Hey nice try at deflecting from the obvious fact you have no idea what you are talking about.
If that were so you would have continued discussing the point since it would be so easy to dispute. Since you've gone ad hominem instead we'll all assume you've finally figured out that your argument is full of shit. I'll repost the previous discussion point since you're so obviously trying to avoid it:
Base Load occurs 24 hours a day actually. And for some of that 24 hour period, if some of the demand gets supplied by cheaper, easier, cleaner supplementary sources then you don't have to build as many big, expensive, dirty power stations, or consume as much dirty fuel.
Feel free to ask for help if there's something there you don't understand.
The chain also allows you to validate legit tickets from counterfeit ones, which is an issue.
The post you replied to already had the answer for that. Legit tickets can be signed by official issuer, and everybody can verify them using the posted public key.
Unless that single supplier is having an outage or being attacked. Distributed ledgers are more robust.
The main issue with current database methods is they only work with the initial purchaser. Blockchain allows you to maintain a robust ledger throughout multiple transactions,
You can simply take all the data from the blockchain ledger, and put it in a database.
Which means all stakeholders rely on a single source of truth and single point of failure. Distributed Ledgers are cheaper and more robust which is why blockchain is gaining popularity
The traditional commish for real estate scumbags is 7%. Often split between buyer and seller agents.
That must be an American thing. We don't have buyers agents here (they do exist but rare), and selling agents commission is generally 2%-2.5%. The average house price here is somewhere around $1.5M so that's $30k-$40k for what is effectively a few hours work. It just doesn't make sense.
If all else fails, take the real estate agent test. _Morons_ pass it every day, one weekend worth of study should do it. You really should understand the process, just to prevent financial sodomy.
We've got a couple of startups that do flat fee selling for $6k. They are licensed agents and do all the same things with the same protection, but a little more no frills, which less face who cares. You should be buying a house because you like it, not because an agent has whiter teeth.
So popular that gaming sites are being told to popularize it even more. Even slashdot is advertising for it. Such a popular game would never go anywhere unless we spam the world about its existence!
I hadn't heard of it so googled it. Most of the results had clickbait headlines "Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now" which leads me to believe this is some giant marketing campaign designed to hook people by sensational claims of popularity and FOMO and Slashdot is on the payroll. No doubt we'll see plenty more stories about it in the coming weeks.
Most browsers even hide the full URL as the site of this terrified many a folk.
I know that when I see a URL it scares the hell out of me. What is all that technobabble? If I don't understand it, it's clearly a liberal conspiracy designed to take my guns off me...
The way I would eliminate scalping is to schedule a decreasing ticket price. Buy on the first day, and the prices are $1000. They drop $100 for each of the next four days.
Also known as a reverse auction. I've heard a lot of people suggest it and I can't really see why it wouldn't work, yet here we are. Oh I know why, greed. Because scalping actually helps the marketing campaign by creating artificial supply issues, and contributes to hype which is what the promoter wants.
I'll be interested to see if they actually let this work.
You would still need a physical ticket in case the computers or network go down.
So some sort of device that converts digital bits to microscopic dots of ink on a piece or paper that make it readable outside of the computer? I believe I've heard of such a device....
but there is absolutely no point in chaining the tickets together, nor using any distributed voting mechanisms.
The chain also allows you to validate legit tickets from counterfeit ones, which is an issue.
Blockchain is good for reputation validation, it will make it easy to see who are the casual ticket buyers and who are the scalpers and act accordingly. If you are buying 20+ tickets each week, you could be invited to join the authorised reseller program and follow the rules, or be banned from buying tickets in future.
The technology exist to solve this problem, let's see if the marketing people will use it appropriately.
Of course, they could do all that with just a regular database that links a unique ticket serial number to the ticket's purchaser or intended user at the original sale with no block chain required, but that wouldn't have quite the same effect at generating hype and (more importantly) investment money, would it?
The main issue with current database methods is they only work with the initial purchaser. Blockchain allows you to maintain a robust ledger throughout multiple transactions, and I'm guessing will be used to prevent the same people (touts) from abusing the system. It would be possible to ban offenders from participating in ticket buying and selling and void tickets immediately if they do, as well as off an easy validation systems of real tickets versus fakes for any potential buyers.
In theory it could be done with a DB, which is how most efforts work today, but all of them are useless.
If we have to explain the difference between government and private servers, you're not really capable of participating further..
You didn't say private, you said non-government, which is what I responded to. And even if you said private it is ambiguous as 'private' in Government-speak means non-government (as opposed to public).
Words mean things. Don't blame others when you use the wrong ones...
Well first you need to know what base load means, which is the minimum demand over a time period.
Did you have to Google that? It sounds like you did...
Seeing as that occurs at NIGHT solar isn't going to do much about that.
It occurs 24 hours a day actually. And for some of that 24 hour period, if some of the demand gets supplied by cheaper, easier, cleaner supplementary sources then you don't have to build as many big, expensive, dirty power stations, or consume as much dirty fuel.
The culture of die for the emperor and defend your honor from World War 2 is alive and well. They stay many hours working too.
I did a short spell in Tokyo for a company I was working for. On the first day it got to about 5pm so I packed up and asked who wanted to come to the pub. Blank stares which I put down to lost in translation, so I went to the bar upstairs (high rise tower with bars and restaurants in it). I get a bit pissed and the jet lag sets in, so pop in the office on the way back to the hotel to get my bag. It's about 10pm and I'm shocked as everyone is still there! Some people aren't working they're just at their desks staring into space, and what I found out later was that it's disrespectful to leave the office before your superior. So everyone just waits around for the boss to leave.
It's a crazy shit and I just played dumb westerner who came and went as he pleased. I wasn't buying into any of that.
And you get a free education, free healthcare, in fact a whole lot of services are free or subsidized and my mum and dad have been living on public pensions for a long time now. But we're sure as hell paying for it somehow...
Surely the solution to this nightmare is to give all the rich people tax cuts, then prevent poor people from getting access to education and health? Wouldn't that make Norway much nicer place to live like in America? Oh and give everyone guns too, because that is how America solved their crime problems...
Somehow my parents, neither of whom had a college degree, bought a 1500 square foot fully detached house in a nice neighborhood. Far beyond anything I could realistically dream of.
There's a lot of reasons why, all to do with supply and demand:
There were much less people on earth when our parents were buying houses
Those people were more evenly distributed (urban vs rural) compared to today
Half the population didn't work full time so family budgets were much less
Interest rates were a lot higher.
There was a huge war not long prior where a lot of people died, and a lot of new technology was created that opened up a lot of new space
etc
The point here is that none of the conditions that made housing affordable for our parents are likely to be repeated again. I see people fall into this trap of thinking our childhood and our parents era is 'normal' and that we are living now is abnormal, but the truth is that the real normal is the thousands of years prior to the World Wars, when rich people owned everything and everyone else sucked it up. We are in the process of going back to that now. The positive side effects of 2 world wars are dissolving.
If you think land is unaffordable now, just wait another 20 years when even more people want to be in the few good locations, and the population is up 50%.
I might be silly. I *could* instead work a three-month contract once a year, taking 9 months off each year, and have a standard of living more like my parents grew up with.
I don't get what people see in big houses. I've designed a few houses in my time and built and renovated a few too. The best ones are the compact efficient spaces that give you enough space to do what you need to, but not too much that they have no 'feel' to them.
As a guide, I find about I don't need more than about 150m2 (1600sqft) for a family of four with spare room for guests (which we get a lot of). I've just bought a 2bed apartment which I plan to move into when the kids leave home and it's 100m2. We have new subdivisions here with 300-400m2 McMansions being built on them. I can only imagine how much extra the owners will spend on building, maintaining, insuring, powering, heating and cooling, furnishing and cleaning such a place. And to boot they aren't nice spaces to be in. Small and well designed beats a large box every day.
The anthropology professor could have got his/her pretty little lily-clean hands dirty and fixed the shelf him/herself. Just because you're in academia doesn't mean you're not allowed to work with your hands.
It probably does by the terms of your employment contract. I don't have pretty little lily-clean hands, I can rebuild an engine if required, but I don't touch anything at work unless it's my job because I could get fired if I do because of insurance liability. It's sad, but that the world we live in now.
Real estate transactions in general are very expensive because you have so many people involved at every phase (the agents, the buyers, the sellers, the title search company, the mortgage company, etc.) But, I'm not convinced that suddenly pulling all middlemen form the economy and causing double-digit unemployment overnight is the answer either.
Actually it's not as expensive as you think (or maybe it's different where you are). My friend just sold their house for $1.5M. The costs for that transaction were Agent commission, legal fees and taxes and that's it. The lawyer handles the taxes and agent payment from the proceeds of sale, and from memory their fee is about $1500 (title searches/inspection fees etc are all part of this).
They got completely ripped off and ended up paying about $50k to the agent for what was effectively photos($500?), an ad on the leading websites($100?), a sign out the front ($500?) and a couple of hours work showing the home and doing the negotiation($1000?). This part should really be a fixed price of no more than $5k max, which is about how much effort is expended to sell a property.
Adam Smith himself insisted that for a market to be free it must be well-regulated. Freedom is not the absence of regulation but the presence of the right kind of regulation.
The problem there is that America has a freedom fundamentalism element that doesn't understand such things. Right now everything is boiled down into free = good, regulation = bad.
Probably one of those dynamic things where it is always changing.
Which is the point. The appropriate size of government isn't really a thing that can be measured easily, so complaining that it's not correct amount is foolish.
There is nothing from the 60's that even comes close to 2001 for the story telling.
Look, I can understand you not liking Laurence of Arabia, Spartacus, Dr Strangelove, Zulu, Belle de Jour, Bonnie and Clyde, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Planet of the Apes, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Italian Job and "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
However every single one of them tells a story far better than 2001, and several of them are far better cinema too.
Sorry I meant Sci-fi storytelling. You are right, I've seen most of those movies and they are great, but anything sci-fi of that era was mostly spaghetti.
has anyone mentioned the reduced airconditioning costs from having part of your roof shaded?
I've often wondered what the effect would be if you installed a shade sail just off your roof like a tent fly. If you live somewhere hot this must reduce the need to cool your house quite considerably
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Hey nice try at deflecting from the obvious fact you have no idea what you are talking about.
If that were so you would have continued discussing the point since it would be so easy to dispute. Since you've gone ad hominem instead we'll all assume you've finally figured out that your argument is full of shit. I'll repost the previous discussion point since you're so obviously trying to avoid it:
Base Load occurs 24 hours a day actually. And for some of that 24 hour period, if some of the demand gets supplied by cheaper, easier, cleaner supplementary sources then you don't have to build as many big, expensive, dirty power stations, or consume as much dirty fuel.
Feel free to ask for help if there's something there you don't understand.
The chain also allows you to validate legit tickets from counterfeit ones, which is an issue.
The post you replied to already had the answer for that. Legit tickets can be signed by official issuer, and everybody can verify them using the posted public key.
Unless that single supplier is having an outage or being attacked. Distributed ledgers are more robust.
The main issue with current database methods is they only work with the initial purchaser. Blockchain allows you to maintain a robust ledger throughout multiple transactions,
You can simply take all the data from the blockchain ledger, and put it in a database.
Which means all stakeholders rely on a single source of truth and single point of failure. Distributed Ledgers are cheaper and more robust which is why blockchain is gaining popularity
The traditional commish for real estate scumbags is 7%. Often split between buyer and seller agents.
That must be an American thing. We don't have buyers agents here (they do exist but rare), and selling agents commission is generally 2%-2.5%. The average house price here is somewhere around $1.5M so that's $30k-$40k for what is effectively a few hours work. It just doesn't make sense.
If all else fails, take the real estate agent test. _Morons_ pass it every day, one weekend worth of study should do it. You really should understand the process, just to prevent financial sodomy.
We've got a couple of startups that do flat fee selling for $6k. They are licensed agents and do all the same things with the same protection, but a little more no frills, which less face who cares. You should be buying a house because you like it, not because an agent has whiter teeth.
Doubling the CO2 will add about 1.6 deg K to our temperature; will that be a disaster?
Dunno, what did Fox News tell you to think?
So popular that gaming sites are being told to popularize it even more. Even slashdot is advertising for it. Such a popular game would never go anywhere unless we spam the world about its existence!
I hadn't heard of it so googled it. Most of the results had clickbait headlines "Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now" which leads me to believe this is some giant marketing campaign designed to hook people by sensational claims of popularity and FOMO and Slashdot is on the payroll. No doubt we'll see plenty more stories about it in the coming weeks.
Most browsers even hide the full URL as the site of this terrified many a folk.
I know that when I see a URL it scares the hell out of me. What is all that technobabble? If I don't understand it, it's clearly a liberal conspiracy designed to take my guns off me...
The way I would eliminate scalping is to schedule a decreasing ticket price. Buy on the first day, and the prices are $1000. They drop $100 for each of the next four days.
Also known as a reverse auction. I've heard a lot of people suggest it and I can't really see why it wouldn't work, yet here we are. Oh I know why, greed. Because scalping actually helps the marketing campaign by creating artificial supply issues, and contributes to hype which is what the promoter wants.
I'll be interested to see if they actually let this work.
You would still need a physical ticket in case the computers or network go down.
So some sort of device that converts digital bits to microscopic dots of ink on a piece or paper that make it readable outside of the computer? I believe I've heard of such a device....
but there is absolutely no point in chaining the tickets together, nor using any distributed voting mechanisms.
The chain also allows you to validate legit tickets from counterfeit ones, which is an issue.
Blockchain is good for reputation validation, it will make it easy to see who are the casual ticket buyers and who are the scalpers and act accordingly. If you are buying 20+ tickets each week, you could be invited to join the authorised reseller program and follow the rules, or be banned from buying tickets in future.
The technology exist to solve this problem, let's see if the marketing people will use it appropriately.
Of course, they could do all that with just a regular database that links a unique ticket serial number to the ticket's purchaser or intended user at the original sale with no block chain required, but that wouldn't have quite the same effect at generating hype and (more importantly) investment money, would it?
The main issue with current database methods is they only work with the initial purchaser. Blockchain allows you to maintain a robust ledger throughout multiple transactions, and I'm guessing will be used to prevent the same people (touts) from abusing the system. It would be possible to ban offenders from participating in ticket buying and selling and void tickets immediately if they do, as well as off an easy validation systems of real tickets versus fakes for any potential buyers.
In theory it could be done with a DB, which is how most efforts work today, but all of them are useless.
If we have to explain the difference between government and private servers, you're not really capable of participating further. .
You didn't say private, you said non-government, which is what I responded to. And even if you said private it is ambiguous as 'private' in Government-speak means non-government (as opposed to public).
Words mean things. Don't blame others when you use the wrong ones...
Well first you need to know what base load means, which is the minimum demand over a time period.
Did you have to Google that? It sounds like you did...
Seeing as that occurs at NIGHT solar isn't going to do much about that.
It occurs 24 hours a day actually. And for some of that 24 hour period, if some of the demand gets supplied by cheaper, easier, cleaner supplementary sources then you don't have to build as many big, expensive, dirty power stations, or consume as much dirty fuel.
The culture of die for the emperor and defend your honor from World War 2 is alive and well. They stay many hours working too.
I did a short spell in Tokyo for a company I was working for. On the first day it got to about 5pm so I packed up and asked who wanted to come to the pub. Blank stares which I put down to lost in translation, so I went to the bar upstairs (high rise tower with bars and restaurants in it). I get a bit pissed and the jet lag sets in, so pop in the office on the way back to the hotel to get my bag. It's about 10pm and I'm shocked as everyone is still there! Some people aren't working they're just at their desks staring into space, and what I found out later was that it's disrespectful to leave the office before your superior. So everyone just waits around for the boss to leave.
It's a crazy shit and I just played dumb westerner who came and went as he pleased. I wasn't buying into any of that.
And you get a free education, free healthcare, in fact a whole lot of services are free or subsidized and my mum and dad have been living on public pensions for a long time now. But we're sure as hell paying for it somehow...
Surely the solution to this nightmare is to give all the rich people tax cuts, then prevent poor people from getting access to education and health? Wouldn't that make Norway much nicer place to live like in America? Oh and give everyone guns too, because that is how America solved their crime problems...
Somehow my parents, neither of whom had a college degree, bought a 1500 square foot fully detached house in a nice neighborhood. Far beyond anything I could realistically dream of.
There's a lot of reasons why, all to do with supply and demand:
There were much less people on earth when our parents were buying houses
Those people were more evenly distributed (urban vs rural) compared to today
Half the population didn't work full time so family budgets were much less
Interest rates were a lot higher.
There was a huge war not long prior where a lot of people died, and a lot of new technology was created that opened up a lot of new space
etc
The point here is that none of the conditions that made housing affordable for our parents are likely to be repeated again. I see people fall into this trap of thinking our childhood and our parents era is 'normal' and that we are living now is abnormal, but the truth is that the real normal is the thousands of years prior to the World Wars, when rich people owned everything and everyone else sucked it up. We are in the process of going back to that now. The positive side effects of 2 world wars are dissolving.
If you think land is unaffordable now, just wait another 20 years when even more people want to be in the few good locations, and the population is up 50%.
I might be silly. I *could* instead work a three-month contract once a year, taking 9 months off each year, and have a standard of living more like my parents grew up with.
I don't get what people see in big houses. I've designed a few houses in my time and built and renovated a few too. The best ones are the compact efficient spaces that give you enough space to do what you need to, but not too much that they have no 'feel' to them.
As a guide, I find about I don't need more than about 150m2 (1600sqft) for a family of four with spare room for guests (which we get a lot of). I've just bought a 2bed apartment which I plan to move into when the kids leave home and it's 100m2. We have new subdivisions here with 300-400m2 McMansions being built on them. I can only imagine how much extra the owners will spend on building, maintaining, insuring, powering, heating and cooling, furnishing and cleaning such a place. And to boot they aren't nice spaces to be in. Small and well designed beats a large box every day.
The anthropology professor could have got his/her pretty little lily-clean hands dirty and fixed the shelf him/herself. Just because you're in academia doesn't mean you're not allowed to work with your hands.
It probably does by the terms of your employment contract. I don't have pretty little lily-clean hands, I can rebuild an engine if required, but I don't touch anything at work unless it's my job because I could get fired if I do because of insurance liability. It's sad, but that the world we live in now.
Real estate transactions in general are very expensive because you have so many people involved at every phase (the agents, the buyers, the sellers, the title search company, the mortgage company, etc.) But, I'm not convinced that suddenly pulling all middlemen form the economy and causing double-digit unemployment overnight is the answer either.
Actually it's not as expensive as you think (or maybe it's different where you are). My friend just sold their house for $1.5M. The costs for that transaction were Agent commission, legal fees and taxes and that's it. The lawyer handles the taxes and agent payment from the proceeds of sale, and from memory their fee is about $1500 (title searches/inspection fees etc are all part of this).
They got completely ripped off and ended up paying about $50k to the agent for what was effectively photos($500?), an ad on the leading websites($100?), a sign out the front ($500?) and a couple of hours work showing the home and doing the negotiation($1000?). This part should really be a fixed price of no more than $5k max, which is about how much effort is expended to sell a property.
If you can't understand people need power when the sun doesn't shine,
Solar is a supplementary system design to ease pressure of the existing base load infrastructure, not replace it.
I can only deduce you don't have the intellect to talk on this subject.
One of us doesn't, that is becoming abundantly clear....
Adam Smith himself insisted that for a market to be free it must be well-regulated. Freedom is not the absence of regulation but the presence of the right kind of regulation.
The problem there is that America has a freedom fundamentalism element that doesn't understand such things. Right now everything is boiled down into free = good, regulation = bad.
Probably one of those dynamic things where it is always changing.
Which is the point. The appropriate size of government isn't really a thing that can be measured easily, so complaining that it's not correct amount is foolish.
There is nothing from the 60's that even comes close to 2001 for the story telling.
Look, I can understand you not liking Laurence of Arabia, Spartacus, Dr Strangelove, Zulu, Belle de Jour, Bonnie and Clyde, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Planet of the Apes, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Italian Job and "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
However every single one of them tells a story far better than 2001, and several of them are far better cinema too.
Sorry I meant Sci-fi storytelling. You are right, I've seen most of those movies and they are great, but anything sci-fi of that era was mostly spaghetti.
has anyone mentioned the reduced airconditioning costs from having part of your roof shaded?
I've often wondered what the effect would be if you installed a shade sail just off your roof like a tent fly. If you live somewhere hot this must reduce the need to cool your house quite considerably
I cited a source offering data on average utility costs from largest power utility in CA.
"50 to 60k is twice my 25 year total energy bill".
I merely compared your bill with mine to show not everyone's bill is the same....