Sry for being a newbie, but what exactly is a "self-healing" algorithm and how is it good/bad and what effect does it have on the network. Does it build dependencies or is it something like an infinite loop unable to terminate? Can someone explain this to me?:)
Of course we have all heard Stephen Colbert talk about wikipedia in a comedic way, but in one of his interviews where he was out of his usual character, he explained the term he uses, "truthiness". He said, "truthiness" differs from truth in a way that is, it seems true to most of the populous regardless whether it's true or not.
I'm not trying to bash wikipedia or anything and I don't think that was Colbert's idea either, but he does have a point. When everyone is given the liberty to edit or add material to wikipedia, things like these are bound to happen. I for one, use a lot (and by a lot I mean... almost everything i have to look up:P) of information from wikipedia, but if it's about history or a historical event I always take it with a pinch of salt.
In Walmart's eyes the truth for them is that they "pay double the amount of the minimum wage" while in a former employees or a Wallmart hater, it would be a very small wage they pay.
What you guys are forgetting is that no nation follows strictly one economic ideal. Let's go to the extremes and take a look. If you live in the USA and have taken an ECON 101 class, you would know, we are not a PURE capitalistic economy, and it would be ridiculous to be one. The first thing you learn in an Econ 101 class is that "USA is a Capitalistic nation WITH bounds". Now, let's go to the other extreme. Even Cuba has economic ties with nations and they deal in a capitalistic way rather than a communistic way. Somewhere they have to cut the bonds of communism for self-sustainance. Even Sweden, which is a socialistic nation has capitalistic ideas with their market system, internally and externally, although their land distribution policy remains socialistic.
Hence this war of words which we are fighting here between Communism, Socialism and Capitalism are nothing but flame-baits. Something has gotta give somewhere.
The I-Phone imitation bothers us only because Apple is a U.S. company and we'll lose out profits to them(China). Same with pharmaceutical companies(USA) and India copying our patent drugs. If we were truly bothered by imitation of something patented we'd also look inside our own nation as well, where other companies copy/duplicate/modify original works and sell them at a lower rate. I can't name examples off the top of my head but I'm sure there are many.
So, let's stop the war of words between economic ideas and leave as a war of words between nations.
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Sry for being a newbie, but what exactly is a "self-healing" algorithm and how is it good/bad and what effect does it have on the network. Does it build dependencies or is it something like an infinite loop unable to terminate? Can someone explain this to me? :)
Of course we have all heard Stephen Colbert talk about wikipedia in a comedic way, but in one of his interviews where he was out of his usual character, he explained the term he uses, "truthiness". He said, "truthiness" differs from truth in a way that is, it seems true to most of the populous regardless whether it's true or not.
I'm not trying to bash wikipedia or anything and I don't think that was Colbert's idea either, but he does have a point. When everyone is given the liberty to edit or add material to wikipedia, things like these are bound to happen. I for one, use a lot (and by a lot I mean... almost everything i have to look up :P) of information from wikipedia, but if it's about history or a historical event I always take it with a pinch of salt.
In Walmart's eyes the truth for them is that they "pay double the amount of the minimum wage" while in a former employees or a Wallmart hater, it would be a very small wage they pay.
This is what I mean by truthiness.
*****************What you guys are forgetting is that no nation follows strictly one economic ideal. Let's go to the extremes and take a look. If you live in the USA and have taken an ECON 101 class, you would know, we are not a PURE capitalistic economy, and it would be ridiculous to be one. The first thing you learn in an Econ 101 class is that "USA is a Capitalistic nation WITH bounds". Now, let's go to the other extreme. Even Cuba has economic ties with nations and they deal in a capitalistic way rather than a communistic way. Somewhere they have to cut the bonds of communism for self-sustainance. Even Sweden, which is a socialistic nation has capitalistic ideas with their market system, internally and externally, although their land distribution policy remains socialistic. Hence this war of words which we are fighting here between Communism, Socialism and Capitalism are nothing but flame-baits. Something has gotta give somewhere. The I-Phone imitation bothers us only because Apple is a U.S. company and we'll lose out profits to them(China). Same with pharmaceutical companies(USA) and India copying our patent drugs. If we were truly bothered by imitation of something patented we'd also look inside our own nation as well, where other companies copy/duplicate/modify original works and sell them at a lower rate. I can't name examples off the top of my head but I'm sure there are many. So, let's stop the war of words between economic ideas and leave as a war of words between nations.