What does a basic book about economics have to say about the government suppressing supply? And does it say where in the retail price the other regulatory costs get hidden?
Here's the thing though... the poor don't pay $55 for these things. They also didn't pay $1000, or whatever.
The only people who ever paid $1000 or even $55 were middle class guys with Health Savings Accounts that hadn't yet reached their deductible for the year and rich guys stocking the first aid kits on their yachts.
Everyone else either has some sort of medical coverage (what we laughably call "insurance"), or if they are poor and somehow without a medical plan (medicaid is happy to pay for epi pens) the manufacturer would provide a coupon to get it for free or at some nominal cost.
Also, the people making their own are usually spending less than $20 each, which sets the rough ceiling for the free market cost. Mass production can probably bring that cost down to $5 or $10 each. But the free market isn't in charge here. You can't just design, build and sell these things. You need to beg for government approval.
Strange. A few years ago, I bought hundreds of syringes, needles, etc for refilling electronic cigarette cartridges. They were cheap and plentiful, and usually came in boxes of 100.
Now sharpened needles appear to be difficult to find on Amazon. I did find a few, but their shitty search engine didn't make it easy. What I found was maybe double what I paid in 2010-2011 for a box. Check Tractor Supply Company, if you have one of their stores nearby. Or, there are other medical supply companies that still sell online.
As far as I can tell, there is no federal legal problem with buying or possessing needles. I don't know about other states, but mine has no problem with needles either. YMMV
but it's highly unlikely that all calibration errors were in the same direction and skewed over time into the opposite direction
And yet... well, take a look for yourself at the adjustments made to the temperature data. Clearly someone thinks "that all of the calibration errors were in the same direction and then skewed over time into the opposite direction".
Considering that Hillary Clinton is extremely hard right, more right wing (but less authoritarian) than Trump,
I LOL'd.
This result is only possible by using very strange definitions for both axes, at least as Americans understand them. The whole site is effectively a version of your "Love & Hope" vs. "Far Right" image.
Which makes sense, because Stallman's personal politics are somewhere out in Chomskyville, that rarified region of the political spectrum between Karl Marx and transdimension beings from the Elemental Plane of Communism.
Seriously, go read the politics page on his personal website.
I blame the push in the 70s, 80s etc to wipe out "he" as the generic pronoun. That established "they" as the pronoun to use when the person wasn't specifically and blatantly a man or a woman.
I don't see the situation as stable. Lots of Gen X, Y, Z people are pissed at what their parents allowed the "educators" to get away with. As "it" catches on as the preferred pronoun for instances like this, I'm guessing that the people who wanted to get rid of "he" are going to be kicking itselves.
There is a long tradition in medicine to translate a patient's symptoms into quasi-latin or quasi-greek and call it a diagnosis.
Sore windpipe? Bronchitis Sore skin? Dermatitis Sore brain membrane? Meningitis Profound state of unease or dissatisfaction over your pronouns? Gender dysphoria
Those are all literal translations, by the way, so if one of them is a "political move", it seems like all of them must be.
Special treatment of pronoun problems is a political move. Of course, you already know that since I think I've personally pointed out to you several times that "SJW's always project."
Note that there is no political movement to indulge anorexics (another body dysphoria) with LAP bands. Nor amputations for those that feel like they have an extra or alien limb. But somehow we believe that we can cure pronoun problems by spaying and neutering, post-op suicide rate be damned.
We alt-right can't possibly be everywhere, so we count on the efforts of concerned progressives like yourself to spread our message. I'm happy to report that thanks to the hard work of thousands of people just like you, we pretty much have Trump's 2020 reelection locked in.
Bitcoin is unstable because it the market is small, and the market is small (mostly) because it is new. It won't always be new, and it won't necessarily always be small. It also doesn't have any laws favoring it the way that, for example, the dollar does in the US.
It does, however, have the advantage that no bank or government can devalue it by inflation. Instead, the inflation function is well known up front.
At any rate, bitcoin is just math. It has no more influence over what people say about it than the moon has.
I think that my newer 3D TV, the 49" one, is 4K UHD or something. My perfect TV does at least 1920x1080, is dumb as hell, and has a serial port. Those last two features usually increase the cost by roughly 100%, since they tend to be purchased more for signage (by businesses) than for watching videos. That TV is actually a smart TV, but one that has never seen a network connection. (If it has secret wifi, it hasn't found my honeypot network yet.) And thanks to the serial port, I can bypass almost all of the crappy "smart TV" menus.
My girlfriend wears glasses. I ordered up like three different sets of glasses-friendly 3D glasses for her to try out, and she likes at least one of them well enough to use. They have an offset at the front to float the lenses out past where her normal glasses sit. They are not the old lady/bug-eye sunglasses style.
I also have a friend that gets headaches trying to watch in 3D. Cured that by getting him a set of 2D glasses.
The flippant response is that there is a large and lucrative idiot market out there, and someone was bound to go after it sooner or later.
The better answer is that we have two ears. By limiting audio signals to the hearing range of a single ear, we lose the ability to capture and reproduce subtle phase information. This is an unexpected side benefit of the 48k audio being sold to the morons mentioned above.
I've got two 3D TVs that use passive glasses, and I like them. When it seemed like every movie was coming out in 3D, I went to 3 or 4 of them over almost as many years and kept the glasses, so I've got a good stock. I can wear them while I'm doing other things and still see other screens just fine. With a 3D program in the background, it can take a second or two for your brain to switch back into artificial 3D mode, but that's not too bad.
Price wasn't a big deal. On one of the TVs, I went searching for a TV with specific features that I wanted, and 3D came along for the ride. The TV was maybe $30 more than a crappy one of similar size.
Content is poor. And not just selection. Tron Legacy is beautiful in 3D and has a great soundtrack, but the movie is just awful. And sadly, there are plenty others like it.
The killer app for 3D TV though, should have been sports. The Canadians did a 3D broadcast of a hockey game at least once, and it is amazing. It has to be seen to be believed. I play that game for skeptics now and then, and they get really, really excited about 3D TV. But then they deflate when the realize that nothing is ever broadcast in 3D, and specifically nothing in the sport they like (whatever that is).
I don't expect quantum computing to make an impact in the next 20 years, even with a gigantic breakthrough. I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but the world record for (proper) quantum factoring is still 21=3*7, right? And that was 2012. The previous record of 15=3*5 had been standing since the 2001. And the interval between advances doesn't seem, to me, to be getting any shorter. To put it another way, the difficulties in scaling the systems to more qubits seem to be increasing at least as fast as we are improving our techniques for building coherent devices.
At any rate, it is pretty much trivial to replace the signature algorithm with a quantum-hard one when the time comes. Under some circumstances, it can even be done without allocating any of the reserved opcodes.
We can do the same thing with the work function (hashing) too, but my read is that even with a giant breakthrough in factoring, hashing faces absolutely no danger from quantum attacks within my lifetime, probably the lifetime of my grandchildren. I know it sounds arrogant to say that today, but some discussions of hashing and quantum computing led me to read the literature, and that really opened my eyes to the difficulties. I can elaborate if desired.
Oh, and even a successful quantum attack on ECDSA only works against the current system if it can be done within a few minutes, at least when people are protecting their keys properly by not re-using them. A quantum attack on hashing would strip that protection, of course.
I'm shocked, just shocked!, to hear that the foxes have declared the henhouse to be perfectly safe under their watch.
Unless I'm missing something, the graph in the Ars article is hilarious. The red and blue lines agree no better in the "new and improved" fiction than they do in (what I hope is) the actual data, but now they point in the right direction, and that's what really matters.
Is this the end then? The last uncorrupted dataset has fallen now? Are we finally ready to start executing the unbelievers?
That's just insulting. When I was a 15 year old American boy, I knew damn well what an ellipse was. By 15, I think we were solving elliptical equations and not merely visualizing the "two pins and string" model. I also knew (because of my career of aspiring to be an astronaut since age 6) what an elliptic orbit was and the burns needed to get into and out of them.
What's really funny is that right-wing critics of the Republican party complain that they are too much like the Democrats. We refer to a big chunk of them as "the Republican wing of the Democrat party". I view the alt-right as the fraction of the right (including a fraction of the Republican party) that is opposed to the Democrat agenda and not merely trying to slow it down by a couple of months, or worse, get rich by ushering it in while saying mean things about it. The alt means alternative, not only to the GOP establishment, but to the Democrats and Progressives.
I've got to ask though - what exactly is it that you want from the Democrat party that you aren't getting? Is your complaint that the Democrats want to go to war with Russia? Is there not enough "free" shit? The last white man hasn't been chased out yet? What do you want?
I can't help mocking you a little, but I'm genuinely interested.
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Or maybe they are just trying to recover some of the millions of dollars they spent getting government approval to sell them.
What does a basic book about economics have to say about the government suppressing supply? And does it say where in the retail price the other regulatory costs get hidden?
Here's the thing though... the poor don't pay $55 for these things. They also didn't pay $1000, or whatever.
The only people who ever paid $1000 or even $55 were middle class guys with Health Savings Accounts that hadn't yet reached their deductible for the year and rich guys stocking the first aid kits on their yachts.
Everyone else either has some sort of medical coverage (what we laughably call "insurance"), or if they are poor and somehow without a medical plan (medicaid is happy to pay for epi pens) the manufacturer would provide a coupon to get it for free or at some nominal cost.
Also, the people making their own are usually spending less than $20 each, which sets the rough ceiling for the free market cost. Mass production can probably bring that cost down to $5 or $10 each. But the free market isn't in charge here. You can't just design, build and sell these things. You need to beg for government approval.
Strange. A few years ago, I bought hundreds of syringes, needles, etc for refilling electronic cigarette cartridges. They were cheap and plentiful, and usually came in boxes of 100.
Now sharpened needles appear to be difficult to find on Amazon. I did find a few, but their shitty search engine didn't make it easy. What I found was maybe double what I paid in 2010-2011 for a box. Check Tractor Supply Company, if you have one of their stores nearby. Or, there are other medical supply companies that still sell online.
As far as I can tell, there is no federal legal problem with buying or possessing needles. I don't know about other states, but mine has no problem with needles either. YMMV
Rural is the greek word for "Not close to an ambulance"
And yet... well, take a look for yourself at the adjustments made to the temperature data. Clearly someone thinks "that all of the calibration errors were in the same direction and then skewed over time into the opposite direction".
You are a natural at this!
I LOL'd.
This result is only possible by using very strange definitions for both axes, at least as Americans understand them. The whole site is effectively a version of your "Love & Hope" vs. "Far Right" image.
Which makes sense, because Stallman's personal politics are somewhere out in Chomskyville, that rarified region of the political spectrum between Karl Marx and transdimension beings from the Elemental Plane of Communism.
Seriously, go read the politics page on his personal website.
I blame the push in the 70s, 80s etc to wipe out "he" as the generic pronoun. That established "they" as the pronoun to use when the person wasn't specifically and blatantly a man or a woman.
I don't see the situation as stable. Lots of Gen X, Y, Z people are pissed at what their parents allowed the "educators" to get away with. As "it" catches on as the preferred pronoun for instances like this, I'm guessing that the people who wanted to get rid of "he" are going to be kicking itselves.
There is a long tradition in medicine to translate a patient's symptoms into quasi-latin or quasi-greek and call it a diagnosis.
Sore windpipe? Bronchitis
Sore skin? Dermatitis
Sore brain membrane? Meningitis
Profound state of unease or dissatisfaction over your pronouns? Gender dysphoria
Those are all literal translations, by the way, so if one of them is a "political move", it seems like all of them must be.
Special treatment of pronoun problems is a political move. Of course, you already know that since I think I've personally pointed out to you several times that "SJW's always project."
Note that there is no political movement to indulge anorexics (another body dysphoria) with LAP bands. Nor amputations for those that feel like they have an extra or alien limb. But somehow we believe that we can cure pronoun problems by spaying and neutering, post-op suicide rate be damned.
Bless you, sir, for doing God's work.
We alt-right can't possibly be everywhere, so we count on the efforts of concerned progressives like yourself to spread our message. I'm happy to report that thanks to the hard work of thousands of people just like you, we pretty much have Trump's 2020 reelection locked in.
Bitcoin is unstable because it the market is small, and the market is small (mostly) because it is new. It won't always be new, and it won't necessarily always be small. It also doesn't have any laws favoring it the way that, for example, the dollar does in the US.
It does, however, have the advantage that no bank or government can devalue it by inflation. Instead, the inflation function is well known up front.
At any rate, bitcoin is just math. It has no more influence over what people say about it than the moon has.
I think that my newer 3D TV, the 49" one, is 4K UHD or something. My perfect TV does at least 1920x1080, is dumb as hell, and has a serial port. Those last two features usually increase the cost by roughly 100%, since they tend to be purchased more for signage (by businesses) than for watching videos. That TV is actually a smart TV, but one that has never seen a network connection. (If it has secret wifi, it hasn't found my honeypot network yet.) And thanks to the serial port, I can bypass almost all of the crappy "smart TV" menus.
My girlfriend wears glasses. I ordered up like three different sets of glasses-friendly 3D glasses for her to try out, and she likes at least one of them well enough to use. They have an offset at the front to float the lenses out past where her normal glasses sit. They are not the old lady/bug-eye sunglasses style.
I also have a friend that gets headaches trying to watch in 3D. Cured that by getting him a set of 2D glasses.
Content is still the problem in my house.
The flippant response is that there is a large and lucrative idiot market out there, and someone was bound to go after it sooner or later.
The better answer is that we have two ears. By limiting audio signals to the hearing range of a single ear, we lose the ability to capture and reproduce subtle phase information. This is an unexpected side benefit of the 48k audio being sold to the morons mentioned above.
The "news for nerds" version of this story's headline is "AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 49 bits of Memory Address Space"
I disagree with most of the comments so far.
I've got two 3D TVs that use passive glasses, and I like them. When it seemed like every movie was coming out in 3D, I went to 3 or 4 of them over almost as many years and kept the glasses, so I've got a good stock. I can wear them while I'm doing other things and still see other screens just fine. With a 3D program in the background, it can take a second or two for your brain to switch back into artificial 3D mode, but that's not too bad.
Price wasn't a big deal. On one of the TVs, I went searching for a TV with specific features that I wanted, and 3D came along for the ride. The TV was maybe $30 more than a crappy one of similar size.
Content is poor. And not just selection. Tron Legacy is beautiful in 3D and has a great soundtrack, but the movie is just awful. And sadly, there are plenty others like it.
The killer app for 3D TV though, should have been sports. The Canadians did a 3D broadcast of a hockey game at least once, and it is amazing. It has to be seen to be believed. I play that game for skeptics now and then, and they get really, really excited about 3D TV. But then they deflate when the realize that nothing is ever broadcast in 3D, and specifically nothing in the sport they like (whatever that is).
I'm curious what you think "put down by force" would look like.
I don't expect quantum computing to make an impact in the next 20 years, even with a gigantic breakthrough. I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but the world record for (proper) quantum factoring is still 21=3*7, right? And that was 2012. The previous record of 15=3*5 had been standing since the 2001. And the interval between advances doesn't seem, to me, to be getting any shorter. To put it another way, the difficulties in scaling the systems to more qubits seem to be increasing at least as fast as we are improving our techniques for building coherent devices.
At any rate, it is pretty much trivial to replace the signature algorithm with a quantum-hard one when the time comes. Under some circumstances, it can even be done without allocating any of the reserved opcodes.
We can do the same thing with the work function (hashing) too, but my read is that even with a giant breakthrough in factoring, hashing faces absolutely no danger from quantum attacks within my lifetime, probably the lifetime of my grandchildren. I know it sounds arrogant to say that today, but some discussions of hashing and quantum computing led me to read the literature, and that really opened my eyes to the difficulties. I can elaborate if desired.
Oh, and even a successful quantum attack on ECDSA only works against the current system if it can be done within a few minutes, at least when people are protecting their keys properly by not re-using them. A quantum attack on hashing would strip that protection, of course.
I'm shocked, just shocked!, to hear that the foxes have declared the henhouse to be perfectly safe under their watch.
Unless I'm missing something, the graph in the Ars article is hilarious. The red and blue lines agree no better in the "new and improved" fiction than they do in (what I hope is) the actual data, but now they point in the right direction, and that's what really matters.
Is this the end then? The last uncorrupted dataset has fallen now? Are we finally ready to start executing the unbelievers?
That's just insulting. When I was a 15 year old American boy, I knew damn well what an ellipse was. By 15, I think we were solving elliptical equations and not merely visualizing the "two pins and string" model. I also knew (because of my career of aspiring to be an astronaut since age 6) what an elliptic orbit was and the burns needed to get into and out of them.
Cuckservatives: How "Conservatives" Betrayed America
Love it or hate it, the alt-right is growing in influence and most of us would be wise to learn more about what they think and what they want.
Obama wanted us to read Mein Kampf?
Thank you illustrating his point so clearly.
What's really funny is that right-wing critics of the Republican party complain that they are too much like the Democrats. We refer to a big chunk of them as "the Republican wing of the Democrat party". I view the alt-right as the fraction of the right (including a fraction of the Republican party) that is opposed to the Democrat agenda and not merely trying to slow it down by a couple of months, or worse, get rich by ushering it in while saying mean things about it. The alt means alternative, not only to the GOP establishment, but to the Democrats and Progressives.
I've got to ask though - what exactly is it that you want from the Democrat party that you aren't getting? Is your complaint that the Democrats want to go to war with Russia? Is there not enough "free" shit? The last white man hasn't been chased out yet? What do you want?
I can't help mocking you a little, but I'm genuinely interested.