Time to form a union. No, seriously. STEM workers have been absolutely screwed to the point where no intelligent person should pursue that career in the USA. Talk with nurses to see how to make some progress.
Bandwidth is following Moore's law and doubling every 18 months (per $), so a 4x upgrade is 3 years. Not huge. The industry needs to show constant improvement instead of just net profit extracted through monopolistic actions against customers.
I would go a layer deeper to see what drives lowering journalist integrity... to find that the audience prefers misinfotainment over news. They demand entertainment over learning. Illusion over reality.
China is increasing population due to corruption in its "one child" policy. Almost all areas are increasing population. Being due to immigration seems irrelevant. It's one planet. Slaving away on a farm isn't what I call a job. Backbreaking work, yes, but not a modern job that brings equality and increasing difficulty raising children.
Actually, no, it doesn't use much less energy when you look at the whole thing. Most energy is heating/cooling which hasn't been improved. Lighting is on the fringes.
Technology is not a silver bullet. Relying on it to magically solve future problems is little better than relying on divine intervention.
I'd say it's culture and how busy someone is reduces population growth (working women reduce population). And just because if some small geography is slowly decreasing doesn't mean much if the whole (planet) is massively increasing.
So perhaps this is where feminism may rescue the planet - equality, busy with work, and access to (easy, long term) contraception. The only downside is that they'll make men's lives hell.
Having procreative sex is one of the most carbon expensive things we can do
The big purple elephant in the room that everyone pretends to ignore. Total Resources = Population x Individual Resources Increase resources, reduce population, or reduce standard of living. It's a simple if difficult choice. Individual people can be reasoned with. Unfortunately, groups of people are stupid and haven't progressed passed the roman gladiator spectator mobs. They'll demand more resources, defend religious teachings to have yet more kids, then wonder why they make less money each year. (hourly median salary in the USA has been stagnant the last 40 years - actually, if you take into account productivity gains, it is half of what it was 4 decades ago.)
The Chinese already developed ship killing missiles, making most large navy ships no better than targets. Unfortunately that won't change until you get the WW2-tactics trained admirals retired.
It takes a very long time for policy decisions to achieve their full affect.
Reagan's economic changes doomed Bush Sr due to debt but helped Clinton with a the good economy. But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more.
Clinton's economic decisions are affecting us now through joblessness (Perot had it right - a big sucking sound as jobs leave).
Bush Jr decisions will take at least another 10 years to pay off.
Very far from the truth. The education pipeline is low because the long term compensation vs work is low. Anyone that is smart enough to get a CS degree can get double the money with half the effort with an MBA.
That's the key - mandating a common schema (XML or otherwise). I talked with DC staffers several years ago that were working on healthcare law, but they disregarded it because the doctor's didn't understand it. And that leads to the other failure of healthcare... doctor's don't make good managers!
Neither law nor easily used technology has caught up with the "digital signature" in an open environment. Yes, I know PGP, but using it isn't automated widely.
For dashboards, email is far easier than the PITA of logging into yet-another-system and navigating who-knows-where-and-changes-often. Seriously... automate! Quit relying on people to do things manually.
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Time to form a union. No, seriously. STEM workers have been absolutely screwed to the point where no intelligent person should pursue that career in the USA. Talk with nurses to see how to make some progress.
Credit Unions are what banks were decades ago. I'll never use another bank.
Otherwise... cash.
I agree that it can work - IF you have good people. That's rarely the case, so it usually fails.
Managers need to focus on dollars per result rather than irrelevant headcount.
Ancient history and therefore irrelevant. Execute today and plan for tomorrow.
These aren't rogue groups. They operate with the full support of the Chinese government.
I agree with hacking back but the only value you'd gain is if you handed the data over to corporations, and that's a big bad can of worms to open.
No casualties? The median lifetime earnings of a USA worker is $1.5m. For ever $1.5m in economic damage, you've effectively killed one person.
Bandwidth is following Moore's law and doubling every 18 months (per $), so a 4x upgrade is 3 years. Not huge. The industry needs to show constant improvement instead of just net profit extracted through monopolistic actions against customers.
I would go a layer deeper to see what drives lowering journalist integrity... to find that the audience prefers misinfotainment over news. They demand entertainment over learning. Illusion over reality.
Less CO2 (half compared to coal for electrical generation) but much, much more methane, which is a much worse (if shorter 20 year) greenhouse gas.
Actually, it's already happened. The problem is that once business people get it, they then demand something more complex.
Integers are simpler to compare than Real numbers. Especially for the math-phobic sheeple that make up the vast majority of citizens.
Parents got pensions because that's what it took to hire them. "Globalization" dragged pay down to the bottom of the world.
Yep. Median hourly wage per productivity unit is half of what it was 40 years ago.
The majority of jobs have already transitioned to Sales/Marketing. They don't add anything but sure suck up a ton of cash.
China is increasing population due to corruption in its "one child" policy.
Almost all areas are increasing population. Being due to immigration seems irrelevant. It's one planet.
Slaving away on a farm isn't what I call a job. Backbreaking work, yes, but not a modern job that brings equality and increasing difficulty raising children.
Actually, no, it doesn't use much less energy when you look at the whole thing. Most energy is heating/cooling which hasn't been improved. Lighting is on the fringes.
Technology is not a silver bullet. Relying on it to magically solve future problems is little better than relying on divine intervention.
I'd say it's culture and how busy someone is reduces population growth (working women reduce population). And just because if some small geography is slowly decreasing doesn't mean much if the whole (planet) is massively increasing.
So perhaps this is where feminism may rescue the planet - equality, busy with work, and access to (easy, long term) contraception.
The only downside is that they'll make men's lives hell.
What about Heating and Cooling? They really haven't changed and are the lion's share of energy consumption in the home.
Having procreative sex is one of the most carbon expensive things we can do
The big purple elephant in the room that everyone pretends to ignore.
Total Resources = Population x Individual Resources
Increase resources, reduce population, or reduce standard of living. It's a simple if difficult choice.
Individual people can be reasoned with. Unfortunately, groups of people are stupid and haven't progressed passed the roman gladiator spectator mobs. They'll demand more resources, defend religious teachings to have yet more kids, then wonder why they make less money each year.
(hourly median salary in the USA has been stagnant the last 40 years - actually, if you take into account productivity gains, it is half of what it was 4 decades ago.)
The Chinese already developed ship killing missiles, making most large navy ships no better than targets. Unfortunately that won't change until you get the WW2-tactics trained admirals retired.
But only plants? A half truth is the worst sort of lie.
100%? What was I thinking?!? No, just 99% and the merger is almost all cons. Totally disregardable.
Humans are omnivores.
Vegetarians deny their humanness, which is a lie.
Lying is unethical.
Therefore vegetarianism is unethical.
It takes a very long time for policy decisions to achieve their full affect.
Reagan's economic changes doomed Bush Sr due to debt but helped Clinton with a the good economy. But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more.
Clinton's economic decisions are affecting us now through joblessness (Perot had it right - a big sucking sound as jobs leave).
Bush Jr decisions will take at least another 10 years to pay off.
Very far from the truth. The education pipeline is low because the long term compensation vs work is low. Anyone that is smart enough to get a CS degree can get double the money with half the effort with an MBA.
That's the key - mandating a common schema (XML or otherwise). I talked with DC staffers several years ago that were working on healthcare law, but they disregarded it because the doctor's didn't understand it. And that leads to the other failure of healthcare... doctor's don't make good managers!
Neither law nor easily used technology has caught up with the "digital signature" in an open environment. Yes, I know PGP, but using it isn't automated widely.
For dashboards, email is far easier than the PITA of logging into yet-another-system and navigating who-knows-where-and-changes-often. Seriously... automate! Quit relying on people to do things manually.