That sounds terrible... if this would become mainstream, that would mean that for 95% of the population using bitcoins safely would be too hard.
We live in a world were for 99.9% of the population, using bitcoins at all is too much of a hassle compared to whatever benefit is supposed to come from it. Me, for example. I just don't have a use case for those things.
Also, for 95.5% bitcoins are too difficult to use anyway.
We aren't playing by the rules any more. We're _thinking_ about how to eradicate disease. In one generation we can come up with a plan, execute it, and see if it worked, whereas evolution takes many generations for each phase.
There are no rules. The game is called "survival of the fittest", and that really is it.
TEPCO's constant underplaying of the severity, and withholding of information, is a nuclear industry cultural thing
Fixed that for you. It's like that everywhere.
The argument in favor of gov. takeover is that a government can spend money in a different way and plan in a different way than a company that has to look for profit. That is especially so in a situation like this that is just a costly mess.
Is that all you have to do to get excluded from reviewing? I keep rejecting papers and they keep sending me more and more to review.
My experience with this kind of thing is that cultures vary hugely between fields. And within these cultures, there is a lot of variability in what people experience due to plain randomness. So that is that. Also, it might be that you write decent reviews and well motivated rejections, while others do not. But who knows? Nobody is telling you, and you are not asking either.
One thing I have observed is that lack of communication and information on editorial decissions trigger unjustified paranoia in a lot of people.
This is all about not creating evidence that could cost the government money.
No, this is about making sure that there are still firefighters in 10 years.
A rescue operation after a plane crash (or anything similar) is tremendously chaotic and stressful to everyone involved, and mistakes happen. It's sad and it sucks, but if firefighters and rescue teams don't have the leeway to make mistakes, their work is impossible. It's as simple as that.
People who put their asses on the line for helping other people deserve the right of making mistakes with impunity in such cases, and video material undermines this impunity.
It's really not as if firefighters are getting rich off their jobs.
Since when does two days ago equal ages? https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/561927090509074. Its not a publicity stunt it just what it says it is insurance against Assange Snowden Greenwald Poitras etc being killed or disappeared to gitmo.
What is amazing (to me, anyway) is that these links are posted on facebook. Everyone who downloads these torrents will be registered. If they have facebook accounts, their names, birthdate, etc. will all be known. WTF?
Users can not secure themselves against invasive hacking by the US Government.
Sure.
Now, if instead of engaging in this selfdefeating every-man-to-himself canned-goods-and-ammo mentality users would actually stand up for their rights actively, which means, engaging in politics - that could work.
Enigmail is great, but try and convince friends or family to use it is like pulling teeth.
Well, enigmail isn't that great. It hung when my wife tried to generate her key. Also, when I send her my public key, it didn't recognize it (I sent it as a.asc). It also adds some bogus "begin encrypted mail" headings around the encrypted text.
Replace GMO with vaccine, pharmaceuticals, or even Wi-Fi to see how bad of an idea that is
Can't you read? I said "dangerous endeavours". You can leave the development of a better teddy bear to private enterprise, but there are things that you shouldn't leave to them.
In fact, pharmaceuticals aid more my point than they weaken it: Recall all the news on invented illnesses, manipulated clinical trials, creation of meds that are not better than existing ones but much more expensive. Etc.
Wi-Fi: inoccuous. Vaccine: not without problems, historically. And most of the good stuff was developed at universities.
Just because something is modified by humans doesn't mean it's bad for you. It might be! But you don't know that just because it's "genetically modified".
In principle, that is correct. OTOH, leaving something powerful like genetic modification of organisms in the hands of corporations (with their well known behavioral disorders) is really a very bad idea.
And one of the primary negative aspects of the startup way of advancing science and technology is that after some point companies have a very strong incentive to lie, disinform, and cut all sorts of corners to make their product happen, because otherwise they go broke. That's ok with apps and other inocuous stuff, but something potentially dangerous like GMOs should not be done this way.
The situation is essentially the same as with nuclear power. Yes, it is theoretically possible to do it safely, but not in practice. So I'd be OK with banning GMOs until we find a better way of organizing such dangerous endeavours (could be a long time, though. I'm not aware of anyone thinking in that direction).
Samsung has an inescapable problem [...] The idea that Samsung will succeed in outperforming Google here, that's an idea that seems to ignore the battered trail of competitors like Nokia, Blackberry, and Motorola.
Well, Samsung is an immense company by any measure, dwarfing Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, and even Apple. It is the company that had pockets deep enough (and the brains to go with it) to snatch a large share from the smartphone market from Apple. It is the company that had a warchest big enough to enagage (and win!) a very messy IP war against a well entrenched Apple.
I'd say the aren't many inescapable problems for Samsung.
There is a difference between absolute power and significant power. The US is very powerful by any interesting metric. It may not always get what it wants, of course, but it still gets a lot.
I always found it deeply ironic that SICP, of all books, starts out with the statement that "Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute", and then goes on to use Scheme.
The thing with lisp syntax is that, at first sight, it looks less intelligible than, say, C++ syntax. But once you get used to the parentheses, it actually is a LOT easier to read and write correctly. All the suggestive syntactic sugars of C/C++/whatever tend to have subtle interference patterns that make them a source of errors that can be arbitrarily hard to find.
So - no. It's not really ironic. It is enlightened!
but why should Foxconn worry that they will be unemployed?
Because these workers are human beings.
Please explain to me why you think that this doesn't matter. It seems many people think like that around here and that the rationale for it is somehow obvious, but I just don't get it.
In the US it isn't so bad because there is just the FDA, but even in Europe it takes much longer and you have to convince many different agencies that it is safe. Then you have to start doing the rest of the world country by country.
You forgot to mention that very few of these agencies want to approve it.
Fact is, GMO seems creepy to lots and lots of people, so they don't want it. It does not help at all that Monsanto is a very creepy company that chose to deploy GMO in a particularly creepy way ("roundup ready"). Due to Monsanto, GMO crops are mainly associated with stuff that is right only according to the laws they more or less wrote themselves (with the aid of the WTO etc), but seems wrong to pretty much anybody else. So anytime a good excuse appears imports of GMO crops will be halted by many countries.
A government that does not enforce the rule of law UNIFORMLY throughout the nation has given up its just power to govern.
And your suggestion is to get rid of all government? Presumably so that there is no rule of law at all. Is that what you want?
Wall St. banks engage in thousands of acts of fraud, forgery and perjury yet continue to operate with none of their employees investigated and prosecuted?
Aren't you exaggerating a tiny little bit?
Where's this "rule of law" you mention?
So you claim there is none? Why should anyone take you seriously when you keep claiming such gross nonsense.
Governments get a lot of things "right", but it's usually for the benefit of an elite minority and to the detriment of the bulk of humanity.
Interestingly, the more libertarian the public, the worse the governent. Places where people live and breathe the idea that government is there to help everybody tend to fare quite a bit better than places where people believe government should leave people alone. And places without government are both rare and an utter nightmare to visit or live in.
The "powers that be" running the world's major banks in concert, can't have any currency run outside of their control and manipulation, because then they would lose their grip on the world's economies (and in turn, their people) to do their bidding.
I'm here to say that I am fine with this.
Governments are needed to bring order and stability, and they do that by enforcing the rule of law, including the legality of business. Money laundring undermines this, so it must be prosecuted. Actually, I am quite happy that they are finally doing somthing about money laundring.
That goverments don't get all what they do 100% right is normal for any human endeavour, and a reason to engage into politics, not to pretend we will be better off without governments.
Anyway, bitcoins & co need to be regulated to avoid it becomming a vehicle for illegal business.
I don't see there is anything you can do to get 'companies' to recognize the value of vacations...
That's what unions are for.
other than quitting and making them scramble to find someone else they can screw over.
If you do it alone, nobody will notice. You have to unionize. Read some history.
Sadly, the perception of vacations, much like IT and paid training in general, is that it is a drain on the company (doesn't produce IMMEDIATE revenue but DOES result in IMMEDIATE costs), and if it was possible to run the company without it, most companies would do so in a heart beat. Of course, those companies are often hell-holes to work in and fail on a regular basis.
...and that's why regulation is necessary. If you pass solid laws ensuring paid vacations and freedom from weekend work, companies will stop competing by squeezing the employee. Instead, they will compete on something else. Without unions, such laws will never happen, and everybody will continue to be screwed.
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We live in a world were for 99.9% of the population, using bitcoins at all is too much of a hassle compared to whatever benefit is supposed to come from it. Me, for example. I just don't have a use case for those things.
Also, for 95.5% bitcoins are too difficult to use anyway.
Answer: the new super-duper mega-improved superwatch. I mean, who wants to have a watch that constantly displays the time? What a waste of bits...
This new wave of gimmicks Is sort of ridiculous, really. I even have a password protected kitchen timer on my phone!
There are no rules. The game is called "survival of the fittest", and that really is it.
Well, the US has stayed out of a much worse thing in the past (approx. 20,000 dead).
Fixed that for you. It's like that everywhere.
The argument in favor of gov. takeover is that a government can spend money in a different way and plan in a different way than a company that has to look for profit. That is especially so in a situation like this that is just a costly mess.
My experience with this kind of thing is that cultures vary hugely between fields. And within these cultures, there is a lot of variability in what people experience due to plain randomness. So that is that. Also, it might be that you write decent reviews and well motivated rejections, while others do not. But who knows? Nobody is telling you, and you are not asking either.
One thing I have observed is that lack of communication and information on editorial decissions trigger unjustified paranoia in a lot of people.
No, this is about making sure that there are still firefighters in 10 years.
A rescue operation after a plane crash (or anything similar) is tremendously chaotic and stressful to everyone involved, and mistakes happen. It's sad and it sucks, but if firefighters and rescue teams don't have the leeway to make mistakes, their work is impossible. It's as simple as that.
People who put their asses on the line for helping other people deserve the right of making mistakes with impunity in such cases, and video material undermines this impunity.
It's really not as if firefighters are getting rich off their jobs.
What is amazing (to me, anyway) is that these links are posted on facebook. Everyone who downloads these torrents will be registered. If they have facebook accounts, their names, birthdate, etc. will all be known. WTF?
Why facebook, of all places?
Well, it's yet another name. And one that would not have been needed if python lambdas were proper lambdas.
It's all a matter of convenience, and tripping over a disappointing and gratuitious limitation isn't nice either.
So you actually got a mail saying "Also.. you've been added to the NSA's watch list"? Or are you just making shit up?
Or are you perhaps being paid for spreading disilusionment and depression?
If not - have you thought about running for office yourself? That's actually an option, you know?
Sure.
Now, if instead of engaging in this selfdefeating every-man-to-himself canned-goods-and-ammo mentality users would actually stand up for their rights actively, which means, engaging in politics - that could work.
Well, enigmail isn't that great. It hung when my wife tried to generate her key. Also, when I send her my public key, it didn't recognize it (I sent it as a .asc). It also adds some bogus "begin encrypted mail" headings around the encrypted text.
And It actually was a hassle to get working.
Can't you read? I said "dangerous endeavours". You can leave the development of a better teddy bear to private enterprise, but there are things that you shouldn't leave to them.
In fact, pharmaceuticals aid more my point than they weaken it: Recall all the news on invented illnesses, manipulated clinical trials, creation of meds that are not better than existing ones but much more expensive. Etc.
Wi-Fi: inoccuous. Vaccine: not without problems, historically. And most of the good stuff was developed at universities.
In principle, that is correct. OTOH, leaving something powerful like genetic modification of organisms in the hands of corporations (with their well known behavioral disorders) is really a very bad idea.
And one of the primary negative aspects of the startup way of advancing science and technology is that after some point companies have a very strong incentive to lie, disinform, and cut all sorts of corners to make their product happen, because otherwise they go broke. That's ok with apps and other inocuous stuff, but something potentially dangerous like GMOs should not be done this way.
The situation is essentially the same as with nuclear power. Yes, it is theoretically possible to do it safely, but not in practice. So I'd be OK with banning GMOs until we find a better way of organizing such dangerous endeavours (could be a long time, though. I'm not aware of anyone thinking in that direction).
Well, Samsung is an immense company by any measure, dwarfing Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, and even Apple. It is the company that had pockets deep enough (and the brains to go with it) to snatch a large share from the smartphone market from Apple. It is the company that had a warchest big enough to enagage (and win!) a very messy IP war against a well entrenched Apple.
I'd say the aren't many inescapable problems for Samsung.
Allrighty then. What, then, is the government made of? Green cheese?
There is a difference between absolute power and significant power. The US is very powerful by any interesting metric. It may not always get what it wants, of course, but it still gets a lot.
And neither HK nor RU are exactly small fish
The thing with lisp syntax is that, at first sight, it looks less intelligible than, say, C++ syntax. But once you get used to the parentheses, it actually is a LOT easier to read and write correctly. All the suggestive syntactic sugars of C/C++/whatever tend to have subtle interference patterns that make them a source of errors that can be arbitrarily hard to find.
So - no. It's not really ironic. It is enlightened!
Because these workers are human beings.
Please explain to me why you think that this doesn't matter. It seems many people think like that around here and that the rationale for it is somehow obvious, but I just don't get it.
That's an easy loophole to plug: just require registration to buy a phone. It is that way in Germany, I think.
You forgot to mention that very few of these agencies want to approve it.
Fact is, GMO seems creepy to lots and lots of people, so they don't want it. It does not help at all that Monsanto is a very creepy company that chose to deploy GMO in a particularly creepy way ("roundup ready"). Due to Monsanto, GMO crops are mainly associated with stuff that is right only according to the laws they more or less wrote themselves (with the aid of the WTO etc), but seems wrong to pretty much anybody else. So anytime a good excuse appears imports of GMO crops will be halted by many countries.
No, it just proves that the disk belongs to him, and thus with all likelihood also the childporn.
And your suggestion is to get rid of all government? Presumably so that there is no rule of law at all. Is that what you want?
Aren't you exaggerating a tiny little bit?
So you claim there is none? Why should anyone take you seriously when you keep claiming such gross nonsense.
Interestingly, the more libertarian the public, the worse the governent. Places where people live and breathe the idea that government is there to help everybody tend to fare quite a bit better than places where people believe government should leave people alone. And places without government are both rare and an utter nightmare to visit or live in.
I'm here to say that I am fine with this.
Governments are needed to bring order and stability, and they do that by enforcing the rule of law, including the legality of business. Money laundring undermines this, so it must be prosecuted. Actually, I am quite happy that they are finally doing somthing about money laundring.
That goverments don't get all what they do 100% right is normal for any human endeavour, and a reason to engage into politics, not to pretend we will be better off without governments.
Anyway, bitcoins & co need to be regulated to avoid it becomming a vehicle for illegal business.
That's what unions are for.
If you do it alone, nobody will notice. You have to unionize. Read some history.