It wasn't. This has been well known for decades. This new research didn't "discover" subterranean life, they mostly just quantified and categorized it.
(Also, how is aluminium mining even economically viable?)
I'm reasonably sure that the energy cost given for aluminium was mostly for smelting, not mining. Aluminium is a fairly light metal, so even though a quick google was showing it 7 times the price of iron by weight, it's only about twice the price by volume. And it has uses where it is cheaper than other metals, like in drink cans, simply because of the properties of the metal.
Aging doesn't make this sound appealing. I've lived with being slightly short sighted my whole life, but now I'm at the age where the reverse is starting to kick in too. I can't see anything closer than about 6 inches to my eye clearly, which isn't a problem but it will get worse. I'll stick to books I can ready without a magnifying glass or reading glasses, thank you.
It's not even as bad as that. The rate that was shown in the article was about the rate of growth of the number of people with internet access. I tried working backwards with the figures they gave (44.9% of women, 50.9% of men, for an average of 47.9%) and estimating the percentage of the world's population that had internet access in each of the years the graph in the article showed a growth rate for. The resulting numbers give an almost linear increase of 3% per annum, so the numbers getting online each year isn't diminishing, it's just that each year there are more already online compared to newcomers. If that trend continues the entire world will be online around 2035.
If you were growing everything you needed to make beer and then brewed it yourself, a pint of beer would not cost 5 quid.
If you buy a pre-made kit where all you have to do is boil water, toss in a can of hopped malt and some yeast, and then wait 2 weeks, it comes to about 40 cents for a pint of some pretty good beer. Growing & malting yourself might be cheaper, depending on what your time is worth.
6 500ml bottles of lager will cost $12-$15 in Ireland in an off-licence, and obviously something decent is more expensive. That would make the spike range for cheap piss 27% to 167%, not 80% to 350%.
I guess that's one of the problems with modern discourse on the subject, nobody is working from the same definition. Even if you look on wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... mentions at least four different versions in the introduction. I think it is likely most people who think of themselves as socialists (and I do, to some extent) are cherry picking the bits that they like and/or make sense to them. I, for example, think Marx's elimination of markets and trade is sheer lunacy.
A different way to calculate the value of $5 in 1915 would be to compare it to house prices. A 48 week year of 5 days a week at $5 would net you $1200, and house prices were ~$3200. So Ford paid around 37.5% the median house price per year. Current median US house price is roughly $200k, so if Bezos wants to deserve a comparison to Ford he needs to up wages to about $39 an hour.
There is a reason the US is the worlds number one destination when it comes to people trying to enter the US. People looking to legally immigrate and move permanently to the US. People trying to obtain Visas to attend US Universities and Colleges. People trying to grab the coveted H1B Visas enabling them to work in the US. People who overstay their Visas. And finally the number of illegal immigrants willing to risk life and limb to enter the US using any means possible.
It depends on how you look at it. These (out of date) figures show that it is the largest in absolute numbers, but that is not really surprising given that the US has the 3rd largest population in the world, and definitely will give you a much better quality of life than the 2 larger ones. If you look at it in terms of net migration compared to the population size, it only comes in at #31.
As pointed out by someone above, it makes sense when you have paid off high cost debts and can more profitably invest than pay off low cost debts. As for resources, you are correct, Ireland doesn't do much in the way of resource extraction other than zinc, lead and bauxite mining, with the odd bit of copper, silver and gold thrown in.
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Or smarter than humans?
"Chinese Scientists Have Put Human Brain Genes In Monkeys -- And Yes, They May Be Smarter"
Obviously these Chinese scientists are smarter than either monkeys or humans.
You read my mind!
Wrong. D is 0.99 times lighter than A, 0.9875 times lighter than B, and 0.9833 times lighter than C.
Disagree? Then use unambiguous language.
Try overlaying that map and the areas hit by blizzards in the last week.
No, he didn't. His first post, verbatim:
It wasn't. This has been well known for decades. This new research didn't "discover" subterranean life, they mostly just quantified and categorized it.
Jesus fucking Christ, what is it with all the hate here? Yeah yeah lock her up, send Trump to prison, blah blah blah SHUT THE FUCK UP.
This man was a legend, at least wait until he's cold in the ground before using his death as a platform for your bullshit.
(Also, how is aluminium mining even economically viable?)
I'm reasonably sure that the energy cost given for aluminium was mostly for smelting, not mining. Aluminium is a fairly light metal, so even though a quick google was showing it 7 times the price of iron by weight, it's only about twice the price by volume. And it has uses where it is cheaper than other metals, like in drink cans, simply because of the properties of the metal.
Or maybe we don't care for an ugly structure built to gather information that is of no practical use whatsoever?
The usefulness of information cannot be ascertained until it has been gathered.
Aging doesn't make this sound appealing. I've lived with being slightly short sighted my whole life, but now I'm at the age where the reverse is starting to kick in too. I can't see anything closer than about 6 inches to my eye clearly, which isn't a problem but it will get worse. I'll stick to books I can ready without a magnifying glass or reading glasses, thank you.
If the traffic was destined from canada to the us and went via china that would be far more suspicious.
Not necessarily. I know Virgin Media used to route traffic from one of our customers about 5 miles away across the Atlantic and back.
I should have said, a 3% linear increase in the percentage of world populalation online.
It's not even as bad as that. The rate that was shown in the article was about the rate of growth of the number of people with internet access. I tried working backwards with the figures they gave (44.9% of women, 50.9% of men, for an average of 47.9%) and estimating the percentage of the world's population that had internet access in each of the years the graph in the article showed a growth rate for. The resulting numbers give an almost linear increase of 3% per annum, so the numbers getting online each year isn't diminishing, it's just that each year there are more already online compared to newcomers. If that trend continues the entire world will be online around 2035.
If you were growing everything you needed to make beer and then brewed it yourself, a pint of beer would not cost 5 quid.
If you buy a pre-made kit where all you have to do is boil water, toss in a can of hopped malt and some yeast, and then wait 2 weeks, it comes to about 40 cents for a pint of some pretty good beer. Growing & malting yourself might be cheaper, depending on what your time is worth.
Trust me, mine is significantly more expensive than that. But it's mostly taxes.
6 500ml bottles of lager will cost $12-$15 in Ireland in an off-licence, and obviously something decent is more expensive. That would make the spike range for cheap piss 27% to 167%, not 80% to 350%.
I guess that's one of the problems with modern discourse on the subject, nobody is working from the same definition. Even if you look on wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... mentions at least four different versions in the introduction. I think it is likely most people who think of themselves as socialists (and I do, to some extent) are cherry picking the bits that they like and/or make sense to them. I, for example, think Marx's elimination of markets and trade is sheer lunacy.
Socialism is government control of the means of production.
No it isn't. It is the people being in control of the means of production. Your definition can apply iff the people are in control of the government.
A different way to calculate the value of $5 in 1915 would be to compare it to house prices. A 48 week year of 5 days a week at $5 would net you $1200, and house prices were ~$3200. So Ford paid around 37.5% the median house price per year. Current median US house price is roughly $200k, so if Bezos wants to deserve a comparison to Ford he needs to up wages to about $39 an hour.
Point out the relevant line please. And no, "when an individual human life begins" is not the same thing.
There is a reason the US is the worlds number one destination when it comes to people trying to enter the US. People looking to legally immigrate and move permanently to the US. People trying to obtain Visas to attend US Universities and Colleges. People trying to grab the coveted H1B Visas enabling them to work in the US. People who overstay their Visas. And finally the number of illegal immigrants willing to risk life and limb to enter the US using any means possible.
It depends on how you look at it. These (out of date) figures show that it is the largest in absolute numbers, but that is not really surprising given that the US has the 3rd largest population in the world, and definitely will give you a much better quality of life than the 2 larger ones. If you look at it in terms of net migration compared to the population size, it only comes in at #31.
You know... While on their deathbad no one ever said 'I wish I spent more time at the office'.
Maybe Aubrey de Grey will.
The person he replied to had no points, only a collection of strawmen.
In the US, a house that is older than the mortgage is old...
In Europe, a house that is older than the US is old ;)
Fascism was corporate statism, so they probably fit into both the categories you suggest.
As pointed out by someone above, it makes sense when you have paid off high cost debts and can more profitably invest than pay off low cost debts. As for resources, you are correct, Ireland doesn't do much in the way of resource extraction other than zinc, lead and bauxite mining, with the odd bit of copper, silver and gold thrown in.