Believe me, if it was that simple, it'd already be done because there's a large workforce available to tap at low wages and low cost of living. My fiance is from the area you speak of, a town whose mine left 20 years ago and now the only real employment outside of places like McD's and Aaron's is in the hospital and in the prison. Drugs are rampant, teen pregnancy is horrible with the low desire to focus on abstinence and welfare babies are a real thing. It's not the ghetto of a large city, its an old mining town that's 98% white with similar problems and similar need for solutions.

The cities' disenfranchised have an advantage though, they have infrastructure. There is little to no reason to produce anything in Appalachia if you don't have to because you have to import the materials and create infrastructure on very uneven and difficult ground, plus the snow lock issues you suffer in the winter. These towns were built where they were only because of the natural resources available, outside of that they do not function well when competing with other locations. The only remaining major possibilities for these locations include utilizing the already present rail hubs for distribution facilities or if someone solves the holy grail of employment sourcing with decentralized gig economy style telecommuting at the level and expansiveness of Amazon. Outside of that, the only answer for people in these areas is often to flee if they find an out, perpetuating the cycle.

The other thing that bothers me about stories like this: "In 50 years, this may become a problem, and we don't have the means to immediately correct it right now!" Outside the dishonesty, its a major false equivalency because it compares a long-term change with the ability to correct it with immediacy. Junk clickbait news or dishonest mental masturbation, take your pick.

The reason bulk carriers work is because they're simple. The weight that goes into these ships is almost unbelievable, and adding moving components to the very bottom of that weight is a recipe for disaster. Bulk carriers are used for homogeneous goods sold in mass quantities for prices low enough that putting them in containers is cost prohibitive. I'm surprised that this is an issue, but I could see why the hold would have limited possible fixes for a situation like this. I think the eventual fix would more likely employ sensors of some sort to understand what types of resonance are causing the issue, or spotting them as they occur.

The stupidest thing about this ad isn't even the ending, it's the whole duration. The kid goes around to multiple areas in the city and in trees to...stare at the same screen. Making an ad about being in nature with your tech, but being in nature with your tech and not experiencing nature at all is completely disingenuous.

The USD isn't backed by a commodity but instead the entire US economy and US fiscal policy. The fed has shown a willingness to create domestic debt in order to maintain currency stability. That kind of reliability is why it's seen as the safest currency worldwide.

Really the worst possible brand to rag on about battery life. Motorola tends to have the highest battery capacity of all smartphones, and is why I own one. My Z has a 3500mAh battery with the expansion part on the back for an additional 6k. I could take it into the woods for 4 days and it not die on me.

I find it quite ironic that most of the people who continually complain about the US/SI issue are from bilingual or ESL countries. All the US system is is a language to describe units of measure, nothing more, nothing less. Would you expect everyone in France to abandon the language and start speaking English just because English has become the dominant language? No. The argument then comes about the precision of French as a language and the reason it was used as the language of diplomacy, just like the argument comes for the US system about how it relates more to everyday unit usage in common tasks.

They both describe the same thing with different words, and changing things over would be unnecessarily complex and a overall waste of time and resources for the little possible future gains.

This reads like a paranoid schizophrenic's writing. I'm not a fan of centralization, but most of your points focus on hair-brained nightmares of a libertarian without properly thinking them through. For example, #4 isn't possible because the value of the dollar is only stable internationally due to its reliability - if you want to see what happens when governments confiscate assets from private individuals and corporations without cause, look at Argentina and Venezuela and their currency volatility. Confiscating people's savings would send the dollar into a tailspin and cause it to lose more value than they gain by stealing it. Your take on this shows a severe lack of understanding in macroeconomics and how the global economy works, especially the focus on the national debt.

Ten thousand years ago, we looked up at the sun, stars, and moon and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural deities to rationalize their existence. 70 years ago, we saw military test aircraft with flashing lights in the sky in the western US and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence. 20 years ago, we recorded and saw unusual lighting phenomenon in rare circumstances, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence.

The common ground is a human being's desire to explain something they don't understand, not the flashing lights in the sky.

I remember working at Staples as a kid, seeing parents coming in during May and thinking they were clever buying shit for next years' school year. Little did they know the price of their $50 basket cost less than $10 during the Back to School sales, they're marked up during slower times to ensure the margin on keeping those isles stocked makes sense.

Sales happen during holidays and events because predictable movement of merchandise for revenue is extremely beneficial to retailers. Shopping outside of season to avoid the crowd almost always ensures you're paying a premium, unless you're buying holiday decorations or shopping the clearance sales after a season's end.

Good luck with that. Nocturnal schedules are significantly harder on the body. It has nothing to do with preference, it has everything to do with biology.

Motorola has a good hold on that market. Their android skinning is very limited and their phones have already been in that ballpark. I was interested in the essential phone, but at the price compared to my Moto Z it just wasn't worth it.

California has the most abused disability system in the continental US and still owes the federal unemployment trust fund a metric buttload of money they haven't paid back, resulting in employers paying way higher federal unemployment tax for their operations in that state - the only state still with a deficit. The lack of accountability in CA with government spending is absolutely staggering and it drives up costs for employers and employees alike.

I agree, it was a pretty fun movie. The planning scenes reminded me a lot of the Witcher 3's Novigrad arc and the combat scenes were really cool. The camera play with the special effects in the combat was a really interesting take.

It's not the gems themselves that cost the money, its the cutting process. It's a very time consuming manual process that takes a lot of training. You can buy one of those big ol' slabs of lab diamond, but good luck paying someone to cut them and ending up significantly below cost of buying a precut one from a wholesaler.

The people who made lab diamonds economical are doing extremely well for themselves, but the price isn't going to tank substantially until someone automates the cutting process.