Ideally we would send artificially intelligent machines who don’t mind a journey that takes hundreds of years to explore and begin building infrastructure thousands of years before any humans will arrive. Then when the star is at its closest there is a mad dash of humans to populate the system.
Do this every time a star is going to approach to within 4-5 LY and then from those stars when they approach other stars, and so on. It starts to seem feasible for the human race to overcome the vast engineering challenges of spreading throughout the galaxy. It would be difficult to get humans to put effort into something that takes more than a lifetime to accomplish though.
Even more strange, the US is one of the few who has actually made meaningful reductions in CO2 emissions, where many of these countries that are 100% believing in AGW have actually increased emissions.
This sort of incentive should be introduced through loan programs rather than direct subsidy. The government should not be tinkering with tuition prices directly as that should be decided by cost and demand. Rather, the government should look at its loan programs as an investment. The types of degree programs that the Florida government wants to push are a good investment so they should work to make it easier to get loans for those, at the expense of loans provided to students that are less likely to help the economy and may also have difficulty paying their loans back later.
I think it is bad risk assessment at it's core (very few people really understand risk assesment anyway), combined with misinformation, but what really drives intellegent people remain anti-vac, even after being presented with the facts, is emotion and subconsious fear of accountability when it comes to something bad happening to their children.
Given two possible outcomes:
A. They decide to vaccinate and their child becomes severely ill due to an allergic reaction, they will blame themselves.
B. They do not vacinnate and their child becomes severely ill from a disease they could have been vaccinated for, they don't see that as being as much their fault.
Even if A is significantly less likely than B and harm to their child is equal, it is still seen as a significantly worse outcome and risk because it will have happend as a direct result of something they chose to do.
Probably most anti-vax beliefs go back to poor understanding and/or missinformation, but among intellegent educated people who are anti-vax (and i've talked to several such people) the main cause always comes down to a cowardly (though perhaps subconsious) avoidance of accountability.
HFT exists soley to exploit arbitrage. There is no benifit to this, these trades would happen a split second later anyway. HFT is just jumping in the middle of them to take its cut without contributing anything. So instead of trying to come up with ways to discourage this activity such as a trasaction tax, maybe it would be better to just have the exchange resolve these arbitrage situations automatically either to the benifit of the bid or ask or splitting the difference.
I've been toying with this exact idea for a while now. If cap gains and income taxes were increased for it to be revenue neutral, this would raise the same amount of money and actually reduce unproductive allocation of resources (corporations spend an awful lot of money just to reduce their federal tax burden). Corporations will move around to dodge taxes much more readily than their shareholders. It's the corporations that create jobs, not the shareholders. Let the shareholders shoulder the tax burden. If corporations react to this by reinvesting the money internally (hiring, research, expansion) instead of paying it out to the shareholders, oh darn. I'm a little worried about unintended consequences such as small business getting crushed.
I lean libertarian, but where hard core right wing libertarians get off course on the subject of environmentalism is that nobody can 'own' the atmosphere. Thus if it is not protected via laws and regulations, it is sure to fall victim to the tragedy of the commons. Further, it is shared between countries making it an even bigger problem that cannot be solved or even mitigated by the market.
My mother in law worked for a groupon competitor. Groupon is known for purposly missleading and screwing their customers. The bad thing is that the businesses that are most likely to fall for it are little mom and pop places that may not survive.
I have converted to mostly CFLs in my house over the years. I only buy the instant on ones. I usually stock up when they are on a good sale, so I get them at a decent price. About a year ago, i started collecting the burnt out ones in a drawer in my garage to be disposed of properly all at once, saving time. So far I have only collected 2 burnt out CFLs.
I have found that putting a CFL in an inclosed light fixture with an incandecent will shorten it's life substantially.
It's really too bad we are relaxing regulations to keep Older nuke plants around instead of relaxing regulations to make it easier to build new much safer ones. Our national strategy for nuclear safety is completly ass-backwards.
Keeping the samples around in case they are needed to produce vacines seems like a reasonal policy to me. But 3 billion dollars seems like an awful lot of money to spend preparing for an unlikely scenario, one of perhaps thousands of unlikely scenarios.
I worked for a small upstart software company where they decided to mandate that everyone work half day Saturdays. Over time most of the best developers left, including myself. I honestly don't know how well they are doing now, I'm not sure why companies sometimes feel compelled to drive away anyone who has the skills to get a job elsewhere.
Environmentalism is a byproduct of prosperity. If people were living at a sustenance level they would not care about the environment at all. There is a nearly direct coloration between prosperity and economic freedom. A more socialist type system (less economic freedom) will tend to lead to less prosperity which will eventually lead to less concern for environmental stewardship. A balance must be found as regulation is certainly needed to keep the BPs of the world under control, but sway to far the other direction and you end up with far worse.
If we factor the devastation of the gulf into every gallon of gasoline purchased from BP gas stations, it suddenly becomes worth driving down the street and even paying more to buy from someone else.
Someone could also do some research to determine what refineries buy oil from BP and what gas stations get gas from those refineries. I'm envisioning a Google maps app to help distribute this info in a useful fashion.
Granted most likely other oil companies are not being much more responsible than BP, but this could be an opportunity to effect the market and make safety and environmental stewardship more economically appealing to those in the industry.
In about 100 years the effects of global warming will start to become inconvenient for humans. During which time we will likely have made the technological innovations we need to solve this problem without giving up our way of life or stifling our progress and ability to make such innovations.
the current best estimate of 50,000 barrels a day for Deep Horizon.
Where do you get 50,000 barrels a day? I have seen many estimates, those that are backed up by any credible facts/math range between 5000 and 30,000 barrels a day.
No matter what the EPA is able to achieve, China, India and others will continue to pump out greenhouse gasses like there's no tomorrow. Meanwhile back here in the US I won't be able to afford air conditioning because we will have eliminated all the cheap sources of electricity.
So a minor with a naked picture of another minor on their phone is a sex offender, but an adult in a position of power who forces a minor to strip is not.
I used PHP for the first couple years of my career and I honestly like the language. PHP has its place, and that is rapidly creating dynamic web sites and simple web apps. The company I worked for absolutely smoked the competition when it came to development time and therefore cost.
If your project is complicated enough that you are thinking about paying for a framework that can provide a clean separation of logic and presentation, it's time to move on to bigger and better things. A Java/Tomcat/Struts solution using Eclipse for development is free. A.NET solution is not free but still a good choice also.
I have worked as a software engineer for two companies. The first had less than 20 employees. My current company has less than 60. In both cases the person evaluating me is/was a former software engineer. I have never felt like I'm in the Dilbert world. I suspect if I had worked for larger companies things would have been different.
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Ideally we would send artificially intelligent machines who don’t mind a journey that takes hundreds of years to explore and begin building infrastructure thousands of years before any humans will arrive. Then when the star is at its closest there is a mad dash of humans to populate the system.
Do this every time a star is going to approach to within 4-5 LY and then from those stars when they approach other stars, and so on. It starts to seem feasible for the human race to overcome the vast engineering challenges of spreading throughout the galaxy. It would be difficult to get humans to put effort into something that takes more than a lifetime to accomplish though.
They probably spent $1000 researching this
Even more strange, the US is one of the few who has actually made meaningful reductions in CO2 emissions, where many of these countries that are 100% believing in AGW have actually increased emissions.
Can drinking beer the same time as eating these foods have any effect? I already do that.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
This sort of incentive should be introduced through loan programs rather than direct subsidy. The government should not be tinkering with tuition prices directly as that should be decided by cost and demand. Rather, the government should look at its loan programs as an investment. The types of degree programs that the Florida government wants to push are a good investment so they should work to make it easier to get loans for those, at the expense of loans provided to students that are less likely to help the economy and may also have difficulty paying their loans back later.
I think it is bad risk assessment at it's core (very few people really understand risk assesment anyway), combined with misinformation, but what really drives intellegent people remain anti-vac, even after being presented with the facts, is emotion and subconsious fear of accountability when it comes to something bad happening to their children. Given two possible outcomes: A. They decide to vaccinate and their child becomes severely ill due to an allergic reaction, they will blame themselves. B. They do not vacinnate and their child becomes severely ill from a disease they could have been vaccinated for, they don't see that as being as much their fault. Even if A is significantly less likely than B and harm to their child is equal, it is still seen as a significantly worse outcome and risk because it will have happend as a direct result of something they chose to do. Probably most anti-vax beliefs go back to poor understanding and/or missinformation, but among intellegent educated people who are anti-vax (and i've talked to several such people) the main cause always comes down to a cowardly (though perhaps subconsious) avoidance of accountability.
HFT exists soley to exploit arbitrage. There is no benifit to this, these trades would happen a split second later anyway. HFT is just jumping in the middle of them to take its cut without contributing anything. So instead of trying to come up with ways to discourage this activity such as a trasaction tax, maybe it would be better to just have the exchange resolve these arbitrage situations automatically either to the benifit of the bid or ask or splitting the difference.
I've been toying with this exact idea for a while now. If cap gains and income taxes were increased for it to be revenue neutral, this would raise the same amount of money and actually reduce unproductive allocation of resources (corporations spend an awful lot of money just to reduce their federal tax burden). Corporations will move around to dodge taxes much more readily than their shareholders. It's the corporations that create jobs, not the shareholders. Let the shareholders shoulder the tax burden. If corporations react to this by reinvesting the money internally (hiring, research, expansion) instead of paying it out to the shareholders, oh darn. I'm a little worried about unintended consequences such as small business getting crushed.
I lean libertarian, but where hard core right wing libertarians get off course on the subject of environmentalism is that nobody can 'own' the atmosphere. Thus if it is not protected via laws and regulations, it is sure to fall victim to the tragedy of the commons. Further, it is shared between countries making it an even bigger problem that cannot be solved or even mitigated by the market.
My mother in law worked for a groupon competitor. Groupon is known for purposly missleading and screwing their customers. The bad thing is that the businesses that are most likely to fall for it are little mom and pop places that may not survive.
I have converted to mostly CFLs in my house over the years. I only buy the instant on ones. I usually stock up when they are on a good sale, so I get them at a decent price. About a year ago, i started collecting the burnt out ones in a drawer in my garage to be disposed of properly all at once, saving time. So far I have only collected 2 burnt out CFLs. I have found that putting a CFL in an inclosed light fixture with an incandecent will shorten it's life substantially.
It's really too bad we are relaxing regulations to keep Older nuke plants around instead of relaxing regulations to make it easier to build new much safer ones. Our national strategy for nuclear safety is completly ass-backwards.
how do you make a vaccine without a virus? Excuse my ignorance, please explain
Keeping the samples around in case they are needed to produce vacines seems like a reasonal policy to me. But 3 billion dollars seems like an awful lot of money to spend preparing for an unlikely scenario, one of perhaps thousands of unlikely scenarios.
I worked for a small upstart software company where they decided to mandate that everyone work half day Saturdays. Over time most of the best developers left, including myself. I honestly don't know how well they are doing now, I'm not sure why companies sometimes feel compelled to drive away anyone who has the skills to get a job elsewhere.
Well did you ever take a look at North Korea?
Obviously, this shows that their country wide cloaking device works very well.
Environmentalism is a byproduct of prosperity. If people were living at a sustenance level they would not care about the environment at all. There is a nearly direct coloration between prosperity and economic freedom. A more socialist type system (less economic freedom) will tend to lead to less prosperity which will eventually lead to less concern for environmental stewardship. A balance must be found as regulation is certainly needed to keep the BPs of the world under control, but sway to far the other direction and you end up with far worse.
If we factor the devastation of the gulf into every gallon of gasoline purchased from BP gas stations, it suddenly becomes worth driving down the street and even paying more to buy from someone else. Someone could also do some research to determine what refineries buy oil from BP and what gas stations get gas from those refineries. I'm envisioning a Google maps app to help distribute this info in a useful fashion. Granted most likely other oil companies are not being much more responsible than BP, but this could be an opportunity to effect the market and make safety and environmental stewardship more economically appealing to those in the industry.
In about 100 years the effects of global warming will start to become inconvenient for humans. During which time we will likely have made the technological innovations we need to solve this problem without giving up our way of life or stifling our progress and ability to make such innovations.
the current best estimate of 50,000 barrels a day for Deep Horizon.
Where do you get 50,000 barrels a day? I have seen many estimates, those that are backed up by any credible facts/math range between 5000 and 30,000 barrels a day.
No matter what the EPA is able to achieve, China, India and others will continue to pump out greenhouse gasses like there's no tomorrow. Meanwhile back here in the US I won't be able to afford air conditioning because we will have eliminated all the cheap sources of electricity.
So a minor with a naked picture of another minor on their phone is a sex offender, but an adult in a position of power who forces a minor to strip is not.
If your project is complicated enough that you are thinking about paying for a framework that can provide a clean separation of logic and presentation, it's time to move on to bigger and better things. A Java/Tomcat/Struts solution using Eclipse for development is free. A .NET solution is not free but still a good choice also.
I have worked as a software engineer for two companies. The first had less than 20 employees. My current company has less than 60. In both cases the person evaluating me is/was a former software engineer. I have never felt like I'm in the Dilbert world. I suspect if I had worked for larger companies things would have been different.