If there's a high difference between corporate and personal taxes what will happen is people will funnel their personal wealth into their corporations and claim to have no personal wealth to tax. Cue Elon Musk's "i'm living at a friend's house and my divorcing ex-wife is entitled to nothing to for having my three sons because it's all on stock".
If people don't pay taxes and GDP is either underreported or companies have off-shore headquarters which hide the produced values then yes, it's kinda natural the fraction of government spending as GDP increases. Welcome to the service economy.
Like someone was saying on the situation at Boeing right now the conditions workers had three decades ago vs now are night and day.
Yet if you compare the amount of money spent per outcome the results are quite clear. In the US for example infant mortality is quite high and people don't live longer than in Europe. So you aren't getting the best bang for the buck clearly. What you do get is overcharging and people getting treatments they don't need so they can be charged more. My father for example had a herniated disc. Some doctors wanted to operate him (fuse the discs). He didn't get the operation (which had a high risk of putting him on a wheelchair) and the discs calcified on their own in 3-4 years... So he no longer has any pain whatsoever.
In France you aren't chained to any single doctor. You can pick whichever doctor you want. Then the states pays them at rates agreed upon between the government and the medical association.
e.g. someone with heart failure gets more priority than someone with a non-fatal illness basically. ever heard of triage? if you think it doesn't happen even in non-socialized systems you are sorely mistaken.
China does economical plans. It's just that their plans don't encompass the entire economy. Just the sectors they consider relevant. They also have tried to have "flexible" instead of "inflexible" goals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They also have special projects to meet the goals. For example the J-20 fighter was "Project 718".
But this is hardly China exclusive since both Europe and Japan also have long term economical plans. Which doesn't make them not market economies though, since those plans are typically achieved by economic stimulus.
It's not in North Carolina. It's in North Charleston, South Carolina. They manufacture 787's though. Not 737's which are all manufactured in Washington state.
The news article is rather short on facts "2-3x more density than Li-Ion" is not a quantitative statement when Li-Ion battery performance is all over the map. If they said the energy density in per 'MJ/kg' and per 'MJ/l' then it would be a quantitative statement. This announcement reeks. What it tells me is they never have manufactured a single battery cell of the required final specifications. At best they have a test battery cell much smaller in size which might not even scale up in performance. It wouldn't be the first time.
It's against the hacker ethos. Period. RMS started his software crusade because he couldn't change a printer's software driver. I'm pretty sure the gun nut ESR would be against this as well. Lessig was also against this kind of legislation and he was working for a Supreme Court judge appoint by Reagan. I think our opinion is quite broad across the political spectrum. Unfortunately there is a Cult of the Mac in the house which seems to think it's better to discard our values in the name of... what?
How well did the lawsuit of Apple vs the repair guys go exactly? Yeah right.
If this went to court I can expect what would happen to John Deere.
Dude. This place is a cesspool of libertarians (both right and left wing). You know what we think about your imaginary property and or right to do whatever we want with the product we bought with our MONEY.
Video 2000 was kinda wonky with it's reversible tapes which could store 8h in SP. The other fun thing about it was that the write protect tab could be switched on/off instead of just broken off like in VHS. Of course that probably made it hideously expensive to manufacture.
It's a clone of the AMD EPYC! Of course it can compete with a Xeon.
Also it's not like China doesn't have the ability to design CPUs. It's just that X86 is a patent minefield. So even if they produced a chip they couldn't sell it worldwide without the blessing of both AMD and Intel. Just ask NVIDIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The above processor is used in their Sunway supercomputer. It's more equivalent to a GPU or Cell architecture than a CPU though. It's a mesh network of CPU cores on a chip.
If anything their issue has been they have not used high end manufacturing processes to make the chips. They are probably under embargo and can only use design rules two process generations behind. Notice that they even used SMIC to manufacture that processor to ensure the supply wouldn't be cut. However pretty soon they will have better sources to manufacture chips in China. Like TSMC: https://www.eetimes.com/docume...
That's a 14/16nm fab. It is still two process nodes behind but it's still way better than what SMIC can produce which is 28nm.
I just got these links from looking around. TBH the most economical reactors right now are Generation III reactors like the AP1000. Because the price of uranium is still cheap. The fast reactors will become important once we want to use the spent fuel from Generation II/III reactors to generate more power or to better burn up available uranium fuel.
There was a moratorium in China where work was basically stopped for 2 years after Fukushima to reevaluate the reactor designs. Then they required changes to the original designs. That's the cause of the 3 year delay. Also the Chinese first AP1000 and the first Chinese EPR reactor should become fully operational this year: http://www.world-nuclear-news.... http://www.world-nuclear-news....
The first AP1000 reactor is delivering 100% power to the electric grid while the first EPR reactor is connected to the grid and has finished its first criticality test and will begin power up tests soon.
The so called cost advantage of natural gas gas fades away if you get the natural gas by LNG tanker instead of pipeline. Plus natural gas prices are highly variable both seasonally and yearly. Compare the price of it on winter to summer for example. This is not the case with nuclear power.
BS. Even without the colonial exploitation deep Africa was still behind Europe. It's mostly a jungle where there are tropical diseases like malaria, yellow fever and the like. In many parts of Africa you cannot even pasture large bovines because they'll die from disease. Quite often the pasture animals they use are small and kept indoors most of the time in small huts. The countries themselves quite often are kind of like Papua New Guinea. With multiple tribes in the same nation state who neither speak the same language, quite often do not have the same religion, and consider themselves a different race altogether. Ever since the USA and the Soviet Union kicked out the colonial empires from Africa pray tell how much they have advanced since then. What actually happened was a regression in a lot of cases. While the European colonial powers had the capital to invest in infrastructure and in many cases did so, right now many of the African countries simply do not have the capital for investment. Unless they happen to be sitting on a pile of oil and even that has slided down in price from its peak in 2010.
No, AMD threw away its savings to build their next generation fab by buying ATI at a premium over the stock market price at the time ATI's stock price hit all time highs. Had they waited a single year to buy ATI, they could have bought for less than half the price.
Then there were a lot of shenenigans involved in the GlobalFroundries spin-off which resulted in an investigation which put ex-AMD CEO and later President Hector Ruiz in court and got him expelled as President of GlobalFoundries.
IBM sold its business to Global Foundries. Global Foundries has announced they won't develop 7nm to compete with TSMC. Intel has delayed its 7nm process because of difficulties.
Samsung surpassed Intel as the largest chip vendor.
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If there's a high difference between corporate and personal taxes what will happen is people will funnel their personal wealth into their corporations and claim to have no personal wealth to tax. Cue Elon Musk's "i'm living at a friend's house and my divorcing ex-wife is entitled to nothing to for having my three sons because it's all on stock".
If people don't pay taxes and GDP is either underreported or companies have off-shore headquarters which hide the produced values then yes, it's kinda natural the fraction of government spending as GDP increases. Welcome to the service economy.
Like someone was saying on the situation at Boeing right now the conditions workers had three decades ago vs now are night and day.
s/fuse the discs/fuse the vertebrae/
Yet if you compare the amount of money spent per outcome the results are quite clear. In the US for example infant mortality is quite high and people don't live longer than in Europe. So you aren't getting the best bang for the buck clearly. What you do get is overcharging and people getting treatments they don't need so they can be charged more. My father for example had a herniated disc. Some doctors wanted to operate him (fuse the discs). He didn't get the operation (which had a high risk of putting him on a wheelchair) and the discs calcified on their own in 3-4 years... So he no longer has any pain whatsoever.
In France you aren't chained to any single doctor. You can pick whichever doctor you want. Then the states pays them at rates agreed upon between the government and the medical association.
e.g. someone with heart failure gets more priority than someone with a non-fatal illness basically. ever heard of triage? if you think it doesn't happen even in non-socialized systems you are sorely mistaken.
China does economical plans. It's just that their plans don't encompass the entire economy. Just the sectors they consider relevant. They also have tried to have "flexible" instead of "inflexible" goals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They also have special projects to meet the goals. For example the J-20 fighter was "Project 718".
But this is hardly China exclusive since both Europe and Japan also have long term economical plans. Which doesn't make them not market economies though, since those plans are typically achieved by economic stimulus.
It's not in North Carolina. It's in North Charleston, South Carolina. They manufacture 787's though. Not 737's which are all manufactured in Washington state.
In hydropower plants with reversible pumps.
What it tells to me is that this is barely out of the lab stage and nowhere near production if ever.
The news article is rather short on facts "2-3x more density than Li-Ion" is not a quantitative statement when Li-Ion battery performance is all over the map. If they said the energy density in per 'MJ/kg' and per 'MJ/l' then it would be a quantitative statement. This announcement reeks. What it tells me is they never have manufactured a single battery cell of the required final specifications. At best they have a test battery cell much smaller in size which might not even scale up in performance. It wouldn't be the first time.
It's against the hacker ethos. Period. RMS started his software crusade because he couldn't change a printer's software driver. I'm pretty sure the gun nut ESR would be against this as well. Lessig was also against this kind of legislation and he was working for a Supreme Court judge appoint by Reagan. I think our opinion is quite broad across the political spectrum. Unfortunately there is a Cult of the Mac in the house which seems to think it's better to discard our values in the name of... what?
How well did the lawsuit of Apple vs the repair guys go exactly? Yeah right.
If this went to court I can expect what would happen to John Deere.
What there should be is a tax on ad revenue based on the country where the eyeballs are located at.
Cue the Cuecat here...
Dude. This place is a cesspool of libertarians (both right and left wing). You know what we think about your imaginary property and or right to do whatever we want with the product we bought with our MONEY.
Video 2000 was kinda wonky with it's reversible tapes which could store 8h in SP. The other fun thing about it was that the write protect tab could be switched on/off instead of just broken off like in VHS. Of course that probably made it hideously expensive to manufacture.
It's a clone of the AMD EPYC! Of course it can compete with a Xeon.
Also it's not like China doesn't have the ability to design CPUs. It's just that X86 is a patent minefield. So even if they produced a chip they couldn't sell it worldwide without the blessing of both AMD and Intel. Just ask NVIDIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The above processor is used in their Sunway supercomputer. It's more equivalent to a GPU or Cell architecture than a CPU though. It's a mesh network of CPU cores on a chip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The SW-3 SW1600 is a four-issue superscalar
If anything their issue has been they have not used high end manufacturing processes to make the chips. They are probably under embargo and can only use design rules two process generations behind. Notice that they even used SMIC to manufacture that processor to ensure the supply wouldn't be cut. However pretty soon they will have better sources to manufacture chips in China. Like TSMC:
https://www.eetimes.com/docume...
That's a 14/16nm fab. It is still two process nodes behind but it's still way better than what SMIC can produce which is 28nm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.world-nuclear-news....
https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/BRES...
I just got these links from looking around. TBH the most economical reactors right now are Generation III reactors like the AP1000. Because the price of uranium is still cheap. The fast reactors will become important once we want to use the spent fuel from Generation II/III reactors to generate more power or to better burn up available uranium fuel.
There was a moratorium in China where work was basically stopped for 2 years after Fukushima to reevaluate the reactor designs. Then they required changes to the original designs. That's the cause of the 3 year delay. Also the Chinese first AP1000 and the first Chinese EPR reactor should become fully operational this year:
http://www.world-nuclear-news....
http://www.world-nuclear-news....
The first AP1000 reactor is delivering 100% power to the electric grid while the first EPR reactor is connected to the grid and has finished its first criticality test and will begin power up tests soon.
The lead-bismuth fast reactors are quite safe. In fact they are too safe. If you shut down the power it solidifies the reactor.
Both have large coal power plants as backup. Quite "clean" uh? The Germans even burn lignite, i.e. brown coal. Which is even dirtier.
The so called cost advantage of natural gas gas fades away if you get the natural gas by LNG tanker instead of pipeline. Plus natural gas prices are highly variable both seasonally and yearly. Compare the price of it on winter to summer for example. This is not the case with nuclear power.
BS. Even without the colonial exploitation deep Africa was still behind Europe. It's mostly a jungle where there are tropical diseases like malaria, yellow fever and the like. In many parts of Africa you cannot even pasture large bovines because they'll die from disease. Quite often the pasture animals they use are small and kept indoors most of the time in small huts. The countries themselves quite often are kind of like Papua New Guinea. With multiple tribes in the same nation state who neither speak the same language, quite often do not have the same religion, and consider themselves a different race altogether. Ever since the USA and the Soviet Union kicked out the colonial empires from Africa pray tell how much they have advanced since then. What actually happened was a regression in a lot of cases. While the European colonial powers had the capital to invest in infrastructure and in many cases did so, right now many of the African countries simply do not have the capital for investment. Unless they happen to be sitting on a pile of oil and even that has slided down in price from its peak in 2010.
No, AMD threw away its savings to build their next generation fab by buying ATI at a premium over the stock market price at the time ATI's stock price hit all time highs. Had they waited a single year to buy ATI, they could have bought for less than half the price.
Then there were a lot of shenenigans involved in the GlobalFroundries spin-off which resulted in an investigation which put ex-AMD CEO and later President Hector Ruiz in court and got him expelled as President of GlobalFoundries.
IBM sold its business to Global Foundries. Global Foundries has announced they won't develop 7nm to compete with TSMC. Intel has delayed its 7nm process because of difficulties.
Samsung surpassed Intel as the largest chip vendor.