At least in my circle of friends, it was taking off pretty fast. We were all sick of Facebook's privacy bullshit and wanted something else to use that would supply the same service. We all dropped it pretty much straight away when they started pushing for real names.
True that. The approach can work on either gender and people are less likely to assume a male's motivation for seducing them is anything other than sex.
Not as cost effective? If I was working on a budget, I would be far more likely to succeed by employing a smokin' hot woman with leet skills to seduce an enemy tech than I would by trying to crack 4096-bit encryption.
Beavers making dams is (I would argue) 'engineering'. Although maybe more 'crafting' in the sense that they build things to manipulate their environment, but their designs aren't based on any kind of rigorous understanding of the structures they use.
What annoys me is that humans are the only species on the planet that are denied the right to change their environment in this way. When we do it it's "unnatural" and "destroying our environment" when any other species a "marvel of nature".
Exactly. Calling them "engineers" of the ocean ecosystem implies that they are intentionally manipulating ocean ecosystems to further some goal. When you read the actual article, it's mostly about the fact that they shit everywhere.
This is what shits me about 'affirmative action'. Companies shouldn't have to be "serious about building a workplace that reflects a broad range of experience, thought, geography, age, background, gender, sexual orientation, language, culture and many other characteristics". They should be serious about building a workplace that reflects excellence in achieving the company's purpose. All of the things listed above are supposed to be irrelevant and most certainly shouldn't be used to screen applicants.
It's interesting that, as you say, no-one focuses on these minorities.
Wanna know why? It's because (in general) they have a culture of working fucking hard and achieving things. If you have that, you don't need 'affirmative action' or any other kind of hand-me-down or pick-me-up. You get there under your own goddamn steam.
You need to separately classify people who dropped out in order to pursue more lucrative opportunities, and people who dropped out for other reasons.
Bill Gates didn't drop out of college to bum around and smoke weed, he did it because he and Paul Allen had just scored a supply contract for Altair BASIC.
You're going to spend your 20s doing something, the postgrad lifestyle isn't all that bad, neither's the workforce assuming you studied something that someone somewhere actually wants to pay you for.
Getting a PhD does pidgeon-hole you as a bit of an academic, though. It's not always necessarily an asset when applying for a job.
I'm happy to see a mention of Musgrave here. He was doing procedural landscapes and atmospheric effects back before "fractals" were well known as anything other than the Mandelbrot set or a Koch snowflake.
Same... when I first heard the term I thought it was similar in meaning to "Seagull manager", but for parents. It does make sense when you see parents hanging around like a news chopper over a house fire, though.
I don't think that qualifies as "lost", either, only "deliberately erased."
From there, it's simple to see that either six months is as much as was legally required (in which case they followed the law) or it is not (in which case they broke the law).
When I first heard about "artificial pancreas" being tested it was exactly this; a device comprising pancreatic cells (not even necessarily biocompatible with the host) contained within some osmotic-type membrane which could pass chemicals through it but was impermeable to anything bigger (such as cells). I believe there may have been proof-of-concept type things constructed in a lab but haven't heard of anything futher.
The full fat people had more grehlin levels in their blood. In fact, the grehlin levels were the correct amounts for how many calories the person thought they were consuming, not how many they actually consumed. So, it can be quite complicated.
Explains why diet coke makes you feel less hungry if you don't think about it being diet coke. Well, that and the whole caffeine-being-an-appetite-suppressant thing.
Yes, there are things that affect your feeling of satiety other than raw calories in/out. They are complicated and I don't claim to be an expert on them. However, the total amount of energy that you can take in is capped at the amount of calories you eat. If you eat fewer calories than you burn then you will lose weight. There is really no argument against this.
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At least in my circle of friends, it was taking off pretty fast. We were all sick of Facebook's privacy bullshit and wanted something else to use that would supply the same service. We all dropped it pretty much straight away when they started pushing for real names.
True that. The approach can work on either gender and people are less likely to assume a male's motivation for seducing them is anything other than sex.
Not as cost effective? If I was working on a budget, I would be far more likely to succeed by employing a smokin' hot woman with leet skills to seduce an enemy tech than I would by trying to crack 4096-bit encryption.
"In Soviet Russia... you survive catastrophic failure due to a robust ascent abort system."
They become huge.
And delicious.
Beavers making dams is (I would argue) 'engineering'. Although maybe more 'crafting' in the sense that they build things to manipulate their environment, but their designs aren't based on any kind of rigorous understanding of the structures they use.
What annoys me is that humans are the only species on the planet that are denied the right to change their environment in this way. When we do it it's "unnatural" and "destroying our environment" when any other species a "marvel of nature".
Exactly. Calling them "engineers" of the ocean ecosystem implies that they are intentionally manipulating ocean ecosystems to further some goal. When you read the actual article, it's mostly about the fact that they shit everywhere.
Not in WA - they're everywhere over here.
This is what shits me about 'affirmative action'. Companies shouldn't have to be "serious about building a workplace that reflects a broad range of experience, thought, geography, age, background, gender, sexual orientation, language, culture and many other characteristics". They should be serious about building a workplace that reflects excellence in achieving the company's purpose. All of the things listed above are supposed to be irrelevant and most certainly shouldn't be used to screen applicants.
It's interesting that, as you say, no-one focuses on these minorities.
Wanna know why? It's because (in general) they have a culture of working fucking hard and achieving things. If you have that, you don't need 'affirmative action' or any other kind of hand-me-down or pick-me-up. You get there under your own goddamn steam.
I said Agents, Neo.
You need to separately classify people who dropped out in order to pursue more lucrative opportunities, and people who dropped out for other reasons.
Bill Gates didn't drop out of college to bum around and smoke weed, he did it because he and Paul Allen had just scored a supply contract for Altair BASIC.
You're going to spend your 20s doing something, the postgrad lifestyle isn't all that bad, neither's the workforce assuming you studied something that someone somewhere actually wants to pay you for.
Getting a PhD does pidgeon-hole you as a bit of an academic, though. It's not always necessarily an asset when applying for a job.
I'm happy to see a mention of Musgrave here. He was doing procedural landscapes and atmospheric effects back before "fractals" were well known as anything other than the Mandelbrot set or a Koch snowflake.
Well, to be fair, people who ride motorcycles are unarguably better.
OC Tattoos are gonna be awesome when they happen.
Same... when I first heard the term I thought it was similar in meaning to "Seagull manager", but for parents. It does make sense when you see parents hanging around like a news chopper over a house fire, though.
I'm pretty sure that there is enough of the drug already that is effective ducks.
Not precisely - although it's similar enough to look like a corollary.
I don't think that qualifies as "lost", either, only "deliberately erased."
From there, it's simple to see that either six months is as much as was legally required (in which case they followed the law) or it is not (in which case they broke the law).
When I first heard about "artificial pancreas" being tested it was exactly this; a device comprising pancreatic cells (not even necessarily biocompatible with the host) contained within some osmotic-type membrane which could pass chemicals through it but was impermeable to anything bigger (such as cells). I believe there may have been proof-of-concept type things constructed in a lab but haven't heard of anything futher.
"We have a name for alternative medicine that has been proven to work. We call it... medicine." - Tim Minchin
To be faire, there're a fayre few ways to spell faiyre.
Metric isn't as perfectly logical as we'd have you believe.
I mean, um, METRIC IS AWESOME.
The full fat people had more grehlin levels in their blood. In fact, the grehlin levels were the correct amounts for how many calories the person thought they were consuming, not how many they actually consumed. So, it can be quite complicated.
Explains why diet coke makes you feel less hungry if you don't think about it being diet coke. Well, that and the whole caffeine-being-an-appetite-suppressant thing.
Yes, there are things that affect your feeling of satiety other than raw calories in/out. They are complicated and I don't claim to be an expert on them. However, the total amount of energy that you can take in is capped at the amount of calories you eat. If you eat fewer calories than you burn then you will lose weight. There is really no argument against this.