Agreed. How do I put this succinctly? America has gone too far down the road of "instant gratification" and a LOT of people don't understand that shit doesn't happen instantly. Like the entire US economy. Sure, the stock markets "react" to policy changes, but the "economy" is a machine and it takes a long time to feel the effects of changes to the policies that drive it.
So the dumbasses that seem to make up the majority of the population, fed on decades of TV ads promising them that their life will be fantastic instantly if they only bought {whatever} think that a president can alter the economy instantly and that if something good or bad happens then the person in charge must be 100% responsible for it.
Worse? These fuckwits are now often seen in senior positions in US corporations and believe that knee-jerk reactions trump long-term strategy. This does not bode well for US competitiveness long-term.
As a colleague of mine has put it multiple times: The Chinese are playing chess. Trump is playing Donkey Kong. Thing is it is not just Trump. He is just symptomatic of the larger problem of a country that has lost its way.
I think we need a standard form for replying to people who drag out the same old arguments about EVs. Sort of like that form we had for "I just invented a new method to stop SPAM" which starts with "Your idea won't work because:"
I'll start:
Your argument against EVs is invalid for one of the following reasons: - You have conveniently forgotten the slow advancement of petrol-based vehicles over the past 100 years. Electric vehicles are advancing far faster than petroleum-based vehicles ever have in terms of power and range. - You can't make gasoline in your garage overnight (at least not easily). Perhaps biodiesel if you're skilled. So refueling at home is limited to electric cars and in most cases you would never need to visit a refueling station. - You are forgetting that every gas station has electricity. While they are not widespread now, charging stations will become ubiquitous as soon as the demand is there. - You do not understand that even when electricity is produced with coal that an EV produces fewer emissions than the most efficient petrol vehicle. This is due to economies of scale and the greater than 5x efficiency of electric propulsion. (can site study) - You think that the primary ingredient in current battery technology can only be produced by monks in remote regions of rural China, while actually Lithium is produced from seawater. - You have no appreciation for supply and demand economics and are unaware of how markets adapt to the changing requirements of consumers.
I'm sure people can add some more. Once we have a comprehensive list we can save the thoughtful denizens of the Internet lots of cycles.
So, you understand that they throttle up and down the processor all the time for a number of other technical reasons, right? If they ran the CPU cores at full speed all the time your battery would last an hour. Battery management is a HUGE part of the mobile balancing act.
He probably doesn't use them because corporate tax law is completely different than personal tax law. I think you're struggling with the difference between "unethical" and "illegal". Note that I am not defending the loopholes (I think they should all be closed, but I suspect that is part of what the new tax bill is supposed to do).
Think of it this way: If you were running a corp with a market cap of $900B and your tax lawyers and accountants were not taking advantage of every loophole they possibly could to reduce your company's tax burden you would fire them or you wouldn't be the CEO of a $900B company. Sorry Mr. Fabriciom, we thought you would rather see that $500M go to the US governments list of stupid programs rather than off-shore R&D to keep us competitive. We'll do better next time...
The root of the problem is election funding and lobbying. If you want to change the system you need to change the funding model and turn lobbying into nothing more than boardroom presentations. IMHO.
And since skin color accounts for 0.0003% of our genome, discrimination on that basis seems positively ridiculous. Discrimination in all its forms seems like it is the last bastion of a group of people who won't take responsibility for themselves. Blame someone else, it's easier.
According to this you are 16th in the world. You need to take into account total power generation (and the US has much more generation than many countries in the world).
I'm not sure why we don't airdrop one million InReach sat communicators on the country and wait for the revolution to start. It seems like it would be way cheaper than aircraft carriers and wargames.
Look like the Tesla Roadster payload is almost ready for launch as well. Musk has said he is just hoping this thing gets high enough not to do pad damage when it explodes, but I'm hoping he is able to give his Roadster a Mars flyby.
This explains why my fucking cat wakes me up in the middle of the night EVERY NIGHT. It's part of his evil plan to take control of my household and control the distribution of kibble.
The last laugh's on me asshole, YOU STILL DON'T HAVE THUMBS!
Right. But isn't this was robots.txt is for? Perhaps we need to update the RFC to indicate that the page(s) are okay for search results, but not okay for aggregators? Seems like a simple fix that doesn't involve lawyers.
I agree completely with your stand on Brexit, although I am not in the EU and so am an outside observer. My overall feeling of what was happening in the EU was that it was (is) a bureaucratic nightmare where everything had to be brought down to the "weakest link" in the union. The problem with humans and any of their constructs are that people will always do as little as possible, or get away with as much as they can (to paraphrase Plato). So if the EU makes it possible for one of their members or the constituents of those member states to "coast along" then they will do it.
The UK will be fine. We invented trade agreements for these purposes.
My company actually hires older people with a background in IT, because we do a lot of "management consulting". People who have been around a long time have seen the good and bad of business decisions. I don't know if the personalities you are dealing with would do well in those types of roles, but think about their potential in doing:
- business process documentation and optimization - corporate standards development - new product/service development - agile project management for small initiatives - etc
I'll bet your two guys could make a big difference to the overall health of the company by looking at your processes (they've been there long enough to know everything that is wrong with them). Make them project-oriented and give them more strategic longer-term corporate optimization tasks.
Saddam agreed to complete disarmament and full inspections prior to the invasion, but not until the US and UK were on his doorstep. He even offered exile for himself. However the "coalition of the willing" ignored him and invaded anyway. That turned out well. And the DPRK was watching. They know that they can't trust the USA to let them exist unless they are in a position to make them pay dearly for invading. Kim doesn't want to end up like Saddam or Ghadaffi.
I'm no historian, but your point about the UK's negotiations with Hitler I don't find to be particularly relevant. Yes, Hitler was biding his time while building his war machine with expansionist plans and no real interest in diplomacy. The DPRK's leadership just wants to exist. They are no real threat (or haven't been until the US pushed them into it).
Other countries without much of an effective military seem to manage okay from a diplomatic standpoint. I don't subscribe to the need to be on the brink of annihilation before effective diplomacy can be had, but I do appreciate your point. Besides, the new operating theatres are global money markets (UK was king, then USA, now China is winning) and information warfare (US was king and now Russia is winning). Military might is so 1980s...
Pretty much everyone agrees that the DPRK just wants to exist. If Russia and France conducted joint training exercises off the UK coast on a regular basis, simulating an attack on your country, what would your reaction be? They're now nuclear-armed because the US has driven them to that point. Now you want to weaponize space to ensure they can't fight back. I wonder how that will work out?
It's ridiculous. Just leave them alone and wait for their population to oust the leaders of a failed system. It's cheaper and safer for the planet.
Earlier this week the DPRK offered diplomacy and the UN sent an envoy. The US's response so far has been "Not until you give up your nukes". Wut? You don't start a diplomatic exercise by making demands before you will agree to talks. There is no risk to talking unless you don't want a resolution.
As usual failed US foreign policy has left us all in this position. The US should probably outsource foreign relations to Canada or something because they clearly suck at it.
I'm very concerned that if we weaponize space and there IS a war the trash we would end up with circling the Earth would trap us here until we achieved our well-deserved extinction. Maybe we should try diplomacy instead.
Many years ago I started a small software "engineering" shop with about a half dozen "engineers" (we used to call them that a lot more back then). Naturally, I thought it was a good idea to have "engineering" in the name of the company.
This was fine for quite a while as we never advertised and we certainly would never have even dreamed of passing ourselves off as some kind of structural or electrical engineering company. Then one day I added another phone line to the office and the local telephone company (without my knowledge) put a "free" yellow pages "ad" in their listing for the company...
The Association of Professional Engineers called me... They were good about it, but quite firm that I was absolutely not to do business under that name anymore unless I wanted to be sued out of existence. I changed the name at my inconvenience and expense. For good measure, I also changed my phone numbers.
I honestly had no idea that there was a group of people (with a lot of lawyers) who had a claim over a word in the English language. I still think it's wrong.
$12.3 billion in salary alone if the average is $50k full-loaded. I suspect the number is probably closer to $80k and the total would be $19.7 billion. I can't imagine what the total budget would have to be to protect the US's borders, but it is obviously an outrageous amount.
What happens when a Canadian citizen, using a Canadian ISP streams a video from a service that is shaped by a US network because the infrastructure is in a data center connected to a US telco? Or if the network connection goes through a network that has not been paid off by the service? I'm assuming that if you don't pay (some indie service doesn't pay AT&T or Verizon or whatever) then that service gets throttled no matter the endpoint.
This overall move will probably tend to benefit Canada as more startups will probably locate in Canada (where the corporate tax rate is already at ~12.5%) and where there is at least a hope in hell of delivering their content to users without shaping.
I'm not sure how this will play out exactly, but it won't be good for US innovation.
Protectionism is the last bastion of a society that is losing the game of globalization. When we were on top we derided those who acted the way that we do now.
I'm not Noah Draper, and if you had any balls at all you wouldn't be posted as AC. Calling out another AC poster perfectly demonstrates the typical hypocritical bullshit that passes for discussion here now. Did 4chan close or something?
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Agreed. How do I put this succinctly? America has gone too far down the road of "instant gratification" and a LOT of people don't understand that shit doesn't happen instantly. Like the entire US economy. Sure, the stock markets "react" to policy changes, but the "economy" is a machine and it takes a long time to feel the effects of changes to the policies that drive it.
So the dumbasses that seem to make up the majority of the population, fed on decades of TV ads promising them that their life will be fantastic instantly if they only bought {whatever} think that a president can alter the economy instantly and that if something good or bad happens then the person in charge must be 100% responsible for it.
Worse? These fuckwits are now often seen in senior positions in US corporations and believe that knee-jerk reactions trump long-term strategy. This does not bode well for US competitiveness long-term.
As a colleague of mine has put it multiple times: The Chinese are playing chess. Trump is playing Donkey Kong. Thing is it is not just Trump. He is just symptomatic of the larger problem of a country that has lost its way.
I think we need a standard form for replying to people who drag out the same old arguments about EVs. Sort of like that form we had for "I just invented a new method to stop SPAM" which starts with "Your idea won't work because:"
I'll start:
Your argument against EVs is invalid for one of the following reasons:
- You have conveniently forgotten the slow advancement of petrol-based vehicles over the past 100 years. Electric vehicles are advancing far faster than petroleum-based vehicles ever have in terms of power and range.
- You can't make gasoline in your garage overnight (at least not easily). Perhaps biodiesel if you're skilled. So refueling at home is limited to electric cars and in most cases you would never need to visit a refueling station.
- You are forgetting that every gas station has electricity. While they are not widespread now, charging stations will become ubiquitous as soon as the demand is there.
- You do not understand that even when electricity is produced with coal that an EV produces fewer emissions than the most efficient petrol vehicle. This is due to economies of scale and the greater than 5x efficiency of electric propulsion. (can site study)
- You think that the primary ingredient in current battery technology can only be produced by monks in remote regions of rural China, while actually Lithium is produced from seawater.
- You have no appreciation for supply and demand economics and are unaware of how markets adapt to the changing requirements of consumers.
I'm sure people can add some more. Once we have a comprehensive list we can save the thoughtful denizens of the Internet lots of cycles.
Username checks out. ;)
#5 Or press the mute button on the top of it.
So, you understand that they throttle up and down the processor all the time for a number of other technical reasons, right? If they ran the CPU cores at full speed all the time your battery would last an hour. Battery management is a HUGE part of the mobile balancing act.
He probably doesn't use them because corporate tax law is completely different than personal tax law. I think you're struggling with the difference between "unethical" and "illegal". Note that I am not defending the loopholes (I think they should all be closed, but I suspect that is part of what the new tax bill is supposed to do).
Think of it this way: If you were running a corp with a market cap of $900B and your tax lawyers and accountants were not taking advantage of every loophole they possibly could to reduce your company's tax burden you would fire them or you wouldn't be the CEO of a $900B company. Sorry Mr. Fabriciom, we thought you would rather see that $500M go to the US governments list of stupid programs rather than off-shore R&D to keep us competitive. We'll do better next time...
The root of the problem is election funding and lobbying. If you want to change the system you need to change the funding model and turn lobbying into nothing more than boardroom presentations. IMHO.
I think it would have more applications to passive solar (heating) panels. The more light you absorb the more heat you capture.
And since skin color accounts for 0.0003% of our genome, discrimination on that basis seems positively ridiculous. Discrimination in all its forms seems like it is the last bastion of a group of people who won't take responsibility for themselves. Blame someone else, it's easier.
No, what you need is a lesson in how math works.
According to this you are 16th in the world. You need to take into account total power generation (and the US has much more generation than many countries in the world).
I'm not sure why we don't airdrop one million InReach sat communicators on the country and wait for the revolution to start. It seems like it would be way cheaper than aircraft carriers and wargames.
Right. Did they also classify excessive television watching as a disorder? Because THAT hasn't done great things for people's health over the years...
One thing that seems to be missing from all of these is a programmatic understanding of how much air is in the lungs.
"Alexa, what is 69! (factorial)"
Listen in amazment as she rhymes off the number but then enter the uncanney valley about the time she should be taking a breath...
Look like the Tesla Roadster payload is almost ready for launch as well. Musk has said he is just hoping this thing gets high enough not to do pad damage when it explodes, but I'm hoping he is able to give his Roadster a Mars flyby.
This explains why my fucking cat wakes me up in the middle of the night EVERY NIGHT. It's part of his evil plan to take control of my household and control the distribution of kibble.
The last laugh's on me asshole, YOU STILL DON'T HAVE THUMBS!
In the beginning, Eve had her Apple, and Adam had his Wang.
(remember that this was a lame joke contest...)
Right. But isn't this was robots.txt is for? Perhaps we need to update the RFC to indicate that the page(s) are okay for search results, but not okay for aggregators? Seems like a simple fix that doesn't involve lawyers.
I enjoy your posts.
As long as you don't weaponize space...
I agree completely with your stand on Brexit, although I am not in the EU and so am an outside observer. My overall feeling of what was happening in the EU was that it was (is) a bureaucratic nightmare where everything had to be brought down to the "weakest link" in the union. The problem with humans and any of their constructs are that people will always do as little as possible, or get away with as much as they can (to paraphrase Plato). So if the EU makes it possible for one of their members or the constituents of those member states to "coast along" then they will do it.
The UK will be fine. We invented trade agreements for these purposes.
My company actually hires older people with a background in IT, because we do a lot of "management consulting". People who have been around a long time have seen the good and bad of business decisions. I don't know if the personalities you are dealing with would do well in those types of roles, but think about their potential in doing:
- business process documentation and optimization
- corporate standards development
- new product/service development
- agile project management for small initiatives
- etc
I'll bet your two guys could make a big difference to the overall health of the company by looking at your processes (they've been there long enough to know everything that is wrong with them). Make them project-oriented and give them more strategic longer-term corporate optimization tasks.
Hope this helps.
So many good points to comment on.
Saddam agreed to complete disarmament and full inspections prior to the invasion, but not until the US and UK were on his doorstep. He even offered exile for himself. However the "coalition of the willing" ignored him and invaded anyway. That turned out well. And the DPRK was watching. They know that they can't trust the USA to let them exist unless they are in a position to make them pay dearly for invading. Kim doesn't want to end up like Saddam or Ghadaffi.
I'm no historian, but your point about the UK's negotiations with Hitler I don't find to be particularly relevant. Yes, Hitler was biding his time while building his war machine with expansionist plans and no real interest in diplomacy. The DPRK's leadership just wants to exist. They are no real threat (or haven't been until the US pushed them into it).
Other countries without much of an effective military seem to manage okay from a diplomatic standpoint. I don't subscribe to the need to be on the brink of annihilation before effective diplomacy can be had, but I do appreciate your point. Besides, the new operating theatres are global money markets (UK was king, then USA, now China is winning) and information warfare (US was king and now Russia is winning). Military might is so 1980s...
Pretty much everyone agrees that the DPRK just wants to exist. If Russia and France conducted joint training exercises off the UK coast on a regular basis, simulating an attack on your country, what would your reaction be? They're now nuclear-armed because the US has driven them to that point. Now you want to weaponize space to ensure they can't fight back. I wonder how that will work out?
It's ridiculous. Just leave them alone and wait for their population to oust the leaders of a failed system. It's cheaper and safer for the planet.
Earlier this week the DPRK offered diplomacy and the UN sent an envoy. The US's response so far has been "Not until you give up your nukes". Wut? You don't start a diplomatic exercise by making demands before you will agree to talks. There is no risk to talking unless you don't want a resolution.
As usual failed US foreign policy has left us all in this position. The US should probably outsource foreign relations to Canada or something because they clearly suck at it.
I'm very concerned that if we weaponize space and there IS a war the trash we would end up with circling the Earth would trap us here until we achieved our well-deserved extinction. Maybe we should try diplomacy instead.
Many years ago I started a small software "engineering" shop with about a half dozen "engineers" (we used to call them that a lot more back then). Naturally, I thought it was a good idea to have "engineering" in the name of the company.
This was fine for quite a while as we never advertised and we certainly would never have even dreamed of passing ourselves off as some kind of structural or electrical engineering company. Then one day I added another phone line to the office and the local telephone company (without my knowledge) put a "free" yellow pages "ad" in their listing for the company...
The Association of Professional Engineers called me... They were good about it, but quite firm that I was absolutely not to do business under that name anymore unless I wanted to be sued out of existence. I changed the name at my inconvenience and expense. For good measure, I also changed my phone numbers.
I honestly had no idea that there was a group of people (with a lot of lawyers) who had a claim over a word in the English language. I still think it's wrong.
$12.3 billion in salary alone if the average is $50k full-loaded. I suspect the number is probably closer to $80k and the total would be $19.7 billion. I can't imagine what the total budget would have to be to protect the US's borders, but it is obviously an outrageous amount.
What happens when a Canadian citizen, using a Canadian ISP streams a video from a service that is shaped by a US network because the infrastructure is in a data center connected to a US telco? Or if the network connection goes through a network that has not been paid off by the service? I'm assuming that if you don't pay (some indie service doesn't pay AT&T or Verizon or whatever) then that service gets throttled no matter the endpoint.
This overall move will probably tend to benefit Canada as more startups will probably locate in Canada (where the corporate tax rate is already at ~12.5%) and where there is at least a hope in hell of delivering their content to users without shaping.
I'm not sure how this will play out exactly, but it won't be good for US innovation.
Protectionism is the last bastion of a society that is losing the game of globalization. When we were on top we derided those who acted the way that we do now.
I'm not Noah Draper, and if you had any balls at all you wouldn't be posted as AC. Calling out another AC poster perfectly demonstrates the typical hypocritical bullshit that passes for discussion here now. Did 4chan close or something?