...reckon with the fact that the internet itself is increasingly becoming centralized...
As countries around the world tighten control of the internet within their borders, we can expect to see some governments with relatively centralized internets—particularly authoritarians or those with authoritarian leanings—literally disconnect their domestic internet networks from the rest of the globe
If you read carefully you'll see that the author's concern is that some countries are building infrastructure in a way that it can be controlled by a central authority. This is always a concern when the state controls communication of any kind, and is a good argument for leaving telephone, television, and internet infrastructures in private hands.
But they produce to much excess power for that connection.
As I said, they don't have a cable to send the excess power anywhere.
It will be economical when they start to change the ferries to electric ferries based on fuel cells.
Maybe, but I question it because conversion of excess power to Hydrogen isn't being done economically anywhere else.
I understand that this is a special case in which they have no other market for the power and building the wind towers on this particular island might be less expensive than elsewhere. I hope it works out for them.
This isn't anything like Denmark because they don't have a cable to send the excess power anywhere. So they're going to see if storing and transporting it as Hydrogen is economical. It's not clear to me that it will be, but they seem to think it's worth a try..
There won't be any investors willing to put a dime into California power companies now. The state will have to take over the grid whether they want to or not.
That's their goal - suppress any voice that isn't their own. You see it over and over: Maxine Waters, antifa, white supremacists - anyone who disagrees with their agenda must be silenced. If threats of violence don't work then they'll escalate...
The suggestion wouldn't suppress AC commenting in any way, unless you are a Troll. Then your posts (AC or otherwise) will be posted at -1 automatically where they belong.
The fines were too small to make any difference in car prices. But that dust-up had a bigger impact on Tesla than you might realize.
The SEC was letting Musk get away with obviously BS statements about future production and profitability until he made the comments about going private; that crossed the line from startup bluster to stock price manipulation. They made it clear that from then on, all forward-looking statements he makes about Tesla need to be properly vetted. Since then his predictions have become much more realistic.
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The market for large luxury cars is too small to be profitable. Tesla kept bragging how they were the leader in that niche, but they were only the leader because other manufacturers had abandoned it.
Now Tesla needs to make cars at a much lower price point. But they are being eaten by fixed costs in a low profit margin market.
Rates fluctuate over relatively short economic cycles (2-5 years). Those don't matter at all while you're saving (because you buy more shares of stock when the market is down so you gain more when it goes back up). To protect yourself after you retire you need to keep about 20% in a money market or T-Bills (essentially as cash). If the market goes down you tap into that cash supply, when it goes back up you add funds back to you cash supply. The market always goes back up, even after the Great Depression or the more recent Great Recession you only needed to avoid selling your investments for a few years.
The participation rate is a wild card for the U.S. labor market outlook. Employers could unlock a massive pool of untapped labor if they can pull currently disenfranchised workers back into the game. If that’s the case, the job market isn’t as tight as the current 4 percent unemployment rate would suggest and today’s still-slow wage growth makes more sense.
The main problem is that companies no longer value experience (except perhaps at hiring time but often not even then)...
That's nothing new. Wage compression has been around forever.
What's keeping wages from growing faster than inflation today is the huge pool of people who have been out of the workforce for the past several years. Labor participation rate was extremely low during the Obama years due to generous unemployment benefits and ease of collecting disability. Those people are now starting to flow back into the labor market so even though the unemployment rate looks low there are still plenty of people becoming available in most job markets.
These aren't really scientists, mostly just a bunch of tree-huggers. And the surviving Coast Redwoods are doing fine along the coast of Northern California (which is still the best locale for them). They're endangered because most of the old growth was harvested a century ago and California doesn't manage the existing stands very well, but new ones continue to grow there anyway.
That was well known from the start. What we did learn about was the DNC's plans to use bogus charges of racism and Russian collusion to attack whoever the Republican candidate turned out to be.
Not really. They show an operating profit with successful launches - but that doesn't mean anything because it ignores depreciation and capital investment (e.g. the R&D you listed).
"...if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” - Maxine Waters
"at a gasoline station"...hmmm? Maybe it isn't a good idea to incite that kind of activity.
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You need to get current with the new hipster buzzwords: AI, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, etc.
Statistical analysis is only for people who understand statistics.
...reckon with the fact that the internet itself is increasingly becoming centralized...
As countries around the world tighten control of the internet within their borders, we can expect to see some governments with relatively centralized internets—particularly authoritarians or those with authoritarian leanings—literally disconnect their domestic internet networks from the rest of the globe
If you read carefully you'll see that the author's concern is that some countries are building infrastructure in a way that it can be controlled by a central authority. This is always a concern when the state controls communication of any kind, and is a good argument for leaving telephone, television, and internet infrastructures in private hands.
But they produce to much excess power for that connection.
As I said, they don't have a cable to send the excess power anywhere.
It will be economical when they start to change the ferries to electric ferries based on fuel cells.
Maybe, but I question it because conversion of excess power to Hydrogen isn't being done economically anywhere else.
I understand that this is a special case in which they have no other market for the power and building the wind towers on this particular island might be less expensive than elsewhere. I hope it works out for them.
This isn't anything like Denmark because they don't have a cable to send the excess power anywhere. So they're going to see if storing and transporting it as Hydrogen is economical. It's not clear to me that it will be, but they seem to think it's worth a try..
Sheesh.
Cherry picking statistics can show anything.
Cherry picked statistics are the basis of the lawsuit.
There won't be any investors willing to put a dime into California power companies now. The state will have to take over the grid whether they want to or not.
Zimbabwe has been a dictatorship for decades, it is not capitalist at all.
I would have stopped using the service...
That's their goal - suppress any voice that isn't their own. You see it over and over: Maxine Waters, antifa, white supremacists - anyone who disagrees with their agenda must be silenced. If threats of violence don't work then they'll escalate...
The suggestion wouldn't suppress AC commenting in any way, unless you are a Troll. Then your posts (AC or otherwise) will be posted at -1 automatically where they belong.
Two problems with that suggestion:
1) Down modding all those troll comments burns moderation points that should be used to up mod good comments.
2) There are often good comments posted at Score 0 that I'd like to mod up, but that means I have to wade through all the crap.
The fines were too small to make any difference in car prices. But that dust-up had a bigger impact on Tesla than you might realize.
The SEC was letting Musk get away with obviously BS statements about future production and profitability until he made the comments about going private; that crossed the line from startup bluster to stock price manipulation. They made it clear that from then on, all forward-looking statements he makes about Tesla need to be properly vetted. Since then his predictions have become much more realistic.
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The market for large luxury cars is too small to be profitable. Tesla kept bragging how they were the leader in that niche, but they were only the leader because other manufacturers had abandoned it.
Now Tesla needs to make cars at a much lower price point. But they are being eaten by fixed costs in a low profit margin market.
Rates fluctuate over relatively short economic cycles (2-5 years). Those don't matter at all while you're saving (because you buy more shares of stock when the market is down so you gain more when it goes back up). To protect yourself after you retire you need to keep about 20% in a money market or T-Bills (essentially as cash). If the market goes down you tap into that cash supply, when it goes back up you add funds back to you cash supply. The market always goes back up, even after the Great Depression or the more recent Great Recession you only needed to avoid selling your investments for a few years.
Economies rise and fall; recessions happen every so often, so of course one will happen sooner or later.
Democrats really wanted one to hit last summer before the mid-terms, now they're hoping for one in late 2019 or mid-2020.
Hubble was designed around the Space Shuttle; if that was still available Hubble could have been retrieved.
Please elaborate on your alleged connection.
Do a bit of reading here
The participation rate is a wild card for the U.S. labor market outlook. Employers could unlock a massive pool of untapped labor if they can pull currently disenfranchised workers back into the game. If that’s the case, the job market isn’t as tight as the current 4 percent unemployment rate would suggest and today’s still-slow wage growth makes more sense.
The main problem is that companies no longer value experience (except perhaps at hiring time but often not even then) ...
That's nothing new. Wage compression has been around forever.
What's keeping wages from growing faster than inflation today is the huge pool of people who have been out of the workforce for the past several years. Labor participation rate was extremely low during the Obama years due to generous unemployment benefits and ease of collecting disability. Those people are now starting to flow back into the labor market so even though the unemployment rate looks low there are still plenty of people becoming available in most job markets.
These aren't really scientists, mostly just a bunch of tree-huggers. And the surviving Coast Redwoods are doing fine along the coast of Northern California (which is still the best locale for them). They're endangered because most of the old growth was harvested a century ago and California doesn't manage the existing stands very well, but new ones continue to grow there anyway.
That was well known from the start. What we did learn about was the DNC's plans to use bogus charges of racism and Russian collusion to attack whoever the Republican candidate turned out to be.
They have a very profitable launch business.
Not really. They show an operating profit with successful launches - but that doesn't mean anything because it ignores depreciation and capital investment (e.g. the R&D you listed).
I can't get used to successful companies doing big layoffs just to rebalance for the current workload.
Well then, try working for an unsuccessful company :^(
But seriously - the only way to have guaranteed employment for life is to work for the government or teach in public schools (same thing actually).
"...if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” - Maxine Waters
"at a gasoline station"...hmmm? Maybe it isn't a good idea to incite that kind of activity.
that's the same number of times Hillary lost her bid for President...
Which tesla drivers still haven't gotten over, two years after the fact.