Sure, if we had a centrally planned economy like China, that's exactly what we'd do. (Well... maybe.... central planning tends to make poor decisions).
That would require the owners of the Willisears tower to run a massive amount of cable to get the power to their building, and you'd also have to work out the resistance losses.
If I have a house that is salable for 200K, with 40k down, 160 mortgage, I can sell and walk away with 40K. To call that a 160K debt and freak out about how huge that is is ridiculous. Asset backed debts have to be discounted by the equity in any sane accounting system.
Yeah, no surprise then. The average home price is something like 120k, which means ~100K in meaningless house debt plus 20k in unsecured debts for that 120k.
Do you have a source for that 120k in debt stat? I can't believe that could be true unless they are counting a mortgage against you without giving you credit for the value of the house.
Give me a quarter million slaves and I'll be happy to move a 55 tonne block up an inclined plane for you. I promise to kill less than 50% of them even.
Well, but you have to deal with viruses etc. There's definitely overhead. And personally, I make marginally over a dollar per minute. That minute would in fact cost me more than many $1 apps.
Pirated software has an opportunity cost. When the legit cost of your app is cheaper than the time opportunity cost of finding the pirated version, you will make a sale to all but the stupidest of pirates.
It will be impossible to detect. Seriously... it will be impossible, as a matter of security policy, to disconnect citizens from access to the internet. It will be impossible to install software on your implants to verify your input stream. It will therefore be impossible to prevent a coach from remotely accessing a computer solving these problems. The coach will deliver the computer's solution, and there will be no way to detect that this is happening.
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Yes, seriously. The internet is quickly vanishing from view for IOS/android users.
Disney doesn't have anything close to an oligopoly over theme parks, nor is speech one of the major functions of a theme park.
Your point would be valid if Apple weren't part of a small oligopoly with control over the discourse commons.
What else did you expect? This is what you get when you buy Apple, they control your experience.
Sure, if we had a centrally planned economy like China, that's exactly what we'd do. (Well ... maybe .... central planning tends to make poor decisions).
Indeed, this was what came to mind immediately to me as well.
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That would require the owners of the Willisears tower to run a massive amount of cable to get the power to their building, and you'd also have to work out the resistance losses.
They do it because they suffer from untreated OCD.
What backwards part of the world do you live in that you don't get your power via superconducting wire?
They'd lose huge amounts of money when they couldn't lease the floorspace in the building that way.
If I have a house that is salable for 200K, with 40k down, 160 mortgage, I can sell and walk away with 40K. To call that a 160K debt and freak out about how huge that is is ridiculous. Asset backed debts have to be discounted by the equity in any sane accounting system.
Yeah, no surprise then. The average home price is something like 120k, which means ~100K in meaningless house debt plus 20k in unsecured debts for that 120k.
If only I could get those people without any of the associated crazy that goes with them. Gold standard. Good god.
The pricing is bubble, though. They're getting valued at 20X gross. That's a factor of 5 off normal.
The bubble is back for sure. Programmer salaries jumped 20% this year, almost universally.
Do you have a source for that 120k in debt stat? I can't believe that could be true unless they are counting a mortgage against you without giving you credit for the value of the house.
Yeah, tmobile doesn't reach my home, and I don't have a landline. At the moment att and verizon are the only carriers with reception.
Give me a quarter million slaves and I'll be happy to move a 55 tonne block up an inclined plane for you. I promise to kill less than 50% of them even.
Do Americans have a choice? I can't find a wireless carrier who has reception in my area who offers anything other than these plans.
Well, but you have to deal with viruses etc. There's definitely overhead. And personally, I make marginally over a dollar per minute. That minute would in fact cost me more than many $1 apps.
Pirated software has an opportunity cost. When the legit cost of your app is cheaper than the time opportunity cost of finding the pirated version, you will make a sale to all but the stupidest of pirates.
This is what you get in the walled garden. Just don't buy an ios device if that's not what you want. Duh.
How do you collect their surgical implants exactly? Everyone will have one in 50 years time.
It will be impossible to detect. Seriously ... it will be impossible, as a matter of security policy, to disconnect citizens from access to the internet. It will be impossible to install software on your implants to verify your input stream. It will therefore be impossible to prevent a coach from remotely accessing a computer solving these problems. The coach will deliver the computer's solution, and there will be no way to detect that this is happening.
The real challenge will be to do it so that we can bet on the game in vegas.