If we just stopped subsidizing it, we wouldn't need to tax it, and we'd get the same revenue benefit without the infrastructure needed to enforce the tax. Bastiat has a lot of interesting things to say about both subsidies and taxes. I personally hate driving and flying, so I'd really enjoy a national rail system. I'd like a local transit system even more, but that is not something my city is even close to.
Neal Stephenson in "diamond age" argues through a character, that as moral relativism took hold, the natural desire to point the finger became more difficult. "I'm not wrong, I just have a different value system" became a valid defense against any accusers. To allow for the blame game to continue we elevated hypocrisy from a relatively minor vice, to the single most serious (and perhaps only) moral violation a person could commit. I agree with the character in the story, that a person who has a value system I agree with, but who often fails, is far more noble in my eyes, than someone who is completely consistent with a value system I hate.
I'm not sure that applies to this case because the question of motivation. But the underlying assertion that actions I perform, that I claim to be "good" are less good because I inconsistently perform them, is an assertion I vehemently disagree with.
I think entropy pretty much guarantees that humanity (and thought in general) will eventually cease in this universe. Perhaps there is a workaround but it seems unlikely. We want to continue because it is consistent with our programming, but I really don't see sacks of mostly water working for future expansion. We need to be able to house human-like consciousness in more robust vessels to make it a go. That raises so many issues though. Copying people breaks democracy for one thing. At least as far as I can imagine.
I always zoned out in lectures while in school. I probably have ADD or something. I never fell asleep, but every so often I'd either keep thinking about the last thing the proff said, and get behind, or just realize I had gone into standby for about 30-45s and had no hope of catching up. I also find it impossible to take notes and listen at the same time. Listening to Gibert Strange's linear algebra lectures on OCW was infinitely more educational than my original course in college. Partly because he is simply a far superior teacher to the one I had in college, but mostly because I could rewind and listen to what he said again. If I have a question I cannot ask the proff, but I can search it and find a hundred people answering my exact question.
In short, I totally agree that the internet is a better teacher for self motivated students, but this will create an accreditation problem. The right way to fix it is for interviews to get more complex and difficult, but that should really be looked at anyway. Employers are terrible at ascertaining the actual skill level of candidates. So in many first world countries they get stuck with useless mouths to feed because they cannot get rid of them for simply being vastly subpar. Or perhaps I am the only person who works in an office where "programmers" have been made software process facilitators, data entry personnel, or even facilities coordinators (fancy name for the guy who orders pencils), just to get them away from the code. Some of them have management skills and get promoted away from the code, but they tend to harbor a resentment for not being able to contribute earlier in their career, and displace it on the engineers they now manage.
I'm not a loon, it really is an envirocommunist worldwide conspiracy to overthrow the illuminati oil-lords. That only seems far fetched to those who uses non-rectal sources for their news. Step back a bit, look at the situation as a whole, and forget about the day to day details (facts at a high enough rate are just noise), then pull out a theory. Your colon can come up with interesting patterns, and facts are unnecessary ingredients for their assemblage.
They are awesome! I've ported some of my stuff from matlab to both python(with scipy) and vba in excel because matlab licenses don't fall from the sky like donuts. Speedwise the vba just blew the python away. That was not what I was expecting, and neither was the maturity and flexibility of vba as a language. The support for strict typing and the flexibility to use dynamic typing for instance. The support for OO is all there, as is the support for functional-style programing using immutable containers and functors/functoids. I was quite impressed.
To stay on-topic, the submitters real question was how to get small business owners who can't afford to hire IT support, to make their own webpages. Not having a website is a death blow to a modern small business, and if you can't afford it, then you are better off trying it yourself even if you don't get it right. The exception being support for actual financial transactions which should certainly be done by a proffesional or offloaded to an existing site devoted to the purpose.
Anarchy transitions to oligarchy even quicker than the others. In fact I'd consider it more of a in-between state on the way from something else to oligarchy.
So given the GP's request of "from where its noon to a place where its midnight" that yields 60% energy loss using earth's circumference / 2 / 1000km * 3% and that isn't accounting for HVDC having problems in under-sea installations.
The article said the SCIB batteries had many cycles (9000ish), but they made no mention of the shelf-life problem which is the bane of laptop users everywhere. Perhaps they did solve that, but the article didn't say it.
The first stars with metals like ours showed up a few billion years before our star formed, and there are a lot of them. So they would have had as long as we have now, at the time when our star formed. Imagine a few billion years of progress from this point.
I'm too lazy to think this through, but intuition says running a safe guest inside a compromised host isn't going to protect you. Motherboard firmware is already being tampered with too as another poster pointed out. I really do think a stand alone machine with dedicated hardware, locked down to do that one thing is in order. Final user wouldn't even have root (sounds kinda like an i-anything). I'd not do the read-only thing so that signed security updates can be installed from the creator. Its a weak-point (two really, the update sigs, and the writeability), but I suspect there are enough vulnerabilities still popping up in most OS ('cept VMS maybe), to make it a worthwhile trade. If you can get a VMS browser to open your bank's website read-only might be in order. It would also have an IP (not domain!) whitelist with only your bank's ip's in it.
The GP probably read the summary wrong like I did. If I had RTFA, I would have realized that it wasn't the great firewall of OZ blocking information about a political party (which would have been anti-democracy), it was instead a sensationalistic bit about a few corporate web-filters blocking the site.
I first noticed this on borderlands. It was kind of annoying, most of the time it made me hit the target, but sometimes it extrapolated wrong and pulled my cursor away from where I was trying to aim. I've just been putting up with it, but I suspect if I turn off "mouse smoothing", it will go away. I'm suspect that when I turn it off I will realize I'm not very good. I think mass effect 2 (and perhaps 1) did this as well on the PC. But I doubt unreal tournament and counterstrike did this, at least not without hacks. I've not plaid crysis, can anyone speak to it?
If you go to open secrets you'll notice that TV/MOVIES/MUSIC are a decent distance up the list. And notice how many contributions come from Time Warner. That's the smaller part of the reason though. The rest of it is that the media can spin any story to manipulate us one way or the other. Every legislator knows this, so none of them want to be the guy that stops this and gets pointed at. Big media wants its journalists to feel safe, and a public pat on the back or pointed finger isn't too far to go to get it as far as they are concerned.
This is a good thing that happened for the wrong reasons.
That prepaid card company would not exist except for the law requiring all vendors accept at least one card for payment. The law will eventually be fixed to make sure that the one card accepted meets some minimum reasonableness criteria. There will be people hired into some agency that will periodically verify various card services for compliance and keep a list of which ones qualify. This will initiate a race to the bottom in which all card companies will attempt to barely qualify.
I was losing 2lbs a week every week for 2/3rds of a year doing nothing but sit at my sedentary job and count calories of crap food. You shouldn't lose more than 2lbs a week no matter what you do, its unhealthy. I didn't go below my BMR (around 1460 at the time), I didn't eat better, I still ate plenty of carbs, just less over all. I did use portion control for dinner by purchasing prepackaged meals. And I avoided foods I knew I would have trouble eating sensible portions of. After loosing the weight I had tons of energy and couldn't help but go running, with less fear of joint problems this time.
The first time I tried to get the weight off as an adult my workout buddy told me that I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I was exercising. That was terrible advice. I work a full time sit-still job, work out an hour, and eat the appropriate calories. I can (and have) eaten an extra 4000calories a day without even feeling stuffed, there were times when I averaged that occasionally eating an extra 6000 calories over my needed intake. If I eat how much I *want* to eat I'd have to do ten hours of cardio a day. I could cut that down by doing weight training on large muscle groups, but still, there are quite literally not enough hours in the day to burn off the amount of food I want to eat, if I keep my job and sleep healthily. That isn't even accounting for the fact that working out that much would make me want to eat even more.
But yeah, you can still eat crap food (good food is better obviously), as long as its not the sort you are addicted to and can't stop eating, cause you got to eat less than you want to. The physical activity will be a result of the weight loss just like the study said.
Its results would indicate that simply feeding children less will make them less fat regardless of activity level. The lower weight makes them more active. This is consistent with how I finally got the weight of and kept it off (calorie counting while sitting in front of a monitor all day), and its really quite intuitive.
May I be the first to say.... Thermodynamics *works* bitches!
When the elected leader of Sparta stepped down after his term he was put on trial for abuse of power. The burden was upon the former leader to prove that he had not abused the power he had been given over the last year. A guilty verdict was death.
That might be a bit much. However, if a candidate vowed that if elected he would donate all of his future wages over the poverty line, to charity such and such for the rest of his life, and then did it? If the next person to win did similarly and the string held for a few, then the first person to do otherwise would face significant pressure. It might become law, as did presidential term limits. Can you imagine a nation where all people capable of manipulating policy towards their own ends were required to make life-long vows of poverty, and got biannual IRS audits to make sure they didn't receive "gifts" or were living outside their means? There would still be bad apples, but I suspect the type of people who would run for office would be different.
Some changes that were heralded as progressive turned out not be improvements and were regressed. So does it really have to be a positive change for the person to have been progressive? What if the change proposed was tried long before like the equivalent of the patriot act having happened under every wartime president regardless of party(including many that called themselves progressive)? Its sort of regressive because we have already tried it, but it isn't a recent change being rolled back, its a radical policy that has been re-instituted. I do not agree the literal definitions of these labels are useful in describing the people we use the labels for.
That said the GP is confusing fascism with right wingism. The left has never had a monopoly on fascism, but neither has the right, the term fascisti itself being used by an outgrowth of the Italian socialist party. People drawn to power want more, its how it works. We are supposed to remove those who abuse it, but I don't see how we are to do it.
To reference the patent directly. Throwing a link to the USPTO should be ok right? Then have an explanation for beginners on the components of the tech.
1.) This is how a DFT/FFT works, here is some example code. 2.) This is how a modern hash works, link to the open SSL code for SHA or something 3.) This is how a hash keyed database is architectured with similar link.
Real atomic clocks often have only have a nanosecond error. And new ones using ion gates are promising mobile clocks that are even more accurate. This is still pretty cool
Seems like a large part of the problem has been the prevalence of referendums, rather than laws passed by the legislature. No one votes to raise taxes and everyone votes to create a new program to save the rattlesnakes or whatever. There is a reason we have a representative democracy, we can't all be expected to be informed on every issue or bill. We aren't even supposed to worry so much about whether we agree with the positions a politician takes, but rather whether we think they are keeping themselves informed and are honest and difficult to corrupt. If we all voted for honest and intelligent people that have the talent of spotting when they are being BSed, then we would see change. Instead we let ourselves be manipulated by dishonest and intelligent people, who use issues we don't fully understand to convince us to vote for them or their bill that reaches into our pockets. The problem is scale. How can you tell if that guy on TV is honest using sound bytes? The only solution I can think of is a hierarchical vote sort of like super voters at party conventions, but that still isn't a very good one.
Ask graduates after five years if they felt the money spent on their education was a good investment. That encourages the school to fail or otherwise convince people who shouldn't be in the field to leave, as they won't be happy once they hit the real world, and will hurt their metrics. It should probably be broken out by discipline.
I eventually gave up using the service because I kept getting huge messages from people I didn't know with cyrillic names. I always assumed it was an attempted buffer overflow attempt and hoped because I was using a nonstandard client on linux that it didn't have the same leak, or that if it did, that the payload would simply crash in the linux environment. I wonder now if it was perhaps just cyrillic unicode explanations how some pill or another would enhance my virility, that displayed as extended ascii characters (all I allowed in the text window). All the people I know have migrated to other services now anyway.
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If we just stopped subsidizing it, we wouldn't need to tax it, and we'd get the same revenue benefit without the infrastructure needed to enforce the tax. Bastiat has a lot of interesting things to say about both subsidies and taxes. I personally hate driving and flying, so I'd really enjoy a national rail system. I'd like a local transit system even more, but that is not something my city is even close to.
Neal Stephenson in "diamond age" argues through a character, that as moral relativism took hold, the natural desire to point the finger became more difficult. "I'm not wrong, I just have a different value system" became a valid defense against any accusers. To allow for the blame game to continue we elevated hypocrisy from a relatively minor vice, to the single most serious (and perhaps only) moral violation a person could commit. I agree with the character in the story, that a person who has a value system I agree with, but who often fails, is far more noble in my eyes, than someone who is completely consistent with a value system I hate.
I'm not sure that applies to this case because the question of motivation. But the underlying assertion that actions I perform, that I claim to be "good" are less good because I inconsistently perform them, is an assertion I vehemently disagree with.
I think entropy pretty much guarantees that humanity (and thought in general) will eventually cease in this universe. Perhaps there is a workaround but it seems unlikely. We want to continue because it is consistent with our programming, but I really don't see sacks of mostly water working for future expansion. We need to be able to house human-like consciousness in more robust vessels to make it a go. That raises so many issues though. Copying people breaks democracy for one thing. At least as far as I can imagine.
5. is often ìon the goî or often acts as if ìdriven by a motorî
I don't know what that one means, but I identify with all the others, including climbing on office furniture.
I always zoned out in lectures while in school. I probably have ADD or something. I never fell asleep, but every so often I'd either keep thinking about the last thing the proff said, and get behind, or just realize I had gone into standby for about 30-45s and had no hope of catching up. I also find it impossible to take notes and listen at the same time. Listening to Gibert Strange's linear algebra lectures on OCW was infinitely more educational than my original course in college. Partly because he is simply a far superior teacher to the one I had in college, but mostly because I could rewind and listen to what he said again. If I have a question I cannot ask the proff, but I can search it and find a hundred people answering my exact question.
In short, I totally agree that the internet is a better teacher for self motivated students, but this will create an accreditation problem. The right way to fix it is for interviews to get more complex and difficult, but that should really be looked at anyway. Employers are terrible at ascertaining the actual skill level of candidates. So in many first world countries they get stuck with useless mouths to feed because they cannot get rid of them for simply being vastly subpar. Or perhaps I am the only person who works in an office where "programmers" have been made software process facilitators, data entry personnel, or even facilities coordinators (fancy name for the guy who orders pencils), just to get them away from the code. Some of them have management skills and get promoted away from the code, but they tend to harbor a resentment for not being able to contribute earlier in their career, and displace it on the engineers they now manage.
I'm not a loon, it really is an envirocommunist worldwide conspiracy to overthrow the illuminati oil-lords. That only seems far fetched to those who uses non-rectal sources for their news. Step back a bit, look at the situation as a whole, and forget about the day to day details (facts at a high enough rate are just noise), then pull out a theory. Your colon can come up with interesting patterns, and facts are unnecessary ingredients for their assemblage.
They are awesome! I've ported some of my stuff from matlab to both python(with scipy) and vba in excel because matlab licenses don't fall from the sky like donuts. Speedwise the vba just blew the python away. That was not what I was expecting, and neither was the maturity and flexibility of vba as a language. The support for strict typing and the flexibility to use dynamic typing for instance. The support for OO is all there, as is the support for functional-style programing using immutable containers and functors/functoids. I was quite impressed.
To stay on-topic, the submitters real question was how to get small business owners who can't afford to hire IT support, to make their own webpages. Not having a website is a death blow to a modern small business, and if you can't afford it, then you are better off trying it yourself even if you don't get it right. The exception being support for actual financial transactions which should certainly be done by a proffesional or offloaded to an existing site devoted to the purpose.
Anarchy transitions to oligarchy even quicker than the others. In fact I'd consider it more of a in-between state on the way from something else to oligarchy.
So given the GP's request of "from where its noon to a place where its midnight" that yields 60% energy loss using earth's circumference / 2 / 1000km * 3% and that isn't accounting for HVDC having problems in under-sea installations.
The article said the SCIB batteries had many cycles (9000ish), but they made no mention of the shelf-life problem which is the bane of laptop users everywhere. Perhaps they did solve that, but the article didn't say it.
The first stars with metals like ours showed up a few billion years before our star formed, and there are a lot of them. So they would have had as long as we have now, at the time when our star formed. Imagine a few billion years of progress from this point.
I'm too lazy to think this through, but intuition says running a safe guest inside a compromised host isn't going to protect you. Motherboard firmware is already being tampered with too as another poster pointed out. I really do think a stand alone machine with dedicated hardware, locked down to do that one thing is in order. Final user wouldn't even have root (sounds kinda like an i-anything). I'd not do the read-only thing so that signed security updates can be installed from the creator. Its a weak-point (two really, the update sigs, and the writeability), but I suspect there are enough vulnerabilities still popping up in most OS ('cept VMS maybe), to make it a worthwhile trade. If you can get a VMS browser to open your bank's website read-only might be in order. It would also have an IP (not domain!) whitelist with only your bank's ip's in it.
The GP probably read the summary wrong like I did. If I had RTFA, I would have realized that it wasn't the great firewall of OZ blocking information about a political party (which would have been anti-democracy), it was instead a sensationalistic bit about a few corporate web-filters blocking the site.
I first noticed this on borderlands. It was kind of annoying, most of the time it made me hit the target, but sometimes it extrapolated wrong and pulled my cursor away from where I was trying to aim. I've just been putting up with it, but I suspect if I turn off "mouse smoothing", it will go away. I'm suspect that when I turn it off I will realize I'm not very good. I think mass effect 2 (and perhaps 1) did this as well on the PC. But I doubt unreal tournament and counterstrike did this, at least not without hacks. I've not plaid crysis, can anyone speak to it?
If you go to open secrets you'll notice that TV/MOVIES/MUSIC are a decent distance up the list. And notice how many contributions come from Time Warner. That's the smaller part of the reason though. The rest of it is that the media can spin any story to manipulate us one way or the other. Every legislator knows this, so none of them want to be the guy that stops this and gets pointed at. Big media wants its journalists to feel safe, and a public pat on the back or pointed finger isn't too far to go to get it as far as they are concerned.
This is a good thing that happened for the wrong reasons.
That prepaid card company would not exist except for the law requiring all vendors accept at least one card for payment. The law will eventually be fixed to make sure that the one card accepted meets some minimum reasonableness criteria. There will be people hired into some agency that will periodically verify various card services for compliance and keep a list of which ones qualify. This will initiate a race to the bottom in which all card companies will attempt to barely qualify.
I was losing 2lbs a week every week for 2/3rds of a year doing nothing but sit at my sedentary job and count calories of crap food. You shouldn't lose more than 2lbs a week no matter what you do, its unhealthy. I didn't go below my BMR (around 1460 at the time), I didn't eat better, I still ate plenty of carbs, just less over all. I did use portion control for dinner by purchasing prepackaged meals. And I avoided foods I knew I would have trouble eating sensible portions of. After loosing the weight I had tons of energy and couldn't help but go running, with less fear of joint problems this time.
The first time I tried to get the weight off as an adult my workout buddy told me that I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I was exercising. That was terrible advice. I work a full time sit-still job, work out an hour, and eat the appropriate calories. I can (and have) eaten an extra 4000calories a day without even feeling stuffed, there were times when I averaged that occasionally eating an extra 6000 calories over my needed intake. If I eat how much I *want* to eat I'd have to do ten hours of cardio a day. I could cut that down by doing weight training on large muscle groups, but still, there are quite literally not enough hours in the day to burn off the amount of food I want to eat, if I keep my job and sleep healthily. That isn't even accounting for the fact that working out that much would make me want to eat even more.
But yeah, you can still eat crap food (good food is better obviously), as long as its not the sort you are addicted to and can't stop eating, cause you got to eat less than you want to. The physical activity will be a result of the weight loss just like the study said.
The whole "get out and play" thing is backwards according to this study:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100707212127.htm
Its results would indicate that simply feeding children less will make them less fat regardless of activity level. The lower weight makes them more active. This is consistent with how I finally got the weight of and kept it off (calorie counting while sitting in front of a monitor all day), and its really quite intuitive.
May I be the first to say.... Thermodynamics *works* bitches!
When the elected leader of Sparta stepped down after his term he was put on trial for abuse of power. The burden was upon the former leader to prove that he had not abused the power he had been given over the last year. A guilty verdict was death.
That might be a bit much. However, if a candidate vowed that if elected he would donate all of his future wages over the poverty line, to charity such and such for the rest of his life, and then did it? If the next person to win did similarly and the string held for a few, then the first person to do otherwise would face significant pressure. It might become law, as did presidential term limits. Can you imagine a nation where all people capable of manipulating policy towards their own ends were required to make life-long vows of poverty, and got biannual IRS audits to make sure they didn't receive "gifts" or were living outside their means? There would still be bad apples, but I suspect the type of people who would run for office would be different.
Some changes that were heralded as progressive turned out not be improvements and were regressed. So does it really have to be a positive change for the person to have been progressive? What if the change proposed was tried long before like the equivalent of the patriot act having happened under every wartime president regardless of party(including many that called themselves progressive)? Its sort of regressive because we have already tried it, but it isn't a recent change being rolled back, its a radical policy that has been re-instituted. I do not agree the literal definitions of these labels are useful in describing the people we use the labels for.
That said the GP is confusing fascism with right wingism. The left has never had a monopoly on fascism, but neither has the right, the term fascisti itself being used by an outgrowth of the Italian socialist party. People drawn to power want more, its how it works. We are supposed to remove those who abuse it, but I don't see how we are to do it.
To reference the patent directly. Throwing a link to the USPTO should be ok right? Then have an explanation for beginners on the components of the tech.
1.) This is how a DFT/FFT works, here is some example code.
2.) This is how a modern hash works, link to the open SSL code for SHA or something
3.) This is how a hash keyed database is architectured with similar link.
Real atomic clocks often have only have a nanosecond error. And new ones using ion gates are promising mobile clocks that are even more accurate. This is still pretty cool
Seems like a large part of the problem has been the prevalence of referendums, rather than laws passed by the legislature. No one votes to raise taxes and everyone votes to create a new program to save the rattlesnakes or whatever. There is a reason we have a representative democracy, we can't all be expected to be informed on every issue or bill. We aren't even supposed to worry so much about whether we agree with the positions a politician takes, but rather whether we think they are keeping themselves informed and are honest and difficult to corrupt. If we all voted for honest and intelligent people that have the talent of spotting when they are being BSed, then we would see change. Instead we let ourselves be manipulated by dishonest and intelligent people, who use issues we don't fully understand to convince us to vote for them or their bill that reaches into our pockets. The problem is scale. How can you tell if that guy on TV is honest using sound bytes? The only solution I can think of is a hierarchical vote sort of like super voters at party conventions, but that still isn't a very good one.
Ask graduates after five years if they felt the money spent on their education was a good investment. That encourages the school to fail or otherwise convince people who shouldn't be in the field to leave, as they won't be happy once they hit the real world, and will hurt their metrics. It should probably be broken out by discipline.
I eventually gave up using the service because I kept getting huge messages from people I didn't know with cyrillic names. I always assumed it was an attempted buffer overflow attempt and hoped because I was using a nonstandard client on linux that it didn't have the same leak, or that if it did, that the payload would simply crash in the linux environment. I wonder now if it was perhaps just cyrillic unicode explanations how some pill or another would enhance my virility, that displayed as extended ascii characters (all I allowed in the text window). All the people I know have migrated to other services now anyway.