What is the opinion that I should form based on my 30 seconds worth of media spoonfeeding today?
A) Pollution is bad, so we should throw money at researchers looking into it, as proven by this unbiased paper in the journal Frontiers of Environmental Science B) Pollution used to be worse, so efforts in the last 25-50 years to reduce heavy metal use in plastics manufacturing are paying off. We should fund future research to ensure this trend continues,
-or-
C) Lake Geneva, surrounded by active civilization but "pristine" because there are mountains around it, has pollutants in it which will either tend to stay there and/or flow with the water to other places. We should probably fund some more research to know exactly how that works.
I am a Gen-Xer at 49 and I don't expect to retire at all. I have had my retirement savings via a 401K decimated twice due to massive losses when the dot-com and housing bubbles burst. I was unemployed for a year in 2009 and had temporary jobs until 2012 when I finally got a permanent job. In those 5 years I have saved $400K by scrimping. I am dreading the day there is another recession and I see that money halved.
If you're able to save $80k/year ($400k/5 years) and you are having trouble figuring out how to become a millionaire, it would be worth your time and money to seek out better financial advice.
Quite honestly if someone at 18 could borrow a 1/2 million I would probably be better advice to lever in on capital investing in the form of stock portfolio than for education.
This is very insightful. We do our young people such a disservice with ideas like "college is always worth it, no matter the cost" and "follow your dreams and get any degree you like".
Before allowing a teenager who has never balanced a checkbook or is able to handle the monthly commitment of renting an apartment to rack up 5- or 6-figure debt, we should be requiring some level of financial education, especially with a focus to cost/benefit analysis and budgeting.
If mom and dad can't afford $500k for college, we should not be handing blank checks out to junior to spend any way they see fit on college, especially given the current trends to force the public to pick up the tab on defaulted or forgiven student loans.
Not all colleges cost $500,000. In-state public colleges are still a good deal and worth the money.
Right now, yes, most colleges don't cost $500,000. The article is projecting ahead 18 years. Saying they are a "good deal and worth the money" is highly subjective; some academic tracks might be worth the money, but many are not.
...If you go to college for the right reason (knowledge).
If you're going there for a job, you're in the wrong place. If you're going there for money, you're REALLY in the wrong place.
Guess what institution has the highest publicly paid individuals in every single state? Keep using college for something other than education, and they'll keep using YOU.
That's all well and good, for those who can afford to attend for the quest of knowledge. Before the GI bill got involved as the thin end of the wedge, college was for those whose families could afford it, and those who couldn't just didn't go to college. Only the rich could afford to pursue becoming a "well-rounded" individual with a liberal-arts approach.
I would argue exactly the opposite to your statement: that the only reason to attend college today is to qualify for a profession. If you can't see a real future career track as the potential payoff of your expected degree and your family is not independently wealthy, then attending college is a bad investment of your time and money.
Amen to this... what Solaris is good at, it is shockingly good at.
Linux's internals look like the worst possible design-by-committee abomination possible.
The problem is that all the cool kids are using Linux, and Solaris has been dying on the vine for years. Unless you're buying hardware from Oracle, it's getting increasingly difficult to find drivers supported on Solaris; vendors are not investing the time and effort to support their new hardware on the 20-year old Solaris platform. At least, that's what my experience supporting x86 Solaris 10 has been...
This will never be built for so many of the reasons other posters have already mentioned (weight, power, practicality, hinge design). The first clue is "no price or availability announced".
Things like this are the CES version of the concept car at the motor show.
I'm not sure if by "Republican" you mean "a government controlled by the Republican party" or "a government where they people are represented by elected officials (as opposed to a pure democracy)".
Alphabet likely would have spent around the same amount of money on its holiday gifts, so it’s not exactly a cost-saving move
Just wanted to flag that when donating to a charity the value of the donation MAY be tax deductible. So it's possible that Google / Alphabet recouped [their marginal tax rate] x [$30 million]. Of course this would vary across tax jurisdictions.
Having said that, even the full $30 million would be peanuts for those entities.
Plus, they got rid of 70,000 Chromebooks that were sitting too long on the books. Win-win!
Do they pay for rental licenses? I've always assumed that once they bought the physical disk, it was theirs to give away, rent, or destroy as they saw fit.
I wonder if potential bidders will be allowed to inspect these coins for validity? Would suck to buy $1.6m of Bitcoin to find out they are worthless/already spent. This would be like buying a box of confiscated iTunes gift cards; which of them have been used or had the PINs copied off before being put in the box?
Let's gauge my level of commitment to "burning the midnight oil" in the two scenarios:
The lives of my coworkers are in danger and we have 4 days to get them home
The boss is feeling threatened because a competitor has had the audacity to develop an ad- and cat video-delivery platform that might compete with our own.
This is not an interesting idea at all. I hate to say it, but this level of stupidity is beneath Dr. Hawking. Even after solving all the technological problems standing in the way, in some accelerated miracle fashion, we will have accomplished what? Sending a single piece of space junk across the galaxy with no way to receive any sort of data back from this "probe?"
I saw a brief snippet about this on the local news last night, complete with animations of the solar sail and some guy holding a 4" x 4" PCB up to the camera, like it was some sort of launch-ready kit.
My hat's off to the con men who convinced private investors to fund their cushy research project career.
Yes, employing people should not be a sin. To Wall Street investors, however, it is a huge unforgivable one. Unless of course we're taking about H1-Bs from India. Then it's ok.
Bottom line: don't work for a publicly traded company if you can at all arrange not to. Your income is a lot safer that way.
That said, I'm surprised that a useless social networking company that caters to narcissists employs anyone at all, but that's kind of a special case. Then again, considering everyone under 40 has a portfolio consisting entirely of Facebook, Twitter, GoPro, and maybe Apple such a collapse repeated a few times could cause the ruination of a whole generation...
Employing people is not a sin, but being employed is also not a God-given right. Employees need to create value for companies. If an employee costs the company $100k/year, and the company only benefits $80k from that worker, it would be charity to continue to keep the employee on the payroll. That's all well and good, until there's no more in the piggy bank.
No thanks, I prefer to have less latency. Also, no word on resolution, but unless it uses HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort, it's not going to be HiDPI. Who would want a non-HiDPI, 30Hz screen these days?
Maybe I'm up in the night about this, but USB seems to be the least-common denominator on a laptop. If this devices requires HDMI or DP, then a portion of the target audience would be cut right out.
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Is "curly-cue" [sic] the American way of saying compact fluorescent or CFL?
Yes; "curly fry" bulb is another one I've heard. Yuk Yuk!
I wonder what the going rate on Amazon's Mechanical Turk is to watch a 15-20 minute video..
Life insurance on children is a scam. For 90% of us, a whole life or âoecash valueâ policy is also a bad deal.
What is the opinion that I should form based on my 30 seconds worth of media spoonfeeding today?
A) Pollution is bad, so we should throw money at researchers looking into it, as proven by this unbiased paper in the journal Frontiers of Environmental Science
B) Pollution used to be worse, so efforts in the last 25-50 years to reduce heavy metal use in plastics manufacturing are paying off. We should fund future research to ensure this trend continues,
-or-
C) Lake Geneva, surrounded by active civilization but "pristine" because there are mountains around it, has pollutants in it which will either tend to stay there and/or flow with the water to other places. We should probably fund some more research to know exactly how that works.
Well do tell, AC. We would love to hear details on this system...
I am a Gen-Xer at 49 and I don't expect to retire at all. I have had my retirement savings via a 401K decimated twice due to massive losses when the dot-com and housing bubbles burst. I was unemployed for a year in 2009 and had temporary jobs until 2012 when I finally got a permanent job. In those 5 years I have saved $400K by scrimping. I am dreading the day there is another recession and I see that money halved.
If you're able to save $80k/year ($400k/5 years) and you are having trouble figuring out how to become a millionaire, it would be worth your time and money to seek out better financial advice.
Quite honestly if someone at 18 could borrow a 1/2 million I would probably be better advice to lever in on capital investing in the form of stock portfolio than for education.
This is very insightful. We do our young people such a disservice with ideas like "college is always worth it, no matter the cost" and "follow your dreams and get any degree you like".
Before allowing a teenager who has never balanced a checkbook or is able to handle the monthly commitment of renting an apartment to rack up 5- or 6-figure debt, we should be requiring some level of financial education, especially with a focus to cost/benefit analysis and budgeting.
If mom and dad can't afford $500k for college, we should not be handing blank checks out to junior to spend any way they see fit on college, especially given the current trends to force the public to pick up the tab on defaulted or forgiven student loans.
Not all colleges cost $500,000. In-state public colleges are still a good deal and worth the money.
Right now, yes, most colleges don't cost $500,000. The article is projecting ahead 18 years. Saying they are a "good deal and worth the money" is highly subjective; some academic tracks might be worth the money, but many are not.
...If you go to college for the right reason (knowledge).
If you're going there for a job, you're in the wrong place. If you're going there for money, you're REALLY in the wrong place.
Guess what institution has the highest publicly paid individuals in every single state? Keep using college for something other than education, and they'll keep using YOU.
That's all well and good, for those who can afford to attend for the quest of knowledge. Before the GI bill got involved as the thin end of the wedge, college was for those whose families could afford it, and those who couldn't just didn't go to college. Only the rich could afford to pursue becoming a "well-rounded" individual with a liberal-arts approach.
I would argue exactly the opposite to your statement: that the only reason to attend college today is to qualify for a profession. If you can't see a real future career track as the potential payoff of your expected degree and your family is not independently wealthy, then attending college is a bad investment of your time and money.
No love for the Salespeople?
Amen to this... what Solaris is good at, it is shockingly good at.
Linux's internals look like the worst possible design-by-committee abomination possible.
The problem is that all the cool kids are using Linux, and Solaris has been dying on the vine for years. Unless you're buying hardware from Oracle, it's getting increasingly difficult to find drivers supported on Solaris; vendors are not investing the time and effort to support their new hardware on the 20-year old Solaris platform. At least, that's what my experience supporting x86 Solaris 10 has been...
Are we still talking about Solaris, or NetWare? :)
This will never be built for so many of the reasons other posters have already mentioned (weight, power, practicality, hinge design). The first clue is "no price or availability announced".
Things like this are the CES version of the concept car at the motor show.
I'm not sure if by "Republican" you mean "a government controlled by the Republican party" or "a government where they people are represented by elected officials (as opposed to a pure democracy)".
Alphabet likely would have spent around the same amount of money on its holiday gifts, so it’s not exactly a cost-saving move
Just wanted to flag that when donating to a charity the value of the donation MAY be tax deductible. So it's possible that Google / Alphabet recouped [their marginal tax rate] x [$30 million]. Of course this would vary across tax jurisdictions.
Having said that, even the full $30 million would be peanuts for those entities.
Plus, they got rid of 70,000 Chromebooks that were sitting too long on the books. Win-win!
That is at least two or three years down the road.
Next year is the "Jelly of the Month Club."
It's the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
Do they pay for rental licenses? I've always assumed that once they bought the physical disk, it was theirs to give away, rent, or destroy as they saw fit.
I wonder if potential bidders will be allowed to inspect these coins for validity? Would suck to buy $1.6m of Bitcoin to find out they are worthless/already spent.
This would be like buying a box of confiscated iTunes gift cards; which of them have been used or had the PINs copied off before being put in the box?
So they were doing a public service, preserving the People's right to know about Hulk Hogan's sex tape? Such lofty high journalism here...
Let's gauge my level of commitment to "burning the midnight oil" in the two scenarios:
This is not an interesting idea at all. I hate to say it, but this level of stupidity is beneath Dr. Hawking. Even after solving all the technological problems standing in the way, in some accelerated miracle fashion, we will have accomplished what? Sending a single piece of space junk across the galaxy with no way to receive any sort of data back from this "probe?"
I saw a brief snippet about this on the local news last night, complete with animations of the solar sail and some guy holding a 4" x 4" PCB up to the camera, like it was some sort of launch-ready kit.
My hat's off to the con men who convinced private investors to fund their cushy research project career.
Not sure anyone used the word 'trivial' to describe the situation.
No, but you did use the word "simple".
150 million units per light year to the target... with an acceptable failure rate of 0%?
Yes, employing people should not be a sin. To Wall Street investors, however, it is a huge unforgivable one. Unless of course we're taking about H1-Bs from India. Then it's ok.
Bottom line: don't work for a publicly traded company if you can at all arrange not to. Your income is a lot safer that way.
That said, I'm surprised that a useless social networking company that caters to narcissists employs anyone at all, but that's kind of a special case. Then again, considering everyone under 40 has a portfolio consisting entirely of Facebook, Twitter, GoPro, and maybe Apple such a collapse repeated a few times could cause the ruination of a whole generation...
Employing people is not a sin, but being employed is also not a God-given right.
Employees need to create value for companies. If an employee costs the company $100k/year, and the company only benefits $80k from that worker, it would be charity to continue to keep the employee on the payroll. That's all well and good, until there's no more in the piggy bank.
No thanks, I prefer to have less latency. Also, no word on resolution, but unless it uses HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort, it's not going to be HiDPI. Who would want a non-HiDPI, 30Hz screen these days?
Maybe I'm up in the night about this, but USB seems to be the least-common denominator on a laptop. If this devices requires HDMI or DP, then a portion of the target audience would be cut right out.