Isn't this this perfect scenario for using distributed computing, things like SETI@Home or Rosetta@Home etc., and having software in place to automatically launch this distributed computing on peoples home computers, in order to eat up all of that negative-price electricity?
Through doing this, the kwh used in the computing can be calculated (relatively easy to approximate with modern processors - the completed work can be used as verification that the energy was used this way), and subtracted from the participants power bills (plus a bonus relief to the customer, for any error margin and as thanks for participating) - so that it's at no extra cost for the customer, and only the most marginal cost for government.
Now all the people AirBnB have indirectly made homeless through local rents being jacked up, by AirBnB making it easy to illegally convert rentals into short-term-lets, will be able to rely on the charity of the greedy people who have exploited this opportunity in the first place.
Great plan, guys - nothing cynical in this PR move at all.
The best economics documentary I've seen thus far (minus the last few interview episodes), by John Kenneth Galbraith - a great antidote to todays free-market-everything economics.
Forewarning everyone: Ever since the IMDB message boards got closed, all of their TV shows stats are starting to become falsified - so now you can't tell the good TV shows from the shit ones anymore.
It's been like this with newly released movies for years, but now the TV show IMDB pages are completely useless for trying to save yourself time from watching garbage TV shows.
My girlfriend is currently reading this - wish I'd read it years ago, would have saved me loads of time looking at all those pages of meaningless gibberish.
...and convinced Amazon to kill the IMDB message Boards (one of the most valuable sources of genuine information about movies on the entire Internet) - now they are going after all the other review sites, which threaten to inform potential customers, of the quality of their reheated shite du jour...
The UBI would be great news for Silicon Valley and businesses everywhere: They could slash their wages by the same amount as the UBI, turning it into a massive business subsidy.
The UBI is going to be paid to everyone who DOES work as well - i.e. it's going to be subsidizing a gigantic chunk of the wage bill for every business in the economy.
That's a fucking massive business subsidy.
By paying a big chunk of workers wages, for those businesses - shocker, eh?
I don't understand how people are so thick, that they don't see that the UBI is a massive business subsidy, more than anything else.
How in fuck do I safely update a Windows install, without risking telemetry and all of the shove-Win10-down-my-throat bullshit?
Nobody has a fucking answer to this. I need to update my installs, ASAP - but I'm holding off because I don't know how to avoid all of the fucking MS-produced malware...
Someone give me a fucking answer...don't link me to offline installers, that just install all of the problematic updates as well...
I'm a sitting duck here, running a Windows 7 install that hasn't been updated in ages, on a LAN that I can reasonably assume will eventually be infected - how do I update Windows 7 safely, without risking an install of Microsoft's latest malware (Windows 10), or other privacy invading updates from Microsoft?
Is there any safe way for me to install only necessary updates, without all of the above shite installing as well?
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A new brand of IoT connected hamster wheels?
Isn't this this perfect scenario for using distributed computing, things like SETI@Home or Rosetta@Home etc., and having software in place to automatically launch this distributed computing on peoples home computers, in order to eat up all of that negative-price electricity? Through doing this, the kwh used in the computing can be calculated (relatively easy to approximate with modern processors - the completed work can be used as verification that the energy was used this way), and subtracted from the participants power bills (plus a bonus relief to the customer, for any error margin and as thanks for participating) - so that it's at no extra cost for the customer, and only the most marginal cost for government.
Now all the people AirBnB have indirectly made homeless through local rents being jacked up, by AirBnB making it easy to illegally convert rentals into short-term-lets, will be able to rely on the charity of the greedy people who have exploited this opportunity in the first place. Great plan, guys - nothing cynical in this PR move at all.
The best economics documentary I've seen thus far (minus the last few interview episodes), by John Kenneth Galbraith - a great antidote to todays free-market-everything economics.
Forewarning everyone: Ever since the IMDB message boards got closed, all of their TV shows stats are starting to become falsified - so now you can't tell the good TV shows from the shit ones anymore. It's been like this with newly released movies for years, but now the TV show IMDB pages are completely useless for trying to save yourself time from watching garbage TV shows.
My girlfriend is currently reading this - wish I'd read it years ago, would have saved me loads of time looking at all those pages of meaningless gibberish.
We now may be closer to answering the question David Bowie asked more than ~45 years ago.
...and convinced Amazon to kill the IMDB message Boards (one of the most valuable sources of genuine information about movies on the entire Internet) - now they are going after all the other review sites, which threaten to inform potential customers, of the quality of their reheated shite du jour...
The UBI would be great news for Silicon Valley and businesses everywhere: They could slash their wages by the same amount as the UBI, turning it into a massive business subsidy.
The UBI is going to be paid to everyone who DOES work as well - i.e. it's going to be subsidizing a gigantic chunk of the wage bill for every business in the economy. That's a fucking massive business subsidy.
By paying a big chunk of workers wages, for those businesses - shocker, eh? I don't understand how people are so thick, that they don't see that the UBI is a massive business subsidy, more than anything else.
How in fuck do I safely update a Windows install, without risking telemetry and all of the shove-Win10-down-my-throat bullshit? Nobody has a fucking answer to this. I need to update my installs, ASAP - but I'm holding off because I don't know how to avoid all of the fucking MS-produced malware... Someone give me a fucking answer...don't link me to offline installers, that just install all of the problematic updates as well...
I'm a sitting duck here, running a Windows 7 install that hasn't been updated in ages, on a LAN that I can reasonably assume will eventually be infected - how do I update Windows 7 safely, without risking an install of Microsoft's latest malware (Windows 10), or other privacy invading updates from Microsoft? Is there any safe way for me to install only necessary updates, without all of the above shite installing as well?