assuming we are all in a simulation, what's the corollary ? How should I live my life differently ? Other posters have talked about a god, what good does it do to run a simulation and pick out the faithful for what, another simulation ? It simply does not matter if we are in a simulation or not.
Things were going fine until the consultant management brought in advocated "eating your own dogfood". Now none of the admins care if the servers are down.
I don't think you can apply PPP AND say " a decent wage in China". Once you've applied PPP we get to judge if it is a decent wage by non-Chinese Standards and frankly I imagine it would be difficult to live on anywhere if it were the only income coming in to a family.
For my parents and grandparents generations productivity was in the hands of almost any healthy person regardless of their level of education. You could chop down trees and make a good living, or drill for oil. Going back even farther, land was readily available for conversion to farming.
The world has moved on and it's harder for millions at the bottom end of the scale to contribute to overall productivity now that natural resources are not able to sustain growth at their original rates.
Maybe it's not the quickest or safest plan, but they made their name as an independent browser and they should stand their ground and improve their technology to compete with chrome.
For me chrome ushered in the next generation of javascript performance, that's what made it stand out for me. Firefox should find some other aspect of the web experience to make their own improvements to.
If they succeed it will be good for all of us, it's not as if there aren't plenty of things that could be improved upon. If they play it safe they will not offer any new value and will fall into obscurity.
I would have thought that there would be a lot of differences between considerations for accommodation in open space (a radiation resistant spheroid with no need to account for gravity presumably), the moon (radiation resistance, gravity, and presumably a hemisphere or some other shape with appreciable "floor area") and Mars, more gravity, Maybe build something inside a cave that conforms to the walls inside and need not be exposed to so much radiation or flying paint chips?
So much so that I would think it best to test a mars-living module here on earth, not in space.
No, I think just a hetro bathroom and an everyone else bathroom should cover it. Maybe now they'll make stall doors without the obligatory 2" gap around them.
How do the bloodlines advance though. I can see why we would want more high-end racehorses, but I thought the real point was to breed a better horse, not level the paying field through some kind of horse formula-1 uniformity.
People are not generally stupid yet it seems that the majority of people can sincerely hold two conflicting views at the same time. eg. Tobacco kills and "I don't need to worry about its effects on me" or faith vs observed reality or welfare dependency with fiscally conservative views. I'd like to understand how that works because it seems to be part of human nature.
If anything the market seems to be in convincing people that the situation is OK
I definitely don't know all the circumstances so it's hard to judge, but perhaps CPU processing capacity was not the limiting factor.
I imagine most likely it was because the builder wanted to use off-the shelf components, but it might also be because the communications links are low bandwidth and they did not want to incur the overhead of encryption or they thought that they needed to send data in blocks (CBC I think) rather than adopting a streaming form of encryption (there are lots to choose from) And they may have been deterred by the risk of losing control if they had a communication glitch and the crypto had to recover.
Anyhow, I can see it being more complicated than just having cheaped out on the CPU. They woudl be justified in thinking that this is a complex choice and they may have recognized that they were not qualified to make it. Finally, if they say the link is encrypted and it gets hacked I can see them being far more liable than they are if they never encrypted it, plus they get the contract to add encryption later. Heck, they probably planted this story.
Provide a reason to divert blame for delays onto the passenger - you should have joined precheck
Justify decreasing staff and thus lengthening the "normal" delays
Gradually get people used to the idea of paying an airport security fee that will build each year
There is no reason to believe that the prechecked people are more trustworthy, I dare say the 9/11 attackers would have been precheck eligible if the program had been in place and the TSA trust clearly extended to the flight attendant with all the drugs recently and the airport staff running guns. The TSA are poor judges of who to trust
If they were truly intent on reducing delays they could open more lines and quit with that worthless scanner, or at least arrange the lines so that they fanned out through the available agents better, they could stop acting surprised when people show up for flights that they booked weeks in advance.
If they really wanted to make people safer they could do something to avoid creating huge masses of targets in one place (eg, they could put 6' high glass walls up to screen rows of passengers).
Maybe it's time they admitted that they are not looking for guns and explosives anyway (what else could explain how poor they are at it). They're looking for drugs and exercising their right to exercise power with no accountability whatsoever
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I didn't think government employees used their gov email addresses for anything, don't they all have personal servers ?
assuming we are all in a simulation, what's the corollary ? How should I live my life differently ? Other posters have talked about a god, what good does it do to run a simulation and pick out the faithful for what, another simulation ? It simply does not matter if we are in a simulation or not.
Things were going fine until the consultant management brought in advocated "eating your own dogfood". Now none of the admins care if the servers are down.
Can it tell what (or whom) I am looking at ? That would be great, it could remind me of people's names when I meet them.
I don't think you can apply PPP AND say " a decent wage in China". Once you've applied PPP we get to judge if it is a decent wage by non-Chinese Standards and frankly I imagine it would be difficult to live on anywhere if it were the only income coming in to a family.
Yes but fewer child actors get eaten this way.
If shooting them down is illegal then running them down with a 747 has to be illegal too.
Don't be so charitable. She's not stupid. She's self serving, building her brand.
For my parents and grandparents generations productivity was in the hands of almost any healthy person regardless of their level of education. You could chop down trees and make a good living, or drill for oil. Going back even farther, land was readily available for conversion to farming.
The world has moved on and it's harder for millions at the bottom end of the scale to contribute to overall productivity now that natural resources are not able to sustain growth at their original rates.
'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
They've turned into coaldemort.
Maybe it's not the quickest or safest plan, but they made their name as an independent browser and they should stand their ground and improve their technology to compete with chrome.
For me chrome ushered in the next generation of javascript performance, that's what made it stand out for me. Firefox should find some other aspect of the web experience to make their own improvements to.
If they succeed it will be good for all of us, it's not as if there aren't plenty of things that could be improved upon. If they play it safe they will not offer any new value and will fall into obscurity.
I enjoyed the cartoon, thanks. I suppose I see it a little like a pay it forward version of cramming.
Presumably they pay cash to their cellphone company and then use the "minutes" they have bought as units of exchange.
I would have thought that there would be a lot of differences between considerations for accommodation in open space (a radiation resistant spheroid with no need to account for gravity presumably), the moon (radiation resistance, gravity, and presumably a hemisphere or some other shape with appreciable "floor area") and Mars, more gravity, Maybe build something inside a cave that conforms to the walls inside and need not be exposed to so much radiation or flying paint chips?
So much so that I would think it best to test a mars-living module here on earth, not in space.
So buy the small drive and print 64GB on the outside.
The only biblical passages I recall about bathrooms were about pissething on walls - is that what you're advocating ?
No, I think just a hetro bathroom and an everyone else bathroom should cover it. Maybe now they'll make stall doors without the obligatory 2" gap around them.
How do the bloodlines advance though. I can see why we would want more high-end racehorses, but I thought the real point was to breed a better horse, not level the paying field through some kind of horse formula-1 uniformity.
We'll never know
People are not generally stupid yet it seems that the majority of people can sincerely hold two conflicting views at the same time. eg. Tobacco kills and "I don't need to worry about its effects on me" or faith vs observed reality or welfare dependency with fiscally conservative views. I'd like to understand how that works because it seems to be part of human nature.
If anything the market seems to be in convincing people that the situation is OK
I thought all modern words were supposed to end in z now, shouldn't it be internetz and webz.
I definitely don't know all the circumstances so it's hard to judge, but perhaps CPU processing capacity was not the limiting factor.
I imagine most likely it was because the builder wanted to use off-the shelf components, but it might also be because the communications links are low bandwidth and they did not want to incur the overhead of encryption or they thought that they needed to send data in blocks (CBC I think) rather than adopting a streaming form of encryption (there are lots to choose from) And they may have been deterred by the risk of losing control if they had a communication glitch and the crypto had to recover.
Anyhow, I can see it being more complicated than just having cheaped out on the CPU. They woudl be justified in thinking that this is a complex choice and they may have recognized that they were not qualified to make it. Finally, if they say the link is encrypted and it gets hacked I can see them being far more liable than they are if they never encrypted it, plus they get the contract to add encryption later. Heck, they probably planted this story.
Additional goals of precheck are:
There is no reason to believe that the prechecked people are more trustworthy, I dare say the 9/11 attackers would have been precheck eligible if the program had been in place and the TSA trust clearly extended to the flight attendant with all the drugs recently and the airport staff running guns. The TSA are poor judges of who to trust
If they were truly intent on reducing delays they could open more lines and quit with that worthless scanner, or at least arrange the lines so that they fanned out through the available agents better, they could stop acting surprised when people show up for flights that they booked weeks in advance.
If they really wanted to make people safer they could do something to avoid creating huge masses of targets in one place (eg, they could put 6' high glass walls up to screen rows of passengers).
Maybe it's time they admitted that they are not looking for guns and explosives anyway (what else could explain how poor they are at it). They're looking for drugs and exercising their right to exercise power with no accountability whatsoever
I don't agree. Bring them back, put them on TV, find out what they know and have them explain how they were duped.