You don't seem to understand how currency is valued.
I do and it has been over valued for a very long time, which Deutsche Bank analysts even confirmed last year. Even now, the IMF has stated repeatedly that the pound is still overvalued despite the fall and has been hurting the export industry for decades now which head lead to a major loss of business, particularly in the services industry.
The UK's prospects looked much better inside the EU
The UK's prospects had a set of certainty for the next few years, they didn't look 'better', the situation is right now unknowable, particularly because politicians are not taking sufficient action to make strides in either direction.
Then the markets noticed that we had thrown most of that away and were in the process of destroying our wealth in an effort to reduce immigration and "get back sovereignty", which they correctly interpreted as making ourselves less able to trade and compete in the world.
Honestly, if that was the case, then we wouldn't still be overvalued (which I think is a significant problem in it self), but we are and the over valuation is overall hurting our exports to the point that our imports are overshadowing them.
That's not how over evaluating a currency works, so in a word, no.
the moment we decided to throw away that crutch the markets started treating us like the sick man of Europe that we are.
Saying that the markets are treating the UK as a "sick man" of Europe when the markets value the GBP value over USD is pure non-sense. I mean, really, if you want to compare a "sick man of Europe" as you put it, the value of BGN is half a USD.
I don't know, calling this "brexit" when it's not even happening is ridiculous. The are a couple of issues here. One, the pound has been overvalued for quite a while now, the uncertainty brought about recently has only sought to restore the pound to a more accurate valuation (although some economists feel that the valuation is higher than it should be still).
Unfortunately, the issue with uncertainty isn't brexit, but the result of politicians that aren't actually acting. The government is not doing a good job at showing certainty, article 50 hasn't even been executed by our government, so we and everyone else don't even know if we're even really leaving the EU or not. Brexit is simply leaving the EU and there is no progress since the elections, we're just stuck in limbo while politicians do anything but act. At this point, our politicians need to either start acting and declare we're staying in the EU or leaving, otherwise we're just going to ruin ourselves by staying in this stupid limbo.
I run a small business, but I'm already way worse off because everything I import costs a fuck-ton more and I can't afford to just bump prices up accordingly when my larger competitors already have huge warehouses of stock and have the power of scale to have negotiated pricing agreements.
My business is doing a lot better because we export services rather than import.
All the OMG RED TAPE that supposedly comes from Brussels is a myth
You have absolutely no idea how much crap like the cookie policy cost massive IT projects.
and what few anti-small-business legislation exists is hardly likely to be removed by the prevent government, whose ear is deaf to all but the largest enterprises.
I'm skeptical of claims that the common fisheries policy, the common agriculture policy, the EU Environmental Policies as minor issues which large organisations had methods of working around would be unlikely to be removed considering that they also impact government departments significantly despite the fact the reasoning behind a lot of legislation behind is not beneficial and irregularly changes because of majority voting mechanisms that benefit the majority of countries that wish to exploit resources and enforce specific types of quotas that actually work against the goals of the policy groups.
but that is not a good reason not to aim for anonymity
You missundertsand me. It's not good to advertise something for anonymity because it leads to a false sense of security which is a bigger issue than anonymity. When people assume they're not anonymouse, they are more cautious and use better obfuscation.
Even if you were to compromise an individual system it won't reveal other people's transactions.
But compromising the vast majority would. If you can watch the vast majority of end points (because you got a worm similar to msblaster's potency out, you've now got massive control over everything which is what I was pointing out).
When you can transfer thousands of dollars to someone without having to ask permission that's revolutionary.
I can do that already.
I can pay my employees without having to deal with the banks whom are tightly controlled by the government.
To be honest, I never really had to 'deal' with the banks, they just 'worked' and I never had to worry too much about the particulars of managing incoming and outgoing because I just set the limits with the bank and 2nd factor authentication, checks etc. that I wanted. I have most of my HR handed off to an external HR company, including managing people's pay and taxes because I have other things to worry about during business.
I supported her for several months on a weekly basis because of her virus woes and constant update and install issues.
I would argue that you didn't seem to know what you were doing either. It takes very little effort to lock down a system sufficiently without hindering the user in Windows. A few security options and GPOs is trivial compared to doing the same in OS X.
I knew she wouldnt get more worms and viruses
All the scummy confusing malware ads for cleaning your mac and crap that is still super common today when you visit websites and you really want to make that claim?
Sorry, I don't believe you. I've seen way too many Mac users with problems you describe to know it.
My company takes BitCoins and users whom had BitCoins wouldn't have been impacted by this outage.
My company uses GBP and wouldn't have been impacted by this outage either.
Now we aren't completely decentralized nor distributed, but it's one example of where we are.
Same as my company.
Now we've seen numerous times with attacks on piracy sites that adding an onion to your site also makes you more resistant to attack/downtime.
Indeed, but so it spinning up resilient servers across multiple cloud infrastructures and using CDNs used to protect against a variety of attacks.
We need BitCoin, BitTorrent, and similar, not less.
I think we need more diverisfied infrastructure in the cloud, not BitCoin, BitTorrent, and similar. These technologies are significantly wasteful in processing, bandwidth and most importantly, time.
but it has its value and is one step closer to where we want to be. z.cash and zero coin should solve some of the anonymity and privacy issues with BitCoin unlike psudo-anonymous solutions we've seen before.
But I don't want unapproved majority people managing the network and dictating how payments work and being capable of deanonymizing - we're better off assuming we're not anonymous on any system, it's a false sense of security. The people that build this decenteralized system and those that buy into it completely ignore the prospect of systems out that that can deliver mass internet worms as we've seen in previous years.
I don't go to concerts to hear the lyrics. I go to concerts to knock people over in the pit while the music is played. Can't do that in my living room, it's called domestic violence in that case
I probably missed the gazillion times this point was raised, but why is this a thing?
Likely to support proprietary Linux software and do some Linux development too.
The linux subsystem is not even close to be a real production environment so you can't validate anything on it anyway.
Honestly, outside of the kernel interfaces which had most common interfaces implemented and a few permission issues, it's a pretty good approximation for real time development of Linux software on Windows in my opinion.
There are so many ways to get a good linux environment that are both way closer to the real thing and can run native binaries (obviously).
How many of those integrate with Visual Studio natively, debugger and all?
As a developer, I honestly don't see the use case here when I can either run a VM, dualboot, or for most simple project simply build them as windows executable anyway.
I would have found this immensely useful if I was still developing certain software actively as the Linux builds are substantially different, depend on different compilers, libraries etc.
In which case do you need to run a linux ELF in a butchered down environment that (hopefully) isn't what you'll run the production code in the end?
I think you're confusing development with testing and deployment. The environment used for the system isn't perfect, but if you can get it running in the environment that has limited kernel interfaces, there is little reason why it wouldn't run in an environment with full kernel interfaces. If you're just writing code that is meant to be cross platform, doing TDD/BDD with windows and Linux variants as you're going along becomes much easier and faster. After when you've completed a sufficient amount of work, you can hand it off to the continuous integration environment and have that produce your builds and perform automated testing on the real (development testing) environments.
To select and copy text: Right click in title bar, select Edit in the menu, select Mark, select the text to be copied, hit enter or mouse button.
The console window for the start menu item "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (terrible naming by the way) is already in quick edit mode, you don't need to right click the titlebar.
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You're holding it wrong!
I do and it has been over valued for a very long time, which Deutsche Bank analysts even confirmed last year. Even now, the IMF has stated repeatedly that the pound is still overvalued despite the fall and has been hurting the export industry for decades now which head lead to a major loss of business, particularly in the services industry.
The UK's prospects had a set of certainty for the next few years, they didn't look 'better', the situation is right now unknowable, particularly because politicians are not taking sufficient action to make strides in either direction.
Honestly, if that was the case, then we wouldn't still be overvalued (which I think is a significant problem in it self), but we are and the over valuation is overall hurting our exports to the point that our imports are overshadowing them.
That's not how over evaluating a currency works, so in a word, no.
Saying that the markets are treating the UK as a "sick man" of Europe when the markets value the GBP value over USD is pure non-sense. I mean, really, if you want to compare a "sick man of Europe" as you put it, the value of BGN is half a USD.
And Gab is being replaced by Plurk.
I don't know, calling this "brexit" when it's not even happening is ridiculous. The are a couple of issues here. One, the pound has been overvalued for quite a while now, the uncertainty brought about recently has only sought to restore the pound to a more accurate valuation (although some economists feel that the valuation is higher than it should be still).
Unfortunately, the issue with uncertainty isn't brexit, but the result of politicians that aren't actually acting. The government is not doing a good job at showing certainty, article 50 hasn't even been executed by our government, so we and everyone else don't even know if we're even really leaving the EU or not. Brexit is simply leaving the EU and there is no progress since the elections, we're just stuck in limbo while politicians do anything but act. At this point, our politicians need to either start acting and declare we're staying in the EU or leaving, otherwise we're just going to ruin ourselves by staying in this stupid limbo.
My business is doing a lot better because we export services rather than import.
You have absolutely no idea how much crap like the cookie policy cost massive IT projects.
I'm skeptical of claims that the common fisheries policy, the common agriculture policy, the EU Environmental Policies as minor issues which large organisations had methods of working around would be unlikely to be removed considering that they also impact government departments significantly despite the fact the reasoning behind a lot of legislation behind is not beneficial and irregularly changes because of majority voting mechanisms that benefit the majority of countries that wish to exploit resources and enforce specific types of quotas that actually work against the goals of the policy groups.
Dyn should be blamed, after all, they advertise "Total business accountability".
We can run VMs of phone OSes just fine on phones.
Renesys was acquired by Dyn, the dynamic dns services are a completely seperate system and infrastructure.
You missundertsand me. It's not good to advertise something for anonymity because it leads to a false sense of security which is a bigger issue than anonymity. When people assume they're not anonymouse, they are more cautious and use better obfuscation.
But compromising the vast majority would. If you can watch the vast majority of end points (because you got a worm similar to msblaster's potency out, you've now got massive control over everything which is what I was pointing out).
I can do that already.
To be honest, I never really had to 'deal' with the banks, they just 'worked' and I never had to worry too much about the particulars of managing incoming and outgoing because I just set the limits with the bank and 2nd factor authentication, checks etc. that I wanted. I have most of my HR handed off to an external HR company, including managing people's pay and taxes because I have other things to worry about during business.
Because Renesys was acquired by Dyn, do I really have to spell out everything?
I would argue that you didn't seem to know what you were doing either. It takes very little effort to lock down a system sufficiently without hindering the user in Windows. A few security options and GPOs is trivial compared to doing the same in OS X.
All the scummy confusing malware ads for cleaning your mac and crap that is still super common today when you visit websites and you really want to make that claim?
Sorry, I don't believe you. I've seen way too many Mac users with problems you describe to know it.
Yes, it's currently very broken in Sierra for me. It was working fine in Mavericks.
It is. That's why the big websites are using dyn.com as opposed to dyndns.org.
Dyndns.org is unrelated to dyn.com, so, I don't know what point you're rying to make.
Nope, it too was broken for certain domains like t.co which is hosted by dyn.
My company uses GBP and wouldn't have been impacted by this outage either.
Same as my company.
Indeed, but so it spinning up resilient servers across multiple cloud infrastructures and using CDNs used to protect against a variety of attacks.
I think we need more diverisfied infrastructure in the cloud, not BitCoin, BitTorrent, and similar. These technologies are significantly wasteful in processing, bandwidth and most importantly, time.
But I don't want unapproved majority people managing the network and dictating how payments work and being capable of deanonymizing - we're better off assuming we're not anonymous on any system, it's a false sense of security. The people that build this decenteralized system and those that buy into it completely ignore the prospect of systems out that that can deliver mass internet worms as we've seen in previous years.
That's a design patent.
Yes, they are abusing copyright law rather than patent law.
Patents and copyright are different things.
Already happens with the junk mail I get addressed to me and the fact my name and address are public record for company filings and whois records.
I don't see why anyone else should be exempt if I'm not.
Yesterday.
Today.
Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I snorted into my drink reading that, ahaha.
Fortunately, you won't have a young child forever.
You are a good parent, please continue being one.
Likely to support proprietary Linux software and do some Linux development too.
Honestly, outside of the kernel interfaces which had most common interfaces implemented and a few permission issues, it's a pretty good approximation for real time development of Linux software on Windows in my opinion.
How many of those integrate with Visual Studio natively, debugger and all?
I would have found this immensely useful if I was still developing certain software actively as the Linux builds are substantially different, depend on different compilers, libraries etc.
I think you're confusing development with testing and deployment. The environment used for the system isn't perfect, but if you can get it running in the environment that has limited kernel interfaces, there is little reason why it wouldn't run in an environment with full kernel interfaces. If you're just writing code that is meant to be cross platform, doing TDD/BDD with windows and Linux variants as you're going along becomes much easier and faster. After when you've completed a sufficient amount of work, you can hand it off to the continuous integration environment and have that produce your builds and perform automated testing on the real (development testing) environments.
The console window for the start menu item "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (terrible naming by the way) is already in quick edit mode, you don't need to right click the titlebar.