I have noticed this more and more. It's absolutely disgusting. Everything we buy is covered in plastic, wrapping, cardboard. Disposable plates, cups, forks, all used once then thrown away.
Any eating establishment should be banned from using disposable dishes for dining in. To go should have a tax that goes to recycling or cleanup. All plasticware should have a federal deposit value, all cans, bottles, etc. It would go a long way to recycling and give the homeless a possible income and clean up the garbage.
Styrofoam should be banned completely unless for very specific cases. We have a long way to go politically...
Excellent. Although invalidating the patents is definitely not punishment, itâ(TM)s merely correcting the wrong. Punishment would go further, like fining the corporation 1-10% of annual income, AND fining all employees involved 1-10% of annual salary. Accountability is seriously lacking in business and government.
Enterprise software is so complex that there must be thousands of source files with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. How does a code review catch anything? If a company has a backdoor, why on earth would they provide it in a source review? Just remove the backdoor, submit the files, and pass. Source review seems like a waste of time, how do they, or did they ensure the source they were reviewing is the source that's in the application? Perhaps they did the review, compiled, packaged, then copied to memory for installation?
- It speeds transition to cord cutting - It undermines lucrative business plans - Some currently get by with lucrative cellular data plans
I absolutely believe telecoms promise everything and deliver nothing or just enough to look like they care. It is up to communities to upheave these dumbass telcos.
Haha, the first punch is ridiculously dumb, KO. Just skip everything except the fighting, there are 2 matches in the video. The first is 2 seconds long. The second is actually kinda cool, it's at least funny, they do some damage and almost kill the annoying announcers, too bad they didn't. These kinds of things would be SO much better if they didn't overhype it like it's going to be so amazing.
Finally a compelling reason to perhaps ditch my 7 year old PC. The huge drawbacks of non replaceable battery and storage give me pause, but the mobile factor and managing one system may win over.
Wind and solar are a tiny fraction of our supply at 2%, hydro 7%, and nuclear 4%. We have a long ways to go, but this is great news, hopefully the scale is now tipped to solar.
In 25 years solar "panels" will be as cheap and flexible as plastic sheeting. Energy will be nearly free and we'll be struggling with who should be allowed to have children and deciding which grossly overpopulated areas need to "purged".
It is also the first time Apple has released its new phones with the premium model being delayed a few months, I know if I intend to upgrade there is little reason to get the 8 over the X.
Trains are hundreds of tons and carry immense amounts of momentum and energy. A hyperloop pod would be very light, possibly weighing much less than the cargo it carries. Even airplanes are not a great comparison as they are orders of magnitude bigger and heavier than a pod. Some other fundamental differences, the pilot is not on board in a pod, a pod does not carry it's fuel. Pods will be MUCH safer for the area around the crash, and MUCH more dangerous for the passenger/s. Of course an accident could be survivable, and highly dependent on the type of accident: slow depressurization of the tube, you will slow down and be fine. blockage in the tube or fast depressurization, you will explode.
It seems somewhat immoral to me given the fact that the whole basis of tesla is to be environmentally friendly, and that stuffing hundreds of pounds of extra lithium in an electric car to be driven around indefinitely and not used is quite absurd and wasteful. (I understand the extra batteries could still be cycled in and out of the charging mix to lengthen the packs overall life, but is there any information this is true? It would seem not as then anyone one with a bigger battery pack is actually paying for a lesser life pack.)
It is a cpu and stepper motor, but an insanely awesomely built one! If you watch the video you posted you will see, there are massive solid steel worm drives, gears, and bearings (many custom for this piece). The press plate is a giant 1"+ thick solid piece of CNC machined aluminum, it honestly looks like you could crush small car pieces with this thing, the marketing of how powerful it is seems like it could be true. The tear down guy obviously knows his stuff, and is very impressed with it, he said it cost upwards of $1000 to make, which explains why they had to sell the juice subscription with the machine.
Although it's not the dumbest idea in the world, it certainly seems like it at face value. If you didn't have to subsidize the machine, you could sell juice packs for probably half as much or less. Then simply sell a levered press you clamp to your counter, which would cost well below $50 and have a few moving parts and last forever. Although this plan is better in nearly every way (cheaper to make, cheaper to sell, better for the environment, less to break, easier to make, simpler for the consumer), it has ZERO attraction in a VC sales pitch, which is why we end up with wifi/kcup/iot crap like this.
1) of course, but only if it were WORTH it to automate, if you can hire someone for $5/hr but it would cost you tens of thousands to automate then why go through the hassle and risk, any minimum wage law of any level kills jobs for this reason
2) this notion of any job requiring to provide a living wage is absolute garbage, there are MILLIONS of teens, seniors, spouses and people who want to work, who will work, for much less than $10/hr if given the chance, who OMG, DON'T NEED OR WANT A LIVING WAGE, and this economic activity is KILLED by minimum wage laws.
In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When employers evaluate their labor and capital needs, cost is a primary factor. When the cost of hiring low-skilled workers moves higher, jobs are lost. Despite this, minimum wage hikes, like the one set to take effect later this month, are always seen as an act of governmental benevolence. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When confronted with a clogged drain, most of us will call several plumbers and hire the one who quotes us the lowest price. If all the quotes are too high, most of us will grab some Drano and a wrench, and have at it. Labor markets work the same way. Before bringing on another worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll taxes and other benefits.) So if an unskilled worker is capable of delivering only $6 per hour of increased productivity, such an individual is legally unemployable with a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Low-skilled workers must compete for employers’ dollars with both skilled workers and capital. For example, if a skilled worker can do a job for $14 per hour that two unskilled workers can do for $6.50 per hour each, then it makes economic sense for the employer to go with the unskilled labor. Increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour and the unskilled workers are priced out of their jobs. This dynamic is precisely why labor unions are such big supporters of minimum wage laws. Even though none of their members earn the minimum wage, the law helps protect their members from having to compete with lower-skilled workers.
Employers also have the choice of whether to employ people or machines. For example, an employer can hire a receptionist or invest in an automated answering system. The next time you are screaming obscenities into the phone as you try to have a conversation with a computer, you know what to blame for your frustration.
There are numerous other examples of employers substituting capital for labor simply because the minimum wage has made low-skilled workers uncompetitive. For example, handcarts have replaced skycaps at airports. The main reason fast-food restaurants use paper plates and plastic utensils is to avoid having to hire dishwashers.
As a result, many low-skilled jobs that used to be the first rung on the employment ladder have been priced out of the market. Can you remember the last time an usher showed you to your seat in a dark movie theater? When was the last time someone other than the cashier not only bagged your groceries, but also loaded them into your car? By the way, it won’t be long before the cashiers themselves are priced out of the market, replaced by automated scanners, leaving you to bag your purchases with no help whatsoever.
The disappearance of these jobs has broader economic and societal consequences. First jobs are a means to improve skills so that low skilled workers can offer greater productivity to current or future employers. As their skills grow, so does their ability to earn higher wages. However, remove the bottom rung from the employment ladder and many never have a chance to climb it.
So the next time you are pumping your own gas in the rain, do not just think about the teenager who could have been pumping it for you, think about the auto mechanic he could have become – had the minimum wage not denied him a job. Many auto mechanics used to learn their trade while working as pump jockeys. Between fill-ups, checking tire pressure, and washing windows, they would spend a lot of time helping – and learning from – the mechanics.
Because the minimum wage prevents so many young people (including a disproportionate number of minorities) from getting entry-level jobs, they never develop the skills necessary to command higher paying jobs. As a result, many turn to crime,
How about they fix the slow creep to 2.5GB memory usage which eventually causes the slowdown to near lockup, the fix is to to restart. It'd be nice to go more than a week without having to restart.
Hopefully they will not spend billions on retrofitting refineries and instead move everything to electric. Seems to be the path since nearly every auto manufacturer has electric in the pipeline and many only electric a few years out...
Which is completely a load of BS. They didn't start anything. Everything boasted about and mentioned are incremental steps beyond other things that existed. Most namely the Pocket PC and Windows CE, before the iPhone Windows Mobile and Pocket PC "apps" were sold by the millions through PocketGear and Handango, which were third party app stores that existed for many years.
These devices were open like Android as far as customization and installation, had web browsers, all kinds of apps and devices, there were even add on hard drives for them.
IMO the entity you get the diagnoses from is to blame, the doctor/hospital most likely, you sue them, they have insurance and are covered, and they go after the hospital, diagnostic AI, manufacturer, or who/whatever else is in the pipeline. Ultimately is doesn't matter though as you can sue any of these yourself.
You drank the coolaide, you WANT as much income generating debt as possible. The reason: inflation nearly wipes out your interest rate, so your leveraging a massive loan and hoping for property appreciation, pick a house in a non inflated market and ride the wave...
Kids, there was a time when MS had the coolest mobile OS around named Windows CE then Windows Mobile. The devices that ran it were called Pocket PCs and made blackberries look like children's toys. They were cutting edge, widely supported and adopted.
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I have noticed this more and more. It's absolutely disgusting. Everything we buy is covered in plastic, wrapping, cardboard. Disposable plates, cups, forks, all used once then thrown away.
Any eating establishment should be banned from using disposable dishes for dining in. To go should have a tax that goes to recycling or cleanup. All plasticware should have a federal deposit value, all cans, bottles, etc. It would go a long way to recycling and give the homeless a possible income and clean up the garbage.
Styrofoam should be banned completely unless for very specific cases. We have a long way to go politically...
How to stop drinking? Stop drinking. How to stop drugs? Stop taking them. Information overload? Stop consuming it.
Excellent. Although invalidating the patents is definitely not punishment, itâ(TM)s merely correcting the wrong. Punishment would go further, like fining the corporation 1-10% of annual income, AND fining all employees involved 1-10% of annual salary. Accountability is seriously lacking in business and government.
Enterprise software is so complex that there must be thousands of source files with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. How does a code review catch anything? If a company has a backdoor, why on earth would they provide it in a source review? Just remove the backdoor, submit the files, and pass. Source review seems like a waste of time, how do they, or did they ensure the source they were reviewing is the source that's in the application? Perhaps they did the review, compiled, packaged, then copied to memory for installation?
Why on earth would any telecom upgrade:
- It speeds transition to cord cutting
- It undermines lucrative business plans
- Some currently get by with lucrative cellular data plans
I absolutely believe telecoms promise everything and deliver nothing or just enough to look like they care. It is up to communities to upheave these dumbass telcos.
Haha, the first punch is ridiculously dumb, KO. Just skip everything except the fighting, there are 2 matches in the video. The first is 2 seconds long. The second is actually kinda cool, it's at least funny, they do some damage and almost kill the annoying announcers, too bad they didn't. These kinds of things would be SO much better if they didn't overhype it like it's going to be so amazing.
Adjusted for inflation MS would have to reach a value of 877 billion to match the 2000 value of 600 billion.
Finally a compelling reason to perhaps ditch my 7 year old PC. The huge drawbacks of non replaceable battery and storage give me pause, but the mobile factor and managing one system may win over.
Wind and solar are a tiny fraction of our supply at 2%, hydro 7%, and nuclear 4%. We have a long ways to go, but this is great news, hopefully the scale is now tipped to solar.
In 25 years solar "panels" will be as cheap and flexible as plastic sheeting. Energy will be nearly free and we'll be struggling with who should be allowed to have children and deciding which grossly overpopulated areas need to "purged".
It is also the first time Apple has released its new phones with the premium model being delayed a few months, I know if I intend to upgrade there is little reason to get the 8 over the X.
No no, just pull the ejection cord... parachute to safety.
Trains are hundreds of tons and carry immense amounts of momentum and energy. A hyperloop pod would be very light, possibly weighing much less than the cargo it carries. Even airplanes are not a great comparison as they are orders of magnitude bigger and heavier than a pod. Some other fundamental differences, the pilot is not on board in a pod, a pod does not carry it's fuel. Pods will be MUCH safer for the area around the crash, and MUCH more dangerous for the passenger/s. Of course an accident could be survivable, and highly dependent on the type of accident: slow depressurization of the tube, you will slow down and be fine. blockage in the tube or fast depressurization, you will explode.
It seems somewhat immoral to me given the fact that the whole basis of tesla is to be environmentally friendly, and that stuffing hundreds of pounds of extra lithium in an electric car to be driven around indefinitely and not used is quite absurd and wasteful. (I understand the extra batteries could still be cycled in and out of the charging mix to lengthen the packs overall life, but is there any information this is true? It would seem not as then anyone one with a bigger battery pack is actually paying for a lesser life pack.)
It is a cpu and stepper motor, but an insanely awesomely built one! If you watch the video you posted you will see, there are massive solid steel worm drives, gears, and bearings (many custom for this piece). The press plate is a giant 1"+ thick solid piece of CNC machined aluminum, it honestly looks like you could crush small car pieces with this thing, the marketing of how powerful it is seems like it could be true. The tear down guy obviously knows his stuff, and is very impressed with it, he said it cost upwards of $1000 to make, which explains why they had to sell the juice subscription with the machine.
Although it's not the dumbest idea in the world, it certainly seems like it at face value. If you didn't have to subsidize the machine, you could sell juice packs for probably half as much or less. Then simply sell a levered press you clamp to your counter, which would cost well below $50 and have a few moving parts and last forever. Although this plan is better in nearly every way (cheaper to make, cheaper to sell, better for the environment, less to break, easier to make, simpler for the consumer), it has ZERO attraction in a VC sales pitch, which is why we end up with wifi/kcup/iot crap like this.
1) of course, but only if it were WORTH it to automate, if you can hire someone for $5/hr but it would cost you tens of thousands to automate then why go through the hassle and risk, any minimum wage law of any level kills jobs for this reason
2) this notion of any job requiring to provide a living wage is absolute garbage, there are MILLIONS of teens, seniors, spouses and people who want to work, who will work, for much less than $10/hr if given the chance, who OMG, DON'T NEED OR WANT A LIVING WAGE, and this economic activity is KILLED by minimum wage laws.
In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When employers evaluate their labor and capital needs, cost is a primary factor. When the cost of hiring low-skilled workers moves higher, jobs are lost. Despite this, minimum wage hikes, like the one set to take effect later this month, are always seen as an act of governmental benevolence. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When confronted with a clogged drain, most of us will call several plumbers and hire the one who quotes us the lowest price. If all the quotes are too high, most of us will grab some Drano and a wrench, and have at it. Labor markets work the same way. Before bringing on another worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll taxes and other benefits.) So if an unskilled worker is capable of delivering only $6 per hour of increased productivity, such an individual is legally unemployable with a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Low-skilled workers must compete for employers’ dollars with both skilled workers and capital. For example, if a skilled worker can do a job for $14 per hour that two unskilled workers can do for $6.50 per hour each, then it makes economic sense for the employer to go with the unskilled labor. Increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour and the unskilled workers are priced out of their jobs. This dynamic is precisely why labor unions are such big supporters of minimum wage laws. Even though none of their members earn the minimum wage, the law helps protect their members from having to compete with lower-skilled workers.
Employers also have the choice of whether to employ people or machines. For example, an employer can hire a receptionist or invest in an automated answering system. The next time you are screaming obscenities into the phone as you try to have a conversation with a computer, you know what to blame for your frustration.
There are numerous other examples of employers substituting capital for labor simply because the minimum wage has made low-skilled workers uncompetitive. For example, handcarts have replaced skycaps at airports. The main reason fast-food restaurants use paper plates and plastic utensils is to avoid having to hire dishwashers.
As a result, many low-skilled jobs that used to be the first rung on the employment ladder have been priced out of the market. Can you remember the last time an usher showed you to your seat in a dark movie theater? When was the last time someone other than the cashier not only bagged your groceries, but also loaded them into your car? By the way, it won’t be long before the cashiers themselves are priced out of the market, replaced by automated scanners, leaving you to bag your purchases with no help whatsoever.
The disappearance of these jobs has broader economic and societal consequences. First jobs are a means to improve skills so that low skilled workers can offer greater productivity to current or future employers. As their skills grow, so does their ability to earn higher wages. However, remove the bottom rung from the employment ladder and many never have a chance to climb it.
So the next time you are pumping your own gas in the rain, do not just think about the teenager who could have been pumping it for you, think about the auto mechanic he could have become – had the minimum wage not denied him a job. Many auto mechanics used to learn their trade while working as pump jockeys. Between fill-ups, checking tire pressure, and washing windows, they would spend a lot of time helping – and learning from – the mechanics.
Because the minimum wage prevents so many young people (including a disproportionate number of minorities) from getting entry-level jobs, they never develop the skills necessary to command higher paying jobs. As a result, many turn to crime,
How about they fix the slow creep to 2.5GB memory usage which eventually causes the slowdown to near lockup, the fix is to to restart. It'd be nice to go more than a week without having to restart.
Hopefully they will not spend billions on retrofitting refineries and instead move everything to electric. Seems to be the path since nearly every auto manufacturer has electric in the pipeline and many only electric a few years out...
Here are some nerdy details (comeon slashdot):
http://www.4coffshore.com/wind...
Turbine model:
http://www.4coffshore.com/wind...
Which is completely a load of BS. They didn't start anything. Everything boasted about and mentioned are incremental steps beyond other things that existed. Most namely the Pocket PC and Windows CE, before the iPhone Windows Mobile and Pocket PC "apps" were sold by the millions through PocketGear and Handango, which were third party app stores that existed for many years.
These devices were open like Android as far as customization and installation, had web browsers, all kinds of apps and devices, there were even add on hard drives for them.
IMO the entity you get the diagnoses from is to blame, the doctor/hospital most likely, you sue them, they have insurance and are covered, and they go after the hospital, diagnostic AI, manufacturer, or who/whatever else is in the pipeline. Ultimately is doesn't matter though as you can sue any of these yourself.
You drank the coolaide, you WANT as much income generating debt as possible. The reason: inflation nearly wipes out your interest rate, so your leveraging a massive loan and hoping for property appreciation, pick a house in a non inflated market and ride the wave...
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Stevia is not artificial.
Kids, there was a time when MS had the coolest mobile OS around named Windows CE then Windows Mobile. The devices that ran it were called Pocket PCs and made blackberries look like children's toys. They were cutting edge, widely supported and adopted.