If both increase at the same rate, there is no inflation, you economically ignorant fuck
Ah, such reasoned discourse is what makes Slashdot special. In the simplest model, sure, we have 4% more money and 4% more stuff, so prices should be stable, right? But instead demand leads supply in a growing economy, so prices go up.
Plus, economic growth tends to be more in areas where people have a choice whether or not to buy (or purchases can at least be delayed), while measuring inflation is weighted towards basic staples where people buy more-or-less the same amount in good times and in bad. So we have 2% more money, but the same amount of deodorant being produced and consumed.
So, yeah, we don't get 4% inflation - it's not a direct measure of the derivative of the money supply - but we get typically 2-3% inflation when the economy growths 4%.
They would not even seek to stop it, considering the value of 1-2% per year "normal" (that's a tax on wealth, BTW).
Inflation is not a tax on wealth. Wealth is the ownership of the means of production, which has it's own value. If dollars have less value, the number of dollars needed to buy the means of production increases. However, deflation, or over-high inflation, can hurt the economy and thereby reduce the value of the means of production, but that's a very indirect effect (and usually temporary).
Inflation hurts existing (fixed-rate) debt-holders. If you have bonds, or CDs, or some other fixed-rate instrument, you're hurt when interest rates rise. But that's not wealth - it's either parked money or speculation (depending on how safe).
Inflation is a symptom of a healthy economy. The money supply should be increasing as the economy increases. The causation doesn't work the other way though - no one has ever spurred economy growth by trying to cause inflation (though Japan tried for 20+ years without success). You can't push on a rope.
Another nice feature of low inflation is that it avoids annoying negatives. Safe ways to park your money (e.g., savings account) pay a bit less than inflation, which gets very awkward if inflation is 0 or negative. Similarly, the graceful way to handle employees paid more than the market value of their work is to give them a raise smaller than inflation, and let it equalize over time - which, again, stops being graceful if inflation is 0 or negative.
This is what they call a "solution looking for a problem".
I normally use information to decide if I need an umbrella - I don't randomly go around the house touching things and waiting for an LED to flash. What next? The "am I thirsty" waterbottle? Oh wait we already made that.
Seriously, this is like autonomy-inversion.
Ah, but this way the umbrella catches fire. How many flaming umbrellas do we get your way, eh?
Heh, Italy just rejected the attempt to create a new Mussolini, signalling that an Ixit is likely on the Horizon - a move that's been called "Trump-aligned" as well as "Brexit-aligned".
Rejecting the power of a central government to impose unwanted immigration on the people is an anti-authoritarian move.
I'm old enough to remember how Regan was Hitler. We all remember how Bush was Hitler. But, hey, I'm sure there's a wolf this time.
Also, your characterization of people* who say "let's have less immigration while the economy sucks" as "supremacists" is cute. They must be racists, right? It's also the reason Trump won. Keep it up.
(*) About 1/3rd of America, ditto Brexit voters and the coming Ixit voters.
"One thing it's not any more is a truly communist country."
Really, you're going to use the 'no true Scotsman" fallacy?
To be fair, the majority of the Chinese economy is now owned by private individuals, not the state. So, in that sense, it's a capitalist economy with a strong communist presence, as opposed to a communist economy.
It's still totalitarian, though, which is enough of a problem.
C'mon man, just come out and say it: "Trump is literally Hitler". You know you want to. The stormtroopers with their Pepe insignia will be carting off all the gay mexican muslims to the Trump-branded death camps by the end of January, right? Refer to this documentary proof: https://youtu.be/uMk2X5eDYFU
Those are for top tier talent, possibly white americans to basically export their knowledge and kickstart their startups
Western-appearing people are a real prestige thing for Chinese companies. To the point where they'll hire non-technical people who are good at public speaking to give power-point presentations, and pretend the speaker is the chief architect (jobs like this are known as "white monkey jobs"). I expect they'd be willing to pay a hefty premium for actual skilled talent from the West.
Being a fashion thing, it could vanish any year, but for once there's a situation where "White guy form America" is actually a plus in the tech labor market.
Trump benefited from his public display of "not giving a fuck about political correctness", not any specific thing he said (given he flip-flopped on most issues). Trump himself certainly has a thin skin, which should make the next 4 years entertaining.
Crying "racist" doesn't work in presidential elections, for a start. But it's broader: people have simply learned not to care about such name-calling. Sure, you have a few years of age-range that have been conditioned by the schools to be hyper-sensitive to every microagression, and the mere thought of being called a racist is enough to send them fleeing to their safe spaces, but really that's a slim percentage of the US at this point.
I agree the culture war has become larger - I'm not sure it has intensified, however; I think instead it has finally reached the mainstream. It has changed from Twitter hate mobs to election issues. I'm cautiously optimistic about America keeping it's spirit of "nobody fucking cares whether you were offended".
The recent election in the US shows that disturbing xenophobia* is alive and well in the US also
The recent election in the US show that the left's tactic of calling the opposition disturbing xenophobes (also: racist sexist isalamophobic transphobic and whatever else) doesn't work. But keep trying that same approach, so that Trump gets re-elected.
Trump, for example, aims to delegitimise the speech of his opponents. His free speech is an attempted denial of others'.
Trump was simply more persuasive in the marketplace of ideas, this he won. Many people seem not to like democracy in action, and would prefer an aristocracy of the right kind of people, with approved views, instead. Fuck those people.
Reading those books requires high degree of mathematical sophistication, particularly, knowledge of complex analysis, which I lack.
They're just algorithms textbooks. They're hard to read because of when they were written, and the accompanying style. More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
But, hey, if you want to optimize your search algorithm that uses tape as storage, to take advantage of the new-fangled tape drives that can write backwards as well as forwards, it's the book for you! (Yes, that was really a thing, and an algorithm you'll find in Volume 3: Sorting and Searching.)
Personally, I don't think he does a great job explaining algorithms. I once needed to look up O(n) median for something, tried to understand it from Knuth, gave up on the cryptic text, and understood it right away from CLR (now CLRS). It is an exhaustive catalog, but it's not a great learning tool.
I develop C++ applications mainly for Linux. I use Visual C++ and Xcode (I got accustomed to it after some time) to develop, then I log on Linux to "port" the code with vi, GCC, etc, and add Linux specific features.
Is there a decent GUI for developing on Linux now?
You can use VS on a Windows machine to build/debug on Linux now. You can also run a light version, "VS Code," natively on Linux - it's free and open source, but I don't know how full-featured it is.
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If both increase at the same rate, there is no inflation, you economically ignorant fuck
Ah, such reasoned discourse is what makes Slashdot special. In the simplest model, sure, we have 4% more money and 4% more stuff, so prices should be stable, right? But instead demand leads supply in a growing economy, so prices go up.
Plus, economic growth tends to be more in areas where people have a choice whether or not to buy (or purchases can at least be delayed), while measuring inflation is weighted towards basic staples where people buy more-or-less the same amount in good times and in bad. So we have 2% more money, but the same amount of deodorant being produced and consumed.
So, yeah, we don't get 4% inflation - it's not a direct measure of the derivative of the money supply - but we get typically 2-3% inflation when the economy growths 4%.
They would not even seek to stop it, considering the value of 1-2% per year "normal" (that's a tax on wealth, BTW).
Inflation is not a tax on wealth. Wealth is the ownership of the means of production, which has it's own value. If dollars have less value, the number of dollars needed to buy the means of production increases. However, deflation, or over-high inflation, can hurt the economy and thereby reduce the value of the means of production, but that's a very indirect effect (and usually temporary).
Inflation hurts existing (fixed-rate) debt-holders. If you have bonds, or CDs, or some other fixed-rate instrument, you're hurt when interest rates rise. But that's not wealth - it's either parked money or speculation (depending on how safe).
Inflation is a symptom of a healthy economy. The money supply should be increasing as the economy increases. The causation doesn't work the other way though - no one has ever spurred economy growth by trying to cause inflation (though Japan tried for 20+ years without success). You can't push on a rope.
Another nice feature of low inflation is that it avoids annoying negatives. Safe ways to park your money (e.g., savings account) pay a bit less than inflation, which gets very awkward if inflation is 0 or negative. Similarly, the graceful way to handle employees paid more than the market value of their work is to give them a raise smaller than inflation, and let it equalize over time - which, again, stops being graceful if inflation is 0 or negative.
This is what they call a "solution looking for a problem".
I normally use information to decide if I need an umbrella - I don't randomly go around the house touching things and waiting for an LED to flash.
What next? The "am I thirsty" waterbottle? Oh wait we already made that.
Seriously, this is like autonomy-inversion.
Ah, but this way the umbrella catches fire. How many flaming umbrellas do we get your way, eh?
Exitaly? Pasta la vista? Giving the EU "the boot"?
Heh, Italy just rejected the attempt to create a new Mussolini, signalling that an Ixit is likely on the Horizon - a move that's been called "Trump-aligned" as well as "Brexit-aligned".
Rejecting the power of a central government to impose unwanted immigration on the people is an anti-authoritarian move.
I'm old enough to remember how Regan was Hitler. We all remember how Bush was Hitler. But, hey, I'm sure there's a wolf this time.
Also, your characterization of people* who say "let's have less immigration while the economy sucks" as "supremacists" is cute. They must be racists, right? It's also the reason Trump won. Keep it up.
(*) About 1/3rd of America, ditto Brexit voters and the coming Ixit voters.
"One thing it's not any more is a truly communist country."
Really, you're going to use the 'no true Scotsman" fallacy?
To be fair, the majority of the Chinese economy is now owned by private individuals, not the state. So, in that sense, it's a capitalist economy with a strong communist presence, as opposed to a communist economy.
It's still totalitarian, though, which is enough of a problem.
C'mon man, just come out and say it: "Trump is literally Hitler". You know you want to. The stormtroopers with their Pepe insignia will be carting off all the gay mexican muslims to the Trump-branded death camps by the end of January, right? Refer to this documentary proof: https://youtu.be/uMk2X5eDYFU
The next Musk will not be an illegal immigrant
The next First Lady will be.
"An immigrant took my job!" - Michelle
"A white man forced me out of my house" - Barack
Those are for top tier talent, possibly white americans to basically export their knowledge and kickstart their startups
Western-appearing people are a real prestige thing for Chinese companies. To the point where they'll hire non-technical people who are good at public speaking to give power-point presentations, and pretend the speaker is the chief architect (jobs like this are known as "white monkey jobs"). I expect they'd be willing to pay a hefty premium for actual skilled talent from the West.
Being a fashion thing, it could vanish any year, but for once there's a situation where "White guy form America" is actually a plus in the tech labor market.
Basic management philosophy:
"We must do X"
"Sir, it's not working - in fact, it's burning our customer base"
"We're not doing enough X!"
Trump benefited from his public display of "not giving a fuck about political correctness", not any specific thing he said (given he flip-flopped on most issues). Trump himself certainly has a thin skin, which should make the next 4 years entertaining.
You guys should really get more easily distinguishable UIDs. 110010001000 does nothing but troll, while 0100010001010011 seems innocuous enough.
I'll stick with 1001001 myself (possibly the most clever Rush lyric).
And we all know how well that worked for Digg!
They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way)
You're not a real engineer unless you roll the petard up to the castle gate! These new-fangled train drivers aren't real engineers at all!
Crying "racist" doesn't work in presidential elections, for a start. But it's broader: people have simply learned not to care about such name-calling. Sure, you have a few years of age-range that have been conditioned by the schools to be hyper-sensitive to every microagression, and the mere thought of being called a racist is enough to send them fleeing to their safe spaces, but really that's a slim percentage of the US at this point.
I agree the culture war has become larger - I'm not sure it has intensified, however; I think instead it has finally reached the mainstream. It has changed from Twitter hate mobs to election issues. I'm cautiously optimistic about America keeping it's spirit of "nobody fucking cares whether you were offended".
That's a different freedom, obviously.
That's not what "free speech" means, as you damn well know.
Why don't you just come out and say that you want speech that offends you banned?
The recent election in the US shows that disturbing xenophobia* is alive and well in the US also
The recent election in the US show that the left's tactic of calling the opposition disturbing xenophobes (also: racist sexist isalamophobic transphobic and whatever else) doesn't work. But keep trying that same approach, so that Trump gets re-elected.
Trump, for example, aims to delegitimise the speech of his opponents. His free speech is an attempted denial of others'.
Trump was simply more persuasive in the marketplace of ideas, this he won. Many people seem not to like democracy in action, and would prefer an aristocracy of the right kind of people, with approved views, instead. Fuck those people.
The "R" is Rivest, who invented the algorithm for O(n) median, and some other stuff.
Reading those books requires high degree of mathematical sophistication, particularly, knowledge of complex analysis, which I lack.
They're just algorithms textbooks. They're hard to read because of when they were written, and the accompanying style. More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
But, hey, if you want to optimize your search algorithm that uses tape as storage, to take advantage of the new-fangled tape drives that can write backwards as well as forwards, it's the book for you! (Yes, that was really a thing, and an algorithm you'll find in Volume 3: Sorting and Searching.)
Personally, I don't think he does a great job explaining algorithms. I once needed to look up O(n) median for something, tried to understand it from Knuth, gave up on the cryptic text, and understood it right away from CLR (now CLRS). It is an exhaustive catalog, but it's not a great learning tool.
Read more carefully friend. The first option seems to work for him. VS Code is another option.
I develop C++ applications mainly for Linux. I use Visual C++ and Xcode (I got accustomed to it after some time) to develop, then I log on Linux to "port" the code with vi, GCC, etc, and add Linux specific features.
Is there a decent GUI for developing on Linux now?
You can use VS on a Windows machine to build/debug on Linux now. You can also run a light version, "VS Code," natively on Linux - it's free and open source, but I don't know how full-featured it is.