A $700 million investment in place of a $1.6 billion investment? That's protectionism for you - you temporarily get more jobs at home, but your economy shrinks to less than half of its size.
Zero Hedge? The site run by "Tyler Durden" that predicts multiple times a day that the US economy is about to crash?
I learned about Zero Henge in 2009 when they guaranteed that the US financial system was about to have a "complete economic collapse". Needless to say, this never happened. But the article scared me for a couple years, until I realized that it, and the site as a whole, are full of shit. It's time you realized this too.
Were those people able to get hired elsewhere? The answer in general was almost certainly yes.
Actually, the answer is probably no. Labor force participation rates have fallen steadily since about the year 2000. Feminism caused the rate to rise from 58% (1963) to 67% (2000). Since then, it has fallen to 63%. In other words, we've already lost almost half of what we gained from women entering the workforce en masse. And the rate will only continue to fall in the future.
If the unions have been gutted and teachers are overworked, what's the proper response? To restore the unions? Maybe a better response is for the best teachers to take jobs at private schools for $20k more, and when the school district realized they're losing their best teachers, raise salaries to remain competitive with other districts?
What the Russians to the US, and what the US did in Latin America and elsewhere, wasn't "wrong" in some absolute sense. It was one of those things countries do to each other all the time, like war, which is considered basically bad but occasionally justified.
The thing is, if a country starts a war with you, it is considered appropriate to fight back. And someone who supports another country's war against their country is considered a traitor.
The parallel here is that while Russia could be is justified in interfering in the US election, the US is justified in getting angry about it and retaliating as it just did. And a US politician who welcomes this Russian interference is one step above a traitor.
Because marijuana causes a bunch of social and medical problems, just like alcohol does (though not as bad).
Marijuana should be legal because the costs of prohibition are probably worse than the costs of marijuana. But once prohibition is gone, there's no reason to artificially make it even easier to ingest THC.
It not so much about being "profitable quick enough". It's that the investment would all be by one company, but the rewards would be spread out over many companies (since the intellectual knowledge acquired is not practical enough to be patentable). So it wouldn't be profitable for any particular company, no matter how long they wait.
This is a case of "externality", which is one of the few cases where even many libertarians would admit that government involvement is justified.
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." - Cardinal Richelieu
I think it's perfectly expected for any potential candidate to minimize the amount of material that can be dug up and used, fairly or unfairly, against them.
I get the impression that is something of a cultural thing with Uber at this point. They're not even trying to get along. They are just acting the part of a bully and trying to do whatever they want. I think their corporate mantra is "better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" but they don't even bother with the forgiveness bit.
Why not? That strategy worked in the last election...
It's Democratic identity politics that led to a candidate as bad as Hillary being nominated. "It's her turn! She deserves it! It's time for a female president! If you oppose her you must be a sexist!"
The thing is, they'll probably nominate Hillary again in 2020 for all the same reasons. And she'll probably lose again to Trump.
This piece is written by a kook who frequently writes on various "spiritual" and pseudoscientific topics. Among his recent posts:
Seeing the Miracle of Existence in the Darkest of Times Does Evolution Have a "Higher Purpose"? Astrophysicist Says Experiments Might Soon Reveal Dark Matter's "True Nature" What Would a Machine as Smart as God Want? My Doubts about Deepak Chopra and the Monetization of Meditation World's Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can't Crack Consciousness The Mind–Body Problem, Scientific Regress and "Woo" Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
True to form, this article's point is a passive-agressive claim based on absence of evidence: "Like most psychiatrists, Higgins does not consider the possibility that medications might be contributing to the decline of mental health."
Actually, I'm sure most psychiatrists HAVE considered this possibility, and they follow the peer-reviewed evidence which concludes the opposite.
If anyone wants to argue with this scientific consensus, they are welcome to do their own peer-reviewed studies. But this article and its sources haven't.
And similarly, if you live in Minnesota, every watt your computer burns goes to heating your house (and particularly you, who are probably sitting right in front of the computer when it's active). So it's not wasted at all (though it's less efficient than a heat pump if you have one).
It means you stop choosing your work based on the salary. (So you switch to a more rewarding job, or you pursue a hobby full-time, or you hang around the house - whatever feels best to you.)
In a real sense, those tech CEOs with billions ARE retired.
Your "friends" don't have to be human. Get two blank hard drives, or even VMs on your favorite cloud server, and make those your "friends". They will be locked forever, but you can just wipe them and not lose any data.
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A $700 million investment in place of a $1.6 billion investment? That's protectionism for you - you temporarily get more jobs at home, but your economy shrinks to less than half of its size.
Zero Hedge? The site run by "Tyler Durden" that predicts multiple times a day that the US economy is about to crash?
I learned about Zero Henge in 2009 when they guaranteed that the US financial system was about to have a "complete economic collapse". Needless to say, this never happened. But the article scared me for a couple years, until I realized that it, and the site as a whole, are full of shit. It's time you realized this too.
That's because wealthy countries, without exception, decide it's worth it to set up a government agency to regulate and punish polluters.
Were those people able to get hired elsewhere? The answer in general was almost certainly yes.
Actually, the answer is probably no. Labor force participation rates have fallen steadily since about the year 2000. Feminism caused the rate to rise from 58% (1963) to 67% (2000). Since then, it has fallen to 63%. In other words, we've already lost almost half of what we gained from women entering the workforce en masse. And the rate will only continue to fall in the future.
If the unions have been gutted and teachers are overworked, what's the proper response? To restore the unions? Maybe a better response is for the best teachers to take jobs at private schools for $20k more, and when the school district realized they're losing their best teachers, raise salaries to remain competitive with other districts?
LibreOffice on Linux does the same by default.
(Come to think of it, there's probably a setting somewhere to turn that off)
What the Russians to the US, and what the US did in Latin America and elsewhere, wasn't "wrong" in some absolute sense. It was one of those things countries do to each other all the time, like war, which is considered basically bad but occasionally justified.
The thing is, if a country starts a war with you, it is considered appropriate to fight back. And someone who supports another country's war against their country is considered a traitor.
The parallel here is that while Russia could be is justified in interfering in the US election, the US is justified in getting angry about it and retaliating as it just did. And a US politician who welcomes this Russian interference is one step above a traitor.
Because marijuana causes a bunch of social and medical problems, just like alcohol does (though not as bad).
Marijuana should be legal because the costs of prohibition are probably worse than the costs of marijuana. But once prohibition is gone, there's no reason to artificially make it even easier to ingest THC.
It not so much about being "profitable quick enough". It's that the investment would all be by one company, but the rewards would be spread out over many companies (since the intellectual knowledge acquired is not practical enough to be patentable). So it wouldn't be profitable for any particular company, no matter how long they wait.
This is a case of "externality", which is one of the few cases where even many libertarians would admit that government involvement is justified.
How else can they keep up with the criminals in sports cars in a car chase?
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." - Cardinal Richelieu
I think it's perfectly expected for any potential candidate to minimize the amount of material that can be dug up and used, fairly or unfairly, against them.
I get the impression that is something of a cultural thing with Uber at this point. They're not even trying to get along. They are just acting the part of a bully and trying to do whatever they want. I think their corporate mantra is "better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" but they don't even bother with the forgiveness bit.
Why not? That strategy worked in the last election...
To the new era of Corporate Business Tycoons (no elite political background). But (I hope) strong leadership and competence.
You look to Donald Trump for competence? Are you insane?
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It's Democratic identity politics that led to a candidate as bad as Hillary being nominated. "It's her turn! She deserves it! It's time for a female president! If you oppose her you must be a sexist!"
The thing is, they'll probably nominate Hillary again in 2020 for all the same reasons. And she'll probably lose again to Trump.
This piece is written by a kook who frequently writes on various "spiritual" and pseudoscientific topics. Among his recent posts:
Seeing the Miracle of Existence in the Darkest of Times
Does Evolution Have a "Higher Purpose"?
Astrophysicist Says Experiments Might Soon Reveal Dark Matter's "True Nature"
What Would a Machine as Smart as God Want?
My Doubts about Deepak Chopra and the Monetization of Meditation
World's Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can't Crack Consciousness
The Mind–Body Problem, Scientific Regress and "Woo"
Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
True to form, this article's point is a passive-agressive claim based on absence of evidence:
"Like most psychiatrists, Higgins does not consider the possibility that medications might be contributing to the decline of mental health."
Actually, I'm sure most psychiatrists HAVE considered this possibility, and they follow the peer-reviewed evidence which concludes the opposite.
If anyone wants to argue with this scientific consensus, they are welcome to do their own peer-reviewed studies. But this article and its sources haven't.
So the value of each user's information, including the fact that they're considering cheating on their spouse, is just 4.4 cents?
8 to 1? Really? Typical values of COP are actually 2-4 to 1.
And similarly, if you live in Minnesota, every watt your computer burns goes to heating your house (and particularly you, who are probably sitting right in front of the computer when it's active). So it's not wasted at all (though it's less efficient than a heat pump if you have one).
Evidence seems to show that divestment does not lower stock prices. (A consequence of the "efficient market hypothesis", incidentally)
Retirement doesn't mean you stop working.
It means you stop choosing your work based on the salary. (So you switch to a more rewarding job, or you pursue a hobby full-time, or you hang around the house - whatever feels best to you.)
In a real sense, those tech CEOs with billions ARE retired.
Sheesh, I'm getting lots of karma both for my wrong post, and for the correction I posted to it. It's a strange world...
^ Ignore previous comment, I'm a doofus who didn't carefully read the summary, much less the article.
Your "friends" don't have to be human. Get two blank hard drives, or even VMs on your favorite cloud server, and make those your "friends". They will be locked forever, but you can just wipe them and not lose any data.
Still a nasty trick though.
The price of oil is determined by the worldwide supply, which includes the Middle East.
Exhaust is "mostly" CO2, but also contains nasty substances like mercury or nitrogen dioxide in quantities that are high enough to harm human health.