The table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ("2014 Constant Dollars" column) clearly shows that the NASA budgets of the 60s were approximately double the recent/current NASA budgets. Half is in no way "about the same."
And without official timezones, every business can decide for itself, which will cause a lot more confusion and chaos.
If you were right, it would cause the end of all rush hour traffic congestion, which would be wonderful.
But back in the real world, most businesses are going to set their hours to be daylight hours since that's when their customers and employees will want to be awake. And back in the real world every business already decides for themselves what their hours are. Many people start work at 7, 8, 9am with no real dominant standard starting time. People talk as "9 to 5" were a standard, but the mean work start time is actually 8:18 (in USA+Europe, source). Which is why it's really more like rush 3 hours instead of rush hour. Clock time really has zilch current influence on when employers set their working hours right now, it would not change if we went to UTC.
If you don't ask when they're in the office, your meeting is going to fail anyway. You don't know when they start and stop work, and you don't know when they take their lunch hour, whether they're across the street or across the globe.
It's pretty easy to get to a point where 99% of cars on roads are self-driving - you just reach the point where it's cheaper to subscribe to and use a low end car service that takes you door to door, than it costs to maintain and gas a beater car.
That, frankly, is an impossibly high bar. For a significant percentage of us (far more than 1%), even public transit subscriptions to get most of the places we want to go (ignoring the fact that it doesn't go everywhere we want to go) costs more than maintaining a car. Personally my car costs average $100/mo, while the combination of transit passes across counties would cost at least $130/mo. Taking the driver out of the equation isn't going to make a rideshare company anywhere near as efficient as a fixed route bus or train that carries hundreds of people.
The present and future of rideshare companies is in big cities where parking is difficult and expensive. There's no rural or even suburban future I can see for it. So until 99% of people live in cities (good luck), your idea seems implausible.
Cars are the absolute reverse of Sam Vines boot theory. The more you pay for a car, the more it's going to cost you every year to maintain it. If you buy a cheap car you tend to find it's cheap to maintain -- because it doesn't have all the fancy parts like power windows or self-driving to break, and because parts are easier and cheaper to find. Manual transmissions are the cheapest of all to buy and maintain, of course.
Personally, knowing I drove about 5K mi/yr, I spent $4000 on 10 year old (at the time) Ford Escort that had 45K miles on it with the knowledge that it should last me 10-20 more years. Your ideal option may vary.
Most things don't obey boot theory. Cheap stuff can actually last ages, if you take care of it. Cheap PCs can last decades, a cheap flip phone can last decades. Even cheap boots can probably be repaired to last quite a while -- I've made $10 walmart shoes last quite a few years with shoe goo.
The way in which being poor is expensive is almost entirely debt. If you're low income but have savings (like me), you're okay -- if you're higher income without savings, your money is going to burn from the loans you take out.
My '98 Escort really isn't in demand and never will be, so no, I'm poor. There are tens of millions of us in the USA, and tens of millions more who simply don't have any interest in buying another car until they have to. Any politician who proposes banning us all from the road would be writing a ticket to instant humiliation and early retirement.
There are also the rich people you mention with classic cars, but those aren't a problem for self-driving since the owners have plenty of money to pay for a retrofit. Some of them are even paying to have electric engines put into their classic cars.
99% of the FOSS community and 99% of FOSS leaders are pragmatic and happily stop with a partly FOSS solution. The job of RMS is to be the other guy who reminds everyone that there's more work to be done. We need a world where there are 100% FOSS solutions available, even though I won't likely use any of them.
My car is 21 years old, still under 100K miles and runs great. There are a lot of older cars out there. The rich tend to forget that most people aren't on 3 year leases.
The only way I can see every car on the road being self-driving before 2050 is if the tech to retrofit an existing car with self-driving features gets so cheap that it can be subsidized for the poor. If it costs say $500, then some equivalent of the cash for clunkers program could pay people to go self-driving. If we can't cheaply retrofit existing vehicles, then we're going to have to wait at least 30 years.
Think how much money google would have if they sold products they decide aren't popular enough, instead of killing them. I'm sure there'd have been plenty of buyout offers for most of them.
Right to repair works both ways. Every mechanic should have a right to work on Teslas if they so choose, but Tesla should also have a right to service their own cars if they choose.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter because nobody really cares either. Google shows a town called "Apex" a couple miles from me but I've yet to hear a single human being use that name for the area. Let them label whatever they like, it merely serves as an occasional amusement to locals who discover the strange names.
What this situation actually tells us is that they've been able to get a CEO to work for free. 5 volunteers for it, in fact. Turns out there are people willing to do a ton of work for free just for the glory of getting to call their self boss.
The main purpose of systemd -- beyond being an init system -- is to be a common collection of utilities which software authors can lazily depend on being present. That's why it gobbles up so many seemingly unrelated things: so that having a dependency on a given systemd version can guarantee the presence of particular versions of all those utilities.
Most packages can still work without systemd, but probably in a less-well-tested way, and a distro has to make all supported packages work well. That's a whole lot of work. And the very reason that so many distros have adopted systemd is that it reduces their workload so they can get more done with fewer volunteers. They're not going to see much point to using a workload-reducing project to increase their workload.
Hence it's left to the people who really care about disliking systemd to do the work of maintaining non-systemd variants like devunan.
If Snowden was working for Russia, he obviously would've escaped to there instead of to Hong Kong (from which he only fled to Russia when he was ejected from Hong Kong). It's a ridiculous "theory".
There's a much bigger problem with this, and every other idea for accelerating to relativistic speeds: how the heck do you slow down? It takes just as much energy to slow down, but when you're traveling that fast you shoot past the next pair of black holes before they can reduce your speed anywhere near enough.
Same problem as a light sail, which might work for acceleration as you build up speed near the sun but can't possibly work for deceleration since it's going too fast to collect enough energy from the destination star before it's gone.
I guess that'll kill KDE Connect's ability to copy text from my desktop to my phone. That's sad, because it's the only thing that makes texting long links or quotes tolerable (from things that I'm reading on my desktop, since I inflict mobile browsers on myself only when necessary).
Hopefully KDE Connect can improve their desktop texting interface enough that I can simply text from desktop to avoid the need for clipboard sharing.
A very small but visible segment of the left does fear a good solution. They're the homeopathic types who see climate change as a sort of Earth goddress retribution for technology, through the lens of their back-to-nature values. They want the only solution to be the end of industry and return to a fantasy idyllic native american tribal balance with nature.
I certainly wouldn't say they have any political sway in the democratic party, though.
The harsh fact is that getting 200 countries to cooperate to stop emissions is probably impossible. Whereas it only takes one country to fund geoengineering.
Right now is obviously too early to turn to implement risky geoengineering strategies, but right now is definitely the time to study them, which was what the proposal was about. If we put off the studying until we're already in a serious crisis, it'll be too late for the decades of study needed to produce anything in time to prevent catastrophe.
When you ask whether object x is closer than object y, you obviously want to know which is closer right now, not on average. If you haven't memorized the current orbital positions of the planets, just be honest and tell them you don't know.
The fundamental cause is that unlike in meatspace, on the internet one bored asshole can appear to be 50,000 people and drown out a city of reasonable people. But do you really want to fix that problem at the source, since the fix would probably be some form of ID requirement or pervasive spying or prosecution for speech? I'd rather we build filters.
The fact that they only used creative commons images suggests there's an actual legal issue with proprietary images, but why? If I save an image from a website to my hard drive, without sharing it, does that make me a criminal? I've been training my brain on face recognition with proprietary images for decades. I've even occasionally indirectly made money from the viewing of proprietary images, as has everyone else.
Should I pay a royalty every time I imagine a proprietary image I've previously seen?
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Pence is more than likely hoping to run for president in 2024. Humans returning to the moon would make a very nice campaign photo op.
The table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ("2014 Constant Dollars" column) clearly shows that the NASA budgets of the 60s were approximately double the recent/current NASA budgets. Half is in no way "about the same."
If you were right, it would cause the end of all rush hour traffic congestion, which would be wonderful.
But back in the real world, most businesses are going to set their hours to be daylight hours since that's when their customers and employees will want to be awake. And back in the real world every business already decides for themselves what their hours are. Many people start work at 7, 8, 9am with no real dominant standard starting time. People talk as "9 to 5" were a standard, but the mean work start time is actually 8:18 (in USA+Europe, source). Which is why it's really more like rush 3 hours instead of rush hour. Clock time really has zilch current influence on when employers set their working hours right now, it would not change if we went to UTC.
If you don't ask when they're in the office, your meeting is going to fail anyway. You don't know when they start and stop work, and you don't know when they take their lunch hour, whether they're across the street or across the globe.
That, frankly, is an impossibly high bar. For a significant percentage of us (far more than 1%), even public transit subscriptions to get most of the places we want to go (ignoring the fact that it doesn't go everywhere we want to go) costs more than maintaining a car. Personally my car costs average $100/mo, while the combination of transit passes across counties would cost at least $130/mo. Taking the driver out of the equation isn't going to make a rideshare company anywhere near as efficient as a fixed route bus or train that carries hundreds of people.
The present and future of rideshare companies is in big cities where parking is difficult and expensive. There's no rural or even suburban future I can see for it. So until 99% of people live in cities (good luck), your idea seems implausible.
Cars are the absolute reverse of Sam Vines boot theory. The more you pay for a car, the more it's going to cost you every year to maintain it. If you buy a cheap car you tend to find it's cheap to maintain -- because it doesn't have all the fancy parts like power windows or self-driving to break, and because parts are easier and cheaper to find. Manual transmissions are the cheapest of all to buy and maintain, of course.
Personally, knowing I drove about 5K mi/yr, I spent $4000 on 10 year old (at the time) Ford Escort that had 45K miles on it with the knowledge that it should last me 10-20 more years. Your ideal option may vary.
Most things don't obey boot theory. Cheap stuff can actually last ages, if you take care of it. Cheap PCs can last decades, a cheap flip phone can last decades. Even cheap boots can probably be repaired to last quite a while -- I've made $10 walmart shoes last quite a few years with shoe goo.
The way in which being poor is expensive is almost entirely debt. If you're low income but have savings (like me), you're okay -- if you're higher income without savings, your money is going to burn from the loans you take out.
My '98 Escort really isn't in demand and never will be, so no, I'm poor. There are tens of millions of us in the USA, and tens of millions more who simply don't have any interest in buying another car until they have to. Any politician who proposes banning us all from the road would be writing a ticket to instant humiliation and early retirement.
There are also the rich people you mention with classic cars, but those aren't a problem for self-driving since the owners have plenty of money to pay for a retrofit. Some of them are even paying to have electric engines put into their classic cars.
99% of the FOSS community and 99% of FOSS leaders are pragmatic and happily stop with a partly FOSS solution. The job of RMS is to be the other guy who reminds everyone that there's more work to be done. We need a world where there are 100% FOSS solutions available, even though I won't likely use any of them.
My car is 21 years old, still under 100K miles and runs great. There are a lot of older cars out there. The rich tend to forget that most people aren't on 3 year leases.
The only way I can see every car on the road being self-driving before 2050 is if the tech to retrofit an existing car with self-driving features gets so cheap that it can be subsidized for the poor. If it costs say $500, then some equivalent of the cash for clunkers program could pay people to go self-driving. If we can't cheaply retrofit existing vehicles, then we're going to have to wait at least 30 years.
Calculator watches were popular in the 70s and 80s. Far more ever-present and close at hand than a phone.
Spoken like a true 419 scammer. Victims always deserve it because they're stupid, therefore theft is morally fine.
Think how much money google would have if they sold products they decide aren't popular enough, instead of killing them. I'm sure there'd have been plenty of buyout offers for most of them.
Right to repair works both ways. Every mechanic should have a right to work on Teslas if they so choose, but Tesla should also have a right to service their own cars if they choose.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter because nobody really cares either. Google shows a town called "Apex" a couple miles from me but I've yet to hear a single human being use that name for the area. Let them label whatever they like, it merely serves as an occasional amusement to locals who discover the strange names.
What this situation actually tells us is that they've been able to get a CEO to work for free. 5 volunteers for it, in fact. Turns out there are people willing to do a ton of work for free just for the glory of getting to call their self boss.
The main purpose of systemd -- beyond being an init system -- is to be a common collection of utilities which software authors can lazily depend on being present. That's why it gobbles up so many seemingly unrelated things: so that having a dependency on a given systemd version can guarantee the presence of particular versions of all those utilities.
Most packages can still work without systemd, but probably in a less-well-tested way, and a distro has to make all supported packages work well. That's a whole lot of work. And the very reason that so many distros have adopted systemd is that it reduces their workload so they can get more done with fewer volunteers. They're not going to see much point to using a workload-reducing project to increase their workload.
Hence it's left to the people who really care about disliking systemd to do the work of maintaining non-systemd variants like devunan.
If Snowden was working for Russia, he obviously would've escaped to there instead of to Hong Kong (from which he only fled to Russia when he was ejected from Hong Kong). It's a ridiculous "theory".
There's a much bigger problem with this, and every other idea for accelerating to relativistic speeds: how the heck do you slow down? It takes just as much energy to slow down, but when you're traveling that fast you shoot past the next pair of black holes before they can reduce your speed anywhere near enough.
Same problem as a light sail, which might work for acceleration as you build up speed near the sun but can't possibly work for deceleration since it's going too fast to collect enough energy from the destination star before it's gone.
I guess that'll kill KDE Connect's ability to copy text from my desktop to my phone. That's sad, because it's the only thing that makes texting long links or quotes tolerable (from things that I'm reading on my desktop, since I inflict mobile browsers on myself only when necessary).
Hopefully KDE Connect can improve their desktop texting interface enough that I can simply text from desktop to avoid the need for clipboard sharing.
You know you've completely lost any ability to distinguish fact from fiction when you start citing movies as evidence in a scientific debtate.
A very small but visible segment of the left does fear a good solution. They're the homeopathic types who see climate change as a sort of Earth goddress retribution for technology, through the lens of their back-to-nature values. They want the only solution to be the end of industry and return to a fantasy idyllic native american tribal balance with nature.
I certainly wouldn't say they have any political sway in the democratic party, though.
The harsh fact is that getting 200 countries to cooperate to stop emissions is probably impossible. Whereas it only takes one country to fund geoengineering.
Right now is obviously too early to turn to implement risky geoengineering strategies, but right now is definitely the time to study them, which was what the proposal was about. If we put off the studying until we're already in a serious crisis, it'll be too late for the decades of study needed to produce anything in time to prevent catastrophe.
When you ask whether object x is closer than object y, you obviously want to know which is closer right now, not on average. If you haven't memorized the current orbital positions of the planets, just be honest and tell them you don't know.
The fundamental cause is that unlike in meatspace, on the internet one bored asshole can appear to be 50,000 people and drown out a city of reasonable people. But do you really want to fix that problem at the source, since the fix would probably be some form of ID requirement or pervasive spying or prosecution for speech? I'd rather we build filters.
The fact that they only used creative commons images suggests there's an actual legal issue with proprietary images, but why? If I save an image from a website to my hard drive, without sharing it, does that make me a criminal? I've been training my brain on face recognition with proprietary images for decades. I've even occasionally indirectly made money from the viewing of proprietary images, as has everyone else.
Should I pay a royalty every time I imagine a proprietary image I've previously seen?