While I generally support self determination for geographic regions the law in Spain does seem to make the declaration of independence illegal.
But isn't that how most independence happens? I don't recall the British being too fond of the Americans when they wanted self-determination.
FWIW I support it. We need more smaller countries and less big monolithic ones. If an entire region can vote successfully for separation it should be allowed to happen.
Squandering Bezos' wealth would make very little difference to the world.
Oxfam predicts it would take $60B/year to eliminate poverty. So we could let Bezos keep $30B AND solve poverty too. That would be a considerable difference to about 3 Billion people.
Just imagine how many problems we could solve by breaking him up.
It's a solution that doesn't get nearly enough air-time.
If you confiscated most of the wealth the top 8 richest people and redistributed it to the bottom, you could double the wealth of 3.5 billion people. You'd only have to do it two or three times and poverty would be done.
In a world where millions die each year due to poverty it seems criminal that we let these people keep their money. This is worse than anything Martin Shkreli ever did.
So you are saying that the market voted with their wallets. Which made Microsoft the most popular.
No. People were not given a choice. If you walked into a computer store in the 1990s, you had a choice of Windows, Windows, or Windows.
Because it was best suited to what people wanted. You can bitch and moan all you like that it was unfair, but Windows was the best fit for the burgeoning home internet market that just got invented.
Or use the money to pay the other side to go back home.
This is something that doesn't get enough attention. At what point to weapons get so expensive that it is more economically effective to pay the other side to stop?
And I'm not talking straight cash that would only encourage more enemies, but clever application of funding for things like schools and hospitals, things that encourage the people to become educated and prosperous and not fight wars in the first place? eg 6 months of military spend is more then the GDP of Afghanistan and Iraq combined, yet we've been over there for 15 years with no end in sight.
Summarily firing him sends all kinds of bad messages.
It sends the most important message Apple cares about, confidentiality is more important than your job.
Given how much Apple despises leaks, this was the only course action they could take and maintain their position. Therefore it's the right one.
At least in a business relationship, they are quite abusive to their vendors. Of course, every company is as abusive to their vendors as they can afford to be,
I think this is more at the big end of town, where even a typo can cost millions of dollars. This is why I moved out of big business into medium sized. You still have enough money to do cool stuff, but you don't have as many over-ambitious fuckwits trying to shit on you at every opportunity. Now my vendors are more like partners. We work together and most people behave like adults.
Cellular is still a luxury internet connection (due to it being a finite resource) and i think people forget that.
Depends where you live. Once you used to something it's no longer luxury.
Where I live we've had great cellular wireless for years, and is considered as essential as roads and electricity. Some other places might not be as advance so to them it still is. I know when I travel I feel like going back in time because some so called 'developed' countries still don't have ubiquitous 4G everywhere.
If Voogle's traffic is light, their NSP probably won't charge them much. If Voogle is streaming 4k video to thousands of customers, their NSP is likely to charge them quite a bit.
That was way too much text to read, but this point is wrong. NSP's already have peering arrangements with each other, and the charges are generally based on net difference (upload/download etc).
When I worked for a large ISP, we used to offer free hosting to high volume services to balance out the peering numbers and reduce our peering fees because our downloads were much, much more than uploads.
Interesting. I question the source of those numbers, since I've been to most of the countries you listed, and I've never been assaulted by the sheer number of beggars/homeless on the streets as I have in the US.
In most major cities you'll see the odd one here or there, but New York or San Francisco for example there's one on every single block. Skid Row in LA is unlike anywhere I've seen in the developed world.
There are not economic solutions to mental problems.
Um what?
Mental health is guess what... a health issue. This can be largely addressed with decent healthcare funded by...money!
It is exactly why countries with socialised healthcare have much lower rates of homelessness. Where I live, a lot of these people get help (including somewhere to live). That is an economic solution.
OR... Are you claiming that they snap up housing as investments, forcing prices up? Is that it? Because if it is, you just proved why you want a lot of rich people buying stuff that the poorer folks like you produce...
You haven't really thought that through. Unlike most other goods, real estate is finite, so the more someone else has, the less there is for others. We already have this situation where the wealthier people are buying up property driving prices up, and the average people can't afford to buy a house. This is not any benefit for the average person.
Yes we want rich people buying goods that can be produced, that boosts the economy. Land doesn't fit in that category.
That America is continuing to prop up the rest of the socialist world by continuing to be the only country besides Japan which has people that actually do something?
Interesting claim, I'd love to see the stats that support it. Don't worry I have them here: https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/g...
Spoiler: USA is near the bottom of the OECD in similar pattern to health, education, corruption, quality of life etc etc. Sorry to burst your bubble dude, the USA has money, but most of that is held by only handful of your citizens. For the rest, you are effectively a third world country on pretty much all metrics.
exactly. how rich other people are is un important. what matters is how well off the bottom is doing. and in a world full of billions of people (some would say a few billion too many) we are clearly better off today than we were in the past as a species
Pyongyang is 118 miles from Seoul. Kaesong is around 30 miles to the center of Seoul.
Can't remember who said it, someone in the administration when questioned about the escalation with NK, but it was along the lines of Kim holds all the cards. There is no way to strike NK without millions of SK, Chinese and Japanese people dying. This is why Obama, Bush Jnr, Clinton etc tried to pay some sort of lip service to keep him pacified, because they knew they had no real options. Man-baby-in-chief is too full of bluster to realise he is in an unwinnable position, and could easily trigger the next holocaust.
What is the solution to NK? How do we de-escalate?
Stop telling everyone else what to do? I mean why does the US get to say who has guns and who doesn't? It seems entirely absurd that the nation most bent of freedom and rights to bear arms wants to prevent others from exactly that.
This was back in the 90s but apparently the movie was so bad no one watched it and now they are falling for the same scam.
By falling do you mean upwards? Because while it may be a scam long term, cryptocurrency is making a lot of people rich as we speak. And for every schmuck who will lose, there'll be another you don't hear about that got out at the right time and is rich.
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While I generally support self determination for geographic regions the law in Spain does seem to make the declaration of independence illegal.
But isn't that how most independence happens? I don't recall the British being too fond of the Americans when they wanted self-determination.
FWIW I support it. We need more smaller countries and less big monolithic ones. If an entire region can vote successfully for separation it should be allowed to happen.
Squandering Bezos' wealth would make very little difference to the world.
Oxfam predicts it would take $60B/year to eliminate poverty. So we could let Bezos keep $30B AND solve poverty too. That would be a considerable difference to about 3 Billion people.
Just imagine how many problems we could solve by breaking him up.
It's a solution that doesn't get nearly enough air-time.
If you confiscated most of the wealth the top 8 richest people and redistributed it to the bottom, you could double the wealth of 3.5 billion people. You'd only have to do it two or three times and poverty would be done.
In a world where millions die each year due to poverty it seems criminal that we let these people keep their money. This is worse than anything Martin Shkreli ever did.
That's not really hers. She didn't do anything to get it. That's really the people of Great Britain's money.
Still hers. Regardless of how unjust you think that is, she still owns it.
So you are saying that the market voted with their wallets. Which made Microsoft the most popular.
No. People were not given a choice. If you walked into a computer store in the 1990s, you had a choice of Windows, Windows, or Windows.
Because it was best suited to what people wanted. You can bitch and moan all you like that it was unfair, but Windows was the best fit for the burgeoning home internet market that just got invented.
The Marines and the Royal Navy (among others like Spain) both need them.
What for? I don't know either way, but I find it odd you left this bit of useful info out...
Or use the money to pay the other side to go back home.
This is something that doesn't get enough attention. At what point to weapons get so expensive that it is more economically effective to pay the other side to stop?
And I'm not talking straight cash that would only encourage more enemies, but clever application of funding for things like schools and hospitals, things that encourage the people to become educated and prosperous and not fight wars in the first place? eg 6 months of military spend is more then the GDP of Afghanistan and Iraq combined, yet we've been over there for 15 years with no end in sight.
I have no mod points that that is post of the day.
Summarily firing him sends all kinds of bad messages.
It sends the most important message Apple cares about, confidentiality is more important than your job.
Given how much Apple despises leaks, this was the only course action they could take and maintain their position. Therefore it's the right one.
At least in a business relationship, they are quite abusive to their vendors. Of course, every company is as abusive to their vendors as they can afford to be,
I think this is more at the big end of town, where even a typo can cost millions of dollars. This is why I moved out of big business into medium sized. You still have enough money to do cool stuff, but you don't have as many over-ambitious fuckwits trying to shit on you at every opportunity. Now my vendors are more like partners. We work together and most people behave like adults.
Cellular is still a luxury internet connection (due to it being a finite resource) and i think people forget that.
Depends where you live. Once you used to something it's no longer luxury.
Where I live we've had great cellular wireless for years, and is considered as essential as roads and electricity. Some other places might not be as advance so to them it still is. I know when I travel I feel like going back in time because some so called 'developed' countries still don't have ubiquitous 4G everywhere.
If Voogle's traffic is light, their NSP probably won't charge them much. If Voogle is streaming 4k video to thousands of customers, their NSP is likely to charge them quite a bit.
That was way too much text to read, but this point is wrong. NSP's already have peering arrangements with each other, and the charges are generally based on net difference (upload/download etc).
When I worked for a large ISP, we used to offer free hosting to high volume services to balance out the peering numbers and reduce our peering fees because our downloads were much, much more than uploads.
DO THEY NOW? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Homelessness rate in the US :0.18%
Interesting. I question the source of those numbers, since I've been to most of the countries you listed, and I've never been assaulted by the sheer number of beggars/homeless on the streets as I have in the US.
In most major cities you'll see the odd one here or there, but New York or San Francisco for example there's one on every single block. Skid Row in LA is unlike anywhere I've seen in the developed world.
There are not economic solutions to mental problems.
Um what?
Mental health is guess what... a health issue. This can be largely addressed with decent healthcare funded by...money!
It is exactly why countries with socialised healthcare have much lower rates of homelessness. Where I live, a lot of these people get help (including somewhere to live). That is an economic solution.
OR... Are you claiming that they snap up housing as investments, forcing prices up? Is that it? Because if it is, you just proved why you want a lot of rich people buying stuff that the poorer folks like you produce...
You haven't really thought that through. Unlike most other goods, real estate is finite, so the more someone else has, the less there is for others. We already have this situation where the wealthier people are buying up property driving prices up, and the average people can't afford to buy a house. This is not any benefit for the average person.
Yes we want rich people buying goods that can be produced, that boosts the economy. Land doesn't fit in that category.
That America is continuing to prop up the rest of the socialist world by continuing to be the only country besides Japan which has people that actually do something?
Interesting claim, I'd love to see the stats that support it. Don't worry I have them here: https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/g... Spoiler: USA is near the bottom of the OECD in similar pattern to health, education, corruption, quality of life etc etc. Sorry to burst your bubble dude, the USA has money, but most of that is held by only handful of your citizens. For the rest, you are effectively a third world country on pretty much all metrics.
exactly. how rich other people are is un important. what matters is how well off the bottom is doing. and in a world full of billions of people (some would say a few billion too many) we are clearly better off today than we were in the past as a species
And here is the best presentation I've seen that demonstrates it: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans...
*cough* #realDonaldTrump *cough*
Pyongyang is 118 miles from Seoul. Kaesong is around 30 miles to the center of Seoul.
Can't remember who said it, someone in the administration when questioned about the escalation with NK, but it was along the lines of Kim holds all the cards. There is no way to strike NK without millions of SK, Chinese and Japanese people dying. This is why Obama, Bush Jnr, Clinton etc tried to pay some sort of lip service to keep him pacified, because they knew they had no real options. Man-baby-in-chief is too full of bluster to realise he is in an unwinnable position, and could easily trigger the next holocaust.
What is the solution to NK? How do we de-escalate?
Stop telling everyone else what to do? I mean why does the US get to say who has guns and who doesn't? It seems entirely absurd that the nation most bent of freedom and rights to bear arms wants to prevent others from exactly that.
Unfortunately our insane boy leader of the US doesn’t know how to deescalate these problems.
Boy is a bit much. I thought Man-baby was more appropriate.
The next stage for them is to start building over the oceans or reclaiming land.
Most of the Hong Kong harbour front is already on reclaimed land. The airport was built on a man made island...
./ has always been at the forefront of new technologies, and now crypto currencies get all the flak from the ./ crowd. Weird.
Disruptive technology is disruptive. Those on the losing side are the ones the moan the loudest...
if something happens, like communications or power going out, the currencies that are higher level will wind up being useless.
Useless for the few minutes that that happens, then back to being useful minutes later. Just like everything else that uses electricity...
This was back in the 90s but apparently the movie was so bad no one watched it and now they are falling for the same scam.
By falling do you mean upwards? Because while it may be a scam long term, cryptocurrency is making a lot of people rich as we speak. And for every schmuck who will lose, there'll be another you don't hear about that got out at the right time and is rich.