People were also expected to work themselves out of destitution.
The current welfare system that exists right now doesn't really seem to be a great long term benefit to black people, unless your goal is to keep an entire segment of the population dependent and basically helpless (so that they keep voting for you).
The whole point of the "file as a directory" concept was that regular programs wouldn't need to be modified to use a new API.
What Reiser should have done is to allow metadata to be accessed through his new interface and also via the extended attribute interface instead of arguing about how much better the new way was.
I DO NOT want semantic tags. The reason is simple: they are LOST when you copy or do anything with the files. If you have important info about the file: put it in the filename. Or inside the file (exif tags for images, ID3 tags for mp3s, etc). Or in a txt file with the same name next to it. The rest is no better than putting varnish on a turd: it works only as long as you don't get too close.
Maybe we should devise a method to attach arbitrary metadata directly to a file in a way that requires little to no modification of existing unix programs while also making it accessable to any program that can deal with files and directories.
At one point there was a very promising idea for a universal metadata storage system that would free metadata from a particular program and make it available to every part of the OS.
Too bad the main programmer had some personal problems and couldn't finish the job...
In that case though it wouldn't be you, it would just be someone who thinks he's you.
Is the difference relevant?
Few, if any, of the original atoms that made up your body when you were born exist in your body right now. Doesn't it make more sense to define your identity by the pattern rather than by the physical components since those components are constantly entering and leaving?
Of course if part of your definition of your identity is supernatural then all bets are off.
For example : say a slug was a spherical shape. Just to represent pi, and therefore its volume would require infinite precision. There is a massive difference between knowing the ideal equations and simulating an organism.
Not infinite precision. Assigning enough bits in your coordinate system such that one bit equals the planck length should be enough.
It's simply a matter of having enough* RAM and processor cycles.
*Yes, I understand how ridiculously large "enough" is.
Of course federal anti-poverty programs(1) have produced better results than the almost completely non-existent private charities that existed in the 1929.
In that case the evidence should be easy to locate. Also I'm not sure that the friends, relatives and churches that people relied on when they were in trouble back in the 19th and early 20th centuries are quite as non-existant as you claim.
No, that introduces all sorts of personal prejudices in it.
I guess we disagree that political prejudices are better than personal ones.
Also, charity cannot possibly happen that way in cases of depressed areas of economic downturn. No one has any money to give to anyone.
I don't remember any examples from US history where people starved to death because private charity was overwhelmed. Do you have any particular cases you can point out?
Before Microsoft tries to take over from the most successful search engine in the world they really need to get a better name. Can you really imagine youself using "bing" as a verb in mixed company?
The person who came up with that name must be the same one who thought it was a good idea to sell devices that allow you to "squirt" pictures of your kids.
In the last 20 years more than 30 US states have enacted "shall-issue" laws. For someone with access to the relevant data it should be straightforward to answer the question, "Is the percentage of attempted muggings that end in murder greater now than in was in 1985?"
Sometimes stopgaps are reasonable, but we really do need to get to the root of the problem: People have no idea how to manage their financial life.
The problem with progressivism is that in your attempt to eliminate bad outcomes you destroy the crucial feedback that enables people to learn to be responsible.
It's great to provide food for people who are starving due to no fault of their own, but it's not such a good policy to feed someone who can't buy food because he just blew his entire paycheck on the slot machines. Good luck devising a government policy that helps the former while denying the latter.
That's why charity should happen on an individual or local basis. The decisions need to be made on a case-by-case distributed basis instead of being centralized.
The basic quantum physics formulas that cover the interactions of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Given sufficient RAM and processing capability we could simulate practically anything via a brute force approach. I doubt that the worldwide total of either one is enough to fully simulate a sea slug down to the subatomic particle level, but we already know algorithms that could do it.
PasswordHasher really is a great system. It helps you make strong passwords and gives you portability by letting you generate the html version.
I keep the html file on a keychain USB drive so that I can access my passwords from anywhere. I especially like how you you can use on any text field, so for those web sites that don't trigger Firefox's password saver feature you can still use save passwords (if you configure the extension to store your passphrase).
Too bad that the original poster is unlikely to read through all 800 replies to find the answer to his question.
Why bother with all those different voltages? Standardize all your loads on 240V/3 phase. Small DC loads should standardize on USB power. You can even include the USB converter inside the outlet. Anything that needs more DC than USB can provide will need its own converter, like they do now.
It sucks that this system even needs a professional driver to begin with. A better system would be fully peer-to-peer in that any two cars that happened to be traveling in the same direction could link up.
Of course that would break this company's buisness model, but it would make sense for the car manufacturers to implement it that way.
However I am above all else a pragmatist, and I believe above all else in what *makes sense* for our highly complex society.
Then let's talk pragmatics. First, out of all the endeavors the government has been involved in what percent are great successes?
Compare the prices of goods and services over the last 30 years. What happened to the prices of good and services that people pay for out of pocket? What has happened to the prices of good and services that people pay for with subsidies and loans?
We even see this in health care. Laser eye surgery is normally paid for out of pocket. What has happened to the price of this surgery over the last 15 years? Prescription drugs are not normally paid for out of pocket. What has happened to the price of these drugs over the last 15 years?
Why does the exact same stent manufactured by an American company cost ten times more in the US than in Canada? Could protectionary reimport laws have anything to do with it? Are these laws good for the average citizen, or the stent manufacturer? When was the last time that Congress did something that benefited the average citizen at the expense of the companies that financed their campaigns?
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The old system had problems.
The new system has about the same number of problems and costs a lot more.
Clearly the solution is that we need more.
The fact that we spend more of GDP now than we did in 1929 doesn't say anything about effectiveness.
What are we getting for all this money expended that we didn't have then?
People were also expected to work themselves out of destitution.
The current welfare system that exists right now doesn't really seem to be a great long term benefit to black people, unless your goal is to keep an entire segment of the population dependent and basically helpless (so that they keep voting for you).
I bet we can reopen at lease some of the mines that were closed back in the 80s due to low prices before 2013 if necessary.
The whole point of the "file as a directory" concept was that regular programs wouldn't need to be modified to use a new API.
What Reiser should have done is to allow metadata to be accessed through his new interface and also via the extended attribute interface instead of arguing about how much better the new way was.
Try this video.
Maybe we should devise a method to attach arbitrary metadata directly to a file in a way that requires little to no modification of existing unix programs while also making it accessable to any program that can deal with files and directories.
At one point there was a very promising idea for a universal metadata storage system that would free metadata from a particular program and make it available to every part of the OS.
Too bad the main programmer had some personal problems and couldn't finish the job...
Is the difference relevant?
Few, if any, of the original atoms that made up your body when you were born exist in your body right now. Doesn't it make more sense to define your identity by the pattern rather than by the physical components since those components are constantly entering and leaving?
Of course if part of your definition of your identity is supernatural then all bets are off.
Not infinite precision. Assigning enough bits in your coordinate system such that one bit equals the planck length should be enough.
It's simply a matter of having enough* RAM and processor cycles.
*Yes, I understand how ridiculously large "enough" is.
Yes.
In that case the evidence should be easy to locate. Also I'm not sure that the friends, relatives and churches that people relied on when they were in trouble back in the 19th and early 20th centuries are quite as non-existant as you claim.
Whatver. The question is if the various federal anti-poverty programs have produced measurably better results than what existed prior.
How likely is a person to die (starvation, exposure, heart attack, whatever) because of economic downturn in 2009 as compared to 1929?
I guess we disagree that political prejudices are better than personal ones.
I don't remember any examples from US history where people starved to death because private charity was overwhelmed. Do you have any particular cases you can point out?
Before Microsoft tries to take over from the most successful search engine in the world they really need to get a better name. Can you really imagine youself using "bing" as a verb in mixed company?
The person who came up with that name must be the same one who thought it was a good idea to sell devices that allow you to "squirt" pictures of your kids.
In the last 20 years more than 30 US states have enacted "shall-issue" laws. For someone with access to the relevant data it should be straightforward to answer the question, "Is the percentage of attempted muggings that end in murder greater now than in was in 1985?"
The problem with progressivism is that in your attempt to eliminate bad outcomes you destroy the crucial feedback that enables people to learn to be responsible.
It's great to provide food for people who are starving due to no fault of their own, but it's not such a good policy to feed someone who can't buy food because he just blew his entire paycheck on the slot machines. Good luck devising a government policy that helps the former while denying the latter.
That's why charity should happen on an individual or local basis. The decisions need to be made on a case-by-case distributed basis instead of being centralized.
So how well do the before and after statistics in locations around the world that have changed their firearm policies support your assertion?
The basic quantum physics formulas that cover the interactions of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Given sufficient RAM and processing capability we could simulate practically anything via a brute force approach. I doubt that the worldwide total of either one is enough to fully simulate a sea slug down to the subatomic particle level, but we already know algorithms that could do it.
PasswordHasher really is a great system. It helps you make strong passwords and gives you portability by letting you generate the html version.
I keep the html file on a keychain USB drive so that I can access my passwords from anywhere. I especially like how you you can use on any text field, so for those web sites that don't trigger Firefox's password saver feature you can still use save passwords (if you configure the extension to store your passphrase).
Too bad that the original poster is unlikely to read through all 800 replies to find the answer to his question.
Why bother with all those different voltages? Standardize all your loads on 240V/3 phase. Small DC loads should standardize on USB power. You can even include the USB converter inside the outlet. Anything that needs more DC than USB can provide will need its own converter, like they do now.
If your car is equipped with the same system then presumably it could signal the train to open up and give you space to exit.
If your car is not equipped then you could just go for it and hope that the other cars' collision avoidance systems can cope.
It sucks that this system even needs a professional driver to begin with. A better system would be fully peer-to-peer in that any two cars that happened to be traveling in the same direction could link up.
Of course that would break this company's buisness model, but it would make sense for the car manufacturers to implement it that way.
There's even a Firefox plugin that automatically adds the links for you.
Then let's talk pragmatics. First, out of all the endeavors the government has been involved in what percent are great successes?
Compare the prices of goods and services over the last 30 years. What happened to the prices of good and services that people pay for out of pocket? What has happened to the prices of good and services that people pay for with subsidies and loans?
We even see this in health care. Laser eye surgery is normally paid for out of pocket. What has happened to the price of this surgery over the last 15 years? Prescription drugs are not normally paid for out of pocket. What has happened to the price of these drugs over the last 15 years?
Why does the exact same stent manufactured by an American company cost ten times more in the US than in Canada? Could protectionary reimport laws have anything to do with it? Are these laws good for the average citizen, or the stent manufacturer? When was the last time that Congress did something that benefited the average citizen at the expense of the companies that financed their campaigns?
So it's more moral to enslave Carol because she just doesn't realize that it's for her own good?