When you incentivize something you get more of it.
Why is this argument never ever used when it comes to military spending? Or corporate tax avoidance? Or donations to Joel Osteen's mega-"church" in Houston?
But the programs need to be structured in a way that encourages people to work by making sure that work always pays more than not working.
We may have reached an economic boundary condition, after which the number of people needed to provide all the goods and services for society will drastically shrink. At that point, your Calvinistic view of "If you want to eat, you have to work" will no longer be operative or in any way useful. One way or another, we're going to have to change our view of the meaning of welfare, and the meaning of work. It will not help us to cling to an outdated view of the moral value of work.
2. One argument against making social programs like food stamps easier...is that making them a PAIN IN THE ASS might help encourage folks to double down on work and education, sacrifice so they can get a real job that pays enough so that they don't need to live off the govt. teet.
This is the "moral hazard" argument, and it's bullshit. Would you ever say that not giving tax credits to big corporations would encourage those companies to be more innovative and productive? Maybe raising taxes on rich people would make them work harder for a change?
Be careful, we are entering an age where it requires a smaller percentage of people working to provide all the goods and services of a consumer society. At that point, we're going to have to become more comfortable with a growing social welfare system or be prepared for some very bad days. And don't assume that when the time comes, you will be among the "makers" and not the "takers".
While I'm all for shitting on Houston's lack of zoning for many different reasons, this did not contribute anything to the problem with Harvey. Harvey killed 70 people (so far), while Katrina killed closed to 2,000.
New Orleans is an ancient, densely populated city that's situated directly on the Gulf Coast. Houston is a sprawling, new city, 50 miles inland. I saw somewhere that the majority of houses that were flooded in Houston were built since 1990.
What's the point of rescuing those people who displayed a total lack of intelligence by remaining in what they knew would become a disaster zone?
I can help you, since I saw Hurricane Harvey first-hand. Most people who were saved by these "cajun navy" volunteers did not know that their neighborhoods would become disaster areas. There was no precedent for 53" of rain, or the dams in the reservoirs to have to be opened unleashing millions of gallons of water into neighborhoods that had never flooded before.
Second, evacuation was simply not an option. Houston has a metro-area population of 6.5 million people. The last time they tried to evacuate ahead of a storm, many more people died trying to evacuate than died in Hurricane Harvey. Most people really can't conceive of the sheer size of Houston. It's vast, and the area affected by catastrophic flooding was huge. We moved out of Houston after the flood on the first day there were roads open leaving town (Aug 31) and there were still so many people trying to evacuate ahead of the still-rising flood waters that it took a full day of driving to get from Midtown, where we lived, to the city limits. We only got as far as College Station by late that night.
Houston is a city that has grown without planning, without human reason. The "freedom" that Texans value so highly and brag about so much for certain members of Texas society is a guarantee that when something really bad happens, a lot more people will suffer than if they'd had, you know, zoning laws.
Remember, Texas is a state where the most celebrated, the most revered, and the most re-enacted military battle is one in which every single Texan was slaughtered. Disaster is in their blood (along with toxic substances from the many chemical plants, refineries and fracking rigs).
"Users will be able to make Animoji of unicorns, robots, pigs, pile of poo and many more.""
That's not the part that concerns me.
"We've found a brand new feature called 'Animoji', which uses the 3D face sensors to create custom 3D animated emoji based on the expressions you make into the camera.
Jesus wept. Now we get treated to people on the bus making funny faces into their iPhones, while we guess which emoji they're trying to pantomime. How funny would it be if the phones could be hacked so that no matter what expression the user makes, it always gives the pile of poo emoji?
Sod the merits of the individual case, he shouldn't be extradited unless and until it works both ways.
And it does work both ways, but unevenly, I admit. Maybe the discrepancy has something to do with the US being a more victim-rich environment.
I have no problem with criminals who have committed extraterritorial crimes being extradited. The Internet is not some magical place where laws should not exist. If you're in Dallas and you hack into a server in England and commit crimes, then the question becomes, "where did the crime take place?"
Unless you want to see hackers who commit extraterritorial crimes tried in the Hague, and I bet you don't, there's going to have to be a discussion about how and where crimes like this are handled.
Overwriting memory releases the old value into the environment as waste heat when the new value is written. A reversible computing circuit would not overwrite the old value and would simply use a new storage location, thus using less energy. The problem is that you quickly run out of memory doing this. The article mentions that the solution is to simply "undo" these old states. That would create a closed (adiabatic) system that is constantly generating new state while cycling old state.
Thank you for the explanation. I will have to revisit it when I'm sober.
My favorite Slashdot stories are the ones that I absolutely do not understand. Honestly. I'm a lot more likely to actually read TFA when the summary means absolutely nothing to me.
what does this mean? that they are better at being gay than other gay people?
Well, when I said, "extremely gay", I meant the kind of gay that dances in a jockstrap on a float in the gay pride parade. Freddie Mercury's mustache gay. It's not that he's better at being gay than other gay people, but he's the exact opposite of a closeted gay person. In fact, I'm not even sure his apartment has closets.
No, but this ain't my product. Just one I'm interested in purchasing.
So go to their website and order it. There's lots of places you can still buy Kaspersky products, though why you'd want to I cannot imagine. It's basically been malware for years now.
A democratic senator who is a reliable vote for the Republicans. Joe Manchin is the scum of the earth. Being a Democrat in West Virginia means you're a Republican, as we've seen with the sitting governor deciding to formally switch to the GOP.
There are no recall elections in West Virginia for statewide or federal office-holders.
All the more reason not to visit the pacific northwestern US
Wait, is the Pacific Northwest homophobic? I have some friends that live up in Oregon and they're extremely gay and I never heard them complain about the region being particularly difficult for them. One just sent me a photo taken from his backyard of a mountain being consumed by fire. I'm pretty sure he had nothing to do with that, though, despite the fact that he's flaming.
(I used this joke with him, too, and he didn't seem to mind. He would have told me if it had offended him.)
There's a dispensary in my little coastal town. I feel a little funny going to a doctor to get the prescription though. There's nothing really wrong with me (though I do have a little glaucoma). I wonder if you can just go to one of these doctors and say, "Get me high". Can there be special code words like "anxiety" or something? I don't really have much in the way of anxiety. I'm uncomfortable lying to a doctor. It would be like lying to a priest (which I have also done, but not since I went to a Jesuit high school).
It would be completely possible to use something like "the Jews" in a context that wouldn't necessarily be an ugly comment.
Maybe this new filter only affects ACs. I can almost understand that. I'd just as soon let all the racists and antisemites be, because if I want I can set my comments browsing to a higher threshold (although I don't like to do that). I prefer unfiltered discourse, but I can understand a site like Slashdot not wanting to become a home for white supremacists and nazis, like 4chan or Breitbart. They ought to spell out their policy, though.
Now, my comment was based on exactly one instance of an ugly, anti-semitic comment by an Anonymous Coward disappearing. It might be some other sort of glitch. It was only notable because of the ugliness of the comment, which went into how Facebook is "run by (((Jews)))" and how (((Jews))) have a "secret agenda", blah blah.
Could this be an example of some other kind of quality filter? Like the fact that the comment was repetitive about, you know, the (((Jews))).
I just noticed that Slashdot is deleting comments by Anonymous Cowards that contain racist content. Is this some new policy?
I only found out because I saw a comment to this story about how Facebook is some sort of zionist plot, and when I went back to the story to reply to it, the comment was gone.
Funny, Cannabis actually improves memory because it reduces stress and anxiety. Sure, you have the attention span of a goldfish while stoned on Indica, but once you come down (half hour to an hour, tops for me unfortunately) your short-term memory is improved. I naturally couldn't memorize phone numbers and the like due to generalized anxiety disorder (result of 15 years of chronic stress) but after I finally gave in and tried cannabis after reading many studies proving it safety and nonaddictive characteristics, I've found my short-term memory is greatly improved and I've finally broken through a weight loss plateau I was stuck on (due to hormones which in turn were due to stress).
I'm too high to read all that, sorry.
Sure, you have the attention span of a goldfish while stoned on Indica
Seriously now, are other strains besides indica easier on the attention span? I've recently moved to a state that has medical marijuana dispensaries and I'm interested in checking them out (I have some glaucoma, so maybe I could get a doctor to write a prescription). I'm looking for advice.
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Why is this argument never ever used when it comes to military spending? Or corporate tax avoidance? Or donations to Joel Osteen's mega-"church" in Houston?
We may have reached an economic boundary condition, after which the number of people needed to provide all the goods and services for society will drastically shrink. At that point, your Calvinistic view of "If you want to eat, you have to work" will no longer be operative or in any way useful. One way or another, we're going to have to change our view of the meaning of welfare, and the meaning of work. It will not help us to cling to an outdated view of the moral value of work.
This is the "moral hazard" argument, and it's bullshit. Would you ever say that not giving tax credits to big corporations would encourage those companies to be more innovative and productive? Maybe raising taxes on rich people would make them work harder for a change?
Be careful, we are entering an age where it requires a smaller percentage of people working to provide all the goods and services of a consumer society. At that point, we're going to have to become more comfortable with a growing social welfare system or be prepared for some very bad days. And don't assume that when the time comes, you will be among the "makers" and not the "takers".
New Orleans is an ancient, densely populated city that's situated directly on the Gulf Coast. Houston is a sprawling, new city, 50 miles inland. I saw somewhere that the majority of houses that were flooded in Houston were built since 1990.
I can help you, since I saw Hurricane Harvey first-hand. Most people who were saved by these "cajun navy" volunteers did not know that their neighborhoods would become disaster areas. There was no precedent for 53" of rain, or the dams in the reservoirs to have to be opened unleashing millions of gallons of water into neighborhoods that had never flooded before.
Second, evacuation was simply not an option. Houston has a metro-area population of 6.5 million people. The last time they tried to evacuate ahead of a storm, many more people died trying to evacuate than died in Hurricane Harvey. Most people really can't conceive of the sheer size of Houston. It's vast, and the area affected by catastrophic flooding was huge. We moved out of Houston after the flood on the first day there were roads open leaving town (Aug 31) and there were still so many people trying to evacuate ahead of the still-rising flood waters that it took a full day of driving to get from Midtown, where we lived, to the city limits. We only got as far as College Station by late that night.
Houston is a city that has grown without planning, without human reason. The "freedom" that Texans value so highly and brag about so much for certain members of Texas society is a guarantee that when something really bad happens, a lot more people will suffer than if they'd had, you know, zoning laws.
Remember, Texas is a state where the most celebrated, the most revered, and the most re-enacted military battle is one in which every single Texan was slaughtered. Disaster is in their blood (along with toxic substances from the many chemical plants, refineries and fracking rigs).
Wanna bet?
Never mind, I'm sorry, I can't bet with you because you are a crazy person.
Thank goodness none of the companies in the computer business do this.
That's not the part that concerns me.
Jesus wept. Now we get treated to people on the bus making funny faces into their iPhones, while we guess which emoji they're trying to pantomime. How funny would it be if the phones could be hacked so that no matter what expression the user makes, it always gives the pile of poo emoji?
They never learn, do they?
The hurricanes are caused by too much butt sex:
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/06/...
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
And it does work both ways, but unevenly, I admit. Maybe the discrepancy has something to do with the US being a more victim-rich environment.
I have no problem with criminals who have committed extraterritorial crimes being extradited. The Internet is not some magical place where laws should not exist. If you're in Dallas and you hack into a server in England and commit crimes, then the question becomes, "where did the crime take place?"
Unless you want to see hackers who commit extraterritorial crimes tried in the Hague, and I bet you don't, there's going to have to be a discussion about how and where crimes like this are handled.
Thank you for the explanation. I will have to revisit it when I'm sober.
My favorite Slashdot stories are the ones that I absolutely do not understand. Honestly. I'm a lot more likely to actually read TFA when the summary means absolutely nothing to me.
He may well be a True Scotsman. He certainly is a True Jackoff.
Well, when I said, "extremely gay", I meant the kind of gay that dances in a jockstrap on a float in the gay pride parade. Freddie Mercury's mustache gay. It's not that he's better at being gay than other gay people, but he's the exact opposite of a closeted gay person. In fact, I'm not even sure his apartment has closets.
There are far better vodkas than the Russian stuff.
How many people do you think regularly copy a cartful of floppies?
So go to their website and order it. There's lots of places you can still buy Kaspersky products, though why you'd want to I cannot imagine. It's basically been malware for years now.
A democratic senator who is a reliable vote for the Republicans. Joe Manchin is the scum of the earth. Being a Democrat in West Virginia means you're a Republican, as we've seen with the sitting governor deciding to formally switch to the GOP.
There are no recall elections in West Virginia for statewide or federal office-holders.
Wait, is the Pacific Northwest homophobic? I have some friends that live up in Oregon and they're extremely gay and I never heard them complain about the region being particularly difficult for them. One just sent me a photo taken from his backyard of a mountain being consumed by fire. I'm pretty sure he had nothing to do with that, though, despite the fact that he's flaming.
(I used this joke with him, too, and he didn't seem to mind. He would have told me if it had offended him.)
There's a dispensary in my little coastal town. I feel a little funny going to a doctor to get the prescription though. There's nothing really wrong with me (though I do have a little glaucoma). I wonder if you can just go to one of these doctors and say, "Get me high". Can there be special code words like "anxiety" or something? I don't really have much in the way of anxiety. I'm uncomfortable lying to a doctor. It would be like lying to a priest (which I have also done, but not since I went to a Jesuit high school).
Maybe this new filter only affects ACs. I can almost understand that. I'd just as soon let all the racists and antisemites be, because if I want I can set my comments browsing to a higher threshold (although I don't like to do that). I prefer unfiltered discourse, but I can understand a site like Slashdot not wanting to become a home for white supremacists and nazis, like 4chan or Breitbart. They ought to spell out their policy, though.
Now, my comment was based on exactly one instance of an ugly, anti-semitic comment by an Anonymous Coward disappearing. It might be some other sort of glitch. It was only notable because of the ugliness of the comment, which went into how Facebook is "run by (((Jews)))" and how (((Jews))) have a "secret agenda", blah blah.
Could this be an example of some other kind of quality filter? Like the fact that the comment was repetitive about, you know, the (((Jews))).
I just noticed that Slashdot is deleting comments by Anonymous Cowards that contain racist content. Is this some new policy?
I only found out because I saw a comment to this story about how Facebook is some sort of zionist plot, and when I went back to the story to reply to it, the comment was gone.
I'm too high to read all that, sorry.
Seriously now, are other strains besides indica easier on the attention span? I've recently moved to a state that has medical marijuana dispensaries and I'm interested in checking them out (I have some glaucoma, so maybe I could get a doctor to write a prescription). I'm looking for advice.
Video of the Harvard dean addressing the freshman in CS50 has now surfaced:
https://i.imgur.com/zPn4CNd.gi...