Reporters could write 500 accurate articles for every sensationalist one, and the sensationalist article is the only one the public will ever read. Because it's interesting. Nitty gritty details that all add up to "we have some hints that a complex set of circumstances may be unhealthy but we're not sure" are not interesting to anyone but a scientist.
Never borrowing is not really a good sign of financial responsibility. Aside from the fact that using credit cards that you pay off every month actually gives you money (through rewards programs*), borrowing money for expensive purchases you could not otherwise directly afford can allow increased financial opportunities you'd not otherwise have. Taking out a mortgage to buy a house in an area where prices are rising, then selling it later. Or taking out reasonable amounts of student loan debt to get a degree that allows you to find better paying jobs. Even taking out a loan for a car allows you to take jobs you'd otherwise not be able to get to at all.
You don't need to take out a loan for a car if you're not living paycheck to paycheck. You can get a car for $1000 or less, and it'll get you to the job just as well as that shiny Tesla. My car's resale value is probably about 50 cents with all the impact damage, but it's quite reliable. Note I'm not saying there's anything wrong with taking out a loan for a car -- if you have a large income but low savings and want a luxury car, feel free, but don't pretend you need that to get to work.
Flipping houses is obviously an activity for the middle class and rich, and thus has nothing do with the responsible poor scenario I was detailing. In fact you're making my point: rich people borrow more, because they make money borrowing. So-called good debt is an option for them. Responsible poor people borrow less, because they don't get approved for mortgages and tend to be the ones whose lives are destroyed by escalating payday-style loans when something prevents them from paying it back. Why take that risk until you have to?
With credit cards, once again, the kind of credit card a rich person can get approved for offers considerably better deals than the kind a poor person is likely to be stuck with. I applied a couple times but was of course rejected due to no credit history and low income, so I shrugged and accepted the loss of a few dollars of rewards. If you're poor, you're not going to rack up air miles points anyway. And at any rate my visa debit card offers some rewards.
Many people have no credit scores simply because we don't borrow. I have no credit score because I've never felt like spending more than I have. But that actually does identify me as poor and as a bad consumer -- the middle class and wealthy always have debts for their houses and cars, whereas the responsible poor may never experience debt.
Every Linux "virus" article I've seen, and there've been a lot of them, has turned out to be about a trojan. Apparently people can't tell the difference anymore. It's a safe bet that this gets on your system by your choosing to download and install a random piece of software you have no reason to trust, instead of sticking to your repositories.
Click on the Sun Microsystems logo and brings up a list of articles including "Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell'" and "Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead". Which don't even have the Sun logo on them, they just happen to contain the word 'sun' buried in the text.
It's not as if humans have a better track record at/. though. Machine editors could never foul up as badly, it'd be too easy for a script to prevent dupes and remember to include story links and so forth.
Because 32 people getting a little sick in a country of 325,000,000 isn't worth batting an eye over in any country with any serious problems to deal with. 1 in 10 million people getting sick? Just drinking the municipal water sickens way more than that in most countries.
It doesn't make sense to extend broadband to every remote house. There is an economic case to be made for extending it to rural towns and farms. That said, I think the sensible economic case is for perhaps 5 Mbps -- giving rural towns/farms 25 Mbps so they can watch 4K video without buffering isn't going to improve the local economy any more than a basic 5 Mbps.
Thus: thank God for armed radical Christians in the US. If something like that became required, some of them might flip and take matters into their own hands.
... providing the perfect cover to delegitimize opposition and arrest anyone who refuses a microchip as a suspected terrorist. Don't forget who owns the government.
Just to quickly Godwin the discussion, saying that armed radical Christians will save the US from microchips is like saying radical communists in 30s Germany were keeping Hitler in check. Nope, they were his useful bogeyman to seize more power.
SystemD is kind of like LSB. So many other packages have come to depend on SystemD because package maintainers love the fact that they can count on it providing the entire set of utilities and not some unpredictable selection chosen separately by each distro. If it were just an init system it wouldn't have gained so much traction, it's the way it gobbled up everything else that made it the easy lazy thing to require.
The fact that it makes much smaller tunnels than standard boring machines is a large part of the cost-saving strategy (although not the only part). The Loop going into it on which people will travel up to 150 MPH is notable for being optimized to work in small spaces, as opposed to subway trains.
Basically, Elon found that small tunnels have drastic cost savings which can make them economical to build many more of... if they have a use. So he got some engineers to design a transport system (Loop, not Hyperloop) which can fit into what we can afford to tunnel. And that's how The Boring Company was born, although they also have a bunch of other theoretical cost reduction ideas largely drawn from SpaceX strategies.
Name another year in recorded history where there was zero rain in Paradise into November. Burn offs are completely natural... in the summer, but in a typical year they've had about 8 inches of rain already by November.
Forest management could certainly be better, the national forest service needs to improve. Might help if any significant fraction of California's forests were under state control instead of ruled from 3000 miles away. But they do prescribed burns every spring to try to clear out brush, I can smell them.
They say Paradise burned in 36 minutes. The fire was moving as fast as 80 MPH. There were only 3 roads out of town, all of which were so clogged that many people gave up, got out of their cars and ran for it on foot. And most of the dead were elderly who take a longer time to evacuate due to their mobility issues.
Found an alternate article that explains: "The most important of these commands is to shut down Kepler's radio transmitters. Though it's in a safe orbit about 94 million mi (151 million km) from the Earth, it still poses a hazard to navigation – not in the sense that it could collide with another spacecraft, but because its radio beam could accidentally blind another probe or even the highly sensitive ground antennae of the Deep Space Network." (source)
Getting to orbit is remarkably cheap, except for the cost of throwing away the vehicle.
The fuel for a Falcon 9 is about $200K per flight, compared to ~$15K per hour in fuel for a 747 airliner. 250,000 lbs max payload for a 747 vs 50,000 lbs for a Falcon 9, so let's multiply $200K by 5... but then a representative normal 747 flight may be 5 hours, so multiply $15K by 5 too. That tells us that an orbital flight costs about 13 times more per lb in fuel than a 747.
So spaceflight need only be 13x more expensive than a typical 5 hour airplane flight, if we can stop throwing away the vehicles. That's not much at all, considering we're comparing to a mode of transport so popular that there are over a hundred thousand flights per day around the world.
And getting anywhere beyond Earth orbit is practically free once you get past escape velocity, depending how patient you are.
And the vacuum of space is, in some ways, a much more forgiving environment for equipment than the Earth. Sure you need some radiation hardening, but not having to worry about weather or geologic or biological processes sure helps.
Air quality in San Francisco is actually very excellent almost all of the time. They create lots of pollution, but it blows east 90% of the time and gives the valley and Sierra foothills bad air.
Buying or even investing in a service isn't pork. Cost plus contracts are pork -- every last one of them, since the cost plus concept practically ensures that the bid winner will vastly inflate their costs.
Any group which opposes gene drives will inevitably, by definition, be an environmental group. That obviously doesn't mean that all environmental groups oppose it. Nor does the attitude of environmental activists define "the left" on any issue. I, for one, am a leftist socialist who welcomes our mosquito-extinction-causing overlords.
Ever more destructive extreme power consumption and environmental destruction is probably not a habit that leads a species to surviving long. Any species advanced enough to contemplate a dyson sphere could not have gotten to that point by being the kind of species that would build one.
There's a huge difference between a lawless place, and a place with laws that are liberal with copyright. Switzerland is not the slightest bit lawless.
Companies don't aim for a specific amount of profit and set their prices to achieve that. They aim for maximum profit regardless. If increasing the price of an item would increase profits, they'd have already increased it regardless of fraud.
Where fraud raises prices is where competition has already driven the price as low as it can profitably go. In such a case, a competitor with less fraud would potentially be able to undercut the others. In every other situation, the fraud eats into profits instead.
Russia had no significant motivation to hack the midterm elections. They're not republicans. They supported Trump to a degree as a practical matter because they have a degree of hold over him. Their ad buys have mostly been centered around stirring up hatred between Americans via conspiracy theories, not about supporting one party or the other. A split government is really the best for them. All that matters is that we keep attacking each other until we're not longer a threat to them.
To be clear, I don't begrudge Russia for it considering how much worse the CIA has done around the world. It's not like they're going after an innocent nation. What Russia is doing is simply trying to weaken a nation which has insisted on making a mission of prying satellite states out of Russia's sphere of influence and promoting democracy to Russia itself. If the USA didn't make a career of threatening Russia, it wouldn't be targeted.
It costs more partly because the insurance companies are required to actually deliver something now, instead of wiggle out of it as soon as you get sick (whatever your symptoms, they might be traceable to a preexisting condition you're unaware of). Congratulations on having no medical conditions. The whole point of insurance is to pay while you have no medical conditions so that your conditions will be covered if they develop later.
But if you want affordable, call your congresspeople and demand the option to buy into medicare at cost. Heck, put a 10% markup on young medicare buy-ins to help shore up the fund and it'll still be a fraction of the cost of private insurance.
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It's not jaywalking if no cars are present. The definition of the word is to cross the street "without regard for approaching traffic."
Reporters could write 500 accurate articles for every sensationalist one, and the sensationalist article is the only one the public will ever read. Because it's interesting. Nitty gritty details that all add up to "we have some hints that a complex set of circumstances may be unhealthy but we're not sure" are not interesting to anyone but a scientist.
You don't need to take out a loan for a car if you're not living paycheck to paycheck. You can get a car for $1000 or less, and it'll get you to the job just as well as that shiny Tesla. My car's resale value is probably about 50 cents with all the impact damage, but it's quite reliable. Note I'm not saying there's anything wrong with taking out a loan for a car -- if you have a large income but low savings and want a luxury car, feel free, but don't pretend you need that to get to work.
Flipping houses is obviously an activity for the middle class and rich, and thus has nothing do with the responsible poor scenario I was detailing. In fact you're making my point: rich people borrow more, because they make money borrowing. So-called good debt is an option for them. Responsible poor people borrow less, because they don't get approved for mortgages and tend to be the ones whose lives are destroyed by escalating payday-style loans when something prevents them from paying it back. Why take that risk until you have to?
With credit cards, once again, the kind of credit card a rich person can get approved for offers considerably better deals than the kind a poor person is likely to be stuck with. I applied a couple times but was of course rejected due to no credit history and low income, so I shrugged and accepted the loss of a few dollars of rewards. If you're poor, you're not going to rack up air miles points anyway. And at any rate my visa debit card offers some rewards.
Many people have no credit scores simply because we don't borrow. I have no credit score because I've never felt like spending more than I have. But that actually does identify me as poor and as a bad consumer -- the middle class and wealthy always have debts for their houses and cars, whereas the responsible poor may never experience debt.
Every Linux "virus" article I've seen, and there've been a lot of them, has turned out to be about a trojan. Apparently people can't tell the difference anymore. It's a safe bet that this gets on your system by your choosing to download and install a random piece of software you have no reason to trust, instead of sticking to your repositories.
Click on the Sun Microsystems logo and brings up a list of articles including "Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell'" and "Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead". Which don't even have the Sun logo on them, they just happen to contain the word 'sun' buried in the text.
It's not as if humans have a better track record at /. though. Machine editors could never foul up as badly, it'd be too easy for a script to prevent dupes and remember to include story links and so forth.
Because 32 people getting a little sick in a country of 325,000,000 isn't worth batting an eye over in any country with any serious problems to deal with. 1 in 10 million people getting sick? Just drinking the municipal water sickens way more than that in most countries.
It doesn't make sense to extend broadband to every remote house. There is an economic case to be made for extending it to rural towns and farms. That said, I think the sensible economic case is for perhaps 5 Mbps -- giving rural towns/farms 25 Mbps so they can watch 4K video without buffering isn't going to improve the local economy any more than a basic 5 Mbps.
Just to quickly Godwin the discussion, saying that armed radical Christians will save the US from microchips is like saying radical communists in 30s Germany were keeping Hitler in check. Nope, they were his useful bogeyman to seize more power.
SystemD is kind of like LSB. So many other packages have come to depend on SystemD because package maintainers love the fact that they can count on it providing the entire set of utilities and not some unpredictable selection chosen separately by each distro. If it were just an init system it wouldn't have gained so much traction, it's the way it gobbled up everything else that made it the easy lazy thing to require.
The fact that it makes much smaller tunnels than standard boring machines is a large part of the cost-saving strategy (although not the only part). The Loop going into it on which people will travel up to 150 MPH is notable for being optimized to work in small spaces, as opposed to subway trains.
Basically, Elon found that small tunnels have drastic cost savings which can make them economical to build many more of... if they have a use. So he got some engineers to design a transport system (Loop, not Hyperloop) which can fit into what we can afford to tunnel. And that's how The Boring Company was born, although they also have a bunch of other theoretical cost reduction ideas largely drawn from SpaceX strategies.
Name another year in recorded history where there was zero rain in Paradise into November. Burn offs are completely natural... in the summer, but in a typical year they've had about 8 inches of rain already by November.
Forest management could certainly be better, the national forest service needs to improve. Might help if any significant fraction of California's forests were under state control instead of ruled from 3000 miles away. But they do prescribed burns every spring to try to clear out brush, I can smell them.
They say Paradise burned in 36 minutes. The fire was moving as fast as 80 MPH. There were only 3 roads out of town, all of which were so clogged that many people gave up, got out of their cars and ran for it on foot. And most of the dead were elderly who take a longer time to evacuate due to their mobility issues.
Found an alternate article that explains: "The most important of these commands is to shut down Kepler's radio transmitters. Though it's in a safe orbit about 94 million mi (151 million km) from the Earth, it still poses a hazard to navigation – not in the sense that it could collide with another spacecraft, but because its radio beam could accidentally blind another probe or even the highly sensitive ground antennae of the Deep Space Network." (source)
Getting to orbit is remarkably cheap, except for the cost of throwing away the vehicle.
The fuel for a Falcon 9 is about $200K per flight, compared to ~$15K per hour in fuel for a 747 airliner. 250,000 lbs max payload for a 747 vs 50,000 lbs for a Falcon 9, so let's multiply $200K by 5... but then a representative normal 747 flight may be 5 hours, so multiply $15K by 5 too. That tells us that an orbital flight costs about 13 times more per lb in fuel than a 747.
So spaceflight need only be 13x more expensive than a typical 5 hour airplane flight, if we can stop throwing away the vehicles. That's not much at all, considering we're comparing to a mode of transport so popular that there are over a hundred thousand flights per day around the world.
And getting anywhere beyond Earth orbit is practically free once you get past escape velocity, depending how patient you are.
And the vacuum of space is, in some ways, a much more forgiving environment for equipment than the Earth. Sure you need some radiation hardening, but not having to worry about weather or geologic or biological processes sure helps.
Air quality in San Francisco is actually very excellent almost all of the time. They create lots of pollution, but it blows east 90% of the time and gives the valley and Sierra foothills bad air.
Buying or even investing in a service isn't pork. Cost plus contracts are pork -- every last one of them, since the cost plus concept practically ensures that the bid winner will vastly inflate their costs.
Any group which opposes gene drives will inevitably, by definition, be an environmental group. That obviously doesn't mean that all environmental groups oppose it. Nor does the attitude of environmental activists define "the left" on any issue. I, for one, am a leftist socialist who welcomes our mosquito-extinction-causing overlords.
Ever more destructive extreme power consumption and environmental destruction is probably not a habit that leads a species to surviving long. Any species advanced enough to contemplate a dyson sphere could not have gotten to that point by being the kind of species that would build one.
I hope they give it at least a million dead bodies before they give up, since humans kill more than that every year.
Rocket Lab is a California company, with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. Not exactly New Zealand innovation, just collaboration.
There's a huge difference between a lawless place, and a place with laws that are liberal with copyright. Switzerland is not the slightest bit lawless.
Companies don't aim for a specific amount of profit and set their prices to achieve that. They aim for maximum profit regardless. If increasing the price of an item would increase profits, they'd have already increased it regardless of fraud.
Where fraud raises prices is where competition has already driven the price as low as it can profitably go. In such a case, a competitor with less fraud would potentially be able to undercut the others. In every other situation, the fraud eats into profits instead.
Russia had no significant motivation to hack the midterm elections. They're not republicans. They supported Trump to a degree as a practical matter because they have a degree of hold over him. Their ad buys have mostly been centered around stirring up hatred between Americans via conspiracy theories, not about supporting one party or the other. A split government is really the best for them. All that matters is that we keep attacking each other until we're not longer a threat to them.
To be clear, I don't begrudge Russia for it considering how much worse the CIA has done around the world. It's not like they're going after an innocent nation. What Russia is doing is simply trying to weaken a nation which has insisted on making a mission of prying satellite states out of Russia's sphere of influence and promoting democracy to Russia itself. If the USA didn't make a career of threatening Russia, it wouldn't be targeted.
It costs more partly because the insurance companies are required to actually deliver something now, instead of wiggle out of it as soon as you get sick (whatever your symptoms, they might be traceable to a preexisting condition you're unaware of). Congratulations on having no medical conditions. The whole point of insurance is to pay while you have no medical conditions so that your conditions will be covered if they develop later.
But if you want affordable, call your congresspeople and demand the option to buy into medicare at cost. Heck, put a 10% markup on young medicare buy-ins to help shore up the fund and it'll still be a fraction of the cost of private insurance.