If they were, how would they be profiting from it?
... in the same way the stock market sometimes fluctuates in suspicious manners?
When shown randomness, people will perceive patterns where none exist.
Actual suspicious stock movements are usually caused by trading on insider information. How would that work with bitcoin, where information is public and there is no "inside"?
This isn't even a good measure of popularity. Just because a language is widely used doesn't mean there are a lot of questions and discussions about it.
It is perhaps more accurate to say this is a measure of "Which language causes its users the most problems?" or even "Which language has the dumbest users?"
Alaska has many hours of summer sun, but the sun is low in the sky and attenuated by the atmosphere, and travels along the horizon up to 360 degrees, so not much of the sunlight would reach a fixed angle PV panel.
There are plenty of windy areas in Alaska, especially along the coast, which is also where the people are. So wind turbines are likely a better investment than solar panels.
What is wrong living in California? You don't need to live in the Cities. They are a lot of wonderful rural areas available.
But you still live under the same state government that caters almost exclusively to the interests of the coastal cities, which is where the votes are.
It might be lower pay compared to hiring other more experienced data scientists.
Most likely they are not getting hired instead of the more experienced scientists. Both are getting hired. The myth that there are a fixed number of jobs is the Lump of Labor Fallacy.
If more workers become available, unemployment doesn't go up. The economy expands.
Hiring is the most important thing that an organization does. Yet many, perhaps most, companies are astoundingly bad at it. It is common for companies to give authority to reject incoming technical resumes to a young liberal-arts major in HR with a nose ring and a pierced tongue.
A big problem with "free" services, is that the user is no longer a paying customer, the provider loses nothing from a decline in ridership, and has little incentive to care about quality.
Nevertheless, this will likely work fine in Luxembourg. It is small, affluent, socially-cohesive, and a high-trust society. But their success will not translate to Detroit.
China is an authoritarian state and that means that have lots and lots of police officers.
Actually, America has way more police per capita than China. America is over policed.
Also, the local police in China have little to do with political repression. That is done by a separate organization.
If you visit China, you will notice a lot of heavily armed guards, carrying assault rifles and dressed in camouflage uniforms. But they are not police or soldiers. They are private security guards, and since private citizens are not allowed to own firearms, the "assault rifles" are actually non-functioning plastic replicas.
you don't want your expensive robots to be crushed in a cave in either
For a robot, 99.999% reliability is "good enough". For humans, your safety systems need to provide 99.99999% reliability. A rough rule of thumb is that each extra nine doubles the cost.
And where coal is not dying, it is being mechanised. The days of labour-intensive underground mining are well dead.
... and the big savings is not when a robot replaces the first human miner, but when it replaces the LAST human. Because then the mine no longer needs ventilation, lighting, safety equipment, redundant support structures, rescue equipment, triple backup pumps and generators, etc.
These add up to huge expenses. Once you have no humans down-hole, you can cut a lot of corners, and save a lot of money.
Ms Meng was detained while changing planes at the Vancouver Airport.
... for violation of international sanctions against Iran.
Wrong. They were American sanctions, not international sanctions. She (allegedly) violated an American law... while living in China as a Chinese citizen. What other country claims such an extraterritorial reach?
That's not something for civil courts.
Huawei had an agreement to not re-export certain American products to Iran. They apparently broke that agreement. Breaking an agreement is generally a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
Counter point: For 30 - 40 years, people haven't taken it seriously.
In 2008, during the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed global warming was a "serious threat". Only Fred Thompson failed to raise his hand, and even he refused to say he didn't think it was a threat, only that he felt it was a complex issue that shouldn't be reduced to a hand going up or down.
Global warming denialism is now a right-wing litmus test, but it wasn't always that way.
Of course people need to travel. But they can fly commercial for a tiny fraction of the CO2 emissions of a private jet, and if they really, really, need to take a private jet, then they should not be lecturing other people. They should STFU and leave environmental advocacy to those that can do it without hypocrisy.
What if the shoe was on the other foot? What if an American citizen was arrested in a 3rd country and extradited to China? What would Donald Trump do? The Andrew Brunson affair indicates he would not accept it passively.
I think the supposition that the fossil fuel industry would abandon $Trillions of infrastructure and proven petrol reserves was the greatest failing of the hydrogen revolution.
That is not why hydrogen fuel cells failed. They failed partly because the fuel cells are expensive (requiring platinum coatings), need regular maintenance to keep the membranes clean, and have very limited range because of the difficulty of storing H2.
But the main reason they failed was because of dramatic advances in the cost and storage capacity of lithium batteries.
the hype that they were going to take over and replace everything can be mocked.
I must have missed the hype. I remember GWB advocating hydrogen fuel cells, but nobody believed he was serious, and he was widely ridiculed at the time. I don't remember anyone else hyping it.
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The only real solution is the Pyrrhic option of unionization.
That is not the only option. Here are some others:
1. Go work somewhere else. If no one else is willing to pay you more, then maybe you aren't worth as much as you think you are.
2. Work for yourself.
3. Buy company stock. Then you can directly benefit from all those profits and stellar quarterly reports.
Sell millions of dollars worth of BTC options and then depress the price to ensure they're worthless?
How does one "depress the price" without losing money?
The collective value of all bitcoins declined by $200B in the past year.
Are you seriously claiming that someone dumped enough bitcoins to depress the market by $200B in order to make $0.001B?
The Flat Earth Society has a more plausible theory than that.
There's tons of insider trading in the Bitcoin world and the market is gamed six ways to Sunday.
Can you explain how that is possible, even in theory?
The code is open. The blockchain is open. So who is the "insider"?
It is common to believe there are vast conspiracies behind every problem in the world. But most are caused by plain ol' stupidity and incompetence.
Is someone gaming the market here
If they were, how would they be profiting from it?
... in the same way the stock market sometimes fluctuates in suspicious manners?
When shown randomness, people will perceive patterns where none exist.
Actual suspicious stock movements are usually caused by trading on insider information. How would that work with bitcoin, where information is public and there is no "inside"?
In my opinion, SATAN was the best name ever.
Unfortunately, it has been superseded by SAINT.
This isn't even a good measure of popularity. Just because a language is widely used doesn't mean there are a lot of questions and discussions about it.
It is perhaps more accurate to say this is a measure of "Which language causes its users the most problems?" or even "Which language has the dumbest users?"
So it is no surprise that VB won.
Alaska has many hours of summer sun, but the sun is low in the sky and attenuated by the atmosphere, and travels along the horizon up to 360 degrees, so not much of the sunlight would reach a fixed angle PV panel.
There are plenty of windy areas in Alaska, especially along the coast, which is also where the people are. So wind turbines are likely a better investment than solar panels.
What is wrong living in California? You don't need to live in the Cities. They are a lot of wonderful rural areas available.
But you still live under the same state government that caters almost exclusively to the interests of the coastal cities, which is where the votes are.
Disclaimer: I live in San Jose, a coastal city.
Non-compete clauses are close to slavery.
It is difficult to convince the powerful to care about the weak. It is better to argue that a change of policy is in their own interest.
California has long banned non-competes. That has benefited both workers and investors.
It might be lower pay compared to hiring other more experienced data scientists.
Most likely they are not getting hired instead of the more experienced scientists. Both are getting hired. The myth that there are a fixed number of jobs is the Lump of Labor Fallacy.
If more workers become available, unemployment doesn't go up. The economy expands.
Hiring is the most important thing that an organization does. Yet many, perhaps most, companies are astoundingly bad at it. It is common for companies to give authority to reject incoming technical resumes to a young liberal-arts major in HR with a nose ring and a pierced tongue.
A big problem with "free" services, is that the user is no longer a paying customer, the provider loses nothing from a decline in ridership, and has little incentive to care about quality.
Nevertheless, this will likely work fine in Luxembourg. It is small, affluent, socially-cohesive, and a high-trust society. But their success will not translate to Detroit.
China is an authoritarian state and that means that have lots and lots of police officers.
Actually, America has way more police per capita than China. America is over policed.
Also, the local police in China have little to do with political repression. That is done by a separate organization.
If you visit China, you will notice a lot of heavily armed guards, carrying assault rifles and dressed in camouflage uniforms. But they are not police or soldiers. They are private security guards, and since private citizens are not allowed to own firearms, the "assault rifles" are actually non-functioning plastic replicas.
you don't want your expensive robots to be crushed in a cave in either
For a robot, 99.999% reliability is "good enough". For humans, your safety systems need to provide 99.99999% reliability. A rough rule of thumb is that each extra nine doubles the cost.
Yes, Lithium is too rare to be used for large-scale grid energy storage.
There are about 2 trillion tons of lithium in the ocean. It can be co-produced at desalination plants.
And where coal is not dying, it is being mechanised. The days of labour-intensive underground mining are well dead.
... and the big savings is not when a robot replaces the first human miner, but when it replaces the LAST human. Because then the mine no longer needs ventilation, lighting, safety equipment, redundant support structures, rescue equipment, triple backup pumps and generators, etc.
These add up to huge expenses. Once you have no humans down-hole, you can cut a lot of corners, and save a lot of money.
The bitch was detained in CANADA
Ms Meng was detained while changing planes at the Vancouver Airport.
... for violation of international sanctions against Iran.
Wrong. They were American sanctions, not international sanctions. She (allegedly) violated an American law ... while living in China as a Chinese citizen. What other country claims such an extraterritorial reach?
That's not something for civil courts.
Huawei had an agreement to not re-export certain American products to Iran. They apparently broke that agreement. Breaking an agreement is generally a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
And...plenty of Americans have been jailed in China.
How many American citizens have been jailed after being extradited for breaking a Chinese law while living in America?
How many of them were arrested while changing planes in a 3rd country?
Huawei has offices in America. This could have been dealt with through the civil courts.
Just because America has the power to be a bully, doesn't mean we should be one.
Counter point: For 30 - 40 years, people haven't taken it seriously.
In 2008, during the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed global warming was a "serious threat". Only Fred Thompson failed to raise his hand, and even he refused to say he didn't think it was a threat, only that he felt it was a complex issue that shouldn't be reduced to a hand going up or down.
Global warming denialism is now a right-wing litmus test, but it wasn't always that way.
people still need to travel.
Of course people need to travel. But they can fly commercial for a tiny fraction of the CO2 emissions of a private jet, and if they really, really, need to take a private jet, then they should not be lecturing other people. They should STFU and leave environmental advocacy to those that can do it without hypocrisy.
Disclaimer: I fly coach.
What if the shoe was on the other foot? What if an American citizen was arrested in a 3rd country and extradited to China? What would Donald Trump do? The Andrew Brunson affair indicates he would not accept it passively.
"Because Tom Cruise has made a career of total commitment."
Well, he certainly wasn't totally committed to any of his 3 wives.
I think the supposition that the fossil fuel industry would abandon $Trillions of infrastructure and proven petrol reserves was the greatest failing of the hydrogen revolution.
That is not why hydrogen fuel cells failed. They failed partly because the fuel cells are expensive (requiring platinum coatings), need regular maintenance to keep the membranes clean, and have very limited range because of the difficulty of storing H2.
But the main reason they failed was because of dramatic advances in the cost and storage capacity of lithium batteries.
the hype that they were going to take over and replace everything can be mocked.
I must have missed the hype. I remember GWB advocating hydrogen fuel cells, but nobody believed he was serious, and he was widely ridiculed at the time. I don't remember anyone else hyping it.
Another question: Why is Ajit Pai such a deceitful son of a bitch? Was he born that way, or did he have to work at it?
His parents are Republicans, so it is likely he was born that way.