Money isn't a commodity like gold. When a bank issues a loan, they create an asset and liability at the same time. When you pay a loan back, the asset and liability are cancelled out. Most of our spending power is based on ledger records in a bank's double entry book-keeping system. But as an entire country, we haven't been paying back our loans at all. Each year we've borrowed more than we've repaid, even when you take inflation into account.
If you're running a business, your income is based on what your customers spend from their income plus new debt. Therefore the growth in your income is based on the growth of your customers income and the *acceleration* of their debt. If the acceleration of debt slows down and turns negative, even if the velocity of debt is still positive, your flow of income will reduce. If income is growing, you'll probably hire more people. If income falls you'll be forced to let people go.
So if we can extrapolate this to an entire economy, we should see a strong correlation between employment and the acceleration of debt. This, IMHO is the smoking gun.
Private debt drives the economy. And yet economists have convinced themselves and us that we can safely ignore the role of banks debt and money. This situation is absolutely insane.
I assume you mean "countries with tighter regulations on government debt" eg anywhere in Europe. That's a symptom of what I'm talking about. When the private debt bubble collapses, taxes fall and government debts rise. If you try to limit government spending through austerity measures, you take even more spending money from the populous, making the problem worse.
It appears that the banking sector will do what they usually do—extract wealth and destroy jobs.
The most serious problem our economy faces is the mountain of private debt we have accumulated in the past 50 years. And the huge wealth imbalance this has caused.
The banking sector has successfully transformed most asset markets into heavily leveraged ponzi-like schemes. Each new entrant to the market pushing up prices with borrowed money, so that other people can cash out. This borrowed money caused asset prices to rise, giving the appearance of creating wealth. But debt levels end up rising faster. When the market runs out of greater fools, the bubble collapses, leaving the mountain of accumulated debt mostly intact.
While the bubble is rising, the economy begins to depend on the creation of new debt just to continue functioning. Once the debt gravy train slows down, it doesn't even need to stop, the flow of spending money in the economy dries up. Companies that were pretty much already insolvent go bust, others survive by tightening their belts. It is the workers losing their jobs that suffer the most for the problems that the financial sector created.
We can't repay the debts the financial sector lent out. The only question left is how we choose not to pay them.
We need a huge shift in how we create and manage money. We need to drastically shrink the parasitic financial sector, wipe out the loans that represent most of our money supply. And replace the money created with credit cards and home loans with government fiat currency, given directly to the people.
Managing the flow of money is essential to keeping people employed.
It's a cat and mouse game, but the pirates have been quite successful from time to time. Download the game content and update from somewhere, and most games can't tell you haven't bought it. At one point steam would completely trust the list of games you owned that was saved on disk, but most of the time there has been a crack of some kind that would convince steam you owned everything. I think there may even be a reverse engineered steam server that you can set up for any number of users to download games from.
But I don't think there's much active development in that community at the moment. Steam has been going for ages, and most crackers have burnt out or gotten real jobs.
I'm still sitting on the fence about Rust, I haven't tried to use it in anger yet. I think the design is interesting, but the language syntax looks a little confusing.
Rust programmers must either spend time thinking carefully about ownership design... tend to see this as a virtue
With some C, Java &.net experience I see this as mostly a good thing.
Java and.net mostly convince you to ignore memory management, but often end up writing messy code in order to manage other resources. Or leave you with object graphs that can't be GC'd.
C forces you to think about practically everything, but gives pretty good control over how objects are managed. What is on the stack, what ends up on the heap. But it's far too easy for a novice to shoot themselves in the foot.
Looking at Rust, the OO developer in me sees the encapsulation, memory and resource safety that C is missing but laments that lack of exception handling. The C developer sees the level of explicit control that is often needed.
But Rust is definitely a language I'd need to think about more when using. Hopefully that's something that will become more natural with use. It doesn't hide much from the developer. While I see this as a good thing, I think this will limit adoption.
Settings that change language semantics? God no. A line of code should have exactly one meaning no matter what context it is written in. How the hell can I understand code written by other developers if I have to keep checking for settings like this?
There is an X server you can run as a wayland client. Though popup menu's may be broken due to issues with how each application / framework calculates screen offsets, everything else works fine.
Then write an app to monitor the accelerometer. Make some noise, connect to your wifi and send a chat message of some kind. False alarm? Take the opportunity to have a conversation with your wife;).
How many failed neoclasical economics experiments do we need to see before it's written off as a failure?
This isn't about outright communism, it's about fixing the capitalist mistakes of the last 50 years quickly. Mistakes made by ignoring the role of private debt in the economy. Allowing the financial sector and bad economic beliefs to control the money supply.
Greece's government is insolvent. They can't honour their debts, so how are we going to deal with them? Lend them more money so they can pay the interest and delay the inevitable?
Their population is unemployed. How are they going to earn enough to pay their personal debts? Slavery? How does taking more money from the poor through austerity measures help them?
The system has already failed. The people have cast their vote for change. Be thankful they haven't elected a fascist, power hungry government like the last time we saw this level of unrest in Europe.
And on the LLVM mailing list this recently, there has been talk of translating recursive code into a loop or stack based state machine in order to allow vectorisation, unrolling, common sub expression elimination, and all of the other optimisations from their bag of tricks.
Cyanogen mod don't have access to the source code for all of the drivers required to run the hardware. So they have to copy the binaries from the manufacturer.
If the manufacturer doesn't support new versions of android, with newer linux kernels, there's not much they can do.
I also had a script that would tweak the beep pitch and duration and play the close encounters theme. With the option of using a different xserver for each beep. Combined with a script that would use finger to display a map of the terminals people were connected from, and terminals that were xhost+ when noone was logged in....
Google ran a massive fuzz testing effort against the plugin and found 400 unique looking crashes that were resolved by about 80 patches. Yeah, the quality isn't looking that great...
Crippleware on Windows always used to amuse me. Oh you've disabled the button because I haven't paid? [poke]...[poke]... There now it's enabled again. Oh, you forgot to check if it should be enabled when processing the click event? Tough.
I believe that github uses the reply email address to attribute comments. eg github sent the message to "@torvalds" and anyone who replies to it must be "@torvalds". I'm guessing both of you "Replied All" and included the same github email as recipient.
These days the most effective measure you can take is to install an ad blocker. That will prevent the vast majority of drive by installs. Second, I'd say you need to be very sceptical of freeware software installers. Using a service like Chocolatey to find and install popular utilities will help here. Third, I'd recommend installing Process Explorer as a replacement for the windows Task Manager. Get a feel for what programs are running in the background, and investigate anything you don't yet recognise particularly after installing something new.
I've always pictured some of those old testament laws as bad precedents based on one off cases. eg an individual goes around bragging about their new "blended fiber" garment. Instead of pointing out the sinfulness of their pride, ban blended fibers outright.
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Money isn't a commodity like gold. When a bank issues a loan, they create an asset and liability at the same time. When you pay a loan back, the asset and liability are cancelled out. Most of our spending power is based on ledger records in a bank's double entry book-keeping system. But as an entire country, we haven't been paying back our loans at all. Each year we've borrowed more than we've repaid, even when you take inflation into account.
If you're running a business, your income is based on what your customers spend from their income plus new debt. Therefore the growth in your income is based on the growth of your customers income and the *acceleration* of their debt. If the acceleration of debt slows down and turns negative, even if the velocity of debt is still positive, your flow of income will reduce. If income is growing, you'll probably hire more people. If income falls you'll be forced to let people go.
So if we can extrapolate this to an entire economy, we should see a strong correlation between employment and the acceleration of debt. This, IMHO is the smoking gun.
For similar reasons I'd expect to see similar relationships between mortgage acceleration and house prices, or margin lending and share prices.
Private debt drives the economy. And yet economists have convinced themselves and us that we can safely ignore the role of banks debt and money. This situation is absolutely insane.
I assume you mean "countries with tighter regulations on government debt" eg anywhere in Europe. That's a symptom of what I'm talking about. When the private debt bubble collapses, taxes fall and government debts rise. If you try to limit government spending through austerity measures, you take even more spending money from the populous, making the problem worse.
It appears that the banking sector will do what they usually do—extract wealth and destroy jobs.
The most serious problem our economy faces is the mountain of private debt we have accumulated in the past 50 years. And the huge wealth imbalance this has caused.
The banking sector has successfully transformed most asset markets into heavily leveraged ponzi-like schemes. Each new entrant to the market pushing up prices with borrowed money, so that other people can cash out. This borrowed money caused asset prices to rise, giving the appearance of creating wealth. But debt levels end up rising faster. When the market runs out of greater fools, the bubble collapses, leaving the mountain of accumulated debt mostly intact.
While the bubble is rising, the economy begins to depend on the creation of new debt just to continue functioning. Once the debt gravy train slows down, it doesn't even need to stop, the flow of spending money in the economy dries up. Companies that were pretty much already insolvent go bust, others survive by tightening their belts. It is the workers losing their jobs that suffer the most for the problems that the financial sector created.
We can't repay the debts the financial sector lent out. The only question left is how we choose not to pay them.
We need a huge shift in how we create and manage money. We need to drastically shrink the parasitic financial sector, wipe out the loans that represent most of our money supply. And replace the money created with credit cards and home loans with government fiat currency, given directly to the people.
Managing the flow of money is essential to keeping people employed.
It's a cat and mouse game, but the pirates have been quite successful from time to time. Download the game content and update from somewhere, and most games can't tell you haven't bought it. At one point steam would completely trust the list of games you owned that was saved on disk, but most of the time there has been a crack of some kind that would convince steam you owned everything. I think there may even be a reverse engineered steam server that you can set up for any number of users to download games from.
But I don't think there's much active development in that community at the moment. Steam has been going for ages, and most crackers have burnt out or gotten real jobs.
I'm still sitting on the fence about Rust, I haven't tried to use it in anger yet. I think the design is interesting, but the language syntax looks a little confusing.
Rust programmers must either spend time thinking carefully about ownership design ... tend to see this as a virtue
With some C, Java & .net experience I see this as mostly a good thing.
Java and .net mostly convince you to ignore memory management, but often end up writing messy code in order to manage other resources. Or leave you with object graphs that can't be GC'd.
C forces you to think about practically everything, but gives pretty good control over how objects are managed. What is on the stack, what ends up on the heap. But it's far too easy for a novice to shoot themselves in the foot.
Looking at Rust, the OO developer in me sees the encapsulation, memory and resource safety that C is missing but laments that lack of exception handling. The C developer sees the level of explicit control that is often needed.
But Rust is definitely a language I'd need to think about more when using. Hopefully that's something that will become more natural with use. It doesn't hide much from the developer. While I see this as a good thing, I think this will limit adoption.
Settings that change language semantics? God no. A line of code should have exactly one meaning no matter what context it is written in. How the hell can I understand code written by other developers if I have to keep checking for settings like this?
There is an X server you can run as a wayland client. Though popup menu's may be broken due to issues with how each application / framework calculates screen offsets, everything else works fine.
It gives away their position
Not exactly, the torpedoes can travel some distance away from the sub before turning and acquiring the target.
I don't see how searching for steroids is going to reveal the deep web...
A rar archive with a password would be good enough for most cases, and probably be the easiest for most users to manage.
Do I look ok in this dress?
"Ok? No, you look amazing. I can't wait to get you out of it."
"That dress is ok, but it would look better on the floor."
Don't answer yes or no. Remind her of how easily she can wrap you around her little finger.
Then write an app to monitor the accelerometer. Make some noise, connect to your wifi and send a chat message of some kind. False alarm? Take the opportunity to have a conversation with your wife ;).
How many failed neoclasical economics experiments do we need to see before it's written off as a failure?
This isn't about outright communism, it's about fixing the capitalist mistakes of the last 50 years quickly. Mistakes made by ignoring the role of private debt in the economy. Allowing the financial sector and bad economic beliefs to control the money supply.
Greece's government is insolvent. They can't honour their debts, so how are we going to deal with them? Lend them more money so they can pay the interest and delay the inevitable?
Their population is unemployed. How are they going to earn enough to pay their personal debts? Slavery? How does taking more money from the poor through austerity measures help them?
The system has already failed. The people have cast their vote for change. Be thankful they haven't elected a fascist, power hungry government like the last time we saw this level of unrest in Europe.
Write simple code and let the compiler find a faster way to run it. It's a problem that is being actively worked on.
And on the LLVM mailing list this recently, there has been talk of translating recursive code into a loop or stack based state machine in order to allow vectorisation, unrolling, common sub expression elimination, and all of the other optimisations from their bag of tricks.
Still, none of this personal information should ever be sent unencrypted over email.
Well, thats better than investing in "Rouge Android Startups"...
Cyanogen mod don't have access to the source code for all of the drivers required to run the hardware. So they have to copy the binaries from the manufacturer.
If the manufacturer doesn't support new versions of android, with newer linux kernels, there's not much they can do.
I also had a script that would tweak the beep pitch and duration and play the close encounters theme. With the option of using a different xserver for each beep. Combined with a script that would use finger to display a map of the terminals people were connected from, and terminals that were xhost+ when noone was logged in ....
Google ran a massive fuzz testing effort against the plugin and found 400 unique looking crashes that were resolved by about 80 patches. Yeah, the quality isn't looking that great...
Crippleware on Windows always used to amuse me. Oh you've disabled the button because I haven't paid? [poke]...[poke]... There now it's enabled again. Oh, you forgot to check if it should be enabled when processing the click event? Tough.
Sometimes I was far more subtle. I'd start slowly cycling the background color, one RGB increment at a time...
I believe that github uses the reply email address to attribute comments. eg github sent the message to "@torvalds" and anyone who replies to it must be "@torvalds". I'm guessing both of you "Replied All" and included the same github email as recipient.
These days the most effective measure you can take is to install an ad blocker. That will prevent the vast majority of drive by installs. Second, I'd say you need to be very sceptical of freeware software installers. Using a service like Chocolatey to find and install popular utilities will help here. Third, I'd recommend installing Process Explorer as a replacement for the windows Task Manager. Get a feel for what programs are running in the background, and investigate anything you don't yet recognise particularly after installing something new.
I've always pictured some of those old testament laws as bad precedents based on one off cases. eg an individual goes around bragging about their new "blended fiber" garment. Instead of pointing out the sinfulness of their pride, ban blended fibers outright.