it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago
That's a fairly vague estimate, and I understand at this time it's the best they can come up with, but I'm wondering if this estimate can be tightened with more observations and analysis.
New estimates say the crater was created on a Thursday.
I'm not sure "saving on fees" was the real motivation here. Tax avoidance sounds a lot more likely....
As I mentioned elsewhere, Nerdwallet lists the average international bank wire fees as $45 outgoing and $13 incoming, so he risked $422 US to save $58.
I hadn't considered tax issues, if there are any. A post on a CanadaVisa site forum says:
Transferring money between US and Canada is fairly simple. Several Canadian banks have the ability to open a US based account with the same or partner bank. Transfers between your accounts are then very simple. I would suggest that you speak to an accountant with experience in crossborder taxes.
"Deposited his life savings into Quadriga CX's digital exchange" were the stupidity keywords that convinced me not to feel sorry for him.
After all of the Bitcoin exchanges that have failed over the past few years, why do people still DO this?
TFS says he, "just wanted to save a few bucks on transfer fees" moving from CA to Vancouver, so he probably just intended to park the money for a very short time while he moved and found a new bank. Seems dumb in any case. Nerdwallet lists the average international bank wire fees at $45 outgoing and $13 incoming, so he risked $422K US to save $58. Cheaper still would have been to bring some cash, deposit a check to open a new account and use a CC for a bit. Some life lessons are hard, but "penny wise and pound foolish" doesn't have to be one of them.
I think what would be really useful is something Google could deliver pretty easily - a speed run as it were, a fast video showing me traveling the whole route (street map style view) in about 30 seconds or so,...
And... now we know SuperKendall is Quicksilver IRL.
... asking/. to double check Tesla's math -- super solid idea. Let's do Einstein next.
Go wild, knock yourself out....
I was being *super* sarcastic -- (falsely) equating the collective mental prowess of/. with Tesla's and Einstein's.
I thought it would be obvious; sorry I wasn't more clear.:-)
It did not reduce unemployment, but it reduced the stress of that situation for people. That social impact of that cannot be ignored.
The social impact of making people comfortable with being unproductive members of society can't be ignored either....
I imagine that depends on the definition of "unproductive members of society" and if there are ways of contributing w/o having a job. The money offered isn't really enough to be *that* comfortable, especially assuming one were previously making more and living at a commensurate level, but it might be enough to keep one from becoming homeless, destitute or a criminal -- which all have higher costs and negative impacts on society. I'll note that Finland also has universal healthcare.
The results from experiments with a random selection of 2000 people cannot be extrapolated to a hypothetical situation of Universal Basic Income. Job dynamics when everybody has a guaranteed source of income would be... interesting.
In addition, it depends on if the goal was/is to help people find jobs or be happier and/or more secure. From TFA:
So, did it work?
That depends what you mean by 'work'.
Did it help unemployed people in Finland find jobs, as the centre-right Finnish government had hoped? No, not really.
But for many people, the original goal of getting people into work was flawed to begin with. If instead the aim were to make people generally happier, the scheme would have been considered a triumph.
"I am still without a job," he explained. "I can't say that the basic income has changed a lot in my life. OK, psychologically yes, but financially - not so much."
Finland has universal healthcare and I think people also having some financial security regardless of job status, perhaps even just enough to help offset basic bills, is helpful in many ways -- not just financial.
We have unemployment insurance here in the US (paid into by companies), but (from my experience) it's a very, very small amount that's not anywhere near enough to actually live on, even for a short while. It requires a certain amount of just-prior employment to claim, often comes with some requirements, like actively looking for work, and usually counts as taxable income.
Get people less obese, then we have to need to stick needles in them or shove more stuff down their throats (they already shove too much anyway)
People aren't always diabetic simply because they're over-weight idiot -- and, sometimes, alternate diets, to help mitigate the effects, and taking insulin can actually make weight management more difficult.
For example, Halle Berry, Nick Jonas, Sharon Stone, Jay Cutler have Type 1 Diabetes, while Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek have Type 2.
There are bugs that haven't been fixed for decades and they regularly WONTFIX many bugs.
A lot of things that people think are bugs are really just design decisions they don't prefer. While Firefox is certainly not perfect I don't see any of the other browsers being meaningfully better about dealing with their faults.
Exactly. For example, Firefox 65 dropped support for the preference "browser.urlbar.suggest.history.onlyTyped" -- only suggest URLs that were actually typed -- saying the behavior was "not-so-useful" (and, apparently, because their "typed implementation is a mess"), while *I* found it extremely useful.
normally when ever such a hack has been shown to cause a greater problem, another tool in your toolbox is tossed out... Often without a good replacement.
I feel that way about politics -- hacks causing greater problems, no good replacements.
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The only "news" here is that the CEO of Twitter had never previously used Twitter.
He's busy tooting on Mastodon ... :-)
it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago
That's a fairly vague estimate, and I understand at this time it's the best they can come up with, but I'm wondering if this estimate can be tightened with more observations and analysis.
New estimates say the crater was created on a Thursday.
Supplement makers announce pill to cure people of the desire to take supplements; FDA confused as to how to proceed.
If you have good coders, this is pretty much a non-issue.
And time/resources to think things through, review and revise before pushing it out the door.
I'm not sure "saving on fees" was the real motivation here. Tax avoidance sounds a lot more likely. ...
As I mentioned elsewhere, Nerdwallet lists the average international bank wire fees as $45 outgoing and $13 incoming, so he risked $422 US to save $58.
I hadn't considered tax issues, if there are any. A post on a CanadaVisa site forum says:
Transferring money between US and Canada is fairly simple. Several Canadian banks have the ability to open a US based account with the same or partner bank. Transfers between your accounts are then very simple. I would suggest that you speak to an accountant with experience in crossborder taxes.
"Deposited his life savings into Quadriga CX's digital exchange" were the stupidity keywords that convinced me not to feel sorry for him.
After all of the Bitcoin exchanges that have failed over the past few years, why do people still DO this?
TFS says he, "just wanted to save a few bucks on transfer fees" moving from CA to Vancouver, so he probably just intended to park the money for a very short time while he moved and found a new bank. Seems dumb in any case. Nerdwallet lists the average international bank wire fees at $45 outgoing and $13 incoming, so he risked $422K US to save $58. Cheaper still would have been to bring some cash, deposit a check to open a new account and use a CC for a bit. Some life lessons are hard, but "penny wise and pound foolish" doesn't have to be one of them.
Around 70 percent of all the vulnerabilities in Microsoft products ... are memory safety issues.
They can't remember how to code safely. :-)
I think what would be really useful is something Google could deliver pretty easily - a speed run as it were, a fast video showing me traveling the whole route (street map style view) in about 30 seconds or so, ...
And... now we know SuperKendall is Quicksilver IRL.
... asking /. to double check Tesla's math -- super solid idea.
Let's do Einstein next.
Go wild, knock yourself out. ...
I was being *super* sarcastic -- (falsely) equating the collective mental prowess of /. with Tesla's and Einstein's. :-)
I thought it would be obvious; sorry I wasn't more clear.
What is believe? Either the math / physics works or it doesn't. Science is not an opinion based enterprise.
Perhaps, the questioner is asking /. to double check Tesla's math -- super solid idea. Let's do Einstein next.
All he wants is a monument to his ego that he can stroke his micro-penis to.
Too bad marrying a hot Slovenian fashion model half his age didn't check those boxes...
It did not reduce unemployment, but it reduced the stress of that situation for people. That social impact of that cannot be ignored.
The social impact of making people comfortable with being unproductive members of society can't be ignored either....
I imagine that depends on the definition of "unproductive members of society" and if there are ways of contributing w/o having a job. The money offered isn't really enough to be *that* comfortable, especially assuming one were previously making more and living at a commensurate level, but it might be enough to keep one from becoming homeless, destitute or a criminal -- which all have higher costs and negative impacts on society. I'll note that Finland also has universal healthcare.
Is there anything dumber in this world (that are still recognizable human) than socialists?
Apparently, you.
The results from experiments with a random selection of 2000 people cannot be extrapolated to a hypothetical situation of Universal Basic Income. Job dynamics when everybody has a guaranteed source of income would be... interesting.
In addition, it depends on if the goal was/is to help people find jobs or be happier and/or more secure. From TFA:
So, did it work?
That depends what you mean by 'work'.
Did it help unemployed people in Finland find jobs, as the centre-right Finnish government had hoped? No, not really.
But for many people, the original goal of getting people into work was flawed to begin with. If instead the aim were to make people generally happier, the scheme would have been considered a triumph.
"I am still without a job," he explained. "I can't say that the basic income has changed a lot in my life. OK, psychologically yes, but financially - not so much."
Finland has universal healthcare and I think people also having some financial security regardless of job status, perhaps even just enough to help offset basic bills, is helpful in many ways -- not just financial.
We have unemployment insurance here in the US (paid into by companies), but (from my experience) it's a very, very small amount that's not anywhere near enough to actually live on, even for a short while. It requires a certain amount of just-prior employment to claim, often comes with some requirements, like actively looking for work, and usually counts as taxable income.
... reducing the price would allow poor(er) people access to public records.
Get people less obese, then we have to need to stick needles in them or shove more stuff down their throats (they already shove too much anyway)
People aren't always diabetic simply because they're over-weight idiot -- and, sometimes, alternate diets, to help mitigate the effects, and taking insulin can actually make weight management more difficult.
For example, Halle Berry, Nick Jonas, Sharon Stone, Jay Cutler have Type 1 Diabetes, while Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek have Type 2.
No, it's the void the alien space craft from the X-Files movie left.
You might enjoy the novel Ice Station by Matt Reilly.
Having read one of O'Reilly's books, no, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.
Huh? Do you mean Bill O'Reilly? 'Cause they're not -- even remotely -- related. (Or... I'm missing the joke.)
No, it's the void the alien space craft from the X-Files movie left.
You might enjoy the novel Ice Station by Matt Reilly.
Wasn't this the proposed theme to Iron Sky 2. Hint: It's Lizard people living down there below Antarctica.
No Lizard people, but Subterranean is a pretty good action/adventure novel by James Rollins along these lines...
I'm waiting for the ability to apply a style to a sentence, and not have that style applied to the entire paragraph.
Make all your paragraphs only one sentence long -- problem solved. :-)
... wearing that through airport security.
Charon now accepts Bitcoin, though $137M seems a bit stiff for a ferry ride -- let's face it, cryptocurrency people are probably all going to Hell...
There are bugs that haven't been fixed for decades and they regularly WONTFIX many bugs.
A lot of things that people think are bugs are really just design decisions they don't prefer. While Firefox is certainly not perfect I don't see any of the other browsers being meaningfully better about dealing with their faults.
Exactly. For example, Firefox 65 dropped support for the preference "browser.urlbar.suggest.history.onlyTyped" -- only suggest URLs that were actually typed -- saying the behavior was "not-so-useful" (and, apparently, because their "typed implementation is a mess"), while *I* found it extremely useful.
normally when ever such a hack has been shown to cause a greater problem, another tool in your toolbox is tossed out... Often without a good replacement.
I feel that way about politics -- hacks causing greater problems, no good replacements.