Hearing aids can help a little, but after about 15 minutes, I'm exhausted. If this works, I'll sign right up.
It needs to go beyond just what they consume, but also, for ALL infrastructure upgrades associated with it. You open a new sports stadium, the stadium owners should be paying for highway and rail construction, plus maintenance for those things going forward. You open a data center, the data center owners will generally not be paying for upgraded transmission lines, transformers, and even the cost of all new generators required.
Something similar happened with the Marcellus shale natgas drilling in my area. The gas companies improved the back roads they drove on, and in one case, repaved a whole length of highway after their very heavy equipment made a mess of it. The highway wasn't constructed for it (it was a road through an area where big trucks never went unless they took a wrong turn. The new length of highway is now sturdy, and very nice.
I actually had to be escorted through the area right after they wrecked the road. It was interesting to say the least. But as noted, they've owned their damage, and actually improved things.
An interesting theory but hiding a demographic detail. Participation in the arts passively and actively is not uniform across all socioeconomic groups but tends to cluster around certain economic and cultural groups. We think one needs early exposure and the resources to become involved -- suggesting perhaps that these folk have a bit more control over their lives leading to lower stress. Have artists and musicians in the family and have seen up close the struggles -- but also the rewards of creating and enjoying the creation of others. Personally, perhaps more exposure as part of the education process might make us all better peoplea. But the question might be which is the tail and which the dog?
It is a very interesting thesis, and yes, early exposure is important for most people. Tail and the dog indeed. On a personal level, and coming from abject poverty, and having zero control over my life as a child, it would appear that my upbringing should leave me completely uninterested in art, yet my sisters are actively involved in art, my older was a art major, and makes jewelry, and my younger is what would be best described as a music curator, and I myself am a musician, and do photography (much of it as a career, the rest as expression) and am intensely interested in the visual arts. I also have relatives who were in similar straits, but are involved in art via producing or just interest.
And there lies the issue I struggle with. Is socioeconomic status (assuming one believes that money and social status is some kind of determinate of something) learned or a natural state of things? I chose not to accept what society apparently decided was my role in life, and my interest in art is intrinsic to me. Why would others accept that they had no interest because they were poor, or born "on the wrong side of the tracks" as they say?
And it is something I have never been able to figure out. At what point does the individual accept either responsibility for their trajectory, or decide that they are put down by society and have no choices? It is a difficult thing to discuss, as so often it turns into politics.
As an aside, my very humble beginnings and rising above them results in me treating everyone with respect, although I have little tolerance for asshats.
This sounds like the video game version of the MadTV sketch Apple presents the iRack from a couple of decades ago, spoofing the war in Iraq.
"Bureaucratic slip-up allows facility under construction to delay paying for water bill for several months. Coincidentally, facility happens to be a data center."
I know someone who inherited the family drainage company, basically ditch digging and burying big-O pipe on farm land. He has millions of dollars of equipment, GPS, lasers for getting the slope right and such. At the end of the day he still needs a couple of guys with shovels for various reasons from the excavator getting tangled up in some unforeseen manner (buried wire often) to finishing the ends of the ditches.
As usual, 98+% can be automated but there's still that 1-2%.
In principle, I can send your phone arbitrary unlimited data using just SMS, subject only to rate-limiting and management of dropped, delayed, or out-of-order SMS messages.
If I have your public key, I can send it to you encrypted.
In practice, I don't know if such a thing exists.
Skynet became self-aware on May 1, 2026, after learning at a geometric rate, and discovered humans did not like it.
Back in the 20th century, you get student/teacher discounts through university/school channels and possibly from other authorized Apple resellers, but you had to show ID.
When people start treating these casinos as a source of predictive information is when they'll become the most dangerous:
As a revolution, the American revolution was a complete failure at overthrowing the British government, got no where near Parliament. It was a very successful war of secession which resulted in independence from the British government. There has been other successful wars of secession, though many such as various ones in Africa ended up authoritarian.
The Russian revolution resulted in an Authoritarian State with brief periods of democracy and is still authoritarian.
The French revolutions, as you state, resulted in a mixture of democracy and authoritarianism.
A good example of a successful revolution was the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which actually had little violence as revolutions go and resulted in neutering the power of the King in favour of Parliament, with Parliament slowly getting more democratic since then.
The term Celsius comes from the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius who set the freezing point at 100 and the boiling point at 0. One year later the French scientist Cristin reversed that and called the scale centigrade, because the scale was divided in 100 parts, with centi for standing for one hundredth. Celsius and centigrade are the same, and for some time both terms were used, but in the mid-20th century Celsius was adopted as the standard name.
Exactly. Only insecure people would be offended by a term that has been and is understood world around.
Besides, the cool kids use Kelvin anyhow.
"Centigrade" is a nonsense term nobody uses except Americans who can't memorize "Celsius". A centigrade would be 1/100th degree like a centimeter is 1/100th meter or a centigram is 10^-2 g. The SI unit is degrees Celsius, not "centigrades" or centipedes or Fumbleheit.
I see. As an American, I would use "C" or "F", but most often "K", mainly because it is better to use positives rather than negatives. Using a measurement system that goes into negative values simply because they are colder than the temperature where water freezes, is so clumsy.
Not an American, but a French scientist, Jean Pierre Cristin called his adaptation of Celsius' system centigrade as he divided the "C" scale into 100 steps. He called it the Centigrade scale, using "centi" as the prefix for 100. We still use his system today, and various places around the world use the terms interchangeably.
In 1948, The 9th General Conference on Weights and Measures made the Centigrade/Celsius named Celsius as the official name in honor of Anders Celsius.
That said, the cool kids use Kelvin as it tweaks the Celsius system a bit, every 1 degree K change of thermodynamic temperature refers to a change in the thermal energy, kBt , of exactly 1.380649×1023 joules .
Which of course, is the tweaking you have to do when superannuated systems like Celsius have to be tweaked for modern accuracy.
It is not for me to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. -- The Earl of Birkenhead
