This might start a flamewar... but in my experience X support for lesser-known chipsets is pretty terrible and a simple framebuffer is always faster. The issue could just be a simple choice of driver.
Although with the FreeRunner I think the main deficiency is the non-capacitive touchscreen.
Additionally, if you drive without a seatbelt, yes, it does inpact others. Because we pay for your emergency room visits. And because we're human, we don't turn bleeding, critically injured people away who are too poor to have proper insurance.
Way to nullify all your other reasonable arguments, dude.
The point is that a completely private justice system would incur some regulatory cost, if even in the form of angry mobs with guillotines. If the cost of a public monopoly is less, then why not have one?
But CO2 pollution, for example, is not really a resource we are failing to collect. The cost of collecting it far exceeds the utility of the resource
I mostly agree with your last paragraph. Yes, governments regulate the obvious externalities of pollution such as effects on health and welfare. But they can also regulate entropic pollution, or the loss incurred over generations due to resource waste.
Regardless, you're wrongly conflating 'utility' with value. The utility of pure CO2 right now, this moment, in a world that is burning all available fossil resources as quickly as possible, is in fact close to zero, true. But the fundamental, absolute value of pure CO2 when viewed over a much longer timescale during which fossil resources will be exhausted, is much higher. Fuller's obvious point was that this should be taken into account.
I think after several ugly years with more than a few civil wars we will come to the realization that capitalism as a system will have simply run its course.
Have you not noticed that warfare leads to more capitalism, not less?
water... when it's the difference between hydrating and not hydrating
Well then I have some good news for you! Haven't you heard, thanks to the vigilant heroes working in the nanny-state, you no longer need to waste your time purifying water to stay hydrated. It doesn't actually hydrate after all! Just think of the savings to the world economy. We truly are living in glorious times thanks to the genius of our technocratic leaders. It's a good thing I'm just a Beta and I don't have to do all the thinking required to be one of those hard workers, that would be doubleplusungood!
You missed the rather important point that, instead of investing in infrastructure or jobs, the Congress spent that cash trying to kill off the Millennials in bullshit fraudulent wars. So at this point, not only is the country broke, but it's time for a retaliatory strike in the generational war. Hope you like eating cat food, grandma.
I don't know exactly at what size the tide will turn and each person makes the colony more self-sufficient, but I'm thinking big. Like, really really big.
It's best to just forget about creating anything like a large civilization for now. What you need is a small group, optimized for reproductive health, and lots of robots. The American colonies probably weren't self-sufficient until they had tens of thousands of people, at least, and most of those were slaves. Considering the requirements of a space colony, the number would have to be even higher than that without a lot of machine intelligence built-in.
I don't see how our bodies are so fragile. We are mostly insoluble, self-repairing, flexible, freeze-resistant, self-cleaning, radiation-resistant and self-reproducing. We don't hold up to a vacuum but there's really no reason for us to live in a vacuum. A human explorer could outlive even our best rovers with a minimum of supplies and equipment.
Right now, however, if we try to establish a permanent base (which we can't afford) on Mars, with enough fertile individuals to perpetuate the human race, they're basically equally fucked if the Earth gets hit by an asteroid - they'll just take a little longer to die.
This is it exactly. Mars is absolutely our best chance for a permanent space colony. But it would have to be the size of a small town and even then there's no guarantee of survival. We're talking trillions of dollars and several decades at least. No nation on Earth is in a position to pull that off.
I imagine GPS and GSM modules for the Arduino will run you more than $130.
It would probably be cheaper to use an Android phone. The Neo Freerunner is very hackable, but has poor battery life. I'm sure you can find a better one. Just add a prepaid cell plan for around $10/mo.
Bullshit. Stockbrokers and lawyers are licensed and subsidized. The supply is artificially limited by government fiat, and demand is artificially increased. Not so for mechanics and programmers. And that's the reason for the difference. It has nothing to do with natural supply and demand.
It's no mystery. Gold is limited in quantity. It is difficult to forge. It does not degrade over time. And it requires work to acquire.
As much as anything, trading is about forming relationships. It is about acceding to risk. It is about placing resources in the hands of others, in which we trust they will be well used and cared for. Look at the evolution of currency from simple barter, into our current system, one of credit and accounting standards in which reputation is paramount yet fraud is omnipresent.
Currency does not need to have inherent value. The value of a currency is in the people who use it, in the value produced by specialization and trade, and in the avoidance of risk while doing so. The value of Bitcoin lies in it's ability to help identify trading partners of similar calibre, with similar values, and to weed out the rest.
Burning GPU time is equivalent to burning $100 bills.
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This might start a flamewar... but in my experience X support for lesser-known chipsets is pretty terrible and a simple framebuffer is always faster. The issue could just be a simple choice of driver.
Although with the FreeRunner I think the main deficiency is the non-capacitive touchscreen.
Additionally, if you drive without a seatbelt, yes, it does inpact others. Because we pay for your emergency room visits. And because we're human, we don't turn bleeding, critically injured people away who are too poor to have proper insurance.
Way to nullify all your other reasonable arguments, dude.
IIRC some brand-new towns designed their sewer system and waste treatment plants to handle large quantities of food waste, and then
...went bankrupt like Jefferson County?
(I don't actually know that that's the case, but would appreciate if someone who lives there could enlighten me)
The point is that a completely private justice system would incur some regulatory cost, if even in the form of angry mobs with guillotines. If the cost of a public monopoly is less, then why not have one?
But CO2 pollution, for example, is not really a resource we are failing to collect. The cost of collecting it far exceeds the utility of the resource
I mostly agree with your last paragraph. Yes, governments regulate the obvious externalities of pollution such as effects on health and welfare. But they can also regulate entropic pollution, or the loss incurred over generations due to resource waste.
Regardless, you're wrongly conflating 'utility' with value. The utility of pure CO2 right now, this moment, in a world that is burning all available fossil resources as quickly as possible, is in fact close to zero, true. But the fundamental, absolute value of pure CO2 when viewed over a much longer timescale during which fossil resources will be exhausted, is much higher. Fuller's obvious point was that this should be taken into account.
Firstly we already pay for garbage collection in property taxes.
We?
The bottom line is that some things are best handled as a monopoly.
- always false.
If the costs of regulation would exceed the costs of a (public) monopoly, why not? You think jails should be private?
I think after several ugly years with more than a few civil wars we will come to the realization that capitalism as a system will have simply run its course.
Have you not noticed that warfare leads to more capitalism, not less?
That's the only real solution. So of course it will never happen.
Yes. Even the cheapest SLR will produce good quality photos even if you know nothing about the technical details and never bother to learn.
If your price range is at all close to $400-$500, go ahead and get an SLR. Personally I have had good experience with a Canon Rebel.
water... when it's the difference between hydrating and not hydrating
Well then I have some good news for you! Haven't you heard, thanks to the vigilant heroes working in the nanny-state, you no longer need to waste your time purifying water to stay hydrated. It doesn't actually hydrate after all! Just think of the savings to the world economy. We truly are living in glorious times thanks to the genius of our technocratic leaders. It's a good thing I'm just a Beta and I don't have to do all the thinking required to be one of those hard workers, that would be doubleplusungood!
Because you can still get a business loan from zombie banks to start a fucking cupcake business, but not to invest in actual productive capital.
You missed the rather important point that, instead of investing in infrastructure or jobs, the Congress spent that cash trying to kill off the Millennials in bullshit fraudulent wars. So at this point, not only is the country broke, but it's time for a retaliatory strike in the generational war. Hope you like eating cat food, grandma.
Or you can just stop paying taxes, and all 535 members of Congress get the same choice whether they want it or not.
one group derives much of their power from encouraging people to not be contributors to the society.
You're referring to the group that wants to redistribute my earnings by force?
Categorization is a function of communications and the desire to minimize entropics in information transfer within a medium.
That's just, like, your opinion man.
Yeah, we now live in a world in which physics PhDs build tractors, and Bill Gates designs nuclear reactors. We are well and truly screwed.
I don't know exactly at what size the tide will turn and each person makes the colony more self-sufficient, but I'm thinking big. Like, really really big.
It's best to just forget about creating anything like a large civilization for now. What you need is a small group, optimized for reproductive health, and lots of robots. The American colonies probably weren't self-sufficient until they had tens of thousands of people, at least, and most of those were slaves. Considering the requirements of a space colony, the number would have to be even higher than that without a lot of machine intelligence built-in.
I don't see how our bodies are so fragile. We are mostly insoluble, self-repairing, flexible, freeze-resistant, self-cleaning, radiation-resistant and self-reproducing. We don't hold up to a vacuum but there's really no reason for us to live in a vacuum. A human explorer could outlive even our best rovers with a minimum of supplies and equipment.
Right now, however, if we try to establish a permanent base (which we can't afford) on Mars, with enough fertile individuals to perpetuate the human race, they're basically equally fucked if the Earth gets hit by an asteroid - they'll just take a little longer to die.
This is it exactly. Mars is absolutely our best chance for a permanent space colony. But it would have to be the size of a small town and even then there's no guarantee of survival. We're talking trillions of dollars and several decades at least. No nation on Earth is in a position to pull that off.
I imagine GPS and GSM modules for the Arduino will run you more than $130.
It would probably be cheaper to use an Android phone. The Neo Freerunner is very hackable, but has poor battery life. I'm sure you can find a better one. Just add a prepaid cell plan for around $10/mo.
there is nothing preventing the larger turbine from being hooked into a similar combined cycle system as well.
There is the economic fact that people who can make use of low-level waste heat don't live next to power plants.
Gee I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.
It's all based on supply and demand.
Bullshit. Stockbrokers and lawyers are licensed and subsidized. The supply is artificially limited by government fiat, and demand is artificially increased. Not so for mechanics and programmers. And that's the reason for the difference. It has nothing to do with natural supply and demand.
It's no mystery. Gold is limited in quantity. It is difficult to forge. It does not degrade over time. And it requires work to acquire.
As much as anything, trading is about forming relationships. It is about acceding to risk. It is about placing resources in the hands of others, in which we trust they will be well used and cared for. Look at the evolution of currency from simple barter, into our current system, one of credit and accounting standards in which reputation is paramount yet fraud is omnipresent.
Currency does not need to have inherent value. The value of a currency is in the people who use it, in the value produced by specialization and trade, and in the avoidance of risk while doing so. The value of Bitcoin lies in it's ability to help identify trading partners of similar calibre, with similar values, and to weed out the rest.
Burning GPU time is equivalent to burning $100 bills.