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But in the end, it's all relate to this : The earth is a globe, and there's no way to represent is on a 2D map without :
1-Tearing the map appart
2-Stretching the map

Personally, I prefer the 3rd option : "Put more globe in your school" like this one : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fEqw...

Now that is awesome.

Java has a robust and widely used and robust frameworks for applications so in many cases the developer can focus on the business code; several mature development environments which hook into the reflection capabilities of the language to make coding quite pleasant; a rich set of tools useful for program qa and developer support; a massive developer pool. As a language it's OK, but language wars are so 90s.

"Robust", huh?

The worst misuse and overuse of design patterns I have ever seen have all come from people who write, or learned to code writing Java.

Those "robust frameworks" you talk about are a scourge. At best they're cargo-cult engineering, and at worst, deliberate overiengineering make-work to craete job security.

Java can make mediocre programmers productive

I'm guessing you and I have very different ideas about what productivity is.

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Welcome to the Kingdom of Nouns!

I'm colorblind and I'm going to sue all of the movie studios and TV stations for presenting their product in color. If I can't see the shows in full color them they should all be forced to present the shows in only black and white so we can all be equal. Screw you, you non-colorblind elitists.

Haha! Joke's on you, they've always been black and white!

I'll let Calvin's dad explain it to you
http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic...

You know you have to set the XX year to some point and some on line job systems suck

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So yah, feel free to read the other replies to your post, who pretty effectively take apart your assertions:

Fun fact: The M-16 is dramatically less powerful than the gun it replaced in US service. It's also dramatically less powerful than a typical hunting rifle.

.223 (5.56) used by the M-16 and AR15 vs the typical hunting round (30-06)
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We don't have to fight the military.

We (people who firmly believe in the 2A and the rest of the BoR and willing to walk the walk) *are* the military (at least, the vast majority) in the all-volunteer US military. The US military upper-echelons are not given enough credit. The vast majority are good people with integrity who would never obey orders like enforcing domestic gun confiscation, etc. The US military is not a 'button' that can be pressed nor are they unquestioning minions.

Any US leaders who would issue such orders to the military should be more worried that the guns may get pointed at them, instead.

The AR-15 is the exact same rifle as the M-16 (without the wasteful and ineffective full-auto). Fun fact: there are more AR-15s in private hands in the US than there are M-16s in military hands.

Also, in terms of range, power, etc, it's much less effective at killing people than grampa's hunting rifle and the military rifle that it replaced. It was designed from the ground up to allow soldiers to carry more rounds of (less powerful) ammunition and to lower the recoil felt by the shooter (by making the cartridge less powerful).

You know so very little about all of this, but you are so ready to spout off about it...

The only thing I would add is that there are about 50 million gun owners in the US with more than 300 million guns, and lets say for the sake of argument that the politicians found 1 million soldiers from the UN to follow orders to confiscate guns (because fun fact: our military takes an oath to uphold and protect the constitution and most of them would not follow such an order). They would be facing most of our volunteer military and an an armed and for the most part trained (retired military and hunters) citizenry who wouldn't fight like a conventional force. There would be no green zones, no enemy lines, and within a matter of a few weeks, every occupying soldier would be picked off or would flee.

Don't let the peace loving nature of the majority fool you, Americans are far more deadly when cornered than the ignorant savages we fought in Afghanistan or Iraq. The fascist progressive politicians all know this, and that is why they try to confiscate the guns.

The U.S. government is, by some measures, the most violent in the world. The violence makes money for all the contractors and sub-contractors, and makes the average citizen much poorer: How War Made The Bush Family Rich

This has been a war over user rights to "camouflage". Google and other ads-funded corporations have feared the "false positive", the background-running random search engine. The recent "are you human" captchas come when I'm not even running an anti-phorm, so I guess I have to prove I'm human because my searches appear to be non-sequetors to Google (though they are not, to me). x2010 http://retroworks.blogspot.com...

There's always the other alot...

Yes, pollution is bad for your health. In no way is that a false statement.

At the same time, living in a pre-industrial society is also very bad for your health. As it living in a poorer society for a number of important reasons.

And since (unfortunately) we cannot yet have an industrial society without some pollution, it's disingenuous to say that pollution causes those deaths because we don't know if reducing it, and thereby reducing our output, would be beneficial or harmful at each margin. It's somehow implying that the pollution isn't accepted as part of trade-off -- or that we intentionally pollute with no side benefit -- which is ludicrous.

Of course, by the same vein that not all polluting activities are harmful on the margin, not all are beneficial on the margin either. Clearcutting rainforest to make room for banana groves is almost certainly a net harm. Burning natural gas to electrify rural areas that didn't previously have power is almost certainly a net gain. In between there's a whole realm of less obvious answers.

There's a future where all our power comes from nuclear and renewable and all our food is grown or synthesized on a small amount of land. We aren't there yet, and so we have to pick and chose.

Not to mention that JavaScript is several magnitudes slower than Java.

Really? Because I'm not seeing orders of magnitude difference here... typically Java seems to be no more than 2-5x faster.

https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/blog/node_java_perf.gif
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/javascript.html
http://dvschroeder.blogspot.com/2013/07/java-vs-javascript-vs-python.html

For those who facepalmed when they saw that Sodium is a boson in TFS ... technically, its most common isotope (Na23) is in fact a composite boson, because the total number of fermion particles is even: 11 protons + 12 neutrons + 11 electrons = 34 fermions, each with spin 1/2. So, the composite Na23 atom is net integer spin, and thus a boson.

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Sorry, I just hear a bloviating politician pretending to be the prosecution in an imaginary court case.

ZERO clear evidence was given of intent, period. If you heard otherwise, then I question the logical or linguistical functioning of your brain and suspect you either have a low IQ or are highly self-deceived due to bias.

As far as "one device", the decision over the server was made early in her tenure. She may have LATER used other devices for various reasons. R's seem to expect her to predict the future. I agree she should have been probed for more details on the timeline of that, but so far we don't have sufficient info to model exactly how the quantity of devices was analyzed in her decision process.

Other opinions welcome.

By the way, here's one interpretation as a mock trial:
http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com...

I'm not Greek, Orthodox, or Christian, but I agree with you 100%. Our bodies are designed to digest mainly vegetable based food.

Designed by whom?

Before you answer that, note that vegetables that can provide enough calories that you can actually survive off of are a fairly recent invention, and most of them can't even grow without human intervention.

If you disagree, then go to camp out in the woods and tell me how many plants you can find that you could survive off of for a whole year (spoiler: There aren't any. Sure, you might find some berries or leaves to munch on, but the amount of calories you'd need to forage for them would never be met by the calories that they provide. In short, you'd starve to death very quickly.)

There's a whole bunch of crappy side-effects from eating too much meat, even if many people have lost weight on higher protein diets.

But this isn't true. There are many well known indigenous populations that survive quite well on almost nothing but meat, and the ones that survive mostly on meat tend to live much longer than those who survive mostly on plants. Not only that, but there are plenty of examples of people who ate nothing but meat for a year or longer and had no apparent adverse health effects:

http://inhumanexperiment.blogs...

The initial post on the Project Zero blog (dated July 15, 2014) served as the public introduction of the project and its goals, but no specific statements were made therein with regard to public vulnerability disclosure timeline policies. Looking at the current situation, the key factors would seem to be (1) the date upon which Project Zero decided upon a maximum disclosure window of 90 days, and (2) whether or not they elected to retroactively apply the 90 day policy to any vulnerabilities known at that time. -PCP

On the contrary, the Project Zero team reports bugs to us (I am a Chromium developer), and we fix them. For example, https://googleprojectzero.blog... .

So let's take that example. That appears to be the following bug, correct?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/ch...

So that bug was reported in January 2014. The patched version of Chromium, M38, was released in October 2014 - much longer than 90 days. Now as far as I can tell, the bug was not made visible to the outside world until October 2014 - am I reading that right? And, if I am, why wasn't it publicly outed sometime in April - the 90-day window Google seems to hold Windows and Mac bugs to?

If losing encryption keys is going to be a problem for with crypto that strong then it is already a problem for you as you neither have an ideal classical computer operating near the limit of Landauer's Principal nor do you have the ability to consume a large fraction of the US's total annual energy consumption. The problem is with encryption is that if it is feasable for a state actor to crack it, then it is also possiable for a large criminal gang to do so in a few years, and a few years later you can do so with a device that runs on a battery that you carry in your pocket, see the image in the original article where they point out that generating MD5 hash collisions can be done on your smart phone in about 30 seconds.

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Toronto is a bit bigger then you think, the 401 has more traffic then the Santa Monica Freeway or I-75 (and worry not! lots of stinky crazy fuckers on the TTC)
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When Are Averages Useless
I'm not disagreeing with the idea that beer has utility in public health in certain contexts. I just don't like poor arguments.
Although, as to your argument, I may have an amendment. Besides boiling, there's some scientific credence to the idea that fermenting can help to protect humans from food poisoning. Here's a sample. Of course, there's some notorious caveats with that, e.g. coconut tempeh is not legal to sell in some places due to its propensity to foster a lethal type of food poisoning: Toxic Tempeh contaminated with Burkholderia cocovenenans.

It's already happening

No, unemployment is dropping. Compensation is increasing.

Within 20 years, you'll probably have to be above average to be able find a job that you could make a living at.

I give you credit here, you make a concrete prediction, which is more than what most people do. I think it's a dumb prediction, but you're above the crowd so well done.

Not in historic times there haven't been. The fact that Iceland's volcanoes launch these sort of superfloods once every several hundred years is something not seen elsewhere in the world. This canyon, for example:

Ásbyrgi

is under 10k years old. It was carved primarily by just one or two superflood events, but the flow rate estimates (based on the size of the boulders thrown around) are as high as 900000 cubic meters per second. In Icelandic, if a flood is less than 45000 cubic meters per second it's defined as "non-catastrophic". By comparison, the Niagara River at Niagara falls is 2400 cubic meters per second.

The very word for this type of flood is Icelandic - "jökulhlaup". Literally "glacial run". And the name for the sediment deposits they leave behind is also Icelandic in origin - "Sandur" (literally "sand").

That seems to be something made up by the author of the article, not an actual policy.

That is true, although he isn't wrong. Here's thePAX site with teh rules: http://east.paxsite.com/safety...

The Sumo Wrestler would be disqualified for many reasons. Here is a typical sumo wrestler http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OujS...

He would be disqualified for several reasons. His navel is exposed. His breasts are aggressively exposed, his shorts are higher than 4 inches above his knees, and he is almost naked.

I suspect a lot of people might find his size, muscle and bulk making them uncomfortable, so he'd probably get a safe room complaint total boot form teh conference But the big question - are we sexually aroused? I suppose there is a rule 34 for Sumo wrestlers, but it must be small.

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Ugh, apparently Slashdot doesn't like some symbols and so ate part of the post. Rewriting middle paragraph avoiding notation. 6=(1+1)(1+1+1) shows that ||6|| is at most 5. One has the upper bound for ||n|| of 3log_2 n, and a lower bound of 3log_3 n. The upper bound was best for about 50 years, and the link that got eaten that mentions an improvement was http://religionsetspolitics.blogspot.com/2010/08/integer-complexity-upper-bound-update.html. I think that's most of the eaten content in that paragraph.

MR=MC, maximum efficiency.

Bullshit. Utter, utter crap. Mathematically false. Empirically false.

A "typical marginal cost curve" is anything but typical. Nobody builds a factory that runs at peak efficiency when it's half full. No firm has a cost structure that matches your Econ 101 text book.

I highly recommend the work of Steve Keen in this area if you want to know more.

How much effort was put into helping him understand the concepts behind which operator to use?

Why is it incumbent on him to even give a shit? Personally, I'd let the co-worker flounder. He's had plenty of time in life to learn. More likely, he's just lazy. Not like it's difficult to slap a sticky on the wall that says "package volume takes multiplication".

So we know too little about how people work and fail to work to adequately address the situation of what people can and cannot do.

Untrue. We *can* be adequate about it, just not perfect. I'll wager that even *you* will tell at a glance that this guy is not going to be doing any significant math.

Most of the animations today are done precisely within HTML5 with the help of JS libraries

Flash is still installed on a large part of the desktop population and even if the animators have moved on to creating new things with HTML5, websites are still around requiring Flash.

I don't know how you can compare HTTPS adoption (an standard) to the freewill or professionalism of the creator of the content in picking the wrong tool

HTML5 is a standard as well. Flash is a proprietary technology with most parts like ActionScript being NIH of web technologies like JS, and where the only widely used and usually the only supported version is proprietary and full with security bugs.

And flash is not just about animations. Github required Flash for a long time because of some dumb "put url into clipboard" feature, as do various video sites still today because either they don't care (if you set your user agent to iphone they will show an HTML5 fallback!) or because they believe Flash gives them better DRM than EME does.

Have you ever actually browsed the web without flash? I've uninstalled it in 2011. Was a tough ride back then, you had to add ?html5=1 urls to youtube, and they at least offered a fallback. But I've seen how more and more content supported HTML5. Its still far from perfect, and I won't shut up until it is perfect.

I was an early adopter of HTTPS too. It might seem unimaginable, but in the old days google was not encrypted by default. They launched an extra subdomain "encrypted.google.com" that was encrypted with HTTPS, which I then used.

Yes, I'm calling 2010 "the old days": You are correct with your assessment of me being a millenial.

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What does 67 degrees above absolute zero have to do with km?

It's 67 degrees above a kilometer. I thought everyone knew that.

(50% of the time it works every time!)

"At least close to the new spot and to the equator, nothing less than global warming is expected." http://motls.blogspot.com/2006...

They did come up with a method for plugging the analog hole in vinyl media decades ago.

Economics used to be a complex subject.

Things aren't what they used to be. And they never were.

The buzzword for that is, "greed."

Are the people of today greedier, than they were 50 or 100 years ago? Can you substantiate such a claim?

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