Claiming that the media doesn't call out Trump lies (especially relative to Reagan lies) is as absurdly out of touch with reality as Trump's lies are. The problem, or at least part of it, is that people naturally tune it out after they've heard about a thousand previous lies.
Sometimes a thousand small lies are a great way to sneak the big whoppers past fatigued citizens who might've had more reaction to fact checkers if they hadn't heard it so many times. People who are emotionally or financially invested in the habitual liar have had to practice so much mental gymnastics to accept the small lies that they're perfectly ready to write off all fact checking as an evil conspiracy so that they don't have to expend more effort rationalizing.
If your government-owned ISP tries to stop you from exercising your free speech, you can sue them. And you might even win, because the government isn't allowed to interfere with your free speech according to the constitution.
If your privately-owned broadband monopoly tries to stop you from exercising your free speech, you can shut up and do whatever they tell you to do. You have no legal recourse because private business has every legal right to curtail your speech however the company sees fit.
If your government really wants to stop you from exercising your free speech, they'll ensure that you have a privately-owned ISP and they'll apply their leverage over said ISP to ensure that the ISP controls your speech for them. An off the record back room deal to provide a tax break or skip regulatory enforcement will easily convince a private ISP to play ball, and it'll be very difficult to prove the government's guiding role to have a chance at fighting it in court.
The ghost cities were built to try to tackle the overcrowding of preexisting cities. Problem is they forgot people move to cities because of the jobs, not just because it's a city, so everyone kept moving to Shanghai and ignored the empty cities.
Open source is explicitly amoral, and nobody who knows what they're talking about says otherwise. Open source was designed precisely to strip the moralizing out of free software. Because there are many, many people and companies who find free software useful as a strategy for many things but don't share Stallman's belief that it's a moral issue.
And yet inflation remains stubbornly near historic lows.
In theory, I would've expected inflation and unemployment. But that's not the actual outcome we've seen at all. And if there's ever a time to increase the minimum wage, it's when unemployment and inflation are exceptionally low. Keep increasing the minimum wage until we start to see some movement on the inflation and unemployment numbers, and that's when we'll know we've found the right number and can freeze it for a while.
Cars are more expensive because fewer and fewer people can afford them. That means fewer used cars. That means higher used car prices, which the car manufacturers see as cue to raise prices.
How much stuff do we need in LEO anyhow? Satellites? In LEO?
Unknown. For multiple competing worldwide internet services the answer will be "a lot" (as in thousands). What other uses people make come up with for satellites if launch services become cheap enough remains to be seen. Could start launch space hotels.
The real challenge for SpaceX is to launch often enough that they can realize the savings of being able to launch the same rocket 100 times and of potentially being able to have 24 hour turnaround time. They've improved slightly, but they're still only averaging about 2 launches a month.
Not sure if the problem is a lack of customers or slowdowns in the process or what. Perhaps when they start launching their own starlink satellites they'll be able to fill in the schedule gaps better.
The question is, will any of the HSR network -- commuter or long distance -- actually be available at a ticket price low enough to get people to ride it? Even the initial optimistic plans had the SF -> LA type routes costing way more than a plane flight. You know the commuter service is bound to be more expensive than Amtrak, which hardly competitive as it is about $60 for a Sacramento/San Francisco capital corridor train roundtrip. Not a lot of people are going to want to spend close to $100 on their daily commute.
the same low cost labor and unregulated industry that built the bridge in the first place.
Actually, the reason the bridge was late and over-budget is that Hong Kong has a lot of regulations and high cost labor. A similar project on the mainland would be drastically cheaper and quicker (and more environmentally damaging and deadly to some workers).
I always turn off mobile data when not specifically using it, but more because that saves battery and effectively blocks ads from all my apps that don't have a legit need for internet.
The first aerobic respiration evolved on Earth about 3 billion years ago, after over a billion years of anaerobic life. Aerobic respiration is a consequence of the accidental great oxygenation event in which the waste byproduct oxygen flooded Earth's atmosphere and nearly killed everything. It exists because it has to on this oxygen-polluted planet, not because it's important to life.
It makes no sense to look for pockets of oxygen to find life on Mars. That may actually be where you're least likely to find life, because the oxygen may have stifled the anaerobic life.
If you get tired of being alive, just throw yourself off a tall cliff and your problem will be gone. It's not difficult, and it's much more fun than heart disease or stroke.
The vulnerability is in their PHP code, which is basically sample code. Most projects using the uploader write their own PHP handler for their own specific upload purposes. Only a project that just wants to generically accept all files would consider using their sample PHP code. Verified that my PHP scripts aren't affected despite using the blueimp uploader.
Perhaps Ecuador deserves a medal, or perhaps they just suspected he had some dirt on corruption in their government which they wanted to ensure he wouldn't release.
It's not astonishing because the escape system has been designed that way for many decades. It's good Soviet engineering, not new innovation. Unfortunately Russia's space program has failed to add anything significant to the work of their predecessor state.
Yep, the traffic in the right lane has the right of way. In practical terms though, safety depends on the freeway traffic being courteous because it's very difficult (especially for under-powered cars) to accelerate back up to safe merging speed after coming to a stop while trying to merge.
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There are tons of video sites. The reason people prefer youtube is that it's popular. Creating the millionth alternative, no matter how technically superior, will not accomplish anything because people want to use the popular platform. Not quite as extreme as the facebook effect (can't create a facebook alternative because nobody's friends are there), but still a very significant hurdle.
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There are plenty of ways to pay people that google doesn't have any control of.
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Claiming that the media doesn't call out Trump lies (especially relative to Reagan lies) is as absurdly out of touch with reality as Trump's lies are. The problem, or at least part of it, is that people naturally tune it out after they've heard about a thousand previous lies.
Sometimes a thousand small lies are a great way to sneak the big whoppers past fatigued citizens who might've had more reaction to fact checkers if they hadn't heard it so many times. People who are emotionally or financially invested in the habitual liar have had to practice so much mental gymnastics to accept the small lies that they're perfectly ready to write off all fact checking as an evil conspiracy so that they don't have to expend more effort rationalizing.
If your government-owned ISP tries to stop you from exercising your free speech, you can sue them. And you might even win, because the government isn't allowed to interfere with your free speech according to the constitution.
If your privately-owned broadband monopoly tries to stop you from exercising your free speech, you can shut up and do whatever they tell you to do. You have no legal recourse because private business has every legal right to curtail your speech however the company sees fit.
If your government really wants to stop you from exercising your free speech, they'll ensure that you have a privately-owned ISP and they'll apply their leverage over said ISP to ensure that the ISP controls your speech for them. An off the record back room deal to provide a tax break or skip regulatory enforcement will easily convince a private ISP to play ball, and it'll be very difficult to prove the government's guiding role to have a chance at fighting it in court.
The ghost cities were built to try to tackle the overcrowding of preexisting cities. Problem is they forgot people move to cities because of the jobs, not just because it's a city, so everyone kept moving to Shanghai and ignored the empty cities.
IBM is a services company. Has been for a long time now. They're not about software sales.
Open source is explicitly amoral, and nobody who knows what they're talking about says otherwise. Open source was designed precisely to strip the moralizing out of free software. Because there are many, many people and companies who find free software useful as a strategy for many things but don't share Stallman's belief that it's a moral issue.
And yet inflation remains stubbornly near historic lows.
In theory, I would've expected inflation and unemployment. But that's not the actual outcome we've seen at all. And if there's ever a time to increase the minimum wage, it's when unemployment and inflation are exceptionally low. Keep increasing the minimum wage until we start to see some movement on the inflation and unemployment numbers, and that's when we'll know we've found the right number and can freeze it for a while.
https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfr... sure doesn't look like a graph of fewer and fewer people being able to afford new cars to me.
Used car sales appear flat but not plummeting as well: https://www.thoughtco.com/used...
Unknown. For multiple competing worldwide internet services the answer will be "a lot" (as in thousands). What other uses people make come up with for satellites if launch services become cheap enough remains to be seen. Could start launch space hotels.
The real challenge for SpaceX is to launch often enough that they can realize the savings of being able to launch the same rocket 100 times and of potentially being able to have 24 hour turnaround time. They've improved slightly, but they're still only averaging about 2 launches a month.
Not sure if the problem is a lack of customers or slowdowns in the process or what. Perhaps when they start launching their own starlink satellites they'll be able to fill in the schedule gaps better.
New Android versions don't get pushed hard on anyone. You usually can't get them if you try.
If all she did was not promote, they'd have just fired her. What she did was humiliate them in the public eye by choosing a competitor over them.
The question is, will any of the HSR network -- commuter or long distance -- actually be available at a ticket price low enough to get people to ride it? Even the initial optimistic plans had the SF -> LA type routes costing way more than a plane flight. You know the commuter service is bound to be more expensive than Amtrak, which hardly competitive as it is about $60 for a Sacramento/San Francisco capital corridor train roundtrip. Not a lot of people are going to want to spend close to $100 on their daily commute.
Actually, the reason the bridge was late and over-budget is that Hong Kong has a lot of regulations and high cost labor. A similar project on the mainland would be drastically cheaper and quicker (and more environmentally damaging and deadly to some workers).
In the olden days, Opera was charging for their browser while Mozilla was giving one away free. Now Mozilla charges for what Opera gives away.
If it's downloading gigabytes per night, I think you'll find it does use significant battery.
I always turn off mobile data when not specifically using it, but more because that saves battery and effectively blocks ads from all my apps that don't have a legit need for internet.
The first aerobic respiration evolved on Earth about 3 billion years ago, after over a billion years of anaerobic life. Aerobic respiration is a consequence of the accidental great oxygenation event in which the waste byproduct oxygen flooded Earth's atmosphere and nearly killed everything. It exists because it has to on this oxygen-polluted planet, not because it's important to life.
It makes no sense to look for pockets of oxygen to find life on Mars. That may actually be where you're least likely to find life, because the oxygen may have stifled the anaerobic life.
If you get tired of being alive, just throw yourself off a tall cliff and your problem will be gone. It's not difficult, and it's much more fun than heart disease or stroke.
The vulnerability is in their PHP code, which is basically sample code. Most projects using the uploader write their own PHP handler for their own specific upload purposes. Only a project that just wants to generically accept all files would consider using their sample PHP code. Verified that my PHP scripts aren't affected despite using the blueimp uploader.
Perhaps Ecuador deserves a medal, or perhaps they just suspected he had some dirt on corruption in their government which they wanted to ensure he wouldn't release.
It's not astonishing because the escape system has been designed that way for many decades. It's good Soviet engineering, not new innovation. Unfortunately Russia's space program has failed to add anything significant to the work of their predecessor state.
Ban all commerce (large trucks) and poor people. Right, that's practical.
Yep, the traffic in the right lane has the right of way. In practical terms though, safety depends on the freeway traffic being courteous because it's very difficult (especially for under-powered cars) to accelerate back up to safe merging speed after coming to a stop while trying to merge.
There are tons of video sites. The reason people prefer youtube is that it's popular. Creating the millionth alternative, no matter how technically superior, will not accomplish anything because people want to use the popular platform. Not quite as extreme as the facebook effect (can't create a facebook alternative because nobody's friends are there), but still a very significant hurdle.
There are plenty of ways to pay people that google doesn't have any control of.