If my state's agriculture industry has been humming along nicely for the last several decades, it matters a lot to know that problems are coming up and that perhaps we could do something to avoid those problems. This is about money, jobs, and the livelihood of millions of people. It's not about eco-terrorists trying to sell us more windmills.
That's future tense, if you didn't know. Also it's a rhetorical device and not a literal statement of fact, because I don't have the ability to flawlessly predict the future.
yup, for $2k - $10k in equipment you can handle multiple sites for an entire corporation. You'll be able to use at least half of this equipment for 2 years, and the other half of it for 5 years (like any switches or routers). We're talking about a rather low NRE (non-reoccurring expense) for the hardware.
Full time sysadmin, let's say you pay her $75k/yr. With management overhead, facilities overheads and employee benefits a company probably works this out as a cool $100k/yr cost. (taking a wild guess there). Starts to be equivalent to paying Slack $8k/month ($96k/year). Although I'd rather have in-house services that can be customized to our processes and needs, than be at the whim of an external organization.
I bought a new car when I was 23. I got totally screwed on the interest rate. In the end it worked out find, but it was a waste of money.
My original napkin math was showing how even non-optimal car ownership is a better deal than ridesharing (especially the Uber/Lyft sort of taxi-like services)
We could all sign onto FreeNode. If companies want to donate money to FN instead of paying Slack, then they are free to do so, and really at whatever amount they are comfortable paying.
If you had a company of 1000 employees, I believe you're looking at paying Slack about $8k/month. This is right around the break even point for hiring someone to maintain an IRC server full time. You probably get a better deal with Slack because they would include hardware and services and 24 hour support.
If you were a larger company of say 10,000 people like mine, then staffing up your IT department for running your own corporate services like IRC, XMPP, whatever becomes a better deal than Slack. Especially because of the encryption and retention policies of Slack. (yet my company uses Slack as our primary app)
disclaimer - I am not a representative of FreeNode, PDPC or OPN.
We're going to get to the point where a chat program can't fit on a 650MB CD-ROM. I remember when I could only allocate 64kB chunks at a time in my programs.
Pancake syrup and maple syrup are two very different things. You can certainly put maple syrup on your pancakes and waffles. But you can also put blackberry syrup on them as well. And you can use maple syrup to make candies, top icecream, or glaze donuts. But pancake syrup has no use outside of putting on pancakes, especially when feeding to children who don't know any better.
My parents used to make simple syrup from brown sugar instead of paying for the usual colored sludgy pancake syrups. I found it too thin for my liking, but not everyone could afford maple syrup at the time. (it's much cheaper now than it used to be)
It's not certain that this reduces pollution, as agriculture has significant run off of fertilizer and pesticides and there are wastes from chemical refinement into biodesiel. As for carbon footprint, even that is not clear that soybean biodiesel is a net benefit.
If there are waste products that are pollute our environment but are relatively easy to convert to biodiesel, we should still use them and mix them in with petrodiesel. Even if only to avoid costly disposal of chicken and turkey fat.
Growing plants which means we're using chemical fertilizer and water. Then going through energy intensive processing. It's a bad deal, and it's what happens when we let bureaucrats codify our renewable market place.
Ultimately it's a flawed system that is more about making money for the handful of Certificate authorities than about providing security to your average home user. Forcing everyone to HTTPS doesn't do much more than highlight CAs as the chokepoint of the Internet.
I never hear the term "mobile" in day to day speech. It must be a regional thing for you. I heard "cell", "cellphone", "smartphone", "iOS", "iPhone" and "android phone". With the last being a real mouthful and the last three being not that generic but used generically by some.
As a Bay Area commuter, I can give you one example from my personal experience. I commute 15 km (9.5 mi) to Cisco every day. Now I could drive and it would take 20-45 minutes, depend on rush hour traffic that morning. I could take light rail and it was consistently 1 hour plus about 10 minutes walking to and from the nearest train stop. Or I could take a bike on dedicated bike trail most of the way and it was about 50-60 minutes.
On top of this, Cisco fully subsidized my ride on light rail. I had a little sticker on my company badge that meant I didn't have to pay. Yet, I usually drove because if I set my working hours to avoid rush hour traffic it was only 15 minute drive. Because sitting on a train for an hour to go about 10 miles was ridiculous in my opinion.
Much of the US's public transportation problems are because our city planners, bureaucrats and politicians are less competent than their counterparts in the rest of the world. The systems here usually have budget problems from the start, unexpected maintenance costs, poor planning on where to put stops, or sporadic annual budgets from state and local government. Trains that are dirty or frequently broken down makes your average American not want to use them. Huge costs drive political support away from these systems as well, such at NYC subways costing 4x to 10x more than an equivalent system in other parts of the world. And access to inexpensive automobiles and relatively low tax on fuel makes owning a car the easiest alternative for Americans. Why fix our broken system when we can hop in our cars and drive away from our problems?
And if the train is close by, you can use your feet. Then you don't have the inconvenience of packing your bicycle in and out of trains and buildings.
Dutch and New Yorkers both ride bicycles in the winter. It's a challenge but possible in a big city with well plowed streets or in a city that doesn't get excessive snow fall. Where some pull over pants that will keep you dry and you can take off when indoors. If your cool hipster job is in a big drafty reclaimed warehouse you might be wearing some flannel-lined pants indoor anyways.
Average trip is $14. If you need to take 2 trips a day, that's $28 a day. Typically about 6 miles per trip, so let's say 12 miles a day. Car insurance would be about $2.25/day for an under 25 year old millennial ($820/year). Fuel cost for 12 miles a day using a relatively cheap 24 mpg car is around $1.25 assuming a price of $2.50/gal. So now we're up to $3.50/day and haven't added in car payments. I'm not sure what kind of care you want to get for $24.50/day but a lease on a new car of $23,000 should be around $6.50/day (around $200/month), of course if you lease your insurance payments will be much higher because of the additional required coverage. But still we're only up to $10/day, a far cry from the $28/day you might spend on ridesharing. I left out maintenance costs, they exist, but I really don't think they are going to exceed $18/day.
To ditch your car, you really need to not need ridesharing more than once or twice a week. Anything more and you start to break even, in my opinion, especially if you are able to optimize with a lower end vehicle that you pay off and keep for several years without having to make payments.
Depending on what city you are in, public transportation can end up being a break even versus car ownership. In my particular case it's cheaper to have a car than use public transportation, and public transportation is cheaper than using ridesharing. Convenience of ridesharing is better than public transportation, and for some people the convenience of ridesharing could be better than car ownership. But I don't think ridesharing is cheaper for most people, if any.
Sure it takes more energy to make a solar panel, if you are going the E=mc^2 route of creating matter from nothing. The rest of us are going to mine silicon and operate foundries instead.
If you try to sell some software you've didn't write, and start making changes to it, then you're going to have to share those changes. Nobody is getting paid is sort of how GPL works out.
Example would be the Wine project going from MIT license to GPL license in response to an attempt to fork a closed source version.
A lot of people who thought they wanted to released their software as public domain quickly changed their tune when others would make a business out of publishing the software. Authors thought that giving something away for free meant that if anyone makes money on it, they should still see some of it. (yea, they were naive)
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If my state's agriculture industry has been humming along nicely for the last several decades, it matters a lot to know that problems are coming up and that perhaps we could do something to avoid those problems. This is about money, jobs, and the livelihood of millions of people. It's not about eco-terrorists trying to sell us more windmills.
We're going to
That's future tense, if you didn't know. Also it's a rhetorical device and not a literal statement of fact, because I don't have the ability to flawlessly predict the future.
yup, for $2k - $10k in equipment you can handle multiple sites for an entire corporation. You'll be able to use at least half of this equipment for 2 years, and the other half of it for 5 years (like any switches or routers). We're talking about a rather low NRE (non-reoccurring expense) for the hardware.
Full time sysadmin, let's say you pay her $75k/yr. With management overhead, facilities overheads and employee benefits a company probably works this out as a cool $100k/yr cost. (taking a wild guess there). Starts to be equivalent to paying Slack $8k/month ($96k/year). Although I'd rather have in-house services that can be customized to our processes and needs, than be at the whim of an external organization.
I bought a new car when I was 23. I got totally screwed on the interest rate. In the end it worked out find, but it was a waste of money.
My original napkin math was showing how even non-optimal car ownership is a better deal than ridesharing (especially the Uber/Lyft sort of taxi-like services)
We could all sign onto FreeNode. If companies want to donate money to FN instead of paying Slack, then they are free to do so, and really at whatever amount they are comfortable paying.
If you had a company of 1000 employees, I believe you're looking at paying Slack about $8k/month. This is right around the break even point for hiring someone to maintain an IRC server full time. You probably get a better deal with Slack because they would include hardware and services and 24 hour support.
If you were a larger company of say 10,000 people like mine, then staffing up your IT department for running your own corporate services like IRC, XMPP, whatever becomes a better deal than Slack. Especially because of the encryption and retention policies of Slack. (yet my company uses Slack as our primary app)
disclaimer - I am not a representative of FreeNode, PDPC or OPN.
We're going to get to the point where a chat program can't fit on a 650MB CD-ROM. I remember when I could only allocate 64kB chunks at a time in my programs.
Yet the Michigan Wolverines are named for an animal that is doesn't appear in Michigan anymore.
Pancake syrup and maple syrup are two very different things. You can certainly put maple syrup on your pancakes and waffles. But you can also put blackberry syrup on them as well. And you can use maple syrup to make candies, top icecream, or glaze donuts. But pancake syrup has no use outside of putting on pancakes, especially when feeding to children who don't know any better.
My parents used to make simple syrup from brown sugar instead of paying for the usual colored sludgy pancake syrups. I found it too thin for my liking, but not everyone could afford maple syrup at the time. (it's much cheaper now than it used to be)
It's not certain that this reduces pollution, as agriculture has significant run off of fertilizer and pesticides and there are wastes from chemical refinement into biodesiel. As for carbon footprint, even that is not clear that soybean biodiesel is a net benefit.
If there are waste products that are pollute our environment but are relatively easy to convert to biodiesel, we should still use them and mix them in with petrodiesel. Even if only to avoid costly disposal of chicken and turkey fat.
Growing plants which means we're using chemical fertilizer and water. Then going through energy intensive processing. It's a bad deal, and it's what happens when we let bureaucrats codify our renewable market place.
Ultimately it's a flawed system that is more about making money for the handful of Certificate authorities than about providing security to your average home user. Forcing everyone to HTTPS doesn't do much more than highlight CAs as the chokepoint of the Internet.
People should spend a night in jail for talking in a movie theater. Interrupting fun is downright criminal.
It's a fundamental problem with a legal system that cannot separate criminal law from civil law.
The resolution of the touch screen is effectively equivalent to hundreds of keys.
a.k.a Toad in the Hole or Egg in a Basket, depending on your regional dialect. In case you want to order it from a proper diner.
I usually keep the bread circles in a paper bag and use them a day later for giant croutons in soup. Especially French Onion soup.
I never hear the term "mobile" in day to day speech. It must be a regional thing for you. I heard "cell", "cellphone", "smartphone", "iOS", "iPhone" and "android phone". With the last being a real mouthful and the last three being not that generic but used generically by some.
As a Bay Area commuter, I can give you one example from my personal experience. I commute 15 km (9.5 mi) to Cisco every day. Now I could drive and it would take 20-45 minutes, depend on rush hour traffic that morning. I could take light rail and it was consistently 1 hour plus about 10 minutes walking to and from the nearest train stop. Or I could take a bike on dedicated bike trail most of the way and it was about 50-60 minutes.
On top of this, Cisco fully subsidized my ride on light rail. I had a little sticker on my company badge that meant I didn't have to pay. Yet, I usually drove because if I set my working hours to avoid rush hour traffic it was only 15 minute drive. Because sitting on a train for an hour to go about 10 miles was ridiculous in my opinion.
Much of the US's public transportation problems are because our city planners, bureaucrats and politicians are less competent than their counterparts in the rest of the world. The systems here usually have budget problems from the start, unexpected maintenance costs, poor planning on where to put stops, or sporadic annual budgets from state and local government. Trains that are dirty or frequently broken down makes your average American not want to use them. Huge costs drive political support away from these systems as well, such at NYC subways costing 4x to 10x more than an equivalent system in other parts of the world. And access to inexpensive automobiles and relatively low tax on fuel makes owning a car the easiest alternative for Americans. Why fix our broken system when we can hop in our cars and drive away from our problems?
And if the train is close by, you can use your feet. Then you don't have the inconvenience of packing your bicycle in and out of trains and buildings.
Dutch and New Yorkers both ride bicycles in the winter. It's a challenge but possible in a big city with well plowed streets or in a city that doesn't get excessive snow fall. Where some pull over pants that will keep you dry and you can take off when indoors. If your cool hipster job is in a big drafty reclaimed warehouse you might be wearing some flannel-lined pants indoor anyways.
Average trip is $14. If you need to take 2 trips a day, that's $28 a day. Typically about 6 miles per trip, so let's say 12 miles a day.
Car insurance would be about $2.25/day for an under 25 year old millennial ($820/year). Fuel cost for 12 miles a day using a relatively cheap 24 mpg car is around $1.25 assuming a price of $2.50/gal. So now we're up to $3.50/day and haven't added in car payments. I'm not sure what kind of care you want to get for $24.50/day but a lease on a new car of $23,000 should be around $6.50/day (around $200/month), of course if you lease your insurance payments will be much higher because of the additional required coverage. But still we're only up to $10/day, a far cry from the $28/day you might spend on ridesharing. I left out maintenance costs, they exist, but I really don't think they are going to exceed $18/day.
To ditch your car, you really need to not need ridesharing more than once or twice a week. Anything more and you start to break even, in my opinion, especially if you are able to optimize with a lower end vehicle that you pay off and keep for several years without having to make payments.
Depending on what city you are in, public transportation can end up being a break even versus car ownership. In my particular case it's cheaper to have a car than use public transportation, and public transportation is cheaper than using ridesharing. Convenience of ridesharing is better than public transportation, and for some people the convenience of ridesharing could be better than car ownership. But I don't think ridesharing is cheaper for most people, if any.
Sure it takes more energy to make a solar panel, if you are going the E=mc^2 route of creating matter from nothing. The rest of us are going to mine silicon and operate foundries instead.
People died building the Hoover Dam, that's an inescapable fact.
If you try to sell some software you've didn't write, and start making changes to it, then you're going to have to share those changes. Nobody is getting paid is sort of how GPL works out.
Example would be the Wine project going from MIT license to GPL license in response to an attempt to fork a closed source version.
I read it, I don't think it's true. Right after I read it, I got a job as a software engineer.
A lot of people who thought they wanted to released their software as public domain quickly changed their tune when others would make a business out of publishing the software. Authors thought that giving something away for free meant that if anyone makes money on it, they should still see some of it. (yea, they were naive)
It doesn't really fix the buggy back-ends we have to slog through to exchange any data.