face the consequences.
If you want to be an open platform and blame users for content posted there (and have them face the consequences), then you should have no right to promote, censor or block/hide content (except illegal).
This!
You can put a mmwave basestation in a factory (a couple of cells near the ceiling) and controll everything (machines, "robots", transporters, forklifts, inventory,...) via LTE.
And mobile phones have existed for 40 years, gsm for almost 30. Considering the most radiation is outputed during the phone conversations, and most people hold their phone always on the same side of the head (irradiating only that half), detecting an epidemic of mobile phone radiation sicknesses would be easy, if there were any.
I agree with this. A 'happy ending massage' worker "has to" give a 'happy ending' to a customer, and a vet "has to" shove his hand elbow deep up a cows orifice. Somehow we treat the first ones as victims/immorals and the second ones as doing noble work.
https://jobs.aldi-hofer.com/hofer-kariera-si/job/1000-Ljublj...
They're offering 1.2*minimum wage for 30h/week.
For someone without any other qualifications, that's not bad.
I dont know where she worked, but most offer more. Ever barteding gets you 7+eur/h and tips in Ljubljana.
I do not have any real numbers, and this is just anecdotal, but in Slovenia (small EU country), a lot of our larger retailers have replaced some posters (basically ads) in their stores with "workers needed" posters, and some have literally advertised that they're looking for workers in their paper ads we get in the mail. Also a car repair shop literally had an radio ad that they're looking for repairmen.
It might be just a coincidence, but it's easy to get/change jobs at the moment, if you're actually willing to work.
They do that with cigarettes but kids still get them (atleast in my country). Banning a device is useless, beceause the same vaporizer could be used to other stuff, and it'd be still sold online (from places like china), and customs don't really check every package for what's inside (especially since it usually says "electronic gadget" on the CN22 form). Banning liquids would be easier, but in some places (eg, here), the liquids are sold separately as a mix of glycerins and a food-grade arome, where neither of those can be banned. Nicottine can be (and is), but while it's addictive, most of the "bad stuff" is in other ingredients, that again, cannot be baned easily. ...and you can also order niccotine concentrate online...
so yeah, it's hard. Making it unnatractive is a lot easier procedure with drugs and "bad things", but a machine that makes huge clouds of tutti frutti falvoured smoke is.. wel... fun.
But what if they don't want to? Or are unable to (too stupid, not too poor)? Why work a 9-5 job, when you can spread your legs every now and then get Louboutin shoes for a present, and a (real) Louis Vuitton handbag, and so on.
And the differences between the countries are not a local power imbalance problem, it's just the amount of benefits (=money) you get for spreading your legs. In a rich 1st world country, the "sponsor" has to earn a lot to make it worth it... but in a poor country, even a freelance coder working for foreign companies can earn enough to sponsor a girl like that, and also have a new-ish BMW (so her friends see her in it) and so on.
But when we get to higher class people, especially older, you suddenly stop calling the rich guy a scummy elite, but call her a trophy wife, especially if the guy is really really old and close to death.
When you reach a certain level of education and class, those "gold digger girlfriends" become "a wife", that others call "a trophy wife". I think MIT had many of those there.
Vaping is great!
Take someone who smokes two packs a day, give him a niccotine vape, and he gets all the 'high' he needs to fuel his addiciton, with (by some sources) only 10% of the "bad things" going in his lungs (compared to cigarettes). Less coughing, easier to reduce the dosage (just buy a liquid with less nicotine - you still keep your rutine and cigarette breaks, but slowly lower your addiction level).
...but...
Then youtubers with smoke challenges come, and tutti frutti bubblegum pina colada reeses pieces flavoured liquids come... and 13yo kids (that would never have smoked otherwise) start buying vapes. And not just any 'normal' vapes (that the people from the top of this post use), but the ones with very high power heating elements, producing HUGE amounts of smoke (for the youtube likes), and making the "bad stuff" intake into lungs comparable to actually smoking 2+ packs of cigarettes.
...and now, when even that's not enough, someone's selling some "special" (or just really shitty, but really cheap) e-liquids, that make you sick.
And DNSSEC all the way to the user!
XMPP was a solution to all of those problems (except sms), but even the ones who supported it, broke the support one by one (starting with google and facebook).
"one protocol to suit them all" would be a lot harder with books though
I worked on a porn site that was basically an endless-scroll video gallery.
So, if you're a horny teenager, you scrool down for a huge amount of time to find "the video" that will get you off... and you hear your mom coming up the stairs, Control+w (close tab), and when she goes downstairs again, you press Control+shift+t (reopen last closed tab), you're back at the beginning, and have to search for that video again? That sucks.
Endless scrolling sucks. You go down and down and down, and something breaks (eg. bad wifi), and you lose your position, since refresh takes you back to top.
If you pay licences per machine/cpu socket/cpu core, those $5k might be your cheapest option.
In my country (EU, so gas is a bit more expensive) the government calculates* transport costs at 0.37eur/km. So $0.45/mi would be in the right ballpark.
You have to account everything, not just fuel, from car depreciation, servicing (oil changes,...), normal wear (brakes, tires,...), occasional replacements (batteries, wipers, ...), etc. If you drive 20.000kms per year, and a yearly service (oil, filters,...) costs 200eur, just that adds aditional 0.01eur/km. Two sets of tires (winter/summer) are ~2300eur + 8 changes (8~40eur) adds an additional (almost) ~1k eur in four years, 1 more cent. Insurance, registration.. 3, 4 cents. etc.
*that's the untaxed amount you get reimbursed for if you use your own car for a business trip.
Why do universities have to do anything? Report it to the police, and they should deal with it and use the proper procedures. After that it's the courts.
Having some kangaroo courts and then losing lawsuits never helped anyone.