Not true though, expert cave rescue and diver teams from Australia and SEALS are involved, I'm sure the US military has offered assistance as well. The main problem is not willpower or money, it's the physics of the thing.
You're talking about pumping out the water collected by a giant mountain chain during the local rain season, and diving in a cave where barely one person can fit through on foot. Experts can get stuff in-and-out and they may have to live there for the foreseeable future with divers ferrying back and forth food, clothing and waste until the next season when stuff dries up. They're currently draining 1.6M liters of water per hour just so they won't drown and the levels are anticipated to rise every time it rains.
Drilling through the mountain is hard, dangerous and unpredictable, GPS doesn't work there so you're trying to triangulate based on external and internal measurements of the cave itself, a giant boring machine would perhaps drill between 5 and 20m per day depending on what material everything is made out of, but you also risk collapsing the cave, it will cost $1-5M/day to run and they're by most estimates ~3km away, that's 5 months of drilling.
The number of -4.5% to 25% includes FICA/SS. It is the EFFECTIVE tax rate. If you pay 50-60% of your income to the IRS today, you must get a hell of a tax refund at the end of the year.
If a company needs help selling their stuff, they're not having a great product. A good, well managed product sells itself, you provide a demo, you have a technical person interface with another technical person and then you figure out whether you are a good match.
Pushy sales people generally means shitty product. And these sorts of sales (cloud infrastructure from IBM) is not a decision you take overnight, individual sales people do not have much influence overall, these are products that involve hundreds of hours of teams on both sides discussing the needs and often a bunch of custom development to even get to a sale (and I know because I've been involved in some of those)
Not necessarily. In these big business sales, especially cloud-infrastructure types, there can be months or even years between when a company gets a sales pitch and when they actually commit and it's often not very visible who or what in the end was responsible for the decision. We're not talking about selling a piece of clothing, we're talking about "hey, let's move your mainframe" or "we sell end-to-end datacenter management".
This is why sales and marketing in companies gets such a huge budget even though in the end they're dollar-for-dollar not really a huge contributing factor. You get much better sales and marketing by simply providing a better product.
I think you misunderstand the word "effective". Effectively, most people in the US pay ~15% once all is included and deducted. 20 percent of taxpayers face an average tax rate of -4.5 percent, which is essentially a tax subsidy. The top 1 percent of taxpayers face an average tax rate of 24.6 percent
In Europe you share 50% of your income, in the US only 15%. It depends on who you want to invest your money. Schools in the US are relatively low cost and graduates on average have a better outcome compared to Europe.
A student loan is also a form of "income share agreement" - you get the money, you don't have to pay it until you have graduated and can extend that payback until you get a job. The benefit of a student loan is that they're backed by the government and more transparent than these schemes.
I get similar offers from car dealerships: 0% interest loans, pay what and when you want but the details are in the fine print, all the 'costs' of the loan are included upfront so the interest is calculated and added on to the principal, if you don't pay, you still have interest tacked on for the month and it's often harder to understand the fine details so they often have weird fees that can add on months of payment over the life of the loan.
I recently had the same experience with one employee - decades of great performance reviews and promotions until I stepped in and saw they were full of themselves and had been bullshitting their managers and themselves for at least a decade. Since nobody knew exactly what they were doing or supposed to be doing and they were very good at talking themselves out of situations, there were some that had hunches but no concrete evidence. Trying to fire them now is hard because 'age discrimination' claims.
This guy was a "cloud sales star", not necessarily technologically adept, just good at talking.
Depends, you can be all or some of them at the same time. In Europe illegal immigrants can apply for asylum and often do lie in order to get migrant benefits.
As far back as 20,000 years ago we were automating things, first with animals then with wheels. We laid the groundwork for automated manufacturing over 3 centuries ago and about a century after that we had the same conversations, protests and FUD. People tried forms of UBI then too, Marx and Engels had the same idea about unequal distribution of wages as a result of automation, resulting in communism, eventually destroying the Soviet Union because it didn't embrace automation, everyone elsewhere moved on and found something else to do.
You should think about divesting from just-google. The cloud is costing you more already, get yourself a number of real servers with real hosting providers dispersed geographically. Running something solely on Google or Amazon clouds is technically identical to hosting everything on a single server.
If you think nobody maintains the books, there are some librarians that would disagree. You also have to maintain the building, fire suppression system, book indexing etc has all changed. If you still ask the librarian for the tome containing one index every time you go in, you're fairly ignorant as to how high-tech the library has become.
There was more to it and the "standard message" was less of an issue, I think that's a bit of a historic embelishment.
The problem was that certain people not quite as bright got involved with later designs and operation. Eg the pin that moved one wheel one step forward "wasn't enough" so they added a second pin so the rotor moved twice. What this did do is basically change the statistics so it was easier to detect when a rotor ticked a character up.
There were generals that had a high suspicion early on in the war that the Enigma had been cracked, I think it was their Navy general that was a really bright mathematician, hence they added additional rotors to their own design.
Correctly used and designed an Enigma is pretty close to a one-time-pad and to this day there are messages that can't be cracked.
Yes, SSDs are faster than spinning rust but you'll still notice your DDR4 RAM swapping to a device 20 times as slow. Using USB has a lot of overhead, it's an option but not at all advisable. If you're looking for a swap drive at least use the PCIe slot (which laptops have in place of PCMCIA these days)
If Sergey wanted to get the project all they had to do is walk over and unplug the wire to the hardware running the project. It's not that hard and doesn't require an engineer.
You're wrong. They are reported during taxes by the employee. Tips are supposed to go into the pocket and nobody is any wiser how much you got. It's why waiters could be paid less than minimum wage in the past.
With 4M you could create your own company to implement a brand new image recognition software from scratch. With open libraries and a programmer I could do it for $10k and $1000 per camera for hardware, installation and wiring.
No, only shitty OS don't adjust for DPI. The main thing about 4K is that it's expensive. Everyone already has a 'flat screen'. I see it happen a lot that they buy a brand new computer but skimp on the display because they have one already. I'd also rather have a 1080p at 120Hz than a 4K at 30Hz which a lot of budget displays (and the HDMI connection itself) is limited to that. You need DisplayPort to drive a proper 4K@60 or 120.
Using SSD (especially USB) as a swap drive/ram drive is ludicrously slow. Dell indeed still sells 3 and 4 generation old machines but you get what you pay for. If you need more RAM, don't buy those.
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Not true though, expert cave rescue and diver teams from Australia and SEALS are involved, I'm sure the US military has offered assistance as well. The main problem is not willpower or money, it's the physics of the thing.
You're talking about pumping out the water collected by a giant mountain chain during the local rain season, and diving in a cave where barely one person can fit through on foot. Experts can get stuff in-and-out and they may have to live there for the foreseeable future with divers ferrying back and forth food, clothing and waste until the next season when stuff dries up. They're currently draining 1.6M liters of water per hour just so they won't drown and the levels are anticipated to rise every time it rains.
Drilling through the mountain is hard, dangerous and unpredictable, GPS doesn't work there so you're trying to triangulate based on external and internal measurements of the cave itself, a giant boring machine would perhaps drill between 5 and 20m per day depending on what material everything is made out of, but you also risk collapsing the cave, it will cost $1-5M/day to run and they're by most estimates ~3km away, that's 5 months of drilling.
The number of -4.5% to 25% includes FICA/SS. It is the EFFECTIVE tax rate. If you pay 50-60% of your income to the IRS today, you must get a hell of a tax refund at the end of the year.
If a company needs help selling their stuff, they're not having a great product. A good, well managed product sells itself, you provide a demo, you have a technical person interface with another technical person and then you figure out whether you are a good match.
Pushy sales people generally means shitty product. And these sorts of sales (cloud infrastructure from IBM) is not a decision you take overnight, individual sales people do not have much influence overall, these are products that involve hundreds of hours of teams on both sides discussing the needs and often a bunch of custom development to even get to a sale (and I know because I've been involved in some of those)
Not necessarily. In these big business sales, especially cloud-infrastructure types, there can be months or even years between when a company gets a sales pitch and when they actually commit and it's often not very visible who or what in the end was responsible for the decision. We're not talking about selling a piece of clothing, we're talking about "hey, let's move your mainframe" or "we sell end-to-end datacenter management".
This is why sales and marketing in companies gets such a huge budget even though in the end they're dollar-for-dollar not really a huge contributing factor. You get much better sales and marketing by simply providing a better product.
I think you misunderstand the word "effective". Effectively, most people in the US pay ~15% once all is included and deducted. 20 percent of taxpayers face an average tax rate of -4.5 percent, which is essentially a tax subsidy. The top 1 percent of taxpayers face an average tax rate of 24.6 percent
In Europe you share 50% of your income, in the US only 15%. It depends on who you want to invest your money. Schools in the US are relatively low cost and graduates on average have a better outcome compared to Europe.
A student loan is also a form of "income share agreement" - you get the money, you don't have to pay it until you have graduated and can extend that payback until you get a job. The benefit of a student loan is that they're backed by the government and more transparent than these schemes.
I get similar offers from car dealerships: 0% interest loans, pay what and when you want but the details are in the fine print, all the 'costs' of the loan are included upfront so the interest is calculated and added on to the principal, if you don't pay, you still have interest tacked on for the month and it's often harder to understand the fine details so they often have weird fees that can add on months of payment over the life of the loan.
I recently had the same experience with one employee - decades of great performance reviews and promotions until I stepped in and saw they were full of themselves and had been bullshitting their managers and themselves for at least a decade. Since nobody knew exactly what they were doing or supposed to be doing and they were very good at talking themselves out of situations, there were some that had hunches but no concrete evidence. Trying to fire them now is hard because 'age discrimination' claims.
This guy was a "cloud sales star", not necessarily technologically adept, just good at talking.
I'm sure Ugandans are willing to pay a $15 monthly fee to avoid a $1.5 monthly tax
Depends, you can be all or some of them at the same time. In Europe illegal immigrants can apply for asylum and often do lie in order to get migrant benefits.
Because TWC/Comcast WASN'T approved by Obama himself right?
As far back as 20,000 years ago we were automating things, first with animals then with wheels. We laid the groundwork for automated manufacturing over 3 centuries ago and about a century after that we had the same conversations, protests and FUD. People tried forms of UBI then too, Marx and Engels had the same idea about unequal distribution of wages as a result of automation, resulting in communism, eventually destroying the Soviet Union because it didn't embrace automation, everyone elsewhere moved on and found something else to do.
You should think about divesting from just-google. The cloud is costing you more already, get yourself a number of real servers with real hosting providers dispersed geographically. Running something solely on Google or Amazon clouds is technically identical to hosting everything on a single server.
If you think nobody maintains the books, there are some librarians that would disagree. You also have to maintain the building, fire suppression system, book indexing etc has all changed. If you still ask the librarian for the tome containing one index every time you go in, you're fairly ignorant as to how high-tech the library has become.
It's not necessarily addressable space (there are less than 2e128 atoms in the Universe) but bus width. We already have 192 bit busses on GPU today.
Yeah, and every few years, you don't even need propellant to start the rocket up, earth itself will give it a nice shove upwards.
There was more to it and the "standard message" was less of an issue, I think that's a bit of a historic embelishment.
The problem was that certain people not quite as bright got involved with later designs and operation. Eg the pin that moved one wheel one step forward "wasn't enough" so they added a second pin so the rotor moved twice. What this did do is basically change the statistics so it was easier to detect when a rotor ticked a character up.
There were generals that had a high suspicion early on in the war that the Enigma had been cracked, I think it was their Navy general that was a really bright mathematician, hence they added additional rotors to their own design.
Correctly used and designed an Enigma is pretty close to a one-time-pad and to this day there are messages that can't be cracked.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Yes, SSDs are faster than spinning rust but you'll still notice your DDR4 RAM swapping to a device 20 times as slow. Using USB has a lot of overhead, it's an option but not at all advisable. If you're looking for a swap drive at least use the PCIe slot (which laptops have in place of PCMCIA these days)
If Sergey wanted to get the project all they had to do is walk over and unplug the wire to the hardware running the project. It's not that hard and doesn't require an engineer.
You're wrong. They are reported during taxes by the employee. Tips are supposed to go into the pocket and nobody is any wiser how much you got. It's why waiters could be paid less than minimum wage in the past.
They actually do have people for that and they'd rather you don't stack the plates into a 5 ton Jenga puzzle.
With 4M you could create your own company to implement a brand new image recognition software from scratch. With open libraries and a programmer I could do it for $10k and $1000 per camera for hardware, installation and wiring.
No, only shitty OS don't adjust for DPI. The main thing about 4K is that it's expensive. Everyone already has a 'flat screen'. I see it happen a lot that they buy a brand new computer but skimp on the display because they have one already. I'd also rather have a 1080p at 120Hz than a 4K at 30Hz which a lot of budget displays (and the HDMI connection itself) is limited to that. You need DisplayPort to drive a proper 4K@60 or 120.
Using SSD (especially USB) as a swap drive/ram drive is ludicrously slow. Dell indeed still sells 3 and 4 generation old machines but you get what you pay for. If you need more RAM, don't buy those.