The notion of 'Leaving money on the table' is the shiny side of the same coin as 'race to the bottom'.
Basically extracting as much from any given situation as possible; which just results in even greater concentrations of wealth; at the expense of people, suppliers, and society at large.
In this case though, it's especially repugnant because those 'gibs' amazon was trying to cajole local governments into granting would have to be paid for by the citizens, who get absolutely no say in the matter.
And for what? a few extra jobs (potentially!) that the bureaucrats can use for re-election fodder? Would the net tax base actually expand after all the concessions? Would Amazon's tricky bastard accountants figure out how to dodge them?
in other news, the sun rose this morning -- probably due to climate change as well.
Forest fires are a thing, and they'll always be a thing. Not maintaining firebreaks around property, as well as letting underbrush accumulate due to fire suppression is more likely the real cause here. (Basically it's better to have a great many small fires, than a handful of very large ones)
And ffs save the climate change attribution for things that are actually caused by it -- the broken record talk has the tendency to weaken the argument, and gets ignored out of hand.
To paraphrase the Matrix: "There are levels of survival we're willing to accept"
I think you have it exactly backwards; we might kill off every single wild animal and make the earth a horrible hellscape that rivals Giedi Prime -- but human beings will find a way to scrape by.
You want non-discriminatory hiring practices that truly adhere to being an equal opportunity employer? Automate it. Remove discriminatory factors and strive for a meritocracy that's blind to race, religion, or creed...
In Tech you'd wind up with a 40-30-30 mix of white, asian, and desi males between 25 and 45.
They aren't bleating about a meritocracy or equality in opportunity; it's equality of outcome or nothing.
Maybe it's partly due to individualism reaching such retarded proportions that we've reached "i want to play dress up and you must play along, else you're a bigot"
Or that moral relativism permeating society is akin to water seeping into the foundation of a building. Over time it eventually brings the entire thing crashing down.
No thank you. I'll gladly take the 35 minute commute from house way out in the woods on acreage -- and not have to deal with neighbors, HOA's, or people in general.
Not everyone wants to live in a suburban or urban hellscape.
Would also potentially be trouble for the 11 or so people who live in the extreme eastern bit of Oregon near Ontario which are in mountain time. (for whatever reason.)
I really don't think content providers and ISP's should be allowed to co-mingle like this. It leads to a situation where you have a company that's positioned itself as a regional monopoly (either naturally, such as access to coax; or through pure evil -- shutting down community broadband, or other competitors) that's able to completely control communication. And in this particular case, if you do something they don't like, they can completely cut you off. Besides, the bigger the company, the more abusive they are to their customers.
ISP's should be dumb pipes for getting whatever bits you request to your box. Letting them do anything else is just inviting disaster.
On a tangent though.. regarding your comment about the internet thriving:
You really don't see how the internet is going from a democratizing thing, where people can freely express their opinions and views.. to a curated swamp of social media that's fed through advertising and monetizing personal information?
The thought that's slowly creeping in is that it's the duty of the gatekeepers (be it google, facebook, reddit, whoever) to censor inconvenient or 'problematic' views. They may dress this up with whatever fashionable terms they like; but it's still censorship. Which can sound nice, at least in the near term since it's fringe views that get shut down. (not many people will stick up for a neo-nazi, or antifa or whoever else goes against the current)
BUT that line, or what constitutes 'acceptable' speech will invariably shift towards the middle -- the definition of "being a troll" or "being a dick".
Also troubling is the desire to abolish privacy. Which again, having these gate-keeping companies acting as the arbiters of online discourse, will result in the death of privacy, and as a result -- the death of free speech.
I'd say instead of thriving, it's grown to the point it's liable to tip-over.
We give them monopoly power, then wonder why they behave like a monopoly.
When it comes to regulations or blocking community broadband they'll bleat "free market..!" (how's that for mental gymnastics?) But they'll *gladly* take gigantic government subsidy gibs for infrastructure improvement that of course they'll never deliver on.
They also managed to get one of their stooges (okay, the last couple at least) To run the agency that's supposed to regulate them.
The internet as it has existed since the 1990's has been nice. But once it was found that there was significant money to be made, it had absolutely no chance of lasting in the long-run. Fantastic times we live in.
Well, due to the unavoidable social upheaval there will be plenty of wars in which your grandkids can be cannon fodder for whatever crazy death dealing machines the like of DARPA can dream up. So, there will be job opportunities for at least a generation or two (but maybe not afterwards)
almost as important should be the right to anonymity. Take that away (for whatever purpose) and a chilling effect on free speech and expression will occur.
Well when you're jeff bezos, you know that you are the best leader that the world has seen since the Pharaohs. So it goes to follow that the best way to run Amazon is to create an army of bezos-clones to run each division with the type of awe-inspiring, brutal intensity that makes us lesser mortals shrivel in fear.
So once per fiscal year these clones will travel to a secret underground arena where they will engage in a grand melee. With the winner being crowned bezos prime, and run the company until the next set of gladiatorial games.
That's.. a disingenuous argument. Fukushima was a very old design; one that relied on external inputs to maintain reaction safely. (For example relying on cooling pumps to keep the reactor from overheating. So if there's a power outage the cooling pumps stop working - and the reactor overheats and melts down)
Modern designs do the opposite -- for example having an ice plug that keeps the fuel in the reactor chamber. The fail-safe being; if the cooling mechanism that maintains the ice plug malfunctions (such as due to power outage) -- the plug will then melt, and the contents of that chamber flow downward due gravity into a larger chamber; halting the reaction as the fuel is no longer in sufficient density to maintain criticality.
But to answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ran for 30 years, passed a couple of pretty gnarly tests (shut off power for cooling pumps, as well as shutting off of coolant entirely) with no damage whatsoever.
It was designed in the mid 1960's, and probably would have become the norm had the Navy not interfered and pushed for water cooled reactors. =/
I'll take the bait.. the US managed WWII pretty efficiently! War on two fronts, massive logistics and supply chain issues - and all within a span of ~4 years.
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The notion of 'Leaving money on the table' is the shiny side of the same coin as 'race to the bottom'.
Basically extracting as much from any given situation as possible; which just results in even greater concentrations of wealth; at the expense of people, suppliers, and society at large.
In this case though, it's especially repugnant because those 'gibs' amazon was trying to cajole local governments into granting would have to be paid for by the citizens, who get absolutely no say in the matter.
And for what? a few extra jobs (potentially!) that the bureaucrats can use for re-election fodder? Would the net tax base actually expand after all the concessions? Would Amazon's tricky bastard accountants figure out how to dodge them?
but.. but the orange man is always, always universally bad isn't he?
yep, would be nice as well if you could have it hide indie stuff too.
No, I have zero interest in pixel art games, and I'm slightly confused as to why there needs to be 70 gorillian of them.
in other news, the sun rose this morning -- probably due to climate change as well.
Forest fires are a thing, and they'll always be a thing. Not maintaining firebreaks around property, as well as letting underbrush accumulate due to fire suppression is more likely the real cause here. (Basically it's better to have a great many small fires, than a handful of very large ones)
And ffs save the climate change attribution for things that are actually caused by it -- the broken record talk has the tendency to weaken the argument, and gets ignored out of hand.
To paraphrase the Matrix:
"There are levels of survival we're willing to accept"
I think you have it exactly backwards; we might kill off every single wild animal and make the earth a horrible hellscape that rivals Giedi Prime -- but human beings will find a way to scrape by.
FWIW there's also one in southern California -- which is the one i thought you were alluding to :)
What are preferred pronouns?
You want non-discriminatory hiring practices that truly adhere to being an equal opportunity employer? Automate it. Remove discriminatory factors and strive for a meritocracy that's blind to race, religion, or creed...
In Tech you'd wind up with a 40-30-30 mix of white, asian, and desi males between 25 and 45.
They aren't bleating about a meritocracy or equality in opportunity; it's equality of outcome or nothing.
Maybe it's partly due to individualism reaching such retarded proportions that we've reached "i want to play dress up and you must play along, else you're a bigot"
Or that moral relativism permeating society is akin to water seeping into the foundation of a building. Over time it eventually brings the entire thing crashing down.
Hard to say.
No thank you. I'll gladly take the 35 minute commute from house way out in the woods on acreage -- and not have to deal with neighbors, HOA's, or people in general.
Not everyone wants to live in a suburban or urban hellscape.
Would also potentially be trouble for the 11 or so people who live in the extreme eastern bit of Oregon near Ontario which are in mountain time. (for whatever reason.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
mmm, maybe not potatoes actually? But they certainly exported more than wheat.
Don't forget that during the entire potato famine, potatoes were being exported to England.
A while back I had a pack of raccoons who kept getting into my garbage.
So in order to get rid of them, i just started putting out more garbage -- imagine my surprise that I just wound up with even MORE raccoons.
I also don't believe that any of them were actually Vietnam vets, or needed gas money for their conspicuously out-of-sight cars.
I really don't think content providers and ISP's should be allowed to co-mingle like this. It leads to a situation where you have a company that's positioned itself as a regional monopoly (either naturally, such as access to coax; or through pure evil -- shutting down community broadband, or other competitors) that's able to completely control communication. And in this particular case, if you do something they don't like, they can completely cut you off. Besides, the bigger the company, the more abusive they are to their customers.
ISP's should be dumb pipes for getting whatever bits you request to your box. Letting them do anything else is just inviting disaster.
On a tangent though.. regarding your comment about the internet thriving:
You really don't see how the internet is going from a democratizing thing, where people can freely express their opinions and views.. to a curated swamp of social media that's fed through advertising and monetizing personal information?
The thought that's slowly creeping in is that it's the duty of the gatekeepers (be it google, facebook, reddit, whoever) to censor inconvenient or 'problematic' views. They may dress this up with whatever fashionable terms they like; but it's still censorship. Which can sound nice, at least in the near term since it's fringe views that get shut down. (not many people will stick up for a neo-nazi, or antifa or whoever else goes against the current)
BUT that line, or what constitutes 'acceptable' speech will invariably shift towards the middle -- the definition of "being a troll" or "being a dick".
Also troubling is the desire to abolish privacy. Which again, having these gate-keeping companies acting as the arbiters of online discourse, will result in the death of privacy, and as a result -- the death of free speech.
I'd say instead of thriving, it's grown to the point it's liable to tip-over.
We give them monopoly power, then wonder why they behave like a monopoly.
When it comes to regulations or blocking community broadband they'll bleat "free market..!" (how's that for mental gymnastics?)
But they'll *gladly* take gigantic government subsidy gibs for infrastructure improvement that of course they'll never deliver on.
They also managed to get one of their stooges (okay, the last couple at least) To run the agency that's supposed to regulate them.
The internet as it has existed since the 1990's has been nice. But once it was found that there was significant money to be made, it had absolutely no chance of lasting in the long-run. Fantastic times we live in.
Well clearly they don't want you to go out and vote for a republican or libertarian.
The underlying message is "go vote for team blue!"
Well, due to the unavoidable social upheaval there will be plenty of wars in which your grandkids can be cannon fodder for whatever crazy death dealing machines the like of DARPA can dream up. So, there will be job opportunities for at least a generation or two (but maybe not afterwards)
almost as important should be the right to anonymity. Take that away (for whatever purpose) and a chilling effect on free speech and expression will occur.
Well when you're jeff bezos, you know that you are the best leader that the world has seen since the Pharaohs. So it goes to follow that the best way to run Amazon is to create an army of bezos-clones to run each division with the type of awe-inspiring, brutal intensity that makes us lesser mortals shrivel in fear.
So once per fiscal year these clones will travel to a secret underground arena where they will engage in a grand melee. With the winner being crowned bezos prime, and run the company until the next set of gladiatorial games.
i think 'smoldering' or 'smoking' is the word you're looking for? Unless it was water cooled of course, if so, carry on!
shhh, we're supposed to go a step beyond merely tolerating other people's delusions; and actively engage and foster them.
That's.. a disingenuous argument. Fukushima was a very old design; one that relied on external inputs to maintain reaction safely. (For example relying on cooling pumps to keep the reactor from overheating. So if there's a power outage the cooling pumps stop working - and the reactor overheats and melts down)
Modern designs do the opposite -- for example having an ice plug that keeps the fuel in the reactor chamber. The fail-safe being; if the cooling mechanism that maintains the ice plug malfunctions (such as due to power outage) -- the plug will then melt, and the contents of that chamber flow downward due gravity into a larger chamber; halting the reaction as the fuel is no longer in sufficient density to maintain criticality.
But to answer your question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
ran for 30 years, passed a couple of pretty gnarly tests (shut off power for cooling pumps, as well as shutting off of coolant entirely) with no damage whatsoever.
It was designed in the mid 1960's, and probably would have become the norm had the Navy not interfered and pushed for water cooled reactors. =/
I'll take the bait.. the US managed WWII pretty efficiently!
War on two fronts, massive logistics and supply chain issues - and all within a span of ~4 years.
what about solar thermal? That molten sodium stays hot enough to turn a turbine for at least 24 hours, even with no sunlight.