Dollar stores donâ(TM)t compete with corner stores. If you wonder how a corner store prices can sell for so high in a âoepoor neighborâ with a dollar store or small grocery chain in the next block (I lived right across a dollar store only a few months ago) is because you donâ(TM)t understand the economics. Theyâ(TM)re not for you to buy it, itâ(TM)s an intermediary currency to trade food stamps for cigarettes and alcohol. You âoebuyâ the food with food stamps, give your kids s hot dog and ice cream, return the boxed food for cash (because there are no receipts, there is no paper trail) and then buy whatever you âoereallyâ need.
You do have to look at the whole ecosystem and not just buy into the hype. Avocado, kale etc are all flown in and expensive to produce. Dollar stores often buy from local distributors and thus farms to reduce costs.
Organic farming is unsustainable en masse, if it were so good for production we would be doing it, farmers are really sensitive to the energy, water and resource consumption that goes into production of their produce.
They are about as much danger as a bird, in worst case scenario you get some damage unless you have a flock of them. You donâ(TM)t want them in your jets but itâ(TM)s unlikely since the drones would be pushed out of the way by air currents.
Planes experience a lot more pressure from air resistance than a small drone could, as long as weâ(TM)re not talking about military predator drones the size of a small Cessna.
The USSR was indeed a free-trade area, at least according to the USSR. Now whether agreement within the zone was coerced or if someone flexes their muscle to set prices (like the EU and US often tries to do as well) is another thing entirely, but then you can throw out pretty much every 'free trade zone', especially the EU where every country/area has been granted monopolies on 'their' exports.
Humanity has tried nationwide UBI - USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, various native American reservations, Alaska - you CAN get guaranteed basic income until the money runs out. In case of Cuba it was using USSR money and Saudi Arabia and Alaska is using oil reserves to fund its population, native American reservations kind-of-work (although being blamed for alcoholism and other issues) until the casino goes bust.
In every case, everything works until you run out of - literally - someone else's money.
The whole Brexit debacle is being handled by people that are bungling it purely out of spite. The UK is to the EU as the US is to NATO - pay for everything all the time but get bullied by your only reason and biggest dependent - Germany
The US under Trump is kleptocratic populism according to the Democrats; Venezuela is socialism to the extreme, it's not really communism like North Korea.
Easy solution: Don't live in an area where you'll be poor making $40k. The problem that wages are stagnant in SF and California at large is not due to the big companies, the problem is a giant population of people that are supported by the local government that are very happy to undercut the wages of any low-end job.
You can come to this country legally, it costs you 2 years of your life and about ~$10k to make $30k/y at Facebook while simultaneously being ineligible for any government assistance for the first 2 years of living here or you can come to this country illegally, collect ~$24k/y in assistance from day 1 while awaiting a trial that will happen 2-5 years from now which you never even have to show up for in a sanctuary city and collect ~$15-20k/y from your employers who are happy to employ someone at $8-10/h without having to pay taxes.
The company that owns the satellite and gives you the receiver gets a license to use a specific range of frequencies. They pay FCC for those frequency reservations. In this case Swarm simply used a range of frequencies that wasn't theirs. There are ranges you can use 'free' (eg. 800MHz, 2.4GHz etc) but not at the powers required to reach a satellite (typically you're allowed to use up to 2W as long as you're not interfering with anyone else).
A lot of people in today's American politics are looking at China and pointing: "look at all the growth, everyone has a job, everyone is getting richer, why can't America be like that"; they're forgetting they did the same for Stalin's Russia and forgetting that being a poor American is still loads better than being a rich Chinese. All the "poor" in America are still the top 1% of income earners in the world.
The "island" part of it is big media hype. It's not an island, there are no huge patches of plastic floating in the middle of the ocean that you could land a plane on. No boats are crashing into the plastic.
There are basically microplastics everywhere in the water, but especially close to the surface and they are supposedly going to collect where the currents bring them. Those are, as the name implies, mostly microscopic in nature and the effect on health really hasn't been studied well, the only studies so far are either in test tubes or in mice where in very high concentrations have shown as a cause of stress, fewer reproductive cells and cancer. The reason they are microplastics is because the sun and ocean has been really good at breaking big plastic things down.
The idea you're going to scoop them out of the water with a float is absurd. They're not even on the surface, you need something like a molecular sieve from the surface to ~20cm under the water which would be highly detrimental for marine life. You may catch a plastic barrel or bottle once in a blue moon but the ocean is huge.
I think the Chinese would be halfway down the South China sea and entering both Korea and perhaps even Japan. India would be left to fend for itself on various fronts.
Same goes for the Middle East, it would probably be either a pane of glass or Israel would be burning, the Suez and Panama canals, perhaps even the Bering Strait, the Chinese sea and various other shipping passage ways would either be closed or very expensive to cross.
If the US didn't intervene at all in various geopolitical issues across the world and didn't maintain a full fleet of carriers at all time, all Europeans would be speaking German, Russian and/or Chinese by now. NATO would've dissolved and the EU probably would never came to exist.
Geopolitics is very hard and the US having a presence everywhere has value, 1 year's worth of the US GDP in exchange for the security and trade it enables for the last ~100 years isn't a bad bargain.
Yes, I spin up Linux instances on Azure. It's clear that people want Linux to run their servers because even Microsoft can't keep Linux from their own platform. Sure it's way of getting a proprietary Linux into Windows (embrace, extend, extinguish) but it's still unnecessary for those that know what they're doing.
I don't see who would actually want to deploy this The primary reason I use Linux is for it to be a stable underpinning to either host Windows or other Linux or applications. The reasons not to use Windows is because it's basically a desktop OS. Live patching the kernel still doesn't happen on Windows and even though Linux is on more systems than ever, so the market share argument doesn't hold anymore, Windows bugs are still major issues all the time requiring reboots for even the simplest of subsystems.
On the other hand, if I need Linux on a Workstation, it's because the Windows systems doesn't have good hardware support (eg. gpGPU, Real-Time timing support, configurable interrupts, InfiniBand, ASIC, 10/40/100G networking) so a subsystem of Windows wouldn't do me any good.
How those facts get represented to us though is the media. If you just wanted facts, you can get an unlimited stream of data on all sorts of events, however if you want to do anything else besides analyze data for the rest of your life, you get a journalist to condense and reference the material for you.
Condensing statistics (which is what journalists basically do) is a tricky field however, you can make all sorts of conclusions simply based on your world view. If you FEEL that a certain population should be allowed to enter your country, how you represent or highlight an underlying statistic such as a child trekking through a desert without food and water by its parents for 5 days, becomes an issue of framing.
This is exactly the problem. The media is deep at the whims of the left, as it requires government handouts for its survival. All the classic media outlets from paper to cable are dying and taken over by YouTube-like systems where people can pick and choose what viewpoints they want to hear, even *gasp* multiple opposing ones.
YouTube and Facebook itself however is in an echo chamber amongst its own decision maker community and continues to pander to an evil yet very vocal minority and thinks that this is a popular, majority opinion amongst their consumers. In the meantime, people are flocking away from even these modern media platforms as more and more content gets censored or hidden or subliminally mislabeled as wrongthink.
Bigger "wrongthink" media producers are now setting up their own "YouTube" not through any major platform but simply by replicating YouTube functionality which is not nearly as costly or even going as far as "the dark web" - really, a place with protocols where the consumers own the content. The pendulum will once again swing from centralization on YouTube to decentralization into Napster-style content networks such as IPFS so people can have civil discourse without interference.
Then again, you can do that for pretty much any language, even JavaScript. I'm working with a NodeJS library right now that has a huge chunk of it written in C. Sure, the result only works on ARM and MacOS but that's the same issue Python has.
I just don't see what other people see in the hype of Python. It has poor backwards compatibility (Python 3 != Python 2), it is single-threaded like JavaScript and it's pretty slow all around unless you code all your libraries in C (and throw away all the stuff that makes it Python)
Sure it's easy to learn, but then so is JavaScript, PHP and Perl.
I think what the poster was asking about detecting compressed, lower resolution video being upscaled to a higher resolution (4K@60Hz output from eg. the cable box but the (often encrypted) transport is lower resolution) at the end point. This process induces a variety of noise and interpolation which you see as blurry-ness but the computer sees simply as more complex video.
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Dollar stores donâ(TM)t compete with corner stores. If you wonder how a corner store prices can sell for so high in a âoepoor neighborâ with a dollar store or small grocery chain in the next block (I lived right across a dollar store only a few months ago) is because you donâ(TM)t understand the economics. Theyâ(TM)re not for you to buy it, itâ(TM)s an intermediary currency to trade food stamps for cigarettes and alcohol. You âoebuyâ the food with food stamps, give your kids s hot dog and ice cream, return the boxed food for cash (because there are no receipts, there is no paper trail) and then buy whatever you âoereallyâ need.
You do have to look at the whole ecosystem and not just buy into the hype. Avocado, kale etc are all flown in and expensive to produce. Dollar stores often buy from local distributors and thus farms to reduce costs.
Organic farming is unsustainable en masse, if it were so good for production we would be doing it, farmers are really sensitive to the energy, water and resource consumption that goes into production of their produce.
They are about as much danger as a bird, in worst case scenario you get some damage unless you have a flock of them. You donâ(TM)t want them in your jets but itâ(TM)s unlikely since the drones would be pushed out of the way by air currents.
Planes experience a lot more pressure from air resistance than a small drone could, as long as weâ(TM)re not talking about military predator drones the size of a small Cessna.
The USSR was indeed a free-trade area, at least according to the USSR. Now whether agreement within the zone was coerced or if someone flexes their muscle to set prices (like the EU and US often tries to do as well) is another thing entirely, but then you can throw out pretty much every 'free trade zone', especially the EU where every country/area has been granted monopolies on 'their' exports.
Humanity has tried nationwide UBI - USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, various native American reservations, Alaska - you CAN get guaranteed basic income until the money runs out. In case of Cuba it was using USSR money and Saudi Arabia and Alaska is using oil reserves to fund its population, native American reservations kind-of-work (although being blamed for alcoholism and other issues) until the casino goes bust.
In every case, everything works until you run out of - literally - someone else's money.
Iâ(TM)m sure various USSR satellite states would beg to differ.
The whole Brexit debacle is being handled by people that are bungling it purely out of spite. The UK is to the EU as the US is to NATO - pay for everything all the time but get bullied by your only reason and biggest dependent - Germany
The US under Trump is kleptocratic populism according to the Democrats; Venezuela is socialism to the extreme, it's not really communism like North Korea.
Easy solution: Don't live in an area where you'll be poor making $40k. The problem that wages are stagnant in SF and California at large is not due to the big companies, the problem is a giant population of people that are supported by the local government that are very happy to undercut the wages of any low-end job.
You can come to this country legally, it costs you 2 years of your life and about ~$10k to make $30k/y at Facebook while simultaneously being ineligible for any government assistance for the first 2 years of living here or you can come to this country illegally, collect ~$24k/y in assistance from day 1 while awaiting a trial that will happen 2-5 years from now which you never even have to show up for in a sanctuary city and collect ~$15-20k/y from your employers who are happy to employ someone at $8-10/h without having to pay taxes.
Perhaps we should ship all the Bernie-ites ("breadlines are a good thing") to Venezuela. That's communism for you.
The company that owns the satellite and gives you the receiver gets a license to use a specific range of frequencies. They pay FCC for those frequency reservations. In this case Swarm simply used a range of frequencies that wasn't theirs. There are ranges you can use 'free' (eg. 800MHz, 2.4GHz etc) but not at the powers required to reach a satellite (typically you're allowed to use up to 2W as long as you're not interfering with anyone else).
Yes you can. There are x86-64 systems at $50-100 from various stores.
A lot of people in today's American politics are looking at China and pointing: "look at all the growth, everyone has a job, everyone is getting richer, why can't America be like that"; they're forgetting they did the same for Stalin's Russia and forgetting that being a poor American is still loads better than being a rich Chinese. All the "poor" in America are still the top 1% of income earners in the world.
The "island" part of it is big media hype. It's not an island, there are no huge patches of plastic floating in the middle of the ocean that you could land a plane on. No boats are crashing into the plastic.
There are basically microplastics everywhere in the water, but especially close to the surface and they are supposedly going to collect where the currents bring them. Those are, as the name implies, mostly microscopic in nature and the effect on health really hasn't been studied well, the only studies so far are either in test tubes or in mice where in very high concentrations have shown as a cause of stress, fewer reproductive cells and cancer. The reason they are microplastics is because the sun and ocean has been really good at breaking big plastic things down.
The idea you're going to scoop them out of the water with a float is absurd. They're not even on the surface, you need something like a molecular sieve from the surface to ~20cm under the water which would be highly detrimental for marine life. You may catch a plastic barrel or bottle once in a blue moon but the ocean is huge.
I think the Chinese would be halfway down the South China sea and entering both Korea and perhaps even Japan. India would be left to fend for itself on various fronts.
Same goes for the Middle East, it would probably be either a pane of glass or Israel would be burning, the Suez and Panama canals, perhaps even the Bering Strait, the Chinese sea and various other shipping passage ways would either be closed or very expensive to cross.
If the US didn't intervene at all in various geopolitical issues across the world and didn't maintain a full fleet of carriers at all time, all Europeans would be speaking German, Russian and/or Chinese by now. NATO would've dissolved and the EU probably would never came to exist.
Geopolitics is very hard and the US having a presence everywhere has value, 1 year's worth of the US GDP in exchange for the security and trade it enables for the last ~100 years isn't a bad bargain.
CNN/Fox/NBC would beg to differ.
Yes, I spin up Linux instances on Azure. It's clear that people want Linux to run their servers because even Microsoft can't keep Linux from their own platform. Sure it's way of getting a proprietary Linux into Windows (embrace, extend, extinguish) but it's still unnecessary for those that know what they're doing.
Either that or Chelsea Clinton.
Wut? FreeDOS, DOSBox, Wine...
I don't see who would actually want to deploy this The primary reason I use Linux is for it to be a stable underpinning to either host Windows or other Linux or applications. The reasons not to use Windows is because it's basically a desktop OS. Live patching the kernel still doesn't happen on Windows and even though Linux is on more systems than ever, so the market share argument doesn't hold anymore, Windows bugs are still major issues all the time requiring reboots for even the simplest of subsystems.
On the other hand, if I need Linux on a Workstation, it's because the Windows systems doesn't have good hardware support (eg. gpGPU, Real-Time timing support, configurable interrupts, InfiniBand, ASIC, 10/40/100G networking) so a subsystem of Windows wouldn't do me any good.
How those facts get represented to us though is the media. If you just wanted facts, you can get an unlimited stream of data on all sorts of events, however if you want to do anything else besides analyze data for the rest of your life, you get a journalist to condense and reference the material for you.
Condensing statistics (which is what journalists basically do) is a tricky field however, you can make all sorts of conclusions simply based on your world view. If you FEEL that a certain population should be allowed to enter your country, how you represent or highlight an underlying statistic such as a child trekking through a desert without food and water by its parents for 5 days, becomes an issue of framing.
This is exactly the problem. The media is deep at the whims of the left, as it requires government handouts for its survival. All the classic media outlets from paper to cable are dying and taken over by YouTube-like systems where people can pick and choose what viewpoints they want to hear, even *gasp* multiple opposing ones.
YouTube and Facebook itself however is in an echo chamber amongst its own decision maker community and continues to pander to an evil yet very vocal minority and thinks that this is a popular, majority opinion amongst their consumers. In the meantime, people are flocking away from even these modern media platforms as more and more content gets censored or hidden or subliminally mislabeled as wrongthink.
Bigger "wrongthink" media producers are now setting up their own "YouTube" not through any major platform but simply by replicating YouTube functionality which is not nearly as costly or even going as far as "the dark web" - really, a place with protocols where the consumers own the content. The pendulum will once again swing from centralization on YouTube to decentralization into Napster-style content networks such as IPFS so people can have civil discourse without interference.
Then again, you can do that for pretty much any language, even JavaScript. I'm working with a NodeJS library right now that has a huge chunk of it written in C. Sure, the result only works on ARM and MacOS but that's the same issue Python has.
I just don't see what other people see in the hype of Python. It has poor backwards compatibility (Python 3 != Python 2), it is single-threaded like JavaScript and it's pretty slow all around unless you code all your libraries in C (and throw away all the stuff that makes it Python)
Sure it's easy to learn, but then so is JavaScript, PHP and Perl.
I think what the poster was asking about detecting compressed, lower resolution video being upscaled to a higher resolution (4K@60Hz output from eg. the cable box but the (often encrypted) transport is lower resolution) at the end point. This process induces a variety of noise and interpolation which you see as blurry-ness but the computer sees simply as more complex video.