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But still, videos ***about creimer*** are much more popular. For example this viral video now has 600,464,013 views, thanks to him, no kidding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Many thanks to him from the CVS 3D Rhymes team!

but their voters, who are desperate for jobs, do. Take the gig economy & temp work out of the equation and we're pushing 9% unemployment. Meanwhile the politicians figure they'll be out of office by the time the bonds used to pay for the subsidies come due.

It's just another example of the rich plundering the commons. Robert Reich calls it a Switcheroo. It's older than that though. We used to say "Privatize the profits and Socialize the losses".

lying around for direct & indirect subsidies. That's what this is about. As near as I can tell NY was basically going to pay Amazon for the jobs (similar to what Foxconn did to Wisconsin). The likelihood is that Amazon would be gone as soon as the subsidies dried up.

It's like a sports stadium without a team to watch. It doesn't make sense to pay companies to bring jobs. Spend the money making your state somewhere people actually want to live and the companies will have no choice but to bring the jobs because that's where the workers are.

Now, you're right that this is leaving middle America behind. They haven't been investing in their land or their people and they're feeling it. Part of me, the bitter, angry part, wants to leave them to their fate (it's mostly their own political decisions that got them there) but the sane part of me knows that's bad juju for all. Folks usually double down on bad decisions in a crisis. Better to have the Fed move in with jobs programs like we did the last time things got this bad. That's what the "Green New Deal" is for.

Bottom line, Amazon's pushing Supply Side (aka Trickle Down) economics on NY (pay us for the jobs and the money you give us will trickle down to workers). NY was smart enough not to buy it for a change. Here's hoping the rest of the country will tell Amazon to go pound sand and they'll have to pay for the services they want and need.

They're not our crowd!

LINKY

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Direct is faster but more expensive.

Obligatory Wendover Productions video.

And if you don't have 10 minutes to kill, here's the moral of the story: When airplanes are full, direct is always cheaper. You pay for less fuel, less labor, less airplane flight time (maintenance), less airport fees, etc. But the challenge has always been filling seats for low-demand routes. Airport logistics aside, you can't fly an A380 between Raleigh, NC, and Dublin, Ireland, because there's not that much demand. And smaller planes couldn't fly over the Atlantic. Hence the need for the hub-and-spoke model of flying: small planes to and from hubs, and large airplanes between hubs.

But now small airplanes -can- fly over the Atlantic. What Airbus loses in the A380, it gains in the Airbus A220, a.k.a. the Bombardier C-Series. (Another obligatory Wendover Productions video.) Now here's a narrow-body airplane that seats 100-130 passengers that -can- fly across the Atlantic, making direct flights between small markets possible. And as December 2018, Airbus has over 500 orders for the airplane, with demand for the airplane continuing to grow. Best yet: Boeing has no competitor to this class of airplane. Airbus has a monopoly on this class of airplane, and it's going to make them rich.

Direct is faster but more expensive.

Obligatory Wendover Productions video.

And if you don't have 10 minutes to kill, here's the moral of the story: When airplanes are full, direct is always cheaper. You pay for less fuel, less labor, less airplane flight time (maintenance), less airport fees, etc. But the challenge has always been filling seats for low-demand routes. Airport logistics aside, you can't fly an A380 between Raleigh, NC, and Dublin, Ireland, because there's not that much demand. And smaller planes couldn't fly over the Atlantic. Hence the need for the hub-and-spoke model of flying: small planes to and from hubs, and large airplanes between hubs.

But now small airplanes -can- fly over the Atlantic. What Airbus loses in the A380, it gains in the Airbus A220, a.k.a. the Bombardier C-Series. (Another obligatory Wendover Productions video.) Now here's a narrow-body airplane that seats 100-130 passengers that -can- fly across the Atlantic, making direct flights between small markets possible. And as December 2018, Airbus has over 500 orders for the airplane, with demand for the airplane continuing to grow. Best yet: Boeing has no competitor to this class of airplane. Airbus has a monopoly on this class of airplane, and it's going to make them rich.

Don't think costs will help much. There are already lawsuit costs and loss of customers due trust today. For the most part many companies, management, but also developer (who sometimes are not even that skilled and can barely click stuff together) plus many systems and languages (hint: PHP) are also inherently insecure. We need a whole new security first thinking. Also if that would be your company, and you architectured a really nice and secure system, and then there is one stupid small little typo bug and stuff leaks, do you really wanna pay millions of fines for that? While speaking about security – last night I live stream talked about microkernels, because security first, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You might very well be right in this case but you wouldn't always be,

Take this as an example, this person has 57 pseudonyms on Slashdot:

https://www.youtube.com/cdreim...

https://twitter.com/cdreimer

https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer

https://www.smashwords.com/pro...

https://stackoverflow.com/user...

https://www.overdrive.com/publ...

etc. etc. google for more...

most well known currently active Slashdot pseudonyms:
https://slashdot.org/~Iwastheo...
https://slashdot.org/~the%20or...
https://slashdot.org/~vetpiet

Don't go near Midsomer

The one I really liked was Rebus (now on Hulu). Also Shetland.

I mean don't go there because you'll get murdered. So many murders in Midsomer.

I don't know why Scottish accents make me so unbelievably happy. Even after so many viewings, I can watch Trainspotting and be entranced without even noticing the plot.

Billy Connolly has a reasonable explanation and Robin Williams sums it up well.

Don't go near Midsomer

The one I really liked was Rebus (now on Hulu). Also Shetland.

I mean don't go there because you'll get murdered. So many murders in Midsomer.

I don't know why Scottish accents make me so unbelievably happy. Even after so many viewings, I can watch Trainspotting and be entranced without even noticing the plot.

Billy Connolly has a reasonable explanation and Robin Williams sums it up well.

Wealth...
You mean, like stocks? In companies? That employ people?

That's the vast majority of 'wealth' in the United States - non-liquid, and currently put to use for productive purposes. You know, like making sure you get your smartphone, internet, and tendies.

Did you think the rich people have vast vaults of gold coins they swim in, like Scrooge McDuck?

"The U.S. equivalent would be New York and Utah sharing one time zone. Except that in this case, it also affects more than a billion people -- hundreds of millions of whom live in poverty."

I didn't think that many people actually lived in Utah... /kidding

I have to admit the first thing I thought about, after reading this, was Futurama:

Mars was a dreary uninhabitable wasteland much like Utah. But unlike Utah, it was eventually made livable.

Just like Cdreimer is not dead, he only concluded his 20+ years mission on Slashdot and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Here's Dr Ken Berry MD's recent deep dive into the bullshit research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

On one hand, we have a significant pile of peer-reviewed studies with controls, involving nitrites from food and non-food sources.

On the other hand, we have one guy talking on Youtube.

You chose to follow the Youtube guy.

You are what is wrong with society today.

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Why?

No, no: you need to deliver it with more drama. Like this.

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

We have absolutely got to do something about climate change. Most of what we've got to do would also make the world a lot better in sundry other ways.

If we helped the landscape keep multiple stories of vegetation, and worked out ways to scale orchards designed the same way, it would make for great resistance to drought and a stable food supply, and over time, correct for this spike in greenhouse gasses.

Entire horticultural and early agriculture civilizations have been founded not on controlling the landscape's entire harvest, but on enriching it and reaping the surplus. In this way of life, economy and environment are not at all at odds. In fact, they are interdependent. You can look at terra preta and its history in the Amazon basin for an example of a long-term, large-scale win-win scenario. http://news.cornell.edu/storie...

If you want to see what is happening in China, watch this video, "The Lessons of the Loess Plateau": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Even if you don't exactly agree with *how* they got it done, the results for the landscape and the prosperity of the people there speak for themselves. Start asking how your local economic and political systems can start to do right by the soil too.

companies don't move to high cost of living areas because they want to. They do that because all the talented college grads want to live there.

My Kid is finishing up college and wants to move to one of the pricey cities in Colorado. As an old dude that doesn't make sense to me since I don't want to pay $2k/mo for a decent apartment but if I was young I'd want to live in a big, fun city.

For lower tier jobs workers go where the work is. But for the higher tier stuff it's the other way around. See here

Bitcoin costs less than it costs to mine it - but only if your paying for the electricity.

The report is deeply flawed. They don't take into account the efficiencies of scale with ASIC manufacturing, the sunk costs from green energy, and the fixed contracts for extremely cheap electricity.

Hell, some websites will run a miner on your computer while your browsing their web page.

This has nothing to do with Bitcoin as you can not efficiently mine Bitcoin with GPUs for the last 6.5 years .

The biggest problem with bitcoin is that there is no consideration as to the cost to the environment..

Proof of work is the most efficient means to come to secure consensus and thus it is far better for the environment than Proof of Stake or fiat currency- http://www.truthcoin.info/blog... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .

I refer you to bacon.

But the WHO says clearly that increased cancer is associated with all processed meats. If bacon was the culprit, they should have said that cancer is associated with bacon. Instead, they also mention stuff like corned beef and beef jerky.

Selective interpretation of data - The WHO report was a disgrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .

Dorsey's had a disastrous week of interviews where he dodged the issue of biased enforcement of rules on Twitter, including one on Joe Rogan which prompted Joe to respond to the backlash (and try a do-over). In a great move by Joe, he had Tim Pool on, who gave much more honest and accurate assessment of the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My guess is not much, given that by the 1960s the physics has been worked out pretty well and the materials have not changed markedly.

We have much better ways of 3D modelling, much better materials (like single crystal nickel alloys), and also much improved manufacturing techniques. The basic physics were known in the '60, but you couldn't model an entire rocket engine, because of wide scale interactions between pressure, temperature, intermediate reaction products, pressure wave propagation and deformation of the engine.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, some things may have been possible in the '60, like machining special alloys, or weird shapes, they have become much more practical and affordable now.

Apple does not much, and for the most part focus the one ecosystem to ripp of hard working developers. Already for a lone developer 30% less income is a lot, for a larger team making quite some sales 30% is a quite hefty amount in the books. 50% is just a blatant rippof. Compensating for their failing, peak bug product lines. In my opinion 10% would be fair. And also open the market so vendors and users can choose alternative distribution models, ..! (Yes, currently migrating to Android: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)

DE is made out of cut out cardboard images and sticky back plastic.

Using it is like trying to swim in a swimming pool filled up with sticky used bubblegum instead of water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You seem to be reading something personal into my words that I'm not saying.

I'm sorry. It's hard to not take it personally with 'There is a reason that today's young adults are referred to as "Generation Me" in marketing circles and that the phrase "entitlement culture" is heard so often.' Invoking other peoples comments without refuting them is taking them on yourself. Stereotyping and shit talking large groups of people tends to disgust me--it also wildly confuses me given how history repeatedly shows how absurd it is.

If all you meant is the economics of it without a value judgment, I will try my best to believe you. I do question though how you can create an economic model of someone--let a lone a whole group--without at least somewhat understanding their values and judging them. Maybe that's compartmentalized enough and you respect other peoples ability to make decisions. I do question if "Generation Me" and "entitlement culture" are backed up with data--as well as how you'd actual represent that.

I have a friend who tries to buy goods that are at least not assembled in China. I keep telling him to start a blog to help other people do the same, but he won't do it. And as a shameless transition to a video clip, he's Jewish.

From the Onion, the headline on this made me laugh out loud.

How much capacity will HP's cloud users have access to?

1,000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Actual cows? I figured it was a euphemism for big women...

Sorry, your mom will have to look for a date elsewhere.

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

And I was thinking football player! (Hint: you can think *about* a football player or New Zealand but you definitely can't think New Zealand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!
--
the biggest looser on Slashdot

creimette is making mad stacks
but not pancakes
https://www.youtube.com/channe...
but at least you can eat pancakes
(which quite likely is what he does with his free time)

not to work, or proven to work. Do you know what they call Natural Medicine that has been proven to work? Medicine

Yeah they probable also distribute and read this book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . I Love how Miles bunks that damn book but was flabbergasted that such a book even exists.

Recently SNL had a faux game show "Millenial Millions" which seems apropos to your "Generation Me" comment:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I found the clip enjoyable, but honestly, it doesn't feel like funny comedy, more like laugh-else-you'll-cry comedy.

Actual cows? I figured it was a euphemism for big women...

Touché. Seems this should go on the soundtrack for MGTOW types, or people suffering from hernias.

Actual cows? I figured it was a euphemism for big women...

Lil' Wayne solved that for the Samsung phones...

Or one of my favorites lately... mesh implants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fucking doctors. They are little more than handymen with taxpayer-funded lawyers.

In moderation though

Nearly all caffeine users have little difficulty keeping their use in the "good" range. But for nicotine, there is no "good" range, and it is far more addictive.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-h...

Perhaps I work in the wrong crowds. Nearly everyone I have ever worked with has been told to cut back on their caffiene use, and most have suffered withdrawal symptoms. Several, including me, have hit the 10 cups per day mark that is considered too damn much.

As well, the puritans who are shitting their pants because the tobacco users have found a loophole in vaping

Nonsense. We are only shitting our pants over kids getting ahold of vaping devices. Adults can do what they want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Perhaps we might keep the children out of the bars, if we only care about them, and have no intention of impeding adult use. I mean - bar bans if we are interested in keeping vaping devices out of the hands of kids, thry must be hanging out in bars.

Do you really think that putting a highly addictive and harmful product into the hands of kids is acceptable? They are too stupid and naive to understand the consequences.

I think that there are some fairly simple ways to attempt to keep them out of the hands of those who have not achieved the age of majority. But if I might cite my own and my friend's experience. I and most of my friends started smoking when we were in 7th grade, which for me was 13. Why? Forbidden fruit. Smoking was something "adults" did. So we were playing adults. We had no trouble getting cigarettes or tobacco. Teenagers are indeed capable of taking stupid risks, but they can also be very very capable. Some of us were pretty good at shoplifting tobacco, who didn't have parents that smoked.

Today? Tobacco is harder to get, but I assume I would be as precocious now if I was in junior high. I'd simply make my vapor device. Probably something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Mine would be a lot better, but its simple, and my homebrew version would make me look even more adult to my silly friends.

C/C++ easily let you develop applications that violate memory safety.

The modern C++ idiom easily lets you develop applications where you barely touch memory safety yourself, and competent libraries (such as the STL) do all the hard lifting.

C does not let you do this in any natural way.

If you wish to write your own RAII-compliant classes, you do need to book off half a day to watch (and digest) this series of three videos: CppCon 2014: Jon Kalb "Exception-Safe Code, Part I"

Outrageous investment? Well, it's your life.

I always think of that video of the sea turtle with a straw up its nose that some people removed (video is exactly what you're think, and none too pleasant to watch). The concerns regarding practicality and alternatives raise a point, but still, people have to adapt to what needs to be done, not just ignore the problems caused by disposable plastics.

President Honorary Doctor

His title is God Emperor and he just conquered Italy.