And anyone that has tried to interact with the modern teen can tell something is not quite right.
Anyone that has tried to interact with a teen a decade or century ago could also tell something was not quite right. There are differences between teens and adults. That is not new.
Indeed. You encode once when the video is created or uploaded. Then you save bandwidth and decompression costs every time the video is downloaded, which may be thousands or even millions of times. I would expect this to put less load on the server hardware, rather than more.
If any of the things you insist are "obvious" were actually true, then it would be easy to support them with actual data... yet you can't.
The state with worst obesity and lowest academic test scores is Mississippi. The state with the lowest ownership of smartphones is... Mississippi. Many of the ills you describe are not even correlated with smartphone use.
Here's a nice set of maps of the shorelines if all the ice caps melted
This map was prepared from existing topographical data that INCLUDES THE ICE PACK. Once the ice pack is gone, Greenland will look like this, with a large inland sea.
There's always some old crank with too much time on his hands
Except in this case the "researcher" is SELLING BOOKS, and actually profiting from her viewpoint. But I am sure her high integrity keeps the profit motive from interfering with her objectivity.
The important question is not "What do folks think?" but "What does the data say?". In this case, the data appears to say nothing. TFA is just conjecture, opinion, and a few correlations, which as we all know, are not the same as causation.
Maybe, buried deep behind an obscure link, there is some actual evidence that the world really is going to hell because of corruption of the youth. If so, I would appreciate someone pointing it out.
valued more then companies which had physically manufactured products.
So? There is nothing magical about "physical manufacturing" that should make a company valuable. If anything, the opposite is true. It is better to own the IP and outsource the physical work.
Twitter... at one point was valued more then General Motors.
GM makes commodity products, competes with cheap overseas labor, and has burdensome legacy costs. I would expect their valuation to be near zero.
The average nuclear plant takes in about $1MM in revenue per day.
Let's assume that is 100% profit (which it certainly is not). That would be $365M per year. According to TFA the projected construction cost is $25B. So the rate of return is less than 1.5%. Even the US Treasury can't borrow that cheaply. So this plant, even assuming it has zero operating expenses, can't even pay the interest on the capital investment.
It makes sense to have a little forethought and anticipate which kinds of problems you might run into
What problems do you anticipate from preventing young adults from dying? The worst that could reasonably happen is that we make a mistake and kill someone that was going to die anyway. So what's the big deal?
There is a big difference between reasonable caution and knee jerk Ludditism.
So the bandwidth per subscriber is best at T-Mobile?
Yes. I have T-Mobile. The bandwidth is great, and the prices are low. But, as always, there are tradeoffs: The coverage sucks. Many rural areas have no coverage, and even in the city there are some dead zones. But it is "good enough" 99% of the time, and I am cheap.
It is not clear that this has actually resulted in higher prices. Schemes like this are hard to coordinate as the number of participants goes up, and you only need a few defectors to trigger a collapse. More savvy riders are also a problem since they can just wait 5 or 10 minutes for the surge to pass, or switch to Lyft instead.
Is it set by the city or is it a market rate based on the demand for people to be taxi drivers
Different cities have different policies. In cities where medallions can be bought and sold at market prices, the value has plummeted since Uberification.
Are you serious? There are a zillion alternatives. That most of them are crap isn't Amazon's fault. For starters, there is eBay. There is also plenty of niche vendors for particular products. You can also set up your own website.
So why is it hard to sell through these other sites? Because they have a reputation for slow shipping and crappy return policies... so it is hypocritical to want to use Amazon's reputation while complaining about their easy returns.
But once the reactors enter operation they'll pay for themselves in just a couple of years.
This is the most ridiculous sentence I have read so far today. Do you have the foggiest notion of how much these reactors cost and the value of their annual production? "A couple of years"???
I'll give you one example of issues that happened in the US.
Why was none of this foreseeable? Why wasn't it in the original quoted price? With nuclear you get massive overruns to double or triple the original cost, you get decades of delay, but you also get lots of GREAT excuses that somehow make it all okay, and won't happen next time....
Relativity applies to inertial frames of reference. Gravity exerts an acceleration, so a planet orbiting the sun is not traveling in an inertial frame.
People are more than willing to pay more for energy sources that don't produce CO2.
1. Many people are NOT willing to pay more, hence the election of our current president. 2. The people that are willing to pay more don't have to, since wind is already cost-competitive with FF and solar will be soon.
"Standardized" nukes like the AP1000 were supposed to lower construction costs and reduce maintenance. But so far they have NOT lowered costs, and appear to be worse in every way. There is no path forward for nukes in America, but to go with a complete redesign, and no one wants to pay the NRE for that.
My prediction: Hinkley Point will also be cancelled before it goes live.
Here is an alternative link since TFA is paywalled (at least for me).
The "hack" described in TFA requires physical access to the device. Anything can be compromised by someone with physical access. For instance, I can "hack" the smart-lock on your front door with my sledgehammer.
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In the race to the bottom, many will die
Zero have died. Also zero injuries. Plus the problem has been fixed, so the number of deaths and injuries will continue to be zero forever.
Why is there no Slashdot headline for the zero aliens that attacked Earth yesterday? That is a much more important non-story.
They have basically given enthusiasts a reason to look at the competition rather than just dropping in a new CPU upgrade.
Why should Intel care? How many people replace the CPU on their motherboard? Is this even 1% of the market?
And anyone that has tried to interact with the modern teen can tell something is not quite right.
Anyone that has tried to interact with a teen a decade or century ago could also tell something was not quite right. There are differences between teens and adults. That is not new.
because those things will only happen to very few people
Pregnancy is not so rare.
Indeed. You encode once when the video is created or uploaded. Then you save bandwidth and decompression costs every time the video is downloaded, which may be thousands or even millions of times. I would expect this to put less load on the server hardware, rather than more.
it doesn't take a science paper to tell me ...
If any of the things you insist are "obvious" were actually true, then it would be easy to support them with actual data ... yet you can't.
The state with worst obesity and lowest academic test scores is Mississippi. The state with the lowest ownership of smartphones is ... Mississippi. Many of the ills you describe are not even correlated with smartphone use.
Here's a nice set of maps of the shorelines if all the ice caps melted
This map was prepared from existing topographical data that INCLUDES THE ICE PACK. Once the ice pack is gone, Greenland will look like this, with a large inland sea.
There's always some old crank with too much time on his hands
Except in this case the "researcher" is SELLING BOOKS, and actually profiting from her viewpoint. But I am sure her high integrity keeps the profit motive from interfering with her objectivity.
The important question is not "What do folks think?" but "What does the data say?". In this case, the data appears to say nothing. TFA is just conjecture, opinion, and a few correlations, which as we all know, are not the same as causation.
Maybe, buried deep behind an obscure link, there is some actual evidence that the world really is going to hell because of corruption of the youth. If so, I would appreciate someone pointing it out.
valued more then companies which had physically manufactured products.
So? There is nothing magical about "physical manufacturing" that should make a company valuable. If anything, the opposite is true. It is better to own the IP and outsource the physical work.
Twitter ... at one point was valued more then General Motors.
GM makes commodity products, competes with cheap overseas labor, and has burdensome legacy costs. I would expect their valuation to be near zero.
If the last investors bought 10% of the stock for $100M, the value is $1B.
But if there is an investor contract that promises them 20% if the stock price goes down, then it isn't really worth $1B. It is only worth $0.5B.
Also, Greenland would be quite nice.. and it's largely uninhabited.
Once the ice pack melts, Greenland will be largely underwater. Much of the actual land is below sea level.
The average nuclear plant takes in about $1MM in revenue per day.
Let's assume that is 100% profit (which it certainly is not). That would be $365M per year. According to TFA the projected construction cost is $25B. So the rate of return is less than 1.5%. Even the US Treasury can't borrow that cheaply. So this plant, even assuming it has zero operating expenses, can't even pay the interest on the capital investment.
It makes sense to have a little forethought and anticipate which kinds of problems you might run into
What problems do you anticipate from preventing young adults from dying? The worst that could reasonably happen is that we make a mistake and kill someone that was going to die anyway. So what's the big deal?
There is a big difference between reasonable caution and knee jerk Ludditism.
But for wireless, there's a fixed limit on the amount of bandwidth available to a carrier at any given location.
Not really true. They can add more access points and shrink the size of each cell.
So the bandwidth per subscriber is best at T-Mobile?
Yes. I have T-Mobile. The bandwidth is great, and the prices are low. But, as always, there are tradeoffs: The coverage sucks. Many rural areas have no coverage, and even in the city there are some dead zones. But it is "good enough" 99% of the time, and I am cheap.
It is not clear that this has actually resulted in higher prices. Schemes like this are hard to coordinate as the number of participants goes up, and you only need a few defectors to trigger a collapse. More savvy riders are also a problem since they can just wait 5 or 10 minutes for the surge to pass, or switch to Lyft instead.
Who sets the price for the medallion?
It depends on the city.
Is it set by the city or is it a market rate based on the demand for people to be taxi drivers
Different cities have different policies. In cities where medallions can be bought and sold at market prices, the value has plummeted since Uberification.
becoming the global proxy for "Everything".
Do you realize that Amazon is the world's second biggest e-commerce company?
It is silly to label them a monopoly when they aren't even the market leader.
Go where?
Are you serious? There are a zillion alternatives. That most of them are crap isn't Amazon's fault. For starters, there is eBay. There is also plenty of niche vendors for particular products. You can also set up your own website.
So why is it hard to sell through these other sites? Because they have a reputation for slow shipping and crappy return policies ... so it is hypocritical to want to use Amazon's reputation while complaining about their easy returns.
But once the reactors enter operation they'll pay for themselves in just a couple of years.
This is the most ridiculous sentence I have read so far today. Do you have the foggiest notion of how much these reactors cost and the value of their annual production? "A couple of years"???
I'll give you one example of issues that happened in the US.
Why was none of this foreseeable? Why wasn't it in the original quoted price? With nuclear you get massive overruns to double or triple the original cost, you get decades of delay, but you also get lots of GREAT excuses that somehow make it all okay, and won't happen next time ....
Relativity applies to inertial frames of reference. Gravity exerts an acceleration, so a planet orbiting the sun is not traveling in an inertial frame.
People are more than willing to pay more for energy sources that don't produce CO2.
1. Many people are NOT willing to pay more, hence the election of our current president.
2. The people that are willing to pay more don't have to, since wind is already cost-competitive with FF and solar will be soon.
"Standardized" nukes like the AP1000 were supposed to lower construction costs and reduce maintenance. But so far they have NOT lowered costs, and appear to be worse in every way. There is no path forward for nukes in America, but to go with a complete redesign, and no one wants to pay the NRE for that.
My prediction: Hinkley Point will also be cancelled before it goes live.
Here is an alternative link since TFA is paywalled (at least for me).
The "hack" described in TFA requires physical access to the device. Anything can be compromised by someone with physical access. For instance, I can "hack" the smart-lock on your front door with my sledgehammer.