Don't confuse "gold-backed" with "no fractional reserve". People just don't seem to get this.
It really doesn't matter what you use as your physical currency, as long as it's not too easy to counterfeit. Physical currency has little to do with the money supply. The money supply is directly about fractional reserve lending, and indirectly about games like QE, insurance floats, and so on.
Simply put, physical currency is trivial compared to all sorts of contracts to pay money at some future time.
He's a failed something anyway, if he thinks that stocks have "intrinsic value".
Stocks are the only thing with intrinsic value: ownership of the means of production. Everything else is convention, but the ability to make something that someone else wants or needs is intrinsic value.
I'm in complete agreement (and if you know our posting history, tepples and I don't agree on much).
This is cheap at the price. Like the Tea Party before it was co-opted, it takes surprisingly little per-person effort to really shake up incumbents who weren't expecting a fight.
The worry is also like the Tea Party: how will this be co-opted?
No one wants an obedient assembly-line worker with no critical thinking skills any more. For nearly 100 years those were the best jobs most people could hope to get. The schools were genuinely doing people a service by training good manufacturing workers. But that ended decades ago, and critical thinking is all the rage now. The problem is inertia, and the people on both sides who want to cram kids heads full of stuff that's not particularly compatible with critical thinking (but then, the people who want that don't know this, so even they are for critical thinking now.
Stupid or not, it's how the world works. You have to filter a horde of students down to a pile of resumes small enough to go through by some criteria simple enough that an HR drone can manage it, while fulfilling a bewildering array of state and local requirements for fairness in hiring.
Heck, at the bigger shops today, managers and engineers don't even get involved in the process for interns/NCGs until the interviews start - no voice in the filtering process at all. Diversity suffers, otherwise.
You can use audiobooks as a crutch for functional illiteracy, but it's better to know how to read. You can use a calculator for simple arithmetic as a crutch for functional innumeracy, but it's better to have the skill of simple math in your head.
These are a couple of the most basic, simple skills in civilized society. They don't take much time and effort to learn, they're rewarding throughout life, and there's simply no excuse for not having these skills. It's just the worst kind of lazy.
Wow, they sure didn't allow calculators when I took it, not very long before that. Didn't slow me down. Couldn't use a calculator in high school physics either.
I don't know all of my multiplication tables,
Well, at least innumeracy isn't new? Eesh. I mean, I can understand not memorizing log tables with the rise of calculators, but can you really not tell from a glance at the unit price what 6 of something cost?
so the Republicans want to close all public schools
This right here is why the USA is fucked. People just can't speak coherently about politics any more. (And, of course, it's the teacher's unions who are forcing high-performing charter schools to close, but that's hardly part of the Dem platform, just a consequence of seeking the public sector employee vote).
Do you actually think either party has a goal other than the best schools? The disagreement is over how to achieve that, and I've never heard anyone arguing for no public schools, and more than for no private schools (but "no religious schools"? That one I hear occasionally.)
Hiring by big companies for internships and recruiting for new college hires are usually filtered by GPA before any engineer or manager sees the stack or resumes. I never had a company care about my grades, but then I was never actively recruited at college age, and so my first dev job was remarkably exploitive, not one of the good ones.
Beyond one's first full-time job, I can't imagine grades ever coming up.
Yup, it sure is, and sadly this is contentious. Basic numeracy is impossible without memorizing tables for addition, and multiplication. Seen a modern math textbook that shows what buttons to press on the calculator? Seen the recent "common core" controversy about quite crazy approaches to basic math that seem motivated by avoidance of memorization (it's the revenge of new math!). Sigh. But then, do they allow calculators on the SAT?
A remarkable number of search results on the topic lead to articles that are mysteriously broken. Makes you wonder. Here's one on PIN extraction (no clue what the fastest attack is yet, but there are far to many claims to all be fraud).
But the best part is banks will deny you fraud coverage. That's right. These cards are "unclonable", so if you're claiming the use was unauthorized, clearly you're perpetuating fraud.
Well, there were coping mechanisms. I did mainframe programming in the 90s where an assembler job took hours in the queue - so two-a-day. We just fixed simple bugs directly with a disk sector editor (no butterflies required), in parallel to the source fix, and moved on to the next bug. Once things looked good, or your day's patches became too tangled to progress, you submitted your assembler job.
Then you moved to your other project. That's the key, you know. We were productive because we'd just do 2-3 bugs in parallel. Make progress on 1, submit job, make progress on 2, submit job, see if 1 really looked fixed, nope, submit job, and so on.
Sick of finding out every other month that some retailer that I frequent has been hacked.
That won't change in the long run. In the short run maybe some benefit, while the crooks come up to speed, but chip and PIN is also hackable. It's not as easy, to be sure, but technology marches on and both PIN harvesting and stolen card use are both happening in Europe today (though not with the frequency of the US problems yet).
One place we might gain advantage form our late start is that no one will have the older-tech cards where PIN-extraction from stolen cards is possible (and done) due to flaws.
Now you're into algore movie territory. But if you're really worried about it: you have the maps now, plan your move at your convenience. The high ground is sure to appreciate if this religious apocalypse should come to pass, might as well make a nice profit from it.
I liked Jedi the best, myself. If you just squint and pretend the ewoks are wookies, it's really a good film. I found the pacing on Empire plodding, and the whole last act boring whenever Vader wasn't on the screen.
But then, I also thought Phantom Menace was acceptable - not as good as IV, but not that bad. The plot was a hopeless tangle that made no kind of sense but the individual scenes were entertaining. Not like Clones and Sith which each had the worst direction in any movie ever (yes, each was worse than the other in a recursive loop of infinite suck).
I have to admit, there was one episode of Clone Wars where the writers made good use of Jar Jar (the clone troopers effective used his as a bomb to take out the enemy - sadly, only a metaphorical bomb).
The USA will be fine. Fuck everyone else. We can always nuke em if they can't take a joke.
More seriously, we're talking about centuries here, so it's just a shift in immigration patterns. Warming mostly affects the pole-wards latitudes, so places like Siberia will become temperate. America's a fairly ridiculous mix of cultures, but we manage to live with one another peaceably: I'm sure Europe will figure it out.
On site, just open a panel, swap out a cable, bypass the whole control system.
Just so you know, when you open that panel, you're dead. They have antipersonnel mines built in, in case of unauthorized access to the panel. ICBM security doesn't fuck around.
This is the sort of security that involves lethal countermeasures, and yes, they thought of that. That too. There were geeks involved in the planning, so that other thing you think is clever? Lethal countermeasures.
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Don't confuse "gold-backed" with "no fractional reserve". People just don't seem to get this.
It really doesn't matter what you use as your physical currency, as long as it's not too easy to counterfeit. Physical currency has little to do with the money supply. The money supply is directly about fractional reserve lending, and indirectly about games like QE, insurance floats, and so on.
Simply put, physical currency is trivial compared to all sorts of contracts to pay money at some future time.
He's a failed something anyway, if he thinks that stocks have "intrinsic value".
Stocks are the only thing with intrinsic value: ownership of the means of production. Everything else is convention, but the ability to make something that someone else wants or needs is intrinsic value.
I'm in complete agreement (and if you know our posting history, tepples and I don't agree on much).
This is cheap at the price. Like the Tea Party before it was co-opted, it takes surprisingly little per-person effort to really shake up incumbents who weren't expecting a fight.
The worry is also like the Tea Party: how will this be co-opted?
No one wants an obedient assembly-line worker with no critical thinking skills any more. For nearly 100 years those were the best jobs most people could hope to get. The schools were genuinely doing people a service by training good manufacturing workers. But that ended decades ago, and critical thinking is all the rage now. The problem is inertia, and the people on both sides who want to cram kids heads full of stuff that's not particularly compatible with critical thinking (but then, the people who want that don't know this, so even they are for critical thinking now.
Stupid or not, it's how the world works. You have to filter a horde of students down to a pile of resumes small enough to go through by some criteria simple enough that an HR drone can manage it, while fulfilling a bewildering array of state and local requirements for fairness in hiring.
Heck, at the bigger shops today, managers and engineers don't even get involved in the process for interns/NCGs until the interviews start - no voice in the filtering process at all. Diversity suffers, otherwise.
You can use audiobooks as a crutch for functional illiteracy, but it's better to know how to read. You can use a calculator for simple arithmetic as a crutch for functional innumeracy, but it's better to have the skill of simple math in your head.
These are a couple of the most basic, simple skills in civilized society. They don't take much time and effort to learn, they're rewarding throughout life, and there's simply no excuse for not having these skills. It's just the worst kind of lazy.
Wow, they sure didn't allow calculators when I took it, not very long before that. Didn't slow me down. Couldn't use a calculator in high school physics either.
I don't know all of my multiplication tables,
Well, at least innumeracy isn't new? Eesh. I mean, I can understand not memorizing log tables with the rise of calculators, but can you really not tell from a glance at the unit price what 6 of something cost?
so the Republicans want to close all public schools
This right here is why the USA is fucked. People just can't speak coherently about politics any more. (And, of course, it's the teacher's unions who are forcing high-performing charter schools to close, but that's hardly part of the Dem platform, just a consequence of seeking the public sector employee vote).
Do you actually think either party has a goal other than the best schools? The disagreement is over how to achieve that, and I've never heard anyone arguing for no public schools, and more than for no private schools (but "no religious schools"? That one I hear occasionally.)
Hiring by big companies for internships and recruiting for new college hires are usually filtered by GPA before any engineer or manager sees the stack or resumes. I never had a company care about my grades, but then I was never actively recruited at college age, and so my first dev job was remarkably exploitive, not one of the good ones.
Beyond one's first full-time job, I can't imagine grades ever coming up.
basic math = rote memorization
Yup, it sure is, and sadly this is contentious. Basic numeracy is impossible without memorizing tables for addition, and multiplication. Seen a modern math textbook that shows what buttons to press on the calculator? Seen the recent "common core" controversy about quite crazy approaches to basic math that seem motivated by avoidance of memorization (it's the revenge of new math!). Sigh. But then, do they allow calculators on the SAT?
Gah, and now /. ate my link! Government coverup! OK, that one might have been operator error.
http://www.zdnet.com/chip-and-...
A remarkable number of search results on the topic lead to articles that are mysteriously broken. Makes you wonder. Here's one on PIN extraction (no clue what the fastest attack is yet, but there are far to many claims to all be fraud).
But the best part is banks will deny you fraud coverage. That's right. These cards are "unclonable", so if you're claiming the use was unauthorized, clearly you're perpetuating fraud.
DJB is the worst kind of asshole too: he's almost always right. So you shouldn't just ignore him. Meh, justified arrogance still annoys.
Now, what we really need is a cage match between DJB and Theo de Raanter. I'd buy that on PPV!
No, no! Never repeat that Jar Jar idea. The fuckers will do it.
Well, there were coping mechanisms. I did mainframe programming in the 90s where an assembler job took hours in the queue - so two-a-day. We just fixed simple bugs directly with a disk sector editor (no butterflies required), in parallel to the source fix, and moved on to the next bug. Once things looked good, or your day's patches became too tangled to progress, you submitted your assembler job.
Then you moved to your other project. That's the key, you know. We were productive because we'd just do 2-3 bugs in parallel. Make progress on 1, submit job, make progress on 2, submit job, see if 1 really looked fixed, nope, submit job, and so on.
Other than that, it's about fucking time!
Sick of finding out every other month that some retailer that I frequent has been hacked.
That won't change in the long run. In the short run maybe some benefit, while the crooks come up to speed, but chip and PIN is also hackable. It's not as easy, to be sure, but technology marches on and both PIN harvesting and stolen card use are both happening in Europe today (though not with the frequency of the US problems yet).
One place we might gain advantage form our late start is that no one will have the older-tech cards where PIN-extraction from stolen cards is possible (and done) due to flaws.
Got it in one. :) I liked it better than any of the XMen movies.
Now you're into algore movie territory. But if you're really worried about it: you have the maps now, plan your move at your convenience. The high ground is sure to appreciate if this religious apocalypse should come to pass, might as well make a nice profit from it.
Andy has also acted as himself, and he's fine. He's also a good voice actor.
Trivia: what movie has Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, and Hugh Jackman? No, not a LORT/XMen crossover, amusing as that might be.
I liked Jedi the best, myself. If you just squint and pretend the ewoks are wookies, it's really a good film. I found the pacing on Empire plodding, and the whole last act boring whenever Vader wasn't on the screen.
But then, I also thought Phantom Menace was acceptable - not as good as IV, but not that bad. The plot was a hopeless tangle that made no kind of sense but the individual scenes were entertaining. Not like Clones and Sith which each had the worst direction in any movie ever (yes, each was worse than the other in a recursive loop of infinite suck).
Does Lucas have any creative input for these? Certain disappointment, if that's the case.
Abrams is a schlocky hack, but you know, these films are supposed to be schlock, so I'm with you in cautious optimism.
I have to admit, there was one episode of Clone Wars where the writers made good use of Jar Jar (the clone troopers effective used his as a bomb to take out the enemy - sadly, only a metaphorical bomb).
The USA will be fine. Fuck everyone else. We can always nuke em if they can't take a joke.
More seriously, we're talking about centuries here, so it's just a shift in immigration patterns. Warming mostly affects the pole-wards latitudes, so places like Siberia will become temperate. America's a fairly ridiculous mix of cultures, but we manage to live with one another peaceably: I'm sure Europe will figure it out.
4,294,967,296 Internets to you sir! That's all the internets!
On site, just open a panel, swap out a cable, bypass the whole control system.
Just so you know, when you open that panel, you're dead. They have antipersonnel mines built in, in case of unauthorized access to the panel. ICBM security doesn't fuck around.
This is the sort of security that involves lethal countermeasures, and yes, they thought of that. That too. There were geeks involved in the planning, so that other thing you think is clever? Lethal countermeasures.