It's a classic prisoner's dilemma / tragedy of the commons. A purpose of government is to regulate this behavior so people act more in line with what they actually should do, rather than acting in some kind of rational self-interest which leads to bad results.
What is your solution to people making stupid stupid decisions? Some people are just too incompetent at life to make good decisions. Should we have some labor protections and a welfare system such that they can still eek out a meager life? Or should we just let them freeze to death in the streets as a warning to others to be less stupid? A certain amount of nanny state is necessary to keep this from being hell.
A lot of labor protections exist to keep people from exploiting the stupid and desperate. The argument for the morality of the free market is based on the principle that people should be allowed to agree to terms with the consent of all parties. Because freedom is good. Well, there is such a thing as an unconscionable contract. Minimum wage exists as a sort of arbitrary threshold for what is an unconscionable wage.
Generally speaking, a more powerful person will have a stronger bargaining position and a desperate person will have a weak position. So, the more powerful person always wins concessions from the weaker party in any voluntary agreement. Labor rights exist to keep these concessions from becoming too large. No, you shouldn't be allowed to sell yourself into slavery. It doesn't just hurt yourself, but everyone who is in a similar situation to you.
Actually, it is very common for employers to break labor laws. I have a lot of poor friends who are regularly shat on by employers. The employers figure the employees are too desperate or disorganized to sue, and most of the time, they are right.
It's not that the pattern lock is a bad idea for a lock system. It's just that the pattern is too restricted, so the space of patterns is just very small. Give us some options to increase the size of the grid, and allow us to hit a node multiple times in one pattern. Even let us use multiple fingers to do a chordal stroke pattern. There's a lot you can do to greatly increase the entropy without detracting from the simplicity. In my mind, the fact that you can't hit a node multiple times feels LESS simple to me, while also making it much less secure.
I'm aggravated that it feels like Google is forcing a dumbed down solution to compete with Apple.
You need to update your facts. Wind and solar are affordable now. The price of solar has come down quite a bit in the last decade. Lazard's levelized cost report shows solar and wind as cheaper than nuclear.
"Base load" is still an argument, but it isn't relevant until solar and wind become a vast majority of the energy in a locale. You only need a small percentage of "base load" to cover some emergency situations. We have enough existing conventional energy that we don't need to build more.
Well, if it's open source, it's likely that someone else has done an audit of the code, and even if I haven't looked at each line of code, someone else probably has (if it's popular enough). While it's possible to hide a loophole in popular compilers, I think this is hard to pull off. The government has a lot of resources, but it's also big, slow, and leaky, so I don't think it could pull off a sophisticated compiler loophole without people noticing.
On the other hand, an Windows operating system backdoor is a lot easier to pull off, since it's closed source and controlled by one company. The NSA could put hacks in Windows to capture message buffers from popular messengers, bypassing the whole encryption.
Is the analog hole even relevant? I think it's much more convenient for a pirate to use a digital hole (there are plenty) and rip bit-for-bit accurate recordings. Sure, they can fall back on analog if all the digital holes are closed up, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Also, if we go heavy solar, it's not like all the hydrocarbon infrastructure will disappear overnight. We can still turn on the gas if the hyperblizzard hits.
Nuclear cost is actually fairly high if you include fuel and waste handling. It's more expensive than coal, if you don't include externalities. It's hard to compare safety of nuclear vs solar because you are getting into the statistics of small numbers. I used to be a nuclear fan, but that was when solar was really expensive. Solar is now cheaper than nuclear.
Maybe you only want to donate to save a life, but donating one's body for research or training potentially helps more people people survive in the long run. Of course, the latter path means your organs will die, if that's something you actually care about. (But hey, maybe they'll find a way to make your cell line immortal.)
Of course people profit from the practice. Did you think the doctors were working for free? There's no problem with profit as long as the dividends are proportionate to the skills, risk, and labor. All you had to do was check some box, right?
Interestingly, this article is intended to debunk the existence of oil and gas subsidies, but then fails to actually debunk some of them.
It claims that Master Limited Partnerships affect people across the board. But in fact, to qualify as an MLP, a group has to have over 90% of its business in natural resource or real estate. So you could say this subsidy affects real estate as well as oil and gas, but it's hardly across the board.
It says that some would consider reduced royalties on Federal lands to be a subsidy, but fails to explain why it shouldn't be.
The other arguments sound reasonable. But that's still $6.1 billion-ish from their own estimate.
Who would buy these? I can't imagine most petty criminals would attach much value to this sort of nebulous thing. There would be no guarantees you would find some lucrative use for it, if it even is authentic. On the other hand, I imagine the Chinese government could afford to drop a few bitcoin just to try it out.
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It's a classic prisoner's dilemma / tragedy of the commons. A purpose of government is to regulate this behavior so people act more in line with what they actually should do, rather than acting in some kind of rational self-interest which leads to bad results.
You should move south. Solar is cheaper than coal in much of the world.
No.
100% of the people who voted made their decision based on their own interest.
The people who didn't vote decided that a Trump administration would be in their best interest.
So, let's run those numbers again, shall we?
Huh? That makes no sense.
What is your solution to people making stupid stupid decisions? Some people are just too incompetent at life to make good decisions. Should we have some labor protections and a welfare system such that they can still eek out a meager life? Or should we just let them freeze to death in the streets as a warning to others to be less stupid? A certain amount of nanny state is necessary to keep this from being hell.
A lot of labor protections exist to keep people from exploiting the stupid and desperate. The argument for the morality of the free market is based on the principle that people should be allowed to agree to terms with the consent of all parties. Because freedom is good. Well, there is such a thing as an unconscionable contract. Minimum wage exists as a sort of arbitrary threshold for what is an unconscionable wage.
Generally speaking, a more powerful person will have a stronger bargaining position and a desperate person will have a weak position. So, the more powerful person always wins concessions from the weaker party in any voluntary agreement. Labor rights exist to keep these concessions from becoming too large. No, you shouldn't be allowed to sell yourself into slavery. It doesn't just hurt yourself, but everyone who is in a similar situation to you.
Actually, it is very common for employers to break labor laws. I have a lot of poor friends who are regularly shat on by employers. The employers figure the employees are too desperate or disorganized to sue, and most of the time, they are right.
It's not that the pattern lock is a bad idea for a lock system. It's just that the pattern is too restricted, so the space of patterns is just very small. Give us some options to increase the size of the grid, and allow us to hit a node multiple times in one pattern. Even let us use multiple fingers to do a chordal stroke pattern. There's a lot you can do to greatly increase the entropy without detracting from the simplicity. In my mind, the fact that you can't hit a node multiple times feels LESS simple to me, while also making it much less secure.
I'm aggravated that it feels like Google is forcing a dumbed down solution to compete with Apple.
Actually, the report makes a comparison without subsidies.
You need to update your facts. Wind and solar are affordable now. The price of solar has come down quite a bit in the last decade. Lazard's levelized cost report shows solar and wind as cheaper than nuclear.
"Base load" is still an argument, but it isn't relevant until solar and wind become a vast majority of the energy in a locale. You only need a small percentage of "base load" to cover some emergency situations. We have enough existing conventional energy that we don't need to build more.
Well, if it's open source, it's likely that someone else has done an audit of the code, and even if I haven't looked at each line of code, someone else probably has (if it's popular enough). While it's possible to hide a loophole in popular compilers, I think this is hard to pull off. The government has a lot of resources, but it's also big, slow, and leaky, so I don't think it could pull off a sophisticated compiler loophole without people noticing.
On the other hand, an Windows operating system backdoor is a lot easier to pull off, since it's closed source and controlled by one company. The NSA could put hacks in Windows to capture message buffers from popular messengers, bypassing the whole encryption.
Is the analog hole even relevant? I think it's much more convenient for a pirate to use a digital hole (there are plenty) and rip bit-for-bit accurate recordings. Sure, they can fall back on analog if all the digital holes are closed up, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
In which case, they are asking for a LOT of trouble.
I suspect it's laden with all sorts of toxic impurities. If you can't bake with it, it's sodium bicarbonate, not baking soda.
Make it more expensive during the night and they will use less.
Also, if we go heavy solar, it's not like all the hydrocarbon infrastructure will disappear overnight. We can still turn on the gas if the hyperblizzard hits.
Nuclear cost is actually fairly high if you include fuel and waste handling. It's more expensive than coal, if you don't include externalities. It's hard to compare safety of nuclear vs solar because you are getting into the statistics of small numbers. I used to be a nuclear fan, but that was when solar was really expensive. Solar is now cheaper than nuclear.
Solar thermal is more expensive than photovoltaic, but comes with built-in energy storage (molten salt).
Ok, that's very scary, but is there any evidence that that really happens? Are there any medical professionals here?
Maybe you only want to donate to save a life, but donating one's body for research or training potentially helps more people people survive in the long run. Of course, the latter path means your organs will die, if that's something you actually care about. (But hey, maybe they'll find a way to make your cell line immortal.)
Of course people profit from the practice. Did you think the doctors were working for free? There's no problem with profit as long as the dividends are proportionate to the skills, risk, and labor. All you had to do was check some box, right?
The problem with selling your organs when you die is that you will now have strong incentives to kill yourself if your family needs the money.
Interestingly, this article is intended to debunk the existence of oil and gas subsidies, but then fails to actually debunk some of them.
It claims that Master Limited Partnerships affect people across the board. But in fact, to qualify as an MLP, a group has to have over 90% of its business in natural resource or real estate. So you could say this subsidy affects real estate as well as oil and gas, but it's hardly across the board.
It says that some would consider reduced royalties on Federal lands to be a subsidy, but fails to explain why it shouldn't be.
The other arguments sound reasonable. But that's still $6.1 billion-ish from their own estimate.
I don't see how the sunk costs are relevant.
I'm filing the patent right now.
We don't need 100 messaging apps that do the same thing. Unless you can provide something that other apps don't do.
Who would buy these? I can't imagine most petty criminals would attach much value to this sort of nebulous thing. There would be no guarantees you would find some lucrative use for it, if it even is authentic.
On the other hand, I imagine the Chinese government could afford to drop a few bitcoin just to try it out.
I had no idea censorship was defined by the first amendment.