>> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others. I would add a qualifier here - "in some situations". As human beings per se we all are "worth" the same. When acting in a specific capacity,…
in some circles it is considered "cool" to be admixed or foreign. there's also a fair amount of virtue signaling attached to that as well.
I'll just pick on the low hanging fruit here: >> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed... goes both ways depending on your "camp". it's funny though how this…
>> but has a delay for clearing... not only is there an ODFI-clearing house - RDFI delay caused by the actual "clearing" process - the whole flow starting from the merchant->payment processor step is a sequence of…
ok, so 4 pools have over 50% of the hashing power, add 4 more pools right under them and you're at >70%. (https://blockchain.info/pools). if that's not centralized I don't know what is. the only argument I can think of…
... or you can simply enforce a handicap along the lines of how Asians and to a lesser extent Whites get discriminated by US universities admission process today.
Well, yea there are scenarios where encryption alone doesn't help, but again it's one of the cornerstones of data safety. Other security measures like restricting data access to a limited set of source ips, masking of…
Not sure why he's getting downvoted. Unions are only interested in company's existence but even then very often they are willing to see it go to the brink not budging on concessions etc. Not to mention the whole…
there are some pretty notorious organizations out there who did "something good" at some point in the past, but that still doesn't justify bringing them back or endorsing them.
Before something like this happens we need to address the costs. There are ridiculous situations where you can pay $X in cash but when using insurance the charge against the policy will be $X*4 or higher. Or the fact…
What about sales engineers though? I've never seen them get commissions even though in a vast majority of cases they are the ones doing the heavy lifting of convincing the client's tech team[s] to go with the…
Ok, so how about we lower the tax the "american workers" (more like upper middle class) are paying? Get rid of progressive tax system maybe? Fix the situation where the "bottom 50%" aren't paying anything thus making…
>> So you understand that the amount emitted over time is not equal to the amount currently present? I do, but you don't seem to since you came back with an attempt to quantify the "amount emitted over time" my question…
...except that figure is less than 4%. about 8 gigatons are attributed to humans out of ~220 gigatons injected into the atmosphere overall on a yearly basis. the kicker is - the percentage of CO2 in the overall…
>> At some point a significant proportion of the people who have been ridiculing climate change ... will shift their beliefs to accept moderate action to tackle climate change... what makes you so sure of that (assuming…
You can definitely do microservices that way but in reality they tend to be more granular both functionality wise and density-wise. With old skool SOA you'd typically have a monolith app with a bunch of endpoints. With…
>> why aren't we hearing stories about all those possible new jobs ? you tell me :) I'm not 100% sure why the automation narrative has primarily been of the "impending doom" variety. I think just like with the internet…
>> movie rentals and newspapers are small industries, with slow change. Ok, fair enough. So then what are those large and fast-paced industries that are under the immediate and severe threat due to automation? I mean…
>> Progress is progress no matter how you want to redefine it. but them numbers don't lie either :) if some city has it's population go down by 30% I don't think this qualifies as "renewal" even if a couple of areas has…
>> Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the urban renewal... according to the stats- population wise they went from ~1 mil in 2009 to under 700k in 2016. there are a couple of decent 1x1 mile enclaves there -…
not following your logic here. "investing" != "giving it out". "growing economy" != "less inequality".
The flip side here is if the large company goes belly up - like Kodak did - the "outsourced janitor" might still keep their position at the company they are working for - they will end up working at another customer…
not sure how they managed to convince the investors. as far as the money spent - setting up physical manufacturing of anything, especially at scale is orders of magnitude more expensive than setting up an "IT" shop.…
With relatively rested players lining up against each other on every down the situation is much different from players chasing each other on the field like they do in AFL. WRs for example have a somewhat similar…
>> Who is buying goods or services using bitcoins? Anyone? That is just because nobody wants to sell something using a mega-volatile "currency", unless they want to speculate... There's some truth to that in terms of…
>> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others. I would add a qualifier here - "in some situations". As human beings per se we all are "worth" the same. When acting in a specific capacity,…
in some circles it is considered "cool" to be admixed or foreign. there's also a fair amount of virtue signaling attached to that as well.
I'll just pick on the low hanging fruit here: >> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed... goes both ways depending on your "camp". it's funny though how this…
>> but has a delay for clearing... not only is there an ODFI-clearing house - RDFI delay caused by the actual "clearing" process - the whole flow starting from the merchant->payment processor step is a sequence of…
ok, so 4 pools have over 50% of the hashing power, add 4 more pools right under them and you're at >70%. (https://blockchain.info/pools). if that's not centralized I don't know what is. the only argument I can think of…
... or you can simply enforce a handicap along the lines of how Asians and to a lesser extent Whites get discriminated by US universities admission process today.
Well, yea there are scenarios where encryption alone doesn't help, but again it's one of the cornerstones of data safety. Other security measures like restricting data access to a limited set of source ips, masking of…
Not sure why he's getting downvoted. Unions are only interested in company's existence but even then very often they are willing to see it go to the brink not budging on concessions etc. Not to mention the whole…
there are some pretty notorious organizations out there who did "something good" at some point in the past, but that still doesn't justify bringing them back or endorsing them.
Before something like this happens we need to address the costs. There are ridiculous situations where you can pay $X in cash but when using insurance the charge against the policy will be $X*4 or higher. Or the fact…
What about sales engineers though? I've never seen them get commissions even though in a vast majority of cases they are the ones doing the heavy lifting of convincing the client's tech team[s] to go with the…
Ok, so how about we lower the tax the "american workers" (more like upper middle class) are paying? Get rid of progressive tax system maybe? Fix the situation where the "bottom 50%" aren't paying anything thus making…
>> So you understand that the amount emitted over time is not equal to the amount currently present? I do, but you don't seem to since you came back with an attempt to quantify the "amount emitted over time" my question…
...except that figure is less than 4%. about 8 gigatons are attributed to humans out of ~220 gigatons injected into the atmosphere overall on a yearly basis. the kicker is - the percentage of CO2 in the overall…
>> At some point a significant proportion of the people who have been ridiculing climate change ... will shift their beliefs to accept moderate action to tackle climate change... what makes you so sure of that (assuming…
You can definitely do microservices that way but in reality they tend to be more granular both functionality wise and density-wise. With old skool SOA you'd typically have a monolith app with a bunch of endpoints. With…
>> why aren't we hearing stories about all those possible new jobs ? you tell me :) I'm not 100% sure why the automation narrative has primarily been of the "impending doom" variety. I think just like with the internet…
>> movie rentals and newspapers are small industries, with slow change. Ok, fair enough. So then what are those large and fast-paced industries that are under the immediate and severe threat due to automation? I mean…
>> Progress is progress no matter how you want to redefine it. but them numbers don't lie either :) if some city has it's population go down by 30% I don't think this qualifies as "renewal" even if a couple of areas has…
>> Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the urban renewal... according to the stats- population wise they went from ~1 mil in 2009 to under 700k in 2016. there are a couple of decent 1x1 mile enclaves there -…
not following your logic here. "investing" != "giving it out". "growing economy" != "less inequality".
The flip side here is if the large company goes belly up - like Kodak did - the "outsourced janitor" might still keep their position at the company they are working for - they will end up working at another customer…
not sure how they managed to convince the investors. as far as the money spent - setting up physical manufacturing of anything, especially at scale is orders of magnitude more expensive than setting up an "IT" shop.…
With relatively rested players lining up against each other on every down the situation is much different from players chasing each other on the field like they do in AFL. WRs for example have a somewhat similar…
>> Who is buying goods or services using bitcoins? Anyone? That is just because nobody wants to sell something using a mega-volatile "currency", unless they want to speculate... There's some truth to that in terms of…