Mussolini created modern fascism, but his definition was both stupid and misleading. First, in any modern state government will always be intertwined with corporations because the state is the executive committee of the biggest corporations. That's not fascism, that's just capitalism working as intended. It becomes fascism when it removes all opposition, eliminating them first from the streets and then physically. And even then there are a few distinctions between just murderously oppressive states and fascist states.
Taking money from the people and putting it in the pockets of the elite just because they're strong is fascism
We take from the average to give to the rich because of some patriotic vision of manifest destiny, that's fascism.
You're pretty creative with your definitions of fascism. You may not like these things (and neither do I) but calling everything you dislike "fascist" is the old trap the Left fell in, in the seventies. It didn't work out all that well. It's also an argument used by entrepreneurs to defend themselves whenever their compatriots plunder the locals. "Oh, it's fascism, really it is! But it's not us doing it, we're allright" (the No True Scotsman argument in reverse).
You also trip lightly over the consequences of your words. If it were fascism, then we would have to take up arms and kill them, to avoid being killed ourselves. Well, that attitude recently got us a few political murders. A heaven-sent gift for the hawks advocating repression and horribly counterproductive. And if that isn't the consequence of something being fascism, then what's your plan of action? Petition them? Ask them nicely?
To summarize: you haven't a clue what fascism is. It's not people being "not nice" to others. It's about the physical destruction of a large part of the majority of the population, mainly aimed at their organisations and their organisers. It means bodies lying in the streets, knocks on the door at 4am, death squads and all that crap. It means that anyone suspected of being different is imprisoned, killed or terrorized into hiding.
Comparing that to "Elon Musk gets money from the government so we're living in fascism" is silly.
Corporations and government combined is the definition of fascism according to Mussolini.
Since when did Mussolini have a valid opinion on anything? He was spouting propaganda, not delivering a scientific argument. As for writing a check to Elon Musk: are you implying that any government buying a service from a private company is a fascist state? Because I don't think you and I have the same definition of fascism in that case.
Okay, it's not as bad as I first assumed. It still looks to be pretty difficult to get a license if you didn't study and graduate and worked in the USA for at least a decade though. Still... locally, I don't know any profession that has this type of regulations. And we have less bridges collapsing or buildings falling over than the USA. So I'm still wondering what the regulation is meant to do, apart from limiting the number of PE's, or software engineers, that can apply for certain lucrative jobs.
For a standard car maker, the dealers would have a wholesale price. This would mean about a 10-20% margin on the car at retail if the car had to be sold at low price in order to compete, or more if the care made a lof of money already. However, at best that just imburses the dealer for the time spent in the showroom, employees, marketing etc. - the bread, in other words. They really need the after sales for the butter.
Another possible use that would be VERY helpful is if this would prevent the formation of hyperkeloid scar tissue. Not very life-threatening, but disfiguring, especially in the face.
Personally, if this really works in humans as well as it looks now, I wouldn't hesitate to nominate this team for a Nobel prize for medicine.
now that knf carpet bombing is finished, switch to hand to hand combat. still not sure what to make of mysteries like this: for (i = 7; i >= 0; i—) {/* increment */
10% growth won't be the norm in the near future because it's never been the norm, just a weird exception in some periods of intense growth. The average ROI over centuries is very very stable at 4%. This corresponds roughly to the price of houses.
I read an article today that explained that since 4% is higher than the average growthrate of economies, people having assets will tend to collect a larger and larger share from the GDP as opposed to just working for it. Hence the growing divide in society between people having money gathering more and more of it, and the rest gaining less and less.
Replace assets with capital and working for it with labour, and I think we're back at where Marx once started his analysis.
Always ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
How often has that strategy ended in a geek pleading guilty to a felony charge?
I'd say that would be pretty much in every case forgiveness was not forthcoming. Several people in jail, some dead now. Yeah, the results of that type of INDIVIDUAL action aren't pretty...
However, one can seek publicity and organize. You can't jail 10.000 people out of hand (in the USA).
Some people like to play aggressively, others don't. In most gaming communities that's okay. Not on LOL supposedly.
Uhm... have you ever played LoL? I mean, agressive play is one thing. But having every 5 out of 6 words being an insult or a slur doesn't really help me game. It's not aggressive play, it has NOTHING at all to do with play. And a lot with an inability to express themselves and their frustration at being so bad at the game.
It just makes me look for another game where I don't have to put up with pre-teens who just escaped from mama's supervision. And that's why LoL is right: they need to protect the normal players from the minority of asshats that can't deal with losing a game.
Okay, that's pretty interesting. I had never heard of that one but I can see how that that is certainly possible. It's just unexpected since I would expect that the instructions would say "has no side effects". But if you have a double blind study then ofcourse you would be told about side effects and then they could occur.
It's a bit like hypnosis, perhaps. I wonder if people who are sensitive to hypnotic commands are also more sensitive to placebo treatments. That could be interesting to determine.
If the results can be achieved without using homeopathy, it would have been done already. But you're trying to tell desperate people "no no, don't try this. We don't have anything else, but don't try this". You don't have a chance in the face of desperate people. Noone wants to hear it. And if governments really start cracking down on homeopathy, what may happen is that the paranoia over "Big Pharma" will increase, and that will *certainly* do quite a lot of harm on a much larger scale than drinking expensive water can do.
IMHO, you're looking at it from a pharmaceutical/medical perspective, when you should be looking at it from a psychological/behavioral point of view.
And the placebo effect has no side effects while "approaching the treatment effect" when certain conditions are met. Personally, if the doctor has no options for say, treating facial nerve pain (aka "suicide syndrome") then I'll try homeopathy. I've seen it work with rather amazing effectiveness up close and personal, even for skeptics and even for small children.
Homeopathy is applied psychology and pretty effective as such. Saying it's crap means you don't understand a iota of it.
You're saying that homeopathy can't work because there are no substances in the bottle. I'm saying it's precisely because there aren't any substances (except a small amount of alcohol) while still being expensive, that it is sometimes effective without damaging side effects.
I agree that that road isn't productive (otherwise we'd still write machine code since we can do everything in machine code), but the hint of "it's going to be on internet so I can't use and RDBMS" in the original question is silly, and that's what I react to.
Given 3 trillion users your options are pretty much limited to horizontal scaling, no SQL etc. but most people never get that far with their applications and in that case, storing the data in a noSQL database and then getting actionable information out of it (which is the hardest part IMO) is a lot of effort spent for something much cheaper and easier done with an RDBMS.
Any relational database can also do "schemaless" models, by using the EAV (anti-)pattern. Mainly this conveys a lack of understanding of your data and a lack of planning and design in your datamodel, but hey, it happens. The fun thing is that you still get all those nice database features like parallel processing, concurrency, SQL, ACID transactions if you want them, security and maintenance tooling, etc.
And if you use a modern database like SQL 2014 or Oracle's latest, you will get column-based compression (okay, it still sucks in SQL Server 2014, but it's a start), so the whole issue with extending sparse schema's is moot. If you use the 6th normal form it's not an issue anyway since that implements column-based compression by modeling it.
What you say is of course correct. It's just that for people who have a nice toolbox with all kinds of data models, relational databases go a lot further than most people think.
Very likely. Especially since it seems that Prius battery packs are holding up even better than expected, I'd expect the same from the Tesla packs (unless they use a different type of battery), and buying an older one for a low price seems like a good idea if you need the storage.
Unfortunately my roof is pretty unhelpful as regards solar panel placement. I have a large flat roof in the shade. Otherwise I'd have already installed solar panels.
Actually, it's in direct contrast to other research that said most people with iPhones had a lower income than most people with Android phones: those who can afford it the least sometimes tend to buy the most expensive stuff based. But that was a few years ago - perhaps it has changed in the mean time.
I agree with you and I'm not at all saying they were treated well. But if the Chinese government wanted to be unsubtle, they'd be beaten up and jailed without further discussion. Apart from that: the cases at Mt. Gox and the other thieves... sorry, money changers, show that regulation is going to be needed pronto. The Chinese version of regulation, however, is to ban it.
If the Chinese government had been unsubtle, the police would have arrested the owners and they'd be doing hard labour in a punishment camp in Tibet right now. Telling banks to stop doing business with them is a very very moderate slap on the wrist for people who've been slightly naughty.
What they do, as I gather from the article, is that they drill holes in specific patterns around installations. The pattern then absorbs seismic waves and turns them into sound and heat at the focal points of the waves. No idea how much heat or sound, but in general it's an improvement over having the building destroyed.
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It's not like they can steal openssl login credentials and just fix all the code and make a new release for them.
Unless OpenSSL is still using their original code :)
Mussolini created modern fascism, but his definition was both stupid and misleading. First, in any modern state government will always be intertwined with corporations because the state is the executive committee of the biggest corporations. That's not fascism, that's just capitalism working as intended. It becomes fascism when it removes all opposition, eliminating them first from the streets and then physically. And even then there are a few distinctions between just murderously oppressive states and fascist states.
Taking money from the people and putting it in the pockets of the elite just because they're strong is fascism
We take from the average to give to the rich because of some patriotic vision of manifest destiny, that's fascism.
You're pretty creative with your definitions of fascism. You may not like these things (and neither do I) but calling everything you dislike "fascist" is the old trap the Left fell in, in the seventies. It didn't work out all that well. It's also an argument used by entrepreneurs to defend themselves whenever their compatriots plunder the locals. "Oh, it's fascism, really it is! But it's not us doing it, we're allright" (the No True Scotsman argument in reverse).
You also trip lightly over the consequences of your words. If it were fascism, then we would have to take up arms and kill them, to avoid being killed ourselves. Well, that attitude recently got us a few political murders. A heaven-sent gift for the hawks advocating repression and horribly counterproductive. And if that isn't the consequence of something being fascism, then what's your plan of action? Petition them? Ask them nicely?
To summarize: you haven't a clue what fascism is. It's not people being "not nice" to others. It's about the physical destruction of a large part of the majority of the population, mainly aimed at their organisations and their organisers. It means bodies lying in the streets, knocks on the door at 4am, death squads and all that crap. It means that anyone suspected of being different is imprisoned, killed or terrorized into hiding.
Comparing that to "Elon Musk gets money from the government so we're living in fascism" is silly.
Corporations and government combined is the definition of fascism according to Mussolini.
Since when did Mussolini have a valid opinion on anything? He was spouting propaganda, not delivering a scientific argument. As for writing a check to Elon Musk: are you implying that any government buying a service from a private company is a fascist state? Because I don't think you and I have the same definition of fascism in that case.
Okay, it's not as bad as I first assumed. It still looks to be pretty difficult to get a license if you didn't study and graduate and worked in the USA for at least a decade though. Still... locally, I don't know any profession that has this type of regulations. And we have less bridges collapsing or buildings falling over than the USA. So I'm still wondering what the regulation is meant to do, apart from limiting the number of PE's, or software engineers, that can apply for certain lucrative jobs.
For a standard car maker, the dealers would have a wholesale price. This would mean about a 10-20% margin on the car at retail if the car had to be sold at low price in order to compete, or more if the care made a lof of money already. However, at best that just imburses the dealer for the time spent in the showroom, employees, marketing etc. - the bread, in other words. They really need the after sales for the butter.
Another possible use that would be VERY helpful is if this would prevent the formation of hyperkeloid scar tissue. Not very life-threatening, but disfiguring, especially in the face.
Personally, if this really works in humans as well as it looks now, I wouldn't hesitate to nominate this team for a Nobel prize for medicine.
I love this :)
My favorite comment:
now that knf carpet bombing is finished, switch to hand to hand combat. still not sure what to make of mysteries like this: for (i = 7; i >= 0; i—) { /* increment */
The NSA, obviously.
Next question please.
Hurray. Another guild to protect jobs from outsiders. As if the US travesty of what trade unions should do, wasn't bad enough by itself.
10% growth won't be the norm in the near future because it's never been the norm, just a weird exception in some periods of intense growth. The average ROI over centuries is very very stable at 4%. This corresponds roughly to the price of houses.
I read an article today that explained that since 4% is higher than the average growthrate of economies, people having assets will tend to collect a larger and larger share from the GDP as opposed to just working for it. Hence the growing divide in society between people having money gathering more and more of it, and the rest gaining less and less.
Replace assets with capital and working for it with labour, and I think we're back at where Marx once started his analysis.
Always ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
How often has that strategy ended in a geek pleading guilty to a felony charge?
I'd say that would be pretty much in every case forgiveness was not forthcoming. Several people in jail, some dead now. Yeah, the results of that type of INDIVIDUAL action aren't pretty...
However, one can seek publicity and organize. You can't jail 10.000 people out of hand (in the USA).
CSGO = CS:GO (Counter Strike Global Offensive)
Some people like to play aggressively, others don't. In most gaming communities that's okay. Not on LOL supposedly.
Uhm... have you ever played LoL? I mean, agressive play is one thing. But having every 5 out of 6 words being an insult or a slur doesn't really help me game. It's not aggressive play, it has NOTHING at all to do with play. And a lot with an inability to express themselves and their frustration at being so bad at the game.
It just makes me look for another game where I don't have to put up with pre-teens who just escaped from mama's supervision. And that's why LoL is right: they need to protect the normal players from the minority of asshats that can't deal with losing a game.
Okay, that's pretty interesting. I had never heard of that one but I can see how that that is certainly possible. It's just unexpected since I would expect that the instructions would say "has no side effects". But if you have a double blind study then ofcourse you would be told about side effects and then they could occur.
It's a bit like hypnosis, perhaps. I wonder if people who are sensitive to hypnotic commands are also more sensitive to placebo treatments. That could be interesting to determine.
Oh, didn't know about Postgres's new features. Well, that gives me something do to tonight :) Thanks.
If the results can be achieved without using homeopathy, it would have been done already. But you're trying to tell desperate people "no no, don't try this. We don't have anything else, but don't try this". You don't have a chance in the face of desperate people. Noone wants to hear it. And if governments really start cracking down on homeopathy, what may happen is that the paranoia over "Big Pharma" will increase, and that will *certainly* do quite a lot of harm on a much larger scale than drinking expensive water can do.
IMHO, you're looking at it from a pharmaceutical/medical perspective, when you should be looking at it from a psychological/behavioral point of view.
And the placebo effect has no side effects while "approaching the treatment effect" when certain conditions are met. Personally, if the doctor has no options for say, treating facial nerve pain (aka "suicide syndrome") then I'll try homeopathy. I've seen it work with rather amazing effectiveness up close and personal, even for skeptics and even for small children.
Link: http://dm.education.wisc.edu/t...
Homeopathy is applied psychology and pretty effective as such. Saying it's crap means you don't understand a iota of it.
You're saying that homeopathy can't work because there are no substances in the bottle. I'm saying it's precisely because there aren't any substances (except a small amount of alcohol) while still being expensive, that it is sometimes effective without damaging side effects.
I agree that that road isn't productive (otherwise we'd still write machine code since we can do everything in machine code), but the hint of "it's going to be on internet so I can't use and RDBMS" in the original question is silly, and that's what I react to.
Given 3 trillion users your options are pretty much limited to horizontal scaling, no SQL etc. but most people never get that far with their applications and in that case, storing the data in a noSQL database and then getting actionable information out of it (which is the hardest part IMO) is a lot of effort spent for something much cheaper and easier done with an RDBMS.
Any relational database can also do "schemaless" models, by using the EAV (anti-)pattern. Mainly this conveys a lack of understanding of your data and a lack of planning and design in your datamodel, but hey, it happens. The fun thing is that you still get all those nice database features like parallel processing, concurrency, SQL, ACID transactions if you want them, security and maintenance tooling, etc.
And if you use a modern database like SQL 2014 or Oracle's latest, you will get column-based compression (okay, it still sucks in SQL Server 2014, but it's a start), so the whole issue with extending sparse schema's is moot. If you use the 6th normal form it's not an issue anyway since that implements column-based compression by modeling it.
What you say is of course correct. It's just that for people who have a nice toolbox with all kinds of data models, relational databases go a lot further than most people think.
Very likely. Especially since it seems that Prius battery packs are holding up even better than expected, I'd expect the same from the Tesla packs (unless they use a different type of battery), and buying an older one for a low price seems like a good idea if you need the storage.
Unfortunately my roof is pretty unhelpful as regards solar panel placement. I have a large flat roof in the shade. Otherwise I'd have already installed solar panels.
Actually, it's in direct contrast to other research that said most people with iPhones had a lower income than most people with Android phones: those who can afford it the least sometimes tend to buy the most expensive stuff based. But that was a few years ago - perhaps it has changed in the mean time.
I agree with you and I'm not at all saying they were treated well. But if the Chinese government wanted to be unsubtle, they'd be beaten up and jailed without further discussion. Apart from that: the cases at Mt. Gox and the other thieves... sorry, money changers, show that regulation is going to be needed pronto. The Chinese version of regulation, however, is to ban it.
If the Chinese government had been unsubtle, the police would have arrested the owners and they'd be doing hard labour in a punishment camp in Tibet right now. Telling banks to stop doing business with them is a very very moderate slap on the wrist for people who've been slightly naughty.
What they do, as I gather from the article, is that they drill holes in specific patterns around installations. The pattern then absorbs seismic waves and turns them into sound and heat at the focal points of the waves. No idea how much heat or sound, but in general it's an improvement over having the building destroyed.