justforFranz

Amen and amen.

Let's keep in mind that computer book publishers (like O'Reilly) have an interest in thrashing the knowledge base of programmers generally. Because it means more potential book sales.

Advertisers can be informative. But they can also be a big distraction of time & money & resources.

Doesn't Apple already have more money than god?

Heeeyyyyy I hope "Laundromat's" aren't how you explain plural nouns to non-technical people.

:P :)

Government doesn't regulate banks so much as banks regulate government.

You might have saved his life - or someone else's. 80 in a 35? Completely insane.

Found the Scientologist!

OMFG. Can a smart person please archive the site in case these dummies can't come to an agreement?

This is spectacularly bad timing considering how many of our institutions that trade in truth are being attacked.

I think we're only at the place where the computer can propose ideas for the artist to dispose of mostly, and perhaps find a gem occasionally.

Music is indeed a language, so while it evolves, it still requires a network of meaning to rely upon. So doing something wild like music in 5/6 time will for the most part, bounce off people's heads and not resonate with meaning.

Labor has no pricing power in the USA and it's partially responsible for the candidacy of Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders - for what it's worth.

All the spigots for cheap labor in the USA are turned on full blast and have been increasingly so since the late 1970's when labor power was at its zenith. Those spigots are: free-trade agreements with other countries, automation, anti-union actions, flow of illegal labor, flow of legal immigrant labor, globalization.

It's the cause of social turmoil, but that's not much of a concern (in fact it's something to be harnessed and consumed) for the ruling (and chattering) classes.

Cryptocurrency noob here. Isn't the ability to "mine" a cryptocurrency a design failure of the cryptocurrency?

They probably need to create a phone app that tracks guests, and then offer a discount for people to install it on their phones. It might be the best way to divide the customer base into various profiles that could later serve for computer simulations & models for when different events happen: ticket price changes, rides opened & closed, etc.

This comment seems a bit white to me. Just guessing.

NOPE!

There's barely any pedestrian-safe areas in Southern California where people congregate. And they say the malls are dying. I wouldn't know, I haven't been in one in years.

In the future, visitors to Disneyland will need to know Game Theory.

She's probably lucky she started putting the license plates on. Imagine if she tried to immediately drive it away. It's very easy to imagine the officer shooting at her with the intent to kill.

That's crazy.

C-R-A-Z-Y.

The GraphQL has a diversity problem. :)

Throwing the responsibility onto individuals is DUMB because it decentralizes responsibility. Responsibility requires accountability in order to work. And as much as we'd all love to implement the anti-scale properties of "the long tail", the FACT of the matter is that efficient & effective management of the problem of pollution DEMANDS that it be centered and focused on the companies that produce it.

Oil companies had conducted research into global warming decades before the public had become aware of it. And they did nothing.

This response is SO BAD, it makes me wonder if you're not paid to post it.

Oh, but business interests are always complaining. They face no price or consequence for griping. They set up TV networks to do 24 hour pissing & moaning, and they call it "news."

What blows my mind is that the middle class and the poor who should know better, are simply to damned lazy to stand up for themselves. And many of them simply want a strongman to tell them what to do. That is, when they're not fantasizing that they'll be allowed into the club of the rich if they only provide enough fealty. It's a completely warped populace.

I think the deeper problem is that labor has no pricing power. Capitalism works for more people when people who earn a salary can buy things that increase real demand for companies. But workers are strapped for money, and have no real political assistance or prospects for a better future. Earning a living is increasingly a sucker's game.

Unfortunately, America's political system doesn't allow for a nuanced solution that gently puts the brakes on rampant globalization. Instead, talking heads who only play for ALL THE MARBLES see this as an either/or situation. I believe in the inevitability of globalization. The question we need to ask ourselves is, do we need to get there next week? Can we get there just a tiny bit slower? Can we create an economic space where people not living on space station Elysium (the 2013 movie) can have a life not defined by exasperating financial anxiety?

This site should win an award for being super ugly and unusable.

Regarding the two economies. Yes, we have a demand-side economy that's starved for capital because it's not sexy and other reasons (finance doesn't scale well). And we have a supply-side economy that's based on capital funding to the exclusion of actual, real demand from customers.

A central problem in the demand-side economy is that labor has no pricing power. While this sparked political revolt in the form of Trump's and Sanders's candidacies, little seems to actually be accomplished on solving this central problem. Consequently, companies living in supply-side world are kidding themselves if they think they can sell anything to actual people who earn a living.

There's a lot of simplification in what I wrote, but the point about labor having no pricing power holds. And to a lesser degree if the supply-side economy actually gives a damn about having a reliable floor of demand, they could find it in customers who have jobs that pay enough to drive demand.

I'm seeing this happen to a great degree in Southern California's apartment market. Rents keep increasing, but the incomes in the area don't justify the increases.

I think you're absolutely right about finance being geographically imbalanced. Finance can't operate well at scale, it would seem. Finance can't process "the long tail." And when it attempts to, deployments of capital get riskier, more speculative, frothy, etc. It's a missed opportunity that hurts potential customers as well.

I have to disagree with your take on Keynesian macroeconomics, however. Republican protests against raising the debt limit are for show & they always capitulate. Plus, concerns about inflation from Republicans are not as pressing a problem now that they control the purse strings. :)

I think you could have removed anything about Keynes and had a perfect comment. Your note about Sand Hill Road is spot-on.

Oh god, again with this.

STDs.

"They can print money via the Fed to get their assets..."

I don't think that's how it works.

America better get its act together about computer security.