I don't know what it is, but my productivity leaped when I got a standing desk.
Now I send out dozens of slashdot comments a day!
But I kid.
Really. Much more productive doing actual work.
Anytime I need to do real thinking, I've historically gotten the urge to walk around. Much like the Sundance Kid, "I'm better when I move." Or that's what I thought. Now I think maybe standing with minimal movement is enough.
The Fed right now has $1.7 trillion in "toxic assets" on its balance sheet. In return, primary dealers got $1.7 trillion in deposit accounts at the Fed. No one else was going to lend to those dealers; they were tapped out, couldn't roll over their funding. But the Fed extended its unlimited safety net to them. Why not give Greece the same courtesy?
One bit of crony capitalism justifies the next? Some of us were against the Fed's bailouts too.
Well, I'm still angry that everyone seems fine with the treason Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and the others committed! Yes, the Royalist patriots will rise again! First New England, then the rest of the USA!
Oh, don't be so pissy or you won't be invited to join the Anglosphere.
Yes everyone is to blame but what is the solution?
The solution is starting to play out. A few more defaults, and governments will have a much harder time getting loans in the first place.
Everyone knows these sovereign debts, based on the indentured servitude of future generations, are never going to be repaid. At some point, there will be a rush for the exits.
The creditors are the rest of Europe. The loans are with the national banks. The reason is a commercial bank had them and Greece were paying far, far, far to much interest.
Given that default is a certainty, the Greeks clearly weren't paying enough interest.
Interesting usage of "force": refusal to float an infinite supply of loans that will never be paid back.
The eurocrats are of course thugs, but limiting how much they'll shake down the rest of their subject citizens to subsidize Greece is not a great example of their thuggishness.
", with clear differences between Republicans and Democrats, and between conservatives and liberals. For example, while 98% of AAAS members agree with the statement that "Human beings and other living things have evolved over time", only 21% of conservatives agree, compared with 54% of liberals. "
I hope PEW wasn't equally sloppy about conflating the republican/democrat axis with the conservatives/liberal axis.
One could point out that there are fewer instances of white males being miscategorized. I suspect this has less to do with any actual racism and more to do with the fact that the people who developed the algorithm are likely predominantly white males and they tend to first test the algorithm on their own collection of photos or those in their circle.
This is an argument for a more diverse workforce...
Yeah, because I bet that's how Google develops their image recognition algorithms - white guys walk around taking pictures of themselves.
As is more likely the case, there are few pictures of Albino gorillas in their machine learning corpus (racist against Albino gorillas!), and hence less data for white folks to more easily match gorillas based on macro level color characteristics.
Or did they try to say "voluntarily" in the tone of voice used by Mafia dons and IRS agents, but their voice cracked?
I believe what they did was send the gag order *directly* to the Reason editors, instead of their legal counsel, which is considered a huge and threatening breach of process in the legal world.
It is likely to have the exact opposite effect. The readers of Reason are mostly libertarian kooks that are already highly prone to conspiracy theories. Actions like this are just throwing gasoline on the flames.
Disclaimer: I am somewhat of a libertarian kook myself.
Yes, the readers are of course generally provoked. Many have changed their names to incorporate variations on the wood chipper theme.
here's the problem though. there's nothing remotely illegal about the statements that were made.
So it's clear on its face that the comments are free speech and not actionable. so why was the govt looking into taking action? that is the question mark.
Why? BFYTW.
The government hardly confines it's abuse to those who actually break laws. Government thugs abuse their enemies, high among them being those who highlite and oppose government thuggery.
Reason has no responsibility to police its comments, so the govt leaning on them won't push them to do so. It could send a chilling effect among internet commenters, but only if people knew about it, so what was the gag for?
The point is to abuse Reason with legal process so that they shut down their comments sections, eliminating a forum for people who generally disapprove of government power. Also, naturally, to terrorize commenters and make them all think twice about communicating this disapproval in public.
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Apixieism has no tradition, stories of faith, or organizational structure (things a religion usually requires), but it is an expression of pure faith. Apixieism might even be considered the ultimate faith: it is defined by a negative, which means it can never be proven true. Never being proven true means it must always be taken on faith. There are no witnesses to apixieism . No prophets or mystics with direct experience of the lack of the divine.
"Respect for, and adherence to the rule of law is the premise upon which the United States was founded, and it has been a cornerstone of my Presidency."
- Barack H Obama, President of the USA, 2015-04-30
The Dear Leader is a great comedian too! All Hail The One!
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"Gig? What's a gig?
Working for the Company, living in the Company town, and being buried in the Company cemetery is the way life should be.
Now get offa my lawn!"
I don't know what it is, but my productivity leaped when I got a standing desk.
Now I send out dozens of slashdot comments a day!
But I kid.
Really. Much more productive doing actual work.
Anytime I need to do real thinking, I've historically gotten the urge to walk around. Much like the Sundance Kid, "I'm better when I move." Or that's what I thought. Now I think maybe standing with minimal movement is enough.
The Fed right now has $1.7 trillion in "toxic assets" on its balance sheet. In return, primary dealers got $1.7 trillion in deposit accounts at the Fed. No one else was going to lend to those dealers; they were tapped out, couldn't roll over their funding. But the Fed extended its unlimited safety net to them. Why not give Greece the same courtesy?
One bit of crony capitalism justifies the next? Some of us were against the Fed's bailouts too.
Well, I'm still angry that everyone seems fine with the treason Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and the others committed! Yes, the Royalist patriots will rise again! First New England, then the rest of the USA!
Oh, don't be so pissy or you won't be invited to join the Anglosphere.
Yes everyone is to blame but what is the solution?
The solution is starting to play out. A few more defaults, and governments will have a much harder time getting loans in the first place.
Everyone knows these sovereign debts, based on the indentured servitude of future generations, are never going to be repaid. At some point, there will be a rush for the exits.
*shrug* You can't? I'm pretty sure it was bankers doing it.
And... do you really believe the bankers lending them the money didn't know?
Of course they knew. And they went along with the lie to defraud the citizens of Europe into going along.
I'm confused... who held a gun to Greece's head and forced it to accept this plan to "screw" them?
The Greek government.
The creditors are the rest of Europe. The loans are with the national banks. The reason is a commercial bank had them and Greece were paying far, far, far to much interest.
Given that default is a certainty, the Greeks clearly weren't paying enough interest.
Who said the Eurocrats believed what Greece told them? They were as much in the lie as the Greeks, to get some popular approval for monetary union.
Interesting usage of "force": refusal to float an infinite supply of loans that will never be paid back.
The eurocrats are of course thugs, but limiting how much they'll shake down the rest of their subject citizens to subsidize Greece is not a great example of their thuggishness.
The Stonecutters:
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", with clear differences between Republicans and Democrats, and between conservatives and liberals. For example, while 98% of AAAS members agree with the statement that "Human beings and other living things have evolved over time", only 21% of conservatives agree, compared with 54% of liberals. "
I hope PEW wasn't equally sloppy about conflating the republican/democrat axis with the conservatives/liberal axis.
One could point out that there are fewer instances of white males being miscategorized. I suspect this has less to do with any actual racism and more to do with the fact that the people who developed the algorithm are likely predominantly white males and they tend to first test the algorithm on their own collection of photos or those in their circle.
This is an argument for a more diverse workforce...
Yeah, because I bet that's how Google develops their image recognition algorithms - white guys walk around taking pictures of themselves.
As is more likely the case, there are few pictures of Albino gorillas in their machine learning corpus (racist against Albino gorillas!), and hence less data for white folks to more easily match gorillas based on macro level color characteristics.
Or did they try to say "voluntarily" in the tone of voice used by Mafia dons and IRS agents, but their voice cracked?
I believe what they did was send the gag order *directly* to the Reason editors, instead of their legal counsel, which is considered a huge and threatening breach of process in the legal world.
It is likely to have the exact opposite effect. The readers of Reason are mostly libertarian kooks that are already highly prone to conspiracy theories. Actions like this are just throwing gasoline on the flames.
Disclaimer: I am somewhat of a libertarian kook myself.
Yes, the readers are of course generally provoked. Many have changed their names to incorporate variations on the wood chipper theme.
Wouldn't you like to be a Chipper too?
here's the problem though. there's nothing remotely illegal about the statements that were made.
So it's clear on its face that the comments are free speech and not actionable. so why was the govt looking into taking action? that is the question mark.
Why? BFYTW.
The government hardly confines it's abuse to those who actually break laws. Government thugs abuse their enemies, high among them being those who highlite and oppose government thuggery.
Reason has no responsibility to police its comments, so the govt leaning on them won't push them to do so. It could send a chilling effect among internet commenters, but only if people knew about it, so what was the gag for?
The point is to abuse Reason with legal process so that they shut down their comments sections, eliminating a forum for people who generally disapprove of government power. Also, naturally, to terrorize commenters and make them all think twice about communicating this disapproval in public.
Apixieism has no tradition, stories of faith, or organizational structure (things a religion usually requires), but it is an expression of pure faith. Apixieism might even be considered the ultimate faith: it is defined by a negative, which means it can never be proven true. Never being proven true means it must always be taken on faith. There are no witnesses to apixieism . No prophets or mystics with direct experience of the lack of the divine.
I love working with incompetent people. They make me look good.
Yeah, but you make them look bad, so they're looking for ways to give you the shiv.
"U.S. men have been getting bigger too, gaining nearly 30 pounds from the 1960s to 2010"
Pfftph! I've gained 30 pounds in the last 2 years.
Genuinely curious here, what place do secret courts operated by secret police and underground judges have in a free, democratic society?
Democracy theater. "Oh yeah, it's all above board, see, we've got a Judge signing off on it."
"Respect for, and adherence to the rule of law is the premise upon which the United States was founded, and it has been a cornerstone of my Presidency."
- Barack H Obama, President of the USA, 2015-04-30
The Dear Leader is a great comedian too! All Hail The One!
Dude, it's six months. By the time the Supremes get around to hearing it there won't be a case anymore because the program will have ended.
Democracy theater. All the hardware and software spying on us is going *nowhere*.
Naive?
Plenty of people want a King, particularly if he promises to stick it to their enemies.
I thought they had trademarked BFYTW.