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  1. Re:Germany should pay war reparations for WWII on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Euro zone treaties made this situate inevitable. They prevent Greece from running a deficit or devaluing their currency in order to subsidize their economy during a down-turn.

  2. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    it doesn't raise the amount of money in the system unless more money is printed

    That's not what he said.

    increases the amount of money flowing in the economy

    Don't confuse the stock of money, which might be sitting idle, with the flow of money. It's the difference between measuring distance or velocity.

  3. Re:pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    Economics, in it's current form, is not much better that Ptolemy's vision of an Earth centric universe. Sure you can add cycles to explain the observations of planets, but the paradigm is not useful for making predictions.

    Economists need to learn how to model the economy as it actually is, instead of making so many simplifying (and wrong) assumptions as to make their models useless. They need to learn from fields like weather forecasting, where complex dynamics have been embraced.

  4. Re:Print some bucks on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    You need to look at the rate of growth of debt. Without accelerating credit, the economy can't grow. As a population we have accumulated more debt than at any point in history, and we have little desire for more.

  5. Re:Does not understand the market, obviously. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    The stock market increases when people borrow money to buy into it. It is the biggest ponzi scheme around.

  6. Re:nobody saw it coming... on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

  7. Re:nobody saw it coming... on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 2

    Hyman Minsky "Stability is destabilizing". When projects do well, capitalists take larger risks in order to make more next time.

  8. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    I saw a prototype device on a TV show that dropped a sheet of something infront of and under the tires. Though I assume the loss of control would cause worse problems, you could stop in a shorter distance.

  9. Re:better reasons on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1
    Internally rust uses the LLVM compiler toolchain so there are a number of features in LLVM that they could use.

    No tail call optimization

    If it looks like a tail call, there's a pass that will turn it into a tail call. I think there's even a pass that can turn recursive code into a state machine.

    Regex library is slow.

    I hope they do something like redgrep. Using the LLVM backend to compile the regex state machine into actual machine code.

  10. Re:On iOS platforms. on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    could: Because apple compile every app submitted to the app store from source code

    FTFY

  11. Re:Great news! on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 2

    The housing bubble did actually stimulate the economy. Not because of construction, but because we borrowed all of that money from the banking sector, then spent it to keep the economy going.

    But what goes up, must come down. It's inevitable that when we collectively try to pay back (or are forced to default on...) our mortgages, our income and money supply will shrink. Austerity policies will hasten the inevitable.

  12. Re:Australian here with wishful thinking on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'd be on board, IFF this list had nothing with more than the 10% GST markup.

  13. Seems a bit harsh on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 1

    Pointing out a flaw in someone else's software should not, by itself, be a criminal act. Once the information is public, automating the exploit could be done by anyone proficient in the art.

    But selling a tool that uses the vulnerability? They crossed a line, but throwing the book at them seems a little harsh.

  14. Better; Use TreVisor on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    Use the same USB trick, but run your OS in a VM under the TreVisor hypervisor. When the USB device is removed simply put the machine to sleep.

    TreVisor only stores your encryption key in the debug registers of the processor. It places restrictions on running op-codes to read these registers or to overwrite itself via DMA. It encrypts both the disk and inactive pages of memory.

    Once the CPU suspends, the debug registers are lost and you have to enter your passphrase before the guest VM can do anything at all.

  15. Re:Programmer worth/productivity vary a lot. on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A junior programmer fresh out of Uni, joining my team. Learning a new language / framework / application, working full time. Will usually take more of my time to help them than if I just wrote the code myself. I have to explain which existing functions they should use. I still have to flesh out most of the design and implementation of the tasks they are assigned. I may need to take over their keyboard and type some of the code in for them, as the fastest way to get the point across that I'm trying to teach them. And getting their patches up to scratch can take a number of iterations.

    After about 3 months, this equation should start to shift. Even though they will still take far longer to complete a task than I would, it should take less of my time to get the same work done. At this point, the addition of someone to the team starts to pay back the initial training period. We can evaluate if this new person is still worth investing time in.

    And that's for the graduates that I'd consider hiring in the first place. Most CompSci graduates I wouldn't consider employing at all.

  16. Re:So far...close on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've noticed the FOSS driver basically freezes when I move my mouse over VNC with debian testing. But 3D gaming works well enough that I don't notice any difference. Not saying there isn't any, just that the FOSS drivers are good enough for me now.

  17. Re:Is it too hard to list chip counts? on Humans Dominating Poker Super Computer · · Score: 1

    They're playing a set number of hands, or for a set amount of time. So there's no chip limit.

  18. Re:Video from the barge on An Engineering Analysis of the Falcon 9 First Stage Landing Failure · · Score: 1

    If you look at the video posted yesterday, the rocket was coming down straight. Then it deliberately tipped itself over, shed the last of it's vertical and horizontal velocity, and tried to right itself. IMHO, if more of the horizontal velocity was shed earlier, It'd be easier to stay balanced at the end.

  19. How many? Well, there's one more now. on How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows · · Score: 1

    And I'm not telling you where...

  20. Re:obvious damage on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    When the rocket booster has already done it's primary job and would otherwise be lost anyway. The only real loss is the damage to the barge.

  21. An approach I haven't tried yet... on Cracking Passwords With Statistics · · Score: 2

    Grab one of the available databases of hacked passwords. Train an arithmetic compressor on that dataset, so that if any part of the password is predictable it will be compressed better. It's the kinds of statistics you feed into this training process that are the key. Passing a random bit-sequence through your decompressor will generate something that could be a password, similar to those in the database you trained on. So enumerate through all short bit-patterns to generate a set of easily guessed passwords.

  22. Re:I don't understand on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 2

    C# -> MSIL / CIL (CLR) -> LLVM bitcode -> machine code.

    The summary is slightly misleading. Though they are working towards using LLVM, they currently have about 90% of their core JIT tests working with LLVM on windows x64, the rest fall back to their current JIT. So you won't be able to use this to run C# on linux / arm for a while yet.

    There's been quite a bit of recent development on JIT support in LLVM. They had an old JIT a few versions ago which had it's own machine code generation pipeline. This was replaced with MCJIT, that leveraged the same code generation pipeline as the AOT path. More recently there's an effort called ORC to build a more flexible API to better handle the use cases that various JIT writers typically wish to implement. Their existing MCJIT API will still exist but it will become just one example implementation of using this underlying API.

    While it is possible to implement garbage collection and exception handling in LLVM, these areas of the compiler could benefit from more improvement. Particularly in the area of compatibility with the native Microsoft stack.

  23. Re:UAC is for idiots on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 2

    So you don't like UAC, but you want there to be some things that a user can't change? But that's exactly what UAC is *for*. Preventing users from changing system settings. What, you want more than one kind of admin user?

  24. Re:Reason: for corporations, by corporations on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Yes, a regulated monopoly, that is forced to do business with everyone equally.

  25. Re:Reason: for corporations, by corporations on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Or you could copy something like Australia's NBN model. A single wholesaler builds and maintains the cables. They *must* run a cable if required for anyone in their service area. But they are only allowed to offer and charge for a link layer transport between end points. Any ISP can then include the rent of the link in the price for internet access and other services for their customers.

    Though of course the NBN has screwed up. They bowed to pressure from the incumbents in a number of ways that made running a small ISP unprofitable. They based the pricing of link capacity on the current cost of bandwidth over existing services. And the new government has been trying to compromise the quality of the network by building curb side nodes instead of running fiber end-to-end.