They are buying up property IN CHINA, which is again just numerical garbage. They pretend their homes are worth $2 trillion instead of $1 trillon. Trade imbalance still exists.

To buy property out of China, that would be undoing the trade imbalance. But China hates when their citizens buy property out of China. They call it corruption.

Someone buys a computer from China. They get a computer.

China gets some money. Used to be a bunch of paper. Now it's a numerical notation in a bank.

Sounds to me like the guy with the computer made out like a bandit and the idiots looking at numerical notations are fools.

Yeah, I know they can trade those numbers for other stuff - that's called undoing the trade imbalance.

So how exactly is China supposed to be benefitting without undoing the trade unbalance?

They can't.

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

Your numbers are wrong.
Netflix offered $27 and change per share.
Paramount offered $30 per share. That is about 10% more.

You need to read the article, not just the summary.

We need to push for CEOs to be replaced with AI. They'd do a better job and would cost a LOT less.

Start repeating this everywhere and get the meme-makers on it. It will be wonderful to watch them squirm as they suddenly find reasons why AI shouldn't replace a company's most valuable assets: its most highly-paid executives.

With similar efficiency claims? I am sure there are advantages to this version.

If the article had compared it to existing sterling engines and mentioned how it was better than existing Sterling Engines, that would have made it interesting.

Instead they talked about Super Soakers and mentioned all the obvious industrial uses that such a machine could be used for. The things anyone that graduated High School should have been able to think of themselves.

Was this article written for people that failed High School Physics? Is it an attempt to get an orange skinned fool that was tricked by a Democrat into pardoning him to fund something?

How did this sad excuse of an article get approved here?

I can see a service where you can send a satellite message to disable your car/brick it. But a system where if you lose satellite communication for enough time it bricks itself automatically?

I can see a hundred ways this can go bad - starting with what actually happened.

Horrible business plan.

Read my post again. You didn't understand it.

So you hand picked the few and extremely uncommon jobs that actually had real time constraints and think you are smart?
Nope, you need to get better at arguing.

Lets go through those cases one by one:

A) Fire men spend 90% of their time training - which they get all the extra time they need. Yes, in a real emergency they need to hustle, but even then they use the slow is smooth, smooth is fast technique. They do not rush because you make mistakes when you rush.

B) Catching criminals is a slow methodical process, not chasing them. Except in TV. In TV, it is all about the car chase. But in real life it it about waiting for the phone records, DNA tests, fingerprint searches, people to call you back.

C) CPR is not a rush. You need to start right away, but then take your time and do it consistently, not in a hurry.

D) Burgers cook at a consistent time. You cannot decide to do it in half the time. If you try to cut it short, that gives food poisoning. The act of prep and assembly should be done well, not fast. Trying to rush it causes mistakes. Or low quality.

E) Judges routinely grant extensions but as long as the lawyer started the work at the appropriate time, again, it is not a rush. Unless someone forgot about it and tries to do it quickly.

F) The fact that you are unemployed and useless is on you. Not relevant to the discussion of people doing real work. Nor do I want to hire the guy that desires to sit on the couch and smoke pot. That guy, I fire.

Last I checked Ruby execution was slow compared to Python. That, however, tells you where you shouldn't use it, not *that* you shouldn't use it. And Ruby can easily call C routines (with the usual caveats).

OTOH, in some task spaces, design in Ruby is fast compared to design in Python, and in almost all it's fast compared to design in C. (That said, I generally prefer to design in Python and then re-implement in C++.)

Whether it's serious or not depends on what you're doing. For me it fails only because I require Doxygen compatibility. (Mind you, I would rarely choose to use *only* ruby, but for some things it would be the superior choice.)

OTOH, Ruby is not a low level choice. It's a slightly higher level than Python. And I often design things in Python and then convert them to C++ (with, of course, minor rewrites).

So, "What do you mean by 'serious'?".

1) Why are tests timed at all? The smart people usually finish early. Is more time helpful to anyone - or just the kids having problems answering the questions. Why not double the time and let everyone spend 10 minutes obsessing over the questions they do not understand.

2) Should we encourage professors and bosses to just be more accommodating. There is no good reason to let them be assholes and put arbitrary time limits. Good bosses keep their good employees happy - shouldn't professors do the same? Give them comfortable chairs, etc.

3) Perhaps this is a real issue. Are people getting more mental issues because of chemicals/plastics in the environments. Or could these problems have always existed and we just have better diagnosis - particularly for people that can afford good health care.

4) Are smart people more prone to psychological issues? I have heard intelligence goes along with anxiety. More brains = caring/obsessing more.

5) Did they get more time in High School? Or does this only happen in college? Perhaps we just do not notice it in high school because each class has fewer college rated people.

6) OK, lets say what everyone is thinking - they did not have disabilities, this is just a way of cheating. Of all the ways asshole rich people could try to cheat the system this seems more acceptable. We will not be able to stop rich assholery entirely and I would rather they get more time instead outright bribery.

7) Finally and most importantly - do you really think the grades are that important? Schools are about education and networking as well as proving your knowledge via grades. Quite a few people go to school to learn or make new connections, not to get a job. Especially for the really rich people. If your father has 100 million, you are not concerned about where being #1 in the class. You want to learn stuff and meet people, not get good grades. Perhaps the solution is to eliminate the grades entirely.

FBI routinely hires people convicted of computer crimes and places them under extreme guidance.

As this is government work, I could see them wanting to hire someone that has proven hacking skills. But not as a subcontractor.

For what you ask?

For Christmas Presents to staff in my building, postman, etc.

All I need is their name. I can write it out ahead of time, put it in an envelope, write their name on the envelope and hand it to them in person. No one needs to know how much till they open the envelope. I can give out multiple ones to multiple people all privately.

But that is it. That is the only thing I do it for.

If my building were to set up a website to let me do this, I would probably stop writing checks. Give the postman cash.

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.