Nazis are not a legally protected class. Though an argument could be made for extending the protections to cover political views, in these harshly divided times - you don't want people to get fired because their boss finds out they support the 'wrong' party.
Bubbles are a well understood economic phenomenon. The price of something is rising, so people want to buy it as an investment, which drives the price up higher, which causes more people to want to invest. It could be what's happened w ith bitcoin. How many people are actually spending bitcoin on goods and services, rather than just hoarding it to watch their wealth grow?
I dabbled in mining myself on a tiny scale as a hobby, never intending to make any money off it. I eventually made enough to just barely pay off the cost of the hardware, but most of that is still sitting unused. I spent some on a new graphics card - for gaming, not mining - and donated a little more to an open-source project.
Finite currencies have their own problems. They are subject to deflation, and wild price swings. There is a reason all major governments moved away from a gold standard.
The idea that old appliances lasted longer is something of a myth. It persists because people keep seeing appliances built in the sixties and seventies that keep on going, built solid and in the highest quality. What you don't see is all the appliances built in the sixties and seventies that ended up on a landfill site because they fell apart after a year.
I think there is a reason for subscriptions getting more popular. Software lasts longer.
Just look how many people still use Office 2000 - it's getting near twenty years old now, but it still runs, it still does everything most users want. But there was a time when you needed new software every few years because the old stuff just wouldn't run on modern hardware and operating systems. We've reached the point where companies are having a very hard time competing with the products they sold five or ten years ago. If they can't keep selling updates, they have to sell subscriptions.
Don't forget the unified product standards that allow electrical goods, cars and food products to be manufactured that can be sold in every country in the EU, rather than needing a plethora of slight variations because various additives are allowed in one country but banned in another, or because they have different requirements for where the brake lights need to be positioned.
Bill Gate's won his fortune through very aggressive business tactics, destroying any competition through means that were borderline illegal - and in a few cases crossed over that line. Deliberate incompetibilities to break rival products, the use of bundling to destroy entire markets, OEM exclusivity agreements to prevent new competitors gaining even a sliver of market share. His tactics were so underhanded that Microsoft under his rule became the epitome of the corrupt mega-corp, earning the nickname Micro$oft. It hasn't changed too much since he left.
He's done a lot of charitable work with his ill-gotten gains, but they were still ill-gotten.
People pick up what is right and wrong from their parents and society. Unfortunately most never get beyond the moral sophistication of a child: "That person has done a bad thing. I need to see him made to suffer now, and torment him until the scales are balanced." The crudest form of collective vengeance pretending to be justice, and the reason many prison systems are designed to make the inmates miserable and destroy any sense of hope and connection they may feel to wider society without any regard to rehabilitation.
Oh, my mistake. After a solid year of 'brexit brexit brexit brexit brexit' in the news, broken only by the weekly 'Trump insulted someone on twitter' story, it's hard to remember any other referendum exists.
We only allowed the referendum because no sane person believed the 'leave' side had any prospect of winning. Every poll showed that 'remain' had an overwhelming lead.
When the impossible happened it caused political chaos which still has not been resolved, because there was no plan for what would happen next. No point planning for something that no-one thought possible.
I've rummaged around inside mine. There's zero expandability in there - not so much as an unpopulated header. Yet it's still superior to modern Apple in one critical way. The battery is easily replacable. It' not covered in glue. No weird custom authenticated chip on it. No unusual size. Just your basic li-ion pouch cell.
But people don't want to live just anywhere. There are clear requirements as to where people want to live: 1. Near other people, because people mean jobs, services, social recreation, good infrastructure and local shops. 2. Not too near, because then property values get too high, and other people are only pleasant to be around when you don't have to be around them constantly.
Modern society invented the perfect solution: The suburb, made possible by the car. A city at the core surrounded by mile upon mile upon mile of sprawled-out living space, which must constantly expand by consuming the nature at the edge.
I've seen one that solders on the motherboard, but that's an exceptional case - the GPD Pocket. If it's not the smallest laptop on the market, it's got to be close to it. I imagine the same is true for most of those ultra-slim laptop/tablet convertibles.
Admit defeat. Raise the children to have a little more emotional resilience, so that if they do see anything terrible they can just calmly close the tab and move on.
Even if it were copied - I would not be surprised if some people are desperately writing bulk-download scripts right now - it's a medical guideline database. It would quickly become outdated unless maintained by medical experts able to take the incoming stream of new guidelines from professional bodies, sanity-check them and incorporate them into the database.
He doesn't have to press a button. He is Commander in Chief. There are plenty of things he could do to start a war. It's easy for a small regional conflict to grow, pulling in allies on both sides. That's how WWI got started.
The North Korea powderkeg, for one. His attitude has been unstable - he used to deliberately antagonise the leadership with twitter barbs like 'little rocketman,' then he moved on to proclaiming himself a dealmaker and negotiating the very rough outline of an agreement. If tensions flare up a bit more once again he could easily order an attack, which would result in NK retaliating against SK, and China joining in to defend their own interests in keeping a big buffer area between them and any American allies and inevitable escalation.
If Trump dies, Pence gets in. His policy positions are almost identical, as both strictly follow the Republican platform. Pence would at least be more stable though, and less inclined to insult rivals and national leaders on twitter.
Converting large differentials to useful energy is easy - on a large scale. It does not scale down well. High-performance TEGs (And ones that don't melt so easily) could make it practical to scavenge leftover heat energy from many industrial processes, improving efficiency.
There are still die-hard packet users - but not many of them, and they haven't been able to advance the technology significantly. There just isn't enough density of packet enthusiasts for that - it's hard enough finding anyone you can reach at all, even before you start trying new and improved modulations.
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Nazis are not a legally protected class. Though an argument could be made for extending the protections to cover political views, in these harshly divided times - you don't want people to get fired because their boss finds out they support the 'wrong' party.
Bubbles are a well understood economic phenomenon. The price of something is rising, so people want to buy it as an investment, which drives the price up higher, which causes more people to want to invest. It could be what's happened w ith bitcoin. How many people are actually spending bitcoin on goods and services, rather than just hoarding it to watch their wealth grow?
I dabbled in mining myself on a tiny scale as a hobby, never intending to make any money off it. I eventually made enough to just barely pay off the cost of the hardware, but most of that is still sitting unused. I spent some on a new graphics card - for gaming, not mining - and donated a little more to an open-source project.
Finite currencies have their own problems. They are subject to deflation, and wild price swings. There is a reason all major governments moved away from a gold standard.
Let it die already! Or at least move to coins a bit more practical then proof-of-work with their race to build ever more specialised hardware.
I'd also add 3. Companies will start looking for ways to fiddle the number.
The idea that old appliances lasted longer is something of a myth. It persists because people keep seeing appliances built in the sixties and seventies that keep on going, built solid and in the highest quality. What you don't see is all the appliances built in the sixties and seventies that ended up on a landfill site because they fell apart after a year.
I think there is a reason for subscriptions getting more popular. Software lasts longer.
Just look how many people still use Office 2000 - it's getting near twenty years old now, but it still runs, it still does everything most users want. But there was a time when you needed new software every few years because the old stuff just wouldn't run on modern hardware and operating systems. We've reached the point where companies are having a very hard time competing with the products they sold five or ten years ago. If they can't keep selling updates, they have to sell subscriptions.
Don't forget the unified product standards that allow electrical goods, cars and food products to be manufactured that can be sold in every country in the EU, rather than needing a plethora of slight variations because various additives are allowed in one country but banned in another, or because they have different requirements for where the brake lights need to be positioned.
Bill Gate's won his fortune through very aggressive business tactics, destroying any competition through means that were borderline illegal - and in a few cases crossed over that line. Deliberate incompetibilities to break rival products, the use of bundling to destroy entire markets, OEM exclusivity agreements to prevent new competitors gaining even a sliver of market share. His tactics were so underhanded that Microsoft under his rule became the epitome of the corrupt mega-corp, earning the nickname Micro$oft. It hasn't changed too much since he left.
He's done a lot of charitable work with his ill-gotten gains, but they were still ill-gotten.
People pick up what is right and wrong from their parents and society. Unfortunately most never get beyond the moral sophistication of a child: "That person has done a bad thing. I need to see him made to suffer now, and torment him until the scales are balanced." The crudest form of collective vengeance pretending to be justice, and the reason many prison systems are designed to make the inmates miserable and destroy any sense of hope and connection they may feel to wider society without any regard to rehabilitation.
People love to watch professional wrestling too. Doesn't mean wrestlers make good leaders. Good politicians, maybe.
Oh, my mistake. After a solid year of 'brexit brexit brexit brexit brexit' in the news, broken only by the weekly 'Trump insulted someone on twitter' story, it's hard to remember any other referendum exists.
We only allowed the referendum because no sane person believed the 'leave' side had any prospect of winning. Every poll showed that 'remain' had an overwhelming lead.
When the impossible happened it caused political chaos which still has not been resolved, because there was no plan for what would happen next. No point planning for something that no-one thought possible.
I've rummaged around inside mine. There's zero expandability in there - not so much as an unpopulated header. Yet it's still superior to modern Apple in one critical way. The battery is easily replacable. It' not covered in glue. No weird custom authenticated chip on it. No unusual size. Just your basic li-ion pouch cell.
But people don't want to live just anywhere. There are clear requirements as to where people want to live:
1. Near other people, because people mean jobs, services, social recreation, good infrastructure and local shops.
2. Not too near, because then property values get too high, and other people are only pleasant to be around when you don't have to be around them constantly.
Modern society invented the perfect solution: The suburb, made possible by the car. A city at the core surrounded by mile upon mile upon mile of sprawled-out living space, which must constantly expand by consuming the nature at the edge.
I've seen one that solders on the motherboard, but that's an exceptional case - the GPD Pocket. If it's not the smallest laptop on the market, it's got to be close to it. I imagine the same is true for most of those ultra-slim laptop/tablet convertibles.
Admit defeat. Raise the children to have a little more emotional resilience, so that if they do see anything terrible they can just calmly close the tab and move on.
Even if it were copied - I would not be surprised if some people are desperately writing bulk-download scripts right now - it's a medical guideline database. It would quickly become outdated unless maintained by medical experts able to take the incoming stream of new guidelines from professional bodies, sanity-check them and incorporate them into the database.
Which probably won't happen. Probably. Are you happy with a president so fickle that the best we can say is that he probably won't start a major war?
He doesn't have to press a button. He is Commander in Chief. There are plenty of things he could do to start a war. It's easy for a small regional conflict to grow, pulling in allies on both sides. That's how WWI got started.
The North Korea powderkeg, for one. His attitude has been unstable - he used to deliberately antagonise the leadership with twitter barbs like 'little rocketman,' then he moved on to proclaiming himself a dealmaker and negotiating the very rough outline of an agreement. If tensions flare up a bit more once again he could easily order an attack, which would result in NK retaliating against SK, and China joining in to defend their own interests in keeping a big buffer area between them and any American allies and inevitable escalation.
Spam and invasion of privacy was around long before Facebook. Facebook just perfected them.
Yet that's somehow still preferable to a president who is just one snappy decision away from starting WW3.
If Trump dies, Pence gets in. His policy positions are almost identical, as both strictly follow the Republican platform. Pence would at least be more stable though, and less inclined to insult rivals and national leaders on twitter.
Converting large differentials to useful energy is easy - on a large scale. It does not scale down well. High-performance TEGs (And ones that don't melt so easily) could make it practical to scavenge leftover heat energy from many industrial processes, improving efficiency.
There are still die-hard packet users - but not many of them, and they haven't been able to advance the technology significantly. There just isn't enough density of packet enthusiasts for that - it's hard enough finding anyone you can reach at all, even before you start trying new and improved modulations.