Many people are going to come out of the wood work saying it is going to take away the incentive to work, will make people lazy etc. Not really. If you plot a graph with net reward in the y axis and the effort in the x axis, the most important thing is the curve should have positive slope for all values. Additional work should result in additional reward at all income levels.
It usually runs into trouble in high end due to marginal taxes and surcharges etc that could reduce after tax income at some odd income points. Usually near the rate slab thresholds. Usually they make sure it does not happen. But sometimes it does. India very specifically has a provision to pay all the income over the threshold point to stay in the lower slab if they bureaucrats mess up and one additional rupee triggers more than one rupee of additional taxes.
In the lower end, the phase out of government benefits and dole is not very smooth. There are many odd points where going to work would reduce one's overall income. These quirks in the graph are the ones that trap people into dependence, not the welfare programs by themselves.
If the curve is positive sloped everywhere, it does not matter where it cuts the y axis. Usually zero effort would be zero income in developing nations. But we could easily support substantial y intercept without impacting motivation to work, if we take care to maintain monotonicity of the curve at low X values.
Anyway these people are the custodians of future tax payers. On an average if they raise more responsible children who grow up to become tax payers, the government would come out ahead. Think of it as very long term venture capital investment.
Isn't this an old problem solved by unix ages ago? If the computer goes off line from the network, it comes back and its local clock has drifted away from other computers... it happens all the time and it used to happen lot more often in the early days. The computer speeds up its clock imperceptably and achieves full synch in so many hours or days as specified by the sys admin.
So the means to synch the servers exist, right? Or is this very out of date view of computer and the clocks?
My colleagues are Masters and PhDs and they hack out C++ to solve Maxwell's equations for a living. These are people who got 790 verbal, 800 quant and 790 analysis in GRE. They solve London Times Cryptic cross word puzzles for fun. They made several valiant attempts and have given up whimpering incoherently about copay, coinsurance and out of pocket maxima. (See I even learnt from them plural of maximum is maxima ). Again, they/we did not try to understand the whole US Healthcare, just our employee health benefit plan, the flex spending account, and the deductible partly kicked in by our employer.
The Chinese trying to understand our healthcare system? GOOD. LUCK. BTW if you do figure it out, please explain it to us, Much obliged.
I'm going to read the paper now, so I may have more to say later.
Pontificating without reading the paper with a mere cursory glance at the title and guessing what the paper ought to say based on my prior biases produces very interesting threads of conversation.
Helvitica font displays lowercase l capital I identically. Do this trick on the co worker who leaves the work station unguarded. The code will compile and throw up run time errors. They are lot more fun to watch.
They get a salary for doing regular work. You don't get authorship of a paper just because you did regular maintenance on a routine equipment. Thousands of lab workers feed lab animals on the correct schedule. Why their names are not in the bio papers? Why the janitors are not named in all the papers? The entire staff demand to be named in every paper, for pushing buttons only in particle physics.
They did observe without changing anything and got one level of activity. They turned on the lasers and it changed the activity. There is nothing to see here folks, keep moving. In a large field cows move all over the place. I am going to define watching as "placing lots of fences in the field". Now when I was watching there is lot less movement. What did I prove? If you get to redefine the meaning of a word, I can prove anything.
The word "watching" invokes just observing passively without doing anything to disturb the system. Here they are continually measuring it by firing lasers. So when they were passively watching things were changing. When they fired all those lasers the activity stopped. So all they proved was, "if you fire lots of lasers at the mass, you can change its behavior".
Only outcome of this experiment was that they will publish a paper with huge list of authors and a minor finding. Now a days many particle physics papers have more authors than there are words in the paper.
I have noticed that if you use Photoshop to do enhancement of contrast/brightness etc the color histogram will have lots of blanks and will look like the skyline of Manhattan not the ridge line of Rocky mountains. Especially if I use something called "gamma correction" (hope I remembered this term right). Is that a characteristic of all image processing? or just the implementation "feature" of Photoshop.
If gold bullion is still subject to VAT, exempting bitcoins would not be correct. If it is America the Gold Merchants Trade Association (if !exist create()) will sue to get the same exemption.
The good news is 99% of the dental bacteria can be killed without brushing teeth or flossing.
The bad news is, you need to knock your teeth out and replace it with plastic substitutes.
BTW, which 99% of the bacteria this thing kills? The 99% of the bacteria in our bodies that are beneficial, symbiotic ones or the 1% malicious rebellious anti-eukaryote alliance bacteria? The 99% of the bacteria that is odorless?
Not saying Qatar is a paradise of democratic virtue or anything. But among the emirates, sultanates, sheikdoms and kingdoms over there, Qatar is one of the more progressive ones. It is trying hard to diversify away from oil. It gives freehand to Al Jazeera, as much a free hand you would expect from that part of the world.
Among the OPEC nations, Qatar has the lowest "survival" oil price. Saudi Arabia has the lowest production cost, less than 5$ a barrel. But the government has so many obligations, borrowings, interest obligations etc etc, it needed oil to be at 105$ a barrel to survive. Other countries were even higher. Sensing the danger fracking is posing to OPEC, Saudi Arabia decided to take care of itself first. It built a large fund slowly to weather the storm and dropped the oil price. It was hoping it would stabilize at 80$ a barrel, making fracking not worth the investment, while stretching its reserve funds. But it took all other OPEC nations by surprise, there was no concerted action, no help from Saudis for immediate budget needs, so all hell broke loose and oil went south all the way to 40$ a barrel. It is hurting them all. But least hurt nations are Qatar, its survival price was about 60$ a barrel last Dec, and Saudi Arabia because it built a reserve fund and its production costs are so low.
OPEC is hoping fracking will stop, inventories will dwindle and the oil price will go back up. But fracking does not need large lead times. The fracking leases already bought have been paid for, and new leases are coming in at low prices. So if oil goes back over 60$ fracking will start to thaw and it will keep oil below 80$ all the time.
It is bad for global warming, renewables and all that, but for sustained economic growth there is nothing like low energy prices. Qatar might be the only country there to become an Arabian Singapore. So this invitation to the clock kid seems a natural fit for them. The clock kid's dad was a Presidential candidate in Sudan. Not some impoverished African, he got connections too.
Taking advantage of existing infrastructure is efficient. You write code to take full use of C++ stl classes and C stdlib. Only when these routine things well proven, debugged, optimized and tuned code would not serve your purposes you write your own container or stream io. Adapting your life to use public transportation will even out. Time "wasted" in the bus shelter waiting for a bus will wash out sitting in grid locked traffic. Sitting in your car on alternate Tuesdays between 9AM and 11 AM to hold on to your street parking spot is somehow better than shuffling in the bus shelter? How about the time wasted looking for a parking spot?. Walking and running once in a while to catch a bus has some health benefits. So the time savings are a wash where there is a decent public transportation system.
Yes, the last 10% when public transportation won't serve you, makes you need a car. Taxis are expensive, with poor customer relationship. The ride sharing apps are going to improve taxi company customer service and lower the price, and ride sharing companies are going to encourage lot more people to ditch their cars. Zip cars are getting popular slowly. It won't be too long before regular car rental companies will introduce a Netflix model of renting. Pay a regular monthly subscription, and get a car for so many hours a week/month/year. People without cars would vote for politicians promising better bus service, things will change.
The cars are the most expensive or the second most expensive things people buy, and it sits idle 95% of the time. This level of investment in something that is idle for this much, loses value can not be sustained for long. It is ripe for a huge disruption.
I have access to a few linux boxes but my main work desktop is windows 7. I use cygwin Xwindows server to run X clients in linux boxes. The X windows is implemented in software and it does not support anything above OpenGL1.8. I think it uses Mesa as the rasterizer. If it gets faster rasterizer and higher OpenGL support it would help users. This would beat Windows Remote Desktop that too does not support anything about OpenGL1.8, but I am sure someone will port Mesa support for remote desktop too, if it helps.
The big deal, AFAIC is OpenGL 3 support. There was a big change from 1.8 to 2, where they added rendering based on C code interpreter based shaders. All my simple OpenGL code based on shaders don't work in 1.8. Hoping this would change that.
Basically the overwhelm the poor tea kettle with directional antenna and jam it to drop its wifi connection. Then when it tries to reestablish contact they spoof the wi-fi access point and grab the credentials. Why would this not work with other devices? How do the client devices authenticate the wi-fi access point before divulging the network password?
Our company rule is one class per header file, one source file for its implementation. For some of the top level classes that manage the entire product, I would dedicate a whole source file for one function of that class! Violated one source per class. That function will be in a file with a private helper class that will build all the temporary data structures and methods to implement it. A class and its implementation in the file that implements just one function of a higher level class. These single function calls would be something like product::CalculateRadarCrossSection(); . The function might take several minutes to a few hours to execute, it will instantiate an instance of a class not visible outside that file. The helper class would build elaborate data structures, maps and multimaps etc, calculate the radar cross section and clean itself of all the temp data in the end.
I use builder classes, which apparently a big violation of C++ style guides. For example class StiffnessMatrix would provide lots of services and provide methods to interact with other instances of StiffnessMatrix. But it will be built using a class StiffnessMatrixBuilder. I don't know people say things like "a well designed class would not need a builder class".
At some point in the past the Moon must have had lots of fuel. Oil most likely. Look at all the bomb craters on its surface visible even today. If didn't have oil why would have anyone bombed it? QED, the Moon had oil. It still might, but till unless we get the Moonstone XXL pipeline approved, it will remain unexploited.
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It usually runs into trouble in high end due to marginal taxes and surcharges etc that could reduce after tax income at some odd income points. Usually near the rate slab thresholds. Usually they make sure it does not happen. But sometimes it does. India very specifically has a provision to pay all the income over the threshold point to stay in the lower slab if they bureaucrats mess up and one additional rupee triggers more than one rupee of additional taxes.
In the lower end, the phase out of government benefits and dole is not very smooth. There are many odd points where going to work would reduce one's overall income. These quirks in the graph are the ones that trap people into dependence, not the welfare programs by themselves.
If the curve is positive sloped everywhere, it does not matter where it cuts the y axis. Usually zero effort would be zero income in developing nations. But we could easily support substantial y intercept without impacting motivation to work, if we take care to maintain monotonicity of the curve at low X values.
Anyway these people are the custodians of future tax payers. On an average if they raise more responsible children who grow up to become tax payers, the government would come out ahead. Think of it as very long term venture capital investment.
... And its got hair Donald Trump would die for.
So the means to synch the servers exist, right? Or is this very out of date view of computer and the clocks?
The Chinese trying to understand our healthcare system? GOOD. LUCK. BTW if you do figure it out, please explain it to us, Much obliged.
I'm going to read the paper now, so I may have more to say later.
Pontificating without reading the paper with a mere cursory glance at the title and guessing what the paper ought to say based on my prior biases produces very interesting threads of conversation.
Helvitica font displays lowercase l capital I identically. Do this trick on the co worker who leaves the work station unguarded. The code will compile and throw up run time errors. They are lot more fun to watch.
He is talking about a text editor. Emacs is an operating system. Calling emacs a text editor is like calling iPhone a watch.
They did observe without changing anything and got one level of activity. They turned on the lasers and it changed the activity. There is nothing to see here folks, keep moving. In a large field cows move all over the place. I am going to define watching as "placing lots of fences in the field". Now when I was watching there is lot less movement. What did I prove? If you get to redefine the meaning of a word, I can prove anything.
Only outcome of this experiment was that they will publish a paper with huge list of authors and a minor finding. Now a days many particle physics papers have more authors than there are words in the paper.
There is too many choices being offered, especially when it comes to Presidential candidates from a major party. Come on, guys. Get your act together.
Is the reward offered by this bug bounty program higher than what that exploit would fetch if sell them to Bulgarians or Russians? If not why not?
I have noticed that if you use Photoshop to do enhancement of contrast/brightness etc the color histogram will have lots of blanks and will look like the skyline of Manhattan not the ridge line of Rocky mountains. Especially if I use something called "gamma correction" (hope I remembered this term right). Is that a characteristic of all image processing? or just the implementation "feature" of Photoshop.
If gold bullion is still subject to VAT, exempting bitcoins would not be correct. If it is America the Gold Merchants Trade Association (if !exist create()) will sue to get the same exemption.
The bad news is, you need to knock your teeth out and replace it with plastic substitutes.
BTW, which 99% of the bacteria this thing kills? The 99% of the bacteria in our bodies that are beneficial, symbiotic ones or the 1% malicious rebellious anti-eukaryote alliance bacteria? The 99% of the bacteria that is odorless?
... Will it grow potatoes?
Among the OPEC nations, Qatar has the lowest "survival" oil price. Saudi Arabia has the lowest production cost, less than 5$ a barrel. But the government has so many obligations, borrowings, interest obligations etc etc, it needed oil to be at 105$ a barrel to survive. Other countries were even higher. Sensing the danger fracking is posing to OPEC, Saudi Arabia decided to take care of itself first. It built a large fund slowly to weather the storm and dropped the oil price. It was hoping it would stabilize at 80$ a barrel, making fracking not worth the investment, while stretching its reserve funds. But it took all other OPEC nations by surprise, there was no concerted action, no help from Saudis for immediate budget needs, so all hell broke loose and oil went south all the way to 40$ a barrel. It is hurting them all. But least hurt nations are Qatar, its survival price was about 60$ a barrel last Dec, and Saudi Arabia because it built a reserve fund and its production costs are so low.
OPEC is hoping fracking will stop, inventories will dwindle and the oil price will go back up. But fracking does not need large lead times. The fracking leases already bought have been paid for, and new leases are coming in at low prices. So if oil goes back over 60$ fracking will start to thaw and it will keep oil below 80$ all the time.
It is bad for global warming, renewables and all that, but for sustained economic growth there is nothing like low energy prices. Qatar might be the only country there to become an Arabian Singapore. So this invitation to the clock kid seems a natural fit for them. The clock kid's dad was a Presidential candidate in Sudan. Not some impoverished African, he got connections too.
Yes, the last 10% when public transportation won't serve you, makes you need a car. Taxis are expensive, with poor customer relationship. The ride sharing apps are going to improve taxi company customer service and lower the price, and ride sharing companies are going to encourage lot more people to ditch their cars. Zip cars are getting popular slowly. It won't be too long before regular car rental companies will introduce a Netflix model of renting. Pay a regular monthly subscription, and get a car for so many hours a week/month/year. People without cars would vote for politicians promising better bus service, things will change.
The cars are the most expensive or the second most expensive things people buy, and it sits idle 95% of the time. This level of investment in something that is idle for this much, loses value can not be sustained for long. It is ripe for a huge disruption.
The big deal, AFAIC is OpenGL 3 support. There was a big change from 1.8 to 2, where they added rendering based on C code interpreter based shaders. All my simple OpenGL code based on shaders don't work in 1.8. Hoping this would change that.
Basically the overwhelm the poor tea kettle with directional antenna and jam it to drop its wifi connection. Then when it tries to reestablish contact they spoof the wi-fi access point and grab the credentials. Why would this not work with other devices? How do the client devices authenticate the wi-fi access point before divulging the network password?
I use builder classes, which apparently a big violation of C++ style guides. For example class StiffnessMatrix would provide lots of services and provide methods to interact with other instances of StiffnessMatrix. But it will be built using a class StiffnessMatrixBuilder. I don't know people say things like "a well designed class would not need a builder class".
I would not consider non-working code as clean.
I would not consider non-working gibberish as code.
Sufficiently advanced creative accounting is indistinguishable from fraud. ---Arthur C Clarke.
Just give the wealth to me and become poor. Presto! Problem solved.
I have a mobile data plan in the USA. How would this work when I go out of the country? Does it work on WiFi?
At some point in the past the Moon must have had lots of fuel. Oil most likely. Look at all the bomb craters on its surface visible even today. If didn't have oil why would have anyone bombed it? QED, the Moon had oil. It still might, but till unless we get the Moonstone XXL pipeline approved, it will remain unexploited.