I'm just pointing out that liberals keep citing both these examples as market failures, when they are examples of gaming government regulations. In a free market, neither of those hacks would be available.
The "It was staged" scenario probably wouldn't have cost as much, but it's a violation of Occam's Razor: a plot more complicated and prone to being revealed than an actual mission.
"four and a half years old? i'm sorry, you don't remember shit from that age;"
I have continuous memories from that age. The family was still in the old country at that time, in a coastal town dominated by a tall tower, with a lot of beach activity going on. Thirty years later I went back as part of our honeymoon and although there had been major cultural changes, it was physically just as I remembered it.
"In any case the Apollo program seems to have been the pinnacle of human exploration of the solar system. After that we have been using robot probes with a lot less risk for human life but also a lot less challenges that could spawn new useful technology."
But now that the private sector is getting into manned programs, this will soon change.
"Firstly, the game is seen as a form of gambling, which itself is forbidden. Secondly, it encourages belief in Darwin's theory of evolution, and thirdly, the fatwa says, the symbols used in the game promote the Shinto religion of Japan, Christianity, Freemasonry and 'global Zionism.'" The ruling says: "The symbols and logos of devious religions and organizations are used [including] the six-pointed star: You rarely find a card that does not contain such a star. It is associated with Judaism, the logo and sign of the State of Israel, and the first symbol of the Masonry organizations in the world.""
For the good of humanity, let's all hope that Trump finds some excuse to sack Saudi Arabia and permanently deprive it of any assets, power in the world, and religious influence in the region.
"Usually because of bad UI. All knowledge has been replaced with codes and it's our job to learn the codes to find anything....and tomorrow the codes will change, because fuck you."
Doctors shouldn't have to think in terms of the codes that the billing system runs on. Have a Siri-like voice interface that translates a doctor's spoken summary of procedures into the current codes. It could provide feedback (through an earpiece inaudible to the patient) when the doctor's description of something is imprecise. Over time, the system and each doctor would cooperate with each other to arrive at a precision spoken language of treatment summary.
Instead of tying perching drones to fixed recharging stations, why couldn't idle drones just roost on a roof or other sunny spot, spread solar wings, and recharge while waiting for the next assignment? During bad weather, they could hide under eaves or other protected places.
The lightning problem means that church steeples are not particularly safe places for drones to wait out weather in any case.
"And when the illegals came in to my area in a big way back in the late-80's and early-90's, these "noble farmers" were the first to happily hire them, cutting farmhand wages in half and pocketing the difference by flagrantly breaking the law. The average farmworker salary went from $7/hr. to $4/hr. almost overnight, in spite of the fact that farmers were already making good money paying their workers $7/hr."
That's why here in Arizona the farmers are the backbone of the Democratic party, not just for the crop subsidies and special federal water rights but to lobby for unlimited, unvetted insurgency from Mexico. Illegals will tolerate substandard wages and decidedly non-OSHA working conditions if they know they can't complain to the authorities.
I bear my trolls with great pride. It shows that people care about what I say. If their ideology just doesn't allow them to understand why a governmental restriction on allowing farmers to fix, or to have fixed, their tractors, restricts competition then they will never figure out why there isn't any food or toilet paper in Venezuela.
No, if the DMCA did not exist, open-market service people couldn't be hauled into court for hacking around whatever DRM Deere were to put on its tractors.
If we had unfettered capitalism, farmers wouldn't have to fix their own tractors or pay to have them towed to a Deere dealership. A mobile service industry would spring up of mechanics who would come out to your farm, plug in to the diagnostic port, and fix most problems right there in the literal field. But why put up with the uncertainties of capitalism when you can buy socialist protection from the government?
Both of these guys are operating in industries where government action is preventing the open market from operating. They benefit from the Congressionally established rules of cronyism.
Trump can keep filing bankruptcy as often as he wants and keep operating., a luxury that Congress has made available to the well-connected.
Shkreli sells generic drugs, which because they are off patent, can be manufactured by anybody. But because Congress has made it illegal for Americans to buy low-cost prescription fills from the same countries where we can buy electronics for steadily decreasing prices, Shkreli can by expending relatively little capital, monopolize the market on generics. The very same drugs that Shkreli has monopolized here trade everywhere else in the world for pennies a pill.
Now we have a stable product to install on the dark side of the Moon, just need to figure the network end and we'll be in the money!
Except that the Moon doesn't have a dark side. It has a hidden side.
What you're getting at is being able to keep an atomic drive (how cool is that just to say!) array in a naturally cold place where minimal refrigeration will be needed to maintain function. There happens to be a crater at the lunar south pole deep enough that the sun never shines into it, keeping it cold as Hillary's heart.
The Tesla crash stories of the last few weeks, even about a product that is explicitly not marketed as anything more than a driver backup system, illustrate that car automation even in its current beta state is so much better than manual driving that car crashes can now be handled like air crashes, so rare that each one can be meticulously analyzed to pick apart how the system failed. A black box recording system will be a big help in this process.
The price model I outlined is precisely what shows up badly implemented central planning as the fraud it is. Rent control is basically a law forbidding the tide from coming in. The rise of companies like AirBNB is the free economy routing its way around such "damage."
There is evidence of dark matter in our own Milky Way, there is ten times the matter than is accounted for by visible matter, and the distribution is roughly spherical not disk-shaped. the distribution of the rotational velocity of stars about the center can't be accounted for by visible matter either
When I speed, I'm not forcing people with smaller cars off of the expressway and onto dirt roads, far far away.
These people are driving up the rents and prices of homes in communities, while not being restricted by the laws that hotels/motels/holidayinns have to follow. So for those who want decent housing at decent pricing, they have to live far away, or in worse areas.. driving the next people to live farther and worse-er.
Prices communicate information. When prices rise, it means that there is a shortage of the commodity being traded with respect to current demand. The rising price causes three very good things to happen, in this order:
1. Conservation: people find ways to economize on housing costs; 2. New supply: more housing gets built, unless you're in California where it is illegal to build anything new; 3. Replacement: Big single-family houses get replaced by condos and then high-rise condos as is typical in an urbanizing environment, saving on footprint and resources.
Now think about this. It works this way with ANY commodity.
The free market is the base natural state of any economy. Control, legislate, regulate all you want, but the free market interprets socialism as damage and routes around it.
I recommend the JPL Open House, which is the second coolest nerd tour in the country.
But the ultimate tour is definitely the Nevada Test Site (http://www.nstec.com/Pages/public-tours.aspx). Most of it is a museum of Cold War tech, with test buildings and infrastructure that have been nuked by surface explosions and a Doctor Strangelove control room. You can see the array of giant ant-lion pits where underground testing was done, with one complete test rig still suspended over its borehole. You can see low-level nuclear waste being buried and then Yucca Mountain, where the high-level waste will go once we can get a Republican elected again. Nothing like it in the world.
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I'm just pointing out that liberals keep citing both these examples as market failures, when they are examples of gaming government regulations. In a free market, neither of those hacks would be available.
The "It was staged" scenario probably wouldn't have cost as much, but it's a violation of Occam's Razor: a plot more complicated and prone to being revealed than an actual mission.
"four and a half years old? i'm sorry, you don't remember shit from that age;"
I have continuous memories from that age. The family was still in the old country at that time, in a coastal town dominated by a tall tower, with a lot of beach activity going on. Thirty years later I went back as part of our honeymoon and although there had been major cultural changes, it was physically just as I remembered it.
Technically, if we go there, the statement will be true. :-)
In honor of Plagiarism Week, he was inadvertently quoting Heinlein: "There will be life on Mars."
"In any case the Apollo program seems to have been the pinnacle of human exploration of the solar system. After that we have been using robot probes with a lot less risk for human life but also a lot less challenges that could spawn new useful technology."
But now that the private sector is getting into manned programs, this will soon change.
Mecca is there... it's kind of a big deal in Islam.
And Saudi influence on it is what is ruining Islam right now. Look up Wahhabism, and you'll see what I mean.
"Firstly, the game is seen as a form of gambling, which itself is forbidden. Secondly, it encourages belief in Darwin's theory of evolution, and thirdly, the fatwa says, the symbols used in the game promote the Shinto religion of Japan, Christianity, Freemasonry and 'global Zionism.'" The ruling says: "The symbols and logos of devious religions and organizations are used [including] the six-pointed star: You rarely find a card that does not contain such a star. It is associated with Judaism, the logo and sign of the State of Israel, and the first symbol of the Masonry organizations in the world.""
For the good of humanity, let's all hope that Trump finds some excuse to sack Saudi Arabia and permanently deprive it of any assets, power in the world, and religious influence in the region.
"...His arrest in Poland, however, demonstrates again that cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from justice."
While ransomware distributors prey on us at will, because the priority is on protecting Hollywood from copyright violators.
The commentary, by actual MIT people, thoroughly melt down this fake analysis.
I'm aware that ham communications can be "wormholed" through the Internet, but is it legal now for hams to operate as a public ISP?
"Because solar power has *horrible* energy density."
That's why you can't fly with solar panels, but how about for topping up the charge between jobs?
"Usually because of bad UI. All knowledge has been replaced with codes and it's our job to learn the codes to find anything. ...and tomorrow the codes will change, because fuck you."
Doctors shouldn't have to think in terms of the codes that the billing system runs on. Have a Siri-like voice interface that translates a doctor's spoken summary of procedures into the current codes. It could provide feedback (through an earpiece inaudible to the patient) when the doctor's description of something is imprecise. Over time, the system and each doctor would cooperate with each other to arrive at a precision spoken language of treatment summary.
Instead of tying perching drones to fixed recharging stations, why couldn't idle drones just roost on a roof or other sunny spot, spread solar wings, and recharge while waiting for the next assignment? During bad weather, they could hide under eaves or other protected places.
The lightning problem means that church steeples are not particularly safe places for drones to wait out weather in any case.
"And when the illegals came in to my area in a big way back in the late-80's and early-90's, these "noble farmers" were the first to happily hire them, cutting farmhand wages in half and pocketing the difference by flagrantly breaking the law. The average farmworker salary went from $7/hr. to $4/hr. almost overnight, in spite of the fact that farmers were already making good money paying their workers $7/hr."
That's why here in Arizona the farmers are the backbone of the Democratic party, not just for the crop subsidies and special federal water rights but to lobby for unlimited, unvetted insurgency from Mexico. Illegals will tolerate substandard wages and decidedly non-OSHA working conditions if they know they can't complain to the authorities.
I bear my trolls with great pride. It shows that people care about what I say. If their ideology just doesn't allow them to understand why a governmental restriction on allowing farmers to fix, or to have fixed, their tractors, restricts competition then they will never figure out why there isn't any food or toilet paper in Venezuela.
No, if the DMCA did not exist, open-market service people couldn't be hauled into court for hacking around whatever DRM Deere were to put on its tractors.
If we had unfettered capitalism, farmers wouldn't have to fix their own tractors or pay to have them towed to a Deere dealership. A mobile service industry would spring up of mechanics who would come out to your farm, plug in to the diagnostic port, and fix most problems right there in the literal field. But why put up with the uncertainties of capitalism when you can buy socialist protection from the government?
Both of these guys are operating in industries where government action is preventing the open market from operating. They benefit from the Congressionally established rules of cronyism.
Trump can keep filing bankruptcy as often as he wants and keep operating., a luxury that Congress has made available to the well-connected.
Shkreli sells generic drugs, which because they are off patent, can be manufactured by anybody. But because Congress has made it illegal for Americans to buy low-cost prescription fills from the same countries where we can buy electronics for steadily decreasing prices, Shkreli can by expending relatively little capital, monopolize the market on generics. The very same drugs that Shkreli has monopolized here trade everywhere else in the world for pennies a pill.
Now we have a stable product to install on the dark side of the Moon, just need to figure the network end and we'll be in the money!
Except that the Moon doesn't have a dark side. It has a hidden side.
What you're getting at is being able to keep an atomic drive (how cool is that just to say!) array in a naturally cold place where minimal refrigeration will be needed to maintain function. There happens to be a crater at the lunar south pole deep enough that the sun never shines into it, keeping it cold as Hillary's heart.
The Tesla crash stories of the last few weeks, even about a product that is explicitly not marketed as anything more than a driver backup system, illustrate that car automation even in its current beta state is so much better than manual driving that car crashes can now be handled like air crashes, so rare that each one can be meticulously analyzed to pick apart how the system failed. A black box recording system will be a big help in this process.
The price model I outlined is precisely what shows up badly implemented central planning as the fraud it is. Rent control is basically a law forbidding the tide from coming in. The rise of companies like AirBNB is the free economy routing its way around such "damage."
There is evidence of dark matter in our own Milky Way, there is ten times the matter than is accounted for by visible matter, and the distribution is roughly spherical not disk-shaped. the distribution of the rotational velocity of stars about the center can't be accounted for by visible matter either
#BlackMatterLives
When I speed, I'm not forcing people with smaller cars off of the expressway and onto dirt roads, far far away.
These people are driving up the rents and prices of homes in communities, while not being restricted by the laws that hotels/motels/holidayinns have to follow. So for those who want decent housing at decent pricing, they have to live far away, or in worse areas.. driving the next people to live farther and worse-er.
Prices communicate information. When prices rise, it means that there is a shortage of the commodity being traded with respect to current demand. The rising price causes three very good things to happen, in this order:
1. Conservation: people find ways to economize on housing costs;
2. New supply: more housing gets built, unless you're in California where it is illegal to build anything new;
3. Replacement: Big single-family houses get replaced by condos and then high-rise condos as is typical in an urbanizing environment, saving on footprint and resources.
Now think about this. It works this way with ANY commodity.
The free market is the base natural state of any economy. Control, legislate, regulate all you want, but the free market interprets socialism as damage and routes around it.
I recommend the JPL Open House, which is the second coolest nerd tour in the country.
But the ultimate tour is definitely the Nevada Test Site (http://www.nstec.com/Pages/public-tours.aspx). Most of it is a museum of Cold War tech, with test buildings and infrastructure that have been nuked by surface explosions and a Doctor Strangelove control room. You can see the array of giant ant-lion pits where underground testing was done, with one complete test rig still suspended over its borehole. You can see low-level nuclear waste being buried and then Yucca Mountain, where the high-level waste will go once we can get a Republican elected again. Nothing like it in the world.