...but wouldn't it be better if these neighbor-hating savages (your description, not mine) could generate their power using a technology that both isn't likely to be "the next big US hit" and doesn't spew CO2 waste everywhere? Won't somebody think of the poor downwind Japanese? I don't need to think of the people of China as flag-waving boy-scouts to want them using cleaner power..
Your point is fair, but just want to point out you've gone from Banker to banker. I doubt the GP of your post was referring to anyone who'd ever remotely interact with a GS client (traditionally GS haven't worked much with us normies at all, until their recent Marcus initiative) , unless that client is itself a large corporation.
Most expensive/high-level "management" / "VP" jobs in a bank will be held by people with 0 interest in the banks branches; rather they're in the back/mid/front-office operations on the _investment_ side of the bank. People who don't care whether the bank has branches, don't care where they are or who goes to them, as long as revenue is coming in to allow them to continue to operate investment operations.
Still, while it may be offtopic a smidge, your point is also correct. Just want to broaden some views on the complexities of a modern bank.
1st sentence, baseless attack based on your lack of understanding of permaculture principles, and the (incredibly) increased density achievable if attention is paid to which plants/animals can increase production _for_ us. Side point, this work is (currently) not hyper-automatable, meaning this is one of those nice inefficient industries like craft brewing where many care to participate and can be rewarded for doing so.
2nd sentence, an attempt to categorize GP into a group based on your evident (see above) lack of understanding of the concepts the GP is discussing.
3rd sentence, assertion based on...(see above)
4th, correct, but missing an analysis of how farming techniques based on guilds, companion planting, and other (less hyper-automatable farming techniques) would compare to this... there's limited data here to support such an analysis, but it's clear you didn't try.
5th sentence we agree, but you also agree with the GP. I promise.
...I don't have the energy to go on. Please invest a few days/weeks studying the combinatorial effects of plants who provide inputs to each other. Follow please with some analysis.
...as an aside, please stop and think about _when_ you actually have enough information to be a total douche. "you should feel bad" is a great way to make someone feel like shit, and make yourself feel cool, when you're right... but when you're wrong, it shows you to be an arrogant shit. Hence the AC, i'd imagine. You're not even trying to be right, just trying to sound right. We see the difference.
A car is private property, with no right to public access. Youtube is a business and all about public access.
If a business gets to such a dominant position that it can impose its will like that then its ability to do so *should* be restricted,
Please, tell me more about gay wedding cakes...
Convenient you stopped quoting (or reading) where you did, I've gone back and added the next sentence of the GPs post for you. Please tell me more about this market-dominating bakery which has a near monopoly on US cake sales?
Or, option 3. Drop the front camera entirely. As an Essential owner, I've considered constantly lately how I haven't used the front camera on any of my last few phones.
I'm guessing there's really no need for a phone company to consider the use case that some people don't ever take selfies.
I get it's his own money, but seriously, he could use that $42 million to give workers earning less then $30K at Amazon a nice bonus.
Who gives a shit about having a clock that lasts 10K years, honestly what the fuck is the point.
I 100% get your point, but a thought... were Bezos to take profits (whether via his personal income or directly from AMZN) and give them to employees... his valuation would drop. Part of his wealth valulation (mostly via AMZN ownership) is the calculation that he'll continue his known/predictable compensation policies (not the most employee/contractor friendly..), which would slip if he were shown to be caring for employees over shareholders. Such a move impacts him directly, and limits his piles of '$42 million USDs' that he has to invest.
Again, I get your point, just wanted to note that sometimes markets are designed to react to certain cues, and "gives to employees over wealth-hoarding" is a negative for long-term valuation. There are of course other incentives to consider..
"200 years of viable energy" - this is like claiming that a fleet of horses and some fields will keep your area/businesses competitive for the next 200 years... in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.
"Getting in the way of their meal ticket is the fastest route to losing scientific progress." - how is depriving people of income they're used-to and still-attempting-to make on a practically price-obsoleted commodity either "getting in the way of their meal ticket" (from the prior example, you sound a bit like a literal luddite, wanting to preserve inefficient old methods over "the reality of labor (energy) pricing") or going to "lose scientific progress" (just a thought - inventing, perfecting, and engineering replacement energy sources is very much 'scientific progress')?
A choice quote: "The author specifically objects to using what his memo calls discriminatory means to achieve greater gender diversity, then adds that he has concrete suggestions for changes at Google that would “increase women’s representation in tech and without resorting to discrimination.” In his telling, this could be achieved by making software engineering “more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration” and changes that would “allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive,” as well as offering more opportunities for employees to work part time.
Whether one regards those suggestions as brilliant, rooted in pernicious gender stereotypes, or anywhere in between, they are clearly and explicitly suggestions to increase diversity in a manner the author regards as having a stronger chance of actually working than some of the tactics that he is critiquing. "
If this wasn't the case, you'd have a disproportionately large number of people moving to Alaska with their families, hoping to collect that $5,000 - $6,000 per month of zero effort income.
...and some (this guy) now listen to her more than Mr Reznor. Learn about new bands, listen to their music, then decide if they're sellouts/shills/coat-tail riders. Doing it the other way around shows more that you want to be right than you want to experience life and make optimal choices with the information you've acquired. I happen to not like much of her recent stuff, but the first 3-4 albums were fantastic (a few Dresden Dolls, then solo).
Guess why there are so many different plots? Because every time you do something, we guard against that. And then people just go "Right, what next? Oh, look, laptops!". Now you have a new threat, massive expense on stupid rules and countermeasures, new crap to make people stand in queues for longer, new bollocks to make me hate my own government and country more for capitulating to it. And then all they do is say "Right... next up... let's put a bomb in a set of headphones."
You shot me back to "Foster, you're dead": https://cochranesfsophomores.f... - one of my favorite Philip K Dick shorts.. more "the soviets" than "the terrorists" but the idea's familiar at this point:-/.
...my container of Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream (think chocolate spread) was confiscated for "being a liquid" ("but sir, you could open that and turn it over and nothing would happen" - "yes but I could spread it with my knife, i'm sorry").
3 minutes later, 50' from my gate, I can buy a glass 750ml bottle of 62%ABV liquor, and a lighter, in the same store.
Okay, I see you are able to be reasonable about this. So I have a few questions/observations.
The Native Americans and the Jews have also been victims of the most horrible forms of colonialism, institutional and interpersonal racism, or both. Why are they not topping the charts for violent crime like the blacks?
The 2nd is much more illustrative of the mechanisms, and finishes with a simple enough point: sub-sets of society who are marginalized long enough (living in reservations, jewish ghettos, US inner-city ghettos) will end up with increased crime rates (including violent crime). Also note that while what you said is logically correct (your "or both" above helps), the Jews haven't in recent memory been "colonized", as until recently they did not claim any land. Crime records for Jews in (e.g.) biblical Egypt would indeed be interesting to see...
The people on one of my relative's block have an interesting solution to that:
Everyone who's "prepping" all have the same style/caliber of weapon. This way they can all use each others caches if/when they become available.
...I took it upon myself not to point out that this also implies there are lots of people with guns around who know where "things of value" will be found...
Just a thought, but instead of spending the time telling the GP to pound sand, shouldn't you have asked your city why they're lying about their published weather data? At the least, ask them to install a weather station in your neighborhood, due to extreme local variation from the available measurements?
As a frequent hiker, I couldn't leave this one alone. The linked paper is about sterilization in health-care, but it quickly comes to (emphasis mine):
Chemical Disinfectants
Alcohol
Overview. In the healthcare setting, "alcohol" refers to two water-soluble chemical compounds—ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol—that have generally underrated germicidal characteristics 482. FDA has not cleared any liquid chemical sterilant or high-level disinfectant with alcohol as the main active ingredient. These alcohols are rapidly bactericidal rather than bacteriostatic against vegetative forms of bacteria; they also are tuberculocidal, fungicidal, and virucidal but do not destroy bacterial spores. Their -cidal activity drops sharply when diluted below 50% concentration, and the optimum bactericidal concentration is 60%–90% solutions in water (volume/volume)
Keep in mind that alcohol is a disinfectant however it is not an effective sterilizing agent as some things can survive. Alcohol is not very effective against bacterial spores. Sterilization implies that there is no living organism left whereas disinfection eliminates or reduces the harmful organisms present.
I see your point, but it makes me think... how do you propose to "fix the canals"? Cement the bottom better, or close-over the top? I ask, because I truly don't know the sources of the loss, but....
...if the loss is mostly into the air (evaporation), I agree, that sucks (unless the rain stays somewhat local). I wonder though how many acres of land are "accidentally" watered by seepage/waste/runoff/spillover/outward-gradual-soil-moistening. I'd imagine lots of creatures are making new homes along the shore in previously scrappy (from your description) land. Granted (to play devil's advocate against myself), my gut tells me that (a) it's likely opportunists (weeds and annoying creatures) moving in along the canal, (b) some nice native creatures are being pushed out of their "desert paradise" and (c) it's probably still more net harm than good... I just think it's worth thinking about the upsides of "inefficient water transport";-)
It seems I'm somewhat agreeing with the other replies to your post here, with a "we had useful PhD's at my highly-specialized niche company". We build bespoke data management systems within the financial realm, and one of our best tool/product builders was a PhD (Physics, I think). He was of course "a bit goofy", but very easy to work with, willing to put in long hours and wear a suit if needed on-site. Sad to have lost him, frankly, but the new owners have a hard time seeing salaries that high...
I can guarantee you, from years of overseas consulting, that this is not a US phenomenon.
Just this month, we found out at a non-US client recently that a new build of our server made it from Dev to Prod *untested* by the bank who was implementing it. A sub-beta-build, at that (spot/hot-fix). It treated a certain type of function call differently (almost unarguably better) than before, however we have to defend why the old version "worked"; while on the new server, this causes a "bug" due to a consultant's *cough cough sorry* poor coding.
I'm all for trashing on the US (though shooting fish in a barrel is generally not recognized as sportsmanlike), as I think it's only being intellectually honest to treat all downward-sloping-gradients equally; but please don't believe that we're exceptional in this regard.
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...but wouldn't it be better if these neighbor-hating savages (your description, not mine) could generate their power using a technology that both isn't likely to be "the next big US hit" and doesn't spew CO2 waste everywhere? Won't somebody think of the poor downwind Japanese? I don't need to think of the people of China as flag-waving boy-scouts to want them using cleaner power..
100%
Your point is fair, but just want to point out you've gone from Banker to banker. I doubt the GP of your post was referring to anyone who'd ever remotely interact with a GS client (traditionally GS haven't worked much with us normies at all, until their recent Marcus initiative) , unless that client is itself a large corporation.
Most expensive/high-level "management" / "VP" jobs in a bank will be held by people with 0 interest in the banks branches; rather they're in the back/mid/front-office operations on the _investment_ side of the bank. People who don't care whether the bank has branches, don't care where they are or who goes to them, as long as revenue is coming in to allow them to continue to operate investment operations.
Still, while it may be offtopic a smidge, your point is also correct. Just want to broaden some views on the complexities of a modern bank.
2nd sentence, an attempt to categorize GP into a group based on your evident (see above) lack of understanding of the concepts the GP is discussing.
3rd sentence, assertion based on ...(see above)
4th, correct, but missing an analysis of how farming techniques based on guilds, companion planting, and other (less hyper-automatable farming techniques) would compare to this... there's limited data here to support such an analysis, but it's clear you didn't try.
5th sentence we agree, but you also agree with the GP. I promise.
A car is private property, with no right to public access. Youtube is a business and all about public access. If a business gets to such a dominant position that it can impose its will like that then its ability to do so *should* be restricted,
Please, tell me more about gay wedding cakes...
Convenient you stopped quoting (or reading) where you did, I've gone back and added the next sentence of the GPs post for you. Please tell me more about this market-dominating bakery which has a near monopoly on US cake sales?
I'm guessing there's really no need for a phone company to consider the use case that some people don't ever take selfies.
I get it's his own money, but seriously, he could use that $42 million to give workers earning less then $30K at Amazon a nice bonus.
Who gives a shit about having a clock that lasts 10K years, honestly what the fuck is the point.
I 100% get your point, but a thought... were Bezos to take profits (whether via his personal income or directly from AMZN) and give them to employees... his valuation would drop. Part of his wealth valulation (mostly via AMZN ownership) is the calculation that he'll continue his known/predictable compensation policies (not the most employee/contractor friendly..), which would slip if he were shown to be caring for employees over shareholders. Such a move impacts him directly, and limits his piles of '$42 million USDs' that he has to invest.
Again, I get your point, just wanted to note that sometimes markets are designed to react to certain cues, and "gives to employees over wealth-hoarding" is a negative for long-term valuation. There are of course other incentives to consider..
"200 years of viable energy" - this is like claiming that a fleet of horses and some fields will keep your area/businesses competitive for the next 200 years... in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.
"Getting in the way of their meal ticket is the fastest route to losing scientific progress." - how is depriving people of income they're used-to and still-attempting-to make on a practically price-obsoleted commodity either "getting in the way of their meal ticket" (from the prior example, you sound a bit like a literal luddite, wanting to preserve inefficient old methods over "the reality of labor (energy) pricing") or going to "lose scientific progress" (just a thought - inventing, perfecting, and engineering replacement energy sources is very much 'scientific progress')?
A longer version: https://www.theatlantic.com/po...
A choice quote: "The author specifically objects to using what his memo calls discriminatory means to achieve greater gender diversity, then adds that he has concrete suggestions for changes at Google that would “increase women’s representation in tech and without resorting to discrimination.” In his telling, this could be achieved by making software engineering “more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration” and changes that would “allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive,” as well as offering more opportunities for employees to work part time. Whether one regards those suggestions as brilliant, rooted in pernicious gender stereotypes, or anywhere in between, they are clearly and explicitly suggestions to increase diversity in a manner the author regards as having a stronger chance of actually working than some of the tactics that he is critiquing. "
That's the whole idea of "artificial floor". If you can get 56k on Ebay, great! If not, here's a guaranteed 35k JIC...
If this wasn't the case, you'd have a disproportionately large number of people moving to Alaska with their families, hoping to collect that $5,000 - $6,000 per month of zero effort income.
Per Year.
...and some (this guy) now listen to her more than Mr Reznor. Learn about new bands, listen to their music, then decide if they're sellouts/shills/coat-tail riders. Doing it the other way around shows more that you want to be right than you want to experience life and make optimal choices with the information you've acquired. I happen to not like much of her recent stuff, but the first 3-4 albums were fantastic (a few Dresden Dolls, then solo).
Guess why there are so many different plots? Because every time you do something, we guard against that. And then people just go "Right, what next? Oh, look, laptops!". Now you have a new threat, massive expense on stupid rules and countermeasures, new crap to make people stand in queues for longer, new bollocks to make me hate my own government and country more for capitulating to it. And then all they do is say "Right... next up... let's put a bomb in a set of headphones."
You shot me back to "Foster, you're dead": https://cochranesfsophomores.f... - one of my favorite Philip K Dick shorts.. more "the soviets" than "the terrorists" but the idea's familiar at this point :-/.
3 minutes later, 50' from my gate, I can buy a glass 750ml bottle of 62%ABV liquor, and a lighter, in the same store.
Ugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ão_Paulo#Immigration
I was surprised that a NY-area American like me fit right in (until I opened my mouth)!
Okay, I see you are able to be reasonable about this. So I have a few questions/observations.
The Native Americans and the Jews have also been victims of the most horrible forms of colonialism, institutional and interpersonal racism, or both. Why are they not topping the charts for violent crime like the blacks?
Native Americans https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?...
Jews http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/04...
The 2nd is much more illustrative of the mechanisms, and finishes with a simple enough point: sub-sets of society who are marginalized long enough (living in reservations, jewish ghettos, US inner-city ghettos) will end up with increased crime rates (including violent crime). Also note that while what you said is logically correct (your "or both" above helps), the Jews haven't in recent memory been "colonized", as until recently they did not claim any land. Crime records for Jews in (e.g.) biblical Egypt would indeed be interesting to see...
Everyone who's "prepping" all have the same style/caliber of weapon. This way they can all use each others caches if/when they become available.
...I took it upon myself not to point out that this also implies there are lots of people with guns around who know where "things of value" will be found...
North Korea is leftist in much the same way that the Andromeda Galaxy is gluten free.
...that explains the terrible bagels we got there...
Just a thought, but instead of spending the time telling the GP to pound sand, shouldn't you have asked your city why they're lying about their published weather data? At the least, ask them to install a weather station in your neighborhood, due to extreme local variation from the available measurements?
Why do you think their gear is not allowed on federal networks or contractor networks. Ditto Check Point firewalls and network appliances.
Because then our agencies couldn't get our "spyware" on our networks... ;-)
http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/disi...
Keep in mind that alcohol is a disinfectant however it is not an effective sterilizing agent as some things can survive. Alcohol is not very effective against bacterial spores. Sterilization implies that there is no living organism left whereas disinfection eliminates or reduces the harmful organisms present.
I see your point, but it makes me think... how do you propose to "fix the canals"? Cement the bottom better, or close-over the top? I ask, because I truly don't know the sources of the loss, but....
...if the loss is mostly into the air (evaporation), I agree, that sucks (unless the rain stays somewhat local). I wonder though how many acres of land are "accidentally" watered by seepage/waste/runoff/spillover/outward-gradual-soil-moistening. I'd imagine lots of creatures are making new homes along the shore in previously scrappy (from your description) land. Granted (to play devil's advocate against myself), my gut tells me that (a) it's likely opportunists (weeds and annoying creatures) moving in along the canal, (b) some nice native creatures are being pushed out of their "desert paradise" and (c) it's probably still more net harm than good... I just think it's worth thinking about the upsides of "inefficient water transport" ;-)
Sorry, just in that kind of mood today.
It seems I'm somewhat agreeing with the other replies to your post here, with a "we had useful PhD's at my highly-specialized niche company". We build bespoke data management systems within the financial realm, and one of our best tool/product builders was a PhD (Physics, I think). He was of course "a bit goofy", but very easy to work with, willing to put in long hours and wear a suit if needed on-site. Sad to have lost him, frankly, but the new owners have a hard time seeing salaries that high...
Just this month, we found out at a non-US client recently that a new build of our server made it from Dev to Prod *untested* by the bank who was implementing it. A sub-beta-build, at that (spot/hot-fix). It treated a certain type of function call differently (almost unarguably better) than before, however we have to defend why the old version "worked"; while on the new server, this causes a "bug" due to a consultant's *cough cough sorry* poor coding.
I'm all for trashing on the US (though shooting fish in a barrel is generally not recognized as sportsmanlike), as I think it's only being intellectually honest to treat all downward-sloping-gradients equally; but please don't believe that we're exceptional in this regard.