Never invest in a financial firm - liars and cheats the lot of them (I say this, but somehow I still trust Buffett - feel free to point and laugh if BRK collapses)
Considering I moved 80% of my investments into BRK shares back in Dec 2008 and still fully invested today; I'm afraid, I wouldn't be laughing about such circumstance..
People will still want pizza delivered, uniforms washed, a new refrigerator, HVAC repair and on and on. A rough couple of years? Definitely
A rough couple years might be the understatement of the century.
It's true people will still want pizza delivered, but this doesn't give you any insight into what might happen to Big Pizza company X.
If you think the problem child is just financials, then maybe it makes sense to buy sector funds and omit ones that cover financials, BUT a problem with that idea ---- the sector funds themselves are financials, and in fact..... your very broker is a financial, unless you insist on your shares being certificated and taken out of street name and taken out of your broker's control after you buy it, you could still lose all your investment really easily due to your broker's insolvency, fund's insolvency, or option writer's insolvency, even if the underlying company you made a bet on ultimately thrives.
How do you expect families to afford diapers that cost over $3 each?
I expect that the families would refuse to purchase the product at such a price, therefore,
the manufacturer will not be able to sell them for $3. The manufacturer will have to meet the
recycling requirements, in order to continue to sell the product.
If they don't, then the manufacturers will be outcompeted by other options.
It is not as if disposable diapers are a fundamental need --- they are just a luxury, and there are other options.
And to recycle them in a sustainable way. Problem solved. In general, I think that should be the case for a lot of things.
Better yet... create a manufacturing tax... $3 per individual diaper sold.
With 95% of the valuable refundable, upon proof of the volume of materials being recycled.
Refunds/incentives contingent upon both the recycling of sold product AND the use of recycled materials to manufacturer new products.
So they can't be blocked with a simple piece of tape. Because that that's gonna happen is just a no-brainer.
I have a better idea: after their shift is over, analyze the footage after every day.
For any time during the shift that their camera was active and working: their rate of pay will be higher.
If their camera was malfunctioning or inactive for more than 60 minutes during the day,
then their pay for the entire shift is reduced, and they get a warning.
Either they collect massive amounts of evidence about how they have been stopping random people and trumping up charges, or.... the number of incidents must go down.
I'm sure they'll have like a 15 day retention period, after which they'll destroy the footage so it can't be used against them.
In practice the body cam footage will only be used to support their perspective, but only if there is a major public outcry about some incident; which will always be timely.
It would really suck to be dependent on Social Security when the USD collapsed
It would really suck to be dependant on Social Security today due to high inflation which is hidden through manipulated CPI numbers. If the USD actually collapsed, and the government didn't manipulate the CPI numbers to hide it ---- the cost of living adjustment should reflect an increased payout due to collapse in value at the next adjustment period.
Investments stock and commodities are worth what the company or goods are worth - the dollar value (or new currency value) will adjust over time regardless of where the dollar goes.
Investments in stock..... first of all, many of the major assets companies hold are cash; including cash in the bank and cash from sales. A collapse of USD could impair and halt many businesses, however.
The winners would be ones who already incurred huge debts before the collapse to buy commodities which the companies owned that would suddenly be much more valuable than the debt.
Other businesses, such as service organizations and software companies heavily reliant on support contracts with customers would suffer tremendously.
Typical practice would be to sign a 3 year contract to do X service in exchange for a dollar amount agreed upon upfront.
A USD hyperinflation event would suddenly make all those contracts go from being a valuable asset and source of profit to having negative value due to being a source of losses.
I think I'd look at hard goods, like real estate, before putting part of my retirement into other currencies to hedge against trouble with the US dollar.
The trouble with real-estate is that taxes are high --- it is extremely illiquid - the entry price is high - ability to incrementally buy more in small chunks is extremely limited, plus you can incur other liabilities and maintenance cost, and real-estate also can be easily taken.
The war on drugs has already given authorities a great deal of experience with imprisoning massive numbers of people and militarizing local police authorities; no doubt when they make their move, they could also declare martial law simultaneously and reassign control of local law enforcement departments to the military..
The fact is that such a degree in no way indicates that obtaining it involved actually learning what was presented for longer than it takes to pass the relevant examinations.
I think you misunderstand. They are using the degree as a method of verification that you know or can know.
The degree is not proof that you know everything that was taught, BUT that you were at some point capable of learning everything that was taught well enough at one point to pass the test.
If you could learn it well enough to pass the exam once, then you are more capable than the vast majority of the population.
Which shows you more suitable than the average person as a mentally capable employee of learning and working in th field.
My answer is twofold.... (1) Getting a degree in Computer Science is not good enough to get a high-level programming job, however..... (2) Just learning to code is not good enough to get a high-level job in the field, either.
The fact is.... if you learn how to code you won't necessarily learn the theory.
You will probably be able to get a job coding however..... you will even get experience, and possibly advance within the art.
At some point, unless you stay within the same coding job and don't keep moving up to more challenging more highly-paying work, then you are likely to eventually run into a "ceiling" where you have to know the theory to do something.
In that case, you may be stuck and need help, or require additional training.
It may block or slow down your professional development, to not have basic knowledge.
You may find that you want to take on a job or reach a level of promotion, that your employer won't allow without a College Degree.
It matters little whether the degree is in CS or not. When you are applying for a job or looking to apply or get into a higher-level role in software architecture/design, or managerial position --- the degree may very well serve as a litmus test to the employer, before even evaluating your skills, So... the choice to only learn coding could be detrimental later.
What's wrong with services.msc on a Windows Server machine? Any serious answers from people who actually used it?
One of the biggest issues, is that in case I want to run a service as a certain local user --- login credentials have to be entered and saved in an insecure fashion (Yes... there are tools that can extract the password used to run a service from the "secure credentials store); in UNIX you don't have this problem --- you can run a service as any user, just SU in the startup script -- no password needed.
If a kerberos credential is needed in unix? No problem.... kinit a service credential and configure the service with the proper ticket cache directory. Again, no user passwords need to be leaked into an insecure format!
Next, For starters... I can't control+click and choose Stop, Start, or Restart, Enable, or Disable, on multiple services at the same time.
If I send a Start or Stop command using services.msc; I can't use it to send any other Start or Stop commands until my first command is done, including all dependent services ---- I guess the service control manager is "locked" until the operation is done.
Nothing like the concept of init runlevels or commands in a shell script.
Next..... it's really quite a mess to attempt to go add or remove a service from services.msc. I have to pull out a registry editor and go through a bunch of complicated steps.
In CentOS5 it was simply a matter of create a script in/etc/init.d and do chkconfig --add blah. Easy as pie.
Next we have the issue of checking the status of a service and getting a simple status code that can be readily used in a script to take arbitrary actions.
The relatively limited nature of choices in services.msc of what to do if a service fails.
Hi, America is still free, as long as you perform all speech from inside a designated free speech zone.
His mistake was that he wrote books and sent the materials to a publisher: which means the material clearly passed through public property lying outside the designated free speech zones.
Keep your speech and body inside zones in which the constitution applies (at least 200 miles away from any border or coastline of the US), and you should be fine
you cannot be compelled to take drugs in a mental facility. (except in new york state with a court order)
They will say you resisted and give you a strong sedative.
Once you are deemed to not have the mental capacity to choose their own treatment: what drugs you will be administered
is completely at the discretion of professionals medically managing your condition at the facility.
I don't know. It sounds like they kidnapped him in the night, forced him to leave hims hometown, and have imprisoned him somewhere against his will, just based on a fictional novel --- probably a jail or psych ward, where they are already administering drugs, so he won't have the mental faculties left to pursue any action, not that he could without ability to travel and speak to an attorney.
McLaw was suspended by the Dorchester County Board of Education pending an investigation and is no longer in the area. He is currently at a location known to law enforcement and does not currently have the ability to travel anywhere.
The government confiscating all your cash in a time of financial turmoil however... that's pretty much guaranteed to happen.
If they had wanted to be truly innovative... the card would not be a Mastercard, but a Bitcoin hardware wallet,
where the user would have to program it with their Public/Private key pair, and each citizen would be given at least
three... one pair of e-cards primary/backup, and a paper document that could be used to prove ID in order to replace
documents in case the other two were lost, so they could carry the first, lockup the second someplace safe, and put the third in a safety deposit vault.
Also, most roads are out of WiFi connectivity anyway.
I think you're totally out of touch with what the technology is capable of.
After you have logged the trip, you will be within WiFi range at your destination or at other points in time.
Also, it's up to the vehicle to distill that information, so they aren't necessarily uploading Gigabytes.
Even if they were, it's quite doable.
It's also quite possible analysis of the data may be distributed, and different vehicles could share that data with each other, and once many vehicles have the data, they would start seeding the same Torrent.
I'm going to map my drive to work, by driving it a few dozen times. Then the car can take over.
Why not provide a mechanism so that when you drive over the road, data is sent to Google.
Once enough people have driven the road, the data gets shared with all the vehicles, so
it's as if they all have the latest map of the road.
Also, there could be some mechanism designed for the DOTs, Police and construction workers, to
"FLAG" a position and broadcast based on GPS coordinates as "X event now", OR "X event next Friday from 12pm to 4pm", "Emergency", "Danger STOP/SLOW", "Lane Closure", "Lane Detour", "Flagman", or "Change Made", "Signal Removed", "New Signal Added", "Stop Added", "Intersection Added", and specify a number miles radius, so the first approaching vehicles to encounter will automatically approach with extra caution, until they have collected sufficient new data
Maybe not 'easily', but it can be created.
The entire genetic sequence of Variola Major is known and has been published,
so the virus could be synthesized artificially by reproducing the sequence.
You can have for this much but you have no control over anything that happens to the browser.
Before or after you accidentally click the tile?
I'm sure the advertisers will insist that their bit of javascript runs, as well; the tile's content will probably be a script src= tag pointing to the advertiser's webserver.
Slashdot Mirror
Never invest in a financial firm - liars and cheats the lot of them (I say this, but somehow I still trust Buffett - feel free to point and laugh if BRK collapses)
Considering I moved 80% of my investments into BRK shares back in Dec 2008 and still fully invested today; I'm afraid, I wouldn't be laughing about such circumstance..
People will still want pizza delivered, uniforms washed, a new refrigerator, HVAC repair and on and on. A rough couple of years? Definitely
A rough couple years might be the understatement of the century. It's true people will still want pizza delivered, but this doesn't give you any insight into what might happen to Big Pizza company X.
If you think the problem child is just financials, then maybe it makes sense to buy sector funds and omit ones that cover financials, BUT a problem with that idea ---- the sector funds themselves are financials, and in fact..... your very broker is a financial, unless you insist on your shares being certificated and taken out of street name and taken out of your broker's control after you buy it, you could still lose all your investment really easily due to your broker's insolvency, fund's insolvency, or option writer's insolvency, even if the underlying company you made a bet on ultimately thrives.
How do you expect families to afford diapers that cost over $3 each?
I expect that the families would refuse to purchase the product at such a price, therefore, the manufacturer will not be able to sell them for $3. The manufacturer will have to meet the recycling requirements, in order to continue to sell the product.
If they don't, then the manufacturers will be outcompeted by other options.
It is not as if disposable diapers are a fundamental need --- they are just a luxury, and there are other options.
And to recycle them in a sustainable way. Problem solved. In general, I think that should be the case for a lot of things.
Better yet... create a manufacturing tax... $3 per individual diaper sold. With 95% of the valuable refundable, upon proof of the volume of materials being recycled.
Refunds/incentives contingent upon both the recycling of sold product AND the use of recycled materials to manufacturer new products.
So they can't be blocked with a simple piece of tape. Because that that's gonna happen is just a no-brainer.
I have a better idea: after their shift is over, analyze the footage after every day. For any time during the shift that their camera was active and working: their rate of pay will be higher.
If their camera was malfunctioning or inactive for more than 60 minutes during the day, then their pay for the entire shift is reduced, and they get a warning.
Either they collect massive amounts of evidence about how they have been stopping random people and trumping up charges, or.... the number of incidents must go down.
I'm sure they'll have like a 15 day retention period, after which they'll destroy the footage so it can't be used against them.
In practice the body cam footage will only be used to support their perspective, but only if there is a major public outcry about some incident; which will always be timely.
No customs stamp, no delivery.
Not a problem for digital products delivered over the network.
It would really suck to be dependent on Social Security when the USD collapsed
It would really suck to be dependant on Social Security today due to high inflation which is hidden through manipulated CPI numbers. If the USD actually collapsed, and the government didn't manipulate the CPI numbers to hide it ---- the cost of living adjustment should reflect an increased payout due to collapse in value at the next adjustment period.
Investments stock and commodities are worth what the company or goods are worth - the dollar value (or new currency value) will adjust over time regardless of where the dollar goes.
Investments in stock..... first of all, many of the major assets companies hold are cash; including cash in the bank and cash from sales. A collapse of USD could impair and halt many businesses, however. The winners would be ones who already incurred huge debts before the collapse to buy commodities which the companies owned that would suddenly be much more valuable than the debt.
Other businesses, such as service organizations and software companies heavily reliant on support contracts with customers would suffer tremendously.
Typical practice would be to sign a 3 year contract to do X service in exchange for a dollar amount agreed upon upfront. A USD hyperinflation event would suddenly make all those contracts go from being a valuable asset and source of profit to having negative value due to being a source of losses.
I think I'd look at hard goods, like real estate, before putting part of my retirement into other currencies to hedge against trouble with the US dollar.
The trouble with real-estate is that taxes are high --- it is extremely illiquid - the entry price is high - ability to incrementally buy more in small chunks is extremely limited, plus you can incur other liabilities and maintenance cost, and real-estate also can be easily taken.
With the construction of mass incarceration camps; the government is well ahead of you: https://www.youtube.com/playli...
The war on drugs has already given authorities a great deal of experience with imprisoning massive numbers of people and militarizing local police authorities; no doubt when they make their move, they could also declare martial law simultaneously and reassign control of local law enforcement departments to the military..
I figured there was a very specific safety reason why they only used a small quantity.
Perhaps to reduce the impact, in case they screw up.
The fact is that such a degree in no way indicates that obtaining it involved actually learning what was presented for longer than it takes to pass the relevant examinations.
I think you misunderstand. They are using the degree as a method of verification that you know or can know. The degree is not proof that you know everything that was taught, BUT that you were at some point capable of learning everything that was taught well enough at one point to pass the test.
If you could learn it well enough to pass the exam once, then you are more capable than the vast majority of the population.
Which shows you more suitable than the average person as a mentally capable employee of learning and working in th field.
My answer is twofold.... (1) Getting a degree in Computer Science is not good enough to get a high-level programming job, however..... (2) Just learning to code is not good enough to get a high-level job in the field, either.
The fact is.... if you learn how to code you won't necessarily learn the theory.
You will probably be able to get a job coding however..... you will even get experience, and possibly advance within the art.
At some point, unless you stay within the same coding job and don't keep moving up to more challenging more highly-paying work, then you are likely to eventually run into a "ceiling" where you have to know the theory to do something.
In that case, you may be stuck and need help, or require additional training. It may block or slow down your professional development, to not have basic knowledge.
You may find that you want to take on a job or reach a level of promotion, that your employer won't allow without a College Degree.
It matters little whether the degree is in CS or not. When you are applying for a job or looking to apply or get into a higher-level role in software architecture/design, or managerial position --- the degree may very well serve as a litmus test to the employer, before even evaluating your skills, So... the choice to only learn coding could be detrimental later.
What's wrong with services.msc on a Windows Server machine? Any serious answers from people who actually used it?
One of the biggest issues, is that in case I want to run a service as a certain local user --- login credentials have to be entered and saved in an insecure fashion (Yes... there are tools that can extract the password used to run a service from the "secure credentials store); in UNIX you don't have this problem --- you can run a service as any user, just SU in the startup script -- no password needed.
If a kerberos credential is needed in unix? No problem.... kinit a service credential and configure the service with the proper ticket cache directory. Again, no user passwords need to be leaked into an insecure format!
Next, For starters... I can't control+click and choose Stop, Start, or Restart, Enable, or Disable, on multiple services at the same time.
If I send a Start or Stop command using services.msc; I can't use it to send any other Start or Stop commands until my first command is done, including all dependent services ---- I guess the service control manager is "locked" until the operation is done.
Nothing like the concept of init runlevels or commands in a shell script.
Next..... it's really quite a mess to attempt to go add or remove a service from services.msc. I have to pull out a registry editor and go through a bunch of complicated steps.
In CentOS5 it was simply a matter of create a script in /etc/init.d and do chkconfig --add blah. Easy as pie.
Next we have the issue of checking the status of a service and getting a simple status code that can be readily used in a script to take arbitrary actions.
The relatively limited nature of choices in services.msc of what to do if a service fails.
America.... home of the fr... yeah right.
Hi, America is still free, as long as you perform all speech from inside a designated free speech zone. His mistake was that he wrote books and sent the materials to a publisher: which means the material clearly passed through public property lying outside the designated free speech zones.
Keep your speech and body inside zones in which the constitution applies (at least 200 miles away from any border or coastline of the US), and you should be fine
you cannot be compelled to take drugs in a mental facility. (except in new york state with a court order)
They will say you resisted and give you a strong sedative.
Once you are deemed to not have the mental capacity to choose their own treatment: what drugs you will be administered is completely at the discretion of professionals medically managing your condition at the facility.
I don't know. It sounds like they kidnapped him in the night, forced him to leave hims hometown, and have imprisoned him somewhere against his will, just based on a fictional novel --- probably a jail or psych ward, where they are already administering drugs, so he won't have the mental faculties left to pursue any action, not that he could without ability to travel and speak to an attorney.
McLaw was suspended by the Dorchester County Board of Education pending an investigation and is no longer in the area. He is currently at a location known to law enforcement and does not currently have the ability to travel anywhere.
The government confiscating all your cash in a time of financial turmoil however... that's pretty much guaranteed to happen.
If they had wanted to be truly innovative... the card would not be a Mastercard, but a Bitcoin hardware wallet, where the user would have to program it with their Public/Private key pair, and each citizen would be given at least three... one pair of e-cards primary/backup, and a paper document that could be used to prove ID in order to replace documents in case the other two were lost, so they could carry the first, lockup the second someplace safe, and put the third in a safety deposit vault.
Perhaps we should just pay a chinese hazardous waste disposal company to take it off our hands.
The tracks can be constructed to bring the shipping containers to port, in order to be loaded up onto the slow boat to China.
Also, most roads are out of WiFi connectivity anyway.
I think you're totally out of touch with what the technology is capable of. After you have logged the trip, you will be within WiFi range at your destination or at other points in time.
Also, it's up to the vehicle to distill that information, so they aren't necessarily uploading Gigabytes.
Even if they were, it's quite doable.
It's also quite possible analysis of the data may be distributed, and different vehicles could share that data with each other, and once many vehicles have the data, they would start seeding the same Torrent.
One word; bandwidth. Do you have any idea the amount of data there is in a road scan?
One word:WiFi, or Google WiFi and Background incremental data uploads and downloads with Automated analysis.
I'm going to map my drive to work, by driving it a few dozen times. Then the car can take over.
Why not provide a mechanism so that when you drive over the road, data is sent to Google. Once enough people have driven the road, the data gets shared with all the vehicles, so it's as if they all have the latest map of the road.
Also, there could be some mechanism designed for the DOTs, Police and construction workers, to "FLAG" a position and broadcast based on GPS coordinates as "X event now", OR "X event next Friday from 12pm to 4pm", "Emergency", "Danger STOP/SLOW", "Lane Closure", "Lane Detour", "Flagman", or "Change Made", "Signal Removed", "New Signal Added", "Stop Added", "Intersection Added", and specify a number miles radius, so the first approaching vehicles to encounter will automatically approach with extra caution, until they have collected sufficient new data
can deliver a single web page to a single client at once, and requires editing of configuration files to deliver another page.
Kind of like the early Gopher servers?
Smallpox is not "easily created".
Maybe not 'easily', but it can be created. The entire genetic sequence of Variola Major is known and has been published, so the virus could be synthesized artificially by reproducing the sequence.
What happens if you try shouting "xyzzy" ?
A hollow voice says "PLUGH".
You can have for this much but you have no control over anything that happens to the browser.
Before or after you accidentally click the tile?
I'm sure the advertisers will insist that their bit of javascript runs, as well; the tile's content will probably be a script src= tag pointing to the advertiser's webserver.