I once paid $150 for a "premium" frame knowing full well I could buy 1000 for them for $3 each. Literally. My mouse hovered over the buy button for that case of frames, but I decided to just suck it up and get fleeced. I could only justify 4 or so of them, so it made no financial sense to pay for 1000 of them.
If you can get lenses which work for a type of frame, it makes sense to buy an assortment case, but different lens providers cover different frame types, so be sure you've got a match.
This is because you are not going to poor areas to eat. Half my favorite restaurants are cash only. The clientele is almost entirely non-white. Credit cards cost the business ~2% (lower % with higher monthly and other fees, or higher percent with no startup/monthly fees -- When you see these little businesses with the square card readers on a tablet -- those guys are paying 2.75% of everything they make to a company named "Square"). You don't notice this 2% tax on everything you do. People who are just barely getting by DO, and they favor cash-only businesses which are cheaper.
This is not a state-run cash-less financial system we're talking about here -- It's a for-profit model where the populace voluntarily pays for the convenience. When you talk about a cash-less society in the US, you're talking about a new 2% regressive tax on poor people, where the money doesn't even go into state/communal coffers.
This is similar to the healthcare situation. We have no full-coverage state healthcare because companies make money on healthcare, and they buy politicians to make sure that doesn't change.
If we brought in meaningful campaign finance reform, some politician would say "hey -- we could make a state-run credit card and collect that regressive tax ourselves. We could make it lower than 2% and collect that for the state. Retailers would dump the commercial systems in a heartbeat to get the better rate. We could use the force of the treasury department (who use guns/judges/prisons) to cut down fraud in a way the private companies never could and therefore make the system even more profitable and use that money on schools, roads, etc." OVERNIGHT, these articles would change from CASH-IS-BAD to STATE-MONEY-SYSTEMS-ARE-BAD because these articles are paid for by the credit-card companies.
But don't worry, that will never happen, because we will never have meaningful campaign finance reform. Politicians need the big donors to get elected, and so will do what they are told.
I am positive that all these stories are bought and paid for by publicists working for credit card companies and similar big financial firms.
Imagine the woody any such company gets when it contemplates getting a few percent cut of EVERY transaction BY LAW. Right now every real dollar bill spent anywhere in the company ROBS the credit card companies of their ~2% transaction cut. They want that money. It's a lot.
Americans and foreigners visiting the US should all be required to pay a 2% sales tax to some rich companies whenever they buy anything. That's just right and proper. This is what this is about, pure and simple. All discussion of security or convenience or even the absurd claims of cost reduction are smoke to obscure the real reason for this.
You are completely wrong. The victims were unsafe from the first moment a gun was pointed at them. Once a gun is out and pointed at you the chances that you are going to die because of a misunderstanding are real.
The expectations and behavior of police in the United States is considered sensible by most people in the United States who have never been negatively affected by it. People who have been and people who did not grow up in this nutty situation see things differently. Look at policing in any wealthy western nation other than the US for examples of how things should be done.
You can argue about the plate technology, but the obvious big issue here is that the police help unarmed suspects at gunpoint. We have a severe police hiring, training, and discipline problem.
If I make a synthetic human brain that works in the same way as one you made using sexual reproduction, it's clearly a human. If by definition it functions in precisely the same way as a human, it's human. Same chemicals, same structures, same electric signal patterns, etc. It's human. The only thing it's missing is a soul. It cannot have a soul, because a soul is something you have if you are ONE OF US -- you can interpret that any way you like -- apply to animals, other races, etc. -- since a soul doesn't really exist except as something we claim exists. When you read "Moral Agent", substitute the hidden word: "Soul". Kelly and Searle would both say "Nope! Not human. No insert-euphemism-for-soul-here."
Imagine we have an artist named Chuck. Let's optimize Chuck the human. We will replace Chuck's parts with faster electronic versions. We'll do it slowly, doing only tiny parts of his brain at any one time. At what point does Chuck stop being human? He still does what a human does. Let's keep doing that until Chuck is a box which does what a human does but doesn't use wetware. If Chuck still functions like a human, Chuck's a human. But at some point, according to this idiot, Chuck stops being able to do art.
Searle and this bozo are just peddling religion. "Humans are special. God exists. We are the center of the universe." They attribute magic to ideas to bolster their other magical ideas. Art is magic. Animals cannot produce art, but brain-damaged humans can. By their logic, you could damage some unfortunate person until his/her brain was as unspecialized as a chimp, and they would still be able to produce art, but a chimp would not.
You're describing development by composition -- which means in plainspeak "add a bunch of stuff you didn't write and don't understand until it works, then ship."
IDEs and Java worked hand and hand to create this mindset, which means it's easy to train-up inadequate developers. They don't optimize because they don't know how it works. They don't know ways of actually doing things. They write very little code.
This means code is huge and slow, and there's no fix for anything other than 'find another library'.
Thank you -- that's interesting info. Actually, it's really depressing info, as one can see from it that a small minority can control a country/keep a country in a state of war for years.
Logic dictates that 5.25 is a simply better format for drives: You have a bigger area for data on the platter. But they're big, and the trend for home computing is towards smaller footprints and heights. Consumer decisions fly in the face of logic.
5.25" drives have already disappeared and were replaced by smaller forms. Go on amazon and try to find even ONE that isn't a CD/DVD drive. (If you find one, do post it here -- I'd like to see it.) The market forces which pushed them out haven't changed. There's room for other shapes, but 5.25 has been shown by history to be less appealing than 3.5" to consumers and so that shape is never going to be manufactured again unless something substantive changes.
This is a great idea. Exactly the same width as the SATA+POWER connector -- 4.5cm. Honestly it doesn't buy you much space, but you can lock out the platter drives. The companies which ONLY make SSDs should definitely be doing this.
Put a couple of notches into them, so they snap in -- no vibration issues demanding screws. You don't need a metal frame around them. Hot-swappable in a sexy way without having to have expensive extra carriers. They should have a standardized hole in the plastic at the front to allow you to snap in a tab/handle for easy pulling.
They'd fit in little carriers (Wee! Something else to sell!) to make them fit 3.5 inch screw-in spaces, and make people think 3.5" is an archaic form, like the 5.25" adapters for 3.5" drives did.
This would establish the new standard without alienating anyone, and basically put the platter companies out of business. No one is going to retool to make even smaller platters.
Oh, wait. Did you mean that the platter companies should start selling 5.25" drives again? Oh, that's is so not gonna work.
This is kind of hard to follow, but I agree with your initial point. The reason these guys are trying to sell platters is that they have factories which make platters.
It's gonna be way cheaper in a decade to just do it all solid-state, but until that time, they're going to milk their investment.
I don't mean that HAMR will succeed -- it might not come to anything, and/or some new thing might appear that is even more successful -- but between the two, it's HAMR over MAMR.
Because it's not mostly about manufacturing costs or speed or reliability. It's about sales. Guys will buy HAMMER tech and avoid the clearly breast-referencing MAMR, and non-tech folks are NOT going to want obviously cancer-causing microwaves in their laptop.
It's not about logic, it's not about technical merit, it's obvious which one can sell and which one cannot.
They should rename MAMR Wave Assist Recording, because WAR would stand a marketing chance against HAMR.
Yeah, this actually seems right. They provide crap, and that crap is GOOD ENOUGH so no other business can compete. Only where people are unwilling to buy crap does competition flourish.
Farmers are sensitive to RISK. Organic farming represents new risks.
It's a business where poor choices are not penalized. They don't change to what works better in 2018 when they could keep doing what they've done since 1990.
If farmers were sensitive to energy, they'd have solar on their equipment sheds in Illinois, which is cost-effective due to subsidies. They don't. If they were sensitive to water costs, they would sculpt their land and plant vegetation to keep water from running off. They don't. Look at the fertilizer run-off hitting watersheds everywhere. Apparently fertilizer and water are cheap, so who cares if it runs off your field?
Organic farming is for people who want to make more money and are willing to take risks by investing in things which will reduce their costs. That's not the general profile of the American farmer. They're rich. Their land is worth millions. They just want things to continue to work the way they have.
This is what keeps millionaires from becoming somewhat richer millionaires. Making poor choices.
The community I used to live in has both poor and rich people living in fairly close quarters. The lower-end grocery store closed (presumably because rent is high) and now, literally, the only grocery store in reasonable walking distance to most of the area is a Whole Foods.
Does it have to be seasonal? With hydroponics, you control temperature and can boost light as needed. Can't you create the season in an season you want?
This is an interesting business you're talking about, and you can trivially show us that a dollar store can do produce. That would be cool to see and should be a model for all other dollar stores.
Can we please have the google maps link for this store?
There are a lot of hypotheses. Some of them sound really good. It's possible more than one is right.
A famous psychologist (known for her brain hemisphere experiments) once said "Yes, that theory, sounds right. I can come up with 100 theories that sound right sitting on the toilet. How do you PROVE it?"
The fact that we cannot open up demented people and LOOK, that we can't open people every 10 years and watch the progression, etc. means were' stuck with animal models. I suspect we'll stumble on a cure for Alzheimer's long before we explain why it happens.
Yeah, that doesn't stack up. BUT the Boring IS making a big improvement on tunneling using batteries. Other tunneling projects used absurdly long and massive extension cords (sounds like a joke, but it's not). The BC drives batteries away from their tool while attaching fresh ones -- This speeds up the process and cuts costs. They WOULD benefit from a lowering of battery cost, but only if they manage to get their tool to apply a lot more energy faster and need even more batteries. I haven't heard of any actual improvements in the boring head they are using.
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I once paid $150 for a "premium" frame knowing full well I could buy 1000 for them for $3 each. Literally. My mouse hovered over the buy button for that case of frames, but I decided to just suck it up and get fleeced. I could only justify 4 or so of them, so it made no financial sense to pay for 1000 of them.
If you can get lenses which work for a type of frame, it makes sense to buy an assortment case, but different lens providers cover different frame types, so be sure you've got a match.
This is because you are not going to poor areas to eat. Half my favorite restaurants are cash only. The clientele is almost entirely non-white. Credit cards cost the business ~2% (lower % with higher monthly and other fees, or higher percent with no startup/monthly fees -- When you see these little businesses with the square card readers on a tablet -- those guys are paying 2.75% of everything they make to a company named "Square"). You don't notice this 2% tax on everything you do. People who are just barely getting by DO, and they favor cash-only businesses which are cheaper.
This is not a state-run cash-less financial system we're talking about here -- It's a for-profit model where the populace voluntarily pays for the convenience. When you talk about a cash-less society in the US, you're talking about a new 2% regressive tax on poor people, where the money doesn't even go into state/communal coffers.
This is similar to the healthcare situation. We have no full-coverage state healthcare because companies make money on healthcare, and they buy politicians to make sure that doesn't change.
If we brought in meaningful campaign finance reform, some politician would say "hey -- we could make a state-run credit card and collect that regressive tax ourselves. We could make it lower than 2% and collect that for the state. Retailers would dump the commercial systems in a heartbeat to get the better rate. We could use the force of the treasury department (who use guns/judges/prisons) to cut down fraud in a way the private companies never could and therefore make the system even more profitable and use that money on schools, roads, etc." OVERNIGHT, these articles would change from CASH-IS-BAD to STATE-MONEY-SYSTEMS-ARE-BAD because these articles are paid for by the credit-card companies.
But don't worry, that will never happen, because we will never have meaningful campaign finance reform. Politicians need the big donors to get elected, and so will do what they are told.
I am positive that all these stories are bought and paid for by publicists working for credit card companies and similar big financial firms.
Imagine the woody any such company gets when it contemplates getting a few percent cut of EVERY transaction BY LAW. Right now every real dollar bill spent anywhere in the company ROBS the credit card companies of their ~2% transaction cut. They want that money. It's a lot.
Americans and foreigners visiting the US should all be required to pay a 2% sales tax to some rich companies whenever they buy anything. That's just right and proper. This is what this is about, pure and simple. All discussion of security or convenience or even the absurd claims of cost reduction are smoke to obscure the real reason for this.
You are completely wrong. The victims were unsafe from the first moment a gun was pointed at them. Once a gun is out and pointed at you the chances that you are going to die because of a misunderstanding are real.
The expectations and behavior of police in the United States is considered sensible by most people in the United States who have never been negatively affected by it. People who have been and people who did not grow up in this nutty situation see things differently. Look at policing in any wealthy western nation other than the US for examples of how things should be done.
You can argue about the plate technology, but the obvious big issue here is that the police help unarmed suspects at gunpoint. We have a severe police hiring, training, and discipline problem.
If I make a synthetic human brain that works in the same way as one you made using sexual reproduction, it's clearly a human. If by definition it functions in precisely the same way as a human, it's human. Same chemicals, same structures, same electric signal patterns, etc. It's human. The only thing it's missing is a soul. It cannot have a soul, because a soul is something you have if you are ONE OF US -- you can interpret that any way you like -- apply to animals, other races, etc. -- since a soul doesn't really exist except as something we claim exists. When you read "Moral Agent", substitute the hidden word: "Soul". Kelly and Searle would both say "Nope! Not human. No insert-euphemism-for-soul-here."
Imagine we have an artist named Chuck. Let's optimize Chuck the human. We will replace Chuck's parts with faster electronic versions. We'll do it slowly, doing only tiny parts of his brain at any one time. At what point does Chuck stop being human? He still does what a human does. Let's keep doing that until Chuck is a box which does what a human does but doesn't use wetware. If Chuck still functions like a human, Chuck's a human. But at some point, according to this idiot, Chuck stops being able to do art.
Searle and this bozo are just peddling religion. "Humans are special. God exists. We are the center of the universe." They attribute magic to ideas to bolster their other magical ideas. Art is magic. Animals cannot produce art, but brain-damaged humans can. By their logic, you could damage some unfortunate person until his/her brain was as unspecialized as a chimp, and they would still be able to produce art, but a chimp would not.
This is drivel.
You're describing development by composition -- which means in plainspeak "add a bunch of stuff you didn't write and don't understand until it works, then ship."
IDEs and Java worked hand and hand to create this mindset, which means it's easy to train-up inadequate developers. They don't optimize because they don't know how it works. They don't know ways of actually doing things. They write very little code.
This means code is huge and slow, and there's no fix for anything other than 'find another library'.
Siri is static, not progressing.
It has classic market-leader issues.
Thank you -- that's interesting info. Actually, it's really depressing info, as one can see from it that a small minority can control a country/keep a country in a state of war for years.
Do you have links to any numbers handy?
"The question...is whether the technology creates an unrealistic expectation of having"
blurry, featureless skin.
Logic dictates that 5.25 is a simply better format for drives: You have a bigger area for data on the platter. But they're big, and the trend for home computing is towards smaller footprints and heights. Consumer decisions fly in the face of logic.
5.25" drives have already disappeared and were replaced by smaller forms. Go on amazon and try to find even ONE that isn't a CD/DVD drive. (If you find one, do post it here -- I'd like to see it.) The market forces which pushed them out haven't changed. There's room for other shapes, but 5.25 has been shown by history to be less appealing than 3.5" to consumers and so that shape is never going to be manufactured again unless something substantive changes.
I think the country is too homophobic for that to work.
BIngo. You win a job in advertising.
This is a great idea. Exactly the same width as the SATA+POWER connector -- 4.5cm. Honestly it doesn't buy you much space, but you can lock out the platter drives. The companies which ONLY make SSDs should definitely be doing this.
Put a couple of notches into them, so they snap in -- no vibration issues demanding screws. You don't need a metal frame around them. Hot-swappable in a sexy way without having to have expensive extra carriers. They should have a standardized hole in the plastic at the front to allow you to snap in a tab/handle for easy pulling.
They'd fit in little carriers (Wee! Something else to sell!) to make them fit 3.5 inch screw-in spaces, and make people think 3.5" is an archaic form, like the 5.25" adapters for 3.5" drives did.
This would establish the new standard without alienating anyone, and basically put the platter companies out of business. No one is going to retool to make even smaller platters.
Oh, wait. Did you mean that the platter companies should start selling 5.25" drives again? Oh, that's is so not gonna work.
This is kind of hard to follow, but I agree with your initial point. The reason these guys are trying to sell platters is that they have factories which make platters.
It's gonna be way cheaper in a decade to just do it all solid-state, but until that time, they're going to milk their investment.
It's HAMR. HAMR will beat MAMR.
I don't mean that HAMR will succeed -- it might not come to anything, and/or some new thing might appear that is even more successful -- but between the two, it's HAMR over MAMR.
Because it's not mostly about manufacturing costs or speed or reliability. It's about sales. Guys will buy HAMMER tech and avoid the clearly breast-referencing MAMR, and non-tech folks are NOT going to want obviously cancer-causing microwaves in their laptop.
It's not about logic, it's not about technical merit, it's obvious which one can sell and which one cannot.
They should rename MAMR Wave Assist Recording, because WAR would stand a marketing chance against HAMR.
Yeah, this actually seems right. They provide crap, and that crap is GOOD ENOUGH so no other business can compete. Only where people are unwilling to buy crap does competition flourish.
Sounds like a job for education.
Farmers are sensitive to RISK. Organic farming represents new risks.
It's a business where poor choices are not penalized. They don't change to what works better in 2018 when they could keep doing what they've done since 1990.
If farmers were sensitive to energy, they'd have solar on their equipment sheds in Illinois, which is cost-effective due to subsidies. They don't. If they were sensitive to water costs, they would sculpt their land and plant vegetation to keep water from running off. They don't. Look at the fertilizer run-off hitting watersheds everywhere. Apparently fertilizer and water are cheap, so who cares if it runs off your field?
Organic farming is for people who want to make more money and are willing to take risks by investing in things which will reduce their costs. That's not the general profile of the American farmer. They're rich. Their land is worth millions. They just want things to continue to work the way they have.
This is what keeps millionaires from becoming somewhat richer millionaires. Making poor choices.
The community I used to live in has both poor and rich people living in fairly close quarters. The lower-end grocery store closed (presumably because rent is high) and now, literally, the only grocery store in reasonable walking distance to most of the area is a Whole Foods.
Both comical and frustrating.
And no dollar store.
Does it have to be seasonal? With hydroponics, you control temperature and can boost light as needed. Can't you create the season in an season you want?
(Really, I'm asking.)
This is an interesting business you're talking about, and you can trivially show us that a dollar store can do produce. That would be cool to see and should be a model for all other dollar stores.
Can we please have the google maps link for this store?
There are a lot of hypotheses. Some of them sound really good. It's possible more than one is right.
A famous psychologist (known for her brain hemisphere experiments) once said "Yes, that theory, sounds right. I can come up with 100 theories that sound right sitting on the toilet. How do you PROVE it?"
The fact that we cannot open up demented people and LOOK, that we can't open people every 10 years and watch the progression, etc. means were' stuck with animal models. I suspect we'll stumble on a cure for Alzheimer's long before we explain why it happens.
Steamboat Willie is 1929. Once Mickey is in the public domain, all the insanity ends.
Expect a lot more insanity in the next few years to prevent that.
"Search all your parks in all your cities, you'll find no statues of committees."
Well, except for this one, sort of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, that doesn't stack up. BUT the Boring IS making a big improvement on tunneling using batteries. Other tunneling projects used absurdly long and massive extension cords (sounds like a joke, but it's not). The BC drives batteries away from their tool while attaching fresh ones -- This speeds up the process and cuts costs. They WOULD benefit from a lowering of battery cost, but only if they manage to get their tool to apply a lot more energy faster and need even more batteries. I haven't heard of any actual improvements in the boring head they are using.