I once was driving through Baltimore and wanted to grab some lunch. I saw a sign for the "Baltimore Travel Center." Hey, sounds like a rest stop, right?

More like Greyhound bus terminal. The neighboorhood surrounding it looked like it should have its photo in the wikipedia entry for "Urban Blight." And that was in broad daylight - I couldn't imagine driving around that area at night. There was trash everywhere - parking lot, inside, etc. The works. I've lived in major cities and downtown doesn't bother me at all in most of them.

We just take people who live in these neighborhoods and try to pretend that they don't exist. Then we act indignant when they lash out. They don't feel like they're a part of society, so they don't act the part either.

lol. This is an administration that defines the word "militant" as meaning any male that isn't a child or pensioner. "Material support for terrorism" doesn't mean anything at all, given that the last 15 years have shown governments will happily label anything they don't like as terrorism. Bear in mind the primary roadblock that prevents the UN agreeing on a definition of terrorism is western nations (i.e. America's) insistence that people who resist foreign occupation of their countries must be considered terrorists, and Arab nations insistence that they mustn't.

No they have not.

There is this thing called Skype and planes.

The money saved in cheaper rents can be used to fly down or them fly up. Some may not like this and demand relocation but not all. In the 21st century this problem is less of an issue.

Detroit is HOT! So is North Dakota, and Austin Texas is trying to do some startups too. Boulder Colorado is another one.

There are very cheap rents, friendly local tax incentives, and with a low cost of living and a revitilized downtown it is a win for the employees and the employer. You can get a trendy bachelor apartment for half the price of a studio in SV and factories too are turning into office spaces that look funky too with bricks on the outside.

The rules of supply and demand will have to come down soon as only the top 4 or 5 .com's can afford to stay with money to burn. Not everyone is a facebook or Apple with hundreds of billions in cash lying around.

While I sound like a jerk here let's turn the tables? You use that silly web 3.0 startup generator on here last week and want to start that insect management cloud software startup? You invest 1 million to some employees to do R&D, research, and develop ex[pertise with the algorithms.

One of them leaves to compete with you and takes half your employees with him. He doesn't have to pay back that expensive line of credit from the bank that you took to develop the product. He undercuts you and goes directly to your customers! How would you feel?

The Non-Disclosure sounds evil, but it is not intended to mess with employees at all. They can leave if they are unhappy and work elsewhere. The point is to protect your IP and investment.

It's probably more accurate to say that Presidents look haggard and appear to be older than they are while in office. Probably something to do with the responsibility and the stress. Thing is in this Microsoft software, if it doesn't have a means to address the difference then it probably will err on the side of older.

Someone did a faces of pornography shoot where they took headshots of pornographic actresses before and after their makeup was applied. I wonder how substantial the differences there would be with the subject at the same age.

Well Silicon valley was so much cheaper than New Jersey in the 1960s so economics did the reverse.

All the good engineers lived in the northeast. 1960s titans in high tech are GE, Bell Labs, IBM, and some startups in Massachusetts. It was hard to find an engineer in Northern California before Mayfield changed this.

Now you are correct it is time for another correction but for some dumb reason people think the hills and the dirt are somehow magical and that some SV's demand relocation which is odd.

Detroit is a hot spot too. Cheap and a government who are desperate to give you tax breaks too and very affordable office and living space for yourself and employees.

Ultra expensive, employees can leave for another startup, employees demand 2x their national average wage, employees demand partial ownership, highest taxes in nation, lawsuit friendly, non compete clauses not enforceable.

I can do a startup in Texas without these problems for half the cost and low taxes. I can find qualified workers too and not just self-righteous college graduates with no experience demanding 100k a year too! Before I am labeled anti employee assholes I would like to say a 70k job in Austin gets you a nice home. I pay less in taxes on you too and we both win. Try that with 120k in San Francisco?

What made silicon valley was what Texas or North Dakota is today. Cheap land, cheap employees, friendly government, no one leaving for another startup.

In the 1960s Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey was where it was out. Now the reverse is true.

Economics should be encouraging companies to leave. This whole synergy argument is bullshit

The most advanced silicon chip manufacturing plant in the world is in Chandler, Arizona, and the wafers made there are packaged into processors in Malaysia and Ireland. Many materials scientists work at the Chandler plant, not in Sunnyvale, because it's so much less expensive to live there.

The cracks in the armor of the American automobile industry were already appearing in the early sixties. At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom, before auto consolidation and quality failure broke the back of the British auto industry.

Is this wrong? I saw this displayed in public in an all-ages museum, to be seen by children, adolescents, and adults:

A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros


Or these, on display literally in the hallowed halls of one of the departments of our federal government:

Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Justice


Or this famous painting, representing sentiment and struggle in the French Revolution:

La liberté guidant le peuple


Before you argue that these are paintings or statues and that you're not supposed to feel anything, that would be completely wrong. These works are intended to stir feelings, that's the whole point in their having been created. The artists that created these kinds of works often based them on women that they had intimate knowledge of as well, and had the medium of photography existed or been appropriate at the time the works were created, I suspect it would have been employed, exactly the same way that Playboy operated for most of its existence.

How Switzerland Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How Japan Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How England Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How Rome Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule


Nothing involving active processes, continued development, and people is permanent. Its longevity is always dictated by its continued management and the ability to keep pushing without growing complacent such that disruptive technologies or hungry competitors don't surpass it or make it irrelevant.

What happens when you're not home and the base load goes away and the battery kicks in and your draw exceeds your output capacity? Maybe if you're actually home you can turn off anything high load or that's discretionary, but if you're not you'll overload the battery and I'm assuming it will either current-limit itself via voltage drop or just plain shut off output, which is probably the sanest/safest to prevent damage.

What would be nice would be a smart panel that kept track of the load on all the breaker legs, each of which could be assigned a priority level. Loads could be assigned "always off on battery", "switchable", "always on" and the system could disable switchable loads to ensure that there was sufficient power for always on loads, and the priority setting could be used to switch off "always on" loads so that the highest priority loads could keep running as battery levels dropped.

I'm not sure how gamechanging it really is.

What about actual markets in predominantly rural and agricultural economies?

People show up to buy and sell their commodities, nobody has a monopoly on supply, no purchaser is big enough to swing prices, information asymmetry is low -- you can walk around the market and check on the quality of commodities, determine prices and supply levels, etc.