didroe

While there are obvious flaws with the analogy (like any analogy), I think the comparison with eyesight (or touch, etc.) is about making people think of the mind as more of a sensory organ. One that gives you input that may or may not be useful to you, rather than as something that defines you.

I don't really see that as a dissociative practice, but more as the prerequisite for being able to start on the long term journey of challenging and changing your thought patterns.

>I can fathom why governments call deflation the big enemy.

The answer lies in who the governments are that are saying that. They're the advanced economies which are well developed and have good regulatory systems, the ones that have little to no risk of hyperinflation. And, for them, deflation is worse than some (non-hyper) inflation. It's also much harder to get out of, Japan is still sort of stuck 20-30yrs later despite taking more and more extreme measures.

To circle back to the parent comment topic, ie. people think printing money always causes inflation: You mention Japan. They have printed so much that their central bank owns about 45% of the national debt. And they still have no inflation.

>we keep having mysterious debt-fueled collapses.

I don't think they're that mysterious. Most seem to be caused by human irrationality / group-think (bubbles), in combination with complex financial instruments that magnify the effects of a burst (ie. unwinding of massive leverage).

>The actual killer feature being their ability to reduce attack surface substantially by simply having fewer syscalls that can be abused

Can you not use Seccomp for that?

Why are you quoting figures for the entire tax take in a discussion about healthcare? To give you some perspective, the healthcare-only figures for those countries are US: 16.8%, Denmark: 10.3%, Sweden: 11%, Germany: 11.2%, France: 11.1% and UK: 9.9%. Data here:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?year_...

There were only a couple of people discussing that, and only a handful of comments. Most of the discussion seemed to be about how terrible the terms were and whether there were any alternatives to YouTube.

My limited understanding is that heat is related to the square of the voltage. And that by reducing the size of a transistor, you can lower the voltage. I don't think you can lower the voltage by quite as much as the reduction in size, so there must be a point when you can't just pack more in. Though gate design or choice of materials can reduce the voltage needed as well. They can also make the chip smarter about switching off parts that aren't needed at a given point in time to keep overall heat down.

It's much simpler than that. It actually makes writing a compiler easier as you have higher level abstractions to work compared to generating machine code. There are many languages that compile to C which should prove to you that it can be done. I don't see why targeting C++ would be any different and I'm sure there are languages already out there that do.

I personally find larger version numbers a bit odd. Generally people tend to work better with smaller numbers. I think the Ubuntu system is pretty good, use the major version for the year and have the month as the minor version. The Chrome 2 month releases could go 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, etc. That way they wouldn't chew through so many numbers. Ultimately I guess projects must go through a reset of their versions before they get to really ridiculous numbers.

You have to hope you can become popular enough that when your initial deal runs out you can dictate terms to the record company and not the other way around. Or that you can use fame to generate revenue from other sources.

I'm pretty sure you could save £6 billion just by never ever using EDS again. It's like some kind of abusive marriage, the government keeps getting screwed over and then goes back for more.

One of the charts in that link is GDP per capita adjusted for CPI, and it's still shows growth at a pretty constant rate.

Isn't this just Paypal? But instead of giving someone my email address to transfer funds, they have to get their dingle-whatsit out and I have to get my card out and mess around?

Broadcast media and print are doing a fine enough job on their own with sensationalism and scaremongering.

Javascript? :)

Because for Mozilla it's not a case of side-stepping the law. It's a case of their moral intentions. They want the web to be usable for people who want to run free software, or at least for it to be possible to write a browser stack based on open code.

We use http://www.sagepay.co.uk

You get the choice of using their servers to handle card details and processing, or you can do it yourself and hand the numbers off to them using an API. They were recommended by RBS.

This was covered in the article:

>Then in 2011, we plan to introduce Interlagos...we’re designing some shared components that help reduce power consumption and die size, but you won’t see us sharing integer pipelines, the meat of the core.

Saying something is never good doesn't equate to saying it never happens. And saying something can be good doesn't imply that it always is.

Assuming their population has stayed the same and that they haven't built anything on lower lying land since then.

Is it possible to start playback on the HTML5 video element without Javascript? I thought it was a requirement.

Most countries have some socialist and some capitalist aspects. I don't know of a single country that is purely one or the other. Nothing works perfectly so we mix and match a little of everything. There are countries where either word is bad but they still have aspects of that system.

ie. the US (from experience with people online) seems to be fairly "capitalism will save us all, teh socialism is evil" yet you're also one of the most protectionist countries in the world and have lots of social programs.

A better method (IMHO) is to run it through Beautiful Soup once to strip the fills out and then just build a stylesheet every time you want a map.

>Firefox accounted for 44% of all browser bugs reported in the first half of the year.

And what about the ones that closed source IE and Opera didn't report?

Couldn't a vectorizing compiler be used to generate the code rather than assembler?

I'm so glad car manufacturers don't bother with airbags, or ABS, or traction control, or side impact bars, or...

Why not? The TCO is done on the caller end and is completely transparent to the callee. You just don't bother pushing your return address when calling a function, so it'll return to the previous one instead.

I liked the OPs reply to this message:

>Thanks for your reply. It was quite interesting, though I get the feeling you used my question solely as a trigger to share with us a long-held dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs concerning the use of databases, regardless of whether it actually applies to my particular problem.

We just switched to greek gods, ran out of muppets and magic roundabout characters.

If you look at it the other way around, it's currently a supressor's paradise. If you say something I don't like, I can sue you and you have to prove that every tiny detail of what you said is factual. Most people aren't going to be checking the dictionary definition of every word they speak or write just to check that they're being 100% factual. So therefore the person suppressing their speech will most likely win. The rest of the world likes to be a bit more sensible, it's up to the claimant to show that the information was incorrect, for things that actually matter this will be relatively easy to do.

Free speech with a few people getting away with a bit of name calling vs supression of valid points due to tiny mistakes in delivery. I know which one I'd rather have.