There are these things called non-profits. A non-profit social network seems like a no-brainer, and I'm not sure why it doesn't exist; let alone rule them all.
A non-profit social network could show ads... to people who felt like seeing them. Money gets made (enough to buy servers & connectivity), but the profit itself isn't the core motive. And the users are not product.
I think that was rudy_wayne's point... that one doesn't exist, let alone rule them all, would suggest that the economics of that idea don't work, for that particular problem space anyway. At least at this time.
You mine both - and bitcoins deliberately were created to be analogous that way. There is an upper bound for how much gold is on Earth - and again, bitcoins were designed to have a similar sort of upper bound.
Gold isn't perfectly recoverable.
Seems more like differences of degree, not kind. But I could be wrong.
I think that means the theory that underpins bitcoin is wrong because it can't be a stable monetary supply if it has a finite number of coins each of which can be destroyed or lost."
Er, wouldn't that apply to gold coins and such, too?
There's a balance to be had there. Our idealsare number one, or at least a heck of a lot better than most. That's why you even have some mental standard to trash us with.
You can get so far into trashing your own country that you don't even know why you are doing it.
I've traveled enough to know that when most people start a sentence with "in this country", it just means they don't know about others, even if they think they do.
E.g. you haven't seen racism until you've seen how they treat the one half-black kid in a tiny Chilean town. I just laugh when somebody starts the "disagreeing with Obama = racism" thing. We're a flipping racial harmony paradise compared to most of the world.
We can always do better, but trendy "self"-bashing (really neighbor bashing) doesn't help anything.
Exactly. Hire someone half your age, pay them half as much, make them work twice as hard until they are an age and have enough experience where they start expecting pay rises then fire them and hire youngsters again. Its almost a fiduciary responsibility.
And it's usually stupid... when coders have no business knowledge, it takes at least twice as long in the end to get them to code the right stuff. So you don't save anything.
Finally, it could be that you're applying to all the wrong places where people do look down upon your for your age. They are probably shitty shops you didn't want to work for anyway.
This.
Hint, if at your interview or on a tour you pass a big room crammed with (inexpensive) youngin coders, all in lovely "open plan" office style, you're in the wrong place...
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Um ... what does that even mean? "More" "health care"?
Measured in what? Nanoseconds? Furlongs?
Maybe higher education really won't work for everyone,
It's possible, ya know. Just because we want it to, that's not a magical guarantee that it can.
There are these things called non-profits. A non-profit social network seems like a no-brainer, and I'm not sure why it doesn't exist; let alone rule them all.
A non-profit social network could show ads... to people who felt like seeing them. Money gets made (enough to buy servers & connectivity), but the profit itself isn't the core motive. And the users are not product.
I think that was rudy_wayne's point ... that one doesn't exist, let alone rule them all, would suggest that the economics of that idea don't work, for that particular problem space anyway. At least at this time.
A computer model reveals that spending other people's money is the answer?
Nice work if you can get it ...
Wow, you really believe all that, don't you?
Insurance doesn't pay for cosmetic surgery. Are you high?
People come here from the rest of the world for health care ... at least they did. The more we government-ize it, the worse it gets.
"goddamn" was the 133t speak of the day ...
Wow; it's almost like there might be privacy issues with government-run health care.
Real clinical depression is a life-threatening illness.
I'm sure Canadians and others are just about done with the US and what the government is up to.
It's too bad that there's nobody in charge of the executive branch to hold responsible ... his cloaking device is apparently still at full power.
And who is it likes that? Who loves endless mindless bureaucratic harassment, and loves lots of illegal immigration form the third world?
Pause before giving the reflex /. answer ...
It goes along fine with the rest of our transition to a banana republic. Get used to it.
Or did you think you were voting against power mad bureaucrats, in the last few major elections?
Huh.
You mine both - and bitcoins deliberately were created to be analogous that way. There is an upper bound for how much gold is on Earth - and again, bitcoins were designed to have a similar sort of upper bound.
Gold isn't perfectly recoverable.
Seems more like differences of degree, not kind. But I could be wrong.
Er, wouldn't that apply to gold coins and such, too?
I for one welcome ... ah, forget it.
Still waiting for that ... granted, I choose not to live in a hive of extreme population density that is probably required to make it work.
But dang, there are days I would love to just place an online order and have some milk and bread show up.
OTOH ... would you hire an old plumber for twice as much, if the only thing you got out of it was that he is old?
Now, I gather that the OP's argument is that him being older is not all they would get out of paying him more, but it's up to him to make that case.
There's a balance to be had there. Our ideals are number one, or at least a heck of a lot better than most. That's why you even have some mental standard to trash us with.
You can get so far into trashing your own country that you don't even know why you are doing it.
I've traveled enough to know that when most people start a sentence with "in this country", it just means they don't know about others, even if they think they do.
E.g. you haven't seen racism until you've seen how they treat the one half-black kid in a tiny Chilean town. I just laugh when somebody starts the "disagreeing with Obama = racism" thing. We're a flipping racial harmony paradise compared to most of the world.
We can always do better, but trendy "self"-bashing (really neighbor bashing) doesn't help anything.
Exactly. Hire someone half your age, pay them half as much, make them work twice as hard until they are an age and have enough experience where they start expecting pay rises then fire them and hire youngsters again. Its almost a fiduciary responsibility.
And it's usually stupid ... when coders have no business knowledge, it takes at least twice as long in the end to get them to code the right stuff. So you don't save anything.
Finally, it could be that you're applying to all the wrong places where people do look down upon your for your age. They are probably shitty shops you didn't want to work for anyway.
This.
Hint, if at your interview or on a tour you pass a big room crammed with (inexpensive) youngin coders, all in lovely "open plan" office style, you're in the wrong place ...
if they are fearing what he hasn't released yet.
They know what they did was wrong, and apparently have done even worse stuff.
Time for a change in Government.
What, and give up all this hope and change?
At least you know who you've been trained to hate ... good for you.
"XXX"?
You mean "Obama and other democrats", right? Because this system is their baby.
It's no mystery who "XXX" is; no need for a variable.
I've noticed a Responsibility Diffusion Field around this whole thing ...
... is a way of getting you to not look at the unemployment numbers. And all the other joys of the Obama economy.
... people who are motivated to buy them, love them.
Maybe the (much larger number of) people who aren't buying them, uh, don't?
Was the sarcasm really not evident? Wow.