There will also probably be more divergence. I know a lot of places that are cash-only, esp when it comes to food, and that seems to be on the rise again. Cashless is just so fiddly and expensive.
Language isn't an analogy in this case, it is the underlying issue. While you might not think of it that way, UI/UX is a language unto itself, or more accurately it is a whole family of languages.
When you see one person 'getting it' quickly and another struggling or not getting it, chances are the former already knows the language/metaphor and is essentially just learning a new lexicon, while the later has to learn the metaphor from scratch. I see this all the time when dealing with people who grew up on command line vs graphical interface, each struggling with what makes sense in the other... equally smart, equally willing to learn, but having different 'already learned' languages.
It is hard to say if it is being used less or more over time, but people do use it for mundane things. Various processors and merchants have been accepting it for a while, but generally people use it for 'look at me, I am using crypocurency!' bragging rights rather than it filling some objective role.
Not really. A hard deadline is something that WILL happen. Right now quantum computing is mostly marketing hype and demos that do not scale well or do not actually do what the hypsters say they do. D-Wave is a good example, they market as having these really high numbers, but their systems are not actually usable for solving anything other than transfering money.
Even extrapolation, it does not really work that way. There were decades of little progress, then a brief bump of interesting but not economic progress, and there is no reason to think that bump will continue in a linear fashion. It might, but do not confuse what you hope for what you know.
Outside crime, cryptocurrency value is generally not in its actual utility, but its emotional impact on the user. People do not use it because it is cheaper or quicker or a better system, but because it scratches a certain ideological niche, which is why you mostly see it being used by people who can afford to be wasteful.
Ahm, that is not really a 'hard deadline'. Some prognosticators believe there will be a usable quantum computer that is more economical than simulating the same process on a conventional system, but there is no telling how close to the mark they will be. It is quite possible quantum computers will never be useful. So not really a hard deadline, not even a soft one, just an estimate based off people's hopes.
Well, no. All the person seems to be describing is the ramping up process, which anyone who has switched jobs or had new coworkers will recognize. It does not say anything about how good or bad of a programmer they are, only that you can expect them to take time to get up to speed as they learn the new system/team/norms/whatever.
Any team or position that you can hit the ground running and immediately be up to your full capacity is probably a job to be avoided since the needs of it are probably quite modest and mind numbing.
And this doesn't just apply to programming. Pretty much any skilled work, esp work with an existing body of knowledge specific to the institution is going to have this, down from the lowliest intern or janitor to the c suite executives.
Yet most leftists I know are proud gun owners. It is almost like your ideas come from right wing fantasies or things they have seen on TV rather than actual leftists. Given how right wingers only seem to be happy when everyone is exactly like them and no one will stop them applying pressure to convert everyone, kinda sounds like projection.
Not really. I am highly skeptical that they can not stop things like spoofing or spamming while still being classified as a telecommunication services.
Well, no. Closer to 'Gentrification : Hey, that is a really nice community you have there, I think we can get the owners to kick you out and give it to us'.
All these gendrified areas tend to be places where the locals have built something appealing enough that wealthier people want it for themselves, now that it is built.
*nod* people tend to forget : there is no fundamental right for corporations to exist, they are a thing because states and societies decided they were a net benefit to the whole and built a legal framework for them to exist within. That framework could go away if society decides corporations were a net loss.
The problem with lessons is not everyone learns the same one. Investors discovered they can still make good short term profits by treating employees like cogs, and a whole host of new tools and practices have been developed to optimize this. The people making the most power over the situation DID learn their lesson and are applying it.
The problem with unions is they make it hard to sell out your fellow workers, so as long as you richly reward a few you can point to unions and say 'see, you all have a chance at this brass ring, but the union would take that away!' and people will avoid them in the hopes they can make a little more than others.
Fiat currency has the same basic value gold and silver did when they became common : you can pay your taxes in it and the state pays all of its bills using it.
The problem with all that infrastructure is it is expensive to operate, so as soon as fees made from transactions drop below the power costs, the stakeholders will rapidly drop out. Arms races only work when there is something worth racing over. Just look at Easter Island.
Yeah, gentrification is a major boon for landlords, and since they tend to live far away from the property they own, the rent paid doesn't really cycle back into the local economy very well.
That is one of the major weaknesses of creating a deflationary system, the currency becomes an investment since there is an incentive to NOT use it since its value is intended to always be going up.
Even transnational corporations are products of the legal system of their home countries. A company is inherently a legal entity, an extension of a country that only exists because a country backs it up. So yes, while you did not mention countries, since a treaty is an agreement between them and companies are an extension of them, they are relevant.
Treaties never stop countries from doing squat. If there was a compelling reason to do anything there, if any country could build a settlement that produced something that aided its economy, if even private companies could find a good reason to be there, the treaty would be in the dust bin in no time. Treaties are like declarations of war, they are the rationalization and formalization of what nations already want to do, and are quickly dropped or violated when those needs change.
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There will also probably be more divergence. I know a lot of places that are cash-only, esp when it comes to food, and that seems to be on the rise again. Cashless is just so fiddly and expensive.
Language isn't an analogy in this case, it is the underlying issue. While you might not think of it that way, UI/UX is a language unto itself, or more accurately it is a whole family of languages.
When you see one person 'getting it' quickly and another struggling or not getting it, chances are the former already knows the language/metaphor and is essentially just learning a new lexicon, while the later has to learn the metaphor from scratch. I see this all the time when dealing with people who grew up on command line vs graphical interface, each struggling with what makes sense in the other... equally smart, equally willing to learn, but having different 'already learned' languages.
It is hard to say if it is being used less or more over time, but people do use it for mundane things. Various processors and merchants have been accepting it for a while, but generally people use it for 'look at me, I am using crypocurency!' bragging rights rather than it filling some objective role.
Not really. A hard deadline is something that WILL happen. Right now quantum computing is mostly marketing hype and demos that do not scale well or do not actually do what the hypsters say they do. D-Wave is a good example, they market as having these really high numbers, but their systems are not actually usable for solving anything other than transfering money.
Even extrapolation, it does not really work that way. There were decades of little progress, then a brief bump of interesting but not economic progress, and there is no reason to think that bump will continue in a linear fashion. It might, but do not confuse what you hope for what you know.
Outside crime, cryptocurrency value is generally not in its actual utility, but its emotional impact on the user. People do not use it because it is cheaper or quicker or a better system, but because it scratches a certain ideological niche, which is why you mostly see it being used by people who can afford to be wasteful.
Eh, SJW has become shorthand for anything certain types of people do not like.
Ahm, that is not really a 'hard deadline'. Some prognosticators believe there will be a usable quantum computer that is more economical than simulating the same process on a conventional system, but there is no telling how close to the mark they will be. It is quite possible quantum computers will never be useful. So not really a hard deadline, not even a soft one, just an estimate based off people's hopes.
Well, no. All the person seems to be describing is the ramping up process, which anyone who has switched jobs or had new coworkers will recognize. It does not say anything about how good or bad of a programmer they are, only that you can expect them to take time to get up to speed as they learn the new system/team/norms/whatever.
Any team or position that you can hit the ground running and immediately be up to your full capacity is probably a job to be avoided since the needs of it are probably quite modest and mind numbing.
And this doesn't just apply to programming. Pretty much any skilled work, esp work with an existing body of knowledge specific to the institution is going to have this, down from the lowliest intern or janitor to the c suite executives.
Yet most leftists I know are proud gun owners. It is almost like your ideas come from right wing fantasies or things they have seen on TV rather than actual leftists. Given how right wingers only seem to be happy when everyone is exactly like them and no one will stop them applying pressure to convert everyone, kinda sounds like projection.
It is almost like rich people will just do whatever they want since they know they can get out of it and move to the next hot spot.
Not really. I am highly skeptical that they can not stop things like spoofing or spamming while still being classified as a telecommunication services.
Well, no. Closer to 'Gentrification : Hey, that is a really nice community you have there, I think we can get the owners to kick you out and give it to us'.
All these gendrified areas tend to be places where the locals have built something appealing enough that wealthier people want it for themselves, now that it is built.
*nod* people tend to forget : there is no fundamental right for corporations to exist, they are a thing because states and societies decided they were a net benefit to the whole and built a legal framework for them to exist within. That framework could go away if society decides corporations were a net loss.
The problem with lessons is not everyone learns the same one. Investors discovered they can still make good short term profits by treating employees like cogs, and a whole host of new tools and practices have been developed to optimize this. The people making the most power over the situation DID learn their lesson and are applying it.
The problem with unions is they make it hard to sell out your fellow workers, so as long as you richly reward a few you can point to unions and say 'see, you all have a chance at this brass ring, but the union would take that away!' and people will avoid them in the hopes they can make a little more than others.
Fiat currency has the same basic value gold and silver did when they became common : you can pay your taxes in it and the state pays all of its bills using it.
*nod * both 'not copycat' and 'not centralized' are ideological merics, their utility is purely emotional.
The problem with all that infrastructure is it is expensive to operate, so as soon as fees made from transactions drop below the power costs, the stakeholders will rapidly drop out. Arms races only work when there is something worth racing over. Just look at Easter Island.
Yeah, gentrification is a major boon for landlords, and since they tend to live far away from the property they own, the rent paid doesn't really cycle back into the local economy very well.
That is one of the major weaknesses of creating a deflationary system, the currency becomes an investment since there is an incentive to NOT use it since its value is intended to always be going up.
I love how the most prosperous and free time in human history is a 'mess', and somehow returning to failed historical norms is prefered.
I imagine that is a novelty that would wear off REAL fast.
Even transnational corporations are products of the legal system of their home countries. A company is inherently a legal entity, an extension of a country that only exists because a country backs it up. So yes, while you did not mention countries, since a treaty is an agreement between them and companies are an extension of them, they are relevant.
And who uses this fuel? Is it cheaper to produce there and then ship to where there is a market for it?
Treaties never stop countries from doing squat. If there was a compelling reason to do anything there, if any country could build a settlement that produced something that aided its economy, if even private companies could find a good reason to be there, the treaty would be in the dust bin in no time. Treaties are like declarations of war, they are the rationalization and formalization of what nations already want to do, and are quickly dropped or violated when those needs change.