The value of a bitcoin that one has invested in is highly dependent upon influencing others to believe that bitcoin is viable and not in a bubble. Once the public loses faith in it, the value drops. Once organized crime loses faith in it, the value plummets and the game is over. So you'll never see anyone with investments in bitcoin express any form of doubt at any time.
It only makes financial sense to do this if the power cost is extremely low. If they had to pay the average rate for commercial electricity across the US they'd go out of business fast. So they target the ultra low cost regions where the hydro electricity intended for local residents and businesses can be tapped. Like leeches, but not as cuddly.
You get stuck with the sunk cost problem. You're spent tons of money rolling things out to support Oracle. Now the yearly cost is high, but it's still a lot smaller than starting from scratch, so the companies stick with it. Never mind that the IT staff that are trained in Oracle and don't have experience in anything else have a vested interest in keeping Oracle lest they get replaced at the same time that Oracle is replaced.
Oh ya, I'm 55 and finally got my first A/C last year, a portable for those few days where it gets miserable. There's just something about California where they resist putting A/C into houses, condos, apartments because it would be like admitting that the weather wasn't perfect.
There are a lot of older homes that are just terrible at insulation. Excessive power use in winter and summer. Newer houses tend to be better built as far as insulation goes, fewer drafts, double paned windows, etc.
Although growing up we had A/C after awhile, we didn't use it much even though it would regularly get above 100 in the summer. The cost was just too high to keep it on all the time. So you head to a swimming pool instead, or go stand in the ice cream aisle of the grocery store. Even in college I knew it was trouble when the brochure for the apartments said "cooled by ocean breezes", which meant no A/C and sure enough when the hot winds came everyone pulled out fans and sweated a lot.
I think there's a new generation that sees "linux" as it's own thing, and not as a unix clone. Never mind hordes of recently minted devs who want to help out however they can even if they don't know the best way to help out.
For a simple to use system that is easy enough to install and get going, Linux is good. But if I ever ended up having to admin systems, muck with the kernel, or do some application development, a BSD would be better in so many ways.
Ifconfig *is* the API though. If you write code to expect/proc then it will only work on Linux. If you write to ifconfig then you've got good chances to work on BSDs, OSX, and with some tweaks maybe be compatible with ipconfig on windows as well. If you write an application to use/proc then that's a big red flag that someone is trying to bake in job security.
Not really a natural part of the ecosystem, the vast majority of feral cats were once pets or kittens from pets. The reason the vole and rabbit population went up is because you don't have other predators in the area, like cayotes or snakes. Also, a sudden loss of a predator does cause a subsequent rise in prey, but that will usually work itself out over time.
It's not really Google, it's a group of people at Google. And no, Google does not make an effort to only hire geniuses, but they probably do hire people who think they are geniuses.
I think it's funny that the guy gave an interview and didn't consider himself a millennial at all. Instead he said: "I would say I'm uh, that I'm really not a member of that demographic they're speaking to, of that group, I'm a very conservative. The millennials they’re speaking to are very liberal in their ideology, um,"
I bet this guy went around laughing about snowflakes without realizing he was one.
My brother had some work problems and ended up renting a room in town with a low paying job, just a few blocks from my parents. I don't think he even considered staying at the parents' place for longer than it took to find a job and a place to rent. Of course the parents helped in finding the place, and he wasn't living in what anyone could call "style". The parents had two unused bedrooms that he could have used I suppose, but overall that arrangement is best left as a worst case safety net.
The parents are not making it everyone else's responsibility, they're just telling this guy to leave their house. Are the parents required to be slaves to this guy forever?
You haven't provided any evidence that the parents are at fault, and there are plenty of news stories about this case if you want to search for such evidence. You're just assuming a-priori that a bad child automatically means bad parents.
Untrue. A person should be their own responsibility. The parents certainly can help but they're not required to be fully trained psychologists who can spot these sorts of personality disorders and correct them on their own. the guy had left the house with a job once, the parents did their job just fine there. Sometimes good people end up with bad kids.
Are you also going to blame the schools for not having proper role models, or blame the neighbors for not taking over when they saw any mistakes from the parents? Why not blame the deadbeat?
My guess is that if he was looking for a job then it was for a high paying job suitable for his own self-image. That doesn't fly in family court trying to get custody. Even having the McDonald's job looks better in court than explaining how that perfect job is coming, just give him some time, tell the parents to stop nagging me and be patient, etc.
You can't blame parents for this really. I know great parents who just had a problem child while the others turned out great.
This isn't just here, there have been stories coming from Italy the past few years about well paid single men still living with their parents because it's "free". Sure, they'll get married and leave someday, but their moms are worried about how to get them to launch sooner than that.
Well, you hope they keep up with inflation at least, or keep up with housing prices so that you can sell and rebuy somewhere else. The purpose of a house primarily is to live in it. For your retirement plan, the purpose of investing in a house is so that you don't have to rent when in retirement.
Generally, the land is worth more than the house most places. Condos and such are a different matter.
My friends in Sweden in a conversation said that they owned their home even though one of them was still in school. Renting there outside of a city is rare, and basically everyone owns their homes. I didn't get all the details, but I assume this means you aren't saving up for 10% down when buying all the time, and paying the mortgage is somewhat equivalent to paying rent (except for having the fixed cost and no worries about eviction).
It wasn't a couple of weeks notice, and they guy wasn't even paying rent. They gave several notices, hints, and whatnot, and they guy was not still looking for a job (which is different from looking for a job and not finding one).
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The value of a bitcoin that one has invested in is highly dependent upon influencing others to believe that bitcoin is viable and not in a bubble. Once the public loses faith in it, the value drops. Once organized crime loses faith in it, the value plummets and the game is over. So you'll never see anyone with investments in bitcoin express any form of doubt at any time.
It only makes financial sense to do this if the power cost is extremely low. If they had to pay the average rate for commercial electricity across the US they'd go out of business fast. So they target the ultra low cost regions where the hydro electricity intended for local residents and businesses can be tapped. Like leeches, but not as cuddly.
You get stuck with the sunk cost problem. You're spent tons of money rolling things out to support Oracle. Now the yearly cost is high, but it's still a lot smaller than starting from scratch, so the companies stick with it. Never mind that the IT staff that are trained in Oracle and don't have experience in anything else have a vested interest in keeping Oracle lest they get replaced at the same time that Oracle is replaced.
Oh ya, I'm 55 and finally got my first A/C last year, a portable for those few days where it gets miserable. There's just something about California where they resist putting A/C into houses, condos, apartments because it would be like admitting that the weather wasn't perfect.
There are a lot of older homes that are just terrible at insulation. Excessive power use in winter and summer. Newer houses tend to be better built as far as insulation goes, fewer drafts, double paned windows, etc.
Although growing up we had A/C after awhile, we didn't use it much even though it would regularly get above 100 in the summer. The cost was just too high to keep it on all the time. So you head to a swimming pool instead, or go stand in the ice cream aisle of the grocery store. Even in college I knew it was trouble when the brochure for the apartments said "cooled by ocean breezes", which meant no A/C and sure enough when the hot winds came everyone pulled out fans and sweated a lot.
You still don't know if they failed to raise him right. Sometimes a kid just turns out wrong no matter what you do.
Probably someone who think that "unix-like" means short and unintelligible program names.
I bought my parent's home and made them move to the basement!
Same here, already posted so I can mod.
I think there's a new generation that sees "linux" as it's own thing, and not as a unix clone. Never mind hordes of recently minted devs who want to help out however they can even if they don't know the best way to help out.
For a simple to use system that is easy enough to install and get going, Linux is good. But if I ever ended up having to admin systems, muck with the kernel, or do some application development, a BSD would be better in so many ways.
Ifconfig *is* the API though. If you write code to expect /proc then it will only work on Linux. If you write to ifconfig then you've got good chances to work on BSDs, OSX, and with some tweaks maybe be compatible with ipconfig on windows as well. If you write an application to use /proc then that's a big red flag that someone is trying to bake in job security.
Hush little baby, don't say a word,
We'll stay in this burrow with a bird.
Can we also spay and neuter the googlers?
Can't eat it, I'm vegan.
Not really a natural part of the ecosystem, the vast majority of feral cats were once pets or kittens from pets. The reason the vole and rabbit population went up is because you don't have other predators in the area, like cayotes or snakes. Also, a sudden loss of a predator does cause a subsequent rise in prey, but that will usually work itself out over time.
It's not really Google, it's a group of people at Google. And no, Google does not make an effort to only hire geniuses, but they probably do hire people who think they are geniuses.
I think it's funny that the guy gave an interview and didn't consider himself a millennial at all. Instead he said:
"I would say I'm uh, that I'm really not a member of that demographic they're speaking to, of that group, I'm a very conservative. The millennials they’re speaking to are very liberal in their ideology, um,"
I bet this guy went around laughing about snowflakes without realizing he was one.
My brother had some work problems and ended up renting a room in town with a low paying job, just a few blocks from my parents. I don't think he even considered staying at the parents' place for longer than it took to find a job and a place to rent. Of course the parents helped in finding the place, and he wasn't living in what anyone could call "style". The parents had two unused bedrooms that he could have used I suppose, but overall that arrangement is best left as a worst case safety net.
I know plenty of kids that got spanked that ended up in jail too :-)
The parents are not making it everyone else's responsibility, they're just telling this guy to leave their house. Are the parents required to be slaves to this guy forever?
You haven't provided any evidence that the parents are at fault, and there are plenty of news stories about this case if you want to search for such evidence. You're just assuming a-priori that a bad child automatically means bad parents.
Untrue. A person should be their own responsibility. The parents certainly can help but they're not required to be fully trained psychologists who can spot these sorts of personality disorders and correct them on their own. the guy had left the house with a job once, the parents did their job just fine there. Sometimes good people end up with bad kids.
Are you also going to blame the schools for not having proper role models, or blame the neighbors for not taking over when they saw any mistakes from the parents? Why not blame the deadbeat?
My guess is that if he was looking for a job then it was for a high paying job suitable for his own self-image. That doesn't fly in family court trying to get custody. Even having the McDonald's job looks better in court than explaining how that perfect job is coming, just give him some time, tell the parents to stop nagging me and be patient, etc.
You can't blame parents for this really. I know great parents who just had a problem child while the others turned out great.
This isn't just here, there have been stories coming from Italy the past few years about well paid single men still living with their parents because it's "free". Sure, they'll get married and leave someday, but their moms are worried about how to get them to launch sooner than that.
Well, you hope they keep up with inflation at least, or keep up with housing prices so that you can sell and rebuy somewhere else. The purpose of a house primarily is to live in it. For your retirement plan, the purpose of investing in a house is so that you don't have to rent when in retirement.
Generally, the land is worth more than the house most places. Condos and such are a different matter.
My friends in Sweden in a conversation said that they owned their home even though one of them was still in school. Renting there outside of a city is rare, and basically everyone owns their homes. I didn't get all the details, but I assume this means you aren't saving up for 10% down when buying all the time, and paying the mortgage is somewhat equivalent to paying rent (except for having the fixed cost and no worries about eviction).
People actually bred because they didn't know how not to breed. The fact that you got some extra labor was just a bonus.
It wasn't a couple of weeks notice, and they guy wasn't even paying rent. They gave several notices, hints, and whatnot, and they guy was not still looking for a job (which is different from looking for a job and not finding one).