Take the deserts and Alaska out and count only livable land and its pretty similar in size to the US. CIA fact book India has 58% arable land. USA has 16.8%. When you consider USA is roughly 3 times as bigger (most of it is Alaska) the actual livable land is similar. India still has 3 times the population so its densely populated (not as densely populated as France, Germany or Japan but its dense)
So the basic problem started because a human (ex manager) did not renew the contract. If the contract had been renewed none of this would have happened. We need fewer humans in the loop not more. Humans make mistakes. Machines dont.
Doesnt really matter to me if I make 10 dollars each on 10 100$ widgets or 100$ one $1000 widget. Its still a 10% return on capital. If land is available to build 10 houses I will build 10 houses. its only because there are artificial zoning regulations restricting land access that I am building the 1000 dollar widget.
Generational money hoarding problem is easily solved. Abolish social security and medicare and use the trust fund to pay off everyones college debt. That will kick the Boomers in the nuts and equal things for the millenials having to deal with a world destroyed by the boomers. For the rich f*cks abolish estate taxes retroactively to the last 20 years and tax all the inheritances to setup a fund to pay for free college for generations going forward. Abolish trusts and make any money going out of the US taxable at 30%. Also abolish all tax exemptions for businesses. Give them a 20% rate and be done with it. Put in a cap of CEO compensation can only be 1000 times more than the salary of the lowest paid employee, contractor and subcontractor. For all practical purposes there will be one janitor paid the minimum wage so CEO compensation will be capped at 15 million a year. Anything beyond that tax it at 100%. Either the CEOs raise wages at the bottom or give all their incremental wages to the govt. Their choice. Also tax companies on revenue not just profit. 2% on revenue and 20% on profit (same deal PE fund managers get)
I cant even enter a Safeway without feeling a pressure to buy overpriced cookies from young girls. its difficult to say no to children which is why gangs in third world countries kidnap children to use for begging. Here the Girl Scouts use the same technique.
K8. Intel tried to make its next chip in Bangalore and screwed up so the K8 Opteron was a better chip and for a year AMD was the darling of the markets. Intel caught up and ate AMDs lunch. AMD instead of using the windfall from the Opteron to build a sustainable chip pipeline (3-4 chips in dev instead of 1-2) used the moeny to buy ATI. People in the CPU div were pissed when the 40 dollar RSUs went to 3 dollar. But with AI and computation shifting more towards GP-GPUs than CPUs the ATI purchase has now started to payoff.
Well say Verge is about to get to 51% attack and you realize its happening you can go to any online exchange and exchange Verge for Bitcoin. Yes an attack could happen on bitcoin but then a Soros type attack could happen on the USD too. The chances are small. The larger the scale of the currency the more difficult it is to attack.
Sleight of hand. Any magician who does card tricks can show you how its done. its not that you dont understand what is happening. Its more that you are in shock that this could happen and you dont fight with locals in a strange city for 20 dollars worth of money.
You are in the process of paying and then you freeze because suddenly you are seeing a way differnt number on the meter than you saw a moment ago. And that is when the thieves/magicians/taxi drivers sweep in.
My advice in Istanbul, get down from the taxi before taking your wallet out and stay an arms length away from the driver while counting the money.
Why is this racist comment modded up to +4? "Don't trust those thieving Turks"? WTF people?
The honest folks driving Uber are also Turks. Just because the Taxi drivers are thieves doesnt mean all Turks are thieves. In fact Istanbul is a very nice city for Tourists.
This is more akin to a run on a currency than a bank heist. George Soros did the same to the GBP and the GBP is one of the biggest currencies in the world. Any small country's currency is vulnerable to a similar attack. They protect against it by holding USD reserves. This gives the US way too much control as any country the US wants to f*ck with US can put sanctions so that they cant use US banks and without using US banks its very difficult to hold USD reserves (Iran and North Korea come to mind as being F*cked over by the US). Crypto currency holders of smaller currencies will have to take a similar strategy by holding Bitcoin reserves. Whenever a currency is coming under attack holders should immediately withdraw into Bitcoin and then the schmucks doing the 51% attack will be left with a large farm of machines setup to mine something with zero value. At least with Bitcoin there is no central authority which can put economic sanctions on you for idealogical reasons.
Other cities Taxi drivers may overcharge you but in Istanbul they will literally steal money out of your wallet. Its a common trick. They will halt by the side of a main road,instead of your destination saying their is construction ahead. While you try to quickly get down and pay the fare you will be hit by the second part of the plan - a highly overcharged fare which just jumped in the last 30 seconds. At this point you already have your money out of your wallet and stuck trying to figure out how the fare jumped so high. At this point they will reach into your wallet , take out a 100 and swap it (using sleight of hand) for a 20 and then say to you Ok you gave me 20, give me the rest. You as a tourist are in shock at this point and cant even argue. Erdogan is a populist who gets his votes from thugs and hoodlums so I am not surprised he supports Istanbul Taxi drivers. In comparison Uber works fantastically well in Istanbul.
I meant amongst first world countries. USA is the richest large country per capita yet it has homeless. Since you like to play with statistics calculate the homeless rate * per capita GDP. USA is way way ahead, no other country not even Somalia comes close.
Hopefully no Smart Young Thing decides to crack down on pension abuse by using the DMV database and suddenly you have a situation where elderly who gave up their license stop receiving their pension cheques as someone decided they are dead as there is no record of them in DMV databases for the last 5 years. You might think this is ridiculous but given the stupid SQL statements I have seen to run reports this is not impossible.
If SpaceX has the capacity to recover the booster but is just letting it burn up for economic reasons its just littering and they need to be hit with a littering fine. Sure it was considered OK to do so when noone thought boosters could be recovered just as public defecation was OK when their was no indoor plumbing. But now we have toilets. To make it fair and to give a kick in the backsides of the competitors all launches which dont recover their boosters should be hit with a littering fine.
Under Gaddafi Libya had higher Education and Medical scores than most countries in Europe. Gaddafi was overthrown because he wanted to create a Gold Dinar as the African common currency and take oil trading off the dollar. Everything else was a smokescreen. The reason Clinton had to hide her emails was she was supporting Al Qaeda in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. If there is justice in the world someday Obama and Hillary will have a Nuremberg of their own.
And China is roundly criticized for doing so . Their excuse is they are trying to catch up. USA is already ahead. What is USA's excuse for protecting homegrown companies?
China wanted to buy Qualcomm as they realized they had a dependency on Qualcomm chips but US did not allow it. Now they will try other tacks, maybe offer Qualcomm engineers huge salaries to come to China and build a competing chip. The US is like a 3rd world country now where politics drive trade decisions rather than rules.
Wearing climate appropriate clothes is the responsible solution. Externalizing the costs to the common environment is not whether that is wearing sunscreen or eating beef or burning coal.
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I guess the rise in the bitcoin price in December was the US Govt buying Bitcoin for cash
Take the deserts and Alaska out and count only livable land and its pretty similar in size to the US. CIA fact book India has 58% arable land. USA has 16.8%. When you consider USA is roughly 3 times as bigger (most of it is Alaska) the actual livable land is similar. India still has 3 times the population so its densely populated (not as densely populated as France, Germany or Japan but its dense)
We are talking about India not Indiana
So the basic problem started because a human (ex manager) did not renew the contract. If the contract had been renewed none of this would have happened. We need fewer humans in the loop not more. Humans make mistakes. Machines dont.
Doesnt really matter to me if I make 10 dollars each on 10 100$ widgets or 100$ one $1000 widget. Its still a 10% return on capital. If land is available to build 10 houses I will build 10 houses. its only because there are artificial zoning regulations restricting land access that I am building the 1000 dollar widget.
Generational money hoarding problem is easily solved. Abolish social security and medicare and use the trust fund to pay off everyones college debt. That will kick the Boomers in the nuts and equal things for the millenials having to deal with a world destroyed by the boomers. For the rich f*cks abolish estate taxes retroactively to the last 20 years and tax all the inheritances to setup a fund to pay for free college for generations going forward. Abolish trusts and make any money going out of the US taxable at 30%. Also abolish all tax exemptions for businesses. Give them a 20% rate and be done with it. Put in a cap of CEO compensation can only be 1000 times more than the salary of the lowest paid employee, contractor and subcontractor. For all practical purposes there will be one janitor paid the minimum wage so CEO compensation will be capped at 15 million a year. Anything beyond that tax it at 100%. Either the CEOs raise wages at the bottom or give all their incremental wages to the govt. Their choice. Also tax companies on revenue not just profit. 2% on revenue and 20% on profit (same deal PE fund managers get)
I cant even enter a Safeway without feeling a pressure to buy overpriced cookies from young girls. its difficult to say no to children which is why gangs in third world countries kidnap children to use for begging. Here the Girl Scouts use the same technique.
K8.
Intel tried to make its next chip in Bangalore and screwed up so the K8 Opteron was a better chip and for a year AMD was the darling of the markets.
Intel caught up and ate AMDs lunch. AMD instead of using the windfall from the Opteron to build a sustainable chip pipeline (3-4 chips in dev instead of 1-2) used the moeny to buy ATI.
People in the CPU div were pissed when the 40 dollar RSUs went to 3 dollar.
But with AI and computation shifting more towards GP-GPUs than CPUs the ATI purchase has now started to payoff.
Well say Verge is about to get to 51% attack and you realize its happening you can go to any online exchange and exchange Verge for Bitcoin. Yes an attack could happen on bitcoin but then a Soros type attack could happen on the USD too. The chances are small. The larger the scale of the currency the more difficult it is to attack.
Dont really care what they fart as long as they dont steal.
Sleight of hand. Any magician who does card tricks can show you how its done. its not that you dont understand what is happening. Its more that you are in shock that this could happen and you dont fight with locals in a strange city for 20 dollars worth of money.
You are in the process of paying and then you freeze because suddenly you are seeing a way differnt number on the meter than you saw a moment ago. And that is when the thieves/magicians/taxi drivers sweep in.
My advice in Istanbul, get down from the taxi before taking your wallet out and stay an arms length away from the driver while counting the money.
Why is this racist comment modded up to +4? "Don't trust those thieving Turks"? WTF people?
The honest folks driving Uber are also Turks. Just because the Taxi drivers are thieves doesnt mean all Turks are thieves. In fact Istanbul is a very nice city for Tourists.
This is more akin to a run on a currency than a bank heist. George Soros did the same to the GBP and the GBP is one of the biggest currencies in the world. Any small country's currency is vulnerable to a similar attack. They protect against it by holding USD reserves. This gives the US way too much control as any country the US wants to f*ck with US can put sanctions so that they cant use US banks and without using US banks its very difficult to hold USD reserves (Iran and North Korea come to mind as being F*cked over by the US).
Crypto currency holders of smaller currencies will have to take a similar strategy by holding Bitcoin reserves. Whenever a currency is coming under attack holders should immediately withdraw into Bitcoin and then the schmucks doing the 51% attack will be left with a large farm of machines setup to mine something with zero value. At least with Bitcoin there is no central authority which can put economic sanctions on you for idealogical reasons.
Other cities Taxi drivers may overcharge you but in Istanbul they will literally steal money out of your wallet. Its a common trick. They will halt by the side of a main road ,instead of your destination saying their is construction ahead. While you try to quickly get down and pay the fare you will be hit by the second part of the plan - a highly overcharged fare which just jumped in the last 30 seconds. At this point you already have your money out of your wallet and stuck trying to figure out how the fare jumped so high. At this point they will reach into your wallet , take out a 100 and swap it (using sleight of hand) for a 20 and then say to you Ok you gave me 20, give me the rest. You as a tourist are in shock at this point and cant even argue.
Erdogan is a populist who gets his votes from thugs and hoodlums so I am not surprised he supports Istanbul Taxi drivers.
In comparison Uber works fantastically well in Istanbul.
I meant amongst first world countries. USA is the richest large country per capita yet it has homeless.
Since you like to play with statistics calculate the homeless rate * per capita GDP.
USA is way way ahead, no other country not even Somalia comes close.
I was thinking "They have homeless in Italy too?" Isnt that a purely American problem?
Hopefully no Smart Young Thing decides to crack down on pension abuse by using the DMV database and suddenly you have a situation where elderly who gave up their license stop receiving their pension cheques as someone decided they are dead as there is no record of them in DMV databases for the last 5 years. You might think this is ridiculous but given the stupid SQL statements I have seen to run reports this is not impossible.
If SpaceX has the capacity to recover the booster but is just letting it burn up for economic reasons its just littering and they need to be hit with a littering fine. Sure it was considered OK to do so when noone thought boosters could be recovered just as public defecation was OK when their was no indoor plumbing. But now we have toilets.
To make it fair and to give a kick in the backsides of the competitors all launches which dont recover their boosters should be hit with a littering fine.
"I'm not a programmer" and yet you feel you are qualified to comment on an open source coding issue.
Mr President , I thought you got all your news from FOX. Welcome to Slashdot.
Under Gaddafi Libya had higher Education and Medical scores than most countries in Europe.
Gaddafi was overthrown because he wanted to create a Gold Dinar as the African common currency and take oil trading off the dollar. Everything else was a smokescreen. The reason Clinton had to hide her emails was she was supporting Al Qaeda in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi.
If there is justice in the world someday Obama and Hillary will have a Nuremberg of their own.
And China is roundly criticized for doing so . Their excuse is they are trying to catch up. USA is already ahead. What is USA's excuse for protecting homegrown companies?
Will this be added only to versions .1,.2,.3 or will it be allowed all the way upto version .9 of the documentation?
China wanted to buy Qualcomm as they realized they had a dependency on Qualcomm chips but US did not allow it. Now they will try other tacks, maybe offer Qualcomm engineers huge salaries to come to China and build a competing chip. The US is like a 3rd world country now where politics drive trade decisions rather than rules.
Wearing climate appropriate clothes is the responsible solution. Externalizing the costs to the common environment is not whether that is wearing sunscreen or eating beef or burning coal.