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I read about it on the steam website. On the output side it has a "web browser for TVs" which is hardly a new idea and they never work. Just pump Chrome over that baby and it'll be fine.
The big deal on the steam website itself seems to be the input side... using a gamepad instead of a mouse and keyboard. Text entry via game pad sounds hideous.
They meant "greater america", land area where subjects must obey the laws of the USA or suffer extradition or drone strikes. In other words, pretty much the whole world.
Most of the futures exchanges I've played on follow a financial model rather than a sport betting model. There is no house, well, not directly. "This contract pays $1 if Rmoney wins" I'm willing to write/sell up to 100 copies at 0.40 each... if you have a standing order to buy 100 @.40 then we have a transaction, plus or minus some commissions, etc. If not I sit in the order book until someone enters a buy at 0.40..
Your 20 to 1 odds, if I understand sports betting correctly, would be something ridiculous like selling a $1 contract for 0.05 or 0.95. most commission structures are strongly biased against that. Of course if a lunatic is trying to make a statement instead of a profit, they don't care about commissions, which was kind of the point of the article...
One common play to work around that is multiple contracts. "This contract pays $1 if Rmoney loses by more than 5% popular vote" how much will you pay for it today? "This contract pays $1 if the margin is 5% popular vote or less" how much will you pay for it today? "This contract pays $1 if Obama loses by more than 5% popular vote" how much will you pay for it today? At least in theory, one of these guys will be around 50 cents even if the others are dead no trading around $1 or $0.
Is there something forcing these prediction exchanges to post all possible outcomes
The "house" so to speak is hungry for commissions... the players are hungry not to pay them... usually financially structured such that ridiculous bets make the "house" most of the money and the players the least. The following is grossly simplified. Lets say the house charges a penny. You sell at.51, I buy at.49, house eats a penny from each of us. Regardless of who wins, the house eats about 2 percent of our annual contract revenue, assuming we always play around 50/50 odds. But if you start selling at.04 and I buy at.02 suddenly the blasted house commissions are eating somewhere around 25 to 50 percent of our profits. So pros don't play long odds unless they've got a really good reason (which, often they do, assuming you have a very optimistic view of counterparty risk its ok for insurance, for example)
If people do think that market odds are worth manipulating, presumably the point is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy:
this is not solely a financial market phenomena. supposedly womens skirt lengths predict some economic BS or ground hogs seeing shadows means something. You've always had people trying to push microskirts and shoot groundhogs (presumably not both at the same time). I would hazard a guess that irrational beliefs will always lead to irrational results, in all three cases. So why worry about regulating a futures market, when it would be no less stupid to create a national dress code for womens skirts and shade umbrellas for groundhogs?
Time for the old line that any "real" investor knows, "The market can remain insane longer than you can remain solvent". In both the short term and for any individual contract it would be a miracle if this was the first market in the history of humanity that couldn't be gamed or scammed in the short term. In the long term I think it would even out.
One solution is publicity. I see no reason the record of the market cannot be held open or psuedo-open. It shouldn't be very hard to detect even a distributed moneybomb activity.
Another way to look at it, is we've basically got a representative bribe-o-cracy right now where the lobbyist with the most PAC funds to donate "influences" if not outright controls the elected official. Its not any more corrupt to just purchase the elected official on an exchange. In fact its much more honest.
A higher share price (for the same number of shares, obviously) makes it easier for the company to get more money though. They can issue new stock or more likely be able to borrow more money. Though the statement you quote does seem to imply a direct transfer of cash which certainly isn't the case.
Enormously important for acquisitions.
vlmdotcom inc stock price $10/share, 1M shares outstanding, I wanna buy drkoopdotcom for $100M... um... somethings not adding up in the balance sheet there
vlmdotcom inc stock price $1000/share same 1M shares outstanding, I wanna buy drkoopdotcom for $100M... OK lets talk, I'll dilute my current shares by 10% and exchange those new shares for full ownership of all your patents and blah... etc etc.
semester to $100. Today that would perhaps pay for one unit for a semester.
$100/credit is amazingly cheap or old data. I checked on line today. The no name 2-year community tech school in my county charges $127.90 per credit hour this year. $8K for an associates isn't all that bad, assuming you can get a job with an AS (probably not, although I did 20 yrs ago, before I got my BS deg...)
The local private 4-yr college charges at $325 undergrad tuition, and confusingly their online is like $420 undergrad and $580 graduate level. Why does online cost more than in person? I don't know for certain but my CC data includes large amounts of fees over and above tuition (mandatory $10 campus activity fee per credit, etc). My guess is the 4-yr has enough bolted on technology / activity / insurance / fuel surcharge / parking fees that the $325 in person per credit fee averages out to about the $420 online fee.
I've attended both. The CC had better facilities and arguably better instructors, but obviously fewer advanced classes. The 4-yr had 3 fantastic instructors (all adjuncts, etc) and the rest were "eh".
Back when I got my BS degree around the turn of the century, yeah, $100 probably bought a credit at the 4 yr college.
I honestly can't fathom why you think this is unacceptable
"Don't worry about signing up for non-dischargable $80K student loan at 8% for ethnobotanical womens anthropological studies, because you'll be able to pay it off when you get a $125K/yr job as a social media consultant in NYC"
"Oh whoops I'm only clearing $20K as a recent grad waitress... this screws up the ole balance sheet"
Thats the problem. You're allowed to play the "money doesn't matter" card when we're not talking about money, about quality of life or lifestyle or whatever. You're not allowed to play the "money doesn't matter" card when the whole point is discussing taking out mortgage sized loans for overpriced tuition based on lies about the job market. That doesn't mean its not a good card, or a true card, or you can't play it later. It just means you can't play it... right now.
LOL we agree here. Both of us can for the same reason, we like our stuff, well made, by us, our way, our standards. Its the original poster who started this all who thinks he's going to "save money" but I think he's going to be sorely surprised if he runs the full cost of the entire system.
criticized for ties to the current Russian government.
You'll have to give me a break because all the links WRT this topic in our provided summary were 404 when I checked a couple seconds ago, so if I mischaracterize anything then its all timothy's fault.
Anyways WRT to corp govt relations, I'm guessing the model of the disagreement is:
In the US the corps completely own and control the govt and no other groups or individuals have any input or control over the govt, and we expect everyone else to live that way, but in.ru, the relationship is not quite as centrally controlled or cozy, more or less. Is it that simple or is there more to it?
You seem to support the "Internet X" meme where X is whatever we have in the physical world. ID, passport, voting, interpol, perhaps others. Why? I mean we are all techies here, OK, so we don't have to act all "marketing" with each other about our new "selling dog food over the internet" patent and so forth.
I've got a perfectly good ID in the physical world that I share with amazon.com called my postal addrs and my CC number, and we're both perfectly happy with that situation. I've got a perfectly good paper and ink passport for crossing international borders, an internet one seems pointless. I/we have an Interpol who already handle crime about as well as any multinational police force could ever hope to, so I'm unclear what one on the internet would do that the real one isn't already fully responsible for. I have a perfectly good voting site 2 blocks from my house where I can vote in person using optical scanned ballots in perfect safety for like 12 hours on voting day, with no intimidation, and very limited to non-existent corruption because there's both a paper and ink ballot and an instant optical scan, what needs fixing about that or moving to the internet?
You've listed some things that have evolved over time to, basically, work pretty well. What is the point of lets replicate that "... on the internet"? Wouldn't we be all better off if we just improved the real Interpol, instead of making a second shadowy clone? Or improved voting, not just "add internet voting". Or improved ID, not "add another form of ID to be stolen"?
Or looking at it another way, why not "Internet X" where X is stuff that doesn't work. Health care. Taxes. Politics. Debating.
I don't see this as a strictly financial self interest question, for example you can probably make as much dough, or more, selling to the real Interpol as selling instead to a shadowy secondary clone. What do you care what the name on the invoice is?
From a techie perspective I/we see this as weird. Say my video card is getting slow/flakey. I could fix the one I have by blowing the dust off the fan, but, naah I'll get a shadowy secondary video card that is a mystery and not nearly as debugged, and try to get them to work in parallel... No that's just now how techies work. We know better.
Not an OS in the traditional sense. It's mission specific firmware code tailored for single purposes.
So.... its freedos run as virtualization images? An awful lot of embedded work got done before modern OS and its still getting done more or less despite them.
He moved to a corrupt 3rd world banana republic with no rule of law, and failed to pay a bribe a couple months ago so they roughed him up, shot his dog for fun, trashed his place, what did he expect if he didn't pay his bribe in a country that's corrupt? So that's the background.
So he still doesn't pay up, and next petty theft gone bad where there's a body, of course he's gonna be suspect numero uno as punishment for not paying up. His only hope of avoiding that was someone else getting higher on the list. Duh! I'm sure as soon as he pays up, they'll be a sudden confession from whoever actually did it, or it'll turn out they don't need him for questioning after all, etc etc, and he'll be all good until the next guy wants a bribe that he wont pay.
Its kind of like moving to Canada even though you don't like shoveling snow and then not shoveling snow just for the principle of it as if that will make the problem go away... dude just leave or pay up, the people in charge aren't going to give any other options.
You know the deal where the Mexican policeman pulls you over for made up BS until you slip him some cash? Same deal just a little bigger scale. The solution is not to drive in Mexico. Worked pretty well for me when I visited (great scuba diving BTW and liked the food too)
I don't understand why rich tech guy doesn't: 1) already know these rules of the road 2) just buy a boat like all other rich tech guys to sail away from the corruption
Care to elaborate on the bread is bad for you bit?
Bad compared to most any other convenience food. You wanna pick something up and eat it? Try a carrot, or an apple, or a handful of mixed nuts...
There's almost nothing in bread that you're evolutionary designed to eat. Grains? what, are you descended from a cow instead of a monkey? Might not kill you too quick, but it aint human food thats for sure. Mooo! Yeast? If you're ancestors were starving and eating partially rotten fruit instead of the good stuff. Stay away, its rotting. HFCS / white sugar / molasses / aspartame? Who ate that kinda stuff before 1900 CE or so, you know, when heart attacks and diabetes started spiking up? Salt? Well OK you got me there although I prefer other sources for salt. Bacon. Seasoned grilled meat. Things like that. I'm not exactly low on sodium so I'm not too worried about losing bread as a salt source.
Is there anything, at all, good in bread? I know enriched flour has some vitamins/minerals, but you're better off taking a pill and skipping all the bad stuff.
This assumes the desired end result is toast, not bread.
True, although the real desired end result is eventually eating most of the loaf of bread, rather than having to toss 50% to 75% out due to staleness and mold due to low consumption rate. I'd rather eat a loaf of toast over the course of a month than a couple slices of untoast and throw the rest out. Besides, I *like* toast.
You don't have to toast until blackened, you know. Evaporate any surface water crystals from the freezing process so your sandwich doesn't get mushy and you're all good.
The overall situation is kind of like how some people demand their hamburger bun be toasted and some demand it not, you can pretty much talk yourself into liking any texture, except, apparently, soggy.
This is beginning to sound like the hyper detailed milk and capncrunch protocol story at the start of Cryptonomicon, so I'll stop here.
Your fine homemade oxtail soup is not available in stores, just like my boozy canned fruit is not available, so it doesn't matter.
I think you can save time and money by canning exotic stuff, mostly because its either super labor intensive or simply unobtainable in the exact form demanded.
But I don't think the original posters goal of saving food costs overall work, from a sheer caloric standpoint he'd be better off working at the food store and accepting payment in cardboard flats of soupcans. I would give a possible exception to pressure canning enormous amounts of self gathered protein beyond a normal human's freezer capacity. Like poach 10 deer and can all the venison. I'm not sure I can even justify the lid cost to can "bulk vegetables".
A year at full power seems fine. Wouldn't that be like 5 years of useful, typical life ie 5 hrs a night?
My 30 or so year experience with EL has been in lighted signs. Basically you cut out a stencil and place it in front of an EL panel, and it looks cool, kinda like blacklit, sorta. Also there was a fad maybe 10 years ago with EL nightlights. No, a year of life is not cool for those apps and makes people pretty unhappy until they switch back.
Even 5 years is pretty sad compared to all but photoflood bulbs.
You'd have found it was just a remake of the WWII era tropical bars. I ate a couple (of the modern remakes, I was in.mil in the 90s). It was icky.
You know how cheap american chocolate (Hersheys) is like room temperature brown colored Crisco? The tropical stuff was basically the same stuff but a texture / mouth feel more like refrigerated brown Crisco.
I imagine this "invention" is about the 4th generation re-invention. Food science is just like IT, every decade or two, the same old ideas get lipstick and a new dress on the old pig and a big announcement about the new baby, while the old timers roll their eyes, not that crap again....
College is a 4 years sacrifice that prepares you for a 40 year career.
Oh come on, the 40 year career died in my grandpa's generation. And I'm no little kid.
It just means when you're downsized or never find a job in the field to begin with, you'll have student loans you can't pay, that's about it.
The whole point of the argument is for TODAYS students the odds of "makin it" with a BS and huge loans is about numerically equal to the odds of "makin it" by dropping out and opening a business. You'll probably end up bankrupt, poor, and un(der)employed either way, but at least you won't have as much debt...
Some sort of real life boot camp outside of a McWalmart job would probably be useful to many.
We've already got the prison industrial complex, and it does turn out scores of well motivated, highly trained career criminals.
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The become a tech billionaire thing is exactly like pro sports. Occasionally someone makes it big but the vast majority of people who try are going to end up disappointed, 30, and with nothing to fall back on.
Humorously, you've just described the "higher ed industrial complex", although you forgot to mention due to explosive growth in tuition its now horrifically expensive compared to the expense of becoming a wanna be basketball star.
There's nothing wrong with higher ed, other than costing too much. I like that my coffee barista and waitress both have 4-year degrees. Education gives life meaning, it gives you a lifetime of interesting things to think about, if you bother to pay attention, anyway. The problem with my barista and waitress having 4 year diplomas is they paid WAY too much money and thought they were getting middle class job training, when all they got was debt and an education and no job. If only they could have paid $200/semester like my parents paid for personal enrichment, that would be a perfectly good situation..
The developer is promising cheap, hard-to-break, mercury-free, highly efficient bulbs
Historically the three problems with EL have been color balance (or total lack thereof), lifespan (maybe a year at full power), and surface brightness (like forget "lamps" you'll need to cover the entire ceiling with illuminated panels to get modest room illumination).
What the developer is promising has been off the shelf for at least 3 decades... What I listed is the really hard part.
News for nerds. This has some times been described as a sort of "nerd sydrome" as some of it's symptoms coincide with the common perception of nerds.
Ah and that's the crucial mistake. Much like the symptoms of severe mercury poisoning vaguely thru squinted eyes kinda resemble autism, that doesn't mean tiny amounts of mercury in vaccines have much of anything to do with it. Very much like "Getting hit by a half inch diameter supersonic chunk of lead is obviously bad, so lead in your diet is bad". Accidentally it is possible in an unscientific manner to be right, but the reasoning and cause and effect relationships are hopeless.
In a similar way a spectrum diagnosis doesn't make a nerd nor are nerds on the spectrum other than mere coincidence. In fact there is probably a pretty strong anti-correlation.
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I read about it on the steam website. On the output side it has a "web browser for TVs" which is hardly a new idea and they never work. Just pump Chrome over that baby and it'll be fine.
The big deal on the steam website itself seems to be the input side... using a gamepad instead of a mouse and keyboard. Text entry via game pad sounds hideous.
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They meant "greater america", land area where subjects must obey the laws of the USA or suffer extradition or drone strikes. In other words, pretty much the whole world.
The article goes into detail about how customs officials are not amused by things like that. "more than screwdriver assembly" is required.
Most of the futures exchanges I've played on follow a financial model rather than a sport betting model. There is no house, well, not directly. .40 then we have a transaction, plus or minus some commissions, etc. If not I sit in the order book until someone enters a buy at 0.40..
"This contract pays $1 if Rmoney wins" I'm willing to write/sell up to 100 copies at 0.40 each... if you have a standing order to buy 100 @
Your 20 to 1 odds, if I understand sports betting correctly, would be something ridiculous like selling a $1 contract for 0.05 or 0.95. most commission structures are strongly biased against that. Of course if a lunatic is trying to make a statement instead of a profit, they don't care about commissions, which was kind of the point of the article...
One common play to work around that is multiple contracts.
"This contract pays $1 if Rmoney loses by more than 5% popular vote" how much will you pay for it today?
"This contract pays $1 if the margin is 5% popular vote or less" how much will you pay for it today?
"This contract pays $1 if Obama loses by more than 5% popular vote" how much will you pay for it today?
At least in theory, one of these guys will be around 50 cents even if the others are dead no trading around $1 or $0.
Is there something forcing these prediction exchanges to post all possible outcomes
The "house" so to speak is hungry for commissions... the players are hungry not to pay them... usually financially structured such that ridiculous bets make the "house" most of the money and the players the least. The following is grossly simplified. Lets say the house charges a penny. You sell at .51, I buy at .49, house eats a penny from each of us. Regardless of who wins, the house eats about 2 percent of our annual contract revenue, assuming we always play around 50/50 odds. But if you start selling at .04 and I buy at .02 suddenly the blasted house commissions are eating somewhere around 25 to 50 percent of our profits. So pros don't play long odds unless they've got a really good reason (which, often they do, assuming you have a very optimistic view of counterparty risk its ok for insurance, for example)
If people do think that market odds are worth manipulating, presumably the point is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy:
this is not solely a financial market phenomena. supposedly womens skirt lengths predict some economic BS or ground hogs seeing shadows means something. You've always had people trying to push microskirts and shoot groundhogs (presumably not both at the same time). I would hazard a guess that irrational beliefs will always lead to irrational results, in all three cases. So why worry about regulating a futures market, when it would be no less stupid to create a national dress code for womens skirts and shade umbrellas for groundhogs?
Time for the old line that any "real" investor knows, "The market can remain insane longer than you can remain solvent". In both the short term and for any individual contract it would be a miracle if this was the first market in the history of humanity that couldn't be gamed or scammed in the short term. In the long term I think it would even out.
One solution is publicity. I see no reason the record of the market cannot be held open or psuedo-open. It shouldn't be very hard to detect even a distributed moneybomb activity.
Another way to look at it, is we've basically got a representative bribe-o-cracy right now where the lobbyist with the most PAC funds to donate "influences" if not outright controls the elected official. Its not any more corrupt to just purchase the elected official on an exchange. In fact its much more honest.
A higher share price (for the same number of shares, obviously) makes it easier for the company to get more money though. They can issue new stock or more likely be able to borrow more money. Though the statement you quote does seem to imply a direct transfer of cash which certainly isn't the case.
Enormously important for acquisitions.
vlmdotcom inc stock price $10/share, 1M shares outstanding, I wanna buy drkoopdotcom for $100M ... um... somethings not adding up in the balance sheet there
vlmdotcom inc stock price $1000/share same 1M shares outstanding, I wanna buy drkoopdotcom for $100M... OK lets talk, I'll dilute my current shares by 10% and exchange those new shares for full ownership of all your patents and blah... etc etc.
semester to $100. Today that would perhaps pay for one unit for a semester.
$100/credit is amazingly cheap or old data. I checked on line today. The no name 2-year community tech school in my county charges $127.90 per credit hour this year. $8K for an associates isn't all that bad, assuming you can get a job with an AS (probably not, although I did 20 yrs ago, before I got my BS deg...)
The local private 4-yr college charges at $325 undergrad tuition, and confusingly their online is like $420 undergrad and $580 graduate level. Why does online cost more than in person? I don't know for certain but my CC data includes large amounts of fees over and above tuition (mandatory $10 campus activity fee per credit, etc). My guess is the 4-yr has enough bolted on technology / activity / insurance / fuel surcharge / parking fees that the $325 in person per credit fee averages out to about the $420 online fee.
I've attended both. The CC had better facilities and arguably better instructors, but obviously fewer advanced classes. The 4-yr had 3 fantastic instructors (all adjuncts, etc) and the rest were "eh".
Back when I got my BS degree around the turn of the century, yeah, $100 probably bought a credit at the 4 yr college.
I honestly can't fathom why you think this is unacceptable
"Don't worry about signing up for non-dischargable $80K student loan at 8% for ethnobotanical womens anthropological studies, because you'll be able to pay it off when you get a $125K/yr job as a social media consultant in NYC"
"Oh whoops I'm only clearing $20K as a recent grad waitress... this screws up the ole balance sheet"
Thats the problem. You're allowed to play the "money doesn't matter" card when we're not talking about money, about quality of life or lifestyle or whatever. You're not allowed to play the "money doesn't matter" card when the whole point is discussing taking out mortgage sized loans for overpriced tuition based on lies about the job market. That doesn't mean its not a good card, or a true card, or you can't play it later. It just means you can't play it ... right now.
LOL we agree here. Both of us can for the same reason, we like our stuff, well made, by us, our way, our standards. Its the original poster who started this all who thinks he's going to "save money" but I think he's going to be sorely surprised if he runs the full cost of the entire system.
criticized for ties to the current Russian government.
You'll have to give me a break because all the links WRT this topic in our provided summary were 404 when I checked a couple seconds ago, so if I mischaracterize anything then its all timothy's fault.
Anyways WRT to corp govt relations, I'm guessing the model of the disagreement is:
In the US the corps completely own and control the govt and no other groups or individuals have any input or control over the govt, and we expect everyone else to live that way, but in .ru, the relationship is not quite as centrally controlled or cozy, more or less. Is it that simple or is there more to it?
You seem to support the "Internet X" meme where X is whatever we have in the physical world. ID, passport, voting, interpol, perhaps others. Why?
I mean we are all techies here, OK, so we don't have to act all "marketing" with each other about our new "selling dog food over the internet" patent and so forth.
I've got a perfectly good ID in the physical world that I share with amazon.com called my postal addrs and my CC number, and we're both perfectly happy with that situation. I've got a perfectly good paper and ink passport for crossing international borders, an internet one seems pointless. I/we have an Interpol who already handle crime about as well as any multinational police force could ever hope to, so I'm unclear what one on the internet would do that the real one isn't already fully responsible for. I have a perfectly good voting site 2 blocks from my house where I can vote in person using optical scanned ballots in perfect safety for like 12 hours on voting day, with no intimidation, and very limited to non-existent corruption because there's both a paper and ink ballot and an instant optical scan, what needs fixing about that or moving to the internet?
You've listed some things that have evolved over time to, basically, work pretty well. What is the point of lets replicate that "... on the internet"? Wouldn't we be all better off if we just improved the real Interpol, instead of making a second shadowy clone? Or improved voting, not just "add internet voting". Or improved ID, not "add another form of ID to be stolen"?
Or looking at it another way, why not "Internet X" where X is stuff that doesn't work. Health care. Taxes. Politics. Debating.
I don't see this as a strictly financial self interest question, for example you can probably make as much dough, or more, selling to the real Interpol as selling instead to a shadowy secondary clone. What do you care what the name on the invoice is?
From a techie perspective I/we see this as weird. Say my video card is getting slow/flakey. I could fix the one I have by blowing the dust off the fan, but, naah I'll get a shadowy secondary video card that is a mystery and not nearly as debugged, and try to get them to work in parallel... No that's just now how techies work. We know better.
So why "Internet X"? Not just "improve X"?
Not an OS in the traditional sense. It's mission specific firmware code tailored for single purposes.
So.... its freedos run as virtualization images? An awful lot of embedded work got done before modern OS and its still getting done more or less despite them.
He moved to a corrupt 3rd world banana republic with no rule of law, and failed to pay a bribe a couple months ago so they roughed him up, shot his dog for fun, trashed his place, what did he expect if he didn't pay his bribe in a country that's corrupt? So that's the background.
So he still doesn't pay up, and next petty theft gone bad where there's a body, of course he's gonna be suspect numero uno as punishment for not paying up. His only hope of avoiding that was someone else getting higher on the list. Duh! I'm sure as soon as he pays up, they'll be a sudden confession from whoever actually did it, or it'll turn out they don't need him for questioning after all, etc etc, and he'll be all good until the next guy wants a bribe that he wont pay.
Its kind of like moving to Canada even though you don't like shoveling snow and then not shoveling snow just for the principle of it as if that will make the problem go away... dude just leave or pay up, the people in charge aren't going to give any other options.
You know the deal where the Mexican policeman pulls you over for made up BS until you slip him some cash? Same deal just a little bigger scale. The solution is not to drive in Mexico. Worked pretty well for me when I visited (great scuba diving BTW and liked the food too)
I don't understand why rich tech guy doesn't:
1) already know these rules of the road
2) just buy a boat like all other rich tech guys to sail away from the corruption
Tradition, see coverage of Reiser
Care to elaborate on the bread is bad for you bit?
Bad compared to most any other convenience food. You wanna pick something up and eat it? Try a carrot, or an apple, or a handful of mixed nuts...
There's almost nothing in bread that you're evolutionary designed to eat.
Grains? what, are you descended from a cow instead of a monkey? Might not kill you too quick, but it aint human food thats for sure. Mooo!
Yeast? If you're ancestors were starving and eating partially rotten fruit instead of the good stuff. Stay away, its rotting.
HFCS / white sugar / molasses / aspartame? Who ate that kinda stuff before 1900 CE or so, you know, when heart attacks and diabetes started spiking up?
Salt? Well OK you got me there although I prefer other sources for salt. Bacon. Seasoned grilled meat. Things like that. I'm not exactly low on sodium so I'm not too worried about losing bread as a salt source.
Is there anything, at all, good in bread? I know enriched flour has some vitamins/minerals, but you're better off taking a pill and skipping all the bad stuff.
This assumes the desired end result is toast, not bread.
True, although the real desired end result is eventually eating most of the loaf of bread, rather than having to toss 50% to 75% out due to staleness and mold due to low consumption rate. I'd rather eat a loaf of toast over the course of a month than a couple slices of untoast and throw the rest out. Besides, I *like* toast.
You don't have to toast until blackened, you know. Evaporate any surface water crystals from the freezing process so your sandwich doesn't get mushy and you're all good.
The overall situation is kind of like how some people demand their hamburger bun be toasted and some demand it not, you can pretty much talk yourself into liking any texture, except, apparently, soggy.
This is beginning to sound like the hyper detailed milk and capncrunch protocol story at the start of Cryptonomicon, so I'll stop here.
Your fine homemade oxtail soup is not available in stores, just like my boozy canned fruit is not available, so it doesn't matter.
I think you can save time and money by canning exotic stuff, mostly because its either super labor intensive or simply unobtainable in the exact form demanded.
But I don't think the original posters goal of saving food costs overall work, from a sheer caloric standpoint he'd be better off working at the food store and accepting payment in cardboard flats of soupcans. I would give a possible exception to pressure canning enormous amounts of self gathered protein beyond a normal human's freezer capacity. Like poach 10 deer and can all the venison. I'm not sure I can even justify the lid cost to can "bulk vegetables".
A year at full power seems fine. Wouldn't that be like 5 years of useful, typical life ie 5 hrs a night?
My 30 or so year experience with EL has been in lighted signs. Basically you cut out a stencil and place it in front of an EL panel, and it looks cool, kinda like blacklit, sorta. Also there was a fad maybe 10 years ago with EL nightlights. No, a year of life is not cool for those apps and makes people pretty unhappy until they switch back.
Even 5 years is pretty sad compared to all but photoflood bulbs.
You'd have found it was just a remake of the WWII era tropical bars. I ate a couple (of the modern remakes, I was in .mil in the 90s). It was icky.
You know how cheap american chocolate (Hersheys) is like room temperature brown colored Crisco? The tropical stuff was basically the same stuff but a texture / mouth feel more like refrigerated brown Crisco.
I imagine this "invention" is about the 4th generation re-invention. Food science is just like IT, every decade or two, the same old ideas get lipstick and a new dress on the old pig and a big announcement about the new baby, while the old timers roll their eyes, not that crap again....
College is a 4 years sacrifice that prepares you for a 40 year career.
Oh come on, the 40 year career died in my grandpa's generation. And I'm no little kid.
It just means when you're downsized or never find a job in the field to begin with, you'll have student loans you can't pay, that's about it.
The whole point of the argument is for TODAYS students the odds of "makin it" with a BS and huge loans is about numerically equal to the odds of "makin it" by dropping out and opening a business. You'll probably end up bankrupt, poor, and un(der)employed either way, but at least you won't have as much debt...
Some sort of real life boot camp outside of a McWalmart job would probably be useful to many.
We've already got the prison industrial complex, and it does turn out scores of well motivated, highly trained career criminals.
The become a tech billionaire thing is exactly like pro sports. Occasionally someone makes it big but the vast majority of people who try are going to end up disappointed, 30, and with nothing to fall back on.
Humorously, you've just described the "higher ed industrial complex", although you forgot to mention due to explosive growth in tuition its now horrifically expensive compared to the expense of becoming a wanna be basketball star.
There's nothing wrong with higher ed, other than costing too much. I like that my coffee barista and waitress both have 4-year degrees. Education gives life meaning, it gives you a lifetime of interesting things to think about, if you bother to pay attention, anyway. The problem with my barista and waitress having 4 year diplomas is they paid WAY too much money and thought they were getting middle class job training, when all they got was debt and an education and no job. If only they could have paid $200/semester like my parents paid for personal enrichment, that would be a perfectly good situation..
I wonder what the lifespan of these bulbs is going to be ...
The Light Bulb Conspiracy
The developer is promising cheap, hard-to-break, mercury-free, highly efficient bulbs
Historically the three problems with EL have been color balance (or total lack thereof), lifespan (maybe a year at full power), and surface brightness (like forget "lamps" you'll need to cover the entire ceiling with illuminated panels to get modest room illumination).
What the developer is promising has been off the shelf for at least 3 decades... What I listed is the really hard part.
News for nerds. This has some times been described as a sort of "nerd sydrome" as some of it's symptoms coincide with the common perception of nerds.
Ah and that's the crucial mistake. Much like the symptoms of severe mercury poisoning vaguely thru squinted eyes kinda resemble autism, that doesn't mean tiny amounts of mercury in vaccines have much of anything to do with it. Very much like "Getting hit by a half inch diameter supersonic chunk of lead is obviously bad, so lead in your diet is bad". Accidentally it is possible in an unscientific manner to be right, but the reasoning and cause and effect relationships are hopeless.
In a similar way a spectrum diagnosis doesn't make a nerd nor are nerds on the spectrum other than mere coincidence. In fact there is probably a pretty strong anti-correlation.