Yeah, I don't think there is anything here. Transaction trustworthy is like atleast 25 years old. And it got really good about 15 years ago.
It's actually a really impressive system. Most of which just hides in the background and tries to be very unintrusive. It wouldn't be that hard to provide a score for every transaction via text, but it would be pretty much useless for the buyer... Even the seller hardly cares... it just indicates the chance of fraud.
Do what I do... I tell the CC company that you will be in X country, doing B level of spending, for G type of items. They make pretty good assumptions for B & G if you don't provide it, but don't expect a bunch of Amazon purchases to some random 3rd country to go through.
I have never had trouble when I provided the "exceptions" to my norms 1-2 business days in advance.
Nature is a growth system. There is no long term stable equilibrium; the point is always shifting. The growers are considered winning and the rest are considered losing.
Every subsystem grows till the point of maximum environment saturation. There is no plant, animal, or germ that stops short of its petri dish and is content.
And I am sure we can have the best of both worlds by not having it shift out of park but allow the car to turn on. It's honestly not that hard to do...
Or all those companies with fleets like rentals, delivery, service etc businesses will see this as a valuable add on to prevent liabilities from drunk irresponsible drivers.
Automakers don't want more accidents. Think that through...
More parts means more complex & inefficient supply chains and inventory costs. And most repairs are paid by insurance; and they don't just roll over on the bill. So low profits, higher volatility, and lots of wasted resources.
Then there is the loss of resale value that will impact your brand and initial market price. Loss of customer satisfaction, etc.
I don't think anyone but lawyers want more accidents.
H&Gs had to work a lot more than farmers. You had a high rate of failure and resource shortages. Sure they mostly sat around all day waiting to ambush or check traps or processing what was obtained but none of that was "couch potato" work.
From sun up to sundown, you were doing something to gather, process, and store food. Not to mention people had to pack up and move pretty much every 3-4 months. Bathing was considered a leisure activity.
Farming was also a lot of work. But less so as you could actually plan the year out.
Still the high failure rate resulted in many going on with little. This in turn meant there were more who have not taking from those who have. So security of your meager successes was also a big concern.
There has been no time in human history where as much of the global population has lived as long, worked as little, and enjoyed as much security as today. Only beaten by tomorrow.
Directly and indirectly yes. Operators are usually paid more than manual labor. But the other aspect of it is that the cost to users is lower. Your dollar goes longer. So that road gets laid sooner, the factory goes up faster, more burgers are made, etc.
If labor time is the price we pay to get something, then the people actually paying the price are getting it faster and for less. Even if they don't get more money, we have more saved to spend. A dollar saved is also a dollar earned.
It is automation that allows more people today to have multiple cars, phones, eat outs, computers, stock portfolios, etc. than ever before.
This is what the Martians did. They became a full hydrogen economy. They converted a lot of their planet's water into hydrogen and it escaped into space! They didn't have enough fresh water left to sustain their economies. The resulting wars left lots of craters.
And their atmosphere got so thin without moisture that it was blown away by the solar winds. Over thousands of years, the solar radiation and planetary dust storms degraded everything and turned it all to dust.
Yeah, this was a non-story. Toyota is betting on H fuel cells. Tesla is betting on Electric. Most of the rest are following the current "trend".
Right now, for selling cars, the efficient route is in the hybrid area. And Toyota is all about efficiency. So that's where their general population sellers sit.
Since they are investing in fuel cells, it doesn't make sense for them to handicap that investment by routing funds to electric. They have no need to shotgun approach their R&D. If fuel cells fail, they can always license the best of the others and improve on it.
Should they bet on fuel cells... that's a different discussion. I personally think it is the right play. Personally I like electric and it will most likely win out but there are many players in this space. So licensing costs and market entry barriers will be low. However if fuel cells win, Toyota is the only player with significant investment. And they could win big in the market and win big by licensing. It's a high risk high return.
So what happens if a US citizen refuses? They can't be denied entry into their own country. And taking that off by force would constitute legal assault and invasion of privacy. Will the courts just wave those because "At the border."
We have an ATM downstairs in my office. I can use my debit card to withdraw cash at most stores. But I literally get cash about 3x a year and rarely carry more than $30 on me. To me, the time wasted (however small that may seem to some) is just not worth it. And I have been like this for almost two decades.
I so rarely make checks out and use ATMs that I have to triple check my work or menu just to make sure I did it all right. I actually know my way around my stock portfolio better than an ATM.
I don't understand why people think I want to stop by a bank/ATM every once in a while. With cashless, I go there twice a year and feel both trips are a waste of time.
15 years ago, I had to stop by the Elec office to pay my monthly bill. I though it was asasine then that I had to not only pay for my time but also the teller to... what basically amounted to paper shuffling and database entries.
Cashless saves me a TON of time and money; and not just at the check out counter. I got better things to do with my time... like doze off in my backyard.
And we pay middlemen for everything and everywhere. That cashier, elec company teller, toll booth collector, parking attendant, water meter readers, lawn services sales guy, L1 customer support, etc. These are all labor units that are no different than any middleman.
PS: And I fully support Philadelphia's accept cash initiative. Because some members of our society can't go cashless for whatever reasons. And I believe it is the responsibility of any incorporated authority to provide for all of its resident's needs. This is on top of the legalities that cash is the tender for debt in the US. Don't like those points; go set up shop in an unincorporated area.
Yeah, but Chinese films have lots of American heroes: Ming-Na Wen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc. We traded them for Bruce Lee! They weren't born here like Arnold, Van Damme, Bruce Willis, or Statham but all are American heroes. Thou some might consider them British due to when the actor was born.
Her business should sue in Small Claims. First try the ISPs arbitration process. Judges don't like parties not trying anything and just going to court. If the limit isn't small like in some states ($2500!?!); add in the travel and court and lost business expenses. Also have all the times the service was out and you called in about it. If you haven't kept that, start collecting for a month and then sue.
Before the court date, the company lawyers will try to settle. And if it goes to court, she will probably get pushed to the court's arbitration where her company will get a fare shake. If that doesn't work out, considering she is a one man shop, the judge will treat her business almost like an individual. It really comes down to how well she presents her story.
She probably will still have to pay $1-2k thou. Unless the ISP shows that they invested $1k+ putting down a line just for her on the idea that it's a 3+ year contract; they won't get the full amount just because of the contract. There is no harm to the ISP to justify the fee so the judge will cut it down. But expect that the judge won't give you anything for the travel, time lost, and business damage from poor service.
Only a little religious and not Christian but I will take a stab. For me, it's mentally comforting. And God is a personal and selfish concept for me.
I understand it isn't necessary for others but it is for me. And it adds quite a bit of relief and quiet internal happiness to believe that there is a higher power above me; above all humans. That one day they would answer for their transgressions. And wrongs not as defined by me but as defined by a greater, more fair power. Kind of like an idealistic Judge. I find it easier to let things go and not become preoccupied with something that happened in traffic and ruin the rest of my good day. I can judge all transgressions before me, but don't have the burden of executing a just punishment.
I have found my need to talk, ask, beg, thank, and joke with my inner voices I call various Gods to be not only comforting, but also supportive, strengthening, and therapeutic.
I know some others who believe in their beliefs for similar if not the same reasons. I am sure there are many more that have yet other reasons. To each his own.
Maybe I am mentally disabled in some way and this is my way to cope with society or appear normal to others. I could probably get the same treatment with drugs and therapy. Or maybe a cure. But that's OK, I am good with the way I am.
1) Few care about multithreading anymore. Haven't really since Intel stopped doing their GHz race and over hyping their hyperthreading. Most people actually want multiprocessing. This is especially true in the subject arena of the/. post.
2) Having programmed in C, C++, Java, and Perl; it is ridiculously easy, in comparison, to do multiprocessing programming in Python!! I just can't state this enough!
The best language I found to do multiprocessing is Erlang. There are "supposedly" easier ones but I found this to click for me. Combining Erlang's design concept into a Python program using Process and Queues creates a highly flexible program that due to duck-typing can be lego pieced to a simple (but almost useless) multithreaded one; to a decentralized global network of socialistic workers.
3) As C is sometimes joked as being a wrapper around Assembly, Python is basically a wrapper around C (same for Perl).
4) The SME of the posting says Python isn't the correct language because of the hardware requirements; not anything specific to Python in its current HW environment. He envisions a future where the hardware is specialized for the specific requirements of AI learning and data gathering and interaction. Things where entire sections of the IC will power down if unnecessary. Similar to how GPUs are better for Bitcoin than CPUs. And with specialized HW, you need a specialized software and programming environment for it. Like C is for x86/AMD; he wants X for AI-HW.
The problem is that there is so much momentum behind Python that the AI community won't let it happen.
But I think the HW community has much more momentum to prevent this than the software part. Specialized HW is expensive in every way. Heck, "specialized HW" is actually redefined as "taking standard chips, and configuring them for the program steps". No one wants to venture outside the standard lego building blocks. THAT is the problem.
Darn you!!! You beat me to it. So much posting space wasted by the others going offtopic... I thinking "Its a 15 line answer!!!" (So it was less than 15, but whatever).
Is this no longer covered in second or third tier CS classes?
Most states are actually purple... even California & Texas when you start looking further into candidate positions in the House. But this isn't something that can create scandles and football like sensational news so we get a B&W Red/HeeHaw/Conservative/Repub/TP vs Blue/Tooot/Liberal/Dem/Social talking points that can only divide our nation and never progress to a middle ground that democracy intended.
The reality is that it's a huge range and the extremes shown by the media is a very very small group that the rest of us should really just ignore and get work done. People clumped together as Dems or Reps across state lines usually have more differences than similarities. As a population we arent a two party system. We are just cliff noted as such.
Politics is and should be local. And should be better covered locally. The media needs to stop discussing national politics because they suck at it and tend to over summarize & give a spotlight to those that actually represent no one.
We have full grown adults that we don't have such expectations of and elect to political positions. See Anthony Weiner for the start of a long list of people. We can't have such expectations of anyone under 17.
I think the bigger problem in society is people like you who over react to things like this. Over punishing this individual won't help him. And worse, it doesn't do anything for all the others.
I completely disagree. These are all tools best for given scenarios with various parameters and trade offs. And those parameters not only include but are mostly dominated by developer time in terms of conceptualization, implementation, and turnaround. The usecase scenarios where hardware limitations, MHz sensor monitoring, and micro+ second response times, make up a very small part of the landscape both in terms of man hours and capital expended.
So in that view, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, and yes even Visual Basic are all valid tools at the same level as C, C++, erlang, Ada, BASIC, etc. Everything we use may have some components been made via C, but the cumulative man power invested in that is probably matched if not beaten by the hours invested in Excel & VBA. Us techies may feel this is stupid, but it is the reality of the world.
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It's going to get hacked... and images of penises, Nazi, Mohammed, and shit will rain from the heavens.
It will be a good fun year... or month...
Yeah, I don't think there is anything here. Transaction trustworthy is like atleast 25 years old. And it got really good about 15 years ago.
It's actually a really impressive system. Most of which just hides in the background and tries to be very unintrusive. It wouldn't be that hard to provide a score for every transaction via text, but it would be pretty much useless for the buyer... Even the seller hardly cares... it just indicates the chance of fraud.
Do what I do... I tell the CC company that you will be in X country, doing B level of spending, for G type of items. They make pretty good assumptions for B & G if you don't provide it, but don't expect a bunch of Amazon purchases to some random 3rd country to go through.
I have never had trouble when I provided the "exceptions" to my norms 1-2 business days in advance.
You picked a horrible example.
Nature is a growth system. There is no long term stable equilibrium; the point is always shifting. The growers are considered winning and the rest are considered losing.
Every subsystem grows till the point of maximum environment saturation. There is no plant, animal, or germ that stops short of its petri dish and is content.
Source: CDC.
- 9 deaths per day for distracted driving (that includes more than just texting)
- 29 deaths per day for alcohol-impaired driving.
Nuff said? And I am not even getting to the flaw of your logic of the whole "Why not attack both blah blah blah," counters.
And I am sure we can have the best of both worlds by not having it shift out of park but allow the car to turn on. It's honestly not that hard to do...
Or all those companies with fleets like rentals, delivery, service etc businesses will see this as a valuable add on to prevent liabilities from drunk irresponsible drivers.
And their insurance may reward them for it.
What exactly are you afraid of?
Automakers don't want more accidents. Think that through...
More parts means more complex & inefficient supply chains and inventory costs. And most repairs are paid by insurance; and they don't just roll over on the bill. So low profits, higher volatility, and lots of wasted resources.
Then there is the loss of resale value that will impact your brand and initial market price. Loss of customer satisfaction, etc.
I don't think anyone but lawyers want more accidents.
Examples?
H&Gs had to work a lot more than farmers. You had a high rate of failure and resource shortages. Sure they mostly sat around all day waiting to ambush or check traps or processing what was obtained but none of that was "couch potato" work.
From sun up to sundown, you were doing something to gather, process, and store food. Not to mention people had to pack up and move pretty much every 3-4 months. Bathing was considered a leisure activity.
Farming was also a lot of work. But less so as you could actually plan the year out.
Still the high failure rate resulted in many going on with little. This in turn meant there were more who have not taking from those who have. So security of your meager successes was also a big concern.
There has been no time in human history where as much of the global population has lived as long, worked as little, and enjoyed as much security as today. Only beaten by tomorrow.
Directly and indirectly yes. Operators are usually paid more than manual labor. But the other aspect of it is that the cost to users is lower. Your dollar goes longer. So that road gets laid sooner, the factory goes up faster, more burgers are made, etc.
If labor time is the price we pay to get something, then the people actually paying the price are getting it faster and for less. Even if they don't get more money, we have more saved to spend. A dollar saved is also a dollar earned.
It is automation that allows more people today to have multiple cars, phones, eat outs, computers, stock portfolios, etc. than ever before.
This is what the Martians did. They became a full hydrogen economy. They converted a lot of their planet's water into hydrogen and it escaped into space! They didn't have enough fresh water left to sustain their economies. The resulting wars left lots of craters.
And their atmosphere got so thin without moisture that it was blown away by the solar winds. Over thousands of years, the solar radiation and planetary dust storms degraded everything and turned it all to dust.
Yeah, this was a non-story. Toyota is betting on H fuel cells. Tesla is betting on Electric. Most of the rest are following the current "trend".
Right now, for selling cars, the efficient route is in the hybrid area. And Toyota is all about efficiency. So that's where their general population sellers sit.
Since they are investing in fuel cells, it doesn't make sense for them to handicap that investment by routing funds to electric. They have no need to shotgun approach their R&D. If fuel cells fail, they can always license the best of the others and improve on it.
Should they bet on fuel cells... that's a different discussion. I personally think it is the right play. Personally I like electric and it will most likely win out but there are many players in this space. So licensing costs and market entry barriers will be low. However if fuel cells win, Toyota is the only player with significant investment. And they could win big in the market and win big by licensing. It's a high risk high return.
So what happens if a US citizen refuses? They can't be denied entry into their own country. And taking that off by force would constitute legal assault and invasion of privacy. Will the courts just wave those because "At the border."
Serious question.
We have an ATM downstairs in my office. I can use my debit card to withdraw cash at most stores. But I literally get cash about 3x a year and rarely carry more than $30 on me. To me, the time wasted (however small that may seem to some) is just not worth it. And I have been like this for almost two decades.
I so rarely make checks out and use ATMs that I have to triple check my work or menu just to make sure I did it all right. I actually know my way around my stock portfolio better than an ATM.
I don't understand why people think I want to stop by a bank/ATM every once in a while. With cashless, I go there twice a year and feel both trips are a waste of time.
15 years ago, I had to stop by the Elec office to pay my monthly bill. I though it was asasine then that I had to not only pay for my time but also the teller to... what basically amounted to paper shuffling and database entries.
Cashless saves me a TON of time and money; and not just at the check out counter. I got better things to do with my time... like doze off in my backyard.
And we pay middlemen for everything and everywhere. That cashier, elec company teller, toll booth collector, parking attendant, water meter readers, lawn services sales guy, L1 customer support, etc. These are all labor units that are no different than any middleman.
PS: And I fully support Philadelphia's accept cash initiative. Because some members of our society can't go cashless for whatever reasons. And I believe it is the responsibility of any incorporated authority to provide for all of its resident's needs. This is on top of the legalities that cash is the tender for debt in the US. Don't like those points; go set up shop in an unincorporated area.
So what you are saying is that the initial purchase price should have a "disposal" tax that covers its disposal/recycling.
Yeah, but Chinese films have lots of American heroes: Ming-Na Wen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc. We traded them for Bruce Lee! They weren't born here like Arnold, Van Damme, Bruce Willis, or Statham but all are American heroes. Thou some might consider them British due to when the actor was born.
Her business should sue in Small Claims. First try the ISPs arbitration process. Judges don't like parties not trying anything and just going to court. If the limit isn't small like in some states ($2500!?!); add in the travel and court and lost business expenses. Also have all the times the service was out and you called in about it. If you haven't kept that, start collecting for a month and then sue.
Before the court date, the company lawyers will try to settle. And if it goes to court, she will probably get pushed to the court's arbitration where her company will get a fare shake. If that doesn't work out, considering she is a one man shop, the judge will treat her business almost like an individual. It really comes down to how well she presents her story.
She probably will still have to pay $1-2k thou. Unless the ISP shows that they invested $1k+ putting down a line just for her on the idea that it's a 3+ year contract; they won't get the full amount just because of the contract. There is no harm to the ISP to justify the fee so the judge will cut it down. But expect that the judge won't give you anything for the travel, time lost, and business damage from poor service.
Only a little religious and not Christian but I will take a stab. For me, it's mentally comforting. And God is a personal and selfish concept for me.
I understand it isn't necessary for others but it is for me. And it adds quite a bit of relief and quiet internal happiness to believe that there is a higher power above me; above all humans. That one day they would answer for their transgressions. And wrongs not as defined by me but as defined by a greater, more fair power. Kind of like an idealistic Judge. I find it easier to let things go and not become preoccupied with something that happened in traffic and ruin the rest of my good day. I can judge all transgressions before me, but don't have the burden of executing a just punishment.
I have found my need to talk, ask, beg, thank, and joke with my inner voices I call various Gods to be not only comforting, but also supportive, strengthening, and therapeutic.
I know some others who believe in their beliefs for similar if not the same reasons. I am sure there are many more that have yet other reasons. To each his own.
Maybe I am mentally disabled in some way and this is my way to cope with society or appear normal to others. I could probably get the same treatment with drugs and therapy. Or maybe a cure. But that's OK, I am good with the way I am.
Bullshit! Where to start?!?
1) Few care about multithreading anymore. Haven't really since Intel stopped doing their GHz race and over hyping their hyperthreading. Most people actually want multiprocessing. This is especially true in the subject arena of the /. post.
2) Having programmed in C, C++, Java, and Perl; it is ridiculously easy, in comparison, to do multiprocessing programming in Python!! I just can't state this enough!
The best language I found to do multiprocessing is Erlang. There are "supposedly" easier ones but I found this to click for me. Combining Erlang's design concept into a Python program using Process and Queues creates a highly flexible program that due to duck-typing can be lego pieced to a simple (but almost useless) multithreaded one; to a decentralized global network of socialistic workers.
3) As C is sometimes joked as being a wrapper around Assembly, Python is basically a wrapper around C (same for Perl).
4) The SME of the posting says Python isn't the correct language because of the hardware requirements; not anything specific to Python in its current HW environment. He envisions a future where the hardware is specialized for the specific requirements of AI learning and data gathering and interaction. Things where entire sections of the IC will power down if unnecessary. Similar to how GPUs are better for Bitcoin than CPUs. And with specialized HW, you need a specialized software and programming environment for it. Like C is for x86/AMD; he wants X for AI-HW.
The problem is that there is so much momentum behind Python that the AI community won't let it happen.
But I think the HW community has much more momentum to prevent this than the software part. Specialized HW is expensive in every way. Heck, "specialized HW" is actually redefined as "taking standard chips, and configuring them for the program steps". No one wants to venture outside the standard lego building blocks. THAT is the problem.
Darn you!!! You beat me to it. So much posting space wasted by the others going offtopic... I thinking "Its a 15 line answer!!!" (So it was less than 15, but whatever).
Is this no longer covered in second or third tier CS classes?
Most states are actually purple... even California & Texas when you start looking further into candidate positions in the House. But this isn't something that can create scandles and football like sensational news so we get a B&W Red/HeeHaw/Conservative/Repub/TP vs Blue/Tooot/Liberal/Dem/Social talking points that can only divide our nation and never progress to a middle ground that democracy intended.
The reality is that it's a huge range and the extremes shown by the media is a very very small group that the rest of us should really just ignore and get work done. People clumped together as Dems or Reps across state lines usually have more differences than similarities. As a population we arent a two party system. We are just cliff noted as such.
Politics is and should be local. And should be better covered locally. The media needs to stop discussing national politics because they suck at it and tend to over summarize & give a spotlight to those that actually represent no one.
We have full grown adults that we don't have such expectations of and elect to political positions. See Anthony Weiner for the start of a long list of people. We can't have such expectations of anyone under 17.
I think the bigger problem in society is people like you who over react to things like this. Over punishing this individual won't help him. And worse, it doesn't do anything for all the others.
I completely disagree. These are all tools best for given scenarios with various parameters and trade offs. And those parameters not only include but are mostly dominated by developer time in terms of conceptualization, implementation, and turnaround. The usecase scenarios where hardware limitations, MHz sensor monitoring, and micro+ second response times, make up a very small part of the landscape both in terms of man hours and capital expended.
So in that view, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, and yes even Visual Basic are all valid tools at the same level as C, C++, erlang, Ada, BASIC, etc. Everything we use may have some components been made via C, but the cumulative man power invested in that is probably matched if not beaten by the hours invested in Excel & VBA. Us techies may feel this is stupid, but it is the reality of the world.