You saw that it's too expensive for companies to support multiple Linux systems, which is why only free software does it... Don't see a contradiction in your own terms here ?
The latter, obviously; but still, I'd take car burnings over mass murders any day. PS: many car burnings are actually people who just want the insurance on old cars.
I really would like to see some experiment like that on such a scale. There are actual 'societal bootstrap experiments' but that are run by a bunch of guys on their weekends.
...resulting in the system approaching a state where wealth has accumulated in the hands of a few...
And yet there is a simple solution to this, it is to (slowly) adjust the tax system to make accumulation of wealth impossible beyond a certain (progressive) point, be it multi-generational, through monopolies or others. It's worked fairly well in the past (for instance 90% tax) but the richest always manage to have those barriers lifted at some point (Reagan, I'm looking at you...).
It's no surprise that people don't want to talk anymore when the quality of voice calls has degraded so much from over-compression, delays, echo, random blanks, scritches, etc... I mean, most of my conversations consist in "Hello, hello, hello, can you hear me ? I can hear you... now I can't hear you... can you repeat that... again... beeeeeeep"
Voice calls are horrendous and you can tell the conversation goes through hundreds of conversions, codec changes, A/D and D/A conversions along the way.
Yeah, but you know we have supercomputers running weather forecasts 6 times a day from always updated sensors, and increasingly finer mesh. And have, not necessarily 'forecasts', but ranges of possibilities for the deciders on top. And explanation for those crushed at the bottom. Nowadays it's more like "my economist says if we do this, that will happen" and the other politician replies the opposite. This kind of thing should be more or less settled.
Doing winter overs in Antarctica was great, but after 15 years, with difficulty finding jobs between missions, and not wanting to lose a very nice wife, I stopped and found a desk job. Plenty of memories and pictures on my website though. I even did a slashdot interview about it a decade ago.
The crucial question really is, how many people can go onto UBI without society collapsing? That is, how many people can choose to be supported only by UBI without the system being overloaded?
I wonder why those questions cannot be answered by simulation models. I mean we use models when we build a bridge, a rocket, mechanical parts, weather forecast, supply chains, etc... But I hardly ever see them in economics, there are theoretical models, yes, but not big computer simulations that you can rerun and adjust small parameters to see the change in outcome. It's sorely needed.
The ONLY way I've found out to reliably keep Win10 from rebooting like that is to fill the drive with bogus files to 99%. Then it doesn't have space to download its update files. Major pain in the ass, even with a script.
A thousand times this. I take hours setting up debug sessions to try and find elusive complex bugs, then come back in the morning and the fucking piece of shit Win10 has rebooted itself. And every tip you find on the 'net about disabling it works only for a short while. The only way I've found to keep this fucker from rebooting is to fill the disk with bogus files to 99% and then it has no room to load its update files. This is ABUSE from MS and no surprise that nowadays I have to problem getting people to move to Linux.
But remember, astronomers count the year 2000 as part of the last century.
EVERYBODY counts year 2000 as part of last century. When you count to 10, you go 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and if you want to count 10 more, what do you do ? You start at 11, oh what a shocker ! Same for years and decades, centuries or millenia.
I have to ask, what brings a company to disregard such a highly used product ? I mean, it's not like they are replacing Flash with something newer, better or shinier. Granted HTML5 can do most of what Flash was doing, but Adobe could very well decide to keep milking it for all it's worth (and more) forever. Is it fear of being sued when the next 0-day takes over half the web ? Support costing more than revenue from Flash compiling suites ? Just curious, I actually loathe Flash.
Is it ? Is that just a glorified point and shoot ? I very much like having a viewfinder, thank you. It's much easier and faster to see it the focus is correct than on a back screen (big pixels) or, god forbid, the horrible digital viewfinders that some cameras have. And if you are far-sighted, the viewfinder can be set to your eye so you don't have to continuously put your glasses on/off. But maybe I'm missing something.
Yeah, I used to live in Rome too. I worked in a crumbling laboratory. When we finally did get money to build a new one, we did and it was great, then at the end of construction the road was built... and hit a Roman villa and cisterns. It delayed the opening of the new lab by 5 years, while the old one crumbled completely. When we finally moved into the new one, everything had been stolen inside: toilets, doors, windows, ceiling tiles, even entire floors... Back to square one.
Yeah, running really is one of the cheapest sports around (*), so runners can afford the little luxury of a pair of nice shoes.
(*) except maybe bouldering (unless you factor in the gas to drive to the nearest boulders), or street fighting (unless you factor in dental work)... But compared to skiing or polo or scuba, etc...
Which is why I think, in every country with socialized medicine, there should be a feedback mechanism: you go to the doctor and at the end you get a receipt with a code, some time later, maybe more than once, you receive an email that simply asks you if the treatment was effective. Simple yes or no answer, with possibly bonus questions about side effects etc... It would be invaluable to find useless drugs, side effects, bad doctors, groups of people with different drug reactions than others, etc... And if you never answer you get a blame or something; I mean, at least you give something back this way.
I am sick as fuck at the constant "Site $FOO wants to send you notifications, ?"
Yes. A bunch of sites have those every time I log in. And also the 'please accept our coockies' prompt. And also the 'please disable adblock' prompt. That's waiting for 3 popups to appear and be clicked on. Waste of time. Is there some Firefox plugin to get rid of those ?
The spread of ticks and associated diases has multiple factors: lack of predators (dur to hunting), spread of some (imported) bushes where they shelter for the winter, warmer and wetter winters (they die if it's too dry or cold), etc... But one thing you can do about it is stop bringing your fucking dogs everywhere you go. That's how the ticks cross deserts or oceans.
Slashdot Mirror
weird operators like "+-+", "=!=", "-+/*" and "..."
Just out of curiosity, what should those operators do ? Do they exist in some languages ?
You saw that it's too expensive for companies to support multiple Linux systems, which is why only free software does it... Don't see a contradiction in your own terms here ?
I was just a few days old and my parents were so tired because of me that they slept through the landing... :-(
The latter, obviously; but still, I'd take car burnings over mass murders any day. PS: many car burnings are actually people who just want the insurance on old cars.
For every car fire in France there's about 5 mass murders in the US...
Yes, there are actually deep water corals down to 2000m.
I really would like to see some experiment like that on such a scale. There are actual 'societal bootstrap experiments' but that are run by a bunch of guys on their weekends.
...resulting in the system approaching a state where wealth has accumulated in the hands of a few...
And yet there is a simple solution to this, it is to (slowly) adjust the tax system to make accumulation of wealth impossible beyond a certain (progressive) point, be it multi-generational, through monopolies or others. It's worked fairly well in the past (for instance 90% tax) but the richest always manage to have those barriers lifted at some point (Reagan, I'm looking at you...).
It's no surprise that people don't want to talk anymore when the quality of voice calls has degraded so much from over-compression, delays, echo, random blanks, scritches, etc... I mean, most of my conversations consist in "Hello, hello, hello, can you hear me ? I can hear you... now I can't hear you... can you repeat that... again... beeeeeeep"
Voice calls are horrendous and you can tell the conversation goes through hundreds of conversions, codec changes, A/D and D/A conversions along the way.
Yeah, but you know we have supercomputers running weather forecasts 6 times a day from always updated sensors, and increasingly finer mesh. And have, not necessarily 'forecasts', but ranges of possibilities for the deciders on top. And explanation for those crushed at the bottom. Nowadays it's more like "my economist says if we do this, that will happen" and the other politician replies the opposite. This kind of thing should be more or less settled.
Doing winter overs in Antarctica was great, but after 15 years, with difficulty finding jobs between missions, and not wanting to lose a very nice wife, I stopped and found a desk job. Plenty of memories and pictures on my website though. I even did a slashdot interview about it a decade ago.
The crucial question really is, how many people can go onto UBI without society collapsing? That is, how many people can choose to be supported only by UBI without the system being overloaded?
I wonder why those questions cannot be answered by simulation models. I mean we use models when we build a bridge, a rocket, mechanical parts, weather forecast, supply chains, etc... But I hardly ever see them in economics, there are theoretical models, yes, but not big computer simulations that you can rerun and adjust small parameters to see the change in outcome. It's sorely needed.
The ONLY way I've found out to reliably keep Win10 from rebooting like that is to fill the drive with bogus files to 99%. Then it doesn't have space to download its update files. Major pain in the ass, even with a script.
debug state
A thousand times this. I take hours setting up debug sessions to try and find elusive complex bugs, then come back in the morning and the fucking piece of shit Win10 has rebooted itself. And every tip you find on the 'net about disabling it works only for a short while. The only way I've found to keep this fucker from rebooting is to fill the disk with bogus files to 99% and then it has no room to load its update files. This is ABUSE from MS and no surprise that nowadays I have to problem getting people to move to Linux.
But remember, astronomers count the year 2000 as part of the last century.
EVERYBODY counts year 2000 as part of last century. When you count to 10, you go 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and if you want to count 10 more, what do you do ? You start at 11, oh what a shocker ! Same for years and decades, centuries or millenia.
I have to ask, what brings a company to disregard such a highly used product ? I mean, it's not like they are replacing Flash with something newer, better or shinier. Granted HTML5 can do most of what Flash was doing, but Adobe could very well decide to keep milking it for all it's worth (and more) forever. Is it fear of being sued when the next 0-day takes over half the web ? Support costing more than revenue from Flash compiling suites ? Just curious, I actually loathe Flash.
This is very much a good thing
Is it ? Is that just a glorified point and shoot ? I very much like having a viewfinder, thank you. It's much easier and faster to see it the focus is correct than on a back screen (big pixels) or, god forbid, the horrible digital viewfinders that some cameras have. And if you are far-sighted, the viewfinder can be set to your eye so you don't have to continuously put your glasses on/off. But maybe I'm missing something.
Yeah, I used to live in Rome too. I worked in a crumbling laboratory. When we finally did get money to build a new one, we did and it was great, then at the end of construction the road was built... and hit a Roman villa and cisterns. It delayed the opening of the new lab by 5 years, while the old one crumbled completely. When we finally moved into the new one, everything had been stolen inside: toilets, doors, windows, ceiling tiles, even entire floors... Back to square one.
Yeah, running really is one of the cheapest sports around (*), so runners can afford the little luxury of a pair of nice shoes.
(*) except maybe bouldering (unless you factor in the gas to drive to the nearest boulders), or street fighting (unless you factor in dental work)... But compared to skiing or polo or scuba, etc...
Which is why I think, in every country with socialized medicine, there should be a feedback mechanism: you go to the doctor and at the end you get a receipt with a code, some time later, maybe more than once, you receive an email that simply asks you if the treatment was effective. Simple yes or no answer, with possibly bonus questions about side effects etc... It would be invaluable to find useless drugs, side effects, bad doctors, groups of people with different drug reactions than others, etc... And if you never answer you get a blame or something; I mean, at least you give something back this way.
Old/dead batteries contain a lot of valuable metals and already do get recycled as such.
I thought it was going towards paying for a new 50000 people stadium and 10M$/year athletes/students (who are too dumb to even spell their names).
I am sick as fuck at the constant "Site $FOO wants to send you notifications, ?"
Yes. A bunch of sites have those every time I log in. And also the 'please accept our coockies' prompt. And also the 'please disable adblock' prompt. That's waiting for 3 popups to appear and be clicked on. Waste of time. Is there some Firefox plugin to get rid of those ?
always set your browser to display the raw punycode and not the unicode points
Is that "network.IDN_show_punycode" in the about:config of Firefox ?
The spread of ticks and associated diases has multiple factors: lack of predators (dur to hunting), spread of some (imported) bushes where they shelter for the winter, warmer and wetter winters (they die if it's too dry or cold), etc... But one thing you can do about it is stop bringing your fucking dogs everywhere you go. That's how the ticks cross deserts or oceans.