Dr. Dobb's Journal's motto was once "Running light without overbyte." Looks like this valuable maxim is now beyond their ability.
Sometimes it's a good choice to use more complex code when it provides a substantial speed increase. Sometimes it's good to slap something together just so it will run. But if there's no substantial advantage to code that isn't simple, simple is best.
Most people who look at the Laffer curve don't think about it very deeply.
For instance, it relates tax rate to government income, but many people act as if it relates tax rate to societal benefit.
For another thing, it's clear that the curve will be different for different time spans and for how long in advance the rate is known. Consider Clinton's unconstitutional ex post facto income tax rate increase: by increasing taxes on money already earned, there was negligible possibility for people for people to change their actions to reduce their taxes, so there was little Laffer effect possible. On the other hand, changes in capital gains taxes have resulted in well-known changes in tax revenue. For taxes in general which are in effect for decades, the peak can be expected to move to the left as time increases due to positive feedback.
Your claim is refuted in TFA, citing Stradivarius. The idea is that low or lacking patent protection encourages "secret science", wherein the inventor estimates a better financial return if he never publicizes his advance. Patents, except the few that are secret for military purposes, are public record and easily available.
There's plenty of historical data. The problem is that it's too hard to interpret. Once something is invented, it can't be invented for the first time again, thus making comparisons of different systems difficult.
I've read that innovation in the telephone field fell when Bell got his patent and increased when the patents expired.
Although that's the definition, it's a poor definition. One is left asking, "What's a second?" (To which the A&C answer is "No, What's on second.")
A second is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."
My father had a tech business in Queens. One of the first things he had to do was arrange to have a certain firm wash his business's windows, or else (veiled threat) see the building burned down. This is Mafia, and if you think it's gone from NYC, you're mistaken.
There are no unions in NYC tech startups.
There are unions controlling many of the services the startup will have to deal with. They're only slightly better than the Mafia.
If you truly think that the IRT, BMT, and IND are in any meaningful way independent, you're completely brainwashed. New York City drove all three into bankruptcy many decades ago and seized the system for itself. As for carrying capacity, you're limited to whatever you can carry up a staircase with either buses or subway, less during rush hour. Consider, for example, three bags of groceries.
Gee, the need to be close to an existing pool of talent explains why Micron Technology failed. Oh, wait...
A major advantage for a tech company to locate where there's no similar company is that it's much harder for competitors to raid employees. That has been a serious problem many times in Silicon Valley.
And Bloomberg is the sadistic warden. In addition to federal and high state income and sales taxes, you are also privileged to pay city income tax. Come on in, techno-morons.
Most TiVos (all?) are contract manufactured. My Series 2 was made by Samsung, and the cheap fan predictably failed after 2 or 3 years. Not long thereafter, the unit became flaky due to overheating; on a hot day it shut down. I disassembled first the unit and then the fan, and lubricated the fan. Reassembled, it worked fairly well, but the overheating had caused permanent damage and the unit completely stopped working a few months later.
My point is that TiVo isn't exercising sufficient control over their contract manufacturers/licensees, and the bad hardware, not TiVo's design, is responsible for poor reliability.
I have the impression that some VCRs and ADAT had FF->PLAY delay compensation, particularly since these tape machines needed to compensate for physical momentum anyway. What did the TiVo patent consist of, anyway? "Like a VCR, except with hard drives"?
Society consists of a large number of individuals. Would you mind explaining how any individual of a society, none of whom live on, depend on, maintain, or add value to, a particular piece of real estate, has any valid claim on that real estate that one man lives on, depends on, maintains and adds value to?
The fact that society consists of a large number of individuals does not confer upon them rights that not one of them has individually. All it gives them is the immoral power to violate the rights of an individual.
I live in a small rural town, with maybe 500 yards of sidewalk. About half of it is between and near the school, library, and town hall. The town does indeed run a tiny snowplow to clear all the sidewalks - it's a question of safety and efficiency; it would be a bit foolish to insist everyone with a 50 foot frontage keep their own portion clean.
Assuming the square of concrete is 3x3 feet, that's 4.5 cubic feet of concrete if it's 6 inches thick. About $50 if you mix your own from bags from a local hardware store.
You didn't say how many squares, but this sounds like a do-it-yourself project, if you could get away with it.
The city I came from - Stamford Connecticut - bought the land from the resident (Shippan) Indians. The Indians forgot they had sold it and complained, so the settlers bought the land from the Indians again. And again. Net three times the Indians were paid for the land.
There's been plenty of nastiness on both sides; don't pretend otherwise.
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Dr. Dobb's Journal's motto was once "Running light without overbyte." Looks like this valuable maxim is now beyond their ability.
Sometimes it's a good choice to use more complex code when it provides a substantial speed increase. Sometimes it's good to slap something together just so it will run. But if there's no substantial advantage to code that isn't simple, simple is best.
Most people who look at the Laffer curve don't think about it very deeply.
For instance, it relates tax rate to government income, but many people act as if it relates tax rate to societal benefit.
For another thing, it's clear that the curve will be different for different time spans and for how long in advance the rate is known. Consider Clinton's unconstitutional ex post facto income tax rate increase: by increasing taxes on money already earned, there was negligible possibility for people for people to change their actions to reduce their taxes, so there was little Laffer effect possible. On the other hand, changes in capital gains taxes have resulted in well-known changes in tax revenue. For taxes in general which are in effect for decades, the peak can be expected to move to the left as time increases due to positive feedback.
How do you expect to be taken seriously when you cite the notorious Martin Gardner, who provides a graph that is clearly a joke?
Your claim is refuted in TFA, citing Stradivarius. The idea is that low or lacking patent protection encourages "secret science", wherein the inventor estimates a better financial return if he never publicizes his advance. Patents, except the few that are secret for military purposes, are public record and easily available.
There's plenty of historical data. The problem is that it's too hard to interpret. Once something is invented, it can't be invented for the first time again, thus making comparisons of different systems difficult.
I've read that innovation in the telephone field fell when Bell got his patent and increased when the patents expired.
Bob Widlar. Luther Burbank. George Washington Carver.
mediamatters is a biased and not necessarily honest source. Same for AP. WSJ is better.
The union also has leaders and probably lawyers, the former of whom may or may not actually be "workers", the latter of whom certainly are not.
at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Although that's the definition, it's a poor definition. One is left asking, "What's a second?" (To which the A&C answer is "No, What's on second.")
A second is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."
Obama announces plan to fight entropy
which will be just as effective.
NYC has had 108 mayors. Have you carefully examined them all for a valid comparison?
Giuliani fixed the squalid mess that Dinkins made; Bloomberg is mostly coasting on the fixes that Giuliani implemented.
Then there's DeWitt Clinton. You really think the clownish Bloomberg is better than him?
There are unions controlling many of the services the startup will have to deal with. They're only slightly better than the Mafia.
If you truly think that the IRT, BMT, and IND are in any meaningful way independent, you're completely brainwashed. New York City drove all three into bankruptcy many decades ago and seized the system for itself. As for carrying capacity, you're limited to whatever you can carry up a staircase with either buses or subway, less during rush hour. Consider, for example, three bags of groceries.
Gee, the need to be close to an existing pool of talent explains why Micron Technology failed. Oh, wait...
A major advantage for a tech company to locate where there's no similar company is that it's much harder for competitors to raid employees. That has been a serious problem many times in Silicon Valley.
And Bloomberg is the sadistic warden. In addition to federal and high state income and sales taxes, you are also privileged to pay city income tax. Come on in, techno-morons.
Most TiVos (all?) are contract manufactured. My Series 2 was made by Samsung, and the cheap fan predictably failed after 2 or 3 years. Not long thereafter, the unit became flaky due to overheating; on a hot day it shut down. I disassembled first the unit and then the fan, and lubricated the fan. Reassembled, it worked fairly well, but the overheating had caused permanent damage and the unit completely stopped working a few months later.
My point is that TiVo isn't exercising sufficient control over their contract manufacturers/licensees, and the bad hardware, not TiVo's design, is responsible for poor reliability.
I have the impression that some VCRs and ADAT had FF->PLAY delay compensation, particularly since these tape machines needed to compensate for physical momentum anyway. What did the TiVo patent consist of, anyway? "Like a VCR, except with hard drives"?
Society consists of a large number of individuals. Would you mind explaining how any individual of a society, none of whom live on, depend on, maintain, or add value to, a particular piece of real estate, has any valid claim on that real estate that one man lives on, depends on, maintains and adds value to?
The fact that society consists of a large number of individuals does not confer upon them rights that not one of them has individually. All it gives them is the immoral power to violate the rights of an individual.
And what entity wrote the legislation?
I live in a small rural town, with maybe 500 yards of sidewalk. About half of it is between and near the school, library, and town hall. The town does indeed run a tiny snowplow to clear all the sidewalks - it's a question of safety and efficiency; it would be a bit foolish to insist everyone with a 50 foot frontage keep their own portion clean.
Assuming the square of concrete is 3x3 feet, that's 4.5 cubic feet of concrete if it's 6 inches thick. About $50 if you mix your own from bags from a local hardware store.
You didn't say how many squares, but this sounds like a do-it-yourself project, if you could get away with it.
The city I came from - Stamford Connecticut - bought the land from the resident (Shippan) Indians. The Indians forgot they had sold it and complained, so the settlers bought the land from the Indians again. And again. Net three times the Indians were paid for the land.
There's been plenty of nastiness on both sides; don't pretend otherwise.
Flood the market with fake rhino horn.
Abzug? Shame on you for missing.