Natural resources are limited and the minimum value of labour is not... it's perfectly possible for the minimum value of labour to drop below subsistence level in an anarcho capitalist society.
No, China is pro-business... and America is pro-rich. No one is terribly interested in putting business out of business as a goal in and of itself, but if it drives 1% more wealth to the top 0.1% in the short term the US will do it.
If you want to see socialism in action look at Sweden, if you want to see capitalism in action look at China, if you want to see money captured politics in action look at the US and the EU.
Keynesian theory predicts the current situation accurately... but Keynes predicted one more thing, trade imbalances lead to chaos... and that was without him even being able to guess the dependence of the current economy on oil. The effect of fiscal stimulus on oil prices hurts the economy, maybe more than it helps with domestic productivity.
Even Keynes himself I think would be stumped by the current situation... I think doing whatever is needed to keep the fantasy going until the unavoidable catastrophe of default and enforced balanced trade is the best we can do... better later than sooner.
The number of ailments which can be successfully treated and the number of years people live on social security has been growing faster than national GDP... determine the level of help you want to provide and try to provide it at minimal cost. If that means the working population has to make greater sacrifices as the population ages... so fucking be it in my opinion.
That's not to say we shouldn't look for efficiency in government spending, but we should be realistic... starting from costs instead of level of service is disingenuous, hiding behind debt to justify cutting off the weakest of society from healthcare is evil. We can pay for it, if you just don't want to be honest about that.
If debt overhang was the only problem sure, print the money... it's far easier than redistributing wealth by taxes, this is why FDR did it.
The problem is that the US is a trade deficit country... and a large part of it's trade deficit is oil, which it essentially buys on IOUs for which the value depends on the faith of foreign parties have in the long term value of the dollar. This is why Obama can't do it.
Sometimes it causes hyperinflation, sometimes it doesn't. FDR revaluation of the gold supply did the exact same thing in his day what minting new money would do now... the US just wasn't nearly as dependent on imports then... it was the right thing to do at the time (inflation was needed to reduce debt levels, having all wealth concentrated at the top makes for a bad economy) it's probably not the right thing to do now.
Debt levels are still too high, but the country is now addicted to imported oil (and to imported trinkets, but those are easier to go cold turkey on). Alaska or subsidizing risks for deep well drilling is no real alternative... that's going to bridge just a couple of years at best. Self sufficiency based on nuclear/renewables and synthetic fuel is the only real solution... but scaling it up fast enough to head off the combination of peak oil and oil exporters deciding to stop subsidizing the US looks to be very hard. It's what Obama should have done when he became president, he had the unique opportunity to set the country on a sustainable path (energy in this regard being far more important than debt, you can default on debt... but as long as you can keep heating homes and get food off the fields and on people's tables you can keep society together).
Now the debt hawks have taken over the discussion and the money necessary to handle the real threat (peak oil) won't be available any more... it's all down hill from here.
He didn't even read the patents... he compared features.
He is relatively young and way too busy to try to examine the research background for each of those features. He should never have judged something as validly patented in the H.264 patent pool just because he saw it first in H.264... it was a stupid thing to do (look at the intra prediction redaction) and a misuse of his own reputation.
All the patent pool members are scared to get one of their gravy train patents to be ruled invalid, finding one without some below the table (illegal) pay off to to make the risk of invalidation worth taking is not at all easy.
Intel was able to use pixelated photomasks for functional CPUs in 2006 . No one else has even published papers on attempts with test circuits... IBM has been fucking around with pixelated source masks, but mostly because that's less patent encumbered AFAICS.
AMD did a lot with finfets, so I wouldn't expect the transistor structure to be a problem... but they're completely fucked with patterning until EUV hits. Intel has chromeless pixelized masks pretty much on lock down patent wise and it's a huge advantage.
This is not production line work, there are order of magnitude differences in productivity between developers... let alone the time it takes to get up to speed. With that kind of attitude you aren't going to get star developers, of which there aren't tons... tons of mediocre ones of course and sometimes that's enough (marketing can sell almost anything in the end).
The fucking suits aren't satisfied with ruining our economy and making us work 60 hour weeks until our seventies at wages low enough so we can compete with robots... they have to make sure our experience in games is just as dreary and unfair as in real life? CRPGs where you can only play as a peasant with a hoe unless you pay 100$ extra for the Aristocrat DLC?
The conceptual statement that an idea can not be an implementation is just that, a conceptual statement... not a fact.
It's also a fact that I think it's just a bit of sophistry thought up by lawyers... they do like to redefine words into nonsense, just like they are perpetually trying with the word "obvious".
At the cost of using more magnetic components it's perfectly possible to keep efficiency of the power supply constant over a larger range than is usual now (essentially just use multiple smaller power supplies in parallel and turn them off as necessary). So it wouldn't necessarily increase power consumption if it was designed to handle the wider range.
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Natural resources are limited and the minimum value of labour is not ... it's perfectly possible for the minimum value of labour to drop below subsistence level in an anarcho capitalist society.
It buys you time AND it buys you oil.
No, China is pro-business ... and America is pro-rich. No one is terribly interested in putting business out of business as a goal in and of itself, but if it drives 1% more wealth to the top 0.1% in the short term the US will do it.
If you want to see socialism in action look at Sweden, if you want to see capitalism in action look at China, if you want to see money captured politics in action look at the US and the EU.
No way to protect yourself from having to pay the lawyers though it seems ...
Since no BSA case has ever gone to court how can you know if the judge will be as anal about receipts as the BSA's lawyers?
You're not presumed innocent in a civil case, but you're not presumed guilty either ...
Won't get better by making the people with food stamps rob convenience stores either though.
Keynesian theory predicts the current situation accurately ... but Keynes predicted one more thing, trade imbalances lead to chaos ... and that was without him even being able to guess the dependence of the current economy on oil. The effect of fiscal stimulus on oil prices hurts the economy, maybe more than it helps with domestic productivity.
Even Keynes himself I think would be stumped by the current situation ... I think doing whatever is needed to keep the fantasy going until the unavoidable catastrophe of default and enforced balanced trade is the best we can do ... better later than sooner.
The number of ailments which can be successfully treated and the number of years people live on social security has been growing faster than national GDP ... determine the level of help you want to provide and try to provide it at minimal cost. If that means the working population has to make greater sacrifices as the population ages ... so fucking be it in my opinion.
That's not to say we shouldn't look for efficiency in government spending, but we should be realistic ... starting from costs instead of level of service is disingenuous, hiding behind debt to justify cutting off the weakest of society from healthcare is evil. We can pay for it, if you just don't want to be honest about that.
You can't afford them on current revenue ... that's not quite the same as being unable to afford them, look at say Sweden.
Can you afford a greater depression in a country with as many guns as the US BTW? Social darwinism will make a warzone out of the US IMO.
If debt overhang was the only problem sure, print the money ... it's far easier than redistributing wealth by taxes, this is why FDR did it.
The problem is that the US is a trade deficit country ... and a large part of it's trade deficit is oil, which it essentially buys on IOUs for which the value depends on the faith of foreign parties have in the long term value of the dollar. This is why Obama can't do it.
They can insure you use dollars the same way they insure you pay taxes ... with guns.
Sometimes it causes hyperinflation, sometimes it doesn't. FDR revaluation of the gold supply did the exact same thing in his day what minting new money would do now ... the US just wasn't nearly as dependent on imports then ... it was the right thing to do at the time (inflation was needed to reduce debt levels, having all wealth concentrated at the top makes for a bad economy) it's probably not the right thing to do now.
Debt levels are still too high, but the country is now addicted to imported oil (and to imported trinkets, but those are easier to go cold turkey on). Alaska or subsidizing risks for deep well drilling is no real alternative ... that's going to bridge just a couple of years at best. Self sufficiency based on nuclear/renewables and synthetic fuel is the only real solution ... but scaling it up fast enough to head off the combination of peak oil and oil exporters deciding to stop subsidizing the US looks to be very hard. It's what Obama should have done when he became president, he had the unique opportunity to set the country on a sustainable path (energy in this regard being far more important than debt, you can default on debt ... but as long as you can keep heating homes and get food off the fields and on people's tables you can keep society together).
Now the debt hawks have taken over the discussion and the money necessary to handle the real threat (peak oil) won't be available any more ... it's all down hill from here.
A temporary measure at best ... as the bonds are paid off money gets destroyed again. Newly minted money inflates the money supply irreversibly.
He didn't even read the patents ... he compared features.
He is relatively young and way too busy to try to examine the research background for each of those features. He should never have judged something as validly patented in the H.264 patent pool just because he saw it first in H.264 ... it was a stupid thing to do (look at the intra prediction redaction) and a misuse of his own reputation.
All the patent pool members are scared to get one of their gravy train patents to be ruled invalid, finding one without some below the table (illegal) pay off to to make the risk of invalidation worth taking is not at all easy.
Intel was able to use pixelated photomasks for functional CPUs in 2006 . No one else has even published papers on attempts with test circuits ... IBM has been fucking around with pixelated source masks, but mostly because that's less patent encumbered AFAICS.
AMD did a lot with finfets, so I wouldn't expect the transistor structure to be a problem ... but they're completely fucked with patterning until EUV hits. Intel has chromeless pixelized masks pretty much on lock down patent wise and it's a huge advantage.
The whole per country licensing inside the EU could come tumbling down real soon now if Mrs. Murphy wins at the CJEU.
This is not production line work, there are order of magnitude differences in productivity between developers ... let alone the time it takes to get up to speed. With that kind of attitude you aren't going to get star developers, of which there aren't tons ... tons of mediocre ones of course and sometimes that's enough (marketing can sell almost anything in the end).
And Amazon before that, who did it with third party vendors as well ... so basically what this patent adds ... is "on a social network".
Smell the non obvious* innovation.
* as defined by lawyers and as agreed upon by a majority of idiots in Texas juries
They hired someone from Citigroup? WTF?
The fucking suits aren't satisfied with ruining our economy and making us work 60 hour weeks until our seventies at wages low enough so we can compete with robots ... they have to make sure our experience in games is just as dreary and unfair as in real life? CRPGs where you can only play as a peasant with a hoe unless you pay 100$ extra for the Aristocrat DLC?
The conceptual statement that an idea can not be an implementation is just that, a conceptual statement ... not a fact.
It's also a fact that I think it's just a bit of sophistry thought up by lawyers ... they do like to redefine words into nonsense, just like they are perpetually trying with the word "obvious".
Sophistry.
The metal fragment bit does seem annoying ... how about using negative air pressure instead? Or is that patent barred as well?
At the cost of using more magnetic components it's perfectly possible to keep efficiency of the power supply constant over a larger range than is usual now (essentially just use multiple smaller power supplies in parallel and turn them off as necessary). So it wouldn't necessarily increase power consumption if it was designed to handle the wider range.