I think you, too, are oversimplifying it. There's also the fact that less power being used on the grid means that supply increases, which should in theory lower price. Granted, there are also going to be some fixed costs, but I believe the bulk of those costs are already on the sources that are more grid dependent.
One of the last-mile "fixed" costs is the 'pole'. In many areas, the utility poles carry electricity, telephone, cable and internet. Telephone and cable are already fading into oblivion as people cut that cord. If people start defecting from the electric grid en-mass, that will take away all the other utility support for that pole and the price of your internet will probably just go up to make up the difference (just ask those google fiber folks).
But the recent malware attacks weren't simply malicious trojaned apps changing each other's files. It was spread by compromising / using system services that are meant to be used to access a broad array of files. I don't see how changing the permissions model to block inter-app accesses will fix this...
I was going to mention this, but perhaps at least it will raise the bar somewhat so that instead of fighting all sorts of "apps" that people download you are only fighting unpatched systems and zero-days bugs...
Why does he need a visa to visit the US for a business meeting?
He doesn't. He had previously travelled to the US using the visa waiver program and this time had completed his ESTA.
It sounds like Mozilla and Stenberg messed up.
No, it sounds like some USCIS employee screwed up.
Maybe it's USCIS's fault, but statistically, most common ESTA denials are sadly a result of typos and missing answers to one of the mandatory questions.
I wonder if anyone has managed to make a violin shape by pushing some individual atoms around with an STM yet, because that's the only way there would be one small enough to properly express how little I care for their troubles.
No violins that I'm aware of yet but here's a really small harp for the swan song...
Considering the average developer salaries were around $50k, they can't be that great. Who is even paying junior developers that little? I can't get a competent developer for under six figures even in the Midwest suburbs.
Maybe that's because you aren't a body shop hiring H1bs bringing down the average... (as he ducks)
Without labels and repeated trials, of course lying is a good strategy to get your desired result. The only reason people don't lie is because other people might identify them as liars in the future. Basic game theory...
The shooter didn't vocalize his complaints, so we resort to "left-wing wacko". What if he wasn't?
Well, maybe not vocalize, but here's a picture of one of his complaints.
He was a member of several anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate the Republican Party" and "The Road to Hell is Paved with Republicans."
And here's one of his facebook postings
Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.,
He also volunteered for the Sander's campaign. It seems pretty clear he steers a little toward the left on the political spectrum, but judge for yourself...
Would we have the same reaction if he was an average guy that thought he had no other options?
Maybe, maybe not, but I don't engage in hypotheticals..
And the reason it needs government funding is because then it's an open platform that anyone can use, instead of locked down with patent lawsuits for decades. This way, it gets built by the best of the best from multiple companies and it's openly publishable technology. The free market gave you Comcast and Verizon, it's DARPA that gave us the internet in the first place.
If only. Typically as part of the deal, DARPA contractors (like Intel and Qualcomm) are allowed to patent (and own the patents) used to commercialize the technology. That may or may not mean an open commercial platform, but it certainly doesn't mean they won't get to own patents on key parts of the technology to potentially keep competitors at a disadvantage.
Ignoring the idea that whatever these billionaires did might not work for anyone else, what they did actually worked out for them. The counterfactual is that if they didn't do these things they wouldn't have their success. Hard to say, but because the odds are very long, I suspect that these elements were important *to them* even if it tainted by selection bias. Call it a mini-anthropic principle of sorts... Isn't that what they say about the lottery. You can't win if you don't play.
Of course the environment that we all find ourselves in is different and constantly evolving, but at least we can take away from this free advice is that you don't really need to know shit to become a billionaire, but being lucky isn't sufficient either. You need to work hard and have the stomach to take some calculated risks. All the calculations in the world won't replace luck, but without those other elements, you may be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, but still have no chance. That isn't totally bad advice in the abstract about life in general even though the specifics for a person might be total bullshit for a different person.
There are only two things I can tell you today that come with absolutely no agenda. The first is “Congratulations.” The second is “Good luck.” Everything else is what I like to call, “The Dirty Truth,” which is just another way of saying, “It’s my opinion.”
And in my opinion, you have all been given some terrible advice, and that advice, is this:
Follow your passion.
Every time I watch the Oscars, I cringe when some famous movie star—trophy in hand—starts to deconstruct the secret of their success. It’s always the same thing: “Don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t have what it takes, kid!”; and the ever popular, “Never give up on your dreams!”
Look, I understand the importance of persistence, and the value of encouragement, but who tells a stranger to never give up on their dreams, without even knowing what it is they’re dreaming? How can Lady Gaga possibly know where your passion will lead you?
Have these people never seen American Idol?
Year after year, thousands of aspiring American Idols show up with great expectations, only to learn that they don’t possess the skills they thought they did. What’s really amazing though, is not their lack of talent—the world is full of people who can’t sing. It’s their genuine shock at being rejected—the incredible realization that their passion and their ability had nothing to do with each other.
Look, if we’re talking about your hobby, by all means let your passion lead you. But when it comes to making a living, it’s easy to forget the dirty truth: just because you’re passionate about something doesn’t mean you won’t suck at it.
And just because you’ve earned a degree in your chosen field, doesn’t mean you’re gonna find your “dream job.”
Dream Jobs are usually just that—dreams. But their imaginary existence just might keep you from exploring careers that offer a legitimate chance to perform meaningful work and develop a genuine passion for the job you already have. Because here’s another Dirty Truth: your happiness on the job has very little to do with the work itself.
On Dirty Jobs, I remember a very successful septic tank cleaner, a multi-millionaire, who told me the secret to his success:
“I looked around to see where everyone else was headed,” he said, “And then I went the opposite way. Then I got good at my work. Then I began to prosper. And then one day, I realized I was passionate about other people’s crap.”
I’ve heard that same basic story from welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, HVAC professionals, hundreds of other skilled tradesmen who followed opportunity—not passion— and prospered as a result.
Consider the reality of the current job market.Right now, millions of people with degrees and diplomas are out there competing for a relatively narrow set of opportunities that polite society calls “good careers.” Meanwhile, employers are struggling to fill nearly 5.8 million jobs that nobody’s trained to do. This is the skills gap, it’s real, and its cause is actually very simple: when people follow their passion, they miss out on all kinds of opportunities they didn’t even know existed.
When I was 16, I wanted to follow in my grandfather’s footsteps. He was a skilled tradesman who could build a house without a blueprint. That was my passion, and I followed it for years. I took all the shop classes at school, I did all I could to absorb the knowledge and skill that came so easily to my granddad.
Unless they discovered some time-travelling relic, our history remains unaltered...
Perhaps what was meant was "oldest fossil of homo sapiens found in morocco suggests an update to our current understanding of the history of our species"...
Apparently it is only a *bad* thing in the US to resign as politicians generally hang in by their claws until unseated rather than resign. Prime ministers resign all the time in the rest of the world (generally when their parties perform poorly in an election). Of course this behavior is infectious in the US and resignations have stopped happening even below the presidential level (e.g., Nancy Pelosi went from majority leader to minority leader which also has little precident).
Not that I'm defending Nixon, but maybe it would actually be *better* if more US politicians resigned rather than cling on past their expiry dates... Historically, perhaps the US might have been better off if say Ulysses Grant actually resigned. At least Warren Harding had the decency to die before he would have dug in his heels and resist resignation...
Cryptocurrencies are a solution to government imposed currency controls.
For example: Without Bitcoin chinese citizens would be limited to about $50,000/year in money they can get out of China. Chinese citizens diversifying their holdings will make the eventual crash of the Chinese economy less severe. Sure they are overpaying for west coast USA real estate, but not nearly as much as they would have to overpay for Chinese real estate (the Chinese people, culturally and historically, love to invest in land.)
Another example: Hardworking undocumented pharmacists were having trouble getting their money out of the USA, Bitcoin solves that too.
FWIW, you don't buy "land" in china the same way you buy land in the US (or other countries), in china the govt owns the land.
You can of course buy the condo or house on land, but not the land itself (which is governed by a 20-70 year land-use contract). Presumably that contract will be renewed when the land-use contract has expired (or maybe not) and some property-tax like fee will become due (which is unclear since the laws that allowed for this were only passed in 2007). There are also restrictions in many cities to limit speculation such as a limit on the maximum number of residential units a household could buy (which unintentionally sparked a mini "divorce" boomlet).
For the Chinese investor, buying real-estate in the US is in comparison much more deterministic (albeit somewhat more expensive in terms of recurring property tax payments).
FWIW, there is a strong belief that in black and white, similar data is encoded steganographically.
As an example as to how that can be accomplished, intrinsically, all common laser printers exhibit banding artifacts. A horizontal projection of the printed image followed by some frequency analysis shows characteristic peaks created by the gear-train mechanisms. Careful modulation of the micro-feeds with steganographic encoded data can introduce other embedded frequency peaks that appear as common intrinsic banding artifacts.
Even without embedded stegano data, a forensic fingerprint of the printer's banding can be usually extracted from a BW printed document and compared to the one confiscated with a search warrant. Of course a sparse text page makes the signal harder to extract in BW, but a few well place border lines, or an embedded continuous tone image (which can have additional embedded signals placed into it via the half-toning algorithm on the printer) would make it a dead-giveaway.
Yep, people are always watching Harvard. They really need to watch what their students say, it could really reflect badly on their student population at large if some of them happened to be insufferable pricks. It'd be almost like saying they condoned that kind of behavior...
[Off topic] When I see the name Silicon Valley, I can't help but think the area does anything but manufacture Silicon Hardware. Now its the land of software and venture capitalists and start-ups. More of a vultures den.
Seems like the majority of "silicon" or hardware vendors moved to Texas.
They can rename Silicon valley when they finally clean up all the toxic dumping sites they left behind...
Although essentially, "going-co-op" might be fine-and-dandy for the *users* of Twitter and probably the shareholders have little to lose at this point, it's essentially gonna be a death spiral of a tech company.
Stock is the currency in which startups pay their rockstars. The exodus has already begun. Many folks who might have some inkling of a new good ideas in the company in a death spiral probably leaves for greener pastures. Keeping or recruiting any rockstars will involve throwing lots of stock (sweat-equity) at them in the hopes that it might go up some day, but someone has to pay to keep the lights on in the meantime (that's the investors taking the risk, for those that think money grows on trees).
Slow growth companies make nice family owned businesses (or a co-op), but in the tech field, it's a death sentence to not be able to attract people with the next big idea. It's like a family-owned farm where the kids go off to make their mark in the big city. Maybe a one loyal son (or daughter), might stick it out, but without fresh blood or fresh ideas, the corporate farm down the road will eventually eat their lunch. Remember, twitter w/o innovation is basically SMS/MMS. In a few years, it's gonna be looking even more long in the tooth (remember twitter w/o pictures and video?). With a co-op we are looking at an IRC like structure (I wonder why more people aren't using IRC mobile clients)...
Why are you using per-capita output? The atmosphere doesn't care about per-capita output.
And China and India are INCREASING their emissions and will continue to do so as they develop and each capita demands a higher standard of living. Their options are to increase pollution or kill a bunch of people. (Or, considering their governments and social structures, why not both?)
What else than a per capita output?
Would you give Luxembourg the same CO2 allowance as india?
Kepping less developed countries down by restricting their CO2 output to a fraction of those in the US won't fly this day and age.
How about per-industrial-GDP? India has about 1/2 the CO2 emissions of the US, but only 1/9 the industrial-GDP** and 1/5 the exports...
By simply using per capita measures, you ignore that some countries have more export and more industrial GDP per capita. By simply assigning CO2 emission targets per capita for a country, you are essentially transferring the equilibrium industrial and export-related jobs from one country to another country. Depending on your politics this is either the only fair thing to do, not fair at all, inevitable, or unfortunate.
**the total GDP of the US is about 9x that of India and both India and the US have about 20% of their GDP as industrial GDP, so by extrapolation the industrial-GDP of the US also about 9x that of India...
Wal-Mart could just hire a miniumum-wage delivery driver for each store and have deliveries all day long. If every pizza and Chinese restaurant can do it, so can Wal-Mart.
I suspect the difference would be that your Wal-Mart driver (like the Amazon/OnTrac driver) won't be expecting to make any tips, so you'd have to pay them more than minimum wage. Also, Wal-Mart already has a bunch of minimum wage employees that probably aren't normally scheduled for 40hours/week because they work multiple jobs, making them ideal candidates for this task...
Yes. College age kids are more likely to spend their time doing things like going to college rather than working an entry level no skill job, if given the choice. It's a shocking proposition, I know.
Although many folks like to push "more college" as the solution, we actually have too many people going to college as it is.
Of course college is very important to those that can benefit from the experience, it doesn't change the fact that many people find that after graduating college they aren't actually ahead of the game and missed out of 4-6 years of work experience on their resume and are only employed in positions that don't actually require college degrees.
In the post-scarcity automated job-scarce world, this is just an inefficient use of resources and a giant waste of human capital. You are probably better off with a make-work program for college aged folks that likely won't have jobs that require college degrees at the end of the line than to let them live off of UBI and not develop any work skills that allow them to potentially contribute to society more in the future rather than get stuck in a welfare trap (albeit more gilded than the current one).
it's basically 4 trillion dollars so they would have to double the federal budget to pay for this. Bare minimum, everyone's tax rate doubles. This is based on total outlays vs total income. Remember that FICA is just another source of income for the feds, an effective ~15% tax before any income tax is considered. Then there is all the excise, corporate, etc taxes. It's easy to say they can get the money, but there are not enough rich people to just stick with the bill. It will land on the middle class like every other tax increase does and we will be stuck with a standard of living much closer to those on universal basic income.
Although you are technically correct that FICA is a source of income for the FEDs, it comes with it's own liability (future Social Security payouts) which are actuarially high enough that it has negative net current value. Presumably basic income means that now we can do the politically unpopular maneuver of increasing the retirement age to move it to solvency at net-zero (where it should be)...
Not that I'm actually for UBI (I think it fails for other reasons), but FICA shouldn't be a consideration here...
Of course any "bill" for UBI must fall on the middle class. That's the way everything works in the tax world. Corporations and the rich can move their money around (e.g. internationally) to avoid most types of taxes and the easiest taxes to collect are generally highly regressive (like VAT).
The summary is very wrong. The sun's surface is ~5800K. The corona (above the surface) is ~500,000 K, or 100x hotter than that (or more; the temperature of the corona varies). This means if the probe is designed to burn up at ~1700K, it won't get to 5 km above the surface; in fact, it will burn up more than 2000 km above the surface.
Unless you define "surface" as the top of the corona... in which case maybe, but the temperature number is wrong at that point.
I guess we have to wait until 2369 for Dr. Reyga to develop metaphasic shielding to know for sure...
You unveil your intense ignorance with each sentence. There are no costs mandated by the Paris Climate Agreement.
Actually, the Paris agreement required developed countries to provide *at least* $100B per year by the year 2020...
Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries; Recognizes the importance of adequate and predictable financial resources, including for results-based payments, as appropriate, for the implementation of policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks; as well as alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests; while reaffirming the importance of non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches; encouraging the coordination of support from, inter alia, public and private, bilateral and multilateral sources, such as the Green Climate Fund, and alternative sources in accordance with relevant decisions by the Conference of the Parties;
Lol. Have you been to Beijing ? When you can't see the building across the street?
The smoggiest days I can recall in the US have never even compared.
If people don't know, in Beijing, nearly everyone (who can afford it) buys a HEPA air purifiers for their flats and businesses, and often people walk around wearing N95 or N99 filter masks. It's not just hyperbole, it's really that bad on an ongoing basis. Most of the effect comes from the coal plants to the south and dust storms from Inner Mongolia.
However, even the measures they have taken to reduce the dependence on coal have some minor secondary side effects. The switch to more natural gas heating has increased the humidity near the ground favoring more ground smog. The wind farms in the north slightly reducing the average windspeed of the Siberian winds near Beijing that historically helped clear out the smog. The measures are helping, but the progress is glacial.
Here's a recent news article describing a recent "beyond-index" smog+dust conditions that happen with alarming frequency in Beijing. Yikes...
By Thursday afternoon, the city's air quality index (AQI) jumped from under 100 to 621 – from "moderate" to "beyond index." It went down slightly in the evening, but remained at "beyond index" levels. Beijing government data showed that the average readings of PM2.5 – the smallest and most harmful particles in the air – had risen to 684 micrograms per cubic meter in parts of the city by Thursday afternoon – more than 27 times the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended exposure level over 24 hours.
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I think you, too, are oversimplifying it. There's also the fact that less power being used on the grid means that supply increases, which should in theory lower price. Granted, there are also going to be some fixed costs, but I believe the bulk of those costs are already on the sources that are more grid dependent.
One of the last-mile "fixed" costs is the 'pole'. In many areas, the utility poles carry electricity, telephone, cable and internet. Telephone and cable are already fading into oblivion as people cut that cord. If people start defecting from the electric grid en-mass, that will take away all the other utility support for that pole and the price of your internet will probably just go up to make up the difference (just ask those google fiber folks).
But the recent malware attacks weren't simply malicious trojaned apps changing each other's files. It was spread by compromising / using system services that are meant to be used to access a broad array of files. I don't see how changing the permissions model to block inter-app accesses will fix this...
I was going to mention this, but perhaps at least it will raise the bar somewhat so that instead of fighting all sorts of "apps" that people download you are only fighting unpatched systems and zero-days bugs...
He doesn't. He had previously travelled to the US using the visa waiver program and this time had completed his ESTA.
No, it sounds like some USCIS employee screwed up.
Maybe it's USCIS's fault, but statistically, most common ESTA denials are sadly a result of typos and missing answers to one of the mandatory questions.
I wonder if anyone has managed to make a violin shape by pushing some individual atoms around with an STM yet, because that's the only way there would be one small enough to properly express how little I care for their troubles.
No violins that I'm aware of yet but here's a really small harp for the swan song...
Considering the average developer salaries were around $50k, they can't be that great. Who is even paying junior developers that little? I can't get a competent developer for under six figures even in the Midwest suburbs.
Maybe that's because you aren't a body shop hiring H1bs bringing down the average... (as he ducks)
We have an innate sense of fairness. Lying goes against that.
Or not...
Without labels and repeated trials, of course lying is a good strategy to get your desired result.
The only reason people don't lie is because other people might identify them as liars in the future.
Basic game theory...
Then again, maybe I'm lying right now!
The shooter didn't vocalize his complaints, so we resort to "left-wing wacko". What if he wasn't?
Well, maybe not vocalize, but here's a picture of one of his complaints.
He was a member of several anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate the Republican Party" and "The Road to Hell is Paved with Republicans."
And here's one of his facebook postings
Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.,
He also volunteered for the Sander's campaign. It seems pretty clear he steers a little toward the left on the political spectrum, but judge for yourself...
Would we have the same reaction if he was an average guy that thought he had no other options?
Maybe, maybe not, but I don't engage in hypotheticals..
And the reason it needs government funding is because then it's an open platform that anyone can use, instead of locked down with patent lawsuits for decades. This way, it gets built by the best of the best from multiple companies and it's openly publishable technology. The free market gave you Comcast and Verizon, it's DARPA that gave us the internet in the first place.
If only. Typically as part of the deal, DARPA contractors (like Intel and Qualcomm) are allowed to patent (and own the patents) used to commercialize the technology. That may or may not mean an open commercial platform, but it certainly doesn't mean they won't get to own patents on key parts of the technology to potentially keep competitors at a disadvantage.
Ignoring the idea that whatever these billionaires did might not work for anyone else, what they did actually worked out for them. The counterfactual is that if they didn't do these things they wouldn't have their success. Hard to say, but because the odds are very long, I suspect that these elements were important *to them* even if it tainted by selection bias. Call it a mini-anthropic principle of sorts... Isn't that what they say about the lottery. You can't win if you don't play.
Of course the environment that we all find ourselves in is different and constantly evolving, but at least we can take away from this free advice is that you don't really need to know shit to become a billionaire, but being lucky isn't sufficient either. You need to work hard and have the stomach to take some calculated risks. All the calculations in the world won't replace luck, but without those other elements, you may be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, but still have no chance. That isn't totally bad advice in the abstract about life in general even though the specifics for a person might be total bullshit for a different person.
Never follow your passion, but always bring it with you. -- Mike Rowe
https://www.prageru.com/sites/...
There are only two things I can tell you today that come with absolutely no agenda. The first is “Congratulations.” The second is “Good luck.” Everything else is what I like to call, “The Dirty Truth,” which is just another way of saying, “It’s my opinion.”
And in my opinion, you have all been given some terrible advice, and that advice, is this:
Follow your passion.
Every time I watch the Oscars, I cringe when some famous movie star—trophy in hand—starts to deconstruct the secret of their success. It’s always the same thing: “Don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t have what it takes, kid!”; and the ever popular, “Never give up on your dreams!”
Look, I understand the importance of persistence, and the value of encouragement, but who tells a stranger to never give up on their dreams, without even knowing what it is they’re dreaming? How can Lady Gaga possibly know where your passion will lead you?
Have these people never seen American Idol?
Year after year, thousands of aspiring American Idols show up with great expectations, only to learn that they don’t possess the skills they thought they did. What’s really amazing though, is not their lack of talent—the world is full of people who can’t sing. It’s their genuine shock at being rejected—the incredible realization that their passion and their ability had nothing to
do with each other.
Look, if we’re talking about your hobby, by all means let your passion lead you. But when it comes to making a living, it’s easy to forget the dirty truth: just because you’re passionate about something doesn’t mean you won’t suck at it.
And just because you’ve earned a degree in your chosen field, doesn’t mean you’re gonna find your “dream job.”
Dream Jobs are usually just that—dreams. But their imaginary existence just might keep you from exploring careers that offer a legitimate chance to perform meaningful work and develop a genuine passion for the job you already have. Because here’s another Dirty Truth: your happiness on the job has very little to do with the work itself.
On Dirty Jobs, I remember a very successful septic tank cleaner, a multi-millionaire, who told me the secret to his success:
“I looked around to see where everyone else was headed,” he said, “And then I went the opposite way. Then I got good at my work. Then I began to prosper. And then one day, I realized I was passionate about other people’s crap.”
I’ve heard that same basic story from welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, HVAC professionals, hundreds of other skilled tradesmen who followed opportunity—not passion— and prospered as a result.
Consider the reality of the current job market.Right now, millions of people with degrees and diplomas are out there competing for a relatively narrow set of opportunities that polite society calls “good careers.” Meanwhile, employers are struggling to fill nearly 5.8 million jobs that nobody’s trained to do. This is the skills gap, it’s real, and its cause is actually very simple: when people follow their passion, they miss out on all kinds of opportunities they didn’t even know existed.
When I was 16, I wanted to follow in my grandfather’s footsteps. He was a skilled tradesman who could build a house without a blueprint. That was my passion, and I followed it for years. I took all the shop classes at school, I did all I could to absorb the knowledge and skill that came so easily to my granddad.
Unfortunately, the ha
Unless they discovered some time-travelling relic, our history remains unaltered...
Perhaps what was meant was "oldest fossil of homo sapiens found in morocco suggests an update to our current understanding of the history of our species"...
Science is of course never settled...
Nixon was the only president to ever resign.
Apparently it is only a *bad* thing in the US to resign as politicians generally hang in by their claws until unseated rather than resign. Prime ministers resign all the time in the rest of the world (generally when their parties perform poorly in an election). Of course this behavior is infectious in the US and resignations have stopped happening even below the presidential level (e.g., Nancy Pelosi went from majority leader to minority leader which also has little precident).
Not that I'm defending Nixon, but maybe it would actually be *better* if more US politicians resigned rather than cling on past their expiry dates... Historically, perhaps the US might have been better off if say Ulysses Grant actually resigned. At least Warren Harding had the decency to die before he would have dug in his heels and resist resignation...
Cryptocurrencies are a solution to government imposed currency controls.
For example: Without Bitcoin chinese citizens would be limited to about $50,000/year in money they can get out of China. Chinese citizens diversifying their holdings will make the eventual crash of the Chinese economy less severe. Sure they are overpaying for west coast USA real estate, but not nearly as much as they would have to overpay for Chinese real estate (the Chinese people, culturally and historically, love to invest in land.)
Another example: Hardworking undocumented pharmacists were having trouble getting their money out of the USA, Bitcoin solves that too.
FWIW, you don't buy "land" in china the same way you buy land in the US (or other countries), in china the govt owns the land.
You can of course buy the condo or house on land, but not the land itself (which is governed by a 20-70 year land-use contract). Presumably that contract will be renewed when the land-use contract has expired (or maybe not) and some property-tax like fee will become due (which is unclear since the laws that allowed for this were only passed in 2007). There are also restrictions in many cities to limit speculation such as a limit on the maximum number of residential units a household could buy (which unintentionally sparked a mini "divorce" boomlet).
For the Chinese investor, buying real-estate in the US is in comparison much more deterministic (albeit somewhat more expensive in terms of recurring property tax payments).
List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
FWIW, there is a strong belief that in black and white, similar data is encoded steganographically.
As an example as to how that can be accomplished, intrinsically, all common laser printers exhibit banding artifacts. A horizontal projection of the printed image followed by some frequency analysis shows characteristic peaks created by the gear-train mechanisms. Careful modulation of the micro-feeds with steganographic encoded data can introduce other embedded frequency peaks that appear as common intrinsic banding artifacts.
Even without embedded stegano data, a forensic fingerprint of the printer's banding can be usually extracted from a BW printed document and compared to the one confiscated with a search warrant. Of course a sparse text page makes the signal harder to extract in BW, but a few well place border lines, or an embedded continuous tone image (which can have additional embedded signals placed into it via the half-toning algorithm on the printer) would make it a dead-giveaway.
Yep, people are always watching Harvard. They really need to watch what their students say, it could really reflect badly on their student population at large if some of them happened to be insufferable pricks. It'd be almost like saying they condoned that kind of behavior...
Of course, they could just give a seminar about it and call it a day...
[Off topic] When I see the name Silicon Valley, I can't help but think the area does anything but manufacture Silicon Hardware. Now its the land of software and venture capitalists and start-ups. More of a vultures den.
Seems like the majority of "silicon" or hardware vendors moved to Texas.
They can rename Silicon valley when they finally clean up all the toxic dumping sites they left behind...
Although essentially, "going-co-op" might be fine-and-dandy for the *users* of Twitter and probably the shareholders have little to lose at this point, it's essentially gonna be a death spiral of a tech company.
Stock is the currency in which startups pay their rockstars. The exodus has already begun. Many folks who might have some inkling of a new good ideas in the company in a death spiral probably leaves for greener pastures. Keeping or recruiting any rockstars will involve throwing lots of stock (sweat-equity) at them in the hopes that it might go up some day, but someone has to pay to keep the lights on in the meantime (that's the investors taking the risk, for those that think money grows on trees).
Slow growth companies make nice family owned businesses (or a co-op), but in the tech field, it's a death sentence to not be able to attract people with the next big idea. It's like a family-owned farm where the kids go off to make their mark in the big city. Maybe a one loyal son (or daughter), might stick it out, but without fresh blood or fresh ideas, the corporate farm down the road will eventually eat their lunch. Remember, twitter w/o innovation is basically SMS/MMS. In a few years, it's gonna be looking even more long in the tooth (remember twitter w/o pictures and video?). With a co-op we are looking at an IRC like structure (I wonder why more people aren't using IRC mobile clients)...
Why are you using per-capita output? The atmosphere doesn't care about per-capita output.
And China and India are INCREASING their emissions and will continue to do so as they develop and each capita demands a higher standard of living. Their options are to increase pollution or kill a bunch of people. (Or, considering their governments and social structures, why not both?)
What else than a per capita output?
Would you give Luxembourg the same CO2 allowance as india?
Kepping less developed countries down by restricting their CO2 output to a fraction of those in the US won't fly this day and age.
How about per-industrial-GDP? India has about 1/2 the CO2 emissions of the US, but only 1/9 the industrial-GDP** and 1/5 the exports...
By simply using per capita measures, you ignore that some countries have more export and more industrial GDP per capita. By simply assigning CO2 emission targets per capita for a country, you are essentially transferring the equilibrium industrial and export-related jobs from one country to another country. Depending on your politics this is either the only fair thing to do, not fair at all, inevitable, or unfortunate.
**the total GDP of the US is about 9x that of India and both India and the US have about 20% of their GDP as industrial GDP, so by extrapolation the industrial-GDP of the US also about 9x that of India...
Wal-Mart could just hire a miniumum-wage delivery driver for each store and have deliveries all day long. If every pizza and Chinese restaurant can do it, so can Wal-Mart.
I suspect the difference would be that your Wal-Mart driver (like the Amazon/OnTrac driver) won't be expecting to make any tips, so you'd have to pay them more than minimum wage. Also, Wal-Mart already has a bunch of minimum wage employees that probably aren't normally scheduled for 40hours/week because they work multiple jobs, making them ideal candidates for this task...
Yes. College age kids are more likely to spend their time doing things like going to college rather than working an entry level no skill job, if given the choice. It's a shocking proposition, I know.
Although many folks like to push "more college" as the solution, we actually have too many people going to college as it is.
Of course college is very important to those that can benefit from the experience, it doesn't change the fact that many people find that after graduating college they aren't actually ahead of the game and missed out of 4-6 years of work experience on their resume and are only employed in positions that don't actually require college degrees.
In the post-scarcity automated job-scarce world, this is just an inefficient use of resources and a giant waste of human capital. You are probably better off with a make-work program for college aged folks that likely won't have jobs that require college degrees at the end of the line than to let them live off of UBI and not develop any work skills that allow them to potentially contribute to society more in the future rather than get stuck in a welfare trap (albeit more gilded than the current one).
it's basically 4 trillion dollars so they would have to double the federal budget to pay for this. Bare minimum, everyone's tax rate doubles. This is based on total outlays vs total income. Remember that FICA is just another source of income for the feds, an effective ~15% tax before any income tax is considered. Then there is all the excise, corporate, etc taxes. It's easy to say they can get the money, but there are not enough rich people to just stick with the bill. It will land on the middle class like every other tax increase does and we will be stuck with a standard of living much closer to those on universal basic income.
Although you are technically correct that FICA is a source of income for the FEDs, it comes with it's own liability (future Social Security payouts) which are actuarially high enough that it has negative net current value. Presumably basic income means that now we can do the politically unpopular maneuver of increasing the retirement age to move it to solvency at net-zero (where it should be)...
Not that I'm actually for UBI (I think it fails for other reasons), but FICA shouldn't be a consideration here...
Of course any "bill" for UBI must fall on the middle class. That's the way everything works in the tax world. Corporations and the rich can move their money around (e.g. internationally) to avoid most types of taxes and the easiest taxes to collect are generally highly regressive (like VAT).
The summary is very wrong. The sun's surface is ~5800K. The corona (above the surface) is ~500,000 K, or 100x hotter than that (or more; the temperature of the corona varies). This means if the probe is designed to burn up at ~1700K, it won't get to 5 km above the surface; in fact, it will burn up more than 2000 km above the surface.
Unless you define "surface" as the top of the corona... in which case maybe, but the temperature number is wrong at that point.
I guess we have to wait until 2369 for Dr. Reyga to develop metaphasic shielding to know for sure...
You unveil your intense ignorance with each sentence. There are no costs mandated by the Paris Climate Agreement.
Actually, the Paris agreement required developed countries to provide *at least* $100B per year by the year 2020...
Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year , taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries; Recognizes the importance of adequate and predictable financial resources, including for results-based payments, as appropriate, for the implementation of policy
approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks; as well as alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of
forests; while reaffirming the importance of non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches; encouraging the coordination of support from, inter alia, public and private, bilateral and multilateral sources, such as the Green Climate Fund, and alternative sources in accordance with relevant decisions by the Conference of the Parties;
Have you read the agreement?
Lol. Have you been to Beijing ? When you can't see the building across the street?
The smoggiest days I can recall in the US have never even compared.
If people don't know, in Beijing, nearly everyone (who can afford it) buys a HEPA air purifiers for their flats and businesses, and often people walk around wearing N95 or N99 filter masks. It's not just hyperbole, it's really that bad on an ongoing basis. Most of the effect comes from the coal plants to the south and dust storms from Inner Mongolia.
However, even the measures they have taken to reduce the dependence on coal have some minor secondary side effects. The switch to more natural gas heating has increased the humidity near the ground favoring more ground smog. The wind farms in the north slightly reducing the average windspeed of the Siberian winds near Beijing that historically helped clear out the smog. The measures are helping, but the progress is glacial.
Here's a recent news article describing a recent "beyond-index" smog+dust conditions that happen with alarming frequency in Beijing. Yikes...
By Thursday afternoon, the city's air quality index (AQI) jumped from under 100 to 621 – from "moderate" to "beyond index." It went down slightly in the evening, but remained at "beyond index" levels. Beijing government data showed that the average readings of PM2.5 – the smallest and most harmful particles in the air – had risen to 684 micrograms per cubic meter in parts of the city by Thursday afternoon – more than 27 times the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended exposure level over 24 hours.