Bros treat it like a law of nature.
"nah brah it's just rational actors rationally acting with rationality"
Supply and demand is a thing the same way the convention of shaking hands upon meeting is a thing.
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"nah brah it's just rational actors rationally acting with rationality"
Supply and demand is a thing the same way the convention of shaking hands upon meeting is a thing.
Suburbs, as are all things, are only boring if the appraiser is boring.
My "boring" suburb hosts a list of activities that puts most cities to shame.
And if I don't want to go to the upcoming summer concert series (free!) in the local park I can just hang out in my backyard with some friends and we can burn half of the walnut tree that fell down last year in a huge bonfire-- because we don't live in a city center.
I've never really understood boredom.
Even in a featureless infinite white void I could find things to do or think about.
I assert that people who find suburbs boring are either antisocial or require external stimulus to an unnatural degree.
How could one ever be bored when a sketchbook and pencil are $10 and a star wheel is $14?
Hypersonic carrier-killer missiles won't work for the same reason Russian SAMs are minimally effective against western air forces: if you know where the launcher is, you tread carefully until it is destroyed. The United States has possessed the MASINT/ELINT capability to detect the location and type of practically every RF emitter in a given area from space since at least the mid-1980s.
Assuming, of course, any nation that develops hypersonic carrier cruise missiles can figure out how to steer them at a hypersonic velocity in thick air. Something extremely smart people who would make an extremely large amount of money if it was possible have told me is extremely impossible.
You call it milquetoast.
I call it pleasant.
Things get done under Robert's Rules, nothing gets accomplished when everyone is yelling "shitcock" at each other in an overwhelming din.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes bribery a crime for business-related reasons.
>Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.
That's one sentence. Good job DoJ!
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...
I love it.
I had sat on a wallet for years, having opened one to get 5 BTC from Andresen's faucet in 2010. A couple faucets later I had a few more.
That's right! They straight up used to give away multiple entire bitcoins just for loading a website.
Eventually a "real" retailer started taking BTC so I spent approximately 1 of them on a new power supply for my PC.
The last purchase I made using Bitcoin was a power supply from Tiger Direct: https://i.imgur.com/8tW7bmN.png
I had bitcoin to spend and Tiger Direct was the first "major" retailer to take it. As soon as that slashdot post appeared in January 2014 I moseyed on over to check it out and made a purchase, probably the same day the payment method was implemented.
Almost immediately after this the first cycle of widely-publicized scams/grifts/schemes started. And then the cycle never stopped.
The market became flooded with cryptobros and instead of being used for basically nothing it became a vehicle for fraud.
Rather than being a cryptographic curiosity it became a distasteful embarrassment so I did a cost-benefit analysis found that it wasn't for me.
I still have several BTC. I do not care. 1BTC could equal a quadrillion dollars and wouldn't care. I don't want a quadrillion dollars, I want my rose bushes to look magnificent this year.
Besides, I'm a "smart tech" person so I make enough money and have no desire to live the greasy crypto lifestyle.
Where did the $24,000 in value per BTC difference between when I last touched my wallet and today come from?
It came from schmucks pouring money into a system that, eventually, will run out of schmucks.
My moral compass is such that I would rather die penniless underneath a bridge after having spent a decade in squalor collecting cans and shitting in bushes than participate in a market like crypto.
Employees are irrelevant in this scenario, replaceable units whose purpose is to produce.
Are either of the two relevant parties mad at the CEO?
If you want employees to matter beyond the cold calculus of dollars per beating heart per quarter, Alphabet ain't inside that kinda system.
Unions could help (because they explicitly acknowledge the $ per soul metric and seek to exploit it for the souls' benefit) but the U-word is a bad word to libertarian techbros.
Model T's USED to be destined for junkyards.
The few that escaped that fate are now collectibles.
The Yugo used to be what your parents bought for you (paying just a little bit more than the 286 laptop they also got for you) so that you could have something to drive when you went off to college.
The vast majority ended up in junkyards.
Now they are becoming collectible: https://carsandbids.com/auctions/Km2odWYp/1988-yugo-gv
My first car was a Karman Ghia that I paid $500 for in the 90s. It was seen as junk. The floor pans were rusting out and it would have cost way more than it was worth for the owner to fix it up so rain didn't spray into the cabin from underneath while driving. Looking at the prices they go for now I highly regret driving it until it thew a rod and then junking it.
Ford Escorts will be the same one day.
For this to be true, logically the tools to create smartphone programs would be fiercely protected and only available to the chosen few and smartphone OS developers would never in a million years promote learning how to program on their devices.
From my end it looks like the opposite of all of that is happening.
I went to a school in "THE GOLDEN AGE" of 8-bit micros and I was the only one out of 1,100 who used the single room of Apple IIs to type in BASIC programs.
My daughters went to a school that has classes on programming, including Android development.
Turbo Pascal used to be so expensive I couldn't afford it.
Android studio is $0.00 and the (free) resources for development that apple and google openly distribute make many of my college classes look pathetic.
If the final project exceeds five stories ("lo") I will be very surprised.
Locals will fight tooth an nail to limit any and all construction.
They freaked THE FUCK out when someone proposed a 7-story apartment unit back in 2021, comparing councilman Gordon Mar to the "the leader of the Chinese communist party" for supporting affordable housing (then he lost his election to someone with no meaningful positions on affordable housing).
Do you really think that residents who went ballistic on 7 stories won't go full-on nuclear winter on 50?
Residents don't care that they're screwing their children, they don't care about homelessness (beyond punishing them for existing), and they certainly don't care about "the nature and character of our neighborhood"-- they only care about "number gets bigger" when they look at the Zillow page for their address.
There are 2,698 A320neos in service that have been involved in two fatal accidents, with no passenger fatalities.
The first was when an A320neo struck a motorbike that mistakenly entered the runway during the aircraft's landing. The two riders on the motorbike were killed and no passengers were injured.
The second incident was when an A320neo struck a firetruck that mistakenly crossed the runway during the aircraft's takeoff. Two firefighters were killed and no passengers were injured.
Boeing 737 MAX: 1,144 built, 346 passenger deaths.
Airbus A320neo: 2,698 built, 0 passenger deaths.
There are multiple aircraft types that have had 0 passenger fatalities. There is one aircraft family that is not only statistically safer than the 737 MAX, but also safer than the entire 737 family: the ERJ.
The A320neo sprang to mind instantly but I looked it up and the Dreamliner is safer with 1,048 built and 0 passenger (or other) fatalities.
Your statement is completely false.
Ludicrously false.
Maliciously and purposefully false?
Moderates leaving means no moderation and the jesusfreaks will feed back on each other as they become more and more extreme.
Even as their numbers dwindle the influence they have on society will grow because they act as a single bloc and are propelled by religious furor.
I can't think of a single mechanical device that is more reliable than an equivalent solid-state version of that same device.
Solid state relay vs electromechanical relay. Timex quartz watch vs. an automatic or manual watch.
Laundry rooms can be both hot and cold, are almost always humid, are often home to caustic chemicals, and a dryer's components are constantly exposed to dust in the form of lint: the perfect use case for solid state.
Spraying a pcb with a coating is much cheaper and more reliable than sealing a mechanical mechanism.
Instead of resisting, the smart move is to agitate for and promote secure, open, standards.
https://i.imgur.com/E7Xj4Su.png
Which word processors are distracting?
A bit like spinning off many military/space technological advances for civilian applications while keeping the juicy bits secret, no?
I like GPS. I also like that the US has the best GPS-guided munitions.
It is very difficult to see a driver using a cellphone from a long distance. It is somewhat easy to determine the speed of a vehicle at distance. It is also easy to see drunk driving at a distance. But eyes glancing down at a phone held in a lap? Hard.
It would be prohibitively expensive to field a force large enough to issue enough citations for distracted driving to make a difference due to a fear of getting caught. People can drive "normally", in a straight line at a set, reasonable, speed for long periods of time while looking at their phones--until it is too late. So officers would need some method of getting close to many vehicles to peer inside as they are driving.
The report the article links to shows that fatalities are up, but crashes where speed was a factor are down by 2%. Alcohol involvement was flat.
Age is a factor in fatalities not because older drivers are more dangerous but because they are more physically vulnerable to fatal injury in the fewer crashes they are involved in.
Until age 85 drivers are involved in many fewer crashes than 16-24 year olds.
>in the <16 age group (down 10%), the 16-24 age group (down 8%), the 25-34 age group (down 3%), the 35-44 age group (up 3%), the 45-54 age group (up 1%), the 55-64 age group (up 4%), and the 65 and older age group (up 8%);
So deaths will naturally increase as the US population ages.
Other increases are pedestrian, cyclist, and motorcyclist deaths-- which I wager are due to being distracted by cellphones more than speeding.
The largest increase is rural/suburban "local/collector" (low-speed) roads. This is almost certainly due to the epidemic of phone usage: not noticing cars slowing down for turns, stop signs, sharp turns, pedestrians.
Last month my firetruck was hit by a distracted driver who was looking at his cellphone. A miles-long straight road on a clear night with no traffic and the driver had been staring at his cellphone for so long that he didn't start braking until the entire cabin of his car was bathed in red flashing light.
We were parked, lights on, in the right hand lane of a roadway as we were responding to a driver who had run off the road, hit a barrier, and spun to a stop in the roadway-- because he was distracted by his cellphone: https://imgur.com/a/3qFWNaE
Yes.
Western shifts to less-harmful methods and materials increases the size of the market for those methods and materials and lowers their costs, spurring adoption in places not as rich as the West.
The early adoption of solar panels in the west drives production capacity in poorer nations that are more manufacturing-oriented. The increased production capacity increases supply, which lowers prices, which makes it more affordable for them to transition to solar (and other technologies).
International conventions, treaties, and agreements headed by richer nations bring along poorer nations.
In the US, harmful emissions like CO2 and GHG plateaued in the 70s and 80s and started declining on both a total and per-capita basis in the 2000s. They are still much, MUCH, higher than the rest of the world but are declining. In China and India emissions have started to slow their rate of increase or have plateaued in the last 10 years.
China went from ~5% of their energy coming from renewables and nuclear in 2000 to 15% in 2019. The US was at approximately 40% in 2020. Given the rates of change China will probably surpass the United States in renewable/nuclear generation as a percentage of their electricity generation in 10-20 years.
I would expect the emissions curves to mimic those of Europe and the United States, lagging by 30-40 years.
This is a decades-long effort, not something that can be realized in years. The infrastructure built 20 years ago still has 30 years left in it, so the targets we want to hit in 50 years need to be planned for and built today.
But as for your question "the strategy of doing it ourselves" isn't really valid.
Each individual American emits roughly 3x the amount of CO2 that a Chinese person does. We're not "doing it ourselves" we are barely sacrificing anything while expecting people poorer than us to do what we don't want to do.
https://robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2022/PNG/s76_2022_Continen...
The restrictions on pseudoephedrine were mandated by Congress through the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (passed as part of the patriot act) which followed various state legislatures’ passages of similar laws.
The main driving force behind the law was Bush’s White House drug task force and several members of Congress.
Federal agencies very, very, rarely solicit or propose legislation like this. And Congress rarely asks for their input.
They reversed the downward trend in revenue (which occurred simultaneously with a tremendous increase in profitability) and bounced back from 2020 magnificently.
Their stock price has ONLY roughly doubled in the last five years and their dividend has ONLY doubled in the last 10.
Obviously that is not good enough so they're going to lay off a couple thousand people to get that margin up by two points.
Pathetic.
This is 100% a stock juicing play. I'm willing to bet there's a cadre of executives who all came on at the same time pre-pandemic (during the revenue turnaround) whose options are maturing and the price isn't where they want it to be because of the pandemic. McDonalds is as healthy a company as its food is unhealthy.
To put it mildly, it was fucking wild. It blew my 13 year old mind. I had never heard anything like it.
I went over to my neighbor's house to get the TV guide the next day so I could read who the musical guest was because I had missed it.
It's known as one of the weirdest episodes of SNL ever: https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/the-weirdest-episode-of-the-...
It was a "lost" episode that I searched online for for decades.
Luckily a VHS copy emerged in 2020: https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-11-e-13-ge...
2. Obesity
3. Lack of access, due to a lack of affordability and/or availability, to healthcare
I'm a volunteer EMT-B who has a full-time day job so I only work one weekend shift per week and on average I narcan someone once per month. In my state approximately 3,000 people die every year from overdose. Me narcan'ing someone means there's a ~25% chance of them dying in the next year from overdose.
Twice in the last six months someone who was too obese for me and my partner to move by ourselves died while waiting for assistance to arrive.
Yes, I know you may, but you are not typical.
The vast, overwhelming, majority of people do not want to wear shit on their face to play video games. Or watch movies. Or work.
Marketing or curiosity may convince them that they do, so they buy a Quest 2, play Beat Saber for a couple of hours, and then put it in a drawer and forget about it.
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With all due respect, stop.
Any time I'm at an open source thing and see someone with a Lenovo I smirk because they're oiling the gears the machine they're also raging against.
Did you expect something different?
That's literally the goal of every "DiGiTaLnOmAd" (you're a migrant worker, dickhead) visa scheme everywhere in the world. They want short-term renters eating out every night and racking up airport fees.
edit: unless you're super-wealthy in which case "Velkominn, Willkommen, いらっしゃいませ, Bem-vindo, 欢迎, Bienvenu, Tere tulemast, etc...."
Its SLA.
Or more precisely, its lack of one.