Any nation is free to set a good example.
"and the CEO talked to the protestors and told them how helpless he himself was, as he was just part of the system with relatively limited ability to change it. I'm not sure I buy that, and not sure the protestors did…
Iowa may be an example of how ethanol is done wrong in practice, but I'm not sure your theory is so sound. Make ethanol from sugar cane, not corn. Louisiana should be the center of US ethanol production. Much higher…
"I could imagine corporate-run nuclear plants that have the same incentives as airlines." So how exactly do you enforce that corporate executives and their families must live on site for decades?
"They don't want their family to starve." We know how to stop that. We don't have to sentence people to subsistence agriculture. When you know better, you do better, and we know better. We can farm in ways that build…
This kind of satire is unnecessary and unhelpful. It costs nothing to say "lab testing" instead of "in vitro". Literally the same number of syllables, zero loss of precision, and immediately understandable to a wider…
"Whether it is bonds, or some other instrument, they all pay interest. That debt exists, is owed, and yet you're saying "Just don't pay that interest"?" I'm saying it's wrong to create federal bonds with an interest…
"Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the for-profit motive for banks to lend, for absolutely no return?" You're definitely missing something, because private lenders are perfectly free to charge interest. ZIRP…
That is in fact a fundamental distinction between the Universal Basic Income and the Federal Job Guarantee. One criticism of the UBI is that being unmoored from production makes it extremely inflationary. That requires…
"Right now, 8% of Federal Revenue pays just the interest on that debt. If interest rates go up, say in a year or two.. so goes up that payment." Canada has a fiat currency. Thus the Canadian government can set the…
"Millions of people live every day with only a couple of dollars a day." Not in the USA they don't. There is no possible way that an individual could pay for food, clothing, and shelter on that income.
"Companies are just collections of people." False. Corporations are golems, not people at all.
"I am not able to see how a network of distributed vertical food farms would be less resilient to political disasters than growing everything in California." I fixed it for you. States like Indiana import 90% of their…
You get all kinds, possibly depending on when the town was established. For many of the Chicago suburbs, there is a defined "business district" where most of the restaurants, bars, barbershops, etc are. This may very…
"The other thing to keep in mind is that the 'huge' bonuses usually aren't very large from an income statement point of view; if you bought an extra 0.5% growth (or savings), it was easily worth it." It's hard to prove…
"Nobody wants to try to turn around a bankrupt company at their old salary (with their old RSU's and options now worthless)." So they quit, and the company goes bankrupt on a different timeline. Why should either…
For certain definitions of "pay", any nation with a fiat currency could certainly place a number into a spreadsheet. Making that number mean anything might take a while.But we could certainly write a permanent bond and…
HVDC transmission losses are low, like 5% per 1000 km. So yes, a large, dispersed solar network could create and distribute electricity effectively.
Have you posted about this on the gfortran mailing lists? They are generally interested in examples that show where the compiler could be improved.
"Even Uber might never be profitable." Uber will never be profitable, they can't pay their labor. What sucks is that their failure will destroy the business model for someone who might have been willing to give it an…
TPP was a terrible response to the opportunity. Write better treaty text and you get a better result. Killing TPP was the correct result.
Optimizing for size versus performance often eliminates optimizations like unrolling loops. At the assembly level, it's sometimes true that a single instruction or smaller sequence of instructions takes more cpu cycles.…
Yes, it's not at all clear what remedy would be effective. Some limit on total percentage of searches, similar to the limit in the 1996 Telecommunications Act that no company can own stations reaching more than 35% of…
"All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment." That won't necessarily change in a big corporate environment. Management can be surprisingly resistant to approving…
Gentoo needs vastly better documentation to be useful.
Any nation is free to set a good example.
"and the CEO talked to the protestors and told them how helpless he himself was, as he was just part of the system with relatively limited ability to change it. I'm not sure I buy that, and not sure the protestors did…
Iowa may be an example of how ethanol is done wrong in practice, but I'm not sure your theory is so sound. Make ethanol from sugar cane, not corn. Louisiana should be the center of US ethanol production. Much higher…
"I could imagine corporate-run nuclear plants that have the same incentives as airlines." So how exactly do you enforce that corporate executives and their families must live on site for decades?
"They don't want their family to starve." We know how to stop that. We don't have to sentence people to subsistence agriculture. When you know better, you do better, and we know better. We can farm in ways that build…
This kind of satire is unnecessary and unhelpful. It costs nothing to say "lab testing" instead of "in vitro". Literally the same number of syllables, zero loss of precision, and immediately understandable to a wider…
"Whether it is bonds, or some other instrument, they all pay interest. That debt exists, is owed, and yet you're saying "Just don't pay that interest"?" I'm saying it's wrong to create federal bonds with an interest…
"Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the for-profit motive for banks to lend, for absolutely no return?" You're definitely missing something, because private lenders are perfectly free to charge interest. ZIRP…
That is in fact a fundamental distinction between the Universal Basic Income and the Federal Job Guarantee. One criticism of the UBI is that being unmoored from production makes it extremely inflationary. That requires…
"Right now, 8% of Federal Revenue pays just the interest on that debt. If interest rates go up, say in a year or two.. so goes up that payment." Canada has a fiat currency. Thus the Canadian government can set the…
"Millions of people live every day with only a couple of dollars a day." Not in the USA they don't. There is no possible way that an individual could pay for food, clothing, and shelter on that income.
"Companies are just collections of people." False. Corporations are golems, not people at all.
"I am not able to see how a network of distributed vertical food farms would be less resilient to political disasters than growing everything in California." I fixed it for you. States like Indiana import 90% of their…
You get all kinds, possibly depending on when the town was established. For many of the Chicago suburbs, there is a defined "business district" where most of the restaurants, bars, barbershops, etc are. This may very…
"The other thing to keep in mind is that the 'huge' bonuses usually aren't very large from an income statement point of view; if you bought an extra 0.5% growth (or savings), it was easily worth it." It's hard to prove…
"Nobody wants to try to turn around a bankrupt company at their old salary (with their old RSU's and options now worthless)." So they quit, and the company goes bankrupt on a different timeline. Why should either…
For certain definitions of "pay", any nation with a fiat currency could certainly place a number into a spreadsheet. Making that number mean anything might take a while.But we could certainly write a permanent bond and…
HVDC transmission losses are low, like 5% per 1000 km. So yes, a large, dispersed solar network could create and distribute electricity effectively.
Have you posted about this on the gfortran mailing lists? They are generally interested in examples that show where the compiler could be improved.
"Even Uber might never be profitable." Uber will never be profitable, they can't pay their labor. What sucks is that their failure will destroy the business model for someone who might have been willing to give it an…
TPP was a terrible response to the opportunity. Write better treaty text and you get a better result. Killing TPP was the correct result.
Optimizing for size versus performance often eliminates optimizations like unrolling loops. At the assembly level, it's sometimes true that a single instruction or smaller sequence of instructions takes more cpu cycles.…
Yes, it's not at all clear what remedy would be effective. Some limit on total percentage of searches, similar to the limit in the 1996 Telecommunications Act that no company can own stations reaching more than 35% of…
"All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment." That won't necessarily change in a big corporate environment. Management can be surprisingly resistant to approving…
Gentoo needs vastly better documentation to be useful.