Well of course, if this weren't so then you would only ever buy stock immediately before ex-dividend date and sell immediately after. Alas, payout just moves value around, it doesn't create anything extra.

The cost of labour is 100% of the cost for every good and service. It's just a question of how far down the supply line you count. Ultimately, human labour is the only thing that costs anything because humans are the only ones demanding money for their time and effort.

You can even go as far as to say that money is nothing more than I.O.U for human labour. You need money because you need products of other people's labours and you get money because other people have a need for your labour.

But machines can reduce how much labour is needed to make things. And that's a fantastic thing for the entire society, because we all get to have more without having to work so much for it.

Some believe all sorts of bullshit. Technological andvancement in general obsoletes various tasks one by one. Indoor plumbing replaced carrying buckets, printing machine replaced scribing etc etc. The vast majority of preindustrial jobs have been obsoleted and people are now doing other things.

That's fine, when a job gets done, it's a good thing, means you can finally get to work on other necessary things you so far couldn't find time and resources for. That works on an individual level, and it also works on the level of an entire economy.

Falcon did 61 launches last year. No matter what you are fan of, you got to respect that tonnage and revenue. Starship is going to go a giant leap beyond that within few years. The only limit is finding enough payloads.

Yes, reuse is absolutely mandatory if you plan to play on the level field with that. Reuse, or learn to build new orbital rocket each week in perpetuity on the cheap, good luck with that.

ESA is supporting its share in ISS just fine. Financing common projects over EU is in general a solved problem, that's really not a roadblocker.

But with rise of spacex Ariane model is over and done with, not that it was ever man rated anyway. You can't build a manned spaceflight program entirely of your own, if you don't have a suitable launcher.

At this point, ISS successor, in cooperation with US and others (minus Russia) is sensible. But an entirely EU station simply isn't viable.

I would like to point out that ESA does not have a manned launch capability. This advice is simply stupid, just because of that one fact alone.

What ESA needs is to develop Prometheus into a viable engine and build a reusable launcher from that, then go from there.

First comes the engine, then comes the rocket, then comes the space program, it doesn't work the other way around.

A shoeshine. Because the product sold is not a shiny shoe, a rotary brush could do that, the product sold is feeling of being above your fellow man.

Similarly, even with perfect sexbots on the market, prostitutes will still make a living. A pope will still have a job. A bartender will still have a job. Handmade nicknacks will still be a product.

With machines taking care of all utilities and practicalities, the economy of selling emotions will still remain. And much of that economy includes a human element not for any practical reason but because it's the core emotional component of the product sold.

Of course, you only need to bust your ass working in this irrational economy if you wish to consume its services. When it's important for you that a human bartender hands you your drink, not a robot one, never mind that its the same drink.

If you are content with what the machines provide and don't need the luxuries of human labour, then your cost of living will be very low indeed. The robots, after all, don't need any wages. Their labour has no cost.

MS tried non-rectangle phones, with keyboards - Microsoft Kin. The worst design failure in history of mobile phones ever.

If something is not provable or disprovable by evidence then the entire concept may as well be discarded out of hand as it has no relevance to our experience of reality. What is real can be demonstrated by evidence, what cannot be demonstrated at all is as good as fiction.

Sounds like pure populism and I bet the extra workday isn't in fact sufficient to pay that 2% of GDP. On the other hand, if used accurately it would be a good visualization to illustrate the cost of public spending decisions.

If you can't tell a difference between force and mass you might as well not bother measuring anything and just eyeball it.

And the difference of how much a pound weighs varies significantly, at poles its half a percent more than on equator. That's a lot, half a percent makes a difference between a buy and a sell.

That is a completely different unit, with a completely different abbreviation of lbf. Pound-force is defined as: "weight of one pound"

Pound has abbreviation of lb, it's a unit of mass and is equal to 0.45359237kg

You cannot treat pound as unit of force, because it isn't one. Same as you can't treat pound as unit of torque or unit of energy. Pound-force, pound-foot and foot-pound are all completely different units of completely different quantities and they are definitely not the same unit as pound.

Pound is not a unit of force.

>1 pound (avoirdupois)= 0.453 592 37 kilogram

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf

Pound or lb is a unit of mass defined as 0.45359237kg,

Pound-force or lbf is a different unit defined as weight of one pound. That is of course not a fixed quantity, but depends on location, Earth's gravity is not exactly the same everywhere.

L is a non-SI unit. SI unit for volume is not litre but cubic metre - m^(3)

Litre is however accepted for use with SI because it's more convenient to say than milli-cubic metre.

imho Google translator has long ago solved the need to learn the language for basic communication. But language is a lot more than understanding menu at an eatery. Language is the medium that carries the culture and nationality, without understanding the language, your understanding of the culture will be very superficial. A translator app, no matter how good, will not suffice to live in a foreign country. Visiting for work or tourism, that's no problem, there is no need to speak the language for that, but if you move somewhere, you need to learn the local language.

365.2425/7/12 = 4.348125 would be the correct calculation by that logic, but I think it's a stupid calculation.

You agree on a price or wage or whatnot by day, week, month whatever and you need to calculate it the way you write the agreement, converting it makes no sense.

If you have rent X/month, you can't pay less just because it's February.

The problem is that they were paying for submissions by wordcount, well, what do you expect? Of course you get massive wordcounts of garbage.

Mountain Dew is piss yellow, the bottles are different shades of green.

No it's not, because you are not paying for the heat you remove from outside air. Of course it's no perpetum mobile, but in terms of heat in your home vs fuel spent, yes it is over 100% efficient.

Not funny at all, just basic 5S

The point is not to state the obvious, point is to fix the place for trash can, so someone wouldn't store who knows what else in there or misplace the trash can somewhere else. In certain types of production environment it makes a lot of sense, everything gets labeled like that down to individual tools. Everything gets it's one specific place and if something is out of place it has to be cleaned up.

5S however frequently shows up in buzzword bingo. The methodology often gets badly implemented so that it brings no value, or worse, implemented in a place where it makes no sense at all. When in doubt, don't do it. And if you do implement it, don't just blindly follow the formula, adapt it to your actual needs so that it makes sense in your work environment.

Hurricanes though... I'm sure there are ways to work around it, but it still has to make mounting panels significantly more difficult.

Life is not infinitely adaptable. Of course there can be an broad range antibiotic that is impossible to develop resistance against no matter how much it's spread around in places where it shouldn't be. Finding such an antibiotic of course is a separate matter. Not very hard to test its performance though, bacterial colonies can climb concentration gradients or they can't.

First - forget Tesla, their self driving is overpromised, underdelivered, it was never built to be self driving, it was built to sell hype.

All the other self driving companies are a different matter, they have started real world deployments already and are in early stages of scaling up. That scaling up is going to take years and years, but it's happening now and it's not beta, but real world L4 driving.

L5 is unnecessary complication and meaningless goalpost, all driving human or otherwise has limitations.

It's not a bad hypothesis at all, there is solid basis to proposing that it exists, its just that how would you go about confirming it?

The logic is that comets are inherently not a stable phenomena, a single comet can't keep going for geological time periods. So somehow you need to have a mechanism for new comets to appear, there needs to be some sort of reservoir of potential comets yet to become comets. If you do a bit of statistics based on that idea you end up with the model of Oort cloud that we have now.