Comment Re:And he's the only one? (Score 1) 311
Non-compete agreements are typically illegal in California.
Not illegal, just unenforceable. Big difference.
Non-compete agreements are typically illegal in California.
Not illegal, just unenforceable. Big difference.
If MIT had to give up some of their IPv4 addresses, maybe we'd get IPv6 openafs this century
AFS (in OpenAFS) stands for Andrew File System. Andrew, as in Andrew Carnegie, as in Carnegie Mellon, not MIT.
The fact that president Obama has ancestors that were clearly discriminated against does not mean he is discriminated against.
Uh, you might want to check up on your history a little.
So might you, his father was from Kenya, not Mississippi
This hand has the pattern AAAAB where A and B are from distinct kinds. The number of such hands is (13-choose-1)(4-choose-4)(12-choose-1)(4-choose-1). The probability is 0.000240.
Frankly, even though you've been to Burning Man, I don't feel you're competent to be suggesting improvements to the exodus traffic problem. You've been there once, and you came in and left on a fast-track bus which was able to bypass the entire process you're trying to critique. Had you been through it a few times and seen how traffic exodus works for people who are actually in the thick of it, I doubt you'd have bothered trying to micromanage the queues.
This is not an answer to the question posed in the article, which was, "Why wouldn't this work?"
I have an answer for why wouldn't this work. It takes about 60 minutes under ideal conditions to drive from a camp in BRC to the edge of the playa where you get on the little 2 lane highway. Packing times for an average carload of burners hitting the road is about 5 +- 3 hours. The ability of any group to predict when they can head out is highly variable given that they can really only choose when to start packing. Having 30 minute windows is a recipe for disaster. Nobody would hit their window. There would be disputes about what window we were currently in, etc. Practically, to anyone ever in exodus, this idea is patently absurd despite the solid mathematics. The problem is that the mathematically model used to do this analysis is woefully simplified from the actual complexities of exodus. Everyone ever been in exodus would know this. That's perhaps why burners keep suggesting you try it before trying to tell everyone else. There are perhaps 1000 burners who understand queueing theory better than this guy. Why do you think you understand something about the situations that we don't?
If you have ever been in the core of a major theme camp, you will recognize this situation instantly. Running a major theme camp is a huge undertaking with a 5 or 6 figure budget and a lot of complex engineering. Last year, our camp had 4000 amps of power distributed over 3 acres. There was a water system for processing several 1000 gallons of grey water, a full gourmet kitchen and facilities for 300 people. Every year some newbie comes up and tells us we are doing something wrong and we should do it differently. What they don't understand is that we tried their approach several years ago and it doesn't work for reasons that might not be so obvious. After awhile, it gets tiresome re-explaining the same things to different newbies each year and the crew starts getting jaded and starts just telling people if they don't like it, don't camp here anymore. Basically, this guy is getting the same response, just at a playa wide level.
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
Look, people are involved and people are fallible and technology can't really prevent that. BTC as a protocol is solid and wasn't comprised. The very immature institutions that have sprung up around BTC are currently failing at their task that you have every right to criticize them. Hopefully the market will sort out some winners that can function in their institutional roles in the BTC ecosystem safely and securely.
But don't confuse BTC for a bank and right now don't confuse it for a currency. Currently, BTC is a commodity because of its volatile value against fiat currencies. Someday that might change at which point BTC begins behaving like a currency. It fills/will fill a real need for many people, probably not you but others and that's what really matters here. When the BTC institutions can behave in as secure and trustworthy a way as other financial institutions (and really is that a very high bar anymore) then it will be very much like any other currency with a measurable market cap and liquid exchanges. Until then its volatile and probably only for miners and speculators (and gamblers).
And a ponzi scheme always needs an increasing amount of money to keep going (ie next year more $$ needs to go in than last year). That doesn't seem to be a feature of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Ask any miner and they've gone through peaks and valleys due to volatile prices and changing difficulties that brings the system into balance. It always balances out, the good and the bad (ie bad you paid 47 BTC for a ASIC miner in August 2013 that probably will never mine 47 BTC, good your other 147 BTC are now worth 80k USD). Its hard and rare to get rich honestly with BTW but you can make a bit of extra cash right now and that's a feature of a healthy and growing market.
Purely electric cars have a footprint too, grid electricity has a footprint, on average, about the same as a 50mpg car -- more or less depending on where in the country you are -- or what country you're in.
Bzzzzt....sorry but you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off there. A pure EV can go about 3-4 miles/ kwh. An ICE at 33 kwh per gallon of gas / (40 miles / gallon) is about 0.8 miles / kwh. In addition, electric power generated in a central location is generated about 3x as cleanly. So an EV has about 1/10th the carbon footprint on a millage basis. So that's what, the equivalent of 400 miles to the gallon? Oh, and I forgot about the fact that ICEs waste 90% of their power in inefficiencies against the ideal and an electric motor is usually about 75% efficient. Basically, an EV produces 1/10th the carbon footprint of an ICE based upon mileage. But kept telling people that EVs don't help too much. You are really a credit to the human race.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.