I find the worst point with all of them is near the end of the cable where it hits the connector.
If I think a given cable will get used regularly, I now just grab a pack of Sugru and add my own strain relief at that point. I find it helps a lot, but on one cable (and I forget which of the 28934774 cables I own it was...) it just moved the fray point from where it would naturally occur near the connector to the point where the Sugru tapered off.
I think the only other thing a person could do is both add their own silicone strain relief and maybe dunk the cable a few times in dip-it vinyl coating to armor the cable further.
It would be nice if someone would figure out that high-quality cables were desirable and make USB versions of welding cable with thick, high-flex EPDM jackets. I could definitely use a couple of Ethernet cables like this.
I don't know you, but I'd wager you're like me and you and I probably think of this in terms of $24 billion now versus...working.
I think guys like Zuckerberg are just mentally in a different place. They're not in it for the money, they're in it for the rush of running a massive, growing company.
Money isn't even part of the equation, and I'd bet even at the time money and even the act of paying for something wasn't something Zuckerberg even thought about. He just went places and did stuff, his view of money was the company financials, not his personal finances at all.
The way I look at is if the reusable rocket guys get the cost of orbital rockets down to 1/10th of the cost that it is now, lots of options open up. If you can get 10 trips up for the cost of 1 now, suddenly assembling a Mars-distance ship in orbit and all the fuel and supplies to make it happen seems pretty plausible.
We aren't going interstellar without some new physics, but with a much less expensive orbital lift platform, interplanetary starts to look much more within reach even if it is initially limited to Mars or even Mars orbit stations.
What I don't get is why joining the NSA isn't something like getting a really well paid job combined with being in the military.
Pay them really well, so well they would have to think 3 times about not joining. Like 4x a similar pay rate that you'd find in a top-tier city for an equivalent job. Make working conditions really nice -- free high-end restaurant quality dining on premises with a room service option for people who wanted to work through a meal hour, super nice office spaces, the whole experience more "hotel" than "government office".
But then also kick in the military part -- you join up for a minimum 5 year commitment, you live on campus, your travel off-campus is limited and controlled and there's the understanding that you ARE being watched closely, but do it in an unobtrusive manner, not in a police state manner. But make the housing and lifestyle options more like a country club kind of atmosphere, single family houses, lots of recreational options, private schools for the kids, and lots of activities for spouses and kids, too. Make them stay but make staying so easy they want to stay.
Sure, the whole thing would be expensive, but you'd have a much better chance of containing your secrets. And chances are, buying their loyalty would go a long way to helping and keep the security more velvet glove than rubber glove.
The current thing with all the contractors is a mess and it's a miracle that actual government employees have any loyalty at all.
VMWare used to (and maybe still does?) have a license that said you couldn't use their hypervisor in a hosting environment, at least with the conventional end-user license. This was long enough ago that that at the time the business hosting really meant either multi-tenant http hosting on a single box, or dedicated physical server hosting and there was no openstack or similar competing virtualization system like there is now.
I'm guessing that it was meant to allow VMware to "capture" the added revenue potential that would exist if a hosting company at the time had been able to sell VMware VMs at dedicated hardware pricing. They'd sell you the license to do it, but it wouldn't be the normal end user licensing rate.
I wonder how the flash is organized. Is it just a question of a single flash chip of varying size, or is it possible that the 128GB model is somehow comprised of 4x 32GB segments which allow write interleaving to happen?
The only other explanation that I can think of would be that 128GB represents a level of density that requires superior flash chips which really are faster, and that 32GB uses older parts that are just plain slower.
Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968
1968, the year of the Tet Offensive and the siege at Khe Sanh, which Johnson insisted the US win? The same Johnson who decided not to run for re-election in 1968?
I just don't see a peace agreement in 1968 as being something that would have actually happened, especially after Johnson had stopped the bombing in the north as well.
Maybe if Johnson had *increased* bombing in the north to Linebacker II levels and allowed Westmoreland to go after the Ho Chi Minh trail and NVA bases in Cambodia and Laos he could have negotiated a peace treaty in 1968. But along with all the other political intervention in Viet Nam, Johnson himself seemed to prolong the war in Viet Nam instead of winning it.
That's why I think the psychological or occupational testing would be most informative. The DNA test only describes what the ingredients in the cake mix box are, the psych testing tells you what the cake tastes like.
AFAIK there is no predictive DNA testing for personality or higher level psychological attributes. Hell, they often can't clearly identify genes responsible for some heritable physical illnesses.
Hiring an employee for a job is expensive without DNA testing and as such represents a big financial risk for companies if the hires don't work out. I've talked to people who had to spend *days* taking a battery of psychological tests, physicals, etc to get pretty high level jobs.
Adding in another $2500 doesn't seem to be that big of a deal if the cost to hire an employee is already $25k or more.
The question I guess I'd ask is whether it will actually be useful. Will they actually be able to notice significant improvements in performance? I would think that the psychological and occupational type testing they do now would be 90% of the value.
If this is true, how do you account for the never ending ability to sell Treasuries denominated in US Dollars?
If there was some concerted effort to devalue the US dollar, wouldn't that make it ridiculous to hold Treasuries which paid off in US dollars? There has always been an existential risk associated with this -- the US in theory has always had the ability to sell Treasuries, spend the money and then print money to pay them off, but has never directly done this, or at least not on a scale that deviates from expected monetary or fiscal policy.
Any time there's a significant global financial crisis, Treasuries always seem to become more valuable as people seek to move their money into a perceived safe harbor.
Maybe in the future the US monetary and fiscal policy will erode enough that another currency is seen as a safer harbor, but right now neither the Yuan or the Euro is seen that way, each having their own peculiar problems.
I think when implemented as a progressive negative tax, UBI actually is an incentive to work as low-wage work would actually add to UBI. A big reason many poor don't work now is that work is often a negative incentive -- it has transaction costs like commuting, childcare and often ends up losing the worker other benefits, in addition to most employers treating workers poorly.
A UBI would likely improve working conditions for low wage jobs since workers would have fewer negative incentives to stay at bad jobs, but due to positive incentives to work (real increased income over basic) they would flock to better low wage jobs.
I do think that despite the serious savings in eliminating other entitlement programs and their overhead, it would require tax increases. A UBI is basically an income realignment scheme and it should be implemented by reducing the top levels of income (aligning capital gains with income taxes, eliminating tax loopholes) as well as targeting corporate hoarding and pay inequality. Reduced executive compensation that increases labor compensation results in fewer UBI payments as well.
My guess is this is likely to happen simply because its cheaper to pay people off than to maintain a security state.
But since it won't be implemented with in any intentional way, it will of course end up woefully corrupted and not really be enough income for more than baseline subsistence.
Given the minimal value of basic income, it will still be necessary to do work to have anything like a desirable standard of living. That summer in college where you lived off $400 a month was fun, but sharing a bedroom with a stranger in an old house with 10 other tenants isn't any kind of a long-term lifestyle.
It might improve the quality of working at the low end of the employment scale, since "I may live badly, but at least I don't work to do it" has a certain subtle appeal. Low wage employers will have to automate or pay more. Higher level jobs may benefit as well, as employers will likely have to pay a premium for employee continuity -- working and then quitting for a while will be popular as people work to meet short-term financial goals and then return to basic.
I think Friedman's negative income tax is the way to do it, at least as I understand it. A subsistence income is guaranteed, and tapers off as earned income increases. But it doesn't disappear with the first $1 of income, providing motivation for work, since you can add to your income rather than just trading idleness for labor at the same level of poverty. I think the bureaucratic savings of eliminating all the other entitlement programs and their administration will pay for a lot of it, but I think it will have a dollar cost that will end up being met by heavier taxing at the top end.
It's all about how one chooses the point of view. The populists ("England prevails" parties) tend to drive these regulations as a form of fight against immigrants and foreigners while the rational parties might drive these measures for practical reasons, without hidden agenda.
I'm not sure this is completely accurate. The "nativists" often proffer the same practical reasons the "rational" parties due, but these are dismissed as a facade for hidden xenophobic motivations.
I don't doubt that some element of xenophobic motivation may be intertwined with "nativist" rational arguments, but I don't doubt for a minute that the "rationalists" also have a secondary agenda as well.
I've worked on a projects where cloud-outsourced systems got brought back on premise because cloud pricing was just too expensive. A capital outlay to migrate the entire environment on-premise paid for itself in 2 years.
I'm currently working with a customer to finish an on-premise server refresh that they wanted to do cloud with (hey, cloud is free, right?) but the pricing on deploying their application in the cloud was double annually what the capital refresh was on premise.
This specific client has a home-grown application for which there is no commercial replacement, it's only real failing is that the architecture is too monolithic but the economics of a top-down rewrite for cloud-friendly deployment don't work, especially on the timelines that would be needed.
I don't think this is some weird exception, either, I think it's extremely common. I'm sure there is a whole world of cloud-oriented applications out there, but there's decades worth of on-premise IT that's working well and isn't moving into any kind of cloud environment any time soon, either.
I'd go for your idea when they can make "flat but springy" more than a membrane keyboard.
I can think of science fiction-esque ways of doing this involving ferric gels and magnetic fields to shape a surface into a keyboard and provide tactile response while allowing to be flat, keyboard shaped, keypad shaped or some combination. But I don't know that's a real thing or if you could make it the 5 mm thickness current faddish hardware designers require.
I've always wondered if, other than for video *stored* on an iOS device, if Airplay isn't just handing over the URL data to the AppleTV and it's actually downloading the data directly, not funneling it web->ios device->appleTV.
Doesn't any lawyer have an ethical (and maybe even legal) obligation to zealously defend their client's case, full stop? Not "zealously defend their client's case if they're innocent or only did something kinda wrong."
I think a lot of female attorneys defend rape allegations because its part of a good overall legal strategy for defendants. Jurors are less likely to sympathize with a victim if the attorney questioning them is also a woman.
And ironically, women over 35 on the jury are the least sympathetic to rape victims -- you could write a whole book about that, especially in light the many statistics bandied about routinely about how high the number of rapes are statistically. You would expect older women to have a higher probability of being victims themselves and thus more likely to have a personal experience in common with a victim.
Rape prosecutions are hard for a number of reasons and victim credibility is a major one, so you would expect various methods for discrediting the victim's credibility to factor into a defense strategy. Psychiatric health, honesty, state of mind, culpability, and so on are routinely attacked to undermine their credibility.
It seems to me there's still lots of room for improvement, if anything the CPU improvements have just moved bottlenecks elsewhere. CPU improvements pre-SSD were even hard to get more use out of without spending vast dollars on disk systems that matches what a couple of $300 SSDs can do today.
My desktop workstation has 32 GB of memory and it's nothing to write home about, but 10 years ago that would have been some crazy expensive Xeon motherboard.
Realistically, we've had it easy with simple hardware improvements being such low hanging fruit. We've been able to get away with making our dumb software fatter AND get the end product to run faster ever couple years just because the CPUs got faster.
The twilight of trivial CPU improvements will hopefully result in more resources being put into software development so that while scaling CPU performance vertically may taper off, the use of multi-core systems will allow it to scale horizontally, resulting in continued improvement.
My wife is measurably responsible for deforestation. She prints everything. She will literally print an email that has us both in the To: box to show it to me.
More annoyingly, she reloads the paper try to print the second side of paper so when I actually need to purposefully print something that has to be on paper, I will have to print it twice to get it on paper that doesn't have some email on the other side.
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I find the worst point with all of them is near the end of the cable where it hits the connector.
If I think a given cable will get used regularly, I now just grab a pack of Sugru and add my own strain relief at that point. I find it helps a lot, but on one cable (and I forget which of the 28934774 cables I own it was...) it just moved the fray point from where it would naturally occur near the connector to the point where the Sugru tapered off.
I think the only other thing a person could do is both add their own silicone strain relief and maybe dunk the cable a few times in dip-it vinyl coating to armor the cable further.
It would be nice if someone would figure out that high-quality cables were desirable and make USB versions of welding cable with thick, high-flex EPDM jackets. I could definitely use a couple of Ethernet cables like this.
There isn't any one fix that makes it cheap, but making orbit much cheaper to get to seems one of the more major steps to going anywhere.
I don't know you, but I'd wager you're like me and you and I probably think of this in terms of $24 billion now versus...working.
I think guys like Zuckerberg are just mentally in a different place. They're not in it for the money, they're in it for the rush of running a massive, growing company.
Money isn't even part of the equation, and I'd bet even at the time money and even the act of paying for something wasn't something Zuckerberg even thought about. He just went places and did stuff, his view of money was the company financials, not his personal finances at all.
The way I look at is if the reusable rocket guys get the cost of orbital rockets down to 1/10th of the cost that it is now, lots of options open up. If you can get 10 trips up for the cost of 1 now, suddenly assembling a Mars-distance ship in orbit and all the fuel and supplies to make it happen seems pretty plausible.
We aren't going interstellar without some new physics, but with a much less expensive orbital lift platform, interplanetary starts to look much more within reach even if it is initially limited to Mars or even Mars orbit stations.
What I don't get is why joining the NSA isn't something like getting a really well paid job combined with being in the military.
Pay them really well, so well they would have to think 3 times about not joining. Like 4x a similar pay rate that you'd find in a top-tier city for an equivalent job. Make working conditions really nice -- free high-end restaurant quality dining on premises with a room service option for people who wanted to work through a meal hour, super nice office spaces, the whole experience more "hotel" than "government office".
But then also kick in the military part -- you join up for a minimum 5 year commitment, you live on campus, your travel off-campus is limited and controlled and there's the understanding that you ARE being watched closely, but do it in an unobtrusive manner, not in a police state manner. But make the housing and lifestyle options more like a country club kind of atmosphere, single family houses, lots of recreational options, private schools for the kids, and lots of activities for spouses and kids, too. Make them stay but make staying so easy they want to stay.
Sure, the whole thing would be expensive, but you'd have a much better chance of containing your secrets. And chances are, buying their loyalty would go a long way to helping and keep the security more velvet glove than rubber glove.
The current thing with all the contractors is a mess and it's a miracle that actual government employees have any loyalty at all.
VMWare used to (and maybe still does?) have a license that said you couldn't use their hypervisor in a hosting environment, at least with the conventional end-user license. This was long enough ago that that at the time the business hosting really meant either multi-tenant http hosting on a single box, or dedicated physical server hosting and there was no openstack or similar competing virtualization system like there is now.
I'm guessing that it was meant to allow VMware to "capture" the added revenue potential that would exist if a hosting company at the time had been able to sell VMware VMs at dedicated hardware pricing. They'd sell you the license to do it, but it wouldn't be the normal end user licensing rate.
I wonder how the flash is organized. Is it just a question of a single flash chip of varying size, or is it possible that the 128GB model is somehow comprised of 4x 32GB segments which allow write interleaving to happen?
The only other explanation that I can think of would be that 128GB represents a level of density that requires superior flash chips which really are faster, and that 32GB uses older parts that are just plain slower.
Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968
1968, the year of the Tet Offensive and the siege at Khe Sanh, which Johnson insisted the US win? The same Johnson who decided not to run for re-election in 1968?
I just don't see a peace agreement in 1968 as being something that would have actually happened, especially after Johnson had stopped the bombing in the north as well.
Maybe if Johnson had *increased* bombing in the north to Linebacker II levels and allowed Westmoreland to go after the Ho Chi Minh trail and NVA bases in Cambodia and Laos he could have negotiated a peace treaty in 1968. But along with all the other political intervention in Viet Nam, Johnson himself seemed to prolong the war in Viet Nam instead of winning it.
That's why I think the psychological or occupational testing would be most informative. The DNA test only describes what the ingredients in the cake mix box are, the psych testing tells you what the cake tastes like.
AFAIK there is no predictive DNA testing for personality or higher level psychological attributes. Hell, they often can't clearly identify genes responsible for some heritable physical illnesses.
Hiring an employee for a job is expensive without DNA testing and as such represents a big financial risk for companies if the hires don't work out. I've talked to people who had to spend *days* taking a battery of psychological tests, physicals, etc to get pretty high level jobs.
Adding in another $2500 doesn't seem to be that big of a deal if the cost to hire an employee is already $25k or more.
The question I guess I'd ask is whether it will actually be useful. Will they actually be able to notice significant improvements in performance? I would think that the psychological and occupational type testing they do now would be 90% of the value.
I think it's more likely that banks feel threatened by Apple usurping their stranglehold on transaction processing.
If this is true, how do you account for the never ending ability to sell Treasuries denominated in US Dollars?
If there was some concerted effort to devalue the US dollar, wouldn't that make it ridiculous to hold Treasuries which paid off in US dollars? There has always been an existential risk associated with this -- the US in theory has always had the ability to sell Treasuries, spend the money and then print money to pay them off, but has never directly done this, or at least not on a scale that deviates from expected monetary or fiscal policy.
Any time there's a significant global financial crisis, Treasuries always seem to become more valuable as people seek to move their money into a perceived safe harbor.
Maybe in the future the US monetary and fiscal policy will erode enough that another currency is seen as a safer harbor, but right now neither the Yuan or the Euro is seen that way, each having their own peculiar problems.
I think when implemented as a progressive negative tax, UBI actually is an incentive to work as low-wage work would actually add to UBI. A big reason many poor don't work now is that work is often a negative incentive -- it has transaction costs like commuting, childcare and often ends up losing the worker other benefits, in addition to most employers treating workers poorly.
A UBI would likely improve working conditions for low wage jobs since workers would have fewer negative incentives to stay at bad jobs, but due to positive incentives to work (real increased income over basic) they would flock to better low wage jobs.
I do think that despite the serious savings in eliminating other entitlement programs and their overhead, it would require tax increases. A UBI is basically an income realignment scheme and it should be implemented by reducing the top levels of income (aligning capital gains with income taxes, eliminating tax loopholes) as well as targeting corporate hoarding and pay inequality. Reduced executive compensation that increases labor compensation results in fewer UBI payments as well.
My guess is this is likely to happen simply because its cheaper to pay people off than to maintain a security state.
But since it won't be implemented with in any intentional way, it will of course end up woefully corrupted and not really be enough income for more than baseline subsistence.
Given the minimal value of basic income, it will still be necessary to do work to have anything like a desirable standard of living. That summer in college where you lived off $400 a month was fun, but sharing a bedroom with a stranger in an old house with 10 other tenants isn't any kind of a long-term lifestyle.
It might improve the quality of working at the low end of the employment scale, since "I may live badly, but at least I don't work to do it" has a certain subtle appeal. Low wage employers will have to automate or pay more. Higher level jobs may benefit as well, as employers will likely have to pay a premium for employee continuity -- working and then quitting for a while will be popular as people work to meet short-term financial goals and then return to basic.
I think Friedman's negative income tax is the way to do it, at least as I understand it. A subsistence income is guaranteed, and tapers off as earned income increases. But it doesn't disappear with the first $1 of income, providing motivation for work, since you can add to your income rather than just trading idleness for labor at the same level of poverty. I think the bureaucratic savings of eliminating all the other entitlement programs and their administration will pay for a lot of it, but I think it will have a dollar cost that will end up being met by heavier taxing at the top end.
It's all about how one chooses the point of view. The populists ("England prevails" parties) tend to drive these regulations as a form of fight against immigrants and foreigners while the rational parties might drive these measures for practical reasons, without hidden agenda.
I'm not sure this is completely accurate. The "nativists" often proffer the same practical reasons the "rational" parties due, but these are dismissed as a facade for hidden xenophobic motivations.
I don't doubt that some element of xenophobic motivation may be intertwined with "nativist" rational arguments, but I don't doubt for a minute that the "rationalists" also have a secondary agenda as well.
S-class & AMG Models: Maximum driver and driver property prioritization.
E-class models: Minor driver prioritization, slightly better than 50/50 odds
C-class models: Pedestrian prioritization
I've worked on a projects where cloud-outsourced systems got brought back on premise because cloud pricing was just too expensive. A capital outlay to migrate the entire environment on-premise paid for itself in 2 years.
I'm currently working with a customer to finish an on-premise server refresh that they wanted to do cloud with (hey, cloud is free, right?) but the pricing on deploying their application in the cloud was double annually what the capital refresh was on premise.
This specific client has a home-grown application for which there is no commercial replacement, it's only real failing is that the architecture is too monolithic but the economics of a top-down rewrite for cloud-friendly deployment don't work, especially on the timelines that would be needed.
I don't think this is some weird exception, either, I think it's extremely common. I'm sure there is a whole world of cloud-oriented applications out there, but there's decades worth of on-premise IT that's working well and isn't moving into any kind of cloud environment any time soon, either.
I'd go for your idea when they can make "flat but springy" more than a membrane keyboard.
I can think of science fiction-esque ways of doing this involving ferric gels and magnetic fields to shape a surface into a keyboard and provide tactile response while allowing to be flat, keyboard shaped, keypad shaped or some combination. But I don't know that's a real thing or if you could make it the 5 mm thickness current faddish hardware designers require.
Typing on a typical tablet screen sucks.
This is what being trapped in the profitability bubble looks like.
They could have been investing their profits, but doing nothing in the short term kept them most profitable so that's what they did.
Sure, some investment efforts would have been failures but maybe something would have clicked and given them an additional growth option.
I've always wondered if, other than for video *stored* on an iOS device, if Airplay isn't just handing over the URL data to the AppleTV and it's actually downloading the data directly, not funneling it web->ios device->appleTV.
Doesn't any lawyer have an ethical (and maybe even legal) obligation to zealously defend their client's case, full stop? Not "zealously defend their client's case if they're innocent or only did something kinda wrong."
I think a lot of female attorneys defend rape allegations because its part of a good overall legal strategy for defendants. Jurors are less likely to sympathize with a victim if the attorney questioning them is also a woman.
And ironically, women over 35 on the jury are the least sympathetic to rape victims -- you could write a whole book about that, especially in light the many statistics bandied about routinely about how high the number of rapes are statistically. You would expect older women to have a higher probability of being victims themselves and thus more likely to have a personal experience in common with a victim.
Rape prosecutions are hard for a number of reasons and victim credibility is a major one, so you would expect various methods for discrediting the victim's credibility to factor into a defense strategy. Psychiatric health, honesty, state of mind, culpability, and so on are routinely attacked to undermine their credibility.
That's crazy.
It seems to me there's still lots of room for improvement, if anything the CPU improvements have just moved bottlenecks elsewhere. CPU improvements pre-SSD were even hard to get more use out of without spending vast dollars on disk systems that matches what a couple of $300 SSDs can do today.
My desktop workstation has 32 GB of memory and it's nothing to write home about, but 10 years ago that would have been some crazy expensive Xeon motherboard.
Realistically, we've had it easy with simple hardware improvements being such low hanging fruit. We've been able to get away with making our dumb software fatter AND get the end product to run faster ever couple years just because the CPUs got faster.
The twilight of trivial CPU improvements will hopefully result in more resources being put into software development so that while scaling CPU performance vertically may taper off, the use of multi-core systems will allow it to scale horizontally, resulting in continued improvement.
Yeah, but after November he's just another tax-dodging, whoring member of the tasteless new money class.
Clinton will be President, which makes exposing her dirty laundry more important.
Even if Wikileaks had a bias, what's wrong with leaking the info of careerist establishment politicians?
Whatever Hillary is in relation to Trump, in absolute terms she's still a bought and paid for member of the establishment.
My wife is measurably responsible for deforestation. She prints everything. She will literally print an email that has us both in the To: box to show it to me.
More annoyingly, she reloads the paper try to print the second side of paper so when I actually need to purposefully print something that has to be on paper, I will have to print it twice to get it on paper that doesn't have some email on the other side.