Seriously, it takes the criminal actively walking into the courthouse and proclaiming himself an enormous felon and requesting jail-time for prosecution to happen when they're rich. And "prosecution" that results in a fine is so non-punitive it's mind-melting.
This person stole 100 million dollars, bad person! 20 million dollar fine! Yeah, fines work real well. Oh fine more like "Bad person: 120 million dollar fine!" (all the while the person made 88 million off their 100 million over the 2 decades they were stealing it by way of interest and investments we poor people don't have access to), poor guy only walks away 68 million ahead.. stealing is dangerous, you could get caught and then...punished? no no.. what do we call that... shamed? Yeah that's it. Steal lots of money, get publically shamed. That's about the long and the short of it..
Sadly that is literally the argument of a lot of people "Regulation doesn't work so stop regulating!" translation: "Regulation has loopholes that are being exploited, so stop regulating and they'll stop exploiting loopholes!"... people actually think this way, but you can't blame them, if they're stupid enough to not realize why that is brain-damagingly backwards, they're stupid enough to think that way...
Would never pass congress, those loopholes are important to ensure the regulation doesn't stop people from making tons of money from committing fraudulent acts, err rather, those loopholes ensure the country's economy doesn't slow.
In all honesty, I have just realized a simple fact, America is a country with 2 economies. The rich people's economy and everybody elses, they follow 100% different rules, their money comes from 100% different sources, they are literally 2 distinct economies. The only way they intermix is that the rich one get's all it's money through tricking and extorting the money from the other one (and others, internationally), and the other one generates money for itself by internally ebbing the money about as well as importing money from other countries through valuable exports. The country's GDP comes from everyone's, however the country's GDP goes to the rich people's.
Viewing them as two totally separate and distinct economies the same way you view america's economy and mexico's economy actually makes a lot more sense...
...the trick I guess is that one of the economies has a monomorphic (or more truly catamorphic) relationship to the other one, where we need it to be homomorphic...hylomorphic might also be workable...
The balance has been struck: Deregulation is currently at a point where the economy for really rich people like federal politicians is *great* and Regulation is at a point where the entire public isn't 100% certain that more would be a good thing so the politicians aren't being bothered by their constituents to increase it (which would slow the economy for really rich people, but speed it up for the rest of us as we have more money in our pockets when we're not being gang-banged by the rich people's economy).
SERIOUSLY. Find someone who actually knows programming to get your kid writing code, this hands down has the highest transmission rate of The Bug. Someone who knows how getting him to do some piddly crap is more likely to give him The Bug than anything else hands down. Once he has The Bug, everything else will be taken care of. He'll plug himself into the internet and start downloading all on his own directly into his brain pan. CS and etc as very useful as they are, are no where near as valuable to someone who is "interested" as contracting The Bug.
You know how much goes into thinking up mathematical strategies for structuring those things, I wouldn't say it doesn't help at all..:)
Also dead right, this will have you touch typing and reading so fast. IRC/MUD is how I learned to touch type, and I hit 140wpm if I know what I want to say.
Decent.. ugh, just to learn some coding all you need is a 486 with vi or emacs, immediately at his fingertips without delay will then be Lisp, Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, C/C++, Java, Haskell.. I'm not suggesting anyone dig up a 486, but the point stands, hell get the kid an rPi... don't tell this guy to trouble over whether or not to spend money and how much when he just needs to spend pocket change if he wants his kid to be able to code.
The real problem is the number of scammers who would immediately begin taking advantage of everyone who makes a cent over minimum wage (note, scammer: corporation, not person, people don't have the rights to get away with that stuff)
I've flatly said on many occasions to this question "Don't worry about it, X is what I'm looking for." the few who didn't get the hint and pressed were told their offer was suddenly irrelevant and I hung up on them. I plan to get paid for my skills by looking at the market and coming up with what I believe to be reasonable and then demanding that of businesses. Yes I have been flatly denied by businesses, but those places are jerkbags anyway and would be miserable to work for.
I'm going with the guy who actually knows it's HIPAA not HIPPA. (That and I worked on FDA regulated medical software for 3 years where the database stored PII)
The biggest problem with the legal system is availability; It takes significant amount of time to utilize our legal system and the majority of working folks have no capability to get enough time away from work to accomplish this. This is possibly the largest reason the rich have such legal powers that they do, simply because they are capable of financing their own time and therefore able to use their time towards whichever endeavors they need to for completion of personal responsibility. It is each persons personal responsibility to take fraudulent actors trying to take advantage of them to the courts, but when one will lose their livelihood for the few days a month for a few months it takes to accomplish such, there's simply no choice but to be taken advantage of.
No I start off with "let's protected citizens from corporations". When those corporations fail, the ultra rich running them are guess what? Still filthy rich, only the honest working people who relied on that corporation are harmed. How about we stop letting these corporations get so large that they can harm enormous amounts of the economy, aka normal citizens. Rich people weather this stuff like nothing, it's everybody else who get's totally screwed. You think the corporations will ever stop getting that big on purpose? Good luck. You think fear of failure will stop them? HAH fear of failure is what makes them get so big! Less chance of failing when you're so huge, but huge damage to working man if you do. Or you can just keep thinking "corporations will just figure it out and stop doing these things" good luck, so long as those things you think are so risky are actually ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE, they will do them. Period. No two ways about it, they're like a monkey touching a lever that gives them crack, they'll push the lever until it kills them, every single time.
Humbug, many people have many times plausibly and truthfully denied knowledge of laws they broke, make it illegal to do what these asshats are doing and it won't matter whether they knew they were breaking the law of not, just throw them in jail. I suggest this in fact be the final destination for all MBA's, they hand them a degree and put them directly in jail for spending 6 years trying to become a professional arsehole.
Maybe investments to hold real risks *unless* they grow so large so fast, ever think about that? Companies strengthen their positions through market controlling investments such as the poster is talking about, and purposefully position themselves to *be* the market, knowing this is the most stable position for them. This is however the *least* stable position for everyone around them, but that's not their problem now is it?
Imagine if a bank saw a technique with which through hell and high water it could become the single bank owning every single penny anyone anywhere depositted? Would they be like "oh boy, we'd get too big, so risky!" hell no, they'd say SWEET WE WILL HAVE IT ALL! and trudge forth to doing it, the result being? If they happen to fail after that, well there goes *everyone's* money.
Companies become to big to fail on purpose because it's a bloody profitable affair, and they're not going to stop until we put laws on corporate sizes (and give money and AUTHORITY to regulators to freeging enforce those laws so we don't just have enforcers standing around pointing saying "Look! Look! The shit's about to hit! Look everybody! Here it goes! Now! *bam* Told you so! Wait what? You're firing me for not doing my job??" regulators getting canned for not enforcing laws the congress refused to give them power to enforce is the ultimate example of political grand standing wasting american tax dollars, give them the bloody authority!)
Go re-read why worse is better http://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html and realize any form of micro-architecture has long since been destroyed by the formidable drive of the monolithic design and it's ability to be simultaneously horrible and intractably irremovable from the minds of the vast majority of engineers, along with being faster to get out the door and therefore meeting all requirements of the business people who actually shove all this garbage down our throats.
I read a lot of summaries on slashdot on topics I know nothing about, but they usually give me some idea what's going on. This one is giving me no clues but sounds really interesting. I'm not stupid, I just know the software and not the physical medium for squat, please explain this down to relatively smart persons laymans terms someone?
I think possibly the biggest thing people ignore when they hear zuckerburgs story and get stars in their eyes if they're coders imagining their story the same or alternatively non-coders and think any frat kid can write code is that these guys were going to frigging Harvard. These guys were never just some college kids, to begin with they were A) raised well-off with every benefit you could have B) smart enough to be writing code before college C) smart enough to have been accepted to harvard D) smart enough to not even be struggling while they were there.
I'm sorry, but these dudes were all smarter than most everyone before they became rich, and they became rich because of that. Facebook hardly had anything to do with it, these dudes would have become rich one way or another because that's what happens to people who can meet all 4 of those circumstances, and I mean all people who can meet those 4 criteria. Period. So just stop comparing anything at all about the guys who started Facebook (or classically Bill Gates because he was a drop-out, sorry again; he went to fucking Harvard.) to the rest of anything. You're talking about 0.0001% of people and comparing them to everyone the hell else, just stop, it's stupid.
There's such a huge variety in the industry, I've seen it stuck to at multiple companies I worked at, and then absolutely not at all at others. It just depends, and what works varies just as much. At the end of the day, it's the people who've completed the "Learn to program in 10 years" book that get the job done well regardless of the bullshit surrounding them, so long as they completed the book that is, so many people seem to spend 10 years on chapter 1 and then proclaim "I finished the book!", wrong.
This is dead true. engineered software has very valuable place, but yeah this shit was all born of the free-form creativity of a bunch of math geniuses, continuously for decades until someone made money off of it, and an industry was born trying to formalize it so they could just put the magic in a bottle and sell it as a potion.
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Seriously, it takes the criminal actively walking into the courthouse and proclaiming himself an enormous felon and requesting jail-time for prosecution to happen when they're rich. And "prosecution" that results in a fine is so non-punitive it's mind-melting.
This person stole 100 million dollars, bad person! 20 million dollar fine! Yeah, fines work real well. Oh fine more like "Bad person: 120 million dollar fine!" (all the while the person made 88 million off their 100 million over the 2 decades they were stealing it by way of interest and investments we poor people don't have access to), poor guy only walks away 68 million ahead.. stealing is dangerous, you could get caught and then...punished? no no.. what do we call that... shamed? Yeah that's it. Steal lots of money, get publically shamed. That's about the long and the short of it..
Sadly that is literally the argument of a lot of people "Regulation doesn't work so stop regulating!" translation: "Regulation has loopholes that are being exploited, so stop regulating and they'll stop exploiting loopholes!"... people actually think this way, but you can't blame them, if they're stupid enough to not realize why that is brain-damagingly backwards, they're stupid enough to think that way...
Would never pass congress, those loopholes are important to ensure the regulation doesn't stop people from making tons of money from committing fraudulent acts, err rather, those loopholes ensure the country's economy doesn't slow.
...the trick I guess is that one of the economies has a monomorphic (or more truly catamorphic) relationship to the other one, where we need it to be homomorphic...hylomorphic might also be workable...
In all honesty, I have just realized a simple fact, America is a country with 2 economies. The rich people's economy and everybody elses, they follow 100% different rules, their money comes from 100% different sources, they are literally 2 distinct economies. The only way they intermix is that the rich one get's all it's money through tricking and extorting the money from the other one (and others, internationally), and the other one generates money for itself by internally ebbing the money about as well as importing money from other countries through valuable exports. The country's GDP comes from everyone's, however the country's GDP goes to the rich people's.
Viewing them as two totally separate and distinct economies the same way you view america's economy and mexico's economy actually makes a lot more sense...
The balance has been struck: Deregulation is currently at a point where the economy for really rich people like federal politicians is *great* and Regulation is at a point where the entire public isn't 100% certain that more would be a good thing so the politicians aren't being bothered by their constituents to increase it (which would slow the economy for really rich people, but speed it up for the rest of us as we have more money in our pockets when we're not being gang-banged by the rich people's economy).
SERIOUSLY. Find someone who actually knows programming to get your kid writing code, this hands down has the highest transmission rate of The Bug. Someone who knows how getting him to do some piddly crap is more likely to give him The Bug than anything else hands down. Once he has The Bug, everything else will be taken care of. He'll plug himself into the internet and start downloading all on his own directly into his brain pan. CS and etc as very useful as they are, are no where near as valuable to someone who is "interested" as contracting The Bug.
You know how much goes into thinking up mathematical strategies for structuring those things, I wouldn't say it doesn't help at all.. :)
Also dead right, this will have you touch typing and reading so fast. IRC/MUD is how I learned to touch type, and I hit 140wpm if I know what I want to say.
Decent.. ugh, just to learn some coding all you need is a 486 with vi or emacs, immediately at his fingertips without delay will then be Lisp, Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, C/C++, Java, Haskell.. I'm not suggesting anyone dig up a 486, but the point stands, hell get the kid an rPi... don't tell this guy to trouble over whether or not to spend money and how much when he just needs to spend pocket change if he wants his kid to be able to code.
The real problem is the number of scammers who would immediately begin taking advantage of everyone who makes a cent over minimum wage (note, scammer: corporation, not person, people don't have the rights to get away with that stuff)
I've flatly said on many occasions to this question "Don't worry about it, X is what I'm looking for." the few who didn't get the hint and pressed were told their offer was suddenly irrelevant and I hung up on them. I plan to get paid for my skills by looking at the market and coming up with what I believe to be reasonable and then demanding that of businesses. Yes I have been flatly denied by businesses, but those places are jerkbags anyway and would be miserable to work for.
Aren't states rights fun!
I'm going with the guy who actually knows it's HIPAA not HIPPA. (That and I worked on FDA regulated medical software for 3 years where the database stored PII)
This is called retirement, because teaching pays dick. (who in turn pays the teacher NOTHING, which is worth considerably less than it used to be)
I don't know, if I say Yes, does that mean it is or isn't?
I just have to ask, if you're a mage do you still need a tank to breath under water?
Helpdesk != tech support. Help desk means internal.
The biggest problem with the legal system is availability; It takes significant amount of time to utilize our legal system and the majority of working folks have no capability to get enough time away from work to accomplish this. This is possibly the largest reason the rich have such legal powers that they do, simply because they are capable of financing their own time and therefore able to use their time towards whichever endeavors they need to for completion of personal responsibility. It is each persons personal responsibility to take fraudulent actors trying to take advantage of them to the courts, but when one will lose their livelihood for the few days a month for a few months it takes to accomplish such, there's simply no choice but to be taken advantage of.
No I start off with "let's protected citizens from corporations". When those corporations fail, the ultra rich running them are guess what? Still filthy rich, only the honest working people who relied on that corporation are harmed. How about we stop letting these corporations get so large that they can harm enormous amounts of the economy, aka normal citizens. Rich people weather this stuff like nothing, it's everybody else who get's totally screwed. You think the corporations will ever stop getting that big on purpose? Good luck. You think fear of failure will stop them? HAH fear of failure is what makes them get so big! Less chance of failing when you're so huge, but huge damage to working man if you do. Or you can just keep thinking "corporations will just figure it out and stop doing these things" good luck, so long as those things you think are so risky are actually ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE, they will do them. Period. No two ways about it, they're like a monkey touching a lever that gives them crack, they'll push the lever until it kills them, every single time.
Humbug, many people have many times plausibly and truthfully denied knowledge of laws they broke, make it illegal to do what these asshats are doing and it won't matter whether they knew they were breaking the law of not, just throw them in jail. I suggest this in fact be the final destination for all MBA's, they hand them a degree and put them directly in jail for spending 6 years trying to become a professional arsehole.
Indeed. I never thought of such an idea but I sincerely like it and would like to subscribe to this fellow's newsletter.
Maybe investments to hold real risks *unless* they grow so large so fast, ever think about that? Companies strengthen their positions through market controlling investments such as the poster is talking about, and purposefully position themselves to *be* the market, knowing this is the most stable position for them. This is however the *least* stable position for everyone around them, but that's not their problem now is it?
Imagine if a bank saw a technique with which through hell and high water it could become the single bank owning every single penny anyone anywhere depositted? Would they be like "oh boy, we'd get too big, so risky!" hell no, they'd say SWEET WE WILL HAVE IT ALL! and trudge forth to doing it, the result being? If they happen to fail after that, well there goes *everyone's* money.
Companies become to big to fail on purpose because it's a bloody profitable affair, and they're not going to stop until we put laws on corporate sizes (and give money and AUTHORITY to regulators to freeging enforce those laws so we don't just have enforcers standing around pointing saying "Look! Look! The shit's about to hit! Look everybody! Here it goes! Now! *bam* Told you so! Wait what? You're firing me for not doing my job??" regulators getting canned for not enforcing laws the congress refused to give them power to enforce is the ultimate example of political grand standing wasting american tax dollars, give them the bloody authority!)
Go re-read why worse is better http://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html and realize any form of micro-architecture has long since been destroyed by the formidable drive of the monolithic design and it's ability to be simultaneously horrible and intractably irremovable from the minds of the vast majority of engineers, along with being faster to get out the door and therefore meeting all requirements of the business people who actually shove all this garbage down our throats.
I read a lot of summaries on slashdot on topics I know nothing about, but they usually give me some idea what's going on. This one is giving me no clues but sounds really interesting. I'm not stupid, I just know the software and not the physical medium for squat, please explain this down to relatively smart persons laymans terms someone?
I think possibly the biggest thing people ignore when they hear zuckerburgs story and get stars in their eyes if they're coders imagining their story the same or alternatively non-coders and think any frat kid can write code is that these guys were going to frigging Harvard. These guys were never just some college kids, to begin with they were A) raised well-off with every benefit you could have B) smart enough to be writing code before college C) smart enough to have been accepted to harvard D) smart enough to not even be struggling while they were there.
I'm sorry, but these dudes were all smarter than most everyone before they became rich, and they became rich because of that. Facebook hardly had anything to do with it, these dudes would have become rich one way or another because that's what happens to people who can meet all 4 of those circumstances, and I mean all people who can meet those 4 criteria. Period. So just stop comparing anything at all about the guys who started Facebook (or classically Bill Gates because he was a drop-out, sorry again; he went to fucking Harvard.) to the rest of anything. You're talking about 0.0001% of people and comparing them to everyone the hell else, just stop, it's stupid.
There's such a huge variety in the industry, I've seen it stuck to at multiple companies I worked at, and then absolutely not at all at others. It just depends, and what works varies just as much. At the end of the day, it's the people who've completed the "Learn to program in 10 years" book that get the job done well regardless of the bullshit surrounding them, so long as they completed the book that is, so many people seem to spend 10 years on chapter 1 and then proclaim "I finished the book!", wrong.
This is dead true. engineered software has very valuable place, but yeah this shit was all born of the free-form creativity of a bunch of math geniuses, continuously for decades until someone made money off of it, and an industry was born trying to formalize it so they could just put the magic in a bottle and sell it as a potion.