Under FDR and the conditions of the great depression, labor was able to get a seat at the table. 1940s onward the ruling class (corporate executives and corporate-aligned members of the political class) worked to dismantle the great society projects, the red scare was also used to this end.
By the 1970s labor had lost its seat at the table, unions had been demonized by the corporate class and their wholly-owned media organizations. Capital demands ever-increasing profits, those profits would be achieved by workers finding ways to increase productivity, and workers receiving an ever-decreasing percentage of the benefits.
This accelerated in the 80s under Reagan, Clinton being elected in 92 represented the democratic party fully abandoning labor.
Capitalism has a ways to go in China but is exhausted in the United States and Europe. Seeking increasing profit where none exists, it's now eating away at the base infrastructure like a starving body eating away its own muscle.
Historian podcaster Matt Christman has talked about this subject a bit in recent months on twitch streams, for example in this clip:
https://youtu.be/DwH9i1yZR6E?t=1549
This is actually a rather bad time to buy a high-end monitor because if you get one right now it will likely be outdated by the end of the year.
If you want a monitor that can do all of the cool things at once (2160p, hdr, 120Hz+, freesync) without using hacks like dual cables or realtime lossy compression, then you need both a video card and a monitor that support hdmi 2.1 or displayport 2.0.
Currently there are very few monitors that support the newer hdmi/dp standard, and there are no video cards that do. However both of the new consoles scheduled to be released later this year (xbox series x, ps5) will support hdmi 2.1. This also implies that upcoming discrete gpus will support this as well.
This means if you want a monitor that can do everything, right now there are only a tiny number of screens, and no video cards. Barring any delays, the situation should be very different in a few months.
Agreed. I expect more products released with new interfaces.
BTW current GeForce and RADEON supports DisplayPort DSC that could enable more resolution / frame rate by compression theorically but I don't know any existing displays.
I've got an old gmail address with pop3 enabled that my main gmail account pulls emails out of. Hadn't logged into the old address in a couple years because everything was working. One day I decided to rotate all of my passwords, got to that old gmail account and it refused to let me log in and wouldn't say why.
"No big deal" I thought, I use a password manager, have all historical passwords, have the 2fa device, same phone number, same address, I have access to the recovery email address, and pop3 still works so I know I have the current credentials. I'll just reset the password.
Nope, wrong. Even though I have every possible form of identification the account will not let me log in via the web interface and will not let me reset the password. I get stuck in a loop that eventually ends with "Thanks for verifying your email. Google couldn't verify that example@gmail.com belongs to you."
The pop3 functionality still works, but the password can never be reset and the web interface can never be logged into. I suppose this will continue until the day google decides to ax pop3 and imap, no doubt accompanied by a blog post with comments disabled explaining it's for our own good, at which point that address will be lost to the sands of time.
If he gave his money to a few people in need, it would be effective for them, wouldn't it? And probably better spent then after going through the tangled mess of government bureaucracy. What more could you hope for?
The GoFundMe model of health insurance and welfare doesn’t work. It’s my government’s job. It’s why we have social security and medicare and Medicaid and TANF, etc, in the first place. I can’t do it alone.
Promoting the general welfare is right in the preamble of our constitution:
> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
And in the letter of transmittal, Washington wrote:
> Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved.
The researchers obviously have to keep the scope narrow in order to get numbers at all.
That said, we should be aware that a tech nerd audience will find simple answers to complex non-tech questions appealing, and we should not over-estimate our understanding here just because we have a number.
There is a large amount of data transmitted through sub-communication and context, particularly during an in-person interaction, which is what people are wired for.
Overall tone, body language, eye contact, and various social cues make up the bulk of data being transferred in many interactions. There's a reason why talking to some people feels exhausting and others invigorating, and it's not just the transcript.
We can avoid reading too much into the study by just remembering the error bars. It's not like 39 is a universal constant. It's more like 39 with a standard deviation of 6. That's a wide spread, but it's less wide than the spread you get from syllable rate alone, and that's all the study quantitatively tells us.
The 3.5" desktop and server Hitachi drives are all manufactured by Toshiba. WD wanted to buy Hitachi's drive division so there would be a WD/Seagate drive duopoly, European regulators said they had to sell Hitachi's 3.5" to someone else before they would approve the merger. Toshiba stepped up and got it.
So yes it is somewhat confusing. You buy one of these drives and it will say "HGST a Western Digital company" on the box, when in reality it's all made by Toshiba, probably in an old Hitachi factory.
First, Toshiba had their own 3.5" drives long before the merger with Hitachi. For example, Toshiba MK2002TSKB 2TB 3.5" hard drive was on sale since 2011.
Toshiba's own design and factories wouldn't magically disappear after acquiring Hitachi's assets. So, after the merger, Toshiba sells some ex-Hitachi drives, for example toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB is obviously a relabeled Hitachi drive. But I believe that Toshiba MD03ACA300 3TB and Toshiba MD04ACA300 3TB drives are based on Toshiba's own design because they don't look like Hitachi or DT01ACA300. I suppose reliability and performance will be different between these three Toshiba 3TB drives. And it would be interesting to get some info on this.
Also, HGST is wholly owned by Western Digital. Despite regulators requirement, they didn't sell all 3.5" assets to Toshiba, only some of them. Most of the good stuff (that is, everything currently sold under HGST brand) still went to WD. So, even ex-Hitachi drives sold under Toshiba brand (by Toshiba) and under HGST brand (by WD) might have different reliability.
There's a much less sinister reason for WD buying HGST: SCSI/SAS support. Way back when in the '90s WD tried to enter that market, and a company I was at even got some of those drives, but from what I heard while their read rate was OK their write rates weren't competitive with Seagate and IBM (which sold their disk drive business to Hitachi after the Deathstar screwup). And they exited that segment of the business, and hadn't, last time I checked, returned to it.
This is very interesting. 128kbit is fast enough for Google Maps which is good enough for me.
I know they said the free overseas data is only for contract customers but I wonder if they will allow us pre-paid people to add on the "packs" they mention before going on a trip.
I agree with the points he makes and have had a similar experience. I have worked desk jobs with minimal movement for the last 10 years and getting into resistance training plus cardio has made a huge difference in the amount of energy I have, mood, posture, etc.
One statement I take issue with is this line "I put on 40 pounds of muscle one year alone...". This is essentially impossible barring a malfunctioning thyroid. I don't doubt that he put on 40 pounds of weight in a year but I can guarantee it wasn't all muscle.
If you are 17-20 and finishing up puberty, using anabolic steroids, working out incredibly hard 5-6 days per week, and eating 4000+ calories per day every day _maybe_ you could put on 30 pounds of muscle in a year. If you are in your late 20s early 30s as he was, not using steroids (I assume), and working out hard your max muscle gain in a year might be around 20lbs. For a normal 30 year old working out 3x a week it's closer to 12-15lbs/year after newbie-gains have ended.
I say this not to discourage but rather to give people realistic expectations, I believe the most common reason people fail at exercise is they are overly ambitious and burn out quickly when they don't look like Hulk overnight.
If someone was looking for a good starting point for fitness I recommend scooby1961 on youtube, he has been around a long time and has a ton of videos on fitness and nutrition aimed at newbies, and takes the perspective of an engineer looking at the body as a machine.
As someone who has been into this for a while my advice would be:
1. Start small and ramp up, if you do nothing currently start with walking 20 minutes per day.
2. Do not spend a bunch of money on fancy equipment, like all hobbies until you get deeper into the game you won't even know what you should get.
3. Avoid injury, esp your lower back and shoulders. The best way to do this is perfect form. Always have perfect form, cheating with bad form to get one extra rep is only cheating yourself, the goal is to work the muscle to failure, not hit some number.
4. If you want to do a home gym you can work 95% of your muscle groups with dumbbells, a barbell, and a pullup bar. The only thing you cannot work out well with these is your quads. For that you need a leg press machine or a squat cage (ie: a gym).
5. Most suppliments are unproven snake oil that waste your money at best, and at worst destroy your kidneys/liver or give you heavy metal poisoning. The only supplements I consider proven effective with minimal side-effects are caffeine (pre-workout) and creatine. I will not recommend any brands but look for ones that are quality tested by independent labs (like USP).
6. Cardio with resistance (weights) is best, but if you only have time for one make it cardio. This is more important for your long term health.
7. Sticking to a routine is not about will-power, it's about habits. The first time you work out with weights it's intimidating as hell and you feel like a bumbling idiot, you do that 2 or 3 times a week for a few weeks and it feels like a chore, you do it for a year and it happens on auto pilot, you don't even think about it.
By the 1970s labor had lost its seat at the table, unions had been demonized by the corporate class and their wholly-owned media organizations. Capital demands ever-increasing profits, those profits would be achieved by workers finding ways to increase productivity, and workers receiving an ever-decreasing percentage of the benefits.
This accelerated in the 80s under Reagan, Clinton being elected in 92 represented the democratic party fully abandoning labor.
Capitalism has a ways to go in China but is exhausted in the United States and Europe. Seeking increasing profit where none exists, it's now eating away at the base infrastructure like a starving body eating away its own muscle.
Historian podcaster Matt Christman has talked about this subject a bit in recent months on twitch streams, for example in this clip: https://youtu.be/DwH9i1yZR6E?t=1549