Why would you expect golden rice to somehow be less expensive than regular rice? And besides, any land suitable for growing rice is suitable for growing other vegetables.
Only if you don't care about getting there on time. Buses takes 3 times as long to get anywhere as cars. 1 hour commute? It's now 3 hours long with 4 bus changes. Subways are only faster than cars because they bypass the traffic. Buses can't even do that.
Foreign students put downward pressures on tuition since they pay more than it costs to educate them. This allows colleges to collect less from everybody else. The fact that bureaucrats charge higher tuition despite this is not their fault.
If we did have cheap fusion power, we could use it to extract helium from the atmosphere directly. There's trillions of tons of it in the atmosphere which is currently too energy-intensive to extract.
You point to California as an example of what not to do, but it is still the 3rd richest state by median household income, and 1st by GDP. Whatever mob rule is happening in California, it's doing far better than most other states.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post, but it seems to me the CIA's job should not be business espionage. There's nothing stopping Boeing from doing that themselves.
This is a problem brought on by bad traffic laws. A speeding ticket can cost you between $200 and $500 upfront, then insurance premium increases by another $150 a year. If this is not the first ticket, you can also lose your license, which in most parts of the country means you can't get to work anymore.
Since the safety crowd has turned traffic tickets into something that could ruin lives, of course people are fighting it in court.
Really, how do you identify "bugs" in the physical reality when you don't know the intent? QM is incredibly complicated, but we assume it's just working as intended.
It sounds like you've never worked on a large project. Just as an example, imagine how an online purchase happens. What do you need to do to verify the card? How do you integrate with Paypal? Credit card companies? Bitcoin? Where do you record the transaction? How do you notify the warehouse to start packing the stuff? What if the user tries to cancel it? Are you able to delete a transaction? How does user support folks see the transaction and act on it? Do they need some sort of UI?
There's at minimum 7-8 different systems you need to build or interface with. How do you make it reliable? What do you do if any of the systems are down? Will you able to recover and return to a consistent state? What about performance? Would a 10 second wait detract from the purchasing experience, causing you to lose repeat customers? All of these questions needs to be considered before you start coding. And yes, I call this architecting.
31.273 MJ/kg is the minimum if you had something like a space elevator. You can never get there with rockets because there's drag losses in the atmosphere. There's also the energy to manufacture the rocket that you cannot avoid even with reuse. Some parts will inevitably be thrown away in the launch process, and other parts will be damaged and need replacing.
Coding, architecting, gathering requirements, and testing are all different kinds of work a software developer does. Some require you to sit in front of a computer. Some require you to talk to people. Some can be better done with paper and pencil.
Maybe you only do the coding part because somebody else did all the work to figure out what you should do, in which case you would be a coder or programmer. But don't assume every other person who codes only does what you do.
To your first point about freight rail: all throughout the west coast, there are a huge lines of trucks on the highway at all times delivering stuff from one city to the next. They take up the entire right lane, leaving the other one for passenger vehicles, breaking out only to pass a marginally slower truck in front of them. Large, lumbering rectangular boxes, one after another. When seen from afar, they look almost like trains.
Really, they could be trains. But trains are too busy delivering coal. So when coal comes to an end, truckers will be out of a job too.
It is far closer to a language skill, in that it is a means of taking an idea and expressing it in a syntax that a computer can understand. It involves taking an idea that is entirely abstract and turning it into a concrete representation of that idea.
How do you explain those programmers who are terrible at English but can code up solutions like nobody's business? And I'm talking about born-in-the-USA people, not immigrants.
I'm pretty convinced the call-answering bots are just there to waste your time so you eventually give up and go away. It's only when you want to give them more money that they'll treat you nicely. Want to upgrade your service? Open a new account? Here, talk to our very friendly human sales rep.
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Why would you expect golden rice to somehow be less expensive than regular rice? And besides, any land suitable for growing rice is suitable for growing other vegetables.
Only if you don't care about getting there on time. Buses takes 3 times as long to get anywhere as cars. 1 hour commute? It's now 3 hours long with 4 bus changes. Subways are only faster than cars because they bypass the traffic. Buses can't even do that.
Are you suggesting Americans take gender studies instead or all move to Germany for free college?
Neither of those sound sustainable to me.
Foreign students put downward pressures on tuition since they pay more than it costs to educate them. This allows colleges to collect less from everybody else. The fact that bureaucrats charge higher tuition despite this is not their fault.
If we did have cheap fusion power, we could use it to extract helium from the atmosphere directly. There's trillions of tons of it in the atmosphere which is currently too energy-intensive to extract.
I guess you're not familiar with Content ID. YouTube does police their content for them.
You point to California as an example of what not to do, but it is still the 3rd richest state by median household income, and 1st by GDP. Whatever mob rule is happening in California, it's doing far better than most other states.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post, but it seems to me the CIA's job should not be business espionage. There's nothing stopping Boeing from doing that themselves.
White and hispanic teens need to step it up a notch.
This is a problem brought on by bad traffic laws. A speeding ticket can cost you between $200 and $500 upfront, then insurance premium increases by another $150 a year. If this is not the first ticket, you can also lose your license, which in most parts of the country means you can't get to work anymore.
Since the safety crowd has turned traffic tickets into something that could ruin lives, of course people are fighting it in court.
A rose by any other name...
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Really, how do you identify "bugs" in the physical reality when you don't know the intent? QM is incredibly complicated, but we assume it's just working as intended.
They have hepatitis and bleeding ulcers in their mouth.
It sounds like you've never worked on a large project. Just as an example, imagine how an online purchase happens. What do you need to do to verify the card? How do you integrate with Paypal? Credit card companies? Bitcoin? Where do you record the transaction? How do you notify the warehouse to start packing the stuff? What if the user tries to cancel it? Are you able to delete a transaction? How does user support folks see the transaction and act on it? Do they need some sort of UI?
There's at minimum 7-8 different systems you need to build or interface with. How do you make it reliable? What do you do if any of the systems are down? Will you able to recover and return to a consistent state? What about performance? Would a 10 second wait detract from the purchasing experience, causing you to lose repeat customers? All of these questions needs to be considered before you start coding. And yes, I call this architecting.
"Show more" -> "Remix this video" -> save video as yours -> download from video manager
You can also Google it if you need more details. There are video tutorials on YouTube as well.
To be fair, the Rockies are a bit bigger than the Alps.
Where do you find the iron ore to melt? There's very little material in space near Earth.
31.273 MJ/kg is the minimum if you had something like a space elevator. You can never get there with rockets because there's drag losses in the atmosphere. There's also the energy to manufacture the rocket that you cannot avoid even with reuse. Some parts will inevitably be thrown away in the launch process, and other parts will be damaged and need replacing.
A quick search finds this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA
The uploader can release videos under the creative commons license which would have a link.
Coding, architecting, gathering requirements, and testing are all different kinds of work a software developer does. Some require you to sit in front of a computer. Some require you to talk to people. Some can be better done with paper and pencil.
Maybe you only do the coding part because somebody else did all the work to figure out what you should do, in which case you would be a coder or programmer. But don't assume every other person who codes only does what you do.
To your first point about freight rail: all throughout the west coast, there are a huge lines of trucks on the highway at all times delivering stuff from one city to the next. They take up the entire right lane, leaving the other one for passenger vehicles, breaking out only to pass a marginally slower truck in front of them. Large, lumbering rectangular boxes, one after another. When seen from afar, they look almost like trains.
Really, they could be trains. But trains are too busy delivering coal. So when coal comes to an end, truckers will be out of a job too.
It is far closer to a language skill, in that it is a means of taking an idea and expressing it in a syntax that a computer can understand. It involves taking an idea that is entirely abstract and turning it into a concrete representation of that idea.
How do you explain those programmers who are terrible at English but can code up solutions like nobody's business? And I'm talking about born-in-the-USA people, not immigrants.
I don't think that's going to be a problem. I can hang up on a Turing-test-passing human just as quickly as a robot caller.
I'm pretty convinced the call-answering bots are just there to waste your time so you eventually give up and go away. It's only when you want to give them more money that they'll treat you nicely. Want to upgrade your service? Open a new account? Here, talk to our very friendly human sales rep.