I figure the future will use hand gestures recognized by 3D triangulation + image recognition. You'll hold your hand over your screen and manipulate objects as if conducting an orchestra.
Or Google-Glass-like viewing instead of a hand-held screen.
A guy who was jailed in the 70's and released recently was taken back by people "talking to themselves" while walking down the street. Soon they'll also be conducting invisible orchestras.
There's nothing in there to indicate a conspiracy.
It is true that before the recent China slump that food and raw materials spiked up per inflation, but it was largely because Asia is (was?) expanding economically and demanding more raw materials and a larger variety of food products.
BUT, there is still slack in manufactured goods and services.
Why are they continuing to aggressively push invasive, paternalistic, and generally super-assholey "features" that make me never want to go back to a Microsoft OS?
Demands does grow, it's just that our paychecks have not been matching our demand because the economy is stuck in the doldrums for reasons already stated.
If you have evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate the CPI, please present it. Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen.
I know there are philosophical differences about the computation techniques, but that's not necessarily a concerted plot to manipulate the political system.
And several metrics are provided to emphasize different things. Those who present the metrics do not force anyone to use one metric over another. The press typically has settled on one metric that has proven "good enough" over time. There are trade-offs between each as a de-facto standard.
Someone or something has to manage the supply of money. It doesn't manage itself. And always keeping it the same can create problems. Capacity and population typically expand over time, not always at the same rate. Keeping the money supply the same doesn't make sense under such changes.
The gold standard has been suggested to force a consistent standard, but there are a boatload of potential problems with it. Experiment on a smaller country first.
And why not try to patch the holes in the business cycle (boom/bust cylces)? The business cycle has been happening for 400 odd years, and so is not caused by Keynesian economics.
Keynesian economics done right is a form of common sense: save up during the good times so you have spending money for the bad times. I see nothing really wrong that.
Politicians often spend during the good times instead of save up, but they'd do it also without Keynes. You can't blame Keynes for stupid politicians (and stupid voters). If humans don't plan, don't blame the few who attempt to plan.
Robots and de-facto slaves are available to make more stuff, if only the money supply is freed up to allow them.
Citizens of democracies are also available, and willing to participate.
And "freed up" perhaps should also be "expanded". QE freed up the money supply but didn't really expand it in general. QE mostly just exchanged low-liquid assets for higher-liquid assets.
Analysts have been puzzled why inflation has been so low, compared to a typical recovery. Economies typically do best at roughly around 2.2 to 2.5 percent inflation per year. But we've been hovering around 1.7%.
It appears our GDP capability is expending due to automation and outsourcing, yet our money supply is not expending to match. Thus, we have too many idle people and factories.
"Printing money" is one way to make them match. You don't risk runaway inflation if the capacity to produce is expending.
Many dictatorships and non-democracies willingly subsidize the cost of their nation's labor because unemployed people riot and overthrow dictatorships. Thus, they keep their population busy and fed using various gimmicks to under-price their nation's labor (relative to consumption). Therefore, they are practically giving away free labor to protect their position of power.
Robots and de-facto slaves are available to make more stuff, if only the money supply is freed up to allow them.
(The morality of such de-facto slavery is perhaps an issue to be dealt with, but for here I'm focusing on just the economy and money supply.)
calculated that human civilisation is only unique if the odds of a civilisation developing on a habitable planet are less than one in 10 billion trillion. "One in 10 billion trillion is incredibly small.
By what standards? What law says most probabilities are supposed to be small?
Oh, I thought you meant the other "pointy stick". That other one is highly influential, I can assure you. It makes guys do really foolish things, and possibly causes most wars.
It's not change that's the problem, it's change for change's sake alone. If they had a GOOD reason to change, that's fine. Most of their changes appear to be random shuffling to most users. The purpose and logic, if any, is lost.
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I figure the future will use hand gestures recognized by 3D triangulation + image recognition. You'll hold your hand over your screen and manipulate objects as if conducting an orchestra.
Or Google-Glass-like viewing instead of a hand-held screen.
A guy who was jailed in the 70's and released recently was taken back by people "talking to themselves" while walking down the street. Soon they'll also be conducting invisible orchestras.
Unless direct brain inserts mature faster.
There's nothing in there to indicate a conspiracy.
It is true that before the recent China slump that food and raw materials spiked up per inflation, but it was largely because Asia is (was?) expanding economically and demanding more raw materials and a larger variety of food products.
BUT, there is still slack in manufactured goods and services.
They probably just asked inmates to help out: they have experience and time.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Demands does grow, it's just that our paychecks have not been matching our demand because the economy is stuck in the doldrums for reasons already stated.
If you have evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate the CPI, please present it. Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen.
I know there are philosophical differences about the computation techniques, but that's not necessarily a concerted plot to manipulate the political system.
And several metrics are provided to emphasize different things. Those who present the metrics do not force anyone to use one metric over another. The press typically has settled on one metric that has proven "good enough" over time. There are trade-offs between each as a de-facto standard.
Similar situation for unemployment rate.
But the difference is mostly an implementation detail, not a legal difference. AOL sucks also (Per Mr. Powell.)
Someone or something has to manage the supply of money. It doesn't manage itself. And always keeping it the same can create problems. Capacity and population typically expand over time, not always at the same rate. Keeping the money supply the same doesn't make sense under such changes.
The gold standard has been suggested to force a consistent standard, but there are a boatload of potential problems with it. Experiment on a smaller country first.
And why not try to patch the holes in the business cycle (boom/bust cylces)? The business cycle has been happening for 400 odd years, and so is not caused by Keynesian economics.
Keynesian economics done right is a form of common sense: save up during the good times so you have spending money for the bad times. I see nothing really wrong that.
Politicians often spend during the good times instead of save up, but they'd do it also without Keynes. You can't blame Keynes for stupid politicians (and stupid voters). If humans don't plan, don't blame the few who attempt to plan.
Corrections and clarifications:
"Expending" should have been "expanding".
Citizens of democracies are also available, and willing to participate.
And "freed up" perhaps should also be "expanded". QE freed up the money supply but didn't really expand it in general. QE mostly just exchanged low-liquid assets for higher-liquid assets.
Analysts have been puzzled why inflation has been so low, compared to a typical recovery. Economies typically do best at roughly around 2.2 to 2.5 percent inflation per year. But we've been hovering around 1.7%.
It appears our GDP capability is expending due to automation and outsourcing, yet our money supply is not expending to match. Thus, we have too many idle people and factories.
"Printing money" is one way to make them match. You don't risk runaway inflation if the capacity to produce is expending.
Many dictatorships and non-democracies willingly subsidize the cost of their nation's labor because unemployed people riot and overthrow dictatorships. Thus, they keep their population busy and fed using various gimmicks to under-price their nation's labor (relative to consumption). Therefore, they are practically giving away free labor to protect their position of power.
Robots and de-facto slaves are available to make more stuff, if only the money supply is freed up to allow them.
(The morality of such de-facto slavery is perhaps an issue to be dealt with, but for here I'm focusing on just the economy and money supply.)
You are not a lawyer. Stop pretending.
Finally, I have proof for the PHB's that McAfee kills!
"You can blow my brains out, just don't take away my TwitterBook!"
BUT, what makes you believe the alternative was any safer?
By what standards? What law says most probabilities are supposed to be small?
For that answer, you deserve one
Oh, I thought you meant the other "pointy stick". That other one is highly influential, I can assure you. It makes guys do really foolish things, and possibly causes most wars.
Maybe it's Snowden who's been posting "you are all cows" on /. all this time.
Irony, coming from a tagged animal.
It's not change that's the problem, it's change for change's sake alone. If they had a GOOD reason to change, that's fine. Most of their changes appear to be random shuffling to most users. The purpose and logic, if any, is lost.
Soviet Muslims?
And make Zeus pay for it!
- The Donald
Are you talking about models of carbon-induced warming, models of nuclear winter, or models of Republicans?
"as used by billionaire Steve Jobs"
Let these guys settle it.