Well, OK but none of this is based on faulty intelligence as you mean it.
Faulty intelligence maybe in the sense that their brains are broken and that is a very different thing.
No there isn't. The first even slightly aggressive antitrust action in 25 years convinced silicon valley elites to sell out their friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
LOL .NET was absolutely chock full of ex-Borland people. They laid off just a ton of people in some late 90s pre-dotcom downturn. Indiscriminately I assume because a lot of them went on to be very prominent at MS and especially in .NET. My first director as a new software engineer in MS VC++ had been 'accidentally' laid off by Borland. Apparently they tried to hit the undo button the next day but he'd already been hired by MS, so Borland fired his manager. I guess that's one way of reducing headcount.
Let's be honest here, there was a long period of negotiation that spanned the Reagan - Clinton admins as well as approval from congress required. Everyone said it was a golden opportunity to open up a huge new market for US goods. I was doing a concentration in Chinese History in the late 90s and was flabbergasted at the very mainstream idea that this was going to be a win-win. I guess at the time they thought Russia was going to be a liberal democracy, too.
I suspect a lot of powerful people knew that it would hurt US workers, US industrial strength, were neutral on the latter, positive on the former, and very positive about profits (during their lifetime).
I am quite certain that nobody ever claimed that banning 6-PPD was enough. I get your sentiment, it's totally not enough. Especially since it hasn't been banned, and to the extent progress has been made, it looks like they are slow-walking it.
The cuyahoga river caught fire in cleveland in 1969, the EPA was founded about 1.5 years later, the bill signed by Nixon. You are correct, we are not doing enough.
Its been 4 years since this was known, 8-10 since it was known that something in road runoff was fatal specifically to coho salmon. And basically nothing has been done. Sure tire companies or whatever are working on a fix. If I was "working on a fix" for 4+ years with no visible milestones I woudn't have a job. people love to complain about "overregulation" but 1) coho salmon fisheries are a multi billion dollar business and 2) those people are wrong, they've almost always been wrong, possibly even greedy and heartless. and if you happen to be religious they are complicit in destroying the gifts that God gave us.
Wow. Against my better judgment I will keep to the rules of this site and assume that was a good faith question.
Rust is already a good systems language and is getting adoption. D is a great c++-alike already and for 20 (?) years.
There is a mature C++ toolchain for any processor and OS you can imagine.
Simply adopting a different C++ compiler or a newer version of one you are already using can take many months for a large company. Migration to even Carbon would probably take 10x as much effort.
That seems a very elegant solution to the problem of fair income taxes. Just don't tax income, that way you can't have a disparity in income tax.
What should we tax instead? Capital seems to me a viable choice. It would be a lot more work for everyone, though.
I feel like Amiga was never really alive in the US. I never knew anyone who owned one, or a 520st. Schools were almost exclusively Apple IIe, later some IIgs before Mac SE and LC. And of course PC. IIgs was more comparable to a Commodore 128 but it ran all the Apple II software. Sometimes you'd see a Mac II or SE/30 in an administrator's office running a screensaver.
It is very nice to see US-targeted media use F. All climate related news seems to use C and I'd bet that 95%+ of Americans don't know 2 degrees C = 3.6 degrees F. So most Americans are underestimating the effects of climate change by almost a factor of 2. And those are the ones that believe in it.
I think the US should move to SI but as long as we haven't (and have actually taken steps backwards during the Bush administration) as far as I am concerned it is journalistic malpractice if not active disinformation to report temperature changes in C in US media.
yen an pound are at historic lows vs dollar.
Dollar vs euro is at historic average.
Let me guess, you'an Austrian/freshwater econ fan. Know theres a problem and what it is before you see the patient.
companies in top or even middle tier don't do this. saying you work for a faang+ is an important part of compensation even if benefits and salary are the same (they aren't).
No it's not. At a very conservative estimate, solar produces >10 more net energy per acre than corn used for ethanol. If anything this will free up farmland to be MORE productive.
Last I knew, my intern mentor at MS claims to have never sold a share since he started in the mid-90s. I haven't talked to him in a while but if he really did keep stacking up MSFT for 30 years he'd be easily worth $62M. I don't think this is a sound investment strategy but glad it worked out for him.
I do not think so. What would it be about? Just like Carson correctly predicted indiscriminate use of DDT would lead to resistance, the corporate 'immune system' has evolved to shut down stuff like this much more effectively.
It's not 1950, everyone on this site has a 1+ GFLOP machine so there's no need to squash a bunch of independent variables down to one dimension or as you call it "set aside race." Unless you're not a hacker, that is.
Even into the 1960s wealthy black people were prevented from buying and living in the 'good' parts of even northern US cities.
In Seattle, in the densest parts of the city are glass towers that certainly have filtered HVAC, and the poorest parts of the city are relatively low-density areas near the port (particulates from diesel trucks and ships), the cement plant, the nucor steel plant, the highly polluted duwamish river, and boeing field.
I can't imagine it's cheaper to do terrestrial search for methane leaks unless your goal is to only find the methane sources you are incentivized to find, and the cost of the satellite gets amortized over thousands of sources and millions to billions of stakeholders.
"putting aside the climate aspects" (???) It's 2024, this is the equivalent of putting a bit "#if 0/#endif" around your comment. I'm taking the time to post this because I hope if you reflect on it, over time, you might realize that the devil actually doesn't need an advocate.
Not only CAN you cross-breed them, they do it by themselves, and generally just end up being wild-type, which is what you see all over California. Just a kind of spindly plant with no elaborate leaves or flower clusters, greenish yellow flowers.
Useful comment. Unfortunately M or MUMPS is still in active use at EPIC, etc. Far too many good grads of midwest schools get sucked into working for EPIC or the insurance mines in Des Moines, Omaha, etc. UW Madison, UIUC, and Michigan are way too good of schools to be sending their grads to work on medical records or insurance.
Never trust an ag startup that's not near UC Davis, Salinas, Waginenigen NL, UIUC, Cornell, or Iowa State. I grew up on a farm, my parents still farm, and if anyone wants to be an ag-tech VC feel free to hire me but I'll give you one piece of advice gratis: never invest in an ag-tech company with HQ in a big city. Any farm boy could tell you this nonsense would never pencil out.
Half of this ag-tech shit is so stupid I wonder if it's not just straight-up money laundering.
change has only ever been bad for GA. GA is now just a really expensive sport for old people who bought their planes 40 years ago when Beechcraft ran ads in National Geographic. Of course they are going to be resistant to change, and possibly rightfully so because GA is 1 or 2 steps away from being completely dead.
Good to see there is still some competition because I am getting the same vibe off Kindle that I got from Ballmer-era MS software. "We won, draw down the team and put it in maintenance mode." In particular, the iPad app has bugs I run into almost every day.
riscv is just an instruction set. in a lot of ways its not as nice as AArch64 or x64.
I don't see a strong impediment to having a world-class riscv processor, but it hasn't happened yet and the only reason to pick riscv vs arm is that you're a bottom-feeder, don't want to pay arm licensing fees. People who will switch architectures to save a few cents aren't people who make or buy world-class cpus.