260 million? You are over 70 million short, even not counting illegal immigrants.
Posts by Jaybus
588 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2011
Pentagon launches nuke-spotting satellites amid Russian space bomb rumors
Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned
Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making 'inflation-linked' price hikes mid-contract
Re: Hey, there's an idea...
Demand based inflation isn't caused by people having too much money. It is from people having too much credit. Interest rates are increased with the goal of decreasing inflation by decreasing the buying on credit.
But there is another type of supply-side inflation that is caused by there being too little of a needed commodity. For example, a shortage of diesel causes an increase in the cost of diesel, and so an increase in every commodity that requires diesel to make, ship, or store.This also includes gas used in electricity production, heating of facilities and office buildings, etc. Any shortage of energy supply is a big inflation driver, because it affects the price of everything everything that requires energy to make, ship, or store, which is....everything.
Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI
Re: The Twitter files.
"But when you boil it down, government officials DID ask various platforms not to carry certain third parties speech, they just didn't threaten adverse consequences."
Edit: Append ", or else they made the threat of adverse consequences clear offline so as to maintain plausible deniability."
HP sued over use of forfeited 401(k) retirement contributions
Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ
NASA wants to believe ... that you can help it crack UFO mysteries
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost
Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia
The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue
China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced
Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan
Re: John Bull presents Little Englander Nuclear
It should be held as an economic axiom that we get less of what is taxed and more of what is subsidized. For example, if government began paying a subsidy for playing tennis, then many people with no real interest in the sport would begin playing for the money. If they raised the subsidy higher, then even more would play, and if high enough, then everyone who could walk would be playing. The more the subsidy, the more tennis gets played. By contrast, if a tax were levied on playing tennis, then many casual players would stop, felling that it wasn't worth it. If the tax were raised higher, even those who loved the game would no longer be able to afford it, and at some point only the rich and shameless would play. The higher the tax, the less tennis gets played.
Now consider that even with the subsidies, few EVs are being sold, really. How many would be sold if there were no subsidy? What was it Margaret Thatcher said, something about socialists always running out of other people's money?
What does Twitter's new logo really represent?
Let's take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech
Re: What about signs
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applies to state governments, stating "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States". Colorado's anti-discrimination law does indeed affect business and was the law being examined, whether or not it violates the plaintiff's 1st amendment rights. The equal protection clause is certainly applicable.
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on
Re: To free or not to free
I don't think this is about Red Hat's contributions to FOSS, which everyone agrees is huge. I do NOT believe Centos Stream was about opening up Red Hat's internal development program. That was also said about Fedora when RHEL binaries were no longer available without subscription. Centos came into being because the life cycle of Fedora was way too short for most business use scenarios. Then along came AWS and other cloud providers and businesses using dozens of instances. Many were/are perhaps buying some RHEL 7 subscriptions to get the support they needed and then running Centos 7 on a bunch more cloud instances. Centos Stream, like Fedora before it, is about a short life cycle, making additional RHEL subscriptions more attractive to businesses than fooling with Centos Stream. Then along came Rocky from the ashes of Centos, prompting this current round of increasing the difficulty of building the distro from source.
NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing
Re: Any scientists left at NASA?
That study also stated "Uncertainty in the radiative transfer due to soot cores within the contrail cirrus ice crystals is thought to be large, as the change in the shortwave (SW) albedo is large (Liou et al., 2013). The soot impact on contrail cirrus RF has not yet been quantified." It might increase the short wavelength albedo and reflect more solar energy than it traps, just as clouds do. "Uncertainty thought to be large" is another way of saying "we have no idea".
You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing
They make great two-monitor low-end workstations. They have a VESA mount. I have 2 large monitors, the nuc, and a power strip mounted to a VESA mounting plate. One power cord unplugged and I move my two-monitor workstation outside onto my deck in a minute. It is actually easier to move than my laptop. The trick is to get one of the lower-powered ones. I don't need a 14 core i7 for development work. Much of the time I'm working on a remote server and an i3 does me just fine. I rarely notice any noise. If the fan is on, then it is at low speed.
Insurers can't use 'act of war' excuse to avoid Merck's $1.4B NotPetya payout
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…
Yes. Without the contributions made by Dr. Moore, and other electronics industry pioneers, the average inflation rate would be much higher. Their success in making electronics cheap also translates into making manufacturing cheaper. It is the principal reason, if not the only reason, inflation is not *10 or greater.
Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash
Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes
FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab
Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location
In this case it is corporate welfare. Power companies can get up to 60% of the cost of replacing a coal plant with solar paid for by the government. Will their customers share in that windfall? Oh no. And a huge missing piece of the equation... there is no expectation that the new solar plant produce as much electricity as the coal plant that it is replacing. So what happens to the price of electricity when the capacity shrinks? Great deal for the power companies, though.
Google slays thousands of fake news vids posted by pro-China group Dragonbridge
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime
Intel inside a world of pain as revenue plunges by a third
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher
On the 12th day of the Rackspace email disaster, it did not give to me …
Re: Only insofar
It depends on personnel, doesn't it? Two low-end server machines in a Pacemaker/Corosync cluster with redundant UPSs and an automatic=transfer switch and a couple of routers from independent ISPs can indeed have that availability and fit in a 22U rack. It's not really that expensive, in fact cheaper than AWS etc., but only if that small company's one or two IT people have the expertise. Contrary to popular belief, they do exist.
Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged
Re: Give 'em a C-suite, and some may get back...
Well, glass walls are well suited to a C-suit. In general, there is a need to be seen, but many feel that they are performing a community service by allowing underlings to physically see their betters. Hence the need to force workers back into the office. What good is a c-suite office if nobody sees you in it?
US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough
TSMC founder says 'globalization is almost dead' as Asian foundry giant expands in US
Re: Modern War: Electronics, Electronics, Electronics
We are so used to advanced electronic technology that the simple things are overlooked. A most obvious example of this is the arc-lamp searchlight that revolutionized nocturnal warfare. Another example is the wired telephones that were attached to tethered observation balloons, dramatically extending the range and accuracy of artillery. Around 60% of battlefield casualties were caused by artillery.
How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?
Re: Sorry but you are listening to lies
"this was not some secret democrat run operation to prevent people from learning about Hunter Biden's laptop."
Except that Musk claims evidence of DNC members working with Twitter execs to filter the Washington Post article, which would indeed show a secret democrat run operation for just that purpose.
Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing
Re: "I do believe the US election process1 is good, possibly bordering on great. "
First of all, the Electoral College certainly was not about the landed gentry overturning the will of the unwashed masses. Who could vote was left to the state legislatures, and in general, only those paying property tax could vote. There was no income tax. Those who were not landowners were not considered to have a stake in funding government, so therefore did not get a vote. Basically, only the landed gentry voted, wherever they lived.
Don't forget that these were state governments joining together into a republic, but wanting to retain as much sovereignty as they could. The more populous states, those containing the large cities, Philadelphia, New Your, Boston, Norfolk, wanted a popular vote, because of course they did. It gave them a better chance of electing a homeboy as the President of the republic. Some of the smaller more rural states wanted the Congress to select a President with no popular vote at all. They feared (rightfully so) that every President would hail from Philly or New York and they would have little say in the matter. Hence the compromise. It still holds true today, really. If you don't think so, have a look at the NY Times 2020 election results map by voting district and note the small blue metro areas in a sea of red rural areas, and that was a year when the Democrat candidate won.