Yet another troll mod coming my way, but what the hell. You are talking bullshit. Half the planet lives on less than $2.50 a day. Over 20,000 kids die every fucking day because of poverty. There a billion illiterate people on this planet, something like 120 million not in education. Two billion people have no access to electricity.
Every single one of those numbers is a person like you and me who desperately needs a developed market to sell their labour in so they can have a reasonable standard of living. It's not going to happen because of slashdotters buying fair trade coffee, it will happen because markets everywhere will allocate capital to drive development in these places as best they can. So when every single one of those numbers drops to zero, come back here and share your nonsensical arguments with us once more.
Amen. I only have a Linux desktop and home, and not being a raving zealot, I don't mind using Windows elsewhere if need be, but Microsoft's thought processes regarding copy and paste turn me into a gibbering lunatic every single time. No, I highlighted the middle of a word because that's what I wanted to highlight, you incompetent silicon shit. If I want the whole word highlighted I'll highlight the whole goddamned word. Bastards.
Contrary to rumour, spammers don't spider for email addresses much. Mine is in the clear in many places and I'm getting less and less spam over time, not more. If you were to subscribe him to a few porn sites, however....
The slight flaw in your plan is that you can buy and sell stocks anywhere you like. I could advertise my portfolio on Craigslist and find a buyer over there, and if my exchange introduced a one second tick (the gold market and quite a few commodities markets run on one second ticks, by the way) I am free to find or set up an exchange with millisecond or faster ticks.
They are attempting to arbitrage trading prices variation due to natural supply-and-demand variation over the course of the trading day - over a short time period, stocks follow a Brownian motion kind of pattern, and it is possible to analyse this and work out the probabilities of a certain increase in size at any point; if that probability goes high enough, it makes it worth purchasing the stock for a short period.
This does have beneficial effects: it helps enable price discovery and improves liquidity, which are good things for long term investors like you and me. And yes, the models that led to the flash crash were broken: financial modelling is quite often conducted with string and sticky tape and a guy who learnt Visual Basic for Excel by playing with the model he inherited. Quite often such models are extremely brittle and can't cope with extreme events and you get solutions failing to converge, run times exploding, chaotic behaviour, and so on. It doesn't help that very often the people running companies don't have the technical knowledge to challenge modellers and their results: most of them struggle with the concept of value-at-risk. Financial modelling should probably evolve into a profession in its own right, but that will take a while to happen.
That's because consumers have no need for real time bank accounts. If there was a need (or rather, a demand), you'd have them (and in the UK, this is actually the direction we're going in). Also, stock trading is not a zero sum game: the fact that I made a profit does not mean someone else has to have lost money because of me.
I think BP is more worried about fixing the leak than dealing with PR at the moment - and frankly, broadcasting pictures of fluffy kittens at this point in time would not be particularly effective. And BP are already aware that they will be paying out a lot more than the statutory cap - because if they don't they know that this is not an administration and Congress that will stand by and let them.
You do not have the physical attributes to play those sports to a very high level, but I doubt that if you put the effort in that you just couldn't achieve any kind of reasonable standard. Likewise, I accept that there is variation in intelligence levels, but an intelligence level is a random variable conditioned on the individual's prior experience and learning. The extent of this conditioning is huge.
MusicXML is extremely clunky to work with. TeX is fine as a backend, though fiddly to set up, but for working with...ugh. Lilypond is good, though the learning curve for the basics is really too steep. Another alternative is ABC, which I use a lot. However, more to the point, our hero hasn't settled on a markup language yet - the whole thing is drawn from primitives.
And where's your Javascript typesetter? Yes, music typesetting is a fine art, and there is scope for improvement, but anyone doing the work to actually make this happens deserves a little bit more than pedantic abuse, don't you think? Sheesh.
Getting computer generated scores to the same level of clarity and readability is an extraordinarily hard craft - things like the size of objects is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a reason that manual music engravers used to train for years before they produced work that was commercially produced.
Even if he lost a confidence vote, he wouldn't be able to resign unless there was a successor in place. Presuming that there wouldn't be one if he hadn't resigned by then, the only alternative is dissolution and a fresh election - and he would still be PM until after that one.
Maybe you would, but why did scores of rural poor migrate to urban factory work everywhere in the developing world - including in Africa and Asia today?
Oh, don't get me wrong: this sentence is a totally unreasonable test of any language processor. It would surprise me greatly if any machine is ever able to tackle such constructs without just as much puzzling as us humans. The only reason it's interesting is because it does, technically, parse, with a bit of effort, and even just about means something sensible in the real world.
Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
The point is not that it is a useful sentence, the point is that it is a sentence. What's even more remarkable is that you can add arbitrary repetitions of buffalo to it and still get a grammatical, meaningful sentence. The meaningful is important. Colourful green ideas sleep furiously. That parses grammatically, but it means absolutely nothing.
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Every single one of those numbers is a person like you and me who desperately needs a developed market to sell their labour in so they can have a reasonable standard of living. It's not going to happen because of slashdotters buying fair trade coffee, it will happen because markets everywhere will allocate capital to drive development in these places as best they can. So when every single one of those numbers drops to zero, come back here and share your nonsensical arguments with us once more.
Amen. I only have a Linux desktop and home, and not being a raving zealot, I don't mind using Windows elsewhere if need be, but Microsoft's thought processes regarding copy and paste turn me into a gibbering lunatic every single time. No, I highlighted the middle of a word because that's what I wanted to highlight, you incompetent silicon shit. If I want the whole word highlighted I'll highlight the whole goddamned word. Bastards.
Contrary to rumour, spammers don't spider for email addresses much. Mine is in the clear in many places and I'm getting less and less spam over time, not more. If you were to subscribe him to a few porn sites, however....
It doesn't really matter. Even if you make it an SEC requirement, all the trading will mysteriously decamp to a convenient off-shore location.
The wealth is created when my investment goes up in value.
The slight flaw in your plan is that you can buy and sell stocks anywhere you like. I could advertise my portfolio on Craigslist and find a buyer over there, and if my exchange introduced a one second tick (the gold market and quite a few commodities markets run on one second ticks, by the way) I am free to find or set up an exchange with millisecond or faster ticks.
This does have beneficial effects: it helps enable price discovery and improves liquidity, which are good things for long term investors like you and me. And yes, the models that led to the flash crash were broken: financial modelling is quite often conducted with string and sticky tape and a guy who learnt Visual Basic for Excel by playing with the model he inherited. Quite often such models are extremely brittle and can't cope with extreme events and you get solutions failing to converge, run times exploding, chaotic behaviour, and so on. It doesn't help that very often the people running companies don't have the technical knowledge to challenge modellers and their results: most of them struggle with the concept of value-at-risk. Financial modelling should probably evolve into a profession in its own right, but that will take a while to happen.
No, that's called stock market manipulation and is a great way to get your ass raped by the SEC. They kinda have this thing about it.
That's because consumers have no need for real time bank accounts. If there was a need (or rather, a demand), you'd have them (and in the UK, this is actually the direction we're going in). Also, stock trading is not a zero sum game: the fact that I made a profit does not mean someone else has to have lost money because of me.
I think BP is more worried about fixing the leak than dealing with PR at the moment - and frankly, broadcasting pictures of fluffy kittens at this point in time would not be particularly effective. And BP are already aware that they will be paying out a lot more than the statutory cap - because if they don't they know that this is not an administration and Congress that will stand by and let them.
You do not have the physical attributes to play those sports to a very high level, but I doubt that if you put the effort in that you just couldn't achieve any kind of reasonable standard. Likewise, I accept that there is variation in intelligence levels, but an intelligence level is a random variable conditioned on the individual's prior experience and learning. The extent of this conditioning is huge.
About two and a half days.
You have two hands, do you not, young padawan? And teeth?
Latex could do that, though whether or not a package exists that already does it is another story.
MusicXML is extremely clunky to work with. TeX is fine as a backend, though fiddly to set up, but for working with...ugh. Lilypond is good, though the learning curve for the basics is really too steep. Another alternative is ABC, which I use a lot. However, more to the point, our hero hasn't settled on a markup language yet - the whole thing is drawn from primitives.
And where's your Javascript typesetter? Yes, music typesetting is a fine art, and there is scope for improvement, but anyone doing the work to actually make this happens deserves a little bit more than pedantic abuse, don't you think? Sheesh.
Getting computer generated scores to the same level of clarity and readability is an extraordinarily hard craft - things like the size of objects is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a reason that manual music engravers used to train for years before they produced work that was commercially produced.
Even if he lost a confidence vote, he wouldn't be able to resign unless there was a successor in place. Presuming that there wouldn't be one if he hadn't resigned by then, the only alternative is dissolution and a fresh election - and he would still be PM until after that one.
Maybe you would, but why did scores of rural poor migrate to urban factory work everywhere in the developing world - including in Africa and Asia today?
Oh, don't get me wrong: this sentence is a totally unreasonable test of any language processor. It would surprise me greatly if any machine is ever able to tackle such constructs without just as much puzzling as us humans. The only reason it's interesting is because it does, technically, parse, with a bit of effort, and even just about means something sensible in the real world.
OPEC has effectively had no real control over global prices for the last ten-fifteen years. They don't have a big enough share of production any more.
Because people's standard of living was so much better in 1829 than 1929?
Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
The point is not that it is a useful sentence, the point is that it is a sentence. What's even more remarkable is that you can add arbitrary repetitions of buffalo to it and still get a grammatical, meaningful sentence. The meaningful is important. Colourful green ideas sleep furiously. That parses grammatically, but it means absolutely nothing.
Oh, my internet was fine. But every single news website melted. The only one that stayed up was /.