Inflation is currently controlled by adjusting the amount of new money printed to back up loans given to large banks.
Instead of printing new money in this way, we could just give the new money directly to the citizens.
Quick napkin math shows that every person in the US would have gotten a check every year all the way back to the 30's (some years smaller than others), without needing to raise taxes at all. In fact cancelling some of the welfare programs made unnecessary by this system would likely result in lower taxes.
Loans would be more expensive, but more expensive loans seems like a small price to pay for basically ending homelessness and hunger.
I just lost billions of potential dollars, because some college kid couldn't see the practical applications and published. What would your response be?
What if you were sleeping in someone else's garage, it was less than freezing temperature outside, someone had stolen your car a few weeks ago, and you had put your own kneecaps on the line as collateral? What would it be then?
Frankly, I think I'm holding together rather well given my circumstances.
I have so damned many phonecalls to make tomorrow. A lot of powerful, and wealthy people will never talk to me again because of this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuckity. Fuck.
Yes. I do. I was going to bet on the supershort, and superlong funds. (2-4 x average market returns) for short term periods, and double my money every few days. I was only waiting to build capital.
Now I have zero time to build capital before it's leveraged away. FUDGE!
I am righteously pissed off now. I had investors on the hook. now it will all be arbitraged away from me.
It's just like quicksilverscreen when Rupert Murdoch litigated it away (one of the senators who voted for the DMCA was one of the lawyers defending Fox).
I want to do web appliction penetration testing, or really any type of security work.
I've been doing it my entire life as a hobby, and since a recent Reddit post wherein I expressed my frustration at being listened to for bug reports I've gotten a couple of dialogs with companies started... So I may end up getting to.
Current job == Unemployed. I hate it. All I do all day is either look for work (of any kind that pays well enough to cover my child support) , or get frustrated and drink.
Only by introducing a delay where is none is needed.
This makes things slower for the rest of us. 1 extra millisecond per user * 8 billion users * times 10 logins a day == Lots Of Lost Man Hours, probably enough to rebuild the great pyramids of Egypt by hand every year.
Security researchers are the reason we can't have nice things. :)
Let me restate it more precisely: The fact that my needs are not being met is their fault. The fact that I have those needs is mine.
My use case, and those of many others, requires the ability to 'follow' others and still filter their 'useful' postings from their 'non-useful' postings. This is 'my fault', in that I require more from the service than they are either willing or able to provide at this time.
Twitter has reduced my ability to use the service, in the way that I would most like to, by limiting their API and preventing screen scrapers from functioning in a legal and non-harmful way. None of this is any way my fault.
I still think my original phrasing was more concise, if not as explicit.
I followed them back after they followed me, so in a way it's my fault... In another it isn't. The whole follow me, and I'll follow you thing is effective from a marketing point of view, which is why the place is filled with useless affiliate spam.
They could stop allowing that sort of behavior, but they know that a large part of their user-base consists of 'self marketers' and other less subtle spam.
Why can't I sort or filter any of my incoming tweets in any meaningful way? I can have favorites. I can make lists. I CAN'T just type in 'Fck', and stop my feed from showing me the tweets with the word 'Fck' in them.
I can search for tweets about 'Ruby On Rails', but I can't just add those people to a list called 'Ruby On Rails' without clicking each one of them... Several times.
To top it off their API is so limited that just retrieving a list of the people I'm following means I get blocked for an hour before I can do anything with it, and bypassing their silly API is against the TOS. So writing my own tool to filter properly is straight out.
I wanted to write a simple naive Bayesian filter app to separate the wheat from the chaff for me, but they make it damned near impossible to do so without being sued.
When I did this same shit to Reddit a year ago (during the time they were doing it to Sears whilst crying 'I'm being oppressed!) they all called me an asshole.
Now it's because everyone at Google sucks, and this is some unforgivable sin on the content providers behalf, not the jerk users who are exploiting it.
It's pretty simple. I've never heard of Yell before now. If they'd opened up this data, than I would have. Especially if they only allowed usage under an attribution required license.
I used to work in a mental hospital, and we were very serious about HIPAA.
Anyhow, HIPAA only covers personally identifiable patient information so I think they'd be cool as long as it couldn't be traced back to the original person.
Although theoretically the DNA itself could be considered personally identifiable. I guess it'd be up to the courts to decide really.
Instead of printing new money in this way, we could just give the new money directly to the citizens.
Quick napkin math shows that every person in the US would have gotten a check every year all the way back to the 30's (some years smaller than others), without needing to raise taxes at all. In fact cancelling some of the welfare programs made unnecessary by this system would likely result in lower taxes.
Loans would be more expensive, but more expensive loans seems like a small price to pay for basically ending homelessness and hunger.