I mean, it’s different because California is a state and not a country, but they are seeing some capital flight because of their wealth tax. I’m not saying that makes the wealth tax not worth it, I’m just saying that it is a real effect.
Free trade created the free movement of capital but not the free movement of labour, and capitalists can exploit that.
Capital flight is often blown up into a bigger issue then it is by conservatives to avoid taxing the wealthy, but it is not a myth. It is a real effect that governments need to take into account when making policy decisions.
I.e. If it was a myth, we wouldn’t have an exit tax.
XD you think the CIA can’t crack your closet server? Bruh, get real.
There is none. Theres like 0.1% of people who complain about it who have a valid point.
And those points are always meaningless in light of the alternative’s drawbacks.
The US is a fucking nightmare.
I’m concerned about the cuts but this article isn’t worth reading if it’s not going to talk about our realistic options.
What happens if we don’t increase our defense spending to match NATO targets? In light of our general lack of military spending, the US’s aggression, Russia’s aggression, and the way that China is posturing towards Taiwan, it quite frankly seems like to would be asinine to not increase our defense spending.
If you want to make the argument for taxing the rich to maintain both, then do so, and explain how you will do so while preventing capital flight, but this author is just listing cuts to government departments because that sounds bad and not bothering to actually think through or make any judgements on our realistic paths forward.
Based on the reasoning presented in the article, and having heard Carney talk a few times, I’m fairly confident he has spent more time seriously considering our options than they have.
Neat to prove it for sure, but I feel like the scientists might be misrepresenting previous consensus to make their conclusions sound more momentous.
Like did Raven experts really think that Ravens just followed wolves 24/7 to scavenge?
… Ravens, the only animal other then humans known to be posses linguistic displacement (the ability to communicate ideas about locations that are far away in time and space), the ones that memorize hundreds of locations that other Ravens bury food so that they can later steal it, a literal top 5 animal in terms of cleverness creativity and problem solving, that can travel in any arbitrary direction of 3D space…
… Experts of these creatures really thought that they just followed wolves 24/7 to pick up the scraps?
Because most articles you see online are written to get clicks, not to actually inform you, and no one particularly cares to defend meta, so no one bothers correcting them.
But saying that meta spent $80B on the metaverse and is now shutting it down because they’re shutting down horizon worlds is flat out disingenuous.
First of all, let’s be clear, the $80B number is the accumulated losses of the entire Reality Labs division over the past 6 years. Reality Labs includes not just the Oculus teams that cover AR and VR, but also other teams like the cancelled Portal hardware / software, and their Facebook Spark AR (closer to snapchat filters).
Second of all, those losses include
Out of all of that, they have shut down just Horizon Worlds, and the VR studios / games they bought. All of the hardware and platform work is still ongoing.
And what does it buy them? The potential opportunity to be Google or Apple once AR glasses become light and powerful enough to be common place. Do you know how many billions of dollars Google and Apple have made from being the dominant mobile OS companies? Microsoft rode the Windows train for decades before switching to Azure. Meta is buying a chance at becoming that for AR.
You can also do this with Lunar, or with the paid version of BetterDisplay, and they also support controlling external monitors via DDC/CI.
I personally despise MacOS, but the MiniLED displays in MacBooks have fully changed what I prioritize when buying displays.
It’s so much more pleasant to be in a bright room (or outside), but that’s only feasible if your screen can output like 1000nits of brightness which few can outside of MiniLED displays.
Basically “let me hand wave away the main issue that people with have it, by just throwing out that “developers will be able to find tune it””.
What are you basing that on bud? It’s literally not how DLSS works. DLSS effects the entire frame or nothing at all.
That not a cause, that’s a judgement.
Quarterly earnings reports are why companies are so shortsighted.
Oh yeah, I was just expanding on the non turbine power types cause I think they’re neat.
Though I missed some of the most interesting ones: Nuclear Batteries.
Edit: just realized that ngram already mentioned these.
They’re different from chemical batteries in that they can’t be charged or discharged, and their energy comes not from chemical reactions, but from radioactive decay.
Thermal-nuclear batteries convert heat into electricity, including completely solid state ones like radioisotope generators, that use an array of thermo-couples to convert heat into electricity, not turbines.
Then there are Beta-Voltaic nuclear batteries that use specialized semi-conductor circuits to convert the electrons and positrons emitted from a radioactive material into usable electricity.
Neither of these produce anywhere near enough power output for a flying suit, nor can their power output vary, but still interesting to think about in the context of Tony Stark’s arc reactor.
The biggest problem IMO is the fact that all our power generation technology comes down to “boil water to turn turbine”. How we generate the heat changes, but not how we turn it into electricity.
Technically the ones that use steam to spin turbines are:
Then you have ones that spin turbines, but using other methods:
Then you have the few that truly don’t use spinning turbines:
Solar Panels - they use semi-conductors specially designed so that light causes the electrons in the material to start flowing, directly creating usable electricity.
Piezo Electrics - similar semiconductors that react to material stress (bending etc) and cause electrons to flow
Batteries & Fuel Cells - store power in chemical form, and the reactions cause the electrons to flow directly
(Proposed) Direct Energy Converters - experimental devices long proposed for nuclear fusion reactors that can directly produce flowing electrons. There’s been recent research investigating doing this with fission reactors as well.
“I can shoot the balls off a fly at a hundred yards.”
“Do flys have balls?”
“Not when I’m around.”
Everyone here is correct about power being the biggest limiting factor.
The number 2 factor though is concussions.
Concussions don’t usually happen from something slamming into your head, most concussions happen from your head moving quickly and then coming to a sudden stop, and your sloshy brain inside still has momentum and slams against the inside of your skull.
It’s why you can get badly concussed in something like a car accident even if your head never hits anything. Or in football / hockey, even just a big full speed hit to the chest can give you a concussion.
The way Tony Stark moves in that suit would give him constant concussions. You cannot move that quickly and suddenly come to a stop. Until we have a way of transferring consciousness to a computer or something solid state, theres no chance of ever directly piloting an iron man suit.
Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.
It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.
I care if an OS can manage the running applications and their windows in a reasonable way, which MacOS cannot.
Lmao.
,we have to submit tickets to run software because everything is installed through random .exes.
You have to do that because your IT department doesn’t trust you. There’s no difference in danger between a dev with system access installing an exe or a DMG.
It’s not always the case. Sometimes people believe in truly vile and harmful political policies but are actually decent supportive parents.
Personally Hegseth doesn’t seem like that type to me, and seems like he’s probably also an off the hinge dick at home, but you never know.