"With both data collection and a restore function, Windows will just set up again from an installation image"
Yes, one that will put the user a few gigas back the times and open to vulnerabilities till upgraded -not to talk about the inability to use the computer for some few hours.
Nice.
"The blame goes where it belongs, and the consumer will buy a new printer."
Surely will. A perfectly working system stops working because Microsoft singlehandledly changes the system but still the blame is for a third party and the solution is me expending more of my hard earned money?
"the ones in charge will never pay the older developers what they are worth."
That's only part of the equation. They won't pay the older developers below what they are worth and on par to the youngsters either. Olders are still harder to (mis)manage.
"Maybe 1 year experience in 20 different things... which is not a bad thing. Show you can LEARN over and over and over again "
But then, you can't offer 5 years of experience in any of those buzzwords, so you can only opt to entry positions... just to be discarded as soon as they realize your age.
It seems that nowadays basically nobody values the jack-of-all-trades approach.
"Perhaps if it were not illegal to own the guns used to kill the Charlie Hebdo staff, the staff would be alive today as the shooters were better armed than their protectors."
Given statistics on both sides of the pond, it looks like generalized ownership of guns brings more deaths, not less.
"but poker is about much more than just the odds.. it's about emotions, reading players expressions and tells, intimidation, and taking advantage of all that."
That's your saying.
"i don't see the point to training a computer solely based on odds and what happens 'on the table'"
Yes, you are right. Certainly things rarely are black or white but shades of grey (don't know if fifty or any other number).
But then, free market is considered a good thing because the invisible hand should take care of maintaining profit margins to their bare minimum (by means of competition). Any thing that introduces resistance into the system makes it worse (by the degree of the resistance it introduces).
A deflationary currency certainly won't stop all and every business but just those where the return/risk gets below the deflation treshold.
"Basically the economy would tend towards the historical norm of equilibrium rather than the perpetual growth that has characterized the last few centuries."
Exactly that... on theory. Because your argument fails on the risk aversion principle: in you example, investments pair with little or no delay to deflation. But that's not the case: if I can start a business with an expected 10% ROI and a 50% risk, I'm at odds with a 5% deflation and probably I'd accept even 4% or 3% because no risk is no risk, after all. And, since economics is a dynamic system, there's also another element to take care of: bussiness risk is not an indepent but also varies with economic status: opening a pub on a fair good place in good economic times can be an almost sure bussiness but still a ruin on declining times and basically the same can be said for every other business so you enter on a downwards spiral that goes well beyond the expected limits on your static examples. This is not just theory since there have been historic examples of demand-driven crisis up for the demand-inducing policies being the first ones "scientifically" tried because being the more obvious (Keynes -in fact, '74 "stagflation" came as a surprise because it worked against this basic premise).
"First of all Bitcoin isn't deflationary, but disinflationary."
My argument states as long as the premise it answers to: ""BitCoin, should it survive will ultimately be deflationary currency, meaning it gains value the longer you hold it."
If this is true, my argument also must be true: any currency that gains value the longer you hold it, leads to economic stagnation.
"Basically, yes. Greeks retire at 60, or even earlier, with generous pensions, and then expect the Germans, who work till 67, to bail them out."
Except that, as per OCDE data, Germans and Greeks retire at the same effective age of about 62 year old. Given that the official retirement age is, yes, higher at Germany than Greece, this also should tell you something about retirement conditions in both countries.
And then, poverty rates among older-than-65 y.o. in Germany is about 11% while in Greece it's about 16%, median financial wealth in the 65-74 y.o. group is about 16.000â in Greece and 58.000â in Germany and the enhancing rent effect of public services in Greece vs Germany is 15.000â vs 20.000â, again, all taken from OCDE data.
So, all in all, Germany provides higher rents and services for their elders than Greece by a significant margin. But, hey, don't let data interfere with your political visions.
"The loans from Goldman Sachs were mostly squandered"
It's not Goldman Sachs' loans what this is about but how Goldan Sachs lied when auditing Greek economy before the crisis in order to preserve the statu quo, if even for a while, both for them and a selected elite.
"Haskell has some ardent followers but is not widely known."
Of course not. I can go to the supermarket and noone will know about it. But this is what it is: if you are a programmer you have heard about Haskell (even if you know nothing about functional programming). The grandparent is a troll.
"As the war dragged on, Hitler became increasingly convinced that technology would turn the tide for the Germans."
As if they had any other chance to start with. Germany did have neither the men nor the economy to win a total war so, really, their only hope was technology.
Don't take me wrong: the best strategy (and the good thing to do) was not going into war but if war was to be had -and it coudn't be avoided, given Nazi's ethos -or lack of it thereof, Nazi's general approach was the right one back in the day: blitzkrieg in the beginning, to see if they could avoid a long war, and technology once the war went for long.
"I'm sorry, but this is the first time I ever hear about Haskell. There's just too many fringe projects, languages, frameworks, widgets and services out there, you can't know about them all."
Yeah, it is not as this were Slashdot and if Haskell was like 25 years old and considered as "THE" pure functional programming language, you, Mr Troll.
"Much like what Greece did when they switched to the euro."
Oh, so the problem with Greece was that they "squandered the money on unaffordable social programs and cheap imports", not that a corrupted elite gamed the system in their favour and then got the helpful aid from Goldman Sachs to hide the tracks.
"Their government will have to stop printing money or see their currency (and fiscal policy) become irrelevant."
You might have an argument were not for the little fact that devaluating currency is a true and tested way to deal with monetary crisis when used properly that allowed a lot of countries to regain a healthy economy.
"The sooner they pull their heads out of their asses the better."
Maybe it's you the one that would benefit from pulling your head out of your ideology ass and see the tools of the trade for what they are: tools.
"People want to know why the rich keep getting richer? It is because they don't deal in currency, they deal in assets."
That's basically the first thing my Economy professor told us: for companies, passives are good, since it means money to run the bussiness that the shareholder didn't take out of their pockets. On the other hand, for "normal" people, actives are the good one of the film, since they are the kind of assets you require to life in confort (a nice car, a big house, an expensive watch...)
"BitCoin, should it survive will ultimately be deflationary currency, meaning it gains value the longer you hold it."
Exactly. And the immediate corollary in a free market economy is that it leads to stagnation. Why anybody would risk his dear money on a bussiness that may fail, when he is going to be richer just by sitting on top of his money?
"when you're young, you can retire if you save anything, because deflationary currency becomes an asset. But that doesn't bode well for the rich n powerful"
So how can it be that if you own X of an asset (your lifetime savings) that's a good thing but if you own 1000x of such asset (you being rich) it becomes somehow a bad thing?
No, sir, within a limited scope, in a deflationary economy the more money you have, the better for you so the one percenters end up much, much better than you, poor worker. On a global scope, no one would benefit in the long run from a deflationary currency since the economy -the one that produces the things both rich and poors will consume, will stop to a grinding halt, leading to a S XVIII-style economy with aristocracy on one side and peasants/serfs on the other.
"In terms of monetary terms, withholding payment in Inflationary currency (Peso) is a net gain, and unless you are paid in cash (or equivalent) immediately, Pesos are a losing proposition for workers. On the other hand, withholding payment in a deflationary currency (BitCoin) is bad for the employer, and good for the worker."
It isn't, since the employee is paid by the employer. Infation means, as you properly stated, that you don't want to store money, you being either an employer or a worker, money burns in your hands -I remember back in the early eighties an Argentinian telling me people would buy basically anything (his example was people buying half a dozen table fans) in order not to collect money. This means growing internal market and a demand pressure to the offer side of the economy, which is good for everybody. As an added bonus, inflation makes internal debts to dillute with time and it is usually the working class the one with a bigger share of total wealth put in debt (i.e. mortage).
A deflationary currency, on the other hand, makes advantageus just sit on top of your pile of money and seeing it grow just by doing nothing. The more money you have, the better for you and the higher incentive to do nothing with it. So, who do you think this benefits the more? The workers with no money and no jobs neither now nor in the near future, because no rich will invest on the productive economy -what for?, or the rich elites with all the money?
"..which, from TFA it is - an act of economic desperation."
And blatantly illegal. From TFA (note is mine): "The money brought to Argentina using Bitcoin circumvents the onerous government restrictions on receiving money from abroad"
So what they found is that it's easier for Argentinians -at least some of them, to support a black market on bitcoins than dollars (which has been the standard in the past).
"I think it's more of a damning comment on Argentinian currency"
Not so much about Argentinian currency as Argentinian economy (which the former is tied to).
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... The US Declaration of Independence."
Well, this article is about the very opposite: since men and women are *not* created equal, we need to act differently if we want to attract woman talent than we'd do to attract man talent.
In the end, this action is not about egalitarism but about feminism.
Thus accepting that there is a man/woman inequality or else, you shouldn't need to purse gender-based interests.
So, on one hand, it is politically incorrect to point that there exists gender inequality but, on the other, it is politically correct to address a gender inequality that you can't point at.
"And please, without resorting to 'shiny', 'easy', 'simple', 'extensible'. I am honestly only interested in security."
No, you aren't.
Because if you really were only interested in security, you would just turn off your computer and done with it. No, you are not *only* interested in security, and there is where those 'shiny', 'easy', 'simple', 'extensible' concepts go into the equation. Security means balance.
"With sufficient competition (and sufficient money in the vouchers), you should eventually see the schools that cut corners get run out of business by the schools that hire quality teachers."
For this to happen you'd need offer to vastly outgrow demand, which is not going to happen, neither on public nor -much less, on private money.
No, what you'll get is the rich going to good schools and the poors to bad ones. Hey! isn't this already hapening? No: the poors' ones will be even worse than today since more money will be syphoned out to the riches'.
"I would like to see what would happen if 12 schools all had to put their best foot forward to attract students."
That can never happen on geographically bound businesses. Do you have 12 different ISPs lying down fiber to serve your home now? why do you expect 12 corps building schools within half an hour from your home, then?
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"With both data collection and a restore function, Windows will just set up again from an installation image"
Yes, one that will put the user a few gigas back the times and open to vulnerabilities till upgraded -not to talk about the inability to use the computer for some few hours.
Nice.
"The blame goes where it belongs, and the consumer will buy a new printer."
Surely will. A perfectly working system stops working because Microsoft singlehandledly changes the system but still the blame is for a third party and the solution is me expending more of my hard earned money?
Ubernice.
"the ones in charge will never pay the older developers what they are worth."
That's only part of the equation. They won't pay the older developers below what they are worth and on par to the youngsters either. Olders are still harder to (mis)manage.
"Maybe 1 year experience in 20 different things... which is not a bad thing. Show you can LEARN over and over and over again "
But then, you can't offer 5 years of experience in any of those buzzwords, so you can only opt to entry positions... just to be discarded as soon as they realize your age.
It seems that nowadays basically nobody values the jack-of-all-trades approach.
"sub-meter accuracy is only really needed for smart bombs"
What kind of "smart bombs" are you talking about that, if exploded a foot away from its target, miss the mark?
"gb gun crime has doubled since they removed generalized ownership of guns."
Even if that were true:
US (ownership/100 | weapon deaths/100.000): 88,8 | 10,30 (2011)
UK (ownership/100 | weapon deaths/100.000): 6,6 | 0.25 (2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Less weapons, less deaths.
"Perhaps if it were not illegal to own the guns used to kill the Charlie Hebdo staff, the staff would be alive today as the shooters were better armed than their protectors."
Given statistics on both sides of the pond, it looks like generalized ownership of guns brings more deaths, not less.
"the more batteries installed, the fewer people paying for electrical mains infrastructure"
non sequitur. You still need to load the bateries. Doing it without support from your mains is a big if.
"but poker is about much more than just the odds.. it's about emotions, reading players expressions and tells, intimidation, and taking advantage of all that."
That's your saying.
"i don't see the point to training a computer solely based on odds and what happens 'on the table'"
Therefore the research.
"Not true, it simply raises the investment bar."
Yes, you are right. Certainly things rarely are black or white but shades of grey (don't know if fifty or any other number).
But then, free market is considered a good thing because the invisible hand should take care of maintaining profit margins to their bare minimum (by means of competition). Any thing that introduces resistance into the system makes it worse (by the degree of the resistance it introduces).
A deflationary currency certainly won't stop all and every business but just those where the return/risk gets below the deflation treshold.
"Basically the economy would tend towards the historical norm of equilibrium rather than the perpetual growth that has characterized the last few centuries."
Exactly that... on theory. Because your argument fails on the risk aversion principle: in you example, investments pair with little or no delay to deflation. But that's not the case: if I can start a business with an expected 10% ROI and a 50% risk, I'm at odds with a 5% deflation and probably I'd accept even 4% or 3% because no risk is no risk, after all. And, since economics is a dynamic system, there's also another element to take care of: bussiness risk is not an indepent but also varies with economic status: opening a pub on a fair good place in good economic times can be an almost sure bussiness but still a ruin on declining times and basically the same can be said for every other business so you enter on a downwards spiral that goes well beyond the expected limits on your static examples. This is not just theory since there have been historic examples of demand-driven crisis up for the demand-inducing policies being the first ones "scientifically" tried because being the more obvious (Keynes -in fact, '74 "stagflation" came as a surprise because it worked against this basic premise).
"First of all Bitcoin isn't deflationary, but disinflationary."
My argument states as long as the premise it answers to: ""BitCoin, should it survive will ultimately be deflationary currency, meaning it gains value the longer you hold it."
If this is true, my argument also must be true: any currency that gains value the longer you hold it, leads to economic stagnation.
"Basically, yes. Greeks retire at 60, or even earlier, with generous pensions, and then expect the Germans, who work till 67, to bail them out."
Except that, as per OCDE data, Germans and Greeks retire at the same effective age of about 62 year old. Given that the official retirement age is, yes, higher at Germany than Greece, this also should tell you something about retirement conditions in both countries.
And then, poverty rates among older-than-65 y.o. in Germany is about 11% while in Greece it's about 16%, median financial wealth in the 65-74 y.o. group is about 16.000â in Greece and 58.000â in Germany and the enhancing rent effect of public services in Greece vs Germany is 15.000â vs 20.000â, again, all taken from OCDE data.
So, all in all, Germany provides higher rents and services for their elders than Greece by a significant margin. But, hey, don't let data interfere with your political visions.
"The loans from Goldman Sachs were mostly squandered"
It's not Goldman Sachs' loans what this is about but how Goldan Sachs lied when auditing Greek economy before the crisis in order to preserve the statu quo, if even for a while, both for them and a selected elite.
"Haskell has some ardent followers but is not widely known."
Of course not. I can go to the supermarket and noone will know about it. But this is what it is: if you are a programmer you have heard about Haskell (even if you know nothing about functional programming). The grandparent is a troll.
"As the war dragged on, Hitler became increasingly convinced that technology would turn the tide for the Germans."
As if they had any other chance to start with. Germany did have neither the men nor the economy to win a total war so, really, their only hope was technology.
Don't take me wrong: the best strategy (and the good thing to do) was not going into war but if war was to be had -and it coudn't be avoided, given Nazi's ethos -or lack of it thereof, Nazi's general approach was the right one back in the day: blitzkrieg in the beginning, to see if they could avoid a long war, and technology once the war went for long.
"I'm sorry, but this is the first time I ever hear about Haskell. There's just too many fringe projects, languages, frameworks, widgets and services out there, you can't know about them all."
Yeah, it is not as this were Slashdot and if Haskell was like 25 years old and considered as "THE" pure functional programming language, you, Mr Troll.
"Much like what Greece did when they switched to the euro."
Oh, so the problem with Greece was that they "squandered the money on unaffordable social programs and cheap imports", not that a corrupted elite gamed the system in their favour and then got the helpful aid from Goldman Sachs to hide the tracks.
"Their government will have to stop printing money or see their currency (and fiscal policy) become irrelevant."
You might have an argument were not for the little fact that devaluating currency is a true and tested way to deal with monetary crisis when used properly that allowed a lot of countries to regain a healthy economy.
"The sooner they pull their heads out of their asses the better."
Maybe it's you the one that would benefit from pulling your head out of your ideology ass and see the tools of the trade for what they are: tools.
"People want to know why the rich keep getting richer? It is because they don't deal in currency, they deal in assets."
That's basically the first thing my Economy professor told us: for companies, passives are good, since it means money to run the bussiness that the shareholder didn't take out of their pockets. On the other hand, for "normal" people, actives are the good one of the film, since they are the kind of assets you require to life in confort (a nice car, a big house, an expensive watch...)
"BitCoin, should it survive will ultimately be deflationary currency, meaning it gains value the longer you hold it."
Exactly. And the immediate corollary in a free market economy is that it leads to stagnation. Why anybody would risk his dear money on a bussiness that may fail, when he is going to be richer just by sitting on top of his money?
"when you're young, you can retire if you save anything, because deflationary currency becomes an asset. But that doesn't bode well for the rich n powerful"
So how can it be that if you own X of an asset (your lifetime savings) that's a good thing but if you own 1000x of such asset (you being rich) it becomes somehow a bad thing?
No, sir, within a limited scope, in a deflationary economy the more money you have, the better for you so the one percenters end up much, much better than you, poor worker. On a global scope, no one would benefit in the long run from a deflationary currency since the economy -the one that produces the things both rich and poors will consume, will stop to a grinding halt, leading to a S XVIII-style economy with aristocracy on one side and peasants/serfs on the other.
"In terms of monetary terms, withholding payment in Inflationary currency (Peso) is a net gain, and unless you are paid in cash (or equivalent) immediately, Pesos are a losing proposition for workers. On the other hand, withholding payment in a deflationary currency (BitCoin) is bad for the employer, and good for the worker."
It isn't, since the employee is paid by the employer. Infation means, as you properly stated, that you don't want to store money, you being either an employer or a worker, money burns in your hands -I remember back in the early eighties an Argentinian telling me people would buy basically anything (his example was people buying half a dozen table fans) in order not to collect money. This means growing internal market and a demand pressure to the offer side of the economy, which is good for everybody. As an added bonus, inflation makes internal debts to dillute with time and it is usually the working class the one with a bigger share of total wealth put in debt (i.e. mortage).
A deflationary currency, on the other hand, makes advantageus just sit on top of your pile of money and seeing it grow just by doing nothing. The more money you have, the better for you and the higher incentive to do nothing with it. So, who do you think this benefits the more? The workers with no money and no jobs neither now nor in the near future, because no rich will invest on the productive economy -what for?, or the rich elites with all the money?
"..which, from TFA it is - an act of economic desperation."
And blatantly illegal. From TFA (note is mine): "The money brought to Argentina using Bitcoin circumvents the onerous government restrictions on receiving money from abroad"
So what they found is that it's easier for Argentinians -at least some of them, to support a black market on bitcoins than dollars (which has been the standard in the past).
"I think it's more of a damning comment on Argentinian currency"
Not so much about Argentinian currency as Argentinian economy (which the former is tied to).
"As with any business contract"
Parenting is not a business contract.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...
The US Declaration of Independence."
Well, this article is about the very opposite: since men and women are *not* created equal, we need to act differently if we want to attract woman talent than we'd do to attract man talent.
In the end, this action is not about egalitarism but about feminism.
"They made their course more attractive to women"
Thus accepting that there is a man/woman inequality or else, you shouldn't need to purse gender-based interests.
So, on one hand, it is politically incorrect to point that there exists gender inequality but, on the other, it is politically correct to address a gender inequality that you can't point at.
This looks like a non-answer, then. Since Banshee is a framework, not a CMS.
"And please, without resorting to 'shiny', 'easy', 'simple', 'extensible'. I am honestly only interested in security."
No, you aren't.
Because if you really were only interested in security, you would just turn off your computer and done with it. No, you are not *only* interested in security, and there is where those 'shiny', 'easy', 'simple', 'extensible' concepts go into the equation. Security means balance.
"With sufficient competition (and sufficient money in the vouchers), you should eventually see the schools that cut corners get run out of
business by the schools that hire quality teachers."
For this to happen you'd need offer to vastly outgrow demand, which is not going to happen, neither on public nor -much less, on private money.
No, what you'll get is the rich going to good schools and the poors to bad ones. Hey! isn't this already hapening? No: the poors' ones will be even worse than today since more money will be syphoned out to the riches'.
"I would like to see what would happen if 12 schools all had to put their best foot forward to attract students."
That can never happen on geographically bound businesses. Do you have 12 different ISPs lying down fiber to serve your home now? why do you expect 12 corps building schools within half an hour from your home, then?