It's possible that they weigh the moral right thing against the financial right thing.
If it is easy to find an alternative to NC, why not do that?
At the same time it could be really hard to find an equally good alternative to Singapore. Are the laws better in other countries in that area? And if there are countries with better laws in this regard, they may be worse in other ways.
It was really volatile until people figured out what it was but it's no worse or better than any other currency. Try owning any random currency during government unrest. It's "collapsed" to all of ~$350. Which is still worth more than your Zimbabwe dollars.
Why the hell would you own a "random currency during government unrest"?
That seems like very low bar to compare yourself with.
According to coindesk the BTC value during the last 12 months has varied from approximately $210 to $450, or somewhere around 100% "volatility".
Compare to Euros, 1.05-1.15
China CNY, 0.15-0.16
Japan JPY, 0.0080-0.0086
UK GBP, 1.41-1.58
They are all in the region of 10%
That makes the BTC look like it is still pretty damn volatile.
It's like Dolby surround. Information for the additional channels is encoded into the original 2 channels.
You won't get 4 independent channels though, but I think it still counts as an analog decoder.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't necessarily even have to charge money for the electricity.
According to TFA part of the problem is people leaving the car plugged in after it has finished charging.
So put a price on time spent plugged in but not charging. That would ensure people do not waste any time plugged in, while still providing the incentive of free fuel for the cars.
HR departments have learned that most people will accept whatever low-ball initial offer is made, and companies take advantage of that fact. Of those that do negotiate, most of them do a poor job of it, using the lowball offer as the starting point for negotiating.
Anchor price Apparently it works in salary negotiations too.
Obviously they can not get paid by the click, if we want to get rid of click-baiting.
But this is no different from how things work offline. Newspapers that are mostly subscribed have less sensationalist headlines, compared to newspapers that are sold single copy at the news stand.
The biggest positive effect of no ads would be that sites could stop with the click-baiting.
Today lots of sites write misleading sensationalist headlines or leave out important details in summaries just to maximize the click-through and the number of shown ads.
Imagine if all those writers spent their time on writing text that benefits the reader instead of the advertiser.
My father always said you had to be a mechanic if you wanted to own one of the old Harleys.
Well I guess things change. In the future you have to be an electrician...:-)
If 12 people spend 40 hours each doing the work of only 10 people, there are two ways of eliminating the wasted time.
They think two people have jobs that don't need to exist. A better solutions appears to be that all 12 people spend less hours at work.
How would society benefit from having two more unemployed people instead of having 12 people that can spend more time with their kids (or doing whatever they want to do instead)?
The no cost peering agreements between the major ISPs is based on the premise that traffic flows both ways in approximately equal amounts.
Netflix is something like 30% of internet traffic and it's mostly one way. They are so big they produce more traffic than many entire ISPs.
They may be so big that no ISP can peer with Netflix's ISP without disturbing this balance.
Is it possible that the solution is that Netflix basically are forced to have multiple ISPs and connect directly to many networks?
I can see that this could lead to problems as has been mentioned elsewhere in this and many other threads, but maybe there have to be exceptions to the general rule.
I assume Europe is also hard to land on. That would explain why the aliens in Hollywood movies always land in New York or on the front lawn of the White House
But isn't this mostly further embarrassment for the NSA and CIA?
They had all the warning signals about a possible future problem, but did not manage to stop him anyway.
If you're expecting it to mean 100% employment for all software developers then no that's not the case, because in every industry there'll be a few percent of incompetents who are just always unemployable no matter how desperate that industry gets.
There will also be competent people working for companies that go bankrupt or the local office gets closed or are for other reasons looking for a new job.
I read somewhere that 1.5-2% unemployment basically means "everyone" is working.
As an example, 1% unemployment means on average people are unemployed approximately 1 month every 10 years
I find this sentence from the article interesting:
"I flash this image by leveraging root access in the Android operating system to write to the boot block device"
Isn't it usually rooting you want to achieve when you unlock the bootloader?
Or is there already a root exploit available, and this will allow you to not only root a stock image, but instead load custom images?
When you see wind farm tax breaks, do you get upset about wind power generation companies taking advantage of tax laws?
No, because that is the intention of the law.
When companies make deductions for expenses in foreign countries, the intention is not that they create fake expenses in tax heavens that exactly match the profits they make elsewhere.
The intention is this: If they actually produce value in other countries, the profits from that value should be taxed there.
Example:
1: An American company deducts a million dollars for having a subsidiary with 10 programmers in Germany = OK
2: Same company deducts 100 million dollars for having a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands that does nothing but send invoices for 100 million dollars = NOT OK
If you really want to prevent your bags from getting stolen you should attach it to something fixed.
Lock it to the storage compartment with a steel wire. If you also want to prevent it from being opened you can cover it with a steel mesh.
Things like that seem to be popular among some backpackers.
It does not say what kind of luggage you plan to bring, but something like this should cover most scenarios.
on an android tablet...... all I want to run is Android.
Why?
Isn't that like saying "On a Windows PC all I want to run is Windows"? By that logic there would be almost no Linux PCs since most of them come with Windows pre-installed.
Dual booting Android and a full Linux dist seems like a pretty nice feature on a tablet.
As usual when someone "understands" this they have the facts all wrong.
Not so important error: It's the Ecuadorian embassy.
Important error: He is in solitary so he will not disrupt an ongoing investigation for other crimes. Not for anything related to the pirate bay sentence.
I'm not saying it's justified to keep him in solitary for these suspected crimes, but at least get your facts straight.
I know your joking, but I doubt you would want software written by someone who spent most of his day talking on the phone. For that we have project managers...:-)
I still had my mobile connected to the PBX, just no *desk* phone, because that was what suited my usage pattern best.
Also, it always made more sense to have them connected to my dev system than the office system.
It could have been a good geeky exercise to have one of every kind of phone connected to the same number though. (Analog, ISDN, h323, SIP, DECT, mobile and a soft phone on the PC). But i'm not sure my neighbor would like that when all of them starts ringing at once:-)
Less and less people get desk phones. In my last three jobs I have not had a desk phone.*
All I have been given is a mobile phone. However this does not mean PBXs (office phone systems) are not being used.
The mobile phone is still connected to a PBX so I can make free internal calls, call co-workers with shorter 4 digit numbers and have all the other PBX services mentioned in the summary.
Of course people who make a lot of calls still need and use hard phones. But where I have worked this has been a minority
This is fairly typical for tech companies in Sweden, i think. It may not be representative for other companies in Sweden or tech companies in other countries though.
There are also two different questions in the summary.
Are office phones coming to an end? No, but usage is declining.
Are office phone systems coming to an end? No, but usage patterns have changed to include mobile phones and IM
* Except when I worked as a developer on a PBX. Then I had around 8 phones on my desk. I still didn't bother to configure any of them for usage as my office phone...
This is insightful. And a very sad insight as well.
He intentionally sacrificed his life so maybe other current and future players would not have to suffer from the same things he has suffered from.
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It's possible that they weigh the moral right thing against the financial right thing.
If it is easy to find an alternative to NC, why not do that?
At the same time it could be really hard to find an equally good alternative to Singapore. Are the laws better in other countries in that area? And if there are countries with better laws in this regard, they may be worse in other ways.
It was really volatile until people figured out what it was but it's no worse or better than any other currency. Try owning any random currency during government unrest. It's "collapsed" to all of ~$350. Which is still worth more than your Zimbabwe dollars.
Why the hell would you own a "random currency during government unrest"?
That seems like very low bar to compare yourself with.
According to coindesk the BTC value during the last 12 months has varied from approximately $210 to $450, or somewhere around 100% "volatility".
Compare to Euros, 1.05-1.15
China CNY, 0.15-0.16
Japan JPY, 0.0080-0.0086
UK GBP, 1.41-1.58
They are all in the region of 10%
That makes the BTC look like it is still pretty damn volatile.
It's like Dolby surround. Information for the additional channels is encoded into the original 2 channels.
You won't get 4 independent channels though, but I think it still counts as an analog decoder.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't necessarily even have to charge money for the electricity.
According to TFA part of the problem is people leaving the car plugged in after it has finished charging.
So put a price on time spent plugged in but not charging. That would ensure people do not waste any time plugged in, while still providing the incentive of free fuel for the cars.
It replaced a business unit with a contractor (perfectly legal), and that contractor happened to use H1B Visa holders (also perfectly legal).
H1B is meant for when you can't find the competency locally. Clearly that is not the case here, since the contractor could hire the old employees.
HR departments have learned that most people will accept whatever low-ball initial offer is made, and companies take advantage of that fact. Of those that do negotiate, most of them do a poor job of it, using the lowball offer as the starting point for negotiating.
Anchor price Apparently it works in salary negotiations too.
Obviously they can not get paid by the click, if we want to get rid of click-baiting.
But this is no different from how things work offline. Newspapers that are mostly subscribed have less sensationalist headlines, compared to newspapers that are sold single copy at the news stand.
The biggest positive effect of no ads would be that sites could stop with the click-baiting.
Today lots of sites write misleading sensationalist headlines or leave out important details in summaries just to maximize the click-through and the number of shown ads.
Imagine if all those writers spent their time on writing text that benefits the reader instead of the advertiser.
For that I would gladly pay $230.
My father always said you had to be a mechanic if you wanted to own one of the old Harleys. :-)
Well I guess things change. In the future you have to be an electrician...
If 12 people spend 40 hours each doing the work of only 10 people, there are two ways of eliminating the wasted time.
They think two people have jobs that don't need to exist. A better solutions appears to be that all 12 people spend less hours at work.
How would society benefit from having two more unemployed people instead of having 12 people that can spend more time with their kids (or doing whatever they want to do instead)?
The no cost peering agreements between the major ISPs is based on the premise that traffic flows both ways in approximately equal amounts.
Netflix is something like 30% of internet traffic and it's mostly one way. They are so big they produce more traffic than many entire ISPs.
They may be so big that no ISP can peer with Netflix's ISP without disturbing this balance.
Is it possible that the solution is that Netflix basically are forced to have multiple ISPs and connect directly to many networks?
I can see that this could lead to problems as has been mentioned elsewhere in this and many other threads, but maybe there have to be exceptions to the general rule.
Damn, if you had not started the sentence with "successful company", that would have have been a great opportunity for a joke about Beta...
I assume Europe is also hard to land on. That would explain why the aliens in Hollywood movies always land in New York or on the front lawn of the White House
But isn't this mostly further embarrassment for the NSA and CIA?
They had all the warning signals about a possible future problem, but did not manage to stop him anyway.
If you're expecting it to mean 100% employment for all software developers then no that's not the case, because in every industry there'll be a few percent of incompetents who are just always unemployable no matter how desperate that industry gets.
There will also be competent people working for companies that go bankrupt or the local office gets closed or are for other reasons looking for a new job.
I read somewhere that 1.5-2% unemployment basically means "everyone" is working.
As an example, 1% unemployment means on average people are unemployed approximately 1 month every 10 years
I find this sentence from the article interesting:
"I flash this image by leveraging root access in the Android operating system to write to the boot block device"
Isn't it usually rooting you want to achieve when you unlock the bootloader?
Or is there already a root exploit available, and this will allow you to not only root a stock image, but instead load custom images?
When you see wind farm tax breaks, do you get upset about wind power generation companies taking advantage of tax laws?
No, because that is the intention of the law.
When companies make deductions for expenses in foreign countries, the intention is not that they create fake expenses in tax heavens that exactly match the profits they make elsewhere.
The intention is this: If they actually produce value in other countries, the profits from that value should be taxed there.
Example:
1: An American company deducts a million dollars for having a subsidiary with 10 programmers in Germany = OK
2: Same company deducts 100 million dollars for having a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands that does nothing but send invoices for 100 million dollars = NOT OK
After hearing ISPs argue against net neutrality for years, my feelings are best described by a few words from the famous Nelson Muntz:
"HA HA"
If you really want to prevent your bags from getting stolen you should attach it to something fixed.
Lock it to the storage compartment with a steel wire. If you also want to prevent it from being opened you can cover it with a steel mesh.
Things like that seem to be popular among some backpackers.
It does not say what kind of luggage you plan to bring, but something like this should cover most scenarios.
on an android tablet... ... all I want to run is Android.
Why?
Isn't that like saying "On a Windows PC all I want to run is Windows"? By that logic there would be almost no Linux PCs since most of them come with Windows pre-installed.
Dual booting Android and a full Linux dist seems like a pretty nice feature on a tablet.
As usual when someone "understands" this they have the facts all wrong.
Not so important error: It's the Ecuadorian embassy.
Important error: He is in solitary so he will not disrupt an ongoing investigation for other crimes. Not for anything related to the pirate bay sentence.
I'm not saying it's justified to keep him in solitary for these suspected crimes, but at least get your facts straight.
I know your joking, but I doubt you would want software written by someone who spent most of his day talking on the phone. For that we have project managers... :-)
:-)
I still had my mobile connected to the PBX, just no *desk* phone, because that was what suited my usage pattern best.
Also, it always made more sense to have them connected to my dev system than the office system.
It could have been a good geeky exercise to have one of every kind of phone connected to the same number though. (Analog, ISDN, h323, SIP, DECT, mobile and a soft phone on the PC). But i'm not sure my neighbor would like that when all of them starts ringing at once
Less and less people get desk phones. In my last three jobs I have not had a desk phone.* .
All I have been given is a mobile phone. However this does not mean PBXs (office phone systems) are not being used.
The mobile phone is still connected to a PBX so I can make free internal calls, call co-workers with shorter 4 digit numbers and have all the other PBX services mentioned in the summary
Of course people who make a lot of calls still need and use hard phones. But where I have worked this has been a minority
This is fairly typical for tech companies in Sweden, i think. It may not be representative for other companies in Sweden or tech companies in other countries though.
There are also two different questions in the summary.
Are office phones coming to an end? No, but usage is declining.
Are office phone systems coming to an end? No, but usage patterns have changed to include mobile phones and IM
* Except when I worked as a developer on a PBX. Then I had around 8 phones on my desk. I still didn't bother to configure any of them for usage as my office phone...
This guy was the definition of team player.
This is insightful. And a very sad insight as well.
He intentionally sacrificed his life so maybe other current and future players would not have to suffer from the same things he has suffered from.
Yeah, thats a great future that is easy to envision.
Can you also see a path from the society we have today that will take us to that future?
That part is not so easy for me to see.
Bonus points if that path does not contain lots of people getting killed along the way