Fairly trivial to move a skyscraper a few inches to the east. Just take the dirt from the east side, scoot it over a bit, then put the dirt on the west side. Easy! Lol
Installed capacity in the US is around 1100 gigawats. To replace that is something on the order of 3 trillion dollars. Chinese tariffs were 13.5 billion in 2017. So if we redirected that, we'd be done in 222 years, assuming our need for energy does not increase over the next two centuries.
Given the popular notion that our planet would be toast by then, we need it done in 12 years, or 250 billion per year. Given that a recent fight over 5 billion for border security shut down the government for weeks and ultimately failed, I don't see this happening for a very long time.
Not to mention the fact that we'll be economically choking on our own pollution controls as the 3rd world gives it lip service yet ultimately spews more than we save.
How about we focus on bigger, more easily solvable problems, like single-use plastic waste? There are much more important, easier problems to solve.
The only way so many people could observe "climate change" impacting their daily life is if they think climate and weather is the same thing. The only solutions for climate change I see being put forward are massive, regressive, economy-stunting taxes on the poor. I'm not interested in living in a world where only the rich can afford heat and motorcars.
Feel free to put together your own report ranking college degrees in order of "making the lives of humanity happier"
CMDR DATA: Sensors have detected a crab in a bucket. Recommend we alter course before it attempts to board the ship and lecture us on the theories of Karl Marx
There's always two sides. For me when people jump up and down and say we need to hurry make carbon more expensive so we use less of it (aka make it unaffordable for the poor to consume energy) so the rich people don't lose thieir million dollar coastal condos...I think THAT is idiotic:D
Florida was supposed to be underwater by the 90s, and last time I checked it is still there. One man's expert is another man's medieval soothsayer crying wolf.
That's great when everything is going smoothly. What about when a hurricane comes and blows the town down? Ridesharing options will vanish, and no I don't want to be waiting for a bus out from a city eager to decimate its indigent population. I'll stick to having my own vehicle TYVM.
No, the real thinktank plan, "save 20 trillion", they really mean convert carbon consumption into new revenue. Consumption taxes are the only way to reduce consumption (carbon) without changing the price of the good or service itself. Consumption taxes are regressive. Having the opportunity to tax the poor for into carbon starvation mode would be very lucrative. As with any global environmental initiative, the countries planning this need everyone on board so they don't commit economic suicide in the global market.
ExpertSexChange started charging for access, and pretty much died overnight. At the time the stuff on it was better quality, but free is better than waiting a week for a purchase req to go through to get a simple answer
but doesn't have lower violent crime rates to show for it
Actually it does, you just have to look at it long-term. Violent crime rates have been dropping since the early 90s. People stuck in prison have much less chance of reproducing.
www.statista dot com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
People were still bitching about the shitty economy back in 2013, or can you not remember back that far? Does the phrase "jobless recovery" ring a bell? Charts and fancy math are not actual reality
He was the first president since before WWII to not take us into a recession at any point in his presidency.
Nobody seems to remember all the Affordable Care Act fallout starting in mid-2010. If it wasn't for the amount of fear and uncertainty, the recovery that started to materialize in July would have took off. Instead, small businesses stopped hiring, and wages continued to fall until 2013 and didn't start rising until 2014.
And yes a lot of people who don't know any business owners pooh pooh it like fear of regulation has no effect, but look at the tariff fear today and tell me that doesn't matter, even though nothing is being levied right this moment.
I disagree, it is a great question. They can more closely monitor the perverts who answered "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it."
Google is not smarter. Occasionally it recites content from a webpage. Most exchanges go like this:
Me: OK Google, what was that last song played?
Spyware: I'm sorry, I can't do that right now
Me: Really? That is incredibly annoying.
Spyware:...
Me: OK Google, replay last song
Spyware: I'm sorry, I can't do that right now
Me: GRRRRR
Spyware:...
Me: OK Google, play Mumble Mumble Mumble by Lil' Talentless
Spyware: I'm sorry, you need a subscription to Google Play to play that content
Me: I ALREADY OWN THE SONG ON GOOGLE PLAY YOU LITTLE SHIT
Spyware:...
Me: *Throws speaker in trash*
IQ measures your ability to give a shit about pointless and puzzling minutiae, a characteristic that leads to success in scholarly pursuits.
I hear that League of Legends rank also correlates strongly with obesity, foul odor, number of burgers flipped, and mean proximity to grandmother's basement.
If it's that dystopian, they could just, you know, have the person killed.
That's the ultimate goal...comprehensive embryonic screening...detect and abort the freaks before they have a birth certificate mandate to drain our resources
Its a tough sell for an experienced engineer...buying a house is pretty much out of the question in this scenario, since you're likely the only game in town. If the company needed to cut heads then the engineer would have to uproot quickly. Given your average 2-3 year stint, add in all the extra costs associated with moving twice, and the guaranteed long unemployment stretch afterward since lots of the inexpensive tech hub city jobs aren't interested in relocators, it makes less sense than you might think than just based on the salary and location alone.
For interns it makes more sense...they're probably able to move there for next to nothing with their few pieces of Ikea dorm furniture, and they'll bounce on their own terms in 2-3 years.
We should consider replacing much of the C code in existence with JavaScript
Spoken like a true Javascript "programmer":D People who can't program and those talentless late 90s scabs that seem to hang onto the market like a venereal disease are jumping into this craze like a methed up wannabe chef into a box of Velveeta Shells and Cheese
Every time I see video of people complaining about training your replacements I see the same story...fat, dull looking slobs who talk like someone who hasn't done shit in years. Typical big business coder, not worth shit.
I know this will probably happen to me one day, and I have money saved for it. When they ask me to train my replacement, I'll say "fuck you very much" and walk out the door.
This whole problem would go away if H1-B visas were awarded by salary. Developers happy, silicon valley happy, rich H1-Bs happy too. Trump should do this.
Prop 8 would deny legal rights to all people about some particular choices they could make. Don't misconstrue the issue, although every attention-starved pervert out there seems to make that mistake
Ugh. I've had the misfortune of dating a couple of people like this. I don't think this is an actual disorder. They're ALWAYS abusing some kind of upper daily (e.g. ritalin, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day). Tell their use of uppers is making them weird and TRIGGERED they go into a whole junkie ramble about how they need it because x disorder and y syndrome...lol...riiiight...I guess the directions on the bottle say crush up that adderall and snort it, huh.
Rather, instead of H1-B by lottery, we simply distribute the visas to the highest offer. The higher the salary, obviously the higher the need. Fair to everyone involved. Silicon valley will end up with most of the visas of course:D
If you want someone to blame, blame the Democrats who crossed over to vote Trump in the primaries instead of voting for Bernie (of whom I know many), who certainly would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Ohio and Florida is debatable, but then again there are other states like Utah, Georgia, and North Carolina where he had a large cult following that evaporated when Clinton won.
That being said, Trump will likely go through with the H1-B wage floor hike, which will drive visas into Silicon Valley, whose companies are already used to paying top dollar for talent, and away from the tech sweat shops like Tata and Infosys who are abusing the system. So I'm pretty happy about that.
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Fairly trivial to move a skyscraper a few inches to the east. Just take the dirt from the east side, scoot it over a bit, then put the dirt on the west side. Easy! Lol
Installed capacity in the US is around 1100 gigawats. To replace that is something on the order of 3 trillion dollars. Chinese tariffs were 13.5 billion in 2017. So if we redirected that, we'd be done in 222 years, assuming our need for energy does not increase over the next two centuries.
Given the popular notion that our planet would be toast by then, we need it done in 12 years, or 250 billion per year. Given that a recent fight over 5 billion for border security shut down the government for weeks and ultimately failed, I don't see this happening for a very long time.
Not to mention the fact that we'll be economically choking on our own pollution controls as the 3rd world gives it lip service yet ultimately spews more than we save.
How about we focus on bigger, more easily solvable problems, like single-use plastic waste? There are much more important, easier problems to solve.
The only way so many people could observe "climate change" impacting their daily life is if they think climate and weather is the same thing. The only solutions for climate change I see being put forward are massive, regressive, economy-stunting taxes on the poor. I'm not interested in living in a world where only the rich can afford heat and motorcars.
CMDR DATA: Sensors have detected a crab in a bucket. Recommend we alter course before it attempts to board the ship and lecture us on the theories of Karl Marx
Idiot righty - Big snow this year must be global warming! Ha Ha
Idiot lefty - Huge hurricane this year, must be global warming! Panic!
One thing is for sure is you're never going to get idiots stop confusing weather with climate.
Weather - Snow, Hurricane, Rain, etc
Climate - Arid, Tropical, etc
Weather is not climate idiot.
There's always two sides. For me when people jump up and down and say we need to hurry make carbon more expensive so we use less of it (aka make it unaffordable for the poor to consume energy) so the rich people don't lose thieir million dollar coastal condos...I think THAT is idiotic :D
Florida was supposed to be underwater by the 90s, and last time I checked it is still there. One man's expert is another man's medieval soothsayer crying wolf.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of thots and snowflakes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
That's great when everything is going smoothly. What about when a hurricane comes and blows the town down? Ridesharing options will vanish, and no I don't want to be waiting for a bus out from a city eager to decimate its indigent population. I'll stick to having my own vehicle TYVM.
No, the real thinktank plan, "save 20 trillion", they really mean convert carbon consumption into new revenue. Consumption taxes are the only way to reduce consumption (carbon) without changing the price of the good or service itself. Consumption taxes are regressive. Having the opportunity to tax the poor for into carbon starvation mode would be very lucrative. As with any global environmental initiative, the countries planning this need everyone on board so they don't commit economic suicide in the global market.
ExpertSexChange started charging for access, and pretty much died overnight. At the time the stuff on it was better quality, but free is better than waiting a week for a purchase req to go through to get a simple answer
Actually it does, you just have to look at it long-term. Violent crime rates have been dropping since the early 90s. People stuck in prison have much less chance of reproducing. www.statista dot com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
People were still bitching about the shitty economy back in 2013, or can you not remember back that far? Does the phrase "jobless recovery" ring a bell? Charts and fancy math are not actual reality
Nobody seems to remember all the Affordable Care Act fallout starting in mid-2010. If it wasn't for the amount of fear and uncertainty, the recovery that started to materialize in July would have took off. Instead, small businesses stopped hiring, and wages continued to fall until 2013 and didn't start rising until 2014.
And yes a lot of people who don't know any business owners pooh pooh it like fear of regulation has no effect, but look at the tariff fear today and tell me that doesn't matter, even though nothing is being levied right this moment.
I disagree, it is a great question. They can more closely monitor the perverts who answered "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it."
Google is not smarter. Occasionally it recites content from a webpage. Most exchanges go like this:
... ... ...
Me: OK Google, what was that last song played?
Spyware: I'm sorry, I can't do that right now
Me: Really? That is incredibly annoying.
Spyware:
Me: OK Google, replay last song
Spyware: I'm sorry, I can't do that right now
Me: GRRRRR
Spyware:
Me: OK Google, play Mumble Mumble Mumble by Lil' Talentless
Spyware: I'm sorry, you need a subscription to Google Play to play that content
Me: I ALREADY OWN THE SONG ON GOOGLE PLAY YOU LITTLE SHIT
Spyware:
Me: *Throws speaker in trash*
IQ measures your ability to give a shit about pointless and puzzling minutiae, a characteristic that leads to success in scholarly pursuits.
I hear that League of Legends rank also correlates strongly with obesity, foul odor, number of burgers flipped, and mean proximity to grandmother's basement.
That's the ultimate goal...comprehensive embryonic screening...detect and abort the freaks before they have a birth certificate mandate to drain our resources
Its a tough sell for an experienced engineer...buying a house is pretty much out of the question in this scenario, since you're likely the only game in town. If the company needed to cut heads then the engineer would have to uproot quickly. Given your average 2-3 year stint, add in all the extra costs associated with moving twice, and the guaranteed long unemployment stretch afterward since lots of the inexpensive tech hub city jobs aren't interested in relocators, it makes less sense than you might think than just based on the salary and location alone.
For interns it makes more sense...they're probably able to move there for next to nothing with their few pieces of Ikea dorm furniture, and they'll bounce on their own terms in 2-3 years.
Spoken like a true Javascript "programmer" :D People who can't program and those talentless late 90s scabs that seem to hang onto the market like a venereal disease are jumping into this craze like a methed up wannabe chef into a box of Velveeta Shells and Cheese
Every time I see video of people complaining about training your replacements I see the same story...fat, dull looking slobs who talk like someone who hasn't done shit in years. Typical big business coder, not worth shit.
I know this will probably happen to me one day, and I have money saved for it. When they ask me to train my replacement, I'll say "fuck you very much" and walk out the door.
This whole problem would go away if H1-B visas were awarded by salary. Developers happy, silicon valley happy, rich H1-Bs happy too. Trump should do this.
Prop 8 would deny legal rights to all people about some particular choices they could make. Don't misconstrue the issue, although every attention-starved pervert out there seems to make that mistake
Ugh. I've had the misfortune of dating a couple of people like this. I don't think this is an actual disorder. They're ALWAYS abusing some kind of upper daily (e.g. ritalin, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day). Tell their use of uppers is making them weird and TRIGGERED they go into a whole junkie ramble about how they need it because x disorder and y syndrome...lol...riiiight...I guess the directions on the bottle say crush up that adderall and snort it, huh.
No, I think that is completely arbitrary.
:D
Rather, instead of H1-B by lottery, we simply distribute the visas to the highest offer. The higher the salary, obviously the higher the need. Fair to everyone involved. Silicon valley will end up with most of the visas of course
If you want someone to blame, blame the Democrats who crossed over to vote Trump in the primaries instead of voting for Bernie (of whom I know many), who certainly would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Ohio and Florida is debatable, but then again there are other states like Utah, Georgia, and North Carolina where he had a large cult following that evaporated when Clinton won.
That being said, Trump will likely go through with the H1-B wage floor hike, which will drive visas into Silicon Valley, whose companies are already used to paying top dollar for talent, and away from the tech sweat shops like Tata and Infosys who are abusing the system. So I'm pretty happy about that.
KDE used to be the goto for new Windows expatriates...like circa 2008. I think XFCE does a way better job being familiar.