Oh they are "merely imagined" by a lot more than just the US Government. And that's why they have actual value.
And that "imagining" of new FRN's is also why commodity producers around the world demand twice as many FRN's for their goods as they did a decade ago.
With the caveat that not all startups are created equal, if you want to be treated like family then you need to find a startup to work for.
Once a group of humans gets above about 150 people, it starts to fracture. The whole point of the modern corporation is to keep warring factions together and get something done despite the constant efforts of its participants to tear itself apart. It's not surprising that the group will tend to fracture along lines of similar people - engineers perhaps being the beta clan in many corporations (that tend to hire beta engineers).
If you think you can get respect as an engineer in a big corporation (that's not explicitly run by engineers) then you need to go talk to an anthropologist. Not that anthropologists know anything that engineers don't already know better...
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I'd really like to see a crowdfunding site which takes venture capital out of the realm of multi-millionaires, and puts it within reach of the common person.
It's a great idea but don't try it in the USA - the SEC specifically forbids this.
People complain that the rich just keep getting richer.
Right, that's the desired outcome of the SEC.
At least it'll be a helluva lot more productive than getting low- and middle-income people to play the lottery.
Those are designed to make the poor poorer whist enriching the governments. They also work as intended.
the customers of the products it produces. So they should on average pick good product ideas, making it positive sum, whereas lotteries are zero or negative sum
Exactly - we can't have that now - it makes for very poor herd management costs.
Witness the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an aircraft nobody needs
Don't play the game, man. Here's who needs it:
* Politicians, for pork
* Defense contractors, for "Sweet Jesus we're rolling in dough" money
* Lobbyists, for a slice of the dough.
* The Federal Reserve, the monopoly private bank that makes interest on the debt
* Wall Street bankers, who take a commission on the new debt created.
If you look at this as corruption instead of a mysterious boondoggle, it makes perfect sense.
There's absolutely zero chance of defeating an invisible enemy.
No punishments or consequences, all around!
No government worker will be fired, but don't worry, three hundred million people will be collectively punished for it as that billion dollars gets added to the debt and all their cost-of-goods prices go up.
Sadly, that feedback loop never seems to get closed. Results don't matter - as long as there are promises and intentions, that's good enough for most.
Uber et. al. have obviated the need for those a-priori licensing regimes and offer safer, better solutions to the same old coordination problems.
It means the end of the useful life of the cartels and their [often captured] regulators, so of course they fight it.
Here, have a listen:
http://www.cato.org/multimedia...
they're not making this some sort of Ender's game scenario with 8 year old kids flying drones
No, but they can use what they learn about 8-year-old kids to best adapt methods for 18-year-old kids.
Just ask any insurance actuary when humans mature mentally - for men it's about 25 (women earlier but one cannot have "sexist" policies in the US, damn the data).
Raise the age of majority and enlistment to 25 and they'd have to reinstitute a draft to fight wars like Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. Kids sign up eagerly - mature men not so much unless there's an actual threat to the country.
Politicians could never allow such a thing to happen in a warfare/welfare state, but let's at least be honest about what the status quo actually looks like. If Somali warlords are criminals for conscripting 15 year olds and handing them an AK and putting them out to get shot in wars they don't understand, the morality does not change just because a piece of paper says "18" is a magic number and tricking them into enlisting with future promises of riches ("we'll see what we can do about getting you assigned to a helicopter unit with technician training so you get a good-paying job when you get out") and then handing them an M16 and putting them out to get shot in wars they do not understand. Replace magic with science and the balance changes quite dramatically.
Having a well-thought-out, consistent, orthogonal, and to-the-extent-possible obvioius UI
DON'T rely on your own intuition about what's common or difficult for users, ask them or collect the data.
You have it exactly right, but notice the AskSlashdot talked about UX, not UI.
UI is a science, there are methods, data, studies and books. UI people are rare and valuable.
UX people tend to add more whitespace, transparency and animations, making the product look more fashionable (" n++.0" ) for whichever n your developers are currently building.
If there's no UI person in sight, documentation is probably his best choice.
Most days I'm working in bases: 2,8,10,12,16 and 60 for one reason or another. For construction I've tried decimal but have returned to dozenal for the ease of working with prime factors and mental math - I was always on the calculator in my decimal phase.
Y'know, my eleven year old daughter understands base and place value and can do math in arbitrary bases (it took me maybe four hours to teach her) - why do some Europeans feel so smug about being ignorant of non-decimal systems?
if you only have one computer you're not the kind of person who will be helpful in diagnosing a kernel driver bug (sorry if that stings).
so funny
You can turn off all alerts except for these so called Presidential alerts.
This is what I've done. Not because I don't like the idea, in theory. But I was getting "emergency" alerts for an approaching thunderstorm. Guess what? It's summer. Thunderstorms are normal, not an emergency.
The trouble with the system, as deployed, is there's a monopoly on discrimination. And the retards placed in charge of that monopoly have ruined its potential and left me without a competitive choice in intellect. The only two options are "on" and "off", and "on" was removed from consideration.
Let this be a learning opportunity for the next kid who wants to design a safety system.
only the trendy crap sold at best buy. I bought an otterbox commuter for $19 online. you can get china cases for as little as $4.00 with free shipping.
Got my daughter one of those China cases for her Moto G because it had to be neon green and had to have a kickstand, and the options were limited. But it's actually quite good.
I've got an Incipio Dual Pro on my S4 and it's definitely better. But only somewhat better, not dramatically. The Incipio is "really good" while the China Special is "quite good".
My phone is also way more expensive and the margin is worth it, but I would not steer people away from the no-name cases if they have good reviews.
Sounds CPU intensive and slow.
No, it's CPU-intensive and fast. If you control the whole network (see Google, et. al.). CPU is not the bottleneck in 2014.
But the very last thing we want is central control of the Internet. We may wish to have SDN's outside each peering point, but that's the ISP's business, not the Internet's architecture's.
See, we can want one thing in one place and something else entirely in a different place. One-size-fits-all solutions don't attempt to address the requirements of each situation.
Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine
