I agree with that--- I think a reasonable Republican could win in Silicon Valley, whereas they would have very little chance in San Francisco. The problem Republicans have in the valley isn't so much liberalism, as the fact that they've managed to paint themselves into a corner where they're perceived as backwards, socially conservative, and anti-intellectual. If they managed to go a few years without evolution, gays, or Liberal Elites being among their main talking points, they might actually win some votes.
One argument is that it would be much harder to do so, at least on a large scale, without the scaffolding of corporate law. Note that the anti-corporation argument means all corporations, including privately-held ones; i.e. abolish corporate law and the "incorporated" status entirely. It may be possible to recreate a monopolistic mega-entity via partnerships and contract law, but it would certainly be more difficult, especially if there were also no concept of corporate personhood or limited liability. Basically, force everyone to do business as themselves, in their personal capacity, and it becomes much more difficult to create large, collectively-operated entities, because few people would voluntarily sign up for one of those collectives without the shield of corporate law keeping it at arm's length from their personal life.
Libertarians still oppose it, though. Of course, some libertarians do have an alternate solution, proposing we abolish corporations, who are the biggest reasons we would need anti-trust regulations in the first place.
In my experience, geeks are generally in favor of civil liberties, but also in favor of significant government provision of public services, such as high-speed rail, NASA, and funding for the National Science Foundation. Many also support significant regulation of markets, such as more vigorous enforcement of antitrust law, and institution of net-neutrality rules.
Partly the article is quoting prices on a whole box, not just the SSL acceleration. The Big-IP 6900 mentioned in the summary, for example, is a dual-core rackmount server with 10GigE, and hardware SSL and compression. Presumably much of that money you're paying is going for the actual server, not just the SSL-accelerating coprocessor. Of course, you're probably also paying a markup for buying a specialty server of that sort, rather than slapping an SSL accelerator in a server from a commodity vendor.
They have lost almost every case that they've filed, been admonished by multiple courts for incompetent practice of law bordering on fraudulent, and generally done a piss-poor job that would make a mediocre law student ashamed.
No, the lawyers' jobs are not to best serve their clients. They are to best serve their clients to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules of procedure, and bar ethics rules.
Obama now claims that HR 6304 does not permit investigation into illegalities by the Executive after all, as he's pushing a strengthened version of Bush's executive immunity theory.
The RIAA litigation campaign has been performed extremely shoddily, with scant attention paid to either rules of procedure or bar ethics rules. It's more of a quantity-over-quality thing, hoping that if they keep sending the same inadequate pleadings to hundreds of courts, a few courts will fail to see through them.
You can't just do that without government permission. Since people don't want their streets dug up every other week for yet another telecomm to bury some new cables, they generally give out monopolies so only one or two companies are allowed to do the digging.
It's not clear that it's true from a corporation's standpoint either: there is very little empirical evidence (despite much trying) that CEO pay is positively related to the corporation's performance.
That leaves a bit of a conundrum, since economic theory assumes that a rational actor wouldn't pay someone a salary that was vastly above their worth to the person paying. One of several hypotheses proposed for the result is that in large corporations, the decision-makers are spending someone else's money (the shareholders), not their own, and the actual owners of the money have fairly indirect and only weakly effective methods to police them. So you end up with a bunch of executives agreeing that other executives offer a lot of value to the company; and they pay this out of someone else's money, who in theory they represent.
It's telling that this happens much less often at privately held firms, which are spending their own money, and are typically more frugal about doing so.
Privately held companies, where the owner is actually making pay decisions, actually don't tend to pay hugely inflated salaries very often. The biggest salaries come from public corporations, which have diffuse ownership (thousands of shareholders) and are in practice run by the Board of Directors and the executives themselves.
That is, it's a collectivist organizational structure: a bunch of "owners" pool their ownership and then elect someone else to run their collectively owned business. In theory the owners still exercise indirect control, because they can vote out the directors or propose shareholder resolutions. But that's also true of state-owned firms: all citizens are indirectly "owners" of a government-owned company, and can effect change by voting out the government, or in some countries and states directly passing ballot initiatives. But in practice both of these forms of control are fairly weak and ineffective, which is why state-owned and large publicly traded corporations do not much resemble owner-operated entities in practice.
Lake Chagan was created by a nuclear blast purposely sited so its crater lip would dam the river, which created both a lake upstream of the river (and prevented downstream flooding), and a lake in the crater itself. Downside: the lake is still radioactive, 40+ years later.
Indeed. Perhaps they were confused by the common phrase "former Soviet Republic", which refers to entities that were formerly Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs), but became independent around 1991, like Ukraine.
Republics of Russia, though are subnational entities that are still part of Russia (pre-1991, part of the Russian SFSR). They are one of several kinds of top-level subnational divisions of Russia, others including Oblasts and Krais and so on. The Republics are those with a traditional non-Russian population, so have some autonomy in the areas of language use. But they're effectively what other countries call provinces or prefectures.
Some 911 centers themselves were actually mostly down, unable to get calls routed to them except from local landlines that dialed directly. From a Santa Cruz Sentinel article:
NETCOM, the dispatch center for most police and fire agencies in Santa Cruz County, was able to receive 911 calls placed from hard lines, but could not receive calls placed from cell phones, senior dispatcher Stephanie Zube said.
The main thing that turns me off about Zotero is the poor browsing interface. Why can't I click on an author's name to get all papers in my database by that author? Why can't I click on a journal to get all papers in that journal? Why do I always have to go through a damn Advanced Search to do any of this?
As a result, I use Aigaion instead. It's web-based, though, so you'll need somewhere you can run it (I've got a small VPS that it's on).
It may be inefficient, but depending on your source of electricity and your source of non-electric heating, it may be cleaner. In particular, much of the US uses heating oil for winter heating, which is terribly polluting, even more than oil-burning power plants are (due to much less pollution scrubbing).
Some of it is probably just personal preference and how I file away the languages in my head--- D in my mind is "C++ done right", but aesthetically still feels like a nicer C++, so I think of using it in situations where I might otherwise use C++. I think of Scala more as a mixed-paradigm OO/functional language on the JVM, rather than an upgrade to Java. In particular, it's got lightweight anonymous function syntax and first-class symbols with Lisp-style single-quote syntax, which come in handy in some kinds of programming.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert on their pros and cons though, especially as concerns D.
Probably depends on the consumer. I personally always want more music than I'm willing to spend money on, so I will move around things in the purchase queue (I prefer physical media, though) based on price--- a CD selling for more than my usual price range (say, $20+) might get deferred or never purchased, while some band selling $10 CDs directly out of their van will probably get a purchase right away.
Some people have more directed music shopping, though: they want a specific album or song, and are looking to go buy it. They might be less price sensitive, at least within reasonable ranges.
I tend to think of D as C++ done right, although I like Scala more, for mostly different reasons. I agree that C++ is fairly fundamentally flawed, mostly because the things that were bolted onto C and then independently developed interact very badly. There are all sorts of edge cases and special-case rules for typename resolution, implicit conversions, method dispatch, how that all interacts with templates, etc.
One of the better explications of specific issues, IMO, is the C++ FQA, which point-by-point dismantles the C++ FAQ Lite.
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It depends partly on what your concurrency looks like. Erlang supports one model of concurrency, a lightweight message-passing one with no explicit threads or shared memory. Scala supports that one as well---less efficiently---but also supports standard Java multithreading, which some people find useful for some purposes.
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I agree with that--- I think a reasonable Republican could win in Silicon Valley, whereas they would have very little chance in San Francisco. The problem Republicans have in the valley isn't so much liberalism, as the fact that they've managed to paint themselves into a corner where they're perceived as backwards, socially conservative, and anti-intellectual. If they managed to go a few years without evolution, gays, or Liberal Elites being among their main talking points, they might actually win some votes.
One argument is that it would be much harder to do so, at least on a large scale, without the scaffolding of corporate law. Note that the anti-corporation argument means all corporations, including privately-held ones; i.e. abolish corporate law and the "incorporated" status entirely. It may be possible to recreate a monopolistic mega-entity via partnerships and contract law, but it would certainly be more difficult, especially if there were also no concept of corporate personhood or limited liability. Basically, force everyone to do business as themselves, in their personal capacity, and it becomes much more difficult to create large, collectively-operated entities, because few people would voluntarily sign up for one of those collectives without the shield of corporate law keeping it at arm's length from their personal life.
Libertarians still oppose it, though. Of course, some libertarians do have an alternate solution, proposing we abolish corporations, who are the biggest reasons we would need anti-trust regulations in the first place.
In my experience, geeks are generally in favor of civil liberties, but also in favor of significant government provision of public services, such as high-speed rail, NASA, and funding for the National Science Foundation. Many also support significant regulation of markets, such as more vigorous enforcement of antitrust law, and institution of net-neutrality rules.
Partly the article is quoting prices on a whole box, not just the SSL acceleration. The Big-IP 6900 mentioned in the summary, for example, is a dual-core rackmount server with 10GigE, and hardware SSL and compression. Presumably much of that money you're paying is going for the actual server, not just the SSL-accelerating coprocessor. Of course, you're probably also paying a markup for buying a specialty server of that sort, rather than slapping an SSL accelerator in a server from a commodity vendor.
They have lost almost every case that they've filed, been admonished by multiple courts for incompetent practice of law bordering on fraudulent, and generally done a piss-poor job that would make a mediocre law student ashamed.
No, the lawyers' jobs are not to best serve their clients. They are to best serve their clients to the extent permitted by applicable law, rules of procedure, and bar ethics rules.
Obama now claims that HR 6304 does not permit investigation into illegalities by the Executive after all, as he's pushing a strengthened version of Bush's executive immunity theory.
The RIAA litigation campaign has been performed extremely shoddily, with scant attention paid to either rules of procedure or bar ethics rules. It's more of a quantity-over-quality thing, hoping that if they keep sending the same inadequate pleadings to hundreds of courts, a few courts will fail to see through them.
According to this journal article (2008), there were about 2 x 10^10 beryllium-10 atoms per gram of soil; and about 60,000 Bq/m^2 from cesium-137.
You can't just do that without government permission. Since people don't want their streets dug up every other week for yet another telecomm to bury some new cables, they generally give out monopolies so only one or two companies are allowed to do the digging.
It's not clear that it's true from a corporation's standpoint either: there is very little empirical evidence (despite much trying) that CEO pay is positively related to the corporation's performance.
That leaves a bit of a conundrum, since economic theory assumes that a rational actor wouldn't pay someone a salary that was vastly above their worth to the person paying. One of several hypotheses proposed for the result is that in large corporations, the decision-makers are spending someone else's money (the shareholders), not their own, and the actual owners of the money have fairly indirect and only weakly effective methods to police them. So you end up with a bunch of executives agreeing that other executives offer a lot of value to the company; and they pay this out of someone else's money, who in theory they represent.
It's telling that this happens much less often at privately held firms, which are spending their own money, and are typically more frugal about doing so.
Privately held companies, where the owner is actually making pay decisions, actually don't tend to pay hugely inflated salaries very often. The biggest salaries come from public corporations, which have diffuse ownership (thousands of shareholders) and are in practice run by the Board of Directors and the executives themselves.
That is, it's a collectivist organizational structure: a bunch of "owners" pool their ownership and then elect someone else to run their collectively owned business. In theory the owners still exercise indirect control, because they can vote out the directors or propose shareholder resolutions. But that's also true of state-owned firms: all citizens are indirectly "owners" of a government-owned company, and can effect change by voting out the government, or in some countries and states directly passing ballot initiatives. But in practice both of these forms of control are fairly weak and ineffective, which is why state-owned and large publicly traded corporations do not much resemble owner-operated entities in practice.
Let me ask Jeeves about that does, though.
Lake Chagan was created by a nuclear blast purposely sited so its crater lip would dam the river, which created both a lake upstream of the river (and prevented downstream flooding), and a lake in the crater itself. Downside: the lake is still radioactive, 40+ years later.
Indeed. Perhaps they were confused by the common phrase "former Soviet Republic", which refers to entities that were formerly Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs), but became independent around 1991, like Ukraine.
Republics of Russia, though are subnational entities that are still part of Russia (pre-1991, part of the Russian SFSR). They are one of several kinds of top-level subnational divisions of Russia, others including Oblasts and Krais and so on. The Republics are those with a traditional non-Russian population, so have some autonomy in the areas of language use. But they're effectively what other countries call provinces or prefectures.
Some 911 centers themselves were actually mostly down, unable to get calls routed to them except from local landlines that dialed directly. From a Santa Cruz Sentinel article:
The main thing that turns me off about Zotero is the poor browsing interface. Why can't I click on an author's name to get all papers in my database by that author? Why can't I click on a journal to get all papers in that journal? Why do I always have to go through a damn Advanced Search to do any of this?
As a result, I use Aigaion instead. It's web-based, though, so you'll need somewhere you can run it (I've got a small VPS that it's on).
It may be inefficient, but depending on your source of electricity and your source of non-electric heating, it may be cleaner. In particular, much of the US uses heating oil for winter heating, which is terribly polluting, even more than oil-burning power plants are (due to much less pollution scrubbing).
Spam-filters analogous to those applied to email seem to be increasingly used as plugins to various blog engines.
Some of it is probably just personal preference and how I file away the languages in my head--- D in my mind is "C++ done right", but aesthetically still feels like a nicer C++, so I think of using it in situations where I might otherwise use C++. I think of Scala more as a mixed-paradigm OO/functional language on the JVM, rather than an upgrade to Java. In particular, it's got lightweight anonymous function syntax and first-class symbols with Lisp-style single-quote syntax, which come in handy in some kinds of programming.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert on their pros and cons though, especially as concerns D.
Didn't that lunch already get eaten by The Economist?
Probably depends on the consumer. I personally always want more music than I'm willing to spend money on, so I will move around things in the purchase queue (I prefer physical media, though) based on price--- a CD selling for more than my usual price range (say, $20+) might get deferred or never purchased, while some band selling $10 CDs directly out of their van will probably get a purchase right away.
Some people have more directed music shopping, though: they want a specific album or song, and are looking to go buy it. They might be less price sensitive, at least within reasonable ranges.
I tend to think of D as C++ done right, although I like Scala more, for mostly different reasons. I agree that C++ is fairly fundamentally flawed, mostly because the things that were bolted onto C and then independently developed interact very badly. There are all sorts of edge cases and special-case rules for typename resolution, implicit conversions, method dispatch, how that all interacts with templates, etc.
One of the better explications of specific issues, IMO, is the C++ FQA, which point-by-point dismantles the C++ FAQ Lite.
It depends partly on what your concurrency looks like. Erlang supports one model of concurrency, a lightweight message-passing one with no explicit threads or shared memory. Scala supports that one as well---less efficiently---but also supports standard Java multithreading, which some people find useful for some purposes.