For someone who doesn't want to buy American made cars, you sure speak fondly of some of them. Tundra and Sequoia have only ever been made in the us, matrix was once upon a time made in the nummi factory that is now Tesla's, and have been made in North America since, crv have also mostly been made in the us, otherwise North American production, same with all newer fits. The only car you mentioned made outside of North America would be the first generation fit, made in Japan.
I had a friend's dad who was one of the few people I talked to who, as a Japanese brand enthusiast, went out of his way to find a Chevy/Geo prizm - same mechanical bits as a Corolla, built in the same factory, but way cheaper because of all the people who reflexively avoided American brands.
The cost for generating electricity is much cheaper at utility scale, but electrical generation costs are only a part of what it costs to provide electrical service. A similarly large cost goes to electricity distribution. By generating where it's used, the electrical distribution system is less taxes (provided it doesn't have to absorb a lot of surplus electricity). So to a certain extent, rooftop generation still makes sense as an efficient allocation of resources.
I'd love to hear more from the perspective of Hong Kong residents and natives. In the us we get relatively little coverage of the situation in Hong Kong.
I spoke to a few people from UK, and my guess is that people who voted for Brexit will have a better understanding of it.
No one is against the trade and economic integration, but they are against the political integration.
Then there is the languages. There is a different trying to get everyone to speak Mandarin as well, and trying to get everyone to speak Mandarin Only, while actively trying to kill Cantonese.
I really like the word Genocide used in this thread. It sorts of describe what is happening.
Hong Kong as we've all known it from before 1997 is being eroded and destroyed. People in Hong Kong hate the Chinese Communist Party and strongly dislike mainlanders, and this sentiment is fuelled by savage behaviour of mainland tourists in Hong Kong (including but not limited to defecating in public [1]). The only people in Hong Kong who are sympathetic towards the mainland are those who got involved in corrupt practices there and don't want to lose access to their illegitimate source of wealth.
The adrenaclick generic is much cheaper than the epipen, with or without insurance. Although technically different epinephrine auto injectors cannot be substituted (you can only be prescribed the one written by your doctor, or its generic equivalent), practically speaking the only difference between the epipen and the adrenaclick design is the instructions for use. I would hope there isn't a case of doctors being unaware of the alternatives.
My doctor/pharmacy was apparently unaware of the differences or neglected to inform me. At some point in the last 4 years I started getting generic Adrenaclicks instead of EpiPens. The difference between EpiPens and generic Andrenaclicks was never presented to me as a different choice in medications, just an "expensive brand name" vs "cheap generic" choice. I wonder who screwed that one up.
I did notice the different usage directions (mainly two safety caps with the generic vs one for the EpiPen) but never thought that the FDA considered them to not be equivalents. At least I made sure to carefully read the administration instructions and have trained with dummy, training auto-injectors and expired, real auto-injectors!
It's your doctor's fault if you didn't get the substitute earlier. As adrenaclick and epipen are not actually equivalent (even though ultimately they deliver the same medicine, in the same dose, in the same manner), the pharmacist is not supposed to do anything but provide what was prescribed.
Thank you for mentioning adrenaclick. Generics have been completely missing from the public debate. While epipen price gouging is very real, and a problem, there is one short term solution for allergy sufferers: demand an Rx for the generic. They are under $200 (source: checkyourmeds.com). Vote with your wallet!!
Looks like the differences are: extra safety cap and Epipen brand has an auto-retracting needle.
Great business to be in, attach an auto injection mechanism to maybe $5 worth of syringe and epinephrine.
Then undercut your competition by over 60%. I hope they do well. If more generic manufacturers get in on this or the patent expires we might see this go down to a more reasonable <$50 price, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Unfortunately there is no generic for Epipen. Unless you have been written a prescription for Adrenaclick specifically, you can't get it, or the generic version.
Probably because that is not what matters. With the epipen, I can just jam it into my daughters thigh, straight through thick winter clothing and all. I don't need to ensure she gets the dosage right, nor that the syringe doesn't break.
EMTs are not the target customer of epipens. They work with life-threatening situations day after day. To a kindergarten teacher, if a child if having an anaphylactic chock, this is very far from a "very slight increase in complexity".
Just to ground the situation, the kindergarten teachers at my daughters place are already freaked out from the thought of having to administer an epipen. I can't even start to imagine how they would handle a syringe and a bottle.
There are thousands of people out there who carry IM Glucagon kits, an similarly time sensitive medication, intended to be administered by untrained bystanders. If it works for Glucagon, I see no reason it can't work for Epinephrine. In reality, there's no need for a vial, the syringe can be prefilled with the correct dose.
Most of the people I know use the internal speakers on their phones extensively, and hardly ever use audio over either Bluetooth or the 3.5mm jack. In this case, how would battery life be improved. The DAC and amplifier cannot be removed unless the on board speaker is also. I hope this is not the case.
The only people I know who don't use headphones are both teenagers and reviled by the people around them. If what you claim is the case, public transport would be a wasteland of pop music and clash of clans sound effects. I highly suspect your friends aren't representative in the least of the general population.
I use the phone's internal speakers to play music in the car. I would use the audio jack for that, except that cars no longer seem to come with any way of accepting an audio cable. My car from 2002 had a tape player, and I was happy using an audio cable with a casette tape adapter on the other end. A car from 2015 just can't do it. :(
I also use the phone's internal speakers for playing the notification sound. (And, technically, ringing.) I sure hope that's not going away.
Micro FM transmitters. Plug into the 3.5mm jack, power from the cigarette / accessory adapter. Usually a choice of frequencies to broadcast on which can be picked up over your car's FM receiver.
Quite frequently found at highway truck stops, though almost certainly other electronics stores as well.
Plus, they're crap. Seriously. I bought one of the more expensive ones, with auto channel scanning, still crap. Made me go back to burning CDs until I put an aftermarket stereo with 3.5 mm jack in. Fortunately that's a near-universal feature these days.
Doesn't your car have Bluetooth? Or rather: how old does a car have to be before it doesn't come with Bluetooth as standard? Every rental I've had in the last five years has had Bluetooth to my recollection, and I don't hire expensive cars.
As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, bluetooth is not a good solution when you want to use one speaker (the car) with several devices. The beauty of a cable is that it's unambiguously connected to whatever it's plugged in to, and not to anything else.
I recently had the joy of having to delete a paired device in a car before I could add a new one. For some reason you could only have three devices paired.
Does your car have a USB port? If it does, it might speak iAP to play audio through it. If it doesn't, you can always replace the radio and get some more inputs.
Bluetooth's more reliable than USB in a car anyway.
We all have shortcomings. It is hard to work with people who refuse to acknowledge their shortcomings and then try to remediate or at least work around them. Even worse are those who seek to blame others for their circumstances or and arr not willing to admit anything personally embarassing.
I applaud the author and although I'm not in a position to hire anyone, I'd be more likely to hire him (ceteres paribus) because he's put this out there.
Author of this article here: thanks, that means a lot to me. I completely agree with you -- I'd much rather work with someone who acknowledges and admits their issues, so we can find a way to work around them, or make them non-issues. That's much easier than working with people who ignore problems, or try to patch over them, or try to mitigate all of their weaknesses without ever focusing on maximising their strengths.
I worked in embedded development for much of my career. There is a pretty small supply of people who are interested and capable in the field, relative to the jobs available, especially for more junior positions. What Ive seen happen is companies will hire java developers to do C development because they have few other options (it often doesn't work out well). Just apply and you are likely to get people who will talk to you.
I can imaging the kind of spaghetti a Java programmer would make if told to write C with no prior experience. That's how I got my start. I didn't even understand the difference of passing a pointer from the heap and passing a pointer from the stack.
I will be the first person to admit I don't know it all. Will the senior devs be willing to tell me when I mess up and what I can do/read to get better at my job?
I still have a lot to learn. Right now I'm trying to learn as much as I can about the i368 architecture since it is one of the last few processors that, from what I have been told, "a single person can have a working understanding of every part of the architecture and computer."
In any event, I'm basically looking for a summer job or a part time job for next semester, so I think I definitely have given myself enough time to search.
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China is the world's largest poultry and pig producer, and in 2014 produced 17·5 million tonnes and 56·7 million tonnes, respectively.25 Most of the production is for domestic consumption with about 10% for export.26 The global market value of veterinary drugs increased from US$8·7 billion in 1992 to $20·1 billion in 2010, and in 2018 is anticipated to reach $43 billion.27, 28, 29 China is also one of the world's highest users of colistin in agriculture.29 Driven largely by China, the global demand for colistin in agriculture is expected to reach 11 942 tonnes per annum by the end of 2015 (with associated revenues of $229·5 million), rising to 16 500 tonnes by the year 2021, at an average annual growth rate of 4·75%.29 Of the top ten largest producers of colistin for veterinary use, one is Indian, one is Danish, and eight are Chinese. Asia (including China) makes up 73·1% of colistin production with 28·7% for export including to Europe.29 In 2015, the European Union and North America imported 480 tonnes and 700 tonnes, respectively, of colistin from China.29
I had a friend's dad who was one of the few people I talked to who, as a Japanese brand enthusiast, went out of his way to find a Chevy/Geo prizm - same mechanical bits as a Corolla, built in the same factory, but way cheaper because of all the people who reflexively avoided American brands.