They will never show up to vote. Their mentality is, "If you are not perfect, there is no difference between the two candidates, I am going to stay home or vote for some useless candidate to send a message". They are easily defeated in elections.
Develop a database product that is 10 times faster than Oracle using MapReduce, and make it perfectly backward compatible with existing Oracle database. Oracle destroyed Sun, destroyed Java, destroyed PeopleSoft.... It is the worse company than even Microsoft.
The West had good law enforcement and good governance. People got used to the safety and became more and more trusting. Immigrants like me coming from societies with very low "trust" were amazed by the level of trust and honesty of Americans.
Then the trust was exploited and misused for political gains by Republicans using long smears talk radio etc.
And the internet breached all barriers and allowed crooks who know how to exploit trusting people from all over the world to come in.
Did we win the cold war? Or is Russia having the last laugh?
With Russia hacking everything connected to the net in sight, who in the right mind would "invest" in bit coins? All this money is going to make the Russian hackers even more powerful.
The temp change and sea level rise will be seen as a minor annoyance compared to the vast changes to agriculture that will happen.
Weeds that were normally killed by the yearly frost, will survive winter. Insects that get killed by frost will survive and invade new niches.
Lots of agricultural land, never under any threat of any sea level rise, might get rendered unusable for agriculture due the pests that do not start from scratch every year. Very large fluctuations in food supply can happen and it would trigger wars and migration like we have seen before. These are bigger threats than sea level rise. And why we immediately jump to sea level rise? Why is the media playing up the "sea level rise" doomsday a lot more than they deserve to? Any blood red Iowa farmer will tell you forsythia is blooming four weeks early now, croci are breaking ground in December, and daffodils and tulips are emerging in March. He will tell you the bugs that he has never seen before invading his property. But these stories are not getting the media attention.
If I was an astrophysicist I would be rather worried about my future job prospects at that announcement
Why? It does not follow. An astrophysicist would know all the planetary positions well, and has studied the effect of Saturn moving into the seventh house or whatever better than any one. So they know exactly what to do, they know exactly what would happen. That is why you find them to be the richest and most influential persons in the world.
From inside the black hole, black hole is the entire known universe. We see matter falling from outside, but it accelerates to light speed and it is pure energy that is flowing in. From inside the black hole, this energy will be coming in from infinite distance, with very low energy density. If the matter collecting inside becomes sentient it would be wondering at the anomalies like, where is the extra mass, extra energy, why is my universe expanding, why is the background radiation coming from infinity "lumpy"? etc.
We coders know the basic rule about fine tuning code for speed.
We don't randomly pick functions and make them more efficient. First we profile the code and find the function, loop that is taking most time. Then spend time to make it more efficient. We might make the implementation more efficient, or invent a new algorithm that does not need this expensive process.
In life too, if you make one big sane decision, it pays for lots of small luxuries. Settle for a car one notch below what you can afford, and take good care of it to stretch its life. If you pay it off in four years, and extract six more years without car payments from it, you are looking at some 400$ a month, worth three latte day for the six years without car payments. If you saved 50$ a month by choosing "less" of a car, you can still have a latte twice a week.
But there could be people who feel great everytime they get into their "luxury" car, it might be totally worth it.
It is all fine and good for most people not to know this nugget of information. But for someone who is a "professional" investor, whose claim to fame is finding companies to invest, he should know this. Not the specific thing about Hindustan Lever or any such specific company. But the fact that there is lot of money to be made in small margin large volume sales. Large volume sales by definition means it is something you knew but never realized the market.
O'Leary might not know the Hindustan Lever story. But he should have known the moral of that story.
That is because there is no "outside" from which energy/matter will fall in. If you can see matter falling in, promptly the observable universe will expand to include the source too!
Hindustan Lever is an Indian cosmetics/soap and shampoo giant. It sells shampoo in single use sachets. Back in the day it used to cost 5 rupees, or 30 US cents back in the day. Now it is probably 20 Rupees, same 30cents. Proctor and Gamble's idea of marketing was to some how convince the buyer into buying shampoo in gallon size jugs and they are busily hatching up plans to convince America why it is a good idea to buy shampoo in barrels instead of gallon jugs.
They both were locked into a serious battle in South Asian shampoo market. With all that might of P&G, HL was running circles around them
My niece is a big shot in that circle (now working for Estee Lauder India) she explained the basic difference. "There are women who can not afford shampoo. But once in a while something nice happens, and she feels great and feels like treating herself to luxury. That thirty cent sachet of shampoo is a luxury for her. She will never have enough to buy a whole bottle ever, and will balk at the cost of a bottle. But... on any given day there are about a million such women willing to buy a sachet of shampoo for 30 cents. I am selling 300K a day. 100 million dollars a year."
There are people for whom that 5$ coffee is a luxury they are treating themselves to. The American dream of owning a home and having a comfortable retirement is gone for them. They see themselves working till the day they are going to die. They see 80 year old grandmas trying to work as walmart greeters. From their perspective, "I have 5$ today, I am going to splurge!".
A country this great, this wealthy, with that much of despair among the young...
I would never pay more than 5$ for a bottle of wine. Because I am a teetotaler.
But if someone is willing to spend 250$ of his/her hard earned money voluntarily who am I to object? It is all fine an good to preach about the value of drinking a 10$ bottle of wine and investing the rest. But be prepared to listen someone tell you why that 250$ bottle of wine is worth it and gives him/her a good feeling that is worth it.
I can tell a wine snob to take a hike and go fly a kite because I never preached about better ways to spend that money. It is your money how you spend is your business, give me the same respect, don't be a wine/coffee snob to me. But that O'Leary guy has opened to door, he deserves all the crap wine/coffee snobs heap on him.
...so, the radius of the observable universe ! Is there some deeper meaning to this or is that just a coincidence ?
No. We are living inside a black hole.
Universe is all there is. So light can not escape The Universe, wherever it goes, no matter how far, it is still the Universe. That is the definition of black hole, a body from which light can not escape. QED.
During the cold war the Swedish navy had underwater listening posts that detected suspicious signals that could be Russian subs. These Swedish subs kept trying to catch the Red Subs red handed, but to no avail. They kept following the "typical signal" that sounded like bcaon being fried in a skillet noise.
Eventually, once biologists came on board to listen, they found the source of the signals.
Fundamentally, Edison was a tinkerer, without fully understanding electricity or magnetism. He did manage to invent lots of useful things but without any real understanding of how/why they worked. On top of it he was a racist and cruel too. Electrocuted circus elephants purely for FUD.
Nikola Tesla too did not understand the inverse square law. If you radiate in a spherical front, 10 times the distance from the tower, 1% is the power density. No way you could transmit power in spherical front wirelessly. He was doomed too, but at least he got AC right.
An engineer who delivered one fourth of what Elon Musk has delivered will be assured of a place in Engineering Hall of Fame. But what he has delivered is still a fraction of what he promised to deliver and he will be judged by how much he fell short...
He might end up a pauper dying alone in a hotel room like his inspiration, Nicholi. Or he might actually deliver enough of what he promised to be ranked along with Whitney, Colt, Edison, Westinghouse, Ford as the leading light of American Industry....
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Politicians can safely ignore them. And they do.
"Over the last 18 months, GE have switched 12,000 Jobs from Fossil Fuel to Renewable Energy Technologies".
GE or no GE the jobs switched to renewables. If GE is not there, some other renewable company will employ them.
What fried her eyes was the looking at the Sun. Sun will fry your eyes faster if there is no eclipse.
Thanks for being complacent. Thats how it got Microsoft.
Develop a database product that is 10 times faster than Oracle using MapReduce, and make it perfectly backward compatible with existing Oracle database. Oracle destroyed Sun, destroyed Java, destroyed PeopleSoft.... It is the worse company than even Microsoft.
Then the trust was exploited and misused for political gains by Republicans using long smears talk radio etc.
And the internet breached all barriers and allowed crooks who know how to exploit trusting people from all over the world to come in.
Did we win the cold war? Or is Russia having the last laugh?
With Russia hacking everything connected to the net in sight, who in the right mind would "invest" in bit coins? All this money is going to make the Russian hackers even more powerful.
Weeds that were normally killed by the yearly frost, will survive winter. Insects that get killed by frost will survive and invade new niches.
Lots of agricultural land, never under any threat of any sea level rise, might get rendered unusable for agriculture due the pests that do not start from scratch every year. Very large fluctuations in food supply can happen and it would trigger wars and migration like we have seen before. These are bigger threats than sea level rise. And why we immediately jump to sea level rise? Why is the media playing up the "sea level rise" doomsday a lot more than they deserve to? Any blood red Iowa farmer will tell you forsythia is blooming four weeks early now, croci are breaking ground in December, and daffodils and tulips are emerging in March. He will tell you the bugs that he has never seen before invading his property. But these stories are not getting the media attention.
Finally got out of emu farming, no one willing to pay me 2000$ for a breeding pair of emu, and gotten into this bitcoin thing.
Now this is also unsustainable!
What can a hardworking upright scammer to do? The society is leaving me with no option other than to rob banks.
Do they know that Zukerberg will know how they voted for this survey and so they voted to make sure they stay on the good books?
If I was an astrophysicist I would be rather worried about my future job prospects at that announcement
Why? It does not follow. An astrophysicist would know all the planetary positions well, and has studied the effect of Saturn moving into the seventh house or whatever better than any one. So they know exactly what to do, they know exactly what would happen. That is why you find them to be the richest and most influential persons in the world.
From inside the black hole, black hole is the entire known universe. We see matter falling from outside, but it accelerates to light speed and it is pure energy that is flowing in. From inside the black hole, this energy will be coming in from infinite distance, with very low energy density. If the matter collecting inside becomes sentient it would be wondering at the anomalies like, where is the extra mass, extra energy, why is my universe expanding, why is the background radiation coming from infinity "lumpy"? etc.
Why do people tiptoe around the true cause like it's taboo or something?
Population growth is the only way to provide business growth. More goods and services to be sold, more profits to be made,
Does the blackhole know matter is falling from outside?
Get lost, go fight to ban the movie padmavati or something.
These are not the people I most often see in line when walking past Starbucks.
Appearances are deceiving. Many low income people dress well. They have dressed poor and were ill treated for it, and so they know how to appear rich.
We don't randomly pick functions and make them more efficient. First we profile the code and find the function, loop that is taking most time. Then spend time to make it more efficient. We might make the implementation more efficient, or invent a new algorithm that does not need this expensive process.
In life too, if you make one big sane decision, it pays for lots of small luxuries. Settle for a car one notch below what you can afford, and take good care of it to stretch its life. If you pay it off in four years, and extract six more years without car payments from it, you are looking at some 400$ a month, worth three latte day for the six years without car payments. If you saved 50$ a month by choosing "less" of a car, you can still have a latte twice a week.
But there could be people who feel great everytime they get into their "luxury" car, it might be totally worth it.
It is all fine and good for most people not to know this nugget of information. But for someone who is a "professional" investor, whose claim to fame is finding companies to invest, he should know this. Not the specific thing about Hindustan Lever or any such specific company. But the fact that there is lot of money to be made in small margin large volume sales. Large volume sales by definition means it is something you knew but never realized the market.
O'Leary might not know the Hindustan Lever story. But he should have known the moral of that story.
That is because there is no "outside" from which energy/matter will fall in. If you can see matter falling in, promptly the observable universe will expand to include the source too!
They both were locked into a serious battle in South Asian shampoo market. With all that might of P&G, HL was running circles around them
My niece is a big shot in that circle (now working for Estee Lauder India) she explained the basic difference. "There are women who can not afford shampoo. But once in a while something nice happens, and she feels great and feels like treating herself to luxury. That thirty cent sachet of shampoo is a luxury for her. She will never have enough to buy a whole bottle ever, and will balk at the cost of a bottle. But... on any given day there are about a million such women willing to buy a sachet of shampoo for 30 cents. I am selling 300K a day. 100 million dollars a year."
There are people for whom that 5$ coffee is a luxury they are treating themselves to. The American dream of owning a home and having a comfortable retirement is gone for them. They see themselves working till the day they are going to die. They see 80 year old grandmas trying to work as walmart greeters. From their perspective, "I have 5$ today, I am going to splurge!".
A country this great, this wealthy, with that much of despair among the young ...
But if someone is willing to spend 250$ of his/her hard earned money voluntarily who am I to object? It is all fine an good to preach about the value of drinking a 10$ bottle of wine and investing the rest. But be prepared to listen someone tell you why that 250$ bottle of wine is worth it and gives him/her a good feeling that is worth it.
I can tell a wine snob to take a hike and go fly a kite because I never preached about better ways to spend that money. It is your money how you spend is your business, give me the same respect, don't be a wine/coffee snob to me. But that O'Leary guy has opened to door, he deserves all the crap wine/coffee snobs heap on him.
...so, the radius of the observable universe ! Is there some deeper meaning to this or is that just a coincidence ?
No. We are living inside a black hole.
Universe is all there is. So light can not escape The Universe, wherever it goes, no matter how far, it is still the Universe. That is the definition of black hole, a body from which light can not escape. QED.
Imagine the AI built by AI which was built by AI ! This should be way better than mere AI built by AI.
Eventually, once biologists came on board to listen, they found the source of the signals.
Farting Fish Fingered said the Guardian.
Nikola Tesla too did not understand the inverse square law. If you radiate in a spherical front, 10 times the distance from the tower, 1% is the power density. No way you could transmit power in spherical front wirelessly. He was doomed too, but at least he got AC right.
He might end up a pauper dying alone in a hotel room like his inspiration, Nicholi. Or he might actually deliver enough of what he promised to be ranked along with Whitney, Colt, Edison, Westinghouse, Ford as the leading light of American Industry....