Where is the advantage of writing 2k11 instead of 2011?
There isn't really one, I suppose. I'm trying to isolate the part I care about (the years, not century) in a more dismissive way than 2009-2011 says. I should have said '09-'11 I think.
Mostly cause when I read 2009-2011, half my numeric processing is devoted to "Still the 21st century!" And I don't know if it really causes a difference, but how long ago Jesus was born isn't really that relevant to my daily life.
Also makes me wonder who paid WhatsApp's bills over the past years.
The cofounders made some money ($650k total) from being an early part of Yahoo. Enough to self-fund.from 2k9 to 2k11. Then they got 7M from VC in 2k11, and as they spent that they got more (totally 57M in the end) from the VC group. At that point, they sold out to FB for 20B, and for the last 2 years FB has been deficit spending. It's all an investment in having a userbase to either flip to FB/Google/Other Marketing Company (initially) or to advetise to (by FB).
I want a laptop that would last. I haven't needed a new processor (on a laptop) in... I don't know. It doesn't take much CPU power to render a webpage, or operate a text editor, or even to compile anymore.
It's impact resistant sure, but it's a damn good thermal insulator. Heat is a killer.
Also, plastic clamshells tend to hold up okay when dropped. Fans getting clogged (or dying from mechanical failure), power supply breaking off the board, or lcds cracking seem to be far more likely causes of laptop replacement.
To be honest, Apple is arguably better at this point than Microsoft was at a similar point in it's lifecycle, from a tech standpoint. Rootless MacOSX is a thing. Gatekeeper, though major holes, is a thing.
Same point in the lifecycle? Apple has been around, as a company in the OS business, as long/longer than MS. And things like rootless OSX are expectations, because people learn from other people;s experience.
I get that rewriting means there are needed patches. But when Apple wrote OSX, security was a real thing. And eliminating a lot of legacy code should prevent the source of a lot of issues.
I quoted the part I wanted to talk about. I have nothing interesting to say about the prevalence of sexual harassment in academia. I mean, I've seen anecdotal evidence,but nothing interesting on a largescale (interesting stories on the other hand...)
But I can talk about the idiocy of comparing grad students doing shit work that someone has to do (which seems fine) and sexual harassment.
You never knew someone in college who did the teacher's job for them without pay? We called them grad students.
AThere is a huge difference between low paid work (like an internship) which is part of the learning process, and being sexually taken advantage of. Making the two the same is stupid.
I'm surprised it's not even greater, because you can get whatever answers you want if you design the survey, and they have a vested interest in making that number high. Maybe they want it to grow over time as they release more "features" to show what the tipping point is?
A company can never pay everyone what they are worth. They can pay more than you in particular are worth. (For a fun game, ask three people across the political spectrum if CEOs fall into the second sentence or not).
And worth is relative. You can certainly be worth a lot to one company, but almost nothing to any other.
More dollar coins and add 2 dollar coins with cutting the 1 and 2 bills.
Dollar coins failed in the market. The US mint has a stockpile of 1.4 billion of them in storage, and is not making any more. They come out of circulation faster than paper money, and have a higher cost to create.
The GNP growth doesn't contribute. The myriad of ways currency leaves circulation does. And by far the largest way money leaves circulation is other countries shipping dollars. It's great, the US, at it's heyday, made like 25B from other countries for printing their paper currency. Paper is still the most, but the mint makes about 350M from coins.
It's more complex than that. The Treasury has to repurchase the cash at face value once it's worn out, so there is very little seigniorage from paper money under usual circumstances. In reality, it's whatever leaves circulation and enters collectors' collection/other non-circulating funds. The biggest source of non-circulating funds is when dollars get shipped overseas, like when Argentina used US dollars as it's national currency. So, they were, in essence, paying the US mint face value to print it's money for them.
It's literally the profit made on keeping physical currency out of circulation, by buying dollars at face value and turning them into something else.
There are coin collection models. For instance, the 50 states quarter series was expected to make significant seigniorage, as it cost $2.50 to make a set of fifty and the consumer is "buying" the coins for their collection at $12.50 (numbers a little higher if you include the territories and DC). Total there as 6.3B from that series in seigniorage.
The important point is that this is not paid by society as a whole, but as a conscious decision by whatever individual decided to take the money out of circulation.
This only applies to countries like the US. It's huge in countries like, I dunno, ZImbabwae or the Weimer republic, when the government just prints dollars to settle debts.
It's nothing, because that is not how the government works. The new cash doesn't get spent as part of the government's money. It gets shipped out to replace existing cash, or to cover electronic debits, or similar.
Overflights by government aircraft are pretty clearly casus belli
See, why everyone freaked out about Turkey claiming Russia was overflying their space. The difference is Turkey (as a NATO member) and Russia (as, well Russia) are not eager for war. Cause, you know, the planet ending consequences. N. Korea may be crazy enough, and S. Korea could be all but wiped out but the artillery alone before anyone can hit back.
So, the choices you're presenting are: Spend a few million dollars so everyone can enjoy sex or Not and blame them if they get cancer for having the temerity to touch privates together?
Well, it probably wouldn't be door-to-door. Hell, we can do it by having a flat 100k tax per person, with a 100k write-off if you have completed your annual immunization checkup, which results in you being immunized/medically unable to be.
I don't see what's wrong with the government forcing people to inject this particular stuff into their bodies. And just like taxation didn't lead to communism, I don't see how this leads to all the bad stuff that could be injected into your body.
But if I could live in such a society I would. Which, ultimately, is why we have a government. To create a social contract we want to live in.
Because they have to fully transition quickly. Which will likely lead to bugs. And probably so their service starts experiencing the hiccups that causes when Google launches a competitor
Lack of centralized control is just as vulnerable, and less noticeable. For instance, MS, Apple and Google employ companies that talk to/lobbgy every single school district on their behalf. Okay, I think it's like 82% coverage. But you probably don't notice that.
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I'm wondering how long this could run off a little battery. A totally wireless AP that lasted a while could be useful.
There isn't really one, I suppose. I'm trying to isolate the part I care about (the years, not century) in a more dismissive way than 2009-2011 says. I should have said '09-'11 I think.
Mostly cause when I read 2009-2011, half my numeric processing is devoted to "Still the 21st century!" And I don't know if it really causes a difference, but how long ago Jesus was born isn't really that relevant to my daily life.
Weren't some law enforcement groups bragging about their ability to read PGP messages? Like last week?
The cofounders made some money ($650k total) from being an early part of Yahoo. Enough to self-fund.from 2k9 to 2k11. Then they got 7M from VC in 2k11, and as they spent that they got more (totally 57M in the end) from the VC group. At that point, they sold out to FB for 20B, and for the last 2 years FB has been deficit spending. It's all an investment in having a userbase to either flip to FB/Google/Other Marketing Company (initially) or to advetise to (by FB).
You mean already. Or if you're in around 90% of the US you would.
Vents/fans getting clogged or overheating kills far more laptops than falling. So why would I use an insulating material again?
I want a laptop that would last. I haven't needed a new processor (on a laptop) in... I don't know. It doesn't take much CPU power to render a webpage, or operate a text editor, or even to compile anymore.
It's impact resistant sure, but it's a damn good thermal insulator. Heat is a killer.
Also, plastic clamshells tend to hold up okay when dropped. Fans getting clogged (or dying from mechanical failure), power supply breaking off the board, or lcds cracking seem to be far more likely causes of laptop replacement.
Same point in the lifecycle? Apple has been around, as a company in the OS business, as long/longer than MS. And things like rootless OSX are expectations, because people learn from other people;s experience.
I get that rewriting means there are needed patches. But when Apple wrote OSX, security was a real thing. And eliminating a lot of legacy code should prevent the source of a lot of issues.
I quoted the part I wanted to talk about. I have nothing interesting to say about the prevalence of sexual harassment in academia. I mean, I've seen anecdotal evidence,but nothing interesting on a largescale (interesting stories on the other hand...)
But I can talk about the idiocy of comparing grad students doing shit work that someone has to do (which seems fine) and sexual harassment.
AThere is a huge difference between low paid work (like an internship) which is part of the learning process, and being sexually taken advantage of. Making the two the same is stupid.
I'm surprised it's not even greater, because you can get whatever answers you want if you design the survey, and they have a vested interest in making that number high. Maybe they want it to grow over time as they release more "features" to show what the tipping point is?
A company can never pay everyone what they are worth. They can pay more than you in particular are worth. (For a fun game, ask three people across the political spectrum if CEOs fall into the second sentence or not).
And worth is relative. You can certainly be worth a lot to one company, but almost nothing to any other.
Are you sure you have your timeline correct? I thought it was the trend of their compensations increasing that lead to the disclosure requirement.
Dollar coins failed in the market. The US mint has a stockpile of 1.4 billion of them in storage, and is not making any more. They come out of circulation faster than paper money, and have a higher cost to create.
The GNP growth doesn't contribute. The myriad of ways currency leaves circulation does. And by far the largest way money leaves circulation is other countries shipping dollars. It's great, the US, at it's heyday, made like 25B from other countries for printing their paper currency. Paper is still the most, but the mint makes about 350M from coins.
It's more complex than that. The Treasury has to repurchase the cash at face value once it's worn out, so there is very little seigniorage from paper money under usual circumstances. In reality, it's whatever leaves circulation and enters collectors' collection/other non-circulating funds. The biggest source of non-circulating funds is when dollars get shipped overseas, like when Argentina used US dollars as it's national currency. So, they were, in essence, paying the US mint face value to print it's money for them.
It's literally the profit made on keeping physical currency out of circulation, by buying dollars at face value and turning them into something else.
There are coin collection models. For instance, the 50 states quarter series was expected to make significant seigniorage, as it cost $2.50 to make a set of fifty and the consumer is "buying" the coins for their collection at $12.50 (numbers a little higher if you include the territories and DC). Total there as 6.3B from that series in seigniorage .
The important point is that this is not paid by society as a whole, but as a conscious decision by whatever individual decided to take the money out of circulation.
This only applies to countries like the US. It's huge in countries like, I dunno, ZImbabwae or the Weimer republic, when the government just prints dollars to settle debts.
It's nothing, because that is not how the government works. The new cash doesn't get spent as part of the government's money. It gets shipped out to replace existing cash, or to cover electronic debits, or similar.
The claim is that HPV causes various cancers, so you get all those savings. Not just direct HPV complications.
Overflights by government aircraft are pretty clearly casus belli
See, why everyone freaked out about Turkey claiming Russia was overflying their space. The difference is Turkey (as a NATO member) and Russia (as, well Russia) are not eager for war. Cause, you know, the planet ending consequences. N. Korea may be crazy enough, and S. Korea could be all but wiped out but the artillery alone before anyone can hit back.
So, the choices you're presenting are: Spend a few million dollars so everyone can enjoy sex or Not and blame them if they get cancer for having the temerity to touch privates together?
Well, it probably wouldn't be door-to-door. Hell, we can do it by having a flat 100k tax per person, with a 100k write-off if you have completed your annual immunization checkup, which results in you being immunized/medically unable to be.
I don't see what's wrong with the government forcing people to inject this particular stuff into their bodies. And just like taxation didn't lead to communism, I don't see how this leads to all the bad stuff that could be injected into your body.
But if I could live in such a society I would. Which, ultimately, is why we have a government. To create a social contract we want to live in.
Lack of centralized control is just as vulnerable, and less noticeable. For instance, MS, Apple and Google employ companies that talk to/lobbgy every single school district on their behalf. Okay, I think it's like 82% coverage. But you probably don't notice that.
Fraud?