Ah, the good old fashioned "X, ???, Profit" canard:
1. Make manufacturing more expensive, ruin the economies worldwide (developing and not) by taxing energy, and throw the poor back into poverty 2. ??? 3. Profit
It is not enough to merely point out problems. Any idiot can do that. Suggest real, actual solutions. And no, taxing CO2 and methane is not a viable solution, if you care about the economy, standard of living, etc, the cure is worse than the disease. And fixing problems here when China and India shit all over the Paris accords is not a viable solution either.
Not really. It's substantially faster than this (and probably next) year's crop of fastest Android devices, has better apps, and will receive updates for many years.
Generally assembly lines don’t “run out” of stuff, because at those quantities it’s bought months in advance. I’m sure Cook could convince Trump that US manufacturing jobs need lower component tariffs. One phone call should be enough, in fact.
Could this be a sign of Apple moving production to the US I wonder? It'd make sense for them: the production is mostly automated anyway, and manual labor is a minuscule fraction of the overall cost. In fact, humans wouldn't be able to work on much of this stuff even if they wanted to: there are thousands of parts inside the phone, and they are 0.2mm across, hard to see with the naked eye. If it's just screwing the boards into pre-milled chassis, attaching the flexes, and slapping the screen on top, I don't see why it can't be done right here in the US, in e.g. Texas or another business-friendly state.
But there is value in a fiat currency. Currency is much like shares in a company, except the company is the country that issues the currency. Now granted, the country can issue more currency, and your share can get smaller, but fiat currencies very much do have intrinsic value. Unless you think the US economy is worth nothing, of course, which is pretty self-evident that it's not the case.
Bitcoin (and other "cash" cryptocurrencies not tied to an asset or a fiat currency), on the other hand, is a share in literally nothing. ICOs are de-facto shares in the respective companies, but the market is so poorly regulated you'd have to be a total idiot to invest in one.
Bitcoin had faith and mindshare. With faith evaporating, there's no intrinsic value to it, so it could go down to 0. This realization further spooks the "investors". It's kind of like a bank run against an extremely over-leveraged bank with no FDIC to prop anything up.
Please. Obamaâ(TM)s campaign downloaded the entire social graph in 2012 and FB was proud of getting him re-elected. If everything went according to the plan and HRC won, weâ(TM)d be reading praise for FB, not condemnation.
And to think that HRC won none of the stuff they're being pilloried for would be a problem. I hope they go after the entire fucking web ads ecosystem next. It's not like FB is the only company out there that collects data and sells targetable ads to whoever wins the realtime auction.
This money would be much better spent on bribing politicians in congress to solve this problem legislatively. Same as with healthcare, if there's no upper bound on how much money can be wasted on administration, underwater basketweaving courses that produce solely McDonalds employees, "organic" caffes, facilities, etc, then there will be no upper bound on tuition. Put an upper bound on administrative expenses at the very least in state schools, and possibly in private ones as well. Refocus higher ed on actual education rather than activism. Put structures in place under which companies would find it attractive to fund higher ed for in-demand professions in exchange to access to top talent pool universities produce. Stuff like that. Be creative. Just giving them $1.8B is pointless and temporary.
Is to get more info for ad targeting. Where you've been, products you own or like, your hobbies, whether you have kids (and their age/gender), what brand of car you have, how old it is, whether you go to the gym, what kind of food you like, what restaurants you frequent, how often those restaurant visits coincide with the visits of your friends, and so on. All of this can be mined out of your photo library today, using existing computer vision techniques and geotagging info. This is not much different from Instagram in this regard, except you're giving Google even more info than you'd be willing to post on Instagram.
It's not a "jukebox", it's a data mining treasure trove. That's why you get "unlimited pictures for free".
Current number of ALL satellites in orbit is 4857, BTW, and the number of _working_ ones is less than half of that. Just so you know the scale of what they're trying to do here.
This is basically to ensure Zuck's compliance with 2020 DNC election plans for the anointed heir to the throne. He likes freedom of speech and diversity of thought a little too much for their taste, so beatings will continue until compliance improves.
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And that's why we should stay the as far away from this bullshit as possible.
Exactly. Don't want to pay for NATO? Enjoy dealing with Putin on your own.
Why do you give a shit about Ukraine, which is on the other end of the world and which isn't a major US trade partner or ally?
Poor people aren't buying them as it is. Rich people can handle another $100. Or they can just go with a Korean phone.
Ah, the good old fashioned "X, ???, Profit" canard:
1. Make manufacturing more expensive, ruin the economies worldwide (developing and not) by taxing energy, and throw the poor back into poverty
2. ???
3. Profit
It is not enough to merely point out problems. Any idiot can do that. Suggest real, actual solutions. And no, taxing CO2 and methane is not a viable solution, if you care about the economy, standard of living, etc, the cure is worse than the disease. And fixing problems here when China and India shit all over the Paris accords is not a viable solution either.
You pretend to pay us, we pretend to work. I can guarantee you he's not getting any good C++ for that $15/hr.
But they'll help you die penniless as well. What a brilliant idea.
Not really. It's substantially faster than this (and probably next) year's crop of fastest Android devices, has better apps, and will receive updates for many years.
Generally assembly lines don’t “run out” of stuff, because at those quantities it’s bought months in advance. I’m sure Cook could convince Trump that US manufacturing jobs need lower component tariffs. One phone call should be enough, in fact.
Could this be a sign of Apple moving production to the US I wonder? It'd make sense for them: the production is mostly automated anyway, and manual labor is a minuscule fraction of the overall cost. In fact, humans wouldn't be able to work on much of this stuff even if they wanted to: there are thousands of parts inside the phone, and they are 0.2mm across, hard to see with the naked eye. If it's just screwing the boards into pre-milled chassis, attaching the flexes, and slapping the screen on top, I don't see why it can't be done right here in the US, in e.g. Texas or another business-friendly state.
We need to go deeper. Google should implement Alexa integration as well. All voice commands will then start with "Hey Siri, OK Google, Alexa".
But there is value in a fiat currency. Currency is much like shares in a company, except the company is the country that issues the currency. Now granted, the country can issue more currency, and your share can get smaller, but fiat currencies very much do have intrinsic value. Unless you think the US economy is worth nothing, of course, which is pretty self-evident that it's not the case.
Bitcoin (and other "cash" cryptocurrencies not tied to an asset or a fiat currency), on the other hand, is a share in literally nothing. ICOs are de-facto shares in the respective companies, but the market is so poorly regulated you'd have to be a total idiot to invest in one.
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Currently it’s a good way to destroy value
The problem is, dollar is better than all of them combined. It's literally too big to fail.
Bitcoin had faith and mindshare. With faith evaporating, there's no intrinsic value to it, so it could go down to 0. This realization further spooks the "investors". It's kind of like a bank run against an extremely over-leveraged bank with no FDIC to prop anything up.
Please. Obamaâ(TM)s campaign downloaded the entire social graph in 2012 and FB was proud of getting him re-elected. If everything went according to the plan and HRC won, weâ(TM)d be reading praise for FB, not condemnation.
And to think that HRC won none of the stuff they're being pilloried for would be a problem. I hope they go after the entire fucking web ads ecosystem next. It's not like FB is the only company out there that collects data and sells targetable ads to whoever wins the realtime auction.
This money would be much better spent on bribing politicians in congress to solve this problem legislatively. Same as with healthcare, if there's no upper bound on how much money can be wasted on administration, underwater basketweaving courses that produce solely McDonalds employees, "organic" caffes, facilities, etc, then there will be no upper bound on tuition. Put an upper bound on administrative expenses at the very least in state schools, and possibly in private ones as well. Refocus higher ed on actual education rather than activism. Put structures in place under which companies would find it attractive to fund higher ed for in-demand professions in exchange to access to top talent pool universities produce. Stuff like that. Be creative. Just giving them $1.8B is pointless and temporary.
You will find out once Google has trouble meeting its growth targets and has to exploit the data more aggressively.
Is to get more info for ad targeting. Where you've been, products you own or like, your hobbies, whether you have kids (and their age/gender), what brand of car you have, how old it is, whether you go to the gym, what kind of food you like, what restaurants you frequent, how often those restaurant visits coincide with the visits of your friends, and so on. All of this can be mined out of your photo library today, using existing computer vision techniques and geotagging info. This is not much different from Instagram in this regard, except you're giving Google even more info than you'd be willing to post on Instagram.
It's not a "jukebox", it's a data mining treasure trove. That's why you get "unlimited pictures for free".
These will be LEO satellites to maintain low latency, constantly boosted back into their orbits and replaced when they run out of fuel.
Current number of ALL satellites in orbit is 4857, BTW, and the number of _working_ ones is less than half of that.
Just so you know the scale of what they're trying to do here.
This is basically to ensure Zuck's compliance with 2020 DNC election plans for the anointed heir to the throne. He likes freedom of speech and diversity of thought a little too much for their taste, so beatings will continue until compliance improves.
Prediction: you will be saying the same about climate science claims of today, 30 years from now.