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India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability.

This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.

I’m still trying to figure out why every major costs the same. Most non-STEM majors are using the same methods, and devices that were used 50, a hundred years ago.

$50K per year for an English degree vs $50k per year for a Mechanical Engineering degree, the English majors are getting jobbed. Think about all the majors that don’t require the underpinnings of constant technology upgrades, or need the latest and greatest technology.

OEM: how can we make money on a commodity platform, when someone else controls most of the design parameters and they are dictated to us, and margins are razor thin, because most people who buy PC’s want to spend the least amount of money.

OEM Sales: we have companies lining up to bundle software on our computers and they are all willing to big money to be bundled, and even more money to be bundled and not be removable.

OEM: yay, we can be profitable!!!!!

Not one person really thinks the bundled software is of any value, other than the cash the bundling fee generates. If it was illegal for OEM’s to bundle software you’d see even more contraction in the PC OEM market.

Yeah, I remember the big art history boom times. It was crazy, it seemed that everyone was getting into the space, salaries seemed to be going up almost daily, the completion was cut throat.

The professor should stick to teaching computer science and not try to be market economist.

Ice is causing the injuries. Yes Ice.

Growing up in the 60’s my next door neighbor, Eddie, an elderly man, who played semi-pro and a little pro ball. His cousin is Stanley Coveleski, a pitcher who is in the hall of fame, he still holds some World Series records, Stanley’s two brothers were pretty good as well.

Anyway, Eddie actually knew most of the greats, Babe, Ty, had a lot of pictures hanging out, playing cards, drinking, barnstorming etc. Eddie told me back in the late 60’s that ice was ruining the arms of pitchers. Eddie was a catcher and for barnstorming trips he got to catch a lot of great pitchers. Eddie said the icing of arms was what was causing pitchers to have so many problems. Eddie said that when you apply ice you stop the healing process, then the stresses and damages don’t get fully repaired, keep repeating and eventually something fails. He predicted that the problem would keep getting worse, because they were starting to have kids ice their arms in little league, creating very unstable arms at an early age.

A few years ago the guy who invented the RICE protocol admitted that he had no clinical basis for using ice. He used it because everyone else was using it, and that it was probably doing more harm than good, because the ice was removing the small amount of inflammation, signaling the body to stop the repair.

Eddies told me that for kids coming up they should keep them on a pitch count and give them more rest, and never any ice, let the body recover on its own. The body will build up the ligaments and tendons to combat the repeated stress, making recovery faster and easier over time. Because back in the day guys would throw 40 or 50 complete games a year and you can’t do that without having a “gorilla arm”, he said all great pitcher’s pitching arm!looked different than their other arm, you could see the buildup, the arms weren’t bigger just different.

Eddie was 75 and could still drop down into a catchers squat and bounce right up, then he’d say, “no ice”.

Turns out the guy was right, unless you’ve got compartment syndrome where you have a dangerous swelling problem you should let your body heal itself naturally. The little bit of swelling is your body putting blood and other fluids at the injury site to enact repairs, and using ice do remove those fluids is dumb. It’s like lowering a moderate fever when you are sick, you are compromiseing your bodies ability to fight the infection. Eddie told me that when he felt himself getting sick when he was younger he would go to a sauna and sweat it out, but now that he was older he’s take the hottest bath he could stand for as long as he could stand it. He lived into his 90’s and I never remember him being sick. I do the sauna trick when I’m sick, and it usually drastically reduces the severity and length of the cold or flu.

I could never understand how something that was less refined, diesel, meaning that it had more unnecessary “stuff” could produce less emissions. Diesel always did, and always will, as far as I’m concerned he snake oil when it comes to emissions.

If they don’t get a Board seat it would be the dumbest $300m ever spent, but if they don’t get a Board seat it means their interests are already protected and represented.

I’m done with Reddit. It was a nice ride, but now it’s officially over. They’ve been trying to turn reddit into Facebook, a personal data vacuum, but now it’s going to get ugly.

Considering the valuation, remaining as an unpaid moderator for a reddit sub, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully all the mods up and leave, nothing like letting others get rich from your free efforts.

It took Sears 126 years to fall apart, eBay is doing it in 23, but I doubt anyone will be upset

They did, it’s on the Vangurd Campus, it’s in the Quad between buildings.

You should look up the net worth of the Johnson family members who founded Fidelity. The President, Abigail, who is the daughter of the founder is worth 12 Billion.

If you are ever confused about what firm should manage your money, remember this posting.

The current Chairman and CEO, Tim Buckley would be close to being a Billionaire right now if he was running any other firm, he does very well, but he makes a fraction of what SVP’s make at other firms.

The only thing that can save most of humanity is a method that can scrub 100M metric tons of green houses gases from the upper atmosphere on a yearly basis.

If the earth’s climate were a person it would be 5ft tall, weigh 600lbs and eat 15,000 calories a day, and the plan to save it would be to have it reduce its food intake to 12,000 calories a day. We are not fixing anything, the earth’s climate would just get fatter a little slower.

I think by the time the scientists were able to detect global warming/climate change it was already too late to fix it.

Unless someone invents s technology that can scrub 100M metric tons of green house gases from the upper atmosphere, there is no chance of stopping what has been set into motion. I also think it’s going to accelerate much faster than any of the models predict. My brother is a climatologist and he’s been telling me I’m nuts for years, over the holidays he told me that he now thinks I’m right, and he’s scared for the future of his grand children.

I think we passed the tipping point for the climate 25 years ago, we just didn’t know it, or even today full grasp it.

I was saying 10 years ago they by 2024-2028 we would see runaway climate changes.

I have friends and relatives that are climate related research scientists. 10, 5, and 3 years ago they thought I was crazy, last year they have all expressed concerns that I might have underestimated the speed of change. They are very scared.

I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.

Arguably? Yes. Provable? No.

Until we know how the system works your ideas are only ideas.

In and adult your precise change might have minimal impact, but what if that sequence is checked during embryo development, and if it’s not present “exactly” as expected the embryo aborts?

How long do you think it will take to figure out that your “precise” change now prevents humans from reproducing?

As long as the mistakes, or bugs, are survivable, or not transmitted like the flu is transmitted.

Exactly, as far as you know.

Why produce insuulin if you can’t use it. The mere presence of that sequence may have consequences for other development. Some sequences may be if, then, else statements, there is so much we don’t understand.

We are playing russian roulette, except the number of bullets changes every round.

But we’ve done this before, “humans can’t possibly alter the global environment”. Even climate scientists were saying that until about 20 years ago.

It’s not just about the money.

I’ve worked for product companies and was forced to interact with government clients.

Bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy. No risk taking, no point in standing out, promotions based on time in service. You could offer me quadruple my salary to go and work for the government and I still wouldn’t take the job.

Just supporting the government clients on a part time basis made me want to quit my job just to get away from the government clients.

It’s scary to consider it making it to some of the large slums in Nairobi, India, or Pakistan.

Cats are decimating bird populations, we don’t need more options for cats, we need less cats.

35k Status symbol?

A V6 Accord Touring with navigation is almost 35K. A Mini Cooper can run close to 40k with options.

I'd rather buy a Tesla for 35K than a Honda or Mini any day, that's why I'm putting down a deposit.