Or human rights tariffs, which bring goods from countries competing by abusing their workers into cost parity with goods made in countries where workers have rights.
I assumed that US workers would not accept to sleep at the factory, cut meat in their diet by a factor ten (or more!), work 60 hours per weeks while exposed to hazardous chemicals, and have children as coworkers. I assumed that facing such a situation, people would elect someone that would fight free trade, but I could be wrong
Then market invisible hand will move factories to Vietnam, North Korea, Niger, or whatever. Whatever salaries workers ask, there is always someone poorer ready to bid for lower
Given that iPhone assembly require human work, it was quite unlikely that Foxconn could find cheaper manufacturing costs in US rather than in China. The only hopes to bring back production in the US are a huge raise in transport costs (as if we ran out of oil for instance), or to give up on worldwide free trade.
Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree:(...)The XNU kernel is more of a hybrid with the FreeBSD and Mach kernels glued together.
Actually Wikipedia agrees with me. There are really two kernels glued together in OS X. System calls with positive numbers are dispatched to the BSD kernel (which is indeed close to the FreeBSD kernel) whereas system calls with negative numbers are sent to the Mach microkernel (which, as I said, have nothing to do with FreeBSD).
Mach is completely alien to FreeBSD. There is no concept such as Mach messages, ports and rights in the FreeBSD kernel.
Now I wonder how close the BSD kernel in OS X is to FreeBSD, compared to other BSDs. I have no opinion on this point.
Yup. In many ways, FreeBSD probably has more desktop users than Linux does; it's just that FreeBSD is renamed "OS X"
Not quite. OS X has a lot of Apple proprietary code, and a Mach microkernel that is not related to FreeBSD in any way. The FreeBSD influence can be seen in userland, but if you run ident/usr/bin/*|grep BSD you will find that NetBSD and OpenBSD are also big players in MacOS X
[this will] slow the economic growth and job creation generated by the app economy
Yes, as usually said when any anything is proposed that could be annoying for people making profits. Did they heard about the story of Peter and the wolf?
Why are employment situations in the EU so much better? (Hint, the answer is powerful unions)
For the time being, UE situation is quite bad because of euro crisis. However, unions strength are very different across UE nations. For instance, Germany used to have strong unions, with a culture of cooperation between unions and employers. French workers tend to call for the government to make laws protecting them against employers, and they are not involved in unions very much.
This distrorts perceptions. France is famous for its monster strikes, but french workers do less strikes that the average in the UE. It is just that instead of scattered strikes against individual employers, you get big strike of many workers asking for the government to intervene.
Using cryptography will be nightmare here: who gets the keys to decrypt? Too many people. Keys will be compromised and will have to be updated. How? Should the smart meter be remotely controlled by the utility? That is smelling bad.
MS products do not have top vulnerabilities, but they are still top targets: most malwares are still designed for Windows. It is just that the attackers reach the target by different vulnerabilities. It is therefore still true that using Windows poses a risk.
photosynthesis (which powers virtually all life on earth) is less than 1% efficient
Wikipedia says it is a bit better than that, but in this comparison, we are not taking into account the cost of building the solar panel or the plant, let alone disposal (how long does the solar panel lives?)
If I give $1000 to a guy who is worth a billion dollars, he may just stick it in the vault and let it sit there.
Incorrect. That person will invest. But since the poor are too poor to consume goods, there is not worthly investment in real life economy. The $1000 will therefore be invested in speculative financial products. This feeds financial bubbles.
They tried the migrations because management has heard about this Linux thing and thinks it's cool. They failed, because they have invested a lot in customising FreeBSD
And probably because their staff has a great FreeBSD expertise, but just standard Linux expertise.
It's very fashionable to overstate the problems of the US. Even with all it's problems it remains one of the most successful systems in the world on any number of levels.
If you guys don't like your government, why don't you dust off the guillotines and put them to use again
This would be delicious, but I think it would be better to take the power without violence. The problem with violence is that once it is used, anyone is legitimate to use it : Remember what happened in Paris in 1871. Unfortunately we must wait the next election in 5 years to kick them out.
Maybe now they'll move to reopen Minitel, since the rest of the world isn't going along with their weird version of reality.
Please do not make french people accountable for all the mess their politicians do. Unfortunately we have very little way of kicking them out: just one opportunity every 5 years, and we just used the last one to get rid of Sarkozy.
The MPAA/RIAA will fight that like hell. They probably already have a law for that just waiting to be lobbied through congress. In France, they managed Sarkozy's governement to pass HADOPI, which include a 1500 euros fine for unsecured WiFi access. Of course this is just unaplicable, and nobody has been convicted yet despite country-wide law violations, but still, they have a weapon.
I don't know what I could do even if I was a US citizen.
I am not sure US citizen can do anything. The election system locks everything in a fake choice between two parties whose candidates are heavily subsided by (and therefore work for) the wealthiers. There is no chance to bring another party in the House or Senate. There is not chance to get a president from another party. There is very little chance to get a state governor from another party. There is no possible referendum. There is no hope, in my opinion.
Too many Americans today feel that wealth redistribution by the state should be abolished, as they are quick to scapegoat the needy in light of this country's ills.
If this is the case, then there are real concerns about the future for the US as a nation. The state will remain, but it will not govern for the interest of the citizen anymore. But perhaps it already happened?
What we have here is a TCP port that let you have an unauthenticated shell access. In other words, this an easy to find backdoor. It is so easily exploitable that I am not sure it even deserve the term "hack".
Since I'd been exposed to every major branch of antibiotics, the bacteria in my gut was now resistant to all but the 'drugs of last resort'
Note that antibiotic resistance would not be a problem if your immune system had been able to cope with your pathogen species.
The disaster here may be caused by bacterial selection through antibiotics. In normal situations, gut bacteria fight each others near equilibrium, and your immune system just have to maintain the equilibrium by reducing species that are growing too much. Antibiotics wipe out entire chunks of gut bacteria diversity, creating situations where some resistant species do not have bacterial enemies left, and it gets much harder for the immune system to maintain equilibrium. If the immune system is weakened, it may get overflowed, and gut bacteria start invading other organs
but does your gut really get affected that much by your immune system?
Yes, a lot. The gut is the major organ involved with immunity. We are constantly sampling gut bacterial antigens, producing antibodies against the species that grow too much
Thyroïd problems impact gut immunity, and a low thyroid function is strongly associated with Candida Albicans proliferation, for instance
To get an idea of how gut bacteria are that important: we are made of about 10e13 human cells, and we contain 10e14 gut bacterial, for about 2 kg of mass. Let a subset of the gut bacteria population become hostile pathogens, and you see that we can easily be outnumbered by attackers.
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give up on worldwide free trade.
Or human rights tariffs, which bring goods from countries competing by abusing their workers into cost parity with goods made in countries where workers have rights.
I assumed that US workers would not accept to sleep at the factory, cut meat in their diet by a factor ten (or more!), work 60 hours per weeks while exposed to hazardous chemicals, and have children as coworkers. I assumed that facing such a situation, people would elect someone that would fight free trade, but I could be wrong
Or insert pro-union agitators into China.
Then market invisible hand will move factories to Vietnam, North Korea, Niger, or whatever. Whatever salaries workers ask, there is always someone poorer ready to bid for lower
Given that iPhone assembly require human work, it was quite unlikely that Foxconn could find cheaper manufacturing costs in US rather than in China. The only hopes to bring back production in the US are a huge raise in transport costs (as if we ran out of oil for instance), or to give up on worldwide free trade.
Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree:(...)The XNU kernel is more of a hybrid with the FreeBSD and Mach kernels glued together.
Actually Wikipedia agrees with me. There are really two kernels glued together in OS X. System calls with positive numbers are dispatched to the BSD kernel (which is indeed close to the FreeBSD kernel) whereas system calls with negative numbers are sent to the Mach microkernel (which, as I said, have nothing to do with FreeBSD).
Mach is completely alien to FreeBSD. There is no concept such as Mach messages, ports and rights in the FreeBSD kernel.
Now I wonder how close the BSD kernel in OS X is to FreeBSD, compared to other BSDs. I have no opinion on this point.
Yup. In many ways, FreeBSD probably has more desktop users than Linux does; it's just that FreeBSD is renamed "OS X"
Not quite. OS X has a lot of Apple proprietary code, and a Mach microkernel that is not related to FreeBSD in any way. The FreeBSD influence can be seen in userland, but if you run ident /usr/bin/*|grep BSD you will find that NetBSD and OpenBSD are also big players in MacOS X
[this will] slow the economic growth and job creation generated by the app economy
Yes, as usually said when any anything is proposed that could be annoying for people making profits. Did they heard about the story of Peter and the wolf?
Why are employment situations in the EU so much better? (Hint, the answer is powerful unions)
For the time being, UE situation is quite bad because of euro crisis. However, unions strength are very different across UE nations. For instance, Germany used to have strong unions, with a culture of cooperation between unions and employers. French workers tend to call for the government to make laws protecting them against employers, and they are not involved in unions very much.
This distrorts perceptions. France is famous for its monster strikes, but french workers do less strikes that the average in the UE. It is just that instead of scattered strikes against individual employers, you get big strike of many workers asking for the government to intervene.
Using cryptography will be nightmare here: who gets the keys to decrypt? Too many people. Keys will be compromised and will have to be updated. How? Should the smart meter be remotely controlled by the utility? That is smelling bad.
MS products do not have top vulnerabilities, but they are still top targets: most malwares are still designed for Windows. It is just that the attackers reach the target by different vulnerabilities. It is therefore still true that using Windows poses a risk.
photosynthesis (which powers virtually all life on earth) is less than 1% efficient
Wikipedia says it is a bit better than that, but in this comparison, we are not taking into account the cost of building the solar panel or the plant, let alone disposal (how long does the solar panel lives?)
If I give $1000 to a guy who is worth a billion dollars, he may just stick it in the vault and let it sit there.
Incorrect. That person will invest. But since the poor are too poor to consume goods, there is not worthly investment in real life economy. The $1000 will therefore be invested in speculative financial products. This feeds financial bubbles.
They tried the migrations because management has heard about this Linux thing and thinks it's cool. They failed, because they have invested a lot in customising FreeBSD
And probably because their staff has a great FreeBSD expertise, but just standard Linux expertise.
NetBSD people are not famous for pissing anyone, but that did not caused manufacturers to write drivers for them.
Please someone mod parent up. Vitamin D supplementation is an extremely effective way of avoiding the flu, among other benefits.
It's very fashionable to overstate the problems of the US. Even with all it's problems it remains one of the most successful systems in the world on any number of levels.
And it gets very unsucessful for others. USA life expectancy is now lower than Cuba, for instance.
If you guys don't like your government, why don't you dust off the guillotines and put them to use again
This would be delicious, but I think it would be better to take the power without violence. The problem with violence is that once it is used, anyone is legitimate to use it : Remember what happened in Paris in 1871. Unfortunately we must wait the next election in 5 years to kick them out.
Maybe now they'll move to reopen Minitel, since the rest of the world isn't going along with their weird version of reality.
Please do not make french people accountable for all the mess their politicians do. Unfortunately we have very little way of kicking them out: just one opportunity every 5 years, and we just used the last one to get rid of Sarkozy.
The MPAA/RIAA will fight that like hell. They probably already have a law for that just waiting to be lobbied through congress. In France, they managed Sarkozy's governement to pass HADOPI, which include a 1500 euros fine for unsecured WiFi access. Of course this is just unaplicable, and nobody has been convicted yet despite country-wide law violations, but still, they have a weapon.
I don't know what I could do even if I was a US citizen.
I am not sure US citizen can do anything. The election system locks everything in a fake choice between two parties whose candidates are heavily subsided by (and therefore work for) the wealthiers. There is no chance to bring another party in the House or Senate. There is not chance to get a president from another party. There is very little chance to get a state governor from another party. There is no possible referendum. There is no hope, in my opinion.
Too many Americans today feel that wealth redistribution by the state should be abolished, as they are quick to scapegoat the needy in light of this country's ills.
If this is the case, then there are real concerns about the future for the US as a nation. The state will remain, but it will not govern for the interest of the citizen anymore. But perhaps it already happened?
What we have here is a TCP port that let you have an unauthenticated shell access. In other words, this an easy to find backdoor. It is so easily exploitable that I am not sure it even deserve the term "hack".
Since I'd been exposed to every major branch of antibiotics, the bacteria in my gut was now resistant to all but the 'drugs of last resort'
Note that antibiotic resistance would not be a problem if your immune system had been able to cope with your pathogen species.
The disaster here may be caused by bacterial selection through antibiotics. In normal situations, gut bacteria fight each others near equilibrium, and your immune system just have to maintain the equilibrium by reducing species that are growing too much. Antibiotics wipe out entire chunks of gut bacteria diversity, creating situations where some resistant species do not have bacterial enemies left, and it gets much harder for the immune system to maintain equilibrium. If the immune system is weakened, it may get overflowed, and gut bacteria start invading other organs
but does your gut really get affected that much by your immune system?
Yes, a lot. The gut is the major organ involved with immunity. We are constantly sampling gut bacterial antigens, producing antibodies against the species that grow too much
Thyroïd problems impact gut immunity, and a low thyroid function is strongly associated with Candida Albicans proliferation, for instance
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The only issue is that fecal transplants aren't yet covered by insurance.
This, and the fact that it may just be a temporary cure if the patient has a weak immunity: the same cause may make the same effects.
To get an idea of how gut bacteria are that important: we are made of about 10e13 human cells, and we contain 10e14 gut bacterial, for about 2 kg of mass. Let a subset of the gut bacteria population become hostile pathogens, and you see that we can easily be outnumbered by attackers.