I suppose what is a bit concerning about this is the relatively blatant nature of the contacting. It's as if they suspect that tech workers think they're getting screwed by their employers via outsourcing and such and are trying to make a play based on that resentment. I'm shocked - SHOCKED!.
b: The ablation cascade - e.g., the diffusion into a more evenly distributed quantity of orbiting bits moving very fast - would kill spaceflight for hundreds of years, at best. There's nothing that can protect a launch vehicle moving through such a cloud of small pieces, at least not now. It makes Asteroids look dead simple....
c. Why militarize space when it can be commercialized? I for one want to spend a vacation in a weightless space station. That would be amazing....
Which is why the crazy religious want a big war in Israel - once the current mosque built on the site of the former temple is demolished, they believe that the Israelis will get on with building the second temple and get the apocalypse underway.
Pentecostalism, which is the predecessor of modern-day Dominionism, arose out of folk churches.
They very literally believe - as did medieval scholars - that enough biblical exegesis coupled with faith and self-abnegation will allow them to engage in divination.
Never mind that such practices are expressly condemned in old testament texts, and would have been (relatively) heretical even to the batshit english puritans who settled the east coast of North America. The current Dominionist belief structure reflects a post-enlightenment level of absolute savagery, albeit dressed up in a nice suit for Sunday, but still red in tooth and claw.
Dominionists slough off proscriptions against divination as "old testament" and claim that the personal relationship with the numinous supersedes both older rules (which, granted, were intended to maintain control over belief change) and (the scary bit) logic and reason. They claim that only 'experiential faith' is valid, and all other forms of religious observance are shams.
The truly scary bit is that the notion experiential faith expressly incorporates the validity of revelatory experiences - and the mandate that revelatory experience is to be taken as truth, and challenges to it represent heretical behavior that requires prosecution in the name of holiness. Such a system has no internal checks and brooks no challenges, and is an ideal basis for an authoritarian state. For if A has a revelation and reveals it, B and C are bound to obey it, whether it is to their benefit or not.....
Thomas Paine, who I revere, has this to say about this sort of revelation-trumps-all thinking in Part2/Sec20 of Common Sense. He was responding to earlier forms of socially-sanctioned illogic occasioned by the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s, led by Jonathan Edwards and
"Revelation then, so far as the term has relation between God and man, can only be applied to something which God reveals of his will to man; but though the power of the Almighty to make such a communication is necessarily admitted, because to that power all things are possible, yet the thing so revealed (if anything ever was revealed, and which, bye the bye, it is impossible to prove), is revelation to the person only to whom it is made. His account of it to another person is not revelation; and whoever puts faith in that account, puts it in the man from whom the account comes; and that man may have been deceived, or may have dreamed it, or he may be an impostor and may lie. There is no possible criterion whereby to judge of the truth of what he tells, for even the morality of it would be no proof of revelation. In all such cases the proper answer would be, "When it is revealed to me, I will believe it to be a revelation; but it is not, and cannot be incumbent upon me to believe it to be revelation before; neither is it proper that I should take the word of a man as the word of God, and put man in the place of God." This is the manner in which I have spoken of revelation in the former part of the Age of Reason; and which, while it reverentially admits revelation as a possible thing, because, as before said, to the Almighty all things are possible, it prevents the imposition of one man upon another, and precludes the wicked use of pretended revelation."
And the greatest depth we know about - the Challenger Deep is 10900 meters deep (36000 feet, more or less) - seven miles. Submarines can't get close to that depth - maybe 10%.
The key point, for me, is that the old adage 'the solution to pollution is dilution' doesn't work for a world as populated as the one we live in, where many individual humans have an amplified capacity to generate more waste (across all categories of waste) in comparison to prior generations, due to technology.
Ultimately, continuing to dump carbon into the atmosphere will have deleterious effects on both the biosphere and very probably the ability of humans to maintain a technological civilization. This is kinda why I support solar/wind/hydro/nuclear electrical generation - these energy sources are not side-effect-free, but on the whole, properly managed, they represent solutions which provide energy without affecting the atmosphere.
I do wonder how Brazil gets by on their sugarcane-alcohol-fueled cars. Seems to work....with the sheer amount of biomaterial we grow in the US (esp corn), it seems plausible to run E100 and become largely energy-independent for mobile fuels. Sure, not as efficient as petrochemicals, but nowhere near as polluting and relatively renewable.
Since the 1970s (yes, I'm showing my age), it's been relatively common knowledge that CFCs = ozone-depleting gases, and there have been published articles which seek to establish causal links to climate change as a secondary result of ozone depletion. So knowledge of CFCs as 'greenhouse gases' is not as common as knowledge of CFCs as 'ozone-depleting gases', but it's not as if it's completely out of the blue, either.
And I know you're typing in another language - kudos to you for your mastery, wish I could say I had the same - but your misspelling of 'poison' as 'poisson' (fish, in French) is extra funny - I had images of idiots chasing lynx with fish.;)
Yup. This is an imcomplete data set issue. This represents a programming change to ensure that the decision tree takes competitive pricing into account (among other similar factors - location, socioeconomics, who has a history of shopping where, et cetera).
Of course this comes from the WSJ - it's from writers who are not technoliterate and who bluster about news items they're not equipped to assess.
> Live in Silicon Valley and put away even 5% of your salary for retirement will set you up for success more than a job in the midwest and setting aside 15% of that salary.
^^^ What he said. Figure out how much you can afford to save and then save like crazy. It makes for an exit strategy by or before 60 that's entirely acceptable.
"A lot of money" is relative to costs in a given area. Costs in (certain parts of) CA are higher than average, and consequently the salary doesn't go as far. OTOH, if you're careful and not wasteful, it's possible to build up a decent nest egg by leveraging 401k and opening brokerage accounts. Even if you stay with safe instruments, you'll still manage to put away some good cash, which is the chief benefit. I don't even count options - I've had many, and they are generally worthless, which is why SV companies have to offer both salary and equity in order to acquire talent.
NT was kind of a gateway drug, I think, insofar as it taught bean counters that licensing costs could be driven down lower than Big Iron vendors were demanding, and *then* Linux came in at either Opex-only subscription costs (Red Hat etc) or entirely Opex-free (CentOS, etc). Since Linux had command compatibility with lots of big iron Unixes, the technical teams took to it and the bean counters took note, and that was the end of paying for OSes (for the most part).
It was interesting to watch some of the specialized software vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Platform, etc) adapt to Linux.....their costs per unit remained (and, really, do remain) pretty high. When software like OpenLava (an open-source LSF variant with command and binary compatibility with Platform LSF) became available, IBM (which owns Platform) suddenly became much more reasonably about pricing, which had become downright predatory in the last release before the FOSS alternative became available.
The British, the Germans, the Japanese, and the Russians had extraordinary production capacity before WWII. All those countries also suffered tremendous damage to their industrial infrastructure, which cleared the playing field for the US to dominate manufacturing and trade while the heavily-damaged countries caught up.
This is just another reason why war is basically a bad idea. Honestly, if industrialists wanted to get their way, they should work stuff out around a negotiating table, not suborn governments/armies to do it for them. It destroys capacity, creates antipathies that last for decades if not centuries, and slows the growth curve. Yes, WWII did lead to some amazing science which got humans to the moon and led to computers, but imagine if the work that Turing, Atanasoff, von Neumann, von Braun, etc were doing had not been constrained by the need for weaponizing the results?
I think it'd have to be done as a fairly long series. The first book alone could be a season...it's not a simple story, and to capture the nuance would require a great deal of work.
I'd like to see it, though, if only to see how the creators visually represent the Asimov universe.
The chances of that occurring - that is, of US providers reducing prices to US consumers due to drops in demand allowing them to do so - is....well....an idea which I have yet to have seen proven.
Prices will remain constant or increase and margins will go up. The consumer is the last person that necessity-manufacturers think about - they're looking for ways to increase margin, which can involve maintaining prices even when production costs or demand drops.
I'd like it to work that way, but it just doesn't.....
Ah, so it's OK that the poor's already-abysmal living standard gets lowered because our idiot GOP leader is pissing in the trade pot? I'm sure you're ok with that - it'll help ensure that they know their place.
He also focused, primarily, on a single economy: the UK. Somehow, his work has been elevated to a status where it prescribes a market which stands athwart all and is the final arbiter of all value.....a typical University of Chicago misread, really, which is what modern GOP economics are based on.
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I suppose what is a bit concerning about this is the relatively blatant nature of the contacting.
It's as if they suspect that tech workers think they're getting screwed by their employers via outsourcing and such and are trying to make a play based on that resentment.
I'm shocked - SHOCKED!.
Agreed.
a: absolutely true
b: The ablation cascade - e.g., the diffusion into a more evenly distributed quantity of orbiting bits moving very fast - would kill spaceflight for hundreds of years, at best. There's nothing that can protect a launch vehicle moving through such a cloud of small pieces, at least not now. It makes Asteroids look dead simple....
c. Why militarize space when it can be commercialized? I for one want to spend a vacation in a weightless space station. That would be amazing....
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Which is why the crazy religious want a big war in Israel - once the current mosque built on the site of the former temple is demolished, they believe that the Israelis will get on with building the second temple and get the apocalypse underway.
It's insane.
Pentecostalism, which is the predecessor of modern-day Dominionism, arose out of folk churches.
They very literally believe - as did medieval scholars - that enough biblical exegesis coupled with faith and self-abnegation will allow them to engage in divination.
Never mind that such practices are expressly condemned in old testament texts, and would have been (relatively) heretical even to the batshit english puritans who settled the east coast of North America. The current Dominionist belief structure reflects a post-enlightenment level of absolute savagery, albeit dressed up in a nice suit for Sunday, but still red in tooth and claw.
Dominionists slough off proscriptions against divination as "old testament" and claim that the personal relationship with the numinous supersedes both older rules (which, granted, were intended to maintain control over belief change) and (the scary bit) logic and reason. They claim that only 'experiential faith' is valid, and all other forms of religious observance are shams.
The truly scary bit is that the notion experiential faith expressly incorporates the validity of revelatory experiences - and the mandate that revelatory experience is to be taken as truth, and challenges to it represent heretical behavior that requires prosecution in the name of holiness. Such a system has no internal checks and brooks no challenges, and is an ideal basis for an authoritarian state. For if A has a revelation and reveals it, B and C are bound to obey it, whether it is to their benefit or not.....
Thomas Paine, who I revere, has this to say about this sort of revelation-trumps-all thinking in Part2/Sec20 of Common Sense. He was responding to earlier forms of socially-sanctioned illogic occasioned by the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s, led by Jonathan Edwards and
"Revelation then, so far as the term has relation between God and man, can only be applied to something which God reveals of his will to man; but though the power of the Almighty to make such a communication is necessarily admitted, because to that power all things are possible, yet the thing so revealed (if anything ever was revealed, and which, bye the bye, it is impossible to prove), is revelation to the person only to whom it is made. His account of it to another person is not revelation; and whoever puts faith in that account, puts it in the man from whom the account comes; and that man may have been deceived, or may have dreamed it, or he may be an impostor and may lie. There is no possible criterion whereby to judge of the truth of what he tells, for even the morality of it would be no proof of revelation. In all such cases the proper answer would be, "When it is revealed to me, I will believe it to be a revelation; but it is not, and cannot be incumbent upon me to believe it to be revelation before; neither is it proper that I should take the word of a man as the word of God, and put man in the place of God." This is the manner in which I have spoken of revelation in the former part of the Age of Reason; and which, while it reverentially admits revelation as a possible thing, because, as before said, to the Almighty all things are possible, it prevents the imposition of one man upon another, and precludes the wicked use of pretended revelation."
And the greatest depth we know about - the Challenger Deep is 10900 meters deep (36000 feet, more or less) - seven miles.
Submarines can't get close to that depth - maybe 10%.
Yup.
The key point, for me, is that the old adage 'the solution to pollution is dilution' doesn't work for a world as populated as the one we live in, where many individual humans have an amplified capacity to generate more waste (across all categories of waste) in comparison to prior generations, due to technology.
Ultimately, continuing to dump carbon into the atmosphere will have deleterious effects on both the biosphere and very probably the ability of humans to maintain a technological civilization. This is kinda why I support solar/wind/hydro/nuclear electrical generation - these energy sources are not side-effect-free, but on the whole, properly managed, they represent solutions which provide energy without affecting the atmosphere.
I do wonder how Brazil gets by on their sugarcane-alcohol-fueled cars. Seems to work....with the sheer amount of biomaterial we grow in the US (esp corn), it seems plausible to run E100 and become largely energy-independent for mobile fuels. Sure, not as efficient as petrochemicals, but nowhere near as polluting and relatively renewable.
Since the 1970s (yes, I'm showing my age), it's been relatively common knowledge that CFCs = ozone-depleting gases, and there have been published articles which seek to establish causal links to climate change as a secondary result of ozone depletion. So knowledge of CFCs as 'greenhouse gases' is not as common as knowledge of CFCs as 'ozone-depleting gases', but it's not as if it's completely out of the blue, either.
Love lynxes. They're amazing.
And I know you're typing in another language - kudos to you for your mastery, wish I could say I had the same - but your misspelling of 'poison' as 'poisson' (fish, in French) is extra funny - I had images of idiots chasing lynx with fish. ;)
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...well, all data that is available to a given reasoning system, anyhow. And yes, determining relevance of data is a hard problem.
Yup. This is an imcomplete data set issue. This represents a programming change to ensure that the decision tree takes competitive pricing into account (among other similar factors - location, socioeconomics, who has a history of shopping where, et cetera).
Of course this comes from the WSJ - it's from writers who are not technoliterate and who bluster about news items they're not equipped to assess.
The peso is worth about USD$0.50, so the value of Mex$400MM is about USD$@200MM
> Live in Silicon Valley and put away even 5% of your salary for retirement will set you up for success more than a job in the midwest and setting aside 15% of that salary.
^^^
What he said. Figure out how much you can afford to save and then save like crazy. It makes for an exit strategy by or before 60 that's entirely acceptable.
"A lot of money" is relative to costs in a given area.
Costs in (certain parts of) CA are higher than average, and consequently the salary doesn't go as far.
OTOH, if you're careful and not wasteful, it's possible to build up a decent nest egg by leveraging 401k and opening brokerage accounts. Even if you stay with safe instruments, you'll still manage to put away some good cash, which is the chief benefit. I don't even count options - I've had many, and they are generally worthless, which is why SV companies have to offer both salary and equity in order to acquire talent.
NT was kind of a gateway drug, I think, insofar as it taught bean counters that licensing costs could be driven down lower than Big Iron vendors were demanding, and *then* Linux came in at either Opex-only subscription costs (Red Hat etc) or entirely Opex-free (CentOS, etc). Since Linux had command compatibility with lots of big iron Unixes, the technical teams took to it and the bean counters took note, and that was the end of paying for OSes (for the most part).
It was interesting to watch some of the specialized software vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Platform, etc) adapt to Linux.....their costs per unit remained (and, really, do remain) pretty high. When software like OpenLava (an open-source LSF variant with command and binary compatibility with Platform LSF) became available, IBM (which owns Platform) suddenly became much more reasonably about pricing, which had become downright predatory in the last release before the FOSS alternative became available.
The British, the Germans, the Japanese, and the Russians had extraordinary production capacity before WWII. All those countries also suffered tremendous damage to their industrial infrastructure, which cleared the playing field for the US to dominate manufacturing and trade while the heavily-damaged countries caught up.
This is just another reason why war is basically a bad idea. Honestly, if industrialists wanted to get their way, they should work stuff out around a negotiating table, not suborn governments/armies to do it for them. It destroys capacity, creates antipathies that last for decades if not centuries, and slows the growth curve. Yes, WWII did lead to some amazing science which got humans to the moon and led to computers, but imagine if the work that Turing, Atanasoff, von Neumann, von Braun, etc were doing had not been constrained by the need for weaponizing the results?
I think it'd have to be done as a fairly long series. The first book alone could be a season...it's not a simple story, and to capture the nuance would require a great deal of work.
I'd like to see it, though, if only to see how the creators visually represent the Asimov universe.
Anchor is my go-to for new gear. They're worth their weight in....well, useful parts, anyhow.
Because it's the polite way to address them. .ms domain" ;)
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+1
It's cheap-labor capitalism at work....this is what the 1% have wanted since slavery and early industrial times.
The chances of that occurring - that is, of US providers reducing prices to US consumers due to drops in demand allowing them to do so - is....well....an idea which I have yet to have seen proven.
Prices will remain constant or increase and margins will go up. The consumer is the last person that necessity-manufacturers think about - they're looking for ways to increase margin, which can involve maintaining prices even when production costs or demand drops.
I'd like it to work that way, but it just doesn't.....
Ah, so it's OK that the poor's already-abysmal living standard gets lowered because our idiot GOP leader is pissing in the trade pot?
I'm sure you're ok with that - it'll help ensure that they know their place.
You're a jerk....
He also focused, primarily, on a single economy: the UK.
Somehow, his work has been elevated to a status where it prescribes a market which stands athwart all and is the final arbiter of all value.....a typical University of Chicago misread, really, which is what modern GOP economics are based on.
> "He is also smart"....
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Sadly, he's too bloody incompetent to even have the capability to assess his own - or other's - competence.
He's an idiot.
And so are you for following him.