Maybe if they didn't want their brand to take a substantial hit, they shouldn't have licensed it out.
At the time, I gather from another article, Sharp was hard-up for money. They've since been bought out...by Foxconn. Pot calling the kettle black, much?
This sounds like a cross between Guetzli, an AI-optimized jpeg encoder, and Brotli, a zlib encoder with a predefined library. And Google loves looking for ways to compress YouTube videos.
I've never understood the concept of cheating on a course you are PAYING for. It just boggles my mind. No one is making you be there!
Probably most of the students aren't paying for their classes. Either their parents are paying or student loans are "paying". And if you don't think people can run up debt without thinking about it, you haven't been paying attention.
Of course, the kids will wind up "paying" for cheating sooner or later. But if it's not sooner, they probably think about it just like they think about the student loans.
The problem being that a team can appear as smart as its smartest member.
I suppose pair-programming exercises could be good, though, if the pairs are randomized each time. Any bigger than that and it becomes hard to figure out which member of a team is earning the grade.
In your example, you can earn 35k as a UBI where you don't have to work to make a living wage, or you can work 40hr/wk to make 50k plus the 35k UBI, or 85k!
However, that doesn't account for the tax schemes necessary to fund UBI. Assuming a flat income tax was used, excluding the UBI...you can't fund a 35k UBI because if mean household income was $72,641, and mean household size was about 2.5, you've got a mean ~$29k of income available. So we could aim for a 20k UBI, which requires a 69% tax on all income. That nets you 20k as a UBI or 20k+(50k*31%) = 35.5k take-home. Assuming the government doesn't need any more taxes...
The government spent ~$3.7 trillion in 2015. Now, we can exclude a few programs. Social Security was $882B, and other aid programs may have been as much as $480B. This leaves over $2.3 trillion to make up. About 20% seems to come from non-income-tax sources, leaving ~$1.85 trillion. There are about 288M people of age to pay taxes in the US. Which means each UBI recipient would have to give up about $6500 of their UBI. That nets you 13.5k as a UBI or 13.5k+(50k*31%) = 29k take-home. Not including state taxes.
For comparison, individual income and payroll taxes - including the portion your employer pays, which means your income would otherwise be higher - in 2010 was $1764 billion. That's a little over 6k on 29k of income, or 21% tax, so your take-home on 50k would be $39.5k.
$39.5k before UBI, 29k after. You didn't think you'd make more money while paying for freeloaders, did you? Although the government seems to be running a major deficit at this point! If they weren't, it seems like they'd need about a 37% tax, leaving you $31.5k before UBI. Maybe I'm missing something.
I do like the idea of removing means testing on food stamps, as a step toward UBI.
Like everything in Linux, I expect Linux tools that can do this, requiring more configuration, but allowing greater control as well. Browsing Wikipedia, I found this: http://jasperproject.github.io...
It used to be there was no Linux Folding@Home application. But there was a way to run the Windows CUDA application on Linux, and I did for a couple of years.
The big problem with the electoral college is not that it gives power to small states. The big problem is that if there's no outright winner it gives all the power to the House of Representatives. This forces us to stay with a two-party system.
Instant runoff voting, with our without the EC, would allow people to list all the candidates they could stand, and none they couldn't. It also means a third party vote isn't wasted, as you can list a major candidate second. The big problem with instant runoff is that unlike bypassing the EC, instant runoff violates "one person one vote", so we'd need a constitutional amendment to get it.
Solar-powered drones? Those seem very likely. They work like satellites for some applications, but they're cheaper, and are likely to remain so unless SpaceX makes some incredible breakthroughs.
I think this is a great idea as a non-binding way to let our representatives know how those of their constituents who care, and thus are most likely to vote in a real election, feel about various issues. Representatives should be able to voice their opinions about such issues too, in the same forum, and should be able to vote however they want regardless of the online polling results.
The only other thing that I would want in an ideal online representative democratic system would be a place to post ideas for bills that I think should be taken up. These could then be voted on by constituents too and maybe taken up by our representatives. As someone with no political connections, I otherwise have no idea where to start presenting such ideas.
Now, I'm curious. Could a Falcon Heavy send a Dragon into a lunar flyby orbit?
Could a Falcon Heavy send a Dragon plus a service module, such that the Dragon could land and take off from the moon with its escape thrusters? What about the Space Launch System, if it ever gets built?
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But why test it on a manned satellite, when there are so many unmanned satellites to choose from?
Maybe if they didn't want their brand to take a substantial hit, they shouldn't have licensed it out.
At the time, I gather from another article, Sharp was hard-up for money. They've since been bought out...by Foxconn. Pot calling the kettle black, much?
This sounds like a cross between Guetzli, an AI-optimized jpeg encoder, and Brotli, a zlib encoder with a predefined library. And Google loves looking for ways to compress YouTube videos.
Isn't the Slashdot moderation system based on likes? If moderators can get sued for promoting a post, Slashdot isn't long for the Internet.
I've never understood the concept of cheating on a course you are PAYING for. It just boggles my mind. No one is making you be there!
Probably most of the students aren't paying for their classes. Either their parents are paying or student loans are "paying". And if you don't think people can run up debt without thinking about it, you haven't been paying attention.
Of course, the kids will wind up "paying" for cheating sooner or later. But if it's not sooner, they probably think about it just like they think about the student loans.
The problem being that a team can appear as smart as its smartest member.
I suppose pair-programming exercises could be good, though, if the pairs are randomized each time. Any bigger than that and it becomes hard to figure out which member of a team is earning the grade.
The Linux equivalent has to involve /dev. Maybe copying /dev/urandom someplace will fill a disk or something.
In your example, you can earn 35k as a UBI where you don't have to work to make a living wage, or you can work 40hr/wk to make 50k plus the 35k UBI, or 85k!
However, that doesn't account for the tax schemes necessary to fund UBI. Assuming a flat income tax was used, excluding the UBI...you can't fund a 35k UBI because if mean household income was $72,641, and mean household size was about 2.5, you've got a mean ~$29k of income available. So we could aim for a 20k UBI, which requires a 69% tax on all income. That nets you 20k as a UBI or 20k+(50k*31%) = 35.5k take-home. Assuming the government doesn't need any more taxes...
The government spent ~$3.7 trillion in 2015. Now, we can exclude a few programs. Social Security was $882B, and other aid programs may have been as much as $480B. This leaves over $2.3 trillion to make up. About 20% seems to come from non-income-tax sources, leaving ~$1.85 trillion. There are about 288M people of age to pay taxes in the US. Which means each UBI recipient would have to give up about $6500 of their UBI. That nets you 13.5k as a UBI or 13.5k+(50k*31%) = 29k take-home. Not including state taxes.
For comparison, individual income and payroll taxes - including the portion your employer pays, which means your income would otherwise be higher - in 2010 was $1764 billion. That's a little over 6k on 29k of income, or 21% tax, so your take-home on 50k would be $39.5k.
$39.5k before UBI, 29k after. You didn't think you'd make more money while paying for freeloaders, did you? Although the government seems to be running a major deficit at this point! If they weren't, it seems like they'd need about a 37% tax, leaving you $31.5k before UBI. Maybe I'm missing something.
I do like the idea of removing means testing on food stamps, as a step toward UBI.
Like everything in Linux, I expect Linux tools that can do this, requiring more configuration, but allowing greater control as well. Browsing Wikipedia, I found this: http://jasperproject.github.io...
You should look into something called GridCoin, which is based on BOINC work.
That idea doesn't really excite me. It just makes me Pence-ive.
It used to be there was no Linux Folding@Home application. But there was a way to run the Windows CUDA application on Linux, and I did for a couple of years.
Here's a guide for that: http://www.overclockers.com/de...
Along the same lines, "It was just a minor change, I don't need to test it."
I think a Freedom of Information Act request might be able to obtain the browsing history of any government-owned computers.
...in reruns. "Kill Zone", an episode of the original MacGyver. Although I wouldn't recommend the episode to anyone.
Simply put, it ends up like this episode of Star Trek TNG, but without a transporter to fix things in the end.
The big problem with the electoral college is not that it gives power to small states. The big problem is that if there's no outright winner it gives all the power to the House of Representatives. This forces us to stay with a two-party system.
Instant runoff voting, with our without the EC, would allow people to list all the candidates they could stand, and none they couldn't. It also means a third party vote isn't wasted, as you can list a major candidate second. The big problem with instant runoff is that unlike bypassing the EC, instant runoff violates "one person one vote", so we'd need a constitutional amendment to get it.
Is it finally being preferred over apps?
I'm suddenly picturing Bill Gates holding a Surface Pro over his head, and shouting, "From my cold, dead hands!"
- A lack of the excessive amount of crapware you get on most phones; only the bare minimum the carrier forces on you
That must be what confused Lenovo - they probably wanted to install Superfish on the things.
Airliners powered by onboard solar panels? No.
Solar-powered drones? Those seem very likely. They work like satellites for some applications, but they're cheaper, and are likely to remain so unless SpaceX makes some incredible breakthroughs.
Battery-powered airliners? Maybe. At the very least we might get battery-assisted airliners.
I think this is a great idea as a non-binding way to let our representatives know how those of their constituents who care, and thus are most likely to vote in a real election, feel about various issues. Representatives should be able to voice their opinions about such issues too, in the same forum, and should be able to vote however they want regardless of the online polling results.
The only other thing that I would want in an ideal online representative democratic system would be a place to post ideas for bills that I think should be taken up. These could then be voted on by constituents too and maybe taken up by our representatives. As someone with no political connections, I otherwise have no idea where to start presenting such ideas.
Most CPUs have been significantly overclockable for at least 15 years.
http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
Now, I'm curious. Could a Falcon Heavy send a Dragon into a lunar flyby orbit?
Could a Falcon Heavy send a Dragon plus a service module, such that the Dragon could land and take off from the moon with its escape thrusters? What about the Space Launch System, if it ever gets built?
High impact shell that the probe emerges from in a nice safe crater.
You could even create the crater first if you wanted to keep things simple.
Gees. Lots of them. We don't have inertial dampeners.
Or maybe enough to get rid of a VP or two.