A new pipeline is an amazing feat of engineering. Old pipelines were just whatever pipe they could find laid in the ground.
All the engineering in the world means dick if you never inspect it and actively lobby against mandatory spill detection technologies because they make pipelines more expensive.
To make an obligatory Slashdot car analogy: I am suggesting we make new planes so people will be able to travel safer than driving a car. You come back with "yeah, we've obviously never had major plane crashes".
Airplanes have been having a lot more problems since the airlines started off-shoring maintenance. It's been an ongoing problem for ~10 years now.
It's no surprise that the cheaper route is not the safer route when it comes to planes and pipelines.
And there are people in other countries who want to hurt you, who are called "terrorists". There's a part of the government called the NSA that looks at other people's private things in order to stop terrorists from hurting you.
That's what the NSA wanted us to believe before Snowden's leaked documents showed us otherwise.
So unless you're willing to argue that the Chancellor of Germany is a terrorist, please stop repeating the Party line.
Fun fact - there's only two "viable" parties because the voters believe that and go along with it.
Ds & Rs gerrymander the voting districts and they decide who gets to participate in the debates
There's only two viable parties because those parties have co-opted the elections process for their own ends.
Our political process has increasingly been fueled by massive infusions of cash. There are ways to fix this, but none of them are likely to be initiated from inside the political machine.
But if your pw file isn't supposed to be public, then you're setting a policy assuming your system has been cracked and are passing bad math onto the users as annoyance.
Dude, the first step to good security is to assume you've been compromised and then construct your defenses based on that assumption. It's called a defense in depth.
Or to look at it from another angle: we all have locks on our homes, but you still wouldn't leave $10,000 in cash just sitting on the kitchen table, would you? Of course not, you'd hide it, preferably in a safe that's bolted to the floor.
If the science behind global warming is so fake, why don't you expose it and convince everyone it's fake?
He probably didn't get the latest talking points memos.
Even the deniers have stopped claiming that "the increase in CO2 is not human made," instead they've pivoted to claiming that it doesn't matter because the predicted consequences won't happen.
Please stop using the slow-boiled frog meme. It's false.
It doesn't really matter if it's true. What's important is that it's cultural shorthand for a morality tale, about complacency, that everyone already knows.
I understand why you want it to go away, but you're pissing into the wind. ("Pissing into the wind" is another example of cultural shorthand with a deeper understanding attached to it)
If that is not a sign of a totalitarian state, I don't know what is.
It's a byproduct of anti-money laundering laws and it's nothing new. It's the same reason the IRS has a rule about deposits over $10,000 and another rule about "structuring" your deposits to intentionally avoid the rules.
They could get rid of it, but criminals would just start buying gift cards en masse to wash their dirty money.
What about all of the other things they will do? Unfortunately, everyone involved will have different ideas about what else is important. Just saying the word "abortion" will split most of the people who might contribute.
I guess the concept of the "single issue voter" is foreign to you. They are people for whom one issue is so overridingly important, they will ignore most everything else. Abortion is one of those issues and Lessig is trying to draw out voters for whom campaign finance reform is that one issue.
It is hardly surprising that graphene can, in some circumstances, be dangerous.
Pretty much everything below a certain size is dangerous if inhaled. Your nose can't filter it out, it lodges in your lungs, and then everything goes to hell.
Best case scenario, you get cancer and maybe live after they take out parts of your lungs. Worst case scenario, your lungs form scar tissue to encapsulate the particles and you either get a transplant or die.
There's no such thing as a "benign" nano sized particle in your lungs.
and the minimum is usually 10mph under the posted limit.
I've never heard of that.
If there's a minimum speed limit, it'll be posted. Otherwise, it's up to a police officer's judgement if you're going so slow as to "obstruct traffic."
And your 401k is managed by people so naive as to allow that? They don't themselves adopt similar technologies and strategies to mitigate that?
If you read any of the articles about Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, they specifically say that the trading houses can (and do) divert orders into their dark pools instead of executing it on the main exchanges. In turn, this gives HFTs (who pay for paid low latency access) market information that others do not have.
Never mind the FACT that you cannot have Proper Regulation, because anytime you centralize enough power to write said Regulation it will naturally become subverted, because Power has that effect - always.
That's a ridiculous thing to say.
Our situation is transparently a cultural problem, not a problem with centralized power. The culture in Washington doesn't see fit to aggressively fix the glaring problems with our regulators. It's not like this is magic, there are books written on the subject and anyone who cares to learn the solutions, can.
It's patently obvious that when you have former lobbyists being elected head of a regulatory agency and the former head of the regulatory agency taking over the job of chief industry lobbyist, you're going to get regulatory outcomes that do a shit job of balancing industry and consumer needs.
Nobody could reasonably look at the situation and think "Ah yes, this is what will bring us Proper Regulation." Not even an anti-regulatory ideologue like you.
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Ad blockers are pretty poor at doing their named job when the next 1800 frames inserted into the video stream are going to be 60 seconds worth of commercials, and you can go pee or not go pee, talk to your family, or whatever, but those are the 1800 frames @ 30FPS you are going to be getting over the next 60 seconds. Hulu has a fairly captive audience, due to their implementation of streaming.
The adverts are fetched from elsewhere, during set points during a stream. Ad-Blockers can and do intercept Hulu adverts.
This works because Hulu, like some other online streaming providers, breaks their stream up into segments. This makes ripping a stream harder, since you have to mux together multiple segments, but it also makes blocking ads fairly simple.
IIRC, Hulu does have some ad-blocking-detection in place and can stop the stream once you hit the first checkpoint (so to speak).
If Congress has not passed a law on this, the FTC has no authority to regulate it. If Congress has passed such a law, the FTC would already be regulating it.
First off, your statement of the FTC's regulatory purview is wildly incorrect. The FTC *does not* have a narrow charter than only covers items enumerated by Congress. If that was the case, every novel enforcement action would require an act of Congress.
More importantly, have you considered that the FTC has not already regulated this because it never had a reason to? If there's nothing to disrupt the existing order, there's nothing new for the FTC to regulate. It's only now, when the current market players are trying to shut down a new entry, that the FTC has reason to act.
And yes, they have the power, but not the obligation - if they choose to ignore the issue, not much anyone can do about it.
People regularly sue the government in order to force action on issues that are being ignored. There's no such thing as "not much anyone can do about it."
50%, no deductions, no credits, just outright confiscation to ensure less profit from leveaging any potential leads from the government to win insider deals.
Executives don't gets a salary, they get a "compensation package."
Stuff like the company paying for a car, use of a private jet, free hotel rooms, an executive assistant, etc etc etc. And if you're good at negotiating, the gravy train doesn't have to end when you quit, as some Executives keep getting these perks while they're between jobs.
So really, there's a lot more to the job than just a paycheck.
High speed elevators are stupidly expensive. I was looking at apartments a while back and at one of the buildings there was some ongoing construction.
Somehow I ended up getting shown around by one of the head contractors who told me that the building was supposed to have four medium speed elevators, but they got permission to knock it down to 3 high speed elevators, which would move the equivalent # of people per arbitrary unit of time.
The kicker was that those 3 elevators were about 1/4th the total budget of the entire building. So based on that, I'm guessing that TFA's 95 elevators are a respectable portion of the price for that new tower in China.
and the difference in packaging costs between 16G and 64G chips is likely zero.
I never would have pegged the price difference between 16GB and 64GB as $50. That means every other phone out there is practicing enormous and arbitrary price discrimination by jacking up the cost of storage.
Remember the US army created a game of their own called "America's Army". It was as realistic as the could make it, including the fact that you get shot once, and you are dead, and you couldn't rejoin the multi-player game until it was over. And that made it a dull game, as you typically spent half the time waiting rather than playing.
Funny you mention America's Army. As "realistic" as it is, it's actually a toned down version of the real simulator they use to train soldiers.
Stuff like grenade fuse times and movement speed are what separate a simulator from a game. It's all in the little details and America's Army fudges the details in order to turn a simulator into a game.
He talks about college and trade schools, but says nothing about on-the-job training. Businesses no longer seem willing to invest any capital in directly educating the worker they want.
The closest we get is coordination between a college and business, where the business helps design the school's curriculum to provide the kind of skills the business wants.
The general conclusion was that it seemed likely that the horse did not understand English.
Two horses are standing around in the stables, minding their own business when some random guy shows up and starts making noises at them.
The horses look at each other and continue chewing. After the random guy leave, the first horse looks at the other and says "I didn't understand a damn word of that. Did you?" The second horse's jaw drops a little... "Holy shit," he says. "A talking horse!"
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A new pipeline is an amazing feat of engineering. Old pipelines were just whatever pipe they could find laid in the ground.
All the engineering in the world means dick if you never inspect it and actively lobby against mandatory spill detection technologies because they make pipelines more expensive.
To make an obligatory Slashdot car analogy: I am suggesting we make new planes so people will be able to travel safer than driving a car. You come back with "yeah, we've obviously never had major plane crashes".
Airplanes have been having a lot more problems since the airlines started off-shoring maintenance.
It's been an ongoing problem for ~10 years now.
It's no surprise that the cheaper route is not the safer route when it comes to planes and pipelines.
And there are people in other countries who want to hurt you, who are called "terrorists". There's a part of the government called the NSA that looks at other people's private things in order to stop terrorists from hurting you.
That's what the NSA wanted us to believe before Snowden's leaked documents showed us otherwise.
So unless you're willing to argue that the Chancellor of Germany is a terrorist, please stop repeating the Party line.
Fun fact - there's only two "viable" parties because the voters believe that and go along with it.
Ds & Rs gerrymander the voting districts and they decide who gets to participate in the debates
There's only two viable parties because those parties have co-opted the elections process for their own ends.
Our political process has increasingly been fueled by massive infusions of cash.
There are ways to fix this, but none of them are likely to be initiated from inside the political machine.
But if your pw file isn't supposed to be public, then you're setting a policy assuming your system has been cracked and are passing bad math onto the users as annoyance.
Dude, the first step to good security is to assume you've been compromised and then construct your defenses based on that assumption.
It's called a defense in depth.
Or to look at it from another angle: we all have locks on our homes, but you still wouldn't leave $10,000 in cash just sitting on the kitchen table, would you?
Of course not, you'd hide it, preferably in a safe that's bolted to the floor.
If the science behind global warming is so fake, why don't you expose it and convince everyone it's fake?
He probably didn't get the latest talking points memos.
Even the deniers have stopped claiming that "the increase in CO2 is not human made,"
instead they've pivoted to claiming that it doesn't matter because the predicted consequences won't happen.
Please stop using the slow-boiled frog meme. It's false.
It doesn't really matter if it's true.
What's important is that it's cultural shorthand for a morality tale, about complacency, that everyone already knows.
I understand why you want it to go away, but you're pissing into the wind.
("Pissing into the wind" is another example of cultural shorthand with a deeper understanding attached to it)
If that is not a sign of a totalitarian state, I don't know what is.
It's a byproduct of anti-money laundering laws and it's nothing new.
It's the same reason the IRS has a rule about deposits over $10,000 and another rule about "structuring" your deposits to intentionally avoid the rules.
They could get rid of it, but criminals would just start buying gift cards en masse to wash their dirty money.
What about all of the other things they will do? Unfortunately, everyone involved will have different ideas about what else is important. Just saying the word "abortion" will split most of the people who might contribute.
I guess the concept of the "single issue voter" is foreign to you.
They are people for whom one issue is so overridingly important, they will ignore most everything else.
Abortion is one of those issues and Lessig is trying to draw out voters for whom campaign finance reform is that one issue.
It is hardly surprising that graphene can, in some circumstances, be dangerous.
Pretty much everything below a certain size is dangerous if inhaled.
Your nose can't filter it out, it lodges in your lungs, and then everything goes to hell.
Best case scenario, you get cancer and maybe live after they take out parts of your lungs.
Worst case scenario, your lungs form scar tissue to encapsulate the particles and you either get a transplant or die.
There's no such thing as a "benign" nano sized particle in your lungs.
thiings like Facebook, Twitter ,Angry Birds and Candy Crush. This is actually very depressing stuff. In essence escapist technology.
The Space Race, was a publicity stunt, but a damn good one that really helped America and the world.
Oh come on!
How much more "escapist technology" can you develop than literally blasting yourself to the moon.
How on earth did you guys let it get so ridiculous??
Never underestimate the power of Intelligent Design.
and the minimum is usually 10mph under the posted limit.
I've never heard of that.
If there's a minimum speed limit, it'll be posted.
Otherwise, it's up to a police officer's judgement if you're going so slow as to "obstruct traffic."
And your 401k is managed by people so naive as to allow that? They don't themselves adopt similar technologies and strategies to mitigate that?
If you read any of the articles about Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, they specifically say that the trading houses can (and do) divert orders into their dark pools instead of executing it on the main exchanges.
In turn, this gives HFTs (who pay for paid low latency access) market information that others do not have.
401k managers are not necessarily at fault.
Never mind the FACT that you cannot have Proper Regulation, because anytime you centralize enough power to write said Regulation it will naturally become subverted, because Power has that effect - always.
That's a ridiculous thing to say.
Our situation is transparently a cultural problem, not a problem with centralized power.
The culture in Washington doesn't see fit to aggressively fix the glaring problems with our regulators.
It's not like this is magic, there are books written on the subject and anyone who cares to learn the solutions, can.
It's patently obvious that when you have former lobbyists being elected head of a regulatory agency
and the former head of the regulatory agency taking over the job of chief industry lobbyist,
you're going to get regulatory outcomes that do a shit job of balancing industry and consumer needs.
Nobody could reasonably look at the situation and think "Ah yes, this is what will bring us Proper Regulation."
Not even an anti-regulatory ideologue like you.
Ad blockers are pretty poor at doing their named job when the next 1800 frames inserted into the video stream are going to be 60 seconds worth of commercials, and you can go pee or not go pee, talk to your family, or whatever, but those are the 1800 frames @ 30FPS you are going to be getting over the next 60 seconds. Hulu has a fairly captive audience, due to their implementation of streaming.
The adverts are fetched from elsewhere, during set points during a stream.
Ad-Blockers can and do intercept Hulu adverts.
This works because Hulu, like some other online streaming providers, breaks their stream up into segments.
This makes ripping a stream harder, since you have to mux together multiple segments, but it also makes blocking ads fairly simple.
IIRC, Hulu does have some ad-blocking-detection in place and can stop the stream once you hit the first checkpoint (so to speak).
If Congress has not passed a law on this, the FTC has no authority to regulate it. If Congress has passed such a law, the FTC would already be regulating it.
First off, your statement of the FTC's regulatory purview is wildly incorrect.
The FTC *does not* have a narrow charter than only covers items enumerated by Congress.
If that was the case, every novel enforcement action would require an act of Congress.
More importantly, have you considered that the FTC has not already regulated this because it never had a reason to?
If there's nothing to disrupt the existing order, there's nothing new for the FTC to regulate.
It's only now, when the current market players are trying to shut down a new entry, that the FTC has reason to act.
And yes, they have the power, but not the obligation - if they choose to ignore the issue, not much anyone can do about it.
People regularly sue the government in order to force action on issues that are being ignored.
There's no such thing as "not much anyone can do about it."
"infinity" is not a relative adjective. There are no degrees of "infinity". Something is either infinite or it's not.
Aaargh!
That's why there are no such words as infiniter or infinitest
Or maybe there can be degrees of uniqueness.
50%, no deductions, no credits, just outright confiscation to ensure less profit from leveaging any potential leads from the government to win insider deals.
Executives don't gets a salary, they get a "compensation package."
Stuff like the company paying for a car, use of a private jet, free hotel rooms, an executive assistant, etc etc etc.
And if you're good at negotiating, the gravy train doesn't have to end when you quit,
as some Executives keep getting these perks while they're between jobs.
So really, there's a lot more to the job than just a paycheck.
High speed elevators are stupidly expensive.
I was looking at apartments a while back and at one of the buildings there was some ongoing construction.
Somehow I ended up getting shown around by one of the head contractors who told me that the building was supposed to have four medium speed elevators, but they got permission to knock it down to 3 high speed elevators, which would move the equivalent # of people per arbitrary unit of time.
The kicker was that those 3 elevators were about 1/4th the total budget of the entire building.
So based on that, I'm guessing that TFA's 95 elevators are a respectable portion of the price for that new tower in China.
Well Duh! Why do you think Apple for instance doesn't allow SD cards in their phones?
I assumed it was because they didn't want to compromise on their museum quality designs.
and the difference in packaging costs between 16G and 64G chips is likely zero.
I never would have pegged the price difference between 16GB and 64GB as $50.
That means every other phone out there is practicing enormous and arbitrary price discrimination by jacking up the cost of storage.
Remember the US army created a game of their own called "America's Army". It was as realistic as the could make it, including the fact that you get shot once, and you are dead, and you couldn't rejoin the multi-player game until it was over. And that made it a dull game, as you typically spent half the time waiting rather than playing.
Funny you mention America's Army.
As "realistic" as it is, it's actually a toned down version of the real simulator they use to train soldiers.
Stuff like grenade fuse times and movement speed are what separate a simulator from a game.
It's all in the little details and America's Army fudges the details in order to turn a simulator into a game.
He talks about college and trade schools, but says nothing about on-the-job training.
Businesses no longer seem willing to invest any capital in directly educating the worker they want.
The closest we get is coordination between a college and business,
where the business helps design the school's curriculum to provide the kind of skills the business wants.
The general conclusion was that it seemed likely that the horse did not understand English.
Two horses are standing around in the stables, minding their own business when some random guy shows up and starts making noises at them.
The horses look at each other and continue chewing.
After the random guy leave, the first horse looks at the other and says "I didn't understand a damn word of that. Did you?"
The second horse's jaw drops a little... "Holy shit," he says. "A talking horse!"