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  1. A few more releases of Windows should do it. on How Can Linux Gain (Even) More Enterprise Acceptance? (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's all folks.

  2. Re:This is a way of keeping him inactive on TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition · · Score: 1

    We are, however, talking about the US and the UK here, so that's not relevant to this case.

  3. Re:Maintenance Isn't a Bad Job on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    I actually just left a company which has been fighting this problem for so long that the entire dev department is spending 80-90% of their time tracking down reported bugs, and the remaining time cramming in whatever was promised to the customers in the fastest way, damn the maintainability. Each year, the cost of bugs and maintenance has gone up, and the devs are now all on call - the operations team cannot support the product themselves anymore. Think about that; you are a developer, and you are on call. 24-7.

    Which is to say about half the software companies in the world these days.

  4. Re:333.3333... people for every coin on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    GDP is final demand, transactions will count the same final demand several times. Learn some basic econ.

  5. Re:333.3333... people for every coin on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Stock/flow error. That's transactions not final demand. Learn some basic econ will you?

  6. Re:Austrian economics on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1
    "There won't be a deflationary spiral. Look at post-bellum America in the 1800s for an example of a deflationary period when the economy was growing."

    Nothing wrong with the theory so long as you can point to the continents full of brown people to kill and plunder.

  7. Re:Additionally on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    No, because it is parasitic upon economies which have governments. There are all kinds of side currencies: air miles, derivs, stock, MS points. Bit coin is big because there is about 1% of the population that doesn't believe in the 20th century economically, which is in fact, somewhat smaller by an order of magnitude that the people who still can't accept Darwinism.

  8. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    If by "people who have it" you mean assholes that are trying to crash the economy in hopes of owning it, you are right.

  9. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    No, that's a total lie. Keynesian stimulus relies on arbitrage between the government's rate of interest and private rate of interest. Spending up to slack capacity puts that capacity online. No slack capacity saith the IS-LM model, only a diminishing stimulative effect from inflationary pressure.

  10. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 2

    It's also empirically true. Sustained macro deflation ends in war, misery, or depression, or some combination of the above. At some point it is easier to take the deflationary currency than earn it. This has already started to happen with bit coins: when the processing power required to break it is less than the processing power to earn it, virtually the only rational thing to do is break wallets.

  11. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    That's because you are ignorant. Hoarding and saving are not the same thing.

  12. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    No, you just showed us that you know zero about economics.

  13. Re:Bitcoins built-in failure on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Parent was definitely hit with mod abuse.

  14. Re:"Money is an issue" on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    So long as there is sufficient currency, supply and demand will clear at the same relative values.

  15. Re:"Money is an issue" on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1
  16. Re:"Money is an issue" on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you gold bugs have been screaming "zomg hyper-inflation!!!" for 80 years now. Hasn't happened. But then the quantity theory of money has the same things to recommend it that creationism has: it's so easy to ignore the truth.

  17. Re:Spend more not do anything on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to the concept of inelastic demand...

  18. Re:Why not factor in actual research? on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    BAC however correlates well to impairment, and is an easy test. The problem with many other drugs is that there is no easy test. This is a problem for a widely permissive society which is also mechanized. Rather than avoid the problem, we should face it head on, particularly because it overlaps with other problems – such as an aging society and sleep deprivation, as well as portable telecommunications.

  19. Re:Why not factor in actual research? on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Field sobriety test is a poor measure, it is also post-hoc. This is why some kind of computer assisted driving is quite likely part of the answer, because it deals with many possible problems. Already traction control is mandatory in all new cars. If we are going to be monitored, we should do it to expand, rather than reduce, liberty.

  20. Re:Why not factor in actual research? on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1
    www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/in-new-jersey-halfway-houses-escapees-stream-out-as-a-penal-business-thrives.html

    Further even if something is run by the public, that doesn't mean that there isn't a great deal of profit in building and supplying it. That is why I made reference Eisenhower.

  21. Re:"Money is an issue" on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    No you get a great deal less than you pay for. Just because there is government, doesn't mean it is good government.

  22. Re:Suprising in a marshy and swampy region on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    Much of the gas infrastructure here bears BG stamps.

  23. Re:Financial Incentives on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1
    For the vast majority of metro real estate, the building rent is trivial compared to the land rent.

    also known as "location, location, location."

  24. Re:Fixing Infrastructure is Stupid on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    Keep calm and take your meds.

  25. Re:Everything works on money on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-boston-fire-idUSBRE82D0DS20120314

    Nstar has a less than stellar record with maintain the metal.