Most sites that have not already will be disabling anything older than TLS1.2 for https shortly so a lot of stuff is going to break on that vintage stuff soon.
I happen to agree with you. The people who are happiest with their governments in the world also have the highest taxes. I'm just saying its unrealistic to expect it to happen here in the US. Simply increasing taxes is too simplistic. The more realistic answer is a gradual reduction in military spending and other non-social programs, a raising of the retirement age, a single payer health system, as well as a modest increase in taxes.
In rough numbers you want 200 million wage earners to pay for 44 million retirees and their health care. Sounds like a 25% tax increase on top of what we already pay. The American younger voter won't go for doubling its tax rate for the retired generation.
I can assure you a plurality of voters in the US will choose a tax cutting populist like Trump so your plan would have horrendous unintended consequences. I don't like it either, but there it is...
>Or we could stop spending so much fucking money on our massive, embarrassing military.
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately when I studied the issue, I was horrified to find that a major portion of our economy depends on military spending. What a mess...
To simply tax the younger generation to essentially write a blank check to a larger older generation in the US in't a workable solution. To say its a US only problem is shortsighted because as the US depends on the rest of the world, the rest of the world depends on the US. If you are Asian or European, you had better take another look at your population charts because with your aging populations you will have a big problem in the next decade if you think higher taxes are the only answer.
Its more complicated than that. In the '60s the US started Medicare for seniors based upon a "promise between generations"; I payed for my parents medical care and my kids will pay for mine. Unfortunately they failed to predict that population would grow as expected so the younger generation may be saddled with more cost than they could tolerate.
Additionally the cost of medical care has skyrocketed in the US beyond anybody's wildest predictions. The reason is three-fold:
1) There seems to be a moral obligation here to keep people alive no matter the cost. Nobody wants to pull the plug on Grandma even if it costs hundreds of thousands annually ( I saw this with my own mother).
2) Healthcare is labor intensive and will always be costly
3) The US has a perverse incentive where insurance companies get paid more if costs are higher - they just pass it on to the consumer and get a percentage of a bigger pie - they are incentivized to negotiate higher costs. Before you say we're stupid here in the US please remember that this bonanza of medical money in the US funds a lion's share of the life enhancing medical technology developed on our planet.
>Even if the stock went up 50% that isn't a big win.
Really? that seems like a big win to me. I''ll repeat my argument that you are ignoring the distinction between Value and Growth stocks. Would you argue that all those years Amazon lost money was a mistake? Investors of your mindset predicted the demise of Apple in the 90s.
>Tesla isn't even the biggest manufacturer of EVs
So what, they are much younger than all their competition. They are still making 3 out of the 4 top selling EVs. If they had not proved that an EV could be desirable, the other bigger automakers wouldn't be making nearly as many EVs. Your argument is at best misleading if not factually incorrect.
>and isn't producing an affordable EV.
When you take into consideration the total cost of ownership of an ICE car, this is simply incorrect for the Model 3. Additionally, If we paid the true cost of burning gasoline including the long term cost of environmental damage and the wars its triggering, we'd all go broke in a hurry.
For me a big win is for Tesla to continue making cars. I frankly don't care if an investor wins or loses their Wall Street gambles. What I can't remain silent about is the false narratives intended to damage a company trying to make a positive difference so some social parisites can make some extra money they probably don't even need.
I won big when I bought a Model S more than 5 years ago. It's still like new, drives like a dream, and has not cost a penny to maintain other than a set of tires. Building and driving an EV isn't abut making and saving money, its about making the world a better place.
I've seen your posts in the past and have found them to be often intelligent and insightful. It's odd that you take this position.
Growth stocks typically do not offer dividends from profit, they plow as much capital back into the company to fund growth. No astute investor expects a growth company to have a good P/E ratio, they expect a big win in the long run based upon stock price growth.
Unlike all their competitors, Tesla is a Growth stock as opposed to a Value stock. This graph (https://www.statista.com/statistics/272120/revenue-of-tesla/) indicates that they are successfully executing a very effective growth strategy.
The reality is that the greedy cynics expect the headwinds generated by fossil fuel PR to win. The reality is that the fossil fuel industry is headed to a long term decline.
The cooling during that period was very slight. It's pretty clear that it was caused by the increased particulates in the air at that time. https://www.skepticalscience.c...
You are however correct about one thing, CO2 isn't our only big problem
First to send probes outside the solar system. First space telescopes of many kinds. First to Pluto. The United States has been claiming by far the most firsts for each of the last 5 decades.
While I think humanity needs to grow past anachronistic nationalism, US society is still technologically vibrant.
Trump needs to slap big tarrifs on AI to save jobs.
Tarrifs only apply to imported stuff. I think you meant taxes.
Do you honestly think a republican pro business low tax rate government will tax robots? That's why this government really wants protectionism - the financiers want to build automated factories here. And they say anybody who disagrees with them is spewing "fake news"
I think there are valid non-Fanboi reasons to not love The Last Jedi. My primary reason was that I couldn't figure out who the main character was (it seemed like 3 to me) and that there wasn't an obvious dilemma and resolution.
I expect Star Wars movies to be 4.5 or 5 star 90%+ Rotten Tomato movies; anything less is a disappointment. The Last Jedi was 3 star 60% for me.
Why do employers discriminate based upon age? Study after study has shown that older workers perform just as well as younger workers for most tasks. Ageism bias is ignorant.
Aliens come to earth and say "Wow, nice planet. We just need to get rid of that many humans. Let's leak some stupid technologyies like burning fossil fuels, fission of heavy elements, toxic pesticides and herbicides and maybe some dangerous CFC chemistry. Maybe we'll also sprinkle in some flawed ideologies like nationalism and racism in order to trigger infighting. By the time they realize their errors it will be too late for them. When the colony ships arrive, we'll just pay off the few remaining insane politicians to pass and enforce laws to get out of our way."
Yes, its a big step in that direction. I think these will be used on motherboards and OSs designed for them, but using DIMMS would provide vastly more bandwidth for non volatile storage. Using these instead of/in addition to SATA or M2 will mean instant on computing, massive in memory database servers at a reasonable cost and systems that are far more tolerant to power issues and unexpected shutdowns.
If anything has complete keys to your PC kingdom, it would be anti-virus software.
With everything going on in the news today, how can anybody truly trust any of these solutions? If you think that there isn't a cold war going on in the internet, you are uninformed. I see it for myself in logs and honeypot activity all the time. I have to chuckle every time I hear somebody swear by an antivirus program because it doesn't cause trouble and they think they aren't getting infected. I do however expect more of people who test and rank this stuff.
If an American has made the decision to trust Microsoft Windows, why would they expand that circle of trust to a company whose headquarters is in Moscow? By that same logic, if you trust a Russian company more than an American company, it would be logical to use Kaspersky.
The fossil fuel industry and the politicians in their stranglehold for campaign money don't care about the cost everyone has to pay. They care not a whit about the voters and customers yet to be born.
You wouldn't transfer raw uncompressed data to the display. MPEG compression includes the capability of only sending a compressed stream of pixels that have changed from frame to frame dramatically reducing the bandwidth requirements. Additionally they may utilize short distance low power point to point RF chips an order of magnitude higher than 5Ghz where bandwidth will not be an issue at all.
I stand corrected. It really needs to get away from earth's orbit. I misspoke when I said ISS. A better suggestion is to piggyback on a mission to mars.
I know for a fact it is not. The farther we get an experiment away from the earth's influence the better. Even if it only works in Earth's field, propellantless propulsion in LEO would be very useful.
I'm trying to make the point that the Em Drive warrants review. It needs to be tested it in space where we intend to use it. It's always best to fail early and a real in situ test seems practical in the near term.
Elon, I know you take suggestions directly. If you are listening, would you get somebody's Em Drive experiment into space? Maybe toss it out the window on your way to Mars?
"It's far easier to cancel out the field down here"
I don't agree at all. I actually think its impossible to cancel out all of earth's effects, especially when you take into consideration gravity should not be ruled out as a factor.
I've got some mu metal in the garage so I think I'll do an experiment sometime this week. I think mu metal stops changing electromagnetic fields pretty well, but may not have an effect on a permanent field in an unchanging orientation. I think if I put a compass in a mu metal box it will still always point north.
Can anybody here predict the outcome of my experiment?
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Most sites that have not already will be disabling anything older than TLS1.2 for https shortly so a lot of stuff is going to break on that vintage stuff soon.
I happen to agree with you. The people who are happiest with their governments in the world also have the highest taxes. I'm just saying its unrealistic to expect it to happen here in the US. Simply increasing taxes is too simplistic. The more realistic answer is a gradual reduction in military spending and other non-social programs, a raising of the retirement age, a single payer health system, as well as a modest increase in taxes.
In rough numbers you want 200 million wage earners to pay for 44 million retirees and their health care. Sounds like a 25% tax increase on top of what we already pay. The American younger voter won't go for doubling its tax rate for the retired generation.
I can assure you a plurality of voters in the US will choose a tax cutting populist like Trump so your plan would have horrendous unintended consequences. I don't like it either, but there it is...
to destroy items responsibly instead of burning yet more fossil fuel to ship them only to be determined to be scrap anyway.
>Or we could stop spending so much fucking money on our massive, embarrassing military.
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately when I studied the issue, I was horrified to find that a major portion of our economy depends on military spending. What a mess...
To simply tax the younger generation to essentially write a blank check to a larger older generation in the US in't a workable solution. To say its a US only problem is shortsighted because as the US depends on the rest of the world, the rest of the world depends on the US. If you are Asian or European, you had better take another look at your population charts because with your aging populations you will have a big problem in the next decade if you think higher taxes are the only answer.
Its more complicated than that. In the '60s the US started Medicare for seniors based upon a "promise between generations"; I payed for my parents medical care and my kids will pay for mine. Unfortunately they failed to predict that population would grow as expected so the younger generation may be saddled with more cost than they could tolerate.
Additionally the cost of medical care has skyrocketed in the US beyond anybody's wildest predictions. The reason is three-fold:
1) There seems to be a moral obligation here to keep people alive no matter the cost. Nobody wants to pull the plug on Grandma even if it costs hundreds of thousands annually ( I saw this with my own mother).
2) Healthcare is labor intensive and will always be costly
3) The US has a perverse incentive where insurance companies get paid more if costs are higher - they just pass it on to the consumer and get a percentage of a bigger pie - they are incentivized to negotiate higher costs. Before you say we're stupid here in the US please remember that this bonanza of medical money in the US funds a lion's share of the life enhancing medical technology developed on our planet.
Congress to take up bill regulating perpetual motion.
There's a sucker born every minute
>Even if the stock went up 50% that isn't a big win.
Really? that seems like a big win to me. I''ll repeat my argument that you are ignoring the distinction between Value and Growth stocks. Would you argue that all those years Amazon lost money was a mistake? Investors of your mindset predicted the demise of Apple in the 90s.
>Tesla isn't even the biggest manufacturer of EVs
So what, they are much younger than all their competition. They are still making 3 out of the 4 top selling EVs. If they had not proved that an EV could be desirable, the other bigger automakers wouldn't be making nearly as many EVs. Your argument is at best misleading if not factually incorrect.
>and isn't producing an affordable EV.
When you take into consideration the total cost of ownership of an ICE car, this is simply incorrect for the Model 3. Additionally, If we paid the true cost of burning gasoline including the long term cost of environmental damage and the wars its triggering, we'd all go broke in a hurry.
For me a big win is for Tesla to continue making cars. I frankly don't care if an investor wins or loses their Wall Street gambles. What I can't remain silent about is the false narratives intended to damage a company trying to make a positive difference so some social parisites can make some extra money they probably don't even need.
I won big when I bought a Model S more than 5 years ago. It's still like new, drives like a dream, and has not cost a penny to maintain other than a set of tires. Building and driving an EV isn't abut making and saving money, its about making the world a better place.
I've seen your posts in the past and have found them to be often intelligent and insightful. It's odd that you take this position.
Growth stocks typically do not offer dividends from profit, they plow as much capital back into the company to fund growth. No astute investor expects a growth company to have a good P/E ratio, they expect a big win in the long run based upon stock price growth.
Unlike all their competitors, Tesla is a Growth stock as opposed to a Value stock. This graph (https://www.statista.com/statistics/272120/revenue-of-tesla/) indicates that they are successfully executing a very effective growth strategy.
The reality is that the greedy cynics expect the headwinds generated by fossil fuel PR to win. The reality is that the fossil fuel industry is headed to a long term decline.
Good point. I'm now looking forward to he next part :-)
The cooling during that period was very slight. It's pretty clear that it was caused by the increased particulates in the air at that time.
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
You are however correct about one thing, CO2 isn't our only big problem
First to send probes outside the solar system. First space telescopes of many kinds. First to Pluto. The United States has been claiming by far the most firsts for each of the last 5 decades.
While I think humanity needs to grow past anachronistic nationalism, US society is still technologically vibrant.
Trump needs to slap big tarrifs on AI to save jobs.
Tarrifs only apply to imported stuff. I think you meant taxes.
Do you honestly think a republican pro business low tax rate government will tax robots? That's why this government really wants protectionism - the financiers want to build automated factories here. And they say anybody who disagrees with them is spewing "fake news"
I think there are valid non-Fanboi reasons to not love The Last Jedi. My primary reason was that I couldn't figure out who the main character was (it seemed like 3 to me) and that there wasn't an obvious dilemma and resolution.
I expect Star Wars movies to be 4.5 or 5 star 90%+ Rotten Tomato movies; anything less is a disappointment. The Last Jedi was 3 star 60% for me.
I'm glad you liked it.
Why do employers discriminate based upon age? Study after study has shown that older workers perform just as well as younger workers for most tasks. Ageism bias is ignorant.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda...
https://www.techrepublic.com/a...
https://www.recode.net/2016/10...
The only logical reason to discriminate against older workers is because health insurance costs in the US are far higher for older people.
Is age discrimination less of a problem in countries that have single payer heath care?
You have the making of a good book here...
Aliens come to earth and say "Wow, nice planet. We just need to get rid of that many humans. Let's leak some stupid technologyies like burning fossil fuels, fission of heavy elements, toxic pesticides and herbicides and maybe some dangerous CFC chemistry. Maybe we'll also sprinkle in some flawed ideologies like nationalism and racism in order to trigger infighting. By the time they realize their errors it will be too late for them. When the colony ships arrive, we'll just pay off the few remaining insane politicians to pass and enforce laws to get out of our way."
Yes, its a big step in that direction. I think these will be used on motherboards and OSs designed for them, but using DIMMS would provide vastly more bandwidth for non volatile storage. Using these instead of/in addition to SATA or M2 will mean instant on computing, massive in memory database servers at a reasonable cost and systems that are far more tolerant to power issues and unexpected shutdowns.
If anything has complete keys to your PC kingdom, it would be anti-virus software.
With everything going on in the news today, how can anybody truly trust any of these solutions? If you think that there isn't a cold war going on in the internet, you are uninformed. I see it for myself in logs and honeypot activity all the time. I have to chuckle every time I hear somebody swear by an antivirus program because it doesn't cause trouble and they think they aren't getting infected. I do however expect more of people who test and rank this stuff.
If an American has made the decision to trust Microsoft Windows, why would they expand that circle of trust to a company whose headquarters is in Moscow? By that same logic, if you trust a Russian company more than an American company, it would be logical to use Kaspersky.
Can you imagine the repercussions of this happening with an Echo Spot?
The fossil fuel industry and the politicians in their stranglehold for campaign money don't care about the cost everyone has to pay. They care not a whit about the voters and customers yet to be born.
You wouldn't transfer raw uncompressed data to the display. MPEG compression includes the capability of only sending a compressed stream of pixels that have changed from frame to frame dramatically reducing the bandwidth requirements. Additionally they may utilize short distance low power point to point RF chips an order of magnitude higher than 5Ghz where bandwidth will not be an issue at all.
I stand corrected. It really needs to get away from earth's orbit. I misspoke when I said ISS. A better suggestion is to piggyback on a mission to mars.
My gut tells me glorious fail. If it works it would be spectacular :-) I really want my gut to be wrong.
I know for a fact it is not. The farther we get an experiment away from the earth's influence the better. Even if it only works in Earth's field, propellantless propulsion in LEO would be very useful.
I'm trying to make the point that the Em Drive warrants review. It needs to be tested it in space where we intend to use it. It's always best to fail early and a real in situ test seems practical in the near term.
Elon, I know you take suggestions directly. If you are listening, would you get somebody's Em Drive experiment into space? Maybe toss it out the window on your way to Mars?
"It's far easier to cancel out the field down here"
I don't agree at all. I actually think its impossible to cancel out all of earth's effects, especially when you take into consideration gravity should not be ruled out as a factor.
I've got some mu metal in the garage so I think I'll do an experiment sometime this week. I think mu metal stops changing electromagnetic fields pretty well, but may not have an effect on a permanent field in an unchanging orientation. I think if I put a compass in a mu metal box it will still always point north.
Can anybody here predict the outcome of my experiment?