OK, flawed analogy. It's not the number of data points. The takeaway was supposed to be that there are constraints. Society's "womb" can't crank out that many "babies".
Citation please? If you've used any numbers at all to derive that, you've extrapolated a curve based on the assumption that it's exponential. If that couple next door that had a baby 3 years ago, and twins 2 years after that continues the trend, they'll have 16000 children by the time she reaches menopause. What, praytell could we be neglecting in our analysis of these trends?
Making things people want to buy isn't earth shattering. Finding out what people want before they know *is*.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
To counter balance that though, It looks like Ford never said that and he was eventually forced to give into trends brought by GM. Apple doesn't have the color problem (at least they didn't on the original iMac and on iPods). They certainly have other problems. There are probably things that customers want, and Apple won't give them or can't because it would upset their business model. The next prize goes to whoever can figure out what those things are. Whether they use their imagination or a focus group, it doesn't really matter. If you have a great imagination that trumps focus groups, use that. If you have a room full of analysts who know how to interpret the results from focus groups, and consistantly produce the correct answer, use that.
A free banking system implies competing currencies. The need to hedge against one vs. the other, and the need to convert exacts a transaction tax. Do you have any data to support the notion that this would be cheaper or more fair than a state banking monopoly? Equating a central bank with "central planning" strikes me as little more than a epithet. There is no similarity between the Fed setting interest rates in response to economic data; and the Soviet Union setting a quota on tractor production for the next five years.
Correction: You have to understand a lot of things, and not get taken in by Internet memes such as "end the fed" that offer no real solutions. LOL, the other reply with a link to Icke really proves that point. You yourself don't come off as a wacko, but all you have to do is criticise Keynes and the door is wide open. None of the meme-chanters have a real solution.
The gold standard is inherently international. Wackos are almost universally fearful of International Currency if you poll them on that itself; but then if you ask them about a gold standard they're all for it. Capitalists selling rope? The wackos sell the rope, buy the rope, and then start chewing on it and gradually die from chemicals in the rope. They're not smart enough to hang themselves.
I would love to be at one of those town hall things, stand up and say, "Mr. President, if you had been busted for cocaine when you were younger and gotten a record from it, do you think that would have been better?".
Arbitrary CPU instructions aren't a problem. Arbitrary holding of the CPU and arbitrary API calls are a problem. The OS shouldn't award too big a slice to just any arbitrary sub-process. The parent process should check for unauthorized API calls. Something like this can be sandboxed. The question is, what kind of box are they putting it in?
Given the current ability of scripts to lock up IE and perform drive-by attacks, I'm not too optimistic about how they've secured it either. I'm just saying that it's not impossible.
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A worthwhile proposal, not that I want to see it pass. It's just that I'm sitting on a few crates of "keep your laws off my body" bumper stickers. If the other party starts buying them too, I can clear the inventory.
You and the other reply are missing the point. He's cast aside his stand on individual liberty for political gain. The saying "Libertarianism for corporations, statism for everybody else" may also be applicable here. I like "some parts of the government are more expendable than others".
What about the DEA? It's a total waste of money. Not only that; but legalizing and taxing marijuana would be revenue positive. RP is showing that he has at least a modicum of political savvy. He knows that would never sell in the party in which he has chosen to house himself.
Mail and Finance. They tried to ruin Finance starting with interactive charts. Fortunately the "it's not broken, let's fix it" group in charge of that must have been laid off. The insanity stopped there.
Also, since they acquired Flickr, that's Yahoo too. They also used to have a subscription music service that I actually liked; but between technical glitches and what appeared to be licensing problems, it failed.
I've bought services from Yahoo; but I've never bought services from Google. It looks like the advertiser driven model is winning, which is a shame. I don't mind paying for something when it's done right.
For me the irony of that isn't in the anthro vs. non-anthro debate. The irony is in people regarding a few more meters of rise as apocalyptic, when the "apocalypse" has already occured in their own backyard.
As for the "anthro" aspect of it, I always like to imagine a couple of guys in the area during that time. One turns to the other and says, "Put out that fire. If you don't, the earth will heat up, the valley will fill, and we won't be able to walk to the Farallon Hills anymore".
Whoooah You're right. Canada, where it's cold, dark and everybody has health care which means... He really is from an advanced civilization in outer space!
Who is on the other side of the trade? The put doesn't exist until somebody shorts it. Shorting a cash secured put and getting assigned is (in some ways) less risky than buying stock at the prevailing market price. Entering the position that way is a good way for a "value investor" to name a fair price and not commit until he gets it. If the market remains irrationally high in his estimation, he pockets the premium and keeps his cash.
Anyway, I digress. Shorting options may or may not be speculative. Same deal with the long side.
I think that gets close to the heart of the matter. There have been waves of corrruption throughout US history. When it reaches the point that your statement is "all too true", movements like this form. If "the people" crack the whip hard enough, it becomes more representative. It's never been perfect; but some eras have been better than others.
Given the history of riots in the US, OWS is looking pretty tame. They haven't called out the National Guard anywhere AFAIK. There are not mobs and burning buildings blocks from the Whitehouse like in 1968.
There are a lot of misunderstandings around this idea. Both historical fact and praxeological deduction...
I think what you mean is:
If the pie isn't big enough, it doesn't make sense to ask for an extra slice. Asking for a bigger slice won't make the pie bigger. In the US the pie was getting bigger and in other countries it wasn't, so the asking just made matters worse.
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OK, flawed analogy. It's not the number of data points. The takeaway was supposed to be that there are constraints. Society's "womb" can't crank out that many "babies".
Citation please? If you've used any numbers at all to derive that, you've extrapolated a curve based on the assumption that it's exponential. If that couple next door that had a baby 3 years ago, and twins 2 years after that continues the trend, they'll have 16000 children by the time she reaches menopause. What, praytell could we be neglecting in our analysis of these trends?
Just wait for the opponents to raise these issues
Making things people want to buy isn't earth shattering. Finding out what people want before they know *is*.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
To counter balance that though, It looks like Ford never said that and he was eventually forced to give into trends brought by GM. Apple doesn't have the color problem (at least they didn't on the original iMac and on iPods). They certainly have other problems. There are probably things that customers want, and Apple won't give them or can't because it would upset their business model. The next prize goes to whoever can figure out what those things are. Whether they use their imagination or a focus group, it doesn't really matter. If you have a great imagination that trumps focus groups, use that. If you have a room full of analysts who know how to interpret the results from focus groups, and consistantly produce the correct answer, use that.
A free banking system implies competing currencies. The need to hedge against one vs. the other, and the need to convert exacts a transaction tax. Do you have any data to support the notion that this would be cheaper or more fair than a state banking monopoly? Equating a central bank with "central planning" strikes me as little more than a epithet. There is no similarity between the Fed setting interest rates in response to economic data; and the Soviet Union setting a quota on tractor production for the next five years.
That is not universally agreed upon by philosophers:
Not only is that not agreed on by philosphers, "that" is not agreed on by philosophers.
Correction: You have to understand a lot of things, and not get taken in by Internet memes such as "end the fed" that offer no real solutions. LOL, the other reply with a link to Icke really proves that point. You yourself don't come off as a wacko, but all you have to do is criticise Keynes and the door is wide open. None of the meme-chanters have a real solution.
The gold standard is inherently international. Wackos are almost universally fearful of International Currency if you poll them on that itself; but then if you ask them about a gold standard they're all for it. Capitalists selling rope? The wackos sell the rope, buy the rope, and then start chewing on it and gradually die from chemicals in the rope. They're not smart enough to hang themselves.
TL/DS (too long, didn't slideshow).
Except of course when you need to pay the rent and the project is in Java, or C++, or PHP, or... (etc.).
With those minor exceptions, you're right. :)
I would love to be at one of those town hall things, stand up and say, "Mr. President, if you had been busted for cocaine when you were younger and gotten a record from it, do you think that would have been better?".
Arbitrary CPU instructions aren't a problem. Arbitrary holding of the CPU and arbitrary API calls are a problem. The OS shouldn't award too big a slice to just any arbitrary sub-process. The parent process should check for unauthorized API calls. Something like this can be sandboxed. The question is, what kind of box are they putting it in?
Given the current ability of scripts to lock up IE and perform drive-by attacks, I'm not too optimistic about how they've secured it either. I'm just saying that it's not impossible.
Eli Lake is an anagram for "leak lie". Is it his real name? Too funny.
The cheese is dispensed by pressing your forehead barcode tattoo
A worthwhile proposal, not that I want to see it pass. It's just that I'm sitting on a few crates of "keep your laws off my body" bumper stickers. If the other party starts buying them too, I can clear the inventory.
You and the other reply are missing the point. He's cast aside his stand on individual liberty for political gain. The saying "Libertarianism for corporations, statism for everybody else" may also be applicable here. I like "some parts of the government are more expendable than others".
What about the DEA? It's a total waste of money. Not only that; but legalizing and taxing marijuana would be revenue positive. RP is showing that he has at least a modicum of political savvy. He knows that would never sell in the party in which he has chosen to house himself.
Mail and Finance. They tried to ruin Finance starting with interactive charts. Fortunately the "it's not broken, let's fix it" group in charge of that must have been laid off. The insanity stopped there.
Also, since they acquired Flickr, that's Yahoo too. They also used to have a subscription music service that I actually liked; but between technical glitches and what appeared to be licensing problems, it failed.
I've bought services from Yahoo; but I've never bought services from Google. It looks like the advertiser driven model is winning, which is a shame. I don't mind paying for something when it's done right.
For me the irony of that isn't in the anthro vs. non-anthro debate. The irony is in people regarding a few more meters of rise as apocalyptic, when the "apocalypse" has already occured in their own backyard.
As for the "anthro" aspect of it, I always like to imagine a couple of guys in the area during that time. One turns to the other and says, "Put out that fire. If you don't, the earth will heat up, the valley will fill, and we won't be able to walk to the Farallon Hills anymore".
Is it as ironic as AGW believers who live right next to San Francisco Bay, which was dry until about 20,000 years ago?
Whoooah You're right. Canada, where it's cold, dark and everybody has health care which means... He really is from an advanced civilization in outer space!
He knows how to delegate without even asking.
I don't have to say anything about this post. All I have to do is lean back and grin.
Who is on the other side of the trade? The put doesn't exist until somebody shorts it. Shorting a cash secured put and getting assigned is (in some ways) less risky than buying stock at the prevailing market price. Entering the position that way is a good way for a "value investor" to name a fair price and not commit until he gets it. If the market remains irrationally high in his estimation, he pockets the premium and keeps his cash.
Anyway, I digress. Shorting options may or may not be speculative. Same deal with the long side.
Your elections are not representative
I think that gets close to the heart of the matter. There have been waves of corrruption throughout US history. When it reaches the point that your statement is "all too true", movements like this form. If "the people" crack the whip hard enough, it becomes more representative. It's never been perfect; but some eras have been better than others.
Given the history of riots in the US, OWS is looking pretty tame. They haven't called out the National Guard anywhere AFAIK. There are not mobs and burning buildings blocks from the Whitehouse like in 1968.
There are a lot of misunderstandings around this idea. Both historical fact and praxeological deduction...
I think what you mean is:
If the pie isn't big enough, it doesn't make sense to ask for an extra slice. Asking for a bigger slice won't make the pie bigger. In the US the pie was getting bigger and in other countries it wasn't, so the asking just made matters worse.