Yeah i'm the same way, there's virtually nothing on that list that i've eaten in the last few years. Maybe some quaker instant oats from hotel breakfasts and a couple of bags of stacy's pita chips.
I don't think of myself as a obsessive about avoiding processed food, we just try to cook a lot and model good habits for our kid. I realize a lot of America eats this on a regular basis, but it's kind of hard to wrap my head around. It definitely feels like there's a weird schism in society around that kind of thing.
Here between Federal/Colorado/Xcel energy you can get something like a $15,500 tax-credit/rebate on a new electric car. That amounts to being half-off a new leaf or bolt. Personally i think it'd be ridiculous to overlook that, but i don't think EVs are anything like 50% of the market here.
Still it's fundamentally punitive because any competent business owner who's lent out a movie, could be making $30 a week on it, and hasn't got it back would surely buy another copy. Nobody with any sense would willingly forgo that opportunity cost, just because they might make it back in fines later.
I'm pretty sure we've been sitting on the same set of netflix dvds since before our kid was born. Has netflix really left some poor sucker waiting 6 years to borrow this discs after I'm done? I doubt it.
Depends where you work. My partner's in boulder, co and it's nearly impossible to snag a charger at her work. In 8 months of phev ownership i think she's been able to charge at her office twice.
I work remote for a company in rural NC. We've got two 220v chargers and i've never seen them both in use. I'm genuinely surprised that no employees have gone out and bought leafs simply because they could pretty reliably operate them for free.
It's challenging to figure out what the maintenance schedule should be on a plugin hybrid.
Ours got to about 9k miles before asking for an oil change, so i'm assuming it's based on the duty cycle of the engine itself. I assume that means a lot of the engine maintenance will be less because it isn't really used as often. I do feel you on the complexity though, having two whole drive systems leaves me barely able to identify the components under the hood.
> Separate the ad network so that Google has to deal with third party networks, of which the one they formerly owned would be only one (for there to be any point in doing this), and now they'd have a strong incentive to share that data with third parties to continue to get value out of it.
I suppose, but it'd stop them from playing the "We don't share you data with third parties card". Google would have to be up front that they were sharing your data with advertisers and they'd have more incentive to try and find ways to do that pseudo-anonymously.
But you could split the advertising network out into its own company. The reason google adwords are so good is that they have a monumental amount of data on different users. That gives them a massive competitive advantage over someone like doubleclick and also creates a lot of potential privacy issues.
If Google Ads were a separate entity from Google Search and there were constraints on how much personal data could flow between them, then it's possible some good would come from that. Google Search could obviously still show ads and generate revenue but they wouldn't be able to use their data from their leading internet search engine to bolster their online advertising business.
Not suggesting this is the right answer, but I think the obvious way to break up google would be to break the advertising business away.
Google ads is very successful because it's very good. It's very good because it has access to a level of data (from search, gmail and analytics) that their competitors can only dream of. If google had to monetize search using a third party ad network then i think that'd mitigate a lot of the privacy concerns.
You could also argue that their retail operations and their marketplace could be broken apart. When "amazon.com" is only one of the Prime sellers selling an item, it's fair to say that they are in a position where they can abuse their control over the platform. Amazon could operate more like "ebay with distribution centers" and items that are presently "Sold by Amazon.com" could be spun off into a separate business that works like any other large FBA seller.
Plus now that this has been publicized, I'm sure the response from corporate will be to take their weed away. That's a lot easier than providing ongoing counseling and mental health support.
Through my yard, i don't think my fiber is more than 4" deep in a plastic conduit and it seems to survive just fine. Obviously it doesn't have cars driving over it, but the shallow trench seems like a reasonable compromise to make installation a bit more manageable. I'm sure some portion of them need replaced every year, but I haven't heard of anyone having reliability issues near me.
I don't think that's what they are claiming. They are asserting that peak population could be as soon as 2050 and enter a steady decline thereafter.
I'm not qualified to say if it's accurate or not, but it certainly seems pretty plausible.
Even if the average women has only two children, if she starts a family at 25 instead of 20 then that will start to cause a drop, and once that turns around in given country it'll take a lot of effort to overcome - even the scandinavian countries that have a very strong social safety net, excellent support for families and "free" education for all are struggling to provide enough incentives to keep the population up.
I remember a lot of people pissed off that Canon started including video in all their DSLRs and kept demanding a photo-only camera and ignoring the very obvious market forces that would make that significantly more expensive.
If Visio have to make a smart and dumb version of each TV then they'll have twice as many skus to manage, retailers will need twice as much space for them and there'll be significant added cost because of that. The dumb tv will end up shouldering that cost (because it's more important to be price competitive on the smart version) so it'll end up more expensive.
I have some chinese wifi speakers that seemed to be making some rather suspect requests, i just whitelisted them at my router to only access the services that I want them to. It's not that hard.
I'd think you'd have to be getting a good deal on the tariff to get that kind of breakeven, I'm in a small city in Colorado where they've refused to create an incentive structure that'd leave poorer residents funding the upper middle class and the breakeven is closer to 5 yrs. The city isn't particularly backwards (indeed we've got free buses, muni fiber and a commitment to be zero-carbon by 2030) but it's hard to match the incentives that the larger utilities do without disproportionately hurting the poor.
If you don't have solar, the tariff is effectively $12.40 + 7.5c/kWh (up to 750) then 8.7c/kWh (up to 1500) and then 9.9c/kWh thereafter. That means that low usage homes have disproportionately smaller bills (in most cases) than high usage homes.
When you switch to solar they reduce your kWh rate to 6.5c/kWh but your monthly service charge goes to $21.60 - which apparently is closer to their actual cost structure.
Isn't as bad of a breakeven as it was a few years ago though. When i looked 3 years ago it was closer to 9 years, but now we're down to 5.
The real risk they are running with this sort of price structure is having affluent consumers leave the grid altogether. Then that'll leave the poor paying progressively more and more of the fixed costs.
Less so for something like a plane, but there's a lot of cheap wind power generated at night and we can presumably scale that up pretty easily.
I imagine with some kind of clever smart grid control we can set rules like "always charge my car to 30% if power is less than $1/kWh, then charge it fully when it drops below 8c/kWh, and dump it back out to the grid if power exceeds $2/kWh"
That should do a lot to smooth overall demand, but it doesn't change the fact that it'll still will require a lot more windmills
Amazon generally don't permit stuff that's being sold by an unauthorized reseller to be sold as "new". Particularly if the product's warranty only applies when bought through an authorized reseller.
You can probably structure your agreements to allow you to deny warranty claims to customers who buy from those sellers. You wouldn't want to actually deny them because the reviews will reflect badly on you, but you can use that as a stick to get those amazon listing downgraded. Of course that's easier if you have authorized amazon sellers, i'm not sure how responsive amazon would be to cutting off the product altogether.
Most streaming services have no commitment, in fact since you've been able to add things like Showtime and HBO to Amazon Prime it's made it super easy to have them on a month to month basis.
Wait until the season of GoT has ended and then sign up for HBO for a month and binge it. Then get a month of netflix for the latest House of Cards, or perhaps get a month of Hulu to watch The First. You don't need 5 streaming services all the time, you can cycle them.
However that obviously doesn't work well with current affairs or sports, and so I expect those will end up driving perpetual subscriptions. Things like Last Week Tonight or Patriot Act are likely disproportionately valuable to their owners simply because they go stale quickly.
Yeah, that'd be my advice for anyone looking for a CS program. Find one that teaches the theory and underpinnings rather than that latest fads.
I had a book on my reading list that my father had used in his degree thirty years earlier. You can always learn new languages later, and the core concepts rarely change.
Probably more concerning that that devices like alexa and google are subservient to their masters. You can tell them to shut up, they'll comply then not have any resentment seconds later when you have another request.
Not really the behavior i want to install in my son
I've known a few people that have done software and it roles in government. Those jobs may not have great basic salary, but they have a degree of stability that some people look for and coupled with comparatively generous retirement they can be attractive to competent individuals.
The issue, I suspect, on large government IT projects is probably not much to do with technical vision or project management but rather of ill-defined or ever-changing requirements coming from above. When you have a fixed budget & timeline and requirements change then quality has to suffer, our political environment generally doesn't permit anything else to give.
The only advantage to an outside contractor coming in would be that it would be much easier for them to announce to everyone that "shit's fucked up" and that the project isn't set up for success.
Even ssh'd into my router, the best I can get is an average ping time of 1.8mS to the netflix oca, it's about the fastest thing i can find to ping anywhere. It's even a full millisecond faster than my isps own website.
Yeah it seems like it is a natural fit in optimizing the things we do.
Even though I don't routinely use my phone as an alarm clock, it still knows when i'm likely to get up and if I plug it in at bed time it'll do a good job of figuring out when i'm likely to get up and adjusts its charging rate to be done about an hour before then. Yet if I plug it in a 3pm then it'll assume i want as much charge as possible and charge as fast as it can. It's not rocket science, but it's useful.
Do I need a dishwasher with a screen that I can talk to? Not really. Would I like one that adapts its wash patterns based on the price of power, or how well our detergent is doing at whatever it's trying to clean? Of course.
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Yeah i'm the same way, there's virtually nothing on that list that i've eaten in the last few years. Maybe some quaker instant oats from hotel breakfasts and a couple of bags of stacy's pita chips.
I don't think of myself as a obsessive about avoiding processed food, we just try to cook a lot and model good habits for our kid. I realize a lot of America eats this on a regular basis, but it's kind of hard to wrap my head around. It definitely feels like there's a weird schism in society around that kind of thing.
Though parts of the US are pretty high too.
Here between Federal/Colorado/Xcel energy you can get something like a $15,500 tax-credit/rebate on a new electric car. That amounts to being half-off a new leaf or bolt. Personally i think it'd be ridiculous to overlook that, but i don't think EVs are anything like 50% of the market here.
Still it's fundamentally punitive because any competent business owner who's lent out a movie, could be making $30 a week on it, and hasn't got it back would surely buy another copy. Nobody with any sense would willingly forgo that opportunity cost, just because they might make it back in fines later.
I'm pretty sure we've been sitting on the same set of netflix dvds since before our kid was born. Has netflix really left some poor sucker waiting 6 years to borrow this discs after I'm done? I doubt it.
It doesn't seem like its a hard disqualifier. Mudge was at CDC and L0pht and went on to DARPA and Google.
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Depends where you work. My partner's in boulder, co and it's nearly impossible to snag a charger at her work. In 8 months of phev ownership i think she's been able to charge at her office twice.
I work remote for a company in rural NC. We've got two 220v chargers and i've never seen them both in use. I'm genuinely surprised that no employees have gone out and bought leafs simply because they could pretty reliably operate them for free.
It's challenging to figure out what the maintenance schedule should be on a plugin hybrid.
Ours got to about 9k miles before asking for an oil change, so i'm assuming it's based on the duty cycle of the engine itself. I assume that means a lot of the engine maintenance will be less because it isn't really used as often. I do feel you on the complexity though, having two whole drive systems leaves me barely able to identify the components under the hood.
> Separate the ad network so that Google has to deal with third party networks, of which the one they formerly owned would be only one (for there to be any point in doing this), and now they'd have a strong incentive to share that data with third parties to continue to get value out of it.
I suppose, but it'd stop them from playing the "We don't share you data with third parties card". Google would have to be up front that they were sharing your data with advertisers and they'd have more incentive to try and find ways to do that pseudo-anonymously.
But you could split the advertising network out into its own company. The reason google adwords are so good is that they have a monumental amount of data on different users. That gives them a massive competitive advantage over someone like doubleclick and also creates a lot of potential privacy issues.
If Google Ads were a separate entity from Google Search and there were constraints on how much personal data could flow between them, then it's possible some good would come from that. Google Search could obviously still show ads and generate revenue but they wouldn't be able to use their data from their leading internet search engine to bolster their online advertising business.
Not suggesting this is the right answer, but I think the obvious way to break up google would be to break the advertising business away.
Google ads is very successful because it's very good. It's very good because it has access to a level of data (from search, gmail and analytics) that their competitors can only dream of. If google had to monetize search using a third party ad network then i think that'd mitigate a lot of the privacy concerns.
You could also argue that their retail operations and their marketplace could be broken apart. When "amazon.com" is only one of the Prime sellers selling an item, it's fair to say that they are in a position where they can abuse their control over the platform. Amazon could operate more like "ebay with distribution centers" and items that are presently "Sold by Amazon.com" could be spun off into a separate business that works like any other large FBA seller.
Plus now that this has been publicized, I'm sure the response from corporate will be to take their weed away. That's a lot easier than providing ongoing counseling and mental health support.
Through my yard, i don't think my fiber is more than 4" deep in a plastic conduit and it seems to survive just fine. Obviously it doesn't have cars driving over it, but the shallow trench seems like a reasonable compromise to make installation a bit more manageable. I'm sure some portion of them need replaced every year, but I haven't heard of anyone having reliability issues near me.
I'm in colorado where it's currently 2F
I don't think that's what they are claiming. They are asserting that peak population could be as soon as 2050 and enter a steady decline thereafter.
I'm not qualified to say if it's accurate or not, but it certainly seems pretty plausible.
Even if the average women has only two children, if she starts a family at 25 instead of 20 then that will start to cause a drop, and once that turns around in given country it'll take a lot of effort to overcome - even the scandinavian countries that have a very strong social safety net, excellent support for families and "free" education for all are struggling to provide enough incentives to keep the population up.
It's also about sku count.
I remember a lot of people pissed off that Canon started including video in all their DSLRs and kept demanding a photo-only camera and ignoring the very obvious market forces that would make that significantly more expensive.
If Visio have to make a smart and dumb version of each TV then they'll have twice as many skus to manage, retailers will need twice as much space for them and there'll be significant added cost because of that. The dumb tv will end up shouldering that cost (because it's more important to be price competitive on the smart version) so it'll end up more expensive.
I have some chinese wifi speakers that seemed to be making some rather suspect requests, i just whitelisted them at my router to only access the services that I want them to. It's not that hard.
Yeah, my 4 yr old told me that when he even sees the tv it makes him think about how he wants to watch it. He's not wrong.
I'd think you'd have to be getting a good deal on the tariff to get that kind of breakeven, I'm in a small city in Colorado where they've refused to create an incentive structure that'd leave poorer residents funding the upper middle class and the breakeven is closer to 5 yrs. The city isn't particularly backwards (indeed we've got free buses, muni fiber and a commitment to be zero-carbon by 2030) but it's hard to match the incentives that the larger utilities do without disproportionately hurting the poor.
If you don't have solar, the tariff is effectively $12.40 + 7.5c/kWh (up to 750) then 8.7c/kWh (up to 1500) and then 9.9c/kWh thereafter. That means that low usage homes have disproportionately smaller bills (in most cases) than high usage homes.
When you switch to solar they reduce your kWh rate to 6.5c/kWh but your monthly service charge goes to $21.60 - which apparently is closer to their actual cost structure.
Isn't as bad of a breakeven as it was a few years ago though. When i looked 3 years ago it was closer to 9 years, but now we're down to 5.
The real risk they are running with this sort of price structure is having affluent consumers leave the grid altogether. Then that'll leave the poor paying progressively more and more of the fixed costs.
Less so for something like a plane, but there's a lot of cheap wind power generated at night and we can presumably scale that up pretty easily.
I imagine with some kind of clever smart grid control we can set rules like "always charge my car to 30% if power is less than $1/kWh, then charge it fully when it drops below 8c/kWh, and dump it back out to the grid if power exceeds $2/kWh"
That should do a lot to smooth overall demand, but it doesn't change the fact that it'll still will require a lot more windmills
Amazon generally don't permit stuff that's being sold by an unauthorized reseller to be sold as "new". Particularly if the product's warranty only applies when bought through an authorized reseller.
You can probably structure your agreements to allow you to deny warranty claims to customers who buy from those sellers. You wouldn't want to actually deny them because the reviews will reflect badly on you, but you can use that as a stick to get those amazon listing downgraded. Of course that's easier if you have authorized amazon sellers, i'm not sure how responsive amazon would be to cutting off the product altogether.
Most streaming services have no commitment, in fact since you've been able to add things like Showtime and HBO to Amazon Prime it's made it super easy to have them on a month to month basis.
Wait until the season of GoT has ended and then sign up for HBO for a month and binge it. Then get a month of netflix for the latest House of Cards, or perhaps get a month of Hulu to watch The First. You don't need 5 streaming services all the time, you can cycle them.
However that obviously doesn't work well with current affairs or sports, and so I expect those will end up driving perpetual subscriptions. Things like Last Week Tonight or Patriot Act are likely disproportionately valuable to their owners simply because they go stale quickly.
Yeah, that'd be my advice for anyone looking for a CS program. Find one that teaches the theory and underpinnings rather than that latest fads.
I had a book on my reading list that my father had used in his degree thirty years earlier. You can always learn new languages later, and the core concepts rarely change.
Probably more concerning that that devices like alexa and google are subservient to their masters. You can tell them to shut up, they'll comply then not have any resentment seconds later when you have another request.
Not really the behavior i want to install in my son
I've known a few people that have done software and it roles in government. Those jobs may not have great basic salary, but they have a degree of stability that some people look for and coupled with comparatively generous retirement they can be attractive to competent individuals.
The issue, I suspect, on large government IT projects is probably not much to do with technical vision or project management but rather of ill-defined or ever-changing requirements coming from above. When you have a fixed budget & timeline and requirements change then quality has to suffer, our political environment generally doesn't permit anything else to give.
The only advantage to an outside contractor coming in would be that it would be much easier for them to announce to everyone that "shit's fucked up" and that the project isn't set up for success.
Hmm i can't seem to get any ping times that fast.
Even ssh'd into my router, the best I can get is an average ping time of 1.8mS to the netflix oca, it's about the fastest thing i can find to ping anywhere. It's even a full millisecond faster than my isps own website.
My ISP has one and it's great. I get a 2ms ping to "netflix" and fast.com shows I get 930Mbps downloads from that location.
Yeah it seems like it is a natural fit in optimizing the things we do.
Even though I don't routinely use my phone as an alarm clock, it still knows when i'm likely to get up and if I plug it in at bed time it'll do a good job of figuring out when i'm likely to get up and adjusts its charging rate to be done about an hour before then. Yet if I plug it in a 3pm then it'll assume i want as much charge as possible and charge as fast as it can. It's not rocket science, but it's useful.
Do I need a dishwasher with a screen that I can talk to? Not really. Would I like one that adapts its wash patterns based on the price of power, or how well our detergent is doing at whatever it's trying to clean? Of course.