Because those are only ever temporary fixes. Everywhere that's tried to solve traffic problems with more roads just ended up with more traffic problems. LA and Houston are excellent examples of this.
The only solution is mass transit, but in most of the US we're allergic to it for some reason.
Yes. When someone makes a claim counter to current understanding and research, it is upon them to provide evidence.
You may not understand that renal failure is primarily caused by type two diabetes, which is primarily caused by a high carb diet without enough exercise, and that is fine. (If you don't understand it, you probably should. It might well prolong your life.)
What you shouldn't do is arbitrarily pick a side, and ask the guy saying, "the sky is blue, prove that it's pink" to make his case for it being blue. That makes you look ignorant. We have search engines for a reason. The links on these pages titled "Reply to This" are not search engines.
For me I just want a reasonable price and minimal hassle....I think you need to order something like 50+ deliveries per year to really make it worthwhile.
I strung those parts of your comment together because I think that solely pricing out Prime based on the shipping cost savings seriously underestimates how much it's worth, a point you seem to agree with.
Time is money. Every time I two-day ship something with prime, that's an hour or two I didn't spend playing scavenger hunt at the local stores. While I want to support them, there's a limit to how much time in my life I want to spend in retail stores. As I get older, it's much less time than when I was young. That's worth paying for, in my opinion.
...I tried Prime for a month a while back, saw that I basically get nothing out of it...
I find this baffling. Did you really try prime?
The other day I noticed that my dress pants were starting to get a little raggedy. So I went to amazon, went to my orders, typed in "pants", and up popped the last two times I ordered these pants. I added 2 to the cart, checked out, and they showed up 2 days later. I spent probably about 2 minutes total buying pants, and I got the exact ones I wanted in the exact size I needed.
They showed up sooner than I could find a spare hour or two to drive to the mall, park, walk to the store, and then search through rack after rack looking for pants in my size. And if, for some bizarre reason these ones don't fit me? I put them back in the reclosable bag, click the return button on the order, print the label, tape it on the bag, and leave it under my mailbox to get picked up. It's faster and easier to do a return via Amazon that dealing with my local store.
I have 10 minutes to jump onto Amazon's website far more often than I have an hour or two to play scavenger hunt at my local stores. In time savings alone, Prime pays for itself. The free 2 day shipping and discounts just sweeten the pot.
If you don't value your time, I guess Amazon isn't worth shopping at. But if you value it at all, Amazon generally crushes everyone else.
Ditto here. Every time I look at Prime Video (and Amazon asks me all of the time, "HOLY SHIT, DO YOU KNOW YOU GET VIDEOS?") I find little I'm interesting in watching. The videos aren't a draw for me.
Ordering furnace filters and pet toys and birthday presents at discount rates and having them show up 2 days later is the draw.
Why would they need to enter? Have someone zip up behind it and tag the props with a few RPGs, or just lay some steel cable to foul up the props. Then send the tugs to go get it a few days later.
Easy peasy.
In salvage, the value is of the ship plus cargo, not just the cargo. No reason to go on board when you can just ransom, I mean salvage, the whole thing.
The problem is that we've redefined income to mean, "money I get paid directly to do a job", while excluding "wealth gain due to using my money to make more money".
That's still income, and it should be taxed like income.
Until we update salvage laws, a ship out on the ocean with no crew will be fair game. Send someone out to disable it, and now it's "in peril", the key word that enables salvage. Then you can tow it to the nearest port and request a pile of cash for saving it. "Commiserate with the value of the salvaged ship and cargo" is a lot of money, "legally" obtained, provided you weren't the (wink wink) one who disabled that ship.
If I could loan someone money that they could never default on, and never declare bankruptcy to get rid of....I wouldn't, because I'm not a fucking sleazy asshole. But there are enough of them that they've both made this system and have taken advantage of it.
The student loan racket is obscene. The year my wife and I paid that shit off was almost better than the year we got married. Because frankly, we can get out of marriage if it goes south. But we couldn't get out off student loans.
Management and leadership styles need to depend on your team...
I disagree. Good management is good management. The best managers I've ever had were the ones that understood that their role was largely to structure work, and shelter the workers doing that work from the management above them. If someone is poisonous to the team, good managers figure it out and either mitigate that or get that person off the team.
Bad managers have workers sit in useless meetings. Good managers go to the meetings while the workers get shit done.
Sure, you need to modify your management style based on your team a little, but I think it's crazy to assume you'd need to come up with a completely different style for different groups of people. If you can't work under good management because of stylistic differences, you're a shitty employee.
I've worked in a shop which did, and it was honestly amazing. The company embraced it, institutionalized it, and ensured that they had the expertise to do it right.
Daily standup was great. No more than the team and 1-3 product owners or managers in the room, 10 people, 1 minute each. What did you accomplish yesterday, what are you working on today, and any issues you're having or expecting. That was it. And the scrum master kept people from going on and on - two guys would regularly get "your minute is up" warnings, and everyone learned to make them as uncomfortable as possible or just start their 1 minute talk over top of them because standup was serious business.
What happened in there was that everyone on the team knew who was going to be touching what, and that lead to either avoiding code that was going to be touched or collaboration when two members were working on related stuff. The team leads and more experienced members could pinpoint where the newer members were getting stuck and help them over humps, or steer them away from bad coding decisions. (Outside of standup, of course.) The product owners got a thermometer on what was getting done, so they could update their roadmaps and tell the bosses, marketing, and other people what was going on. That meant the developers didn't have to waste time dealing with those people.
It also meant that sprint planning meetings were done with a broader institutional understanding of the current state of development, which tended to lead to more reasonable sprints.
Overall, it was a well-oiled machine, and it was very productive. In great part it was because the head of IT effectively used the agile framework to shield developers from institutional stupidity. When 10-15 minutes of your morning is all that management gets to waste of your time, you can get a lot done. It meant they all felt included in the development process, and had a structured way to interact with the devs rather than just calling random meetings and dragging everyone away from their work. And by having product owners closer to the work, they could answer the questions that management wanted, rather than the developers doing it.
I'd happily work in an environment like that again. What people normally describe agile to be like, however, seems to be a nightmare.
we need to know when someone is repeatedly trying to access our services.
It is trivial to define "trying to access our services" as "visiting any page with a facebook link/like button on it". So you know, like/.. Or just about any other major website out there.
Some of the hotter ones are fucking delicious, in moderation. Extreme moderation. Rather than deal with the peppers themselves, check out some of the hot sauces from Heatonist. Use them very, very sparingly, and you'll be pleasantly surprised by how good they are. I've lightly dosed a pork roast with some of the hottest ones there and slow roasted it, and it was stunning.
The ONLY big advantage that lead acid batteries have is price. That's an important advantage but it's one that will go away in the near future.
And that was what I was basing my comment on, but failed to clearly state.
And as long as that's true, they're still a better investment.
They want something they can install and more or less forget about and which self monitors.
Then they're not ready to live off the grid. At the current point in time, that's the technology, unless you're willing to invest an order of magnitude more money into your self-sufficiency. You seem to think that being energy-independent is a carefree, easy way to life. It's not. Well, not unless you have piles of money to throw at doing that.
Why on earth do you have amber alerts enabled on your phone then? Turn them off!
I don't understand why anyone volunteers to be interrupted at random times for something that doesn't impact them and which they can't do anything about. Other than text and email notifications, all notifications on my phone are off. Audio and visual. If I want to check something, I check it. If I don't want to check it, it is not allowed to badger me and try to steal my attention from what I'm doing. And that especially applies to sleeping.
I really don't follow your logic at all. If you actually look at man-hours, 5 people working 7 days is about 35 days of work, whereas this robot did it in 18. And this is one of only a couple such machines in the world at this point. It's brand new tech. It's not refined, there aren't generations of iterations built on it yet....it's a proof-of-concept done by a prototype.
It's already about as fast as a human (you listed 2x the square footage at about 2x the number of days), and will likely only get faster in the future.
Not to mention that as soon as someone starts manufacturing them on a larger scale, those 5 people who it normally takes to build one house can each be running a robot building a house. That's 5 houses in the same amount of time, with the same amount of humans involved. Or 4 of them are going to get laid off.
There's research behind this too. Of all ways to try to solve homelessness, it turns out that the most effective one is giving people homes. Why? (And to head off snark, we're talking about people being self-sufficient and able to hold down a job and rent an apartment as the end goal.) Because you can't solve the rest of your problems if you're living on the street. You can't get mail, you can't get treatment, you can't reliably field phone calls.
Once you give the homeless a place to stay, suddenly they have all of those. They have an address to put on a resume. Social workers can come visit. Their mental stress goes way down (mental issues are often the cause of homelessness and also exacerbated by it) and that in turn reduces the need to turn to substance abuse. All of that puts people in a much better position to find work and get off the streets.
Sure, there will always be people who just can't get off the streets, but for most, it's doable with support.
An address and a place to sleep at night are bootstraps. No reason to deny people those, when it's near impossible to put their life back together without them.
I was in the same boat with Apple last year. Went with a Dell Precision through the small business part of their site, came with Ubuntu installed. No complaints at all. There a few quirks, but nothing like some of the crap Apple is doing with OSX. And it was 2x the hardware for about 1/2 the price of the new MBPs.
Are you unaware of how hard it is to install most modern linux distros? Download the self-installer, pop in a thumb drive, run the installer, reboot, answer some questions, and you're done. Linux installed and working. There may be a handful of things to tweak, but oftentimes you've got 99% functionality with that much effort.
Unless you've got somewhat exotic hardware, linux has been a breeze to install for a good decade now. Or is your personal OS Gentoo or LFS? In that case, yeah, you're probably out of luck when it comes to finding any manufacturer installing those by default.
And last I looked, their laptops looked really big and bulky too. I was seriously considering them, but the Dell Precision was just better all around. Ubuntu installed and working on boot too!
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Because those are only ever temporary fixes. Everywhere that's tried to solve traffic problems with more roads just ended up with more traffic problems. LA and Houston are excellent examples of this.
The only solution is mass transit, but in most of the US we're allergic to it for some reason.
Yes. When someone makes a claim counter to current understanding and research, it is upon them to provide evidence.
You may not understand that renal failure is primarily caused by type two diabetes, which is primarily caused by a high carb diet without enough exercise, and that is fine. (If you don't understand it, you probably should. It might well prolong your life.)
What you shouldn't do is arbitrarily pick a side, and ask the guy saying, "the sky is blue, prove that it's pink" to make his case for it being blue. That makes you look ignorant. We have search engines for a reason. The links on these pages titled "Reply to This" are not search engines.
The dictionary seems to disagree with you, but I'm sure your reality is correct.
For me I just want a reasonable price and minimal hassle....I think you need to order something like 50+ deliveries per year to really make it worthwhile.
I strung those parts of your comment together because I think that solely pricing out Prime based on the shipping cost savings seriously underestimates how much it's worth, a point you seem to agree with.
Time is money. Every time I two-day ship something with prime, that's an hour or two I didn't spend playing scavenger hunt at the local stores. While I want to support them, there's a limit to how much time in my life I want to spend in retail stores. As I get older, it's much less time than when I was young. That's worth paying for, in my opinion.
...I tried Prime for a month a while back, saw that I basically get nothing out of it...
I find this baffling. Did you really try prime?
The other day I noticed that my dress pants were starting to get a little raggedy. So I went to amazon, went to my orders, typed in "pants", and up popped the last two times I ordered these pants. I added 2 to the cart, checked out, and they showed up 2 days later. I spent probably about 2 minutes total buying pants, and I got the exact ones I wanted in the exact size I needed.
They showed up sooner than I could find a spare hour or two to drive to the mall, park, walk to the store, and then search through rack after rack looking for pants in my size. And if, for some bizarre reason these ones don't fit me? I put them back in the reclosable bag, click the return button on the order, print the label, tape it on the bag, and leave it under my mailbox to get picked up. It's faster and easier to do a return via Amazon that dealing with my local store.
I have 10 minutes to jump onto Amazon's website far more often than I have an hour or two to play scavenger hunt at my local stores. In time savings alone, Prime pays for itself. The free 2 day shipping and discounts just sweeten the pot.
If you don't value your time, I guess Amazon isn't worth shopping at. But if you value it at all, Amazon generally crushes everyone else.
Ditto here. Every time I look at Prime Video (and Amazon asks me all of the time, "HOLY SHIT, DO YOU KNOW YOU GET VIDEOS?") I find little I'm interesting in watching. The videos aren't a draw for me.
Ordering furnace filters and pet toys and birthday presents at discount rates and having them show up 2 days later is the draw.
Why would they need to enter? Have someone zip up behind it and tag the props with a few RPGs, or just lay some steel cable to foul up the props. Then send the tugs to go get it a few days later.
Easy peasy.
In salvage, the value is of the ship plus cargo, not just the cargo. No reason to go on board when you can just ransom, I mean salvage, the whole thing.
They sure as hell do!
The problem is that we've redefined income to mean, "money I get paid directly to do a job", while excluding "wealth gain due to using my money to make more money".
That's still income, and it should be taxed like income.
I disagree 100%.
Until we update salvage laws, a ship out on the ocean with no crew will be fair game. Send someone out to disable it, and now it's "in peril", the key word that enables salvage. Then you can tow it to the nearest port and request a pile of cash for saving it. "Commiserate with the value of the salvaged ship and cargo" is a lot of money, "legally" obtained, provided you weren't the (wink wink) one who disabled that ship.
That's dumb. What does the place of assembly have to do with purchasing decisions?
Do you have some dataset on place of assembly and reliability that the rest of us don't?
Or are you a dual citizen of Germany and Japan, and just trying to support your countries?
If I could loan someone money that they could never default on, and never declare bankruptcy to get rid of....I wouldn't, because I'm not a fucking sleazy asshole. But there are enough of them that they've both made this system and have taken advantage of it.
The student loan racket is obscene. The year my wife and I paid that shit off was almost better than the year we got married. Because frankly, we can get out of marriage if it goes south. But we couldn't get out off student loans.
Why does anyone fall for this anymore? There was some survey recently where more than 80% of ICOs were scams.
Management and leadership styles need to depend on your team...
I disagree. Good management is good management. The best managers I've ever had were the ones that understood that their role was largely to structure work, and shelter the workers doing that work from the management above them. If someone is poisonous to the team, good managers figure it out and either mitigate that or get that person off the team.
Bad managers have workers sit in useless meetings. Good managers go to the meetings while the workers get shit done.
Sure, you need to modify your management style based on your team a little, but I think it's crazy to assume you'd need to come up with a completely different style for different groups of people. If you can't work under good management because of stylistic differences, you're a shitty employee.
Welcome to the 88% that don't do agile correctly.
I've worked in a shop which did, and it was honestly amazing. The company embraced it, institutionalized it, and ensured that they had the expertise to do it right.
Daily standup was great. No more than the team and 1-3 product owners or managers in the room, 10 people, 1 minute each. What did you accomplish yesterday, what are you working on today, and any issues you're having or expecting. That was it. And the scrum master kept people from going on and on - two guys would regularly get "your minute is up" warnings, and everyone learned to make them as uncomfortable as possible or just start their 1 minute talk over top of them because standup was serious business.
What happened in there was that everyone on the team knew who was going to be touching what, and that lead to either avoiding code that was going to be touched or collaboration when two members were working on related stuff. The team leads and more experienced members could pinpoint where the newer members were getting stuck and help them over humps, or steer them away from bad coding decisions. (Outside of standup, of course.) The product owners got a thermometer on what was getting done, so they could update their roadmaps and tell the bosses, marketing, and other people what was going on. That meant the developers didn't have to waste time dealing with those people.
It also meant that sprint planning meetings were done with a broader institutional understanding of the current state of development, which tended to lead to more reasonable sprints.
Overall, it was a well-oiled machine, and it was very productive. In great part it was because the head of IT effectively used the agile framework to shield developers from institutional stupidity. When 10-15 minutes of your morning is all that management gets to waste of your time, you can get a lot done. It meant they all felt included in the development process, and had a structured way to interact with the devs rather than just calling random meetings and dragging everyone away from their work. And by having product owners closer to the work, they could answer the questions that management wanted, rather than the developers doing it.
I'd happily work in an environment like that again. What people normally describe agile to be like, however, seems to be a nightmare.
Not so sure.
we need to know when someone is repeatedly trying to access our services.
It is trivial to define "trying to access our services" as "visiting any page with a facebook link/like button on it". So you know, like /.. Or just about any other major website out there.
Some of the hotter ones are fucking delicious, in moderation. Extreme moderation. Rather than deal with the peppers themselves, check out some of the hot sauces from Heatonist. Use them very, very sparingly, and you'll be pleasantly surprised by how good they are. I've lightly dosed a pork roast with some of the hottest ones there and slow roasted it, and it was stunning.
None of those wake me up in the middle of the night or interrupt meetings, so I'm much more ok with those.
The ONLY big advantage that lead acid batteries have is price. That's an important advantage but it's one that will go away in the near future.
And that was what I was basing my comment on, but failed to clearly state.
And as long as that's true, they're still a better investment.
They want something they can install and more or less forget about and which self monitors.
Then they're not ready to live off the grid. At the current point in time, that's the technology, unless you're willing to invest an order of magnitude more money into your self-sufficiency. You seem to think that being energy-independent is a carefree, easy way to life. It's not. Well, not unless you have piles of money to throw at doing that.
Why on earth do you have amber alerts enabled on your phone then? Turn them off!
I don't understand why anyone volunteers to be interrupted at random times for something that doesn't impact them and which they can't do anything about. Other than text and email notifications, all notifications on my phone are off. Audio and visual. If I want to check something, I check it. If I don't want to check it, it is not allowed to badger me and try to steal my attention from what I'm doing. And that especially applies to sleeping.
Last year. Ask your favorite search engine about "china 3d printed houses".
I really don't follow your logic at all. If you actually look at man-hours, 5 people working 7 days is about 35 days of work, whereas this robot did it in 18. And this is one of only a couple such machines in the world at this point. It's brand new tech. It's not refined, there aren't generations of iterations built on it yet....it's a proof-of-concept done by a prototype.
It's already about as fast as a human (you listed 2x the square footage at about 2x the number of days), and will likely only get faster in the future.
Not to mention that as soon as someone starts manufacturing them on a larger scale, those 5 people who it normally takes to build one house can each be running a robot building a house. That's 5 houses in the same amount of time, with the same amount of humans involved. Or 4 of them are going to get laid off.
There's research behind this too. Of all ways to try to solve homelessness, it turns out that the most effective one is giving people homes. Why? (And to head off snark, we're talking about people being self-sufficient and able to hold down a job and rent an apartment as the end goal.) Because you can't solve the rest of your problems if you're living on the street. You can't get mail, you can't get treatment, you can't reliably field phone calls.
Once you give the homeless a place to stay, suddenly they have all of those. They have an address to put on a resume. Social workers can come visit. Their mental stress goes way down (mental issues are often the cause of homelessness and also exacerbated by it) and that in turn reduces the need to turn to substance abuse. All of that puts people in a much better position to find work and get off the streets.
Sure, there will always be people who just can't get off the streets, but for most, it's doable with support.
An address and a place to sleep at night are bootstraps. No reason to deny people those, when it's near impossible to put their life back together without them.
I was in the same boat with Apple last year. Went with a Dell Precision through the small business part of their site, came with Ubuntu installed. No complaints at all. There a few quirks, but nothing like some of the crap Apple is doing with OSX. And it was 2x the hardware for about 1/2 the price of the new MBPs.
Roll an OS? What are you talking about?
Are you unaware of how hard it is to install most modern linux distros? Download the self-installer, pop in a thumb drive, run the installer, reboot, answer some questions, and you're done. Linux installed and working. There may be a handful of things to tweak, but oftentimes you've got 99% functionality with that much effort.
Unless you've got somewhat exotic hardware, linux has been a breeze to install for a good decade now. Or is your personal OS Gentoo or LFS? In that case, yeah, you're probably out of luck when it comes to finding any manufacturer installing those by default.
And last I looked, their laptops looked really big and bulky too. I was seriously considering them, but the Dell Precision was just better all around. Ubuntu installed and working on boot too!