But not the bonds market! Sub-unit prices for bonds are frequently priced as quarters of thirty-seconds. That is, 1/128 is the minimum increment, but it is represented more like two super-awkward digits. The first digit is 1/32 of a whole number, and the second digit is 1/4 of 1/32. Most people have a hard enough time with non-base-10 counting systems, imagine a system where every logical digit has a different base!
I am but a young'in(~30 sun cycles) but I can't remember a time when commercial compilers and tools were better then open source ones.
Depends on what functionality you need from your compiler. Both Microsoft and Intel provide C++ compilers that perform link-time optimization. GCC only supports link-time optimization on C code. This can be a pretty big deal for large OO systems, as the practice of writing many small member functions frequently leads to excessive code fragmentation.
I'll bet that lots of enterprise use of Open Source tools is due to the price tag, not the ability to fiddle with the source code.
Familiarity counts for a lot, too. When I was in college, the svn/make/gcc combination for C-based projects was very accessible. Microsoft recognizes this, and provides free developer tools for many Universities in the hope that their toolchains will become familiar standards. To a certain extent, that has worked.
We may be arguing in agreement here... The original argument I read was that because the beneficial effects of the TSA weren't visible, they didn't exist. I'm not saying they exist. I'm saying there is a possibility that they exist. Claiming that no benefits exist as a matter of fact is just as logically incorrect as claiming that they do exist due to the lack of observed attacks.
Exactly: The TSA is keeping us safe from T-Rex rampages. Proof? ZERO T-Rex rampages after the TSA was established.
That's not valid. If you compare T-Rex rampages to the periods before and after the establishment of the TSA, you'll find that they are identical*. Rather, I think that the TSA was created to prevent the Y2K bug from happening again.
* ignoring the period of Jesus dinosaur-riding, for the moment
Who knows wether some attack was cancelled because of [the TSA]?
That makes it as effective as praying for no more attacks.
It's not a useful argument in favor of the TSA, but It's a valid point to make. It's quite possible that the presence of the TSA has deterred attacks, but the world may never know. Whether that possibility is worth the nationwide loss in privacy is another issue. I think if the argument devolves into this level it's already over, as the security-minded are focusing on ends while the privacy-minded are focusing on means.
IANAE but I would have thought that if you increase the money supply by a certain percentage a year you could avoid charging anyone tax because it has the effect of watering down everyone's existing money (minus any growth in the economy).
The immediate result of that is identical to levying a perfect flat tax on wealth. Everyone loses the same percentage of their owned wealth in dollars. Unfortunately, most rich people have a way of acquiring more assets in foreign currencies, meaning that the actual impact will probably be regressive, favoring anybody with enough spare money lying around to invest in small islands, etc. Also, because it taxes wealth and not income, it effectively provides double-jeopardy on previous earnings. Your company had a single boom year? You'll be paying for that even through your bust years. Doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.
We could give the prisons to Wizards of the Coast!
Yeah, I want a versioned prison system. By the time "4th edition d20 Prison" comes out, they'll have changed the system system so much that it's not even recognizable as a prison, and older inmates will just start complaining about all of the weeaboofightan magic.
It's unfortunate that apt-get can't download from multiple mirrors at once.
Maybe someone could set up an apt mirror that actually resolves to several "real" mirrors via multiple DNS records? Some work might have to go into apt to force round-robin distribution across the resolved IP addresses, but it sounds like it would be good for reliability as well as performance.
Who really watches Netflix's streams? Have you seen their streaming movie selection? It's TERRIBLE.
Their TV series selection is typically better, if you're trying to catch up on an older series. For example, they have 11 seasons of Law and Order:SVU. That's probably enough to hit the "comcastic" cap in a single marathon run!
As for enforcement it depends on how you define government, for example many deeds require you to be subject to the oversight of a home owner's association. Is that a government? No, not quite, but it's close.
I disagree. A homeowner's association of a 3-flat may be the three families living in the 3-flat. Or maybe one large extended hippie family. Or one rich guy renting out the other two in cash to some "undesirables". Oversight from a homeowner's association is not meaningful oversight.
Just because that solution worked, doesn't mean it's the only one that would. Remember, all of that happened before any serious attention was being paid to organized crime. Do you seriously think that a private fire company could get away with such things today?
I do seriously think that a number of private for-profit fire companies would get away with more bad behavior than a single city-wide not-for-profit organization. The problem is that a private company must be profitable, and that the dissolution of a company merely results in replacement by others with the same goal. In the best case, you'd end up with a monopoly by the most efficient and effective fire department, and you'd be pretty close to where we are right now with a city fire department. But it's still run by a CEO who is trying to make a buck for himself and the owners, and only using firefighting as a means to that end.
Life would be much simpler if we all had to literally run through mazes and be punished or rewarded by soulless overlords, rather than just figuratively.
Eureka! I think you've just discovered the ?????? step!
The reason for Latin and Greek being required is that it was believed up until sometime in the 20th that knowing those languages in particular would make a person smarter. Basically the brain would grow strong by having to contort to handle those languages.
Don't forget that many English words are derived from Latin and Greek words or stems. Learning both of those languages effectively expands your English vocabulary.
...how many of those 1869 applicants do you suppose could... start a fire without a lighter or matches
I imagine that quite a few of them could start fires without lighters or matches. A "no match" fire was still a common thing for older scouts to do when I was involved in the BSA. The intersection of Boy Scouts and Harvard-bound gentlemen back in the day was probably reasonably high.
It's not especially important for most people to know that Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg in 1517, but it's important to know that it happened after the Crusades and before the Enlightenment.
Was that before or after the good Doctor freed the slaves from Canaan?
You know, there are entire markets and trillions of dollars devoted to betting on this stuff, and those markets say that it is more or less peachy. Feel free to bet against them if you like.
I'd say it's more like a DoS attack. Force your brain to spend excessive cycles on parsing the sentence, and hopefully get you trapped into an infinite loop!
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But not the bonds market! Sub-unit prices for bonds are frequently priced as quarters of thirty-seconds. That is, 1/128 is the minimum increment, but it is represented more like two super-awkward digits. The first digit is 1/32 of a whole number, and the second digit is 1/4 of 1/32. Most people have a hard enough time with non-base-10 counting systems, imagine a system where every logical digit has a different base!
Source: CME Treasury Futures Price Rounding Conventions.
Depends on what functionality you need from your compiler. Both Microsoft and Intel provide C++ compilers that perform link-time optimization. GCC only supports link-time optimization on C code. This can be a pretty big deal for large OO systems, as the practice of writing many small member functions frequently leads to excessive code fragmentation.
distcc and (sun) grid engine don't count? Both of them can be used for distributed compilation, etc.
Familiarity counts for a lot, too. When I was in college, the svn/make/gcc combination for C-based projects was very accessible. Microsoft recognizes this, and provides free developer tools for many Universities in the hope that their toolchains will become familiar standards. To a certain extent, that has worked.
I think the GP was referring to a very specific people of walmart.
We may be arguing in agreement here... The original argument I read was that because the beneficial effects of the TSA weren't visible, they didn't exist. I'm not saying they exist. I'm saying there is a possibility that they exist. Claiming that no benefits exist as a matter of fact is just as logically incorrect as claiming that they do exist due to the lack of observed attacks.
That's not valid. If you compare T-Rex rampages to the periods before and after the establishment of the TSA, you'll find that they are identical*. Rather, I think that the TSA was created to prevent the Y2K bug from happening again.
* ignoring the period of Jesus dinosaur-riding, for the moment
It's not a useful argument in favor of the TSA, but It's a valid point to make. It's quite possible that the presence of the TSA has deterred attacks, but the world may never know. Whether that possibility is worth the nationwide loss in privacy is another issue. I think if the argument devolves into this level it's already over, as the security-minded are focusing on ends while the privacy-minded are focusing on means.
The immediate result of that is identical to levying a perfect flat tax on wealth. Everyone loses the same percentage of their owned wealth in dollars. Unfortunately, most rich people have a way of acquiring more assets in foreign currencies, meaning that the actual impact will probably be regressive, favoring anybody with enough spare money lying around to invest in small islands, etc. Also, because it taxes wealth and not income, it effectively provides double-jeopardy on previous earnings. Your company had a single boom year? You'll be paying for that even through your bust years. Doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.
Yay! You are correct!
Yeah, I want a versioned prison system. By the time "4th edition d20 Prison" comes out, they'll have changed the system system so much that it's not even recognizable as a prison, and older inmates will just start complaining about all of the weeaboo fightan magic.
Maybe someone could set up an apt mirror that actually resolves to several "real" mirrors via multiple DNS records? Some work might have to go into apt to force round-robin distribution across the resolved IP addresses, but it sounds like it would be good for reliability as well as performance.
Their TV series selection is typically better, if you're trying to catch up on an older series. For example, they have 11 seasons of Law and Order:SVU. That's probably enough to hit the "comcastic" cap in a single marathon run!
I disagree. A homeowner's association of a 3-flat may be the three families living in the 3-flat. Or maybe one large extended hippie family. Or one rich guy renting out the other two in cash to some "undesirables". Oversight from a homeowner's association is not meaningful oversight.
I do seriously think that a number of private for-profit fire companies would get away with more bad behavior than a single city-wide not-for-profit organization. The problem is that a private company must be profitable, and that the dissolution of a company merely results in replacement by others with the same goal. In the best case, you'd end up with a monopoly by the most efficient and effective fire department, and you'd be pretty close to where we are right now with a city fire department. But it's still run by a CEO who is trying to make a buck for himself and the owners, and only using firefighting as a means to that end.
Eureka! I think you've just discovered the ?????? step!
I believe that 24fps source material is displayed at 72Hz in most modern theaters already. 48Hz source material can be upsampled to 96Hz naturally.
No, apparently I was referring to the Anachronistic Tachyon patrol.
Do we get partial marks for guessing? How about "when she learned to stay in the kitchen"?
Don't forget that many English words are derived from Latin and Greek words or stems. Learning both of those languages effectively expands your English vocabulary.
I imagine that quite a few of them could start fires without lighters or matches. A "no match" fire was still a common thing for older scouts to do when I was involved in the BSA. The intersection of Boy Scouts and Harvard-bound gentlemen back in the day was probably reasonably high.
Was that before or after the good Doctor freed the slaves from Canaan?
What? That must be limited to the HMO, and good luck finding an in-network hooker.
That's a good idea, because nobody's ever been wrong about this stuff before.
Well, I guess they weren't entirely wrong... but it's worthless to be right in the long term if you die or go bankrupt in the meantime.
I'd say it's more like a DoS attack. Force your brain to spend excessive cycles on parsing the sentence, and hopefully get you trapped into an infinite loop!