For me, Whatsapp replaces phone calls, SMSes, and video calls. If I have either wifi or sufficient cellular data, it is completely free (unlike phone calls or SMSes for many people). It lets me see my messages on the computer (unlike SMSes). It easily exports the conversations/messages from the app to your computer (unlike Facebook). It doesn't seem to steal your data or advertise to you (unlike Facebook). And best of all, it is based on phone numbers and nearly everyone has it (unlike ICQ). It is pretty much the best of all worlds - for now at least.
Whatsapp still has no ads (as far as I can tell), and its messages are encrypted (so no data mining). So it appears Facebook isn't making money off of it. So in what sense is the $19 billion investment "paying off"?
There are often appearing slim, people who have a lot of health problems because while the fat isn't showing outwardly with a big belly, it is collecting underneath the rib cage squeezing your their internal organs.
It's been 11 years already - how long do we need to wait to see if they are "too clever"? For how many years should any economic difficulties be ascribed to this as opposed to any other cause?
The market would choose nuclear if carbon emitters had to pay the environmental cost of their carbon production. But they don't. So fossil fuel power plants can get away with offloading this externality onto other people, decreasing the effective cost of the plants. "Privatized profits, socialized costs" as they say.
It's a risky gambit, because public transit can't be made superior overnight
Public transit can be made significantly better immediately, by making buses frequent rather than infrequent. Once that is done, it can be made significantly better once again by painting bus-only lanes on the street - which makes buses faster and cars possibly slower, leading to more bus ridership, a virtuous cycle. It works great if you can get the political willpower to take away a car lane.
Really good subways and trains are the result of either legacy dumb luck from 100 years ago or once-in-a-millennium rebuilding due to war or other catastrophe.
All it takes is a steady building program over a couple decades. NYC's subway was almost entirely build between 1900 and 1930, almost none has been built since then. Shanghai's subway, which carries nearly twice as many people as NYC's, was build between 1997 and 2018 (it is still rapidly expanding). Madrid has the second largest subway in Europe, about half of it was built between 1998-2007. None of these cities had rebuilding due to catastrophes. They just had the political willpower to invest in this. (Arguably, they also had political systems that were less dysfunctional than the US is in 2018.)
You won't, but a lot of people will. Just like they nowadays share taxis and Ubers.
Bentleys are and always will be a very small part of the traffic volume (because few people can afford them), thus not much of an influence on overall trends.
Perhaps, in this situation, geographical coordinates would be best? Like, if your latitude/longitude is 13.7315/100.5423, you report your location as "7315-5423". Easy to determine (GPS), easy enough to remember, and unambiguously identifies your location to within 10 meters, which is enough for almost all purposes.
Not everyone goes to work at *exactly* the same time. If the average autonomous car drives just two people to work each day, one at 7am and one at 8am, then you've eliminated half the cars that a city needs for commuting. Naturally, autonomous cars outside the peak hour (like an hour before or after the peak) would be much cheaper (since the marginal cost of another ride is low) which would provide a strong incentive for workers to spread out their commuting times a bit.
Most European cities have a street or a whole district which is already like this. Severely limited to cars, but delivery trucks can visit when needed (generally very early in the morning). These are usually the most popular and touristy streets in the cities, with lots of restaurants and shopping and bars on the ground floor, and apartments in the 3-6 stories above the shops. Not many delivery trucks are needed for a store, and if they drive carefully at 5mph down the street they are not much of a danger when they do arrive.
If you live in Manhattan, or you are running a power-intensive factory, then the amount of solar and wind that can be generated locally do not come close to the demand.
I saw one country's map where they copy/pasted parks over all the military institutions. You would see it and then think "Wait a second, if there's a park there why have I never seen or visited it?" and walk away a bit confused.
I recently visited a retirement home, for a community event which was held there. Nobody knew me there, and I didn't talk to or identify myself to anyone, I just listened. Shortly afterwards, I started seeing ads for the retirement home in my Android phone browser. I can only conclude that Google is sharing my GPS location with advertisers...
You are talking about countries where anti-nuclear hysteria is rampant and affects every stage of design, construction, and operation. In South Korea, where the hysteria level is much lower, nuclear costs are several times lower.
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For me, Whatsapp replaces phone calls, SMSes, and video calls. If I have either wifi or sufficient cellular data, it is completely free (unlike phone calls or SMSes for many people). It lets me see my messages on the computer (unlike SMSes). It easily exports the conversations/messages from the app to your computer (unlike Facebook). It doesn't seem to steal your data or advertise to you (unlike Facebook). And best of all, it is based on phone numbers and nearly everyone has it (unlike ICQ). It is pretty much the best of all worlds - for now at least.
Whatsapp still has no ads (as far as I can tell), and its messages are encrypted (so no data mining). So it appears Facebook isn't making money off of it. So in what sense is the $19 billion investment "paying off"?
There are often appearing slim, people who have a lot of health problems because while the fat isn't showing outwardly with a big belly, it is collecting underneath the rib cage squeezing your their internal organs.
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It's been 11 years already - how long do we need to wait to see if they are "too clever"? For how many years should any economic difficulties be ascribed to this as opposed to any other cause?
The market would choose nuclear if carbon emitters had to pay the environmental cost of their carbon production. But they don't. So fossil fuel power plants can get away with offloading this externality onto other people, decreasing the effective cost of the plants. "Privatized profits, socialized costs" as they say.
It's a risky gambit, because public transit can't be made superior overnight
Public transit can be made significantly better immediately, by making buses frequent rather than infrequent. Once that is done, it can be made significantly better once again by painting bus-only lanes on the street - which makes buses faster and cars possibly slower, leading to more bus ridership, a virtuous cycle. It works great if you can get the political willpower to take away a car lane.
Really good subways and trains are the result of either legacy dumb luck from 100 years ago or once-in-a-millennium rebuilding due to war or other catastrophe.
All it takes is a steady building program over a couple decades. NYC's subway was almost entirely build between 1900 and 1930, almost none has been built since then. Shanghai's subway, which carries nearly twice as many people as NYC's, was build between 1997 and 2018 (it is still rapidly expanding). Madrid has the second largest subway in Europe, about half of it was built between 1998-2007. None of these cities had rebuilding due to catastrophes. They just had the political willpower to invest in this. (Arguably, they also had political systems that were less dysfunctional than the US is in 2018.)
That is clever, but harder for non-English speakers.
You won't, but a lot of people will. Just like they nowadays share taxis and Ubers.
Bentleys are and always will be a very small part of the traffic volume (because few people can afford them), thus not much of an influence on overall trends.
Perhaps, in this situation, geographical coordinates would be best? Like, if your latitude/longitude is 13.7315/100.5423, you report your location as "7315-5423". Easy to determine (GPS), easy enough to remember, and unambiguously identifies your location to within 10 meters, which is enough for almost all purposes.
Not everyone goes to work at *exactly* the same time. If the average autonomous car drives just two people to work each day, one at 7am and one at 8am, then you've eliminated half the cars that a city needs for commuting. Naturally, autonomous cars outside the peak hour (like an hour before or after the peak) would be much cheaper (since the marginal cost of another ride is low) which would provide a strong incentive for workers to spread out their commuting times a bit.
Most European cities have a street or a whole district which is already like this. Severely limited to cars, but delivery trucks can visit when needed (generally very early in the morning). These are usually the most popular and touristy streets in the cities, with lots of restaurants and shopping and bars on the ground floor, and apartments in the 3-6 stories above the shops. Not many delivery trucks are needed for a store, and if they drive carefully at 5mph down the street they are not much of a danger when they do arrive.
Are you saying that if Japan hadn't surrendered right away, we wouldn't have been able to nuke them any more times?
Those statistics come from the World Bank, which is not exactly known for being communist.
Actually, most of the money from globalization went to poor Chinese people. China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 2012, that's over a billion people who have escaped extreme poverty due to globalization.
You forgot "Won - the Cold War". Of which Korea and Vietnam were minor parts.
Add "Won - the first Iraq War" and the US is undefeated in wars since WW2, but has a poor record at "nation building".
You need a typewriter to write a paper/book. Of course nowadays, behind that "typewriter" is a computer.
You need an easel in order to make artwork. Of course, now that "easel" is made of LCD pixels controlled by a computer.
Are you really contradicting the article?
In Soviet Russia...
If you live in a suburb, then yes.
If you live in Manhattan, or you are running a power-intensive factory, then the amount of solar and wind that can be generated locally do not come close to the demand.
I saw one country's map where they copy/pasted parks over all the military institutions. You would see it and then think "Wait a second, if there's a park there why have I never seen or visited it?" and walk away a bit confused.
I recently visited a retirement home, for a community event which was held there. Nobody knew me there, and I didn't talk to or identify myself to anyone, I just listened. Shortly afterwards, I started seeing ads for the retirement home in my Android phone browser. I can only conclude that Google is sharing my GPS location with advertisers...
Posting to remove accidental down-moderation on you. Sorry!
Yes, but.
It also allows the employer to prevent publicity of anything unflattering that goes on in the facility.
I've never heard of any of these apps. Do they do anything that currently existing apps don't? Or is this a slashvertisement?
You are talking about countries where anti-nuclear hysteria is rampant and affects every stage of design, construction, and operation. In South Korea, where the hysteria level is much lower, nuclear costs are several times lower.
I do think we should try to move the Overton window by advocating "building more Fukushimas".