In a very real sense, it does. Private ownership within a state is not that different from, say, ownership of virtual goods within an MMO. Private ownership in a society like our's exists within an abstract legal framework which has concrete implementations via public institutions. And if this framework classifies something as no longer owned by a person, then the person no longer has a claim or ability to keep that property outside appealing to the same legal framework.
That being said, the government is just a product of our culture rather then something separate from it, so to say it belongs to the government is not quite right either since that is another legal element. However ultimately the government is charged with implementing ownership.
To say game theory is about individuals winning is like saying math is about individuals winning. Game theory is a method for building models and predicting outcomes given a set of inputs. It can be used to help individuals, groups, or entire civilizations depending on who is using it.
Actually, a significant (maybe majority) of traffic fatalities are a result of other people avoiding idiots rather then the bad drivers themselves getting in a wreak.
That is the way it will probably pan out yeah. Insurance companies tend to be pretty pragmatic, and consumers will slowly shift to what costs them the least. While there will probably be a strong social link to driving yourself for a long time, it is already fading as symbols of personal power shift elsewhere.
Ah, rose tinted glasses. Hate to break it to you, but heathcare during that time period was pretty crappy for most people. It had the feel good of house calls, but the minimum bar for being a doctor that was affordable to low income people was pretty low and if you want that type of health care today you still have access to that level of care from natural healers and other unregulated groups or buy OTC medications.
Access was fast, but not excellent, not unless you were pretty wealthy. The vast majority of the population was shut out of what we would today consider even basic levels of access.
Yes, the federal government tweaking the economy has consequences and mistakes are made, but people tend to sorta gloss over how bad things really were and paint these creepy pictures of the past that is almost unrecognizable from the real one.
When people (though these are companies, not people)'s property has significant impacts on society as a whole, then it become's societies' business. It should also be noted that this private property only exists because of the structure provided by the government, it is not really 'their' property in the first place.
Well, that gets into the game theory aspect of it and how a free market results in a destructive spiral. For any given insurance company it is in their best interest to insure the most healthy people and have OTHER insurance companies cover the less desirable cases. Any insurance company that goes against its interests will fall in the market, so they have a powerful incentive to all race for that one demographic. However the most profitable (both directly and indirectly due to general economic growth) is to have the largest and healthiest population possible.
So it is the classic problem of "behavior B is best for everyone, but behavior A is best if others are doing B or A", so unless some force changes the payouts (i.e. regulation) to make B more attractive and A less.
Eh, it does not need to be 100% rock solid, just better then humans. If humans managed to drive around without killing each other such a metric would be necessary, but as it is robotic cars just have to kill fewer people then we do already to be a net gain.
From what I gather it was not the Warranty page, but information about how local laws could be used for a refund. While it is something consumers should know (unless it is a shady use of the law, I do not know the details), I can not blame Apple for not wanting to spread such information in their own forum.
All depends on your bias. The community, including the editors, are diverse enough that the techie culture wars play out in what stories get run and what spins are put on them by OPs.
Though at the moment, hating Microsoft is passe, while all the cool kids hate Apple.
Reinventing the wheel is how you put your collective mark on things. Programmers like writing things, and there is a natural desire to write rather then use, and a warm fuzzy feeling when other people use what you have written.
There is an old saying, "Standard is better then the best solution", but programmers and engineers have a natural desire to build better solutions, even when it is not such a good idea.
That is not to say everything must remain static, and it is fair to say there are some functional shortcomings of the old system (esp in terms of dependencies), but I suspect that pragmatism aside, said desire to fix things is a pretty big factor here, esp for people working in niche domains with disproportionate representation or people in dominant domains who have trouble seeing past their own community's needs (the embedded community frequently ends up on the wrong side of that issue).
I am not really seeing how sysvinit fails in this regard. Simple things are easier to manipulate programmatically then complex ones, and complexity generally requires something to justify itself.
This is a debatable point. It has been argued that a major issue is we have been treating medicine as many small problems in relative isolation rather then a systemic issue. Sadly this debate usually has little to do with what is actually effective and more philosophical elements, mostly because understanding large complex systems well outside their personal scale requires specialized knowledge, while individual scale stuff registers very easily on the gut level, so the two sides are not even talking the same language.
There is some money in replication, but funding does tend to be harder to get. It can be hard to explain to politicians and board members why one wants money to do what has already been done. Which is a pity given how important it is.
While not uniquely and American problem, this seems to be a recurring issue with the way our government operates. Other countries have managed to put together similar sites with, well, I do not want to say 'little' difficulty since any such undertaking is going to have problems, but 'less' difficulty might work.
Though it has mostly been smaller countries that have done such projects well, so what we might be looking at here is an artifact of having a large and diverse country with lots of competing philosophies, interests, and actual needs.
EvE could really use some competition, but this is not going to be it. There is going to be some market overlap between the two, but from the sounds of it they have rather different focuses in what will make them interesting.
So far no one has really tried to make another 'EvE' on any significant scale, not when it comes to the things that make EvE unusual.
Yeah, but it is really important to many people that Nintendo fails, so any hint of not doing well is latched onto and signs of success are discounted or explained away as not mattering.
Well, that is what pundits kinda do. They take the things that they and their immediate audience find important and then try to tie their personal preferences to larger industry movements. People like reading that not focusing on their needs is what caused a company to falter and how companies who do not cater to them in the future will do poorly.
They may be correct about effect, they may even be correct about cause, but as you say, it is rather premature, and given the rather strong emotional bias in it, probably little more then wishful thinking tied to their own interests then actual understanding of industry trends.
The elements that are being complained about, people have been complaining about for several console generations now, always saying that if console manufacturers do not do XYZ they will fail. Some of that desired behavior has caught on, but solid numbers regarding how much it really impacted their total sales vs simply picking up the long tail is pretty hard to say.
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In a very real sense, it does. Private ownership within a state is not that different from, say, ownership of virtual goods within an MMO. Private ownership in a society like our's exists within an abstract legal framework which has concrete implementations via public institutions. And if this framework classifies something as no longer owned by a person, then the person no longer has a claim or ability to keep that property outside appealing to the same legal framework.
That being said, the government is just a product of our culture rather then something separate from it, so to say it belongs to the government is not quite right either since that is another legal element. However ultimately the government is charged with implementing ownership.
To say game theory is about individuals winning is like saying math is about individuals winning. Game theory is a method for building models and predicting outcomes given a set of inputs. It can be used to help individuals, groups, or entire civilizations depending on who is using it.
Actually, a significant (maybe majority) of traffic fatalities are a result of other people avoiding idiots rather then the bad drivers themselves getting in a wreak.
That is the way it will probably pan out yeah. Insurance companies tend to be pretty pragmatic, and consumers will slowly shift to what costs them the least. While there will probably be a strong social link to driving yourself for a long time, it is already fading as symbols of personal power shift elsewhere.
Ah, rose tinted glasses. Hate to break it to you, but heathcare during that time period was pretty crappy for most people. It had the feel good of house calls, but the minimum bar for being a doctor that was affordable to low income people was pretty low and if you want that type of health care today you still have access to that level of care from natural healers and other unregulated groups or buy OTC medications.
Access was fast, but not excellent, not unless you were pretty wealthy. The vast majority of the population was shut out of what we would today consider even basic levels of access.
Yes, the federal government tweaking the economy has consequences and mistakes are made, but people tend to sorta gloss over how bad things really were and paint these creepy pictures of the past that is almost unrecognizable from the real one.
When people (though these are companies, not people)'s property has significant impacts on society as a whole, then it become's societies' business. It should also be noted that this private property only exists because of the structure provided by the government, it is not really 'their' property in the first place.
Well, that gets into the game theory aspect of it and how a free market results in a destructive spiral. For any given insurance company it is in their best interest to insure the most healthy people and have OTHER insurance companies cover the less desirable cases. Any insurance company that goes against its interests will fall in the market, so they have a powerful incentive to all race for that one demographic. However the most profitable (both directly and indirectly due to general economic growth) is to have the largest and healthiest population possible.
So it is the classic problem of "behavior B is best for everyone, but behavior A is best if others are doing B or A", so unless some force changes the payouts (i.e. regulation) to make B more attractive and A less.
Not sure why this was modded flaimbait... this is one of the areas where Ada does generally shine, it is a language built for auditing.
Eh, it does not need to be 100% rock solid, just better then humans. If humans managed to drive around without killing each other such a metric would be necessary, but as it is robotic cars just have to kill fewer people then we do already to be a net gain.
"Let's give up now and form an agrarian society!"
bad stuff happens
"That's is, we're all farmers......"
I am guessing the former. It does not really go along with the joke very well.
From what I gather it was not the Warranty page, but information about how local laws could be used for a refund. While it is something consumers should know (unless it is a shady use of the law, I do not know the details), I can not blame Apple for not wanting to spread such information in their own forum.
All depends on your bias. The community, including the editors, are diverse enough that the techie culture wars play out in what stories get run and what spins are put on them by OPs.
Though at the moment, hating Microsoft is passe, while all the cool kids hate Apple.
Reinventing the wheel is how you put your collective mark on things. Programmers like writing things, and there is a natural desire to write rather then use, and a warm fuzzy feeling when other people use what you have written.
There is an old saying, "Standard is better then the best solution", but programmers and engineers have a natural desire to build better solutions, even when it is not such a good idea.
That is not to say everything must remain static, and it is fair to say there are some functional shortcomings of the old system (esp in terms of dependencies), but I suspect that pragmatism aside, said desire to fix things is a pretty big factor here, esp for people working in niche domains with disproportionate representation or people in dominant domains who have trouble seeing past their own community's needs (the embedded community frequently ends up on the wrong side of that issue).
I am not really seeing how sysvinit fails in this regard. Simple things are easier to manipulate programmatically then complex ones, and complexity generally requires something to justify itself.
More likely, link and it still did not happen ^_^
And thus began the arms race where eventually the only way to use the internet requires buying an up to date bot plugin for your browser... ^_^
This is a debatable point. It has been argued that a major issue is we have been treating medicine as many small problems in relative isolation rather then a systemic issue. Sadly this debate usually has little to do with what is actually effective and more philosophical elements, mostly because understanding large complex systems well outside their personal scale requires specialized knowledge, while individual scale stuff registers very easily on the gut level, so the two sides are not even talking the same language.
There is some money in replication, but funding does tend to be harder to get. It can be hard to explain to politicians and board members why one wants money to do what has already been done. Which is a pity given how important it is.
While not uniquely and American problem, this seems to be a recurring issue with the way our government operates. Other countries have managed to put together similar sites with, well, I do not want to say 'little' difficulty since any such undertaking is going to have problems, but 'less' difficulty might work.
Though it has mostly been smaller countries that have done such projects well, so what we might be looking at here is an artifact of having a large and diverse country with lots of competing philosophies, interests, and actual needs.
EvE could really use some competition, but this is not going to be it. There is going to be some market overlap between the two, but from the sounds of it they have rather different focuses in what will make them interesting.
So far no one has really tried to make another 'EvE' on any significant scale, not when it comes to the things that make EvE unusual.
Everything is easy to maintain till something goes wrong.
Yeah, but it is really important to many people that Nintendo fails, so any hint of not doing well is latched onto and signs of success are discounted or explained away as not mattering.
Well, that is what pundits kinda do. They take the things that they and their immediate audience find important and then try to tie their personal preferences to larger industry movements. People like reading that not focusing on their needs is what caused a company to falter and how companies who do not cater to them in the future will do poorly.
They may be correct about effect, they may even be correct about cause, but as you say, it is rather premature, and given the rather strong emotional bias in it, probably little more then wishful thinking tied to their own interests then actual understanding of industry trends.
The elements that are being complained about, people have been complaining about for several console generations now, always saying that if console manufacturers do not do XYZ they will fail. Some of that desired behavior has caught on, but solid numbers regarding how much it really impacted their total sales vs simply picking up the long tail is pretty hard to say.
Eh, people tend to get pissy when they think someone else might have gotten a better deal then them, esp when concepts like amnesty come up.
One finds a happier life when they look at if they are getting a good value for their money, not what risks others took and got a better one.