What good is knowing their salary if you don't know what their skills and experience are? How can you say they would make more in the private sector? You're just trading one set of assertions for another and neither of you have data to back up your claims.
This report from the CBO is more balanced and accounts for the variables you mentioned (and more). [0]
"Compared with private-sector workers, federal workers tend to be older, more educated, and more concentrated in professional occupations. To account for those differences, the Congressional Budget Office limited its comparisons to employees with a set of similar observable characteristics—education, occupation, years of work experience, geographic location, size of employer, veteran status, and certain demographic characteristics (sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, immigration status, and citizenship)—in this report"
I mean 18F was essentially "hey you earn ~infinite money selling ads to people. Whenever you grow bored come here, you'll have the same kind of colleagues but get to work making this country work better". So yeah.. they recruited from Silicon Valley and they didn't pull the low achievers
It is actually a single layer ocean model. It uses what are called the shallow water wave equations.
It can be thought of as a grid of resistors capacitors and inductors through which voltages behave flow similarly to water levels. Different capacitances, resistances, and inductivenesses(?) model the changing wave speed and bottom friction to do the depth and bottom friction at each grid cell you are considering. Voltage=water level
By arranging the circuit into the shape of a real world basin and adding voltages that match real world atmospheric forcings you can predict storm surge
>> In a closed system, you can't reverse something by using less energy than that which went into creating it.
>> Basic physics. From that principle there's only one possibly conclusion when it comes to climate change: We can't do a damn thing about it.
I agree that the climate crisis is grim and that geoengineering is not a cure all. I do not think your reasoning makes much sense. Say it takes 100x as much energy to capture C02 as to create it. If the energy it takes does not warm the atmosphere it is not a problem. For example, if solar energy was removed to C02 it would not contribute to the warming of the planet either by directly releasing heat or a greenhouse gas.
That's a perfectly good "had wavy" argument. However, once you start attaching numbers to such a thing you will quickly discover reality is not as nice and clean as writing two lines of text.
There's nothing grim about climate change reality. We just have to accept it, clean up our act to the extent possible and adapt. The planet has survived billions of years. We are insignificant. We either pretend we can fix it (which is a mistake) or understand that the planet can make us disappear in an instant.
I mean, look at this pandemic. Had we not developed vaccines so quickly it would have been perfectly plausible for half the population of this plante to perish. Thinking we can control things at a planetary scale is pure ignorant hubris. We cannot. And we stand a far greater chance of killing everything on earth than to save the planet. The planet does not need saving.
I could never find it again, but long ago I read an interview of Amp Fiddler telling how Dilla used a bare tape deck and a pencil to sync samples to be overlaid when making beats[1]. Talking about hacker.
[1] which would explain the unfamiliar nasty swing of his productions
I mean no offense, but it is a very futile and somewhat worthless effort to insult a genre of music and to some extent those who listen to it on a site like Hacker News. I would also encourage you to branch out and listen to different kinds of hip hop, for hip hop like any genre is very diverse (some songs don't event have "mindless unintelligible lyrics"). No harsh feelings but stay classy ;)
Music is one of those things where it can take a little effort to explore and expand your boundaries. Still, in the end while I personally think that's a worthwhile undertaking, the benefits are personal so all I can do is (like you) encourage others to make the effort. It doesn't really affect me at all if someone else doesn't like [insert genre or style or artist here] but I will say that in my experience, it's almost always a positive thing to get into.
I wrote off broad swaths of musical styles when I was younger because I thought I actually had a clue about what was out there. I wrote off country because I'd only listened to a little bit of country and didn't like it. I wrote off house and trance and a lot of other electronic music because I had heard a bit of that and also didn't like it.
But in both cases, I was lucky enough to be exposed to a wider variety thanks to the internet, streaming radio like Shoutcast, and yeah...even a good bit of unauthorized downloading when I was younger and options for discovery weren't as robust. Now I doubt I could bring myself to write off any broad genre if only because I had to reconsider both times I'd done so in the past.
I honestly don't know many 'communities' but Vintage Synth [1] is great. It's hard to avoid Gearslutz, you'll see it googling. Hydrogen Audio [2] is one of the better music communities I know, apart from Jemsite, but it's mostly digital/software/algorithm stuff. Maybe Future Producers [3] is more your thing. Or check synth-specific forums (I don't know what you've got). [4,5]
Hey guys, one of the developers here. We've heard many people talking about the differences in speed. Previously we had based speed on the framerate driven by request animframe. We realised this was a mistake so we've switched to time based now. It just got merged and should be updated in the apps pretty soon.
