When the major industry and commerce left, Baltimore collapsed. If Amazon put a secondary HQ here, we'd have $2.5Bn-$5Bn more of yearly wage income flowing to the city, being spent, and producing more jobs and more tax revenue. We'd be running off foreign money--non-Baltimore money coming in from all over the US east coast.
Yeah, but why would Amazon want to deal with Baltimore's politicians or it's people?
That's a microcosm of this topic, actually. Why would productive and prosperous individuals want to come to a place where the people feel entitled and spend their days nursing historic grievances?
Beyond Trump, maybe it's the general mood of Trump-haters and angry activists of all kinds versus Trump supporters and angry defenders of all kinds.
Why come to a country where everyone is angry all the time? Why come to a country where no one can ever be happy? Why come to a country where all the stories are about catastrophic environmental destruction? Who wants to come here to be told they're a victim every day based on something that happened before they were born in their own country? Why come to a country where succeeding financially is considered evil? Why would a young person join a group that only talks about historic grievances and never about future opportunities? Why come to a country where the leaders and entertainers and celebrities all seem to be among the worst examples of humanity?
Why not go to a country with good people and a good social atmosphere instead?
This (plus AI, Uber, and less regulation) are how we’re going to get the economy out of the decades-long productivity slump. More economic output per hour worked is always good.
The rate at which companies are churning out phones should be generating a lot of e-waste. Shouldn't there be some effort to produce long lasting hardware? I hate to change a phone every year or so.
What if you gave up the idea that "e-waste" is sinful? Then you could just enjoy your life and get a new phone when you want one, without unneeded mental/emotional hangups ruling your behavior.
You can still use that Nokia phone if you want. The thing I call my “phone” is really a handheld computer. The 99% of the time I use it for non-phone functions are what drains the battery.
If you don’t want to pay for improvements, then don’t. Your price tag concerns don’t make screen sizes smaller or batteries drain faster.
Spoiler alert: the luxury high end phone model with all the newest improvements costs more than the regular model from 5 years ago. Also, water is wet. Perhaps you have a complaint about that too?
The AirPods wireless earbuds are new and they’re really good. They announced a new Mac Pro desktop that looks like an improvement.
Maybe they’ll lhave wireless charging on MacBooks next year. And people think Apple is behind the new Intel chip with integrated AMD graphics. That should be a genuine improvement.
In about 2 years 5G wireless will begin rolling out and most Americans will start getting competitively priced, high speed, fixed point-to-point wireless broadband service offered to them. The cable monopoly will be ending for everyone with line of site to a wireless base station.
Does anyone believe that a single policy will stop global climate change?
No, they believe each policy will “save the Earth”. And if you're not in favor of every policy, no matter how ineffective or poorly thought out, you're against “saving the Earth”.
That’s what they say anyway. It makes sense if you think of it as a religion.
Because the international religion of environmentalism demands it, obviously.
Also because it will be 0.2 degrees C cooler in the year 2100 if everything works out exactly as the agreement predicts and all nations meet their targets. So clearly the Paris agreement “saves the Earth”.
We’ve been mired in a long term slow growth economy, and a huge part of the reason why is that productivity grown has slowed. AI is one of the key technologies to get productivity growing again.
Other productivity tailwinds: Trump's fight against regulation, Uber, Amazon, and eventually self-driving cars. We need these things to overcome demographic headwinds.
Productivity increases are the key to sustainable economic growth that outpaces population growth. More GPD per capita means people will lead better, more prosperous lives.
She seems to be immune to that. Too bad there's no 3rd choice between Presidential candidate and prisoner. If there were, we could just decide that someone who repeatedly barely escapes indictment for crimes should remain outside the government.
Her indiscretions are no excuse to ignore these revelations. You seem to be doing exactly what you're arguing against, covering for one rich and powerful side while extolling the other. Your post is a smoke screen.
And what's revealed behind the smoke then? Billionaire deal-makers had business dealings with foreigners? They tried to minimize tax expenses? Russians sometimes ship things with shipping companies? Not all bank accounts reside within the US?
Are there credible allegations of any criminal behavior at all?
Unless you want every election to be a choice between criminal A and criminal B, you have to stop covering for your side's criminal when your side's criminal gets caught. If people hadn't covered for the Clintons so many times over so many years, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to collude to fix the primary election.
Also, you may not have heard that a sitting US Senator is currently on trial for bribery, and it looks like it will go to jury deliberations soon. If he's convicted, he will be forced from the Senate and his seat will be filled by the Governor, who is of the opposite party. Guess that's not news -- not something you're supposed to know about -- either.
The most obvious difference between the stories is that one is a specific allegation by a direct witness, to deals that undermine democracy. The other is some innuendo that requires you to make up the other 80% of the story yourself.
Yes, there will be an outbreak if young ladies have no more access to the vaccine.
Stockpiling is a side effect of... patents. In order to compensate this single point of failure, governments around the world stockpiles.
How is stockpiling necessary in this case? There’s no urgency for an individual to be vaccinated for HPV (is there?). If there’s a supply disruption, just wait a couple months until the supply is available to get vaccinated.
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Wrong.
When the major industry and commerce left, Baltimore collapsed. If Amazon put a secondary HQ here, we'd have $2.5Bn-$5Bn more of yearly wage income flowing to the city, being spent, and producing more jobs and more tax revenue. We'd be running off foreign money--non-Baltimore money coming in from all over the US east coast.
Yeah, but why would Amazon want to deal with Baltimore's politicians or it's people?
That's a microcosm of this topic, actually. Why would productive and prosperous individuals want to come to a place where the people feel entitled and spend their days nursing historic grievances?
Beyond Trump, maybe it's the general mood of Trump-haters and angry activists of all kinds versus Trump supporters and angry defenders of all kinds.
Why come to a country where everyone is angry all the time?
Why come to a country where no one can ever be happy?
Why come to a country where all the stories are about catastrophic environmental destruction?
Who wants to come here to be told they're a victim every day based on something that happened before they were born in their own country?
Why come to a country where succeeding financially is considered evil?
Why would a young person join a group that only talks about historic grievances and never about future opportunities?
Why come to a country where the leaders and entertainers and celebrities all seem to be among the worst examples of humanity?
Why not go to a country with good people and a good social atmosphere instead?
This (plus AI, Uber, and less regulation) are how we’re going to get the economy out of the decades-long productivity slump. More economic output per hour worked is always good.
There's an event coming up, time to troll the readers with negative FUD about it.
The rate at which companies are churning out phones should be generating a lot of e-waste. Shouldn't there be some effort to produce long lasting hardware? I hate to change a phone every year or so .
What if you gave up the idea that "e-waste" is sinful? Then you could just enjoy your life and get a new phone when you want one, without unneeded mental/emotional hangups ruling your behavior.
I will stop watching TV like I stopped using Facebook.
You can still use that Nokia phone if you want. The thing I call my “phone” is really a handheld computer. The 99% of the time I use it for non-phone functions are what drains the battery.
If you don’t want to pay for improvements, then don’t. Your price tag concerns don’t make screen sizes smaller or batteries drain faster.
Spoiler alert: the luxury high end phone model with all the newest improvements costs more than the regular model from 5 years ago. Also, water is wet. Perhaps you have a complaint about that too?
The AirPods wireless earbuds are new and they’re really good.
They announced a new Mac Pro desktop that looks like an improvement.
Maybe they’ll lhave wireless charging on MacBooks next year.
And people think Apple is behind the new Intel chip with integrated AMD graphics. That should be a genuine improvement.
What’s wrong with a bigger, better looking screen and longer battery life in roughly the same form factor? Which consumers didn’t want those things?
It’s not a 2D camera. It’s a 3D time of flight sensor. Photons that travel further arrive back at the phone later. The difference is measurable.
If a CEO of a high security company doesn’t understand security, then you have bigger problems.
Pretty sure almost anyone would be OK with a security measure that can only be defeated by making a millimeter accurate mask of their face.
Let them eat cake.
In about 2 years 5G wireless will begin rolling out and most Americans will start getting competitively priced, high speed, fixed point-to-point wireless broadband service offered to them. The cable monopoly will be ending for everyone with line of site to a wireless base station.
Just FYI.
Does anyone believe that a single policy will stop global climate change?
No, they believe each policy will “save the Earth”. And if you're not in favor of every policy, no matter how ineffective or poorly thought out, you're against “saving the Earth”.
That’s what they say anyway. It makes sense if you think of it as a religion.
Because the international religion of environmentalism demands it, obviously.
Also because it will be 0.2 degrees C cooler in the year 2100 if everything works out exactly as the agreement predicts and all nations meet their targets. So clearly the Paris agreement “saves the Earth”.
Don’t you want to “save the Earth”?
We’ve been mired in a long term slow growth economy, and a huge part of the reason why is that productivity grown has slowed. AI is one of the key technologies to get productivity growing again.
Other productivity tailwinds: Trump's fight against regulation, Uber, Amazon, and eventually self-driving cars. We need these things to overcome demographic headwinds.
Productivity increases are the key to sustainable economic growth that outpaces population growth. More GPD per capita means people will lead better, more prosperous lives.
The future looks good.
19.5:9 ? Surely you meant 39:18.
Then convict her and throw her in jail.
She seems to be immune to that. Too bad there's no 3rd choice between Presidential candidate and prisoner. If there were, we could just decide that someone who repeatedly barely escapes indictment for crimes should remain outside the government.
Her indiscretions are no excuse to ignore these revelations. You seem to be doing exactly what you're arguing against, covering for one rich and powerful side while extolling the other. Your post is a smoke screen.
And what's revealed behind the smoke then? Billionaire deal-makers had business dealings with foreigners? They tried to minimize tax expenses? Russians sometimes ship things with shipping companies? Not all bank accounts reside within the US?
Are there credible allegations of any criminal behavior at all?
Unless you want every election to be a choice between criminal A and criminal B, you have to stop covering for your side's criminal when your side's criminal gets caught. If people hadn't covered for the Clintons so many times over so many years, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to collude to fix the primary election.
Also, you may not have heard that a sitting US Senator is currently on trial for bribery, and it looks like it will go to jury deliberations soon. If he's convicted, he will be forced from the Senate and his seat will be filled by the Governor, who is of the opposite party. Guess that's not news -- not something you're supposed to know about -- either.
The DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to fix the primary election process so Hillary would win. But no Slashdot story on that, because ...? Guess it's not news.
The most obvious difference between the stories is that one is a specific allegation by a direct witness, to deals that undermine democracy. The other is some innuendo that requires you to make up the other 80% of the story yourself.
Yeah, sexual harassment and rape are big news topics now that the Clintons’ political viability no longer needs to be protected.
Yes, there will be an outbreak if young ladies have no more access to the vaccine.
Stockpiling is a side effect of ... patents. In order to compensate this single point of failure, governments around the world stockpiles.
How is stockpiling necessary in this case? There’s no urgency for an individual to be vaccinated for HPV (is there?). If there’s a supply disruption, just wait a couple months until the supply is available to get vaccinated.