I loved that game back when I was a kid, I developed all sorts of models for running a business and making it work.
End game I learned that it was far more profitable to manipulate my companies stock price than doing anything useful. Like buy a research building so you're burning cash, your stock will plummet below the value of your assets as the market thinks you'll go bankrupt, buy back tons of shares at the low price. Then liquidate your buildings, the market cap will return to the value of your assets (with a much higher price as there's fewer shares). Issue new shares at the high price, then start burning cash again and repeat the cycle. I got up to $14 trillion in market cap in my last session. Compared to billions running successful enterprises.
Capitalism 2 fixed the glitch by preventing you from issuing shares over and over again if you weren't doing anything. Both very enjoyable / educational games.
Nobel prizes aren't really set up for spectators. Like the 2016 physics award went to three people for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter". Without context, it sounds impressive, but has little meaning. Furthermore the work was done decades ago, even if it was meaningful it's probably for something that I've taken for granted most of my life and that also makes it hard to get excited about. Like your parents telling you how great they are for giving you free food when you're a kid.
TL;DR if the Nobel prizes made an effort to be engaging, like the Olympics or Oscars, they probably could get a decent following and cash flow going.
A lot of people don't want nine-to-five jobs. They aren't full time Uber/Lyft drivers, but they do "gigs" like web design, development, media, bartending, and so forth. Save up a few thousand, take a trip or something and go back to gigs. Or have seasonal work like being a NFS firefighter or professional sailor, where they work four~five months a year 24/7 and use the funds to support themselves on the other months.
The nine-to-five grind works for some people, but it's definitely not for everyone, so I wouldn't hold it up as an ideal of what everyone wants.
Affordable housing units, they pay cheap rates for apartments that would normally be crazy expensive, by passing laws to that affect. So there'll be like 24 units at $700/month and then 72 units at ~$4000/month in the same building. It doesn't work out super great, since it naturally gentrifies the space. But people working at Starbucks can use that to walk/bus to work, buy groceries and scrape by.
If the definition of "marked cards" is any deck that has any sort of asymmetry in the design to tell which way the card is oriented. Virtually every casino in Atlantic City is playing with marked cards, and is therefore in violation of the CCA, the games are "illegal" and all customers are entitled to "status quo ante" to get their money back. Class action lawsuit?
I started coding back on a 386 with Windows 3.1. I miss it, like if I wanted to access a variable I just did it, there wasn't the dozen hoops and 300 line refactoring to navigate the permissions hierarchy to properly modify it. Or there were just pointers, not smart/shared/scoped/unique/weak/etc.. along with very opinionated people that have mutual exclusive ideas of which ones should be used where.
Building software without the technical bureaucracy was a lot of fun.
The media painted a picture that Hillary had the race won weeks before voting began, which didn't create any sense of urgency among moderate voters. So why not make a trendy protest vote for write-in Bernie Sanders, or Gary Johnson. It's not like Trump has any real chance of winning, right?
Not completely ignored, there's the management team to consider.
My impression is that the F-35 wasn't designed to be the best fighter ever, it was designed to be the best project ever - that would give everyone at the table tens of billions of dollars and produce a plane as a by-product. So giving that same group of contractors hundreds of billions more dollars to complete it seems like a poor decision. If they weren't successful with $400 billion (cost-so-far), what's changed that would make it successful at $600 billion, or $800 billion?
I'd scrap the F-35, harvest the technologies for later projects so it's not all wasted, and then start over with a new team that has thorough vetting to be capable of executing a project like this.
I think many neighbors dislike being next to an AirBnB in principle, the actual number of incidents of wild parties and so forth are pretty low (the guests get a rating too, so if they abuse the place other people won't host them). It's more like neighbors are so sure it's going to be terrible, that even if nothing happens, they'll still complain because they were on edge the whole time.
They did some work into to lengthening Telomeres (which can be done with viruses), but ran into other issues in tests. Scar tissue still builds up internally causing problems, and there's lots of hormonal changes during a normal lifespan that will make you age even with entirely healthy cells. Cancer and other ailments can take advantage of that, and bring you down.
So there's still significant challenges to solve, but we're getting there..
Everyone in the book was happy, IIRC, it didn't matter if they were an Alpha or a Delta. A person's intelligence was conditioned so that their work was engaging and challenging, but always within their ability to accomplish. Their preferences were conditioned so that the circumstances of their life matched exactly what they wanted. Delta's were happy being Delta's, and Gamma's were happy being Gamma's they didn't want to move up or down.
Start-ups don't pay dividends, there's higher return opportunities investing back in the company for share-holders. Paying a dividend means that all those opportunities are saturated so you might as well give cash back to investors than hoard it. It seems early to me, but maybe they've reached that point. I'd love to know what the yield was.
It's not unheard of for angel investors in general. They'll invest in 10 start-ups expecting 4~5 will fail, 3~4 will stay in business but never go anywhere, and 1~2 to be 10x successful.
The headline is a bit misleading, he didn't say he literally did nothing, just practically nothing (30 minutes of actual work a week). I can see it happening at a slow moving company that hasn't made any significant product changes in six years combined with him being quiet and blending into the background. Probably the only reason he got fired was someone in IT noticing the non-stop League of Legends traffic coming from his office.
Like I worked at a company that forgot about me. There was a re-org and some conflict about what department I should be in, in the interim my desk was in a storage room, I didn't have any work items, no manager, dwindling emails, no meetings, and nobody passed by since I was out of the way. At first the "time off" was really nice so I didn't make any waves and was expecting to get a decision handed down anyways, after three weeks I realized something was wrong, but there wasn't an easy way to say "Hey! you've been paying me to stare at a wall for the last three weeks, can I have something to do?" because then it's my fault, so I said nothing and carried on. After three weeks turned into two months I felt like I was just digging myself a into a corner. So I moved on to a new job, but who knows how long I could have lasted like that.
6~12 months of basic income (BI) isn't long enough, people won't quit there jobs to pursue other objectives if they know BI is going away shortly. Or take risks/lifestyles that lifelong BI would enable. I know it's a lot of money, but if we really want to see what will happen I think they need to select households and guarantee BI for life.
IIRC there was a lottery that promised $1000/week for life to winners, taking a look at how those people's lives have gone would be a good source of data.
Yeah for someone who's all about getting out their seems to be some confusion that this is a play on a common meme "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat". Which was never meant to be taken literally either, it's a song. Not an instructional manual.
Also if there were UFO's flying around and NASA wanted to cover it up, why would they stream a live feed from external cameras? They have any number of plausible excuses not to do it.
While I agree that global warming is happening and man made. I don't like science being based on a "consensus of experts" it makes it sound like a popularity contest. Like there's paparazzi following scientists around, and if one group of researchers gets mad at another over some embarrassing photos, then they'll change their mind, consensus will drop to 80%, and global warming won't be as true anymore;)
It's been happening for a long time, a hundred years ago employers could offer $1/hour jobs (in 2016 dollars) people did all kinds of stuff that would be considered a waste today - like opening a door for a mining cart when it passed through used to be a full time job, employees would be idle otherwise. Today $10/hour jobs will be replaced with something better, that makes sense to pay $15/hour.
I wouldn't mind paying more taxes if I felt like I'd see actual improvements. Where I live (Seattle) all the money goes to special interest projects. Like the arterial road between 520 and Ballard is falling apart, giant pot holes everywhere, it's like driving in an obstacle course, but it's not getting fixed from lack of funds (costs around $0.002 billion).
Meanwhile we're spending $27 billion dollars on constructing a next generation rail system between the major cities in Puget Sound that should be done in 2040 if everything stays on track, it will serve 3000 people a day, which is intended to absorb the 1,000,000 new residents we'll be getting by some crazy logic. Why not fix the roads, build more roads, and get a good bus system going? Because roads and buses are boring, and the city council wants a new shiny rail system.
If they get more taxes, there's a long list of lofty projects that will get the funds before anything I care about gets addressed. So I'd rather donate to charities with specific plans of action than the government.
Working hard and working smart. You can be the best the barrista in the state, but it's not going to get you anywhere if you don't use it as a stepping stone to something else. I see a lot of people trying to excel at skills for their current job and then being frustrated that they aren't getting promoted to management or whatever. But they're entirely different skill sets, if you want to be a manager (or fill in the blank), you need to invest time into learning how to do that and don't assume it happens naturally from hard work at your current level.
This was actually what Lee Sodol did in the first game, where he made some overplays and unusual moves to try and throw it off on the assumption that it only knew how to handle familiar moves at a professional level, but he later blamed that for his defeat since it put him in a bad position.
Apple's fine with users using the "tampered" parts until they do an OS update, as long as I avoid that I could install whatever biometrics hardware I want to gain access to someone's phone. What are the security reasons exactly?
This is like I made a duplicate key for my car at the local store, which works fine, until I bring it in to the dealership for an oil change. The dealership announces that I won't get my car back unless I purchase a $200 genuine certified replacement key "for my own safety"
I'd be outraged too, this sort of thing is why I don't buy Apple products.
If they turned this on for everyone, users would expect to be able to binge on any video site on the internet and get a reasonable experience. When that doesn't happen for high bandwidth content users will blame T-Mobile for their crappy bandwidth, especially when they see it plays just fine on Verizon or AT&T. Also they don't want to have to guess what content will work well and what won't
By only allowing services that are willing to format their videos in a low-res compressible form, it ensures that users have a good streaming experience, and can also pay to get a good experience with high bandwidth content on other sites.
I saw a polygraph session and I got the sense it's more of a tool to give the interrogator data to work with, rather than a truth detector. They can see how you're reacting to what's being said and use that to direct the interrogation, like if there's a signal spike on a routine question, there's probably more to follow up on. The interview lasted for hours all the answers were checked to see if they were consistent with previous answers along with fact checking to see if they were true (which I think would be the hard part to fake). It was pretty intimidating.
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I loved that game back when I was a kid, I developed all sorts of models for running a business and making it work.
End game I learned that it was far more profitable to manipulate my companies stock price than doing anything useful. Like buy a research building so you're burning cash, your stock will plummet below the value of your assets as the market thinks you'll go bankrupt, buy back tons of shares at the low price. Then liquidate your buildings, the market cap will return to the value of your assets (with a much higher price as there's fewer shares). Issue new shares at the high price, then start burning cash again and repeat the cycle. I got up to $14 trillion in market cap in my last session. Compared to billions running successful enterprises.
Capitalism 2 fixed the glitch by preventing you from issuing shares over and over again if you weren't doing anything. Both very enjoyable / educational games.
Nobel prizes aren't really set up for spectators. Like the 2016 physics award went to three people for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter". Without context, it sounds impressive, but has little meaning. Furthermore the work was done decades ago, even if it was meaningful it's probably for something that I've taken for granted most of my life and that also makes it hard to get excited about. Like your parents telling you how great they are for giving you free food when you're a kid.
TL;DR if the Nobel prizes made an effort to be engaging, like the Olympics or Oscars, they probably could get a decent following and cash flow going.
A lot of people don't want nine-to-five jobs. They aren't full time Uber/Lyft drivers, but they do "gigs" like web design, development, media, bartending, and so forth. Save up a few thousand, take a trip or something and go back to gigs. Or have seasonal work like being a NFS firefighter or professional sailor, where they work four~five months a year 24/7 and use the funds to support themselves on the other months.
The nine-to-five grind works for some people, but it's definitely not for everyone, so I wouldn't hold it up as an ideal of what everyone wants.
Affordable housing units, they pay cheap rates for apartments that would normally be crazy expensive, by passing laws to that affect. So there'll be like 24 units at $700/month and then 72 units at ~$4000/month in the same building. It doesn't work out super great, since it naturally gentrifies the space. But people working at Starbucks can use that to walk/bus to work, buy groceries and scrape by.
If the definition of "marked cards" is any deck that has any sort of asymmetry in the design to tell which way the card is oriented. Virtually every casino in Atlantic City is playing with marked cards, and is therefore in violation of the CCA, the games are "illegal" and all customers are entitled to "status quo ante" to get their money back. Class action lawsuit?
I started coding back on a 386 with Windows 3.1. I miss it, like if I wanted to access a variable I just did it, there wasn't the dozen hoops and 300 line refactoring to navigate the permissions hierarchy to properly modify it. Or there were just pointers, not smart/shared/scoped/unique/weak/etc.. along with very opinionated people that have mutual exclusive ideas of which ones should be used where.
Building software without the technical bureaucracy was a lot of fun.
The media painted a picture that Hillary had the race won weeks before voting began, which didn't create any sense of urgency among moderate voters. So why not make a trendy protest vote for write-in Bernie Sanders, or Gary Johnson. It's not like Trump has any real chance of winning, right?
Not completely ignored, there's the management team to consider.
My impression is that the F-35 wasn't designed to be the best fighter ever, it was designed to be the best project ever - that would give everyone at the table tens of billions of dollars and produce a plane as a by-product. So giving that same group of contractors hundreds of billions more dollars to complete it seems like a poor decision. If they weren't successful with $400 billion (cost-so-far), what's changed that would make it successful at $600 billion, or $800 billion?
I'd scrap the F-35, harvest the technologies for later projects so it's not all wasted, and then start over with a new team that has thorough vetting to be capable of executing a project like this.
I think many neighbors dislike being next to an AirBnB in principle, the actual number of incidents of wild parties and so forth are pretty low (the guests get a rating too, so if they abuse the place other people won't host them). It's more like neighbors are so sure it's going to be terrible, that even if nothing happens, they'll still complain because they were on edge the whole time.
They did some work into to lengthening Telomeres (which can be done with viruses), but ran into other issues in tests. Scar tissue still builds up internally causing problems, and there's lots of hormonal changes during a normal lifespan that will make you age even with entirely healthy cells. Cancer and other ailments can take advantage of that, and bring you down.
So there's still significant challenges to solve, but we're getting there..
Everyone in the book was happy, IIRC, it didn't matter if they were an Alpha or a Delta. A person's intelligence was conditioned so that their work was engaging and challenging, but always within their ability to accomplish. Their preferences were conditioned so that the circumstances of their life matched exactly what they wanted. Delta's were happy being Delta's, and Gamma's were happy being Gamma's they didn't want to move up or down.
Start-ups don't pay dividends, there's higher return opportunities investing back in the company for share-holders. Paying a dividend means that all those opportunities are saturated so you might as well give cash back to investors than hoard it. It seems early to me, but maybe they've reached that point. I'd love to know what the yield was.
It's not unheard of for angel investors in general. They'll invest in 10 start-ups expecting 4~5 will fail, 3~4 will stay in business but never go anywhere, and 1~2 to be 10x successful.
The headline is a bit misleading, he didn't say he literally did nothing, just practically nothing (30 minutes of actual work a week). I can see it happening at a slow moving company that hasn't made any significant product changes in six years combined with him being quiet and blending into the background. Probably the only reason he got fired was someone in IT noticing the non-stop League of Legends traffic coming from his office.
Like I worked at a company that forgot about me. There was a re-org and some conflict about what department I should be in, in the interim my desk was in a storage room, I didn't have any work items, no manager, dwindling emails, no meetings, and nobody passed by since I was out of the way. At first the "time off" was really nice so I didn't make any waves and was expecting to get a decision handed down anyways, after three weeks I realized something was wrong, but there wasn't an easy way to say "Hey! you've been paying me to stare at a wall for the last three weeks, can I have something to do?" because then it's my fault, so I said nothing and carried on. After three weeks turned into two months I felt like I was just digging myself a into a corner. So I moved on to a new job, but who knows how long I could have lasted like that.
6~12 months of basic income (BI) isn't long enough, people won't quit there jobs to pursue other objectives if they know BI is going away shortly. Or take risks/lifestyles that lifelong BI would enable. I know it's a lot of money, but if we really want to see what will happen I think they need to select households and guarantee BI for life.
IIRC there was a lottery that promised $1000/week for life to winners, taking a look at how those people's lives have gone would be a good source of data.
Yeah for someone who's all about getting out their seems to be some confusion that this is a play on a common meme "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat". Which was never meant to be taken literally either, it's a song. Not an instructional manual.
Also if there were UFO's flying around and NASA wanted to cover it up, why would they stream a live feed from external cameras? They have any number of plausible excuses not to do it.
While I agree that global warming is happening and man made. I don't like science being based on a "consensus of experts" it makes it sound like a popularity contest. Like there's paparazzi following scientists around, and if one group of researchers gets mad at another over some embarrassing photos, then they'll change their mind, consensus will drop to 80%, and global warming won't be as true anymore ;)
It's been happening for a long time, a hundred years ago employers could offer $1/hour jobs (in 2016 dollars) people did all kinds of stuff that would be considered a waste today - like opening a door for a mining cart when it passed through used to be a full time job, employees would be idle otherwise. Today $10/hour jobs will be replaced with something better, that makes sense to pay $15/hour.
I wouldn't mind paying more taxes if I felt like I'd see actual improvements. Where I live (Seattle) all the money goes to special interest projects. Like the arterial road between 520 and Ballard is falling apart, giant pot holes everywhere, it's like driving in an obstacle course, but it's not getting fixed from lack of funds (costs around $0.002 billion).
Meanwhile we're spending $27 billion dollars on constructing a next generation rail system between the major cities in Puget Sound that should be done in 2040 if everything stays on track, it will serve 3000 people a day, which is intended to absorb the 1,000,000 new residents we'll be getting by some crazy logic. Why not fix the roads, build more roads, and get a good bus system going? Because roads and buses are boring, and the city council wants a new shiny rail system.
If they get more taxes, there's a long list of lofty projects that will get the funds before anything I care about gets addressed. So I'd rather donate to charities with specific plans of action than the government.
Working hard and working smart. You can be the best the barrista in the state, but it's not going to get you anywhere if you don't use it as a stepping stone to something else. I see a lot of people trying to excel at skills for their current job and then being frustrated that they aren't getting promoted to management or whatever. But they're entirely different skill sets, if you want to be a manager (or fill in the blank), you need to invest time into learning how to do that and don't assume it happens naturally from hard work at your current level.
This was actually what Lee Sodol did in the first game, where he made some overplays and unusual moves to try and throw it off on the assumption that it only knew how to handle familiar moves at a professional level, but he later blamed that for his defeat since it put him in a bad position.
Apple's fine with users using the "tampered" parts until they do an OS update, as long as I avoid that I could install whatever biometrics hardware I want to gain access to someone's phone. What are the security reasons exactly?
This is like I made a duplicate key for my car at the local store, which works fine, until I bring it in to the dealership for an oil change. The dealership announces that I won't get my car back unless I purchase a $200 genuine certified replacement key "for my own safety"
I'd be outraged too, this sort of thing is why I don't buy Apple products.
If they turned this on for everyone, users would expect to be able to binge on any video site on the internet and get a reasonable experience. When that doesn't happen for high bandwidth content users will blame T-Mobile for their crappy bandwidth, especially when they see it plays just fine on Verizon or AT&T. Also they don't want to have to guess what content will work well and what won't
By only allowing services that are willing to format their videos in a low-res compressible form, it ensures that users have a good streaming experience, and can also pay to get a good experience with high bandwidth content on other sites.
Per an earlier agreement by SunTrust the severance package was a lump sum $100,000, I'd probably sign it
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed...
I saw a polygraph session and I got the sense it's more of a tool to give the interrogator data to work with, rather than a truth detector. They can see how you're reacting to what's being said and use that to direct the interrogation, like if there's a signal spike on a routine question, there's probably more to follow up on. The interview lasted for hours all the answers were checked to see if they were consistent with previous answers along with fact checking to see if they were true (which I think would be the hard part to fake). It was pretty intimidating.