Bitcoin is north of $60k due to buy volume and the newly released Crypto ETF receiving lots of positive news. Most asset prices are at all time highs, bitcoin being seen as an asset or store of value. currentmarketvaluation.com
>They're ditching the Facebook name and branding, and focusing on a new vision around the Metaverse.
I doubt they are ditching it, and instead just abstracting the ownership chain one degree with a holding company and installing a straw man to blame. Watch him copy Larry and Sergei's moves, he may one day realize he held on too long and became something hard to un-become: infamous.
12 years here. Got certified. Grew network by getting outside the office for corporate marketing or other reasons. Found a job where I worked/ran the business side with technical aspects. Went out on my own, learned the value of earning on my own asset. Read a lot, always reading. Still a work in progress. I Burned bridges. Don't do that. Takes doing it enough to realize relationships compound and you don't want that going the other way.
Good question. I suppose the consumption tax would be higher for luxury items, and non existent for groceries, rather than a flat tax across the board. Also sales tax is at the state level and suppose this would be federal. I think of yachts and 3rd homes being taxed a lot higher.
I was surprised to learn spartan society had pedophilia built in similar to a mentor system. Will Durant wrote about it, but I never hear anything in pop culture except the warrior bit.
Same here. Social Environment is hard to overcome. In the battle of social environment (group think) vs. individual reasoning, environment will win almost every time. This is a known bias among professional investors, and well appreciated there. Vaccine hesitancy follows this pattern, where future is unknown and FUD is trending.
At least she's not on the backend of her mental stamina. +1 for being hungry. Unlike congress, who today ignored the homeless ( or pick your) crises to make Juneteenth an official holiday. I'd like to see a lot of under 40 year olds governing if that is the result of "experience".
Similarly if you try to delete your Facebook account, the only option is "Deactivate Account". Or at least it was for me. They don't give a whoot- until their bottom line losses reflects the damage they cause.
The reality is the WFH scenario is subjective. Depends on your seniority, industry, role, and other factors. For kids coming out of college, how do they get mentorship? You're lying to yourself if you think apprenticeship means zoom calls and retreats. The model doesn't work for most companies, but it sure feels good to get that first shot of WFH freedom. After 5 years working from home, this last year put the exclamation point on me getting back into an office working shoulder to shoulder with a like minded community of people. I need people more than WFH comfort, after a while, WFH is a predictable numbing experience. While the efficiencies are there, and there are many valid points, WFH has severe limitations to professional growth.
Companies effectively run the government, via the 2 party system and the back and forth of high level corporate execs back and forth into gov't. They don't want to rock the boat once that bountiful position is achieved. That said, how to get the government to regulate corporations who regulate the government. Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but there has to be an externality like the great depression in order for The People to take back the reigns of power (at least in the US).
The access to water is the bug, not a feature since seismic events allow radioactive materials into water, like learned at fukashima. Access to sunlight is more prevalent than to non seismicly active areas. Here is the only nuke in construction in the US, and it's long been a debacle.
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11 year old link, pre-utility scale pv. Nice, That's not true when you add in the exclusion zone for nuclear. land use is different for "solar thermal" (Ivanpah) and solar PV, as is the technology, the water use, the environmental concerns, and timing of the useful energy, the lifecycle, the time to build, the cost. But sure apples taste like oranges. Nuclear is great for baseload - but the cons outweigh the pros because they have to be on water. We gotta move forward.
All of the above, because it works at residential and commercial scale at the load with no line losses, and at utility scale utilizing the existing spoke and wheel grid model, and for cities we'll use the community solar model already popular today. Welcome to the present!
Because storage isn't tax credit incentivized, at least in the US. Coal still is. And FYI California will install 1.3GW of storage this year, and a storage tax credit is likely by end of this year. It's coming. Hopefully we find something more elegant or ways to recycle storage/battery materials.
Why not?
Because the environmental cost of a failed launch is massive. It's radioactive roulette. Where it lands... Depends on which way the wind is blowing.
The greenhouse effect is most noticeable in the coldest parts of the greenhouse, like putting a lid on food in the microwave to spread the warming effect. The most impacted places will be furthest from the equator, which is why glacial melt is so prominent already. It's the canary in the coal mine. Once all that ice is lost, the climate patterns we know and can predict may and likely will change and be irriversible. There may be some local good effects, like farming in VA, but extreme heat/cold storms or tropical pestilence may negate any farm yield. Climate science is way more interconnected than we can wrap our heads around. The second third and 100th order derivates are unpredictable.