It's a traded currency. So I suspect it is governed by the same laws of supply and demand. If someone starts dumping it en masse, I'm sure the price will go down. Unless there is a feeding frenzy of course.
It reminds me of tech stocks in late 2000 early 2001 that oscillated like crazy. I know quite a lot of people who won big and became millionaires. And quite a lot of people who gambled millions on a hunch and lost them.
I've dealt with a master manipulator once. Narcissistic textbook example. I doubt it is something they have to think about at a rational level like you or I would have to do. They do it almost by instinct.
I remember there were times when we went into a meeting 'to really give him a piece of our mind' only to end up back outside after half an hour. and looking back, we'd see that not only did we end up agreeing with him that WE were untrustworthy scum, we also agreed to a bunch of other shit that we didn't think we'd ever do before going in.
It's not that he constantly thought how he could win the argument, he just kept bending everything back your way using your own words and emotions against you to the point where all your resolve was gone and you were competely mindfucked. Our sole luck was in that there were a couple of us with very strong bonds between us, helping us to come to our senses afterwards.
No. But there was the race with Russia to be won, and Kennedy rallied the entire nation behind 1 grand plan. Trump throws out half assed ideas on a daily basis without any sense of reality or rational thought behind it, and with zero interest in follow through. Today it is Mars, yesterday it was the wall, the day before it was destroying IS, even longer ago it was Trumpcare, and in two days time he may nuke North Korea and invade.
If he came up with one wild idea, and the will and skill to pursue that one idea, then I might take it serious. But the man's cranial capacity seems to be limited to what fits in a single twitter message, and as soon as the next idea comes up, the previous one is just pushed out the back door and abandoned.
I don't know where you get your numbers from, but I am a blade smith, part time self employed as such, and I can guarantee you that it does not take a week to hammer out a knife. Starting from steel stock I can hammer out a proper blade in about 20 minutes by hand. Even doing something fancy and making a multi layered steel knife with moderately complex steel patterning can be done in under a couple of hours.
Filing, grinding, heat treatment, polishing and making a handle take longer. Even so, if I apply myself I can get a multilayered knife from stock to finished knife in less than 8 working hours (need to allow time for tempering and curing of expoxy) if I want everything to be crisp and show quality. At the last gathering I went to I made a small multilayer knife for a friend in under 5 hours, though I admit the polishing before etching was not up to my usual standards simply due to lack of time.
I grant you that this does not devalue the gist of your argument, but if you throw out numbers you have to keep the realistic. The above numbers are just for my skill level. I am good, but not like professional smiths of old. I've once seen an 85 year old guy from Sheffield forge blades like you wouldn't believe. He could crank out close to 400 fully detailed pocket knife blades per day.
Then your wife pulled off a miracle because stores around here only got a couple that didn't even make it to the shelves before flying out the door. They told me they couldn't reserve any, and that some might come in, 2 weeks after Christmas. And now I find out that Nintendo discontinued the f*cking thing.
Instead of ramping up production ahead of time and making a killing with Christmas sales, they limit supply to a couple thousand and then discontinue the thing before it becomes available off the shelf. There is no point is talking about how great the thing is when most people didn't even get the chance to just go to the store and by one before it's gone again.
Quite late in the discussion, but yes. I work as a sysadmin in a big biotech pharma company where we make special treatments for a specific rare disease that will kill the people who have it if they don't get it. It cannot be cured, because it is due to a genetic defect. The only option is to supply the patient with enzymes that their own body doesn't make.
The medicine itself is 'reasonably' easy to make. But not when you have to comply with the regulatory requirements of various countries.
All research, marketing and other costs aside, we have a half a billion dollar plant, with over 500 employees, to make a drug for only 2500 patients worldwide, give or take. You can do the math on that. The reason we need that many employees is because the rules surrounding biotech drugs is incredibly strict. We are audited several times per year by various agencies, and things like change control, exception and deviation management, etc, are gruesome. Top heavy and very labor intensive.
My experience with GDB is quite out of date. I did a lot of realtime Linux C++ development for Alcatel Space. I did exactly what the GP mentioned: develop and debug core infrastructure on windows using VS, and then port to Linux.
Keep in mind, I was used to platform infrastructure development on both Windows and Linux, and equally at ease with Visual Studio and VIM. In fact I much preferred VIM and G++ at that time.
The reason I chose to use visual studio to implement the first infrastructure builds, was that most of our software was multithreaded. Visual Studio debugger worked just fine with multithreaded applications. GDB otoh completely shat itself as soon as the code hit a breakpoint in a worker thread and I tried stepping into / over something. This was 2004 or 2005 iirc. I tried various things but most people I asked in a newsgroup related to GDB told me that I shouldn't be using threads anyway... yeah so helpful.
In any case, this was over 10 years ago and I don't know how the situation is today, but in my case the complete failure to debug multithreaded code made it useless to our team.
I know the business guys use SAP here and no doubt it is expensive. Not sure how much though. I look after the process automation software in a pharmaceutical company, and the annual licensing of just our tech support is enough to buy a house. A big house. In a good neigborhood. And that is cheap compared to initial purchase of our software. Engineering licenses alone are something like 15K per seat.
Correct. But those settlements give Hamas a veneer of righteousness on a global scale. They can point at Israel, and say 'see, Israel is continuing to gobble up our territory. so we fight'. And while those settlements would probably not make a difference either way, the fact is that Israel is occupying their territory and providing Hamas with a reasonable justification that is not deniable.
Cars always burn in France. When I was working for Alcatel Space in Cannes, I was talking with one of the French consultants (he helped set up the realtime Linux env, I was a developer building on top of their OS) and it was during the riots after a couple of young troublemakers hid from the police and got electrocuted in a high voltage cabin.
I mentioned the news footage about the care burning, and he said 'This is in Marseilles. There are always cars burning. An average weekend in Marseilles has 60 cars burning. Now it's 100. So what. Some troublemakers even torch their own cars when a news crew is in the neighborhood just to appear on the news'
This is like calling on the electors to not choose Trump, or come up with all sorts of far fetched plans that would somehow put Clinton on the big seat. Look at the county results map. Even if the DNC can somehow find a technicality to avoid a Trump presidency, the result will be more or less a civil war imo. There is no way that the actual people in those red counties are going to let 'the big city folks' put Trump aside.
I am not a big fan of him either. Nor of Hillary for that matter. But at this point it's gone so far that either he becomes president or you'll have riots from coast to coast.
I have a sysadmin job by day for my main income. But I am also a craftsman and artist in my free time. I occupy a niche within a niche and I am pretty successful and recognized as a skilled person who makes nice things.
None of that would be possible without social media to share pictures of my work, or having customers contact me. More than half my orders come from people contacting me via my fb page. The rest via a forum on which I am very active, and a handful through my website. So I'd say 90% at least via social media.
If it weren't for social media, I would simply not be able to do what I love. 75% of my customers live in the US and I live in Europe. I think I've only had 2 customers ever in my own country. So noone would buy my things which in turn means I would not have the funds to buy the materials I like to work with or the tools and machines I use. At best I would have to go to every single crafts fair in a 300 mile radius and make / sell 'low cost' (less than 300$) generic things that appeal to most people instead of making the things I love using the materials that I love.
Sure, social media can be a huge timesink and distraction if you let it. It can also be the vital enabler for your ideas or business.
. (Sure, the guy can put on a condom, but by doing so he'd be telling the gal he doesn't trust her by default, which perhaps he might try to explain away with an even more awkward discussion about STDs, either way ruining the mood.)
Actually it is perfectly normal to use a condom to further decrease the odds of pregnancy. My gf was on the pill and I used condoms. Trust has nothing to do with it.
Very much this. If you want to be gandhi, be gandhi. Just don't be surprised if you end up being punished because you were making a point. The difference with a main ISP is that unlike the ISP, Tor is used in large part for trying to hide illegal activity such as pirating or sharing cp.
Arguing that the cp is not your problem because you only run the exit node is not going to win you any sympathy, regardless of the philosophical merits of your argument. If they can tie actual cp traffic to your node, you will end up ruined. That is the simple reality whether it is right or wrong.
It's like having right of way over a 30 ton truck: you may be in the right, but the truck will squash you to pulp.
Among other lies, they were told they would continue to get access to the EU single market without having to allow freedom of movement. That is not going to happen, as has been confirmed by the EU.
The UK exports 40% TO the EU. If they want to keep doing that, they will follow EU regulations, and will allow freedom of movement. They are of course free not to do so, as long as they accept that they lose that 40%
The EU has said several times now that that is not going to change. And they cannot step back from that even if they wanted to, because then the EU would put leaving EU countries ahead of the ones that stay. And that's not a long term winning strategy.
True. The UK cannot be forced out. But as long as they stay, they will never again get exemptions, higher rebates, or be in any position to put their mark on anything because the rest of the countries will say 'or what?'
The UK exports 41% of their stuff to the EU. They need access to our single market. And they're not getting it without allowing freedom of movement. And they sure as rain will not get better deals than between EU countries because that would be really stupid.
Somehow, at some point, the hardware owned by the hosting provider has to physically do a * b In order to calculate the result. No matter the encryption used, at that point the data is unencrypted.
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It's a traded currency. So I suspect it is governed by the same laws of supply and demand. If someone starts dumping it en masse, I'm sure the price will go down. Unless there is a feeding frenzy of course.
It reminds me of tech stocks in late 2000 early 2001 that oscillated like crazy. I know quite a lot of people who won big and became millionaires. And quite a lot of people who gambled millions on a hunch and lost them.
I've dealt with a master manipulator once. Narcissistic textbook example. I doubt it is something they have to think about at a rational level like you or I would have to do. They do it almost by instinct.
I remember there were times when we went into a meeting 'to really give him a piece of our mind' only to end up back outside after half an hour. and looking back, we'd see that not only did we end up agreeing with him that WE were untrustworthy scum, we also agreed to a bunch of other shit that we didn't think we'd ever do before going in.
It's not that he constantly thought how he could win the argument, he just kept bending everything back your way using your own words and emotions against you to the point where all your resolve was gone and you were competely mindfucked. Our sole luck was in that there were a couple of us with very strong bonds between us, helping us to come to our senses afterwards.
I think the main reason is that demand fuels production and therefore distribution fuels production as well.
No. But there was the race with Russia to be won, and Kennedy rallied the entire nation behind 1 grand plan. Trump throws out half assed ideas on a daily basis without any sense of reality or rational thought behind it, and with zero interest in follow through. Today it is Mars, yesterday it was the wall, the day before it was destroying IS, even longer ago it was Trumpcare, and in two days time he may nuke North Korea and invade.
If he came up with one wild idea, and the will and skill to pursue that one idea, then I might take it serious. But the man's cranial capacity seems to be limited to what fits in a single twitter message, and as soon as the next idea comes up, the previous one is just pushed out the back door and abandoned.
I don't know where you get your numbers from, but I am a blade smith, part time self employed as such, and I can guarantee you that it does not take a week to hammer out a knife. Starting from steel stock I can hammer out a proper blade in about 20 minutes by hand. Even doing something fancy and making a multi layered steel knife with moderately complex steel patterning can be done in under a couple of hours.
Filing, grinding, heat treatment, polishing and making a handle take longer. Even so, if I apply myself I can get a multilayered knife from stock to finished knife in less than 8 working hours (need to allow time for tempering and curing of expoxy) if I want everything to be crisp and show quality. At the last gathering I went to I made a small multilayer knife for a friend in under 5 hours, though I admit the polishing before etching was not up to my usual standards simply due to lack of time.
I grant you that this does not devalue the gist of your argument, but if you throw out numbers you have to keep the realistic. The above numbers are just for my skill level. I am good, but not like professional smiths of old. I've once seen an 85 year old guy from Sheffield forge blades like you wouldn't believe. He could crank out close to 400 fully detailed pocket knife blades per day.
Then your wife pulled off a miracle because stores around here only got a couple that didn't even make it to the shelves before flying out the door. They told me they couldn't reserve any, and that some might come in, 2 weeks after Christmas. And now I find out that Nintendo discontinued the f*cking thing.
Instead of ramping up production ahead of time and making a killing with Christmas sales, they limit supply to a couple thousand and then discontinue the thing before it becomes available off the shelf. There is no point is talking about how great the thing is when most people didn't even get the chance to just go to the store and by one before it's gone again.
Quite late in the discussion, but yes. I work as a sysadmin in a big biotech pharma company where we make special treatments for a specific rare disease that will kill the people who have it if they don't get it. It cannot be cured, because it is due to a genetic defect. The only option is to supply the patient with enzymes that their own body doesn't make.
The medicine itself is 'reasonably' easy to make. But not when you have to comply with the regulatory requirements of various countries.
All research, marketing and other costs aside, we have a half a billion dollar plant, with over 500 employees, to make a drug for only 2500 patients worldwide, give or take. You can do the math on that. The reason we need that many employees is because the rules surrounding biotech drugs is incredibly strict. We are audited several times per year by various agencies, and things like change control, exception and deviation management, etc, are gruesome. Top heavy and very labor intensive.
My experience with GDB is quite out of date. I did a lot of realtime Linux C++ development for Alcatel Space. I did exactly what the GP mentioned: develop and debug core infrastructure on windows using VS, and then port to Linux.
Keep in mind, I was used to platform infrastructure development on both Windows and Linux, and equally at ease with Visual Studio and VIM. In fact I much preferred VIM and G++ at that time.
The reason I chose to use visual studio to implement the first infrastructure builds, was that most of our software was multithreaded. Visual Studio debugger worked just fine with multithreaded applications. GDB otoh completely shat itself as soon as the code hit a breakpoint in a worker thread and I tried stepping into / over something. This was 2004 or 2005 iirc. I tried various things but most people I asked in a newsgroup related to GDB told me that I shouldn't be using threads anyway... yeah so helpful.
In any case, this was over 10 years ago and I don't know how the situation is today, but in my case the complete failure to debug multithreaded code made it useless to our team.
I know the business guys use SAP here and no doubt it is expensive. Not sure how much though. I look after the process automation software in a pharmaceutical company, and the annual licensing of just our tech support is enough to buy a house. A big house. In a good neigborhood. And that is cheap compared to initial purchase of our software. Engineering licenses alone are something like 15K per seat.
No your coworker is dead because a racist bigot decided to kill him.
Correct. But those settlements give Hamas a veneer of righteousness on a global scale. They can point at Israel, and say 'see, Israel is continuing to gobble up our territory. so we fight'. And while those settlements would probably not make a difference either way, the fact is that Israel is occupying their territory and providing Hamas with a reasonable justification that is not deniable.
Such eloquence...
Cars always burn in France. When I was working for Alcatel Space in Cannes, I was talking with one of the French consultants (he helped set up the realtime Linux env, I was a developer building on top of their OS) and it was during the riots after a couple of young troublemakers hid from the police and got electrocuted in a high voltage cabin.
I mentioned the news footage about the care burning, and he said 'This is in Marseilles. There are always cars burning. An average weekend in Marseilles has 60 cars burning. Now it's 100. So what. Some troublemakers even torch their own cars when a news crew is in the neighborhood just to appear on the news'
Every country has its peculiarities.
This is like calling on the electors to not choose Trump, or come up with all sorts of far fetched plans that would somehow put Clinton on the big seat. Look at the county results map. Even if the DNC can somehow find a technicality to avoid a Trump presidency, the result will be more or less a civil war imo. There is no way that the actual people in those red counties are going to let 'the big city folks' put Trump aside.
I am not a big fan of him either. Nor of Hillary for that matter. But at this point it's gone so far that either he becomes president or you'll have riots from coast to coast.
I have a sysadmin job by day for my main income. But I am also a craftsman and artist in my free time. I occupy a niche within a niche and I am pretty successful and recognized as a skilled person who makes nice things.
None of that would be possible without social media to share pictures of my work, or having customers contact me. More than half my orders come from people contacting me via my fb page. The rest via a forum on which I am very active, and a handful through my website. So I'd say 90% at least via social media.
If it weren't for social media, I would simply not be able to do what I love. 75% of my customers live in the US and I live in Europe. I think I've only had 2 customers ever in my own country. So noone would buy my things which in turn means I would not have the funds to buy the materials I like to work with or the tools and machines I use. At best I would have to go to every single crafts fair in a 300 mile radius and make / sell 'low cost' (less than 300$) generic things that appeal to most people instead of making the things I love using the materials that I love.
Sure, social media can be a huge timesink and distraction if you let it. It can also be the vital enabler for your ideas or business.
. (Sure, the guy can put on a condom, but by doing so he'd be telling the gal he doesn't trust her by default, which perhaps he might try to explain away with an even more awkward discussion about STDs, either way ruining the mood.)
Actually it is perfectly normal to use a condom to further decrease the odds of pregnancy. My gf was on the pill and I used condoms. Trust has nothing to do with it.
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Very much this. If you want to be gandhi, be gandhi. Just don't be surprised if you end up being punished because you were making a point. The difference with a main ISP is that unlike the ISP, Tor is used in large part for trying to hide illegal activity such as pirating or sharing cp.
Arguing that the cp is not your problem because you only run the exit node is not going to win you any sympathy, regardless of the philosophical merits of your argument. If they can tie actual cp traffic to your node, you will end up ruined. That is the simple reality whether it is right or wrong.
It's like having right of way over a 30 ton truck: you may be in the right, but the truck will squash you to pulp.
I am fairly certain that I've read that exact post a couple of times over the last couple of years.
Among other lies, they were told they would continue to get access to the EU single market without having to allow freedom of movement.
That is not going to happen, as has been confirmed by the EU.
The UK exports 40% TO the EU.
If they want to keep doing that, they will follow EU regulations, and will allow freedom of movement.
They are of course free not to do so, as long as they accept that they lose that 40%
The EU has said several times now that that is not going to change. And they cannot step back from that even if they wanted to, because then the EU would put leaving EU countries ahead of the ones that stay. And that's not a long term winning strategy.
True. The UK cannot be forced out. But as long as they stay, they will never again get exemptions, higher rebates, or be in any position to put their mark on anything because the rest of the countries will say 'or what?'
The UK exports 41% of their stuff to the EU. They need access to our single market. And they're not getting it without allowing freedom of movement. And they sure as rain will not get better deals than between EU countries because that would be really stupid.
Says Mr. I-am-not-a-policeman.
Somehow, at some point, the hardware owned by the hosting provider has to physically do
a * b
In order to calculate the result.
No matter the encryption used, at that point the data is unencrypted.