Accept tech worker, sheesh. It's not like all those engineers are actually driving locomotives or building circuit boards or drilling for oil or whatever it is all 'engineers' do.
imo, if you're in tech, then the tech should be working, not you;-)
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I believe Sowell's definition of economics is correct--it is the study of how we allocate SCARCE resources.
Given the laws of physics and mandatory recycling of biology, there will always be a scarcity some place.
You might have an endless pile of food but that means you have an endless stream of shit to deal with also.
We have just realized that we cannot burn all the oil in the planet without also burning us out of house and home.
In economics, the term to grok is 'externality." They have odd definitions but essentially it is something you think is not scarce and then eventually it becomes scarce like clean air or water after industrialization. I know people who say they can always live off hunting if the economy collapses. Ask someone who knows about population biology. If enough people start hunting deer, there won't be more than one or two year's worth of meat in most US States, maybe 4 years in Maine and Minnesota. As long as only 5% of the population hunts, the biology can maintain itself. If 40% hunted for food, we'd quickly run out of large animals.
The natural processes of biology can handle things up to certain limits. The fish in the oceans can feed a billion of us sustainably, but not 5 billion hence the collapse of almost all the world's fisheries formerly thought to be unlimited. (I know there are 7 billion folks in the world but a third of them are starving).
Cutting out the middle man is not a crime, its an achievement.
It kind of depends on how you make your own living.
If you make your living as a middle man, it doesn't seem like an achievement; it looks more like a disaster.
And while I dislike getting pedantic, the _definition_ of crime is based on law, not morals or economics.
If the law says cutting out the middle man is a crime, then it is.
Note that I am not arguing pro or con, merely perception vs social reality.
Pillaging Europe didn't get rid of Germany's debt (because they didn't win).
Here is a link to the wikipedia article on WWI reparations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
The final installment of this repayment was made on 3 October 2010
Here in Colorado, water is sold on a fairly pure market.
And that _is_ a problem because economics is how we value scarce resources.
We're not used to valuing water that highly. We're going to have to change which means higher food and energy prices which isn't better for anyone over the longterm.
Last March at the excess water shares auction they hold every year where farmers buy additional allotments, agriculture lost to the frackers.
California is out of water and they grow most of the food for America.
And there is no easy solution. We need food AND oil AND money to pay for them (as well as clean water to drink and clean air to breathe).
Economics isn't a solution; it just frames the problem properly.
If the FBI wants to get malware without spending a lot of money, buy a couple windoze computers and put them on the internet without any firewall or virus protection whatsoever. Wait about 15,000 milliseconds (longer if you're on dialup;-). You will now have a collection of malware to investigate.
Enjoy.
Yup. He's a power gamer and the same sorts of people are complaining about him in the same sorts of ways and the same sorts of people are defending him.
Difference if any is Jeopardy is an _entertainment_ device for a (somewhat) mass audience, not simply a game between participants.
But it is the same sort of carping and clapping.
Now Zuckerberg seems eager to relax his old orthodoxies
Of course he does - if 10% are fake then he wants that 10% included in his figures, not excluded.
I think it's because you sell ads and stuff to accounts. Lots of folks like having multiple accounts for whatever reason.
If you're worried about your real identity, don't go to the fBook or Google, but I believe MarkZ realizes that a lot of folks have 3 or 4 gmail accounts.
It doesn't really matter why. If you can get those folks to join fBook and breed accounts like bacteria, then there's profit.
Which isn't really a new orthodoxy for MarkZ.
I find the idea of infrasonics plausible. Certain tribes worship mountaintops for their sounds.
I wonder how long the place has been called Dead Mountain. If it's an indigenous name, then I'd suspect some kind of natural forces (such as a vortex) at work.
is it _not_ deceit; it is budgeting for performance.
If you truly are a personal outlier and knowing the company actually budgets money for bonuses actually diminishes your enjoyment, well that means squat as far as dealing with the standard average human behavior. Saying your personal individual behavior and thought pattern should replace normal human behavior is how and why morality _always_ misses the mark.
I always knew that management has a budget for everything they spend.
Whoa. that just gave me a new idea for a glass app.
Much better than my first product idea--a roll of glass wipes set up to look like a roll of toilet paper you can attach to the side of your googlass.
who started this idea that a hyperlink is infringement?
The print media. I believe Time or some similar magazine wanted users to actually visit _their_ site without a wrap around banner from some other aggregating site. (Time has a specific look and feel and red border that is supposed to go with every story).
Those were the first court cases, providing pop-up links to a story that displayed in your own company's ad-banner window were judged illegal. Of course, that's got nothing to do with Quentin's issue except for the word "hyperlink" so of course it rules the roost as far as the legal community is concerned.
Maybe it was Iran (or a Mexican cartel) busting the RSA-based encryption that scared the Border Patrol.
One hundred twenty million dollars for 10 drones. It probably came out of the US' food stamp budget.
The second sentence of your link says specifically that Jim Goad did not read the book. What can he possibly have to say about the book when he hasn't even read it (and mischaracterizes it in the next phrase)?
To be accurate, Goad's critique of the book is probably as useful as most people's critique of the Bible is.
It is the most popular book in the world but that doesn't mean people actually read it before they criticize believers (who may or may not have read the damn thing either).
in other words, useless critique of unread books is a fairly common behavior in society.
My grandparents had AOL.My parents had AOL. Everyone I knew had at least an AIM account. Where is AOL/AIM now?
All those people moved to Geocities.
Then they moved to MySpace.
Then they moved to Facebook.
and of course, that is the end and nothing will replace Facebook because it has all these important network qualities (exactly like Aol, Geocities,...)
Alert. Largest subpopulations of a population have the most parasites.
The longest books tend to have the most typos.
Enquiring minds want to know why.
I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?
If they bring in corn-fed white boyz from Nebraska and pay them bottom-tier rates, no discrimination.
If they bring in some Sioux from Pine Ridge and pay them bottom-tier wages, no discrimination.
But if they also say they're paying them low because Indians don't need it, then yes, _legal_ discrimination has occurred.
OTOH, if they say it's because South Dakotans don't need the money, then no discrimination again.
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Accept tech worker, sheesh. It's not like all those engineers are actually driving locomotives or building circuit boards or drilling for oil or whatever it is all 'engineers' do.
;-)
imo, if you're in tech, then the tech should be working, not you
I believe Sowell's definition of economics is correct--it is the study of how we allocate SCARCE resources.
Given the laws of physics and mandatory recycling of biology, there will always be a scarcity some place.
You might have an endless pile of food but that means you have an endless stream of shit to deal with also.
We have just realized that we cannot burn all the oil in the planet without also burning us out of house and home.
In economics, the term to grok is 'externality." They have odd definitions but essentially it is something you think is not scarce and then eventually it becomes scarce like clean air or water after industrialization. I know people who say they can always live off hunting if the economy collapses. Ask someone who knows about population biology. If enough people start hunting deer, there won't be more than one or two year's worth of meat in most US States, maybe 4 years in Maine and Minnesota. As long as only 5% of the population hunts, the biology can maintain itself. If 40% hunted for food, we'd quickly run out of large animals.
The natural processes of biology can handle things up to certain limits. The fish in the oceans can feed a billion of us sustainably, but not 5 billion hence the collapse of almost all the world's fisheries formerly thought to be unlimited. (I know there are 7 billion folks in the world but a third of them are starving).
Cutting out the middle man is not a crime, its an achievement.
It kind of depends on how you make your own living.
If you make your living as a middle man, it doesn't seem like an achievement; it looks more like a disaster.
And while I dislike getting pedantic, the _definition_ of crime is based on law, not morals or economics.
If the law says cutting out the middle man is a crime, then it is.
Note that I am not arguing pro or con, merely perception vs social reality.
Tell them whitespace is racist.
That ought to take care of the problem.
Pillaging Europe didn't get rid of Germany's debt (because they didn't win).
Here is a link to the wikipedia article on WWI reparations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
The final installment of this repayment was made on 3 October 2010
Poor programming is poor progamming.
That is a true statement.
Here is another true statement. Investors can't tell the difference.
We need a forking plan for near future when everything goes "Beta" permanently.
You mean the google operating paradigm? Oh the humanity.
Here in Colorado, water is sold on a fairly pure market.
And that _is_ a problem because economics is how we value scarce resources.
We're not used to valuing water that highly. We're going to have to change which means higher food and energy prices which isn't better for anyone over the longterm.
Last March at the excess water shares auction they hold every year where farmers buy additional allotments, agriculture lost to the frackers.
California is out of water and they grow most of the food for America.
And there is no easy solution. We need food AND oil AND money to pay for them (as well as clean water to drink and clean air to breathe).
Economics isn't a solution; it just frames the problem properly.
If the FBI wants to get malware without spending a lot of money, buy a couple windoze computers and put them on the internet without any firewall or virus protection whatsoever. Wait about 15,000 milliseconds (longer if you're on dialup ;-). You will now have a collection of malware to investigate.
Enjoy.
Yup. He's a power gamer and the same sorts of people are complaining about him in the same sorts of ways and the same sorts of people are defending him.
Difference if any is Jeopardy is an _entertainment_ device for a (somewhat) mass audience, not simply a game between participants.
But it is the same sort of carping and clapping.
Now Zuckerberg seems eager to relax his old orthodoxies
Of course he does - if 10% are fake then he wants that 10% included in his figures, not excluded.
I think it's because you sell ads and stuff to accounts. Lots of folks like having multiple accounts for whatever reason.
If you're worried about your real identity, don't go to the fBook or Google, but I believe MarkZ realizes that a lot of folks have 3 or 4 gmail accounts.
It doesn't really matter why. If you can get those folks to join fBook and breed accounts like bacteria, then there's profit.
Which isn't really a new orthodoxy for MarkZ.
Yeah same here the only reason I have a Facebook account is for testing FB integration in mobile apps.
Don't lie to me.
I find the idea of infrasonics plausible. Certain tribes worship mountaintops for their sounds.
I wonder how long the place has been called Dead Mountain. If it's an indigenous name, then I'd suspect some kind of natural forces (such as a vortex) at work.
is it _not_ deceit; it is budgeting for performance.
If you truly are a personal outlier and knowing the company actually budgets money for bonuses actually diminishes your enjoyment, well that means squat as far as dealing with the standard average human behavior. Saying your personal individual behavior and thought pattern should replace normal human behavior is how and why morality _always_ misses the mark.
I always knew that management has a budget for everything they spend.
You have to see the forest through the trees man!
Whoa. that just gave me a new idea for a glass app.
Much better than my first product idea--a roll of glass wipes set up to look like a roll of toilet paper you can attach to the side of your googlass.
who started this idea that a hyperlink is infringement?
The print media. I believe Time or some similar magazine wanted users to actually visit _their_ site without a wrap around banner from some other aggregating site. (Time has a specific look and feel and red border that is supposed to go with every story).
Those were the first court cases, providing pop-up links to a story that displayed in your own company's ad-banner window were judged illegal. Of course, that's got nothing to do with Quentin's issue except for the word "hyperlink" so of course it rules the roost as far as the legal community is concerned.
Maybe it was Iran (or a Mexican cartel) busting the RSA-based encryption that scared the Border Patrol.
One hundred twenty million dollars for 10 drones. It probably came out of the US' food stamp budget.
It is actually a sales piece. They have a book of that title coming out in March. The "op-ed" is standard pre-publicity.
The second sentence of your link says specifically that Jim Goad did not read the book. What can he possibly have to say about the book when he hasn't even read it (and mischaracterizes it in the next phrase)?
To be accurate, Goad's critique of the book is probably as useful as most people's critique of the Bible is.
It is the most popular book in the world but that doesn't mean people actually read it before they criticize believers (who may or may not have read the damn thing either).
in other words, useless critique of unread books is a fairly common behavior in society.
sure, but why should the donor pay for it?
Because it's _always_ the man's fault.
My grandparents had AOL.My parents had AOL. Everyone I knew had at least an AIM account. Where is AOL/AIM now?
All those people moved to Geocities. ...)
Then they moved to MySpace.
Then they moved to Facebook.
and of course, that is the end and nothing will replace Facebook because it has all these important network qualities (exactly like Aol, Geocities,
This is terrible! If you type Google into Google, you can break the internet!
Civilisation would tear itself apart, like an angry child with a napkin!
It's even worse than that. The Chinese discovered that if you do that, all your internet traffic belong to Wyoming.
Alert. Largest subpopulations of a population have the most parasites.
The longest books tend to have the most typos.
Enquiring minds want to know why.
sometimes the code in real life doesn't even work. At least, that's been my experience.
I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?
If they bring in corn-fed white boyz from Nebraska and pay them bottom-tier rates, no discrimination.
If they bring in some Sioux from Pine Ridge and pay them bottom-tier wages, no discrimination.
But if they also say they're paying them low because Indians don't need it, then yes, _legal_ discrimination has occurred. OTOH, if they say it's because South Dakotans don't need the money, then no discrimination again.