Likely, for Linux to be good, it needs to be good. How Linus is, and how he operates, determine to a large extent what Linux is. In other worlds, you need to encourage Linus to keep being himself to preserve Linux - he can't be some other politically correct moron and still achieve what he did. Just like Steve Jobs, Einstein and many ither geniuses, just learn to accept that you cannot get it both, and for good reason. Btw, I really like how Linus leads, a lot. Should be worth 75 Hardvard case studies if not more.
But the competing theories to Dark Matter explain that, and many phenomena at smaller scale that Adam fails to do or does only when plugging the answer as a parameter (to say it colloquially)
If we could miss entire huge galaxies like ours in the amounts predicted in these findings, I'd remain very skeptical that we can be sure we have accounted for all mass within a galaxy. Also, how galaxies move in relation to other galaxies would be slightly affected if the have huge amount of material between them, that we haven't detected yet other than "noticing some invisible mass must be within the to explain their interactions through gravity".
It may very likely also be that "dark matter" tries to explain what was left unexplained from what we can observe and measure, and in doing so, explains things that are a result of other things totally unlike any kind of "matter that doesn't look like matter at all and only interact through gravity" bs. DM is the equivalent of the best Greek models trying to explain elliptical orbits with circles and circles within circles - a kludge that doesn't work.
Planets aren't "visible" and if you find very dense (or extremely more prevalent) very dim objects, you indeed explain the missing Mass. The models that "call for" Dark Matter are based on observing light and then estimating mass, and finding out there's not enough mass to account for the orbits of things (which act as if unviable mass was there).
All the Dark Matter theories are for crooks and incredibly ignorant scientists that will believe in that bs just as some people believe in paranormal that has never been once proven to occur.
This part may be explained by a competing theory ("complimentary"?) to Dark Matter most common models, that says that gravity behaves differently when it becomes very very low, which explains a large number of other things that Dark Matter only explains by using the right parameters (i.e. That Dark matter doesn't explain at all).
You should be less ignorant and recognize that while you where still learning to lay stones the Indian where inventing positional notation, and they also have some of the brightest mathematicians of all times, including geniuses of the scale of Gauss or Newton. Second, you should see companies like Facebook that built empires out of sloppy code in things like PHP. More importantly, if the task requires memory management, anybody can learn it and like anything else, 90% won't do it well. No news.
Same applies to written English. In the past many people didn't need to write at all. Today, due to SMS and social media, written communication has skyrocketed. However, and in spite of "the horror" it's useful to them.
Same with programming. Many people can change their lives a bit by even learning basic programming. The good programmers will observe this as a surprise, but the reality is that it is expected ANDNKT A BAD THING. Especially if those with bad writing skills are rejected from journalistic positions and those with basic programming skill are not hired to do complex stuff only the best (or the proficient) can do.
They are no longer making my life easier in many regards, and for that, they deserve to start to dissapear. Even if it takes them 15 years. Maybe Elon Musk should be summoned to Apple to steer it in the right direction. Almost all the innovations are coming from App Developers, and users are now immersed in a bad quality of life cycle due to Apple. Instead of more battery life I get a phone that needs a case and if the glass shatters it costs $300 to fix, now I can't use my favorite jacks. I still have products and Apple gear with the older connector (which I like more than the slimmer one).
I wish them well, and have many apps on their platform. But I have no love for them. That has been gone after the past 3 years. I don't see them caring for people. I don't see them making the right choices, sacrifices (sometimes jobs would make an unpopular decision that was the right things very apparent and very soon). All the latest launches, decisions and things their are doing - or at least most, make little sense to me.
I think companies like Starbucks do this. Grande is the small coffee? Tall is not the largest but medium? What is Venti? The have their own ordering language. Yet, they don't keep changing it. Renaming things and ingredients and changing the visual of the stores.
Apple is at the peak of its sucess. I adopted iPhone when every single colleague mocked me as immature, and rated the product as a toy. Blackberry was for real executives. Pardon me? Today, iPhone still has many upsides but it has very little differentiation. Actually, I see Apple as a company that considers ways to restrict me, lock me, block me. They go after the apps that made iOS a success, like Pandora, illegaly bundling its service andcross selling it and pushing it at every possible place. They are Dirgital bullies. They change the interface to sell more. Design choices are to maximize revenue and content sales.
I look at my phone, and see them imitating Android, or copying things like Pandora. And every app I own that I use the most is not Apple. I use Office 365 (how can Apple email app be so atonishingly bad and limited?) i use Kindle which wors great across any platform. I use Netflix (for the kids), 3 or 4 games that are also on Android, Pandora, Spotify, Waze, Google Maps, Skype and maybe 5 other frequently used apps like LinkedIn or twitter.
There nit one single interesting thing aboit Apple in my phone. Yet, the UI made me feel different. With that gone, my love for them has reached a low point of "I ise it because swtiching is annoying". But i M at the boundary and if pushed a bit further, I will leave them. The horrible UI that makes rhings harder, less intuitive, illogical....I am sorry Apple, I am ready to dump you the moment you push me a little further north. Now regarding Starbucks, keep my Venti...Venti. And keep the ambience a joy and cheerful. And I'll keep paying $5 for coffee.
Fair is determined by the benefit to the Citizens. Why should any corporation be allowed or favored to keep one penny more than needed to benefit a parent company that has no loyalty, alliance or duty in making that country wealthy, safe and happy except to the extent needed by marketing? Additionally, workers generally consume most if not all their wages, and still have to pay income tax for the full "gross income". If corporations are people, why not treat work as a corporation, and we can all deduct food, entertainment, education and just anything not spent? Today, corporations have citizen rights but behave as foreign enemies, and pay a negligible amount only once. To be called an american corporation, they should ship ALL income here, and pay in full income tax. After all, USA created Google through favoring laws, education, infra, initial mass scale. Otherwise, it should be considered an alien to be replaced by a more american company. After all, the UK or USA largest bargaining power is Purchasing Power. A monopsony of sort worth 20% of the world demand if not more. And instead of leveraging that we highly tax health, housing, education and everything that makes work more expensive, and makes corporation decide the US is for dumping stuff, not making it.
I don't think you should give up. Forget how the other person looks and love how you look. Attractive people seek secure opposites than pretty ones, because survival has ingrained that deep within.
The moment you think you there's anything not to love about how you look, or that you pay more attention to anyone by virtue of their beauty, will @justly@ be discarded.
Here's take. Money is like any good with a price. Limited in supply. Money has advantages over goods. For example, you don't pay sales taxes when exchaning it with other currency, or financial asset. Governments regulate this. So they can make any private currency an asset regulated and taxed by them.
Conclusion to be viable: that it gains international credibility where no sinlge country or collusion of counties can challenge it's viability. Today, that's not the case. Thus, it's just a scarce good (limited supply, with certain properties) at the mercy of dominating economies.
Additionaly, money supply is a tool that goverments or economies need to influence the economy. Since there are strong habits and regulations (for example, it's very hard to reduce salaries under negative inflation, for many legal and cultural reasons) an economic shock under a hard currency (inability to expand or reduce supply in the short/mid term) can trigger a destructive vicious cycle. Like a depression that ruins most of the economy. The economic system is then unable to break that implosion, and the outcome is horrible.
Thus, bitcoins are today a good with some privileges (eg. Not a "good") that may disappear suddenly, and with risks due to that inability to do exactly what we usually don't goverments doing (printing and destroying). Yet, that inability is a double edged sword. And while bitcoins may overcome the influence of governments regulating it, that's very unlikely if you look at what is the GDP of the top 10 countries vs rest is.
So this economist is right. Competing bitcoins is just creating similar assets, and to compete they need to have a tangible (practical superiority) and some strong network effect. For an example of superiority, think of the case of a government that invents a computer that can mine bitcoins at 1000000000 the rate of the rest of the world....then maybe with another cryptocurrency maybe that's not possible. Im am not very familiar with bitcoins, so I use it as an example of weaknesses that might happen.
But all in all, bitcoins are just a virtual scarce good, by definition making supply ever more "costly". But ultimately is like saying you'll trade the Monalisa, and that you can divide that painting in infinitely smaller parts and use it as medium of exchange and value reserve and universaly adopted....besides regulations and law, this is just a scarce good with limited supply. All the variation is mostly demand and the thing that changes is the price per patch of the painting. Which again, has the disadvantage of not being able to provide a stable economy with low inflation and full use or resources, because you don't control supply, and thus, you don't control inflation/deflation.
For me, radio has always been about automated music selection, and I have been frustrated with having to listen to what this real person thought. So Pandora is radio, perfected.
Yes. But more importantly, I read 20 years ago the main reason bread was more popular....they still haven't discovered tomato...as it was a Mexican invention. They first thought it was ornamental. Not sure who did the first tomato pasta dish dough:-)
Ther are 6 billion people of which 0.3 live in the USA. Imagine the sheer number of bad translations from English to the 30 or so widely spoken languages. None of the make the software bad, just a tad annoying.
I work in marketing and find it more challenging than finding a good programmer. Everyone in their profession thinks that others are a commodity because one is so special and unique. My learning so far has been that if you are really talented, you never think like you have just done. You need a great marketing person, and a great team. If you can become a Fortune 500, the least of your worries will be the marketing dues. I'd recommend this: hire somebody that can educate you, and has the personally to be able to handle your ego. You'll thank that person later on.
Remember that IBM's turnaround in the 90's came from somebody that manufactured cookies, not technology.
I met a guy who was a friend of an ex girldfriend. They went to the same university. Both had Grants for being the best in their class. He was doing his masters in political science in a university that is extremely quantitative oriented (it's a school of economics). The university is as though as it gets. Most people never get in, and many quit. Now this person smoke every day, and without reserve. And still he finished first, and was lovesdby classmates and teachers alike. He's still doing great. I didn't believe it at first (and Was extremely anti-anything but water) at that time. So I though, maybe things are a bit complicated. Then I had my housemate, and she told me of the story of one roomate in germany. He started smoking, started to have problems at work. Was firef. Then did the idiotic idea of going to amsterdam and brught things back. He went to jail. I have no idea how that story continued.
I've seen best of class and people go to jail and lose jobs, weed or not. And that made me ask some questions.
I've reached this conclusion a few year ago. People always ask me how the people from Brasil, Argentina, Mexico or the USA differ. They are all the same, although values do vary, this is basically unrelated to political system and more related to the justice and tolerance of their society. I'd live in any regime where there's empathy, good will and tolerance. I found a lot of that In Mexico, and if you read happiness surveys you'll see that factored in.
If you invest, you don't have to worry about this. If you are an honest trader, based on information and strategy, not algorithms, you would. For an investor, you are doing a low number of trades and each trade is going to have a huge % of movement which is miles larger than the margin of a HFT. In other words, not only Las Vegas "tax" is extremely larger for random events (say roulette double zero or 1/16 tax rate) but you also can't leverage your knowledge of why something will work/not work. Example: there's a post of OnLive bankruptcy. Suppose it traded, but you knew it'd fail due to lag. That gives you better odds that roulette....only if your judgment is sound, complete and can wait long enough.
There are reason to to sell within the month: - You found shares of a company that seems even more attractive - An event makes you consider closing the position. Say they won the lawsuit you assessed they'd won and the verdict just happened. Or that a company makes an offer. - Some other fund or company decided to add a position that has affected the price though increased demand. And you think the stock is now overvalued (or the inverse if the fund got rid of a position). - You want cash to buy a house that you just found that is an amazing deal. - You decide you'd like to reduce your risk by reducing all your investments in assets (or maybe only the high betas). - Another 200 reasons
What I do find unacceptable is buying and selling the same symbol within seconds. Much less placing fake quotes.
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Likely, for Linux to be good, it needs to be good. How Linus is, and how he operates, determine to a large extent what Linux is. In other worlds, you need to encourage Linus to keep being himself to preserve Linux - he can't be some other politically correct moron and still achieve what he did. Just like Steve Jobs, Einstein and many ither geniuses, just learn to accept that you cannot get it both, and for good reason. Btw, I really like how Linus leads, a lot. Should be worth 75 Hardvard case studies if not more.
But the competing theories to Dark Matter explain that, and many phenomena at smaller scale that Adam fails to do or does only when plugging the answer as a parameter (to say it colloquially)
If we could miss entire huge galaxies like ours in the amounts predicted in these findings, I'd remain very skeptical that we can be sure we have accounted for all mass within a galaxy. Also, how galaxies move in relation to other galaxies would be slightly affected if the have huge amount of material between them, that we haven't detected yet other than "noticing some invisible mass must be within the to explain their interactions through gravity".
It may very likely also be that "dark matter" tries to explain what was left unexplained from what we can observe and measure, and in doing so, explains things that are a result of other things totally unlike any kind of "matter that doesn't look like matter at all and only interact through gravity" bs. DM is the equivalent of the best Greek models trying to explain elliptical orbits with circles and circles within circles - a kludge that doesn't work.
Planets aren't "visible" and if you find very dense (or extremely more prevalent) very dim objects, you indeed explain the missing Mass. The models that "call for" Dark Matter are based on observing light and then estimating mass, and finding out there's not enough mass to account for the orbits of things (which act as if unviable mass was there).
All the Dark Matter theories are for crooks and incredibly ignorant scientists that will believe in that bs just as some people believe in paranormal that has never been once proven to occur.
It is also the universe level because DM is used to "explain" the background cosmic radiation.
This part may be explained by a competing theory ("complimentary"?) to Dark Matter most common models, that says that gravity behaves differently when it becomes very very low, which explains a large number of other things that Dark Matter only explains by using the right parameters (i.e. That Dark matter doesn't explain at all).
You should be less ignorant and recognize that while you where still learning to lay stones the Indian where inventing positional notation, and they also have some of the brightest mathematicians of all times, including geniuses of the scale of Gauss or Newton. Second, you should see companies like Facebook that built empires out of sloppy code in things like PHP. More importantly, if the task requires memory management, anybody can learn it and like anything else, 90% won't do it well. No news.
But you don't work in what he works on, which seems Machine Learning or 3D rendering. He didn't speak for others but for cases like his.
Same applies to written English. In the past many people didn't need to write at all. Today, due to SMS and social media, written communication has skyrocketed. However, and in spite of "the horror" it's useful to them.
Same with programming. Many people can change their lives a bit by even learning basic programming. The good programmers will observe this as a surprise, but the reality is that it is expected ANDNKT A BAD THING. Especially if those with bad writing skills are rejected from journalistic positions and those with basic programming skill are not hired to do complex stuff only the best (or the proficient) can do.
They are no longer making my life easier in many regards, and for that, they deserve to start to dissapear. Even if it takes them 15 years. Maybe Elon Musk should be summoned to Apple to steer it in the right direction. Almost all the innovations are coming from App Developers, and users are now immersed in a bad quality of life cycle due to Apple. Instead of more battery life I get a phone that needs a case and if the glass shatters it costs $300 to fix, now I can't use my favorite jacks. I still have products and Apple gear with the older connector (which I like more than the slimmer one).
I wish them well, and have many apps on their platform. But I have no love for them. That has been gone after the past 3 years. I don't see them caring for people. I don't see them making the right choices, sacrifices (sometimes jobs would make an unpopular decision that was the right things very apparent and very soon). All the latest launches, decisions and things their are doing - or at least most, make little sense to me.
I think companies like Starbucks do this. Grande is the small coffee? Tall is not the largest but medium? What is Venti? The have their own ordering language. Yet, they don't keep changing it. Renaming things and ingredients and changing the visual of the stores.
Apple is at the peak of its sucess. I adopted iPhone when every single colleague mocked me as immature, and rated the product as a toy. Blackberry was for real executives. Pardon me? Today, iPhone still has many upsides but it has very little differentiation. Actually, I see Apple as a company that considers ways to restrict me, lock me, block me. They go after the apps that made iOS a success, like Pandora, illegaly bundling its service andcross selling it and pushing it at every possible place. They are Dirgital bullies. They change the interface to sell more. Design choices are to maximize revenue and content sales.
I look at my phone, and see them imitating Android, or copying things like Pandora. And every app I own that I use the most is not Apple. I use Office 365 (how can Apple email app be so atonishingly bad and limited?) i use Kindle which wors great across any platform. I use Netflix (for the kids), 3 or 4 games that are also on Android, Pandora, Spotify, Waze, Google Maps, Skype and maybe 5 other frequently used apps like LinkedIn or twitter.
There nit one single interesting thing aboit Apple in my phone. Yet, the UI made me feel different. With that gone, my love for them has reached a low point of "I ise it because swtiching is annoying". But i M at the boundary and if pushed a bit further, I will leave them. The horrible UI that makes rhings harder, less intuitive, illogical....I am sorry Apple, I am ready to dump you the moment you push me a little further north. Now regarding Starbucks, keep my Venti ...Venti. And keep the ambience a joy and cheerful. And I'll keep paying $5 for coffee.
You dont understand, homeopathy IS the placebo. A remedy label "Placebo for flu" would not pruce Placebo benefits.
Fair is determined by the benefit to the Citizens. Why should any corporation be allowed or favored to keep one penny more than needed to benefit a parent company that has no loyalty, alliance or duty in making that country wealthy, safe and happy except to the extent needed by marketing? Additionally, workers generally consume most if not all their wages, and still have to pay income tax for the full "gross income". If corporations are people, why not treat work as a corporation, and we can all deduct food, entertainment, education and just anything not spent? Today, corporations have citizen rights but behave as foreign enemies, and pay a negligible amount only once. To be called an american corporation, they should ship ALL income here, and pay in full income tax. After all, USA created Google through favoring laws, education, infra, initial mass scale. Otherwise, it should be considered an alien to be replaced by a more american company. After all, the UK or USA largest bargaining power is Purchasing Power. A monopsony of sort worth 20% of the world demand if not more. And instead of leveraging that we highly tax health, housing, education and everything that makes work more expensive, and makes corporation decide the US is for dumping stuff, not making it.
I don't think you should give up. Forget how the other person looks and love how you look. Attractive people seek secure opposites than pretty ones, because survival has ingrained that deep within.
The moment you think you there's anything not to love about how you look, or that you pay more attention to anyone by virtue of their beauty, will @justly@ be discarded.
Here's take. Money is like any good with a price. Limited in supply. Money has advantages over goods. For example, you don't pay sales taxes when exchaning it with other currency, or financial asset. Governments regulate this. So they can make any private currency an asset regulated and taxed by them.
Conclusion to be viable: that it gains international credibility where no sinlge country or collusion of counties can challenge it's viability. Today, that's not the case. Thus, it's just a scarce good (limited supply, with certain properties) at the mercy of dominating economies.
Additionaly, money supply is a tool that goverments or economies need to influence the economy. Since there are strong habits and regulations (for example, it's very hard to reduce salaries under negative inflation, for many legal and cultural reasons) an economic shock under a hard currency (inability to expand or reduce supply in the short/mid term) can trigger a destructive vicious cycle. Like a depression that ruins most of the economy. The economic system is then unable to break that implosion, and the outcome is horrible.
Thus, bitcoins are today a good with some privileges (eg. Not a "good") that may disappear suddenly, and with risks due to that inability to do exactly what we usually don't goverments doing (printing and destroying). Yet, that inability is a double edged sword. And while bitcoins may overcome the influence of governments regulating it, that's very unlikely if you look at what is the GDP of the top 10 countries vs rest is.
So this economist is right. Competing bitcoins is just creating similar assets, and to compete they need to have a tangible (practical superiority) and some strong network effect. For an example of superiority, think of the case of a government that invents a computer that can mine bitcoins at 1000000000 the rate of the rest of the world....then maybe with another cryptocurrency maybe that's not possible. Im am not very familiar with bitcoins, so I use it as an example of weaknesses that might happen.
But all in all, bitcoins are just a virtual scarce good, by definition making supply ever more "costly". But ultimately is like saying you'll trade the Monalisa, and that you can divide that painting in infinitely smaller parts and use it as medium of exchange and value reserve and universaly adopted....besides regulations and law, this is just a scarce good with limited supply. All the variation is mostly demand and the thing that changes is the price per patch of the painting. Which again, has the disadvantage of not being able to provide a stable economy with low inflation and full use or resources, because you don't control supply, and thus, you don't control inflation/deflation.
For me, radio has always been about automated music selection, and I have been frustrated with having to listen to what this real person thought. So Pandora is radio, perfected.
Both can do well. But Pandora needs to grow rapidly globally
Yes. But more importantly, I read 20 years ago the main reason bread was more popular....they still haven't discovered tomato...as it was a Mexican invention. They first thought it was ornamental. Not sure who did the first tomato pasta dish dough :-)
Ther are 6 billion people of which 0.3 live in the USA. Imagine the sheer number of bad translations from English to the 30 or so widely spoken languages. None of the make the software bad, just a tad annoying.
I work in marketing and find it more challenging than finding a good programmer. Everyone in their profession thinks that others are a commodity because one is so special and unique. My learning so far has been that if you are really talented, you never think like you have just done. You need a great marketing person, and a great team. If you can become a Fortune 500, the least of your worries will be the marketing dues. I'd recommend this: hire somebody that can educate you, and has the personally to be able to handle your ego. You'll thank that person later on.
Remember that IBM's turnaround in the 90's came from somebody that manufactured cookies, not technology.
I met a guy who was a friend of an ex girldfriend. They went to the same university. Both had Grants for being the best in their class. He was doing his masters in political science in a university that is extremely quantitative oriented (it's a school of economics). The university is as though as it gets. Most people never get in, and many quit. Now this person smoke every day, and without reserve. And still he finished first, and was lovesdby classmates and teachers alike. He's still doing great. I didn't believe it at first (and Was extremely anti-anything but water) at that time. So I though, maybe things are a bit complicated. Then I had my housemate, and she told me of the story of one roomate in germany. He started smoking, started to have problems at work. Was firef. Then did the idiotic idea of going to amsterdam and brught things back. He went to jail. I have no idea how that story continued.
I've seen best of class and people go to jail and lose jobs, weed or not. And that made me ask some questions.
I've reached this conclusion a few year ago. People always ask me how the people from Brasil, Argentina, Mexico or the USA differ. They are all the same, although values do vary, this is basically unrelated to political system and more related to the justice and tolerance of their society. I'd live in any regime where there's empathy, good will and tolerance. I found a lot of that In Mexico, and if you read happiness surveys you'll see that factored in.
If you invest, you don't have to worry about this. If you are an honest trader, based on information and strategy, not algorithms, you would. For an investor, you are doing a low number of trades and each trade is going to have a huge % of movement which is miles larger than the margin of a HFT. In other words, not only Las Vegas "tax" is extremely larger for random events (say roulette double zero or 1/16 tax rate) but you also can't leverage your knowledge of why something will work/not work. Example: there's a post of OnLive bankruptcy. Suppose it traded, but you knew it'd fail due to lag. That gives you better odds that roulette....only if your judgment is sound, complete and can wait long enough.
There are reason to to sell within the month:
- You found shares of a company that seems even more attractive
- An event makes you consider closing the position. Say they won the lawsuit you assessed they'd won and the verdict just happened. Or that a company makes an offer.
- Some other fund or company decided to add a position that has affected the price though increased demand. And you think the stock is now overvalued (or the inverse if the fund got rid of a position).
- You want cash to buy a house that you just found that is an amazing deal.
- You decide you'd like to reduce your risk by reducing all your investments in assets (or maybe only the high betas).
- Another 200 reasons
What I do find unacceptable is buying and selling the same symbol within seconds. Much less placing fake quotes.