Cryptocurrency? And "off the grid"? I don't think those two things go together.
You're right of course. Just think of all of the diesel fuel these guys are going to be churning through trying to fight global warming by generating arbitrary ones and zeroes. The least they could do is relocate from French Polynesia to someplace like northern Oregon where they can use that all waste heat to keep warm at night.
They aren't going to risk 100% hardware profit margins to pick up a couple advertising pennies in front of a scandal steamroller
They clearly are willing to risk 100% hardware profit margins purposely throttling their old hardware to pick up millions of dollars in new hardware sales...but that's admittedly a separate topic.
But THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT OF ALL In-App Purchases??
Sure, why not. Apple has gone to the trouble of taking existing technology, painting it white and adding a FUNCTIONAL APPLICATION STORE. Sorry, Microsoft, Creative, Palm, etc. You all failed at this.
You also failed by letting your engineers add features they thought were cool vs dumbing the platform down to the least common denominator and then marking it up by 200% thereby corralling all of the rich idiots (*) into one ecosystem.
(*) No I don't think all of you are rich idiots, but let's be fair. If you were at all interested in price or cool 'nerd' features you wouldn't be shopping at the Apple store. So if you prefer please substitute "rich people that don't care"
Am I somehow missing the high priced drink options that keep the #4 Value meal at $5.75 USD?
Most of the overhead is in staffing and rent, so anything that lowers those substantially is a huge win.
but the instruments at Keesler AFB were blown away when Camille hit Biloxi
the same can also be said for America's deadliest hurricane...which lacks an official name since we weren't doing those back in 1900
"The highest measured wind speed was 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) just after 6 p.m., but the Weather Bureau's anemometer was blown off the building shortly after that measurement was recorded"
The thing is though, even after there's no frackable oil you're still going to have several years of natural gas in addition to all of the gas you've previously harvested and put into holding tanks. That's how oil wells work.
I mean, assuming you're not living in Southern California where they created by far the worst methane leak in US history (97 tons). I will grant you that it takes quite some time to bring a nuke plant online and a number of the ones we have now are in danger of being decommissioned. The same thing is going on in Europe and it's just ignorant. When these things work properly they are the cleanest energy source that we have by far (*), they're just not currently very cost effective so I get why we're steering away from them.
(*) Sorry Solar/Wind/etc. Nuclear reactors produce massive amounts of energy and other than a few spent rods their primary waste product is...wait for it...water vapor. They'll even produce it when it's calm and/or dark outside.
Hydro is pretty clean too, but it's kind of the same thing as Nuclear, there are environmental side-effects. They're just called silting and destroyed river ecosystems vs which remote place in the desert are we going to hide the spent rods.
Given the massive glut of natural gas in the USA right now, neither coal or nuclear make much sense. So long as we have active fracking operations we're going to have a massive surplus of natural gas and using anything else is just plain silly. Running our cars on the stuff wouldn't be a bad idea either, it's not some radical new thing, that's basic technology that we've had since the 1930s.
Yes there's wind and solar, but those account for only a tiny fraction of our energy supply and only when it's windy and/or sunny outside.
Fortunately this plant was designed to run on natural gas, so all they had to do was feed it that vs the whole gasification of coal step.
If we didn't have cheap natural gas that step might make sense, just like if you didn't have any oil it might make sense to turn it into a liquid fuel to run your tanks and planes with if you were somewhere in Germany around say...1942. Once upon a time fracking didn't make sense either, why do that when you can pump sweet crude out of the ground for pennies? Coal may not make sense right now but it's a plentiful fuel source and it's day may come again.
Well every one likes to tell me how math is absolutely critical to being a programmer and you can't survive in the field without it. Yet I dropped out of high school primarily because I suck at math and I've now been a programmer for 20 years. I'm a programmer that can choose my jobs too.
I agree with you. I took a completely stupid number of math courses for my degree and I've used almost none of that as a developer. It's a way of "weeding out" people who can't do logic, but it's not a very useful way because you can still be logical and bad at ##$% calculus proofs (derivatives and integration). I powered through it but there has been no point in my professional life where that had any application whatsoever.
I will say math classes like Probability and Graph theory totally have a point for engineers, but advanced Calculus? Not so much.
No there wasn't. There is zero evidence that code quality was better decades ago.
I think it's more that there was way less code quantity decades ago. It's one thing to debug some poorly written thing that's a few thousand lines in a single threaded console app, when it's a hundred thousand lines in a multi-threaded GUI or client-server app, that's when life gets difficult.
As our problems gets harder, the need for code quality goes up. You can write the crappiest thing in your "classic" environment and still debug it, but when you're looking at that same thing with all kinds of multi-thread, multi-server things going on it becomes a flipping nightmare.
So you're saying your erectile disfunction should qualify you for a handicapped placard? Nobody remotely disabled would ever drive those cars due to the difficult entry/exits.
hate handicapped people so much that they dont think that any of them should drive Hummer's or Mercedes.
I challenge anyone with a bad hip or a bad spine to get into or out of either of those two specific vehicles on a daily basis. I'm not even talking wheelchair level disability here, just legitimate disability vs "I gots me a note, where's my tags" disability.
The police, like vampires, cannot enter a person's home uninvited
In general yes, but there are many many exceptions. It's certainly unwise (as with fictional vampires) to invite them into your home but they may make up valid sounding excuses to come in anyway so...be prepared
Once inside the home you can be charged with any illegal thing they see in plain view whether they have a valid warrant or not. That might seem harmless enough but we have so many illegal things that even lawyers can't keep track of it anymore, unless it applies to their particular legal specialty/region.
They may in fact not even announce themselves as police officers. When gunmen arrive at your house at 3AM wearing all black, holding AR-15s and forcibly enter your home in a "no knock" raid it is apparently up to you to determine ahead of time that these armed gunmen invading your home are legal representatives of the government and that holding either a gun, a knife, a sharpened stick, or a cell-phone puts you at extreme risk of getting shot through the chest many many times...legally.
eight or ten or so handicapped stalls always seem to be available at any one time
Really? Not around here. They're all full of rich old people with a note from their doctor. I laugh at it but if I were genuinely handicapped I would be keying those guys cars left and right. I mean, assuming my wheelchair had enough range to make it from the publicly available parking.
The moment you see a Hummer H1 or a Mercedes SL500 convertible in a handicapped space with perfectly legal placards you have to take a minute and realize that the system is utterly broken.
It's like the earliest hybrid/electric cars (remember the first Tesla, The one based on the Lotus frame?); way too impractical and expensive as a viable solution for the majority, but good enough for enough people to make it possible to build up the economy of scale you need for mass market adoption. We're still not there yet, but I dare say that few would be blind enough not to deny a future of non-petrol cars.
I hope you're right but that's a genuinely funny statement. The earliest modern electric car came out in 1996, not 2008. The EV1, from General Motors of all people. They weren't impractical or hugely expensive but they weren't popular and GM lost money, so...away they went after a 4 year run.
Speaking of which, the Tesla Model 3 came out last year, they just called it the Chevy Bolt. Like GM's EV cars before it I'd never call it sexy but range/price wise? It's a dead ringer.
I am no kind of GM fanboy but I can give credit where credit is due. It's no Model S but it's also no $130,000.
So unless you want to maintain the first-world/third-world gap, meat production or consumption has to change
If you live in a country where your average citizen is making oh...$900USD per year, at $12/lb this "vegan" meat seems like something you totally wouldn't buy. I mean, not when you can get meat from a cow @ $4/lb or @ $2/lb from a chicken.
At some point economy of scale and competition may make soylent-meat cheaper but right now it really only makes sense for people who have ethical problems with eating delicious animals, not people in the third world who just want to eat something besides relief agency rice and oppression.
There are all sort of conservatives - not just the extremes and "the other conservatives".
Anyone with half a brain is neither liberal or conservative. They're looking at the situation at hand and deciding the best way of handling it versus referring to some sort of football play-book handed to them by party leaders.
We call Republicans conservative but lets hearken back oh...9 years or so. Lets see, 2 wars in the middle east (with a great start on war#3 in Syria), that's a good 4 trillion dollars right there, 700 billion dollars in bailouts to big business, massive monitoring programs to spy on american citizens, etc. If that's what constitutes "conservative", let's look at the flip side, our last 8 years...of the exact same thing under the "liberal" Democrats.
Fine idiots, now you have Trump. I (and many others) voted for him because we're sick and tired of your bullshit. I certainly don't agree with everything he said he wanted to do but
A. he told us what he wanted to do during his campaign, unlike Hillary
B. he's now doing it. Not four years down the road after "consensus" building, right freaking now.
I find that highly refreshing. It's almost like he's not a career politician at all. A+++ service, would vote for again.
That said, at least some of this could be 'spin' (at least the way it's being publicized) so Verizon can pick up Yahoo for millions off the asking price, just like Nissan did to Mitsubishi before their merger.
if you have to drive, you can drive a hybrid that gets >50 mpg. And that's actually better for you too, since it means you buy a lot less gas for your long commute
There are no (to my knowledge) gas hybrids that can net 50 mpg on the highway. Unlike a gas car they get far better town mpg.
A hybrid car also has all the things that can go wrong with a gas powered car combined with all the things that can go wrong with an electric powered car. On the plus side, there are not that many things to go wrong with an electric car, but it's still a tradeoff. There is more that can go wrong, and you the consumer will be paying for that.
Every time people have bitched and moaned about people losing their jobs, the result was more people employed earning more for their labor
Um...not really clear on that, but I know that realistically speaking, my job as an engineer is to eliminate jobs through task automation and streamlining paperwork.
do you seriously think anyone in the middle or lower class would be better off living 50 or 100 years ago?
50 years ago puts us back in the mid-60's, when there was still plenty of good paying factory work to be had, and middle or lower class had more upward mobility, housing was still (relatively) cheap, education was cheap, pensions were still a thing, along with miniskirts and free love. I fail to see the downside here..
...but it is extremely objectionable to call them FAKE
These (in almost all cases) aren't strangers abducting people's kids, they're parents that were estranged by the court, in some cases quite unjustly. However you want to label it that is a very real thing.
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Cryptocurrency? And "off the grid"? I don't think those two things go together.
You're right of course. Just think of all of the diesel fuel these guys are going to be churning through trying to fight global warming by generating arbitrary ones and zeroes. The least they could do is relocate from French Polynesia to someplace like northern Oregon where they can use that all waste heat to keep warm at night.
As opposed to the regulatory clusterfuck that is the SEC or the FDA, EPA, etc?
When all of your regulatory agencies are populated by ex-corporate executives, lobbyists and a crowd of bootlickers begging to be hired on by said companies at 4x their current pay more laws aren't going to do anything other than blacklisting whoever votes to enact them.
They clearly are willing to risk 100% hardware profit margins purposely throttling their old hardware to pick up millions of dollars in new hardware sales...but that's admittedly a separate topic.
Sure, why not. Apple has gone to the trouble of taking existing technology, painting it white and adding a FUNCTIONAL APPLICATION STORE. Sorry, Microsoft, Creative, Palm, etc. You all failed at this.
You also failed by letting your engineers add features they thought were cool vs dumbing the platform down to the least common denominator and then marking it up by 200% thereby corralling all of the rich idiots (*) into one ecosystem.
(*) No I don't think all of you are rich idiots, but let's be fair. If you were at all interested in price or cool 'nerd' features you wouldn't be shopping at the Apple store. So if you prefer please substitute "rich people that don't care"
Am I somehow missing the high priced drink options that keep the #4 Value meal at $5.75 USD? Most of the overhead is in staffing and rent, so anything that lowers those substantially is a huge win.
Not anymore, it's been legal to export crude since 2016.
Sadly it does not...
"A successful exploit first needs to have the root privilege of the device (e.g., exploit another vulnerability)"
the same can also be said for America's deadliest hurricane...which lacks an official name since we weren't doing those back in 1900
"The highest measured wind speed was 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) just after 6 p.m., but the Weather Bureau's anemometer was blown off the building shortly after that measurement was recorded"
the 1900 hurricane hit Galveston, killing between 8 and 12,000 people
Agreed.
The thing is though, even after there's no frackable oil you're still going to have several years of natural gas in addition to all of the gas you've previously harvested and put into holding tanks. That's how oil wells work.
I mean, assuming you're not living in Southern California where they created by far the worst methane leak in US history (97 tons). I will grant you that it takes quite some time to bring a nuke plant online and a number of the ones we have now are in danger of being decommissioned. The same thing is going on in Europe and it's just ignorant. When these things work properly they are the cleanest energy source that we have by far (*), they're just not currently very cost effective so I get why we're steering away from them. (*) Sorry Solar/Wind/etc. Nuclear reactors produce massive amounts of energy and other than a few spent rods their primary waste product is...wait for it...water vapor. They'll even produce it when it's calm and/or dark outside.
Hydro is pretty clean too, but it's kind of the same thing as Nuclear, there are environmental side-effects. They're just called silting and destroyed river ecosystems vs which remote place in the desert are we going to hide the spent rods.
Given the massive glut of natural gas in the USA right now, neither coal or nuclear make much sense. So long as we have active fracking operations we're going to have a massive surplus of natural gas and using anything else is just plain silly. Running our cars on the stuff wouldn't be a bad idea either, it's not some radical new thing, that's basic technology that we've had since the 1930s.
Yes there's wind and solar, but those account for only a tiny fraction of our energy supply and only when it's windy and/or sunny outside.
Fortunately this plant was designed to run on natural gas, so all they had to do was feed it that vs the whole gasification of coal step.
If we didn't have cheap natural gas that step might make sense, just like if you didn't have any oil it might make sense to turn it into a liquid fuel to run your tanks and planes with if you were somewhere in Germany around say...1942. Once upon a time fracking didn't make sense either, why do that when you can pump sweet crude out of the ground for pennies? Coal may not make sense right now but it's a plentiful fuel source and it's day may come again.
I agree with you. I took a completely stupid number of math courses for my degree and I've used almost none of that as a developer. It's a way of "weeding out" people who can't do logic, but it's not a very useful way because you can still be logical and bad at ##$% calculus proofs (derivatives and integration). I powered through it but there has been no point in my professional life where that had any application whatsoever.
I will say math classes like Probability and Graph theory totally have a point for engineers, but advanced Calculus? Not so much.
I think it's more that there was way less code quantity decades ago. It's one thing to debug some poorly written thing that's a few thousand lines in a single threaded console app, when it's a hundred thousand lines in a multi-threaded GUI or client-server app, that's when life gets difficult.
As our problems gets harder, the need for code quality goes up. You can write the crappiest thing in your "classic" environment and still debug it, but when you're looking at that same thing with all kinds of multi-thread, multi-server things going on it becomes a flipping nightmare.
So you're saying your erectile disfunction should qualify you for a handicapped placard? Nobody remotely disabled would ever drive those cars due to the difficult entry/exits.
I challenge anyone with a bad hip or a bad spine to get into or out of either of those two specific vehicles on a daily basis. I'm not even talking wheelchair level disability here, just legitimate disability vs "I gots me a note, where's my tags" disability.
In general yes, but there are many many exceptions. It's certainly unwise (as with fictional vampires) to invite them into your home but they may make up valid sounding excuses to come in anyway so...be prepared
Once inside the home you can be charged with any illegal thing they see in plain view whether they have a valid warrant or not. That might seem harmless enough but we have so many illegal things that even lawyers can't keep track of it anymore, unless it applies to their particular legal specialty/region.
They may in fact not even announce themselves as police officers. When gunmen arrive at your house at 3AM wearing all black, holding AR-15s and forcibly enter your home in a "no knock" raid it is apparently up to you to determine ahead of time that these armed gunmen invading your home are legal representatives of the government and that holding either a gun, a knife, a sharpened stick, or a cell-phone puts you at extreme risk of getting shot through the chest many many times...legally.
Really? Not around here. They're all full of rich old people with a note from their doctor. I laugh at it but if I were genuinely handicapped I would be keying those guys cars left and right. I mean, assuming my wheelchair had enough range to make it from the publicly available parking.
The moment you see a Hummer H1 or a Mercedes SL500 convertible in a handicapped space with perfectly legal placards you have to take a minute and realize that the system is utterly broken.
I hope you're right but that's a genuinely funny statement. The earliest modern electric car came out in 1996, not 2008. The EV1, from General Motors of all people. They weren't impractical or hugely expensive but they weren't popular and GM lost money, so...away they went after a 4 year run.
Speaking of which, the Tesla Model 3 came out last year, they just called it the Chevy Bolt. Like GM's EV cars before it I'd never call it sexy but range/price wise? It's a dead ringer.
I am no kind of GM fanboy but I can give credit where credit is due. It's no Model S but it's also no $130,000.
If you live in a country where your average citizen is making oh...$900USD per year, at $12/lb this "vegan" meat seems like something you totally wouldn't buy. I mean, not when you can get meat from a cow @ $4/lb or @ $2/lb from a chicken.
At some point economy of scale and competition may make soylent-meat cheaper but right now it really only makes sense for people who have ethical problems with eating delicious animals, not people in the third world who just want to eat something besides relief agency rice and oppression.
Anyone with half a brain is neither liberal or conservative. They're looking at the situation at hand and deciding the best way of handling it versus referring to some sort of football play-book handed to them by party leaders.
We call Republicans conservative but lets hearken back oh...9 years or so. Lets see, 2 wars in the middle east (with a great start on war#3 in Syria), that's a good 4 trillion dollars right there, 700 billion dollars in bailouts to big business, massive monitoring programs to spy on american citizens, etc. If that's what constitutes "conservative", let's look at the flip side, our last 8 years...of the exact same thing under the "liberal" Democrats.
Fine idiots, now you have Trump. I (and many others) voted for him because we're sick and tired of your bullshit. I certainly don't agree with everything he said he wanted to do but
A. he told us what he wanted to do during his campaign, unlike Hillary
B. he's now doing it. Not four years down the road after "consensus" building, right freaking now.
I find that highly refreshing. It's almost like he's not a career politician at all. A+++ service, would vote for again.
Because Hitler's master plan involved idiots with bad spray tans? I must have missed that chapter in Mein Kampf
Does the NSA count?
That said, at least some of this could be 'spin' (at least the way it's being publicized) so Verizon can pick up Yahoo for millions off the asking price, just like Nissan did to Mitsubishi before their merger.
Per the EPA, the new one does get 50 mpg highway so please color me both surprised and corrected. Older ones were rated for a bit less, but YMMV
There are no (to my knowledge) gas hybrids that can net 50 mpg on the highway. Unlike a gas car they get far better town mpg.
A hybrid car also has all the things that can go wrong with a gas powered car combined with all the things that can go wrong with an electric powered car. On the plus side, there are not that many things to go wrong with an electric car, but it's still a tradeoff. There is more that can go wrong, and you the consumer will be paying for that.
Um...not really clear on that, but I know that realistically speaking, my job as an engineer is to eliminate jobs through task automation and streamlining paperwork.
50 years ago puts us back in the mid-60's, when there was still plenty of good paying factory work to be had, and middle or lower class had more upward mobility, housing was still (relatively) cheap, education was cheap, pensions were still a thing, along with miniskirts and free love. I fail to see the downside here..
These (in almost all cases) aren't strangers abducting people's kids, they're parents that were estranged by the court, in some cases quite unjustly. However you want to label it that is a very real thing.