Do you not think that when the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development asks the CRTC to do something or not do something, the CRTC doesn't take it into heavy consideration? Or that Navdeep Bains isn't heavily influenced by what Bell lobbies for? In the case of phone unlocking, you're probably correct, as Bell has succeeded in stopping the reason for pushing for cell locking, namely MVNO cell service in Canada, like in other countries.
Huh? All those jobs still needed a few workers who knew the old or new domain. Combine operator should have some understanding of how farms operate, train engineer is a job that takes some skill. The automated factory needs people who can spot when the automation breaks and fixes it.
Well there's a chance of a change of government in the fall and lately, that seems to mean getting rid of whatever laws the other side brought in and any laws that are bad for business, in the opinion of the business. In Canada, if a party has a majority, they can basically pass whatever laws they want though the courts may strike the worse down.
They're pushing for similar same thing in Canada, the excuse is phones that fall off the back of the truck are too easy to sell. Seems occasionally a pallet falls off, or at least that's the story.
Any job that can be automated will be automated when it makes economic sense. No sense in replacing 10 minimum wage workers with millions in equipment and a $300,000 a year technician to run the machines. When the day comes that those machines are an order of magnitude cheaper and technicians are desperate enough for work that they can be paid double minimum wage.
Replace a hundred workers with machines and 5 highly educated workers who have to know the job to make sure the machines are working right and to fix/reprogram them when not? (Numbers pulled out of my ass)
Logging used to be a lot more dangerous as well, especially the high lead type they did here. Someone got killed, hook him to a choker (cable) and yard him out, as can't slow down for such a common occurrence. Cop gets killed, they inconvenience millions of people just for the funeral.
Why the hell aren't they charged with attempted murder? Shit, a cop was recently convicted of attempted murder in Toronto for the 7 bullets he put into the perp after killing him with 2 shots. He did get off the murder charge though. Even then they suspended him with pay, while waiting appeal, which is insane. (Appeal refused) https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
Oh yes, it isn't murder if a cop shoots someone in the USA if they feel threatened. From the wiki article on murder,
In the United States, in some states and in federal jurisdiction, a killing by a police officer is excluded from prosecution if the officer believes they are being threatened with deadly force by the victim. This may include such actions by the victim as reaching into a glove compartment or pocket for license and registration, if the officer thinks that the victim might be reaching for a gun.[30]
With the citation,
Joseph Goldstein (July 28, 2016). "Is a Police Shooting a Crime? It Depends on the Officer's Point of View". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016. "The longstanding official deference to the viewpoint of police officers is enshrined in the laws of some states and Supreme Court rulings."
While I agree, it may take lawyers, along with their fees to make that argument stick. From what has been stated up the page about Frontier, their business model seems to depend on not fixing infrastructure.
Do you have some citation for China's per capita CO2 emissions? While your right about all those Chinese adding up to number 1 in total, the figures I find put the US about #12 with twice the per capita emissions of China. Places like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are top per capita producers. Most of what I find is a bit old, such as Wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... only going to 2011 though I don't think the US has dropped much since. This, https://knoema.com/atlas/China... claims 7.45 tonnes per capita for China while the latest for the US from Wiki, says about 16 tonnes per capita for the US
I'm in Canada, which I thought was about the worst in the world, though it seems another thing that America (along with Japan) leads in is worse internet. We're close though and our telecom's are pretty shitty. Sticking to the article, contracts are now illegal to have termination fees besides paying off equipment, so I have to pay $300 over two years (or quicker if I cancel) for a shitty internet hub thingy on top of the $85 a month for an LTE connection, my only choice. I was on dial up until just over a year ago as that was the only choice and that cost $40 for the line and $40 for the dial up running at 26.4 kb/s until it got discontinued (they claimed equipment wasn't available anymore) the other year. It did keep working though as internet is an essential service here.
My government keeps encouraging competitors to come in and compete, even offers grants to help. None have showed up because building the infrastructure is expensive and they'd never make their money back.
Except there was no monopoly as she switched providers before canceling. And I addressed the inherited piece later in my post with parentheses and everything.
Summary says,
Six months into the contract, Candace Lestina decided to switch to the newly available Charter offering "for better service and a cheaper bill,"
Neil Gaiman? Seems to have rewritten Neverwhere. Then there's rewrites for the big screen or small screen that probably happen more.
Even with software, I'd expect large projects not to rewrite everything, but rather chunks. Firefox for example has had a lot of rewriting in the last couple of years but I'd guess stuff like widget/ are only lightly touched.
On this topic, I was thinking about the Thunderbird email client. It's been pretty stable, with no major changes in years as far as I can tell. Does that mean it's "done", or is it too complex for people to work on? The latter case seems to be hinted at in this blog post.
Thunderbird is a big, complex project that isn’t easy to jump into. So, as we closed out the year I opened a bug where we can detail what documentation needs to be created or updated for new members of the community – to ensure they can dive into the project.
Has anyone here contributed to it and if so, any comments? I love Thunderbird but when I looked at the code several years ago it was fairly daunting.
There's a couple of problems with working on Thunderbird. It's built on Mozilla (Firefox) code base, which is huge and fast changing at times, especially lately as they replace big chunks, so right there is a huge learning curve including learning how a bunch of stuff works under the hood, Ant then there is the Comm-central (Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) code, which much is old and complex as well as intertwined with Mozilla code.
They are being forced to rewrite much due to Firefox having large chunks ripped out and rewritten. Luckily they seem to have some money to hire a few full time developers, as it is a full time job just keeping up with the changes in Mozilla, including porting stuff that Mozilla has ripped out to Comm-central, keeping add-ons working while moving to the new crap etc.
For a while it did seem pretty mature wit chunks that needed a rewrite but no one to do it. Now they're forced to keep up. SeaMonkey is fairing a lot worse in the keeping up stuff.
We will become sicker, dumber and more dependent on medicine. So what future potential adaptive traits are you talking about?
I have no idea, the future is an unknown, but is likely to be surprising, and that surprise might not be good. Nuclear war is an extreme example of the possibilities that would change everything. While you make a point about parents, the problem is if the State or even just heavy peer pressure forces these things on everyone. Modern civilization is also not everywhere, so different selection pressures exist.
Many countries have privacy laws. Unluckily it seems Americans are fine with their government outsourcing data collection and other ways of infringing on rights.
Why is it people are so oblivious to the power they have to affect change without requiring The Almighty Hand Of Government to step in and regulate everything? Is it just lazy thinking?
It is due to the fact that the minority has a hard time defending their rights against the majority. It's one of the jobs of government, at least in theory. I do my best to avoid Facebook, but due to so many people using them they are everywhere and I'd bet they have too much of my personal info even with my avoiding them. As it gets harder to avoid them, less and less people have the capability. Takes some skill to manage scripts with things like no-script. Some ad blockers white list some sites. Keeping the hosts file up to date to block domains, currently it has 41233 lines of which only a few are comments. VPN's cost money and you still don't know which ones actually are private. Etc.
It's complex. Seems the same gene combination that causes people to get AIDS gives immunity to the black death. There's also sickle cell anemia that protects against malaria. Your other "undesirable traits" are just as likely to give advantages in some situations and situations change. New diseases, need for certain types of intelligence, needs for certain types of warriors are possibilities. We have enough experience in husbandry, agriculture etc that while mono-culture has advantages, it also has large weaknesses compared to genetic diversity.
Maybe because natural selection only favors variations which provide an advantage in reproductive success.
Of the group or tribe. Examples that seem counter-productive at first look include having some non-breeders to help with raising children or some being willing to self-sacrifice to protect the group/tribe.
Speculative execution is pretty flawed, with new ones found seemingly every day. But getting rid of it entirely would set us back to the Pentium 1 and 2 days, where a 400mhz chip was priced out of most peoples reach and was the peak of performance, where most of our $1k usd processors ran 100mhz.
That's a HUGE cost. One not everyone would even be willing to pay.
But if you are wanting to build a new PC without speculative execution vulnerabilities in it, go fish a 486 or sparc out of the trash and go to town. Waiting may only give you less options as such hardware becomes more rare.
The first generation Atom had no speculative execution and while it did dispatch executions at about the same speed as a Pentium, it ran much faster, had simd instructions and was cheap.
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Do you not think that when the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development asks the CRTC to do something or not do something, the CRTC doesn't take it into heavy consideration? Or that Navdeep Bains isn't heavily influenced by what Bell lobbies for?
In the case of phone unlocking, you're probably correct, as Bell has succeeded in stopping the reason for pushing for cell locking, namely MVNO cell service in Canada, like in other countries.
Huh? All those jobs still needed a few workers who knew the old or new domain. Combine operator should have some understanding of how farms operate, train engineer is a job that takes some skill. The automated factory needs people who can spot when the automation breaks and fixes it.
Well there's a chance of a change of government in the fall and lately, that seems to mean getting rid of whatever laws the other side brought in and any laws that are bad for business, in the opinion of the business.
In Canada, if a party has a majority, they can basically pass whatever laws they want though the courts may strike the worse down.
They're pushing for similar same thing in Canada, the excuse is phones that fall off the back of the truck are too easy to sell. Seems occasionally a pallet falls off, or at least that's the story.
Any job that can be automated will be automated when it makes economic sense.
No sense in replacing 10 minimum wage workers with millions in equipment and a $300,000 a year technician to run the machines. When the day comes that those machines are an order of magnitude cheaper and technicians are desperate enough for work that they can be paid double minimum wage.
Replace a hundred workers with machines and 5 highly educated workers who have to know the job to make sure the machines are working right and to fix/reprogram them when not?
(Numbers pulled out of my ass)
Logging used to be a lot more dangerous as well, especially the high lead type they did here. Someone got killed, hook him to a choker (cable) and yard him out, as can't slow down for such a common occurrence.
Cop gets killed, they inconvenience millions of people just for the funeral.
Why the hell aren't they charged with attempted murder?
Shit, a cop was recently convicted of attempted murder in Toronto for the 7 bullets he put into the perp after killing him with 2 shots. He did get off the murder charge though.
Even then they suspended him with pay, while waiting appeal, which is insane. (Appeal refused)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
Oh yes, it isn't murder if a cop shoots someone in the USA if they feel threatened.
From the wiki article on murder,
With the citation,
A couple more citations quickly looking,
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03...
https://www.latimes.com/nation...
While I agree, it may take lawyers, along with their fees to make that argument stick.
From what has been stated up the page about Frontier, their business model seems to depend on not fixing infrastructure.
Do you have some citation for China's per capita CO2 emissions?
While your right about all those Chinese adding up to number 1 in total, the figures I find put the US about #12 with twice the per capita emissions of China. Places like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are top per capita producers.
Most of what I find is a bit old, such as Wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... only going to 2011 though I don't think the US has dropped much since. This, https://knoema.com/atlas/China... claims 7.45 tonnes per capita for China while the latest for the US from Wiki, says about 16 tonnes per capita for the US
I'm in Canada, which I thought was about the worst in the world, though it seems another thing that America (along with Japan) leads in is worse internet. We're close though and our telecom's are pretty shitty.
Sticking to the article, contracts are now illegal to have termination fees besides paying off equipment, so I have to pay $300 over two years (or quicker if I cancel) for a shitty internet hub thingy on top of the $85 a month for an LTE connection, my only choice.
I was on dial up until just over a year ago as that was the only choice and that cost $40 for the line and $40 for the dial up running at 26.4 kb/s until it got discontinued (they claimed equipment wasn't available anymore) the other year. It did keep working though as internet is an essential service here.
And when the ISP laughs and points out the contract says "up to" and 'service will vary on location", we're not sending a truck.
My government keeps encouraging competitors to come in and compete, even offers grants to help. None have showed up because building the infrastructure is expensive and they'd never make their money back.
Except there was no monopoly as she switched providers before canceling. And I addressed the inherited piece later in my post with parentheses and everything.
Summary says,
Note the words "newly available"
Neil Gaiman? Seems to have rewritten Neverwhere. Then there's rewrites for the big screen or small screen that probably happen more.
Even with software, I'd expect large projects not to rewrite everything, but rather chunks. Firefox for example has had a lot of rewriting in the last couple of years but I'd guess stuff like widget/ are only lightly touched.
On this topic, I was thinking about the Thunderbird email client. It's been pretty stable, with no major changes in years as far as I can tell.
Does that mean it's "done", or is it too complex for people to work on?
The latter case seems to be hinted at in this blog post.
Has anyone here contributed to it and if so, any comments? I love Thunderbird but when I looked at the code several years ago it was fairly daunting.
There's a couple of problems with working on Thunderbird. It's built on Mozilla (Firefox) code base, which is huge and fast changing at times, especially lately as they replace big chunks, so right there is a huge learning curve including learning how a bunch of stuff works under the hood,
Ant then there is the Comm-central (Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) code, which much is old and complex as well as intertwined with Mozilla code.
They are being forced to rewrite much due to Firefox having large chunks ripped out and rewritten. Luckily they seem to have some money to hire a few full time developers, as it is a full time job just keeping up with the changes in Mozilla, including porting stuff that Mozilla has ripped out to Comm-central, keeping add-ons working while moving to the new crap etc.
For a while it did seem pretty mature wit chunks that needed a rewrite but no one to do it. Now they're forced to keep up.
SeaMonkey is fairing a lot worse in the keeping up stuff.
If they ignore laws, and they do in a lot of countries, what else should be done?
I'm probably getting my vulnerabilities mixed up but my understanding is one process spying on anthers cache misses and hits so sandboxing would help.
We will become sicker, dumber and more dependent on medicine. So what future potential adaptive traits are you talking about?
I have no idea, the future is an unknown, but is likely to be surprising, and that surprise might not be good. Nuclear war is an extreme example of the possibilities that would change everything.
While you make a point about parents, the problem is if the State or even just heavy peer pressure forces these things on everyone.
Modern civilization is also not everywhere, so different selection pressures exist.
This one seems to have merged together the most host files, with over 4100 entries https://github.com/StevenBlack...
Many countries have privacy laws. Unluckily it seems Americans are fine with their government outsourcing data collection and other ways of infringing on rights.
Why is it people are so oblivious to the power they have to affect change without requiring The Almighty Hand Of Government to step in and regulate everything? Is it just lazy thinking?
It is due to the fact that the minority has a hard time defending their rights against the majority. It's one of the jobs of government, at least in theory.
I do my best to avoid Facebook, but due to so many people using them they are everywhere and I'd bet they have too much of my personal info even with my avoiding them.
As it gets harder to avoid them, less and less people have the capability. Takes some skill to manage scripts with things like no-script. Some ad blockers white list some sites. Keeping the hosts file up to date to block domains, currently it has 41233 lines of which only a few are comments. VPN's cost money and you still don't know which ones actually are private. Etc.
It's complex. Seems the same gene combination that causes people to get AIDS gives immunity to the black death. There's also sickle cell anemia that protects against malaria.
Your other "undesirable traits" are just as likely to give advantages in some situations and situations change. New diseases, need for certain types of intelligence, needs for certain types of warriors are possibilities.
We have enough experience in husbandry, agriculture etc that while mono-culture has advantages, it also has large weaknesses compared to genetic diversity.
Maybe because natural selection only favors variations which provide an advantage in reproductive success.
Of the group or tribe. Examples that seem counter-productive at first look include having some non-breeders to help with raising children or some being willing to self-sacrifice to protect the group/tribe.
Speculative execution is pretty flawed, with new ones found seemingly every day.
But getting rid of it entirely would set us back to the Pentium 1 and 2 days, where a 400mhz chip was priced out of most peoples reach and was the peak of performance, where most of our $1k usd processors ran 100mhz.
That's a HUGE cost. One not everyone would even be willing to pay.
But if you are wanting to build a new PC without speculative execution vulnerabilities in it, go fish a 486 or sparc out of the trash and go to town. Waiting may only give you less options as such hardware becomes more rare.
The first generation Atom had no speculative execution and while it did dispatch executions at about the same speed as a Pentium, it ran much faster, had simd instructions and was cheap.