Next you will point me to people using a Pizza Hut coupon to buy Pizza from Pizza Hut and tell me the Pizza at Pizza Hut must be the best else why are people buying it. The US gives them money and says you have to use the money to buy Arms made by US manufacturers. Its welfare for Corporates.
Question Who won WW2? Britain and France who lost their colonies and became second rate powers or Germany who got out of sanctions and became an economic powerhouse.
Winning but spending too much to win is no win at all
A smart enemy will not send a swarm as that will give a hint to soldiers that maybe its a stupid idea to be firing 3 million dollar missiles at things there are hundreds of. A Smart enemy will send one every day so bored soldiers with nothing to do will use up a missile. Than when the battery is out of missiles and waiting replenishment then send 100 drones and drop stinkbombs on the battery to complete the demoralisation.
America give 4B in free arms to Egypt, 5-6B to Israel and 2B to Jordan. They wouldnt buy PAtriots if they were not free as they have their own Missile programs. This is basically a corporate subsidy to Raytheon
The problem with free stuff. When you are getting the Patriot missiles free from the US but the bullets from a rifle are paid by your national govt, the Patriot is the more cost effective solution. Children in US dont have healthcare because the govt is busy spending billions on hight tech toys like Patriots.
It basically comes down to jealousy. The managers who are now in hiring positions and of same age as the older technical workers are Jealous of all the extra time the technical workers got to spend with their kids by not going into management. They hit back by not hiring their peers and hiring juniors who don't have families.
Actually PG&E has time based rates. However they charge more during the day and less at night. This is because even though Solar is more available during the day most of the Industrial load is during the day when factories are running. However as more and more people are adding solar and selling it back the equation is changing. However PGE still wants its profits so now it buys Solar during the day at the rates it charge folks at night but sells it at the higher daytime rate. This means its more profitable to invest in your own battery setup rather than sell power back to the grid. So time based billing is not the solution
Given the market conditions -processor companies depending on large payouts from 3 letter agencies for backdoors to be able to create chips at a cost that will sell- AMD does not have a choice. If it releases and loses its govt subsidies , Intel will eat it alive.
Yes they have estimated it well and in fact added margin of safeties so Islands never run out of Diesel. The question is - Is the cost of this well estimated smoothly running system less than or more than a bank of batteries with similar backup? Islands may have gone for Diesel because good Solar and Battery tech did not exist. And due to sunk costs may want to stay with Diesel generation and backup. But with newer solar tech if Solar and batteries are close than the benefit of less smoke makes sense to go with Solar and other renewables. (never mind about Global Warming which may or may not be a bad thing but smoke is definitely bad)
I would like to see some hard numbers which show Diesel storage for 5-6 days plus employee costs to physically move the barrels to the generators is less than the cost of batteries which charge and discharge automatically
You pretend as if Diesel Storage does not cost money. During a storm ships with Diesel can not get through either hence diesel storage needs to be there to cover not just the days of the storm at 100% but also any shipping delays caused due to a storm . Spending the money on batteries or spending it on Diesel tank farms you are spending it either way. Solar is ideal for Islands which get enough sun. They can combine with Geothermal , tide and wind along with batteries. Wind blows at night too and tides change twice a day so everything combined with batteries should have a very smooth energy production cycle with the batteries smoothing out whatever ups and downs there are.
The difference is when they were disrupting IBM the govt actually cared about competition. This was the era of Airline deregulation and breaking up AT&T. Now the big 5 have lobbying budgets to rival defense contractors and have completed regulatory capture. The Microsoft Anti-trust case was the tuning point where the tech firms realized its cheaper to pay the Danegeld to the govt lobbyists than compete in an open market. Note how Google has not been attacked for trust busting even though it is far more dominant in search than MS was in OS and just like MS uses its domination to push other sidelines like Google Docs, Youtube, Android etc. Similarly Apple is not even sanctioned for running a walled garden environment when MS was sanctioned for the mere act of giving preference to its software. If IBM had spent the amount of money lobbying that Google does than yes all 5 would be subdivisions of IBM
Are you saying Humans are not part of the environment? Did we come from space or another dimension? Any human action is natural. Polluting the air with NOX is just as natural as a Lion killing a deer. Whether its desirable is another thing but I find it irritating when people try to say save nature and fuck the humans - Humans are nature.
If you are not going to count people stopped at the border as deportees than none of the people stopped at Airports by Trump's Muslim Ban were deportees as they were stooped at the border and sent back. So which is it? Do you want to worship Drumpf for deporting people with valid visas or castigate Obama for not deporting illegals. You have to stick to one definition.
Till Raegan gave an amnesty people coming illegally felt they were coming temporarily, would earn and go back. With Raegan's amnesty illegal immigration became an actual viable path to citizenship and illegal immigration exploded. At the same time NAFTA meant that Mexico's corn industry got killed by cheap subsidized corn from the midwest. No wonder illegal immigration from Mexico has gone up and the corresponding deportation numbers.
If Trump tears up NAFTA Mexican farm workers will have jobs in Mexico again and the push to move to US would be lessened. Similarly if he passes a bill which says that everyone illegally here will be allowed to stay and work but they and their children will forever be a underclass and never be given citizenship the pull factor for illegal immigration will go away too. At the same time a 6 month temporary farmworker visa should be established for people to come and pick crops during harvest season.
Huge breakthroughs happen when some option has not been tried due to lack of funds, vision, laziness, monopoly markets or some other crap. In a field where smart people have been exploring all options at the cutting if not bleeding edge there wont be an overlooked angle which can suddenly give a 16x jump. In short a huge breakthrough is not a sign of greatness rather it is a sign that there was something wrong with the field and someone figured out how to fix it. Huge breakthroughs will never happen in a healthy industry/research field.
20 years back manufacturing was in the dark ages. People really had no idea of how much material is needed to get a target life period. Since they didnt have good statistics, Quality teams or computers to simulate material fatigue they overbuilt evrything. This made stuff last for years and was a good thing if you were one of the few rich people who could afford overbuilt crap but it sucked for most of society who were locked out of having their own printer and had to go to printing shops to print. This would be like car manufacturers only selling Rolls Royces and if you cant afford a Rolls Royce you can travel on the Rolls Royce Bus. Now with scientific manufacturing techniques manufacturers know exactly how much to spend on materials, training and QA to make sure 95% of the printers reach their guarantee date with no problems and the other 5% are covered under warranty. Prices are much lower as a result. Stuff dies when it is obsolete instead of hanging around like zombies and is cheap enough so that a larger section of society can use it. Overbuilding is a waste of resources, a crime against the poor and a burden to technological progress.
Space X will launch a Solar City and Tesla like service. It will launch on exploding Lithium cells and then use Solar power to run an Electric Engine to get to the moon
Thats such a profiling comment. Shame on you. Not all computer science students have a fear of the opposite sex. This whole trope of smart kids being losers is the worst thing to happen to American Society. It has led to the dumbing down of society. The geeks are now getting their own back. We will automate everything so there are no jobs left for jocks.
Its a matter of cost-benefit analysis. The worst shitholes pay the best. And you are not going there to settle. Go work in Saudi . Get paid 200K net after taxes and expenses for the same work you do in the US for 150K before taxes and expenses. You are saving in 1 year what would take you 10 years in the US. With a 40 year career in the US what you need for retirement you can save in 4 years working in Saudi on an Expat package. Do your four years and you are set for life. There still is a salary premium for having white skin. Take advantage of it while it lasts. This wont work for you as well if you an American citizen of colour. In Saudi for the same job salary will be as follows Saudi Local>White American/European/Australian>Other White people>Other American>Brown Foreigners.
You have to take advantage of the market. Indians come here and work like crazy. Employers here prefer them because they know the Indians desperately want to stay here and settle in so will work long hours and prioritize work over family. They have seen a market and they are filling a need. There is a market for white skinned engineers in the Middle East. Take advantage of it.
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Next you will point me to people using a Pizza Hut coupon to buy Pizza from Pizza Hut and tell me the Pizza at Pizza Hut must be the best else why are people buying it. The US gives them money and says you have to use the money to buy Arms made by US manufacturers. Its welfare for Corporates.
Question Who won WW2? Britain and France who lost their colonies and became second rate powers or Germany who got out of sanctions and became an economic powerhouse.
Winning but spending too much to win is no win at all
A smart enemy will not send a swarm as that will give a hint to soldiers that maybe its a stupid idea to be firing 3 million dollar missiles at things there are hundreds of. A Smart enemy will send one every day so bored soldiers with nothing to do will use up a missile. Than when the battery is out of missiles and waiting replenishment then send 100 drones and drop stinkbombs on the battery to complete the demoralisation.
Or on kickbacks to Senators like Raytheon (What you think a Patriot missile actually costs 3 million?)
America give 4B in free arms to Egypt, 5-6B to Israel and 2B to Jordan. They wouldnt buy PAtriots if they were not free as they have their own Missile programs. This is basically a corporate subsidy to Raytheon
Look at the latest Trump budget. It cuts CHIP and WIC and increases funding for the military
The problem with free stuff. When you are getting the Patriot missiles free from the US but the bullets from a rifle are paid by your national govt, the Patriot is the more cost effective solution.
Children in US dont have healthcare because the govt is busy spending billions on hight tech toys like Patriots.
It basically comes down to jealousy. The managers who are now in hiring positions and of same age as the older technical workers are Jealous of all the extra time the technical workers got to spend with their kids by not going into management. They hit back by not hiring their peers and hiring juniors who don't have families.
AMD is only 14 Billion
Actually PG&E has time based rates. However they charge more during the day and less at night. This is because even though Solar is more available during the day most of the Industrial load is during the day when factories are running. However as more and more people are adding solar and selling it back the equation is changing. However PGE still wants its profits so now it buys Solar during the day at the rates it charge folks at night but sells it at the higher daytime rate. This means its more profitable to invest in your own battery setup rather than sell power back to the grid. So time based billing is not the solution
Trump just increased their budget by 10% so unemployment should fall. Who says Trump doesnt keep his promises
Given the market conditions -processor companies depending on large payouts from 3 letter agencies for backdoors to be able to create chips at a cost that will sell- AMD does not have a choice. If it releases and loses its govt subsidies , Intel will eat it alive.
Yes they have estimated it well and in fact added margin of safeties so Islands never run out of Diesel. The question is - Is the cost of this well estimated smoothly running system less than or more than a bank of batteries with similar backup?
Islands may have gone for Diesel because good Solar and Battery tech did not exist. And due to sunk costs may want to stay with Diesel generation and backup.
But with newer solar tech if Solar and batteries are close than the benefit of less smoke makes sense to go with Solar and other renewables. (never mind about Global Warming which may or may not be a bad thing but smoke is definitely bad)
I would like to see some hard numbers which show Diesel storage for 5-6 days plus employee costs to physically move the barrels to the generators is less than the cost of batteries which charge and discharge automatically
They should have blown up a US satellite. Than the EPA would have made the owner do the cleanup which would be the US govt in that case.
You pretend as if Diesel Storage does not cost money. During a storm ships with Diesel can not get through either hence diesel storage needs to be there to cover not just the days of the storm at 100% but also any shipping delays caused due to a storm . Spending the money on batteries or spending it on Diesel tank farms you are spending it either way. Solar is ideal for Islands which get enough sun. They can combine with Geothermal , tide and wind along with batteries. Wind blows at night too and tides change twice a day so everything combined with batteries should have a very smooth energy production cycle with the batteries smoothing out whatever ups and downs there are.
The difference is when they were disrupting IBM the govt actually cared about competition. This was the era of Airline deregulation and breaking up AT&T. Now the big 5 have lobbying budgets to rival defense contractors and have completed regulatory capture. The Microsoft Anti-trust case was the tuning point where the tech firms realized its cheaper to pay the Danegeld to the govt lobbyists than compete in an open market. Note how Google has not been attacked for trust busting even though it is far more dominant in search than MS was in OS and just like MS uses its domination to push other sidelines like Google Docs, Youtube, Android etc. Similarly Apple is not even sanctioned for running a walled garden environment when MS was sanctioned for the mere act of giving preference to its software. If IBM had spent the amount of money lobbying that Google does than yes all 5 would be subdivisions of IBM
Are you saying Humans are not part of the environment? Did we come from space or another dimension? Any human action is natural. Polluting the air with NOX is just as natural as a Lion killing a deer. Whether its desirable is another thing but I find it irritating when people try to say save nature and fuck the humans - Humans are nature.
If you are not going to count people stopped at the border as deportees than none of the people stopped at Airports by Trump's Muslim Ban were deportees as they were stooped at the border and sent back. So which is it? Do you want to worship Drumpf for deporting people with valid visas or castigate Obama for not deporting illegals. You have to stick to one definition.
Till Raegan gave an amnesty people coming illegally felt they were coming temporarily, would earn and go back. With Raegan's amnesty illegal immigration became an actual viable path to citizenship and illegal immigration exploded. At the same time NAFTA meant that Mexico's corn industry got killed by cheap subsidized corn from the midwest. No wonder illegal immigration from Mexico has gone up and the corresponding deportation numbers.
If Trump tears up NAFTA Mexican farm workers will have jobs in Mexico again and the push to move to US would be lessened. Similarly if he passes a bill which says that everyone illegally here will be allowed to stay and work but they and their children will forever be a underclass and never be given citizenship the pull factor for illegal immigration will go away too. At the same time a 6 month temporary farmworker visa should be established for people to come and pick crops during harvest season.
Huge breakthroughs happen when some option has not been tried due to lack of funds, vision, laziness, monopoly markets or some other crap. In a field where smart people have been exploring all options at the cutting if not bleeding edge there wont be an overlooked angle which can suddenly give a 16x jump.
In short a huge breakthrough is not a sign of greatness rather it is a sign that there was something wrong with the field and someone figured out how to fix it.
Huge breakthroughs will never happen in a healthy industry/research field.
20 years back manufacturing was in the dark ages. People really had no idea of how much material is needed to get a target life period. Since they didnt have good statistics, Quality teams or computers to simulate material fatigue they overbuilt evrything. This made stuff last for years and was a good thing if you were one of the few rich people who could afford overbuilt crap but it sucked for most of society who were locked out of having their own printer and had to go to printing shops to print. This would be like car manufacturers only selling Rolls Royces and if you cant afford a Rolls Royce you can travel on the Rolls Royce Bus.
Now with scientific manufacturing techniques manufacturers know exactly how much to spend on materials, training and QA to make sure 95% of the printers reach their guarantee date with no problems and the other 5% are covered under warranty. Prices are much lower as a result. Stuff dies when it is obsolete instead of hanging around like zombies and is cheap enough so that a larger section of society can use it.
Overbuilding is a waste of resources, a crime against the poor and a burden to technological progress.
Space X will launch a Solar City and Tesla like service. It will launch on exploding Lithium cells and then use Solar power to run an Electric Engine to get to the moon
Thats such a profiling comment. Shame on you. Not all computer science students have a fear of the opposite sex. This whole trope of smart kids being losers is the worst thing to happen to American Society. It has led to the dumbing down of society. The geeks are now getting their own back. We will automate everything so there are no jobs left for jocks.
Its a matter of cost-benefit analysis. The worst shitholes pay the best. And you are not going there to settle. Go work in Saudi . Get paid 200K net after taxes and expenses for the same work you do in the US for 150K before taxes and expenses. You are saving in 1 year what would take you 10 years in the US. With a 40 year career in the US what you need for retirement you can save in 4 years working in Saudi on an Expat package. Do your four years and you are set for life. There still is a salary premium for having white skin. Take advantage of it while it lasts. This wont work for you as well if you an American citizen of colour. In Saudi for the same job salary will be as follows Saudi Local>White American/European/Australian>Other White people>Other American>Brown Foreigners.
You have to take advantage of the market. Indians come here and work like crazy. Employers here prefer them because they know the Indians desperately want to stay here and settle in so will work long hours and prioritize work over family. They have seen a market and they are filling a need. There is a market for white skinned engineers in the Middle East. Take advantage of it.