With the advent of the space force, pretty much every space company is targeting military contracts (at least partially) since that is a huge source of government funding
The advent of the Space Force is not going to be a watershed in DOD contracting; the services are nothing but force providers who fulfill the requirements of the combatant commands. Demand for DOD space assets is merely going to be managed by the Space Force now in service to already-existing COCOM requirements; the demand signal is what it is.
Those contracts were happening pre-Space Force. Space Force's mission existed inside USAF (specifically, but other services and TLAs as well) prior to USSF being created.
I think the relevant table is on page 13 "COVID-19 hospitalizations in unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals in
Washington state by age group, February - December, 2021"
It shows that 79% of hospitalizations in the state are unvaccinated people and that of those, 3,000 are under 34, 11,000 are between 34-65, 7,000 are over 65.
So it is indeed largely elderly unvaccinated in the hospital.
So, help me here. If 7000 hospitalized are over 65 and 11,000 are under 65, does that not show that there are 4000 less elderly hospitalized than middle-aged?
If I look at those numbers, the elderly are not "dominating" the hospitals. In fact, that would show that if you looked in a hospital at any given time, there would be more middle-aged than elderly. I get that "per-capita" the rate is higher, but that does not matter to the hospital census.
I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3rd the square footage of the entire apartment. Obviously that's just anecdotal but I do think that the kitchen used to be prioritized much more, at least in apartments.
A new programming language which hides the fact that your code is running across multiple machines from you. Similar to OOP, you'll define some level of structure and the compiler will figure out how to best distribute it across the resources given to it.
Hiding the network has been tried before, but I don't believe it's ever worked well. (See the CORBA and "distributed objects" craze in the 90's.) The costs of networking are too high.
I worked with a Corba based system back in the nineties and what killed ours wasn't network costs, it was circular hidden dependencies making the system fragile.
The support guys had a complicated procedure for restarting it that involved a very carefully orchestrated sequence, which sometimes didn't work so they had to start from scratch.
I was on a team that used CORBA to distribute across five machines: input, output, logic, UI, and whatever the CORBA object discovery thing was. (I don’t know what they were thinking.)
They didn’t try to run it all together until it was time to ship.
Networking overhead definitely killed us. That, and incompetence.
Anyone else skeptical of their claim that the benefits of the plug in and the hybrid are the same? It assumes that electricity production remains the same as it is right now, whereas in reality it will likely become much more green (and electric car charging is a candidate to be even more green than general production since you can charge at peak solar hours very easily).
If you have home charging and mostly commute within the range of the plug-in hybrid, it’s the same as a full electric car with the added advantage of an ICE for the rare longer drives.
Maybe. The Volt was a good car. Positive reviews. People just didn’t want it. You could chalk that up to a failure by GM.
But I think it’s a market indicator. An in between product with too much drivetrain complexity, too high of a price, and the downsides of a combustion engine.
The RAV4 Prime has got to be the most appealing current model, and it starts at $38k. The normal RAV4 is $26k.
The added maintenance is minor in practice. The ICE in a PHEV like the Volt is only used for non-routine trips, the rest are done on battery. When the ICE is engaged it is buffered by the battery and runs at a low stress cycle operating mainly as a serial hybrid. In a given year, the number of miles put on the ICE are surprisingly low. It keeps track of that on reminds you of oil changes based on the miles used. For me that is around once every 2 years.
They say they can be the same, which is technically correct I suppose. I don't think anyone is suggesting that PHEV is functionally equivalent to BEV, nor that the environmental impact is always the same.
The GHG impact depends on where you live, how you use the car, and how you get your energy.
I don't expect a global automaker to make decisions about imminent models based on 10yr+ transition forecasts for US energy infrastructure.
> we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working
How would the world work such that this was not the case? I suppose the government could pay one parent to stay at home with their children, but it seems like there will always be a sacrifice required if you want to be in a couple where only one person is working full time (particularly at a specialized career).
Send the children away to specialist child care facilities that can look after them at scale. By centralizing the raising of children we can maintain quality control from a young age and ensure that children grow up as model citizens with the best education/development possible.
>it’s really impossible to go anywhere and enjoy it in peace
This is only true for a very limited definition of "anywhere". You can go to Yosemite in the peak season and easily find places where you can't even see another person.
Over represented minority. Asian people, mostly from Hopkins. Along with white people, they disproportionately live in the few “nice” neighborhoods; they either don’t have kids yet or can afford to avoid the awful public school system; they don’t get randomly harassed by police.
