Fewer man-hours, more rice from less work, fewer farmers, less time spent working, less paid in wages, more produced, cheaper rice.
We still have people claiming value and wealth come from land, not from labor. Marx claimed more labor to produce a product meant more value and thus more wealth; I've outright demonstrated wealth comes from reducing labor spent on producing goods.
Then again, I abandoned theories of value when I started making my economic theories; I'm writing a theory of *wealth*, not an explanation of how something's inherent price comes along. Value was always a stupid idea with no place in macroeconomics.
I... don't eat a lot of vegetables. At all. The closest thing in my diet to a vegetable is edamame, red beans, and whatever's in a whopper. Typically I'm eating stuff like McDonalds breakfast sandwiches (this morning I ate a thin cinnamon raisin bagel with bacon, gouda cheese, and an egg--430kcal, 27g fat, 26g protein), Popeye's chicken, or sushi.
I'm pretty much fine. I gained an extra 20lb in fat somewhere, so straightened things out a bit; I was managing to get 3000kcal or more in, thanks to the vending machine. I hit the vending machine less now. Sometimes I have a 1000kcal Popeye's chicken lunch and a 780kcal bagel sandwich from McDonalds and I still have to get a large soda when I go to Burger King to get the extra calories so I don't come 1000kcal under, and that's with two 15-minute light walks during the day to clear my head (while others are smoking for 15 minutes). Usually I have to not eat 6 packs of tasty cakes and 4 liters Dr. Pepper.
That's pretty much it for me, though. White bread, tea, meats, cheeses, lots of fat... I skip the huge starch portions, the 1200kcal of pancakes or 600kcal of fries, or the 800kcal of fried rice with chinese food. You get this nice meal with a big ass 40oz Sprite, and it comes with potato or grain that has more calories than the rest of the food and the soda combined, and people are like... soda is making you fat, eat your vegetables. Eating double portions is making you fat.
If we get Trump or Sanders, it won't matter; America won't exist for much longer, although that's almost a given in almost every case. The path of escape is currently very, very narrow.
Really what we need is feedback. If you gave every employee access to data providing constant and immediate feedback, they would improve by repeating methods which produce the best outcomes. The best steel, the fastest vehicle assembly, the greatest upsell, the happiest customer, the most ad revenue. Combine that with sharing your techniques and knowledge, and you have the growth of technology as a science.
3.4.3 looks like a pure bugfix and improvement release, not a major feature release. They did change some casing in the http.cookies module, which is concerning.
The major deviants are mostly Firefox and Chrome, since sometimes you need to pull Firefox up a few versions to get a security fix; they often backport the fixes.
People don't consider a lot when they do things. There's an old convention of 0.x being "incomplete", such that we have some rather mature products in pre-1.0 stable releases without all of the features and finalized interfaces which constitute a completed product. There's a newer convention of Major.Minor.Revision, based on the old Major.Minor.Revision, by which "revision" means "nothing new, fixed some defect", while "Minor" means "Something new, works exactly as before if you're not using the old thing", and "Major" means "things that you did in the last major may produce different results in this version; that includes the removal of features we previously deprecated."
Upon these conventions, we've built support conventions. The prior major release, at least, usually gets continued bugfixes, and occasionally feature back-ports. Bugfixes are for people who can't move forward just yet--they need to fix their processes and workflows to use the new version--and need that support, especially for security fixes; while feature back-ports let the client keep up with new developments, accessing some features in the new major which don't depend on new behavior of old features. We usually handle this by giving a shorter and more casual minor-update duration (you get new features when we care to backport them, by user demand, only for 12 months) than we do for bug fixes (the final 6.x release gets bugfixes for an additional 12 months).
Then you have the deviants.
Apple, upon releasing a new Quicktime major, will preemptively stop supporting the last major. When Quicktime 7.0 came out, it fixed major security vulnerabilities in Quicktime 6; Apple provided no updates to Quicktime 6, so those vulnerabilities remained unless you upgraded to a whole new major Quicktime version with new APIs, new features, changed behavior, and some features removed.
Then you have Ubuntu and Debian, who follow a very clear policy: Each release will receive no updates which change any functionality. If it worked on release day, it will work in exactly the same way at EOL. Bugfixes may enable previously-broken functionality; they try not to alter functionality such that previous work-arounds start behaving differently, unless the application is so crippled as to be unuseful. This is okay because the scope of a distribution release implies a major change; Ubuntu has a point release system for LTS to signify minor feature updates.
RedHat takes a different, more Apple-like approach: Their point-releases are just inline updates, like Ubuntu LTS; but they're *major* updates, removing old features and subsystems, integrating completely new systems, changing behaviors, and generally breaking all kinds of shit. There's no support for the previous point release, at all; if you call RHEL support, they tell you to update or else they have nothing for you. The difference between RHEL 6.10 and RHEL 7 is functionally similar to the difference between RHEL 6.9 and RHEL 6.10, or RHEL 7 and RHEL 7.1.
Bring that out to Chrome, Firefox, and friends, with an iterated version for every release. Release numbers now have no meaning except "new". They are effectively date stamps, without the benefit of Debian-style releases in which every release is implied a drastic upheaval rather than a possible incremental feature increase. Nothing in the versioning indicates if APIs have changed or been removed, so broad assessment of compatibility risks (e.g. with old protocols, old incorrect rendering behavior, or old extensions) are not as readily assessed.
It goes all the way out to the Linux kernel, which is just nonsense. WhenLinusFeelLikeIt.Otherwise.Bugfix is the Linux kernel's pattern; it's essentially Major.Bugfix with a period in the Major part.
Remember too much white bread, wheat bread, cake, rice, oatmeal, and so forth will also cause diabeetus. So will generally getting fat.
I've become more active lately, just slightly. I walk for 15-30 minutes per day to clear my head, while others are smoking. This has pushed my metabolism up so much that I eat 1000kcal Popeye's chicken dinners (the biscuit is diabeetus), 780kcal McDonalds breakfast, a fucking Whopper for dinner, and still had to add Sprite or Dr. Pepper back into my diet in 40oz quantities to not come 1500kcal under. I trust my FitBit because I'm actually losing and gaining weight--I'm losing fat, but can't seem to lose *weight* because of the balance of muscle tissue developing. Still, my pants don't feel like a man-corset anymore.
Yesterday I came 400kcal under. According to MyFitnessPal, besides an Arby's 800kcal turkey sandwich and a McDonalds double cheeseburger--the McDonald's cheeseburger was actually better balanced in macronutrients, which is insane--I had a McFlurry, Chobani yogurt, tasty cakes, a bottle of pepsi, and a can of pepsi, and came away with 120kcal free. Fitbit says I came away with 2807kcal used that day, 2437 consumed. I work in the basement and had coworkers on the 3rd floor needing my attention, so I was up and down stairs a few times; I also live on the second floor of my house, while kitchen is first floor and utilities are basement. I totaled 40 stairs traversed (33, really, but I burned almost 2 minutes making a few additional trips just to raise the numbers), plus a half hour walk outside around the lake.
The closest I come to "hitting the gym" is the two 15-minute walks I take, and the occasional 4-6 climbs up a flight of stairs just to tick the numbers up (which, of course, takes all of 15 seconds each floor). I make it up to the top floor by stairs faster than my coworkers make in the elevator, and I pass them while they're boarding.
The big problems show up when I eat sushi and edamame for lunch. 350kcal for a single meal, with a breakfast sandwich (Thomas english muffin, gouda cheese, shiitake, bacon, egg) at 400kcal, and I've gotten two meals in at 750kcal. Even a Subway 12-inch Italian with mayo and olive oil is only 1100kcal; and I burn 2400kcal on a sedentary day, since I still have to go up and down stairs at least 12 times just to get my hands on food, water, and the piano. If I do any laundry, dishes, yard work, or go walking over to coworkers's cubicles, I'm up in the 2600 range. The lowest I've been is 2200, and I slept 18 hours that day.
It's easy for me to pound 4 bottles of soda, two 58oz drink cups, fast food OJ (like 4x the sugar of fresh squeezed OJ) and starch (hash browns, french fries), and so forth and add an extra 1500-2500 calories to my diet, taking in 4500 and burning 2000-2200. If you dodge french fries and get out of the habit of eating 14-inch hoagies, you start having trouble keeping your calorie count up.
Some things are poisonous if you eat a pound. Some are poisonous if you eat a drop. There's a drop of NOx and its products by extension; you need a pound of it to start affecting your body negatively; you're complaining there's the possibility of a fragment of what could, if we imaginatively project it out a million times, three drops.
Water inhalation will damage your lungs, minimally by direct action, much more by oxygen deprivation and intoxication (absorption of the water does eventually cause cell damage). None of that happens just because there's water vapor in the air.
asthmatics like me. you can keep plunking out numbers but i'm going to choose to believe the people whose job it us to determine such things vs. some random slashdot poster.
You're breathing NOx right now.
yes i know govt regulations aren't always spot on, but not being an expert in the topic myself, i'm going to trust the experts.
With more than twice the amount of NOx coming out of the tail pipe than prior to, you know, 20 years ago, or 60 years ago, or any point in time you want to point at automobiles and say, "They had no emissions regulations at all and belched horrid fumes," the PPM wouldn't reach a level of concern. The EPA takes notice at 1.2ppm concentration in atmosphere, claims an emergency at 1.8ppm, and claims health hazard at 2.0ppm. With 100% of our cars replaced by the Volkswagen Jetta TDi, we'd NEVER APPROACH 1.2ppm. Not even close.
That's the real effect. The real effect is there isn't even nearly a considerable amount of NOx in the atmosphere, much less a dangerous amount. That is, of course, by the government's numbers, which are conservative and tend to aim much, much lower than what's really harmful; in the case of NOx and NO2, they come pretty much in line with the medical standards, however, rather than falling at a point where you'd need 10x as much for it to even be a concern (e.g. mercury compounds in fish).
Again: There is NOx in your air right now, that you're breathing. If you go outside, there's like 8 times as much NOx in that air. If you go into a city like New York, there's a bitchload more NOx there. New York would have slightly more NOx in the air, slightly more NO2, and still fall far below anything you'd notice as you step into the sun and take a deep breath of fresh, clean-diesel air.
Massive, enormous amounts of NOx would not be harmless. Massive, enormous amounts of H2O--like, say, enough to put Mt. Everest under 90 miles of water--would not be harmless.
Normal amounts of NOx--like the amount a diesel lorry belches out, or the amount belched out by all the cars in Europe, which is a hell of a lot more than EPA regulations would ever allow--are harmless. NO2 concentrations are currently 0.02 ppm; 2.0ppm is generally harmful to public health. NO2 tends to break down when exposed to sunlight, so much that wild fluctuations in NO2 concentration occur with the seasons due to changing day lengths.
Up until the year 2000, NO2 wasn't even a concern in Europe. Up until fairly recently, even in America, the average NO2 concentration of straight exhaust fumes from your average passenger vehicle was over 10ppm; NO2 atmospheric concentrations peaked at around 0.12ppm in measured 1-hour periods.
Volkswagen TDi exhaust wouldn't have reached 4ppm NO2 concentration. Replacing our entire vehicle fleet with Wolkswagen TDi pumping out heavy NO2 exhaust as such would have moved us up from a scoville rating of "Green Bell Pepper" to "Angry Green Bell Pepper".
You may as well complain that you're going to drown because the relative humidity is 70% today, citing that inhaling water is harmful.
Yes, I'm aware of all of that. I also pointed out that, as a practical matter, it doesn't actually make much of a difference. In fact, all of that is information I covered in the discussion.
That's, of course, something you find out while examining all the shit that has to be done and all the requirements. Sometimes the business finds it can't continue; sometimes it finds it has to take certain approaches over other approaches it would prefer; and sometimes it finds budgetary priorities need to shift, when the need is sufficiently great as to interfere with the business's ability to execute its business strategy and maintain its competitive nature in its market. No sense diverting money to such operations as will cease to exist when your business stops doing any business, after all.
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Fewer man-hours, more rice from less work, fewer farmers, less time spent working, less paid in wages, more produced, cheaper rice.
We still have people claiming value and wealth come from land, not from labor. Marx claimed more labor to produce a product meant more value and thus more wealth; I've outright demonstrated wealth comes from reducing labor spent on producing goods.
Then again, I abandoned theories of value when I started making my economic theories; I'm writing a theory of *wealth*, not an explanation of how something's inherent price comes along. Value was always a stupid idea with no place in macroeconomics.
We have lakes so you can spend time in your car connecting with friends. Install a wider back seat, you morons.
Oh, so it wasn't theirs. Okay. The plot thickens.
It appears the Apple TV isn't on the market yet; Apple gave them one.
Works for me. This vegetable fetishism is bullshit.
I ... don't eat a lot of vegetables. At all. The closest thing in my diet to a vegetable is edamame, red beans, and whatever's in a whopper. Typically I'm eating stuff like McDonalds breakfast sandwiches (this morning I ate a thin cinnamon raisin bagel with bacon, gouda cheese, and an egg--430kcal, 27g fat, 26g protein), Popeye's chicken, or sushi.
I'm pretty much fine. I gained an extra 20lb in fat somewhere, so straightened things out a bit; I was managing to get 3000kcal or more in, thanks to the vending machine. I hit the vending machine less now. Sometimes I have a 1000kcal Popeye's chicken lunch and a 780kcal bagel sandwich from McDonalds and I still have to get a large soda when I go to Burger King to get the extra calories so I don't come 1000kcal under, and that's with two 15-minute light walks during the day to clear my head (while others are smoking for 15 minutes). Usually I have to not eat 6 packs of tasty cakes and 4 liters Dr. Pepper.
That's pretty much it for me, though. White bread, tea, meats, cheeses, lots of fat... I skip the huge starch portions, the 1200kcal of pancakes or 600kcal of fries, or the 800kcal of fried rice with chinese food. You get this nice meal with a big ass 40oz Sprite, and it comes with potato or grain that has more calories than the rest of the food and the soda combined, and people are like... soda is making you fat, eat your vegetables. Eating double portions is making you fat.
Oh so he is just batshit crazy.
Rosa was a chick, she got arrested for not following the laws.
What eventually broke the back of the drug war against weed?
Basically he's still under the same mistaken ideals about economics as the Founding Fathers.
If we get Trump or Sanders, it won't matter; America won't exist for much longer, although that's almost a given in almost every case. The path of escape is currently very, very narrow.
Really what we need is feedback. If you gave every employee access to data providing constant and immediate feedback, they would improve by repeating methods which produce the best outcomes. The best steel, the fastest vehicle assembly, the greatest upsell, the happiest customer, the most ad revenue. Combine that with sharing your techniques and knowledge, and you have the growth of technology as a science.
3.4.3 looks like a pure bugfix and improvement release, not a major feature release. They did change some casing in the http.cookies module, which is concerning.
The major deviants are mostly Firefox and Chrome, since sometimes you need to pull Firefox up a few versions to get a security fix; they often backport the fixes.
People don't consider a lot when they do things. There's an old convention of 0.x being "incomplete", such that we have some rather mature products in pre-1.0 stable releases without all of the features and finalized interfaces which constitute a completed product. There's a newer convention of Major.Minor.Revision, based on the old Major.Minor.Revision, by which "revision" means "nothing new, fixed some defect", while "Minor" means "Something new, works exactly as before if you're not using the old thing", and "Major" means "things that you did in the last major may produce different results in this version; that includes the removal of features we previously deprecated."
Upon these conventions, we've built support conventions. The prior major release, at least, usually gets continued bugfixes, and occasionally feature back-ports. Bugfixes are for people who can't move forward just yet--they need to fix their processes and workflows to use the new version--and need that support, especially for security fixes; while feature back-ports let the client keep up with new developments, accessing some features in the new major which don't depend on new behavior of old features. We usually handle this by giving a shorter and more casual minor-update duration (you get new features when we care to backport them, by user demand, only for 12 months) than we do for bug fixes (the final 6.x release gets bugfixes for an additional 12 months).
Then you have the deviants.
Apple, upon releasing a new Quicktime major, will preemptively stop supporting the last major. When Quicktime 7.0 came out, it fixed major security vulnerabilities in Quicktime 6; Apple provided no updates to Quicktime 6, so those vulnerabilities remained unless you upgraded to a whole new major Quicktime version with new APIs, new features, changed behavior, and some features removed.
Then you have Ubuntu and Debian, who follow a very clear policy: Each release will receive no updates which change any functionality. If it worked on release day, it will work in exactly the same way at EOL. Bugfixes may enable previously-broken functionality; they try not to alter functionality such that previous work-arounds start behaving differently, unless the application is so crippled as to be unuseful. This is okay because the scope of a distribution release implies a major change; Ubuntu has a point release system for LTS to signify minor feature updates.
RedHat takes a different, more Apple-like approach: Their point-releases are just inline updates, like Ubuntu LTS; but they're *major* updates, removing old features and subsystems, integrating completely new systems, changing behaviors, and generally breaking all kinds of shit. There's no support for the previous point release, at all; if you call RHEL support, they tell you to update or else they have nothing for you. The difference between RHEL 6.10 and RHEL 7 is functionally similar to the difference between RHEL 6.9 and RHEL 6.10, or RHEL 7 and RHEL 7.1.
Bring that out to Chrome, Firefox, and friends, with an iterated version for every release. Release numbers now have no meaning except "new". They are effectively date stamps, without the benefit of Debian-style releases in which every release is implied a drastic upheaval rather than a possible incremental feature increase. Nothing in the versioning indicates if APIs have changed or been removed, so broad assessment of compatibility risks (e.g. with old protocols, old incorrect rendering behavior, or old extensions) are not as readily assessed.
It goes all the way out to the Linux kernel, which is just nonsense. WhenLinusFeelLikeIt.Otherwise.Bugfix is the Linux kernel's pattern; it's essentially Major.Bugfix with a period in the Major part.
Candycanes and unicorns.
I'm complaining that Bjarne Stroustrup is a little girl.
Yet still no modules.
Blenheim is like drinking fire and broken glass. It's brewed in South Carolina. It has an assload of sugar to make it palatable.
Remember too much white bread, wheat bread, cake, rice, oatmeal, and so forth will also cause diabeetus. So will generally getting fat.
I've become more active lately, just slightly. I walk for 15-30 minutes per day to clear my head, while others are smoking. This has pushed my metabolism up so much that I eat 1000kcal Popeye's chicken dinners (the biscuit is diabeetus), 780kcal McDonalds breakfast, a fucking Whopper for dinner, and still had to add Sprite or Dr. Pepper back into my diet in 40oz quantities to not come 1500kcal under. I trust my FitBit because I'm actually losing and gaining weight--I'm losing fat, but can't seem to lose *weight* because of the balance of muscle tissue developing. Still, my pants don't feel like a man-corset anymore.
Yesterday I came 400kcal under. According to MyFitnessPal, besides an Arby's 800kcal turkey sandwich and a McDonalds double cheeseburger--the McDonald's cheeseburger was actually better balanced in macronutrients, which is insane--I had a McFlurry, Chobani yogurt, tasty cakes, a bottle of pepsi, and a can of pepsi, and came away with 120kcal free. Fitbit says I came away with 2807kcal used that day, 2437 consumed. I work in the basement and had coworkers on the 3rd floor needing my attention, so I was up and down stairs a few times; I also live on the second floor of my house, while kitchen is first floor and utilities are basement. I totaled 40 stairs traversed (33, really, but I burned almost 2 minutes making a few additional trips just to raise the numbers), plus a half hour walk outside around the lake.
The closest I come to "hitting the gym" is the two 15-minute walks I take, and the occasional 4-6 climbs up a flight of stairs just to tick the numbers up (which, of course, takes all of 15 seconds each floor). I make it up to the top floor by stairs faster than my coworkers make in the elevator, and I pass them while they're boarding.
The big problems show up when I eat sushi and edamame for lunch. 350kcal for a single meal, with a breakfast sandwich (Thomas english muffin, gouda cheese, shiitake, bacon, egg) at 400kcal, and I've gotten two meals in at 750kcal. Even a Subway 12-inch Italian with mayo and olive oil is only 1100kcal; and I burn 2400kcal on a sedentary day, since I still have to go up and down stairs at least 12 times just to get my hands on food, water, and the piano. If I do any laundry, dishes, yard work, or go walking over to coworkers's cubicles, I'm up in the 2600 range. The lowest I've been is 2200, and I slept 18 hours that day.
It's easy for me to pound 4 bottles of soda, two 58oz drink cups, fast food OJ (like 4x the sugar of fresh squeezed OJ) and starch (hash browns, french fries), and so forth and add an extra 1500-2500 calories to my diet, taking in 4500 and burning 2000-2200. If you dodge french fries and get out of the habit of eating 14-inch hoagies, you start having trouble keeping your calorie count up.
Some things are poisonous if you eat a pound. Some are poisonous if you eat a drop. There's a drop of NOx and its products by extension; you need a pound of it to start affecting your body negatively; you're complaining there's the possibility of a fragment of what could, if we imaginatively project it out a million times, three drops.
Water inhalation will damage your lungs, minimally by direct action, much more by oxygen deprivation and intoxication (absorption of the water does eventually cause cell damage). None of that happens just because there's water vapor in the air.
asthmatics like me. you can keep plunking out numbers but i'm going to choose to believe the people whose job it us to determine such things vs. some random slashdot poster.
You're breathing NOx right now.
yes i know govt regulations aren't always spot on, but not being an expert in the topic myself, i'm going to trust the experts.
With more than twice the amount of NOx coming out of the tail pipe than prior to, you know, 20 years ago, or 60 years ago, or any point in time you want to point at automobiles and say, "They had no emissions regulations at all and belched horrid fumes," the PPM wouldn't reach a level of concern. The EPA takes notice at 1.2ppm concentration in atmosphere, claims an emergency at 1.8ppm, and claims health hazard at 2.0ppm. With 100% of our cars replaced by the Volkswagen Jetta TDi, we'd NEVER APPROACH 1.2ppm. Not even close.
That's the real effect. The real effect is there isn't even nearly a considerable amount of NOx in the atmosphere, much less a dangerous amount. That is, of course, by the government's numbers, which are conservative and tend to aim much, much lower than what's really harmful; in the case of NOx and NO2, they come pretty much in line with the medical standards, however, rather than falling at a point where you'd need 10x as much for it to even be a concern (e.g. mercury compounds in fish).
Again: There is NOx in your air right now, that you're breathing. If you go outside, there's like 8 times as much NOx in that air. If you go into a city like New York, there's a bitchload more NOx there. New York would have slightly more NOx in the air, slightly more NO2, and still fall far below anything you'd notice as you step into the sun and take a deep breath of fresh, clean-diesel air.
Massive, enormous amounts of NOx would not be harmless. Massive, enormous amounts of H2O--like, say, enough to put Mt. Everest under 90 miles of water--would not be harmless.
Normal amounts of NOx--like the amount a diesel lorry belches out, or the amount belched out by all the cars in Europe, which is a hell of a lot more than EPA regulations would ever allow--are harmless. NO2 concentrations are currently 0.02 ppm; 2.0ppm is generally harmful to public health. NO2 tends to break down when exposed to sunlight, so much that wild fluctuations in NO2 concentration occur with the seasons due to changing day lengths.
Up until the year 2000, NO2 wasn't even a concern in Europe. Up until fairly recently, even in America, the average NO2 concentration of straight exhaust fumes from your average passenger vehicle was over 10ppm; NO2 atmospheric concentrations peaked at around 0.12ppm in measured 1-hour periods.
Volkswagen TDi exhaust wouldn't have reached 4ppm NO2 concentration. Replacing our entire vehicle fleet with Wolkswagen TDi pumping out heavy NO2 exhaust as such would have moved us up from a scoville rating of "Green Bell Pepper" to "Angry Green Bell Pepper".
You may as well complain that you're going to drown because the relative humidity is 70% today, citing that inhaling water is harmful.
Yes, I'm aware of all of that. I also pointed out that, as a practical matter, it doesn't actually make much of a difference. In fact, all of that is information I covered in the discussion.
That's, of course, something you find out while examining all the shit that has to be done and all the requirements. Sometimes the business finds it can't continue; sometimes it finds it has to take certain approaches over other approaches it would prefer; and sometimes it finds budgetary priorities need to shift, when the need is sufficiently great as to interfere with the business's ability to execute its business strategy and maintain its competitive nature in its market. No sense diverting money to such operations as will cease to exist when your business stops doing any business, after all.