stay out of Seattle, go for Las Vegas. Wait, that's where Tesla's battery plant is sited.
Tesla's plant is near Reno, not Las Vegas.
Las Vegas gets its power from Hoover Dam, which is a problem because global warming is reducing the rainfall in the watershed. The water level in Lake Mead is only about 40% of capacity.
HVDC has transmission losses of about 3% per 1000 km.
The world's longest HVDC runs 3300 km from Xinjiang to Jiangsu. It transmits 12 Gw of power at 1.1 megavolts, with transmission losses of less than 10%.
Patching the program running on the user's computer is not a good option, because the user is in full control, and can overwrite or bypass any cheat prevention.
In online mode, they should be able to patch the server to block cheating. But that may be difficult, or even impossible, to do without breaking the installed base.
I don't recall Microsoft's implementation violating any of the published specifications.
It didn't violate the standard, but it certainly violated the spirit. Microsoft's action was designed to sabotage DNT. It was a successful attempt at "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", the same strategy they employed to kill so many other standards.
DNT was intended to indicate an affirmative desire to not be tracked. It was never intended to merely indicate laziness and apathy.
Microsoft knew they were destroying DNT. This was clear, intentional evilness.
Hilariously those lead to WORSE warranties in the EU compared to the US. I regularly run into products where manufacturers offer 3-10 years warranty in the US but only the mandatory 2 in the EU.
This is a common "unintended consequence" of government mandates. It is illegal for companies to explicitly collude on prices, wages, and warranties. But if the government sets a mandate, then they can all use that as an implicit collusion level.
Allen argued against lying to IBM that they had an operating system and argued for fixing bugs rather than adding features before he was forced out of Microsoft in 1982.
So he opposed all the things that made Microsoft successful. Bill must be glad he pushed him out.
You know, not everyone who uses a mac is a whiny millennial.
Indeed. I have a MacBook, and I am a whiny boomer.
Several people in my office use MacBooks and ALL of them have problems with sticky keys, so it is not an uncommon problem. Sometimes turning it over and shaking the laptop while tapping the key will clear the problem, but sometimes the stuck key is permanent.
The worst key on my laptop is the "w", so I just try to rephrase sentences to avoid w's, or I just use an external keyboard (as I am doing now).
The week turnaround for the repair seems like it is intentional just to discourage people from doing it. It should take about 30 minutes, and could be done at the Genius Bar while you wait.
Corn (maize to Europeans) doesn't need to move. It originated in Mexico and is highly heat tolerant. It is a very common crop in equatorial areas of Africa and South America.
If there's one thing that degrees in history and political science have taught me, it's that people quite often do not act rationally
Have you ever worked on a farm? My first paid job was stacking hay bales. By the end of the season, I had gained about 10 pounds of muscle, and an understanding that farmers focus very much on their finances (I wasn't paid much).
A few farmers may fail to grow the most profitable crop, but regardless of how many degrees you have, it is absurd to believe that there will be a vast continent wide shortage of barley because farmers are too stupid to grow it.
Or do math. A Dyson Sphere at one AU has an interior surface area of 2.8e17 km^2. A population of a trillion would mean an area the size of Montana for every individual. That's ridiculous. Nobody needs that much space.
The solar system could easily support a quadrillion people, or even a quintillion.
Or it may be more fertile. I can't find anything about barley specifically, but wheat has higher yields per acre in the northern part of its range (average of 46 bushels/acre in the USA, but 49 in Canada).
the temperature swings will be wild
Barley is frost tolerant.
with short turbulent growing seasons...
The whole point of shifting north is that the growing seasons are getting longer. Also the hours of summer daylight needed for photosynthesis increases as you go north.
McDonald's is also cashierless in parts of Europe and the U.S. due to touchscreens.
Touchscreen menus are not "AI".
Again, no one lost jobs, but jobs just weren't being created.
Every dollar not spent on employing a cashier is a dollar spent (or invested) elsewhere in the economy, generating other jobs. But these new jobs are likely to involve actual production of goods and services, unlike the pointless and unproductive cashier. Since the point of jobs is production of goods and services, and not "keeping people busy", this is a benefit to the economy and makes us all better off.
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stay out of Seattle, go for Las Vegas. Wait, that's where Tesla's battery plant is sited.
Tesla's plant is near Reno, not Las Vegas.
Las Vegas gets its power from Hoover Dam, which is a problem because global warming is reducing the rainfall in the watershed. The water level in Lake Mead is only about 40% of capacity.
transmission losses are just too high.
HVDC has transmission losses of about 3% per 1000 km.
The world's longest HVDC runs 3300 km from Xinjiang to Jiangsu. It transmits 12 Gw of power at 1.1 megavolts, with transmission losses of less than 10%.
Was patching the game not an option?
Patching the program running on the user's computer is not a good option, because the user is in full control, and can overwrite or bypass any cheat prevention.
In online mode, they should be able to patch the server to block cheating. But that may be difficult, or even impossible, to do without breaking the installed base.
And why doesn't the police do the raiding?
Because it is a civil lawsuit, not a criminal prosecution.
The police are not involved.
Internet 2021: Every site is a paywall thanks to advertisement-supported content no longer being viable
There are plenty of websites without ads. Wikipedia is an obvious one.
Websites can be supported by donations, subscriptions, or micro-payments based on crypto-coin.
I don't recall Microsoft's implementation violating any of the published specifications.
It didn't violate the standard, but it certainly violated the spirit. Microsoft's action was designed to sabotage DNT. It was a successful attempt at "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", the same strategy they employed to kill so many other standards.
DNT was intended to indicate an affirmative desire to not be tracked. It was never intended to merely indicate laziness and apathy.
Microsoft knew they were destroying DNT. This was clear, intentional evilness.
They probably meant spray-tan, which does nothing.
Yes it does. It gives you a temporary tan that lasts until your next shower.
Here's proof that it works
Modern pirates make most of their money by ransoming the crew. No crew, no ransom.
Hilariously those lead to WORSE warranties in the EU compared to the US. I regularly run into products where manufacturers offer 3-10 years warranty in the US but only the mandatory 2 in the EU.
This is a common "unintended consequence" of government mandates. It is illegal for companies to explicitly collude on prices, wages, and warranties. But if the government sets a mandate, then they can all use that as an implicit collusion level.
There is plenty of farmland north of barley's current range. Much of it is used for canola (rapeseed), a cool climate crop.
This may mean less canola, but Canadians can trade their beer for American soybean oil.
The Nazis brought permanent discredit onto Eugenics
How much did Microsoft set back the tech industry?
you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
You also have to admit that Adolf Hitler had a big influence on European history.
That's not how an economy works; the yacht business provided jobs
This is the Broken Window Fallacy.
Yes, building yachts creates jobs, but so does cancer research. The difference is that the research also finds a cure for cancer.
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper. -Robert Alton Harris
But not at the same time. People in the top income quintile live an average of 12 years longer than people at the bottom.
Allen argued against lying to IBM that they had an operating system and argued for fixing bugs rather than adding features before he was forced out of Microsoft in 1982.
So he opposed all the things that made Microsoft successful. Bill must be glad he pushed him out.
most industrialized nations now have negative population growth before immigration. Perhaps it's the lack of frontiers?
A big factor is urbanization. Cities have always been population sinks, sucking in people from the farms.
If you want to reduce population growth, encourage people to move to the city.
You know, not everyone who uses a mac is a whiny millennial.
Indeed. I have a MacBook, and I am a whiny boomer.
Several people in my office use MacBooks and ALL of them have problems with sticky keys, so it is not an uncommon problem. Sometimes turning it over and shaking the laptop while tapping the key will clear the problem, but sometimes the stuck key is permanent.
The worst key on my laptop is the "w", so I just try to rephrase sentences to avoid w's, or I just use an external keyboard (as I am doing now).
The week turnaround for the repair seems like it is intentional just to discourage people from doing it. It should take about 30 minutes, and could be done at the Genius Bar while you wait.
Hopefully corn can move north too.
Corn (maize to Europeans) doesn't need to move. It originated in Mexico and is highly heat tolerant. It is a very common crop in equatorial areas of Africa and South America.
If there's one thing that degrees in history and political science have taught me, it's that people quite often do not act rationally
Have you ever worked on a farm? My first paid job was stacking hay bales. By the end of the season, I had gained about 10 pounds of muscle, and an understanding that farmers focus very much on their finances (I wasn't paid much).
A few farmers may fail to grow the most profitable crop, but regardless of how many degrees you have, it is absurd to believe that there will be a vast continent wide shortage of barley because farmers are too stupid to grow it.
Here's the thing though, every damn thing requires power to do and maintain.
No problem. We will just build the Dyson Sphere around a 100 yotta-watt fusion generator.
If we have a quintillion people, that is 100 megawatts per person.
Or do math. A Dyson Sphere at one AU has an interior surface area of 2.8e17 km^2. A population of a trillion would mean an area the size of Montana for every individual. That's ridiculous. Nobody needs that much space.
The solar system could easily support a quadrillion people, or even a quintillion.
Jeff needs to stop thinking small.
Except you realize that the land that is now in the "barley belt" is already owned by people
It is at least conceivable that some of these people are motivated by money.
So now what do you do?
Allow the free market to function.
I like beer :-)
Really? Do you know Brett?
the soil up there may not be nearly as fertile
Or it may be more fertile. I can't find anything about barley specifically, but wheat has higher yields per acre in the northern part of its range (average of 46 bushels/acre in the USA, but 49 in Canada).
the temperature swings will be wild
Barley is frost tolerant.
with short turbulent growing seasons...
The whole point of shifting north is that the growing seasons are getting longer. Also the hours of summer daylight needed for photosynthesis increases as you go north.
McDonald's is also cashierless in parts of Europe and the U.S. due to touchscreens.
Touchscreen menus are not "AI".
Again, no one lost jobs, but jobs just weren't being created.
Every dollar not spent on employing a cashier is a dollar spent (or invested) elsewhere in the economy, generating other jobs. But these new jobs are likely to involve actual production of goods and services, unlike the pointless and unproductive cashier. Since the point of jobs is production of goods and services, and not "keeping people busy", this is a benefit to the economy and makes us all better off.
Economies are not "zero sum": Lump of Labor Fallacy