cubano

You know, I'll probably be bammed for saying this, but reading through this very well-made tutorial gave me the opposite reaction.

I am glad I learned and still use PHP and not RoR.

IMHO, there are way too many black-boxes and unnecessary abstractions for such a simple pattern as MVC, which is really nothing more then connecting HTML views to database fields view URI routes.

I recently struggled through my first Ionic mobile app, and all the prebuilt, "auto-magical" tooling stacks and opinionation I see in the tutorial leaves a sour taste in my mouth ie

  gem 'rails',        '5.0.0'
  gem 'puma',         '3.4.0'
  gem 'sass-rails',   '5.0.6'
  gem 'uglifier',     '3.0.0'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '4.2.1'
  gem 'jquery-rails', '4.1.1'
  gem 'turbolinks',   '5.0.0'
  gem 'jbuilder',     '2.4.1'

  group :development, :test do
    gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.11'
    gem 'byebug',  '9.0.0', platform: :mri
  end

  group :development do
    gem 'web-console',           '3.1.1'
    gem 'listen',                '3.0.8'
    gem 'spring',                '1.7.2'
    gem 'spring-watcher-listen', '2.0.0'
  end

  group :production do
    gem 'pg', '0.18.4'
  end

All this for a "toy-app"?

Call me old-school (and I am I suppose, altho I feel I make an hell of an effort keeping up to date), but I cut my programming teeth in C and always respected the very limited but powerful instruction set that language implements, and I, over the years now, respect PHP for creating very powerful constructs (like its magical array handling) but also keeping some C-like simplicity at its core.

Yes of course PHP has its idiosyncratic issues, but I still feel that one of the primary reasons it's so disrespected, I'm very sorry to say, is the snob factor thrown off by serious motherfucking programmers whom seem to feel that the simplicity and power of the language lowers the bar so low that it allows the "unwashed" into the room or something...

To me, thats not a bug its a feature.

Milo's ban was perhaps the best thing that could have ever happened to him, and while I agree he didn't deserve it, serendipity often works in odd backhand ways.

I'm 50yo and am still learning new shit everyday...just a month ago I bit the bullet and learned enough javasc...excuse me ECMAScript, to be pretty damn dangerous :)

Over the past weekend I learned docker and am now running containers all over the place...these aren't trivial things and the speed of which I'm picking stuff up is as fast, if not faster, then it has ever been for me.

The point is I am 10 years older then the age this study targeted, and I find it humorous that they are telling me I am AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber because I work 50-60 hour weeks.

Plus, where do I tick the box about my lifetime of pretty hardcore drug use and its supposed effects on my IQ?

Now I do get tired...physically tired...from the efforts required to keep up but besides that, my anecdotal experience goes against this research.

So absolutely true. It's refreshing to hear someone discuss this in the same terms I do, as almost everyone I talk to about how production has become the music and how Ableton or ProTools is the instrument looks at me like I'm nuts.

It wouldn't be very hard to collect existing data points and come up with a rough approximation, would it?

I would think enough data now exists to allow such an analysis to have some idea of those numbers.

The price will hit a ceiling at the exact time demand = supply, and not a moment before.

A worldwide markets for these homes now exists, which means the number of people who both want and can afford them is huge, and therefore the price will rise until that condition is no longer true.

Also, I believe we are again seeing signs of loan company shenanigans which, if so, will allow easy-to-game capital to continue to chase prices upwards as well.

Yes, you are definitely in the right path but don't you sometimes notice that "get-this-stuff-working-by-tomorrow" productivity is dinged by always having to be doing such deep and ordered design, as well as working out all the other typical programming issues?

I went down an almost identical path as you many years ago but found that after a certain point, the maintenance and just being away from the codebase for a couple of months made the time needed to make coherent mods that fit the design quite problematic.

It's also an absolutely wonderful blame for people so inclined to inform on others.

> The universe didn't care for creating some property called "intelligence".

On the face of it, I would have to disagree. It would seem to me that's exactly what the universe selected for, among many other things of course, in our tiny little corner of it.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be here debating it.

Arbitrage has been around since the very beginnings of modern banking and provides a very important function to allow markets to accurately adjust to proper price signals.

That constraint alone makes the AI approx. 92.3% more wise then most humans.

I would personally use the word "placeholders" rather then "cliches" and think most pros find them useful at times as they convey the proper temporary meaning of their use.

And why wouldn't this happen again?

All the people and corporations whom profited dearly from the 2007 scam got off completely scot-free and were made then whole on the backs of the US taxpayers (actually, their grand or great-grandkids, because the money used to pay the bills was borrowed and added to the $20tril debt)

They fully expect to be bailed out again, so again I ask...with big money to be had and almost zero risk to the players, why would anyone think its not happening again?

Ok fair enough and a great link...but here is the twist to this.

That page describes Xanax as a schedule 4, and yet I have been charged not once but twice with felony possession of Alprazolam and was adjudicated guilty both times, so perhaps we are both correct in this case, and that yes its a schedule 3 but its also a felony.

"...flunitrazepam, ketamine, or any other Schedule I or Schedule II CDS is a Class 6 felony."

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defe...

Back in my raver days, when this was still doable, one of my boys started driving to Mexico and buying K there and bringing it back in cheap water bottles to get by the border DEA.

One day he shows up at the club and says, "hey, check out my car trunk" and was like "uhhh ok that's kinda weird" but I went out and presto, there was 4 one-liter water bottles full of ketamine.

Thats a shitload of K, considering a vial is 50ml and costs around $100. So I started selling it for him, and man did it go fast. Almost everyone loved it, including myself. Oddly enough, even people who did too much the first time and had a really wack k-hole experience would try it again.

It was rather miraculous to me, and surely did some sort of transformative rearranging of my brain while I was dosing it. I think what I remember best was that it became my self-described "drug of choice", which, honestly, was a pretty huge achievement in my life.

I liked it because it removed my desire to do other, much darker and destructive drugs somehow, and it wasn't just a matter of typical substitution, but something much more fundamental, so studies like this are very unsurprising to me, and I really hope these researchers keep at it.

No..in fact hell no.

Ketamine is schedule 1 or 2 I believe everywhere in the US, so that is definitely a felony.

It's interesting how no one is discussing how the governments massive subsidy of the solar and wind power industries are completely distorting the market for these "prices", so studies like these are pretty much nonsense.

Of course price/KW will drop massively if the entire thing is being propped up by taxpayer dollars and not the actual need to be profitable.

I guess I just need to resign myself to the idea that so many misguided people now believe that government can print and spend money on everything and that will always work forever.

But it won't.

I am enjoying the spectacle and irony of the crypto-currency media being "hacked" by someone who barely understands the basics of the very thing that underpins the system itself.

One of the very few things that Bitcoin meaningfully has accomplished as an ecosystem is a world-readable repository of reasonably-well-attested-to-keys.

Yeah no shit.

Germany is a complex and rather unique blend between both systems, and frankly wasn't really that diverse until rather recently with Merkel's high-volume immigration policies.

The US has a plenty of "safety-net socialism" as well, so I'm not sure of your point you are making about CA..a country that almost doubles its national debt ($12t to $20t) in only 8 years is surely doing its best to provide for its people, no?

For how many generations is that possible before the country bankrupts itself?

I wouldn't even attempt to justify this in a market-based economy...earning as much as you can to take care of yourself and your family and shelter them from the vagaries of life is kinda the point, right?

Actors acting in their interest to maximize happiness and well-being is the basis of all modern non-Marxist economies, and every metric related to those goals shows that this albeit-non-perfect-system works pretty damn good.

There really isn't any point in rehashing the 160yo Marxism v. Capitalism argument here, I know, but there is almost zero evidence that in a wildly diversified and large society (not Sweden or Denmark, for example), that a government-controlled economy can bring happiness and well-being to its people.

Sure, and who cares how much they, their children, and their children s children have to suffer during that time, right?

Bullshit.

Maduro is destroying the proud people of that country with his Marxism that is turning him and his cronies into billionaires while completely destroying the economy for the rest of his unpolitically-connected "peasants."

I've read this article twice now, and both times the same thought struck me. How much, really, are his "insights" much different from Plato's Allegory of Cave philosophy?

Plato has Socrates describe a gathering of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from things passing in front of a fire behind them, and they begin to give names to these shadows[1]

Yes of course the details differ and the physics have drastically changed (invoking QM's probability wave functions as the the basis of the "shadows on the cave wall."), but the idea that all we observe isn't a true representation of reality is one of the oldest ideas in all of western philosophy.

It reminds of that old quote from Alfred North Whitehead, a preeminent 20th century figure..."All philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

They actually went 17-0 and won the Super Bowl.

I'm just kinda glad that my old-school, been-burned-100-times, cynical self, who also saw red flags galore into the original narrative, wasn't completely nuts.

It's a pretty solid takedown of all the issues in ShapeShift's sketchy story.

But wait...he spent $3400 on a WP "security pro" to fix everything for him!

Right...but the thing economists have learned is that these dramatic financial events come pretty much without warning, so saying that because people are predicting it and its not happening yet doesn't mean it won't eventually.

The Big Short explained it perfectly...a few forward looking investors made huge bets against MBS while everyone thought they were crazy. It took way longer then expected for the things to come crashing down, but, of course, it did.

> Inflation ends up being a wealth transfer from the working class to the rich.

Absolutely, and while my use of the word "dodge" might have been sloppy writing, your analysis of it is spot on.

But also, it is almost universally agreed that inflation in the 3-4% range is healthy for an economy, the eventual effect of governments printing money to pay current obligations and/or securities to "prop-up" Wall Street is a much larger rate, like 20%-30% per year

Just read the histories of South American government defaults or look at Greece now for a primer on the eventual endgame for out of control debt.

Looking through the history of financial crisis, the end-game is pretty obvious. Short-term, its a win for 401k holders and retirees so politically its an easy sell.

However, sooner or later, all the dollars and yen that the government simply prints to "buy" these securities will cause an inflationary spiral that will lower the standard of living for the working classes, although the bankers and politicians who created the programs will easily dodge those effects due to their wealth and influence.

An interesting article on quantitative easing... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/031b49ec-c415-11e4-9019-00144feab7...

That look super interesting...just bought it in fact.

Thanks for the info.