You didn't address the most important point I made: Why should everyone be expected to work? By making the "labor participation rate" an important indicator, that's what we're saying. What we're told we should have is 100% employment. Unfortunately, three year-olds aren't really good for a whole lot of productivity.
Because we are mostly valued by our contribution to others, and most of our contribution that matters to others (not your families or friends who care about you out of irrational feelings) is our work.
Your political power derives from that. You earned it. Do you honestly believe a man who does nothing but rely on others to survive could possibly have everlasting rights and power as much as those who provide others and who are needed by others? Why do you think women's rights have significantly increased since last century?
Medieval peasants weren't peasants in the beginning, many were of the same tribes as the lords and they had rights until the duty of defense became concentrated to a few privileged and they became dependent on those few to survive. Even then these peasants still had uses. If most of humans are to become/useless/, I fear they and their children will end up worse.
That genes and family background (education too) basically decide what we are and what we will be, including all the decisions we do.
Some people are hard-working, smart and rich because they're made and taught that - you might say you could get all that too if you just work as hard as them - except the "if" is not a matter of choice, because the choice is already made for you by yourself, decided by your genes and background. Nothing you can do to change that, since you cannot possibly change yourself.
Freedom of choice is a lie and we are just robots designed to play our part.
Build something ($$$) => destroy by earthquake => Build it again with insurance ($$$) => destroy by earthquake => Build it again with more insurance ($$$) =>...
It's like an infinite loop of money-making scheme. Now before you say anything bad about it, it can actually produce a lot of jobs and raise GDP drastically: constructors, engineers, rescuers, doctors, insurers, teachers for new engineers to replace the dead, and priests and carpenters too for coffins.
I personally never experienced that for daily use. Installing/uninstalling applications and updates do since there are always some left-over garbage, but that's simply not addressable unless Windows kills all non-standard installers and forces them to play by Microsoft's rule (sadly even their own left garbage, but it's the first step to make them manageable), as it is on various Linux distributions.
With SSD, since it gets slower with more writes, a reborn system wouldn't be faster. It'd be pointless and you should really just dump it after 5 years.
Why are people still using the old, 20 (or 30 already) years old piece of crap? It's not even on par with PowerShell, yet there are already many interpreters on Unix that are quite suitable for the task: Python, Ruby, Scheme, BeanShell etc. All they need is a more convenient API to control processes.
Besides the language features, a bash replacement could also integrate or even unify the OO components such as those in GNOME and KDE. It's a lot more efficient and potentially more scalable to do things in component-level (independent from process) rather than process-level: try find|grep on 10,000 text files on SSD and you'd know what I mean; most of time is completely wasted on process spawning rather than anything useful.
Why don't they just charge fat guys and kids more money? Fat guys definitely add weight and should be required to purchase double seats! Kids are even worse as they need an independent room.
The runtime is everything that Java and JVM-based and CLR-based languages beat traditional C/C++.
It provides a base for: 1.Secure memory access - from which you can be guaranteed that no out-of-bound array access or messed-up pointer writes to unrelated variables and objects undetectably. 2.Tracking and management of all objects.
Both features are invaluable for development and debugging, despite it introduces a lot of cost on memory footprint and performance. However, I suppose you never write code with bugs or unexpected behaviors, so you'd never need that.
It doesn't have to run as root. Even httpd user identity is powerful enough to call ps and check/tmp and all sorts of stuff for further discovery of vulnerability.
While an ideal system provide several layers of security and prevention mechanism against exploits, the average web application developers are either idiots who are completely ignorant of security-related issues (ex: SQL injection) or underpaid labors who just don't give a shit about it (I did that too, blame the customers I don't care), and their code at application-side plus ridiculous system setup could often nullify whatever protection you have in kernel/http-server, and magically enlarge every small bug into serious backdoor.
I can confirm this. Of more than a dozen of CFLs I bought for my room, not one of them lasted more than a year and 6 months is enough to grow dark and yellow spots all over the glass surface, plus random on-off delays.
Changed all to LED last year and no more problem since.
What then stops open-source software makers from moving overseas?
People are always quick to anger when they heard things like this, but they all forget that being in a country is, in essence, a matter of choice, and like most of choices we made, it's influenced by profit and the prospect of it. Running a country is therefore similar to running a company: you attract investors, employees, and customers and seek to maintain balance of profit among them, while keeping yourself worthy of their effort and devotion compared to other companies. A country has to stay competitive, or it dies. Loyalty has its limits and it wears out over time in the face of profits.
The issue here is never about outsourcing or attempt to abuse of H1B, because they're only natural and logical responses to the situation - since when did people stop bargaining when making purchase? Ask yourself: Why should they stay? What do your country have to offer for them to stay? If it doesn't currently, what can it do to change the situation? And if nothing helps, give up and seek to open new businesses that have incentive to operate there.
Keep in mind that if it fails, it's always the majority of people, those who are not capable of moving out or creating new opportunities themselves, get hurt most.
Octopus is food! If there is any inspiration it'd be gene-modified giant octopus with lovely meat!
How can people possibly watch food all day long and just make swimming robots?!
If they are going to teach about abstraction... couldn't it just be extended to implement OO? What's the conflict at all?
Besides, people can do OOP with parallel-functional languages such as Erlang too - just in a not-so-conventional way. Nobody says OOP must be implemented in the language level with all the boring words like "class", "inherits" etc...
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Great heroes cannot exist without great evils. Often they're only seen as so bright because the opposite is so dark.
We have no-one to look up to but ourselves.
You didn't address the most important point I made: Why should everyone be expected to work? By making the "labor participation rate" an important indicator, that's what we're saying. What we're told we should have is 100% employment. Unfortunately, three year-olds aren't really good for a whole lot of productivity.
Because we are mostly valued by our contribution to others, and most of our contribution that matters to others (not your families or friends who care about you out of irrational feelings) is our work.
Your political power derives from that. You earned it. Do you honestly believe a man who does nothing but rely on others to survive could possibly have everlasting rights and power as much as those who provide others and who are needed by others? Why do you think women's rights have significantly increased since last century?
Medieval peasants weren't peasants in the beginning, many were of the same tribes as the lords and they had rights until the duty of defense became concentrated to a few privileged and they became dependent on those few to survive. Even then these peasants still had uses. If most of humans are to become /useless/, I fear they and their children will end up worse.
That genes and family background (education too) basically decide what we are and what we will be, including all the decisions we do.
Some people are hard-working, smart and rich because they're made and taught that - you might say you could get all that too if you just work as hard as them - except the "if" is not a matter of choice, because the choice is already made for you by yourself, decided by your genes and background. Nothing you can do to change that, since you cannot possibly change yourself.
Freedom of choice is a lie and we are just robots designed to play our part.
And a fleet could be severely damaged by that in a real war. Small robot boats are really only useful in intercepting illegal immigrants or smugglers.
Or they could be used to perform suicide bombing attack just like that, by pretending to be fish boats?
Did they eat chimps for food?
Or worse.... wait that's unthinkable!
Build something ($$$) => destroy by earthquake => Build it again with insurance ($$$) => destroy by earthquake => Build it again with more insurance ($$$) => ...
It's like an infinite loop of money-making scheme. Now before you say anything bad about it, it can actually produce a lot of jobs and raise GDP drastically: constructors, engineers, rescuers, doctors, insurers, teachers for new engineers to replace the dead, and priests and carpenters too for coffins.
I personally never experienced that for daily use. Installing/uninstalling applications and updates do since there are always some left-over garbage, but that's simply not addressable unless Windows kills all non-standard installers and forces them to play by Microsoft's rule (sadly even their own left garbage, but it's the first step to make them manageable), as it is on various Linux distributions.
With SSD, since it gets slower with more writes, a reborn system wouldn't be faster. It'd be pointless and you should really just dump it after 5 years.
If anyone ever wanted an example of why LOL agencies cannot be trusted, this is it.
..... corrected for you
Why are people still using the old, 20 (or 30 already) years old piece of crap? It's not even on par with PowerShell, yet there are already many interpreters on Unix that are quite suitable for the task: Python, Ruby, Scheme, BeanShell etc. All they need is a more convenient API to control processes.
Besides the language features, a bash replacement could also integrate or even unify the OO components such as those in GNOME and KDE. It's a lot more efficient and potentially more scalable to do things in component-level (independent from process) rather than process-level: try find|grep on 10,000 text files on SSD and you'd know what I mean; most of time is completely wasted on process spawning rather than anything useful.
Why don't they just charge fat guys and kids more money? Fat guys definitely add weight and should be required to purchase double seats! Kids are even worse as they need an independent room.
The runtime is everything that Java and JVM-based and CLR-based languages beat traditional C/C++.
It provides a base for:
1.Secure memory access - from which you can be guaranteed that no out-of-bound array access or messed-up pointer writes to unrelated variables and objects undetectably.
2.Tracking and management of all objects.
Both features are invaluable for development and debugging, despite it introduces a lot of cost on memory footprint and performance. However, I suppose you never write code with bugs or unexpected behaviors, so you'd never need that.
It doesn't have to run as root. Even httpd user identity is powerful enough to call ps and check /tmp and all sorts of stuff for further discovery of vulnerability.
While an ideal system provide several layers of security and prevention mechanism against exploits, the average web application developers are either idiots who are completely ignorant of security-related issues (ex: SQL injection) or underpaid labors who just don't give a shit about it (I did that too, blame the customers I don't care), and their code at application-side plus ridiculous system setup could often nullify whatever protection you have in kernel/http-server, and magically enlarge every small bug into serious backdoor.
I can confirm this. Of more than a dozen of CFLs I bought for my room, not one of them lasted more than a year and 6 months is enough to grow dark and yellow spots all over the glass surface, plus random on-off delays.
Changed all to LED last year and no more problem since.
What then stops open-source software makers from moving overseas?
People are always quick to anger when they heard things like this, but they all forget that being in a country is, in essence, a matter of choice, and like most of choices we made, it's influenced by profit and the prospect of it. Running a country is therefore similar to running a company: you attract investors, employees, and customers and seek to maintain balance of profit among them, while keeping yourself worthy of their effort and devotion compared to other companies. A country has to stay competitive, or it dies. Loyalty has its limits and it wears out over time in the face of profits.
The issue here is never about outsourcing or attempt to abuse of H1B, because they're only natural and logical responses to the situation - since when did people stop bargaining when making purchase? Ask yourself: Why should they stay? What do your country have to offer for them to stay? If it doesn't currently, what can it do to change the situation? And if nothing helps, give up and seek to open new businesses that have incentive to operate there.
Keep in mind that if it fails, it's always the majority of people, those who are not capable of moving out or creating new opportunities themselves, get hurt most.
Octopus is food! If there is any inspiration it'd be gene-modified giant octopus with lovely meat! How can people possibly watch food all day long and just make swimming robots?!
If they are going to teach about abstraction... couldn't it just be extended to implement OO? What's the conflict at all? Besides, people can do OOP with parallel-functional languages such as Erlang too - just in a not-so-conventional way. Nobody says OOP must be implemented in the language level with all the boring words like "class", "inherits" etc...