They can earn money in the service industry, mainly serving elderly. Japan will have enough jobs for decades to come because of the demographic shift. It does mean an increasing distribution of GDP towards the non-working elderly, but because of the relatively high social cohesion it will work out.
Western Europe on the other hand is fucked, it will experience massive white flight as the working population flees to well to do nations with more favourable immigrant streams (Canada, US, Australia, NZ). Ageing population without social cohesion is a recipe for disaster.
We are nowhere near the lower bound of resource use for solar.
Solar will get cheap enough that you simply roll it out in the desert without any frames, staking it to the ground... maybe put pillow inflated with polymer foam under it if it can be made very very cheaply to angle it, but if not, ehh. It won't be consuming steel or glass at all at that point. Just a tiny bit of silicon and plastics (3M Ultra Barrier film last 25+ years).
This is an interesting story and all, but a targeted attack on a single machine using interception doesn't really make it likely there was compromise of Supermicro's supply chain at the factory level.
We know NSA intercepts Cisco routers, but that doesn't prove Cisco intentionally backdoors their machines for them in the factory.
It's billions of dollars of distraction. XBox does nothing to promote windows, yet it has caused perversive incentives to cripple Windows and loss of focus to improve it for gaming and multimedia. The loss of market-share to chromebooks at the bottom and macbooks at the top can not be compensated by XBox income. Would they have still lost it without XBox, probably... but maybe not.
The ascendancy of sandboxing on windows is over a decade late and crippled by the monetization model (again perverse incentives, App Installer should be a standard windows component, the health of windows is more important than appstore income). If they had spend all the XBox investments on accelerating that, they'd be in a better place.
Apple owns almost half the mobile phone market in the US and probably over 3/4 of the ones owned by middle class and up consumers. They have just as much sway to force changes in CAs as Google, they are also distrusting Symantec BTW.
Google's policies impose an opportunity cost for any CA issuing false certificates. CA's can still be abused, but that abuse turns a CA into a very expensive weapon which can only be used for a very limited time and then becomes useless. By showing that no CA is too big to fail they provide a valuable service. When abuse becomes more expensive, it's reduced... capitalism works.
Now I'd rather they support DANE, but even what they are doing now does improve matters.
You get to see what the researcher wants you to see and that's rarely enough in all context the research might be used. You want to know the "dead ends", you want to know the real motivations which led him down a particular path rather than the one he retro-actively constructs when he wants to put it in a pretty format. Whether that be a paper or a notebook.
VCS are more fundamental in reproducible research than pretty formatting. Show it all, final results, intermediate failures, lab notes... everything.
Spin a giant fresnel lens (or simply a diffuser) at L1 to shade the earth, like was already suggested in 2004 by Gregory Benford. He said you could use plastic, but I have my doubts that would survive very long. Aluminium oxide maybe? L1 delta v isn't much higher than LEO, so with SpaceX costs this should be doable for 10s of billions in lift cost.
A fraction of the opportunity cost of destroying the global economy and triggering WW3.
It's not the lack of freedom which is the problem, it's the lack of privacy. Most people don't want freedom, they want security, including against user error. They don't want the freedom to be able to shoot themselves in the foot in a million ways. They'll even sacrifice privacy for that kind of security.
The development and user model of chromebooks is the shining example of the only way Linux can be successful for computing for the general population. A very limited core set of software AND hardware configurations with high QA coverage, with the core software centrally administered with no way for the user to screw things up. Non core apps should all be containerized. Also add client side encrypted cloud backup of all their data so they can just switch to a new computer at will.
Ubuntu could give customers the best of both worlds, a centrally administered walled garden where they can't hurt themselves much, with the option to also run a self administered generic Ubuntu, with non containerized applications, at their own risk. Without datamining them like Google does.
At room temperature it doesn't go liquid regardless of pressure, you have to store it at cryogenic temperatures to keep it liquid. So you continuously lose energy.
Yet these people wouldn't even cite each other in their papers... you can find some broad classification to cover them both, but the commonality is fucking thin.
Could you show me some other shared prize where the commonality is that thin?
Sharing a prize for research in the same field I've seen plenty of times before, but these are clearly two entirely separate areas of research. Is this split weird or have I just been paying too little attention?
Anti-vaxxing is not a left/right wing issue... that's just a fable some leftist like to tell themselves. California is as much a hotbed of anti-vaxxers as the midwest. As the saying goes, sometimes the left and right cooperate to be stupid and evil.
The only left/right wing divide is on the issue of mandatory vaccinations.
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They can earn money in the service industry, mainly serving elderly. Japan will have enough jobs for decades to come because of the demographic shift. It does mean an increasing distribution of GDP towards the non-working elderly, but because of the relatively high social cohesion it will work out.
Western Europe on the other hand is fucked, it will experience massive white flight as the working population flees to well to do nations with more favourable immigrant streams (Canada, US, Australia, NZ). Ageing population without social cohesion is a recipe for disaster.
When they review you for granting a government contract.
Don't do business with government and they need more evidence than just statistics.
We are nowhere near the lower bound of resource use for solar.
Solar will get cheap enough that you simply roll it out in the desert without any frames, staking it to the ground ... maybe put pillow inflated with polymer foam under it if it can be made very very cheaply to angle it, but if not, ehh. It won't be consuming steel or glass at all at that point. Just a tiny bit of silicon and plastics (3M Ultra Barrier film last 25+ years).
Solar and wind need backup ... gas is slightly cheaper as backup, but coal is easier to build a strategic stockpile from.
The goal is destroy the west out of (self-)hatred, while it makes nearly no difference.
Wholesale prices are dropping though because of the frequent oversupply ... so consumers get fucked, industry becomes more competitive.
From a mercantilist point of view it kinda works, though the EU doesn't really need a mercantilist Germany at this point in time.
You can simply use the renewable to save fossil fuel and have overcapacity.
You get very expensive electricity that way of course.
Interception and a soldering iron.
This is an interesting story and all, but a targeted attack on a single machine using interception doesn't really make it likely there was compromise of Supermicro's supply chain at the factory level.
We know NSA intercepts Cisco routers, but that doesn't prove Cisco intentionally backdoors their machines for them in the factory.
It's billions of dollars of distraction. XBox does nothing to promote windows, yet it has caused perversive incentives to cripple Windows and loss of focus to improve it for gaming and multimedia. The loss of market-share to chromebooks at the bottom and macbooks at the top can not be compensated by XBox income. Would they have still lost it without XBox, probably ... but maybe not.
The ascendancy of sandboxing on windows is over a decade late and crippled by the monetization model (again perverse incentives, App Installer should be a standard windows component, the health of windows is more important than appstore income). If they had spend all the XBox investments on accelerating that, they'd be in a better place.
Apple owns almost half the mobile phone market in the US and probably over 3/4 of the ones owned by middle class and up consumers. They have just as much sway to force changes in CAs as Google, they are also distrusting Symantec BTW.
Google's policies impose an opportunity cost for any CA issuing false certificates. CA's can still be abused, but that abuse turns a CA into a very expensive weapon which can only be used for a very limited time and then becomes useless. By showing that no CA is too big to fail they provide a valuable service. When abuse becomes more expensive, it's reduced ... capitalism works.
Now I'd rather they support DANE, but even what they are doing now does improve matters.
You get to see what the researcher wants you to see and that's rarely enough in all context the research might be used. You want to know the "dead ends", you want to know the real motivations which led him down a particular path rather than the one he retro-actively constructs when he wants to put it in a pretty format. Whether that be a paper or a notebook.
VCS are more fundamental in reproducible research than pretty formatting. Show it all, final results, intermediate failures, lab notes ... everything.
Spin a giant fresnel lens (or simply a diffuser) at L1 to shade the earth, like was already suggested in 2004 by Gregory Benford. He said you could use plastic, but I have my doubts that would survive very long. Aluminium oxide maybe? L1 delta v isn't much higher than LEO, so with SpaceX costs this should be doable for 10s of billions in lift cost.
A fraction of the opportunity cost of destroying the global economy and triggering WW3.
It's not the lack of freedom which is the problem, it's the lack of privacy. Most people don't want freedom, they want security, including against user error. They don't want the freedom to be able to shoot themselves in the foot in a million ways. They'll even sacrifice privacy for that kind of security.
The development and user model of chromebooks is the shining example of the only way Linux can be successful for computing for the general population. A very limited core set of software AND hardware configurations with high QA coverage, with the core software centrally administered with no way for the user to screw things up. Non core apps should all be containerized. Also add client side encrypted cloud backup of all their data so they can just switch to a new computer at will.
Ubuntu could give customers the best of both worlds, a centrally administered walled garden where they can't hurt themselves much, with the option to also run a self administered generic Ubuntu, with non containerized applications, at their own risk. Without datamining them like Google does.
Most employees don't need workstations, they just need a desktop to get a better monitor and keyboard. An USB-C dock suffices for that.
CNG has very low energy density and the natural storage is of limited availability.
At room temperature it doesn't go liquid regardless of pressure, you have to store it at cryogenic temperatures to keep it liquid. So you continuously lose energy.
"In 2015, we were made aware of malicious manipulation of software"
Facebook confirmed nothing you fucking morons ...
You have to store methane at cryogenic temperatures to keep it liquid, we need electricity to liquids at room temperature, not electricity to gas.
They are a friend to money, I trust greed.
Yet these people wouldn't even cite each other in their papers ... you can find some broad classification to cover them both, but the commonality is fucking thin.
Could you show me some other shared prize where the commonality is that thin?
Sharing a prize for research in the same field I've seen plenty of times before, but these are clearly two entirely separate areas of research. Is this split weird or have I just been paying too little attention?
Put them behind the windshield then.
Anti-vaxxing is not a left/right wing issue ... that's just a fable some leftist like to tell themselves. California is as much a hotbed of anti-vaxxers as the midwest. As the saying goes, sometimes the left and right cooperate to be stupid and evil.
The only left/right wing divide is on the issue of mandatory vaccinations.