Ok, say you deposit $1000. The bank loans $900 to Alice. You write 10 checks for $100 and spread them around. Alice writes 9 checks for $100 and spreads them around. 19 people all cash their checks and try to withdraw $100. The bank only has $1000. 9 people are screwed until Alice pays up. No new money was created. Debt obligations were created and then foisted on 9 poor sods who were told it was as good as cash.
It's a cultural thing. There it's really cool, here you might be considered to have a disturbing attraction to things who's only practical use is to kill people with.
1. Nothing in GPs post implies that.
2. Ditto.
4. Since GGP has confirmed GP's 1 and 2, GP has at least partial knowledge of others experiences.
5. I guess you do to then.
Stereotype: Noun: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Since the only thing you can infer about GP is that he or she is human and presumably a US American, you're just pulling stuff out of your ass. -1 troll. The rest of your post is +1 insightful.
The largest debt decrease was with a democrat president with a republican house and senate. This cuts both ways. The largest debt increase (not during war time) was with a republican president and democrat house and senate. The parties only stick to their principals when they need to buy votes for the White House.
Bank A loans out 0.9*deposit_X, which then gets deposited into Bank B. Bank B then loans out 0.9*0.9*deposit_X. Rinse and repeat say 100 times.
Ok. Bank A loans out 0.9*deposit_X, which then gets deposited into bank B. Bank A has 0.1*deposit_X. Bank B loans out 0.9^2*deposit, which then gets deposited into bank C. Bank B has 0.09*deposit_X. Bank C loans out 0.9^3*deposit...
Your bank account balance is not money. When you deposit $1000, you are loaning that money to the bank. The bank has $1000, you have nothing but a promise that they'll give it back when you ask for it.
Oil won't disappear over night. At the very worst case, The government can seize all oil and ration it for the bare necessities, ie food production. If people are rational, they won't care because they can't afford oil anyway and the alternative is to starve. That would buy enough time to build alternative capacity.
The source of energy might be free, but that doesn't mean the electricity generated from it is. It will remain to be seen if grid storage will become cost effective, and whether hydrogen storage will be cheaper than say, sodium/sulphur cells.
That was the trivial example, but as long as the number of cycles is deterministic I think it's the same principle. The delay just becomes dependant on the instruction type instead of one cycle.
...the sneaky way MIPS eliminates the pipeline bubble during branching.
Hah! I knew someone must do this. None of this speculative execution or go both ways garbage, just keep executing instructions until the branch completes. If you're looping and don't have enough instructions, throw a couple of nops in there. All that headache goes away. Do it with arithmetic too: R1 = X, R1 = Y, R2 = R1, R3 = R1 gives R2 = X and R3 = Y. It becomes a pain to program in assembly, but compilers don't care and the CPU becomes almost trivial. If you have something embarrassingly parallel you can fit kilocores on a chip.
Most apps have integers that need less than 8 bits. I don't think registers need to be 128 bits, but a wider data bus would be great if you could load/store 2 or 4 registers at a time. I always thought that the larger registers get the more bits are wasted when you only need small numbers. If you could store say 2 x 16 and a 32 in one register and operate on them individually, It would save a lot of room. Can any modern architectures do this or is it not worth it?
Ok, yeah, "norm" was a bit of an exaggeration. I'm to lazy to find out exactly how many homes have access to 100Mbit or greater connections. Found a few ISPs who's slowest connections are 10Mbits though. Can you get 100Mbits for $60/mo anywhere in the US?
Keep in mind what I said about subsidies.
Key point here. You're the only one talking about subsidies.
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Ok, say you deposit $1000. The bank loans $900 to Alice. You write 10 checks for $100 and spread them around. Alice writes 9 checks for $100 and spreads them around. 19 people all cash their checks and try to withdraw $100. The bank only has $1000. 9 people are screwed until Alice pays up. No new money was created. Debt obligations were created and then foisted on 9 poor sods who were told it was as good as cash.
With solar, you pay for much more infrastructure. So much in fact, that by the time it's paid itself off, it's almost time to replace it.
It's a cultural thing. There it's really cool, here you might be considered to have a disturbing attraction to things who's only practical use is to kill people with.
1. Nothing in GPs post implies that.
2. Ditto.
4. Since GGP has confirmed GP's 1 and 2, GP has at least partial knowledge of others experiences.
5. I guess you do to then.
Stereotype: Noun: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Since the only thing you can infer about GP is that he or she is human and presumably a US American, you're just pulling stuff out of your ass. -1 troll. The rest of your post is +1 insightful.
The largest debt decrease was with a democrat president with a republican house and senate. This cuts both ways. The largest debt increase (not during war time) was with a republican president and democrat house and senate. The parties only stick to their principals when they need to buy votes for the White House.
Bank A loans out 0.9*deposit_X, which then gets deposited into Bank B. Bank B then loans out 0.9*0.9*deposit_X. Rinse and repeat say 100 times.
Ok. Bank A loans out 0.9*deposit_X, which then gets deposited into bank B. Bank A has 0.1*deposit_X. Bank B loans out 0.9^2*deposit, which then gets deposited into bank C. Bank B has 0.09*deposit_X. Bank C loans out 0.9^3*deposit...
... + (0.9^99 - 0.9^100) = 0.999973439
(1 - 0.9^1) + (0.9^1 - 0.9^2) +
Your bank account balance is not money. When you deposit $1000, you are loaning that money to the bank. The bank has $1000, you have nothing but a promise that they'll give it back when you ask for it.
It used to, but yeah, not for a while.
Oil won't disappear over night. At the very worst case, The government can seize all oil and ration it for the bare necessities, ie food production. If people are rational, they won't care because they can't afford oil anyway and the alternative is to starve. That would buy enough time to build alternative capacity.
The source of energy might be free, but that doesn't mean the electricity generated from it is. It will remain to be seen if grid storage will become cost effective, and whether hydrogen storage will be cheaper than say, sodium/sulphur cells.
The condensate is already distilled water. Is that pure enough?
You call that a cheap tablet? This is a cheap tablet. Yours has a higher res screen though.
In fact the rich are paying much more, both, fractionally and in absolute numbers than anybody below their earning bracket.
Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office.
...death panels...
The trigger for the debunked charge was a provision in H.R. 3200 that would have reimbursed physicians for counselling Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options.
That was the trivial example, but as long as the number of cycles is deterministic I think it's the same principle. The delay just becomes dependant on the instruction type instead of one cycle.
Since that time, due to atmospheric drag, the satellite slowly lost height...
GRAVITY EXISTS!
Gravity =/= drag.
Why do you think satellites eventually fall to earth?
They don't. This reveals the true magnitude of your ignorance.
You mush have better reading comprehension than me. Can you walk me through that?
...the sneaky way MIPS eliminates the pipeline bubble during branching.
Hah! I knew someone must do this. None of this speculative execution or go both ways garbage, just keep executing instructions until the branch completes. If you're looping and don't have enough instructions, throw a couple of nops in there. All that headache goes away. Do it with arithmetic too: R1 = X, R1 = Y, R2 = R1, R3 = R1 gives R2 = X and R3 = Y. It becomes a pain to program in assembly, but compilers don't care and the CPU becomes almost trivial. If you have something embarrassingly parallel you can fit kilocores on a chip.
Serial/I2C ports need like, 16 addresses at the most. Are they really that wasteful?
Most apps have integers that need less than 8 bits. I don't think registers need to be 128 bits, but a wider data bus would be great if you could load/store 2 or 4 registers at a time. I always thought that the larger registers get the more bits are wasted when you only need small numbers. If you could store say 2 x 16 and a 32 in one register and operate on them individually, It would save a lot of room. Can any modern architectures do this or is it not worth it?
Keep in mind what I said about subsidies.
Key point here. You're the only one talking about subsidies.
That is A: irrelevant, B: mostly your fault and C: smaller than yours.
In polar co-ordinates a circle is defined by only it's radius (1D)
Define an ellipse using only one number.
Your unjustified arrogance is getting more depressing with each indication that your ignorance is deeper than expected :(
I was thinking this about you, but I wasn't going to say it.
Unless energy is expended to maintain the forward velocity...
There's drag in space now? News to me.
It's about the size of a garbage can lid. Gives you a bit of perspective on the density of gold.