Add to that, you should also factor in the cost of rent. If the rent is more than the interest payments, then you're better off getting a loan for a house.
I would disagree with that. Nothing is going to change unless the crooks who are running that company are made examples out of. In person. In public.
You're the kind of person who crucifies the innocent in public, then goes on with your day feeling good, while the real crooks continue what they are doing. But at least you did something, right?
There's a reason vigilante justice is bad, and it's because of people like you.
There is an ongoing debate in macroeconomics about the role of inequality.
It's not much of a debate......some economists wish they could prove inequality hurts economic growth, but they've been unsuccessful. If inequality does have an impact on economic growth, it's small enough that it's really hard to measure (getting lost in the noise).
Besides, if you want to research those things, get a PhD. Economics 101 should be teaching the basics, the well-established aspects of economics.
If economics should not be about these, then what should it be about? Genuine question.
Boring things like understanding how money circulates in an economy, supply and demand, why some economies succeed and others fail, MV=PQ, "Gresham's Law" and various other well-proved economics theory. In an economics 101 class, you should present stuff that is well established.
And tbh if people would get the idea that, "money has no intrinsic value, even if that money is backed by gold" that would already make economics discussions online more interesting.
That's always the wrong approach. It makes the mob of people feel good, even if they get the wrong person, but it doesn't cause any long-term change. What we need is a change in laws so this thing doesn't happen in the future. For one thing, they could have done a better job on security.
Nobody in the B2B world has 'good products', it's all SAS, Oracle apps etc.
A lot of that stuff is good. Good as measured by: will having this product save money on the bottom line?
It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be pretty, it has to let you fire more people than the product itself costs.
Don't use the computer to take the voter input and then generate a paper receipt, use the paper ballot with on-site optical scan to record the result that the voter marked on the paper.
How is that better than printing the result of what the user selected on the screen?
In that case, why don't they make their own product
Apparently in the case of Equifax the answer is: they are too incompetent to do so. They don't seem to be competent at any aspect of building software.
It is only limited by our ability to hold. When I'm cleaning up the yard on my newly purchased galaxy, do you think the neighbors aren't going to want one of their own? Of course they will. You have to keep up with your neighbors, after all, and if you can, do one better.
The human propensity to consume is infinite. We will consume everything we can grasp.
You might as well add "= Skynet = magic" in there because that is about as most people's understanding goes. Most people on Slashdot have trouble understanding why an expert system will never be strong AI.
Note that neural networks still frequently use a tagged system to learn to recognize things, but they detect features on their own........whereas in expert systems, all potential features are hard-coded.
True, but sometimes there is a plausible mechanism to explain or even predict the changes.
That's not enough, it's a classic "correlation is not causation." For example, for years scientists thought that eating saturated fat caused heart disease, because elevated levels of saturated fat in the blood correlates with saturated fat. It turns out that's not true: despite having a reasonable explanation, we now know that eating saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease.
More specifically in your case, the statistical analysis is woefully incomplete. You haven't even answered basic questions like, "what is the probability of two large hurricanes hitting in a single year?" "What is the mean? What is the standard deviation?" Any article that doesn't answer questions like that is not scientific, it's just spouting propaganda it heard somewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
How does usenet deal with spam? tbh spam is a more serious problem than trolls......
Westerns, written by Louis L'Amour. The dialogue is excellent.
please elaborate how the equifax c-suite is innocent?
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't: we have courts and processes for dealing with that, specifically created to avoid the problems of vigilantism.
The problem is that cities keep building office space without building housing. A little thought shows that is an unsustainable method of growth.
Add to that, you should also factor in the cost of rent. If the rent is more than the interest payments, then you're better off getting a loan for a house.
I would disagree with that. Nothing is going to change unless the crooks who are running that company are made examples out of. In person. In public.
You're the kind of person who crucifies the innocent in public, then goes on with your day feeling good, while the real crooks continue what they are doing. But at least you did something, right?
There's a reason vigilante justice is bad, and it's because of people like you.
it's quite frustrating when what they teach in economics doesn't match reality.
Seriously? What kind of crappy university did you go to, where the economics classes were so bad? What was wrong with your school?
There is an ongoing debate in macroeconomics about the role of inequality.
It's not much of a debate......some economists wish they could prove inequality hurts economic growth, but they've been unsuccessful. If inequality does have an impact on economic growth, it's small enough that it's really hard to measure (getting lost in the noise).
Besides, if you want to research those things, get a PhD. Economics 101 should be teaching the basics, the well-established aspects of economics.
If economics should not be about these, then what should it be about? Genuine question.
Boring things like understanding how money circulates in an economy, supply and demand, why some economies succeed and others fail, MV=PQ, "Gresham's Law" and various other well-proved economics theory. In an economics 101 class, you should present stuff that is well established.
And tbh if people would get the idea that, "money has no intrinsic value, even if that money is backed by gold" that would already make economics discussions online more interesting.
That's a good one.
They need to be made an example of by Congress,
That's always the wrong approach. It makes the mob of people feel good, even if they get the wrong person, but it doesn't cause any long-term change. What we need is a change in laws so this thing doesn't happen in the future. For one thing, they could have done a better job on security.
Nobody in the B2B world has 'good products', it's all SAS, Oracle apps etc.
A lot of that stuff is good. Good as measured by: will having this product save money on the bottom line?
It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be pretty, it has to let you fire more people than the product itself costs.
In tech on the other hand, commissioned sales is stupid. A good product almost sells itself.
You've obviously never done B2B, on either side.
If he can find some building or asset that Dell owns, he can place a lien on it, and get paid when the building is sold.
Don't use the computer to take the voter input and then generate a paper receipt, use the paper ballot with on-site optical scan to record the result that the voter marked on the paper.
How is that better than printing the result of what the user selected on the screen?
Can you give more specifics about your plan? How are you planning on itemizing your costs? What law allows you to sue for 'vigilance'?
If you want to, you can remove it from your own browser.
You shouldn't have an Arris modem anyway. They are back-doored, with hard-coded credentials. Arris security makes Equifax look like Fort Knox.
This story is the result of a CTO who is looking to blame anything as a CYA move. He said it, the suits bought it, and made a story of it.
There is no way the CTO gets out of this with his job.
In that case, why don't they make their own product
Apparently in the case of Equifax the answer is: they are too incompetent to do so. They don't seem to be competent at any aspect of building software.
Consumption isn't infinite
It is only limited by our ability to hold. When I'm cleaning up the yard on my newly purchased galaxy, do you think the neighbors aren't going to want one of their own? Of course they will. You have to keep up with your neighbors, after all, and if you can, do one better.
The human propensity to consume is infinite. We will consume everything we can grasp.
You might as well add "= Skynet = magic" in there because that is about as most people's understanding goes. Most people on Slashdot have trouble understanding why an expert system will never be strong AI.
Etherium has been hacked like that, though
Note that neural networks still frequently use a tagged system to learn to recognize things, but they detect features on their own........whereas in expert systems, all potential features are hard-coded.
True, but sometimes there is a plausible mechanism to explain or even predict the changes.
That's not enough, it's a classic "correlation is not causation." For example, for years scientists thought that eating saturated fat caused heart disease, because elevated levels of saturated fat in the blood correlates with saturated fat. It turns out that's not true: despite having a reasonable explanation, we now know that eating saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease.
More specifically in your case, the statistical analysis is woefully incomplete. You haven't even answered basic questions like, "what is the probability of two large hurricanes hitting in a single year?" "What is the mean? What is the standard deviation?" Any article that doesn't answer questions like that is not scientific, it's just spouting propaganda it heard somewhere.