It boggles my mind that Trump has 55 million followers. Honestly the idea that anyone would have that kind of numbers is just crazy. I get that a sizeable chunk of that is probably people that aren't fans of his but just want to keep abreast of whatever crazy shit he's spouting, but still. That is just an impossibly large group of people lending an ear to someone.
Those two events are very different. The Weinstein thing was all accusations coming from some of his victims. Should those political figures have issued statements more quickly instead of waiting five days, probably. But the delay isn't really all that surprising given the relationships they had with him. Trump and the nazi rally are a different animal entirely. From the outset there was photographic and video evidence of that shit show. There was never any doubt about what happened and Trump didn't have any personal relationships with any of the concerned parties. As the sitting president all he needed to do was hold a press conference and condemn the violence, instead he went out of his way to compliment both sides.
As others have pointed out before it can definitely be unethical. The ethical issues arise when people with a vested interest in the stock price attempt to manipulate the price usually via FUD, although the same can also be done by trying to pump and dump. The harm in these kinds of actions is that a companies ability to borrow money and get favorable financial terms from suppliers and such is directly affected by the stock price. That kind of instability can wreck a company that would otherwise be just fine.
Even many smaller businesses don't operate on a daily balancing of the books with suppliers. For example a restaurant may find a supplier of fresh produce and agree to pay for daily deliveries on a weekly or monthly basis. If the supplier has high confidence in the ability of the restaurant to pay the bill on time then they are likely to allow the bill to go longer between settling up and not charge as much of a premium. If however the supplier doesn't have any confidence in the restaurant then they might demand cash on delivery or even when the order is placed, and the price is more likely to reflect the instability of the relationship as well. Even if your business is magically cash flush and can pay in full for everything as you need it the prices you pay will be higher and the associated costs of the constant transactions will cut into your profitability, which increase the likelihood of the business failing.
Shorting is essentially antithetical to investing. Investing means to put something of yours into an entity hoping that its value will increase. In shorting you borrow an investment from someone else, sell it immediately and hope to buy it back later at a discount so you can return it to the party it was borrowed from while keeping the difference in cash. By definition the only time a short seller holds any investment in the company they are shorting is at the beginning and end.
The C-1 concept is pretty cool in my opinion. The C-1 might not have the sex appeal of a standard motorcycle but would be eminently more practical for daily use and much safer.
I was really interested but the price was always the breaking point. You had to buy a high end gaming video card and then the headsets are still several hundred dollars on top of that. An additional concern though was always whether or not a given headset would work with eye glasses. I don't wear contact lenses and am not going to start just so I can use a VR headset.
I don't particularly care for the being able to move around by physically moving my body though. All I really cared for was head tracking for looking this way and that.
Much of the time if someone goes out of their way to mock someone or something else it's because they feel threatened by it in some way. If you go so far as creating a new word expressly for the purpose of mocking someone then that's a pretty clear indication that you find whatever it is threatening in some way.
If China decides to dump the materials that we sold to them for recycling into the ocean, that is only tangentially our fault. However if you want to stick by that then the blame should probably shift right back to China because much of that plastic waste started as a product made in China and shipped to the USA as an export. But maybe we should go back even further and lay the blame at the feet of whoever pumped the oil out of the ground that was then used to make the plastics.
When I was a kid it was commonly called a "side job". At some point it was called "moonlighting" although I think that also implied it was a secret you were keeping from your primary employer.
Don't ruin it now! This whole "side hustle" thing has been a great source of amusement to me over the last couple of years. It's as if an entire generation grew up somehow completely unaware that their parents did anything other than work at one job and make them sandwiches.
I would say exactly the opposite. That if the Chinese hive mind feels so threatened by you as to create a word specifically to mock you, then they are the ones who are pathetic.
The USA is at the very bottom of that list ranked #20. So sure, we're not innocent. Ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the plastic pouring into the oceans is from other countries isn't going to help the situation though.
I'm not sure about elsewhere but in general in the USA you can park on the side of the road, as close to the curb as possible, anywhere that such parking is not explicitly forbidden by signage or other marking. There are some additional rules that you ostensibly have to know in order to be licensed to drive such as not parking in front of a fire hydrant, driveway, too close to an intersection. Most jurisdictions also specify a maximum distance from the curb although I've never seen anyone issued a ticket for fragrant violations of that rule. The point though is that there are commonsense rules and standards for parking a vehicle on the road which are mostly adhered to. When it comes to short term rental scooters people seem to lose their mind and just ditch them in the middle of the sidewalk.
An ICE tops out around 30% when it's running at it's peak efficiency. That requires an immaculately maintained engine and operating it within a very narrow part of its functional range. Whenever your ICE vehicle is doing anything other than cruise control at its most efficient speed it is way off that efficiency number. Power plants will spend much more of their lifetime operating at or near peak efficiency than an ICE in a car will. Electric motors are also far more efficient with a much broader functional power band than any ICE. Of course we use transmissions in ICE vehicles to try and get more use out of the narrow operating range, but that adds more moving parts that need maintaining as well as more power losses.
There is also the matter of the amount of energy that goes into processing petroleum so that it can be used as a fuel in a car. The fossil fuels used in most power plants, coal and natural gas, don't require nearly as much processing. There is also a lot of value in centralizing, or outsourcing as you say, the CO2 production. Because the CO2 is being generated at one place instead of thousands of individually maintained tailpipes, it is much easier to control and maintain.
Which brings up the fact that most people don't do much for maintenance on their cars. They might get the oil changed regularly. I knew one guy that had never changed the oil in his Taurus that had over 150K miles, just added a quart here and there. For the most part people only take their cars to a mechanic for a tuneup if something is obviously wrong and interfering with their daily use.
Melt and mix it with glass. Mold the result into a torpeo like shape and temper it for increased strength. Then take them out to an oceanic subduction zone, where one continental plate is sliding under another. Drop them from the surface into the muck at the bottom on the plate that is going under. The glass torpedo should have enough velocity to bury its self pretty deep into the sediment sealing if off from the environment. Eventually it will be melted and mixed into the mantle of the earth. If it ever does resurface it should be sufficiently decayed and diluted enough to be of no more threat than existing natural sources. Alternatively you could use an oversized drill rig to bore a shaft large enough to hold the stuff in the same area and then backfill it with a couple miles of cement. The one major holdup in doing any of that though is a treaty that bars nations from disposing of nuclear waste at sea.
UBI would undoubtedly throw the pay rates for low/no skill labor into a period of wild fluctuation as people worked out what they're willing to work for. In the very short term I would expect pay to drop across the board by the same amount as the UBI. Then as people evaluate whether or not working 40+ hours a week is worth whatever extra then they may or may not quit. I would expect that people closer to the UBI in current earning would be more likely to stop working for their current employer. So we might actually see businesses that use those laborers increase the amount their willing to pay for labor, and given that an individuals survival doesn't ride on that job it is entirely possible that those wages could wind up higher than they are now.
I agree that the number is a red herring, but I do wonder where all those people are that don't have personal cell phones. I don't carry a cell phone myself, but I can't think of a single adult that I know who doesn't. The only people other than myself that I can think of are teenagers in large families and other children that are just too young to have a cell phone.
Personally I don't have a cell phone because I only spend a few minutes per day where I don't have access to a regular phone and computer. A cell phone would very rarely be useful for me and just isn't worth the money and inconvenience involved.
I agree in large part that curbing population growth would be the best solution. The problem is that the only morally justifiable way to accomplish that is to lift a very large majority of the population of the world up to first world standards. Practically speaking every other method is very likely to just lead to more suffering and evil shit.
The problem with bringing most other countries into the first world is that it's a very expensive proposition, in every way you can measure. Those costs are increased even more by the corruption that is rife in the developing world. And of course there is still corruption and no lack of people in the 1st world countries that will exploit every opportunity to maximize their own personal profits. The most precious resource though is time, and of course there is likely just not enough of it. To affect the kinds of changes in cultures that lead to populations stabilizing we likely need multiple generations of relative prosperity.
In the end I don't think we'll see people sharply cut back on the amount of meat they eat. Instead we'll see meat incrementally increase in price relative to other food sources because of demand increasing faster than supply. This process has actually already been happening for centuries. Our ancestors frequently ate much more meat than we do today.
1. A cursory search on google says the accusation was for 1982, I can't be bothered to look more closely for a specific date. There has been no evidence, however there rarely is in such allegations. And your point about false accusations being made purely for political reasons is definitely something that always bears thought and consideration.
2. While impeachment would be technically possible I think we'd need something significantly more offensive than a 40 year old rape. You don't have to look any further back than Clinton for proof of that.
3. I can agree to some degree that what we did in our youth shouldn't throw an eternal shadow over the rest of our lives. However for positions of such power and authority I don't see why we can't be more picky and require candidates that have always shown good enough judgement so as to not have committed felonies such as rape. Not that I'm convinced the candidate currently in question did commit a rape, but I think that such a crime should definitely be a dis qualifier. My biggest concern so far has been that his actions don't look like an innocent persons actions. For example when he was asked about drinking and being drunk, he failed to actually admit to or deny any drinking but instead immediately went off on a tangent about the lower drinking age, despite his age at the time still being under that lower age, and how much he likes the taste of beer. He's a judge and should be intimately familiar with the habits of evasive testimony. An admission of underage drinking, possibly even excessively, would have come off looking far more professional.
I think there are several obvious reasons the Democrats have played this up every way possible. First there is the slim hope that they could keep the slot open through the mid term elections and possibly win a majority in the senate, and then hold the slot open until a possible presidential race. Polarization plays well for both parties, the hope of course is always that your side will draw more than the other. In this case the Democrats are likely to pick up more female voters than the Republicans, even if it's not converting voters it is likely to encourage more women to participate that are sympathetic to their cause. If nothing else the squabbling was intended to try and delay the appointment until after the next session of court, because there is at least one case regarding abortion that is or could be on the docket.
1. Try more like 9 months out of the year for unreasonably high temperatures. Then we get up to two weeks of fall or spring like weather on either end of the summer. Winter is usually uncomfortably warm and wet, but at least it's not in the 80's. I rode a bike to work for the month of July once when one of our family cars was involved in an accident and spent the month being repaired.
2. The ride wasn't all that unpleasant and was all on slow residential roads. But it was still dangerous because of idiot drivers, and I want to be clear that driving habits here are atrocious and dangerous regardless of it a cyclist is around. Just this morning I was passed twice illegally by speeding drivers, one of which did so in an active school zone.
No allergies, and while I like the idea of being unique I don't think I'd make a good hipster. I don't own a cell phone because I spend nearly all of my time either at home or at work, where cell phones are not permitted but I have constant access to a full function computer. My daily commute is very short, 10 minutes. When I want to hear music I opt for either a CD or an MP3 player over the radio because they are usually playing more commercials than music. I suppose I should have said I don't watch any live TV, as I still use Netflix, PrimeVideo, and Youtube quite a lot.
Damn! I would donate a testicle to see a reply all feature for such a system. The cataclysmic avalanche of people replying all to ask they be removed, and others trying to publicly shout them down would be worth just about any price.
It's not really an issue for me because I don't own a cell phone, listen to the radio, or watch TV. All that said it's just one more small reason for me to avoid carrying a cell phone. If I was in fear that something dangerous was likely to happen I would go out of my way to check for such events. But as it is we're safer today than at any previous point in history. Robo calls and spam messages are annoying enough I don't see any reason of significance that warrants allowing even more, typically useless, annoyances.
Work is almost by definition misery. If such was not the case then why would anyone ever pay someone to do something instead of doing it themselves. Arguing that you don't have the tool or skill to do whatever isn't valid, because you just need to apply yourself and learn how to do it or manufacture the tool. The truth is I pay people for goods and services because I don't want to spend the time and effort to do it myself. Businesses hire employees for the same reason. The employee has no obligation to report when they've increased their efficiency to such a point that they don't have to physically do anything because the employer is still getting what they've agreed to pay for. The only exception would be if the employment contract said otherwise.
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They could have converted some other assets to cash. For instance, stockpiles of parts used to assemble Model 3's.
It boggles my mind that Trump has 55 million followers. Honestly the idea that anyone would have that kind of numbers is just crazy. I get that a sizeable chunk of that is probably people that aren't fans of his but just want to keep abreast of whatever crazy shit he's spouting, but still. That is just an impossibly large group of people lending an ear to someone.
Those two events are very different. The Weinstein thing was all accusations coming from some of his victims. Should those political figures have issued statements more quickly instead of waiting five days, probably. But the delay isn't really all that surprising given the relationships they had with him. Trump and the nazi rally are a different animal entirely. From the outset there was photographic and video evidence of that shit show. There was never any doubt about what happened and Trump didn't have any personal relationships with any of the concerned parties. As the sitting president all he needed to do was hold a press conference and condemn the violence, instead he went out of his way to compliment both sides.
As others have pointed out before it can definitely be unethical. The ethical issues arise when people with a vested interest in the stock price attempt to manipulate the price usually via FUD, although the same can also be done by trying to pump and dump. The harm in these kinds of actions is that a companies ability to borrow money and get favorable financial terms from suppliers and such is directly affected by the stock price. That kind of instability can wreck a company that would otherwise be just fine.
Even many smaller businesses don't operate on a daily balancing of the books with suppliers. For example a restaurant may find a supplier of fresh produce and agree to pay for daily deliveries on a weekly or monthly basis. If the supplier has high confidence in the ability of the restaurant to pay the bill on time then they are likely to allow the bill to go longer between settling up and not charge as much of a premium. If however the supplier doesn't have any confidence in the restaurant then they might demand cash on delivery or even when the order is placed, and the price is more likely to reflect the instability of the relationship as well. Even if your business is magically cash flush and can pay in full for everything as you need it the prices you pay will be higher and the associated costs of the constant transactions will cut into your profitability, which increase the likelihood of the business failing.
Shorting is essentially antithetical to investing. Investing means to put something of yours into an entity hoping that its value will increase. In shorting you borrow an investment from someone else, sell it immediately and hope to buy it back later at a discount so you can return it to the party it was borrowed from while keeping the difference in cash. By definition the only time a short seller holds any investment in the company they are shorting is at the beginning and end.
I've been kind of hoping that they would partner with or buy up Lit Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The C-1 concept is pretty cool in my opinion. The C-1 might not have the sex appeal of a standard motorcycle but would be eminently more practical for daily use and much safer.
I was really interested but the price was always the breaking point. You had to buy a high end gaming video card and then the headsets are still several hundred dollars on top of that. An additional concern though was always whether or not a given headset would work with eye glasses. I don't wear contact lenses and am not going to start just so I can use a VR headset.
I don't particularly care for the being able to move around by physically moving my body though. All I really cared for was head tracking for looking this way and that.
Much of the time if someone goes out of their way to mock someone or something else it's because they feel threatened by it in some way. If you go so far as creating a new word expressly for the purpose of mocking someone then that's a pretty clear indication that you find whatever it is threatening in some way.
If China decides to dump the materials that we sold to them for recycling into the ocean, that is only tangentially our fault. However if you want to stick by that then the blame should probably shift right back to China because much of that plastic waste started as a product made in China and shipped to the USA as an export. But maybe we should go back even further and lay the blame at the feet of whoever pumped the oil out of the ground that was then used to make the plastics.
When I was a kid it was commonly called a "side job". At some point it was called "moonlighting" although I think that also implied it was a secret you were keeping from your primary employer.
Don't ruin it now! This whole "side hustle" thing has been a great source of amusement to me over the last couple of years. It's as if an entire generation grew up somehow completely unaware that their parents did anything other than work at one job and make them sandwiches.
I would say exactly the opposite. That if the Chinese hive mind feels so threatened by you as to create a word specifically to mock you, then they are the ones who are pathetic.
https://www.earthday.org/2018/...
The USA is at the very bottom of that list ranked #20. So sure, we're not innocent. Ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the plastic pouring into the oceans is from other countries isn't going to help the situation though.
I'm not sure about elsewhere but in general in the USA you can park on the side of the road, as close to the curb as possible, anywhere that such parking is not explicitly forbidden by signage or other marking. There are some additional rules that you ostensibly have to know in order to be licensed to drive such as not parking in front of a fire hydrant, driveway, too close to an intersection. Most jurisdictions also specify a maximum distance from the curb although I've never seen anyone issued a ticket for fragrant violations of that rule. The point though is that there are commonsense rules and standards for parking a vehicle on the road which are mostly adhered to. When it comes to short term rental scooters people seem to lose their mind and just ditch them in the middle of the sidewalk.
An ICE tops out around 30% when it's running at it's peak efficiency. That requires an immaculately maintained engine and operating it within a very narrow part of its functional range. Whenever your ICE vehicle is doing anything other than cruise control at its most efficient speed it is way off that efficiency number. Power plants will spend much more of their lifetime operating at or near peak efficiency than an ICE in a car will. Electric motors are also far more efficient with a much broader functional power band than any ICE. Of course we use transmissions in ICE vehicles to try and get more use out of the narrow operating range, but that adds more moving parts that need maintaining as well as more power losses.
There is also the matter of the amount of energy that goes into processing petroleum so that it can be used as a fuel in a car. The fossil fuels used in most power plants, coal and natural gas, don't require nearly as much processing. There is also a lot of value in centralizing, or outsourcing as you say, the CO2 production. Because the CO2 is being generated at one place instead of thousands of individually maintained tailpipes, it is much easier to control and maintain.
Which brings up the fact that most people don't do much for maintenance on their cars. They might get the oil changed regularly. I knew one guy that had never changed the oil in his Taurus that had over 150K miles, just added a quart here and there. For the most part people only take their cars to a mechanic for a tuneup if something is obviously wrong and interfering with their daily use.
Melt and mix it with glass. Mold the result into a torpeo like shape and temper it for increased strength. Then take them out to an oceanic subduction zone, where one continental plate is sliding under another. Drop them from the surface into the muck at the bottom on the plate that is going under. The glass torpedo should have enough velocity to bury its self pretty deep into the sediment sealing if off from the environment. Eventually it will be melted and mixed into the mantle of the earth. If it ever does resurface it should be sufficiently decayed and diluted enough to be of no more threat than existing natural sources. Alternatively you could use an oversized drill rig to bore a shaft large enough to hold the stuff in the same area and then backfill it with a couple miles of cement. The one major holdup in doing any of that though is a treaty that bars nations from disposing of nuclear waste at sea.
UBI would undoubtedly throw the pay rates for low/no skill labor into a period of wild fluctuation as people worked out what they're willing to work for. In the very short term I would expect pay to drop across the board by the same amount as the UBI. Then as people evaluate whether or not working 40+ hours a week is worth whatever extra then they may or may not quit. I would expect that people closer to the UBI in current earning would be more likely to stop working for their current employer. So we might actually see businesses that use those laborers increase the amount their willing to pay for labor, and given that an individuals survival doesn't ride on that job it is entirely possible that those wages could wind up higher than they are now.
I agree that the number is a red herring, but I do wonder where all those people are that don't have personal cell phones. I don't carry a cell phone myself, but I can't think of a single adult that I know who doesn't. The only people other than myself that I can think of are teenagers in large families and other children that are just too young to have a cell phone.
Personally I don't have a cell phone because I only spend a few minutes per day where I don't have access to a regular phone and computer. A cell phone would very rarely be useful for me and just isn't worth the money and inconvenience involved.
I agree in large part that curbing population growth would be the best solution. The problem is that the only morally justifiable way to accomplish that is to lift a very large majority of the population of the world up to first world standards. Practically speaking every other method is very likely to just lead to more suffering and evil shit.
The problem with bringing most other countries into the first world is that it's a very expensive proposition, in every way you can measure. Those costs are increased even more by the corruption that is rife in the developing world. And of course there is still corruption and no lack of people in the 1st world countries that will exploit every opportunity to maximize their own personal profits. The most precious resource though is time, and of course there is likely just not enough of it. To affect the kinds of changes in cultures that lead to populations stabilizing we likely need multiple generations of relative prosperity.
In the end I don't think we'll see people sharply cut back on the amount of meat they eat. Instead we'll see meat incrementally increase in price relative to other food sources because of demand increasing faster than supply. This process has actually already been happening for centuries. Our ancestors frequently ate much more meat than we do today.
1. A cursory search on google says the accusation was for 1982, I can't be bothered to look more closely for a specific date. There has been no evidence, however there rarely is in such allegations. And your point about false accusations being made purely for political reasons is definitely something that always bears thought and consideration.
2. While impeachment would be technically possible I think we'd need something significantly more offensive than a 40 year old rape. You don't have to look any further back than Clinton for proof of that.
3. I can agree to some degree that what we did in our youth shouldn't throw an eternal shadow over the rest of our lives. However for positions of such power and authority I don't see why we can't be more picky and require candidates that have always shown good enough judgement so as to not have committed felonies such as rape. Not that I'm convinced the candidate currently in question did commit a rape, but I think that such a crime should definitely be a dis qualifier. My biggest concern so far has been that his actions don't look like an innocent persons actions. For example when he was asked about drinking and being drunk, he failed to actually admit to or deny any drinking but instead immediately went off on a tangent about the lower drinking age, despite his age at the time still being under that lower age, and how much he likes the taste of beer. He's a judge and should be intimately familiar with the habits of evasive testimony. An admission of underage drinking, possibly even excessively, would have come off looking far more professional.
I think there are several obvious reasons the Democrats have played this up every way possible. First there is the slim hope that they could keep the slot open through the mid term elections and possibly win a majority in the senate, and then hold the slot open until a possible presidential race. Polarization plays well for both parties, the hope of course is always that your side will draw more than the other. In this case the Democrats are likely to pick up more female voters than the Republicans, even if it's not converting voters it is likely to encourage more women to participate that are sympathetic to their cause. If nothing else the squabbling was intended to try and delay the appointment until after the next session of court, because there is at least one case regarding abortion that is or could be on the docket.
1. Try more like 9 months out of the year for unreasonably high temperatures. Then we get up to two weeks of fall or spring like weather on either end of the summer. Winter is usually uncomfortably warm and wet, but at least it's not in the 80's. I rode a bike to work for the month of July once when one of our family cars was involved in an accident and spent the month being repaired.
2. The ride wasn't all that unpleasant and was all on slow residential roads. But it was still dangerous because of idiot drivers, and I want to be clear that driving habits here are atrocious and dangerous regardless of it a cyclist is around. Just this morning I was passed twice illegally by speeding drivers, one of which did so in an active school zone.
How exactly does "slow, negotiated processes" fit with the military occupation of the South China Sea or Tibet?
No allergies, and while I like the idea of being unique I don't think I'd make a good hipster. I don't own a cell phone because I spend nearly all of my time either at home or at work, where cell phones are not permitted but I have constant access to a full function computer. My daily commute is very short, 10 minutes. When I want to hear music I opt for either a CD or an MP3 player over the radio because they are usually playing more commercials than music. I suppose I should have said I don't watch any live TV, as I still use Netflix, PrimeVideo, and Youtube quite a lot.
Damn! I would donate a testicle to see a reply all feature for such a system. The cataclysmic avalanche of people replying all to ask they be removed, and others trying to publicly shout them down would be worth just about any price.
It's not really an issue for me because I don't own a cell phone, listen to the radio, or watch TV. All that said it's just one more small reason for me to avoid carrying a cell phone. If I was in fear that something dangerous was likely to happen I would go out of my way to check for such events. But as it is we're safer today than at any previous point in history. Robo calls and spam messages are annoying enough I don't see any reason of significance that warrants allowing even more, typically useless, annoyances.
Work is almost by definition misery. If such was not the case then why would anyone ever pay someone to do something instead of doing it themselves. Arguing that you don't have the tool or skill to do whatever isn't valid, because you just need to apply yourself and learn how to do it or manufacture the tool. The truth is I pay people for goods and services because I don't want to spend the time and effort to do it myself. Businesses hire employees for the same reason. The employee has no obligation to report when they've increased their efficiency to such a point that they don't have to physically do anything because the employer is still getting what they've agreed to pay for. The only exception would be if the employment contract said otherwise.