How is someone paying back a loan with continuously compounded interest as now any different than that same individual paying back the same loan with interest swapped out for deflation?
With deflation THERE IS NO LOAN. The person with the money can just sit on and wait for it to appreciate. There is no reason to take a risk and actually loan it out or invest it. That is why deflation causes economies to grind to a halt.
This isn't about being a Luddite, it's about pointing out the economic disparity at play in the world.
Baloney. All of these people, both protesters and Googlers, are in the economic top 10% of America. Otherwise they would have never been able to afford to live in SF in the first place. This is about the rich whining that someone is slightly richer.
But I would guess that those that want to go back with old Russia are the ones with the current wealth and power under Russia.
Your guess is correct. Eastern Ukraine, where Russian is widely spoken, is considerably wealthier than western Ukraine.
The previous generation trying to hold onto power, the younger generation trying to become empowered.
It is not really young vs old. Language and geography are much bigger factors than age. Russian speakers living in eastern Ukraine generally support the president and Ukrainian speakers living in western Ukraine generally oppose him. An obvious solution is to split the country. Let the area east of the Dnieper River, and Crimea, split off and merge with Russia, while western Ukraine moves toward eventual EU membership.
Yes, one of the arguments against Bitcoin is that it's a deflationary currency
From a Macroeconomic viewpoint, deflation is bad. From an individual viewpoint, it is good. I bought 100 bitcoins when they were at $7. They are now worth enough to pay off my mortgage. That might not be good for the overall economy, but it is good for me.
Never read a "choose your own adventure" did you?
"Choose your own plot" books have a very limited number of choices. The number of possible paths through code increases exponentially with the size of the program. Literature usually has the meaning the author intended. If you are reading code, it is usually because it does NOT do what the author intended.
Because they hope your interest will fuel the very slightest bit of initiative, like the ~5 seconds it takes to Google it?
I tried Googling it. Google said it meant "Conjugated Linoleic Acid". According to the linked Wikipedia article, it is high in trans-fat, so it is a good thing that Linus doesn't care for the stuff.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with net neutrality. But NN has been in the news lately, so by mentioning it in the summary, maybe they can get more page views!
If that's the case, that's extremely inefficient.
Not necessarily. If they predict 50 orders, and ship 50, then there is a good chance they might have a return. But if they predict 50, they may be able to further predict with 95% certainty that there will be at least 45 orders, and with 99% certainty that there will be at least 40 orders. Then they might ship only 40 so there is only a 1% chance of a return.
Amazon currently has a "hub-and-spoke" model, where packages go from the warehouse to each distribution center. But they are moving toward a more networked system that will include transfers directly between distribution centers. So if too many packages go to one DC, they can be put on a truck and taken to another DC in the next town that got too few.
Amazon is also expanding local warehousing, with a plan to go into delivering groceries. So they should soon be able to cache more goods locally.
The only real solution is to have separate identifiers for separate systems.
NO NO NO!!! This is NOT the solution. The solution is to use identifiers for IDENTIFICATION and to use something completely different for AUTHENTICATION. Identifiers, by their very nature, are public or quasi-public information, and knowledge of them should never be used to authenticate anything.
Stipulations in Freedom of Speech rarely turn out well. Freedom of any and all speech should be a fundamental human right.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison once had this same conversation. Jefferson had proposed that the Constitution protect the right to "speak the truth". Madison pointed out that this was a bad idea, because people in power could dictate what was "true". Jefferson agreed, and freedom of speech was written into the Bill of Rights without qualifications.
Then that's nothing new, that's JIT inventory forcasting.
Except that there is no inventory. When the predicted shipments arrive at the distribution center, they are immediately either sent out to the customers or returned to the originating warehouse.
This then creates an incentive to transition people from the state of living to the state of dead.
This incentive already exists. There are huge profits in harvesting organs. A kidney transplant can generate $250k in fees. A heart transplant can cost over $1M. It is just that, under current law, none of that money can go to the donor or to the donor's family. The medical system gets to keep it all.
Here is a list of transplant costs, including the cost of "procuring" the organ.
If the sale of your body parts is ethical, would cloning yourself and keeping the clone alive just to harvest organs be likewise ethical?
That would be no different than one identical twin harvesting organs from the other.
Your clone is arguably still you.
No, it is not "arguable". A clone is a separate individual just as much as a twin is.
I suspect most doctors would be horrified at being suspected of this but I agree with your assessment; unconscious bias is tricky.
There is plenty of evidence that doctors will alter treatments for their own financial benefit. Most doctors work in fee-for-service practices, and have an incentive to keep their patients sick. Doctors working for HMOs are often paid bonuses for keeping costs down by minimizing treatments and discouraging repeat appointments. So HMO doctors are more likely to prescribe preventive treatments. Dentists that work for HMOs, or organizations with similar incentives like Britain's NHS, are four times as likely to use dental sealants (a very effective way to prevent cavities) as dentists in fee-for-service practices.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
