That's also how food expiration is often set. FDA testing or otherwise won't be useful without change to tort law... if the manufacturer is required to guarantee the product until expiration date and required to set one, they'll set one that is within their ability to run a stability test on and long enough that their manufacturing can keep up with demand. Setting it longer requires longer, more expensive testing and might not keep the production line operating at a nominal clip. So it isn't in their interest to make it longer anyway, and having it arbitrarily set by the government might 'fail' otherwise useful drugs that just happen to be less stable than the 10 year target.
Most fiction has the apocalyptic AI that takes over be of military origin, but I'm thinking it is going to be a Chinese AI that decides the best way to censor communications is to Kill All Humans.
The point isn't that they can't make a better phone, but that a better phone that is better enough to matter cannot be easily made in the volume they'd want. Even if they could sell whatever they could make at a higher price it is still not desirable to be unable to meet demand. You can't maintain market presence with an 'artisinal' product.
I also switched to tea... if you get the fancier loose teas they taste pretty good without any added honey or sugar, and you can reuse the leaves when you have a craving for a beverage that isn't water without spending a great deal.
Well he probably had the local law enforcement paid off and figured he was safe. Once it got international law attention the locals aren't going to want to be implicated...
Your immune system reacts to the flu antigens, which is why the vaccine works. The symptoms of an immune response to flu antigens happen to be the same whether they are on the virion or not, less the cellular death part.
A walnut 2x4x8 would be $45 at the expensive place here. Anyhow, to further my point I took the time to find a spf stud on Amazon and it is $12, versus $3.50 for the nice grade at the Big Box store.
The sorts of things they citing here are prohibitively expensive on Amazon... a 2x4x8 of poplar (didn't poke around long enough to see SPF pine) is around $70 for which I would expect the whole flitched tree. For smaller things that hardware stores can usually wring you for I can see why Amazon is competitive but the examples here seem odd. I've not found anything bigger/heavier than a large sack of dog food that was price competitive.
One thing interesting with Amazon, is that while everybody is on there at least via third party, you don't necessarily have to buy through them. For specialty hobby items you can use it like a search engine and then search for the seller's eBay or regular ol' HTML store and buy more directly for cheaper.
Using your profit to grow the business is the old fashioned cartoon version of capitalism we learned in grade school. It also has tax benefits since you don't have a profit to bother with hiding in Ireland as I imagine the textbooks explain to do now.
Human genes in non human life forms would be just dandy, for some applications. Ferment a batch of E. coli to produce more insulin or whatever hormones a given condition leaves someone without. No need to assume it'd all go Island of Dr Moreau
Tech would be the first thing to go if there's a human population crash. Best case you get a 'book of the new sun' style medieval level of tech with small amounts of high tech floating around amongst the elite.
Sort of... the carboniferous period isn't going to happen again now that there are enzymes to digest lignin, so any future life will be much worse off than us at developing the tech needed to leave Earth. "Well, we won't kill all the ants" is kind of a Pyrrhic victory.
Until vertical integration locks them out. Imagine TW Cable still existed and merged back with Time Warner the media company. Bang, now only some news sources load fast and Hulu works a lot better than Netflix.
I recall an article somewhere that quoted Bezos as stating that he wanted to make it such a value that not being an Amazon Prime member would seem "irresponsible", so I doubt they'll tier anymore than they have to.
Mostly it is career suicide to complain. Even if it is justified, everyone still walks around on eggshells past the person who complained, they realize no one trusts them anymore, and leave. The only exceptions seem to be when the harasser is so well known around the office as one that when someone finally complains everybody and their brother knows someone else who had been harassed and everyone shrugs and says "good thing they finally got rid of that person, they're a creep". Still haven't seen it result in glory for the person that got the hammer brought down.
I miss when you could open up the cookies folder in Explorer and they'd panic when they realized that cookies were a different thing than internet history in IE.
As an actual scientist sometimes I wish I was shameless enough to get into this sort of business. You apparently don't have to even make it sound plausible! I suppose I do have coworkers that sell essential oils on the side, which is more or less the same thing. Maybe I'll sell essential oil distillation kits out of 'toxin free' glass...
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That's also how food expiration is often set. FDA testing or otherwise won't be useful without change to tort law... if the manufacturer is required to guarantee the product until expiration date and required to set one, they'll set one that is within their ability to run a stability test on and long enough that their manufacturing can keep up with demand. Setting it longer requires longer, more expensive testing and might not keep the production line operating at a nominal clip. So it isn't in their interest to make it longer anyway, and having it arbitrarily set by the government might 'fail' otherwise useful drugs that just happen to be less stable than the 10 year target.
Most fiction has the apocalyptic AI that takes over be of military origin, but I'm thinking it is going to be a Chinese AI that decides the best way to censor communications is to Kill All Humans.
The point isn't that they can't make a better phone, but that a better phone that is better enough to matter cannot be easily made in the volume they'd want. Even if they could sell whatever they could make at a higher price it is still not desirable to be unable to meet demand. You can't maintain market presence with an 'artisinal' product.
I also switched to tea... if you get the fancier loose teas they taste pretty good without any added honey or sugar, and you can reuse the leaves when you have a craving for a beverage that isn't water without spending a great deal.
Well he probably had the local law enforcement paid off and figured he was safe. Once it got international law attention the locals aren't going to want to be implicated...
I think I saw that Netflix announced a wrap-up movie on their social media feed. I'd also ready that The Get Down was also very expensive.
Your immune system reacts to the flu antigens, which is why the vaccine works. The symptoms of an immune response to flu antigens happen to be the same whether they are on the virion or not, less the cellular death part.
A walnut 2x4x8 would be $45 at the expensive place here. Anyhow, to further my point I took the time to find a spf stud on Amazon and it is $12, versus $3.50 for the nice grade at the Big Box store.
A 2x4x8 of maple or walnut is not worth $70, either. The poplar was just the first thing I saw that didn't appear to be an engineered product.
The sorts of things they citing here are prohibitively expensive on Amazon... a 2x4x8 of poplar (didn't poke around long enough to see SPF pine) is around $70 for which I would expect the whole flitched tree. For smaller things that hardware stores can usually wring you for I can see why Amazon is competitive but the examples here seem odd. I've not found anything bigger/heavier than a large sack of dog food that was price competitive.
One thing interesting with Amazon, is that while everybody is on there at least via third party, you don't necessarily have to buy through them. For specialty hobby items you can use it like a search engine and then search for the seller's eBay or regular ol' HTML store and buy more directly for cheaper.
Using your profit to grow the business is the old fashioned cartoon version of capitalism we learned in grade school. It also has tax benefits since you don't have a profit to bother with hiding in Ireland as I imagine the textbooks explain to do now.
It does sort of go along with the 'right to be forgotten' stuff. So at least they're consistent.
Human genes in non human life forms would be just dandy, for some applications. Ferment a batch of E. coli to produce more insulin or whatever hormones a given condition leaves someone without. No need to assume it'd all go Island of Dr Moreau
Tech would be the first thing to go if there's a human population crash. Best case you get a 'book of the new sun' style medieval level of tech with small amounts of high tech floating around amongst the elite.
Eh, it is hard enough to get the politicians to see that there's a problem, solutions need to be worked out next.
Parent said 'the planet will survive', which is true in the same sense that you'd survive being castrated, but less so in a 'life will go on' way.
Sort of... the carboniferous period isn't going to happen again now that there are enzymes to digest lignin, so any future life will be much worse off than us at developing the tech needed to leave Earth. "Well, we won't kill all the ants" is kind of a Pyrrhic victory.
Until vertical integration locks them out. Imagine TW Cable still existed and merged back with Time Warner the media company. Bang, now only some news sources load fast and Hulu works a lot better than Netflix.
I recall an article somewhere that quoted Bezos as stating that he wanted to make it such a value that not being an Amazon Prime member would seem "irresponsible", so I doubt they'll tier anymore than they have to.
Mostly it is career suicide to complain. Even if it is justified, everyone still walks around on eggshells past the person who complained, they realize no one trusts them anymore, and leave. The only exceptions seem to be when the harasser is so well known around the office as one that when someone finally complains everybody and their brother knows someone else who had been harassed and everyone shrugs and says "good thing they finally got rid of that person, they're a creep". Still haven't seen it result in glory for the person that got the hammer brought down.
Yeah if the original content is good then who cares? If it isn't, Block Artist and call it a day.
I miss when you could open up the cookies folder in Explorer and they'd panic when they realized that cookies were a different thing than internet history in IE.
She's Iron Man's love interest if you want to get into geeky stuff, I guess. Mostly though nerds enjoy pointing out woo to people.
As an actual scientist sometimes I wish I was shameless enough to get into this sort of business. You apparently don't have to even make it sound plausible! I suppose I do have coworkers that sell essential oils on the side, which is more or less the same thing. Maybe I'll sell essential oil distillation kits out of 'toxin free' glass...