No he didn't insist on perpetual debt. He described a scenario where perpetual debt was more optimal than a balanced budget, and it's correct.
There's nothing magical about 0 debt that makes it non-wasteful. The 0 point is almost arbitrary. You could just as easily say you should always have 50% of your budget be surplus so that more and more income comes from interest. The optimal point is very complicated, but with simplifying assumptions, you can say that a perpetually contracting economy should perpetually run surpluses, and a perpetually expanding economy should perpetually run deficits, and a perpetually stagnant economy should perpetually run balanced budgets.
Generally, the later you catch a flaw, the more it costs to fix it, and it scales exponentially. Testing finds failures earlier in the stack. Some amount of failure is unavoidable, thus testing is incredibly important -- you're never going to know whether your new UI idea really works in practice without actual usability testing, for example. But it's also a last resort.
Reading documentation is almost always worth it in the final analysis. I'm sure you can come up with counterexamples of trivial classes with self-explanatory functionality, and to some extent you can pattern-match against an existing codebase to use something without explicitly going through the documentation, but it's never ever wasted*, and that's especially true in a world with deadlines. In a world without deadlines, you can do your black box coding as an intellectual exercise and get great insight into why things are the way they are. If you want to come in on time and in budget, you need to understand what you're doing quickly.
* Well, it can be wasted if the documentation is inaccurate or otherwise terrible, which are also development realities.
The world's population doesn't need to be as big as it is now. There are benefits to large populations (certain cultural output that can be replicated cheaply scales almost perfectly with population), but there are also downsides (natural resources must be divided). Exponential growth must eventually hit a limit, and presumably there is some optimal range for population. Why does everybody always assume that it's "what we have now, forever", for every value of now ever?
Anyway, I don't think the United States population is even on a decline, even with a 1.9 birthrate, because of immigration. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/30/187246/us-birthrate-plummets-to-record-low# (How is it selfish to not have children until you live in a nice neighbourhood with good insurance and creature comforts? Why isn't it considered selfish to have the kid first and then have to scramble to provide for it?)
The war isn't for more humans, it's for fewer viruses. We're not trying to cure disease so we can increase the population, we're trying to cure disease because it sucks to be sick. There's nothing that says we can't cure disease AND promote contraception.
For this case, he doesn't know which is specifically why he said "I'd guess", so you must be talking about his other example. But his other example of non-murderous non-adoptions is clearly because of stigma. Whether the girl's parents were willing to help out with the child is utterly irrelevant to whether their pressure constitutes stigma (or came from a position of stigma).
Imagine a world with trees radiating from a central point that are mysteriously shaped like numerals. The central point, where you start, has a tree that looks like a 3. You find the universe is symmetric but non-repeating. Going out from the center, is 1, then 4, then 1, then 5, then 9...
1. If you make the universe wrap-around as suggested above, how would you even *know* that you'd gone "past the edge"? A single wormhole taking you from (1, 0, 0) to (-1, 0, 0) is only giving you 2 millimetres of travel, not (2^64 - 2) mm!
2. Let's say your answer to the previous question is something like, you're in a space game examining the parallax of the distant stars. Even so you can only notice this if you can teleport a significant fraction of a light year (without spending a significant fraction of a year...). That's really just unnecessary. Limit the teleport radius to 1 light-second (if your wormholes are mobile, it's sufficient to constrain their initial state to be like that). You can still teleport a distance many times the length of Earth's equator, and yet you're still not going to reach anywhere near the limits. A light year is *big* and there's just almost no good reason in a non-space game to have a teleporter that takes you halfway across the universe to the edge in a reasonable timeframe; if you think there is you aren't grasping the enormity of a light year. For a space game you can address at much lower granularity, and planets can be instanced with one more 64-bit coordinate. Or your wormholes can travel between instances using that extra coordinate. Or...you could just have planets be much closer than they are in real life (it's not like it's any less realistic than the FTL travel to get there, or even relativistic travel).
Papa John himself estimated 10-14 cents a pizza. Forbes estimates just 5 cents. Taking Papa John's worst-case estimate and your best case-estimate, the highest price Papa John's pizza could be today is seven cents.
Yeah, I'm willing to go from 7 cents to 14 cents a pizza. That's a friggin' steal either way.
The distance between 1940 and 1945 is five years (and 1940 was wartime, undermining the GP's point, though it was earlier wartime). The UK has a maximum term of 5 years before an election (it does not fix the election date like the US does), which I think is the GP's point -- they delayed it because they don't require exact election dates. That said, the war continuing was easier to predict than hurricane Sandy.
There's nothing magical about 4 years vs. 5 years, so "monarchical pussies" doesn't really fit.
The space is occupied by an ad for the iPad mini, with a resolution of 1024x768. Yeah, you're full of shit. You only have a retina resolution on an iPad if it's less than 8 months old, or else it would be 1024x768 as well, so don't go talking about 1920x1080 being obsolete since the year 2000 as if you're making any damned sense.
Apple.com doesn't scale the ipad mini ad like this, it just has a static size. Apple.com/uk does. That much seems suspicious as hell. Now, that said, Apple.com/ca for Canada also does, despite not having legalese.
Viewed from my 1920x1200 monitor, landscape orientation. I first got something with this resolution in 2006 IIRC, maybe 2007. Clearly I'm a damned luddite.
Actually I think that's a fair point -- and I would like to see an article like that, because I had forgotten and didn't know and that's good information.
After this one, I'd also like to see the "everything's fine; all 26 nuclear plants behaved exactly as we meant them to".
I'm not going to claim to be unbiased -- I'm pro-nuclear -- but that doesn't mean that every argument done by "my side" is solid gold or every opposing argument is bottom-of-the-barrel.
You're stuck on the idea that coding style is just whitespace. There is not, and cannot be, a text format utility that unifies coding styles.
Moreover if you read the article, one thing a coding style could help to catch is a missed break in a switch statement. It would be wrong to automatically add a break (because it might be intended to fall through), or a fall through comment (it might be intended to break). That's a layer of defense that doesn't exist if you don't have all your code (or at least, all your new code) follow the standard of adding fall through comments, because otherwise the absence is not notable.
You don't need to reformat 3rd party source code, you just need to have a style in your code and understand the API surface of 3rd party code.
One power plant in one place is economically unviable, therefore nuclear power is a bad idea always everywhere and there has never been opposition that could be described as irrational.
Also, restaurants won't ever take off because I know this one restaurant halfway across the country that closed down because ingredients cost too much and nobody would eat there if they used cheaper ingredients.
This whole thing seems like a non-story to me. "EXTRA! EXTRA! Random business venture you probably never heard of before this news article folds after almost 40 years!"
My understanding is that in the US, that's prepaid to the federal government on a charge-per-unit-energy basis, so that's already paid for (give or take any shortfall or surplus compared to the actual net present value of the cost of storage).
That said, it does get tricky with self-harmful things that could potentially become so prevalent that they are essentially required. That sort of situation is what sparked the early labour movements.
The problem is that many slashdotters seem to jump to conspiracy theory conclusions about *everything*, even if totally ridiculous.
The next counterargument is usually that some conspiracy theories ultimately pan out, therefore all conspiracy theories are true. Or they'll justify extreme conspiracy theories if and only if they are against: the Government, the Corporations, Big X where X is an industry, Microsoft, Apple, Google, or what have you, in approximately that order, without considering that these organizations or groups are not cartoon supervillains even if one is totally corrupt.
Maybe a more rational approach is to consider evil, consider stupidity, consider a non-evil wisdom that you didn't immediately see, and consider what they said exactly (wait for their response). But the phrase is more elegant, though it grows trite.
That doesn't explain why Dolphins didn't just turn sleep off, since they are warm and active throughout all time. Was it just so fundamental to the brain architecture that the segmenting was needed, or is sleep providing something else that dolphins still need?
Do they degrade the incomes over time? They must to some extent, if only for inflation. But inflation aside, both Googe and Microsoft had highly-publicized across-the-board raises in the past few years that would actually skew the data the other way.
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No he didn't insist on perpetual debt. He described a scenario where perpetual debt was more optimal than a balanced budget, and it's correct.
There's nothing magical about 0 debt that makes it non-wasteful. The 0 point is almost arbitrary. You could just as easily say you should always have 50% of your budget be surplus so that more and more income comes from interest. The optimal point is very complicated, but with simplifying assumptions, you can say that a perpetually contracting economy should perpetually run surpluses, and a perpetually expanding economy should perpetually run deficits, and a perpetually stagnant economy should perpetually run balanced budgets.
Short distance travel, even without motor vehicles, is facilitated by roads too. Just ask the Romans.
(do you live in some place that is perfectly flat for hundreds of kilometres?)
No, he's not seriously suggesting that. You just failed the Turing Test.
Generally, the later you catch a flaw, the more it costs to fix it, and it scales exponentially. Testing finds failures earlier in the stack. Some amount of failure is unavoidable, thus testing is incredibly important -- you're never going to know whether your new UI idea really works in practice without actual usability testing, for example. But it's also a last resort.
Reading documentation is almost always worth it in the final analysis. I'm sure you can come up with counterexamples of trivial classes with self-explanatory functionality, and to some extent you can pattern-match against an existing codebase to use something without explicitly going through the documentation, but it's never ever wasted*, and that's especially true in a world with deadlines. In a world without deadlines, you can do your black box coding as an intellectual exercise and get great insight into why things are the way they are. If you want to come in on time and in budget, you need to understand what you're doing quickly.
* Well, it can be wasted if the documentation is inaccurate or otherwise terrible, which are also development realities.
If it has a visual effect, then it's not read-only.
The world's population doesn't need to be as big as it is now. There are benefits to large populations (certain cultural output that can be replicated cheaply scales almost perfectly with population), but there are also downsides (natural resources must be divided). Exponential growth must eventually hit a limit, and presumably there is some optimal range for population. Why does everybody always assume that it's "what we have now, forever", for every value of now ever?
Anyway, I don't think the United States population is even on a decline, even with a 1.9 birthrate, because of immigration.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/30/187246/us-birthrate-plummets-to-record-low#
(How is it selfish to not have children until you live in a nice neighbourhood with good insurance and creature comforts? Why isn't it considered selfish to have the kid first and then have to scramble to provide for it?)
The war isn't for more humans, it's for fewer viruses. We're not trying to cure disease so we can increase the population, we're trying to cure disease because it sucks to be sick. There's nothing that says we can't cure disease AND promote contraception.
For this case, he doesn't know which is specifically why he said "I'd guess", so you must be talking about his other example. But his other example of non-murderous non-adoptions is clearly because of stigma. Whether the girl's parents were willing to help out with the child is utterly irrelevant to whether their pressure constitutes stigma (or came from a position of stigma).
Imagine a world with trees radiating from a central point that are mysteriously shaped like numerals. The central point, where you start, has a tree that looks like a 3. You find the universe is symmetric but non-repeating. Going out from the center, is 1, then 4, then 1, then 5, then 9...
1. If you make the universe wrap-around as suggested above, how would you even *know* that you'd gone "past the edge"? A single wormhole taking you from (1, 0, 0) to (-1, 0, 0) is only giving you 2 millimetres of travel, not (2^64 - 2) mm!
2. Let's say your answer to the previous question is something like, you're in a space game examining the parallax of the distant stars. Even so you can only notice this if you can teleport a significant fraction of a light year (without spending a significant fraction of a year...). That's really just unnecessary. Limit the teleport radius to 1 light-second (if your wormholes are mobile, it's sufficient to constrain their initial state to be like that). You can still teleport a distance many times the length of Earth's equator, and yet you're still not going to reach anywhere near the limits. A light year is *big* and there's just almost no good reason in a non-space game to have a teleporter that takes you halfway across the universe to the edge in a reasonable timeframe; if you think there is you aren't grasping the enormity of a light year. For a space game you can address at much lower granularity, and planets can be instanced with one more 64-bit coordinate. Or your wormholes can travel between instances using that extra coordinate. Or...you could just have planets be much closer than they are in real life (it's not like it's any less realistic than the FTL travel to get there, or even relativistic travel).
Wii U doesn't use a Power 7.
Source: http://hothardware.com/News/IBM-Confirms-WII-U-Utilizes-PowerBased-CPU-Not-Power-7/
Papa John himself estimated 10-14 cents a pizza. Forbes estimates just 5 cents. Taking Papa John's worst-case estimate and your best case-estimate, the highest price Papa John's pizza could be today is seven cents.
Yeah, I'm willing to go from 7 cents to 14 cents a pizza. That's a friggin' steal either way.
He didn't say Apple doesn't have the money, he said money doesn't automatically confer expertise.
The distance between 1940 and 1945 is five years (and 1940 was wartime, undermining the GP's point, though it was earlier wartime). The UK has a maximum term of 5 years before an election (it does not fix the election date like the US does), which I think is the GP's point -- they delayed it because they don't require exact election dates. That said, the war continuing was easier to predict than hurricane Sandy.
There's nothing magical about 4 years vs. 5 years, so "monarchical pussies" doesn't really fit.
The space is occupied by an ad for the iPad mini, with a resolution of 1024x768. Yeah, you're full of shit. You only have a retina resolution on an iPad if it's less than 8 months old, or else it would be 1024x768 as well, so don't go talking about 1920x1080 being obsolete since the year 2000 as if you're making any damned sense.
Apple.com doesn't scale the ipad mini ad like this, it just has a static size. Apple.com/uk does. That much seems suspicious as hell. Now, that said, Apple.com/ca for Canada also does, despite not having legalese.
Viewed from my 1920x1200 monitor, landscape orientation. I first got something with this resolution in 2006 IIRC, maybe 2007. Clearly I'm a damned luddite.
Is it clearly cheaper for you in terms of net present value over the long term, or just in absolute outlay of cash?
I don't mean to imply that it's not, I'm just genuinely curious about your situation and if it still holds.
Actually I think that's a fair point -- and I would like to see an article like that, because I had forgotten and didn't know and that's good information.
After this one, I'd also like to see the "everything's fine; all 26 nuclear plants behaved exactly as we meant them to".
I'm not going to claim to be unbiased -- I'm pro-nuclear -- but that doesn't mean that every argument done by "my side" is solid gold or every opposing argument is bottom-of-the-barrel.
You're stuck on the idea that coding style is just whitespace. There is not, and cannot be, a text format utility that unifies coding styles.
Moreover if you read the article, one thing a coding style could help to catch is a missed break in a switch statement. It would be wrong to automatically add a break (because it might be intended to fall through), or a fall through comment (it might be intended to break). That's a layer of defense that doesn't exist if you don't have all your code (or at least, all your new code) follow the standard of adding fall through comments, because otherwise the absence is not notable.
You don't need to reformat 3rd party source code, you just need to have a style in your code and understand the API surface of 3rd party code.
I think fault is not 0-sum. It can be totally the developer's fault and still a flaw in libcurl.
One power plant in one place is economically unviable, therefore nuclear power is a bad idea always everywhere and there has never been opposition that could be described as irrational.
Also, restaurants won't ever take off because I know this one restaurant halfway across the country that closed down because ingredients cost too much and nobody would eat there if they used cheaper ingredients.
This whole thing seems like a non-story to me. "EXTRA! EXTRA! Random business venture you probably never heard of before this news article folds after almost 40 years!"
My understanding is that in the US, that's prepaid to the federal government on a charge-per-unit-energy basis, so that's already paid for (give or take any shortfall or surplus compared to the actual net present value of the cost of storage).
I just assumed he meant not harming 3rd parties.
That said, it does get tricky with self-harmful things that could potentially become so prevalent that they are essentially required. That sort of situation is what sparked the early labour movements.
The problem is that many slashdotters seem to jump to conspiracy theory conclusions about *everything*, even if totally ridiculous.
The next counterargument is usually that some conspiracy theories ultimately pan out, therefore all conspiracy theories are true. Or they'll justify extreme conspiracy theories if and only if they are against: the Government, the Corporations, Big X where X is an industry, Microsoft, Apple, Google, or what have you, in approximately that order, without considering that these organizations or groups are not cartoon supervillains even if one is totally corrupt.
Maybe a more rational approach is to consider evil, consider stupidity, consider a non-evil wisdom that you didn't immediately see, and consider what they said exactly (wait for their response). But the phrase is more elegant, though it grows trite.
That doesn't explain why Dolphins didn't just turn sleep off, since they are warm and active throughout all time. Was it just so fundamental to the brain architecture that the segmenting was needed, or is sleep providing something else that dolphins still need?
Do they degrade the incomes over time? They must to some extent, if only for inflation. But inflation aside, both Googe and Microsoft had highly-publicized across-the-board raises in the past few years that would actually skew the data the other way.