Life expectancy of the top quartile in the US does not exceed the the top quartile of CA. Yes life expectancy of the top quartile in both the US and Canada exceeds the average of everybody but you seem to have deliberately lied or misled.
The top 10% of earners have a lot more than 72% of the wealth.
I know this is a joke, but waste heat is not what is causing global warming. We would have to raise the amount of energy we are using by some orders of magnitude for waste heat to make a measurable fraction of global warming.
IMHO I hope Google only paid a few hundred dollars for this.
Between all the permafrost melting across Russia to methane to massive fossil fuel use, how can anybody be surprised? I have long viewed the worst possibilities as the most likely. The most likely predictions always seemed pretty damn optimistic. We fucked.
I'm surprised, and you should be too, if your view is evidence-based, because this is a new effect that was not predicted by any of the previous models, which already consider the melting permafrost, methane emissions and fossil fuel use.
I recently started a contract for a company that provides their own windows machines that they manage. This is relatively new for me as I have always used my own hardware, however in this case I use the laptop they provide to access their system.
Every time I would log into Outlook and other bits of Microsoft software with an authenticator (I'm using Google's) it would take me to a website pushing Microsoft Authenticator. It literally said "upsell" in the URL, and I could find no way to disable it. After a couple weeks and dozens of uses it finally seems to have gone away.
From what I can tell, she's talking about Microsoft's disinterest or inability to create mobile hardware, and that MS is instead potentially licensing the XBox brand / OS / software stack to other manufactures that are already making portable gaming devices. She sees this as the decline of the Xbox I guess, even though MS has already stated there will be a next gen Xbox at some point.
I'm no expert in this arena, but Xbox has always had a pretty healthy market share even though its competitors had mobile offerings (although the PS mobile devices were never compatible with the actual main PS consoles).
in a world where overpopulation strains every system and food scarcity becomes unavoidable
I suppose, but that's nothing like the world we live in. In our world, food is abundant at never-before-seen levels. Agricultural productivity has not only matched but significantly exceeded population growth. Unless climate change or some catastrophic event has large negative impacts on food production, directly or indirectly, it seems unlikely that the human race will ever again experience significant food scarcity.
Because... and bear with me here.... humans developed the LLMs.
I think it's more likely that approximation is necessary to complex, higher-level thinking, and that produces a certain form of error which is therefore inherent in all intelligences capable of it. This can be improved by adding subsystems that compute more precisely, just as humans do, using processes and equipment to augment their intellectual abilities, ranging from complex computation engines to pencil and paper (Einstein said "My pencil and me are smarter than me").
Yea I thought of that as well. So for some reason Georgia ships a much larger fraction of their waste to Malaysia than California. Is there an explanation for that? Just logistically it seems like Malaysia is more convienent for California than Georgia.
The "to poor to rapidly invest themselves" is simply false.
Egypt has a GDP of $396B . Morocco has a GDP of $144B.
To buy 1GW of Solar panels clocks in at $100M . A 10GW solar farm could be had for about $1B. ROI for such an investment is in low single digit number of years. Of course, there would be extra infrastructure investments in addition.
You're entirely right that Desertec et.al smelled of green imperialism, but implemented from the African side there's an incredible export profit to be made, and later on developed into more and larger solar farms to export even more - and also provide power for more local industry and infrastructure.
If we have a look at solar influx maps, or just have general geography knowledge, it's pretty obvious that Northern Africa has enormous available areas that can be used for large scale solar plants. And lots of them at that. They can use solar towers for nighttime generation, and large areas filled with solar panels for daytime peak generation.
North Africa can, by investing on their own, become entirely energy independent. If they buy up some of the Chinese panel overproduction, and then generate their own expertise in installing large solar parks, they can easily supply domestic needs - and with cables, they can sell a heck of a lot of energy to an energy hungry Europe.
This again can be supplemented in both Europe and Northern Africa with grid scale battery storage, for nighttime usage. Northern Africa should of course invest in solar towers too - to ensure nighttime generation is also existent.
There's more than enough available space. The enormous untapped solar energy resources can be used for both export and for large domstic benefits such as water desalination etc.
Does VMWare have a contract clause that permits them to 'audit' a former customer?
If they're still using VMWare's licensed software, are they a former customer? I think the answer depends on the details of the license and purchase agreements.
It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel.
