Like party balloons for children?
Providing internet (communication/education/possibly employment) to millions of people in remote areas is a pretty responsible way to use helium in my book.
Do any of those actually sell a product for a fixed amount of bitcoin for longer than a day? Are in all cases are they taking bitcoin at whatever the exchange-rate-of-the-second is?
I'm curious if she had a non-compete clause in her contract, and how it will all work out if she does.
Any Google employees who know the details on their typical contracts?
What does it matter if it's intuitive? English (and any other language, though possibly not language in the abstract) is learned, and it works just fine.
Unless you read page 9374 of the TOS and EULA for the game at download time, you would not know that someone was about to sock your account for anything. The game does not have to tell you that it is going to charge your account. It simply asks for a password.
This is pretty much patently false for Apple in-app purchases. Unless you have any examples of apps that don't explicitly say "$0.99 for 30 coins" or whatever, because I have *never* seen such a thing.
the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the family
One solution to this problem is to let the police wiretap without warrants. The better solution is to have a system where a judge can be woken up in the middle of the night with a warrant to sign - if it's truly urgent enough and valid, he can sign it. If it isn't, he can give the cops an earful and tell them to stuff it.
This is terrible thinking. You're right, the cashier doesn't have to know anything about arithmetic to give out change - unless they accidentally hit the wrong button the register. Which they do. Because fingers are fat and slow, and registers are dumb machines. So when the cashier hits $10.00 instead of $20.00 for the bill I gave him, I want him to know enough math to give me an extra $10 in change - since that's what he owes me.
If you think this is a trivial example, manage some cashiers sometime. A quarter will correctly adjust (correctly) instantly, a quarter will simply not notice and give a person too little (or too much) change, and half will realize they hit the wrong button, stop, panic, and call someone for help to sort it out.
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As for the borrowing stuff - how is that supposed to work? So Ellison borrows against his shares (fair enough) and buys something with it. So now he has to pay back the loan. That payment needs to come from income, and for that he pays tax. Seems fair.
Nah, you're not being nearly creative enough. Ellison has no income, you see, so he can't pay back his loan, so the bank collects on the collateral, cancels the loan, and now Ellison has $1 billion and the bank has $ 1.05 billion in stock (or whatever). Easy peasy.
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That's a wealth tax, and that's fine if you want a wealth tax. However, if you were to count the increase of your home's value as income, and then be taxed on that at the same rate as the rest of your income, you might quickly find you can't afford to have your house increase in value.
Do you see why that might not be ideal?
No, it isn't. Software engineering is programming. CS is the study of algorithms, time complexity, theoretical computation, etc. etc. etc.
While a CS worker may do some light programming in his job, the average software developer is not a computer scientist, and does not have the skill set to be one.
Slightly tongue in cheek, but I hope you get the idea - we're in a field that's very very murky.
...to make this matter at all? Really? It's simple: get your speed up on calculators/numpads, and be slow as heck when manually dialing the phone. It'll work out better in the end.
Is he suggesting, for example, that we don't provide health care for inmates?
Yes, how ridiculous would it be if a civilized nation didn't provide healthcare for inmates, or any other group that can't provide it for itself.
Like children.
Or maybe most people know they should be cursing at the programmers/designers, not the computers.
Here's a tip: the computer is a hunk of plastic and metal. It's not typically the one to blame. If you have rage, direct it at the employees of Dell/Intel/Microsoft/Blizzard/whatever
Sounds to me like they should figure the game out in such a way that a real random number generator will generate winners and losers at the desired rates on average and then just rely on the law of averages / large numbers to give them their desired take.
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The companies that print the lottery tickets would love to - but in most Canadian provinces at least, this is expressly forbidden. The payout must be guaranteed, not theoretical - and the people who write the laws are not generally the people who know anything about statistics/probability/mathematics, so it wouldn't do much good to explain the math works out in the end.
Also, the kind of tickets he broke is a very specific type - games where some info is revealed (think a crossword puzzle where you have some letters already). So the really easy solution is to not have these types of tickets, and only sell "blind" lottery tickets - where it's all scratchable area.
It really wouldn't, because both Democrats and Republicans would make sure to tell their supporters "vote for us, and ONLY for us, or we might not get elected". This system would only work if a huge percentage of people actually used it as intended..
It does take a lot of energy to get there, but returning from the moon is *lots* easier. You're not hampered by an atmosphere, and there's a lot less gravity to concern yourself with - so if there's anything that valuable - like Helium-3, if we ever get fusion working, it's not *that* expensive to return it to earth.
I've also seen ideas for railgun-style launchers - then you'd have some enormous initial cost, but the marginal cost for a payload back to earth would be next to nothing - just the solar/nuclear power to run the magnets.
Also, the moon is a good launching place for any other space exploration (or asteroid mining) we ever want to do.
Just because the hash operation is constant time doesn't mean it's zero time - there's still a computational cost to computing the hash, which may be significant.
Do you know how tax deductions works? They still have less money at the end then if they didn't match contributions. And maybe it is to look good in public - so what? It still means more charity spread around.
While this is a good point, most restaurants use kosher salt (which is not iodized) in their cooking, as it's a lot easier to control the amount with a pinch, and some people like the taste better.
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Like party balloons for children? Providing internet (communication/education/possibly employment) to millions of people in remote areas is a pretty responsible way to use helium in my book.
Do any of those actually sell a product for a fixed amount of bitcoin for longer than a day? Are in all cases are they taking bitcoin at whatever the exchange-rate-of-the-second is?
So why not just steal $4.99 worth of stuff, 500 times?
Hopefully both end up losing somehow. It couldn't happen to two shittier companies.
I'm curious if she had a non-compete clause in her contract, and how it will all work out if she does. Any Google employees who know the details on their typical contracts?
And this is different from conventional war...how?
That happens to few enough people that it's not worth the hundreds of billions of dollars extra to include DNA.
What does it matter if it's intuitive? English (and any other language, though possibly not language in the abstract) is learned, and it works just fine.
Unless you read page 9374 of the TOS and EULA for the game at download time, you would not know that someone was about to sock your account for anything. The game does not have to tell you that it is going to charge your account. It simply asks for a password.
This is pretty much patently false for Apple in-app purchases. Unless you have any examples of apps that don't explicitly say "$0.99 for 30 coins" or whatever, because I have *never* seen such a thing.
the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the family
One solution to this problem is to let the police wiretap without warrants. The better solution is to have a system where a judge can be woken up in the middle of the night with a warrant to sign - if it's truly urgent enough and valid, he can sign it. If it isn't, he can give the cops an earful and tell them to stuff it.
This is terrible thinking. You're right, the cashier doesn't have to know anything about arithmetic to give out change - unless they accidentally hit the wrong button the register. Which they do. Because fingers are fat and slow, and registers are dumb machines. So when the cashier hits $10.00 instead of $20.00 for the bill I gave him, I want him to know enough math to give me an extra $10 in change - since that's what he owes me. If you think this is a trivial example, manage some cashiers sometime. A quarter will correctly adjust (correctly) instantly, a quarter will simply not notice and give a person too little (or too much) change, and half will realize they hit the wrong button, stop, panic, and call someone for help to sort it out.
As for the borrowing stuff - how is that supposed to work? So Ellison borrows against his shares (fair enough) and buys something with it. So now he has to pay back the loan. That payment needs to come from income, and for that he pays tax. Seems fair.
Nah, you're not being nearly creative enough. Ellison has no income, you see, so he can't pay back his loan, so the bank collects on the collateral, cancels the loan, and now Ellison has $1 billion and the bank has $ 1.05 billion in stock (or whatever). Easy peasy.
That's a wealth tax, and that's fine if you want a wealth tax. However, if you were to count the increase of your home's value as income, and then be taxed on that at the same rate as the rest of your income, you might quickly find you can't afford to have your house increase in value. Do you see why that might not be ideal?
Is it difficult to be as consistently awesome as you are? Is it ever a burden?
CS is programming.
No, it isn't. Software engineering is programming. CS is the study of algorithms, time complexity, theoretical computation, etc. etc. etc. While a CS worker may do some light programming in his job, the average software developer is not a computer scientist, and does not have the skill set to be one. Slightly tongue in cheek, but I hope you get the idea - we're in a field that's very very murky.
...to make this matter at all? Really? It's simple: get your speed up on calculators/numpads, and be slow as heck when manually dialing the phone. It'll work out better in the end.
Is he suggesting, for example, that we don't provide health care for inmates?
Yes, how ridiculous would it be if a civilized nation didn't provide healthcare for inmates, or any other group that can't provide it for itself. Like children.
Or maybe most people know they should be cursing at the programmers/designers, not the computers. Here's a tip: the computer is a hunk of plastic and metal. It's not typically the one to blame. If you have rage, direct it at the employees of Dell/Intel/Microsoft/Blizzard/whatever
Sounds to me like they should figure the game out in such a way that a real random number generator will generate winners and losers at the desired rates on average and then just rely on the law of averages / large numbers to give them their desired take. (
The companies that print the lottery tickets would love to - but in most Canadian provinces at least, this is expressly forbidden. The payout must be guaranteed, not theoretical - and the people who write the laws are not generally the people who know anything about statistics/probability/mathematics, so it wouldn't do much good to explain the math works out in the end. Also, the kind of tickets he broke is a very specific type - games where some info is revealed (think a crossword puzzle where you have some letters already). So the really easy solution is to not have these types of tickets, and only sell "blind" lottery tickets - where it's all scratchable area.
It really wouldn't, because both Democrats and Republicans would make sure to tell their supporters "vote for us, and ONLY for us, or we might not get elected". This system would only work if a huge percentage of people actually used it as intended..
It does take a lot of energy to get there, but returning from the moon is *lots* easier. You're not hampered by an atmosphere, and there's a lot less gravity to concern yourself with - so if there's anything that valuable - like Helium-3, if we ever get fusion working, it's not *that* expensive to return it to earth. I've also seen ideas for railgun-style launchers - then you'd have some enormous initial cost, but the marginal cost for a payload back to earth would be next to nothing - just the solar/nuclear power to run the magnets. Also, the moon is a good launching place for any other space exploration (or asteroid mining) we ever want to do.
Just because the hash operation is constant time doesn't mean it's zero time - there's still a computational cost to computing the hash, which may be significant.
Do you know how tax deductions works? They still have less money at the end then if they didn't match contributions. And maybe it is to look good in public - so what? It still means more charity spread around.
While this is a good point, most restaurants use kosher salt (which is not iodized) in their cooking, as it's a lot easier to control the amount with a pinch, and some people like the taste better.
Don't count on that... the main purpose of a corporation is to protect the shareholders and employees. And they have a lot of money, too.
The purpose is to protect shareholders, but not employees. An employee that acts negligently can be tried for a crime.