What does the Amazon Fire TV not handle that Chromecast does?
Honest question, happy user of three Fire TV devices (two boxes and one stick). I'm not aware of anything I'm missing, I have Hulu Plus and Netflix, what else is there?
One question which comes to mind, though, is whether memory items count as checklists.
They do...
However you're supposed to know those by heart, front to back, but then you double check them from the checklist.
So an emergency response checklist might have 30 items on it, the first 6 of which are "memory items", meaning you should know them 100% perfectly.
This is done because an aircraft might have more than a dozen checklists, it is not reasonable to expect humans to memorize 100% of all of them, but for perhaps 5 of them, the first 5 or 6 items, you can expect every single pilot to know those 30 or so lines by heart.
However, after you have performed those items, you're supposed to pull out the checklist and double check that they have been done.
For example, there is an engine fire checklist. The first few items on there need to be done right away. If the fire light goes off, you need to respond right away, not in a min after you've pulled out and read the checklist.
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The real problem with checklists is not the "engine fire" checklist. I don't know any pilots who would fail to use a checklist in that situation, but I'm sure they exist.
It is the normal takeoff and landing checklists, the routine ones they have done a thousand times, that get ignored.
Nonsense... a good pilot WANTS to use a checklist, the cockpit tends to reach the site of a crash first...
Humans are not perfect, more than once I've missed something trying to do it from memory or seen someone else do it, including high time experienced pilots.
A good training program will weed out the "I've got it, I've got it" attitude... No, no you don't... use the checklist...
Modern aircraft are too complicated to have it all perfect in your head every time, 100% of the time, in any situation. You should know your checklists and you should practice with them, but you should still pull them out and use them.
My point is that they aren't able to just discharge the debts the way a person or company can.
In the U.S., Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows a person or company to completely and totally discharge their debts and get a fresh start. You can only do it once every 7 years, but it allows you to wipe the slate clean and no one is allowed to even ask for the money again.
Then we come back to the other problem... picking winners...
Government, frankly, sucks at trying to pick winners... rather it does a better job of picking the losers...
If you really want to see this stuff take off, make burning gas more expensive, put a $2/gal carbon tax on it. Make people switch because it makes sense, not because of free money.
I replaced all the incandescent bulbs in my house, not because anyone paid me, but because it will pay for itself in just over a year, it is a no brainier decision.
If gas for my truck was $6/gal, I might still drive it, but I might limit driving it to when I really need it. It might even make sense to get something that burns a whole lot less gas in addition to my truck, depending on my needs. But as long as gas is cheap, paying for 1/3 of a new car is never going to get me to change my behavior.
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TL;DR: Pick the loser and punish it, don't try and to pick the winner.
In fairness, Greece's military wouldn't last 72 hours against Germany's, but lets be honest, no one is going to shoot anyone over this, that would be stupid...
On a more serious note, most nations want to do trade with other nations, at some point you'll have assets on ships or in ports or money moving around, it can be taken.
Better to work something out with your creditors rather than face decades of that. Argentina did work out a 30% repayment deal with many of their creditors, but not all.
It works in the short run no matter what everyone does, because food is already in the system.
It doesn't work in the long run because what you end up with is a nation that digs ditches and fills them in, doing nothing useful.
At some point, someone has to make stuff, grow food, etc. Why do all that when the government is just handing out money.
It makes us all poorer, not richer. If you hand everyone a million dollars, then a million means nothing.
A nation becomes wealthy and everyone's standard of living goes up when people are more productive, in that they produce more for a given unit of work. Actual production of useful "stuff" is required. This is partly why Greece is in such a mess. They don't make anything. (or much of anything)
The Russians would pick up the Baltics and the Slavic countries, the rest of us will rely on the Americans for protection again... except that the Americans probably aren't that interested in protecting us this time around.
Some Americans wouldn't be...
I would, but I'd like our military deployment costs to be picked up by the EU...
Put 10 American divisions in France and Germany and have the tab picked up by the EU, and I think most complaints from Americans about "defending Europe" will go away. Most of those complaints are about money, not about the principle of doing it.
I am Belgian. Greece owes me, my wife and children over 3000 euro. We fronted it out of our taxes and if they don't pay us back, we'll pay it back out of our taxes. Now, I am all for social solidarity... anybody who has spent time here in Belgium knows how easy it is for an IT worker to do independent contracts under the table. I declare all of my side activities and pay my taxes specifically because I believe in helping those who are down on their luck.
But solidarity is a two-way street. Greece was bailed out once, in 2010, in exchange for reforms. They were slow in reforming and in 2012 we had to bail them out again... and they still haven't reformed and here we are in 2015 and they want more money. The reforms that our governments are asking are not onerous. It basically comes down to "don't spend more than you can pay". The Greeks for some reason seem to think that the rest of the Eurozone should pay for armies of useless bureaucrats and pensioners whose median pensions are higher than ours make more than my parents. Now, Greece is small and strategically important, so maybe every Belgian should just give them 600 euro and call it a day.
But then Podemos in Spain will be asking for the same thing. Then the Five star movement in Italy will want their free money. I'm sorry, but fuck you guys. I work my fucking ass off to support my family and my countrymen. Greece threw my good will in my face. They can go become lackeys to the Russians for all I care, fight a civil war, I don't care. I hope my government refuses to give them another cent.
This deserves to be quoted...
The reality is that it doesn't even matter if you're right or not, if enough people believe it, then it might as well be true.
I personally believe that Spain and Italy are watching this closely, you're right about that.
But now we've now reached the point where otherwise rational people are talking about "dropping the hammer", as if having an incipient failed state in Europe is a small price to pay for 600 euro in your pocket.
It is a LOT more than 600 euro... if Greece gets it, then Italy and Spain will be right behind them asking for their free money...
Either the Euro will survive Greece leaving, or it won't. But Greece staying is no longer an option.
If Greece gets what they want, the euro will be sunk by Spain and Italy. If they don't, they'll leave the euro and it will either survive or it won't.
That is where we're all at, there are no other options left.
Yet you want to saddle Greece with similar crushing debt when they have a fascist party, Golden Dawn. So your plan is to.....repeat that mistake a second time?
No one is afraid of Greece invading the rest of Europe, clearly they have no ability to do any such thing.
And what about their post-WWII debt, which was largely forgiven? By countries like Greece? So, to recap: Germany destroys the continent and all is forgiven.
Germany, the nation that launched WWII, no longer existed after WWII. They surrendered and lost and were split up. There wasn't much left anyway, the whole place was bombed and blown to bits anyway. What was left we either took for our own use (the V2 rocket program for example), or used to keep millions more from starving.
Silly if you're a fascist. Anyone else, it would seem rather odd that you can destroy a continent, getting tens of millions killed in the process, and most of it is financially forgiven in less than a decade. Mind your own business but get taken in by loan sharks? You are sentenced to Oliver Twist poverty for the next 30+ years.
The people who actually did that either were tried and executed, or commited sucide before we could do that to them.
A few might have gotten away, or died for other reasons before being brought to justice.
Germany is just a name, the land is just dirt. A coffee shop owner in Berlin in 2015 didn't do any of those things and at some point, you have to separate what happened 70 years ago by people long since dead with the people standing on that dirt today.
Greece needs to get off the euro so they can devalue their own currency to spur business back to life and start growing instead of shrinking their economy.
Yea, but they should have done that several years ago before the debt rose so high.
Leaving the Euro doesn't wipe out the debts, it actually makes it harder to pay them back.
If the EU doesn't cave, Greece is in for a world of hurt.
What's the difference? No one is going to lend Greece money because all of Greece's money is being taken by the Troika. Greece will be able to borrow more money once they leave the Euro for the same reason a person who declares bankruptcy is able to run out and get far more credit than before they wiped out their debts,
Leaving the Euro doesn't wipe out the debts. There is no bankruptcy for nations.
Greece is taking a huge gamble, the EU might cave, or not... If it doesn't, Greece is totally screwed...
I'm willing to bet large numbers of people voting "no" don't actually understand that.
I'm not opposed to the idea of Bitcoin, or competing currencies.
I'm just opposed to the idea that it consumes tons of power to run RNG and that it will be required to run for more than 100 years.
The irony is that I get the need the reduce our consumption of Earth's resources. If we had magic fusion reactors and unlimited power, then I wouldn't care.
Yea, clearly you're not alone there... that is what I find so amazing...
If you don't get it, I don't know what else I can say. It is plain as day to me, if it isn't to you... well, I'm at a loss as to how to explain how pointless it is to run RNG for days/weeks/months for such a purpose...
At some point you have to live within your means. We have not been doing that, our debt is growing faster than our economy.
You need only look at Greece to see where that story ends. For what it is worth, I'll be the first to say that the austerity forced on Greece was way too much, however they couldn't have continued their old ways either.
As always, people seem to have trouble with the concept of a middle ground.:)
Helicopters are expensive, rare, and will never be anything other than a very, very tiny part of the overall transportation business.
Helicopters are a blast to fly, but they are expensive on a whole other level of magnitude to anything on the ground.
That's not how product adoption curves work.
Sure it is... No one had smart phones, then everyone did. Smart phones existed for years and years before they took off. Then they passed a point where the price/performance became useful, and within just a few years the majority of phones are now smart phones.
Cars were fancy, expensive, rich people's toys, until the Model T came along, then in very short order millions of people had cars.
There are a LOT of examples where something existed and was known about, but not common... then some tipping point happened and suddenly everyone had one. The refrigerator comes to mind, among a lot of other things.
EVs will remain expensive toys for the well off until they pass the tipping point of price and performance, then within 5 years they'll be everywhere. I just can't tell you when (or if) that tipping point will come. If someone figured out how to make a 200 mile range battery tomorrow for $2,000, EVs would take off like a rocket.
Although you probably can't predict even your own entry point.
Perhaps not, but I have thought about it...
I'll be happy to be specific... I'll take a Ford Explorer with a 200 mile range, a 15 min recharge time at a supercharger (at home or on the road), for the same price as the current Ford Explorer. I'll also take a real nationwide network of superchargers every 100 miles on every Interstate in America.
You do the above and I think they would start to move in real volume.
I also think we're a LONG way from that happening, but I could be completely wrong. We're really only a battery breakthrough from it happening, besides the superchargers.
People talk about price and range all the time. My own particular bar to entry is far bigger. I live in an apartment, and I don't have off-road parking.
Frankly, once they start selling in volume to homeowners, I would imagine the apartment complex owners will come along soon enough.
The problem is that the current sales rate is less than 1%, it is noise, a rounding error... You won't see anything change until ten times as many are sold in a year.
If you disagree with this, you're obviously okay with the government stealing everyone's money with inflation, and you're also a worthless lazy bastard who's probably in debt and on the government dole.
So what you're saying is that your argument doesn't stand up without insulting and attacking anyone who disagrees with you?
Bitcoin is also intentionally designed to have its own built-in and unmodifiable monetary policy separate from any government or regulating body.
And when the government outlaws bitcoin exchanges? Oh sure, there will be a black market, there always has been. But it will prevent it from being anything more than a minor thing.
The current monetary policies of central banks aren't perfect, but they are far better than what we'd have if the whole world was stuck with a currency that couldn't be managed.
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What does the Amazon Fire TV not handle that Chromecast does?
Honest question, happy user of three Fire TV devices (two boxes and one stick). I'm not aware of anything I'm missing, I have Hulu Plus and Netflix, what else is there?
One question which comes to mind, though, is whether memory items count as checklists.
They do...
However you're supposed to know those by heart, front to back, but then you double check them from the checklist.
So an emergency response checklist might have 30 items on it, the first 6 of which are "memory items", meaning you should know them 100% perfectly.
This is done because an aircraft might have more than a dozen checklists, it is not reasonable to expect humans to memorize 100% of all of them, but for perhaps 5 of them, the first 5 or 6 items, you can expect every single pilot to know those 30 or so lines by heart.
However, after you have performed those items, you're supposed to pull out the checklist and double check that they have been done.
For example, there is an engine fire checklist. The first few items on there need to be done right away. If the fire light goes off, you need to respond right away, not in a min after you've pulled out and read the checklist.
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The real problem with checklists is not the "engine fire" checklist. I don't know any pilots who would fail to use a checklist in that situation, but I'm sure they exist.
It is the normal takeoff and landing checklists, the routine ones they have done a thousand times, that get ignored.
Pilots don't want to use checklists either
Nonsense... a good pilot WANTS to use a checklist, the cockpit tends to reach the site of a crash first...
Humans are not perfect, more than once I've missed something trying to do it from memory or seen someone else do it, including high time experienced pilots.
A good training program will weed out the "I've got it, I've got it" attitude... No, no you don't... use the checklist...
Modern aircraft are too complicated to have it all perfect in your head every time, 100% of the time, in any situation. You should know your checklists and you should practice with them, but you should still pull them out and use them.
My point is that they aren't able to just discharge the debts the way a person or company can.
In the U.S., Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows a person or company to completely and totally discharge their debts and get a fresh start. You can only do it once every 7 years, but it allows you to wipe the slate clean and no one is allowed to even ask for the money again.
Then we come back to the other problem... picking winners...
Government, frankly, sucks at trying to pick winners... rather it does a better job of picking the losers...
If you really want to see this stuff take off, make burning gas more expensive, put a $2/gal carbon tax on it. Make people switch because it makes sense, not because of free money.
I replaced all the incandescent bulbs in my house, not because anyone paid me, but because it will pay for itself in just over a year, it is a no brainier decision.
If gas for my truck was $6/gal, I might still drive it, but I might limit driving it to when I really need it. It might even make sense to get something that burns a whole lot less gas in addition to my truck, depending on my needs. But as long as gas is cheap, paying for 1/3 of a new car is never going to get me to change my behavior.
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TL;DR: Pick the loser and punish it, don't try and to pick the winner.
You are, of course, correct...
In fairness, Greece's military wouldn't last 72 hours against Germany's, but lets be honest, no one is going to shoot anyone over this, that would be stupid...
On a more serious note, most nations want to do trade with other nations, at some point you'll have assets on ships or in ports or money moving around, it can be taken.
Better to work something out with your creditors rather than face decades of that. Argentina did work out a 30% repayment deal with many of their creditors, but not all.
You're forgetting to factor in how much Jay Leno distorts the cars per household numbers.
That, and many vehicles are not sold to people, but to companies.
Everything from lawn mowing companies to the utility companies to rental car fleets accounts for a lot of vehicles.
It works in the short run no matter what everyone does, because food is already in the system.
It doesn't work in the long run because what you end up with is a nation that digs ditches and fills them in, doing nothing useful.
At some point, someone has to make stuff, grow food, etc. Why do all that when the government is just handing out money.
It makes us all poorer, not richer. If you hand everyone a million dollars, then a million means nothing.
A nation becomes wealthy and everyone's standard of living goes up when people are more productive, in that they produce more for a given unit of work. Actual production of useful "stuff" is required. This is partly why Greece is in such a mess. They don't make anything. (or much of anything)
What specific overhead are you talking about? All Govt spending goes into the economy.
Sure, but that doesn't make it useful spending...
The government could hire 5 million people tomorrow to dig ditches, then 5 million more to fill them back in.
Lots of money would enter the economy, but no useful work would get done. Such spending makes us all poorer, not richer.
BK for nations requires other nations to agree. Look at Argentina, they still have people suing them for money.
Perhaps a bett way to put it would be that there is no BK for Greece.
The rules for superpowers aren't the same.
The Russians would pick up the Baltics and the Slavic countries, the rest of us will rely on the Americans for protection again... except that the Americans probably aren't that interested in protecting us this time around.
Some Americans wouldn't be...
I would, but I'd like our military deployment costs to be picked up by the EU...
Put 10 American divisions in France and Germany and have the tab picked up by the EU, and I think most complaints from Americans about "defending Europe" will go away. Most of those complaints are about money, not about the principle of doing it.
I am Belgian. Greece owes me, my wife and children over 3000 euro. We fronted it out of our taxes and if they don't pay us back, we'll pay it back out of our taxes. Now, I am all for social solidarity... anybody who has spent time here in Belgium knows how easy it is for an IT worker to do independent contracts under the table. I declare all of my side activities and pay my taxes specifically because I believe in helping those who are down on their luck.
But solidarity is a two-way street. Greece was bailed out once, in 2010, in exchange for reforms. They were slow in reforming and in 2012 we had to bail them out again... and they still haven't reformed and here we are in 2015 and they want more money. The reforms that our governments are asking are not onerous. It basically comes down to "don't spend more than you can pay". The Greeks for some reason seem to think that the rest of the Eurozone should pay for armies of useless bureaucrats and pensioners whose median pensions are higher than ours make more than my parents. Now, Greece is small and strategically important, so maybe every Belgian should just give them 600 euro and call it a day.
But then Podemos in Spain will be asking for the same thing. Then the Five star movement in Italy will want their free money. I'm sorry, but fuck you guys. I work my fucking ass off to support my family and my countrymen. Greece threw my good will in my face. They can go become lackeys to the Russians for all I care, fight a civil war, I don't care. I hope my government refuses to give them another cent.
This deserves to be quoted...
The reality is that it doesn't even matter if you're right or not, if enough people believe it, then it might as well be true.
I personally believe that Spain and Italy are watching this closely, you're right about that.
We shall see what happens...
But now we've now reached the point where otherwise rational people are talking about "dropping the hammer", as if having an incipient failed state in Europe is a small price to pay for 600 euro in your pocket.
It is a LOT more than 600 euro... if Greece gets it, then Italy and Spain will be right behind them asking for their free money...
Either the Euro will survive Greece leaving, or it won't. But Greece staying is no longer an option.
If Greece gets what they want, the euro will be sunk by Spain and Italy. If they don't, they'll leave the euro and it will either survive or it won't.
That is where we're all at, there are no other options left.
Yet you want to saddle Greece with similar crushing debt when they have a fascist party, Golden Dawn. So your plan is to.....repeat that mistake a second time?
No one is afraid of Greece invading the rest of Europe, clearly they have no ability to do any such thing.
And what about their post-WWII debt, which was largely forgiven? By countries like Greece? So, to recap: Germany destroys the continent and all is forgiven.
Germany, the nation that launched WWII, no longer existed after WWII. They surrendered and lost and were split up. There wasn't much left anyway, the whole place was bombed and blown to bits anyway. What was left we either took for our own use (the V2 rocket program for example), or used to keep millions more from starving.
Silly if you're a fascist. Anyone else, it would seem rather odd that you can destroy a continent, getting tens of millions killed in the process, and most of it is financially forgiven in less than a decade. Mind your own business but get taken in by loan sharks? You are sentenced to Oliver Twist poverty for the next 30+ years.
The people who actually did that either were tried and executed, or commited sucide before we could do that to them.
A few might have gotten away, or died for other reasons before being brought to justice.
Germany is just a name, the land is just dirt. A coffee shop owner in Berlin in 2015 didn't do any of those things and at some point, you have to separate what happened 70 years ago by people long since dead with the people standing on that dirt today.
Greece needs to get off the euro so they can devalue their own currency to spur business back to life and start growing instead of shrinking their economy.
Yea, but they should have done that several years ago before the debt rose so high.
Leaving the Euro doesn't wipe out the debts, it actually makes it harder to pay them back.
If the EU doesn't cave, Greece is in for a world of hurt.
What's the difference? No one is going to lend Greece money because all of Greece's money is being taken by the Troika. Greece will be able to borrow more money once they leave the Euro for the same reason a person who declares bankruptcy is able to run out and get far more credit than before they wiped out their debts,
Leaving the Euro doesn't wipe out the debts. There is no bankruptcy for nations.
Greece is taking a huge gamble, the EU might cave, or not... If it doesn't, Greece is totally screwed...
I'm willing to bet large numbers of people voting "no" don't actually understand that.
I'm not opposed to the idea of Bitcoin, or competing currencies.
I'm just opposed to the idea that it consumes tons of power to run RNG and that it will be required to run for more than 100 years.
The irony is that I get the need the reduce our consumption of Earth's resources. If we had magic fusion reactors and unlimited power, then I wouldn't care.
But we don't. :)
I don't get your logic
Yea, clearly you're not alone there... that is what I find so amazing...
If you don't get it, I don't know what else I can say. It is plain as day to me, if it isn't to you... well, I'm at a loss as to how to explain how pointless it is to run RNG for days/weeks/months for such a purpose...
Then consider those compute cycles could have been used for Folding@Home and actually helping humanity.
The roads benefit everyone, and so cleaner cars will to then right?
I'm not quite sure if you're simply not listening, or if you're intentionally being difficult.
It seems that you're replying to what you wanted to hear rather than to what was said. You're also completely missing the point.
Lets try this again:
The problem is wealth transfer from the general public to a select few.
It does not matter how noble your cause is, it is a bad idea, it has been tried before, it doesn't end well.
If public funds should be used for the benefit of all, then they shouldn't enrich specific people.
Neither is spending your way out of trouble...
At some point you have to live within your means. We have not been doing that, our debt is growing faster than our economy.
You need only look at Greece to see where that story ends. For what it is worth, I'll be the first to say that the austerity forced on Greece was way too much, however they couldn't have continued their old ways either.
As always, people seem to have trouble with the concept of a middle ground. :)
Says the guy who likes helicopters. ;-)
Helicopters are expensive, rare, and will never be anything other than a very, very tiny part of the overall transportation business.
Helicopters are a blast to fly, but they are expensive on a whole other level of magnitude to anything on the ground.
That's not how product adoption curves work.
Sure it is... No one had smart phones, then everyone did. Smart phones existed for years and years before they took off. Then they passed a point where the price/performance became useful, and within just a few years the majority of phones are now smart phones.
Cars were fancy, expensive, rich people's toys, until the Model T came along, then in very short order millions of people had cars.
There are a LOT of examples where something existed and was known about, but not common... then some tipping point happened and suddenly everyone had one. The refrigerator comes to mind, among a lot of other things.
EVs will remain expensive toys for the well off until they pass the tipping point of price and performance, then within 5 years they'll be everywhere. I just can't tell you when (or if) that tipping point will come. If someone figured out how to make a 200 mile range battery tomorrow for $2,000, EVs would take off like a rocket.
Although you probably can't predict even your own entry point.
Perhaps not, but I have thought about it...
I'll be happy to be specific... I'll take a Ford Explorer with a 200 mile range, a 15 min recharge time at a supercharger (at home or on the road), for the same price as the current Ford Explorer. I'll also take a real nationwide network of superchargers every 100 miles on every Interstate in America.
You do the above and I think they would start to move in real volume.
I also think we're a LONG way from that happening, but I could be completely wrong. We're really only a battery breakthrough from it happening, besides the superchargers.
People talk about price and range all the time. My own particular bar to entry is far bigger. I live in an apartment, and I don't have off-road parking.
Frankly, once they start selling in volume to homeowners, I would imagine the apartment complex owners will come along soon enough.
The problem is that the current sales rate is less than 1%, it is noise, a rounding error... You won't see anything change until ten times as many are sold in a year.
If you disagree with this, you're obviously okay with the government stealing everyone's money with inflation, and you're also a worthless lazy bastard who's probably in debt and on the government dole.
So what you're saying is that your argument doesn't stand up without insulting and attacking anyone who disagrees with you?
Bitcoin is also intentionally designed to have its own built-in and unmodifiable monetary policy separate from any government or regulating body.
And when the government outlaws bitcoin exchanges? Oh sure, there will be a black market, there always has been. But it will prevent it from being anything more than a minor thing.
The current monetary policies of central banks aren't perfect, but they are far better than what we'd have if the whole world was stuck with a currency that couldn't be managed.