Corporate America has no business knowing the company I keep. And a friend with bad credit doesn't mean I should have trouble getting credit.
Well lenders are really lending other people's money. They've got to do their best to make sure they don't lose it.
If the statistics argue against lending money to those that have friends that are bad risks, then the rational and logical thing for them to do is to decline the loan or increase the interest rate.
Doing the opposite is statistically just throwing money away.
Whenever these stories come out, I am uncomfortably reminded of conservative constitution-worship.
Be grateful.
Conservative constitution-worship helps protect you from them.
On the other hand liberals are open-minded enough that they can interpret the constitution as a living document so they're free to pretty much do as they please, like assassinating American citizens without due process, using the NSA to spy on Americans, targeting political opponents with the IRS, etc.
Because hey, the constitution is just a piece of paper and you're not a slave to constitution-worship, so who gives a f*ck about rights?
I understand the hopes of those that wish we'd move to native apps, but I just don't think those hopes will be realized.
One of the biggest advantages in using HTML/Javascript is that is provides a semi-nice way to talk to Windows' API. There's lot's of Windows boilerplate that disappears when using HTML/Javascript.
That's much of what HTML/Javascript is -- a nice veneer over a difficult API. But that veneer doesn't make the underlying system disappear. And many of the problems that HTML/Javascript appears to have are really the fault of Windows. Many of those problems don't go away with native apps with the additional hassle of adding all kinds of boilerplate.
Of course that all applies to Windows PCs. Native apps are much more successful on an IPhone, for example, because the underlying API is much more sane. Microsoft has tried many times to make it easier to write for its OS -- MFC,.NET, etc, etc.
Think about how quickly apps appeared for the IPhone and consider how few native apps exist for the PC relative to the total number of PCs out there.
What, have you been completely ignoring what's going on? AT&T, Verizon, and several other companies VOLUNTARILY allow the NSA to tap their data transfers. It IS the private sector being 100% complicit in this whole deal.
We've seen what happens to anyone that doesn't "voluntarily" cooperate.
The IRS does an audit. OSHA shows up for a "random" inspection. The FTC decides that that merger you wanted to do is no longer in the best interest of the country. The NLRB decides you can't build a factory in another state.
Nothing is voluntary anymore and no part of the economy is free from government control, influence, manipulation, or coercion.
Businesses that don't "voluntarily" cooperate don't stay in business.
Your "armed men confiscating property by force" (aka taxation) is the glue that makes civil society possible.
That is bullshit. The glue that makes civil society possible is cultural. Taxation is easy. Civility is hard and it can't be bought. Civility is in head, not the wallet. If you don't like governments (or society) that much, you are welcome to move to somewhere else, like Somalia, where they don't have these things.
Self-fulfilling prophecy for one thing. If cops believe the majority of crimes are committed by cubans, and spend 90% of their time in cuban neighborhoods frisking cuban immigrants then 90% of their arrests will be cubans. This will serve as a confirmation bias to further harass cubans, because 90% of criminals are cubans.
In other words, non-Cubans get a pass and their crimes remain invisible, right?
That might work for some crimes, but not for those with obvious victims and villains. Murders, for example, can't often be made to disappear through lack of enforcement and followup.
The situation you are talking about, where speeds are low, concerns special relativity, and it's obvious that low speeds do not make much of a difference.
Obvious?
A coil of wire with electrons moving at mere centimeters per hour is enough to exhibit relativistic effects (magnetism).
And I bet that at some point during the last few decades of thousands of observations, theories, and calculations by thousands of astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians (some with Nobel prizes, no less), someone would have already thought of this if it was an issue.
They're not gods (and there's no Nobel prize for mathematics).
And there has been some movement towards using relativity instead of dark matter to explain galactic rotation curves:
My bet is that the need for dark matter will disappear when relativistic effects are properly taken into account.
There seems to be the belief among astrophysicists that general relativity can be safely ignored when speeds are low. I'm not so sure.
Anyone that can integrate knows large values can be obtained when summing even the smallest values. Perhaps billions of otherwise ignorable relativistic effects become a large effect when acting together.
last thing we need is a weaponized FCC "enforcing fairness."
You do realize that we already have exactly that for the ISM band, and it's sort of been a gigantic fucking success?
Are you kidding? The ISM bands are practically the Wild West!
Sure there are transmit power limits, but very few other rules.
And it's the LACK of rules that has made the ISM bands, especially 2.4GHz, so successful. When 2.4GHz was opened up, a ton of new devices emerged. And despite the chaos, most of these protocols cooperate without government authority because it's in the interest of the people sharing the spectrum to cooperate.
Now none of that is an argument for auctioning off spectrum, of course. In a way, auctioning spectrum is just transferring control from one giant central authority, the federal government, to another slightly smaller central authority, like ATT.
A better idea would be to divide up the country into overlapping hexagonal cells about 100 miles wide and let the locals in the covered area decide how their spectrum should be used.
In other words: If you're trying to use C/C++/C#/Java/Pascal/æ to write highly parallel code... YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
You don't use those languages to write highly parallel code. You use those languages to sequentially control a GPU to get it to execute programs in parallel.
1. I don't believe that there are any "biomarkers" for "violence" that are not common to every person alive today.
Good for you, but only men have a Y chromosome and they're far more likely to be violent than women.
2. Remember "The Bell Curve"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve Once you start attempting to match biology to behaviour you run into all kinds of problems with biases and statistics.
You mean people that don't know what a Y chromosome have a problem with biases, right?
Welfare was altered, but hardly scaled-back. The forms of welfare may have changed, though. Today even "Obamaphones" are available to the poor.
The inflation in the 80s was primarily because of oil, food prices, and a falling dollar, and a reduction in productivity levels. Marginal tax rates had nothing to do with it.
High marginal rates prevent increases in productive capacity for several reasons including a lack of profitability in expansion, and a lack of capital accumulation for the formation of new production.
An ever-growing welfare state must consume more and more resources. Without the creation and accumulation of capital from profits, production is difficult to increase. Increased government spending then creates inflation as prices adjust to handle the necessary reallocation of goods and services.
Actually socialism is pretty close to what you had during cold war in US because you had to care for your people to win it. High taxes on the rich, fairly solid safety net for the poor. It was there in the 60s and 70s. And it was dismantled in 90s after cold war ended.
Hardly.
The safety net is bigger and more expensive than ever.
Significant parts of it came into existence only in the 60s and 70s, not coincidentally followed by inflation in the early 80s as demand for services put pressure on supply constrained by high marginal tax rates and regulations. We risked an Argentine-style economic collapse. Reagan was only able to get reforms passed with Democrats in control of congress because there was no other way to save the welfare state. Democrats knew something had to be done.
But anyway, what won the cold war was self-confidence in the West and self-doubt in the East. The Soviet Union voluntarily gave up on communism. I think that means they won, too.
There is not a single modern keyboard that has 50ms latency. You (humans) have that sort of latency.
As far as response times, all you need to do is increase the poll time on the USB stack,
Polling the USB stack has almost nothing to do keyboard response time.
Keyboard response time depends mostly on how often the built-in microcontroller scans the keyboard matrix. A common interval is 40 ms. Polling the USB stack does nothing to get the microcontroller to scan the keyboard matrix more frequently. If the writer of the firmware decides 40 ms between scans is frequent enough, then you're stuck with 39+ ms latency in the worst case.
personally I think Marx's criticism of capitalism is pretty accurate. Its only where he assumes that uprising and revolution will lead to some utopian ideal that he goes wrong.
That's not the only thing he gets wrong.
He also thought that economic exchange occurred with things of equal value. Even economists of his time knew this wasn't true.
Economic exchange occurs when things are valued unequally, otherwise, why bother exchanging at all? Transaction costs make an exchange a poor decision. If on the other hand I value what you have more than what I have, and you value what I have more then what you have, we trade. This could be a barter or money might be involved.
This programming contests have nothing to do with real world programming or the skills need for most CS fields. Certainly, these are fun algorithmic challenges, but the timed nature of these contests encourage quick and dirty solutions that have no place in the real world.
Could be.
I did really well in these competitions during high school. Now I look back in horror at some of the code I came up with.
What slows me down today is all the second guessing I do now that I know what can go wrong.
There's a parallel in entrepreneurship. Many immigrants in the USA start businesses in part because they just don't know just how vulnerable they are to lawsuits and regulations. Many native citizens are much more cautious for fear of what the legal system or government might do to make their business life more difficult and they sit on the sidelines.
It's possible programmers in other countries are still in that exciting stage where they can code without fear.
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Corporate America has no business knowing the company I keep. And a friend with bad credit doesn't mean I should have trouble getting credit.
Well lenders are really lending other people's money. They've got to do their best to make sure they don't lose it.
If the statistics argue against lending money to those that have friends that are bad risks, then the rational and logical thing for them to do is to decline the loan or increase the interest rate.
Doing the opposite is statistically just throwing money away.
If Obama can arrange to have his dog Bo airlifted to Martha's Vineyard , he can arrange to visit with the NSA to make sure they're following the rules.
C'mon, Mr Prez!
Be grateful.
Conservative constitution-worship helps protect you from them.
On the other hand liberals are open-minded enough that they can interpret the constitution as a living document so they're free to pretty much do as they please, like assassinating American citizens without due process, using the NSA to spy on Americans, targeting political opponents with the IRS, etc.
Because hey, the constitution is just a piece of paper and you're not a slave to constitution-worship, so who gives a f*ck about rights?
Silicon transistors with sub picosecond switching times were fabricated in 2002. That's in the THz range.
What holds back processors today is mostly the RC delay of metal wires.
What annoys the hell out of me is that politians can be so scientific when collecting votes but never when actually discussing policy?
Because science works to help collect votes, but science doesn't actually work on voters.
I understand the hopes of those that wish we'd move to native apps, but I just don't think those hopes will be realized.
One of the biggest advantages in using HTML/Javascript is that is provides a semi-nice way to talk to Windows' API. There's lot's of Windows boilerplate that disappears when using HTML/Javascript.
That's much of what HTML/Javascript is -- a nice veneer over a difficult API. But that veneer doesn't make the underlying system disappear. And many of the problems that HTML/Javascript appears to have are really the fault of Windows. Many of those problems don't go away with native apps with the additional hassle of adding all kinds of boilerplate.
Of course that all applies to Windows PCs. Native apps are much more successful on an IPhone, for example, because the underlying API is much more sane. Microsoft has tried many times to make it easier to write for its OS -- MFC, .NET, etc, etc.
Think about how quickly apps appeared for the IPhone and consider how few native apps exist for the PC relative to the total number of PCs out there.
We've seen what happens to anyone that doesn't "voluntarily" cooperate.
The IRS does an audit.
OSHA shows up for a "random" inspection.
The FTC decides that that merger you wanted to do is no longer in the best interest of the country.
The NLRB decides you can't build a factory in another state.
Nothing is voluntary anymore and no part of the economy is free from government control, influence, manipulation, or coercion.
Businesses that don't "voluntarily" cooperate don't stay in business.
broad new powers
Let me add two more words: "Went beyond".
Do they now?
I suppose you subscribe to the idea that if a company is losing money on every sale they can just make it up on volume, right?
Your "armed men confiscating property by force" (aka taxation) is the glue that makes civil society possible.
That is bullshit. The glue that makes civil society possible is cultural. Taxation is easy. Civility is hard and it can't be bought. Civility is in head, not the wallet.
If you don't like governments (or society) that much, you are welcome to move to somewhere else, like Somalia, where they don't have these things.
Only two choices, eh?
A cap on out of pocket expenses means the insurance company has to pay more.
Where will they get that money? They'll get it from higher premiums.
Forcing people to pay higher premiums just before the election would look bad, hence the delay.
In other words, non-Cubans get a pass and their crimes remain invisible, right?
That might work for some crimes, but not for those with obvious victims and villains. Murders, for example, can't often be made to disappear through lack of enforcement and followup.
Except that electromagnetism IS a relativistic effect. You don't have electromagnetism without relativity.
Obvious?
A coil of wire with electrons moving at mere centimeters per hour is enough to exhibit relativistic effects (magnetism).
They're not gods (and there's no Nobel prize for mathematics).
And there has been some movement towards using relativity instead of dark matter to explain galactic rotation curves:
General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter
My bet is that the need for dark matter will disappear when relativistic effects are properly taken into account.
There seems to be the belief among astrophysicists that general relativity can be safely ignored when speeds are low. I'm not so sure.
Anyone that can integrate knows large values can be obtained when summing even the smallest values. Perhaps billions of otherwise ignorable relativistic effects become a large effect when acting together.
I can see this being used to justify all sorts of abuses.
"The science says you must cooperate!"
But what is the object in all this, really?
Is equilibrating at mediocrity really the goal?
Are you kidding? The ISM bands are practically the Wild West!
Sure there are transmit power limits, but very few other rules.
And it's the LACK of rules that has made the ISM bands, especially 2.4GHz, so successful. When 2.4GHz was opened up, a ton of new devices emerged. And despite the chaos, most of these protocols cooperate without government authority because it's in the interest of the people sharing the spectrum to cooperate.
Now none of that is an argument for auctioning off spectrum, of course. In a way, auctioning spectrum is just transferring control from one giant central authority, the federal government, to another slightly smaller central authority, like ATT.
A better idea would be to divide up the country into overlapping hexagonal cells about 100 miles wide and let the locals in the covered area decide how their spectrum should be used.
You don't use those languages to write highly parallel code. You use those languages to sequentially control a GPU to get it to execute programs in parallel.
Big difference (really).
Good for you, but only men have a Y chromosome and they're far more likely to be violent than women.
You mean people that don't know what a Y chromosome have a problem with biases, right?
Welfare was altered, but hardly scaled-back. The forms of welfare may have changed, though. Today even "Obamaphones" are available to the poor.
High marginal rates prevent increases in productive capacity for several reasons including a lack of profitability in expansion, and a lack of capital accumulation for the formation of new production.
An ever-growing welfare state must consume more and more resources. Without the creation and accumulation of capital from profits, production is difficult to increase. Increased government spending then creates inflation as prices adjust to handle the necessary reallocation of goods and services.
Hardly.
The safety net is bigger and more expensive than ever.
Significant parts of it came into existence only in the 60s and 70s, not coincidentally followed by inflation in the early 80s as demand for services put pressure on supply constrained by high marginal tax rates and regulations. We risked an Argentine-style economic collapse. Reagan was only able to get reforms passed with Democrats in control of congress because there was no other way to save the welfare state. Democrats knew something had to be done.
But anyway, what won the cold war was self-confidence in the West and self-doubt in the East. The Soviet Union voluntarily gave up on communism. I think that means they won, too.
Polling the USB stack has almost nothing to do keyboard response time.
Keyboard response time depends mostly on how often the built-in microcontroller scans the keyboard matrix. A common interval is 40 ms. Polling the USB stack does nothing to get the microcontroller to scan the keyboard matrix more frequently. If the writer of the firmware decides 40 ms between scans is frequent enough, then you're stuck with 39+ ms latency in the worst case.
That's not the only thing he gets wrong.
He also thought that economic exchange occurred with things of equal value. Even economists of his time knew this wasn't true.
Economic exchange occurs when things are valued unequally, otherwise, why bother exchanging at all? Transaction costs make an exchange a poor decision. If on the other hand I value what you have more than what I have, and you value what I have more then what you have, we trade. This could be a barter or money might be involved.
Could be.
I did really well in these competitions during high school. Now I look back in horror at some of the code I came up with.
What slows me down today is all the second guessing I do now that I know what can go wrong.
There's a parallel in entrepreneurship. Many immigrants in the USA start businesses in part because they just don't know just how vulnerable they are to lawsuits and regulations. Many native citizens are much more cautious for fear of what the legal system or government might do to make their business life more difficult and they sit on the sidelines.
It's possible programmers in other countries are still in that exciting stage where they can code without fear.