This, exactly. I'm bummed that my Nexus phones don't have microSD slots, but not bummed enough to pick a phone that does - but in the case of a missing headphone jack? How do you use a square payment processor with that? And, really, what kind of company deletes the most common audio interface from what is essentially an audio device? One that's not getting my business, that's who.
Rail transport is more efficient than truck by an order of magnitude, but water based transport, even on a river like the Mississippi, is two orders of magnitude more efficient than rail - especially for large cargos.
Airplanes peaked with the 747 - there are still some routes for jumbo jets, but most air travel is handled by much smaller - easier to route and fill jets.
Some of why the mega-ships are still profiting is externalization of their costs, port towns fall all over themselves to accommodate them picking up a big piece of the tab while operators reap the profits. Infrastructure even beyond the port needs to be expanded to handle the traffic, and cargo gets "single point routed" between the big ports like FedEx routes through Memphis.
I lived in Houston, and heard nearly monthly reports of some "event" or another involving contractors in the oil and gas industry, killing themselves while cleaning the inside of tanks, accidentally releasing a "minor" 600 lbs of cyanide gas, fire out of hand on a refinery sends 3 to hospital, pesticide warehouse catches fire and sends plume of smoke across city...
Actually, the fires on the refineries are just part of how the machinery is built to operate, they're handled on a daily basis, not news. But, the "regular" workers were always complaining about how the "contractors" were hired last minute, under-trained if trained at all, etc. and how that led to these problems.
Undersea outposts were pretty thoroughly explored in the 1960s - at that time, there was no economically viable undersea pursuit worth pursuing.
In other words: when you go underwater and stay there for long periods, you're essentially burning money. Fine if you want to park nuclear missiles off other people's shores, but otherwise not worth the effort.
Sure, if you're at replacement, it's irrelevant, zero growth, but as soon as you tip into 2.2 or so and start growing even 5% per 30 years, that adds up in a big way by the time you do it 30 times. 1.05^30 is over 4x - and nobody (alive today) thinks that 28 billion people on this planet is a good idea.
You carry your phone with you all day You work on your phone You plug your phone into a monitor and switch it to desktop mode You work at your desk with your phone You unplug your phone, switch it to phone mode You go home You plug your phone into your monitor at home and switch it to desktop mode You play on your phone at home Wash, rinse, repeat
He forgot:
You drop your phone in a puddle and lose everything that you haven't sync'ed to "the cloud." He also left out backup of any sort as part of the daily routine.
Because the methane was internally generated inside a pocket that formed over thousands, if not millions, of years of material deposition, and the CO2 was injected into a geologic formation that was ripped open with mechanical machinery and bulldozed shut by underpaid contractors in a few hours?
I hate to be this kind of cynical, but have these tests been independently verified by someone who will not profit from "assurances that the colorless, odorless gas which naturally occurs at levels around 400ppm is not, in-fact, leaching out of the storage facility"?
I dropped my Nexus 5 and shattered the glass, as a portable phone it's shot - replaced with a 5x, but the old shattered screen 5 can drive a monitor in our bedroom and play Netflix...
The color gamut of the protocol only matters if the color gamut of your screen actually renders it.
A few years back, some manufacturer put out a 4 color set, including gold as one of the colors (Red/Blue/Green/Gold) - I don't think that took off as a popular option, though it sounded appealing to me. I definitely can see improved color gamut from 7 and 9 ink printers as opposed to the typical 4 or 5.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to extend cases 1 and 2 to 1000 years (throw it in a spreadsheet), the growth is the same _per generation_ but in case 2 the generations come more slowly, so population grows more slowly. Run the numbers to see where each is at by 200, 300, 400 years - I'm sure you'll see a significant difference.
Case 1: 3 children per couple, say they get triplets at 25 years of age, every 25 years the number of children born increases by 50%
Case 2: 3 children per couple, say they get triplets at 50 years of age (to be extreme about it), every 50 years the number of children born increases by 50%
Take starting populations of 100 people (50 couples) aged 0, run for 100 years with people dying at 80 years of age.
You know, when printed money corresponds to collected taxes, that's not "printing money" in the causes inflation sense of the word.
When government wants to steal from the frugal, they print lots and lots of money without raising taxes, then money becomes worthless and those that have been saving it are stripped of the value they saved. The rich have more than bank accounts, they collect a diversified portfolio of assets which not only limits their exposure to currency devaluations, but also gives them political influence to help control when things like currency devaluations happen.
Socialism requires no more, nor less, wealth to employ than any other economic system. If, under socialism, you intend to provide housing, food and health care for everyone, then you simply need to have the economic wherewithall to provide whatever is considered adequate housing, food and health care. If that health care includes 50,000 working man-hours of end-of-life care (counting manufacture and delivery of all drugs, devices, etc.) for every citizen, then, sure, your system will fail. That's part of what's broken with health care in the U.S. - insurance that provides no-limit, or ridiculous lifetime benefits caps like 10 or 20 million, of course that's ridiculously expensive to provide - but that's the "standard of care," so people are expecting that, and big portions of the population simply cannot afford it.
Socialism can sap productivity, as I witnessed in 1991 East Germany - the people were provided with "free-ish" housing, food, heat, etc. but then were charged exorbitant rates for "luxury" items like bicycles, cars, televisions, radios, tape recorders, etc. In my view, that wasn't a flaw in socialism as much as it was a flaw in the Soviet administration of the economy. Too much hands-on price controlling, too much graft and corruption, it was demoralizing and people just kept their heads down and didn't do much. Even 6 months after the "wall fell" I met several east Germans who really had no concept of how the free market economy worked in the west. East marks had just (like, the day I arrived in the East) been declared 1:1 equivalent with West marks, so there were these people who suddenly had sums like $250,000 in the bank (when, the day before, that account might have been worth $5000 on the black market, if you cared to risk getting caught changing that much money.) These people thought they were set for life - after all, bread is $0.05 per kilo, and a big apartment rents for $10/month, right?
Free market capitalism can be equally demoralizing and demotivating, as you might have noticed in the welfare lines.
It isn't just apple products, it ranges across the board from consumer electronics, to automobiles, to power tools. Find something in your home that's over 10 years old, then go out and try to buy an identical copy. If you can even find something with a similar branding, odds are very high that what's on the market today is very different from what was made 10 years ago, and in my experience - unless it's something like a computer, the new ones are mostly watered down cheap imitations of the old ones. Even things like cars that incorporate new computer tech, take away the bling and see if the core product is made better or more cheaply than before.
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Not once they deliver the content directly to your brain with DNA locked injection modules. Oh, and make all other forms of analog content illegal.
Think it can't happen? Remember how AT&T operated their network up until the 1990s?
The easier answer is boycott...
Square: ahead of the curve.
Build homes with mail delivery chimneys.
A drone crashed in a hard to reach place is a hell of a lot less expensive than a work comp claim and its associated overhead.
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This, exactly. I'm bummed that my Nexus phones don't have microSD slots, but not bummed enough to pick a phone that does - but in the case of a missing headphone jack? How do you use a square payment processor with that? And, really, what kind of company deletes the most common audio interface from what is essentially an audio device? One that's not getting my business, that's who.
Rail transport is more efficient than truck by an order of magnitude, but water based transport, even on a river like the Mississippi, is two orders of magnitude more efficient than rail - especially for large cargos.
Airplanes peaked with the 747 - there are still some routes for jumbo jets, but most air travel is handled by much smaller - easier to route and fill jets.
Some of why the mega-ships are still profiting is externalization of their costs, port towns fall all over themselves to accommodate them picking up a big piece of the tab while operators reap the profits. Infrastructure even beyond the port needs to be expanded to handle the traffic, and cargo gets "single point routed" between the big ports like FedEx routes through Memphis.
New applications?
I lived in Houston, and heard nearly monthly reports of some "event" or another involving contractors in the oil and gas industry, killing themselves while cleaning the inside of tanks, accidentally releasing a "minor" 600 lbs of cyanide gas, fire out of hand on a refinery sends 3 to hospital, pesticide warehouse catches fire and sends plume of smoke across city...
Actually, the fires on the refineries are just part of how the machinery is built to operate, they're handled on a daily basis, not news. But, the "regular" workers were always complaining about how the "contractors" were hired last minute, under-trained if trained at all, etc. and how that led to these problems.
Undersea outposts were pretty thoroughly explored in the 1960s - at that time, there was no economically viable undersea pursuit worth pursuing.
In other words: when you go underwater and stay there for long periods, you're essentially burning money. Fine if you want to park nuclear missiles off other people's shores, but otherwise not worth the effort.
Sure, if you're at replacement, it's irrelevant, zero growth, but as soon as you tip into 2.2 or so and start growing even 5% per 30 years, that adds up in a big way by the time you do it 30 times. 1.05^30 is over 4x - and nobody (alive today) thinks that 28 billion people on this planet is a good idea.
You carry your phone with you all day
You work on your phone
You plug your phone into a monitor and switch it to desktop mode
You work at your desk with your phone
You unplug your phone, switch it to phone mode
You go home
You plug your phone into your monitor at home and switch it to desktop mode
You play on your phone at home
Wash, rinse, repeat
He forgot:
You drop your phone in a puddle and lose everything that you haven't sync'ed to "the cloud." He also left out backup of any sort as part of the daily routine.
Because the methane was internally generated inside a pocket that formed over thousands, if not millions, of years of material deposition, and the CO2 was injected into a geologic formation that was ripped open with mechanical machinery and bulldozed shut by underpaid contractors in a few hours?
I hate to be this kind of cynical, but have these tests been independently verified by someone who will not profit from "assurances that the colorless, odorless gas which naturally occurs at levels around 400ppm is not, in-fact, leaching out of the storage facility"?
I dropped my Nexus 5 and shattered the glass, as a portable phone it's shot - replaced with a 5x, but the old shattered screen 5 can drive a monitor in our bedroom and play Netflix...
The color gamut of the protocol only matters if the color gamut of your screen actually renders it.
A few years back, some manufacturer put out a 4 color set, including gold as one of the colors (Red/Blue/Green/Gold) - I don't think that took off as a popular option, though it sounded appealing to me. I definitely can see improved color gamut from 7 and 9 ink printers as opposed to the typical 4 or 5.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to extend cases 1 and 2 to 1000 years (throw it in a spreadsheet), the growth is the same _per generation_ but in case 2 the generations come more slowly, so population grows more slowly. Run the numbers to see where each is at by 200, 300, 400 years - I'm sure you'll see a significant difference.
Case 1: 3 children per couple, say they get triplets at 25 years of age, every 25 years the number of children born increases by 50%
Case 2: 3 children per couple, say they get triplets at 50 years of age (to be extreme about it), every 50 years the number of children born increases by 50%
Take starting populations of 100 people (50 couples) aged 0, run for 100 years with people dying at 80 years of age.
Case 1:
0 years: 100 people
25 years: 250 people (100 aged 25, 150 aged 0)
50 years: 475 people (100 aged 50, 150 aged 25, 225 aged 0)
75 years: 812.5 people (100 aged 75, 150 aged 50, 225 aged 25, 337.5 aged 0)
80 years: 712.5 people (150 aged 55, 225 aged 30, 337.5 aged 5)
100 years: 1218.75 people (150 aged 75, 225 aged 50, 337.5 aged 25, 506.25 aged 0)
Case 2:
0 years: 100 people
50 years: 250 people (100 aged 50, 150 aged 0)
80 years: 150 people (150 aged 30)
100 years: 375 people (150 aged 50, 225 aged 0)
3 children per couple in both cases, but case 2 is growing slower because the couples are having their children later in life.
The population growth is the same per-generation, but generations happen more slowly when you have children later in life.
You know, when printed money corresponds to collected taxes, that's not "printing money" in the causes inflation sense of the word.
When government wants to steal from the frugal, they print lots and lots of money without raising taxes, then money becomes worthless and those that have been saving it are stripped of the value they saved. The rich have more than bank accounts, they collect a diversified portfolio of assets which not only limits their exposure to currency devaluations, but also gives them political influence to help control when things like currency devaluations happen.
Socialism requires no more, nor less, wealth to employ than any other economic system. If, under socialism, you intend to provide housing, food and health care for everyone, then you simply need to have the economic wherewithall to provide whatever is considered adequate housing, food and health care. If that health care includes 50,000 working man-hours of end-of-life care (counting manufacture and delivery of all drugs, devices, etc.) for every citizen, then, sure, your system will fail. That's part of what's broken with health care in the U.S. - insurance that provides no-limit, or ridiculous lifetime benefits caps like 10 or 20 million, of course that's ridiculously expensive to provide - but that's the "standard of care," so people are expecting that, and big portions of the population simply cannot afford it.
Socialism can sap productivity, as I witnessed in 1991 East Germany - the people were provided with "free-ish" housing, food, heat, etc. but then were charged exorbitant rates for "luxury" items like bicycles, cars, televisions, radios, tape recorders, etc. In my view, that wasn't a flaw in socialism as much as it was a flaw in the Soviet administration of the economy. Too much hands-on price controlling, too much graft and corruption, it was demoralizing and people just kept their heads down and didn't do much. Even 6 months after the "wall fell" I met several east Germans who really had no concept of how the free market economy worked in the west. East marks had just (like, the day I arrived in the East) been declared 1:1 equivalent with West marks, so there were these people who suddenly had sums like $250,000 in the bank (when, the day before, that account might have been worth $5000 on the black market, if you cared to risk getting caught changing that much money.) These people thought they were set for life - after all, bread is $0.05 per kilo, and a big apartment rents for $10/month, right?
Free market capitalism can be equally demoralizing and demotivating, as you might have noticed in the welfare lines.
So, you're what they would call "dangerous" when doing a capability-threat assessment.
Age of giving birth does affect the speed of population increase/decrease - it's only irrelevant if you're at zero population growth.
It isn't just apple products, it ranges across the board from consumer electronics, to automobiles, to power tools. Find something in your home that's over 10 years old, then go out and try to buy an identical copy. If you can even find something with a similar branding, odds are very high that what's on the market today is very different from what was made 10 years ago, and in my experience - unless it's something like a computer, the new ones are mostly watered down cheap imitations of the old ones. Even things like cars that incorporate new computer tech, take away the bling and see if the core product is made better or more cheaply than before.
Who the hell wants to buy a product that can become abandoned by the manufacturer the instant something potentially better comes along?
Judging by the current consumer product life cycle... practically everyone.