As in the picture accompanying the article, the solar shades don't need to cover the entire area. You can leave open sky over corridors to allow trucks through.
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In some ways, it feels like as visual aesthetics went minimalist, so did the soundscape.
I'd personally like to hear an even quieter soundscape. It's so annoying to be sitting in a bar or hotel with sound blasting at you. It's like they expect people fear being alone with their thoughts or to be unable to make conversation when together, so they feel the need to fill the void.
Amazon might be able to give them exactly the kind of capital injection they need to get back in front. Alternatively, they might end up just becoming a brand sitting on top of an OEM.
Time will tell!
It's not as though Germany could have 'decided' in the 1970s to have 2022 technology. Sure, increased investment at the time may have sped up the development of renewables, but it still wouldn't be fast. Science doesn't quite work that way.
Most cooperatives have a large number of members with roughly equal economic power. So, ideas like one-member-one-vote and equal income distribution make sense.
However, in the case of companies requiring FOSS services, I imagine the most valuable customers would be large corporations working in highly risk averse industries like telecommunications and banking that feel the 'need' for a support contract to go along with their linux distribution.
But there would likely be a mix of large blue-chip companies, smaller service suppliers to the aforementioned companies, and other companies that want to leverage services beyond consulting like Red Hat's managed OpenShift offerings.
So our FOSS cooperative membership distribution would probably be heavily weighted towards smaller companies, but most of the revenue would come from the long tail.
I don't see how the small cadre contributing the majority of the revenue would be satisfied having effectively zero voting power. So you might have to mix up the model a bit to assign voting power on the basis of revenue contributed or some proxy like the number of contracts signed.
Russia failed to achieve its primary strategic goals. It has even failed its secondary strategic goals like taking the Donbas.
Instead of a swift conquest of Ukraine, they’re stuck in essentially a stalemate in most of the regions they control. They’re also facing an imminent counter offensive in the south with Kherson (their primary prize claimed so far) increasing cut from the lines of communication.
Meanwhile, years of economic growth have been erased from the Russian economy, it’s diplomatically isolated, militarily discredited, and facing a reinvigorated and enlarged NATO.
I’d call that a strategic failure.
They've already failed strategically, so they're desperately trying to gain territory in areas where they have a localised tactical advantage (places near the border).
People have been mucking about with typography since Gutenberg's day and they're not going to stop now.
I'm personally 'font blind', but I don't have a problem with people being creative and making aesthetic choices.
It's such a hassle to find the departure on a giant board and monitor it closely among a sea of boarding times.
This is especially bad when you're running late and suddenly you have to stop your frantic race to the gate to methodically peruse the board.
I remember the period before self-checkout: interminable queues, being stuck behind an old lady making small talk with the cashier, and receipts with double-counted items.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
It may help improve some tasks, but not exactly core product stuff.
If my capital were on the line, I’d be pretty annoyed seeing it spent that way.
That's such a silly argument. There are thousands of paintings around the world with the same level of scarcity as the Mona Lisa, but have far less value.
Scarcity drives up prices on items that already have some perceived value. It doesn't create any value itself.
I couldn't think of a worse gift than a gift card. It has same level of thoughtlessness as gifting someone a bunch of cash, but brings them less utility because they're constrained to spending it at a specific store unless they on-sell the card at a haircut from the face value.
Just averaging out those numbers could result in engineering time being wasted chasing rapidly diminishing returns, if the site is already below one of those thresholds.
The only valid reason to continue mining would be that you expected that the price of Bitcoin would exceed the mining costs in the future. Then you would stockpile them and take advantage of the reduced hashrate as other market participants exited.
Therefore, it'd make more sense to keep it running for so long as the machine hadn't been repossessed and the profits from mining outweigh variable costs such as electricity.
Repossession and liquidation can be a slow and costly process and the initial cost of the machine is also a sunk cost from the perspective of the lender and a mass wave of defaults could put their liquidity at risk. So, they have an incentive to make accommodations to the borrowers in order to ensure at least some payments keep flowing.
The miners already have their rigs, so the initial investment wouldn't be relevant to the decision to keep mining or not. Though, you might expect the hash rate to decay over time as miners stop buying new machines.
Most current networks can handle video conferencing (relatively) well. However, if 8k video or something like Light Field displays ever catch on, then we might end up needing orders of magnitude more bandwidth to drive video conferencing, so this might be an enabling technology.