This is very much a problem. Most people see inflation as a negative thing. The negative thing here is the limited supply of wealth.
No. Currency is only very loosely connected to wealth. Changing the amount of outstanding currency has no effect on wealth at all; it just changes the amount of wealth represented by each unit of currency. Like any good currency, bitcoins are divisible. It's just a number, so if it costs 1 bitcoin to buy a loaf of bread today and.01 to buy a loaf twenty years from now, that says nothing about the utility of the currency.
Inflation is taxation. It's a way to transfer money from savers to the government - nothing more.
I can't get to excited over this. There are a whole lot of countries in the world in which bribing public officials is expected, and if you don't you'll never do business there.
That's true, but you could make a device that's so difficult to hack it takes more resources than the government can assign outside the highest profile cases. They can't dedicate a month's worth of server farm power to every two bit drug dealer who wanders into their crosshairs.
That's true, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to in the future. At this point I tend to agree with Edward Snowden - the whole thing was a stunt on the government's part to establish a legal precedent for prying open commercial security in the court system. When it looked like the case was going bad they dropped it. Next time they think they have a favorable legal environment they'll be back.
I'd be surprised if this ended up hurting Apple. For one thing, this model doesn't have the Secure Enclave feature in later phones. For another, security isn't a huge part of the sales pitch. Apple is as secure as anyone (well, except for the niche phones designed around security) and most people buy for features.
... I still think that Oracle is sending a weird signals to their existing and potential customers
It is. Even if you're in the right and think you can win you have to think very seriously before doing something like that. Where I work the (not Oracle) database vendor we had used for years started suing its customers - they sued us for millions after recalculating our license fees and arriving at a ridiculous number. So we wrote them out of all our applications and refused to buy anything from them. I'm not sure who won the lawsuit, but in just a handful of years they were out of business.
Sure, but all the other companies are doing the same thing, and every company's patents overlap. You can be sure Google has patents covering the same stuff.
Yep. Fruit is just nature's candy bar. I remember listening to a piece on NPR in which a doctor who works with migrant laborers blames government OJ for making their kids fat.
Burners don't work. I recall an article, which I think was on slashdot, about government agencies using calling "fingerprints" to match people against boxes of burners. In that specific case they were after drug dealers. The only way your burner will actually give you anonymity is if you call someone you don't normally call and then get rid of it. It's fine for a whistleblower calling WaPo once and then ditching the mobile, but if you think you're going to retain your anonymity by switching prepaid phones every month while you make the same calls to the same people from the same geographic locations, you're crazy.
You're not going to get as much if you're afraid to ask. If you're not obnoxious employers aren't going to hold it against you - you're not really risking anything.
Any numbers they assigned would be imaginary. The problem with climate science is you can't do meaningful experimentation, so you have no way to test your model. Without that feedback you could be dead on or you could be far, far off.
You haven't disproved it at all. All you've proven here is Hansen has the credentials to be a scientist. That doesn't mean he isn't acting primarily as an activist. He is.
They'd all agree and I'd slowly lead 'em along until they finally realized that I was talking about eating horse because there was no cow available to eat.
The guys who live and breath this stuff tend to be boring know it alls who, when push comes to shove, know everything but how to do their job.
So true. There are a lot of technical people out there with average intelligence who know all the ins and outs of the latest language or framework because they don't do anything else. But you don't get a lot of actually productivity out of people like that - what you get is complaints because the language you're using doesn't have closures, or the the type system is too static or too dynamic and we'd be so much better off using the language they read about last week. Or nobody is using this framework anymore and how could someone be expected to meet deadlines with something so yesterday.
Someone who is actually brilliant will take that stuff in stride and be productive, in the same way that Tiger Woods can still play a better round of golf than me with only a seven iron.
Yes, groups like the NAACP and Rainbow Push fund themselves by shaking down corporate targets. But that's not an accident. The legal environment for that kind of business model was put into place because it allows the large corporations, through the government, to play the races and the sexes off against each other without appearing to do so.
It may be they became "mainly female" because the men left in search of higher pay. That is, the "mainly female" part was an effect of the pay drop rather than a cause.
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That's a question of protocol, though, which can be updated without affecting the underlying currency.
No. Currency is only very loosely connected to wealth. Changing the amount of outstanding currency has no effect on wealth at all; it just changes the amount of wealth represented by each unit of currency. Like any good currency, bitcoins are divisible. It's just a number, so if it costs 1 bitcoin to buy a loaf of bread today and .01 to buy a loaf twenty years from now, that says nothing about the utility of the currency.
Inflation is taxation. It's a way to transfer money from savers to the government - nothing more.
I can't get to excited over this. There are a whole lot of countries in the world in which bribing public officials is expected, and if you don't you'll never do business there.
That's true, but you could make a device that's so difficult to hack it takes more resources than the government can assign outside the highest profile cases. They can't dedicate a month's worth of server farm power to every two bit drug dealer who wanders into their crosshairs.
That's true, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to in the future. At this point I tend to agree with Edward Snowden - the whole thing was a stunt on the government's part to establish a legal precedent for prying open commercial security in the court system. When it looked like the case was going bad they dropped it. Next time they think they have a favorable legal environment they'll be back.
I'd be surprised if this ended up hurting Apple. For one thing, this model doesn't have the Secure Enclave feature in later phones. For another, security isn't a huge part of the sales pitch. Apple is as secure as anyone (well, except for the niche phones designed around security) and most people buy for features.
It is. Even if you're in the right and think you can win you have to think very seriously before doing something like that. Where I work the (not Oracle) database vendor we had used for years started suing its customers - they sued us for millions after recalculating our license fees and arriving at a ridiculous number. So we wrote them out of all our applications and refused to buy anything from them. I'm not sure who won the lawsuit, but in just a handful of years they were out of business.
Sure, but all the other companies are doing the same thing, and every company's patents overlap. You can be sure Google has patents covering the same stuff.
Those five objects are going to reform into a giant robot.
Yep. Fruit is just nature's candy bar. I remember listening to a piece on NPR in which a doctor who works with migrant laborers blames government OJ for making their kids fat.
I would have no fear of guns in the convention hall, provided everyone had carry permits.
Burners don't work. I recall an article, which I think was on slashdot, about government agencies using calling "fingerprints" to match people against boxes of burners. In that specific case they were after drug dealers. The only way your burner will actually give you anonymity is if you call someone you don't normally call and then get rid of it. It's fine for a whistleblower calling WaPo once and then ditching the mobile, but if you think you're going to retain your anonymity by switching prepaid phones every month while you make the same calls to the same people from the same geographic locations, you're crazy.
I'm not surprised Netflix doesn't want to get caught in the middle of disputes in which someone got a $5000 phone bill.
You're not going to get as much if you're afraid to ask. If you're not obnoxious employers aren't going to hold it against you - you're not really risking anything.
The article states the "wage gap" is 6% for software developers. Between the summary and the article, who the hell knows what the point is?
Good point. A fund to keep an eye on when the price goes back up.
The onset of the last ice age happened in the space of a single human generation. Quite a bit faster than the gloomiest AGW predictions.
We would, but it 's too damn expensive because the wealthy people flying around the globe to AGW conferences are already living there.
I remember reading Earth, by David Brin. In the forward (or afterword. I forget) he said it was the best case scenario.
Any numbers they assigned would be imaginary. The problem with climate science is you can't do meaningful experimentation, so you have no way to test your model. Without that feedback you could be dead on or you could be far, far off.
You haven't disproved it at all. All you've proven here is Hansen has the credentials to be a scientist. That doesn't mean he isn't acting primarily as an activist. He is.
You are an evil man.
I like that.
So true. There are a lot of technical people out there with average intelligence who know all the ins and outs of the latest language or framework because they don't do anything else. But you don't get a lot of actually productivity out of people like that - what you get is complaints because the language you're using doesn't have closures, or the the type system is too static or too dynamic and we'd be so much better off using the language they read about last week. Or nobody is using this framework anymore and how could someone be expected to meet deadlines with something so yesterday.
Someone who is actually brilliant will take that stuff in stride and be productive, in the same way that Tiger Woods can still play a better round of golf than me with only a seven iron.
Yes, groups like the NAACP and Rainbow Push fund themselves by shaking down corporate targets. But that's not an accident. The legal environment for that kind of business model was put into place because it allows the large corporations, through the government, to play the races and the sexes off against each other without appearing to do so.
It may be they became "mainly female" because the men left in search of higher pay. That is, the "mainly female" part was an effect of the pay drop rather than a cause.