When I'm someday a reclusive billionaire, someone will do this by extracting my fingerprints from doorknobs with tape. It's just a matter of time and lottery tickets.
Have lived in Europe, where you have to pay something significant for a single use plastic bag, and I got used to it. I don't think the single-use bag bans are going to make a substantial difference for the environment (they tend to promote moral licensing, as people feel entitled to buy a bigger car if they feel good about recycling, etc). But seeing conservatives and liberals using environmental policy as a club to beat each other with, or feel all victim-chic put-upon by, is getting kind of tiresome.
Or some large Western Chinese city, or Japan maybe. What Cringely doesn't appear to consider is that the USA will not be the market that does it first. It used to be that you couldn't introduce a new scheme unless USA the "world's biggest market" adapts first. That's kinda 1990s. He's not using metric.
This is my understanding, too - That the observable 3rd dimension is finite, the same as a two dimensional film on a bubble is finite but expanding. A wise leprechaun told me.
Or maybe, the summary mixes correlation and causation. A professor who has experienced students whose minds grow becomes more optimistic. A professor whose students are just punching the clock and don't care about learning has a more jaundiced view of students.
As a professional electronics recycler, here's the big secret about battery recycling. The original device (car, bus) requires that a battery be pulled when it reaches a certain inefficiency threshhold - say less than 50% recharge. But those uses are for a very tight spec, maintaining speed on the road and getting from point A to 150km away at Point B. In economics, most of the large batteries never make it to the recycler, because there are plenty of savvy Tech Sector people in emerging markets, who resell the batteries to a use (e.g. backup lights for solar panels) that is more forgiving. If the battery on the solar panel saves enough energy to keep the lights on all night, that's actually pretty inefficient when you go to bed.
Of course, if you are an original battery manufacturer, you look at that kind of like Lexmark and HP looked at ink cartridge reuse. The "gray market" disputes are between legitimate added value reuse, and the risk that an unscrupulous subcontractor repackages the used under50% battery in shiny box to sell as a counterfeit. Expect Planned Obsolescence to tell you how poor children at African dumps are buying the batteries. This Recycling Story gets told over and over again, and the fight in the backroom is always over "market cannibalization" vs "counterfeiting".
As it turns out, it was cheaper to open smaller regional airports (used by Ryanair, Easyjet etc) than to economize the traditional airports using more seats per landing window. The A380 and 747 had Reagan's de-regulation in their rearview mirror. The object was closer than it appeared.
Most ocean pollution comes from litter in fast-growing coastal cities in Asia, Africa and South America. It would make a lot more sense to deal with litter in emerging markets than to tinker with the kind of waste that goes into rich country waste treatment facilities. I say this as a professional recycler and environmentalist. The "grasping at straws" approach makes people (and journalists) feel like their doing something, which can actually result in "moral licensing".
A better approach is "fair trade recycling offsets", which are patterned after carbon trading. Let plastic utensil makers sell to people who want / need them, but let them offset by collecting as much litter from places like Lagos and Jakarta as they produce. It would mean less command-and-control by government, and reduce a lot more ocean waste.
Every page, and every word, in a 226 page novel exists at once on the shelf. If our brains were much larger, we could read not just a letter, or word instantaneously. If our minds were bigger, we could read pages, chapters, the entire novel at one time. Time is something we project in order to be able to digest our existence. So a mind-expanding drug could change this. Kurt Vonnegut explained this in Slaughterhouse Five - and was accused of dropping LSD. I discovered it 20 years before I read Vonnegut....... so it goes.
I was always taught to beware the trojan horse compliment "Oh we love your restaurant SO MUCH! Our dream would be to open one just like it! Will you share your recipes with us, oh please?!?" As sincere as it may be, there is nothing in it for you.
According to this article from 2 days ago, Dashcoin cryptocurrency entered Venezuela with such a bang that it may have saved Dash (which has been tanking) as much as Venezuela. But all articles on cryptocurrency have been hype for the past 5 years, so I can't say I red very far. https://www.cryptorecorder.com...
Article was silent on this point, but it would be a far greater portion of email traffic if they are scanning INCOMING and REPLIED-TO emails to sell to marketers (and would make Gmail, MS and others who ceased that activity somewhat toothless in their guarantee). [and as the one who made this WSJ submission, who is MSMASH and why do all submissions come from MSMASH today?)
How does ReverendGreen's baseless claim that the WSJ is a propaganda outlet get 4 point mod up? It's probably the best and fairest news source out there.
Fifteen years ago, China could not afford to waste the equivalent of the USA's General Mining Act of 1872. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant to speed western expansion during Apache Indian Wars etc, GMA set price of extraction on Federal Lands at $5 per acre, no royalties, no cleanup cost (14 of 15 largest USA Superfund Sites are hard rock mines on federal land). At least, China was not willing to let Australian, EU and USA mining and forestry companies operate on Chinese land without those subsidies. Recycling therefore won in the marketplace.
Today China is trying to develop virgin material extraction industry to compete with BHP, Alcoa, etc., and has the capital.
So the value of raw materials that had already been refined (value added) could be recognized by hand much more cheaply than extraction, but China CP now sees development of virgin material as a priority. What the WSJ article fails to consider is China's experience with rare earth metals - they can ban export and import, but remove the ban whenever someone else invests in competing with them. Right now, the prices of recycled scrap have dropped to a point where I'd expect China to start buying them again. Then ban them if the price goes up (using raw materials supplies they have developed). Just like USA refnining industry did to scrappers in the 1950s and 60s. Usually recyclables collected are not wasted, it's a question of price, and Chinese buying gave USA scrappers a lot of relief 15 years ago from the price command and control power of USA raw material purchasers. Like rare earth metal mining, this is about leverage.
I think this is pretty typical of the "tinkerer's blessing", the period when emerging markets repair/hacker/TechSector is the best job available for the smartest and most honest workers. Singapore did it, S.Korea, Guangdong, and if you go back a ways, Japan. Countries earning under $3k per capita per year jump to 10K per person per year in about a decade, and its when guys like this figure out ways to protect the cars of the wealthy, set up hospital blood banks, rig cell phone towers, etc. They create the "critical mass of users" that makes satellite, cell towers, internet cable etc investable.
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When I'm someday a reclusive billionaire, someone will do this by extracting my fingerprints from doorknobs with tape. It's just a matter of time and lottery tickets.
Have lived in Europe, where you have to pay something significant for a single use plastic bag, and I got used to it. I don't think the single-use bag bans are going to make a substantial difference for the environment (they tend to promote moral licensing, as people feel entitled to buy a bigger car if they feel good about recycling, etc). But seeing conservatives and liberals using environmental policy as a club to beat each other with, or feel all victim-chic put-upon by, is getting kind of tiresome.
Or some large Western Chinese city, or Japan maybe. What Cringely doesn't appear to consider is that the USA will not be the market that does it first. It used to be that you couldn't introduce a new scheme unless USA the "world's biggest market" adapts first. That's kinda 1990s. He's not using metric.
Oblig i think?
This is my understanding, too - That the observable 3rd dimension is finite, the same as a two dimensional film on a bubble is finite but expanding. A wise leprechaun told me.
NYTimes had a pretty interesting technology article about the undersea "cloud" three days ago. https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
In the Ozarks, your newspaper choices were literally named the "X County Republican" or the "X State Democrat".
May be all Russia can afford.
The weight I've gained at mid-50s takes a bigger toll on my push ups than it takes on my treadmill. I think it's physics.
Or maybe, the summary mixes correlation and causation. A professor who has experienced students whose minds grow becomes more optimistic. A professor whose students are just punching the clock and don't care about learning has a more jaundiced view of students.
Accidentally slipped my mouse and mis-modded this informative comment, posting to reset
As a professional electronics recycler, here's the big secret about battery recycling. The original device (car, bus) requires that a battery be pulled when it reaches a certain inefficiency threshhold - say less than 50% recharge. But those uses are for a very tight spec, maintaining speed on the road and getting from point A to 150km away at Point B. In economics, most of the large batteries never make it to the recycler, because there are plenty of savvy Tech Sector people in emerging markets, who resell the batteries to a use (e.g. backup lights for solar panels) that is more forgiving. If the battery on the solar panel saves enough energy to keep the lights on all night, that's actually pretty inefficient when you go to bed.
Of course, if you are an original battery manufacturer, you look at that kind of like Lexmark and HP looked at ink cartridge reuse. The "gray market" disputes are between legitimate added value reuse, and the risk that an unscrupulous subcontractor repackages the used under50% battery in shiny box to sell as a counterfeit. Expect Planned Obsolescence to tell you how poor children at African dumps are buying the batteries. This Recycling Story gets told over and over again, and the fight in the backroom is always over "market cannibalization" vs "counterfeiting".
As it turns out, it was cheaper to open smaller regional airports (used by Ryanair, Easyjet etc) than to economize the traditional airports using more seats per landing window. The A380 and 747 had Reagan's de-regulation in their rearview mirror. The object was closer than it appeared.
Most ocean pollution comes from litter in fast-growing coastal cities in Asia, Africa and South America. It would make a lot more sense to deal with litter in emerging markets than to tinker with the kind of waste that goes into rich country waste treatment facilities. I say this as a professional recycler and environmentalist. The "grasping at straws" approach makes people (and journalists) feel like their doing something, which can actually result in "moral licensing".
A better approach is "fair trade recycling offsets", which are patterned after carbon trading. Let plastic utensil makers sell to people who want / need them, but let them offset by collecting as much litter from places like Lagos and Jakarta as they produce. It would mean less command-and-control by government, and reduce a lot more ocean waste.
Your snaps disappear, or do they last forever? Which has the worst case scenario?
Every page, and every word, in a 226 page novel exists at once on the shelf. If our brains were much larger, we could read not just a letter, or word instantaneously. If our minds were bigger, we could read pages, chapters, the entire novel at one time. Time is something we project in order to be able to digest our existence. So a mind-expanding drug could change this. Kurt Vonnegut explained this in Slaughterhouse Five - and was accused of dropping LSD. I discovered it 20 years before I read Vonnegut ....... so it goes.
I was always taught to beware the trojan horse compliment "Oh we love your restaurant SO MUCH! Our dream would be to open one just like it! Will you share your recipes with us, oh please?!?" As sincere as it may be, there is nothing in it for you.
According to this article from 2 days ago, Dashcoin cryptocurrency entered Venezuela with such a bang that it may have saved Dash (which has been tanking) as much as Venezuela. But all articles on cryptocurrency have been hype for the past 5 years, so I can't say I red very far. https://www.cryptorecorder.com...
Article was silent on this point, but it would be a far greater portion of email traffic if they are scanning INCOMING and REPLIED-TO emails to sell to marketers (and would make Gmail, MS and others who ceased that activity somewhat toothless in their guarantee). [and as the one who made this WSJ submission, who is MSMASH and why do all submissions come from MSMASH today?)
How does ReverendGreen's baseless claim that the WSJ is a propaganda outlet get 4 point mod up? It's probably the best and fairest news source out there.
Fifteen years ago, China could not afford to waste the equivalent of the USA's General Mining Act of 1872. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant to speed western expansion during Apache Indian Wars etc, GMA set price of extraction on Federal Lands at $5 per acre, no royalties, no cleanup cost (14 of 15 largest USA Superfund Sites are hard rock mines on federal land). At least, China was not willing to let Australian, EU and USA mining and forestry companies operate on Chinese land without those subsidies. Recycling therefore won in the marketplace.
Today China is trying to develop virgin material extraction industry to compete with BHP, Alcoa, etc., and has the capital.
So the value of raw materials that had already been refined (value added) could be recognized by hand much more cheaply than extraction, but China CP now sees development of virgin material as a priority. What the WSJ article fails to consider is China's experience with rare earth metals - they can ban export and import, but remove the ban whenever someone else invests in competing with them. Right now, the prices of recycled scrap have dropped to a point where I'd expect China to start buying them again. Then ban them if the price goes up (using raw materials supplies they have developed). Just like USA refnining industry did to scrappers in the 1950s and 60s. Usually recyclables collected are not wasted, it's a question of price, and Chinese buying gave USA scrappers a lot of relief 15 years ago from the price command and control power of USA raw material purchasers. Like rare earth metal mining, this is about leverage.
Quality of comments on Slashdot shows either sleep deprivation - or drinking-while-trolling?
I think this is pretty typical of the "tinkerer's blessing", the period when emerging markets repair/hacker/TechSector is the best job available for the smartest and most honest workers. Singapore did it, S.Korea, Guangdong, and if you go back a ways, Japan. Countries earning under $3k per capita per year jump to 10K per person per year in about a decade, and its when guys like this figure out ways to protect the cars of the wealthy, set up hospital blood banks, rig cell phone towers, etc. They create the "critical mass of users" that makes satellite, cell towers, internet cable etc investable.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2...
...Dead salamanders. The only reason to align the two is political swamp-reason.