jaxtellerSoA

No one goes to see a movie just because it features 1 song.

>Which makes the braces redundant at best, noise at worst.

YES!! Every time I try something other than Python that requires braces, I am like "WTF, why do I have to type this extra shit! Such an annoyance."

>There is no editor with consitent tab vs. spaces or tab width settings.

This is just plain false. PyCharm does, and I am sure there are others.

>3 (syntax) seems to be about not supporting the author's own highly idiosyncratic habits

Yeah, I don't get the author at all. Using indentation is so, so, so, so, much cleaner and easier to understand, even with lots of nesting than trying to figure out if you closed all the stupid curly braces, curly braces be damned.

>Value is created out of thin air through work.

Value != money supply

>You are not lending the entire economy and then demanding more than the economy be paid back.

You are right that you are not lending the entire economy, I was just making the example as simple as possible. But, the second interest is being charged then the demand of money back exceeds the actual money supply. What companies and investors do to increase revue for 1 particular organization has no effect on the money supply. All companies are doing are vying to try and redistribute the money that already exists in their favor, they aren't creating money (if they are that is called counterfeiting and is illegal).

> Even if that were the case, isn't that what QE does?

Yes, QE increases the money supply. I am not saying that the money supply doesn't get increased (by the Federal Reserve), merely pointing out the fact that once you get on this treadmill it just goes faster and faster and faster, and there is no way to get off without a disaster (bubble).

How do you guys think the money supply works?

I mean have never even thought about it?

>What happens when there are new entrants to your economy?

Nothing.

>Are they all forced to split the 100k?

No, if the new entrant can provide value then someone that already has some that $100K can give it to them for a good or service.

>If not, where does new money come from? Magic?

Comes from the Federal Reserve, when they decided to increase the money supply. The problem is you are on a never ending treadmill that is designed to have bubbles and failures, not that new money has to sometimes be created.

>The extra 10k is coming from the increased profits enabled by the investments that the 100k paid for.

Companies, and their profits, can't and don't create cash out of thin air. That isn't how the money supply works. This is a central banking problem.

>I think you are implying the companies and people borrow money for shits and giggles.

Nope. I was just using an example. It could have been $100k and only $50K was lent out. You sill would need $105k at the end of the year to satisfy all debts and have an equilibrium within the economy. Where is the extra $5K coming from? Magic??

> The reality is that most companies borrow money only when the availability of extra capital would help them generate more revenues or capture additional market share.

This doesn't change the fact that the demand back for money will exceed the actually money supply.

It is simple math really. The fact that they are using the cash to, hopefully, generate more revenues is irrelevant.

Private companies have no control over the the supply of money. This is a central banking problem.

Debt with interest is inherently destructive. Inevitably the demand for debt owed exceeds the actually supply of money. To put it in very simple tangible terms, if the US economy was say $100,000, and say all that money is lent out at a simple 10% interest rate due back in one year, then a year from now the demand to be paid back is $110,000. Where is that extra $10k coming from? It doesn't exist. Lending with interest is designed to fail. The only "solution" is to keep printing more money.

> If Verizon DSL is in town,

apples and oranges. Sure technically they are both provide "internet", but this day in age DSL speeds are just plain unacceptable. You might as well make the argument that residents don't have to go with Comcast, they can get AOL.

>I would have expected an explosion in sales with such a product

That is just unrealistic expectations in the server space. These aren't consumer products where adoption is fast. Business don't upgrade their infrastructure as quickly as consumers, and when they do decided to upgrade it is months of planning. No company is going to jump ship to AMD when their current servers aren't fully depreciated by their accounting standards, and they still have several years left on their support contracts.

The EPYC sales will come, but not overnight.

EDIT: And I am not sure why are are so disappointed here. Epyc sales and adoption has been in-line with what AMD has given as guidance. Why would you expect adoption to wildly exceed AMD's own guidance? I think AMD had aggressive but realistic guidance and so far Epyc has been great success and will only continue to chip away at Intel. Also not sure what revenue miss you are referring to. Overall AMD beat their expected earnings per share by 1 cent last quarter. If there was a slight miss on the Epyc sales then they made up for it somewhere else, but it must not have been a very big miss otherwise they would have missed the EPS target.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Baidu would have to disagree with you, since they all have already done large Epyc implementations.

Also, I can go on CDW right now and get an Epyc server, no problem.

Availability isn't an issue for AMD.

>This is clearly Tumblr's Digg moment.

Hit the nail on the head with that one. Digg and Tumblr should get together and write a blog "How to lose your entire user base in 1 day."

>which implies already having high privileges. (How do users with such high UIDs come into existence?)

I am not so sure about that. I work at a smallish, place and by default my AD account has UID of 945004649. Still under the INT_MAX but not that far off. Our domain controller is running Windows 2012 R2, and nothing was changed or touched regarding UID's, everything was left at the default. We just create users and get whatever UID AD assigns.

This is correct.

"Hey are you working on that deck?"

"Yeah, I just need to run to Home Depot and get some more nails"

A deck is that wooden structure on the back of your house. A power point presentation is an electronic file made up of "slides". There is also a "deck of cards", but no one calls a deck of cards just a "deck". Maybe if they called it a "deck of slides", or you know just use a term that makes sense, like "presentation".

>hackers when they have essentially gained root?

You are already fucked at this point. I would focus my attention on prevent hackers from 1) gaining any unauthorized access. 2) from doing any sort of privilege escalation from a restricted account/service.

Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".

That is what I am thinking, save myself about $50 a month.

I live in a remote area, and so far have found the only carrier that has any signal at all at my house is Verizon. So I am pretty much stuck with them, unless I get at network extender/signal booster for another carrier and install it in my house, which I am not too keen on doing.

>you can get a decent phone for under $150.

A smart phone? If so please provide a link. The "cheap" smart phones I have found are $300 ish, which ins't terrible, but this general trend towards a $1,000 smart phone is insane. I am not spending more for a phone than the cost of a decent laptop.

I was really looking forward to an new SE phone, that was my upgrade plan (currently on 6). Now my upgrade plan is to transition to Andriod, or I am seriously considering going back to a "dumb phone". The cost of phones is out of control (including data plan prices), honestly not sure it is really worth it for me anymore.

The only features I want in a "smart" phone, are podcasts, camera, music, GPS/directions. I don't really even need a web browser, and I don't need any social media at all. And I certainly don't need any gaming capabilities (I still don't "get" mobile gaming, if I want to play a game I will do it on my desktop, with a mouse and keyboard, and large screen).

I might go back to carrying 2 devices, a MP3 (podcast/music player) and a dumb phone. Should cut my phone bill down significantly.

>Because it is the least worst option for businesses who need what it offers.

And what is it offering exactly, relation database? Shit man, PostgeSQL, Maria DB, Firebird, etc.

>As MSFT is raking in cloud revenue, every other enterprise player is nervous about looking outdated.

Too late, SAP looked outdated back in early 00's. I don't get why anyone still uses SAP, it performs like crap, is way, way, way more complex than needs to be, and costs a fortune.

>I think the redesigns in that article demonstrate why most websites look the same.

I actually went to each of them, they may "look cool" but they were utterly unusable. The hacker news one was horrific.

And the cold war has resumed.

Not bench marks, but Amazon is saying their new R5a and M5a running on Eypc will offer 10 percent savings on compute costs.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/amazon-web-services-...

Then it also stands to reason that it makes business sense to switch from Intel Xeon to AMD Epyc.

>With power comes responsibility, of course.

Fair enough.

>That is good, if it is YOUR car. (emphasis added)

This my concern, if I can download anything I want to MY car, how hard/easy would it be for me to do it someone else's car?

Not sure if this is good thing? I know as the dev you are excited about it. But if I can gain access to the hardware using curl in my car, then I can download anything I want to my car.