Bigger issue seems to be people overestimate how much they spend on fuel. You buy the car once, but you refuel it hundreds of times over its lifetime, giving the impression that fuel is a big expense.
For example, if you assume $0.073/mile, for 100,000 miles, that is $7300. If going electric cuts that in half, you save only $3650, which is only ~10% of the cost of the vehicle.
Looking at total cost of ownership (car + maintenance + fuel) makes much more sense than just fuel.
As far as I can tell, this is a win for encryption. It says that device manufacturers need to help law enforcement break into a device, but they do not need to create any backdoors. If Apple/Google/etc make it impossible for them to break into their own devices, then there is nothing that they can do. As long as they are not required to include backdoors then encryption wins.
There are pro's and con's to studying the literature. The main pro is that you can avoid a dead end. The main con is that your ideas will be shaped by the literature (i.e., not as unique).
I tend to try to solve a problem myself first (this could be days or weeks), then look at the literature. If I looked at the literature first, then my ideas would look like the literature.
Some of these locations don't have any other companies in the area.
Example:
You're 22, straight out of college, you take a job at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY because it was a great fit for you and you liked the area. You raise a family there, get friends there, establish a lot of roots over 10+ years. Now IBM is "transforming", what are you going to do? There are no other companies in the area
The All Writs Act requires that the request NOT be a burden to the company that the request is being sent to. Isn't it a burden to affect Apple's marketing strategy?
I wonder if this is a side-effect of the current silicon-valley investment scene. There are lots of low-capital startup opportunities, so who wants to fund the high-capital startups in computer hardware? There have been very few computer hardware startups the past few years, and that might have an effect on overall innovation and growth.
Let's say someone gets a PhD - that takes ~5 years. So instead of entering the workforce at 22, they enter the workforce at 27. If they retire at 70, then their working hours went down from 48 years of work to 43 years of work, or ~10%.
Do you consider the ~10% loss in working hours a major disadvantage?
I could definitely see more people getting advanced degrees in a "MINCOME" society. For example, I have a family member that really wants to do a masters, but had to work through school and isn't sure they can swing it for a masters too.
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> “’The most difficult communication between these terrorists is via PlayStation 4,’ the minister said, three days before the terrorist attacks in Paris. ‘It’s very, very difficult for our services — not only Belgian services but international services — to decrypt the communication that is done via PlayStation 4.'”
The Onion is going to have a really hard time topping this.
That was their athletic department's official budget for 2014.
HuffPost has a table that implies an annual budget, but the numbers are actually for 5 years, and that is not clearly stated directly on the table. That fact makes all of the other numbers that they provide suspicious.
I don't get the table of subsidies - according to Google, Eastern Michigan has a $10.73M annual budget, but the table says that they have a $120M subsidy.
For comparison, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has a budget of around $137.5M.
The article is talking about annual student fees but the listed subsidy is apparently for a decade or more of time.