Clearly, Schmuckerberg doesn't understand that the money Alaskans get comes from the sale of oil. Furthermore, he doesn't understand how much money people spend to essentially rent they entire daily life. You rent your living space either by renting a home or apartment or by paying a mortgage and property tax. You rent your healthcare by paying a ridiculously high insurance premium and no, your employer doesn't really pay for it. You rent your car by getting a new one every three years. You rent your telecommunications and your utilities particularly when you don't use them in the form of "service fees". You rent your entertainment. Everything. There are fewer and fewer things that you own outright. All a universal basic income does it disguise the fact that you're renting more and more of your life in exactly the same way that income tax withholding fools people into thinking that they get a tax refund every year and that government spending doesn't affect them. Full time employees are also fooled into thinking that their employer pays their healthcare and social security. No, they don't. You just get a smaller paycheck every other week. When the actual dollars don't pass through an individual's hands, the person has no appreciation for it.
They have market dominance but they also kowtow to government paranoia. They force firmware updates that bork your copter even if you are legally allowed to do stuff they don't want you to.
IMHO, the definitions of small, medium, and large businesses is flawed. 500 people is a pretty big company. Companies with that many employees are likely generating a lot of revenue every year and probably have enough sway in the marketplace to pass higher minimum wages on to their customers. Companies with a few employees probably don't otherwise their would have plenty of work to justify hiring more people. And then, of course, will come the inevitable higher demands on the existing employees because the small companies can't afford to hire more people.
At it's heart, this is artificial market distortion and it will lead to inflation. There is no getting around that.
That's a nice little theory you have there. Too bad it's bullsh*t in reality. There are simply too many users that can't replace distributed power with solar. Even if it makes a dent, YOU, dear green citizen, will get hit with some sort of tax to support the infrastructure. And that's all assuming that the subsidies and other market distortions like net-metering remain in place. Once those are gone and the market returns to normal, it will make less economic sense for the average homeowner to go solar. In addition, nobody is talking about what happens when the panel efficiency degrades to the point where they are no longer generating enough for the homeowner's needs and they need to be replaced. Who's going to pay for the replacement and disposal of the old ones?
For people to think THIS is a good idea and GMOs are an evil scourge on the face of the planet just proves that they are nuts. Organic, free-range, fair-trade, locally-sourced, non-GMO nuts.
As a civilian user of government IT systems, I can tell you that they are byzantine and often use severely outdated technology. I listened to some of the technology leaders' comments yesterday and I noticed that Apple and Alphabet seems very upbeat about it all but IBM seemed to poo-poo the idea. I have an idea why. Take, for example, the State Department's system for getting ITAR export licenses. These fools are STILL using Lotus as a document submission system. It only runs on Windows and it must be submitted using Internet Explorer. IBM owns Lotus. They're still living in the dark ages, Watson technology not withstanding. They clearly have a lucrative contract with State and don't want to see their gravy train derailed. Then there's the inscrutable WAWF system. The password rules are so restrictive that it would likely be easy to hack because of the severely limited ways to create a password.
Bottom line is that the private sector operates in vastly superior ways. The government (not just federal) needs to adopt these methods AND they need to eliminate the low-bidder rule. By categorically rejecting the lowest bid would take away the habit of low-balling it now and charge through the nose for changes that permeates government contracting.
I have too. The efficiency isn't all that great. We're talking in the teens. High-end panels might give you 21%. The technology has physical limitations. https://engineering.mit.edu/en... I figured that I need something like a 20 panel system to make it work. This is all assuming that you have a decent place to put them. Southern exposure and that satisfy zoning and HOA rules. SolarCity essentially rents the panels to you and hopefully you're able to offset the rent with the energy savings. They maintain them which is good but what happens when they degrade? Are they going to charge more to replace them?
I still call B.S. on the current incarnations of green energy. Wind and solar haven't been around long enough to reach their inherent lifespan which means nobody has come to grips with the replacement costs. Lots of people are seeing line items on their electric bill for decommissioning coal and nuke plants. That line item will be changed to wind/solar disposal and replacement fees. They aren't going to get more efficient either.
Most people on the left are proponents of the notion of "climate change" and most people on the left think Bush was an incompetent moron. Thus the inconsistency.
The term "climate change" was arguably a master stroke of marketing. The earlier version "global warming" had the inherent flaw that if the temperatures stopped rising consistently, people would stop believing it. By rebranding it as "climate change," any variation in climate that the promoters didn't like could easily be attributed to it regardless of the underlying causes. But at some point, as a researcher, you'd have to be able to prove to your donors that you've achieved your research goals. Vague goals or no goals eventually runs out of Schlitz. And when nature borks your research expedition, kiss the grant funding goodbye.
I don't care what you say. This is not an SUV. There's nothing utilitarian about it. Until it looks like a pickup truck, can haul 1000-2000 lbs, and go off-road without destroying itself, it's just a car.
Fake news generated online only works if the mainstream media picks it up and reports it for a week. Most people with minimal critical thinking skills will dismiss a fake news story if it only exists online. But their confirmation bias will give it credence if the mainstream media talks about it. Even if the headline turns out to be B.S., confirmation bias will cause people to think, "Well, this may be false but there's probably something there."
Back when I was in university for engineering, I had a professor tell us that there was nothing better than Von Neumann architecture so don't bother looking for it. One has to wonder what else university professors are wrong about.
When I was in high-school in the early 1980s, I had a few teachers who refused to accept term papers that came off a dot-matrix printer because as everyone should know, the quality of the content is far less important than the appearance. So, a couple of us nerds bought a nifty little gadget called a Dynatyper. http://www.computerhistory.org... Problem solved. But seriously, any parent that would name their kid "reality" a) has a screw loose and b) is setting the kid up to have a vastly over-inflated ego.
The explosion of drug TV commercials is getting annoying. Ok, Keytruda might be able to justify one now but how many people could possibly have "non-24" to the point of justifying the expense of a commercial? And what's the point of it anyway? You can't buy these things unless your doctor prescribes it and I guarantee you that he/she knows more about them that you do. Do not mistake your google search for their medical degree.
The laptop isn't the problem. The full-auto MP5 isn't the problem. The box cutter isn't the problem. The shoes aren't the problem. The underwear isn't the problem. We erroneously solving problems that don't need solving while ignoring and/or refusing to solve the root causes i.e. people because *gasp* such solutions offend our delicate sensibilities.
You will only move about if the government permits you to do so. Sound crazy? Be wary of governments that want to charge you an "exit tax" to leave the country.
Have you noticed that there is no concept of intellectual property in Star Trek and Star Wars? One can argue that IP law is preventing us as a species from making huge technological leaps. Certainly tort law is stifling innovation and preventing Darwin from thinning the herd. Perhaps Shakespeare was right but I won't quote him here lest the estate want a license fee.
Spoken like so many people who live in an urban area. Completely out of touch with the rest of American and the world. Not everybody lives in an urban area where a car isn't as essential to daily life. These same people often push the notion that nobody should live anywhere but jammed into a city living in 400 square feet. By the same token, Silicon Valley is out of touch with the rest of America. Not everybody has gigabit internet access wherever they live. Not everybody has cellular internet access. They need to quit building products that make these assumptions.
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Just like Pulman. Smooth.
Clearly, Schmuckerberg doesn't understand that the money Alaskans get comes from the sale of oil. Furthermore, he doesn't understand how much money people spend to essentially rent they entire daily life. You rent your living space either by renting a home or apartment or by paying a mortgage and property tax. You rent your healthcare by paying a ridiculously high insurance premium and no, your employer doesn't really pay for it. You rent your car by getting a new one every three years. You rent your telecommunications and your utilities particularly when you don't use them in the form of "service fees". You rent your entertainment. Everything. There are fewer and fewer things that you own outright.
All a universal basic income does it disguise the fact that you're renting more and more of your life in exactly the same way that income tax withholding fools people into thinking that they get a tax refund every year and that government spending doesn't affect them. Full time employees are also fooled into thinking that their employer pays their healthcare and social security. No, they don't. You just get a smaller paycheck every other week.
When the actual dollars don't pass through an individual's hands, the person has no appreciation for it.
Anyone know what version of Qt this runs?
They have market dominance but they also kowtow to government paranoia. They force firmware updates that bork your copter even if you are legally allowed to do stuff they don't want you to.
IMHO, the definitions of small, medium, and large businesses is flawed. 500 people is a pretty big company. Companies with that many employees are likely generating a lot of revenue every year and probably have enough sway in the marketplace to pass higher minimum wages on to their customers. Companies with a few employees probably don't otherwise their would have plenty of work to justify hiring more people. And then, of course, will come the inevitable higher demands on the existing employees because the small companies can't afford to hire more people.
At it's heart, this is artificial market distortion and it will lead to inflation. There is no getting around that.
Go on a diet already. Jeez!
That's a nice little theory you have there. Too bad it's bullsh*t in reality. There are simply too many users that can't replace distributed power with solar. Even if it makes a dent, YOU, dear green citizen, will get hit with some sort of tax to support the infrastructure. And that's all assuming that the subsidies and other market distortions like net-metering remain in place. Once those are gone and the market returns to normal, it will make less economic sense for the average homeowner to go solar. In addition, nobody is talking about what happens when the panel efficiency degrades to the point where they are no longer generating enough for the homeowner's needs and they need to be replaced. Who's going to pay for the replacement and disposal of the old ones?
For people to think THIS is a good idea and GMOs are an evil scourge on the face of the planet just proves that they are nuts. Organic, free-range, fair-trade, locally-sourced, non-GMO nuts.
As a civilian user of government IT systems, I can tell you that they are byzantine and often use severely outdated technology. I listened to some of the technology leaders' comments yesterday and I noticed that Apple and Alphabet seems very upbeat about it all but IBM seemed to poo-poo the idea. I have an idea why. Take, for example, the State Department's system for getting ITAR export licenses. These fools are STILL using Lotus as a document submission system. It only runs on Windows and it must be submitted using Internet Explorer. IBM owns Lotus. They're still living in the dark ages, Watson technology not withstanding. They clearly have a lucrative contract with State and don't want to see their gravy train derailed. Then there's the inscrutable WAWF system. The password rules are so restrictive that it would likely be easy to hack because of the severely limited ways to create a password.
Bottom line is that the private sector operates in vastly superior ways. The government (not just federal) needs to adopt these methods AND they need to eliminate the low-bidder rule. By categorically rejecting the lowest bid would take away the habit of low-balling it now and charge through the nose for changes that permeates government contracting.
I have too. The efficiency isn't all that great. We're talking in the teens. High-end panels might give you 21%. The technology has physical limitations.
https://engineering.mit.edu/en...
I figured that I need something like a 20 panel system to make it work.
This is all assuming that you have a decent place to put them. Southern exposure and that satisfy zoning and HOA rules. SolarCity essentially rents the panels to you and hopefully you're able to offset the rent with the energy savings. They maintain them which is good but what happens when they degrade? Are they going to charge more to replace them?
Does Musk remind anyone else of S.R. Hadden from Contact?
I still call B.S. on the current incarnations of green energy. Wind and solar haven't been around long enough to reach their inherent lifespan which means nobody has come to grips with the replacement costs. Lots of people are seeing line items on their electric bill for decommissioning coal and nuke plants. That line item will be changed to wind/solar disposal and replacement fees. They aren't going to get more efficient either.
Most people on the left are proponents of the notion of "climate change" and most people on the left think Bush was an incompetent moron. Thus the inconsistency.
The term "climate change" was arguably a master stroke of marketing. The earlier version "global warming" had the inherent flaw that if the temperatures stopped rising consistently, people would stop believing it. By rebranding it as "climate change," any variation in climate that the promoters didn't like could easily be attributed to it regardless of the underlying causes. But at some point, as a researcher, you'd have to be able to prove to your donors that you've achieved your research goals. Vague goals or no goals eventually runs out of Schlitz. And when nature borks your research expedition, kiss the grant funding goodbye.
I don't care what you say. This is not an SUV. There's nothing utilitarian about it. Until it looks like a pickup truck, can haul 1000-2000 lbs, and go off-road without destroying itself, it's just a car.
Fake news generated online only works if the mainstream media picks it up and reports it for a week. Most people with minimal critical thinking skills will dismiss a fake news story if it only exists online. But their confirmation bias will give it credence if the mainstream media talks about it. Even if the headline turns out to be B.S., confirmation bias will cause people to think, "Well, this may be false but there's probably something there."
Back when I was in university for engineering, I had a professor tell us that there was nothing better than Von Neumann architecture so don't bother looking for it. One has to wonder what else university professors are wrong about.
When I was in high-school in the early 1980s, I had a few teachers who refused to accept term papers that came off a dot-matrix printer because as everyone should know, the quality of the content is far less important than the appearance. So, a couple of us nerds bought a nifty little gadget called a Dynatyper. http://www.computerhistory.org...
Problem solved.
But seriously, any parent that would name their kid "reality" a) has a screw loose and b) is setting the kid up to have a vastly over-inflated ego.
The explosion of drug TV commercials is getting annoying. Ok, Keytruda might be able to justify one now but how many people could possibly have "non-24" to the point of justifying the expense of a commercial? And what's the point of it anyway? You can't buy these things unless your doctor prescribes it and I guarantee you that he/she knows more about them that you do. Do not mistake your google search for their medical degree.
The laptop isn't the problem. The full-auto MP5 isn't the problem. The box cutter isn't the problem. The shoes aren't the problem. The underwear isn't the problem.
We erroneously solving problems that don't need solving while ignoring and/or refusing to solve the root causes i.e. people because *gasp* such solutions offend our delicate sensibilities.
You will only move about if the government permits you to do so. Sound crazy? Be wary of governments that want to charge you an "exit tax" to leave the country.
"Just kidding!"
Have you noticed that there is no concept of intellectual property in Star Trek and Star Wars? One can argue that IP law is preventing us as a species from making huge technological leaps. Certainly tort law is stifling innovation and preventing Darwin from thinning the herd. Perhaps Shakespeare was right but I won't quote him here lest the estate want a license fee.
Spoken like so many people who live in an urban area. Completely out of touch with the rest of American and the world. Not everybody lives in an urban area where a car isn't as essential to daily life. These same people often push the notion that nobody should live anywhere but jammed into a city living in 400 square feet. By the same token, Silicon Valley is out of touch with the rest of America. Not everybody has gigabit internet access wherever they live. Not everybody has cellular internet access. They need to quit building products that make these assumptions.
Can't make a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.