Go ahead and look up how much trade already exists between China and Taiwan, China and Japan. It's quite a lot.
Indeed. There is no particular need for trading partners to like each other. In July of 1914, the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world was between Britain and Germany. A month later they were killing each other on an industrial scale.
Also, the China-led trade agreement that will likely replace TPP is called RCEP.
Odd that in America the preservation of coal is seen as a conservative ideal
That is just political pandering. Coal is dying because of simple economics. It can't compete with cheap shale gas, and Trump can't do a damn thing about that. The coal miners in Appalachia need to get on the bus and move somewhere that has jobs.
I don't live there, but it sounds like a good thing.
By many measures, Canada and Russia are the biggest "winners" from global warming. They benefit from warmer temps, longer growing seasons, more land in the cultivation zone, etc. So it is a bit ironic that Canada is making commitments to reduce CO2, while America (a big net loser) is backsliding.
4. Only have to fold pants and shorts, and that's quick and easy
These are all good tips, but you can also buy hangers for pants that are faster than folding and don't leave a crease. I do no folding: shirts and pants go on hangers. Socks and underwear are just tossed in the drawer.
Since the big "upset", probably sooner than later. Everything is so overpriced, except human labor.
One of Donald's big promises was tax cuts for corporations and the rich. That is one promise that the Republican majority in Congress will support, and the Democrats cannot filibuster budgets. So, rather than popping, it is more likely the bubble will inflate even more.
it's not on Samsung or Panasonic, but the supplier who hires the workers.
Samsung and Panasonic should be auditing their supply chains, including inspection of supplier factories. That is basic corporate ethics, and is a necessity in our modern interconnected world. That being said, we shouldn't jump to any conclusions: Many accusations like this in the past have turned out to be fabricated.
You just crypto-sign records and publish the (possibly encrypted) ledger.
If the entire DB was encrypted and published every time it was modified (many times per second) how could that possibly be a better solution than a blockchain? If you only encrypted and published the diffs, then wouldn't the chain of diffs pertaining to a single item be functionally the same as a blockchain, other than being scattered and more difficult to verify?
You didn't miss much. TFA is silly. Ideas and thoughts are not "demeaned" by sharing them. Sharing an idea makes it valuable. You can get feedback, and refine the idea, and the chance of one of your lazy friends "stealing" your idea is wildly exaggerated.
There are plenty of good reasons to minimize social media use, such as wasting time, but even there it is better than passive activities like watching TV. The first warning that you should skip this article is in the first paragraph, when the author brags that "I’ve never had a social media account". So if he has never tried it, how can he be such a big expert about it? Is anyone else sick of listening to non-users acting superior, and preaching on and on about how their choice is the only true path to a perfect life? These people are worse than vegans.
A unique identifier can be used to access the relevant information in a database. How does blockchain improve on that?
A relational database can be deleted, corrupted, or falsified after the fact. You are assuming everyone in the supply chain is honest. Incidents such as the melamine-in-milk scandal show that is not always the case.
...and the second time I was buying some "prescription drugs" in Tijuana.
If you go to Tijuana, or Juarez, or any other Mexican border towns, you will find drug stores selling name-brand prescription drugs within one block of the border. The prices are far lower than in America, because the Mexican government negotiates lower prices with pharmaceutical companies, and because of the different litigation systems. You can also buy far more stuff without a doctor's prescription. It is legal to buy most drugs and bring them into America so long as they are not for resale.
There is no excuse for Google's behavior. I have been "locked out" by my bank a few times when I had suspicious transactions, and each time I was able to call the number on the back of my card, answer a few security questions, and get it unlocked. It never took more than two minutes to resolve... and the transactions really were suspicious. The first time was in a bar in Lijiang when I lost a wager, and had to buy a round for the house, and the second time I was buying some prescription drugs in Tijuana.
Huh? Without the scalper, that someone could have bought the ticket directly from the supplier, at a lower price.
No. The lower price leads to higher demand, so more people want the tickets than there are tickets available. That is why the scalper can make money. If the tickets were priced properly in the first place, there would be no way for scalpers to make money. Do you see scalpers outside the grocery store selling milk at a mark-up? Of course not.
Because of the higher demand, there must be some other way than price to control demand. Usually it is willingness to stand in line and squander time instead of money. But some people value their time, and would prefer to just pay the market price instead, thus the demand for scalpers, who provide a useful service to those people.
they have a better chance of making money here than they have in making it w/ Google Fiber.
I don't think so. Profits are made by selling commodity products and services to millions of people, not by selling labor intensive services on a one-off basis using highly skilled workers that are making $50+/hr. For what you are describing, you would need to be willing to pay more than the cost of a new phone.
There's nothing worse than being stuck in a confined area with a bunch of righteous vegetarians farting.
I am a vegetarian, and I have to admit this is true. There are benefits to being a vegetarian, but increased flatulence is a minor problem. Fortunately, I work in a private office with a window.
When people complain when things are unfair, that's good. When people complain because trying to make things slightly more fair constitutes being unfair, that's dumb.
I'm confused. Are you saying the DAS is making things more fair, or are you saying they are making things unfair by caving into the complainers?
1: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
That complete skips over the crux of the issue: Is it equality of opportunities, or equality of outcomes?
98% of chess tournaments are won by men. Is that a result of sexism? Or are men inherently superior? Or is it because most women think chess is a pointless waste of time? Is this a problem that our society needs to fix, and if so, what is the solution?
Why is that a bad thing? Human eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, so it is possible that this technology could result in fewer false convictions. Similar questions were raised about DNA evidence, but it has resulted in far more exonerations of the innocent and convictions of the guilty than the other way around.
You need to get over the delusion that our current justice system is infallible. Far from it: When DNA evidence first became reliable enough to use as evidence, many old cases were reexamined, and in about 10% of the cases it turned out that the convicted defendant couldn't possibly have committed the crime. That doesn't mean that 10% were innocent, it means that a minimum of 10% were innocent, and it is likely that many others were innocent as well, but the DNA evidence was inconclusive, or the defendant's DNA could have been present at the crime scene for other reasons.
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For highly developed nations, consider Japan, Singapore, Taiwan.
Also, Australia and New Zealand. They are not "Asian" geographically, but they are economically, and are part of RCEP.
Malaysia, Thailand, and China, are not "dirt poor". They are considered middle income countries.
Poor countries in RCEP are India, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. Bangladesh is also poor, but is not part of the agreement.
Go ahead and look up how much trade already exists between China and Taiwan, China and Japan. It's quite a lot.
Indeed. There is no particular need for trading partners to like each other. In July of 1914, the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world was between Britain and Germany. A month later they were killing each other on an industrial scale.
Also, the China-led trade agreement that will likely replace TPP is called RCEP.
The scientists need to learn how to play the political game.
How to get your funding cut: "This computer is for climate modeling."
How to get your funding increased: "This computer is for nuclear warhead design validation."
They can go back to "climate" in 2018 if the Democrats win the mid-terms.
Odd that in America the preservation of coal is seen as a conservative ideal
That is just political pandering. Coal is dying because of simple economics. It can't compete with cheap shale gas, and Trump can't do a damn thing about that. The coal miners in Appalachia need to get on the bus and move somewhere that has jobs.
I don't live there, but it sounds like a good thing.
By many measures, Canada and Russia are the biggest "winners" from global warming. They benefit from warmer temps, longer growing seasons, more land in the cultivation zone, etc. So it is a bit ironic that Canada is making commitments to reduce CO2, while America (a big net loser) is backsliding.
4. Only have to fold pants and shorts, and that's quick and easy
These are all good tips, but you can also buy hangers for pants that are faster than folding and don't leave a crease. I do no folding: shirts and pants go on hangers. Socks and underwear are just tossed in the drawer.
Haha my kids can fold a shirt in 10 minutes..
This single task robot has nothing better to do. It is silly to spend money to make it faster just so it can have more idle time.
Including the time spent convincing them
If you want to speed up your kids, unplug the router until all the laundry is folded.
Since the big "upset", probably sooner than later. Everything is so overpriced, except human labor.
One of Donald's big promises was tax cuts for corporations and the rich. That is one promise that the Republican majority in Congress will support, and the Democrats cannot filibuster budgets. So, rather than popping, it is more likely the bubble will inflate even more.
it's not on Samsung or Panasonic, but the supplier who hires the workers.
Samsung and Panasonic should be auditing their supply chains, including inspection of supplier factories. That is basic corporate ethics, and is a necessity in our modern interconnected world. That being said, we shouldn't jump to any conclusions: Many accusations like this in the past have turned out to be fabricated.
Obama does not propose gov't censoring, unlike the Chinese.
In America, we don't need government censorship because the corporations do it instead.
You just crypto-sign records and publish the (possibly encrypted) ledger.
If the entire DB was encrypted and published every time it was modified (many times per second) how could that possibly be a better solution than a blockchain? If you only encrypted and published the diffs, then wouldn't the chain of diffs pertaining to a single item be functionally the same as a blockchain, other than being scattered and more difficult to verify?
This is more like old media vs new media stuff.
Well, my sister-in-law watches six hours of reality TV everyday, and that hasn't led to a good career either.
Too long, didn't read.
You didn't miss much. TFA is silly. Ideas and thoughts are not "demeaned" by sharing them. Sharing an idea makes it valuable. You can get feedback, and refine the idea, and the chance of one of your lazy friends "stealing" your idea is wildly exaggerated.
There are plenty of good reasons to minimize social media use, such as wasting time, but even there it is better than passive activities like watching TV. The first warning that you should skip this article is in the first paragraph, when the author brags that "I’ve never had a social media account". So if he has never tried it, how can he be such a big expert about it? Is anyone else sick of listening to non-users acting superior, and preaching on and on about how their choice is the only true path to a perfect life? These people are worse than vegans.
A unique identifier can be used to access the relevant information in a database. How does blockchain improve on that?
A relational database can be deleted, corrupted, or falsified after the fact. You are assuming everyone in the supply chain is honest. Incidents such as the melamine-in-milk scandal show that is not always the case.
...and the second time I was buying some "prescription drugs" in Tijuana.
If you go to Tijuana, or Juarez, or any other Mexican border towns, you will find drug stores selling name-brand prescription drugs within one block of the border. The prices are far lower than in America, because the Mexican government negotiates lower prices with pharmaceutical companies, and because of the different litigation systems. You can also buy far more stuff without a doctor's prescription. It is legal to buy most drugs and bring them into America so long as they are not for resale.
Eroding trust one step at a time.
There is no excuse for Google's behavior. I have been "locked out" by my bank a few times when I had suspicious transactions, and each time I was able to call the number on the back of my card, answer a few security questions, and get it unlocked. It never took more than two minutes to resolve ... and the transactions really were suspicious. The first time was in a bar in Lijiang when I lost a wager, and had to buy a round for the house, and the second time I was buying some prescription drugs in Tijuana.
Huh? Without the scalper, that someone could have bought the ticket directly from the supplier, at a lower price.
No. The lower price leads to higher demand, so more people want the tickets than there are tickets available. That is why the scalper can make money. If the tickets were priced properly in the first place, there would be no way for scalpers to make money. Do you see scalpers outside the grocery store selling milk at a mark-up? Of course not.
Because of the higher demand, there must be some other way than price to control demand. Usually it is willingness to stand in line and squander time instead of money. But some people value their time, and would prefer to just pay the market price instead, thus the demand for scalpers, who provide a useful service to those people.
they have a better chance of making money here than they have in making it w/ Google Fiber.
I don't think so. Profits are made by selling commodity products and services to millions of people, not by selling labor intensive services on a one-off basis using highly skilled workers that are making $50+/hr. For what you are describing, you would need to be willing to pay more than the cost of a new phone.
something that's pretty self evidently wrong (scalping).
How is "scalping" self evidently wrong? If I own a ticket to a concert or sports event, why is it "wrong" for me to sell it at a market price?
There's nothing worse than being stuck in a confined area with a bunch of righteous vegetarians farting.
I am a vegetarian, and I have to admit this is true. There are benefits to being a vegetarian, but increased flatulence is a minor problem. Fortunately, I work in a private office with a window.
If eating grass-fed beef is so important, then why are there so many healthy vegetarians?
When people complain when things are unfair, that's good. When people complain because trying to make things slightly more fair constitutes being unfair, that's dumb.
I'm confused. Are you saying the DAS is making things more fair, or are you saying they are making things unfair by caving into the complainers?
1: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
That complete skips over the crux of the issue: Is it equality of opportunities, or equality of outcomes?
98% of chess tournaments are won by men. Is that a result of sexism? Or are men inherently superior? Or is it because most women think chess is a pointless waste of time? Is this a problem that our society needs to fix, and if so, what is the solution?
People are using this sort of thing in court?
Why is that a bad thing? Human eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, so it is possible that this technology could result in fewer false convictions. Similar questions were raised about DNA evidence, but it has resulted in far more exonerations of the innocent and convictions of the guilty than the other way around.
You need to get over the delusion that our current justice system is infallible. Far from it: When DNA evidence first became reliable enough to use as evidence, many old cases were reexamined, and in about 10% of the cases it turned out that the convicted defendant couldn't possibly have committed the crime. That doesn't mean that 10% were innocent, it means that a minimum of 10% were innocent, and it is likely that many others were innocent as well, but the DNA evidence was inconclusive, or the defendant's DNA could have been present at the crime scene for other reasons.
What is this, the 1940s? All this AI "research" and neural nets are the best they can come up with?
After 4 billion years of evolution, neural nets are also the best that natural intelligence has come up with.