You can do ethically questionable studies. You just cannot make the state look bad, lessen state control over the populace, or make the state weaker. If you publish a report that makes the state look bad internationally (we're making super-babies) you'll get smacked down.
Holy fuck, they want PTO and sick days with NO EXPERIENCE? How dare they. Oh wait, every job I've ever worked has offered PTO and sick days to every employee (absent temps) no matter the experience. Maybe don't have a shit benefit policy?
Fabric softener saves money. It makes clothes last longer, which lowers your clothing budget. Of course, that doesn't apply if you buy those tissue paper shirts that only last three washes, so it does require a certain amount of money to save money. It also doesn't apply if you have to keep up with the new fashions.
If you mean "false reporting can have serious financial consequences for the newspaper", you're wrong. For news written about a large corporation/public figures isn't actionable if it's false. It's actionable if it's grossly negligent or known to the reporter to be false. Bloomburg could say "oops" and that would be the end of it. Or it certainly would have been after the initial story. I don't know how doubled-down they are now.
A registry is... very old. Recent advances include the 2004 addition of combining registries across multiple stores. It's purpose is to let people not duplicate gifts with each other and/or what the recipient doesn't want.
Since baby showers (and the gifts that went with them) started during the post-WWII baby boom, your mom most likely had one, and received gifts (although maybe you're old than 70). This is no different than a friend of hers telling everyone that what your mom really wants are Amway products, available through the friend. It's just automated and computerized.
l. It makes no sense to say, "Your design has extra doors intended to let you later add two additional wings, so we can't let you build the first wing without an environmental review that includes the second and third wing that you might or might not ever even build, or might completely change between now and when you build them." That would be borderline absurd.
That would be absurd, because that's not how hotels get built. You plan the entire thing out. And yes, you would have to get the whole plans signed off on before you start building.
I can't imagine why Musk does California the favor of doing anything in California, or any other company for that matter.
Your city sucks. People who do cool things don't like it. Maybe your city should start acting more like California to attract people who do cool things, as opposed to whining about how California doesn't deserve them.
Oh no, Elon Musk is such a genius he can't do basic paperwork
If the individual parts don't have any environmental impact, neither does the whole. If the whole has an impact, then if none of the other parts had any impact, then whatever part happens to be last must, by definition, have the same impact as the whole. This is basic logic.
That's... not true. Things have nonlinear effects. It's sorites paradox.
Or, put it another way, no given xray (or cigarette) is likely to give you cancer. But getting 100 xrays a day (or smoking 5 packs a day) is likely to cause you to get cancer. That's why it's illegal to split a project into smaller pieces.
Yet again, Elon Musk promised something. Then, some unknown issue (like physics of minisubs or hyperloops in tunnels, laws, manufacturing in tents being hard) prevents him from delivering (at least on time). But, it's not his fault! Buy an overpriced weed burner!
Self-driving cars and augmented reality should help quite a bit with ads and light pollution
I'm not sure what you mean. Self-driving cars and augmented reality are obviously going to add to the ads that exist, as you get driven to a location and beamed right into your eye.
Intel saw how Microsoft got PC builders to beat each other up to carry the One True Operating System
The difference is, running macOS, Windows, Linux or OS/2 actually makes a difference compatibility wise. Intel vs. AMD, not really (there were some differences at the cutting edge, like SIMD, but most software waited until those were pretty standard anyway.)
Note that this breach happened in 2016. Both the Netherlands and Britain have dramatically increased the maximum fines since then. If that happened today there would be a few more zeros on that fine.
You took Econ 101. Cute. Take a real econ course that covers how not to compete on price. I actually thought they covered that in Econ 101, but maybe you had to go further.
Sure, technically the snow that's been in Antarctica for 10,000 years is fusing to create new ice. Sorry to be imprecise. I meant: the total amount of frozen water on Antarctica, aggregated across all of its various forms, has increased melting.
BTW, snow fusing to become ice is a process that either requires added pressure (nope) or cycling temperature that goes above a certain point. Gee, I wonder what could be causing Antarctica's temperature to rise above a certain point every year, when it used to not??
"Want to make astounding and unsubstantiated claims about scientific discoveries? Move your research to beautiful China, where you can get a government grant to publish basically whatever you want with almost no peer-review."
Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists.
Oh so he lied when he said that
Nothing he said is a lie, that is not logically inconsistent, etc. He said it seems to high to prevent a feedback loop, and you said it keeps rising. That proves his point.
So when a climatologist makes a prediction about climate and gets it wrong, it's retroactively hyperbole ?
Didn't you read it? When asked what the world will be like he's like "traffic will be worse". And that's clearly rhetorical, because it leads him down the subtle consequences of climate change. I'm not saying it's in hindsight hyperbolic rhetoric, I'm saying that's how people speak when they are making a point, not a well-calibrated prediction.
Maybe qualify as being victims of a hurricane.
That's goalpost shifting. No one is going to leave because their island got covered in water. Long before that, there will be weather events that force people to leave. And you'll just say after each one "looks like that was just weather". Which means you cannot be convinced no matter what happens.
I tend to agree with a lot of what you said, except I'm not sure there are many commodity products left. At least not exposed to the final consumer. Yeah, there is conspicuous consumption or brand loyalty. But I'm thinking for most major purchases, there isn't a commodity alternative. And that covers both goods and services.
his is why I talk about the lowest-price equivalent good: stop buying Sony Vaio when you can pay 70% as much for an identical Dell or HP.
You're talking about brand. I'm talking about features. How do you compare computers where once has a better processor, another more RAM, a third a better GPU, etc. While a well informed consumer, with a well defined use case, may be able to force-rank them, it's hard. Hell, I'm considered fairly technically proficient, and I have a hard time evaluating them. And that's before you get into GPU shipped clock speed vs safe overclock speed vs architecture vs bus speed vs... well, you get the picture.
you've perhaps raised the price of the good by a mere 2%.
I would argue CITs are overhead, not COGS. But I'm assuming your italics means you don't care about that point and want to drop it. Fair enough. I'm happy to say "maybe we agree, or not, but it's not important (for this conversation)".
I invented an entirely-new branch of policy economics. Some economists have reviewed them
Very cool. I think the idea of scaling CIT on NOP margins is new (and find it pretty interesting). How did you get it taken seriously? Did you cold call academic economists? Get it in a journal? Do you have a paper I can read?
I would say NOP seems like it has a few interesting effects. It seems to heavily incentivize C-suite cash bonuses at Apple as compared to giving them options, and incentivize Walmart C-suite people to stock options. It seems like it would heavily reward Apple playing games with their structure, like have Apple stores spin off and have both Apple and (the new) Apple Stores LLC make ~9.5% NOP (very close to your target).
There are other questions. Is 8% across all industries? Can a lot of the current techniques used to smooth out bumpiness (e.g. amortizing R&D over multiple product years) be used, or will they be gamed?
Why the heck is it illegal to lend a relative money!?
It's not illegal for Fred Trump to loan Donald money*. This wasn't a personal loan. This was FT buying a bunch of casino chips, going home and cashing them in in a few weeks. Specifically when Donald needed to pay miillions to his bondholders (when he was expected to default), etc. Hence, it was more akin to fraudulently making Donald's casino look more profitable/solvent.
A loan would have been okay (and Fred loaned Donald's casinos far more money legally in the later years), but Fred wasn't on any paperwork as a source of financing. For some reason, NJ had an interest in preventing silent, cash-only partners in casinos. I wonder why. Oh well, gonna watch the Sopranos.
* although there may be tax questions if Donald pays below market rate in interest/never repays it, as gifts above a certain value are taxable.
Math does. Your assumption that your 500,000,001st dollar is as valuable as your 3rd doesn't. Money has non-linear value. The value of 500 million is more than half that of a billion.
How many people would take a 60% chance at a billion dollars (40% of nothing) vs. a guaranteed 500 million??
Why are you shipping by semi-truck and not by train
It depends on the speed required. Many goods loaded into a standard cargo container can have that container moved from ship to truck to train to truck. There's no reason to not have trains do the cross country part, and trucks do the last mile. However, it works best when time isn't a major concern... the benefits of trains are the pooling of resources to move items, which means compromising on schedules. So, fresh food is probably going to require trucks. So are short hauls. Lastly, trains are great at dense items, as trucks tend to be more limited by weight and trains by volume.
Right now, trains make up 30% of shipping in the US.
Trains are 3x as fuel-efficient as trucks.
For an average load. For lighter loads (e.g. plastic consumer products) train fuel-efficiency stays the same (or even declines) while truck efficiency can double (if it's light enough to hook two trailers up to one cab.) Hence, for some things, trucks are more green.
TL;DR Trains are great for some things, but suck when you need a precise shipment time or are shipping lighter than average things. This makes them bad for iPhone launch dates, plastic toys or just in time delivery of parts to a factory.
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You can do ethically questionable studies. You just cannot make the state look bad, lessen state control over the populace, or make the state weaker. If you publish a report that makes the state look bad internationally (we're making super-babies) you'll get smacked down.
Holy fuck, they want PTO and sick days with NO EXPERIENCE? How dare they. Oh wait, every job I've ever worked has offered PTO and sick days to every employee (absent temps) no matter the experience. Maybe don't have a shit benefit policy?
Fabric softener saves money. It makes clothes last longer, which lowers your clothing budget. Of course, that doesn't apply if you buy those tissue paper shirts that only last three washes, so it does require a certain amount of money to save money. It also doesn't apply if you have to keep up with the new fashions.
If you mean "false reporting can have serious financial consequences for the newspaper", you're wrong. For news written about a large corporation/public figures isn't actionable if it's false. It's actionable if it's grossly negligent or known to the reporter to be false. Bloomburg could say "oops" and that would be the end of it. Or it certainly would have been after the initial story. I don't know how doubled-down they are now.
A registry is... very old. Recent advances include the 2004 addition of combining registries across multiple stores. It's purpose is to let people not duplicate gifts with each other and/or what the recipient doesn't want.
Since baby showers (and the gifts that went with them) started during the post-WWII baby boom, your mom most likely had one, and received gifts (although maybe you're old than 70). This is no different than a friend of hers telling everyone that what your mom really wants are Amway products, available through the friend. It's just automated and computerized.
That would be absurd, because that's not how hotels get built. You plan the entire thing out. And yes, you would have to get the whole plans signed off on before you start building.
Your city sucks. People who do cool things don't like it. Maybe your city should start acting more like California to attract people who do cool things, as opposed to whining about how California doesn't deserve them.
Oh no, Elon Musk is such a genius he can't do basic paperwork
That's... not true. Things have nonlinear effects. It's sorites paradox.
Or, put it another way, no given xray (or cigarette) is likely to give you cancer. But getting 100 xrays a day (or smoking 5 packs a day) is likely to cause you to get cancer. That's why it's illegal to split a project into smaller pieces.
Yet again, Elon Musk promised something. Then, some unknown issue (like physics of minisubs or hyperloops in tunnels, laws, manufacturing in tents being hard) prevents him from delivering (at least on time). But, it's not his fault! Buy an overpriced weed burner!
The recognition algorithms can already see through most silly walks, fake limps, etc.
I'm not sure what you mean. Self-driving cars and augmented reality are obviously going to add to the ads that exist, as you get driven to a location and beamed right into your eye.
How do you block billboards in the real world?
The difference is, running macOS, Windows, Linux or OS/2 actually makes a difference compatibility wise. Intel vs. AMD, not really (there were some differences at the cutting edge, like SIMD, but most software waited until those were pretty standard anyway.)
Sheesh, this is a dupe of like 18 hours ago. Here it is
NASA is measuring ice, not ice+snow. They're not measuring the weight of the ice, they're measuring the thickness. And since snow blows around...
Note that this breach happened in 2016. Both the Netherlands and Britain have dramatically increased the maximum fines since then. If that happened today there would be a few more zeros on that fine.
You took Econ 101. Cute. Take a real econ course that covers how not to compete on price. I actually thought they covered that in Econ 101, but maybe you had to go further.
Sure, technically the snow that's been in Antarctica for 10,000 years is fusing to create new ice. Sorry to be imprecise. I meant: the total amount of frozen water on Antarctica, aggregated across all of its various forms, has increased melting.
BTW, snow fusing to become ice is a process that either requires added pressure (nope) or cycling temperature that goes above a certain point. Gee, I wonder what could be causing Antarctica's temperature to rise above a certain point every year, when it used to not??
No need. He published his comment from China.
Nothing he said is a lie, that is not logically inconsistent, etc. He said it seems to high to prevent a feedback loop, and you said it keeps rising. That proves his point.
Didn't you read it? When asked what the world will be like he's like "traffic will be worse". And that's clearly rhetorical, because it leads him down the subtle consequences of climate change. I'm not saying it's in hindsight hyperbolic rhetoric, I'm saying that's how people speak when they are making a point, not a well-calibrated prediction.
That's goalpost shifting. No one is going to leave because their island got covered in water. Long before that, there will be weather events that force people to leave. And you'll just say after each one "looks like that was just weather". Which means you cannot be convinced no matter what happens.
Or, what would have to happen to convince you?
I tend to agree with a lot of what you said, except I'm not sure there are many commodity products left. At least not exposed to the final consumer. Yeah, there is conspicuous consumption or brand loyalty. But I'm thinking for most major purchases, there isn't a commodity alternative. And that covers both goods and services.
You're talking about brand. I'm talking about features. How do you compare computers where once has a better processor, another more RAM, a third a better GPU, etc. While a well informed consumer, with a well defined use case, may be able to force-rank them, it's hard. Hell, I'm considered fairly technically proficient, and I have a hard time evaluating them. And that's before you get into GPU shipped clock speed vs safe overclock speed vs architecture vs bus speed vs... well, you get the picture.
I would argue CITs are overhead, not COGS. But I'm assuming your italics means you don't care about that point and want to drop it. Fair enough. I'm happy to say "maybe we agree, or not, but it's not important (for this conversation)".
Very cool. I think the idea of scaling CIT on NOP margins is new (and find it pretty interesting). How did you get it taken seriously? Did you cold call academic economists? Get it in a journal? Do you have a paper I can read?
I would say NOP seems like it has a few interesting effects. It seems to heavily incentivize C-suite cash bonuses at Apple as compared to giving them options, and incentivize Walmart C-suite people to stock options. It seems like it would heavily reward Apple playing games with their structure, like have Apple stores spin off and have both Apple and (the new) Apple Stores LLC make ~9.5% NOP (very close to your target).
There are other questions. Is 8% across all industries? Can a lot of the current techniques used to smooth out bumpiness (e.g. amortizing R&D over multiple product years) be used, or will they be gamed?
Loaning a casino cash in NJ without paperwork is quite illegal. It wasn't a personal loan.
It's not illegal for Fred Trump to loan Donald money*. This wasn't a personal loan. This was FT buying a bunch of casino chips, going home and cashing them in in a few weeks. Specifically when Donald needed to pay miillions to his bondholders (when he was expected to default), etc. Hence, it was more akin to fraudulently making Donald's casino look more profitable/solvent.
A loan would have been okay (and Fred loaned Donald's casinos far more money legally in the later years), but Fred wasn't on any paperwork as a source of financing. For some reason, NJ had an interest in preventing silent, cash-only partners in casinos. I wonder why. Oh well, gonna watch the Sopranos.
* although there may be tax questions if Donald pays below market rate in interest/never repays it, as gifts above a certain value are taxable.
Math does. Your assumption that your 500,000,001st dollar is as valuable as your 3rd doesn't. Money has non-linear value. The value of 500 million is more than half that of a billion.
How many people would take a 60% chance at a billion dollars (40% of nothing) vs. a guaranteed 500 million??
It depends on the speed required. Many goods loaded into a standard cargo container can have that container moved from ship to truck to train to truck. There's no reason to not have trains do the cross country part, and trucks do the last mile. However, it works best when time isn't a major concern... the benefits of trains are the pooling of resources to move items, which means compromising on schedules. So, fresh food is probably going to require trucks. So are short hauls. Lastly, trains are great at dense items, as trucks tend to be more limited by weight and trains by volume.
Right now, trains make up 30% of shipping in the US.
For an average load. For lighter loads (e.g. plastic consumer products) train fuel-efficiency stays the same (or even declines) while truck efficiency can double (if it's light enough to hook two trailers up to one cab.) Hence, for some things, trucks are more green.
TL;DR Trains are great for some things, but suck when you need a precise shipment time or are shipping lighter than average things. This makes them bad for iPhone launch dates, plastic toys or just in time delivery of parts to a factory.