Also there was: "no, a standard PC 3.5 inch floppy drive cannot format an apple floppy because the heads don't have enough travel range, so please read the FAQ and stop asking again and again on the USENET forums"
Well, to pick nits, you really do not need to understand anything much below the logic level to usefully "understand" a CPU. Whether it's made of gears, BJTs, FETs, spintronics, or optical mechanisms, as long as it isn't utilizing quantum or analog behaviors, you just need the gate layout.
I'm not saying monetary-based economics are invalid, just that they confine you to thinking inside the monetary system. Sort of like not being able to think beyond logic into quantum applications.
It may not actually be possible to determine whether economic policies will work. The effectiveness of practical application of economics is a little more touch and go than economists like to think (which is partially why they are always arguing with each other.) So what then? Do we confine ourselves to only making moves that have good odds of producing predictable results? That seems rater too risk averse to be a competitive strategy.
Not all of it was fun, though that was one of my more fun endeavors for sure. Also nobody in the hobbyist scene cared, they have more fun soldering their own rather than recycling old printers, apparently. So lacking any users, the satisfaction went away.
As someone who has made some (very minor) open source contributions, I can tell you it's not all "fun stuff"... you plug through the tedious parts because you want to help. There's a certain satisfaction psychologically to that, yes, but it isn't "fun." Many hobbyists do a lot of tedious, painful, and dangerous things just for love of their hobby.
(Personally I've never seen PeopleSoft do much but create a huge mess you need to pay PeopleSoft extra to clean up, so it is true, that is unlikely to deliver much satisfaction.)
Your point that, left to their own devices, people would only work on "fun" things is valid, but expressed too pessimistically. It would be better to say that, without proper public expression of the needs if society, voluntary resources will not be psychologically motivated to step up.
Money is simply a fabricated conduit. Trying to understand social matters by focusing on accounting is like trying to understand a microprocessor by focusing on electricity.
What matters is whether those capable of feeding/clothing/sheltering/etc the world's population are willing to do that, and secondarily whether any practical path to transition (through any resource constraints) to a system those people find satisfactory exists. This depends on a number of factors, many of which transcend economics, and even rationality.
So whether UBI "computes" under various economic models, or not, does not tell us much about whether it will succeed... on the one hand the machinery of the economy could change drastically to accommodate (and pernicious automation is certainly a potential agent for drastic change), on the other, even if it worked out beautifully on paper it could easily be derailed by emotionally charged politics.
I suspect they are right: a truck that spends less total time on travel + waiting for left turns makes more deliveries, so there do not need to be as many trucks.
Of course it wears out. But very slowly. So slowly that by the time you need to replace it you can buy replacements at less than half the original cost, and most of the work was mounting the brackets and copper anyway, so a retrofit is going to be much cheaper.
Once the panels are installed, there will be jobs installing the storage facilities, and after that, there will be no electricity bill other than equipment maintenance costs, so less reason to work as many hours.
Because it is not image enhancement, it's image embellishment. It would quite often "narrow" the search onto the wrong track whenever it encountered an atypical situation, and in court it could be claimed that its results were only a convenient pretense, not a probable cause for suspicion (an authority could shop multiple such competing services until one hit on someone they wanted to harass.) The shit would really hit the fan when the algorithm was inevitably shown to have some significant accidental bias towards a categorizable subpopulation.
Actually on the driver side, sticks are absolute and mice are relative. The difference is fungible and you can translate between the two as you please except for the fact that you can pick the mouse up to ratchet it.
There's no need for game developers to handicap controllers even further but not doing the sensible thing: if they are going to include a dead zone, overlay some absolute positioning inside the dead zone for fine aiming, and don't make the edge of the dead zone lurchy. I think KM would still have the advantage, but there'd be less reason to complain if controllers weren't programmed with the intent to simulate how you would play the game when drunk.
Would you prefer that only native apps be able to access Bluetooth devices?
I'd prefer all my "apps" top be applications, personally, with auditable source code that doesn't get automatically "upgraded" under my feet at a schedule of someone else's choosing.
One could hope. But these days I don't tend to trust off switches, or indicators, like I used to. Better to figure out if there's a way to block it using a security setting untouchable from chrome's privilege level. I fear that patch will lead into dbus-land rather than a sane SELinux policy.
I've seen stores with nothing lower than $5 on the shelves, and you can order 4x rechargeables and the charger for abot $20. Or depending on how obscure the brand, there are 4-packs of batteries that work out to only about $3 per battery.
That was my reaction, too... insanely expensive 9V primary cells on the shelf, and even bulk ordered, rechargeables are looking more economical for 9V at this point because the price of rechargeables is so much lower now. The question is A) whether your smoke detectors are built to deal with the fast cutoff at end of charge for non-alkaline cells B) whether they are maintained by you alone so your rechargeables don't get swiped and C) whether there is some stupid rule that rechargeables aren't allowed even if the smoke detectors are compatible.so you don't get flagged during some sort of inspection and D) whether replacing the smoke detector with a model that does 3x AA is also an option.
Normally for something like low draw a smoke detector rechargeables would not make financial sense, but at these prices...
Probably the majority of people who work on visas "actively travel to their homelands" to visit family, or because their job involves actually interacting in their homeland. Microsoft also sells internationalized products, so they have a great need for native language speakers pretty much world wide.
What does this have to do with quantum computing. Oh wait... maybe you're onto something. Trump is a Quantum politician... he's able to occupy a superposition of realities at the same time. It's not that the crowds at the inauguration were larger for Obama, it's that unlike Trump, normal people living in a collapsed state cannot see all the people from the alternative universe.
However, seemingly the use of e-cigs or nicotine patches or other safer nicotine delivery would provide the same benefits at far lower risk.
A competent harm reduction strategy for nicotine consumers would require the abstinence-only anti-tobacco nut-jobs to allow new tobacco/nicotine products. E-cigs (still horribly under-regulated and under-studied) and such were perfectly possible in the 60s, but we got nowhere because we have fanatical idiots on one side of the issue and the shameless corporate lackeys on the other. It was only through a "flash mob"-like phenomena and the advancement of consumer-level tech to the point where a horde of hard-to-regulate single-owner e-commerce businesses could produce such technology profitably that e-cigs have gotten where they are today. They got so popular so fast (despite the crazy lack of any sort of real quality control) that the genie got out of the bottle before the crazier elements among the anti-smoking crowd could step on its throat.
Nicotine patches are IMO a pretty useless product; the lack of self titration is too huge a step away from the smoking experience for most... and I'd bet by the time you'd cut down to the point where you just wanted a baseline delivery rather than a rush, you'd be able to do without the patch.
It's been proven over and over again that long-term smoking causes expensive end-of-life health problems
Please cite these proofs. Its quite easy to find studies showing the opposite... treating dementia for a decade or so is much more expensive than treating lung cancer for a year, for example.
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Also there was: "no, a standard PC 3.5 inch floppy drive cannot format an apple floppy because the heads don't have enough travel range, so please read the FAQ and stop asking again and again on the USENET forums"
Well, to pick nits, you really do not need to understand anything much below the logic level to usefully "understand" a CPU. Whether it's made of gears, BJTs, FETs, spintronics, or optical mechanisms, as long as it isn't utilizing quantum or analog behaviors, you just need the gate layout.
I'm not saying monetary-based economics are invalid, just that they confine you to thinking inside the monetary system. Sort of like not being able to think beyond logic into quantum applications.
It may not actually be possible to determine whether economic policies will work. The effectiveness of practical application of economics is a little more touch and go than economists like to think (which is partially why they are always arguing with each other.) So what then? Do we confine ourselves to only making moves that have good odds of producing predictable results? That seems rater too risk averse to be a competitive strategy.
Not all of it was fun, though that was one of my more fun endeavors for sure. Also nobody in the hobbyist scene cared, they have more fun soldering their own rather than recycling old printers, apparently. So lacking any users, the satisfaction went away.
As someone who has made some (very minor) open source contributions, I can tell you it's not all "fun stuff"... you plug through the tedious parts because you want to help. There's a certain satisfaction psychologically to that, yes, but it isn't "fun." Many hobbyists do a lot of tedious, painful, and dangerous things just for love of their hobby.
(Personally I've never seen PeopleSoft do much but create a huge mess you need to pay PeopleSoft extra to clean up, so it is true, that is unlikely to deliver much satisfaction.)
Your point that, left to their own devices, people would only work on "fun" things is valid, but expressed too pessimistically. It would be better to say that, without proper public expression of the needs if society, voluntary resources will not be psychologically motivated to step up.
Money is simply a fabricated conduit. Trying to understand social matters by focusing on accounting is like trying to understand a microprocessor by focusing on electricity.
What matters is whether those capable of feeding/clothing/sheltering/etc the world's population are willing to do that, and secondarily whether any practical path to transition (through any resource constraints) to a system those people find satisfactory exists. This depends on a number of factors, many of which transcend economics, and even rationality.
So whether UBI "computes" under various economic models, or not, does not tell us much about whether it will succeed... on the one hand the machinery of the economy could change drastically to accommodate (and pernicious automation is certainly a potential agent for drastic change), on the other, even if it worked out beautifully on paper it could easily be derailed by emotionally charged politics.
I suspect they are right: a truck that spends less total time on travel + waiting for left turns makes more deliveries, so there do not need to be as many trucks.
Yeah the replicability rate is so low the media might do us a favor by only reporting on successful replications.
Of course it wears out. But very slowly. So slowly that by the time you need to replace it you can buy replacements at less than half the original cost, and most of the work was mounting the brackets and copper anyway, so a retrofit is going to be much cheaper.
So this is what, "Make America Mom's Basement Again?"
Once the panels are installed, there will be jobs installing the storage facilities, and after that, there will be no electricity bill other than equipment maintenance costs, so less reason to work as many hours.
No, it's in a different phase of industry life cycle, is all.
Because it is not image enhancement, it's image embellishment. It would quite often "narrow" the search onto the wrong track whenever it encountered an atypical situation, and in court it could be claimed that its results were only a convenient pretense, not a probable cause for suspicion (an authority could shop multiple such competing services until one hit on someone they wanted to harass.) The shit would really hit the fan when the algorithm was inevitably shown to have some significant accidental bias towards a categorizable subpopulation.
Actually on the driver side, sticks are absolute and mice are relative. The difference is fungible and you can translate between the two as you please except for the fact that you can pick the mouse up to ratchet it.
There's no need for game developers to handicap controllers even further but not doing the sensible thing: if they are going to include a dead zone, overlay some absolute positioning inside the dead zone for fine aiming, and don't make the edge of the dead zone lurchy. I think KM would still have the advantage, but there'd be less reason to complain if controllers weren't programmed with the intent to simulate how you would play the game when drunk.
Would you prefer that only native apps be able to access Bluetooth devices?
I'd prefer all my "apps" top be applications, personally, with auditable source code that doesn't get automatically "upgraded" under my feet at a schedule of someone else's choosing.
One could hope. But these days I don't tend to trust off switches, or indicators, like I used to. Better to figure out if there's a way to block it using a security setting untouchable from chrome's privilege level. I fear that patch will lead into dbus-land rather than a sane SELinux policy.
I've seen stores with nothing lower than $5 on the shelves, and you can order 4x rechargeables and the charger for abot $20. Or depending on how obscure the brand, there are 4-packs of batteries that work out to only about $3 per battery.
That was my reaction, too... insanely expensive 9V primary cells on the shelf, and even bulk ordered, rechargeables are looking more economical for 9V at this point because the price of rechargeables is so much lower now. The question is A) whether your smoke detectors are built to deal with the fast cutoff at end of charge for non-alkaline cells B) whether they are maintained by you alone so your rechargeables don't get swiped and C) whether there is some stupid rule that rechargeables aren't allowed even if the smoke detectors are compatible.so you don't get flagged during some sort of inspection and D) whether replacing the smoke detector with a model that does 3x AA is also an option.
Normally for something like low draw a smoke detector rechargeables would not make financial sense, but at these prices...
Probably the majority of people who work on visas "actively travel to their homelands" to visit family, or because their job involves actually interacting in their homeland. Microsoft also sells internationalized products, so they have a great need for native language speakers pretty much world wide.
What does this have to do with quantum computing. Oh wait... maybe you're onto something. Trump is a Quantum politician... he's able to occupy a superposition of realities at the same time. It's not that the crowds at the inauguration were larger for Obama, it's that unlike Trump, normal people living in a collapsed state cannot see all the people from the alternative universe.
Did you factor in her social security disbursements? Of course not, because that's not "health care savings"
"harm reduction" is not the same as "help you quit".
What health care savings money? The money we spent on grandma's parkenson's drugs which we would not have had to spend if she'd got lung cancer?
(I'm not saying smoking should not be discouraged, just that no public health system, or taxpayer, should expect to save a dime from stopping it.)
higher burden on the public health system they'll present.
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However, seemingly the use of e-cigs or nicotine patches or other safer nicotine delivery would provide the same benefits at far lower risk.
A competent harm reduction strategy for nicotine consumers would require the abstinence-only anti-tobacco nut-jobs to allow new tobacco/nicotine products. E-cigs (still horribly under-regulated and under-studied) and such were perfectly possible in the 60s, but we got nowhere because we have fanatical idiots on one side of the issue and the shameless corporate lackeys on the other. It was only through a "flash mob"-like phenomena and the advancement of consumer-level tech to the point where a horde of hard-to-regulate single-owner e-commerce businesses could produce such technology profitably that e-cigs have gotten where they are today. They got so popular so fast (despite the crazy lack of any sort of real quality control) that the genie got out of the bottle before the crazier elements among the anti-smoking crowd could step on its throat.
Nicotine patches are IMO a pretty useless product; the lack of self titration is too huge a step away from the smoking experience for most... and I'd bet by the time you'd cut down to the point where you just wanted a baseline delivery rather than a rush, you'd be able to do without the patch.
It's been proven over and over again that long-term smoking causes expensive end-of-life health problems
Please cite these proofs. Its quite easy to find studies showing the opposite... treating dementia for a decade or so is much more expensive than treating lung cancer for a year, for example.