Comment Re:This is wrong (Score 1) 189
The first part is really my reply to you, the rest is a disclaimer
The first part is really my reply to you, the rest is a disclaimer
If you want the government to mandate everything, you need to move to the USSR, or maybe North Korea.
That's desperately ignorant. The US government already does regulate essentially everything, and whatever it doesn't, the states or municipalities or your local fucking HOA does. The USA is massively authoritarian and has been for over a century.
The employees' pay is more or less in equilibrium with the market for their services.
It's less. Pay attention. Also, that is not a win. It means the poor are kept poor.
Make tipping illegal
You want to make it illegal to give money to people? Congratulations, you just figured out how to make capitalism worse.
The $20M number was from an article circulated here. No clue how to find it today given how shit all the search engines are now.
Before Pocket existed I was using Scrapbook+ to store web pages as displayed. I am now using Singlefile because they destroyed the functionality Scrapbook+ used to access the filesystem. (It also gave a browser and a search for the stored pages.)
The difference of EV vs. ICE car purchase price is negligible compared to the cost of gas
I got a perfectly serviceable ICEV used for $5k. It will do 80 mph all day and it gets 30 mpg. If you buy a used EV for $5k it won't work, and if it does, it will still need a new battery. I could spend $15k and get a really nice used ICEV and still have another $25k to spend on fuel before I got to the price of the EV. Someday when there are more used EVs around then maybe they will actually be cheaper for people for whom it matters.
No i have ms in aerospace eng and a phd in physics i am not missing anything.
You're literally wrong about everything.
Energy transport of liquid fuels is very expensive. It costs more than 5% while in the USA we lose less than 5% in transmission. Getting the potential energy to the wheels through an ICE means shit efficiency, under 25% and usually under 20% because peak efficiency is reached only in a very narrow range of speeds and loads. There is generally plenty of grid capacity available at night, and when you add a lot of vehicles you can do V2G for grid stabilization and it actually IMPROVES effective capacity. Batteries are highly recyclable and batteries are being recycled RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK.
10 years from now the environmental impact of these cars is going to be bat shit insane.
You're a bat shit dipshit. If you actually have a Phd then I fucking weep for whatever school gave it to you.
Indeed. Replacing half a century of collective experience with a new language in an entirely different and far less tested environment to write low level code, where all the memory safety features have to be disabled at all the same failure points where C and assembly have been used... for reasons.
So, in other words, it really isn't any better at bare metal development than C/C++. If you have to direct memory and hardware manipulation in unsafe blocks, then really, it's just the same thing as doing it in C.
Semicolons are the bastard child of commas. Their use is limited and if you don't use them correctly the reader is confused because the phrasing is off.
Unless you know what you're doing, use a comma or a period or better yet, rewrite so you don't get into the position of needing a semicolon.
If a president can dictate how the agency runs, it's not independent, is it?
We all know why this change was done. It's so the Russian asset can force the agency to revoke licenses for communication companies who report mean things about him such as him falling asleep every day or reporting his inane ramblings or calling him out on his lies. Also, he can force communication companies to report only what he says, just like in Russia.
So no, everything changes.
about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.
I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.
"Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor." -- Dolph Lundgren, "actor"