Combined with robotic stockers, a walmart store will probably bring under two dozen jobs while destroying many more jobs.
I think the solution should be simple, taxation..... EG: Create local 30% Taxes on the gross sales of all Retail businesses that have a physical establishment, and 75% on the gross shipping revenues charged to customers for companies that deliver goods in state from an out-of-state location.
For EACH individual employee a retail business/delivery companies pays for working at their store or driving trucks who works a minimum of 15 hours per week: grant a non-refundable non-reusable tax credit against only this specific tax that will be 10 times that employee's annual income from working AT THAT STORE for part-timers AND 15 times for full-time employees, plus any passive income related to dividends from profit sharing, stock grants, etc, awarded to that employee during the past X years... Up to a maximum possible annualized credit of $500,000 credit per employee.
The tax revenue will then be allocated to a pool that will pay out Universal Basic Income bonuses to every person in the state who is not the income tax dependent of someone else and not employed in a position expected to receive a salary of $75K or more --- in an allocation order based on a graduated scale for people earning less than $30,000, AND an after-tax-filing bonus based on a lottery for people earning more than $30k but less than $60k that gives each person a number of tickets based on their income and remaining funds in the pool to provide a weighted chance of winning $1000 up to a maximum of 20 times per person = $20k more; The total amount distributed at the lottery pool should be capped, to limit the chances of 5 or more wins of the random lottery is no more than 95% for $35k+ earners, 50% for $50k+ earners, 25% for $60+k earners, and 10% for $65+k earners.
Finally, if any money is left over in the pool after capped random lottery, Retain 5% to be held and managed separately as a reserve to be invested in a diversified portfolio..... Refund 95% of it back to all the retailers based on the fraction of the pool that they had originally paid in. Therefore, if the taxed amount was too high, then it will be automatically remedied.
If the pool is exhausted before paying out, then the tax credit should have been successful.
Insurance does not work like that. Insurance moves money around, it does not magically take the damage away.
Yes.... that's why they should be required to pay what premium insurance will require to cover $1 Trillion in liability.
To make sure at least SOME of the risk is leveled directly on the head of the people and organization that will be doing the research. And not every random weenie who thinks they might have a good reason to put the public at risk gets to do that without also making a significant tangible commitment and putting up some of their own skin into the game to show how sure they are that they can execute and cleanup after their work safely.
Invariably, this means the qualified insurance company is going to charge a significant amount of money upfront to take on such massive risk and issue the bond ---- including imposing more meaningful safety protocols, protective requirements, advisor review, on them, etc than some random board of academics would even imagine.
There's one more condition they need to add to the requirements. Proof of a permanent INSURANCE POLICY/BOND covering no less than $1 Trillion in potential liabilities -- and no less than any possible damages; promising compensation for ANY worldwide damage or losses to any person or company caused if during or after their research a virus modified to be more lethal should show up in the world and cause anyone to become ill..
Vehemently disagree. The free market, private industry had their chance on this one, and they have totally and utterly failed to deliver reasonable robust reliable comparable service (with a decent amount of upload bandwidth, download bandwidth, consistent performance, and high uptime) to a huge percentage of America.
THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE. Now it is time for last-mile broadband to be a regulated utility with a requirement for the incumbent providers to fully build out their service MANDATORY BUILDOUT to equal capacity for each end user in the region they are licensed to operate --- fund rural and remote buildouts by a Universal Service Fund/tax to be paid equally by everyone buying broadband access, regulatory requirement to maintain a certain level of performance and 99.9% uptime for last-mile infrastructure to each customer up to the cross-provider connection, And charge each customer for broadband only by per-Megabit of requested capacity to be provided in both directions with a uniform cost per Megabit up to at least 1000 Megabits to a customer At a rate that will be set by a local rate board and allow for a specified percentage profit for the utility operator taking into account the government grants for infrastructure buildout.
What kind of bullshit was going through the idiot's brain when he added Any Authenticated User permission to a S3 bucket that would be used internally by their application ?
There are at least two people who should be fired..... the Employee who added that ridiculous permission, AND the manager who failed to have auditing in place for AWS permissions.
Need to (1) Get network neutrality repeal completed and tax changes finalized, and (2) Then you can start petitioning again, BUT not on either of those two topics which will now have been "settled" by the time the site comes back up.
"Companies with shitty business models getting astronomical valuations because they put.com after the name of the company."
That was happening throughout the '90s. 1998 was pretty close to the maximum height of the.com bubble.... about $1.75 Trillion this one little company getting a ridiculous $8 Billion valuation is an unremarkable little pixel..... it's just a sign of things to come if the federal reserve doesn't stop playing this free money game and start raising interest rates to reign-in on asset value inflation, like they should.
Anyways, despite all the ridiculous.COMs.... it's all a $3 Trillion industry today; the bubble burst was just a temporary setback.
Look at the growth of Amazon stock from June 1997 to 2017... $1.54 a share to December 2017 $1187.02.
US $5000 in 1997 = 3225 shares. 3225 shares in 2017 = US $ 3.828 Million.
That would be a much higher profit rate than most Bitcoin buyers would have to date.
Wow, it feels like the dotcom boom all over again.
Early dotCom, like 1993-ish. The first applications of cryptocoins have been emerging..... we still don't have our equivalent to Windows '95 yet that brought internet into the operating system as a default feature and launched a million ecommerce companies, many destined to fail.
Although it could start to get a bit wild: if Coinbase starts adds some of these altcoins.
This is people who are clueless about cryptocurrency and don't even know how to buy BTC most likely but they WANT to invest in it through their broker, AND they don't have the $$$$ or the ability to trade in futures ---- thus there's likely a huge demand for Cryptocoin-related stocks, but scant choices on the market to get the exposure.
How about prohibiting making the identity of the actual person you are accusing known in public, until a court adjudicates and confirms that accusation.
It's all too easy to throw around harmful false accusations. That's probably what the arbitration agreements are intended to do --- keep harmful false accusations from being public until arbitrated and reviewed. Forced arbitration IS a legal and reasonable way of settling claims without unnecessary harm to the innocent when the accusations turn out to be clearly false.
Banning the use of software on government and government contractors' computers that is suspected to be under the control of a foreign government seems well within the scope of the law.
Not without cause for REASONABLE suspicion it's not. If there was reasonable basis for suspecting the software is a risk, then the details should be communicated to each agency, and their IT department should take care of it internally, AND the intelligence agencies responsible for internal security of the government systems should help them make sure the threat is addressed.
The ONLY reason for publicly declaring a ban is to HURT Kapersky's capacity for doing business in the US with anybody..... Notice how many retailers immediately started pulling their software off the shelves when the ban was announced? The government has decided to essentially shut them down ---- probably at the behest of lobbyists from competing security firms whose products are... shall we say, less effective?
The US is a national market, with freedom of travel a constitutional right.
You have freedom of movement to go about your business --- travel, or the use of a vehicle, or the availability of a place for you to stay away from home (such as a Hotel lodging) is not a constitutional right - and there are various situations where you won't be able to get it. States and Municipalities technically CAN also regulate or restrict who can be the buyer of accommodations, who can rent, or who can be the buyer of a house or land, so even if you are allowed freedom of movement; that doesn't mean you will have a right to park yourself long term in whatever city or state you want, Especially not on an indian reservation and some other highly-restrictive communities, BUT in general most states are welcoming, housing shortages are rare, and as a US person, you can take up residence in Most cities if you want to and can afford it.
You don't seem to understand how long it takes to get this much housing rebuilt.
Building a house doesn't necessarily take that long; if you don't have a million local building regulations to comply with --- you can have a livable hut with kitchen and bedspace constructed within a couple days.
Typically in wire waves are simply 'RF' waves, not airwaves.
They are RF waves when passing in the air as well. Airwaves does not refer to a wave that happens to be in the air. Airwaves is a nickname describes their USE and Intended Purpose, which is wireless transmission.
Carrier waves can refer to waves over various medium.
Carrier wave does NOT refer to a RF over various medium. A carrier wave refers specifically to a modulation pattern, where a signal is being conveyed.
When we're talking about noise from powerlines: most of it just RF noise. They are waves but not carrier waves, because the wave is only noise, not something bearing any kind of signal.
they could continue to increase in value -- but, in any event, the guy or Government won't lose money
The 5th amendment demands just compensation for the taking of private property for use by the government.
ONE of the rights you have as owner of property is the right to control and direct the Timing of when and if you sell it or convert it into US fiat, based on your expectation of what the market price will be.
So if it DOES continue to increase in value sufficiently, then the guy could make the claim he intended to HODL the coins and be due $10 Billion US, the cash equivalent, if for some reason the government's unable to return his property in the same condition as they found it, or if it DECREASES in value, then the guy could claim he intended to sell and thus demand PROPERTY + Compensation for his loss caused by the government interfering with his rights to direct regarding the disposition of his property.
America, land of the free, and you have RIGHTS... HA HA HA! Meanwhile we will steal your stuff and sell it, putting it into the government's pockets, before you are even convicted of the crime.
If they sell AND he's found innocent, AND Bitcoin rises in price to $1 Million US per Bitcoin.... he should get the full $513 Million back plus interest, OR sue their arses off.
When signals travel over copper, they are no longer 'airwaves'.
FALSE. If a RF electromagnetic wave is picked up by copper and traverses along its length; it may still be called an airwave; as the air is still a part of the system, and EM at the frequency ranges commonly used for radio broadcasts are commonly called airwaves.
The waves are electromagnetic in nature, and their properties do not fundamentally change. For example: if RF travels from the air through the ground; we don't start calling them "ground waves". Only mechanical waves are specific to a medium and change their fundamental properties and names based on what they are traveling on.
Unfortunately some clever wogs came along and figured out how to make an asic to do that work and now
SCrypt was a good choice of algorithms, but whoever selected the parameters wasn't quite aggressive enough ---- my speculation is they still wanted GPU mining to be easily or something, they could've tuned the algorithm differently to be much more memory intensive thus more expensive to build asics for.
If a new crypto were being built today, a good choice of PoW would probably be something like Argon2id Argon2id(databits=blah, salt=blah2, iterations=100000, memory=16 GB, threads=256);
The next step up for ASIC resistance would be to develop a POW function that sticks random OPCodes in each block that requires executing a varying virtual program against input parameters to calculate a result that has a high enough complexity where an ASIC that could handle all the operations would essentially be a full-blown arithmetic offload chip.
There's no roof on bitcoin electricity consumption: It's a competition to use most.
Yes there is a roof: its cost. Think of it in terms of regional arbitrage. You're providing demand for power generation that traditionally HAS to be overbuilt, thus making it unprofitable ---- by creating a stable demand through mining for the excess energy that would otherwise be wasted, you're helping to finance the construction of more renewable power production plans.
I want to be able to play my local media. Google Home and Alexa will only let you tell the player to play songs by STREAMING music from their respective services; which requires a working uninterrupted internet connection ---- oddly the seemingly easier thing to do, play from a local file share or request a download from a local web server seems to be omitted from their capabilities.
Where can I get a speaker that I can ask to play a song that I have indexed on a local NAS?
I can do this manually with an app using the Sonos multi-room system, but I want voice command to play from indexed songs that I OWN, and I don't want to be bound to monthly for a streaming service to access my content.
If they're long high-tension lines, copper isn't strong enough. Almost all high-tension lines are aluminium.
They can be copper, silver, or aluminum --- doesn't matter, they all work as conductors, as long as the material is supported; AND they can all act as radiators to propagate RF. If the lines are aerial lines - overhead high-voltage, then the common type would be Steel-Reinforced Aluminum (ACSR).
They are OFTEN coated or covered to protect the cable or increase its ampacity, so yeah, they're typically insulated in a sense -- the insulation won't block RF or impede the flow of high-voltage electricity, however.
I didn't know that 'airwaves' could travel over powerlines.
Then perhaps you don't have a clue about RF and should listen more than speaking. Powerlines are long strings of copper, and DEFINITELY capable of being radiators of radio frequency noise.
Hell, a frequent source of radio interference that needs to be fixed is problems with electric company transformers and utility lines -- most local utilities need a crew whose purpose in life is to identify electric utility sources of RFI such as faulty transformers or connections, where the power needs to be temporarily turned off, and these faulty elements must be replaced or cleaned to eliminate the issues.
It's very strange that the SPCA of all organizations is acting like that rich tech bro....
Not really.... they're being perfectly reasonable. The public access right of way is the public access right of way, not the personal property of homeless people ----- it's public so you can move through that area to go about your business, not so people can takeover that spot and sit there causing interference with others. Some person's lack of a home doesn't give them a right to setup tents and long-term camp your body at the entrance to someone else's facility.
So the $1000/day fine for the robot makes sense, so long as the authorities are also aggressively issuing such fines and law enforcement actions against any individuals setting up camp or tents.
Consumers are EASILY distracted by marketing. Of course it's NOT to the end users' benefit that you can't watch Youtube on your Echo and you can't listen to Amazon Music on your Google home.
BUT with a general purpose computer you can still listen to both.
The big telecoms want to TAKE AWAY rules protecting your freedom to use a general purpose computer to access whatever content you want at the same cost to download or upload each bit of data from your ISP no matter which service you decide to use; that way they can subsidize their own services and those of big companies that partner with them, for example: You like Netflix? Binge on Free data, as much as you want! You like Twitch? Not a partner, you're gonna have to pay per Gigabyte for that data.
Yes, because how dare you have priorities other than to serve the corporation.
No... it's fine. You just need to understand if you DO expect to have other priorities, then you're not the kind of person for certain senior positions.
In tech, most of the marriage/kid arguments affecting employee turnover today are bullshit because even the males, if they are any good, move companies every 2-4 years anyway.
Actually, that DEPENDS on the job AND how senior the employee is. Principal engineers at a company like Google, Amazon or Microsoft are not known to be moving companies every 2-4 years; I believe these companies are known for picking up people and sometimes even locking them into an employment contract for longer than that.... their employer has an expectation of loyalty when promoting or filling positions at the more senior levels, especially employees with major management responsibilities ---- eg you don't see tech companies' CEO or technical engineering managers bailing every 4 years. These positions are hard and expensive to replace, and companies definitely don't want people in some of the advanced but high-paying positions who will fail or aren't committed and expect to be out in a few years for a new job or life changes.
If you want to be with small/mid-size businesses or in junior and mid-level positions all your life then moving companies every 2-4 years is fine. If you want a seriously important job in the field for a large engineering or tech firm, then there's a level of advancement you aren't going to be qualified for, because you like switching jobs every few years or expect to be out of the field to do something else, within the decade.
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Combined with robotic stockers, a walmart store will probably bring under two dozen jobs while destroying many more jobs.
I think the solution should be simple, taxation..... EG: Create local 30% Taxes on the gross sales of all Retail businesses that have a physical establishment, and 75% on the gross shipping revenues charged to customers for companies that deliver goods in state from an out-of-state location.
For EACH individual employee a retail business/delivery companies pays for working at their store or driving trucks who works a minimum of 15 hours per week: grant a non-refundable non-reusable tax credit against only this specific tax that will be 10 times that employee's annual income from working AT THAT STORE for part-timers AND 15 times for full-time employees, plus any passive income related to dividends from profit sharing, stock grants, etc, awarded to that employee during the past X years... Up to a maximum possible annualized credit of $500,000 credit per employee.
The tax revenue will then be allocated to a pool that will pay out Universal Basic Income bonuses to every person in the state who is not the income tax dependent of someone else and not employed in a position expected to receive a salary of $75K or more --- in an allocation order based on a graduated scale for people earning less than $30,000, AND an after-tax-filing bonus based on a lottery for people earning more than $30k but less than $60k that gives each person a number of tickets based on their income and remaining funds in the pool to provide a weighted chance of winning $1000 up to a maximum of 20 times per person = $20k more; The total amount distributed at the lottery pool should be capped, to limit the chances of 5 or more wins of the random lottery is no more than 95% for $35k+ earners, 50% for $50k+ earners, 25% for $60+k earners, and 10% for $65+k earners.
Finally, if any money is left over in the pool after capped random lottery, Retain 5% to be held and managed separately as a reserve to be invested in a diversified portfolio..... Refund 95% of it back to all the retailers based on the fraction of the pool that they had originally paid in.
Therefore, if the taxed amount was too high, then it will be automatically remedied.
If the pool is exhausted before paying out, then the tax credit should have been successful.
Insurance does not work like that. Insurance moves money around, it does not magically take the damage away.
Yes.... that's why they should be required to pay what premium insurance will require to cover $1 Trillion in liability.
To make sure at least SOME of the risk is leveled directly on the head of the people and organization that will be doing the research.
And not every random weenie who thinks they might have a good reason to put the public at risk gets to do that without also
making a significant tangible commitment and putting up some of their own skin into the game to show how sure they are that they can execute and cleanup after their work safely.
Invariably, this means the qualified insurance company is going to charge a significant amount of money upfront to take on such massive risk and issue the bond ---- including imposing more meaningful safety protocols, protective requirements, advisor review, on them, etc than some random board of academics would even imagine.
There's one more condition they need to add to the requirements.
Proof of a permanent INSURANCE POLICY/BOND covering no less than $1 Trillion in potential liabilities -- and no less than any possible damages; promising compensation for ANY worldwide damage or
losses to any person or company caused if during or after their research a virus modified to be more lethal should show up in the world and cause anyone to become ill..
We don't need ISP to be regulated as utilities
Vehemently disagree. The free market, private industry had their chance on this one, and they have totally and utterly failed to deliver reasonable robust reliable comparable service (with a decent amount of upload bandwidth, download bandwidth, consistent performance, and high uptime) to a huge percentage of America.
THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE. Now it is time for last-mile broadband to be a regulated utility with a requirement for the incumbent providers to fully build out their service MANDATORY BUILDOUT to equal capacity for each end user in the region they are licensed to operate --- fund rural and remote buildouts by a Universal Service Fund/tax to be paid equally by everyone buying broadband access, regulatory requirement to maintain a certain level of performance and 99.9% uptime for last-mile infrastructure to each customer up to the cross-provider connection, And charge each customer for broadband only by per-Megabit of requested capacity to be provided in both directions with a uniform cost per Megabit up to at least 1000 Megabits to a customer At a rate that will be set by a local rate board and allow for a specified percentage profit for the utility operator taking into account the government grants for infrastructure buildout.
What kind of bullshit was going through the idiot's brain when he added Any Authenticated User permission to a S3 bucket that would be used internally by their application ?
There are at least two people who should be fired..... the Employee who added that ridiculous permission, AND the manager who failed to have auditing in place for AWS permissions.
Need to (1) Get network neutrality repeal completed and tax changes finalized, and (2) Then you can start petitioning again, BUT not on either of those two topics which will now have been "settled" by the time the site comes back up.
"Companies with shitty business models getting astronomical valuations because they put .com after the name of the company."
That was happening throughout the '90s. 1998 was pretty close to the maximum height of the .com bubble.... about $1.75 Trillion this one little company getting a ridiculous $8 Billion valuation is an unremarkable little pixel..... it's just a sign of things to come if the federal reserve doesn't stop playing this free money game and start raising interest rates to reign-in on asset value inflation, like they should.
Anyways, despite all the ridiculous .COMs.... it's all a $3 Trillion industry today; the bubble burst was just a temporary setback.
Look at the growth of Amazon stock from June 1997 to 2017... $1.54 a share to December 2017 $1187.02.
US $5000 in 1997 = 3225 shares. 3225 shares in 2017 = US $ 3.828 Million.
That would be a much higher profit rate than most Bitcoin buyers would have to date.
Wow, it feels like the dotcom boom all over again.
Early dotCom, like 1993-ish. The first applications of cryptocoins have been emerging..... we still don't have our equivalent to Windows '95 yet that brought internet into the operating system as a default feature and launched a million ecommerce companies, many destined to fail.
Although it could start to get a bit wild: if Coinbase starts adds some of these altcoins.
This is people who are clueless about cryptocurrency and don't even know how to buy BTC most likely but they WANT to invest in it through their broker,
AND they don't have the $$$$ or the ability to trade in futures ---- thus there's likely a huge demand for Cryptocoin-related stocks, but scant choices on the market to get the exposure.
And protection from frivolous/false claims.
How about prohibiting making the identity of the actual person you are accusing known in public, until a court adjudicates and confirms that accusation.
It's all too easy to throw around harmful false accusations. That's probably what the arbitration agreements are intended to do --- keep harmful false accusations from being public until arbitrated and reviewed. Forced arbitration IS a legal and reasonable way of settling claims without unnecessary harm to the innocent when the accusations turn out to be clearly false.
Banning the use of software on government and government contractors' computers that is suspected to be under the control of a foreign government seems well within the scope of the law.
Not without cause for REASONABLE suspicion it's not. If there was reasonable basis for suspecting the software is a risk, then the details should be communicated to each agency, and their IT department should take care of it internally, AND the intelligence agencies responsible for internal security of the government systems should help them make sure the threat is addressed.
The ONLY reason for publicly declaring a ban is to HURT Kapersky's capacity for doing business in the US with anybody..... Notice how many retailers immediately started pulling their software off the shelves when the ban was announced? The government has decided to essentially shut them down ---- probably at the behest of lobbyists from competing security firms whose products are... shall we say, less effective?
The US is a national market, with freedom of travel a constitutional right.
You have freedom of movement to go about your business --- travel, or the use of a vehicle, or the availability of a place for you to stay away from home (such as a Hotel lodging) is not a constitutional right - and there are various situations where you won't be able to get it. States and Municipalities technically CAN also regulate or restrict who can be the buyer of accommodations, who can rent, or who can be the buyer of a house or land, so even if you are allowed freedom of movement; that doesn't mean you will have a right to park yourself long term in whatever city or state you want, Especially not on an indian reservation and some other highly-restrictive communities, BUT in general most states are welcoming, housing shortages are rare, and as a US person, you can take up residence in Most cities if you want to and can afford it.
You don't seem to understand how long it takes to get this much housing rebuilt.
Building a house doesn't necessarily take that long; if you don't have a million local building regulations to comply with --- you can have a livable hut with kitchen and bedspace constructed within a couple days.
Typically in wire waves are simply 'RF' waves, not airwaves.
They are RF waves when passing in the air as well. Airwaves does not refer to a wave that happens to be in the air.
Airwaves is a nickname describes their USE and Intended Purpose, which is wireless transmission.
Carrier waves can refer to waves over various medium.
Carrier wave does NOT refer to a RF over various medium.
A carrier wave refers specifically to a modulation pattern, where a signal is being conveyed.
When we're talking about noise from powerlines: most of it just RF noise. They are waves but not carrier waves,
because the wave is only noise, not something bearing any kind of signal.
they could continue to increase in value -- but, in any event, the guy or Government won't lose money
The 5th amendment demands just compensation for the taking of private property for use by the government.
ONE of the rights you have as owner of property is the right to control and direct the Timing of when and if you sell it or convert it into US fiat, based on your expectation of what the market price will be.
So if it DOES continue to increase in value sufficiently, then the guy could make the claim he intended to HODL the coins and be due $10 Billion US, the cash equivalent, if for some reason the government's unable to return his property in the same condition as they found it, or if it DECREASES in value, then the guy could claim he intended to sell and thus demand PROPERTY + Compensation for his loss caused by the government interfering with his rights to direct regarding the disposition of his property.
America, land of the free, and you have RIGHTS... HA HA HA! Meanwhile we will steal your stuff and sell it, putting it into the government's pockets, before you are even convicted of the crime.
If they sell AND he's found innocent, AND Bitcoin rises in price to $1 Million US per Bitcoin.... he should get the full $513 Million back plus interest, OR sue their arses off.
When signals travel over copper, they are no longer 'airwaves'.
FALSE. If a RF electromagnetic wave is picked up by copper and traverses along its length; it may still be called an airwave;
as the air is still a part of the system, and EM at the frequency ranges commonly used for radio broadcasts are commonly called airwaves.
The waves are electromagnetic in nature, and their properties do not fundamentally change.
For example: if RF travels from the air through the ground; we don't start calling them "ground waves".
Only mechanical waves are specific to a medium and change their fundamental properties and names based on what they are traveling on.
Unfortunately some clever wogs came along and figured out how to make an asic to do that work and now
SCrypt was a good choice of algorithms, but whoever selected the parameters wasn't quite aggressive enough ---- my speculation is they still wanted GPU mining to be easily or something, they could've tuned the algorithm differently to be much more memory intensive thus more expensive to build asics for.
If a new crypto were being built today, a good choice of PoW would probably be something like Argon2id
Argon2id(databits=blah, salt=blah2, iterations=100000, memory=16 GB, threads=256);
The next step up for ASIC resistance would be to develop a POW function that sticks random OPCodes in each block that requires executing a varying virtual program against input parameters to calculate a result that has a high enough complexity where an ASIC that could handle all the operations would essentially be a full-blown arithmetic offload chip.
There's no roof on bitcoin electricity consumption: It's a competition to use most.
Yes there is a roof: its cost. Think of it in terms of regional arbitrage. You're providing demand for power generation that traditionally HAS to be overbuilt, thus making it unprofitable ---- by creating a stable demand through mining for the excess energy that would otherwise be wasted, you're helping to finance the construction of more renewable power production plans.
I want to be able to play my local media. Google Home and Alexa will only let you tell the player to play songs by STREAMING music from their respective services; which requires a working uninterrupted internet connection ---- oddly the seemingly easier thing to do, play from a local file share or request a download from a local web server seems to be omitted from their capabilities.
Where can I get a speaker that I can ask to play a song that I have indexed on a local NAS?
I can do this manually with an app using the Sonos multi-room system, but I want voice command to play from indexed songs that I OWN, and I don't want to be bound to monthly for a streaming service to access my content.
If they're long high-tension lines, copper isn't strong enough. Almost all high-tension lines are aluminium.
They can be copper, silver, or aluminum --- doesn't matter, they all work as conductors, as long as the material is supported; AND
they can all act as radiators to propagate RF. If the lines are aerial lines - overhead high-voltage, then the common type would be Steel-Reinforced Aluminum (ACSR).
They are OFTEN coated or covered to protect the cable or increase its ampacity, so yeah, they're typically insulated in a sense -- the insulation won't block RF or impede the flow of high-voltage electricity, however.
I didn't know that 'airwaves' could travel over powerlines.
Then perhaps you don't have a clue about RF and should listen more than speaking.
Powerlines are long strings of copper, and DEFINITELY capable of being radiators of radio frequency noise.
Hell, a frequent source of radio interference that needs to be fixed is problems with electric company transformers and utility lines -- most local utilities need a crew whose purpose in life is to identify electric utility sources of RFI such as faulty transformers or connections, where the power needs to be temporarily turned off, and these faulty elements must be replaced or cleaned to eliminate the issues.
It's very strange that the SPCA of all organizations is acting like that rich tech bro ....
Not really.... they're being perfectly reasonable. The public access right of way is the public access right of way, not the personal property of homeless people ----- it's public so you can move through that area to go about your business, not so people can takeover that spot and sit there causing interference with others. Some person's lack of a home doesn't give them a right to setup tents and long-term camp your body at the entrance to someone else's facility.
So the $1000/day fine for the robot makes sense, so long as the authorities are also aggressively issuing such fines and law enforcement actions against any individuals setting up camp or tents.
Consumers are EASILY distracted by marketing.
Of course it's NOT to the end users' benefit that you can't watch Youtube on your Echo and you can't listen to Amazon Music on your Google home.
BUT with a general purpose computer you can still listen to both.
The big telecoms want to TAKE AWAY rules protecting your freedom to use a general purpose computer to access whatever content you want at the same cost to download or upload each bit of data from your ISP no matter which service you decide to use; that way they can subsidize their own services and those of big companies that partner with them, for example: You like Netflix? Binge on Free data, as much as you want! You like Twitch? Not a partner, you're gonna have to pay per Gigabyte for that data.
Yes, because how dare you have priorities other than to serve the corporation.
No... it's fine. You just need to understand if you DO expect to have other priorities, then you're not the kind of person for certain senior positions.
In tech, most of the marriage/kid arguments affecting employee turnover today
are bullshit because even the males, if they are any good, move companies every 2-4 years anyway.
Actually, that DEPENDS on the job AND how senior the employee is. Principal engineers at a company like Google, Amazon or Microsoft
are not known to be moving companies every 2-4 years; I believe these companies are known for picking up people and sometimes even locking them into an employment contract for longer than that.... their employer has an expectation of loyalty when promoting or
filling positions at the more senior levels, especially employees with major management responsibilities ---- eg you don't see tech companies'
CEO or technical engineering managers bailing every 4 years. These positions are hard and expensive to replace, and companies definitely don't want people in some of the advanced but high-paying positions who will fail or aren't committed and expect to be out in a few years for a new job or life changes.
If you want to be with small/mid-size businesses or in junior and mid-level positions all your life then moving companies every 2-4 years is fine.
If you want a seriously important job in the field for a large engineering or tech firm, then there's a level of advancement you aren't going to be qualified for, because you like switching jobs every few years or expect to be out of the field to do something else, within the decade.