Is that why California ranks almost dead-bottom for education and bottom for poverty level?
As much as I hate Cali: educational results can usually be explained by demographics, and Cali is no exception. This is especially true of states with a sizable ESL population: you're never going to get the same statistical educational outcomes from native English speakers and those who enter the educational system not speaking English.
Imagine, one side of the building has an automated robotic system that, picks up a shipping container housing unit, from a truck waiting below the building & carries it & inserts it into any target slot in the building, or does the opposite, whenever needed!
(& imagine, the building itself (of any size) is also build from standard design parts, just like LEGO!)
I saw that movie! The part where it all fell over was cool. And of course it would - someone would save 50 cents per bolt and falsify the records to meet code, and be long gone when it mattered.
If sea levels displace the ridiculous coastal cities, it may well cause land values in unpopular flyover country to go way up, but likely to something still a lot lower than the current big coastal cities. Why do we need to live in big cities on the coast, again? Al those jobs in heavy industry that needs water-based shipping?
There is nowhere in the city left to build, you have to knock something down to put something else up there.
Every dense city in the world is this way. In most places, this happens routinely. When I was in Seattle, I could consistently see 14 high-rise construction cranes out the break room window. As one building would finish, another would start. There were always 30 or so mid- and high-rises going up, replacing shorter buildings. When I visited London, it was that on steroids: construction cranes as far as the eye could see.
So obviously there's NIMBY type stuff in every city
Yes, but it's extreme in SF. Seattle's mayor was proud that "we're not going to be SF": the city would work to enable new projects, not work to block them. Both very liberal west-coast US cities with similar values, but one wants growth and the other doesn't.
NIMBY means there's not a free market; governments are preventing the market from operating.
As the rent goes up, it becomes a lucrative business deal to buy up properties, demolish what's there, and build housing. That's what a free market would lead to, but that's not allowed to happen.
Calling it "the government" just hides the blame. Existing property owners are blocking new construction. And no wonder: the value of their property skyrockets thereby.
There's a significant difference between trusting someone you know, and trusting an abstract "fact checking service" with an unknown agenda. Much like movie reviewers - most are useless, but sometimes you find one whose biases you understand (but even then, sometimes you discover they've been taking bribes), and sometimes you just go with the opinion of a fried who got there first.
The last bit is how I work, for the most part. I benefit from the professional experience of my friends, when possible, or undertake my own education at length if I feel it really matters. Otherwise I don't presume to know what's "fact".
My point is that the false authority of "fact checkers" is a tool that really serves no other purpose than abuse. It is a tool of ideological propaganda, and should be thusly despised.
Do your own research, or "follow" someone who does. Either way, you can only find the truth at the end of your own journey of discovery.
Right, fact checking... not the fucking media alltogether, no the scourge is fact checking, where you have to at least explain why something might be true or not, by deffinition.
The government already controls the news media entirely. This is the next step.
Awesome, do it now. The criminal fraud Presidency needs corrected.
And this is of course the problem with bots like this. The "facts" will always conform to a particular political world view - that's just how humans work. Imagine your feed where a bot installed by a big Trump fan labeled stuff as "fake news" whenever it disagreed with Trump. And that's exactly how it works in China. It isn't some hypothetical situation here: government control of "fact checking" is the very heart of modern totalitarianism.
People have these naive ideas about "facts" being objective and bias free, and that's great, but fact-checkers never are. The farther down the rabbit hole a society goes, the more blatant this effect becomes.
however, I know many people who bought these and hacked them to be used home automation buttons. Buttons that controlled switches, lights, scenes, routines, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if more people bought them for this purpose than what they really were meant for.
Amazon's IOT team actually gave away a shitton of generic buttons at trade shows, to get people interested in using these buttons for home automation.
The San Francisco Tech Oligopoly are doing their best. Fortunately, they aren't backed by the rule of law (yet) and in the US new alternatives are gradually emerging to allow uncensored political discussion online.
It's a much worse situation in e.g. the UK, where it's now illegal to offend people, and blasphemy laws are routinely enforced (under the label of hate speech). But the UK hasn't fallen off the cliff yet. There was discussion in parliament a while back during the riots about removing benefits for people identified as rioters (most of whom have no practical means of legal survival except a government check). But the discussion didn't go anywhere, and sanity prevailed for now. Still prety close to that cliff edge though.
It's not at all clear that a society can ever recover from a panopticon totalitarianism.
Those old games in reality took only a few hours to beat if you didn't die once.
Many just take a few minutes. The speedrunning community is amazing.
I'm still torn by which I'm most impressed with: the cubing community with their blindfold cube solving, or the speedrunning community beating Punch Out blindfolded (the final fight requires 1-frame accuracy).
Most browsers are limited to 720p, Safari can do 1080p but full screen flickers due to some odd bug which Apple seems uninterested to fix so I watch with the Apple menu on. Edge can do 4K on HDCP compliant hardware.
Wow, only Edge? That's annoying, but at least it's an option. Thanks for the info.
If, net net, more bandwidth is used than it otherwise would be, then there's a added cost to NetFlix. Simple as that. Since most people don't watch 2 or more streams 24/7, there's plenty of room for abuse.
The person paying has a deal with NetFlix to watch up to some max number of streams. Both the customer and NetFlix agreed o this deal. But if someone who's not part of any deal starts consuming bandwidth, that's theft of services.
Or go one step further by removing ads from all videos featuring children. That would remove the incentives for adults to exploit children for financial gain on YouTube.
It would punish normal families vlogging normal family stuff. Not what I watch, but apparently that's pretty common. Unless you're really stretching the meaning of "exploit" and that's what you meant.
It would remove financial incentives for kids posting whatever kids post about themselves. I'm not sure that matters much, though you'd need some exception for professional performers, I'd think. Much as the web would have been better off without Justin Beiber,
It would not remove the incentive for actual pedos, since I doubt the money is what motiviates them (almost by definition).
Seem like demonetizing all videos with kids would only hurt the wrong people. Which is likely why YT went this way. There was a big push-back over the past week to their initial demonetization of clearly wholesome videos, because some of them had creepy comments.
Watch smarter videos and you'll get smarter comments.
I frequently see good commenting on math and science videos. The ratio is lower on political videos, but still quite valuable when someone points out factual errors and links evidence.
There is some cost to NetFlix, in that their infrastructure has unauthorized use, and bandwidth is never free. That's different from e.g. ripping a DVD you rent from NetFlix, where it costs NetFlix the same either way.
I could only see it as piracy if one of those streams was not authorized by the subscriber, but instead was actual cracking of NetFlix infrastructure. Sure, call that piracy. Otherwise, people are just using what they pay for.
Does anyone know if you can stream NetFlix in HD to the browser yet? Last time I tried, you couldn't...
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Is that why California ranks almost dead-bottom for education and bottom for poverty level?
As much as I hate Cali: educational results can usually be explained by demographics, and Cali is no exception. This is especially true of states with a sizable ESL population: you're never going to get the same statistical educational outcomes from native English speakers and those who enter the educational system not speaking English.
If you don't have anything to point to, fuck off and die having lost the argument. The system works.
For values of "works" exceeding $3500/month for one bedroom.
Imagine, one side of the building has an automated robotic system that, picks up a shipping container housing unit, from a truck waiting below the building & carries it & inserts it into any target slot in the building, or does the opposite, whenever needed!
(& imagine, the building itself (of any size) is also build from standard design parts, just like LEGO!)
I saw that movie! The part where it all fell over was cool. And of course it would - someone would save 50 cents per bolt and falsify the records to meet code, and be long gone when it mattered.
I expect this to get worse with climate change.
If sea levels displace the ridiculous coastal cities, it may well cause land values in unpopular flyover country to go way up, but likely to something still a lot lower than the current big coastal cities. Why do we need to live in big cities on the coast, again? Al those jobs in heavy industry that needs water-based shipping?
There is nowhere in the city left to build, you have to knock something down to put something else up there.
Every dense city in the world is this way. In most places, this happens routinely. When I was in Seattle, I could consistently see 14 high-rise construction cranes out the break room window. As one building would finish, another would start. There were always 30 or so mid- and high-rises going up, replacing shorter buildings. When I visited London, it was that on steroids: construction cranes as far as the eye could see.
So obviously there's NIMBY type stuff in every city
Yes, but it's extreme in SF. Seattle's mayor was proud that "we're not going to be SF": the city would work to enable new projects, not work to block them. Both very liberal west-coast US cities with similar values, but one wants growth and the other doesn't.
You know nothing about business. Chewy has been growing for years now. You're a moron.
I've been growing for years now, middle age and all, but Chewbacca is the same size as always.
NIMBY means there's not a free market; governments are preventing the market from operating.
As the rent goes up, it becomes a lucrative business deal to buy up properties, demolish what's there, and build housing. That's what a free market would lead to, but that's not allowed to happen.
Calling it "the government" just hides the blame. Existing property owners are blocking new construction. And no wonder: the value of their property skyrockets thereby.
There's a significant difference between trusting someone you know, and trusting an abstract "fact checking service" with an unknown agenda. Much like movie reviewers - most are useless, but sometimes you find one whose biases you understand (but even then, sometimes you discover they've been taking bribes), and sometimes you just go with the opinion of a fried who got there first.
The last bit is how I work, for the most part. I benefit from the professional experience of my friends, when possible, or undertake my own education at length if I feel it really matters. Otherwise I don't presume to know what's "fact".
My point is that the false authority of "fact checkers" is a tool that really serves no other purpose than abuse. It is a tool of ideological propaganda, and should be thusly despised.
Do your own research, or "follow" someone who does. Either way, you can only find the truth at the end of your own journey of discovery.
We have a bit of additional protection in that, unlike other journalists, fact-checkers' goal and purpose is to suppress bias as much as possible.
All the major fact-checkers in the US today have descended into politics pretty far already. Some are blatant political propaganda.
And do you think people want neutral fact checkers? Of course not. They want their beliefs confirmed, and will find fact checkers that do that.
Right, fact checking... not the fucking media alltogether, no the scourge is fact checking, where you have to at least explain why something might be true or not, by deffinition.
The government already controls the news media entirely. This is the next step.
"Fact checking" is, in general, a process that always spirals into ideological control and enforced orthodoxy.
Awesome, do it now. The criminal fraud Presidency needs corrected.
And this is of course the problem with bots like this. The "facts" will always conform to a particular political world view - that's just how humans work. Imagine your feed where a bot installed by a big Trump fan labeled stuff as "fake news" whenever it disagreed with Trump. And that's exactly how it works in China. It isn't some hypothetical situation here: government control of "fact checking" is the very heart of modern totalitarianism.
People have these naive ideas about "facts" being objective and bias free, and that's great, but fact-checkers never are. The farther down the rabbit hole a society goes, the more blatant this effect becomes.
You are right, it's a stupid idea....
however, I know many people who bought these and hacked them to be used home automation buttons. Buttons that controlled switches, lights, scenes, routines, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if more people bought them for this purpose than what they really were meant for.
Amazon's IOT team actually gave away a shitton of generic buttons at trade shows, to get people interested in using these buttons for home automation.
There isn't. That bandwidth was already payed for by a contract.
I think you're being deliberately dense.
Coming to a western democracy near you soon.
The San Francisco Tech Oligopoly are doing their best. Fortunately, they aren't backed by the rule of law (yet) and in the US new alternatives are gradually emerging to allow uncensored political discussion online.
It's a much worse situation in e.g. the UK, where it's now illegal to offend people, and blasphemy laws are routinely enforced (under the label of hate speech). But the UK hasn't fallen off the cliff yet. There was discussion in parliament a while back during the riots about removing benefits for people identified as rioters (most of whom have no practical means of legal survival except a government check). But the discussion didn't go anywhere, and sanity prevailed for now. Still prety close to that cliff edge though.
It's not at all clear that a society can ever recover from a panopticon totalitarianism.
Those old games in reality took only a few hours to beat if you didn't die once.
Many just take a few minutes. The speedrunning community is amazing.
I'm still torn by which I'm most impressed with: the cubing community with their blindfold cube solving, or the speedrunning community beating Punch Out blindfolded (the final fight requires 1-frame accuracy).
Most browsers are limited to 720p, Safari can do 1080p but full screen flickers due to some odd bug which Apple seems uninterested to fix so I watch with the Apple menu on. Edge can do 4K on HDCP compliant hardware.
Wow, only Edge? That's annoying, but at least it's an option. Thanks for the info.
If, net net, more bandwidth is used than it otherwise would be, then there's a added cost to NetFlix. Simple as that. Since most people don't watch 2 or more streams 24/7, there's plenty of room for abuse.
The person paying has a deal with NetFlix to watch up to some max number of streams. Both the customer and NetFlix agreed o this deal. But if someone who's not part of any deal starts consuming bandwidth, that's theft of services.
Or go one step further by removing ads from all videos featuring children. That would remove the incentives for adults to exploit children for financial gain on YouTube.
It would punish normal families vlogging normal family stuff. Not what I watch, but apparently that's pretty common. Unless you're really stretching the meaning of "exploit" and that's what you meant.
It would remove financial incentives for kids posting whatever kids post about themselves. I'm not sure that matters much, though you'd need some exception for professional performers, I'd think. Much as the web would have been better off without Justin Beiber,
It would not remove the incentive for actual pedos, since I doubt the money is what motiviates them (almost by definition).
Seem like demonetizing all videos with kids would only hurt the wrong people. Which is likely why YT went this way. There was a big push-back over the past week to their initial demonetization of clearly wholesome videos, because some of them had creepy comments.
Watch smarter videos and you'll get smarter comments.
I frequently see good commenting on math and science videos. The ratio is lower on political videos, but still quite valuable when someone points out factual errors and links evidence.
There is some cost to NetFlix, in that their infrastructure has unauthorized use, and bandwidth is never free. That's different from e.g. ripping a DVD you rent from NetFlix, where it costs NetFlix the same either way.
Don't lie: you've never even been on a boat.
I could only see it as piracy if one of those streams was not authorized by the subscriber, but instead was actual cracking of NetFlix infrastructure. Sure, call that piracy. Otherwise, people are just using what they pay for.
Does anyone know if you can stream NetFlix in HD to the browser yet? Last time I tried, you couldn't ...
It's not a vacuum system. It runs in the pressured area if the ISS, and can dump heat to the ISS via a heatsink.
The eventual trip to Mars will be similar, I think.