Currency doesn't become scarce (like bitcoin or gold) or suddenly flood (like gold); it's managed to stabilize inflation as market changes create demands on currency supply.
Unlike gold, BTC is easily divisible into smaller pieces still useful as currency. You'll get an economic crisis when there's not enough physical currency to mediate trade -- a scarce currency stops being a currency -- but BTC doesn't have that problem. It also can't suddenly flood the market, which is nice, though not as nice as advocates seem to think (the BTC supply is not capped, if E=BTC-denominated svings accounts are ever a thing).
BTC is all over the place precisely because people don't use it as a currency. Its use for bulk money transfers and speculation swamps its use to actually mediate trade, so there's no natural stabilizing force at play. And I don't think it can get there from here, as people won't use it as currency because it fluctuates too much.
Almost anything outside the 3 fundamental hard sciences is subject to this effect.
String theory says hi.
The bigger problem seems to be papers that contain no reproducible studies to begin with. Gender studies journals could, hypothetically, be full of good statistical research and reproducible measures and analysis.
Meanwhile, over in the world of bio-chem, people just make up synthesis steps (well, they try something resonable, it doesn't work, but they claim it does to make quota). At least those results are hypothetically falsifiable: some auditing has been done to show that maybe half of the work is fake, but at least it's possible to audit.
... they have to weigh a lot of factors - including costs to publish... What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does.
In fiction publishing, there's a clear, bright-line rule: any publishing arrangement in which money flows from the author to the publisher at any point in the process is a scam.* It's astonishing to those outside academia that it's different there. Heck, my one published academic paper paid a tiny honorarium IIRC, and they sent us some free off-prints, but that was... more than 20 years ago.
*Obviously, if you're intentionally "vanity" self-publishing, knowing the books will never see the inside of a book store, it's not a scam, but I've only ever heard of one case where someone writing fiction made money that way with paper books.
It's just nationalism and there's nothing wrong with it. Globalists are so afraid of it they have to attach the racist "white nationalist" label to it, no different than the intersectional nonsense you point out. Nationalists come in all colors.
Don't conflate two groups. There is a rising groundswell of ordinary people who still like the country they live in, and want it to remain special. There are also small groups of neo-Nazis who want a white ethnostate. The former group is much, much bigger than the latter, but you can't pretend the latter doesn't exist.
sn't it Trump who keeps attacking the press and various other forms of speech?
Pointing out that fake news is fake is not "attacking free speech". Indeed, it's the opposite: the right way to deal with speech you don't like is more speech (or tweets, as the case may be).
PS: I'm ignoring connections with customers and vendors as if the business is big enough the CEO won't be involved at that level unless someone done fucked up.
The CEO is the lead salesman in almost every company. Only in small companies are they involved in the day-to-day operations of the company, but it's always about sales at any size, from closing the largest deals to quarterly earnings calls.
Oh, administrative costs (and insurance company profits, in the US) may be as much as 1/3rd of overall health care costs, and that sucks. But health care cost has gone up vastly more than 30%, inflation adjusted, in the past 60 years.
The main reason health care costs more now than in 1950 (age-adjusted) is all the new technology. MRIs still aren't anything like cheap. What people with a political agenda tend to gloss over is that you get much better care now, thanks to that tech.
More accurate diagnostics are a net win, but don't expect costs to come down.
If it's really a "Parker probe", it will instead crash into the sun at the last minute before it would have sent data. (You have to be a fan of Numberphile on YouTube to get this running joke.)
To add to the list of mistakes: where was the security audit script? It's a trivial thing that anyone who has ever made this mistake should already be doing. Just log every best practice not being followed, and fix the inevitable mistakes before you load customer data. You know Amazon must do that sort of thing to police internal teams - heck, why isn't it there in the AWS dashboard?
From what I've seen of Google, engineering-wise, their simply stuck back in their glory days. For a long time they were the big dog, the only ones with proven engineering at that scale, and so very internally focused. The world passed them by, and they never learned to look outward for ideas. It won't end well.
In the early years, maybe not. But as time went on, there was simply no moral excuse for working for that government in any way. In education especially, if you weren't narrowly in line with government views, you were purged, so in the later years continued employment meant you had cleared the evil bar, so to speak.
From the big-picture stuff like collaboration with the Chinese government, to the local stuff like joining in the Stalin-esque unpersoning of Alex Jones, Google seems intent on forcing post-modernism on the world at large, and post-modernism is the most evil thing.
In the meantime, I design lame-ass consumer shit that provides no value to humanity at all - just more consumerism.
If it makes people happy, and isn't addictive or something, it's still doing some good in the world. My jobs have certainly varied over the years in how much good they've done, but in a long career I've only spent one year at a place I thought was a net negative for humanity. Not bad as jobs go.
Playing guitar in some shit-ass coffee shop would do more for people and humanity than what I do.
"What the world needs now is another folk singer... like I need a hole in my head." - Cracker
work 80+ hours a week,
Shit man, the economy's booming. Now's the time to move to a sane company! Switch while the switching is good.
No problem there, I don't work with fucknut conservatives and their shit-takes on every fucking thing
Fair enough, though I shudder at the thought of codebases where there were clearly no conservative engineers pushing back on the crazier fads and frameworks.
Very well put! Was trying to figure out how to say that...
Engineering is the best-paying job that doesn't require you to be a salesman, be overtly evil, or take significant physical risk. To be better paid as a doctor or lawyer or such, you have to start your own business - and while that's admittedly easier for doctors and dentists than for software devs, if you'd rather work for someone else then software is the place to be (most lawyers leave the field within 10 years because after that you're valued on the business you bring in as a partner - which is probably harder than making your own software company).
Not everyone in finance does evil, of course, but it's a damn hard field to get rich in if you insist on morality.
To his point, we don't because "follow the money". The US is run by a very big-corporate establishment that puppets most Dems and Republicans, and has a laser focus on "more labor supply = more profits", all across the economic spectrum from the illegal leaf picker to the H1-B with a PhD. Open borders directly drives concentration of wealth at the top.
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Currency doesn't become scarce (like bitcoin or gold) or suddenly flood (like gold); it's managed to stabilize inflation as market changes create demands on currency supply.
Unlike gold, BTC is easily divisible into smaller pieces still useful as currency. You'll get an economic crisis when there's not enough physical currency to mediate trade -- a scarce currency stops being a currency -- but BTC doesn't have that problem. It also can't suddenly flood the market, which is nice, though not as nice as advocates seem to think (the BTC supply is not capped, if E=BTC-denominated svings accounts are ever a thing).
BTC is all over the place precisely because people don't use it as a currency. Its use for bulk money transfers and speculation swamps its use to actually mediate trade, so there's no natural stabilizing force at play. And I don't think it can get there from here, as people won't use it as currency because it fluctuates too much.
Almost anything outside the 3 fundamental hard sciences is subject to this effect.
String theory says hi.
The bigger problem seems to be papers that contain no reproducible studies to begin with. Gender studies journals could, hypothetically, be full of good statistical research and reproducible measures and analysis.
Meanwhile, over in the world of bio-chem, people just make up synthesis steps (well, they try something resonable, it doesn't work, but they claim it does to make quota). At least those results are hypothetically falsifiable: some auditing has been done to show that maybe half of the work is fake, but at least it's possible to audit.
... they have to weigh a lot of factors - including costs to publish ... What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does.
In fiction publishing, there's a clear, bright-line rule: any publishing arrangement in which money flows from the author to the publisher at any point in the process is a scam.* It's astonishing to those outside academia that it's different there. Heck, my one published academic paper paid a tiny honorarium IIRC, and they sent us some free off-prints, but that was ... more than 20 years ago.
*Obviously, if you're intentionally "vanity" self-publishing, knowing the books will never see the inside of a book store, it's not a scam, but I've only ever heard of one case where someone writing fiction made money that way with paper books.
Doctors spend about 30 seconds looking at such things. Not much cost there to reduce.
Wow, the boogeyman of the 1980s. How nostalgic. Meanwhile there is an actual, growing theocracy in the world, but they read a different book.
It's just nationalism and there's nothing wrong with it. Globalists are so afraid of it they have to attach the racist "white nationalist" label to it, no different than the intersectional nonsense you point out. Nationalists come in all colors.
Don't conflate two groups. There is a rising groundswell of ordinary people who still like the country they live in, and want it to remain special. There are also small groups of neo-Nazis who want a white ethnostate. The former group is much, much bigger than the latter, but you can't pretend the latter doesn't exist.
sn't it Trump who keeps attacking the press and various other forms of speech?
Pointing out that fake news is fake is not "attacking free speech". Indeed, it's the opposite: the right way to deal with speech you don't like is more speech (or tweets, as the case may be).
I don't understand what they do, so it must be easy!
You sound like my last non-technical manager.
PS: I'm ignoring connections with customers and vendors as if the business is big enough the CEO won't be involved at that level unless someone done fucked up.
The CEO is the lead salesman in almost every company. Only in small companies are they involved in the day-to-day operations of the company, but it's always about sales at any size, from closing the largest deals to quarterly earnings calls.
Why is this modded troll? Isn't that the actual law in Cali? I thought they removed any higher burden a while back, when it came to state law.
Oh, administrative costs (and insurance company profits, in the US) may be as much as 1/3rd of overall health care costs, and that sucks. But health care cost has gone up vastly more than 30%, inflation adjusted, in the past 60 years.
London so they have NHS unlike us where under the GOP system this can be used to quickly black list people.
Sure - the NHS just blacklists you for being overweight or a smoker. It's a cheaper blacklisting system that avoids the costs of fancy US tests.
The main reason health care costs more now than in 1950 (age-adjusted) is all the new technology. MRIs still aren't anything like cheap. What people with a political agenda tend to gloss over is that you get much better care now, thanks to that tech.
More accurate diagnostics are a net win, but don't expect costs to come down.
They're making games. I could care less if they had unicorns chained up to poke holes in the Discs.
Now let me know when they start manufacturing Chemical warfare agents.
Encouraging gambling addiction in kids isn't on your moral radar? Fortunately there was a legal backlash against that one.
If it's really a "Parker probe", it will instead crash into the sun at the last minute before it would have sent data. (You have to be a fan of Numberphile on YouTube to get this running joke.)
To add to the list of mistakes: where was the security audit script? It's a trivial thing that anyone who has ever made this mistake should already be doing. Just log every best practice not being followed, and fix the inevitable mistakes before you load customer data. You know Amazon must do that sort of thing to police internal teams - heck, why isn't it there in the AWS dashboard?
From what I've seen of Google, engineering-wise, their simply stuck back in their glory days. For a long time they were the big dog, the only ones with proven engineering at that scale, and so very internally focused. The world passed them by, and they never learned to look outward for ideas. It won't end well.
In the early years, maybe not. But as time went on, there was simply no moral excuse for working for that government in any way. In education especially, if you weren't narrowly in line with government views, you were purged, so in the later years continued employment meant you had cleared the evil bar, so to speak.
From the big-picture stuff like collaboration with the Chinese government, to the local stuff like joining in the Stalin-esque unpersoning of Alex Jones, Google seems intent on forcing post-modernism on the world at large, and post-modernism is the most evil thing.
That's not what a conservative engineer does - but you knew that.
In the meantime, I design lame-ass consumer shit that provides no value to humanity at all - just more consumerism.
If it makes people happy, and isn't addictive or something, it's still doing some good in the world. My jobs have certainly varied over the years in how much good they've done, but in a long career I've only spent one year at a place I thought was a net negative for humanity. Not bad as jobs go.
Playing guitar in some shit-ass coffee shop would do more for people and humanity than what I do.
"What the world needs now is another folk singer ... like I need a hole in my head." - Cracker
work 80+ hours a week,
Shit man, the economy's booming. Now's the time to move to a sane company! Switch while the switching is good.
No problem there, I don't work with fucknut conservatives and their shit-takes on every fucking thing
Fair enough, though I shudder at the thought of codebases where there were clearly no conservative engineers pushing back on the crazier fads and frameworks.
Very well put! Was trying to figure out how to say that ...
Engineering is the best-paying job that doesn't require you to be a salesman, be overtly evil, or take significant physical risk. To be better paid as a doctor or lawyer or such, you have to start your own business - and while that's admittedly easier for doctors and dentists than for software devs, if you'd rather work for someone else then software is the place to be (most lawyers leave the field within 10 years because after that you're valued on the business you bring in as a partner - which is probably harder than making your own software company).
Not everyone in finance does evil, of course, but it's a damn hard field to get rich in if you insist on morality.
Sure, because saying Google should reach their gender quotas by changing their interviews to be more inclusive is totally a douchebag move.
To his point, we don't because "follow the money". The US is run by a very big-corporate establishment that puppets most Dems and Republicans, and has a laser focus on "more labor supply = more profits", all across the economic spectrum from the illegal leaf picker to the H1-B with a PhD. Open borders directly drives concentration of wealth at the top.