It is a shame that people are not able to fundamentally grasp that the government is in the wrong here. No wonder government constantly oversteps its bounds, people are just so used to letting police overreact to every little thing.
Many places have had to write laws to stop police from automatically starting a grand chase if a person they are chasing is not shown to be an immediate & serious risk to everyone around them. Instead get the plate and track them down later. Too many times police will unnecessarily escalate situations complicating matters in ways that just are not necessary to resolve the problem.
The person that made the call to stop traffic should have been reprimanded and be forced to teach a class on what he did wrong around the country and how it should have been handled instead.
The same could have happened to a sick person walking on the side walk and stumbled into the street as well. Are you going to write a law and hire a legion of police enforcing that law and removing infirm people from the side of the road?
As usual someone like you failed to understand... it's not the enforcement of the law that is being "assholed about here" it is folks like you more than willing to let government run amuck in response to someone doing something more inconvenient and stupid which is exponentially far worse than the problem at hand.
You really do need to chill and stop letting petty excuses like this goad you into being more of a moron than the moron you are angry at.
The end all be all of government BS. Government has without exception used this excuse to exert unreasonable control over people and inconvenience them.
someone is up in the rafters... STOP EVERYTHING!!!! why?.. concern for welfare you moron!!!
Would be much cheaper if government just ignored this slob or waited for him to come down an arrest him without all of this "over reactive BS". Instead the go to solution is to cost EVERYONE involved way more time and expense than is even remotely necessary! It even has elicited some people to hate the 1st moron MORE than the morons acting even MORE moronically than the original moron!
It seems like everything these days is pure over reaction now. Someone said a word you didn't like? Well that is obviously CODE for "insert your favorite problem now" People keep doing something you don't like but does not harm you? Great convince a politician to make the tax payers pay for a big ole policy against it! Someone is up a bridge... stop traffic!
Things are just going to happen folks, over reacting is always more counter productive than if the problem is general ignored. If people want to risk their lives, let them or fine them. I would call it the stupid tax but that one already exists and if you have to ask what that tax is... then you are are not smart enough to understand what the stupid tax is is or why it exists. Morons are all around you... lets just buy them Darwins Awards for when they kill themselves!
I have lived in both, once again... just because you change how things get managed it does not change the underlying idea I am putting forward.
No matter what you put forward the basic problem with incompetent people running the show exists. DevOps will fail just like every other doctrine before it.
I don't hate DevOps, Agile, ITIL, Waterfall or any of that stuff. They are all perfectly valid ways of doing things... and I do mean PERFECTLY VALID, the problem is that it is another smoke and mirrors attempt to move the goal post because no matter what you say or do... the blame has to go somewhere other than at the people in charge.
I am sort of tired of this constant "revolution" garbage that surrounds the IT industry in general. I work in this shit industry, I am well paid for what I do, but one thing is always certain... It will always suck because everyone in charge of IT came from college where stupid is the only thing being taught when it comes to computer science.
There is never anything innovative being done, by the time I am done listening to a sales pitch I realized I have heard all of this shit before, it's the same shit product emulating another shit product surrounded by proprietary technology that works like shit just in a different shitty way.
There is also the problem that every industry has... 20% of the folks do 80% of the work. Do you know what else tends to happen? 20% of the people are the only ones that knows what to do or what is going on. Do you know what else? IT is not a meritocracy either... it is still the same brown-nosing ass licking who you know path to success, like every other department. Those in the know are constantly assaulted by their lesser skilled and capable "co-workers". Those in the know are constantly waiting for some other knob in a different department to do their own damn job. And all of this while management keeps not getting a fucking clue and piling on more and more work to the point that more than 50% of projects fail by either never having the proper amount of time & expense dedicated to it.
These bullshit "cultural DevOps, ITIL, Agile, Waterfall, blah blah blah" are all stupid ideas people keep coming up with to address the problem of an industry that is riddled with incompetent management trying to rule over an incompetent group of pseudo intellectual nerds that know far less than they put on. And that is another problem as well... people hate IT personnel that do not sound "over confident" it is a practical requirement for IT pro's to act like they know every fucking thing there is to know and yet those of us at the top know different. We are all running around trying to figure out every little fucking thing on the fly because experience has taught us to just roll up our fucking sleeves and work it out... regardless of whichever newfangled fucking "operation ideology" that someone pushes.
Yea I would go ditto's on Altered Carbon, Buster Scruggs, The Good Place, & Orville. I would add... Castlevania 7 Deadly Sins F is for Family
No Movies of note, while I did enjoy watching many of the Marvel movies, hi-tech but still in your face hand to hand combat as they swat off weapons fire like they are nothing. It is just too immersion breaking for me I guess or I am just not able to suspend a high enough level of disbelief. And don't get me started on the trash that happened in Starwars... Hollywood rarely produces anything better than gutter trash anyways, being that Hollywood is mostly trash to start with.
The effort to achieve actual AI is going to require so much effort that I would be absolutely shocked to see it in our lifetime. This is not some bogus claim either.
There are multiple components to intelligence at a fundamental level that is necessary to achieve first.
#1. Neurons remap connections... this is not software rewriting itself. This is physical connections remapping on their own. We don't have tech for this. This is a significant barrier to achieving AI and one of the reasons research if looking into biomass as a shortcut around this problem. But it will no longer be AI at that point... it will be augmented natural intelligence. #2. Understanding... as someone else said further up, what you see in the news is not real intelligence at all. It is just computers "matching" up failures and successes according to predetermined criteria. Yes... we humans have this as well through feeling pain when we hit the ground helping us to learn to make efforts to not fall, but ours goes further than what a machine does. #3. Transitive knowledge... closer to wisdom, forward thinking, research. If I discover one thing, I can likely use what I just learned to teach me something else/new or answer and old question. Literally things that can used to build on top of one another. How in the literal fuck do you get an AI to do this? We have animals that can use tools, but they don't use them to build new tools. Humans build, redesign, rebuild, and research and start that process over endlessly. Once a computer see's success... it moves on to the next problem to solve, instead of asking the question again. #4. It's fundamental... the ability to laugh at a joke... if a machine can achieve this and not just some preprogrammed facsimile of it then we will finally have a legit AI. After that, it needs to be able to create a funny joke... discovery of and commission to irony is one of the most complex human processes that we rarely think about in our daily lives.
The most advanced CPU on planet earth is ridding around in our skulls, and those take years to develop and some never really develop beyond moron. Like the news in general!
I just am not able to have any sympathy for people that keep buying these products. This is not news anymore! It is well known and only people intentionally keeping their heads buried are the only ones getting hurt now.
But look on the bright side, this will build up enough to get congress to create a bunch of regulations that benefit big industry though. It's going to be a win-win-lose as usual. You know who the losers are going to be.
"The 2012 attack was devastating in particular, with Shamoon wiping data on over 30,000 computers, crippling the company's activity for weeks."
Sounds like business as usual... it's not worth the time to spend the money to protect against these problems... better off losing a whole lot fucking more money when it happens and then curse the department they directly prevented from protecting this problem.
This is worse than just shooting oneself in the foot, its more like making sure the trigger gets pulled no matter what.
This problem is everywhere too, this one just happens to make it into the news. I don't think businesses are really aware of how much money it hemorrhages in vain attempts to save money.
The lost productivity, the T&E required to restore that lost productivity, without exception, has always cost more than was ever saved.
I have seen companies experience multi million dollars losses because they did not see the value in a product that cost a couple of hundred K. This is especially true for redundant power. Backup power generation is stupid cheap compared to the losses you face from a 24 hour power outage. All those employees getting paid for doing no work is just the start of it.
Most businesses fundamentally do not understand security, and most programmers fundamentally work against good security, and so does most of the industry. Security has always been an after the fact effort.
I did state that I am only talking about 1 element did I not? I even used an oversimplified example and stated it as such. The reason why it is kept simplified because it is a knowable quantity in the chaos and you are trying to bring unknowable quantities in to muddy the water. I have been trying to tell you that the entire time.
Get off the theoretical and stick to the factual. If you want to expand the conversation, stop trying to refute a fact causing me to have to keep correcting you. This gets easier when you figure it out.
I think most already know that there are "other" effects in the economy that also modifies inflation and values of things in an economy. But under no circumstances does those change the fact that adding currency is an immutable act of inflation. And this simple fact means, that over time, there is a 100% chance of inflation, whether other effects add to or offset that inflation. When it comes to the other effects, they could make the inflation worse as well, but you are intentionally implying that these cancels the inflation out.
NOTHING cancels inflation cause by adding to the currency pool, at best it can only offset it. And when the effects of those offset change, that inflation still remains. This years inflation is compounded on top of last years inflation. The ONLY way to cancel this effect is to remove currency from the pool of available currency.
The act of adding more creates inflation... regardless of another effect offsetting it. Done, no more to say about it.
It's inflation omnichad, it's inflation good or bad, It's inflation here and there, it's inflation everywhere, If's inflation omnichad, that fact won't change... even when you're mad!
I do not think they are significant in the context of this argument, though that may change in the future. Sure they might be able to come up with some creative applications for things, but they do not have the powers that Lawmakers, regulators, banks, and Financial institutions have... not by a mile.
In this context they could just as easily say we want to trade shoes as a form of currency. But they still need to convince the government and financial institutions to accept shoes as a currency too. Until them... they are the same as any other commodity. You use REAL money to trade them because they themselves are not real money at all.
The other thing is accessibility. Crypto's are not available to everyone and are not accepted as forms of payment everywhere. If someone tried by buy something I was selling in crypto I would say... no thanks and I am hardly alone in that.
Math is not a theory, Math does not operate on theory. 1+1=2 is NOT a theory. Where did you get that idea?
I do not think you are willing to be reasonable here. I am only talking about 1 thing. And that is the currency itself. You have constantly tried to shoehorn in extraneous factors to derail the conversation in some vain attempt to countermand my basic and factual point.
No matter how many other factors you try to confuse the situation with, increasing the supply of money is an inflationary effect. This is a fact regardless of any other "deflationary" effects you concoct and does not change even if the "overall" effect of an economic result was deflationary.
You are nothing but an entire collection of non-sequitur arguments that have nothing to do with what I stated.
No, you are just trying to turn my argument into something else and you are getting upset that I am not biting.
I don't care what you think, I only care about the facts. You can sit around the prognosticate all you want, it means nothing in the context of my comment.
Adding more currency creates inflation no matter how many fallacies you use to say otherwise. You are the one blathering about theory. It is very simple math to understand that increasing supply of currency decreases its value and thereby creates inflation. It's not theory, its just a plain as day fact just like gravity. I can't help you if you cannot accept that.
You are making specious claims. Computational power is the limiting factor, what happens if a breakthrough in processing occurs? A lot of crypto can flood. Same as if a bug occurs. Are you going to take back the buggy currencies? prefect way to start a war or at least raise crime in the chaos.
Overall deflation "could" happen but not even hardly a realistic claim by anyone that knows better. Look at currencies world wide and their histories. Inflation is the de-facto and most economists consider a small but positive amount of inflation as good while almost any deflation is viewed as bad.
crypto in its current state is going no where and for good reason.
As long as the pool grows, regardless of the rate of growth it creates inflation.
Look at Venezuela and it's hyper inflation. What is growing? The amount of money. Everyone is a millionaire down there but only in the way everyone with $10k are penny millionaires in the USA.
" Inflation isn't just the injection of more supply," Correct, but the injection of more supply always guarantee's inflation. Just because OTHER factors can also increase or even LOWER inflation does no mute the basic fact that adding more X to the pool increases inflation.
What you and the other commenters are missing is that you think just because another mechanism can create deflation that somehow can mean that this does not create inflation.
It's simple as explain int he supply and demand model.
If there are 1000 coins and 10 more are created then inflation of 1% just occurred. This inflation may not be immediately felt by everyone but it is there. Additionally, if the demand for a lot of things fall, and cause deflationary effects of 2% that means that deflation was 1%. But if those 10 coins were not added then deflation would have been 2%. This is oversimplified for educational purposes but makes it clear that just because overall inflation is based on multiple things... adding currency to a pool is always inflationary and will never not be, no matter how many other factors offset that inflation.
Cryptos are mined, which means over time more and more are added to the available pool. How does this fact fit into a "deflation mode"?
Inflation has a basic component... "amount of x". It is a key principle of supply and demand. More supply = less value. Less supply = more value. Demand has the same model in the opposite direction. If there are only 1000 coins in the market a demand for only 1 of them means its value is low. If there is a demand for 2000 of them then the value is high. Now... if the market flood with 1 million... the value AND demand for 1 or 2000 is low & low.
You are never going to institute a currency that cannot be fiddled with by the powers that be. One of the cornerstones of Crypto Currency is a static rate of inflation. They it can be easily stolen by hacking exchanges, or taken possession of by authority. It's volatility is directly linked to the currently established and highly manipulated currencies that people use to exchange them with.
Investors only care if it gets them money, governments only care if it gets them spend and traceability, and Central Bankers only care if they have direct control over it's production and distribution.
Right now, the only thing going on is the wait... when the Central Bankers find a cryptocurrency they like and can control like they do fiat currencies then we will finally have a cryptocurrency that has some traction. Until then... this is all "expensive" novelty shop antics.
The fraudulent nonsense is on you. Both are terrible, just because they have different rhetoric and ways of acting out that corruption does not change the end result that corruption is end to end, party before country, constant lies and deceit, dancing around the issues, backroom deals, rushing votes on recently changed bills, pork, omnibus, budget, gerrymandering, filibusters, taking bribes, lobbyists over citizens, fear mongering, and a general disconnect with reality BOTH FUCKING SIDES!!! People like you are easy to fool. I could rob you and make you love me for it, all I have to do is tell you it was those other guys over there! It's that simple... that is how politicians play the game, regardless of side and that is how YOU get pulled into thinking that one sides is more noble or cares about you more. They are the rich elite and you are the poor serf. They are smart and you are dumb... by the pure virtue that they are ruling over you! If you were so smart then you too would be able to game the system and put these idiots in the place and show them to be the fools they obviously are right?
NN has loopholes built into it... yea I can hear it now... It's better than nothing. So what? That's the bait that you just bit sucker! When NN was in effect I saw no difference in my speeds, bandwidth limits. I did not see a change in exclusive content, I still saw Netflix getting throttled, I still saw the news reports where ISP kept fucking people over.
The NN fight is the same as this stupid joke.
To find out how to keep an idiot busy, turn this over... *turns over* To find out how to keep an idiot busy, turn this over...
Please... keep turning the rock over... regulations gave the ISP's monopoly power starting with the creation of the FCC. The FCC is on record as stating they will regulate them as monopolies and they didn't even have to.
Charles Reese was on target here..
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... "Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them."... "Don't you see the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party."... "Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees."
And you don't have the gumption because you have been fooled (by a politician) into thinking 1/2 of the country wants you marginalized, enslaved, silenced, or killed.
A bit of trivia... did you know that there is no constitutional requirement for states to let citizens even vote for president of USA?
However the states decided to allow it through their own laws, which is why each state has slightly different rules about how the electors are "encouraged/required" to vote.
This is one of the reasons I consider anyone that calls America a Democracy to be more than just an ignorant idiot. They are either a moron or intentionally proffering a straight up lie for idiots to gobble up like mad.
"When you lose chess do you pretend you were playing a different game?"
When parties lose elections yes, they do pretend they were playing a different game. This is why Democrats cry that Trump is a threat to Democracy and also claim that this is why the "Electoral College" should be abolished. Changing that requires a Constitutional Amendment.
Trump is not a threat to our Democracy... we need to have one for him to threaten to begin with.
First sign someone does not know what they are talking about is when they call America a Democracy.
There is nothing democratic about America. Hillary lost the presidential election because Trump won the electoral college. She got more votes than Trump, because the president of American is NOT elected democratically, where is the "democracy" in that? When congress creates a law the President can VETO the law. There is NOTHING democratic about a single person being able to veto a law, a super majority is required to overturn a veto... is this a Super Democracy? If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!
In every case in the operation of the American government a Majority can be defeated by a very small minority... there is ZERO democracy in that, not a single freaking speck!
Democracy in ANY form requires a "majority" of some kind and since a minority can destroy the majority puts into place we are not a democracy. We are not even democratically voting in our representatives... representatives can lose to a minority vote anyways, and this problem is even made worse by gerrymandering issues where elections are stacked against certain voters. where is the freaking democracy in that? If you are voting in a democracy then you don't need an executive branch being able to affect any laws. Heck if "democracy" was even possible you would not even need a government because people would enforce what is right or wrong through majority activity anyways. And everyone already knows that would not work... because far too many people actually do not support what is right and far too many people are not just ignorant of things, they are grossly ignorant, easy to buy off and corrupt when it suits their interests... and why the founders specifically set America up to NOT be a democracy and to additionally put in stop gaps to prevent a Democracy as much as possible.
Everyone calling America a Democracy are the same people that falsely mislabel things to socially engineer things to perpetuate a lie. If you are okay with that... then you have no right when people call you how for perpetuating that lie.
America is NOT a democracy and neither is anything Democratically done here. Not even in vaunted California where "democratically elected laws" can be overturned by a single Judge. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
One thing I can tell you for certain is that anyone that espouses "democracy" actually do not support democracy because if they did... they would for starters stop trying to challenge laws in courts to have them overturned. They would instead encourage voters to change the law the way a democracy should change laws... through voter turn out and yet... they don't! The only do one thing... tell people to vote only for those parroting the party lines... they do not vote in candidates that actually run on a platform of actually turning America into a Democracy. Instead they have focused their energy on convincing people of a massive lie, and don't say that is not possible. There are multiple examples throughout history that you CAN fool most of the people most of the time. In fact we are in the information age and misinformation is a problem so serious that problem is in the news labeled as fake news, alt-facts, and people that will seriously debate the simple fact that A is not the first letter of the English alphabet and that science is wrong when it bumps up against their political religion.
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It is a shame that people are not able to fundamentally grasp that the government is in the wrong here. No wonder government constantly oversteps its bounds, people are just so used to letting police overreact to every little thing.
Many places have had to write laws to stop police from automatically starting a grand chase if a person they are chasing is not shown to be an immediate & serious risk to everyone around them. Instead get the plate and track them down later. Too many times police will unnecessarily escalate situations complicating matters in ways that just are not necessary to resolve the problem.
The person that made the call to stop traffic should have been reprimanded and be forced to teach a class on what he did wrong around the country and how it should have been handled instead.
Meaningless whatifism...
The same could have happened to a sick person walking on the side walk and stumbled into the street as well. Are you going to write a law and hire a legion of police enforcing that law and removing infirm people from the side of the road?
As usual someone like you failed to understand... it's not the enforcement of the law that is being "assholed about here" it is folks like you more than willing to let government run amuck in response to someone doing something more inconvenient and stupid which is exponentially far worse than the problem at hand.
You really do need to chill and stop letting petty excuses like this goad you into being more of a moron than the moron you are angry at.
The end all be all of government BS. Government has without exception used this excuse to exert unreasonable control over people and inconvenience them.
someone is up in the rafters... STOP EVERYTHING!!!!
why?.. concern for welfare you moron!!!
Would be much cheaper if government just ignored this slob or waited for him to come down an arrest him without all of this "over reactive BS". Instead the go to solution is to cost EVERYONE involved way more time and expense than is even remotely necessary! It even has elicited some people to hate the 1st moron MORE than the morons acting even MORE moronically than the original moron!
It seems like everything these days is pure over reaction now. Someone said a word you didn't like? Well that is obviously CODE for "insert your favorite problem now" People keep doing something you don't like but does not harm you? Great convince a politician to make the tax payers pay for a big ole policy against it! Someone is up a bridge... stop traffic!
Things are just going to happen folks, over reacting is always more counter productive than if the problem is general ignored. If people want to risk their lives, let them or fine them. I would call it the stupid tax but that one already exists and if you have to ask what that tax is... then you are are not smart enough to understand what the stupid tax is is or why it exists. Morons are all around you... lets just buy them Darwins Awards for when they kill themselves!
this is so spot on!!!
I have lived in both, once again... just because you change how things get managed it does not change the underlying idea I am putting forward.
No matter what you put forward the basic problem with incompetent people running the show exists. DevOps will fail just like every other doctrine before it.
I don't hate DevOps, Agile, ITIL, Waterfall or any of that stuff. They are all perfectly valid ways of doing things... and I do mean PERFECTLY VALID, the problem is that it is another smoke and mirrors attempt to move the goal post because no matter what you say or do... the blame has to go somewhere other than at the people in charge.
Application Virtualization is nothing new.
Just because you change it does not make it innovative.
Innovative means NEW... application virtualization is not.
I have been doing this for a while... sure I might be a problem, but likely only to the people recycling old hat like it is a new hat.
IT and the "movement disease".
I am sort of tired of this constant "revolution" garbage that surrounds the IT industry in general. I work in this shit industry, I am well paid for what I do, but one thing is always certain... It will always suck because everyone in charge of IT came from college where stupid is the only thing being taught when it comes to computer science.
There is never anything innovative being done, by the time I am done listening to a sales pitch I realized I have heard all of this shit before, it's the same shit product emulating another shit product surrounded by proprietary technology that works like shit just in a different shitty way.
There is also the problem that every industry has... 20% of the folks do 80% of the work. Do you know what else tends to happen? 20% of the people are the only ones that knows what to do or what is going on. Do you know what else? IT is not a meritocracy either... it is still the same brown-nosing ass licking who you know path to success, like every other department. Those in the know are constantly assaulted by their lesser skilled and capable "co-workers". Those in the know are constantly waiting for some other knob in a different department to do their own damn job. And all of this while management keeps not getting a fucking clue and piling on more and more work to the point that more than 50% of projects fail by either never having the proper amount of time & expense dedicated to it.
These bullshit "cultural DevOps, ITIL, Agile, Waterfall, blah blah blah" are all stupid ideas people keep coming up with to address the problem of an industry that is riddled with incompetent management trying to rule over an incompetent group of pseudo intellectual nerds that know far less than they put on. And that is another problem as well... people hate IT personnel that do not sound "over confident" it is a practical requirement for IT pro's to act like they know every fucking thing there is to know and yet those of us at the top know different. We are all running around trying to figure out every little fucking thing on the fly because experience has taught us to just roll up our fucking sleeves and work it out... regardless of whichever newfangled fucking "operation ideology" that someone pushes.
Yea I would go ditto's on
Altered Carbon, Buster Scruggs, The Good Place, & Orville.
I would add...
Castlevania
7 Deadly Sins
F is for Family
No Movies of note, while I did enjoy watching many of the Marvel movies, hi-tech but still in your face hand to hand combat as they swat off weapons fire like they are nothing. It is just too immersion breaking for me I guess or I am just not able to suspend a high enough level of disbelief. And don't get me started on the trash that happened in Starwars... Hollywood rarely produces anything better than gutter trash anyways, being that Hollywood is mostly trash to start with.
The effort to achieve actual AI is going to require so much effort that I would be absolutely shocked to see it in our lifetime. This is not some bogus claim either.
There are multiple components to intelligence at a fundamental level that is necessary to achieve first.
#1. Neurons remap connections... this is not software rewriting itself. This is physical connections remapping on their own. We don't have tech for this. This is a significant barrier to achieving AI and one of the reasons research if looking into biomass as a shortcut around this problem. But it will no longer be AI at that point... it will be augmented natural intelligence.
#2. Understanding... as someone else said further up, what you see in the news is not real intelligence at all. It is just computers "matching" up failures and successes according to predetermined criteria. Yes... we humans have this as well through feeling pain when we hit the ground helping us to learn to make efforts to not fall, but ours goes further than what a machine does.
#3. Transitive knowledge... closer to wisdom, forward thinking, research. If I discover one thing, I can likely use what I just learned to teach me something else/new or answer and old question. Literally things that can used to build on top of one another. How in the literal fuck do you get an AI to do this? We have animals that can use tools, but they don't use them to build new tools. Humans build, redesign, rebuild, and research and start that process over endlessly. Once a computer see's success... it moves on to the next problem to solve, instead of asking the question again.
#4. It's fundamental... the ability to laugh at a joke... if a machine can achieve this and not just some preprogrammed facsimile of it then we will finally have a legit AI. After that, it needs to be able to create a funny joke... discovery of and commission to irony is one of the most complex human processes that we rarely think about in our daily lives.
The most advanced CPU on planet earth is ridding around in our skulls, and those take years to develop and some never really develop beyond moron. Like the news in general!
I just am not able to have any sympathy for people that keep buying these products. This is not news anymore! It is well known and only people intentionally keeping their heads buried are the only ones getting hurt now.
But look on the bright side, this will build up enough to get congress to create a bunch of regulations that benefit big industry though. It's going to be a win-win-lose as usual. You know who the losers are going to be.
"The 2012 attack was devastating in particular, with Shamoon wiping data on over 30,000 computers, crippling the company's activity for weeks."
Sounds like business as usual... it's not worth the time to spend the money to protect against these problems... better off losing a whole lot fucking more money when it happens and then curse the department they directly prevented from protecting this problem.
This is worse than just shooting oneself in the foot, its more like making sure the trigger gets pulled no matter what.
This problem is everywhere too, this one just happens to make it into the news. I don't think businesses are really aware of how much money it hemorrhages in vain attempts to save money.
The lost productivity, the T&E required to restore that lost productivity, without exception, has always cost more than was ever saved.
I have seen companies experience multi million dollars losses because they did not see the value in a product that cost a couple of hundred K. This is especially true for redundant power. Backup power generation is stupid cheap compared to the losses you face from a 24 hour power outage. All those employees getting paid for doing no work is just the start of it.
Most businesses fundamentally do not understand security, and most programmers fundamentally work against good security, and so does most of the industry. Security has always been an after the fact effort.
"You're just oversimplifying it."
I did state that I am only talking about 1 element did I not? I even used an oversimplified example and stated it as such. The reason why it is kept simplified because it is a knowable quantity in the chaos and you are trying to bring unknowable quantities in to muddy the water. I have been trying to tell you that the entire time.
Get off the theoretical and stick to the factual. If you want to expand the conversation, stop trying to refute a fact causing me to have to keep correcting you. This gets easier when you figure it out.
I think most already know that there are "other" effects in the economy that also modifies inflation and values of things in an economy. But under no circumstances does those change the fact that adding currency is an immutable act of inflation. And this simple fact means, that over time, there is a 100% chance of inflation, whether other effects add to or offset that inflation. When it comes to the other effects, they could make the inflation worse as well, but you are intentionally implying that these cancels the inflation out.
NOTHING cancels inflation cause by adding to the currency pool, at best it can only offset it. And when the effects of those offset change, that inflation still remains. This years inflation is compounded on top of last years inflation. The ONLY way to cancel this effect is to remove currency from the pool of available currency.
Straw-man argument... again.
The act of adding more creates inflation... regardless of another effect offsetting it. Done, no more to say about it.
It's inflation omnichad, it's inflation good or bad,
It's inflation here and there, it's inflation everywhere,
If's inflation omnichad, that fact won't change...
even when you're mad!
I do not think they are significant in the context of this argument, though that may change in the future. Sure they might be able to come up with some creative applications for things, but they do not have the powers that Lawmakers, regulators, banks, and Financial institutions have... not by a mile.
In this context they could just as easily say we want to trade shoes as a form of currency. But they still need to convince the government and financial institutions to accept shoes as a currency too. Until them... they are the same as any other commodity. You use REAL money to trade them because they themselves are not real money at all.
The other thing is accessibility. Crypto's are not available to everyone and are not accepted as forms of payment everywhere. If someone tried by buy something I was selling in crypto I would say... no thanks and I am hardly alone in that.
Math is not a theory, Math does not operate on theory. 1+1=2 is NOT a theory. Where did you get that idea?
I do not think you are willing to be reasonable here. I am only talking about 1 thing. And that is the currency itself. You have constantly tried to shoehorn in extraneous factors to derail the conversation in some vain attempt to countermand my basic and factual point.
No matter how many other factors you try to confuse the situation with, increasing the supply of money is an inflationary effect. This is a fact regardless of any other "deflationary" effects you concoct and does not change even if the "overall" effect of an economic result was deflationary.
You are nothing but an entire collection of non-sequitur arguments that have nothing to do with what I stated.
No, you are just trying to turn my argument into something else and you are getting upset that I am not biting.
I don't care what you think, I only care about the facts. You can sit around the prognosticate all you want, it means nothing in the context of my comment.
Adding more currency creates inflation no matter how many fallacies you use to say otherwise. You are the one blathering about theory. It is very simple math to understand that increasing supply of currency decreases its value and thereby creates inflation. It's not theory, its just a plain as day fact just like gravity. I can't help you if you cannot accept that.
You are making specious claims. Computational power is the limiting factor, what happens if a breakthrough in processing occurs? A lot of crypto can flood. Same as if a bug occurs. Are you going to take back the buggy currencies? prefect way to start a war or at least raise crime in the chaos.
Overall deflation "could" happen but not even hardly a realistic claim by anyone that knows better. Look at currencies world wide and their histories. Inflation is the de-facto and most economists consider a small but positive amount of inflation as good while almost any deflation is viewed as bad.
crypto in its current state is going no where and for good reason.
As long as the pool grows, regardless of the rate of growth it creates inflation.
Look at Venezuela and it's hyper inflation. What is growing? The amount of money. Everyone is a millionaire down there but only in the way everyone with $10k are penny millionaires in the USA.
" Inflation isn't just the injection of more supply,"
Correct, but the injection of more supply always guarantee's inflation. Just because OTHER factors can also increase or even LOWER inflation does no mute the basic fact that adding more X to the pool increases inflation.
What you and the other commenters are missing is that you think just because another mechanism can create deflation that somehow can mean that this does not create inflation.
It's simple as explain int he supply and demand model.
If there are 1000 coins and 10 more are created then inflation of 1% just occurred. This inflation may not be immediately felt by everyone but it is there. Additionally, if the demand for a lot of things fall, and cause deflationary effects of 2% that means that deflation was 1%. But if those 10 coins were not added then deflation would have been 2%. This is oversimplified for educational purposes but makes it clear that just because overall inflation is based on multiple things... adding currency to a pool is always inflationary and will never not be, no matter how many other factors offset that inflation.
based on what evidence?
Cryptos are mined, which means over time more and more are added to the available pool. How does this fact fit into a "deflation mode"?
Inflation has a basic component... "amount of x". It is a key principle of supply and demand. More supply = less value. Less supply = more value. Demand has the same model in the opposite direction. If there are only 1000 coins in the market a demand for only 1 of them means its value is low. If there is a demand for 2000 of them then the value is high. Now... if the market flood with 1 million... the value AND demand for 1 or 2000 is low & low.
The currency issue is religious/political.
You are never going to institute a currency that cannot be fiddled with by the powers that be. One of the cornerstones of Crypto Currency is a static rate of inflation. They it can be easily stolen by hacking exchanges, or taken possession of by authority. It's volatility is directly linked to the currently established and highly manipulated currencies that people use to exchange them with.
Investors only care if it gets them money, governments only care if it gets them spend and traceability, and Central Bankers only care if they have direct control over it's production and distribution.
Right now, the only thing going on is the wait... when the Central Bankers find a cryptocurrency they like and can control like they do fiat currencies then we will finally have a cryptocurrency that has some traction. Until then... this is all "expensive" novelty shop antics.
The fraudulent nonsense is on you. Both are terrible, just because they have different rhetoric and ways of acting out that corruption does not change the end result that corruption is end to end, party before country, constant lies and deceit, dancing around the issues, backroom deals, rushing votes on recently changed bills, pork, omnibus, budget, gerrymandering, filibusters, taking bribes, lobbyists over citizens, fear mongering, and a general disconnect with reality BOTH FUCKING SIDES!!! People like you are easy to fool. I could rob you and make you love me for it, all I have to do is tell you it was those other guys over there! It's that simple... that is how politicians play the game, regardless of side and that is how YOU get pulled into thinking that one sides is more noble or cares about you more. They are the rich elite and you are the poor serf. They are smart and you are dumb... by the pure virtue that they are ruling over you! If you were so smart then you too would be able to game the system and put these idiots in the place and show them to be the fools they obviously are right?
NN has loopholes built into it... yea I can hear it now... It's better than nothing. So what? That's the bait that you just bit sucker! When NN was in effect I saw no difference in my speeds, bandwidth limits. I did not see a change in exclusive content, I still saw Netflix getting throttled, I still saw the news reports where ISP kept fucking people over.
The NN fight is the same as this stupid joke.
To find out how to keep an idiot busy, turn this over...
*turns over*
To find out how to keep an idiot busy, turn this over...
Please... keep turning the rock over... regulations gave the ISP's monopoly power starting with the creation of the FCC. The FCC is on record as stating they will regulate them as monopolies and they didn't even have to.
Charles Reese was on target here..
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... ... ...
"Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them."
"Don't you see the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party."
"Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees."
And you don't have the gumption because you have been fooled (by a politician) into thinking 1/2 of the country wants you marginalized, enslaved, silenced, or killed.
A bit of trivia... did you know that there is no constitutional requirement for states to let citizens even vote for president of USA?
However the states decided to allow it through their own laws, which is why each state has slightly different rules about how the electors are "encouraged/required" to vote.
You should look up the term "faithless elector". You might be shocked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is one of the reasons I consider anyone that calls America a Democracy to be more than just an ignorant idiot. They are either a moron or intentionally proffering a straight up lie for idiots to gobble up like mad.
"When you lose chess do you pretend you were playing a different game?"
When parties lose elections yes, they do pretend they were playing a different game. This is why Democrats cry that Trump is a threat to Democracy and also claim that this is why the "Electoral College" should be abolished. Changing that requires a Constitutional Amendment.
Trump is not a threat to our Democracy... we need to have one for him to threaten to begin with.
First sign someone does not know what they are talking about is when they call America a Democracy.
There is nothing democratic about America.
Hillary lost the presidential election because Trump won the electoral college. She got more votes than Trump, because the president of American is NOT elected democratically, where is the "democracy" in that?
When congress creates a law the President can VETO the law. There is NOTHING democratic about a single person being able to veto a law, a super majority is required to overturn a veto... is this a Super Democracy? If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!
In every case in the operation of the American government a Majority can be defeated by a very small minority... there is ZERO democracy in that, not a single freaking speck!
Democracy in ANY form requires a "majority" of some kind and since a minority can destroy the majority puts into place we are not a democracy. We are not even democratically voting in our representatives... representatives can lose to a minority vote anyways, and this problem is even made worse by gerrymandering issues where elections are stacked against certain voters. where is the freaking democracy in that? If you are voting in a democracy then you don't need an executive branch being able to affect any laws. Heck if "democracy" was even possible you would not even need a government because people would enforce what is right or wrong through majority activity anyways. And everyone already knows that would not work... because far too many people actually do not support what is right and far too many people are not just ignorant of things, they are grossly ignorant, easy to buy off and corrupt when it suits their interests... and why the founders specifically set America up to NOT be a democracy and to additionally put in stop gaps to prevent a Democracy as much as possible.
Everyone calling America a Democracy are the same people that falsely mislabel things to socially engineer things to perpetuate a lie. If you are okay with that... then you have no right when people call you how for perpetuating that lie.
America is NOT a democracy and neither is anything Democratically done here. Not even in vaunted California where "democratically elected laws" can be overturned by a single Judge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
One thing I can tell you for certain is that anyone that espouses "democracy" actually do not support democracy because if they did... they would for starters stop trying to challenge laws in courts to have them overturned. They would instead encourage voters to change the law the way a democracy should change laws... through voter turn out and yet... they don't! The only do one thing... tell people to vote only for those parroting the party lines... they do not vote in candidates that actually run on a platform of actually turning America into a Democracy. Instead they have focused their energy on convincing people of a massive lie, and don't say that is not possible. There are multiple examples throughout history that you CAN fool most of the people most of the time. In fact we are in the information age and misinformation is a problem so serious that problem is in the news labeled as fake news, alt-facts, and people that will seriously debate the simple fact that A is not the first letter of the English alphabet and that science is wrong when it bumps up against their political religion.
I don't have to pass the bar, I provided proof already with a link to an actual lawyer, why do you keep ignoring that? Scared to admit you are wrong?