because the social costs of doing so were overwhelmingly high
We can probably argue all day about which is 'better', but it's worth noting here that those social pressures may have evolved for a reason (at least for an evolutionary sense of 'reason') and that more modern social pressures (higher standard of living requiring higher earnings, government regulation of marriage, etc.) have genetic diseases as an outcome.
Giving individuals more choice in marriage arrangements may be the best thing we can do societally to make marriage less daunting, if our goal is to reduce genetic disease in the population. It's hard to believe that there are still so many supporters for the "one size fits all" model in the Internet age.
and in turn, Perl is a language favored by folks who tend towards linguistic expression. Guys who spent their time in college doing a math major tend to favor languages like python, and they love to talk about the lambda calculus, etc.
From TFA:
All algorithms are written in imperative Java code inside a single main function without recursion and with light usage of standard API functions
Frankly, that's a decent choice for a first pass - rather explicit and "uninteresting". Further research would be interesting to see what changes by changing languages, recursion, inheritance, polymorphism, maps, events, function pointers, decorators, closures, s-expressions, etc. and then comparing against various aptitude tests on the parts of the participants. I suspect some clear trends would be found, which could help developers find their optimal language(s) more quickly than they way we do it today.
I try the current build of all the linux video editors about every six months. Usually I try to import an h.264 video and edit out a couple clips and export that as my test. Almost always everything crashes. The underlying tools (ffmpeg/mencoder/gstreamer, etc.) are stable in other applications.
I agree. I used kdenlive and pitivi. The last named one simply sucked donkey balls and crashed whenever possible.
This has been my experience as well, sadly.
I think I'm going to go install SheepShaver, MacOS 9 and iMovie 2. That was good enough for editing home video back in the 90's and the linux desktop still has nothing half as usable. I can set up netatalk to get the video files in and out and carefully limit the firewall to that service.
I think Kefir is going to be preferable to eating dirt since they all live nicely in the human gut. The stuff in dirt...??
The people who have Crohn's disease and going for the autoimmune treatment have been to Africa to stomp in some piles of shit to contract hookworm. Supposedly that works. I've heard it's possible to mail-order a porcine whipworm from Thailand which is more controlled and less likely to get out of control.
It's all banned here in the US, so they just do lots of bowel resections. That probably pays more too.
Regarding MS specifically, there's a physician in Italy who is claiming ~85% remission of MS after brain veinous intervention. He has some theory about excess iron in the nervous system, but even if that's not right, if the vein blockage is causative there's still something causing that (which could be autoimmune mediated).
Your ISP has to maintain thousands of wires to thousands of different households via hundreds of distribution points and all interconnecting wires, just to deliver the exact same amount of data.
No wonder Netflix' per-Gbps data rate is lower.
You may have missed that I pay Netflix $9/mo and my ISP $90/mo.
Do you think $80/mo can cover the distribution network?
Well, in theory, but it's usually blocked by default on many/most routers. I'd be happy to wait a few minutes to start a show if it mean the end of buffering. DVR-like capabilities are just the logical extension of that.
But the thing I don't get is how Netflix can afford 'my' bandwidth for less than $9/mo but my ISP supposedly can't get a similar deal. Or is the ISP simply unwilling to allocate $9 out of the $90 they charge me for upstream costs?
Pretty close, we're in the next geographic market north of there.
If Neilsen assigns the DMA why did Dish insist it couldn't give us local stations due to FCC markets? I would think they would *want* to sell channels.
Anything you could do to bust that up would be welcome. It's absurd that people around here can't get news from their own State either OTA or via satellite. Frankly it makes getting local people involved in the State political process hard because all their hear is about is what's happening in the next State over, and they tune that out because it's irrelevant to them.
What profit do they get for giving millions to these?
National Audubon Society - people appreciate birds more, so they'll buy birdseed at Walmart.
Harvard University. Threefold: 1) Harvard alumni tend to be wealthy. They'll have more money to spend at Walmart and Sams Club. 2) They often start businesses. Businesses buy stuff at Walmart and supply stuff to Walmart. 3) They may employee some people. Those people may have kids who can stock shelves at Walmart.
Georgetown University: They're trying to buy good will with future politicians early, so when they lobby for exploitative laws later, they'll be sure to get them. Plus what goes for Harvard.
Nature Conservancy: purely to dupe people into thinking Walmart does good things, so they'll buy more stuff.
Any more? I can play anti-capitalist conspiracy-whacko all day.
Oh, for good measure: unskilled entry level jobs should pay what's needed to support a family so high school kids can't ever get a job!
But, those people have to invest in the right equipment to do so and not expect to plug in an antenna that would be outperformed by a paper clip and still get good reception.
heh, I'm in an area of New England with a quarter million people over a few hundred square miles (rural/city combo) and to get the four networks would require at least three high gain antennas, a 50' mast, minimum, and probably some amplifiers (based on the color shadings on the online calculators). Part of the reason is that the FCC has "designated" us as part of a "market" that's over a hundred miles away on the other side of a mountain range, that has almost no economic ties to our region and the news is focused entirely on a government in a different state. The economically and politically-tied region is in a different FCC market and so our area is terribly unprofitable to serve with repeaters because advertisers have no incentive to pay for transmission here. Even at that, some of the networks don't exist in our assigned market, and those networks' signals are over a different mountain range, about 120 miles in the other direction.
Anyway, I'm in for $2500 minimum to get all four (five w/ PBS), if I do the lightning protection right, while a Roku box cost me $50 and we have DSL (we used to have Dish too, but we're lucky to be on a South face). About half of the population has no access to CATV so if we figure 2.3 people per household at similar costs (a few are on the peaks, but very few), that's $135M in antenna gear for the people in this area to get OTA reliably and that's assuming everybody is a DIY'er. Total fail - Internet delivery will get worked out before people here have OTA. The FCC could stop with its ham-fisted central-planning of how markets are [not] structured, but even if they did, it's probably too late - I can't see people investing much in broadcast at this point. That could have worked in the 1970's.
The gold fetishist believe gold has value, no matter what. It doesn't. Examples are for instance the holocaust, people ended up selling small fortunes of gold just to survive or even just to eat.
Why were people willing to trade gold for food, but not, say, rocks for food?
The end of time of dreamers who think that once the government collapses, their gold horde will be any safer then a bank account, forget that when Mad Max becomes real, gold has no value.
Petrol may well be more valuable than gold in a Mad Max scenario, but don't think for a moment that any collection of humans will not want a way to disintermediate their labor and have a means of trade. Do you really think that in Mad Max's world people who have petrol will be more willing to trade it for rocks than for gold? Or for paper US dollars than for gold?
THIS is why Fallout uses bottle caps. NOT because of anything to do with bottle caps, just to show value is without meaning.
So all items have equal value in your Mad Max scenario?
People value whatever they value.
Exactly!
And I got food and you don't I am not going to give you my food in exchange for your gold because that would leave me holding no food and only worthless gold.
If you only have enough food to survive, then you clearly value food more than you value gold. The question arises when you have more food than you can eat, and it will spoil if you just leave it sitting around. One man offers you bottle caps, one man offers you rocks, and a third man offers you gold for that food. Which offer do you take?
Check out what Carl Menger contributed to economic understanding.
Gold isn't [just] a fetish - it's a natural material that happens to have useful properties of money.
Second, I've never been burned by the new host. But I have been burned twice by Bruce. Why should I give Bruce a third chance to burn me?
Right, you wouldn't, but with that experience, you'd want to look for a candidate hoster that would have qualities that would decrease the chances of a collapse. For better or worse, Slashdot has never collapsed (though they seem to be trying their best lately). So, Slashdot did something right that Bruce did wrong (he did eventually hire that one guy... forget his name now, but it wasn't enough) and if the community is going to move away from Slashdot, it should go to someplace that stands a good chance of surviving - "haven't collapsed yet" isn't quite enough.
It might be a business, it might be a co-op, but it probably shouldn't be one man's hobby.
Neither do the Olympics. That was kind of Russia's choice.
The IOC chooses the site based on package proposals from each of the candidate cities. They'll never choose a site that offers to set up tents and water stations.
With all due respect to Bruce, the problem with that is he has shown he is not a reliable host. He has twice deleted that site without warning and without providing access to the archives. I don't think we want to get burned a third time.
You've raised the issue, so let's put it out there - why are you going to be more reliable than Bruce?
And tell me you're not going to write it in Ruby... or PHP.
it shouldn't be that hard to get NBC if you don't have cable.
There are very large parts of the country that do not get OTA HD signals. Does the Olympic Committee get government funding? This is sort of like when taxpayers fund research and then cannot read the results - in both cases, a corporation needs to get paid before the people see anything they're paying for (assuming the premise).
So, it's working exactly as intended. Next topic (or rant about Beta...)
We've had sad experience though in some people pulling scams or abusing employees with fake types af money. So we've made laws about what can and can't be used as tender to protect ourselves from these wrongs.
Which turned out to be a mistake, because the use of fake-money scams has never been even approximated by anybody other than governments.
You do know that the Federal Reserve created a minimum of $17 Trillion new Dollars during "the crisis", right? That's the entire productive value of three hundred million Americans working for a solid year. And that's just what they've admitted to under a forced very-partial audit. It's equivalent to a stack of 100-dollar bills from Earth to half-way to geosynchronous orbit. Which counterfeiters do you think could manufacture that much money, such that a monopoly on money given to a private corporation has put us in a better position?
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because the social costs of doing so were overwhelmingly high
We can probably argue all day about which is 'better', but it's worth noting here that those social pressures may have evolved for a reason (at least for an evolutionary sense of 'reason') and that more modern social pressures (higher standard of living requiring higher earnings, government regulation of marriage, etc.) have genetic diseases as an outcome.
Giving individuals more choice in marriage arrangements may be the best thing we can do societally to make marriage less daunting, if our goal is to reduce genetic disease in the population. It's hard to believe that there are still so many supporters for the "one size fits all" model in the Internet age.
and in turn, Perl is a language favored by folks who tend towards linguistic expression. Guys who spent their time in college doing a math major tend to favor languages like python, and they love to talk about the lambda calculus, etc.
From TFA:
Frankly, that's a decent choice for a first pass - rather explicit and "uninteresting". Further research would be interesting to see what changes by changing languages, recursion, inheritance, polymorphism, maps, events, function pointers, decorators, closures, s-expressions, etc. and then comparing against various aptitude tests on the parts of the participants. I suspect some clear trends would be found, which could help developers find their optimal language(s) more quickly than they way we do it today.
fedora+rpmfusion - 6'3" and manly. ;)
I try the current build of all the linux video editors about every six months. Usually I try to import an h.264 video and edit out a couple clips and export that as my test. Almost always everything crashes. The underlying tools (ffmpeg/mencoder/gstreamer, etc.) are stable in other applications.
Yes, if somebody were to build nanobots to selectively excise necrotic material that would be worthy of a Nobel prize, but maggots - barbaric!
I agree. I used kdenlive and pitivi. The last named one simply sucked donkey balls and crashed whenever possible.
This has been my experience as well, sadly.
I think I'm going to go install SheepShaver, MacOS 9 and iMovie 2. That was good enough for editing home video back in the 90's and the linux desktop still has nothing half as usable. I can set up netatalk to get the video files in and out and carefully limit the firewall to that service.
Wasnt Kdenlive the one where the main developer walked away and they thought he was dead for a while?
Yeah, because instead of picking up the phone, they posted a death story to Slashdot.
Sadly, I've found the software to be as reliable. Oh, the latest build is stable? Yes, I keep hearing that.
I think Kefir is going to be preferable to eating dirt since they all live nicely in the human gut. The stuff in dirt ...??
The people who have Crohn's disease and going for the autoimmune treatment have been to Africa to stomp in some piles of shit to contract hookworm. Supposedly that works. I've heard it's possible to mail-order a porcine whipworm from Thailand which is more controlled and less likely to get out of control.
It's all banned here in the US, so they just do lots of bowel resections. That probably pays more too.
Regarding MS specifically, there's a physician in Italy who is claiming ~85% remission of MS after brain veinous intervention. He has some theory about excess iron in the nervous system, but even if that's not right, if the vein blockage is causative there's still something causing that (which could be autoimmune mediated).
Does anyone know if/why Netflix doesn't just have CDN servers located directly on Verizon's network?
Verizon is a 'cable tv' provider through FiOS. They have incentive for Netflix to fail.
The waveforms are computed by a centralized supercomputer in real-time
So, in 10 years it'll be in a box at the base of the tower and in 20, just a chip on the radio.
The whole thing is incredibly detailed and quite internally consistent.
I guess the obvious question is if he can locate the planet in the sky and describe the planetary system.
Right - he wants an NDA, not an IR blaster.
He should make everybody who gets on his bus sign a contract that says they will pay him $2.5M if they take any pictures while on the bus.
Presumably he feels this will make him look like an asshole and people won't get on the bus.
Like they say, you can't have it both ways. Although, based on speculation on this thread, that may be a poor choice of words.
Your ISP has to maintain thousands of wires to thousands of different households via hundreds of distribution points and all interconnecting wires, just to deliver the exact same amount of data.
No wonder Netflix' per-Gbps data rate is lower.
You may have missed that I pay Netflix $9/mo and my ISP $90/mo.
Do you think $80/mo can cover the distribution network?
use secure protocols, disable unnecessary features and choose wisely when buying devices
While absolutely correct, your strategy does not account for 99% of the users who lease Internet connections.
you can use multicast directely,
Well, in theory, but it's usually blocked by default on many/most routers. I'd be happy to wait a few minutes to start a show if it mean the end of buffering. DVR-like capabilities are just the logical extension of that.
But the thing I don't get is how Netflix can afford 'my' bandwidth for less than $9/mo but my ISP supposedly can't get a similar deal. Or is the ISP simply unwilling to allocate $9 out of the $90 they charge me for upstream costs?
Pretty close, we're in the next geographic market north of there.
If Neilsen assigns the DMA why did Dish insist it couldn't give us local stations due to FCC markets? I would think they would *want* to sell channels.
Anything you could do to bust that up would be welcome. It's absurd that people around here can't get news from their own State either OTA or via satellite. Frankly it makes getting local people involved in the State political process hard because all their hear is about is what's happening in the next State over, and they tune that out because it's irrelevant to them.
What profit do they get for giving millions to these?
National Audubon Society - people appreciate birds more, so they'll buy birdseed at Walmart.
Harvard University. Threefold: 1) Harvard alumni tend to be wealthy. They'll have more money to spend at Walmart and Sams Club. 2) They often start businesses. Businesses buy stuff at Walmart and supply stuff to Walmart. 3) They may employee some people. Those people may have kids who can stock shelves at Walmart.
Georgetown University: They're trying to buy good will with future politicians early, so when they lobby for exploitative laws later, they'll be sure to get them. Plus what goes for Harvard.
Nature Conservancy: purely to dupe people into thinking Walmart does good things, so they'll buy more stuff.
Any more? I can play anti-capitalist conspiracy-whacko all day.
Oh, for good measure: unskilled entry level jobs should pay what's needed to support a family so high school kids can't ever get a job!
But, those people have to invest in the right equipment to do so and not expect to plug in an antenna that would be outperformed by a paper clip and still get good reception.
heh, I'm in an area of New England with a quarter million people over a few hundred square miles (rural/city combo) and to get the four networks would require at least three high gain antennas, a 50' mast, minimum, and probably some amplifiers (based on the color shadings on the online calculators). Part of the reason is that the FCC has "designated" us as part of a "market" that's over a hundred miles away on the other side of a mountain range, that has almost no economic ties to our region and the news is focused entirely on a government in a different state. The economically and politically-tied region is in a different FCC market and so our area is terribly unprofitable to serve with repeaters because advertisers have no incentive to pay for transmission here. Even at that, some of the networks don't exist in our assigned market, and those networks' signals are over a different mountain range, about 120 miles in the other direction.
Anyway, I'm in for $2500 minimum to get all four (five w/ PBS), if I do the lightning protection right, while a Roku box cost me $50 and we have DSL (we used to have Dish too, but we're lucky to be on a South face). About half of the population has no access to CATV so if we figure 2.3 people per household at similar costs (a few are on the peaks, but very few), that's $135M in antenna gear for the people in this area to get OTA reliably and that's assuming everybody is a DIY'er. Total fail - Internet delivery will get worked out before people here have OTA. The FCC could stop with its ham-fisted central-planning of how markets are [not] structured, but even if they did, it's probably too late - I can't see people investing much in broadcast at this point. That could have worked in the 1970's.
The gold fetishist believe gold has value, no matter what. It doesn't. Examples are for instance the holocaust, people ended up selling small fortunes of gold just to survive or even just to eat.
Why were people willing to trade gold for food, but not, say, rocks for food?
The end of time of dreamers who think that once the government collapses, their gold horde will be any safer then a bank account, forget that when Mad Max becomes real, gold has no value.
Petrol may well be more valuable than gold in a Mad Max scenario, but don't think for a moment that any collection of humans will not want a way to disintermediate their labor and have a means of trade. Do you really think that in Mad Max's world people who have petrol will be more willing to trade it for rocks than for gold? Or for paper US dollars than for gold?
THIS is why Fallout uses bottle caps. NOT because of anything to do with bottle caps, just to show value is without meaning.
So all items have equal value in your Mad Max scenario?
People value whatever they value.
Exactly!
And I got food and you don't I am not going to give you my food in exchange for your gold because that would leave me holding no food and only worthless gold.
If you only have enough food to survive, then you clearly value food more than you value gold. The question arises when you have more food than you can eat, and it will spoil if you just leave it sitting around. One man offers you bottle caps, one man offers you rocks, and a third man offers you gold for that food. Which offer do you take?
Check out what Carl Menger contributed to economic understanding.
Gold isn't [just] a fetish - it's a natural material that happens to have useful properties of money.
Second, I've never been burned by the new host. But I have been burned twice by Bruce. Why should I give Bruce a third chance to burn me?
Right, you wouldn't, but with that experience, you'd want to look for a candidate hoster that would have qualities that would decrease the chances of a collapse. For better or worse, Slashdot has never collapsed (though they seem to be trying their best lately). So, Slashdot did something right that Bruce did wrong (he did eventually hire that one guy ... forget his name now, but it wasn't enough) and if the community is going to move away from Slashdot, it should go to someplace that stands a good chance of surviving - "haven't collapsed yet" isn't quite enough.
It might be a business, it might be a co-op, but it probably shouldn't be one man's hobby.
Neither do the Olympics. That was kind of Russia's choice.
The IOC chooses the site based on package proposals from each of the candidate cities. They'll never choose a site that offers to set up tents and water stations.
With all due respect to Bruce, the problem with that is he has shown he is not a reliable host. He has twice deleted that site without warning and without providing access to the archives. I don't think we want to get burned a third time.
You've raised the issue, so let's put it out there - why are you going to be more reliable than Bruce?
And tell me you're not going to write it in Ruby ... or PHP.
The Olympics are about athletes and world cooperation, not bureaucrats.
Getting a bunch of amateur sports teams together to play series of tournaments does not require fifty billion dollars in infrastructure.
it shouldn't be that hard to get NBC if you don't have cable.
There are very large parts of the country that do not get OTA HD signals. Does the Olympic Committee get government funding? This is sort of like when taxpayers fund research and then cannot read the results - in both cases, a corporation needs to get paid before the people see anything they're paying for (assuming the premise).
So, it's working exactly as intended. Next topic (or rant about Beta...)
We've had sad experience though in some people pulling scams or abusing employees with fake types af money. So we've made laws about what can and can't be used as tender to protect ourselves from these wrongs.
Which turned out to be a mistake, because the use of fake-money scams has never been even approximated by anybody other than governments.
You do know that the Federal Reserve created a minimum of $17 Trillion new Dollars during "the crisis", right? That's the entire productive value of three hundred million Americans working for a solid year. And that's just what they've admitted to under a forced very-partial audit. It's equivalent to a stack of 100-dollar bills from Earth to half-way to geosynchronous orbit. Which counterfeiters do you think could manufacture that much money, such that a monopoly on money given to a private corporation has put us in a better position?