No, since your near the equator the rocket starts off moving faster than it does away from the equator. Less fuel is need to lift a payload to the same orbit.
But the mere possession of a number? (Any computer program can be represented as a number. If you doubt this, open up any executable on your computer with a hex editor)
A GUI tries to make things intuitive, a CLI lays the logic bare in plain text. Some things aren't intuitive and should have their logic layed bare, some things are fairly intuitive. If I want to move a file, draging it into a flolder makes more sense than "mv/path-to/file/destination/" if I don't already have a good image of the filesystem in my mind. If I want to add a conditional in a service init CLI makes a lot more sence. A CLI can also adopt a GUI feel (the ncurses API as one example). They are differences tools, and yes this means they are inherently bad at some tasks. If you try to force them in, they just start looking and feeling more and more like the opposing paradigms.
man , read the example config, or god forbid pick up a book and read, instead of half-assing it with a GUI that give you just enough "context" to get into trouble..
and whole-organism for medical purposes will be largely snake oil(although there will certainly be people selling it) until we actually have the knowledge necessary to make meaningful inferences from those sequences.
It's called statistics. Research is an important part of medicine. Really cheap whole genome analysis will let you more easily and cheaply find the short sequence test you want to make as a diagnostic, and if lucky clue you into the metabolic pathway involved leading to a place to start with drug design or which drug to try for off-label treatment of rarer genetic diseases or deficiencies. Or you can test to see what genetic factors are associated with side effects or particular efficiency of a drug compound. Having a full sequence on file will eventually save money time. Instead of paying someone to take a cheek swab, postage to a lab, waiting a few days, paying the lab techs, and then finally getting a result, the doctor can just pay a subscription to a database which will grep your DNA for any relevant issue whenever the doctor make a prescription, or enters symptoms to try to make a diagnostic. Having an opt-in central database would also make research a lot easier, as you would just have to write a filter to pick out candidates and analyze their medical history against their genome. IF done properly, medical research and medical practice will an integrated feedback loop with a low delay. Add in other data gathered with inexpensive new tech, there's no reason most people wouldn't live to see 100. The biggest problem I think would be the patent issues that would be stepped upon by grepping for certain patented sequences.
Annual production of titanium if 99,000 tonnes, gold is 2,800 tonnes. Gold has a presence no more than 4 parts per billion in the crust, titianium 5 parts per thousand. A difference in rarity of 6 orders of magnitude. If your mass represented titanium, gold could be represented a be a drop of water. Titanium can be lit on fire, gold can not be, and the medical uses don't tend to overlap. Better comparators would be palladium, platinum, or irridium all of which are still fairly expensive. While a portion of the price reflects it's demand in a medium of exchange there's not reason to believe it would ever be as cheap as titanium, and if it were all the stockpiles would be consumed and the price would rise again.
There was some recovery in 34-35, but there was a second dip in 36-37
A 100% reserve currency could still go through a business cycle if there was a significant mismatch between the time terms of savings and of lending, but this is a fairly esoteric point.
Two factors that are probably more relevant to the expansion seen after WWII. Women had become part of the workforce,(not all at once mind you but they were edging in) and the end of wage and price controls of the depression and wartime era.
It has over a hundred medical and industrial uses as it has some very unique physical and chemical properties.Yes it was one of the first shiny things people got ahold of, but it shines because of those unique physical and chemical properties. Because it is so expensive it is only adapted when there is really no alternative. Thus there's always some demand for it.Then it's other physical characteristics make it a good candidate for a medium of exchenage (divisible, durable, rare)
If you are denied cross, there is pretty much no easier appeal. Denial of cross is an error for which no amount of want of prejudice can render harmless.
What they are saying is one you get a certain amount of RAM (2-4 GB probably) adding a small NAND cache 8-16GB could add a lot to performance, for a very minimal cost. You will not see the complete death of DRAM soon, because SSD's at best hit the 500MB/s mark (250-300 MB/s is about the sweet spot.) My ram from six years ago beats that by a factor of 6, by current ram by a factor of twenty. Some of Intel's new transistors might provide a bandwidth three or four times my current RAM.
You've just got to set it up right and then impeach them with the footage. Have you ever issued a ticket for a stop sign violation when the operator brought the vehicle to a complete stop?
Things that use ASP or.net, or silverlight, or the exhange protocol, or...
Improve performance vs. having reverse engineered drivers that throw random errors.
Adding one extra virtual machine to an already existing solution is cheaper then hireing or training a guy for a different one and finding, locating and installing software for it. Hell of a lot easier to get it past management as well.
And ya, I work for M$ just because I can think of one instance where one of their specific products could be useful to someone. Really if that's all I needed to do to get a job at M$, that would be a cushy life, let me tell you, far easier than any actual job I've ever had.
Not really, say you run ten services, all virtual in their own instance to minimize downtime and provide redundancy 4 use windows specific programs, the the rest will run on Linux. You use a windows host to make sure nothing freaky happens. Having drivers int the kernel to support any quirks of hyper-V and improve performance is still going to help you, without flooding the server room with physical machines, and without adding substantial maintenance costs.
Or say a company is all windows, has some virtualization, but want's to add a service that runs better in Linux. Then it becomes very easy to just install and instance of CentOS or Redhat (depending on management and local expertise) and get the service running. No need for new hardware, the kernel just integrates into what you already have setup. That's the point of the Linux kernel really, to be able to deploy or integrate it wherever you want. There really is meaning to the term office politics. You most often won't get what you want, unless or until you find a way the minimally disrupts the work other people are already doing.
A short supply of doctors is sure to kill people than a larger supply that could more cheaply provide routine care and screening for a larger number of people. Medical licensing was not instituted to deal with quacks (that was just the pretext) The real reason was to weed out competition and the low prices provided by lodge practice (1-2 dollars/year vs. 1-2 dollars per visit) (Roderick Long, How Government Solved the Health Care Crises, http://freenation.org/a/f12l3.html ).
The soviets didn't tick off the U.S. from day one.They were allies in WWII, and the communist regime was strengthened by grain aide sent to it by the U.S, but that's beside the point. Funny you mention Russia though. Before the liberalization at the end, there are some estimates that 60% of russia's economy was in the black market. If Stalin and seccessors couldn't stop a black market, what makes you think a government which is currently losing a war against stoners and hippies could fare any better? The same government that needed to spend three trillion dollars just to kill one man?
Funny you mention the appearance of justice. That's all the courts and government in general is about... appearence. It's PR scheme to keep you distracted from what they are really doing. Violently controlling people. What's wrong with the substance of justice? (besides that judges would have to find themselves guilty under the RICO act)
Rule of law doesn't exist, it a term of art, meant to disguise the basic fact of rule of man. (John Hasnas, The Myth of the Rule of Law) Laws cant' rule you, only people can. Anyways it's not a problem, it's an entrepreneurial opportunity. Fair dispute resolution is a service that the vast majority values most of the time. Customary law, that is practices that develop over time through the resolution of actual disputes is more suited to the purpose than an arbitrary code.
Let's put it this way. How many people would "cheat" on their income tax if they could save $100 with no chance of being caught. How many for $1,000 with a slight chance... and so on. If people see an advantage for themselves they will join weather they have a full understanding of agorism of not.
And the choice isn't between what we have now and voluntary society, but between what we are becoming and a voluntary society, and it doesn't look good. What cannot continue mathematically, will not continue. Also I don't believe that government cannot be reformed, it's entire purpose is to concentrate power and control people. it must be replaced with voluntary institutions whose incentives are aligned with those of whom they serve.
Not a tribe, a market be it white, grey or black to circumvent and avoid state (compulsory) "services" or regulations. A community of like minds helps build and strengthen it but is not strictly required to practice agorism. And the harsh reality is the violence is incapable of solving complex social problems, but creates a myriad of unseen, delayed, and ultimately destructive effects.
Sunk cost fallacy. Just because people have settled in areas decided hostile to human occupation does not mean that the best course is to continue to do so. There is plenty of space and potential to increase density in those areas which are more geographically suitable.Secondly there are such things a multi-lateral contracts and covenants, which are more precisely defined, with clear up front costs that can achieve cooperation without the danger of mission creep. There are more options that to have a group of so-called representatives making "laws" and to have no complex cooperative behavior. But this sort of thing would be the end stage, not the beginning. For the moment there's no benefit in a head on confrontation or building massive competing infrastructure (It would be for the fourth and final stage of agorism. (Right now we are only on the first and in a few places moving into the second)
Bigger groups or a large hierarchy isn't always better. Some information is implicit meaning that it rarely travels very far. Is johnny going to rat me out? Isn't a question necessarily answered by polling a larger group, but better answered by a more through polling of a smaller group. I'm not saying make everything yourself or trade only with agorists (then how in the world would anyone become and agorist in the first place?), but that by doing so, you can decrease your risk and exposure, increasing the amount of grey and black market trade you can do and how well you can evade and avoid the red market (common criminals and government agencies)
And I don't thing you understand what this is trying to accomplish. It's not a transition from a large group to a small one, it's the transition from what one person can do alone to affect his freedom, to what a small group together can do to effect their freedom together (stage 2 of the agorist revolution). No reason why you can't partake in the larger economy as it is advantageous and risk is acceptable. If you run a pizza shop with all the licences and all the taxes paid, you could still do a bit a grey market work by letting trusted friends pay in cash without sales tax or a receipt , keep the cash in your pocket, but leave the expenses on the official books. Then spend the cash where it doesn't create a paper trail. (perhaps the businesses of friends who do the same thing, but this isn't a necessary component.) There are degrees and stages undertaken as each person feels the risk:reward ration is properly low, and each stage is designed to decrease the risk:reward ration of the next stage as well.
Telling the difference between good doctors and quacks is not a problem, it's a entrepreneurial opportunity. Anybody can call themselves a linux sysadmin, but without prior provable experience or something like a RHCE, you aren't getting hired. Information is getting cheaper and more distributed all the time. Just the other day/. had an article about turning smartphones into iris scanners. Pair this with a $3.00 "quack detector" app and you might be able to access the history or a summary of history about a person's successful or unsuccessful healthcare attempts. Common sense helps as well. A person who's been in town 30 years, probably not a quack, a person who's been in town thirty minutes, probably a quack.
You've bought into this insidious idea that people are incapable of solving problems without some "authority" to do it for them. Nothing is further from the truth.
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No, since your near the equator the rocket starts off moving faster than it does away from the equator. Less fuel is need to lift a payload to the same orbit.
What government funds it will eventually control. Politicians are vile, and will not just hand out favors to people who might make them look bad.
But the mere possession of a number? (Any computer program can be represented as a number. If you doubt this, open up any executable on your computer with a hex editor)
A GUI tries to make things intuitive, a CLI lays the logic bare in plain text. Some things aren't intuitive and should have their logic layed bare, some things are fairly intuitive. If I want to move a file, draging it into a flolder makes more sense than "mv /path-to/file /destination/" if I don't already have a good image of the filesystem in my mind. If I want to add a conditional in a service init CLI makes a lot more sence. A CLI can also adopt a GUI feel (the ncurses API as one example). They are differences tools, and yes this means they are inherently bad at some tasks. If you try to force them in, they just start looking and feeling more and more like the opposing paradigms.
man , read the example config, or god forbid pick up a book and read, instead of half-assing it with a GUI that give you just enough "context" to get into trouble..
So a whole new round of illegal numbers? Ick.
and whole-organism for medical purposes will be largely snake oil(although there will certainly be people selling it) until we actually have the knowledge necessary to make meaningful inferences from those sequences.
It's called statistics. Research is an important part of medicine. Really cheap whole genome analysis will let you more easily and cheaply find the short sequence test you want to make as a diagnostic, and if lucky clue you into the metabolic pathway involved leading to a place to start with drug design or which drug to try for off-label treatment of rarer genetic diseases or deficiencies. Or you can test to see what genetic factors are associated with side effects or particular efficiency of a drug compound. Having a full sequence on file will eventually save money time. Instead of paying someone to take a cheek swab, postage to a lab, waiting a few days, paying the lab techs, and then finally getting a result, the doctor can just pay a subscription to a database which will grep your DNA for any relevant issue whenever the doctor make a prescription, or enters symptoms to try to make a diagnostic. Having an opt-in central database would also make research a lot easier, as you would just have to write a filter to pick out candidates and analyze their medical history against their genome. IF done properly, medical research and medical practice will an integrated feedback loop with a low delay. Add in other data gathered with inexpensive new tech, there's no reason most people wouldn't live to see 100. The biggest problem I think would be the patent issues that would be stepped upon by grepping for certain patented sequences.
You've applied that maxim incorrectly. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, because whoever the possessor is, is presumed to be the rightful owner.
Annual production of titanium if 99,000 tonnes, gold is 2,800 tonnes. Gold has a presence no more than 4 parts per billion in the crust, titianium 5 parts per thousand. A difference in rarity of 6 orders of magnitude. If your mass represented titanium, gold could be represented a be a drop of water. Titanium can be lit on fire, gold can not be, and the medical uses don't tend to overlap. Better comparators would be palladium, platinum, or irridium all of which are still fairly expensive. While a portion of the price reflects it's demand in a medium of exchange there's not reason to believe it would ever be as cheap as titanium, and if it were all the stockpiles would be consumed and the price would rise again.
Gold is very scarce. All of it now in the control of men could fit in a cube a little more than 20m on a side.
There was some recovery in 34-35, but there was a second dip in 36-37
A 100% reserve currency could still go through a business cycle if there was a significant mismatch between the time terms of savings and of lending, but this is a fairly esoteric point.
Two factors that are probably more relevant to the expansion seen after WWII. Women had become part of the workforce,(not all at once mind you but they were edging in) and the end of wage and price controls of the depression and wartime era.
It has over a hundred medical and industrial uses as it has some very unique physical and chemical properties.Yes it was one of the first shiny things people got ahold of, but it shines because of those unique physical and chemical properties. Because it is so expensive it is only adapted when there is really no alternative. Thus there's always some demand for it.Then it's other physical characteristics make it a good candidate for a medium of exchenage (divisible, durable, rare)
But at some point pulling it out of the ocean will be.
What's really fun is that the game logic is stored in plain text. You can make your tractors plant corn at mach 2.
If you are denied cross, there is pretty much no easier appeal. Denial of cross is an error for which no amount of want of prejudice can render harmless.
What they are saying is one you get a certain amount of RAM (2-4 GB probably) adding a small NAND cache 8-16GB could add a lot to performance, for a very minimal cost. You will not see the complete death of DRAM soon, because SSD's at best hit the 500MB/s mark (250-300 MB/s is about the sweet spot.) My ram from six years ago beats that by a factor of 6, by current ram by a factor of twenty. Some of Intel's new transistors might provide a bandwidth three or four times my current RAM.
You've just got to set it up right and then impeach them with the footage. Have you ever issued a ticket for a stop sign violation when the operator brought the vehicle to a complete stop?
But is does speak to the character and credibility of the only witness against these victims.
Taxation is extortion, factually they are one and the same.
Things that use ASP or .net, or silverlight, or the exhange protocol, or ...
Improve performance vs. having reverse engineered drivers that throw random errors.
Adding one extra virtual machine to an already existing solution is cheaper then hireing or training a guy for a different one and finding, locating and installing software for it. Hell of a lot easier to get it past management as well.
And ya, I work for M$ just because I can think of one instance where one of their specific products could be useful to someone. Really if that's all I needed to do to get a job at M$, that would be a cushy life, let me tell you, far easier than any actual job I've ever had.
Not really, say you run ten services, all virtual in their own instance to minimize downtime and provide redundancy 4 use windows specific programs, the the rest will run on Linux. You use a windows host to make sure nothing freaky happens. Having drivers int the kernel to support any quirks of hyper-V and improve performance is still going to help you, without flooding the server room with physical machines, and without adding substantial maintenance costs. Or say a company is all windows, has some virtualization, but want's to add a service that runs better in Linux. Then it becomes very easy to just install and instance of CentOS or Redhat (depending on management and local expertise) and get the service running. No need for new hardware, the kernel just integrates into what you already have setup. That's the point of the Linux kernel really, to be able to deploy or integrate it wherever you want. There really is meaning to the term office politics. You most often won't get what you want, unless or until you find a way the minimally disrupts the work other people are already doing.
A short supply of doctors is sure to kill people than a larger supply that could more cheaply provide routine care and screening for a larger number of people. Medical licensing was not instituted to deal with quacks (that was just the pretext) The real reason was to weed out competition and the low prices provided by lodge practice (1-2 dollars/year vs. 1-2 dollars per visit) (Roderick Long, How Government Solved the Health Care Crises, http://freenation.org/a/f12l3.html ).
The soviets didn't tick off the U.S. from day one.They were allies in WWII, and the communist regime was strengthened by grain aide sent to it by the U.S, but that's beside the point. Funny you mention Russia though. Before the liberalization at the end, there are some estimates that 60% of russia's economy was in the black market. If Stalin and seccessors couldn't stop a black market, what makes you think a government which is currently losing a war against stoners and hippies could fare any better? The same government that needed to spend three trillion dollars just to kill one man?
Funny you mention the appearance of justice. That's all the courts and government in general is about... appearence. It's PR scheme to keep you distracted from what they are really doing. Violently controlling people. What's wrong with the substance of justice? (besides that judges would have to find themselves guilty under the RICO act)
Rule of law doesn't exist, it a term of art, meant to disguise the basic fact of rule of man. (John Hasnas, The Myth of the Rule of Law) Laws cant' rule you, only people can. Anyways it's not a problem, it's an entrepreneurial opportunity. Fair dispute resolution is a service that the vast majority values most of the time. Customary law, that is practices that develop over time through the resolution of actual disputes is more suited to the purpose than an arbitrary code.
Let's put it this way. How many people would "cheat" on their income tax if they could save $100 with no chance of being caught. How many for $1,000 with a slight chance... and so on. If people see an advantage for themselves they will join weather they have a full understanding of agorism of not.
And the choice isn't between what we have now and voluntary society, but between what we are becoming and a voluntary society, and it doesn't look good. What cannot continue mathematically, will not continue. Also I don't believe that government cannot be reformed, it's entire purpose is to concentrate power and control people. it must be replaced with voluntary institutions whose incentives are aligned with those of whom they serve.
Not a tribe, a market be it white, grey or black to circumvent and avoid state (compulsory) "services" or regulations. A community of like minds helps build and strengthen it but is not strictly required to practice agorism. And the harsh reality is the violence is incapable of solving complex social problems, but creates a myriad of unseen, delayed, and ultimately destructive effects.
Sunk cost fallacy. Just because people have settled in areas decided hostile to human occupation does not mean that the best course is to continue to do so. There is plenty of space and potential to increase density in those areas which are more geographically suitable.Secondly there are such things a multi-lateral contracts and covenants, which are more precisely defined, with clear up front costs that can achieve cooperation without the danger of mission creep. There are more options that to have a group of so-called representatives making "laws" and to have no complex cooperative behavior. But this sort of thing would be the end stage, not the beginning. For the moment there's no benefit in a head on confrontation or building massive competing infrastructure (It would be for the fourth and final stage of agorism. (Right now we are only on the first and in a few places moving into the second)
Bigger groups or a large hierarchy isn't always better. Some information is implicit meaning that it rarely travels very far. Is johnny going to rat me out? Isn't a question necessarily answered by polling a larger group, but better answered by a more through polling of a smaller group. I'm not saying make everything yourself or trade only with agorists (then how in the world would anyone become and agorist in the first place?), but that by doing so, you can decrease your risk and exposure, increasing the amount of grey and black market trade you can do and how well you can evade and avoid the red market (common criminals and government agencies)
And I don't thing you understand what this is trying to accomplish. It's not a transition from a large group to a small one, it's the transition from what one person can do alone to affect his freedom, to what a small group together can do to effect their freedom together (stage 2 of the agorist revolution). No reason why you can't partake in the larger economy as it is advantageous and risk is acceptable. If you run a pizza shop with all the licences and all the taxes paid, you could still do a bit a grey market work by letting trusted friends pay in cash without sales tax or a receipt , keep the cash in your pocket, but leave the expenses on the official books. Then spend the cash where it doesn't create a paper trail. (perhaps the businesses of friends who do the same thing, but this isn't a necessary component.) There are degrees and stages undertaken as each person feels the risk:reward ration is properly low, and each stage is designed to decrease the risk:reward ration of the next stage as well.
Telling the difference between good doctors and quacks is not a problem, it's a entrepreneurial opportunity. Anybody can call themselves a linux sysadmin, but without prior provable experience or something like a RHCE, you aren't getting hired. Information is getting cheaper and more distributed all the time. Just the other day /. had an article about turning smartphones into iris scanners. Pair this with a $3.00 "quack detector" app and you might be able to access the history or a summary of history about a person's successful or unsuccessful healthcare attempts. Common sense helps as well. A person who's been in town 30 years, probably not a quack, a person who's been in town thirty minutes, probably a quack.
You've bought into this insidious idea that people are incapable of solving problems without some "authority" to do it for them. Nothing is further from the truth.
There are other solutions that don't cost 40k a year. But you're right, any self-respecting "elite" would never send thier kid to public schools.