It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.
I'm sitting at the ER right now wondering what sort of ads I'll get. Truth is you can't count on government to restrict itself so you have to buy your own privacy.
""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) " Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.
"I'm more curious about the state of that yurt in 5, 10, 15 years." It's a good question and I've always wanted to see postmortems on alternative building methods generally. I suppose that we could always take on the…
I'm always in favor of homebuilt OS projects, I've worked on several in-house OSs and they seem to have good ideas salted around them. If it were me, I'd write an open source RTOS (yet another one) and cast around for…
So who decides what the DJIA and S&P 500 stocks actually are? A random number generator?
lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion. a quick edit: It's a question that really began gnawing at my mind over the last few…
Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.
Both? My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced by something new. Trump obviously has a…
At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.
" indexing outperforms actively managed funds" Most index funds are actively managed.
"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist" Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made. You do have to wonder how Tesla is going to…
Trump's account is a beautiful example of how useless Twitter is. Typically it goes... Trump: CONGRATULATIONS ON FIREFIGHTERS FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FOR FIREFIGHTERS! Followed by 1k…
"I remember seeing a program that claimed this is because soldiers today are trained to kill against their natural instinct. So traditionally only 20% of soldiers could actually kill, which would explain the low…
The result is pretty simple. The intelligence agencies become a fourth branch of government and likely the dominant one. It would be interesting to better understand the dynamics between the military and the…
French was spoken by the educated classes in much of the Western world for some time, had a largish colonial empire. Holy Roman Empire (neither Roman or Holy or an Empire) had German as a primary language.
Hasn't there been a large increase in non-tenured faculty, teaching assistants, etc?
Is there some reason for all neutron stars to have the same physical make-up and internal behavior? or could they fall into types?
I would think that primaries would vastly favor incumbents, to a greater degree than a general.
Very cool, I'm impressed. This guy knows how to do all the stuff I don't know how to do and it actually works well.
I think that the EFI argument is something of a red herring, no one is suggesting a return to the Quadrajet. OTOH, EFI can be done as a modular (and replaceable) product rather than as part of monolithic whole-vehicle…
"where a single chip can cost 300$ and has to be shipped from mainland America..." that assumes that the failed part is even available. I'd sure be irritated to have the controller board for a Cadillac XLR convertible…
"Vehicle manufacturers are just giving customers what they want." ...and they're giving it to them good and hard.
All of the ones around here do. Used DVD racks still exist. Soft drink vending machines. Seasonal items. Newspaper racks. In the case of items actually run through the register, I'm not sure how that's dealt with from…
I would argue that a grocery store is a combination store and marketplace in that case. Stores have plenty of in-house brands, they also have racks of goods that are stocked and sold by third parties wherein they get a…
It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.
I'm sitting at the ER right now wondering what sort of ads I'll get. Truth is you can't count on government to restrict itself so you have to buy your own privacy.
""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) " Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.
"I'm more curious about the state of that yurt in 5, 10, 15 years." It's a good question and I've always wanted to see postmortems on alternative building methods generally. I suppose that we could always take on the…
I'm always in favor of homebuilt OS projects, I've worked on several in-house OSs and they seem to have good ideas salted around them. If it were me, I'd write an open source RTOS (yet another one) and cast around for…
So who decides what the DJIA and S&P 500 stocks actually are? A random number generator?
lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion. a quick edit: It's a question that really began gnawing at my mind over the last few…
Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.
Both? My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced by something new. Trump obviously has a…
At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.
" indexing outperforms actively managed funds" Most index funds are actively managed.
"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist" Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made. You do have to wonder how Tesla is going to…
Trump's account is a beautiful example of how useless Twitter is. Typically it goes... Trump: CONGRATULATIONS ON FIREFIGHTERS FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FOR FIREFIGHTERS! Followed by 1k…
"I remember seeing a program that claimed this is because soldiers today are trained to kill against their natural instinct. So traditionally only 20% of soldiers could actually kill, which would explain the low…
The result is pretty simple. The intelligence agencies become a fourth branch of government and likely the dominant one. It would be interesting to better understand the dynamics between the military and the…
French was spoken by the educated classes in much of the Western world for some time, had a largish colonial empire. Holy Roman Empire (neither Roman or Holy or an Empire) had German as a primary language.
Hasn't there been a large increase in non-tenured faculty, teaching assistants, etc?
Is there some reason for all neutron stars to have the same physical make-up and internal behavior? or could they fall into types?
I would think that primaries would vastly favor incumbents, to a greater degree than a general.
Very cool, I'm impressed. This guy knows how to do all the stuff I don't know how to do and it actually works well.
I think that the EFI argument is something of a red herring, no one is suggesting a return to the Quadrajet. OTOH, EFI can be done as a modular (and replaceable) product rather than as part of monolithic whole-vehicle…
"where a single chip can cost 300$ and has to be shipped from mainland America..." that assumes that the failed part is even available. I'd sure be irritated to have the controller board for a Cadillac XLR convertible…
"Vehicle manufacturers are just giving customers what they want." ...and they're giving it to them good and hard.
All of the ones around here do. Used DVD racks still exist. Soft drink vending machines. Seasonal items. Newspaper racks. In the case of items actually run through the register, I'm not sure how that's dealt with from…
I would argue that a grocery store is a combination store and marketplace in that case. Stores have plenty of in-house brands, they also have racks of goods that are stocked and sold by third parties wherein they get a…