Generating profit (Revenue - cost) tells you that he's either underpaying his employees or overcharging his customers, or both. That's where "profit" comes from. It's not some magical formula that's so hard to understand and explain.
No, it means he's generating value.
He may be making it for 20 and selling it for 30 but it may actually have a value of 50 to the buyer.
I just got an SMS from my boss. It probably cost him 30c which is "ridiculous" for such a tiny amount of data.
However the message was about intermittent connectivity problems we're having with payment processor we use. The 30c costs dwarfs what we can lose if the connectivity issues aren't addressed so it's value to us is much more (and that added value continues on to our customers and their customers).
That's a first world example but the same principle applies anywhere.
There is no shame in taking a profit if you are delivering value.
Good communication can help struggling economies a lot.
I think we often see these things as a modern luxury and forget the actual utility they can provide.
I remember an example given by Muhammad Yunus in Banker to the Poor where a woman used to waste a day walking to the next village to pick up some raw materials, only to find out when she got there that they weren't ready yet. A whole days productivity wasted because she had no way of knowing without actually going to check. A cell phone (shared by the village) changed that.
To borrow a phrase I have grown to hate.... citation needed. Every chart I have ever seen showed ever increasing temps until we all DIE.
Perhaps you should cite your images.
The graphs I've seen generally seem to be full of local maxima and minima. A hot period, followed by a cool period but with the overall trend continuing being upwards (ie each hot/cold cycle is warmer than the previous hot/cold cycle).
The El Nino and La Nina temperature fluctuations seem to be fairly well understood.
Ten years is not that long a time in terms of geographical-scale phenomena. It's pointless to look at the last ten years outside the context of the last 100.
But I maintain that this isn't directly due to the code being written in Perl. Its because the Perl code has developed piecemeal over the last ten or so years in an environment where there was no design authority.
The latter may be true but you have to realise that it probably always will be.
You can dream of an improved development environment, you can even take steps towards one, however the simple fact is that in 99% of the situations there are real development pressures that make "piecemeal development", inadequate attention to design, poor attention to coding standards and countless other problems an inevitability.
Once you accept that sad reality the decision to avoid Perl for something less impenetrable makes sense.
Perl may not be the cause of the problem but it can certainly compound it.
SBS has had coverage too, which has been good and relatively uninterrupted for some events.
I have been a bit lucky, my ISP has some IPTV channels so as well as Channel 7 and SBS I have had two Chinese channels of Olympics, an (English language) Indian channel and occasional coverage from other asian stations on there (and all not included in data caps too).
VbV, and similar systems is about protecting the finacial institutions from the costs of fraud, by shifting the liability to the customer. It is about the security of banks' future profits.
The financial institutions don't have liability anyway, liability currently lays with the merchants (and is very costly for them).
In the long run decreasing fraud costs for merchants should benefit consumers as ultimately the cost of covering that fraud is passed on to legitimate customers.
Better buyer authentication is good for everyone. VBV isn't perfect but it's better than nothing.
I think the best plan would be for people to have an "online" card with a very low limit but I'm not sure how feasible that is.
TFA also states is that he brought in beta copies for testing. He had government employees testing his software on government equipment on government time. While he was possibly due some recognition for going above and beyond the call of duty, if you did that at most any tech company, they'd have a reasonable claim to owning that software or owning an interest in it.
Now let's say we're only at 10% efficiency now on electrolysis. If you decreased the amount of electricity needed by 90%, you're talking about 10 times that efficiency making the electrolysis system 100% efficient which is impossible. If we're currently at 20% efficiency, then we're up to 200% efficiency which is ludicrous.
Perhaps next time you see something "ludicrous" you might pause to consider that may be because you've badly fucked up the maths.
If something has decreased the amount of energy needed by 90% it has reduced the inefficiency (of that part of the problem) by 90%.
In your 20% efficiency example there is 80% inefficiency. Reducing that by 90% would leave you with 8% inefficiency, making your final efficiency 92%, not 200%.
Of course in the real world there are more sources of inefficiency in the overall process than just splitting the water, so a 90% improvement in that one part will have a lesser effect on the overall efficiency than above.
but it would be UNREASONABLE to assume that I or the anonymous present ANY KIND OF danger to the girl
If the girl's name and address has been posted why is it unreasonable to assume there might be some real danger? Just because it was all written on the internet?
Really? It looks like a counter-example to me. Lack of food in Zimbabwe clearly is a production problem. Zimbabwe can produce but isn't, therefore there is a production problem.
Solving the Zimbabwe food problem through distribution will only result in the people there becoming increasingly dependent.
Certainly, fixing things there is no easy task. The place is a basket case and if (or when) some political stability can be reached a whole agricultural industry needs rebuilding pretty much from the ground up. An enormous amount of agricultural knowledge and capability has simply gone.
However that is the only long term solution. Distributing food there (whether bought or as aid) doesn't solve anything in the long term, it may keep people alive but it will keep them poor and dependent.
We already grow enough crops. Hunger is a politically created distribution problem, not a problem of lack of food.
Every time this comes up someone trots out "it's a distribution problem, not a production problem" line.
Here's a clue for you, while better distribution might be one part of the solution, so is more production, ie production where food is needed.
Any solution based on distribution is inevitably reliant on political goodwill. Production can empower people so that they aren't so dependant on ongoing political goodwill.
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No, it means he's generating value.
He may be making it for 20 and selling it for 30 but it may actually have a value of 50 to the buyer.
I just got an SMS from my boss. It probably cost him 30c which is "ridiculous" for such a tiny amount of data.
However the message was about intermittent connectivity problems we're having with payment processor we use. The 30c costs dwarfs what we can lose if the connectivity issues aren't addressed so it's value to us is much more (and that added value continues on to our customers and their customers).
That's a first world example but the same principle applies anywhere.
There is no shame in taking a profit if you are delivering value.
I think we often see these things as a modern luxury and forget the actual utility they can provide.
I remember an example given by Muhammad Yunus in Banker to the Poor where a woman used to waste a day walking to the next village to pick up some raw materials, only to find out when she got there that they weren't ready yet. A whole days productivity wasted because she had no way of knowing without actually going to check. A cell phone (shared by the village) changed that.
I'm not sure what that rant was supposed to achieve.
If you have other data then provide it.
Perhaps you should cite your images.
The graphs I've seen generally seem to be full of local maxima and minima. A hot period, followed by a cool period but with the overall trend continuing being upwards (ie each hot/cold cycle is warmer than the previous hot/cold cycle).
The El Nino and La Nina temperature fluctuations seem to be fairly well understood.
Ten years is not that long a time in terms of geographical-scale phenomena. It's pointless to look at the last ten years outside the context of the last 100.
How many of survey respondents were logged into someone else's account and answering that way to make them look bad?
The latter may be true but you have to realise that it probably always will be.
You can dream of an improved development environment, you can even take steps towards one, however the simple fact is that in 99% of the situations there are real development pressures that make "piecemeal development", inadequate attention to design, poor attention to coding standards and countless other problems an inevitability.
Once you accept that sad reality the decision to avoid Perl for something less impenetrable makes sense.
Perl may not be the cause of the problem but it can certainly compound it.
If the backup is going to be stored in encrypted form then how is efficient "rsync-like" difference identification going to be possible?
A small change in a source file will likely change everything following it in the encrypted version.
SBS has had coverage too, which has been good and relatively uninterrupted for some events.
I have been a bit lucky, my ISP has some IPTV channels so as well as Channel 7 and SBS I have had two Chinese channels of Olympics, an (English language) Indian channel and occasional coverage from other asian stations on there (and all not included in data caps too).
Probably for violating an Apple business method patent.
Just today they've ensured many many more people see Google's photo of some drunk guy who'd been mourning a dead friend.
And now I've done it too. However at least I'm only linking to the story rather than hosting the "offending" image which has been removed from Google.
Getting a load of fawlty towers with all the manuels missing is a major problem.
It's merchants that hold the liability. If fraud happens on a card the money plus a hefty fee gets taken from the merchant.
Indeed, there are a variety of VBV results. The merchant (and possibly their acquirer) can decide which ones they consider acceptable.
The financial institutions don't have liability anyway, liability currently lays with the merchants (and is very costly for them).
In the long run decreasing fraud costs for merchants should benefit consumers as ultimately the cost of covering that fraud is passed on to legitimate customers.
Better buyer authentication is good for everyone. VBV isn't perfect but it's better than nothing.
I think the best plan would be for people to have an "online" card with a very low limit but I'm not sure how feasible that is.
Google must be shitting themselves.
Sounds like you're drawing a long bow to me.
The problem here sounds like it's inside the chips themselves.
I'm no metallurgist or hardware expert but I'd have thought solder is used when mounting the chips to the board, not inside the board itself.
Perhaps next time you see something "ludicrous" you might pause to consider that may be because you've badly fucked up the maths.
If something has decreased the amount of energy needed by 90% it has reduced the inefficiency (of that part of the problem) by 90%.
In your 20% efficiency example there is 80% inefficiency. Reducing that by 90% would leave you with 8% inefficiency, making your final efficiency 92%, not 200%.
Of course in the real world there are more sources of inefficiency in the overall process than just splitting the water, so a 90% improvement in that one part will have a lesser effect on the overall efficiency than above.
If the girl's name and address has been posted why is it unreasonable to assume there might be some real danger? Just because it was all written on the internet?
Really? It looks like a counter-example to me. Lack of food in Zimbabwe clearly is a production problem. Zimbabwe can produce but isn't, therefore there is a production problem.
Solving the Zimbabwe food problem through distribution will only result in the people there becoming increasingly dependent.
Certainly, fixing things there is no easy task. The place is a basket case and if (or when) some political stability can be reached a whole agricultural industry needs rebuilding pretty much from the ground up. An enormous amount of agricultural knowledge and capability has simply gone.
However that is the only long term solution. Distributing food there (whether bought or as aid) doesn't solve anything in the long term, it may keep people alive but it will keep them poor and dependent.
You'll notice I said "aren't so dependant".
Local production requires local political goodwill to be sustainable.
Distribution requires both local and external political goodwill to continue.
With amazing insights like those I'm sure you'll have a lucrative defence job offer very shortly.
Every time this comes up someone trots out "it's a distribution problem, not a production problem" line.
Here's a clue for you, while better distribution might be one part of the solution, so is more production, ie production where food is needed.
Any solution based on distribution is inevitably reliant on political goodwill. Production can empower people so that they aren't so dependant on ongoing political goodwill.
and have him internet beat them up.
I think you reveal more about yourself than the "so called nerds".
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