It's a joke that the media has continued to dig and dig on as a serious consideration.
Google X's Chief of Moonshots (effectively the CEO), Astro Teller, alludes to the space elevator being a fun joke in his SXSW 2013 speech [1], including confirmation of it never being taken seriously by the team.
He's not presuming the PIN is ON the card, but that the transaction was the point of compromise (i.e. you punching in your PIN and the software running a verification of if that PIN is correct).
For perspective - let's make them pay it all back, retroactively, from the year 2000 as the article suggest. Now we will have (roughly due to compounding) tackled 0.0058% of the current US deficit leaving us with $17,133,947,996,837 or 99.994%.
From real world experience - the argument is just semantics, whether it's a forced tip-out or a voluntary tip-out, in practice, the result is usually the same with cash tips.
Which is essentially his first point of inequitable distribution >> "Some servers may decide to withhold a tipout, in a sense cheating the system, and the employers is precluded from redressing this"
Extremely interested in this idea - I've gotten to the point of pricing out FedEx-Kinko's to cut the bindings off ($1/ book actually) and then scanning them dual-sided into Evernote with searchable text (if you're a Pro member it scans inside PDFs).
Still can get past the cognitive dissonance of letting my bookshelf go.
If you think the only city that is difficult to hail a cab in is SF, you are sadly mistaken. I can personally say Austin, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Athens, etc. desperately need a better way to hail a cab.
>> If several claims have been filed for the same url, we will process those claims on a case by case basis, under the presumption that the claim we received first belongs to the legitimate balance holder.
>> "they’re setting up ones that feature “experts” in pseudoscience topics like “plasmatics,” crystal healing, and Egyptian psychoaromatherapy, all of which were presented at TEDxValenciaWomen in December 2012. That conference was described by one disappointed viewer as “a mockery...that hurt, in this order, TED, Valencia, women, science, and common sense.”
Wow. I'm ashamed to have put 'curated TEDx participant' on my resume. Removed.
In my 5 days at SXSWi - I heard at least 50 Early Stage startups pitch, met their people, heard their stories. It was a GREAT year for large and small companies alike. Stop being so dramatic.
Google X's Chief of Moonshots (effectively the CEO), Astro Teller, alludes to the space elevator being a fun joke in his SXSW 2013 speech [1], including confirmation of it never being taken seriously by the team.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8mTHgaLQ7w