Market solutions work well when there is competition and transparency, but when those are lacking
While it's true that you can lack competition for purely private reasons, the most common reason for lack of competition is government regulations. When a permit is required to connect households to your service, the people who issue the permits are the ones who control whether you have one choice, two choices, or n choices....
Article Title: Researcher hacks nine sleep-tracking devices to test their accuracy"
First sentence of summary, right under the title: A determined researcher at Brown University extracted "the previously irretrievable sleep tracking data from the Hello Sense, from the Microsoft Band, and nine other popular devices.
Note that the first says "9 devices", the second says "1+1+9 devices".
I know it's asking a lot for TFS to match TFA, but is it at least possible to match Title and TFS?
If you can imagine a political group that you wouldn't trust in power, imagine what you'd want in order to provide responsible checks on their worst abuses of power.
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
For what it's worth, I can imagine a political party I wouldn't trust in power. The Democrats, the Republicans, pretty much all of them. Doesn't mean I trust a bunch of unelected, secretive yahoos to protect me from them.
Note that my solution to the problem is the one New Texas chose (Lone Star Planet, aka Planet for Texans, by H. Beam Piper)....
Yah, the current update is a royal pain. Failed repeatedly for me, but kept on trying. So I did a manual download of the patch, and installed it. Worked fine.
Unfortunately, the auto-update still thinks I need the update, so it dutifully tries every day to download and install the update, fails to do so, and reports that failure to me every morning.
This AM got the first hint at the new version. Popup appeared telling me about the new thing, gave me the option of telling them all about my privacy settings right now, or telling me about them later. Notably did not include a "don't bother me anymore you idiot program, my privacy settings aren't your business now or ever". So I expect to see that popup every morning along with the "failed to install update"....
Hanford comes under DoD, I believe. As such, the EPA has never had any input into the conditions of the place.
Note a difference between Hanford and Chernobyl (other than the fact that we don't test nuclear power plants to destruction the way they did) - Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant. Hanford isn't about producing power, it's about producing Pu239....
This is enough that they can identify what ads to show you to influence your opinion
But do they know that I use an adblocker? Only time I've seen an ad online this century was when I switched browsers and had to download a new adblocker for the new browser. That must have been the best part of 20 minutes when I could see ads this century....
I doubt it. Even with food prep, even though things have advanced, if robot chef technology is good enough, it would have been moved to every fast food joint by now, but even today, robochefs are still a novelty, at best making a "custom" pizza.
Umm, TFA said "automatable by 2025". Note that it's not 2025 yet, and that "automatable by 2025" in no ways implies "automatable right now"....
Actually, limiting their access to unrestricted (and often hostile) media is healthy.
Restricting their access to critical thought and sex-ed leads to lifelong problems.
So, deciding for them what media they should access (thus limiting their need for critical thought) is good, but denying them critical thought is bad?
I always think of Douglas Adams calling the mosquito "Nature's Viet Cong" for making it much more expensive to cut down all the rain forests. I hope the laudable goal of saving people doesn't have the negative side effect of accelerated jungle destruction.
Note that a Malaria vaccine means we don't have to cut down the rain forests to protect people from malaria. So, this particular way of saving people can also save the rain forest....
Nuclear isn't viable. Nobody has figured out how to deal with the waste.
Umm, no.
We know perfectly well how to deal with the waste. Alas, the anti-nuclear types have fought for 50 years now to keep us from doing anything with the waste other than putting it into storage ponds.
Which is insanely stupid, since nuclear fuel is poisoned by its own wastes long before the fissionables are actually used up in the reactor. So there's a LOT of potentially usable nuclear fuel sitting in those storage ponds. Hell, we'd hardly have to mine uranium for a century or so if we actually reprocessed that "spent" fuel....
And that's without even considering breeder reactors, which turn all that U238 that we've mined (and which is basically useless as fuel) into usable fissionables....
Of course, it doesn't sit right atop a continental divide, unlike the river in TFA.
IOW, it's still not all that big a deal. Interesting, and I'm really curious to see the long term effects (if any, it may reroute itself back next year). But not something to panic over....
Note that I live near the Mississippi River, which, until it was leveed all to hell-and-gone, routinely shifted its channel from year to year. So the notion of a river rerouting itself isn't terribly surprising to me, nor is it really that big a deal, unless it reroutes itself over someone's house or a town (which the Mississippi used to do from time to time in the 19th Century).
Not so hard to find if you are looking in exactly the correct place and they are not running on batteries.
They're diesel boats. They can run on batteries during the hours of daylight if necessary, but they can't run on batteries long enough to cross the Pacific (realistically, they can't run on batteries long enough to go 100km). Most of the time, they'll be running on diesels, and can be heard by anyone within a 100 km or so.
And they can't outrun a nuke boat. Not even sounding like a freight train (diesel boat running at max).
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While it's true that you can lack competition for purely private reasons, the most common reason for lack of competition is government regulations. When a permit is required to connect households to your service, the people who issue the permits are the ones who control whether you have one choice, two choices, or n choices....
Article Title: Researcher hacks nine sleep-tracking devices to test their accuracy"
First sentence of summary, right under the title: A determined researcher at Brown University extracted "the previously irretrievable sleep tracking data from the Hello Sense, from the Microsoft Band, and nine other popular devices.
Note that the first says "9 devices", the second says "1+1+9 devices".
I know it's asking a lot for TFS to match TFA, but is it at least possible to match Title and TFS?
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
For what it's worth, I can imagine a political party I wouldn't trust in power. The Democrats, the Republicans, pretty much all of them. Doesn't mean I trust a bunch of unelected, secretive yahoos to protect me from them.
Note that my solution to the problem is the one New Texas chose (Lone Star Planet, aka Planet for Texans, by H. Beam Piper)....
Yah, the current update is a royal pain. Failed repeatedly for me, but kept on trying. So I did a manual download of the patch, and installed it. Worked fine.
Unfortunately, the auto-update still thinks I need the update, so it dutifully tries every day to download and install the update, fails to do so, and reports that failure to me every morning.
This AM got the first hint at the new version. Popup appeared telling me about the new thing, gave me the option of telling them all about my privacy settings right now, or telling me about them later. Notably did not include a "don't bother me anymore you idiot program, my privacy settings aren't your business now or ever". So I expect to see that popup every morning along with the "failed to install update"....
Hanford comes under DoD, I believe. As such, the EPA has never had any input into the conditions of the place.
Note a difference between Hanford and Chernobyl (other than the fact that we don't test nuclear power plants to destruction the way they did) - Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant. Hanford isn't about producing power, it's about producing Pu239....
If she enjoyed it, fine.
If not, I'm going to have to sue you on her behalf for offending her by being a terrible fucker....
They know all that...
But do they know that I use an adblocker? Only time I've seen an ad online this century was when I switched browsers and had to download a new adblocker for the new browser. That must have been the best part of 20 minutes when I could see ads this century....
So, when was the magical period when we had "all the information, not just the subset deemed suuportive of the cause"?
Certainly wasn't this century.
Or the 20th either.
Hell, the Spanish-American War of the 19th Century was at least partly the result of the efforts of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer...
And there were more than a few American newspapers pushing the people's buttons in the late 18th Century leading up to the American Revolution.....
Umm, TFA said "automatable by 2025". Note that it's not 2025 yet, and that "automatable by 2025" in no ways implies "automatable right now"....
So, deciding for them what media they should access (thus limiting their need for critical thought) is good, but denying them critical thought is bad?
Plus the ones who can't spell "they're" reliably, of course. Still some of those....
So, if the workers own stock, then we have socialism?
Great, that pretty much means that we've had socialism running as intended since the first IRA/401K.
Or did you think your IRA/401K was just a big pile of dollar bills stuck in a closet somewhere?
Wow, way to go with the total lack of sense of humour!!
Most likely 969 months, not years. So 74 or so....
Where I come from, we call that a "ghetto".
Yeppers, get them out of sight (and therefore out of mind) with the minimum effort and cost possible....
Note, by the by, that the $30M is going to buy housing units (of whatever type) for about $15K per homeless family. Good luck with that....
Note that a Malaria vaccine means we don't have to cut down the rain forests to protect people from malaria. So, this particular way of saving people can also save the rain forest....
Umm, no.
We know perfectly well how to deal with the waste. Alas, the anti-nuclear types have fought for 50 years now to keep us from doing anything with the waste other than putting it into storage ponds.
Which is insanely stupid, since nuclear fuel is poisoned by its own wastes long before the fissionables are actually used up in the reactor. So there's a LOT of potentially usable nuclear fuel sitting in those storage ponds. Hell, we'd hardly have to mine uranium for a century or so if we actually reprocessed that "spent" fuel....
And that's without even considering breeder reactors, which turn all that U238 that we've mined (and which is basically useless as fuel) into usable fissionables....
Better to put them in atmosphere-scraping orbits and replace them every couple years....
Of course, it doesn't sit right atop a continental divide, unlike the river in TFA.
IOW, it's still not all that big a deal. Interesting, and I'm really curious to see the long term effects (if any, it may reroute itself back next year). But not something to panic over....
And yet, traffic fatality rates have been declining for the last couple-three decades. In 2015, they were barely 2/3 what they were in 1990.
So, as cellphones became more ubiquitous, there have been fewer traffic fatalities...hardly seems to be all that serious an issue....
Addendum to my last:
Note that I live near the Mississippi River, which, until it was leveed all to hell-and-gone, routinely shifted its channel from year to year. So the notion of a river rerouting itself isn't terribly surprising to me, nor is it really that big a deal, unless it reroutes itself over someone's house or a town (which the Mississippi used to do from time to time in the 19th Century).
Myself, I'm curious as to why this is a bad thing...
ex-submariner. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
So, what are you using to justify your knowledge of the subject?
They're diesel boats. They can run on batteries during the hours of daylight if necessary, but they can't run on batteries long enough to cross the Pacific (realistically, they can't run on batteries long enough to go 100km). Most of the time, they'll be running on diesels, and can be heard by anyone within a 100 km or so.
And they can't outrun a nuke boat. Not even sounding like a freight train (diesel boat running at max).
Absolutely ZERO chance my diabetes has anything to do with insecticides.
More a matter of my pancreas sitting in a jar of formaldehyde on the surgeon's desk....