My friend worked as a software developer for IBM at one point. They were literally forced to leave the building at 5pm, not allowed to stick around and finish what they were doing. As a software developer that at times worked 12 hours straight, that seemed incredibly nonproductive.
That presumes one was foolish enough to buy in the first place. Looking at Twitter's fundamentals, I'm pretty sure Warren Buffett would never have touched it. Selling short might be a good play, but I'm not sure when the stock is actually going to tank -- how long a time can you get an option for?
You WATCH the guy at home depot use the key grinding machine, don't you? Plus, the key in and of itself is useless without the address of the door it unlocks. The supply chain attack is a real potential problem; there are certainly vendors lax enough to let that happen. After the key is initialized, I'd think smart people would avoid letting people have physical access to the machine long enough to hack it. I guess the moral is, you should always by crypto hardware from reliable sources.
Yes, I was paraphrasing that xkcd. Truth is, I don't even remember when I started using that number, but it been transferred from T-Mobile to AT&T, then back to T-Mobile.
It's taking longer than I expected for Facebook to go the way of MySpace, but it looks like it's finally going to happen. Remember, on Facebook, the product they are selling is your personal data! Google, on the other hand, is advertising supported.
Buying up all the Oregon stores would make sense; people from surrounding states can drive down and buy things from Amazon without paying sales tax. Since Amazon has a physical presence in every state, all shipped purchases are subject to sales tax.
Yes, I can see the irony of the company that drove all the brick & mortar stores out of business now building out it's own chain of brick & mortar stores, but they might be used mostly for store pickups and returns of online orders.
Now they're charging my hydroponic grow operation a lot more! (And mining is probably generating a lot of false positive for the investigators looking for grow operations.)
Even then it takes about a year to amortize the cost of the equipment -- provided the value doesn't drop in that time. Unless you're using the mning equipment to also heat your house, it doesn't really make sense (I spend about $160/month heating my house with all-electric anyway).
If you just charge them more for the electricity than they can make mining cryptocurrency with the electricity, then they'll go away -- problem solved! I still curious why the bitcoin miners don't locate where the electricity is the absolute cheapest.
Actually, they just spoof the first 6 digits of your number and add a random 4 digits on the end, to make you think it's one of your neighbors calling. Problem is, like most people, my number just indicates where I lived 15 years ago when I first got my cell phone, so I literally don't know anybody with a similar number!
How about if we institute the death penalty for anybody that calls using a spoofed caller ID? Robocallers I can blacklist if they are honest about what number they are calling from!
Um, improving roads costs MONEY. Lots of money. We have the same problem in Beaverton, there is no good route south over Cooper Mountain, and literally thousands of new homes are being built. So, while everybody (including city planners) are quite aware there is a severe traffic problem, nobody has the money to fix the problem. Of course, they voted down a new freeway that would have fixed the problem 20 years ago.
Braess's Paradox appears to assume a fixed assessment of the optimum route. Navigation apps dynamically update the optimum route in real time, so it routes people elsewhere as soon as any route becomes non-optimal, e.g. when there is an accident on the normally "best" route. Given sufficient real-time traffic flow data, Braess's Paradox shouldn't apply.
I use Google Navigator even when I know where I'm going because it tells you to use an different route whenever it detects an accident or other traffic jam. Also, Alzheimer's, I sometimes miss my exits because I'm not paying attention, so having Google nag me helps.
Many people using navigation apps just results in the optimal route quickly becoming non-optimal, and a different optimal route being chosen a few minutes later. The apps are also really good for warning about accidents ahead and suggesting an alternate route, which should on average help people spend less time stuck in traffic.
"autonomous cars need to drive more like humans" How the hell are you going to program the car to spill it's beer and throw it's lit cigarette butts out the window?!?
Oh good, the first autonomous vehicle liability test case. Uber has really deep pockets and probably not a lot of sympathy from the jurors... I'm thinking maybe $10 million? Of course, it might be just like the Ford Pinto gas tank economic calculation: the cheapest thing to do is to pay off the occasional lawsuit rather than fix the problem.
Gasoline still has an order of magnitude more energy per unit weight than batteries. When your car can go farther on batteries than it can on a tank of gas, then you'll see electric vehicles really take off. And no, spending $50K on 1000 pounds of batteries doesn't count.
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My friend worked as a software developer for IBM at one point. They were literally forced to leave the building at 5pm, not allowed to stick around and finish what they were doing. As a software developer that at times worked 12 hours straight, that seemed incredibly nonproductive.
Dorsey obviously has a shitload of Square stock that he's trying to pump and dump before it's value goes down.
That presumes one was foolish enough to buy in the first place. Looking at Twitter's fundamentals, I'm pretty sure Warren Buffett would never have touched it. Selling short might be a good play, but I'm not sure when the stock is actually going to tank -- how long a time can you get an option for?
The Twitter CEO also thinks Twitter has a viable business model, so I wouldn't believe anything he says!
You WATCH the guy at home depot use the key grinding machine, don't you? Plus, the key in and of itself is useless without the address of the door it unlocks. The supply chain attack is a real potential problem; there are certainly vendors lax enough to let that happen. After the key is initialized, I'd think smart people would avoid letting people have physical access to the machine long enough to hack it. I guess the moral is, you should always by crypto hardware from reliable sources.
Yes, I was paraphrasing that xkcd. Truth is, I don't even remember when I started using that number, but it been transferred from T-Mobile to AT&T, then back to T-Mobile.
My mom is DEAD you necrophiliac!
There's only so much hookers and blow you can go though before you start missing your soul...
It's taking longer than I expected for Facebook to go the way of MySpace, but it looks like it's finally going to happen. Remember, on Facebook, the product they are selling is your personal data! Google, on the other hand, is advertising supported.
The one thing I won't buy online; I need to try them on first. There are still a few products people need to actually touch before they buy.
Buying up all the Oregon stores would make sense; people from surrounding states can drive down and buy things from Amazon without paying sales tax. Since Amazon has a physical presence in every state, all shipped purchases are subject to sales tax. Yes, I can see the irony of the company that drove all the brick & mortar stores out of business now building out it's own chain of brick & mortar stores, but they might be used mostly for store pickups and returns of online orders.
Now they're charging my hydroponic grow operation a lot more! (And mining is probably generating a lot of false positive for the investigators looking for grow operations.)
Even then it takes about a year to amortize the cost of the equipment -- provided the value doesn't drop in that time. Unless you're using the mning equipment to also heat your house, it doesn't really make sense (I spend about $160/month heating my house with all-electric anyway).
If you just charge them more for the electricity than they can make mining cryptocurrency with the electricity, then they'll go away -- problem solved! I still curious why the bitcoin miners don't locate where the electricity is the absolute cheapest.
Actually, they just spoof the first 6 digits of your number and add a random 4 digits on the end, to make you think it's one of your neighbors calling. Problem is, like most people, my number just indicates where I lived 15 years ago when I first got my cell phone, so I literally don't know anybody with a similar number!
How about if we institute the death penalty for anybody that calls using a spoofed caller ID? Robocallers I can blacklist if they are honest about what number they are calling from!
Um, improving roads costs MONEY. Lots of money. We have the same problem in Beaverton, there is no good route south over Cooper Mountain, and literally thousands of new homes are being built. So, while everybody (including city planners) are quite aware there is a severe traffic problem, nobody has the money to fix the problem. Of course, they voted down a new freeway that would have fixed the problem 20 years ago.
Braess's Paradox appears to assume a fixed assessment of the optimum route. Navigation apps dynamically update the optimum route in real time, so it routes people elsewhere as soon as any route becomes non-optimal, e.g. when there is an accident on the normally "best" route. Given sufficient real-time traffic flow data, Braess's Paradox shouldn't apply.
I use Google Navigator even when I know where I'm going because it tells you to use an different route whenever it detects an accident or other traffic jam. Also, Alzheimer's, I sometimes miss my exits because I'm not paying attention, so having Google nag me helps.
Many people using navigation apps just results in the optimal route quickly becoming non-optimal, and a different optimal route being chosen a few minutes later. The apps are also really good for warning about accidents ahead and suggesting an alternate route, which should on average help people spend less time stuck in traffic.
I'd have a lot more trust in Uber's autonomous car program if they hadn't used the project name "Skynet"!
"autonomous cars need to drive more like humans" Engineering note: add a robotic hand to flip off the drivers that cut off the autonomous car.
"autonomous cars need to drive more like humans" How the hell are you going to program the car to spill it's beer and throw it's lit cigarette butts out the window?!?
Oh good, the first autonomous vehicle liability test case. Uber has really deep pockets and probably not a lot of sympathy from the jurors... I'm thinking maybe $10 million? Of course, it might be just like the Ford Pinto gas tank economic calculation: the cheapest thing to do is to pay off the occasional lawsuit rather than fix the problem.
Gasoline still has an order of magnitude more energy per unit weight than batteries. When your car can go farther on batteries than it can on a tank of gas, then you'll see electric vehicles really take off. And no, spending $50K on 1000 pounds of batteries doesn't count.