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  1. You are the one blathering about theory. It is very simple math to understand that increasing supply of currency decreases its value and thereby creates inflation.

    What do you think math is? It operates on theory. If there is only one factor, and that factor is money supply, then increasing the supply of money always causes inflation. If it is not the only factor, then you have to consider the other factors.

    It's not theory, its just a plain as day fact just like gravity.

    And I'm sure you'd tell me that a helium balloon should follow the law and fall to Earth rather than buoyantly float in our atmosphere. Because gravity is very simple math.

  2. Re:45 days! on President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    It's likely that they've had all the required information ready for a very long time and were holding it until it is politically useful. Waiting out the statutory limit of 45 days is probably not being done in good faith, and violates the intent of the limit.

  3. "Power politics" is an odd term to use for anti-diplomacy.

  4. It sounds like you're looking for key words in my reply and responding to those without actually applying any critical thinking. The injection of currency has to reach a critical level before it deflates the value of the currency. You're working too much in pure theory - but in the real world, population growth is inherently deflationary to currency. That's just one factor in a chaotic system.

  5. The supply is constantly increasing, but the rate of increase is slowing constantly. I don't know economic, but I don't think that classifies as inflationary, since the value of the currency is designed to go up over time. Inflation isn't just the injection of more supply, but enough supply to inflate the value of the currency.

  6. That means now carriers can now choose to slow down, time-delay, or even block SMS any time they want.

    My own experience tells me that the first two are definitely already happening.

  7. Re:Nobody texts anymore, gramps on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not the one trying to tax it. But someone's going to have to draw an oddly arbitrary line somewhere.

  8. Re:I was recently looking for a color profile on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 1

    If every single device you own is "defective," have you started to think that maybe you just don't know how to do color calibration properly? Furthermore, a CMYK color space can't accurately be represented on an RGB screen and vice versa, so it will never match the screen exactly.

    Most screens come out of the box with their brightness set way too high. I would start there, and it would certainly help explain your dark picture.

  9. Re:Nobody texts anymore, gramps on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you have to decide exact what constitutes messaging. Next thing you know, someone has to argue in court why app notifications are not messaging.

  10. Re: Taxation is theft on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try getting a job when no one can follow up with a phone call.

  11. Re:Nobody texts anymore, gramps on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    So then people will demand plans without texting.

  12. Re:Nobody texts anymore, gramps on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you tax "no plan"?

  13. Re:Nobody texts anymore, gramps on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And those same services can be used on a phone without a plan. Or a tablet. Or a PC with a web browser. How do you tax that?

  14. Re:Who would buy this? on New LG Gram is the Lightest 17-inch Laptop Ever at Just 3 Pounds (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about key size. It's about having to move the hands closer together and repetitive stress injuries.

  15. Re:I was recently looking for a color profile on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 1

    Did you actually change any color settings on the TV before trying to apply those to all sources? You calibrate the TV color manually after taking it out of one of the presets and using "advanced" settings to tweak color balance while using reference graphics on your connected source. Once you get that, you can apply those tweaked settings to your other inputs (all sources).

    Don't rely on a preset color profile on a monitor either. There are factory variances to correct for.

  16. Re:Because I, and 99% of my brethren on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 1

    Your speakers are crap and most audio receivers have plenty of HDMI ports. Your TV only needs the one port to connect to it. Get yourself a nice sound system.

  17. Re:TV's, not monitors on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 1

    since nobody uses a TV at 35-40% of the brightness

    Color looks terrible at full brightness on most LED panels. Before I even start to calibrate color, I turn brightness way down. No more than 50% brightness on my current TV, but I don't know the exact number.

  18. Re: With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it reduces it. Not by a huge amount. But the point was that there aren't SMART attributes on older SSDs to track wear-leveling. TRIM has nothing to do with that. If you read up-thread you'll see how non-sequitur the GP post is.

  19. Re: With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. TRIM has nothing to do with wear leveling - and especially monitoring it over time, except that it might happen on a more efficient schedule.

  20. Re:Hmm on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Should have skipped Intel and OCZ and just waited for the Samsung EVO line. I've installed dozens over the last few years and not a single failure yet.

  21. Re:Blame the OS on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Don't blame the OS. Blame "no backups." Failure should be expected and accounted for with a backup plan.

  22. Re:Good luck putting RAID in a laptop on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    A lot of mainstream consumer laptops come with an M.2 slot for configurations with SSD but still have the SATA port for models with an HDD. You can fill both slots and make a RAID - the disks will just be different shapes. Software RAID, sure, but it can definitely be done affordably.

  23. Re:Learn about the subject on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 2

    Not using TRIM doesn't have a huge effect on SSD life. Just performance. Write amplification adds some wear, but not enough to be drastic. And it won't cause sudden failure either - just normal wear on the wear-levelling curve. Sudden failure is by definition going to be something that's not related to routine depletion of a fixed lifespan.

  24. Re: With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Older SSDs didn't even have a wear-leveling SMART attribute or total host writes attribute. Some of the cheaper ones probably still don't. So there is no way to see how close you're getting to the estimated upper limit. There is a pretty clear progression on the newer drives. With hard drives, mechanical failure is actually less predictable than SSD wear-out (defects aside).

  25. The problem isn't the standards is my point.