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Comment Re:A Decent IDE Should Give You Control... (Score 1) 238

Loads of code is nothing serious, just some shell scripts. I'm addicted to the notepad/putty combo for editing these. Typical workflow is:

- cat script.sh, ah let me quickly fix this
- vi script.sh, edit, edit, crap, this needs to be shuffled around [esc]:wq
- cat script.sh, select code, paste in notepad (this is where tabs become spaces)
- edit, edit, copy/paste, copy/paste, edit
- ctrl-a,ctrl-c, alt-tab (to putty), cat >script.sh, RMB, ctrl-c

Comment Re:Misleading headline (Score 1) 363

Could be something silly like diet and pigment. Obesity and D deficiency help mortality. But click on USA, and do the same per state, then try to pin it all on the central part of the US government structure again. That's probably as silly as saying the death toll in Europe would be better if we replaced Ursula von der Leyen. This is just politics in an election year. Enjoy the ride.

Comment Re:the myth of growth (Score 2) 280

students of the Chicago School and other borderline criminal groups of economists with an agenda continue to believe that growth is the only important thing about an economy, not things like, say, the ability to supply its population with necessities, maintain its infrastructure and provide medical and educational services.

That is what growth is. Increase in productivity per person, meaning on average each person produces more, so on average each person can create more infrastructure, and consume more necessities, medical care, and educational services.

Productivity and consumption are conserved - everything you consume must first be produced. For you to eat something, someone must first put in the work to produce, harvest, and deliver it to you. For you to receive medical care, someone must first put in the work to create medicines and provide care. For you to receive education, someone must put in the work to teach. If you wish to consume more (i.e. increase your standard of living), then it must be coupled with economic growth (increased productivity). The people producing these things have to produce more of it per year, before you can consume more per year. And likewise you produce more of whatever it is you make per year, so that others can consume more of it. In other words, economic growth == increase in standard of living; and it is impossible for the standard of living to increase without economic growth.

No, standards of living can shift independently of GDP figures as it has a significant immaterial component.

Comment Re:the myth of growth (Score 1) 280

Unfortunately there are parts of the economy that are like a house of cards, or pyramid scheme and can't take negative growth. One of the necessities is in a price bubble that pops, speculators default, financial institutions get hit and the whole thing comes crashing down. For the individual capita a 2% growth or reduction in their production/consumption capacity is just a rounding error.

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