Since when did your material wealth equate to smartness?
There are many types of smartness. The kind the GPP is talking about is judging the worth of business investments. That tends to correlate well with material wealth.
a horrible, poorly conceived idea that only an idiot would buy
Idiot here. I have a Ring doorbell. I give it 2 out of 5 stars. The concept is ok, but the implementation is terrible. When someone rings the doorbell, I get a notification on my cell phone along with a snapshot of the visitor. The problem is that there is a latency of about 45 seconds, so by the time I get the notification, the visitor has already given up and left.
For the few visitors that stick around long enough, I can communicate with them thru my cell phone, which is nice if I am not home, or if I want more info before I open the door. But, again, the implementation is terrible. The speaker in the doorbell is weak and crappy, and there is a huge amount of latency in the audio. It is practically impossible to have a constructive conversation.
I can't see anything they have that would be worth $1B. The concept is nice, but obvious, so Amazon should be able to roll-their-own implementation. The only rationale that I can see is if Ring has some critical patents that Amazon can either use themselves, or use to block competitors.
I find the touchbar is shit. If's different for every app
That is the point. The touchbar is customized for each app. It would make a terrible keyboard since there is no tactile feedback, but it works well for customization. An app can add not only custom keys, but slidebars, and pressure sensitive feedback.
Homes don't have higher voltages available, and charging speed really isn't that big of an issue.
My spouse drives an EV. She comes home from work, plugs it in, and usually doesn't need to drive again for 14 hours.
If she does need to drive to the grocery store or somewhere else, that is no problem, because the battery range is 240 miles, and her commute is 30 miles, so she has a cushion of 210 miles.
Over the last few years, there have been a handful of times on long trips where faster charging time would have been convenient, but still waiting was no big deal. We just plugged into a Supercharger and went to eat at a nearby restaurant, or just used the restroom and walked around for 20 minutes.
Waiting 20 minutes a few times per year is less inconvenient than going to the gas station several times per month.
Right, so a bunch of dumbasses can tell the coder to try stupid shit, and then blame the coder for becoming upset and un-collaborative, eh?
Like this guy? He was give a simple task of drawing 7 red lines, all mutually perpendicular, 2 of them green and the rest transparent. Instead of just getting the job done, he became argumentative and uncooperative. Would you want a guy like that on your team?
For energy producers, it is peak demand that is the problem. Plenty of solar energy at noon doesn't help when people get home and turn on the AC, TV, and oven at 6pm.
EVs can be programmed to draw power only when supply exceeds demand, thus smoothing out the gaps. Currently, this means charging in the middle of the night, In the future, when solar is more common, it will mean charging in the middle of the day.
1. This LinkedIn report is based on a survey, so it is about what people say, not what they do. 2. Much of the survey concerns hypothetical future actions. 3. The survey questions are not mostly about developers, but about characteristics needed in all employees. 4. The report PDF is displayed with a light gray font on a white background, making it nearly unreadable. This doesn't reflect directly on the contents, but it does show that the team that created it were incompetent at least for the presentation.
Can you suggest a replacement? It is better than "scandal" because it is 3 letters shorter, plus it has a different nuance: "-gate" implies that there was a cover-up, while "scandal" does not.
This was a pure money grab. Look, VW cheated, and polluted, and they should pay for that. But the pollution hurts everyone, not just, or even especially, the owner of the car. So why should the owners (who were not harmed any more than the general public) get a sack of money?
Tesla isn't doing that. They are producing $70k-$140k cars for the 1%.
The first ICE cars were also for the 1%. In 1906, Woodrow Wilson declared that gasoline powered automobiles were “a picture of the arrogance of wealth”.
Trickle down may not work in economics, but it has always worked in the automobile industry. What you see in the top-of-the-line cars today, will be mid-range in 5 years, and standard in all cars in 10 years.
Uber/Lyft costs 2-3 times as much as transit. Poor people can't use it.
TFA cites data that people are using Uber/Lyft as an alternative to buses and walking. Even to a poor person, time is money. If you have 4 people travelling together, Uber is as cheap as the bus and WAY faster.
Large transactions have to be reported by financial institutions anyway.
Large transactions can be split up into small transactions.
The cash (fiat) would have to flow through either in or out of Coinbase through some financial instutution.
But not necessarily a financial institution in America. So I could buy bitcoin by transferring in some USDs from an American bank, wait for it to appreciate ten fold (normally this takes a few months) and they withdraw it in Syrian currency to a bank in Damascus.
So I take the 'bus' and I get to wait the 15 minutes it takes for someone to load a refrigerator?
No. A jeepney will not wait for 15 minutes if there are other passengers already onboard. But loading most cargo only takes half a minute or so, with the driver and other passengers pitching in to help.
If you have never been to the Philippines, you should go visit. The Jeepneys work very well. They are cheap, convenient, and versatile. They are the perfect counterexample when people insist that only the government can provide mass transit.
how many in total are hoarded by the founders while the suckers who were late to the party bid up the value on a small handful of coins.
Draw a black box around the Bitcoin ecosystem. This is what flows into the system:
1a. Money from new investors
This is what flows out of the system:
1b. Money going to investors cashing out. 2b. Money going to the miners for transaction fees. 3b. Money going to power companies.
1a = 1b + 2b + 3b
So, since 2b>0 and 3b>0, obviously 1b<1a both now and in the long run.
Now some of you may call me inconsistent, because in the past I have been a cheerleader for bitcoin. So what has changed? What has changed is that I have sold all my bitcoins and I no longer have any skin in the game.
A bus that is available at any time, takes you exactly where you want to go, will help you move cargo (like, say, a new refrigerator), is willing to do on-the-spot negotiations for special circumstances, such as groups traveling together, or odd destinations, and can be pre-scheduled.
I'm guessing that to realistically handle the standard work day rush, a fleet wouldn't be much smaller than the number of cars currently,
Nope. "Rush hour" in most cities starts about 6am and lasts till about 9am. It is roughly 4-7pm in the afternoon. The average commute in America is 26 minutes. So a single car can make 6 trips during a single "rush hour". Even if there are zero people going counter-commute (not true), a car can still make 3 round trips.
It's amusing how what people thought was the second coming of transit just makes it worse.
The root problem is that ride-sharing gives poor people options that they didn't have before. They need to know their place. They should go back to walking or taking the bus so it easier for me to drive.
A simple solution would be multi-passenger ride-sharing during peak hours. This would be even more efficient with a transfer point. One car picks up 2, 3 or 4 commuters from your neighborhood, and drives to the transfer point. Then the passengers switch cars based on their final destination.
Bingo. This is the situation in Hawaii. Power retails for 42 cents/kwhr, about 4 times the highest mainland rate. Solar is currently about 10 cents/kwhr, and federal subsidies push that even lower. So Helco doesn't want to give up 42 cents to get something worth 10 cents. They no longer allow any new net metering installations.
This is, of course, stupid. But from Helco's point of view it makes sense, since they are in the business of maximizing profit from their monopoly market, not serving the public, and the PUC is bought and paid for.
So Hawaiians get one stupid policy ($100M Powerwalls for daytime use) to counteract another stupid policy (no net metering). This is what happens in a one-party state (there are no Republicans in Hawaii).
Hawaii also has zero geothermal energy, despite some of the best volcanic geology in the world, for equally stupid political and bureaucratic reasons.
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Because the age of concent in America, 18, is one of the highest in the world.
The age of consent in America varies by state. The most common state AOC in America is 16.
Since when did your material wealth equate to smartness?
There are many types of smartness. The kind the GPP is talking about is judging the worth of business investments. That tends to correlate well with material wealth.
a horrible, poorly conceived idea that only an idiot would buy
Idiot here. I have a Ring doorbell. I give it 2 out of 5 stars. The concept is ok, but the implementation is terrible. When someone rings the doorbell, I get a notification on my cell phone along with a snapshot of the visitor. The problem is that there is a latency of about 45 seconds, so by the time I get the notification, the visitor has already given up and left.
For the few visitors that stick around long enough, I can communicate with them thru my cell phone, which is nice if I am not home, or if I want more info before I open the door. But, again, the implementation is terrible. The speaker in the doorbell is weak and crappy, and there is a huge amount of latency in the audio. It is practically impossible to have a constructive conversation.
I can't see anything they have that would be worth $1B. The concept is nice, but obvious, so Amazon should be able to roll-their-own implementation. The only rationale that I can see is if Ring has some critical patents that Amazon can either use themselves, or use to block competitors.
I find the touchbar is shit. If's different for every app
That is the point. The touchbar is customized for each app. It would make a terrible keyboard since there is no tactile feedback, but it works well for customization. An app can add not only custom keys, but slidebars, and pressure sensitive feedback.
I'm a power user
Real power users use external keyboards.
How many more of these worthless investments are large firms going to make?
Jeff is the richest person in the world. Evidence suggests that you are not smarter than he is.
Why aren't they higher voltage?
Homes don't have higher voltages available, and charging speed really isn't that big of an issue.
My spouse drives an EV. She comes home from work, plugs it in, and usually doesn't need to drive again for 14 hours.
If she does need to drive to the grocery store or somewhere else, that is no problem, because the battery range is 240 miles, and her commute is 30 miles, so she has a cushion of 210 miles.
Over the last few years, there have been a handful of times on long trips where faster charging time would have been convenient, but still waiting was no big deal. We just plugged into a Supercharger and went to eat at a nearby restaurant, or just used the restroom and walked around for 20 minutes.
Waiting 20 minutes a few times per year is less inconvenient than going to the gas station several times per month.
I mean, you can't run a starship with just one laptop..
I can use voice commands: "Alexa, go to warp one."
Right, so a bunch of dumbasses can tell the coder to try stupid shit, and then blame the coder for becoming upset and un-collaborative, eh?
Like this guy? He was give a simple task of drawing 7 red lines, all mutually perpendicular, 2 of them green and the rest transparent. Instead of just getting the job done, he became argumentative and uncooperative. Would you want a guy like that on your team?
All modern theories of economics ("schools of thought" as they are called) assume infinite demand
They assume infinite aggregate demand, not infinite demand for any particular product.
I own one laptop, and would have no use for two. My demand for laptops is fixed.
On the other hand, I would love to have my own starship.
Peak demand != demand.
For energy producers, it is peak demand that is the problem. Plenty of solar energy at noon doesn't help when people get home and turn on the AC, TV, and oven at 6pm.
EVs can be programmed to draw power only when supply exceeds demand, thus smoothing out the gaps. Currently, this means charging in the middle of the night, In the future, when solar is more common, it will mean charging in the middle of the day.
The charging time problem is one of charging cable size.
You can get around that by upping the voltage. Tesla Superchargers use 400 volts.
Supercapacitors do shit for that issue.
The biggest problem with super-caps is energy density, currently less than a tenth that of lithium batteries.
1. This LinkedIn report is based on a survey, so it is about what people say, not what they do.
2. Much of the survey concerns hypothetical future actions.
3. The survey questions are not mostly about developers, but about characteristics needed in all employees.
4. The report PDF is displayed with a light gray font on a white background, making it nearly unreadable. This doesn't reflect directly on the contents, but it does show that the team that created it were incompetent at least for the presentation.
Can we give the "-gate" suffix a rest already?
Can you suggest a replacement? It is better than "scandal" because it is 3 letters shorter, plus it has a different nuance: "-gate" implies that there was a cover-up, while "scandal" does not.
If they complain, it must just be a money grab.
This was a pure money grab. Look, VW cheated, and polluted, and they should pay for that. But the pollution hurts everyone, not just, or even especially, the owner of the car. So why should the owners (who were not harmed any more than the general public) get a sack of money?
Tesla isn't doing that. They are producing $70k-$140k cars for the 1%.
The first ICE cars were also for the 1%. In 1906, Woodrow Wilson declared that gasoline powered automobiles were “a picture of the arrogance of wealth”.
Trickle down may not work in economics, but it has always worked in the automobile industry. What you see in the top-of-the-line cars today, will be mid-range in 5 years, and standard in all cars in 10 years.
The 1% are funding the R&D.
Uber/Lyft costs 2-3 times as much as transit. Poor people can't use it.
TFA cites data that people are using Uber/Lyft as an alternative to buses and walking. Even to a poor person, time is money. If you have 4 people travelling together, Uber is as cheap as the bus and WAY faster.
Large transactions have to be reported by financial institutions anyway.
Large transactions can be split up into small transactions.
The cash (fiat) would have to flow through either in or out of Coinbase through some financial instutution.
But not necessarily a financial institution in America. So I could buy bitcoin by transferring in some USDs from an American bank, wait for it to appreciate ten fold (normally this takes a few months) and they withdraw it in Syrian currency to a bank in Damascus.
So I take the 'bus' and I get to wait the 15 minutes it takes for someone to load a refrigerator?
No. A jeepney will not wait for 15 minutes if there are other passengers already onboard. But loading most cargo only takes half a minute or so, with the driver and other passengers pitching in to help.
If you have never been to the Philippines, you should go visit. The Jeepneys work very well. They are cheap, convenient, and versatile. They are the perfect counterexample when people insist that only the government can provide mass transit.
how many in total are hoarded by the founders while the suckers who were late to the party bid up the value on a small handful of coins.
Draw a black box around the Bitcoin ecosystem. This is what flows into the system:
1a. Money from new investors
This is what flows out of the system:
1b. Money going to investors cashing out.
2b. Money going to the miners for transaction fees.
3b. Money going to power companies.
1a = 1b + 2b + 3b
So, since 2b>0 and 3b>0, obviously 1b<1a both now and in the long run.
Now some of you may call me inconsistent, because in the past I have been a cheerleader for bitcoin. So what has changed? What has changed is that I have sold all my bitcoins and I no longer have any skin in the game.
Now that sounds a lot like a bus.
A bus that is available at any time, takes you exactly where you want to go, will help you move cargo (like, say, a new refrigerator), is willing to do on-the-spot negotiations for special circumstances, such as groups traveling together, or odd destinations, and can be pre-scheduled.
... so nothing like a bus.
Yes, and they are being taken off the roads.
... because their decentralized nature makes it hard for politicians to extort money.
I'm guessing that to realistically handle the standard work day rush, a fleet wouldn't be much smaller than the number of cars currently,
Nope. "Rush hour" in most cities starts about 6am and lasts till about 9am. It is roughly 4-7pm in the afternoon. The average commute in America is 26 minutes. So a single car can make 6 trips during a single "rush hour". Even if there are zero people going counter-commute (not true), a car can still make 3 round trips.
It's amusing how what people thought was the second coming of transit just makes it worse.
The root problem is that ride-sharing gives poor people options that they didn't have before. They need to know their place. They should go back to walking or taking the bus so it easier for me to drive.
A simple solution would be multi-passenger ride-sharing during peak hours. This would be even more efficient with a transfer point. One car picks up 2, 3 or 4 commuters from your neighborhood, and drives to the transfer point. Then the passengers switch cars based on their final destination.
This is the way jeepneys work in Manila.
The local net energy metering situation sucks
Bingo. This is the situation in Hawaii. Power retails for 42 cents/kwhr, about 4 times the highest mainland rate. Solar is currently about 10 cents/kwhr, and federal subsidies push that even lower. So Helco doesn't want to give up 42 cents to get something worth 10 cents. They no longer allow any new net metering installations.
This is, of course, stupid. But from Helco's point of view it makes sense, since they are in the business of maximizing profit from their monopoly market, not serving the public, and the PUC is bought and paid for.
So Hawaiians get one stupid policy ($100M Powerwalls for daytime use) to counteract another stupid policy (no net metering). This is what happens in a one-party state (there are no Republicans in Hawaii).
Hawaii also has zero geothermal energy, despite some of the best volcanic geology in the world, for equally stupid political and bureaucratic reasons.