The problem with this strategy is that for the day-to-day, my bought new M1 MacBook Pro is more than enough computer for my needs. Except for video editing (which I do precious little of nowadays), nothing stresses this computer. I'm yet to even have the fans kick in.
The day will come when I'll have no choice but to upgrade; when Apple declare the computer obsolete. But until then, there's nothing driving me to upgrade.
Nope. It is not.
This may well be the case.
In the short term, EVs are definitely cheaper to maintain than ICE vehicles. And if I were a person who turned my car over every couple of years, I'd probably definitely look at them.
But I'm not. I'm a person who likes to own a car so I'm not seeing a massive outflow each month. So I have to consider the long term, and in the long term - maybe 5 - 6 years after purchase - I have the financially catastrophic cost of replacing the battery pack, which currently is maybe 50% of the new vehicle price.
EVs are not a financially viable option for me.
This happened in New Jersey a few years ago. Despite the warning, despite the advertising, on the day of introduction it was chaos. A week later, still chaos but getting less.
A month later, it was normal.
These are literal members of the ruling class, in this case someone who directly participated in some of the worst excesses of colonialism (and still do if you're paying attention). Someone who routinely campaigns for Austerity for everyone but themselves.
But a mean old man who's be directly involved in loads of terrible things and done zero with his privilege to make the world a better place beyond the usual "thoughts & prayers" B.S.?
Charles is a particularly nasty example of this. For decades, if someone died without a will, all their assets were transferred to his personal bank accounts. Basically, this piece of scum profits both off the lives of ordinary English people - and their deaths, too.
My thoughts exactly. Per Wikipedia, Nakamoto owns between 750,000 and 1,100,000 bitcoin. 750K of coins would be worth around 32 Billion dollars. You want to prove you are he? Sell say a few billion worth, crash the value, and prove to the world you are who you say you are. Or, show faniancial statements and sales of bitcoins traced to the original coins. After all, you should have the wallet.
Isn't there something called the "genesis block" that would categorically prove Wright is Satoshi? Not a bitcoin person by any stretch, but this genesis block comes up every time this charlatan pops his head above the parapet.,..
I'm Satoshi Nakamoto, and so is my wife!
No, I'm Satoshi!
I think the intentions behind things like the Doomsday clock are good
In what way? It's always a bunch of crusty people whom you've never heard of gathered around the clock and looking solemn for the inevitable group photo for the media. You wouldn't give a shit about their opinions if you met any of them in a coffee shop.
Can't they just not? Can't they just fuck off?
No, and we wish.
Mac and Linux are the safe havens now.
It certainly puts into a different perspective Boeingâ(TM)s request to avoid certifying one of their other models!
Why are still calling these things "MAX" at this point.
Because "flying piece of shit a Boeing executive wouldn't set foot on" isn't as catchy?
It's the OS that Apple should have adopted instead of NeXTStep.
However, BeOS came with JLG and OSX came with Jobs. They chose the latter, then he killed himself with hippie-ass cancer "treatments" and died, and they got stuck with the inferior OS and the inferior CEO, too.
One core difference you are missing is that for the same amount of money as Gasse was asking for the rights to BeOS Apple could buy the NeXT company in its entirety. It meant that the the NeXT employees could (finally) cash out their stock options and enter become Apple employees or comfortably retire.
I've used a BeOS machine; it was nice but I do prefer OS X.
Another issue was slow RAM. The Amiga was heavily constrained by RAM speed, and therefore difficult to get good performance from when all the other hardware was competing for cycles too.
It wasn't until the mid 80s that faster RAM became available. Even then, it wasn't cheap. The PC Engine being able to run its 6502 derivative at 8MHz was a real coup, and it was often faster than 68k for game code.
Only the first 512k of RAM was constrained, and even then the custom chips hit the RAM on odd cycles (the 68000 can only read memory on even cycles) to keep things moving at a decent pace.
Amiga fast ram is basically RAM above 512k, and the OS would prioritize (if the Fast RAM first program was run ) the fast RAM for a performance boost.
algorithms must not be allowed to replace human values
Says the man who wants his invisible sky-daddy to overrule human values anyway.
The best way to tell a lie is to tell the truth in such a manner as your victim won't believe you.
That sounds almost exactly like something Sir Humphrey Appleby would say:
Bernard: I was just wondering, Minister, if we might not use the Rhodesia solution?
Humphrey: [beat] Bernard, you excel yourself! Of course, Minister, the Rhodesia solution!
Hacker: What are you talking about?
Humphrey: Oil sanctions, remember? A member of the government was told about the way British companies were sanction-busting.
Hacker: What did he do?
Bernard: He told the Prime Minister.
Hacker: What did he do?
Humphrey: He told the Prime Minister in such a way that the Prime Minister didn't hear him.
Hacker: What, d'you mean I should mumble it or something in the division lobby?
Humphrey: No, Minister, you write a note.
Hacker: In very faint pencil? Please, be practical.
Humphrey: No, Minister, it's awfully obvious; you write a note which is susceptible to misinterpretation.
Hacker: Oh, I see. "Dear Prime Minister, it has come to my attention that the Italian Red Terrorists are getting hold of British top secret bomb-making equipment" — how do you misinterpret that?
Humphrey: You can't.
Hacker: Well, exactly.
Humphrey: So you don't write that. You use a more circumspect style, and you avoid any mention of bombs or terrorists or any of that sort of thing.
Hacker: Wouldn't that be rather difficult? Is that what it's all about?
Humphrey: You say — Bernard, write this down — "My attention has been drawn, on a personal basis, to information which suggests the possibility of certain irregularities under Section..." [snaps fingers]
Bernard: Section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers Defense Act 1939 C.
Humphrey: Thank you, Bernard. You then go on to suggest that somebody else should do something about it. "Prima facie evidence suggests that there could be a case for further investigation; to establish whether or not, inquiries should be put in hand." And then you smudge it all over. "Nevertheless, it should be stressed that available information is limited, and relevant facts could be difficult to establish with any degree of certainty."
Hacker: I see.
Humphrey: Then, if there were an inquiry, you'd be in the clear, and everybody would understand that the busy PM might not have grasped the full implications of such a letter.
Hacker: They certainly would; that's most unclear.
Humphrey: Thank you, Minister. Then you arrange for the letter to arrive at Number 10 on the day the PM leaves for an overseas summit, so there's also doubt about whether it was the PM or the acting PM who read the note. And so the whole thing is written off as a breakdown in communications, everybody's in the clear, and everybody can get on with their business.
Bernard: Including the Red Terrorists.
Humphrey: Exactly.
The information is de-identified. All the researchers, not insurance companies, are getting is genetic and health information, not who it came from.
It's not de-identified. Doctors were asked to provide patient information to supplement the genetic data. And since BioBank repeatedly assured people their data would not be sold to insurance companies, and was later sold, how much faith do you put in any other BioBank promise?
That does not compute.
