I don't begrudge Lyft and Uber as an experiment in alternative transport. I think the growing sharing culture is a symptom of middle class economic stagnation, such that people are "driven" to monetize the spare capacity in their personal transport, their homes, etc.
What concerns me is that they are likely cherry picking transportation consumers. Those who can normally afford to spring for Lyft are then less likely to use public transport, and become alienated to its broader utility, much as those who live in gated communities aren't as concerned about addressing the crime rate in the surrounding community.
Vaccines are not documented to cause autism. The viruses Jenny doesn't care to vaccinate for are documented to seriously fuck your shit up. We're not talking riding out Chickenpox and the yearly flu. It appears either she or a PR flack have done the math and elected to shoot for some damage control.
We are a pattern recognizing species. Mathematics is but a means of description, of writing out the patterns we see. Another is spoken or written prose, or poetry. Are we a poetic imagining within the mind of a (relatively) god-like Li Bai/Hafez/Yeats. Anthropocentrism by any other name would seem as likely.
The margins on Android phones are razor thin. Apple has complete control over the iPhone, giving them a plausible rationale for marketing a premium phone. If they release an Android phone, that rationale evaporates.
How well has Nokia made out since dumping Symbion and MeeGo for someone else's OS? Yeah, that bad.
Citizens of the North trying to go South do it through China, the Yalu River being a much easier, safer crossing. Only soldiers work the heavily mined and observed DMZ. Crossing the intra-Korean border is a really good way to get shot by either/both sides.
"This is the norm for us"? I'm in the middle of the bleeding country, 1500km from the nearest capital city, and I pay $80/mon for 400GB through Internode. Who's got you by the knackers? Even Telstra isn't all that much more expensive.
Moments after the enabling regulations for the Banning Of Other Known Sources of Sufficiently Unverified Codexes ("BOOKS SUC") Act of 2051 are published, e-book readers across the nation delete all content excepting certain approved technical references. Subsequently, the long work of weeding out the hoarded dead tree editions begins.
The current national Liberal Party policy seems to be limited to 1) balance the budget without added revenue, and 2) cut revenues they don't feel they should collect. The result is that the mining tax will go away, and due to very low tariffs and deletion of subsidies that ameliorate the effects of the strong AU$ that Aussie ores create, most manufacturing will go away. Ford and Holden closing up shop is just part of the trend.
So, yah want an information economy to go with those fries? Sorry mate, costs more than we want to spend, and what would you do with all that bandwidth, anyway? You don't know, you say? Back in my day, dialup was good enough. What does YouTube have to do with it?
> No paperwork. No taxes. No health insurance. No legal liability.
It would appear that ShanghaiBill is either a free rider. If he were hiring locally in Pakistan or China, he might be able to avoid some of these "costs", but not all. In fact, there would be additional costs, in the form of bribes and kickbacks to get his infrastructure up and stay up, poor security for his person, and arbitrary application of laws, regulations, and jurisprudence when he comes in contact with organs on the government. Instead, Bill huddles within the relative safety what I'll assume is an OECD member state, probably the US, and skates on covering a good portion of the costs that make his cozy existence possible.
What an amoral fucker. All "Wealth of Nations", without the "Theory of Moral Sentiments".
Fine, go with a heavy nitrous mix, then. Although it would do the job, I'm sure there would be right wing whinging that the condemned aren't supposed to go *too* easy.
I'll be generous and guess that IZON farmed out too much of their software development to... wherever. Perhaps the company's principals are more hardware oriented, but it's interesting that they're now advertising for an iOS team lead.
I believe the core issue that those such as the Texas board members struggle with isn't with scientific evidence of a particular theory, but rather the conclusions that some choose to draw from that evidence. A child's perception of God and Nature is necessarily challenged as she matures. Some resolve that struggle by denying God, some by denying what is discovered during study of God's creation. Some from the board have evidently taken the later course, which reminds me of a quote from Augustine of Hippo, who wrote in part:
"It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."
The subject matter is by its nature incendiary. So, this is likely to another of those cases where discussion based on the paper's abstract is going to be a wee bit under informed. I poked around the Oxford Martin School's domain, but wasn't smart enough to dig up an on-line copy of the working paper... prolly just as well. I look forward to the published version.
I'll take a shot at working with what we've got:
- There has been massively disruptive technology in the past. We adjusted. How?
- The disruptive technology freed capital (human, raw inputs, financial) and added enough value that new economic niches developed.
- Broad example: farmers to industrial workers to service workers.
- The working paper seems to suggest that in addition to a continued reduction in human labor inputs per unit of industrial output, we'll see massive reductions per unit of services output.
- Where does the freed, excess capital get deployed next? What happens to the surplus value? We haven't a clue now, just as we didn't have a clue during the previous transitions.
- Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Normally, what you say would be correct, which is why most publications and media produced using tax dollars isn't copyrighted... we already paid for it, and shouldn't pay again, other than for nominal distribution costs, if that. For classified material, not so fast. The Federal Government owns the IP and gets to set the terms by which it/they part with that information, until Congress and/or the SCOTUS says otherwise.
A side issue: material classified by the US Government is by definition the property of the US Government. It's one thing for a newspaper to publish classified material that someone has given them. But, to retain material which they reasonably know to be - ah - misappropriated makes them knowingly in possession of stolen property. In this case, Mr. Greenwald appears to be saying that he, personally, is in possession. How long will it be until he finds out which subsections of 18 USC he'll be charged with breaking?
The commenter is confusing the actions of corporations with the productive assets they utilize. A machine may scrape a site, but it took a human - usually following the guidance of her/his employer - to set the machine in motion. A corporation, especially a corporation of > 1, can distribute the work of collecting copyrighted material, hosting it, organizing a sales effort around it, responding to the bitching and moaning, and seeing to any resulting adjudication.
A person, motivated by fun, or acting as a sole proprietor, with only so many minutes in a day, and with full exposure to her/his assets, usually can't scale to handle all of those efforts.
I had the misfortune to inherit a series of instrument controllers and data collection routines written in Scheme, with hooks into legacy Fortran. A couple of engineers had kept their love of Scheme since university, and 25 years later elected to implement production code in it. Why? Because of the elegance of the grammar, which simplified their job.... because they were steeped in Scheme. When they left the shop, there was no one among the other 50 experienced engineers who had been anywhere near Lisp/Scheme since school. WTF? Who was the PM that allowed a dumb ass engineering decision like that?
I suspect Harlan will see a lot of action in CS departments, and a handful of professionals subjecting their coworkers to it.
Based on my experience via my wife's work in the state affiliate of a national non-profit, I feel the OP's pain. The non-profit flag is code, and it decodes to incredibly financially tight fisted and technically naive as an organization.
The OP's org likely spent money ONCE to have a professional set up their web presence, without any budget or plan for follow-on maintenance, upgrades, or refactoring. If they thought about it at all, they likely assumed they'd handle these issues with the luck of having someone tech proficient on staff or get someone to donate their time.
Thus, offering what the OP ought to do is a waste of time. It'd be a huge project to write up the justification to spend significant money on this, and the management chain will want to see alternatives have been explored, first.
So, to the OP: your best bet will be to look over the high customer-service ISPs mentioned in these comments. Another alternative is to see if a local college/uni with an IT/CS program has any fourth year undergrads capable enough to be productive as interns.
Bitcoin, itself, will remain a niche currency. The author's point about places where banks fear to go is good. Otherwise, the built-in deflationary tendency will make it increasingly irrelevant in the larger economy.
This doesn't surprise me. Back in the day, Huge Aircrash had a big investment in PDP-powered test bays, and didn't want to incur the risk/cost of replicating the functions of the assembler software libraries on a new platform/language. So, the PDPs slid out, and rack-mount PCs slid in, featuring a hardware emulator on a PCI card. Minor bonus: a bit more speed. Obviously, Huge wasn't the only customer. Google "PDP hardware emulator", and you'll find a number of vendors.
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I don't begrudge Lyft and Uber as an experiment in alternative transport. I think the growing sharing culture is a symptom of middle class economic stagnation, such that people are "driven" to monetize the spare capacity in their personal transport, their homes, etc.
What concerns me is that they are likely cherry picking transportation consumers. Those who can normally afford to spring for Lyft are then less likely to use public transport, and become alienated to its broader utility, much as those who live in gated communities aren't as concerned about addressing the crime rate in the surrounding community.
The Irish are taught Gaelic, but they by-and-large speak English.
The Telegraph screwed up the link within their site. Google turned it back up: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Vaccines are not documented to cause autism. The viruses Jenny doesn't care to vaccinate for are documented to seriously fuck your shit up. We're not talking riding out Chickenpox and the yearly flu. It appears either she or a PR flack have done the math and elected to shoot for some damage control.
We are a pattern recognizing species. Mathematics is but a means of description, of writing out the patterns we see. Another is spoken or written prose, or poetry. Are we a poetic imagining within the mind of a (relatively) god-like Li Bai/Hafez/Yeats. Anthropocentrism by any other name would seem as likely.
The margins on Android phones are razor thin. Apple has complete control over the iPhone, giving them a plausible rationale for marketing a premium phone. If they release an Android phone, that rationale evaporates.
How well has Nokia made out since dumping Symbion and MeeGo for someone else's OS? Yeah, that bad.
Citizens of the North trying to go South do it through China, the Yalu River being a much easier, safer crossing. Only soldiers work the heavily mined and observed DMZ. Crossing the intra-Korean border is a really good way to get shot by either/both sides.
"This is the norm for us"? I'm in the middle of the bleeding country, 1500km from the nearest capital city, and I pay $80/mon for 400GB through Internode. Who's got you by the knackers? Even Telstra isn't all that much more expensive.
Moments after the enabling regulations for the Banning Of Other Known Sources of Sufficiently Unverified Codexes ("BOOKS SUC") Act of 2051 are published, e-book readers across the nation delete all content excepting certain approved technical references. Subsequently, the long work of weeding out the hoarded dead tree editions begins.
The current national Liberal Party policy seems to be limited to 1) balance the budget without added revenue, and 2) cut revenues they don't feel they should collect. The result is that the mining tax will go away, and due to very low tariffs and deletion of subsidies that ameliorate the effects of the strong AU$ that Aussie ores create, most manufacturing will go away. Ford and Holden closing up shop is just part of the trend.
So, yah want an information economy to go with those fries? Sorry mate, costs more than we want to spend, and what would you do with all that bandwidth, anyway? You don't know, you say? Back in my day, dialup was good enough. What does YouTube have to do with it?
> No paperwork. No taxes. No health insurance. No legal liability.
It would appear that ShanghaiBill is either a free rider. If he were hiring locally in Pakistan or China, he might be able to avoid some of these "costs", but not all. In fact, there would be additional costs, in the form of bribes and kickbacks to get his infrastructure up and stay up, poor security for his person, and arbitrary application of laws, regulations, and jurisprudence when he comes in contact with organs on the government. Instead, Bill huddles within the relative safety what I'll assume is an OECD member state, probably the US, and skates on covering a good portion of the costs that make his cozy existence possible.
What an amoral fucker. All "Wealth of Nations", without the "Theory of Moral Sentiments".
Fine, go with a heavy nitrous mix, then. Although it would do the job, I'm sure there would be right wing whinging that the condemned aren't supposed to go *too* easy.
IZON... Stem Innovation, whoever.
I'll be generous and guess that IZON farmed out too much of their software development to ... wherever. Perhaps the company's principals are more hardware oriented, but it's interesting that they're now advertising for an iOS team lead.
I believe the core issue that those such as the Texas board members struggle with isn't with scientific evidence of a particular theory, but rather the conclusions that some choose to draw from that evidence. A child's perception of God and Nature is necessarily challenged as she matures. Some resolve that struggle by denying God, some by denying what is discovered during study of God's creation. Some from the board have evidently taken the later course, which reminds me of a quote from Augustine of Hippo, who wrote in part:
"It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."
The subject matter is by its nature incendiary. So, this is likely to another of those cases where discussion based on the paper's abstract is going to be a wee bit under informed. I poked around the Oxford Martin School's domain, but wasn't smart enough to dig up an on-line copy of the working paper... prolly just as well. I look forward to the published version.
I'll take a shot at working with what we've got:
- There has been massively disruptive technology in the past. We adjusted. How?
- The disruptive technology freed capital (human, raw inputs, financial) and added enough value that new economic niches developed.
- Broad example: farmers to industrial workers to service workers.
- The working paper seems to suggest that in addition to a continued reduction in human labor inputs per unit of industrial output, we'll see massive reductions per unit of services output.
- Where does the freed, excess capital get deployed next? What happens to the surplus value? We haven't a clue now, just as we didn't have a clue during the previous transitions.
- Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Normally, what you say would be correct, which is why most publications and media produced using tax dollars isn't copyrighted... we already paid for it, and shouldn't pay again, other than for nominal distribution costs, if that. For classified material, not so fast. The Federal Government owns the IP and gets to set the terms by which it/they part with that information, until Congress and/or the SCOTUS says otherwise.
A side issue: material classified by the US Government is by definition the property of the US Government. It's one thing for a newspaper to publish classified material that someone has given them. But, to retain material which they reasonably know to be - ah - misappropriated makes them knowingly in possession of stolen property. In this case, Mr. Greenwald appears to be saying that he, personally, is in possession. How long will it be until he finds out which subsections of 18 USC he'll be charged with breaking?
The commenter is confusing the actions of corporations with the productive assets they utilize. A machine may scrape a site, but it took a human - usually following the guidance of her/his employer - to set the machine in motion. A corporation, especially a corporation of > 1, can distribute the work of collecting copyrighted material, hosting it, organizing a sales effort around it, responding to the bitching and moaning, and seeing to any resulting adjudication.
A person, motivated by fun, or acting as a sole proprietor, with only so many minutes in a day, and with full exposure to her/his assets, usually can't scale to handle all of those efforts.
Until they leave or move onto another project.
A bunch? Two. Learn a few new things? Sure, let's do it in Prolog. Leverage the existing skill sets? Stone age.
I had the misfortune to inherit a series of instrument controllers and data collection routines written in Scheme, with hooks into legacy Fortran. A couple of engineers had kept their love of Scheme since university, and 25 years later elected to implement production code in it. Why? Because of the elegance of the grammar, which simplified their job .... because they were steeped in Scheme. When they left the shop, there was no one among the other 50 experienced engineers who had been anywhere near Lisp/Scheme since school. WTF? Who was the PM that allowed a dumb ass engineering decision like that?
I suspect Harlan will see a lot of action in CS departments, and a handful of professionals subjecting their coworkers to it.
Based on my experience via my wife's work in the state affiliate of a national non-profit, I feel the OP's pain. The non-profit flag is code, and it decodes to incredibly financially tight fisted and technically naive as an organization.
The OP's org likely spent money ONCE to have a professional set up their web presence, without any budget or plan for follow-on maintenance, upgrades, or refactoring. If they thought about it at all, they likely assumed they'd handle these issues with the luck of having someone tech proficient on staff or get someone to donate their time.
Thus, offering what the OP ought to do is a waste of time. It'd be a huge project to write up the justification to spend significant money on this, and the management chain will want to see alternatives have been explored, first.
So, to the OP: your best bet will be to look over the high customer-service ISPs mentioned in these comments. Another alternative is to see if a local college/uni with an IT/CS program has any fourth year undergrads capable enough to be productive as interns.
Bitcoin, itself, will remain a niche currency. The author's point about places where banks fear to go is good. Otherwise, the built-in deflationary tendency will make it increasingly irrelevant in the larger economy.
This doesn't surprise me. Back in the day, Huge Aircrash had a big investment in PDP-powered test bays, and didn't want to incur the risk/cost of replicating the functions of the assembler software libraries on a new platform/language. So, the PDPs slid out, and rack-mount PCs slid in, featuring a hardware emulator on a PCI card. Minor bonus: a bit more speed. Obviously, Huge wasn't the only customer. Google "PDP hardware emulator", and you'll find a number of vendors.