Comment Re:I'm so glad I stayed up for this (Score 1) 136
The general result isn't particularly surprising, but the scale is. In some of those tests, the 'conventional' distros are 3x slower.
$89.95/12 = $7.50/month
($89.95+$6.55) / 12 = $8.04/month
I mean, 20% off is a fine deal, but it's no $6.95
Everyone's got an argument where 'plenty of solar power' solves each of the myriad problems of living in a sun-baked desert. The far easier solution is not to live in a sun baked desert.
Location is still the most important consideration in sustainable development, because the annual energy cost of living is proportional to how far the temperature is from 70 oF. Everything after that is just mitigating the cost of the environment you've chosen. We could live in a comfortable area, or we could install a big power plant to make it comfortable. We could live somewhere with reliable access to clean water, or we could install a big power plant to harvest, purify, or import water. We could live somewhere with easy transportation, or we could install a big power plant to knock down mountains and catapult goods from 1000 miles away.
Just because your big power plant is solar, doesn't prevent it being wasteful.
The proper way to address this is to stabilize the situation, then make sure the problem cannot occur again.
You're expecting rational behavior from a business? Good luck.
I'd add that the size of the business probably matters a lot here. If this happened in a shop of 20 people with 3 computer guys, one of whom is "CTO," it's a very different situation than a billion dollar, multi-site company. It's probably smart to send the new guy home in the immediate aftermath - he's not going to be helpful in the recovery and emotions will be very high. After that, bring him back in, sort out what happened, and how to prevent similar failures of process. Dude has the cost of a fuck-up burned into his brain, and he's going to be a lot more careful and deliberate in the future.
Now, if he does it a second time...
Selling clothes (ie, FUBU) is a day job. The purchasers you need to talk to to get your stuff in store are 9-to-5ers. I'd guess that this guy was running his hustle pretty much that whole time and not quite making the bills. Maybe there's things he can do to stretch the hours - call stores out of timezone, production details, etc - but the short version sounds like his business wasn't really making enough profit to pay him the salary he wanted. Or that he though business profits would return much more than his time.
Food service does let you work evenings. If you get along with other staff, or can bribe them with a hot new shirt, they're often happy to pickup an extra shift. Basically, as your side-hustle grows, there's a point where you should look at your day job as the side-hustle.
"Reduce your expenses" is great advice if you're making $60k and struggling. It's not very helpful if you're making $20k.
I want my country to be a rational, creative, compassionate leader within the community of nations. Failing that, I want my nation's policies to promote our own long-term growth and success without stepping on the rights of other people. Failing that, which is apparently where we are today, I want the community of nations to pressure my nation into pretending to value those principles.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage.
Only if the government takes it tax revenue and buries it in the ground. In real governments, tax revenues are rapidly returned to the economy through the purchase of goods and services, such as roads and park cleaning.
In the case of carbon tax revenues, one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected. Or to subsidize particular kinds of medical care. Even the costs of administering such a program turn out to be jobs and salaries.
FBI director that has publicly said on at least three different occasions that he isn't under investigation for anything at all
Is there a source other than Trump's letter to confirm this? Because if Trump said the sun is shining, I'd still have to check the window.
Most of people's health is determined by genetics, environment and luck.
Most people's health is determined by genetics, environment, and age. Average healthcare spending by the over-65 crowd is 3x the under-65 crowd, and 20-25% of lifetime medical expenses are, on average, incurred during the last year of life.
If you want to talk about the real healthcare scam, it's that Americans transition from private insurance to Medicare at just about the age where they start actually consuming healthcare services.
Sarin is a comparatively easy compound to produce and deploy on 'neighborhood scale' size. This is why Aum Shinriko used it in Tokyo. They distributed it in plastic bags.
Numerous, totally credible reports at Russia Today reveal that this gas event was an unfortunate consequence of Assad using conventional weapons against an arms depot where the rebels had stockpiled significant quantities of the compound. These reports are definitely not propaganda.
Nor does Assad, or Putin, have any reason to test whether Trump would put more credence in Fox News or Russia Today. (Nobody really expects him to listen government intelligence reports)
Of course Amazon is trying to be Walmart 2.0. Walmart was trying to be K-Mart 2.0, and K-Mart was trying to be Sears 2.0. (do you know, you used to be able to buy houses and cars from Sears?)
Amazon has the massive advantage of not allowing customers into their warehouses, so those customers never have to see the sacrifices of aesthetics to functionality and never have to see the breadth of customer that rock-bottom pricing attracts. Amazon will win because you can sit at home and imagine all of Amazon's customers are just like you: clever consumers looking for convenience and a good deal
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
