There is no real difference. Prohibition of Cannabis started with taxes, that became "prohibitively" high. Do we really still believe in prohibition to "regulate" drugs?
The idea of "sin taxes" is wrong IMHO: It creates the wrong impression, what is not very very expensive cannot be too unhealthy. However, most things, even drugs, are pretty harmless if taken in moderate amounts and if the user has some discipline.
Once the general wealth of the population rises, sin taxes stop working, and the pupulation, wrongly motivated by money alone, won't be able to control itself. Instead, we should educate children and keep it out of their hands until they are adult. After that, we have to accept that people make their own decisions.
Automation can free humanity from having to work for basic needs such as food, clothing and housing.
The question, however, is how the benefits of automation will be distributed. If the "owners" don't want to share, we'll have a dystopian future. They can produce so cheap, but noone will buy what they produce. The "1%" could make life miserable for the rest of us, use a robotized force to keep us under the thumb and bathe in luxury and wellbeing themselves. Sooner or later infighting will come and the 1% will also destroy themselves (helped by the robots used for crowd control).
If we as humans can find a mechanism to share the benefits, we could have a good future. We'll have to do with current ideologies and economic systems, and invent something new.
In this atmosphere of fake news, being overshadowed by short-term commercial interests (click-bait and the like), it is well possible that this opens potential to outside manipulation. And of those, Russia is a likely candidate, w.r.t. motivation and capability.
Before, it was mainly government propaganda, yes there has been some of that, more or less, since the beginning of television and radio.
The fact that you're likely to "defect" lowers your value. Maybe you were worth the extra money, but no longer if you're looking for alternatives already.
Not even talking about irrational and emotional behaviour: you might be viewed as someone who doesn't persevere or just isn't reliable.
Agree, but please don't assume that all "drugs" users require rehab. Most have their use under control, in fact alcohol gets more people addicted than most illegal drugs do.
True if the intensity is too much. The same can be said from industrial air pollution, traffic, the neighbours cooking food that I don't like etc. etc.
Yes cigarette smoke in a car is too strong, but smoke from the neighbours? The smoke won't hurt you, yet you can smell it. There are many smells in the world, and many tastes.
If it is bad or not depends on the health of the population at large, the cost for society in terms of health, money and quality of life.
In that sense, I would asume that substituting marijana for tobacco, would be an improvement.
Just like with cigarettes, forcing others to smoke passively should not be allowed.
So you believe that Putin believes, he can convince the US population to vote for a particular candidate? I think you underestimate Putin in that case.
for the USA: manufacturing is done elsewhere, so it tries to monopolize the worlds intelectual property and tries to turn it into something protected and ever more valuable, extending copyrights indefinately and bullying any country that doesn't play ball.
We can only hope for and wait for the total downfall and collapse of the US economy, before this madnes ends.
As part of "cost savings" back in 1991, managers decided that the secretary would be able to rotate the backup tapes, instead of IT staff. After 6 months of hacking and developing, we had a crash of 2 disks simultaneously. It turned out, all backups, offsite, offline, had all been made on cleaning tapes. Error messages had been ignored.
There is nothing new here. People and managers keep taking shortcuts and hope for the best.
If you call that squeezing by the 1%, I think you're overstating the value of human financial advice. It has been negative in recent years mostly.
The human advice that is worth anything, has already been reserved for customers with $1m and more for a long time (at least at the swiss banks). There are different types of products available above certain limits. The rest get other types of human advice, namely the worthless type.
In fact, RBS is doing all customers below 250k pounds a favor.
The truely rich clients have their own staff and private financial advisors, that use the banks facilities for trading and deposits, but nothing else, by the way. Those are the only advisors that have true benefit.
Companies spend a part of their profits to spread subjective (i.e. false) information. This is paid for in the end by the consumers themselves, as the advertising budget is paid from the profits.
So we as consumers pay, to get annoyed, to get our time wasted, and to get false information.
Advertisement is a plague of humanity, I'll do everything to shield myself from it.
They don't say he can do that only until X days before the end of his term. There is no legal basis to suddenly come up with that argument.
If there were: where would the the line be drawn? 1 year before end of term, 2 years, 3, even 4?!? What has happened in the past? Would it be a precedent to appoint someone now, in the last year of his term?
I doubt it. It sounds more than a power grab game, bringing up ad-hoc arguments to win a fight. That is unworthy of a state with rule of law.
In the end, AI will make all jobs obsolete. The question is, who will reap the benefits.
Suppose I could buy a robot-clone from myself, to do my job, even better than me. I can be on vacation all the time instead and use the earnings *my* robot is making for me.
Or would by boss also buy a robot and replace mine?
There have been analyses of the economic impact: even if these refugees are relatively well trained, the net impact on the economy is deemed to be strongly negative. The majority likely will never find work, and those with good training have a bad match to the needs of the german market.
Yes there are some (demographic) benefits, but these are by far outweighed by the economic drawbacks.
Large companies are less efficient and innovative than smaller ones. Yet in todays world (and also in much of the past) they can play out their sheer size and gain advantage from that.
Not because of efficiencies of scale, no, those are outweiged easily by overhead and confusion growing like O(exp(company size)).
But by distorting the market, buying smaller companies and stripping/ruining them, and by playing the global finance system, is how todays large corporations manage to stay afloat.
At the cost of numerous others.
But important political systems in the world are directly influenced by money, therefore this system is self-sustaining, to the detriment of many people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... says: In 1820, the Dutch redefined their ounce (in Dutch, ons) as 100 grams.[7][8] Dutch amendments to the metric system, such as an ons or 100 grams, has been inherited, adopted, and taught in Indonesia beginning in elementary school. It is also listed as standard usage in Indonesia's national dictionary, the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, and the government's official elementaryschool curriculum.[9]
I think nowhere else in europe an "ons" is used for 100g. But in the Netherlands, it is in daily use as such.
I think there are various styles of enterprise architecture and architects. I've seen many that add little or no value and mainly secure an easy job for themselves.
But there are exceptions. In the end, no company that had a significant reliance on IT systems can do without some central considerations at all. The question is not if you do it, but how to do it right, and with the right balance.
When the architects loose feeling with reality, real problems in developing and maintaining IT systems, you have a problem. Just like when the managers do.
It depends. If you are used to linux workflows (often involving the command line) then there is no way you can have that good enough in windows. cygwin is not good enough. For many users today (but still a small minority, I admit) linux is nicer and there is just a few apps "missing", which is the question of this article.
Personally, I get by with wine for the 2 missing apps (3d games). The rest (games) is available on steam today. There is no windows "productivity" app that I would need, but that is just me of course.
But to anser your question: I would like to have a complete linux-shell with all tools that truely feels native under windows. I don't think that is possible today. OSX on the other hand sometimes combines the best of both worlds (but has other quirks).
ACL's: often they are used "brute force" (creating long-term maintenance issues) instead of using more elegant mechanisms or setups.
The problem is that some groups of freedom fighters throw bombs around and don't seem to care for accidental bystanders becoming victim. I guess their theology makes everyone 'guilty'. It is mostly people of a certain religion displaying this type of behaviour. In the eyes of the vast majority, that makes them terrorists, no matter if their goals are justified, their means are not.
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There is no real difference.
Prohibition of Cannabis started with taxes, that became "prohibitively" high.
Do we really still believe in prohibition to "regulate" drugs?
The idea of "sin taxes" is wrong IMHO: It creates the wrong impression, what is not very very expensive cannot be too unhealthy.
However, most things, even drugs, are pretty harmless if taken in moderate amounts and if the user has some discipline.
Once the general wealth of the population rises, sin taxes stop working, and the pupulation, wrongly motivated by money alone, won't be able to control itself.
Instead, we should educate children and keep it out of their hands until they are adult. After that, we have to accept that people make their own decisions.
Automation can free humanity from having to work for basic needs such as food, clothing and housing.
The question, however, is how the benefits of automation will be distributed.
If the "owners" don't want to share, we'll have a dystopian future.
They can produce so cheap, but noone will buy what they produce.
The "1%" could make life miserable for the rest of us, use a robotized force to keep us under the thumb and bathe in luxury and wellbeing themselves.
Sooner or later infighting will come and the 1% will also destroy themselves (helped by the robots used for crowd control).
If we as humans can find a mechanism to share the benefits, we could have a good future.
We'll have to do with current ideologies and economic systems, and invent something new.
In this atmosphere of fake news, being overshadowed by short-term commercial interests (click-bait and the like), it is well possible that this opens potential to outside manipulation. And of those, Russia is a likely candidate, w.r.t. motivation and capability.
Before, it was mainly government propaganda, yes there has been some of that, more or less, since the beginning of television and radio.
The fact that you're likely to "defect" lowers your value.
Maybe you were worth the extra money, but no longer if you're looking for alternatives already.
Not even talking about irrational and emotional behaviour: you might be viewed as someone who doesn't persevere or just isn't reliable.
Could be another explanation.
I tend to take a joint before cleaning the house, for example. :).
To compensate for the horror I've got to go through
Agree, but please don't assume that all "drugs" users require rehab. Most have their use under control, in fact alcohol gets more people addicted than most illegal drugs do.
True if the intensity is too much. The same can be said from industrial air pollution, traffic, the neighbours cooking food that I don't like etc. etc.
Yes cigarette smoke in a car is too strong, but smoke from the neighbours? The smoke won't hurt you, yet you can smell it. There are many smells in the world, and many tastes.
If it is bad or not depends on the health of the population at large, the cost for society in terms of health, money and quality of life.
In that sense, I would asume that substituting marijana for tobacco, would be an improvement.
Just like with cigarettes, forcing others to smoke passively should not be allowed.
So you believe that Putin believes, he can convince the US population to vote for a particular candidate? I think you underestimate Putin in that case.
Steam also runs well enough under Wine, many windows-only Steam games work well, with same frame rates.
E.g. for Trackmania 2, I get exactly the same frame rate in Linux, using nvidia, as native under Windows.
for the USA: manufacturing is done elsewhere, so it tries to monopolize the worlds intelectual property and tries to turn it into something protected and ever more valuable, extending copyrights indefinately and bullying any country that doesn't play ball.
We can only hope for and wait for the total downfall and collapse of the US economy, before this madnes ends.
Watching video's takes too much time anyways.
As part of "cost savings" back in 1991, managers decided that the secretary would be able to rotate the backup tapes, instead of IT staff.
After 6 months of hacking and developing, we had a crash of 2 disks simultaneously.
It turned out, all backups, offsite, offline, had all been made on cleaning tapes. Error messages had been ignored.
There is nothing new here. People and managers keep taking shortcuts and hope for the best.
If you call that squeezing by the 1%, I think you're overstating the value of human financial advice.
It has been negative in recent years mostly.
The human advice that is worth anything, has already been reserved for customers with $1m and more for a long time (at least at the swiss banks).
There are different types of products available above certain limits.
The rest get other types of human advice, namely the worthless type.
In fact, RBS is doing all customers below 250k pounds a favor.
The truely rich clients have their own staff and private financial advisors, that use the banks facilities for trading and deposits, but nothing else, by the way.
Those are the only advisors that have true benefit.
Advertisement is a huge waste of resources:
Companies spend a part of their profits to spread subjective (i.e. false) information.
This is paid for in the end by the consumers themselves, as the advertising budget is paid from the profits.
So we as consumers pay, to get annoyed, to get our time wasted, and to get false information.
Advertisement is a plague of humanity, I'll do everything to shield myself from it.
You cannot change the rules during the game.
The rules say the president can nominate someone.
They don't say he can do that only until X days before the end of his term.
There is no legal basis to suddenly come up with that argument.
If there were: where would the the line be drawn? 1 year before end of term, 2 years, 3, even 4?!?
What has happened in the past? Would it be a precedent to appoint someone now, in the last year of his term?
I doubt it. It sounds more than a power grab game, bringing up ad-hoc arguments to win a fight.
That is unworthy of a state with rule of law.
In the end, AI will make all jobs obsolete. The question is, who will reap the benefits.
Suppose I could buy a robot-clone from myself, to do my job, even better than me.
I can be on vacation all the time instead and use the earnings *my* robot is making for me.
Or would by boss also buy a robot and replace mine?
Even if you would think pair programming makes sense (I don't, but it might be cultural as some have claimed), they cannot replace code reviews.
Both "pair programmers" are following the same thought process and may fall in the same trap.
A fresh look, by someone who wasn't involved in coding is always required.
There have been analyses of the economic impact: even if these refugees are relatively well trained, the net impact on the economy is deemed to be strongly negative. The majority likely will never find work, and those with good training have a bad match to the needs of the german market.
Yes there are some (demographic) benefits, but these are by far outweighed by the economic drawbacks.
Should Programmers Be Engineers: Yes.
Large companies are less efficient and innovative than smaller ones. Yet in todays world (and also in much of the past) they can play out their sheer size and gain advantage from that.
Not because of efficiencies of scale, no, those are outweiged easily by overhead and confusion growing like O(exp(company size)).
But by distorting the market, buying smaller companies and stripping/ruining them, and by playing the global finance system, is how todays large corporations manage to stay afloat.
At the cost of numerous others.
But important political systems in the world are directly influenced by money, therefore this system is self-sustaining, to the detriment of many people.
Parent is probably dutch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... says: In 1820, the Dutch redefined their ounce (in Dutch, ons) as 100 grams.[7][8] Dutch amendments to the metric system, such as an ons or 100 grams, has been inherited, adopted, and taught in Indonesia beginning in elementary school. It is also listed as standard usage in Indonesia's national dictionary, the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, and the government's official elementaryschool curriculum.[9]
I think nowhere else in europe an "ons" is used for 100g. But in the Netherlands, it is in daily use as such.
I think there are various styles of enterprise architecture and architects. I've seen many that add little or no value and mainly secure an easy job for themselves.
But there are exceptions.
In the end, no company that had a significant reliance on IT systems can do without some central considerations at all.
The question is not if you do it, but how to do it right, and with the right balance.
When the architects loose feeling with reality, real problems in developing and maintaining IT systems, you have a problem. Just like when the managers do.
You should have chosen another field of study, where you can submit everything in Latex :).
It depends. If you are used to linux workflows (often involving the command line) then there is no way you can have that good enough in windows. cygwin is not good enough. For many users today (but still a small minority, I admit) linux is nicer and there is just a few apps "missing", which is the question of this article.
Personally, I get by with wine for the 2 missing apps (3d games). The rest (games) is available on steam today. There is no windows "productivity" app that I would need, but that is just me of course.
But to anser your question: I would like to have a complete linux-shell with all tools that truely feels native under windows. I don't think that is possible today.
OSX on the other hand sometimes combines the best of both worlds (but has other quirks).
ACL's: often they are used "brute force" (creating long-term maintenance issues) instead of using more elegant mechanisms or setups.
The problem is that some groups of freedom fighters throw bombs around and don't seem to care for accidental bystanders becoming victim.
I guess their theology makes everyone 'guilty'.
It is mostly people of a certain religion displaying this type of behaviour.
In the eyes of the vast majority, that makes them terrorists, no matter if their goals are justified, their means are not.