Anyways, requiring a GMO label is intended for nothing else than to stigmatize. It is every bit as asinine as the California proposal a few years back to require cell phones have a radiation output level, which is retarded because cell phones emit all of zero sieverts, but some dumb fucks think it's a wonderful idea to have to put manufacturers in the position of making phones that emit less EM energy, and for no good reason whatsoever.
Regardless, if you'd rather pull the product than relabel it then you know in advance that your product can't survive with an accurate label. People are stupid, but tough - that's just the way the market is.
The day I attach my self esteem to something that isn't real is the day I seriously start to reexamine my life.
You should start now, then.
I don't really believe in fancy clothes or make-up either.
But you believe in your smugness; you parade it in this thread as if it was something to be proud off. You imply that the peoples self-esteem are attached to some frivolous thing.
Get over yourself. You've got hobbies that cost you money and give you entertainment, I don't see anyone here pointing out how frivolous your hobbies are - how they are a waste of money.
And on the off-chance that you have no hobbies, then still I have to say - Get Over Yourself - you're not somehow better than someone else just because you're boring and they're not.
I've always been able to understand that anyone can wear a suit, and a person's intelligence and skill is not attached to it. But I have to say, at least those things are real. I guess it just surprises me that people could take things to an even greater level of frivolousness than that.
Yeah, why don't you post your entertainment costs here and we can make fun of it? Hell, I don't even play those games, nor would I ever bug digital game goods, but because I have a life, and have hobbies I can understand that hobbies cost money. You, presumably, sit in a chair and look at the walls when you're bored? No? Well, then, trust me, your hobbies are likely just as uninteresting to everyone else, yet no one acts smug due to you wasting money on a useless waste of time.
The game changed when Lee joined together two large fronts, creating an inside outside problem with territory far far bigger than in any of the previous 3 games.
Alpha go seemed in capable of doing the calculations for that area, as time ran down it first resorted to playing off the smaller fronts, then it eventually resorted to last ditch moves which were rubbish moves that would only pay off if Lee made a mistake, then it resigned. It seems it was never even able to compute the middle of the board.
Alpha go looked indecisive and risk averse. Lee was the opposite.
This is very interesting - is there a link to the game that was played (like, perhaps an animated gif showing the game played)?
I wonder when someone is going to write a free-form written-language parser that will read in a carefully worded english description and spit out a header file. Then you can have your own description as a paragraph of poetry, which generates headers internally as part of the compilation process. This would make the whole problem of "illegal to have compatible interface" problem go away.
I think it has to be a troll, surely... The anti-feminists have been doing this kind of thing with github projects, comments on news stories and the like for years now.
There's enough evidence of real feminists doing these things.
I never said that, asshole. I said that if a man doesn't want kids, he has to take precautions, same as the woman. The two are not mutually exclusive.
This is my post that you disagreed with upthread:
If she doesn't want to have kids, then it's her responsibility to ensure it doesn't happen
Good thing slashdot doesn't allow editing of posts, it's still for you to read.
Never said anyone couldn't sleep with anyone else, except kids and people who don't want to sleep with them.
No, you hypocrite, you just judged them for their sexual choices when you said:
Or just demonstrated better taste in men.
You want to be judged for your sexual choices? You think slut-shaming I a good thing?
However, your attitude that it's the woman who should bear all the responsibility is misogynistic. T
I never said nor implied that. I said women have more options. I never said that it's the women's responsibility, I repeatedly pointed out that the women simply have more options. That's a fact.
hat you don;t see it just means that you're an asshole.
I might be an asshole, but I get laid whenever I want to, usually with whoever I want to. Maybe it's because I don't go around judging others. Your bitterness over sexual freedoms suggest that perhaps you should get out once in a while, because it's usually those people who have unsatisfying sexual lives who are the loudest in denouncing other people's sexual lives.
You've spen this whole thread telling me how poor my sex life must be, or how poor a females taste must be to want to sleep with me and I never, until now, even responded to those remarks. You're displaying an insane amount of frustration.
oh, yeah, BTW I had satisfying sex last night, and am preparing to receive satisfying sex now. Remember that, while you type out your frustration into a vitriolic response to this, all alone, later tonight while I am getting it on:-)
Fuck you, troll. I also said that women have control of their body and their choices. Grow up (oops - too late). The courts will say it's both your responsibilities, so both of you pay, and that's how it should be.
That s quite a change from your oft-pronounced usual opinion. You always say it's the man's responsibility for kids, you even repeat that opinion in this thread.
And yes, if she didn't want this to happen, she could have told you to go screw yourself instead of sleeping with you. Or just demonstrated better taste in men.
This may or may not come as a surprise to you, but women in general have the freedom to sleep with whoever they want to. Trying to slut-shame them when they favour men like me is bound to backfire.
Besides, I've been married more than once, to beautiful and highly qualified women. It's a fantasy of yours that someone like me begs for sex.
Are you suggesting there is more money to be made developing for the PC? Are you smoking crack?
Well, it seems developing for the console wasn't enough to keep them alive, so.... all we can say for certainty about this studio is that the console market is not enough to keep them afloat.
Had they ported to PC, there is a non-zero chance that it may have been a PC-hit, enough to keep them afloat. We have evidence that there was a zero chance of staying afloat purely on console sales.
Bullshit. You are responsible.for your sperm. If you don't want kids, it is only your responsibility because it your body. Same with women, it is their body, their choices, if she doesn't
Why should someone else be responsible for your fertility?
You deny women agency over their own body. If they get pregnant, you say it can't be their responsibility.
Also, if you can't control yourself, go fap yourself looking at porn. Problem solved. Or get ready to pay child support for the next couple of decades. Your decision. A woman isn't just a bucket for your cum. You sound like a horny teenager. Grow up, because right now you don't need to worry about birth control - your personality is more than sufficient.
Jokes on you. Since this year I've got custody and she's paying me child support. By what you just said, if she didn't want to be on the hook for child support she should have just kept her legs closed or used a vibrator, right? She should have controlled herself if she didn't want to pay child support, right?
You miss the point - even if she wants kids, you still have the option of not having any by a simple snip-snip. After all, you might not know when she ovulates, but you know when you cum, and the potential consequences. And you know what we call people who use ovulation date as a birth control method? Parents.
Even if I want kids, she still has more options than I do: she can snip, use an IUD, take a pill, refuse sex-without-a-condom, take a morning after pill or, as a final resort, terminate.
She has three more options than I do, so why are you stating that's its the guys responsibility? Are you presuming that all women are too stupid to practice birth control, hence the guy must practice abstinence? Why not ask the female to practice abstinence?
Computers like the Raspberry PI are great for start-up companies who can't afford to go to a manufacturer and have their own custom electronics made
Hi, hardware startup guy here. I'm going to come out and say that tautologically, if you know what you're doing, then doing custom hardware yourself is actually not nearly as difficult as you think.
First board design is cheap and easy. I'm using Eagle which has a free version if you want to get started, and a reasonably cheap version for smaller stuff.
I respectfully disagree. It might look simple if this is the first hardware project you've done, but wait till the bugs pop up, and *everything* has bugs. For my personal stuff I use the Geda toolchain, which I recommend to anyone getting their feet wet. I've designed and manufactured many devices for my personal use using Geda, but I would not recommend anyone designing their own boards - design daughterboards if you must. The reason is because you may lack the skills in figuring out what went wrong, when something eventually goes wrong (and it will!).
Small example for hardware difficulty: we've discovered problems in some of the units we manufactured last year, very inconsistent, very unpredictable and even the troublesome product would work perfectly *most* of the time. After a few months of long and hard examination of the troublesome devices (of which around 2 million, maybe, were manufactured and already sold), we finally pinned it down to a single capacitor on the device, which did not consistently withstand the washing process. The prototypes all worked perfectly (different washing process for small quantities).
This is something that will kill a small company in a year, even once you discover the problem and have a fix.
Another example (different device) involved static - even after hooking up the lightning generator and running repeated tests, it was still uncertain if it was indeed the static that was causing the problems that customers reported. The EE in charge, IIRC, added more static protection and called it a day, after more than a month of examination, testing and debugging.
In many ways, hardware is somewhat easy, especially if you have good quality 'scopes, signal generators, laboratories, etc; in other ways, it is very very difficult indeed, and there is no replacement for skilled and experienced EEs for debugging the hardware problems, which *will* arise after the prototypes all work perfectly. The best compromise is to pick a cheap module (RPi, *duino, etc) and design a daughterboard for the module that has the exact chips you need for a particular problem. That way, you can do the majority of your software testing and hardware testing from a PC connected to daughterboard, and switch to whichever SoC module suits you best.
Guns are not magic wands that make crime disappear.
My only point was that there is no correlation between levels of gun ownership and homicides. It appears that you've accepted that. Well Done! Most people do not change their minds when faced with facts, so consider yourself an exceptional human.
The next fact you shouldaccept about measured/recorded deaths and guns is that... a swimming pool in your home is five times more likely to kill a child than a firearm (check the CDC's figures from 2014).
Ok Yemen then or Mexico our ask the other fine examples of the magical power of guns.
There is no correlation - for every example you provide with large gun ownership and high homicides, there are more counterexamples showing large gun ownership and *low* homicides.
I think it is more wishful thinking by the execs: "hey these are our salaries - take it our leave it." Of course the execs negotiate their compensation yearly.
FTA: "For Gascoigne and Buffer COO Leo Widrich, transparency's benefits are clear
From their transparent financials: "Buffer's revenue currently exceeds the company's costs,".
Yeah, to me it isn't altogether clear that the benefits are there. Especially since, from the link above, " Her advice: Buffer should convert more nonpaying users to paid plans, and increase the costs of those plans by a few dollars per month. "The valuation for this kind of company is driven so much by subscriptions--recurring revenue is golden," she says."
Not only do they need to convert non-paying users into paying users (a task so difficult companies like google simply give up and advertise to the non-payers), but they should charge more too! A brilliant plan - what could possibly go wrong?
Most of the people killed will not be members of Daesh.
They don't need to be - a million or more people getting killed because of them will cause their support to dwindle. ISIS is not some backwater, unsupported rogue islamic group - they have support to varying degrees from the majority of muslims wordwide (yes, more than 50%).
Legal gun ownership is why South Africa it's such a safe place to live.
South Africa has the amongst the lowest gun ownership numbers in the world, but amongst the highest homicide rates. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here -South Africa displayed that taking guns away from the population correlated with an increase in crime, not a decrease.
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Anyways, requiring a GMO label is intended for nothing else than to stigmatize. It is every bit as asinine as the California proposal a few years back to require cell phones have a radiation output level, which is retarded because cell phones emit all of zero sieverts, but some dumb fucks think it's a wonderful idea to have to put manufacturers in the position of making phones that emit less EM energy, and for no good reason whatsoever.
Regardless, if you'd rather pull the product than relabel it then you know in advance that your product can't survive with an accurate label. People are stupid, but tough - that's just the way the market is.
There's a social stigma today to just owning sex toys,
Only for men. No woman is stigmatised for owning a dildo.
The day I attach my self esteem to something that isn't real is the day I seriously start to reexamine my life.
You should start now, then.
I don't really believe in fancy clothes or make-up either.
But you believe in your smugness; you parade it in this thread as if it was something to be proud off. You imply that the peoples self-esteem are attached to some frivolous thing.
Get over yourself. You've got hobbies that cost you money and give you entertainment, I don't see anyone here pointing out how frivolous your hobbies are - how they are a waste of money. And on the off-chance that you have no hobbies, then still I have to say - Get Over Yourself - you're not somehow better than someone else just because you're boring and they're not.
I've always been able to understand that anyone can wear a suit, and a person's intelligence and skill is not attached to it. But I have to say, at least those things are real. I guess it just surprises me that people could take things to an even greater level of frivolousness than that.
Yeah, why don't you post your entertainment costs here and we can make fun of it? Hell, I don't even play those games, nor would I ever bug digital game goods, but because I have a life, and have hobbies I can understand that hobbies cost money. You, presumably, sit in a chair and look at the walls when you're bored? No? Well, then, trust me, your hobbies are likely just as uninteresting to everyone else, yet no one acts smug due to you wasting money on a useless waste of time.
As for rest, as I've said in a few other posts, every single other first world nation gets by just fine without mass gun ownership. We could too.
Yeah, you could. But why would you want to if you're also doing just fine as it?
The other day the rest of Western civilization got by just fine without being armed to the teeth.
You do realise that they are also getting on just fine by being armed to teeth, as well?
I don't think it's that easy.
The game changed when Lee joined together two large fronts, creating an inside outside problem with territory far far bigger than in any of the previous 3 games.
Alpha go seemed in capable of doing the calculations for that area, as time ran down it first resorted to playing off the smaller fronts, then it eventually resorted to last ditch moves which were rubbish moves that would only pay off if Lee made a mistake, then it resigned. It seems it was never even able to compute the middle of the board.
Alpha go looked indecisive and risk averse. Lee was the opposite.
This is very interesting - is there a link to the game that was played (like, perhaps an animated gif showing the game played)?
there are lots and lots of indie developers making money today doing just exactly what you suggest they cannot.
What do you mean by 'lots'? From what I've seen, only a few percent of indie app devs on iOS actually make any money.
Sounds like extension of BDD.
What's BDD?
I wonder when someone is going to write a free-form written-language parser that will read in a carefully worded english description and spit out a header file. Then you can have your own description as a paragraph of poetry, which generates headers internally as part of the compilation process. This would make the whole problem of "illegal to have compatible interface" problem go away.
I think it has to be a troll, surely... The anti-feminists have been doing this kind of thing with github projects, comments on news stories and the like for years now.
There's enough evidence of real feminists doing these things.
your defense of this paper is pretty conclusive evidence that some people can't tell the difference between a political argument and a scientific one.
The paper was written by a man.
How does that make it less political?
I never said that, asshole. I said that if a man doesn't want kids, he has to take precautions, same as the woman. The two are not mutually exclusive.
This is my post that you disagreed with upthread:
If she doesn't want to have kids, then it's her responsibility to ensure it doesn't happen
Good thing slashdot doesn't allow editing of posts, it's still for you to read.
Never said anyone couldn't sleep with anyone else, except kids and people who don't want to sleep with them.
No, you hypocrite, you just judged them for their sexual choices when you said:
Or just demonstrated better taste in men.
You want to be judged for your sexual choices? You think slut-shaming I a good thing?
However, your attitude that it's the woman who should bear all the responsibility is misogynistic. T
I never said nor implied that. I said women have more options. I never said that it's the women's responsibility, I repeatedly pointed out that the women simply have more options. That's a fact.
hat you don;t see it just means that you're an asshole.
I might be an asshole, but I get laid whenever I want to, usually with whoever I want to. Maybe it's because I don't go around judging others. Your bitterness over sexual freedoms suggest that perhaps you should get out once in a while, because it's usually those people who have unsatisfying sexual lives who are the loudest in denouncing other people's sexual lives.
You've spen this whole thread telling me how poor my sex life must be, or how poor a females taste must be to want to sleep with me and I never, until now, even responded to those remarks. You're displaying an insane amount of frustration.
oh, yeah, BTW I had satisfying sex last night, and am preparing to receive satisfying sex now. Remember that, while you type out your frustration into a vitriolic response to this, all alone, later tonight while I am getting it on :-)
Fuck you, troll. I also said that women have control of their body and their choices. Grow up (oops - too late). The courts will say it's both your responsibilities, so both of you pay, and that's how it should be.
That s quite a change from your oft-pronounced usual opinion. You always say it's the man's responsibility for kids, you even repeat that opinion in this thread.
And yes, if she didn't want this to happen, she could have told you to go screw yourself instead of sleeping with you. Or just demonstrated better taste in men.
This may or may not come as a surprise to you, but women in general have the freedom to sleep with whoever they want to. Trying to slut-shame them when they favour men like me is bound to backfire.
Besides, I've been married more than once, to beautiful and highly qualified women. It's a fantasy of yours that someone like me begs for sex.
Are you suggesting there is more money to be made developing for the PC? Are you smoking crack?
Well, it seems developing for the console wasn't enough to keep them alive, so.... all we can say for certainty about this studio is that the console market is not enough to keep them afloat.
Had they ported to PC, there is a non-zero chance that it may have been a PC-hit, enough to keep them afloat. We have evidence that there was a zero chance of staying afloat purely on console sales.
Bullshit. You are responsible.for your sperm. If you don't want kids, it is only your responsibility because it your body. Same with women, it is their body, their choices, if she doesn't
Why should someone else be responsible for your fertility?
You deny women agency over their own body. If they get pregnant, you say it can't be their responsibility.
Also, if you can't control yourself, go fap yourself looking at porn. Problem solved. Or get ready to pay child support for the next couple of decades. Your decision. A woman isn't just a bucket for your cum. You sound like a horny teenager. Grow up, because right now you don't need to worry about birth control - your personality is more than sufficient.
Jokes on you. Since this year I've got custody and she's paying me child support. By what you just said, if she didn't want to be on the hook for child support she should have just kept her legs closed or used a vibrator, right? She should have controlled herself if she didn't want to pay child support, right?
You miss the point - even if she wants kids, you still have the option of not having any by a simple snip-snip. After all, you might not know when she ovulates, but you know when you cum, and the potential consequences. And you know what we call people who use ovulation date as a birth control method? Parents.
Even if I want kids, she still has more options than I do: she can snip, use an IUD, take a pill, refuse sex-without-a-condom, take a morning after pill or, as a final resort, terminate.
She has three more options than I do, so why are you stating that's its the guys responsibility? Are you presuming that all women are too stupid to practice birth control, hence the guy must practice abstinence? Why not ask the female to practice abstinence?
Computers like the Raspberry PI are great for start-up companies who can't afford to go to a manufacturer and have their own custom electronics made
Hi, hardware startup guy here. I'm going to come out and say that tautologically, if you know what you're doing, then doing custom hardware yourself is actually not nearly as difficult as you think.
First board design is cheap and easy. I'm using Eagle which has a free version if you want to get started, and a reasonably cheap version for smaller stuff.
I respectfully disagree. It might look simple if this is the first hardware project you've done, but wait till the bugs pop up, and *everything* has bugs. For my personal stuff I use the Geda toolchain, which I recommend to anyone getting their feet wet. I've designed and manufactured many devices for my personal use using Geda, but I would not recommend anyone designing their own boards - design daughterboards if you must. The reason is because you may lack the skills in figuring out what went wrong, when something eventually goes wrong (and it will!).
Small example for hardware difficulty: we've discovered problems in some of the units we manufactured last year, very inconsistent, very unpredictable and even the troublesome product would work perfectly *most* of the time. After a few months of long and hard examination of the troublesome devices (of which around 2 million, maybe, were manufactured and already sold), we finally pinned it down to a single capacitor on the device, which did not consistently withstand the washing process. The prototypes all worked perfectly (different washing process for small quantities).
This is something that will kill a small company in a year, even once you discover the problem and have a fix.
Another example (different device) involved static - even after hooking up the lightning generator and running repeated tests, it was still uncertain if it was indeed the static that was causing the problems that customers reported. The EE in charge, IIRC, added more static protection and called it a day, after more than a month of examination, testing and debugging.
In many ways, hardware is somewhat easy, especially if you have good quality 'scopes, signal generators, laboratories, etc; in other ways, it is very very difficult indeed, and there is no replacement for skilled and experienced EEs for debugging the hardware problems, which *will* arise after the prototypes all work perfectly. The best compromise is to pick a cheap module (RPi, *duino, etc) and design a daughterboard for the module that has the exact chips you need for a particular problem. That way, you can do the majority of your software testing and hardware testing from a PC connected to daughterboard, and switch to whichever SoC module suits you best.
Guns are not magic wands that make crime disappear.
My only point was that there is no correlation between levels of gun ownership and homicides. It appears that you've accepted that. Well Done! Most people do not change their minds when faced with facts, so consider yourself an exceptional human.
The next fact you shouldaccept about measured/recorded deaths and guns is that... a swimming pool in your home is five times more likely to kill a child than a firearm (check the CDC's figures from 2014).
Adding more fiat money only dilutes the value of the existing money, stealing from whoever has it, and causes inflation.
You think that doesn't happen with the gold/silver/commodity supply? Why do think think BTC mining is rate-limited?
Well they aren't going to be exchanging them for much longer, because the exchange mechanism is broken (sort of) by design.
Yes, but that doesn't make it a scam.
That also doesn't lend it any legitimacy; IOW it doesn't make it "not a scam".
Ok Yemen then or Mexico our ask the other fine examples of the magical power of guns.
There is no correlation - for every example you provide with large gun ownership and high homicides, there are more counterexamples showing large gun ownership and *low* homicides.
I think it is more wishful thinking by the execs: "hey these are our salaries - take it our leave it." Of course the execs negotiate their compensation yearly.
FTA: "For Gascoigne and Buffer COO Leo Widrich, transparency's benefits are clear
From their transparent financials: "Buffer's revenue currently exceeds the company's costs,".
Yeah, to me it isn't altogether clear that the benefits are there. Especially since, from the link above, " Her advice: Buffer should convert more nonpaying users to paid plans, and increase the costs of those plans by a few dollars per month. "The valuation for this kind of company is driven so much by subscriptions--recurring revenue is golden," she says."
Not only do they need to convert non-paying users into paying users (a task so difficult companies like google simply give up and advertise to the non-payers), but they should charge more too! A brilliant plan - what could possibly go wrong?
Most of the people killed will not be members of Daesh.
They don't need to be - a million or more people getting killed because of them will cause their support to dwindle. ISIS is not some backwater, unsupported rogue islamic group - they have support to varying degrees from the majority of muslims wordwide (yes, more than 50%).
"South Africa has the amongst the lowest gun ownership numbers in the world"
Of course you're completely wrong/lying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
South Africa ranks 48 out of 175. Hardly "amongst the lowest".
The maximum is 112, the minimum is 0.1, SA has 12.7 - it certainly disproves the parent posters point about number of guns and crime levels.
Legal gun ownership is why South Africa it's such a safe place to live.
South Africa has the amongst the lowest gun ownership numbers in the world, but amongst the highest homicide rates. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here -South Africa displayed that taking guns away from the population correlated with an increase in crime, not a decrease.