Even the IRS agrees it's regressive (http://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/whys_thm03_les02.jsp) - ie. it takes a larger percentage of income from lower income people.
>> 12) Rand Paul supports the flat tax. > Is there ANYONE other than congressmen and their cronies who don't support this?
I'm not sure what echo chamber you're living in, but a lot of people don't support a flat tax. It sounds good to people who don't think about it, but is actually very regressive.
"proven reserves", especially for fracking, are often not what they seem (and not what most people would consider "proven" to mean). The 96% drop in the recoverable rate for the Monterey shale is a prime example. The industry has a large incentive to inflate the numbers. So far I've not seen any independent calculations that contradict the rapid-decline rate. I guess we'll find out what reality says over the next few years.
Err. No. Fracked gas wells have a very rapid decline rate. You have to constantly drill new wells just to keep up, and those get increasingly marginal. Current gas prices are too low to pay for the extraction - which is why the push for LNG export, because the world prices are currently high enough. It's not about there being a large supply. I'd give it five years, maybe ten. So maybe the life of a new car. Almost certainly not your lifespan, let alone your kids.
For those not following the link, that's four people on roughly 1/10th acre. It's very intensive and they sell part of their produce to bring in grains, pay taxes, etc. It's a full time job in a favorable climate (they can grow continuously most of the year, unlike much of the world), but if you can do it on that small a property, scaling up to take over adjacent properties could support people. You just have even more die-off as people learn how.
Actually a large part of England's deforestation was pre-industrialization - for ship building. One of the largest fleets in the world takes a lot of slow growing hardwood.
There's actually increasing evidence that there are more females on the autistic spectrum than thought, because the diagnosis tests (and those performing them) are biased towards the way males present. (Along with a number of other things, including depression and heart attacks)
I run on both windows and linux and haven't had any problems under windows (and with the save-tags-in-metadata feature not using the same db is not a problem).
Remember that you're talking about two quite different values there.
1 US gallon = 3.8 L 1 UK gallon = 4.4 L
So you automatically get 15% gain for the same numbers in the UK.
Your 75mpg in the UK is only 64mpg in the US.
UK fuels also have significantly higher octane ratings than US. What's considered a high octane performance fuel in the US is the normal fuel in the UK.
Also, more on topic, is Haskell, or any other lazy pure functional language, actually capable of automatically parallelising code, or is that just some theoretical idea that will need a lot of research & work before it's possible?
I wrote my Masters thesis on that topic over a decade ago, so it's quite possible and not that complex to do with a pure functional language. Getting the efficiencies up is more complex (you have to weigh the costs of managing the parallelism with the gains), but certainly doable.
One of the advantages of pure functional languages is that you can do speculative evaluation due to the lack of side effects. So, for example, if you've got a spare processor you can evaluate both sides of an AND, and just throw away the unused results if the left side fails. If it succeeds then you've got some or all of the work already done.
I'm not an avid Mac user, so I'm not sure when they got this feature, but MS was talking about this feature as part of Longhorn over three years ago.
How about Acorn's RISCOS fifteen years ago? What's more the app and all it's resources were self contained, uninstalling was as simple as deleting the application folder.
They are actually designed to mask the headlights of oncoming traffic at night so you don't get blinded. They aren't always positioned well enough to do that job though, and in some places aren't high enough to mask the lights from trucks and SUVs.
Another problem is that some mailing list servers (especially yahoo's) generate a new return address for every message - even if it's the resend of the same message. This results in the greylist thinking it's a new email on every reattempt and the mail never gets through. So you end up having to whitelist those servers and so the spam gets through anyway.
Having actually written some game AI (about 7 years back now), we actually used both depending on whether the player could see what was going on or not.
Thus if you were following the animal it would wander through the forest in the expected manner (unless you got in it's way, etc), but if you just wandered into the forest there would be an expected number of animals "from stock" (and if you killed them all, there would be none left).
I'd write something considerably more complex for the visible parts these days (having more CPU to hand), but for the invisible parts, as long as it looks correct to the player, it doesn't matter if you simplify things.
In relation to the original post, we already had multi-level AIs and would ramp them up in a similar way to the graphic level of detail (ie. the more CPU cycles you had to throw at the renderer, the more detail was displayed - all the models had several level of detail variations depending on range and we'd change the distance at which we switched level of details according to the frame rate).
Similarly with the AIs - the further away the more we did statistically and the less we did with the more complex routines. Having a dedicated processor for some of the AI would just mean we could ramp the complexity of the routines a little sooner.
You also have to compensate for the different size of a gallon (an Imperial Gallon is ~4.4 Litres, a US Gallon is ~3.8), and the difference in octane rating (standard petrol/gas in the US is 87, in the UK it's 93 or 96 and you can't get 87, I forget which). So comparing figures from the UK and US is convoluted.
Yes, but a real solar power station won't be based on PV cells.
Actually, Green Mountain (who are my electric supplier) have a photoelectric grid local to me. Whilst I don't think it's a huge installation, it is a commercial generating site.
you would never get an @home rep to say this on record tho so take it for what it's worth).
Actually I did.:-)
When I signed up I queried the policy and asked
if I could run things like a telnet server so I could connect to my machine from elsewhere (just me, no other accounts). I got an ok on that as long as I wasn't generating large amounts of traffic. Of course that was before Suburban got bought by Comcast.
What I want is the ability for the programmer to specify completely general invariance properties on her program (e.g., "all through execution, i will always be a power of two")
This specific case is fairly trivial to do in C++. Just define a class with assignment operators that enforce the invariance. You could even make a template class to cover a whole collection of variations. If you were willing to take the memory overhead you could even make a generic class that holds a pointer to an invariant-check function.
Also, try looking at Eiffel, it has at least some invarient enforcement capacity, though I am not sure if it has exactly what you are looking for.
No matter how intelligent the software, assume the most intelligent part of the HCI network is the human and allocate them final control.
This is what elm (the mailtool) has done for years (at least 10). The interface starts up in 'beginner' mode, with just the basic options. However the 'options' menu has a setting for what level you want the UI in, so you can enable the advanced features when you want them.
More: True democracy. One person, one vote. Very solid security measures and the masses of honest people will make it very accurate especially on a large scale.
To quote Heinlien, via Lazerous Long, "Democracy is based on the idea that one million people know better than one man. How's that again?"
Masses of honest people? Most people, when it comes down to it, are selfish. It used to be a survival trait.
Ever hear of tyrany of the masses? It is one of the reasons why the US was designed -not- to be a democracy.
Change is inevitable, true change is impossible.
Nothing is impossible, just has varying degrees of probability. If it were impossible, I would just give up here and now.
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Even the IRS agrees it's regressive (http://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/whys_thm03_les02.jsp) - ie. it takes a larger percentage of income from lower income people.
>> 12) Rand Paul supports the flat tax.
> Is there ANYONE other than congressmen and their cronies who don't support this?
I'm not sure what echo chamber you're living in, but a lot of people don't support a flat tax. It sounds good to people who don't think about it, but is actually very regressive.
"proven reserves", especially for fracking, are often not what they seem (and not what most people would consider "proven" to mean). The 96% drop in the recoverable rate for the Monterey shale is a prime example.
The industry has a large incentive to inflate the numbers. So far I've not seen any independent calculations that contradict the rapid-decline rate.
I guess we'll find out what reality says over the next few years.
Err. No.
Fracked gas wells have a very rapid decline rate. You have to constantly drill new wells just to keep up, and those get increasingly marginal.
Current gas prices are too low to pay for the extraction - which is why the push for LNG export, because the world prices are currently high enough. It's not about there being a large supply.
I'd give it five years, maybe ten.
So maybe the life of a new car. Almost certainly not your lifespan, let alone your kids.
For those not following the link, that's four people on roughly 1/10th acre.
It's very intensive and they sell part of their produce to bring in grains, pay taxes, etc.
It's a full time job in a favorable climate (they can grow continuously most of the year, unlike much of the world), but if you can do it on that small a property, scaling up to take over adjacent properties could support people.
You just have even more die-off as people learn how.
Actually a large part of England's deforestation was pre-industrialization - for ship building. One of the largest fleets in the world takes a lot of slow growing hardwood.
There's actually increasing evidence that there are more females on the autistic spectrum than thought, because the diagnosis tests (and those performing them) are biased towards the way males present. (Along with a number of other things, including depression and heart attacks)
(anecdote not data) It's been colder here in PA than it was at a friend's place in central Alberta - so yes.
I run on both windows and linux and haven't had any problems under windows (and with the save-tags-in-metadata feature not using the same db is not a problem).
Remember that you're talking about two quite different values there.
1 US gallon = 3.8 L
1 UK gallon = 4.4 L
So you automatically get 15% gain for the same numbers in the UK.
Your 75mpg in the UK is only 64mpg in the US.
UK fuels also have significantly higher octane ratings than US. What's considered a high octane performance fuel in the US is the normal fuel in the UK.
Already done: http://www.angieslist.com/
Also, more on topic, is Haskell, or any other lazy pure functional language, actually capable of automatically parallelising code, or is that just some theoretical idea that will need a lot of research & work before it's possible?
I wrote my Masters thesis on that topic over a decade ago, so it's quite possible and not that complex to do with a pure functional language. Getting the efficiencies up is more complex (you have to weigh the costs of managing the parallelism with the gains), but certainly doable.
One of the advantages of pure functional languages is that you can do speculative evaluation due to the lack of side effects. So, for example, if you've got a spare processor you can evaluate both sides of an AND, and just throw away the unused results if the left side fails. If it succeeds then you've got some or all of the work already done.
Or the Drag-n-Drop install clone ClickOnce?
I'm not an avid Mac user, so I'm not sure when they got this feature, but MS was talking about this feature as part of Longhorn over three years ago.
How about Acorn's RISCOS fifteen years ago? What's more the app and all it's resources were self contained, uninstalling was as simple as deleting the application folder.
... and an immigrant visa asks if you're a communist or a polygamist.
They are actually designed to mask the headlights of oncoming traffic at night so you don't get blinded. They aren't always positioned well enough to do that job though, and in some places aren't high enough to mask the lights from trucks and SUVs.
Another problem is that some mailing list servers (especially yahoo's) generate a new return address for every message - even if it's the resend of the same message. This results in the greylist thinking it's a new email on every reattempt and the mail never gets through. So you end up having to whitelist those servers and so the spam gets through anyway.
Having actually written some game AI (about 7 years back now), we actually used both depending on whether the player could see what was going on or not.
Thus if you were following the animal it would wander through the forest in the expected manner (unless you got in it's way, etc), but if you just wandered into the forest there would be an expected number of animals "from stock" (and if you killed them all, there would be none left).
I'd write something considerably more complex for the visible parts these days (having more CPU to hand), but for the invisible parts, as long as it looks correct to the player, it doesn't matter if you simplify things.
In relation to the original post, we already had multi-level AIs and would ramp them up in a similar way to the graphic level of detail (ie. the more CPU cycles you had to throw at the renderer, the more detail was displayed - all the models had several level of detail variations depending on range and we'd change the distance at which we switched level of details according to the frame rate).
Similarly with the AIs - the further away the more we did statistically and the less we did with the more complex routines. Having a dedicated processor for some of the AI would just mean we could ramp the complexity of the routines a little sooner.
Probably "Metric Ton" (1000 Kg)
You also have to compensate for the different size of a gallon (an Imperial Gallon is ~4.4 Litres, a US Gallon is ~3.8), and the difference in octane rating (standard petrol/gas in the US is 87, in the UK it's 93 or 96 and you can't get 87, I forget which). So comparing figures from the UK and US is convoluted.
Yes, but a real solar power station won't be based on PV cells.
Actually, Green Mountain (who are my electric supplier) have a photoelectric grid local to me. Whilst I don't think it's a huge installation, it is a commercial generating site.
My question is, how the hell did they fit James Earl Jones into that little Darth Vader suit?
:-)
Apart from anything else, he never went near it.
The guy in the suit was David Prowse. JEJ's voice was dubbed in later.
Just in case someone didn't actually know that.
you would never get an @home rep to say this on record tho so take it for what it's worth).
:-)
Actually I did.
When I signed up I queried the policy and asked
if I could run things like a telnet server so I could connect to my machine from elsewhere (just me, no other accounts). I got an ok on that as long as I wasn't generating large amounts of traffic. Of course that was before Suburban got bought by Comcast.
What I want is the ability for the programmer to specify completely general invariance properties on her program (e.g., "all through execution, i will always be a power of two")
This specific case is fairly trivial to do in C++. Just define a class with assignment operators that enforce the invariance. You could even make a template class to cover a whole collection of variations. If you were willing to take the memory overhead you could even make a generic class that holds a pointer to an invariant-check function.
Also, try looking at Eiffel, it has at least some invarient enforcement capacity, though I am not sure if it has exactly what you are looking for.
This is what elm (the mailtool) has done for years (at least 10). The interface starts up in 'beginner' mode, with just the basic options. However the 'options' menu has a setting for what level you want the UI in, so you can enable the advanced features when you want them.
To quote Heinlien, via Lazerous Long, "Democracy is based on the idea that one million people know better than one man. How's that again?"
Masses of honest people? Most people, when it comes down to it, are selfish. It used to be a survival trait.
Ever hear of tyrany of the masses? It is one of the reasons why the US was designed -not- to be a democracy.
Change is inevitable, true change is impossible.
Nothing is impossible, just has varying degrees of probability. If it were impossible, I would just give up here and now.