Not all, but a good chunk. Definitely less than half. Somewhere around 18% of current US GDP is healthcare spending [1], growing at around 5% year over year. Education spending is somewhere around 5% of GDP [2]. It's hard to figure out how much actual growth is occurring there since most of the ridiculous increases have been specifically in college, not in K-12 which is the bigger share. Total increase seems to be somewhere below 3% year over year growth. We can even add in military spending and not get to half. Thanks to this year's absurd 9% budget increase [3], military spending is now above 4% of GDP again.
So, healthcare + education + military accounts for around 27% of GDP and about 5.2% weighted average growth for that 27%. US GDP is up 4.2% annualized for Q2 this year, so that growth in our 3 categories is only accounting for maybe a third of total GDP growth.
It's not an open standard, but this was the one of the interesting pieces of RIM's software stack. Their push system worked reasonably well, used little power on the handset, and organizations were able to run their own on-site push proxy supporting their own in-house applications.
Only on Hacker News is the fact that a database has a primary key for user accounts evidence of a global conspiracy against humanity. Here's some bad news for you: literally every company with a website and user accounts has the same scheme.
There are messes that cannot be cleaned up. We have the leverage to destroy everything. Therefore it is better to focus on preventing the mess, than in futilely pretending we can clean it.
It's no substitution for actual data, but there is a basic logic to it. If you're bleeding now it's more important to stanch the wound than it is to worry about avoiding future wounds (they're also not mutually exclusive conditions).
Not sure analogies are strictly helpful here. Like, alternatively: Say there's a knife being pulled through your guts. Should you prioritise stopping the bleeding or trying to arrest the progress of the knife? The analysis here needs to be more quantitative: what are the returns on various mitigation and cleanup methods, and what do the respective rates of change imply in terms of comparative environmental impact over a fixed period of time?
Part of the German economic success story has been keeping housing cheap, so they can keep pay down, so they can export. As soon as housing prices rise, pay rises, and the story falls apart.
...and the secret sauce of keeping rents down have been conscious efforts at keeping second and third tier cities and towns attractive for business, which distributed demand and thus kept it somewhat in check in the naturally attractive metropolitan areas. E.g. most of those small, highly specialized industry (car and other) suppliers that are the backbone of the German industry are based in cities you never heard of, that's not a coincidence but the result of careful balancing.
In recent years (decades, actually), we seem to have dropped the ball in the counter-centralisation game, maybe as a consequence of reunification.
> Part of the German economic success story has been keeping housing cheap, so they can keep pay down, so they can export. As soon as housing prices rise, pay rises, and the story falls apart.
The only reason they're able to do this is because of years of fairly extreme mercantilistic policies combined with struggling economies in other parts of the EU (Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and to an extent Ireland).
It works out for Germany in the short- and medium-run, but it's bad for the EU as a whole.
It's also bad for Germany in the long run, because even if extreme mercantilism were sustainable in a free market in the long run (spoiler: it's not), excess surplus means, by definition, that the government is underinvesting in public infrastructure. It takes a while for the effects of that to become evident, but Germany is starting to see hints of it already, and if these policies continue, it'll become much more pronounced.
Not so sure about that.
Germany doesn't compete on firesale prices for its export products.
Germany is amongst the top 5 richest countries whatever that means.
I simply see many good and skilled workers paid way too little. How am I earning as much as a med tech with 12 years experience after being in IT proper for 2 years ?
The answer lays, admitted within my limited view, in the skilled labor force simply accepting middling pays. Which is maybe harder to pull off in the IT branch it attracting more workers not ready to simply accept lower pays for their work.
In the end I have colleagues with way more experience than me earning less than me simply because they asked for less...Somehow its more a kind of established cultural thing and companies / management taking good advantage of it. Lets not pretend C levels are badly paid in Germany XD.
And how do they keep all those panels clean? Who maintains the transformers when they break? Who swaps out the panels as they reach their life expectancy? It isn't just the night watchman, but the entire community of people involved in any large outdoor installation.
Like any utility, you don't need a guy just hanging around waiting for the transformers to explode. You truck him in every 50 years when that actually happens. It's time domain multiplexing, essentially.
The old eastern span of the SF-Oakland bridge was a series of double-decked trusses between towers. Essentially it was several loosely-coupled, independent failure domains. In failure analysis that's not really the same thing as redundancy.
We still have a lot of prestressed concrete structures that predate good understanding of creep in such structures. Box-beam highway bridges, for example, were universally built from prestressed concrete after WW2, but creep wasn't well characterized until the late 1960s.
The very lightweight HTML Gmail lacks all of "normal" Gmail's latency-hiding features, which is one reason it uses so little memory. Gmail preloads all of the messages in the thread list so when you click them they are displayed instantly. HTML Gmail doesn't, and when you click a message it fetches the body from the origin. The tradeoff is yours to make. I find the HTML version infuriating when I'm tethered on mobile because every mouse click takes 10 seconds. On the same tether I can leave normal Gmail open all the time and it's fast. Ironically the lightweight Gmail is more usable on a fast, reliable wired connection.
I think that the contents of the emails in a thread is a minor part of 150MiB taken by the full version. I suppose my entire inbox (the not-archived part) is much smaller that that.
Indeed, it's not the data but the code to support it. There's a bazillion features in there designed to avoid the user having to do additional page loads. For example in my Gmail memory profile there's 20+ MB of code to support the real-time chat feature in the sidebar. You can argue about whether there should be a middle ground implementation that has the email preloading but not the real-time chat. Developer and project manager time is unfortunately finite.
