He went through Queen's Commerce with my nephew, so I feel I can comment. All of his successes have come from the 'Palo Alto' technique. That means, realize that some people are 10 times more productive than the bunch and pay them accordingly. No company east of there does that.
Now, for design and software, that works really well. But other things come against basic physics.
Mr. Musk must realize a productivity improvement by a factor of 10 if he doesn't want to be 'bored' with the whole thing. He can't get that with actually digging the tunnels. It costs so much to excavate a cubic meter of soil and that's that. In past 30 years, giant digging machines have improved things maybe a factor of two, but they always get stuck. We are now flatlining the economics.
While I'm writing this, I'm thinking he can get a factor of 10 in operating the tunnels, by using a giant packet routing system, but first you have to dig. And go through a zillion faults in LA. Good luck in getting the busgus to admit that they don't mean anything - their lives are on the line. :)
Friday, May 5, 2017
El Nino over, Arctic ice starts climb again
Yeah, as a Canadian I love Arctic ice. Give me more and more! In fact, why not extend it all the way to my cottage? /\ (mountain of sarcasm).
During an El Nino, an enormous amount of heat energy goes into the Arctic, and blasts out into space. That's my nice summer, we're talking about here! It's not surprising that ice volume takes a hit (too bad!).
So, in May, the very bottom curve shoots straight into the bulk of the graph, when it should be shooting down like all the other years. Yech!
Look what the stinkin' El Nino did to the ice volume. Last year, the lowest winter rise ever, following a huge drop. This confirms we had the biggest elni ever. None of the warmists want to mention that. If my summer is miserable, then we'll see the biggest rise ever, as we grapple with the loss of heat energy.
Since the warmists have ditched the Scientific Method and have gone back to Aristotle, there is nothing that can 'invalidate' their changing philosophy. Years ago, hard-core scientists would have derided them for the lack of a mechanism, but they are all dead. The next few years will be darn cold, and I wonder how they will accommodate this. They'll say it's a blip, and then they'll throw in the oceans again. :)
You and I can huddle in the barrel sauna all summer, and watch the Arctic ice volume.
During an El Nino, an enormous amount of heat energy goes into the Arctic, and blasts out into space. That's my nice summer, we're talking about here! It's not surprising that ice volume takes a hit (too bad!).
So, in May, the very bottom curve shoots straight into the bulk of the graph, when it should be shooting down like all the other years. Yech!
Look what the stinkin' El Nino did to the ice volume. Last year, the lowest winter rise ever, following a huge drop. This confirms we had the biggest elni ever. None of the warmists want to mention that. If my summer is miserable, then we'll see the biggest rise ever, as we grapple with the loss of heat energy.
Since the warmists have ditched the Scientific Method and have gone back to Aristotle, there is nothing that can 'invalidate' their changing philosophy. Years ago, hard-core scientists would have derided them for the lack of a mechanism, but they are all dead. The next few years will be darn cold, and I wonder how they will accommodate this. They'll say it's a blip, and then they'll throw in the oceans again. :)
You and I can huddle in the barrel sauna all summer, and watch the Arctic ice volume.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Toronto Real Estate Rollercoaster
When the kids were little I was forced to go on a lot of rollercoasters. blah. There's always the part where they go up, and the rails go tickety, tickety. It's being on the top that starts the whip snapping. So the Toronto Housing market has done its clickety, clickety, and is going over the top. Note that listings are zooming, and I can see this with signs around the woods.
I was soooooooodepressed but then today, I got some stuff, like real stuff, man. And I feel sssoo good. Wow, I hear birdies!
ps. wow, that was a short buzz! Just note that the recent rise in listings is the biggest zoom-up between dots on the whole chart. I would say then, that the listing panic has begun and next month's zoom-up will be big as well.
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