Then why do Linux and FreeBSD let any random process read and write all files in your user account just because the program has the executable bit turned on?
It doesn't. That process must have read and/or write permission to access the files, and it only gets that if the user which owns the process has that permission.
If you are dumb enough to run everything as root, it has such permission. But the issue isn't Linux or FreeBSD (or Windows), it's you deciding to turn off security.
If you want to have a legitimate discussion, then you first have to appreciate why conversation shut down in the first place.
The legitimate discussion is over. It has been over for 20 years. We're now discussing exactly how bad it will be.
The fact that you want to ignore that 20 years of discussion is indicative of just how important discussion actually is to you. And it appears to be far less important than tribalism.
The whole point is that there will thousands and thousands of new, well compensated professionals with incomes to tax and a giant surge of personal spending in the entire area surrounding the activity
That's the theory.
It doesn't always work out that way in practice. MA got screwed by some pharmaceutical giants who didn't quite expand as they said they would. And Foxconn is currently fucking over Wisconsin, with $60k/year jobs costing the state $250k/year each in incentives.
As for that barber shop, his landlord is going to jack his rent through the roof, forcing him to close and/or move. A new Starbucks will pay more rent, but it'll be bad for that barber.....and a huge portion of the restaurants for miles around.
The problem with NYC and Seattle is that they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies.
No, the problem with NYC and Seattle (and San Francisco, and LA, and....) is zoning.
The vast majority of housing in both cities is 4 stories or less with a huge portion of it being single-family residences. Getting a variance from the relevant zoning to build denser housing is really damn hard and expensive. Which means what little denser housing you do build is going to be targeted at wealthier buyers.
Why is zoning a problem? Because most of the people who currently live in these cities own property in these cities. So they are not interested in electing politicians who want to change zoning, because they're making a shitload of money off of owning the existing property. The people who want to move there but can't because of housing prices can not vote there....and want their properties just outside these cities to appreciate massively too.
What I'm attacking is her profound ignorance in having this be a surprise challenge to her.
Can I attack you for believing this dreck?
She talked about the problem. She never expressed surprise. Nor did she demand taxpayers do anything about it before we start paying her in January.
But hey, if you wanna get your hate on an ex-food service employee for not having tens of thousands laying around and daring to talk about it, go right ahead. Your belief that only the wealthy can be in government has served us so well.
You're forgetting that these systems feed on themselves. The amount of energy a hurricane can suck up is based on how strong the storm already is. So if the storm is slightly stronger way off in the Atlantic, it can be much, much, much stronger when it reaches land.
Also, the estimate is a 4 degree increase, not 2. And that's assuming we actually do something about it soon, so 4 degrees is probably optimistic.
They already did. China is installing far more solar and wind power than anyone else.
Ya wanna move yet, or do you want to keep pretending there's nothing to be done? 'Cause we've already doomed Miami. How many more trillions do you want to lose to satisfy your tribalism?
so I don't see where they drew the conclusion about the amount of water Harvey dumped and climate change.
Climate change has reduced the strength of the jet stream, and caused it to meander much more than it used to. This also affects other high-altitude steering currents that are not quite as pronounced as the jet stream. That caused those high pressure systems to stay put for so long.
So no, not just "bad timing". No climate change and those highs move faster and the hurricane can move faster.
But you are also aware that there is a lot of politics on this issue that inclines people to say "whatever my problem = climate change"
It's almost like climate affects a lot of different things.....
the whole topic would have be understood to permit discussion and debate. And as everyone is more than aware... discussion, criticism, and debate is discouraged on this topic.
Largely because the discussion already occurred among scientists who actually understand the data and a very strong consensus was reached....which was not politically popular. Scientifically, the discussion is down to margins of error, not the overall subject.
The "discussion" that is currently being attempted is not at all an attempt to discuss the subject, but a political battle. It serves no purpose but to obfuscate.
The important thing that we need to remember is that it is entirely possible to design and produce a technology stack that is not vulnerable to malware
Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute [mashable.com] when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman [talkingpointsmemo.com], "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."
Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' [google.com] and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve' [google.com]. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" [google.com] of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.
Hey look! Chaff!
That's an awful lot of words to avoid facing that Krugman repeatedly says his simplistic models are not complete and not supposed to be complete.
Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity.
It's not all that curious. There are plenty of plateaus in productivity in our history. Finding one, especially in an asset bubble that was sucking up a ton of capital, is not all that weird.
No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism.
That you can not actually design beyond high-level platitudes.
Don't conflate all of Europe as one.
Don't skip over the word "most".
So that leaves Germany.
You apparently think Europe consists of 6 countries, one of which is located in South America. Also, you want to warn people to not over-generalize Europe.
We're not as homogeneous as Germany for sure, or even the UK so our population has a different temperament, values and intelligence
And why am I not surprised racist bullshit appears.
Socialism is highly corruptible because there are gatekeepers who play a large role in distributing social wealth
And why am I not surprised you are unable to differentiate Social Democracy and Socialism because of the name.
Nonsense. The highest savings rate in the world is in China which has a median household income about one quarter that of America.
So there's this thing called "cost of living". It's just a tiny bit important when considering whether or not wages cover cost of living such that there is money leftover to save.
High taxes on cheap Chinese shit will level the playing field
And result in high taxes on cheap American shit being sold to China. Like soybeans. We used to make a lot of money selling those. We had a natural monopoly since it cost too much for other countries to catch up to us - gotta buy a lot of expensive equipment to match our productivity.
Then Trump decided Mercantilism was a good idea. (Hint: We figured out it was a terrible idea in the 1600s).
Now the US has given away it's soy monopoly. And it will still be gone even if Trump declares victory and cuts tariffs, because we created a window for other countries to catch up to us. So now we will make less money selling soybeans forever.
Trade is hard. If your solution to any trade problem is "so simple", you are wrong and going to make the situation worse.
I always chuckle when Krugman goes to his IS-LM graphs and equations, and I think, "You really believe those describe the entire system?"
Considering he always says it does not describe the entire system, that's a rather odd thing to say if you're actually reading what he writes.
. The economy grows around those sources of money, which aren't geared towards addressing people's needs and wants. They wonder why productivity hasn't improved.
Except productivity has improved. The US, despite that whole "death of manufacturing" thing, is producing 3x the goods we made in the 1980s.....we're doing it with a lot less people because productivity has vastly improved, which is the one of the primary sources of that "death of manufacturing" thing.
I think going forward, there's a strong push towards socialist populism. Unless we can come up with a system that is again self-sustaining and self-organizing that allows people to create value and which fairly pays people for their labor. The view is dimming for the latter.
So, your first option is to invent a new economic system that will be highly stable because.....reasons.
Your second option is democratic socialism as practiced by most of Europe. Including Germany that you laud as successful in your post.
There's precisely zero reasons we can't do the latter in the US. The barrier has been the "Me Generation". And they're gonna die soon.
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Then why do Linux and FreeBSD let any random process read and write all files in your user account just because the program has the executable bit turned on?
It doesn't. That process must have read and/or write permission to access the files, and it only gets that if the user which owns the process has that permission.
If you are dumb enough to run everything as root, it has such permission. But the issue isn't Linux or FreeBSD (or Windows), it's you deciding to turn off security.
If you want to have a legitimate discussion, then you first have to appreciate why conversation shut down in the first place.
The legitimate discussion is over. It has been over for 20 years. We're now discussing exactly how bad it will be.
The fact that you want to ignore that 20 years of discussion is indicative of just how important discussion actually is to you. And it appears to be far less important than tribalism.
And then they declared cigarettes are not only safe, but healthy!
There was never a consensus that cigarettes were safe or healthy. But they do very nicely when igniting strawmen.
You've commented like three times on the same post with basically the same comment.
You realize my name is right there on my posts, right? There's only one replying to this post.
I'm not an idiot.
Well, you seem to not be able to understand that usernames are attached to posts, so....
It's 2% of the taxes collected by the entire state benefiting one company. This is not small change.
Uh....no. NYC is where the money is. It's subsidizing the rest of the state (though not very well). Utica isn't paying much in taxes.
The whole point is that there will thousands and thousands of new, well compensated professionals with incomes to tax and a giant surge of personal spending in the entire area surrounding the activity
That's the theory.
It doesn't always work out that way in practice. MA got screwed by some pharmaceutical giants who didn't quite expand as they said they would. And Foxconn is currently fucking over Wisconsin, with $60k/year jobs costing the state $250k/year each in incentives.
As for that barber shop, his landlord is going to jack his rent through the roof, forcing him to close and/or move. A new Starbucks will pay more rent, but it'll be bad for that barber.....and a huge portion of the restaurants for miles around.
TIL 1994 is after 2001.
The problem with NYC and Seattle is that they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies.
No, the problem with NYC and Seattle (and San Francisco, and LA, and....) is zoning.
The vast majority of housing in both cities is 4 stories or less with a huge portion of it being single-family residences. Getting a variance from the relevant zoning to build denser housing is really damn hard and expensive. Which means what little denser housing you do build is going to be targeted at wealthier buyers.
Why is zoning a problem? Because most of the people who currently live in these cities own property in these cities. So they are not interested in electing politicians who want to change zoning, because they're making a shitload of money off of owning the existing property. The people who want to move there but can't because of housing prices can not vote there....and want their properties just outside these cities to appreciate massively too.
What I'm attacking is her profound ignorance in having this be a surprise challenge to her.
Can I attack you for believing this dreck?
She talked about the problem. She never expressed surprise. Nor did she demand taxpayers do anything about it before we start paying her in January.
But hey, if you wanna get your hate on an ex-food service employee for not having tens of thousands laying around and daring to talk about it, go right ahead. Your belief that only the wealthy can be in government has served us so well.
please try to learn about computers, before you decide to educate others.
Might I suggest replying to the correct post before attacking the education of others?
You're forgetting that these systems feed on themselves. The amount of energy a hurricane can suck up is based on how strong the storm already is. So if the storm is slightly stronger way off in the Atlantic, it can be much, much, much stronger when it reaches land.
Also, the estimate is a 4 degree increase, not 2. And that's assuming we actually do something about it soon, so 4 degrees is probably optimistic.
They already did. China is installing far more solar and wind power than anyone else.
Ya wanna move yet, or do you want to keep pretending there's nothing to be done? 'Cause we've already doomed Miami. How many more trillions do you want to lose to satisfy your tribalism?
so I don't see where they drew the conclusion about the amount of water Harvey dumped and climate change.
Climate change has reduced the strength of the jet stream, and caused it to meander much more than it used to. This also affects other high-altitude steering currents that are not quite as pronounced as the jet stream. That caused those high pressure systems to stay put for so long.
So no, not just "bad timing". No climate change and those highs move faster and the hurricane can move faster.
But you are also aware that there is a lot of politics on this issue that inclines people to say "whatever my problem = climate change"
It's almost like climate affects a lot of different things.....
the whole topic would have be understood to permit discussion and debate. And as everyone is more than aware... discussion, criticism, and debate is discouraged on this topic.
Largely because the discussion already occurred among scientists who actually understand the data and a very strong consensus was reached....which was not politically popular. Scientifically, the discussion is down to margins of error, not the overall subject.
The "discussion" that is currently being attempted is not at all an attempt to discuss the subject, but a political battle. It serves no purpose but to obfuscate.
Remember... it will also be dryer
Also wetter...
hotter...
colder...
Golly...it's almost like climate change is a change in climate.
We have to wait for winter, so that they can point out it snowed.
The important thing that we need to remember is that it is entirely possible to design and produce a technology stack that is not vulnerable to malware
[Citation Required]
Considering a few countries filed NOTAMs about GPS being blocked before Russia jammed anything, I really doubt it was a surprise.
Also, GPS jamming is somewhat common in military exercises. It turns out the military is not staffed entirely by idiots.
But these two locations just happen to be close to places where Jeff Bezos owns houses.
Must just be an amazing coincidence.
Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute [mashable.com] when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman [talkingpointsmemo.com], "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."
Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' [google.com] and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve' [google.com]. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" [google.com] of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.
Hey look! Chaff!
That's an awful lot of words to avoid facing that Krugman repeatedly says his simplistic models are not complete and not supposed to be complete.
Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity.
It's not all that curious. There are plenty of plateaus in productivity in our history. Finding one, especially in an asset bubble that was sucking up a ton of capital, is not all that weird.
No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism.
That you can not actually design beyond high-level platitudes.
Don't conflate all of Europe as one.
Don't skip over the word "most".
So that leaves Germany.
You apparently think Europe consists of 6 countries, one of which is located in South America. Also, you want to warn people to not over-generalize Europe.
We're not as homogeneous as Germany for sure, or even the UK so our population has a different temperament, values and intelligence
And why am I not surprised racist bullshit appears.
Socialism is highly corruptible because there are gatekeepers who play a large role in distributing social wealth
And why am I not surprised you are unable to differentiate Social Democracy and Socialism because of the name.
Nonsense. The highest savings rate in the world is in China which has a median household income about one quarter that of America.
So there's this thing called "cost of living". It's just a tiny bit important when considering whether or not wages cover cost of living such that there is money leftover to save.
High taxes on cheap Chinese shit will level the playing field
And result in high taxes on cheap American shit being sold to China. Like soybeans. We used to make a lot of money selling those. We had a natural monopoly since it cost too much for other countries to catch up to us - gotta buy a lot of expensive equipment to match our productivity.
Then Trump decided Mercantilism was a good idea. (Hint: We figured out it was a terrible idea in the 1600s).
Now the US has given away it's soy monopoly. And it will still be gone even if Trump declares victory and cuts tariffs, because we created a window for other countries to catch up to us. So now we will make less money selling soybeans forever.
Trade is hard. If your solution to any trade problem is "so simple", you are wrong and going to make the situation worse.
Age is different.
Yes, it's the one that affects you.
I always chuckle when Krugman goes to his IS-LM graphs and equations, and I think, "You really believe those describe the entire system?"
Considering he always says it does not describe the entire system, that's a rather odd thing to say if you're actually reading what he writes.
. The economy grows around those sources of money, which aren't geared towards addressing people's needs and wants. They wonder why productivity hasn't improved.
Except productivity has improved. The US, despite that whole "death of manufacturing" thing, is producing 3x the goods we made in the 1980s.....we're doing it with a lot less people because productivity has vastly improved, which is the one of the primary sources of that "death of manufacturing" thing.
I think going forward, there's a strong push towards socialist populism. Unless we can come up with a system that is again self-sustaining and self-organizing that allows people to create value and which fairly pays people for their labor. The view is dimming for the latter.
So, your first option is to invent a new economic system that will be highly stable because.....reasons.
Your second option is democratic socialism as practiced by most of Europe. Including Germany that you laud as successful in your post.
There's precisely zero reasons we can't do the latter in the US. The barrier has been the "Me Generation". And they're gonna die soon.