This is a very accurate description of what happened to slashdot. George Washington said that politics and political division would be the downfall of the US.
I got an email flyer for the company I bought my solar panels from and they were adverting for 14/watt ($140/kw).
For a semester long design project I had in university, I created a very detailed solar simulation and concluded that at below 26/wattp, solar beat even hydro in cost. And it was a very detailed model including every known parameter (except labor which varied too much and was a one shot expense).
You can modify a chest freezer easily enough and run it to refrigerator temps for about 100wh/day. Chest freezers have much better insulation than a standard refrigerator.
Source? They last a lot longer than that in my experience, degrading at an industry standard of ~1%/year. After 20 years, they'll still produce about 77% of their original rated power and 70% at 30 years.
This works fine and well, the problem is that when you are hit with a week long ice storm and stop producing energy or storing energy after the second day.
Food looks comparable and there were few goods to be had.
The average person could not afford fast food or to go out to eat.
The biggest price difference was in carved elephants - I got one for ~$15 and saw an identical one in Santa Fe a year later selling for $900. I joked that it would be less expensive to fly there and buy it. That was the only local good, other than food, that I saw. The pay breakdown was approx $1/day laborer, $2/day skilled (plumber/electrician) and $3/day college professor/engineer.
In the 1980's people were trying to this with fractals. I remember reading about something very similar and wish I could have afforded the book. I wonder what google is doing. Probably brute force.
I was really interested n fractals and fractal compression for a time. And while you could get some insanely high compression ratios, the technique was lossy and decompression took 50+ hours (and 2 hours to compress). A potential use of the technology was picking out interesting artifacts from low rez space ohotos.
This is what doomed the shuttle. The only way they could get costs down to the advertised price tag was to have a high launch rate. The only way to get that high of a launch rate was to get the dod to use their services, the only way to get the dod to use their services was to meet the requirements of the dod and that meant a lot of requirements that weren't originally expected, and those design changes doomed the program. The air force did not want the shuttle, but NASA lobbied congress to force them to use it.
Are you sure? One of the things that surprised me when I lived in Tanzania was how similar the prices were. Sure there were variations, but probably not more than 50%. A TV there costs about what a TV from Costco costs. Candy bars were roughly equivalent. The difference there was that few people could buy these things and the store (only found one) was for foreigners and very rich people. Most people could not afford to eat out and cooked at home food bought a street markets where they didn't have the same quality or variety as the (only) store did.
The reason people can live inexpensive there is that they do not buy expensive things. There is that ability to do the same in more developed countries also, but most people have money and don't look for them. If you lived there you'd be eating a lot of kale, potato and corn. You're not going to find chicken or steak any cheaper.
You can also bring the cost of living in the US to the level of living in other parts of the world. Easily. You might have to give up many things like a big house with a yard, three cars and a swimming pool, but then they don't have those things either.
Inflation adjusted, I made close to $10k in grade school by mowing yards (over a few years). It was hot, but not that hard. I was too young to get a real job. When I was old enough to get hired (in high school), one of my first jobs was working at a car wash. That was hard and hot and while the pay was OK - 2x minimum wage, it wasn't was much as I could make with my on lawn care business.
In 30 years of embedded experience, I've found that I can teach myself most languages in under a day (and have never had a CS class (but have read a lot of books on the subject). I've formally, college level, studied four languages, but can't speak any of them (passably English).
It still takes all those things, the only difference is that now everyone carries all those things around in their pockets to be able to order a pizza and post the pictures online.
FWIW, I was designing autonomous cars (r&d) twenty years ago, but back then it wasn't called AI. They're not doing anything different today.
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Much less common.
This is a very accurate description of what happened to slashdot. George Washington said that politics and political division would be the downfall of the US.
With two exceptions, all of my older relatives are living into their 90's. Even the ones with very poor lifestyles are pushing 80.
80+...where you don't want to die, but then you don't necessarily want to live (that way) either.
For a semester long design project I had in university, I created a very detailed solar simulation and concluded that at below 26 /wattp, solar beat even hydro in cost. And it was a very detailed model including every known parameter (except labor which varied too much and was a one shot expense).
My neighbor has a wood stove and somebody gave her a bag of coal to burn. I thought it smelled really good.
You can modify a chest freezer easily enough and run it to refrigerator temps for about 100wh/day. Chest freezers have much better insulation than a standard refrigerator.
You should get a heat pump and use solar to heat your RV
Source? They last a lot longer than that in my experience, degrading at an industry standard of ~1%/year. After 20 years, they'll still produce about 77% of their original rated power and 70% at 30 years.
This works fine and well, the problem is that when you are hit with a week long ice storm and stop producing energy or storing energy after the second day.
The average person could not afford fast food or to go out to eat.
The biggest price difference was in carved elephants - I got one for ~$15 and saw an identical one in Santa Fe a year later selling for $900. I joked that it would be less expensive to fly there and buy it. That was the only local good, other than food, that I saw. The pay breakdown was approx $1/day laborer, $2/day skilled (plumber/electrician) and $3/day college professor/engineer.
FRACTAL COMPRESSION AND ANALYSIS ON REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY: An advanced Compression and Analysis Method for Remote Sensing Images
I was really interested n fractals and fractal compression for a time. And while you could get some insanely high compression ratios, the technique was lossy and decompression took 50+ hours (and 2 hours to compress). A potential use of the technology was picking out interesting artifacts from low rez space ohotos.
This is what doomed the shuttle. The only way they could get costs down to the advertised price tag was to have a high launch rate. The only way to get that high of a launch rate was to get the dod to use their services, the only way to get the dod to use their services was to meet the requirements of the dod and that meant a lot of requirements that weren't originally expected, and those design changes doomed the program. The air force did not want the shuttle, but NASA lobbied congress to force them to use it.
The reason people can live inexpensive there is that they do not buy expensive things. There is that ability to do the same in more developed countries also, but most people have money and don't look for them. If you lived there you'd be eating a lot of kale, potato and corn. You're not going to find chicken or steak any cheaper.
You can also bring the cost of living in the US to the level of living in other parts of the world. Easily. You might have to give up many things like a big house with a yard, three cars and a swimming pool, but then they don't have those things either.
Haha. Sounds like more fun than ebay. I'm an engineer, not a paleontologist or geologist, but I used to work for some
Start with a goal. Everything else is filer.
Inflation adjusted, I made close to $10k in grade school by mowing yards (over a few years). It was hot, but not that hard. I was too young to get a real job. When I was old enough to get hired (in high school), one of my first jobs was working at a car wash. That was hard and hot and while the pay was OK - 2x minimum wage, it wasn't was much as I could make with my on lawn care business.
In 30 years of embedded experience, I've found that I can teach myself most languages in under a day (and have never had a CS class (but have read a lot of books on the subject). I've formally, college level, studied four languages, but can't speak any of them (passably English).
German is just like English, but with more spit.
Maybe. But my friends and I used to like blowing things up.
land, and materials will still be expensive
So why not buy it now while it's inexpensive and start your own homestead? Too much work?
FWIW, I was designing autonomous cars (r&d) twenty years ago, but back then it wasn't called AI. They're not doing anything different today.
99.9% of the population not only unnecessary
Necessary for what? 100% of the population is unnecessary. Get over yourself.`