Um, exactly my point. If we want to wonder why we're having so many problems with ID Fraud, it's because the Federal government mandated that banks accept a fundamentally insecure standards for banking, and then insulated them from the damages it causes to their customers (The Check-21 act, regulations locking us into using the same credit card number for every transaction, not checking for valid check ids, and others).
Obviously, corporations are not people are not companies are not businesses, otherwise we wouldn't make the point of distinguishing them with different names.
Also obviously, ID "theft" isn't really theft, because you aren't (fully) denying that person their own identity.
TFA (if you bothered to read it) is about "identity thieves" who masquerade as executives of the corporation, when they are in fact not. The point here, is that corporations are agreements (contracts) among people, and "corporate ID theft" causes illegitimate harm to very real individuals.
Overall, the point of TFA is better authentication is needed for government and other organizations who do business with the corporation (i.e., properly authenticating the members of the corporation as people with the lawful ability to make such decisions).
Earth to programmer: A good number of mathematical formulae cannot be symbolically integrated, but nonetheless can be numerically integrated. That's why we have the error function and a lot of other functions/operators.
Take limits:
lim_x->0 sin(x)/x = 1
This fundamentally means "We can make the value of sin(x)/x get as close as we like to 1 by making the value of x as close as necessary to 0."
How do we calculate the square root? We can't perfectly represent sqrt(2) as a number, it's impossible. Nonetheless, we use methods from calculus to derive approximations that are as precise as we need.
The fast inverse square root function? It's the first couple of iterations of Newton's method.
Integrals are no different. If the result of your integral contains a trig function, log function, fractional exponentiation, or any non-binary, then if you want to calculate the value, you're necessarily going to have to approximate.
And likewise, integration is fundamentally just fancy multiplication.
All symbolic integration is, is the realization that as the number of steps in our integration approaches infinity, sometimes the result approaches the result of a certain operator, and so we reduce the integral to a more elementary operator. Same thing for differentiation. The integral is defined as a limit, remember. That sometimes it doesn't produce a result with elementary terms doesn't make the math any less calculus-y.
Well then maybe you should take a listen to what he thinks is so wrong with the current market that, after a decade, these things haven't picked up traction, and what he's doing about it.
Especially if you already own a few, his detailed descriptions of what's wrong with current headsets and why, as a professional graphics software engineer, should be incredibly interesting.
So you're complaining about problem unique to the local market, not to the industry. If ISPs really won't encroach on each other, why are they doing it just 10 miles out? Maybe it's (gasp) unprofitable?
In any event, "price gouging" is entirely subjective. Whatever I might think about the price I'm in no position to comment about its wisdom. If people are buying it, it's a fair price, by definition.
I'm not sure what price gouging is exactly, it has no economic meaning. If you're willing to pay the price for the service offered, by economic terminology, is fair.
If all that is available is DSL, when many areas have that, cable and fiber, then perhaps yeah, there is something inherently costly about the area that's holding prices up, compared to other areas.
Seriously, it's not like ISPs are some of the most profitable businesses in the world (and even if they were, that's still good as it would attract capital). Keeping a competitive price is probably just what they have to do to minimize losses, until they can find a better solution.
The Austrian school pushes laissez faire markets. You know what caused the housing bubble and ensuing credit crisis? Deregulation. Which is what the Austrians keep pushing.
According to who? The school that couldn't predict anything?
Except guess who decided to remove the document type header from HTML version 5?
I swear, how did WHATWG ever get the rights to use the name "HTML" in their spec. The W3C is nice enough to write lots of small specifications. WHATWG just threw everything into a single bloated piece of crap.
The system can be organized to limit this problem. For example, for every 1 Imperial Credit (IC) you earn, you receive 0.5 IC less from the government. That way you always have an incentive to work, because doing so will always increase your income. That is not true of the current systems found in many places, where you lose specific benefits at specific income levels. Those truly do discourage people from working, because they create situations where working more actually decreases your income. So this would be an improvement over how things are now.
This might seem logical, after all, it's better than the same amount of money being spent by politicians themselves. But don't be fooled: it still decreases the marginal utility of a person's labor. People being paid unemployment will take longer to find a job, for instance. A raise that would have been 1 unit is now only half a unit, and some people might not take it or seek extra work if their return is only half of what it would be. It's the same effect we see on the prices of subsidized goods.
Thr point is that if GDP keeps going up, then everyone should benefit from it, not just the rich few at the top. It makes no practical difference to someone whether they have ten or eleven billion dollars, so they should be paying it in tax back into the common kitty.
Yes, that's redistributive socialism.
Yeah it does make a difference, otherwise they wouldn't continue to seek profit, and continue to invest in new ventures.
By almost every factor imaginable (nutrition, education, health, war, leisure time), society, the average person, the median person, almost every single last person on the planet is better off than ever in history. Fewer people are dying now than any time in recorded history. Not percent, fewer total people. So don't give me this "poor are getting poorer" nonsense.
Um, if the economy were a zero-sum game we wouldn't be seeing GDP going up every year, and society continually becoming richer and better off than previous generations.
Voluntary exchange and profit by definition is a positive-sum game.
Every single commodity is going to be down from its high. By definition!
Gold has long been used for its use as a money. I mean, there's no use for fiat money, but it has value, even Bitcoin, and you can't even pay taxes with Bitcoin!
Market cap of gold is measured in dollars = current market (marginal) price * quantity. Economic activity is measured in dollars / year. You're comparing different units.
Also note that if I decided to buy all the gold in the world, it will start changing the marginal value and the price. Not only would I have to offer higher and higher prices for each additional mass of gold I buy, but eventually the value of the money itself would change as I start needing to use larger and larger fractions of the money supply -- the monetary base of the dollar currently only 2.6 trillion.
Fully saturated, i.e. a single wavelength, as a laser produces.
The color filters of LCD panels let through a narrow but not-single-wavelength bandwidth of color. This restricts the color gamut you can reproduce. As explained in TFA.
Right, buying currency and keeping it, that's what I'm talking about. What's bad about that? If everyone buys currency, this represents an increase in demand to hold currency, and a decrease in demand for other goods, and we see prices fall to the new equilibrium that represents the new preference for currency in proportion to goods. It's no different than any other good, like society changing preference from applesauce to apple pie.
If everyone really thought the price would go up, the price would be that high already. If we knew 100% for sure that tomorrow Bitcoin would trade at 100 USD/BTC, guess what the price would be *right now*? $100 minus the price of time. This is also known as the Black–Scholes formula. There's no positive feedback loop here. Much of analyzing supply and demand revolves around the equilibrium, maybe you've heard of it. The price to buy Bitcoin is, you know, where supply meets demand.
I'm not sure what you mean by "horde". If I hold Bitcoin, that's because I believe it's a better option than any other, which would be investment, or the goods I could buy with it. How does one "horde" currency anyways? It sounds indistinguishable from savings. You don't just print it up out of thin air, you have to trade for it, and you have to profitably trade for it. All those things are good things.
Somewhere on the Earth, an economist had an aneurysm... The cost of taxes is calculated exactly as such. Cost is a well-defined word, it's the value of the next most highly valued alternative. So the cost of a tax is the total value of goods were not produced because of its existence, and since value is subjective, we exchange it into something which has a broad demand, like dollars, from the good's price. But the very first problem with this isn't even that, it's your arithmetic: 30% off a product already 30% off doesn't add up to 60% off, it's about 50%.
There are plenty of toll roads, and have been ever since the founding of the country. I'm not sure how "non-toll" is supposed to play in here... is the lack of free food a failure of the market, too? It's ridiculous. As cool as it may be, the space program is probably one of the least important government programs we have. All the while there's plenty of private corporations who launch satellites, and private companies who want their satellite launched. What do you think satellite radio, television, phone, Internet is? It's all private. GPS was developed by and for the military. The fact that it was later opened for civil use was incidental. If there would have been privately-owned satellite navigation like we see with entertainment, it's hard to tell. Nuclear technology today is largely privately developed. The Internet is the worst example of all, it's entirely privately owned and operated. The fact that the federal government threw money at it is the result of its success, not the other way around.
At least with an SSL certificate they're verifying "Yep, Public key hash 01234567890ABCDEF (as opposed to a malicious party) is indeed used by bank.example.com". What's the excuse for signing software?
A "square wave" at the given frequency is a periodic function(t){return (t<0.5)?1:-1;} that repeats at said frequency. So yes, there is, by definition.
You're correct that because there's harmonic frequencies above the fundamental ad infinitum (for square, triangle, sawtooth, and really any wave with non-differentiable points), it's impossible to perfectly capture all three types of waves/functions with the same method of digitizing.
There's nothing wrong with profits, it means you're producing things of value effectively. The alternative is losses which means you're just wasting resources, and that's bad.
When profits do become bad is when you're using lawsuits to protect yourself against honest competition. Which is practically the whole entertainment distribution industry, software patents, and other legal monopolies.
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Um, exactly my point. If we want to wonder why we're having so many problems with ID Fraud, it's because the Federal government mandated that banks accept a fundamentally insecure standards for banking, and then insulated them from the damages it causes to their customers (The Check-21 act, regulations locking us into using the same credit card number for every transaction, not checking for valid check ids, and others).
Obviously, corporations are not people are not companies are not businesses, otherwise we wouldn't make the point of distinguishing them with different names.
Also obviously, ID "theft" isn't really theft, because you aren't (fully) denying that person their own identity.
TFA (if you bothered to read it) is about "identity thieves" who masquerade as executives of the corporation, when they are in fact not. The point here, is that corporations are agreements (contracts) among people, and "corporate ID theft" causes illegitimate harm to very real individuals.
Overall, the point of TFA is better authentication is needed for government and other organizations who do business with the corporation (i.e., properly authenticating the members of the corporation as people with the lawful ability to make such decisions).
Earth to programmer: A good number of mathematical formulae cannot be symbolically integrated, but nonetheless can be numerically integrated. That's why we have the error function and a lot of other functions/operators.
Take limits:
lim_x->0 sin(x)/x = 1
This fundamentally means "We can make the value of sin(x)/x get as close as we like to 1 by making the value of x as close as necessary to 0."
How do we calculate the square root? We can't perfectly represent sqrt(2) as a number, it's impossible. Nonetheless, we use methods from calculus to derive approximations that are as precise as we need.
The fast inverse square root function? It's the first couple of iterations of Newton's method.
Integrals are no different. If the result of your integral contains a trig function, log function, fractional exponentiation, or any non-binary, then if you want to calculate the value, you're necessarily going to have to approximate.
And likewise, integration is fundamentally just fancy multiplication.
All symbolic integration is, is the realization that as the number of steps in our integration approaches infinity, sometimes the result approaches the result of a certain operator, and so we reduce the integral to a more elementary operator. Same thing for differentiation. The integral is defined as a limit, remember. That sometimes it doesn't produce a result with elementary terms doesn't make the math any less calculus-y.
Well then maybe you should take a listen to what he thinks is so wrong with the current market that, after a decade, these things haven't picked up traction, and what he's doing about it.
Especially if you already own a few, his detailed descriptions of what's wrong with current headsets and why, as a professional graphics software engineer, should be incredibly interesting.
Actually half of his three-and-a-half hour keynote was on his quest to make the perfect VR headset, leading to a lot of involvement with http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
So you're complaining about problem unique to the local market, not to the industry. If ISPs really won't encroach on each other, why are they doing it just 10 miles out? Maybe it's (gasp) unprofitable?
In any event, "price gouging" is entirely subjective. Whatever I might think about the price I'm in no position to comment about its wisdom. If people are buying it, it's a fair price, by definition.
I'm not sure what price gouging is exactly, it has no economic meaning. If you're willing to pay the price for the service offered, by economic terminology, is fair.
If all that is available is DSL, when many areas have that, cable and fiber, then perhaps yeah, there is something inherently costly about the area that's holding prices up, compared to other areas.
s/price-gouged/profitable/
Seriously, it's not like ISPs are some of the most profitable businesses in the world (and even if they were, that's still good as it would attract capital). Keeping a competitive price is probably just what they have to do to minimize losses, until they can find a better solution.
The Austrian school pushes laissez faire markets.
You know what caused the housing bubble and ensuing credit crisis?
Deregulation. Which is what the Austrians keep pushing.
According to who? The school that couldn't predict anything?
Except guess who decided to remove the document type header from HTML version 5?
I swear, how did WHATWG ever get the rights to use the name "HTML" in their spec. The W3C is nice enough to write lots of small specifications. WHATWG just threw everything into a single bloated piece of crap.
The system can be organized to limit this problem. For example, for every 1 Imperial Credit (IC) you earn, you receive 0.5 IC less from the government. That way you always have an incentive to work, because doing so will always increase your income. That is not true of the current systems found in many places, where you lose specific benefits at specific income levels. Those truly do discourage people from working, because they create situations where working more actually decreases your income. So this would be an improvement over how things are now.
This might seem logical, after all, it's better than the same amount of money being spent by politicians themselves. But don't be fooled: it still decreases the marginal utility of a person's labor. People being paid unemployment will take longer to find a job, for instance. A raise that would have been 1 unit is now only half a unit, and some people might not take it or seek extra work if their return is only half of what it would be. It's the same effect we see on the prices of subsidized goods.
Thr point is that if GDP keeps going up, then everyone should benefit from it, not just the rich few at the top. It makes no practical difference to someone whether they have ten or eleven billion dollars, so they should be paying it in tax back into the common kitty.
Yes, that's redistributive socialism.
Yeah it does make a difference, otherwise they wouldn't continue to seek profit, and continue to invest in new ventures.
By almost every factor imaginable (nutrition, education, health, war, leisure time), society, the average person, the median person, almost every single last person on the planet is better off than ever in history. Fewer people are dying now than any time in recorded history. Not percent, fewer total people. So don't give me this "poor are getting poorer" nonsense.
Um, if the economy were a zero-sum game we wouldn't be seeing GDP going up every year, and society continually becoming richer and better off than previous generations.
Voluntary exchange and profit by definition is a positive-sum game.
Every single commodity is going to be down from its high. By definition!
Gold has long been used for its use as a money. I mean, there's no use for fiat money, but it has value, even Bitcoin, and you can't even pay taxes with Bitcoin!
Market cap of gold is measured in dollars = current market (marginal) price * quantity. Economic activity is measured in dollars / year. You're comparing different units.
Also note that if I decided to buy all the gold in the world, it will start changing the marginal value and the price. Not only would I have to offer higher and higher prices for each additional mass of gold I buy, but eventually the value of the money itself would change as I start needing to use larger and larger fractions of the money supply -- the monetary base of the dollar currently only 2.6 trillion.
Fully saturated, i.e. a single wavelength, as a laser produces.
The color filters of LCD panels let through a narrow but not-single-wavelength bandwidth of color. This restricts the color gamut you can reproduce. As explained in TFA.
Right, buying currency and keeping it, that's what I'm talking about. What's bad about that? If everyone buys currency, this represents an increase in demand to hold currency, and a decrease in demand for other goods, and we see prices fall to the new equilibrium that represents the new preference for currency in proportion to goods. It's no different than any other good, like society changing preference from applesauce to apple pie.
If everyone really thought the price would go up, the price would be that high already. If we knew 100% for sure that tomorrow Bitcoin would trade at 100 USD/BTC, guess what the price would be *right now*? $100 minus the price of time. This is also known as the Black–Scholes formula. There's no positive feedback loop here. Much of analyzing supply and demand revolves around the equilibrium, maybe you've heard of it. The price to buy Bitcoin is, you know, where supply meets demand.
I'm not sure what you mean by "horde". If I hold Bitcoin, that's because I believe it's a better option than any other, which would be investment, or the goods I could buy with it. How does one "horde" currency anyways? It sounds indistinguishable from savings. You don't just print it up out of thin air, you have to trade for it, and you have to profitably trade for it. All those things are good things.
Somewhere on the Earth, an economist had an aneurysm... The cost of taxes is calculated exactly as such. Cost is a well-defined word, it's the value of the next most highly valued alternative. So the cost of a tax is the total value of goods were not produced because of its existence, and since value is subjective, we exchange it into something which has a broad demand, like dollars, from the good's price. But the very first problem with this isn't even that, it's your arithmetic: 30% off a product already 30% off doesn't add up to 60% off, it's about 50%.
There are plenty of toll roads, and have been ever since the founding of the country. I'm not sure how "non-toll" is supposed to play in here... is the lack of free food a failure of the market, too? It's ridiculous.
As cool as it may be, the space program is probably one of the least important government programs we have. All the while there's plenty of private corporations who launch satellites, and private companies who want their satellite launched. What do you think satellite radio, television, phone, Internet is? It's all private.
GPS was developed by and for the military. The fact that it was later opened for civil use was incidental. If there would have been privately-owned satellite navigation like we see with entertainment, it's hard to tell.
Nuclear technology today is largely privately developed.
The Internet is the worst example of all, it's entirely privately owned and operated. The fact that the federal government threw money at it is the result of its success, not the other way around.
At least with an SSL certificate they're verifying "Yep, Public key hash 01234567890ABCDEF (as opposed to a malicious party) is indeed used by bank.example.com". What's the excuse for signing software?
Um, I'm talking about ceteris paribus. Q isn't something you set, it's something you measure.
When money is printed, your money is worth less, all other things held equal.
That last part goes without saying, so no, GP is correct.
A "square wave" at the given frequency is a periodic function(t){return (t<0.5)?1:-1;} that repeats at said frequency. So yes, there is, by definition.
You're correct that because there's harmonic frequencies above the fundamental ad infinitum (for square, triangle, sawtooth, and really any wave with non-differentiable points), it's impossible to perfectly capture all three types of waves/functions with the same method of digitizing.
There's nothing wrong with profits, it means you're producing things of value effectively. The alternative is losses which means you're just wasting resources, and that's bad.
When profits do become bad is when you're using lawsuits to protect yourself against honest competition. Which is practically the whole entertainment distribution industry, software patents, and other legal monopolies.