> Calculators are deterministically correct given the right input. It does not require expert judgement on whether an answer they gave is reasonable or not.
That's not actually true. The HP-12C calculator is still the dominant calculator in business schools 45 years later precisely because it did take expert judgement to determine whether certain interest and amortization calculations were reasonable.
What he is referring to are perfectly good students whose parents will go shopping for a medical diagnosis so that their child can get "accommodation" like extra time to complete tests.
The problem is that this is treating the symptom rather than the cause. The symptom is that cheating for college admission and achievement is too effective. The cause is that college admission and achievement has become high stakes, and it absolutely should not be.
> CA has the 2nd highest electricity cost in the country. No where in the article do they mention cost savings, nor end-to-end carbon footprint savings.
And diesel is approaching $8 per gallon. So ...
First, trucking inside the port has lots of idling. Electric trucks don't have that. That's a Divide By Zero error on pollution.
Second, trucking inside the port needs low speed torque. Electric trucks are superior at that.
Third, electric trucks seem to have better uptime. We'll see if that holds over time.
Finally, I'm surprised that some company hasn't made it a business to do electric trucks from the port to a transfer point out on the interstates and then hand off to diesel for long haul. I presume the whole "Subcontract All The Things!" of the trucking industry means the economics can't be made to work.
> Tell me you have zero clue what a monopoly is or what the law is, without telling me.
Monopoly law is subject to reinterpretation over time and anybody who has studied the history of it knows this. The only people argue for "strict" interpretations of current monopoly law are those who currently benefit from the status quo.
> Monopoly law relies on broad categories, not narrow ones.
And this is currently a gigantic problem. Because of relying on broad categories to define "monopoly", every single supply chain has been allowed to collapse into a small handful of suppliers who have no downstream capacity thanks to Always Late Inventory(tm). This prevents businesses from mounting effective competition since their upstream suppliers have no ability to support such activities thanks to over-optimization.
To be effective on the modern incarnation of businesses, monopoly law needs to bust every single consolidated narrow vertical over and over and over until they have enough downstream capacity to support competition again.
Look at commute length. When families had a maximum of one car, you simply couldn't live very far from work. As soon as you got two cars per family, commute times and traffic exploded.
If you can simply sleep during the trip, how much further will people be willing to commute? I suspect quite a bit.
The TI PRUs demonstrate that what you need for hard real time is 2 processors and the ability to completely transfer your register file in a single clock cycle instruction.
This lets your first processor be deterministic hard real time while your second processor is soft real time.
I really wish somebody who makes M-series microcontrollers would get the message already.
> I'm genuinely confused at what the value prop of Oracle is.
Legal blame transfer.
Oracle has every single compliance checkbox you need for any certification you can name.
So, if your end customer (generally BigCorp or BigGovt) wants "NitWit Certification v4007", you call up the Oracle sales rep, get a quote, and pass the cost along with a significant markup.
> So much of what drives chart success is what is in fashion at the time. Trend setting will always be the domain of youngsters.
I would suggest it's more the demands of poverty that make it a young person's game. So, so, so many pop musicians were "I was living in squalor for a decade plus was extremely depressed and was about to hang it up when <thing happened> and we got popular." Huey Lewis, Annie Lennox, ... I can go on and on.
There was a metal artist that was being interviewed about when they were going to tour again and was "Yeah, we'll consider it. But I've got a lot of work at my tattoo business right now." There was another guy that was like "Yeah, had this fame hit in our 20s this would be nice but in our late 30s it isn't really useful. We figured out how to do life by now, and we're not going to disrupt that."
> So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it.
Jimmy John's was making its low-level employees sign non-competes, for example. This was ridiculous on its face, and probably wouldn't hold up in court. However, the people affected by it were least able to take it to court.
That's not actually true. The HP-12C calculator is still the dominant calculator in business schools 45 years later precisely because it did take expert judgement to determine whether certain interest and amortization calculations were reasonable.
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