The correlation between money earned for work and the relative value of that work is rather low. There is no "group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society". There is only "society", nothing exists in a vacuum.
Do you think Steve Jobs could have achieved what he did had there not been any firefighters, primary school teachers, steelworkers, lumberjacks, bus drivers, janitors, soldiers, etc to indirectly or directly support his liberty to achieve his dreams? Do you think factory workers in China have had any impact on Jobs' success? All of them earn less than he did. Are they somehow lazy and deserving of their situation?
The reduction of income/power inequality isn't a bad thing that the poor, lazy masses want in order to get rich doing nothing. Quite the contrary. The point is to raise the standard of living of people doing jobs that, if some part of society had their say, would probably not even be paid. Reducing the wealth gap doesn't mean you can't be successful anymore.
What specifically are you suggesting happen? Did I say anywhere in my post that tax rates should not be raised for the wealthy, or that the estate tax should not be raised?
I am making a specific counterargument to a post arguing that wealth correlates with power, power is the true measure of inequality, and that it should thus be normalized instead.
I am thoroughly questioning the reading comprehension skills of virtually everybody responding to me.
Some people were waiting for the "free money" to come so they could buy "alt coins". Some will be happy to see BTC unchallenged. Price will be a balance of both.
I'll admit it, I was one of those people. On one hand, no "free money" for me, but on the other hand, I'm willing to accept this because it will hopefully lead to a stronger Bitcoin in the long run.
I was asked to look for an online fax solution. A provider I contacted never called me back. Do you offer subscriptions even if they are not needed? I know next to nothing about faxing - how is the transmitted data secured? Is it?
SRFax lists healthcare solutions on its site, and Faxage says "All of our fax service plans come with HIPAA compliance standard - No need for a 'special' plan or to pay extra for HIPAA related security features" and you can contact them for a BAA.
Other than that you can do things in-house with Hylafax and either hardware (e.g. Mainpine boards, expensive but they Just Work) or software solutions. My experience with software solutions (IAXModem with Hylafax and Asterisk) has been that speeds and reliability are sometimes poor, at least compared to good hardware solutions or physical fax machines supporting 33.6k.
HylaFAX Enterprise is a full SW solution, (roughly) HylaFAX plus the Dialogic SR140 which does both T.38 (new school fax) and G.711 (old school telephony fax). But generally it's 14.4k - believe it or not V.34 (33.6k) is still somewhat experimental over IP.
And 9600 is usually required to get faxes through to a lot of places, because everyone is trying to do fax over VoIP, and that is generally tough sledding, if it's possible at all.
We unfortunately aren't big enough (yet!) to provide HIPAA-compliance: the cost is quite high for the volumes we're sending right now. Send us an email at team@faxrocket.com: happy to talk about other options.
>I know next to nothing about faxing - how is the transmitted data secured? Is it?
Traditionally, transmitting a fax was just making a telephone call so it was vulnerable in the same way that any telephone call was to wiretapping. With fax services as exist today, you're basically emailing them a PDF and they're then sending that as a fax to someone's phone number. (Or the reverse.) So there's no real security other than that provided by the telephone network and the service's internal controls.
I had efax for a number of years but I believe they eliminated the free incoming fax number for free accounts and I haven't actually needed to send or receive an actual fax (as opposed to a scanned document) in years.
You can grab virtually any old type of old tape reader over on ebay. As long as the host system has drivers for it (IIRC even 8 years ago there were no mainline drivers for Iomega ZIP floppies), you'll be fine.
And for really crucial data, you can always go to a data lab and have them restore the tape; wasn't there a story a year ago or so when they found old NASA tapes?
A standard tape horror story is that the old drive ended up out of alignment and later died, then the replacement, same type, was aligned properly (or just differently) and couldn't read the existing tapes.
I have never run syncthing but NUCs are a really nice product, sturdy and easily concealed (you can just screw them under a desk for example). Don't forget to buy memory and a hard drive for your unit though :) It doesn't come with any.
Does the dual core processor bother you? At work I had a mid 2015 MBP with a quad core i7 HQ processor (can't remember which). It was beastly. I'm worried that by getting a dual core I will regret it... What's your impression?
Maybe you tried to include too many features? :)
My friends just wanted to give cryptocurrencies a try, and all these charts and orders are too complicated!
This is where they can create a portfolio in couple of clicks and check it weeks later if they feel like it!
No, my idea is slightly more involved. However I want to use my own data, not other people's, so I spent time setting up a proper DB schema to hold exchange data from various providers. This is not complicated but also not trivial.
The performance of the app will largely depend on the analytic code that you are running inside the Dash callback functions. A few things to note:
- The dash docs (https://plot.ly/dash) are itself a Dash app. They're getting a lot of traffic today with the launch and they're holding up OK to hundreds of active users.
- The state of Dash apps is entirely in the front-end (in JS in the web browser). The Dash app backend (the python part) is really lightweight - it's a flask server (that you run with an application server like gunicorn) that dispatches to the functions that you decorate. If your functions are really resource-intensive (in memory or if they block for a long period of time), then the app's performance will suffer as part of that. However, since this analytic code is scoped inside a function, the memory will free up after the request is done.
- Since Dash's callbacks are functional, you can pretty easily add caching. Caching will store the previously computed values and serve them if the input arguments are the same. There is some more info in the "performance" section of the docs: https://plot.ly/dash/performance
The state of Dash apps is entirely in the front-end
Cool! I develop APIs using Flask so that's good news for me. I want to keep the API as lean as possible. I also try to cache everything I can or simply render stuff into static data if possible. I.e., some data are updated on a regular basis but do not change so rapidly and thus I can just use a Jinja2 template with some {% raw %} blocks to render my jinja2 templates with much less stuff to do, or even static html when I can.
The deployment / scalability story is the biggest weakness of Shiny (in part due to vagaries of R in production settings). RStudio has done some amazing stuff to make shinyapps.io work reasonably well, but I do feel like there are still some inherent weaknesses to the deployment process.
And for the record, I'm not knocking RStudio / Shiny here—the tooling and end-user experience is really excellent. I do worry about the ability to create "enterprise scale" apps though. Fortunately, there are a lot of times when a Shiny app is plenty.
I'll be very curious to see how Dash compares in this regard.
I have to agree with you. We needed JS developers to present our UI to be more reactive/realtime. I am trying this out to see whether we can use Dash 100% without any Angular 2/React code.
Let me know how it goes! One of the cool things about Dash is that if you need to fallback on React code for building components, you can. Here are the docs on building your own components: https://plot.ly/dash/plugins. I imagine that some large teams may have 1 or 2 JS developers that build reusable components that the rest of the 100 analytical python components could use for their day-to-day app development / exploratory data analysis.
I don't have a specific answer to your question. What I think would be much more sensible is to design your website without JS, and then sprinkle it here and there.
Ex: Make a request to an API upon page load. Populate tables or whatever you want. Then if JS is enabled, load a script that makes AJAX calls to the API to update the data every x seconds. That way your site gets "enhanced" by JS and is completely usable without it.
Yes, the issue is then that you have to write two pieces of DOM rendering code (some view code in erb/jinja/whatever to populate a template on the server, and a piece of JS to update the table afterwards).
And if you want to allow JS-enabled browsers to transition between views (and different data subscriptions) without having to reload the entire page, then you'll have to write two pieces of routing code (one route in Rails/Django/whatever and another in JS).
And if you want to allow JS-enabled browsers to post form data back to your server and make minor changes to the page (e.g. edit one field in a table) without reloading the entire DOM, then you'll have to write two different routes on your server -- one that processes the form data and returns the HTML for a newly rendered page, and one that processes the same form data and returns only what's changed.
You could, of course, use server-side-rendering JS to DRY things up for issue one. I'm more curious if anything reduces the boilerplate for issues two and three.
The correlation between money earned for work and the relative value of that work is rather low. There is no "group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society". There is only "society", nothing exists in a vacuum.
Do you think Steve Jobs could have achieved what he did had there not been any firefighters, primary school teachers, steelworkers, lumberjacks, bus drivers, janitors, soldiers, etc to indirectly or directly support his liberty to achieve his dreams? Do you think factory workers in China have had any impact on Jobs' success? All of them earn less than he did. Are they somehow lazy and deserving of their situation?
The reduction of income/power inequality isn't a bad thing that the poor, lazy masses want in order to get rich doing nothing. Quite the contrary. The point is to raise the standard of living of people doing jobs that, if some part of society had their say, would probably not even be paid. Reducing the wealth gap doesn't mean you can't be successful anymore.