Except for the following market failures: 1) Inability to slow down and stop anthropogenic global warming (and ocean acidification) due to fossil fuel use 2) Inability to stop worldwide rapid ecosystem and biodiversity destruction (terrestrial, oceanic) 3) Inability to stop the rapid reduction of clean freshwater resources worldwide 4) Inability to use sustainable agricultural practices, leading to worldwide soil degradation. 5) Inability to prevent unsustainable increasing rates of consumption of non-renewable resources 6) Near future inability to distribute wealth to rapidly increasing unemployed percentage of population due to automation and AI
and I would be a little cautious about holding up US government as a shining example, being as how it is led by a cartoon character and serves the interests of large corporations over the interests of people.
We really, really need to make a geography-free distributed encrypted storage layer (e.g. IPFS) much more of a reality, so that no country is in control. Preferably with TOR-like obfuscated routing also.
The Internet should become a platform on which we can build global society, economy, and democracy.
You are wrong. Money X gets its value from the social agreement to use X as a token for value, and the maintained social agreement to transact economic transactions using X.
Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, those social agreements have traditionally been associated with and given a certain stability by the prevailing hierarchical governance organization in one region or another.
No reason the social agreement in the future couldn't be based on X's transactional role in the global economy as a whole, though. There are ways of implementing some sorts of fully automated monetary policy, for new forms of X, too. They would be based on automatically triggered futures contract sales and the like, to stabilize the currency X's value.
Money is primarily a token of social interaction, co-operation, and agreement.
Blockchain is collective truth verification, for the state of balances and transactions and contracts and votes and holdings and a whack of other things that used to require "paperwork".
Speaking of which, I think a good explanation for Trump's insane pottymouth tweet-stream is his dumbphone (specially altered smartphone) has been hacked, via a mobile porn site, by the Chinese, and they have a war-room staffed by their greatest state-loyal comedians, carefully crafting Trump's every tweet.
"Global warming deniers" and "highly intelligent people" are mutually exclusive categories.
Oh wait, maybe there's a tiny intersection in the venn diagram, where they overlap with the "selfish machiavellian lying assholes" category. They say they deny it, but only to further their selfish ends of not having to make any lifestyle or policy changes. If they are intelligent, they know their denial stance is just posturing for effect.
"Privacy and security is in our DNA, which is why we have end-to-end encryption. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, status updates and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands.
WhatsApp end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. "
So what does this announcement mean? Pick one: a) That whatsapp will turn off end to end encryption for Australian customers? b) Whatsapp will cease operations in Australia because e-to-e contravenes Australian law? c) The encryption scheme is already broken and we just don't realize it?
First of all, I have to congratulate the German people for having invented such a tremendous word "Dunkelflaute".
Second, a centralized large-scale hydrogen storage facility with fuel cells is indeed a scalable energy storage solution. It can only be made with 40% round-trip energy efficiency, but just compensate for that by doubling or so the amount of wind and solar, which is relatively cheap and feasible. Remember that right now, a lot of wind farms are being paid to not generate during times of surplus wind and low demand. Storing that energy at 40% efficiency is obviously much better than that.
Or do some research & development to improve adiabatic compressed air storage, which should achieve 70% round-trip energy efficiency. These technologies, plus lithium batteries at the grid edge, can easily be a scalable energy storage solution.
We are also overlooking deep geothermal power generation. Current oil-drilling technology is good enough to take advantage of a lot of that resource. And geothermal can generate 24/7 with no GHG emissions.
The reason that this stuff, all well within our short term technological reach, is not done, comes down to that in the short term it would be more expensive, because of the artificial "free pollution" pass given to the fossil fuel energy industry. Slap a decent carbon tax on, one that would still be much less than the remediation costs of adapting to fossil-fuel-caused global warming and climate change, and these new energy technologies would be cost-competitive or superior immediately.
It's all down to lack of political will to make the needed changes. If you don't like more tax, a carbon fee and dividend works almost just as well at speeding the change and leveling the economic playing field for clean energy technology, while remaining revenue neutral for governments.
Just tried it though, and google composition suggestions is limited to the most bland cliches imaginable. It will take a lot to get a poetic masterpiece out of it.
So let's say, in a thought experiment, that Apple decided that all new iPhones will show a blank screen and no notifications, for 8 hours every 24, because health research says people need sleep.
Can you honestly say that shocked and pissed off iPhone customers have nothing to turn to from the competition? Ridiculous.
Give the carbon "tax" proceeds back to all citizens, so it is revenue neutral. Those who think this is impossible need to be introduced to something called "math".
Those who still call that an additional tax are just gas-guzzler-owning, lying a-holes.
They could probably suffice, if expanded, and accompanied by smart grid, HVDC continental-scale power transmission, and significant amounts of energy storage including things like compressed air, centralized large-scale hydrogen facilities, lithium batteries distributed through the grid and at endpoints, etc.
But may as well add in deep Geothermal, and nuclear fusion when it breaks through.
The EU is the federal level of a federated, hierarchical governance structure. In that aspect it is analogous to the Union of United States of America.
invented a piece of software called the mosaic browser whose purpose was to allow the embedding of banner ads in information pages.;-) That's when the interweb REALLY took off.
believe,at this stage, any word at all that came out of cartoon president Trump's mouth, or tweeted out of his other end?
Those that are counting are saying he's averaging just less than one lie or inconsistent-with-self public statement per day. Something like 6,400 such statements in 690ish days of office.
that the original iPhone did not come with any third party apps at all. Only Apple-created apps.
Originally, the mobile network providers had all the control, and Apple believed those network providers would be paranoid about allowing arbitrary bandwidth-guzzling and potentially dangerous apps onto their wireless networks.
As a next step, Apple opened up to risk-controlled, quality-controlled third-party apps, which also had to not take over the phone or compete directly with core Apple app functions, so there would be a standard for those, and also a business benefit to the original mover, Apple.
Competitors at the time were companies like Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, remember them?
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Except for the following market failures:
1) Inability to slow down and stop anthropogenic global warming (and ocean acidification) due to fossil fuel use
2) Inability to stop worldwide rapid ecosystem and biodiversity destruction (terrestrial, oceanic)
3) Inability to stop the rapid reduction of clean freshwater resources worldwide
4) Inability to use sustainable agricultural practices, leading to worldwide soil degradation.
5) Inability to prevent unsustainable increasing rates of consumption of non-renewable resources
6) Near future inability to distribute wealth to rapidly increasing unemployed percentage of population due to automation and AI
and I would be a little cautious about holding up US government as a shining example, being as how it is led by a cartoon character and serves the interests of large corporations over the interests of people.
controlling the Internet, which is global.
We really, really need to make a geography-free distributed encrypted storage layer (e.g. IPFS) much more of a reality, so that no country is in control. Preferably with TOR-like obfuscated routing also.
The Internet should become a platform on which we can build global society, economy, and democracy.
to blockchain and cryptocurrency.
It was only associated with the version 1 blockchain and cryptocurrency technology.
Proof-of-stake and other new concepts will replace the energy-intensive proof-of-work.
I wish people would STFU with this particular criticism of crypto/blockchain because it's like criticising houses because you're opposed to bricks.
You are wrong.
Money X gets its value from the social agreement to use X as a token for value, and the maintained social agreement to transact economic transactions using X.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, those social agreements have traditionally been associated with and given a certain stability by the prevailing hierarchical governance organization in one region or another.
No reason the social agreement in the future couldn't be based on X's transactional role in the global economy as a whole, though.
There are ways of implementing some sorts of fully automated monetary policy, for new forms of X, too. They would be based on automatically triggered futures contract sales and the like, to stabilize the currency X's value.
Money is primarily a token of social interaction, co-operation, and agreement.
Blockchain is collective truth verification, for the state of balances and transactions and contracts and votes and holdings and a whack of other things that used to require "paperwork".
Think of it as the anti-Trump.
It's unhygienic.
As is excessive Pr0n consumption.
Speaking of which, I think a good explanation for Trump's insane pottymouth tweet-stream is his dumbphone (specially altered smartphone) has been hacked, via a mobile porn site, by the Chinese, and they have a war-room staffed by their greatest state-loyal comedians, carefully crafting Trump's every tweet.
current attitudes in Washington are making adversaries / enemies out of nations that might have been just as happy to co-operate economically.
This applies to China in particular. It's probably mostly paranoid, xenophobia and racism driving it.
Thanks for re-starting the cold-war, dufuses.
"Global warming deniers" and "highly intelligent people" are mutually exclusive categories.
Oh wait, maybe there's a tiny intersection in the venn diagram, where they overlap with the "selfish machiavellian lying assholes" category. They say they deny it, but only to further their selfish ends of not having to make any lifestyle or policy changes. If they are intelligent, they know their denial stance is just posturing for effect.
Probably not killing ourselves. We're the most adaptable species except for bacteria etc.
But making it f**ing miserable for the survivors, definitely.
And killing the vast majority of complex large-scale ecosystems on the planet and very large percentages of their inhabitant species, yes.
Lifeicide in other words.
It's the law.
Except in Australia I guess. I always wondered about that, them being on the bottom side of the globe and all.
Cancel the dinner.
"Privacy and security is in our DNA, which is why we have end-to-end encryption. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, status updates and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands.
WhatsApp end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. "
So what does this announcement mean? Pick one:
a) That whatsapp will turn off end to end encryption for Australian customers?
b) Whatsapp will cease operations in Australia because e-to-e contravenes Australian law?
c) The encryption scheme is already broken and we just don't realize it?
Well, that's a good start.
We need to be off them altogether, right around, oh, let's see, now.
First of all, I have to congratulate the German people for having invented such a tremendous word "Dunkelflaute".
Second, a centralized large-scale hydrogen storage facility with fuel cells is indeed a scalable energy storage solution.
It can only be made with 40% round-trip energy efficiency, but just compensate for that by doubling or so the amount of wind and solar, which is relatively cheap and feasible.
Remember that right now, a lot of wind farms are being paid to not generate during times of surplus wind and low demand. Storing that energy at 40% efficiency is obviously much better than that.
Or do some research & development to improve adiabatic compressed air storage, which should achieve 70% round-trip energy efficiency.
These technologies, plus lithium batteries at the grid edge, can easily be a scalable energy storage solution.
We are also overlooking deep geothermal power generation. Current oil-drilling technology is good enough to take advantage of a lot of that resource. And geothermal can generate 24/7 with no GHG emissions.
The reason that this stuff, all well within our short term technological reach, is not done, comes down to that in the short term it would be more expensive, because of the artificial "free pollution" pass given to the fossil fuel energy industry. Slap a decent carbon tax on, one that would still be much less than the remediation costs of adapting to fossil-fuel-caused global warming and climate change, and these new energy technologies would be cost-competitive or superior immediately.
It's all down to lack of political will to make the needed changes. If you don't like more tax, a carbon fee and dividend works almost just as well at speeding the change and leveling the economic playing field for clean energy technology, while remaining revenue neutral for governments.
Just tried it though, and google composition suggestions is limited to the most bland cliches imaginable.
It will take a lot to get a poetic masterpiece out of it.
and look over the cliff, you'll see the packaged on: and best before: dates.
Awesomesauce!
So let's say, in a thought experiment, that Apple decided that all new iPhones will show a blank screen and no notifications, for 8 hours every 24, because health research says people need sleep.
Can you honestly say that shocked and pissed off iPhone customers have nothing to turn to from the competition? Ridiculous.
Give the carbon "tax" proceeds back to all citizens, so it is revenue neutral. Those who think this is impossible need to be introduced to something called "math".
Those who still call that an additional tax are just gas-guzzler-owning, lying a-holes.
Solar and wind "alone" has not really been tried.
They could probably suffice, if expanded, and accompanied by smart grid, HVDC continental-scale power transmission, and significant amounts of energy storage including things like compressed air, centralized large-scale hydrogen facilities, lithium batteries distributed through the grid and at endpoints, etc.
But may as well add in deep Geothermal, and nuclear fusion when it breaks through.
The EU is the federal level of a federated, hierarchical governance structure.
In that aspect it is analogous to the Union of United States of America.
invented a piece of software called the mosaic browser whose purpose was to allow the embedding of banner ads in information pages. ;-)
That's when the interweb REALLY took off.
Oops, that's closer to 9 lies per day, isn't it.
believe,at this stage, any word at all that came out of cartoon president Trump's mouth, or tweeted out of his other end?
Those that are counting are saying he's averaging just less than one lie or inconsistent-with-self public statement per day.
Something like 6,400 such statements in 690ish days of office.
Why are we paying any attention at all?
He's a walking self-parody.
that the original iPhone did not come with any third party apps at all. Only Apple-created apps.
Originally, the mobile network providers had all the control, and Apple believed those network providers would be paranoid about allowing arbitrary bandwidth-guzzling and potentially dangerous apps onto their wireless networks.
As a next step, Apple opened up to risk-controlled, quality-controlled third-party apps, which also had to not take over the phone or compete directly with core Apple app functions, so there would be a standard for those, and also a business benefit to the original mover, Apple.
Competitors at the time were companies like Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, remember them?