I'm pretty sure one person having an extra $99.98 when there are $60,000,000,000,000 in the hands of other people isn't going to make a difference to your bidding abilities, certainly not to the extent that it snowballs.
When you are right handed, writing with your right hand is generally more legible and faster than with your left. And when left handed using your left hand is generally more legible and faster.
I know two people who are right handed and put the mouse on the left side of the keyboard.
It took them a fair amount of practice but now they are up to speed with it and can take notes with pen and paper while using their mouse (for example).
It doesn't sound stupid to me. Sure not worth the bother for me personally...
But yes a left handed person putting the mouse on the left side is likely being silly - they can both get access to a larger number of "ergonomic" mice and free up their prefered hand with a reasonably small amount of practice.
many people of "middle eastern appearance" have never set foot anywhere near the middle east, which would make "staying" there rather difficult.
Take me for example. I have 0% middle eastern descent - I have Irish, English, a tiny bit of Scandanavian, two of my family tree paths are first fleeters, and yet I sometimes get asked where I'm from with Greece and "the middle east" being their two guesses.
the steam bit is unsurprising I buy random stuff on steam when it goes on the 75% off, and stuff I'm pretty sure I'll like when it is on 50% off.
That and the twice a year new game at full price covers my gaming completely - given how little time I have for gaming these days.
In fact I get more enjoyment from the random steam stuff since there's no regret when I only play the game for a few hours and then give up on it when it only cost $7.50. Whereas to this day I still manage to buy the occasional complete piece of crap full price new game (ufc 2010 - I'm looking at you...)
There's also the benefit if "ah-ah" moments when some piece of knowledge seemingly unrelated to what you are working on now turns out to be related. And since you "know" it you make the connection.
Likely not an issue unless you are actually doing something novel though.
The broken window fallacy is that a broken window causes the owner to buy a new window which employs the window maker, who then buys something else, and so and so on. Resulting in a boost to the economy. It's an obvious fallacy.
My claim was nothing to do with that at all, here's the example for the morons:
1. Dr Evil has found a bug in Windows and has his team of hackers writing an exploit which he will use to blow up the power grid in North America. 2. Joe the Crappy Hacker also finds said bug and tells Microsoft 3. Microsoft does nothing. 4. Dr Evil pulls the switch and Americans can't watch TV for an evening.
Compared with: 1. Dr Evil has found;a bug in Windows and has his team of hackers writing an exploit which he will use to blow up the power grid in North America. 2. Joe the Crappy Hacker also find said bug and writes some malware that displays a political message and distributes itself via email. 3. Microsoft rushes to fix the problem and releases an emergency patch. 4. Dr Evil pulls the switch and nothing happens because the exploit was fixed.
The second situation has less negative consequences for society, and hence the malware was positive for society.
Yes I don't think it's a particularly likely, in fact I don't think it will ever occur. It is however, a possible situation (well the bug getting fixed before a more damaging exploit part, not the Dr Evil part).
But even if you disagree with that it still isn't a broken window fallacy, because it isn't making claims about economic benefit of any activity at all.
If you majored in economics then I suggest asking for refund. Then again I guess if you only have a hammer then the whole world looks like a nail.
No it's not the broken window fallacy. Do you just post random crap in random places.
If it is you'll be able to point to part which is about the economy being improved by the busy work of repairing the damage. But you can't because it wasn't there and because you are fucking retarded.
Not necessarily. Active malware tends to get the software producer to fix the bug faster. Hence less damaging malware now, might see the issue fixed before more damaging malware is released - that would be a net positive for society.
Of course you can never know, all you know is the damage done by the malware that was released.
It's impossible for a cable to come down in a storm, or a backhoe dig in the wrong place. Well if the cable is copper, if it's fiber then that happens all the time.
Yes because third world sweat shops live in fear of their employees. So much so that they would never just churn through then and discard the ones that couldn't keep up the pace.
And no, most poor people aren't poor because they are lazy. They are poor because their parents were poor, and it takes an exceptional person to improve their lot when they can't go to school because they have to work or else the family will starve. This is why the big evil government you hate so much, in developed countries anyway, tend to make school mandatory and place other evil restrictions on business like not letting 9 year olds work in the factories.
So the ER doctor is lazy, won't change things in the long run.
If a vaccine does cause problems then there will be multiple cases and at some point the connection will be made. One isolated incident really doesn't matter in the scheme of things - sure it matters to the people involved very much, but that's not the issue at hand.
See Australia earlier this year when a they did have issues with flu vaccine for an example of how the system works in that case.
It doesn't cost 1 euro, which would be obvious to anyone not intentionally being a moron.
In fact it currently costs 10, so those 134821 sales is 1,348,210 euros or a bit over $1.7 million US. Having half your sales be at the tail end when the publicity ramped up isn't exactly unexpected.
yeah right, because there's a single person dumb enough to buy a house at anywhere within a order of magnitude or two of current prices if they can't sell it later.
And car dealers make a chunk of money on the financing portion, no way are they doing to put up with that. In fact GM only makes cars so GMAC can write loans for them (well at least until it all went tits up).
Your six year old must be much much smarter than mine. Mine is unlikely to make long term connections, such as "I failed my math test today because I was hyper in the class and I was hyper in class because I ate something with too much sugar for lunch an hour ago". They are certainly unlikely to decide that getting fat in 2 years time or having a heart attack in 40 years time might be the result of doing something now and hence it'd be good not to do it.
Do you also think it is a great idea to put the 9 month old into a room full of marbles, after all when one gets lodged in their windpipe they won't do that anymore. It's called learning.
It is not unreasonable to tell a 6 year old "here is $2.20 for lunch, buy lunch with it" and expecting them not to treat it as their own money to do whatever they want with.
Do you also think that if I give the kid my cell phone to make a call that since they now have the phone in their possession they own it and can do whatever they like with it? Selling it to someone else in order to buy a video game, throwing it into the pool?
I'm all for letting kids be kids. But that doesn't mean intentionally constructing situations in which they are bound to harm themselves.
If a religion wants to prevent people from burning their book, then they should distribute the book only to their religious institutions, under requirement that special agreements be assigned to protect their copy of the book from vandalism, restrictions against distribution, etc.
or just use asbestos instead of paper, or steel. Problem solved.
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I'm pretty sure one person having an extra $99.98 when there are $60,000,000,000,000 in the hands of other people isn't going to make a difference to your bidding abilities, certainly not to the extent that it snowballs.
Which is the higher profit:
$0.00
or
$0.01
Remember, this isn't a multi-round game so there are no future transactions or negotiating.
If you reject the $0.01 then you have nothing and the other guy has nothing.
if you take the $0.01 then you have $0.01 and the other guy has $99.99.
How are you not better off in the second case? How does someone else having $99.99 reduce the value of the $0.01 you have?
Because you are filling out some paper forms while using the mouse to view some documents related to them.
Because you are drawing a diagram and you don't have a tablet pen thing.
Because you are annotating a paper document. say a student's assignment.
Because you are writing down cheat code snippets from a gaming web site to take the couch and enter into the playstation.
Because short hand is faster than typing.
Because you want to take the write an address on a post-it-note to put in your wallet.
When you are right handed, writing with your right hand is generally more legible and faster than with your left. And when left handed using your left hand is generally more legible and faster.
But I guess you're just a freak.
I know two people who are right handed and put the mouse on the left side of the keyboard.
It took them a fair amount of practice but now they are up to speed with it and can take notes with pen and paper while using their mouse (for example).
It doesn't sound stupid to me. Sure not worth the bother for me personally...
But yes a left handed person putting the mouse on the left side is likely being silly - they can both get access to a larger number of "ergonomic" mice and free up their prefered hand with a reasonably small amount of practice.
many people of "middle eastern appearance" have never set foot anywhere near the middle east, which would make "staying" there rather difficult.
Take me for example. I have 0% middle eastern descent - I have Irish, English, a tiny bit of Scandanavian, two of my family tree paths are first fleeters, and yet I sometimes get asked where I'm from with Greece and "the middle east" being their two guesses.
And if you are a white guy of European descent?
And no the youngest child is not going to point you out in NZ - tourists and migrants aren't uncommon at all.
That seems like a lot of effort for a very unlikely pay off.
Are you "of middle eastern appearance"? Are you under 25?
No on both? Then yes the Autralian police are fine and upstanding providing a wonderful service to all Australians.
The developer says "We have begun contacting users of Haystack to tell them to cease using the program".
So clearly the EFF is just repeating what they are saying, which is "don't use it".
the steam bit is unsurprising I buy random stuff on steam when it goes on the 75% off, and stuff I'm pretty sure I'll like when it is on 50% off.
That and the twice a year new game at full price covers my gaming completely - given how little time I have for gaming these days.
In fact I get more enjoyment from the random steam stuff since there's no regret when I only play the game for a few hours and then give up on it when it only cost $7.50. Whereas to this day I still manage to buy the occasional complete piece of crap full price new game (ufc 2010 - I'm looking at you...)
What other motivation is there to sell something, especially something digital (so copies can be made for free)?
And why do you imply that that's a bad motivation?
There's also the benefit if "ah-ah" moments when some piece of knowledge seemingly unrelated to what you are working on now turns out to be related. And since you "know" it you make the connection.
Likely not an issue unless you are actually doing something novel though.
The broken window fallacy is that a broken window causes the owner to buy a new window which employs the window maker, who then buys something else, and so and so on. Resulting in a boost to the economy. It's an obvious fallacy.
My claim was nothing to do with that at all, here's the example for the morons:
1. Dr Evil has found a bug in Windows and has his team of hackers writing an exploit which he will use to blow up the power grid in North America.
2. Joe the Crappy Hacker also finds said bug and tells Microsoft
3. Microsoft does nothing.
4. Dr Evil pulls the switch and Americans can't watch TV for an evening.
Compared with: ;a bug in Windows and has his team of hackers writing an exploit which he will use to blow up the power grid in North America.
1. Dr Evil has found
2. Joe the Crappy Hacker also find said bug and writes some malware that displays a political message and distributes itself via email.
3. Microsoft rushes to fix the problem and releases an emergency patch.
4. Dr Evil pulls the switch and nothing happens because the exploit was fixed.
The second situation has less negative consequences for society, and hence the malware was positive for society.
Yes I don't think it's a particularly likely, in fact I don't think it will ever occur. It is however, a possible situation (well the bug getting fixed before a more damaging exploit part, not the Dr Evil part).
But even if you disagree with that it still isn't a broken window fallacy, because it isn't making claims about economic benefit of any activity at all.
If you majored in economics then I suggest asking for refund. Then again I guess if you only have a hammer then the whole world looks like a nail.
a while ago, which had to be streaming since it was close to live (I'm sure there was a hefty delay).
No it's not the broken window fallacy. Do you just post random crap in random places.
If it is you'll be able to point to part which is about the economy being improved by the busy work of repairing the damage. But you can't because it wasn't there and because you are fucking retarded.
Not necessarily. Active malware tends to get the software producer to fix the bug faster. Hence less damaging malware now, might see the issue fixed before more damaging malware is released - that would be a net positive for society.
Of course you can never know, all you know is the damage done by the malware that was released.
It's impossible for a cable to come down in a storm, or a backhoe dig in the wrong place. Well if the cable is copper, if it's fiber then that happens all the time.
Yes because third world sweat shops live in fear of their employees. So much so that they would never just churn through then and discard the ones that couldn't keep up the pace.
And no, most poor people aren't poor because they are lazy. They are poor because their parents were poor, and it takes an exceptional person to improve their lot when they can't go to school because they have to work or else the family will starve. This is why the big evil government you hate so much, in developed countries anyway, tend to make school mandatory and place other evil restrictions on business like not letting 9 year olds work in the factories.
So the ER doctor is lazy, won't change things in the long run.
If a vaccine does cause problems then there will be multiple cases and at some point the connection will be made. One isolated incident really doesn't matter in the scheme of things - sure it matters to the people involved very much, but that's not the issue at hand.
See Australia earlier this year when a they did have issues with flu vaccine for an example of how the system works in that case.
It doesn't cost 1 euro, which would be obvious to anyone not intentionally being a moron.
In fact it currently costs 10, so those 134821 sales is 1,348,210 euros or a bit over $1.7 million US. Having half your sales be at the tail end when the publicity ramped up isn't exactly unexpected.
yeah right, because there's a single person dumb enough to buy a house at anywhere within a order of magnitude or two of current prices if they can't sell it later.
And car dealers make a chunk of money on the financing portion, no way are they doing to put up with that. In fact GM only makes cars so GMAC can write loans for them (well at least until it all went tits up).
Your six year old must be much much smarter than mine. Mine is unlikely to make long term connections, such as "I failed my math test today because I was hyper in the class and I was hyper in class because I ate something with too much sugar for lunch an hour ago". They are certainly unlikely to decide that getting fat in 2 years time or having a heart attack in 40 years time might be the result of doing something now and hence it'd be good not to do it.
Do you also think it is a great idea to put the 9 month old into a room full of marbles, after all when one gets lodged in their windpipe they won't do that anymore. It's called learning.
It is not unreasonable to tell a 6 year old "here is $2.20 for lunch, buy lunch with it" and expecting them not to treat it as their own money to do whatever they want with.
Do you also think that if I give the kid my cell phone to make a call that since they now have the phone in their possession they own it and can do whatever they like with it? Selling it to someone else in order to buy a video game, throwing it into the pool?
I'm all for letting kids be kids. But that doesn't mean intentionally constructing situations in which they are bound to harm themselves.
or just use asbestos instead of paper, or steel. Problem solved.