" murder another human being (not talking about legitimate self-defense here) is either a cold-blooded killer or psychotic." Yes, that's why many murder involve wife/husband being shot in the bed where found with lover. Cold blooded or psycho. People never loose their temper and are perfect rational beings, it is well known, economic theories are based on it, cannot be wrong.
You are too late for that. The complexity of bitcoin mining is intentionally exponential. The goal is that eventually, no new bitcoins can be created. We are already past the practical tipping point, as electrical cost are superior to bitcoins values, if I understand correcly.
This is why earlier, somebody noted that a currency that cannot grow with its market is deflationary in nature. No new bitcoins can be created, already.
"It will however free a large portion of that workforce without any loss in productivity. This workforce can then be used for something that we can't automate yet."
I'm afraid that this, has been a valid goal for the last century. In this time and age, it seems painfully clear that there is not anymore such a thing as "something we can't automate", so the "yet" part may provide short relieve, but maybe not enough time to retrain the workforce before it needs retraining.
In some sense, maybe we should focus, instead, on discovering the next workforce intensive application of novel science, but is there even one ? If not, maybe we should research economic principles, and figure out how to make a livable world for the mass of the people, when there is no need for mass workforce.
Perfectly correct, and to some extent, Turkey is a progressive force and a secular country. The fact is that when the empire failed apart, Young Turkey movement and progressive force took power (see Ataturk legacy) in Turkey, and probably saved the remainder of the empire from being further dismantled (original plans where to split up turkey between Greece and Russia, leaving only a phantom state in the middle of Anatolia for Turkish people).
The outer parts of the empire, mostly Arabic (rather than Turk) where not so lucky. They got invaded, occupied and colonized by western powers. Secular forces there where crushed for the sake of immediate consideration of the occupying force (because often, secular political movement would also be nationalist, a very bad thing for an occupying colonial power, meanwhile theocratic leaders would be satisfied as long as they can excerpt local power, not caring much for the massive resource stripping going on the economic side).
When occupation powers finally left, the political spectrum was barren, leaving behind dysfunctional "divine right" monarchies strongly bonded with theocratic power. Any attempt at a progressive approach would meet strong reactionary forces (either facist, such as the Baas party, or theocratic like Komenei's Iranian revolution), leading to a continuation of the stalemate.
Since science is evil, maybe a bit of history could be of some use. Have you ever heard of the Ottoman empire?
Once upon a time, Al Quaeda grand-grand-grand parents used to rule the world. They had a majestic empire which dominated a large portion of the world. They were advanced in technology, science, military, economic power. Their armies would trump occidental armies, western kingdom would envy and learn from their science achievements, mathematics, philosophy,...
Then, they started acting irrational(1).
Then the empire crumbled, it was called "the sick man of Europe", was torn appart, occupied, vassaled, ridiculed, and stripped from its resources. All by the once secondary powers of the western world, who had patiently learned from it, and superseded its achievements when it stalled. Its people became miserable, and it is still today a challenged place to live, where, ironically, many have to resort to extreme bigotry as a form of comfort against the fool taste of being disdained by more powerful nations.
1: Some exerpts from Wikipedia, but many books will tell you the same story.
"Ottoman science and technology had been highly regarded in medieval times, as a result of Ottoman scholars' synthesis of classical learning with Islamic philosophy and mathematics, and knowledge of such Chinese advances in technology as gunpowder and the magnetic compass. By this period, though, the influences had become regressive and conservative. In 1734, when an artillery school was established with French teachers in order to impart Western-style artillery methods, [b]the Islamic clergy successfully objected under the grounds of theodicy.[67][/b] Not until 1754 was the artillery school reopened on a semi-secret basis.[67] Earlier, the guilds of writers had [b]denounced the printing press as "the Devil's Invention"[/b], and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society [...] the printing press was used only by the non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire until the 18th century. "
And yet, PC laptops have always been a disappointment for me, in terms of screen, whatever their price point. Where are these PC laptops with superior IPS screens? As a matter of fact, the TN display in my current MBP (see above) is better quality than my desktop Samsung TN display (which was not so cheap and should have delivered at least some level of quality). There is something very wrong with that.
I will precise, as you are right in some sense, but it doesn't matter to the point I want to make.
Some years ago, all MBP were shipping with IPS displays, whose quality was stomping anything else on the market. For the last 2/3 years, MBP now ship with TN display, but feature a high quality backlight that just laughs at what is available on most other laptops (hell, it even trumps most desktop screens). And by a simple side by side comparison, I can tell that it is superior quality TN as the angles are wider, colors are better, light is more homogeneous. That has been (and always will be) a strong factor for me in term of choice, so are temperature at the palm rest, the general layout of the keyboard or the efficiency of the touchpad. CPU speed is great to have, but anyway in 2 years from now it will pale with new cheapo laptops. A good, confortable screen and controls are enjoyable for the entire life of the product.
Yes, on paper, but the Apple has a superior IPS display. The quality is not "premium". I have been very disapointed in the past that such an expensive machine would be so prone to fail miserably, more so than cheaper PCs.
But the newest and chinest MacBook always have some killer feature that nobody else have. For a long time, the instant hybernate (that would always work, and not crash the machine once every other lid closure) was a killer. When it was matched by all windows computer, it was the IPS screen (and that is still ongoing, most high end PC laptops ship with inferior TN screen technology). After that the long battery life, and now the "retina" display.
I'd gladly by a cheaper PC, especially now that many feature long battery life, suspend mode that works, a stylish case, better assembly and manufacture quality, similar specs for a lower price; if only I were provided with a top spec screen.
There's another explanation. If he had made a movie about butterflies, nobody would have known about it, and that most importantly includes his parole officer. So yes, technically, he could have made that movie without going to jail.
Now he has made a movie that has become very (in)famous. Whatever are the reasons that made the movie famous, that means that everybody gets to know he has made a movie under a pseudonym, and everybody includes his parole officer. And guess what, when his parole officer learns through national news that he has broken the terms of his parole, he is FORCED TO have him arrested, for police officers are not allowed to let crime they know of continue and have to report them to prosecution.
Even more so, he was banned from using pseudonyms because he used them to defraud people (or banks, whatever). And he is know accused of defrauding the actors of the movie, by changing the script, dubbing them, and making them participate to some grotesque racist slur against their will. And he used a pseudonym to efficiently defraud these actors.
This has been tried in many europeean countries in the 80's and it has failed quite miserably. Pretty much all of them returned to the true an tried method, with a salt of the new method in the 90's.
I follow you up to the last statement. There are very good microbrews now in the US, and certainly, when the subject is IPA, US brewers are top notch. Still, Belgian and Germans are better. Proper process inherited from traditions can be tasted, and often "belgian style" US production is adventurous (good), to the point of denaturing the product by using improper processes to "enhance" or "flavor" the batch the easy way (additives), instead of the proper way. That being said, the general quality is certainly satisfactory, and sometimes, the creativity pays and this is to be appreciated.
On the price side, this report is misleading. Crap beers are dirt cheap. But they are crap. Good beers are not that cheap compared to typical European prices.
I have comcast, I can download at some 20Mbit/s, for around $65/mo. Its expensive but if it worked properly, I'd be happy. But...
Latency is catastrophic. On benchmarks it's great, on anything real it sucks. Actually, that's the story of that Comcast subscription. It does everything useless fast, but anything useful feels crippled. Skype? Unusable. Netflix? Never in HD. Youtube? Choppy. ssh? horrible latency. Web pages? super fast, but who cares?
Could be an after effect of retirement. If you don't get old and crippled, you won't have to step out of the world to rest, and you'd have been parts of its changes, it would not feel alien.
However, on the deepest values, many are inculcated at childhood, and it would be very difficult to change the very inner core of most people (not even talking about the totalitarian implication of that sentence here). That means, if you are born in an era of common slavery and violence, and adapted well to that kind of world, you'll stay like that forever. Hell to the other that are born in a more peaceful era, they will be wimps to your eyes, and you'll never grasp the benefit for society as a whole of a more peaceful approach to human relations. You might try to play well, don't insult every colored people any time you see one, but you'll never stop thinking bad of them.
But that's beside political point. From the perspective of another "socialist" healthcare system country (France), the NHS was considered as highly dysfunctional in the 90's. So the difference is not so much in the "socialism", but in the particular implementation. By the way, it seems (I'm no expert, just the general idea that emerges from news and talking to Brits) that quality has improved quite a lot in the NHS system in recent years, without the need for full on merchandization of human health the American way.
Stateless cluster OS, back in the late 90'es, and probably existed in some form for mainframe client terminals. But whatever, its on the INTERNET, so its different now.
Do I think the TSA is doing a good job of performing the duties it has been mandated to ? Yes. Overall, agents have been polite and professional, when refusing to enter the irradiator, I have been treated with courtesy, and groped according to established procedures.
Do I think the TSA mandate and procedure make any sense ? Hell no. The security circus serve little to no purpose, and being groped to be able to travel should not happen in a democratic country. This is not the fault of TSA employees, this is the fault of the political body that invented that bloated, expensive and useless administrative behemoth.
Illegally obtained proofs are are not acceptable as proofs during a trial. In some cases, mistrial can result from improper procedures during the inquiries. So it still has consequences somehow that the wiretapping was illegal in the first place, even though those using these illegal procedures are not held accountable.
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" murder another human being (not talking about legitimate self-defense here) is either a cold-blooded killer or psychotic."
Yes, that's why many murder involve wife/husband being shot in the bed where found with lover. Cold blooded or psycho. People never loose their temper and are perfect rational beings, it is well known, economic theories are based on it, cannot be wrong.
You are too late for that. The complexity of bitcoin mining is intentionally exponential. The goal is that eventually, no new bitcoins can be created. We are already past the practical tipping point, as electrical cost are superior to bitcoins values, if I understand correcly.
This is why earlier, somebody noted that a currency that cannot grow with its market is deflationary in nature. No new bitcoins can be created, already.
And explode in flight like a rocket, like it did everytime this policy has been applied.
"It will however free a large portion of that workforce without any loss in productivity. This workforce can then be used for something that we can't automate yet."
I'm afraid that this, has been a valid goal for the last century. In this time and age, it seems painfully clear that there is not anymore such a thing as "something we can't automate", so the "yet" part may provide short relieve, but maybe not enough time to retrain the workforce before it needs retraining.
In some sense, maybe we should focus, instead, on discovering the next workforce intensive application of novel science, but is there even one ? If not, maybe we should research economic principles, and figure out how to make a livable world for the mass of the people, when there is no need for mass workforce.
Perfectly correct, and to some extent, Turkey is a progressive force and a secular country. The fact is that when the empire failed apart, Young Turkey movement and progressive force took power (see Ataturk legacy) in Turkey, and probably saved the remainder of the empire from being further dismantled (original plans where to split up turkey between Greece and Russia, leaving only a phantom state in the middle of Anatolia for Turkish people).
The outer parts of the empire, mostly Arabic (rather than Turk) where not so lucky. They got invaded, occupied and colonized by western powers. Secular forces there where crushed for the sake of immediate consideration of the occupying force (because often, secular political movement would also be nationalist, a very bad thing for an occupying colonial power, meanwhile theocratic leaders would be satisfied as long as they can excerpt local power, not caring much for the massive resource stripping going on the economic side).
When occupation powers finally left, the political spectrum was barren, leaving behind dysfunctional "divine right" monarchies strongly bonded with theocratic power. Any attempt at a progressive approach would meet strong reactionary forces (either facist, such as the Baas party, or theocratic like Komenei's Iranian revolution), leading to a continuation of the stalemate.
Since science is evil, maybe a bit of history could be of some use. Have you ever heard of the Ottoman empire?
Once upon a time, Al Quaeda grand-grand-grand parents used to rule the world. They had a majestic empire which dominated a large portion of the world. They were advanced in technology, science, military, economic power. Their armies would trump occidental armies, western kingdom would envy and learn from their science achievements, mathematics, philosophy, ...
Then, they started acting irrational(1).
Then the empire crumbled, it was called "the sick man of Europe", was torn appart, occupied, vassaled, ridiculed, and stripped from its resources. All by the once secondary powers of the western world, who had patiently learned from it, and superseded its achievements when it stalled. Its people became miserable, and it is still today a challenged place to live, where, ironically, many have to resort to extreme bigotry as a form of comfort against the fool taste of being disdained by more powerful nations.
1: Some exerpts from Wikipedia, but many books will tell you the same story.
"Ottoman science and technology had been highly regarded in medieval times, as a result of Ottoman scholars' synthesis of classical learning with Islamic philosophy and mathematics, and knowledge of such Chinese advances in technology as gunpowder and the magnetic compass. By this period, though, the influences had become regressive and conservative. In 1734, when an artillery school was established with French teachers in order to impart Western-style artillery methods, [b]the Islamic clergy successfully objected under the grounds of theodicy.[67][/b] Not until 1754 was the artillery school reopened on a semi-secret basis.[67] Earlier, the guilds of writers had [b]denounced the printing press as "the Devil's Invention"[/b], and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society [...] the printing press was used only by the non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire until the 18th century. "
Beware. This is not without consequences.
And yet, PC laptops have always been a disappointment for me, in terms of screen, whatever their price point. Where are these PC laptops with superior IPS screens? As a matter of fact, the TN display in my current MBP (see above) is better quality than my desktop Samsung TN display (which was not so cheap and should have delivered at least some level of quality). There is something very wrong with that.
I will precise, as you are right in some sense, but it doesn't matter to the point I want to make.
Some years ago, all MBP were shipping with IPS displays, whose quality was stomping anything else on the market. For the last 2/3 years, MBP now ship with TN display, but feature a high quality backlight that just laughs at what is available on most other laptops (hell, it even trumps most desktop screens). And by a simple side by side comparison, I can tell that it is superior quality TN as the angles are wider, colors are better, light is more homogeneous. That has been (and always will be) a strong factor for me in term of choice, so are temperature at the palm rest, the general layout of the keyboard or the efficiency of the touchpad. CPU speed is great to have, but anyway in 2 years from now it will pale with new cheapo laptops. A good, confortable screen and controls are enjoyable for the entire life of the product.
EU fines are usually quite painful. And Apple is a juicy target.
Yes, on paper, but the Apple has a superior IPS display. The quality is not "premium". I have been very disapointed in the past that such an expensive machine would be so prone to fail miserably, more so than cheaper PCs.
But the newest and chinest MacBook always have some killer feature that nobody else have. For a long time, the instant hybernate (that would always work, and not crash the machine once every other lid closure) was a killer. When it was matched by all windows computer, it was the IPS screen (and that is still ongoing, most high end PC laptops ship with inferior TN screen technology). After that the long battery life, and now the "retina" display.
I'd gladly by a cheaper PC, especially now that many feature long battery life, suspend mode that works, a stylish case, better assembly and manufacture quality, similar specs for a lower price; if only I were provided with a top spec screen.
There's another explanation. If he had made a movie about butterflies, nobody would have known about it, and that most importantly includes his parole officer. So yes, technically, he could have made that movie without going to jail.
Now he has made a movie that has become very (in)famous. Whatever are the reasons that made the movie famous, that means that everybody gets to know he has made a movie under a pseudonym, and everybody includes his parole officer. And guess what, when his parole officer learns through national news that he has broken the terms of his parole, he is FORCED TO have him arrested, for police officers are not allowed to let crime they know of continue and have to report them to prosecution.
Even more so, he was banned from using pseudonyms because he used them to defraud people (or banks, whatever). And he is know accused of defrauding the actors of the movie, by changing the script, dubbing them, and making them participate to some grotesque racist slur against their will. And he used a pseudonym to efficiently defraud these actors.
This has been tried in many europeean countries in the 80's and it has failed quite miserably. Pretty much all of them returned to the true an tried method, with a salt of the new method in the 90's.
I follow you up to the last statement. There are very good microbrews now in the US, and certainly, when the subject is IPA, US brewers are top notch. Still, Belgian and Germans are better. Proper process inherited from traditions can be tasted, and often "belgian style" US production is adventurous (good), to the point of denaturing the product by using improper processes to "enhance" or "flavor" the batch the easy way (additives), instead of the proper way. That being said, the general quality is certainly satisfactory, and sometimes, the creativity pays and this is to be appreciated.
On the price side, this report is misleading. Crap beers are dirt cheap. But they are crap. Good beers are not that cheap compared to typical European prices.
Nobody cares about having is IEEE account compromised, so everybody uses a bogus password. Rightfully so, it seems.
Latency is better.
I have comcast, I can download at some 20Mbit/s, for around $65/mo. Its expensive but if it worked properly, I'd be happy. But...
Latency is catastrophic. On benchmarks it's great, on anything real it sucks. Actually, that's the story of that Comcast subscription. It does everything useless fast, but anything useful feels crippled. Skype? Unusable. Netflix? Never in HD. Youtube? Choppy. ssh? horrible latency. Web pages? super fast, but who cares?
Could be an after effect of retirement. If you don't get old and crippled, you won't have to step out of the world to rest, and you'd have been parts of its changes, it would not feel alien.
However, on the deepest values, many are inculcated at childhood, and it would be very difficult to change the very inner core of most people (not even talking about the totalitarian implication of that sentence here). That means, if you are born in an era of common slavery and violence, and adapted well to that kind of world, you'll stay like that forever. Hell to the other that are born in a more peaceful era, they will be wimps to your eyes, and you'll never grasp the benefit for society as a whole of a more peaceful approach to human relations. You might try to play well, don't insult every colored people any time you see one, but you'll never stop thinking bad of them.
But that's beside political point. From the perspective of another "socialist" healthcare system country (France), the NHS was considered as highly dysfunctional in the 90's. So the difference is not so much in the "socialism", but in the particular implementation. By the way, it seems (I'm no expert, just the general idea that emerges from news and talking to Brits) that quality has improved quite a lot in the NHS system in recent years, without the need for full on merchandization of human health the American way.
Do you remember of ICQ? It's been knocked out standing for 10 years, it used to be the cool place to be, its not anymore.
Raising capitol, lovely spelling mistake that is very revealing of the way things work in big business :}
The client is stateless, not the environment. But anyway I used the wrong term, its diskless. My bad.
Stateless cluster OS, back in the late 90'es, and probably existed in some form for mainframe client terminals. But whatever, its on the INTERNET, so its different now.
You should be a little more critical of what is taught in the critical thinking class methink.
Do I think the TSA is doing a good job of performing the duties it has been mandated to ? Yes. Overall, agents have been polite and professional, when refusing to enter the irradiator, I have been treated with courtesy, and groped according to established procedures.
Do I think the TSA mandate and procedure make any sense ? Hell no. The security circus serve little to no purpose, and being groped to be able to travel should not happen in a democratic country. This is not the fault of TSA employees, this is the fault of the political body that invented that bloated, expensive and useless administrative behemoth.
Illegally obtained proofs are are not acceptable as proofs during a trial. In some cases, mistrial can result from improper procedures during the inquiries. So it still has consequences somehow that the wiretapping was illegal in the first place, even though those using these illegal procedures are not held accountable.
At the time, it was the prettiest of all. I mean it was so much better than XT or Athena.