It's 'The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel'. Pretending it is a 'real' Nobel just serves the interests of those who like to pretend Economics is a 'real' science. Let's not give them a legitimacy they don't deserve.
Our emails at least get a bounce message from Microsoft addresses, which I suppose is something:-)
Earlier in the year, following WannaCry, we were getting a lot of bounces from UK government addresses as they tightened their filters. At the time, we were using the service providers webmail (1&1 as it happens), so everything went through their pool of SMTP servers. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of unsavory characters using these same servers, so blacklisting them wasn't unreasonable. The solution we adopted was to move mail onto our VPS and run our own Postfix server, which so far has worked perfectly for the entire planet EXCEPT MICROSOFT.
Hotmail (and outlook.com etc) routinely bounce our emails because the IP address of our VPS is in the *same block* as a blacklisted server. Numerous emails to Microsoft and 1&1 have failed to resolve this, and frankly I now just tell people not to expect mail to these addresses to get through. If there was a concerted effort by SMTP admins to blacklist MS addresses until they honour the RFCs I would sign up in a flash - they just think they are too big to have to play by the rules.
Yeah, had a very similar experience - set up my hotmail pre-Microsoft, and used it as a principal destination address for about ten years (my work and ISP based addresses changed quite often back then, so it was good to have a stable point of contact). Nowadays I use gmail for the same purpose, but I was still getting the odd email sent to the hotmail address, usually from old work colleagues or mates wanting to get back in touch - all autoforwarded to gmail. Then earlier this year Microsoft decided that I needed to verify my account to carry on using it - never got as far as cellphone verification as I couldn't remember what fictional date of birth I'd entered 20-odd years ago to set up an account in the name of a mythical wizard. That was it - locked out of 20 years of email history.
The optimal strategy (as many posters have said) is R = 1/2, P = 1/6, S = 1/3 for the constrained player (A) and r = 1/3, p = 2/3 for the unconstrained player (B), and the value of the game is 1/6 in favour of B (pretty straightforward game theory). If a fee is charged on every round of the game, then $16.66 is the fair price. If a fee is only charged on rounds with a definite result, then the fair price is $23.07 since 5/18 of the time the result will be a draw. Fair odds for each player, if draws are counted as 'push' bets, are 8/5 for A and 5/8 for B. If B can choose the stake for each round, and is paid off at evens, he should bet 3/13 (23.08%) of his current bankroll to maximise his long-term expectation.
This is a point that has been made several times in the thread, and I'm not sure I fully agree with it. Although the personnel at a team may have changed several times, they don't all change at once, and the team (especially in the wider sense of backroom staff and fans) retains a distinct identity over long periods. Significant events in the past, such as strings of defeats against another team, winning against the odds in key games and especially losing a key game that you looked certain to win, remain embedded in the psyche of a team for decades. I would agree that the effect of such 'group memories' is minor compared with the value of current form, but to say that it has 'absoloutely no bearing' is, I think, incorrect. (I am basing this argument on my experience of UK football, rugby union and rugby league teams, and to a lesser extent on observations of large european football teams such as F.C. Barcelona - I have no idea if this transfers to NFL franchises, and while I can't see why it wouldn't, I appreciate that certain factors could well diminish it's effect)
Dozens of people around the world contributed to the early development of powered flight, and even though the Wright Brothers were (probably) first, their excessive and draconian use of patents ensured their work was largely irrelevant to the development of the aeroplane. A lot of other people shared what they learned, which is why many of their machines quickly started to look like our modern idea of an aeroplane rather than the tail-first pusher-prop wing-warping monstrosity that was the Flyer.
I have no problem with giving the Wright Brothers credit for the first sustained heavier-than-air powered flight over level ground, but their subsequent actions had the effect of holding back rather than advancing the field of aeronautics, which is kind of the point TFA is making about Bunsen and patents. The only worse example that comes to mind is Matthew Bolton, who through his sharp business practices and political chicanery only narrowly avoided bringing the entire Industrial Revolution to a grinding halt.
People actually use editors without tag completion, syntax highlighting/validation and such?
I suppose some do, but since autocompletion and syntax highlighting are enabled by default in recent emacs, they would need to edit the.emacs file and turn off M-/ and global-font-lock-mode.
Imagine if you will, you find a lamp with a genie in it. You get three wishes. Most people wish for selfish things, for which only a bad outcome can happen (or so says TV). But you thought this through...
Yes, I have. I wish for an infinite supply of wishes.
I could never understand why people didn't just do that in the stories.
Because that would be a meta-wish, and before you ask, you can't wish that it wasn't because that would be a meta-meta-wish, and genies don't do those either.
In the UK you can buy yearly prepaid prescription cards for about £100,
In England you can; In Wales and (shortly) Scotland there is no charge for prescription medicine - we take 'free at the point of use' to mean what it says.
/* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP * to talk to the University of Mars. * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented * ftp to mars will work nicely. */
Ah, the classic example of a typo - (allegedly). The story is that the word was misspelled on advertising in the ninteenth century, and just stuck. Some people disagree, but the fact that patent applications by the same firm use the spelling 'aluminium' lend creedence to the claim.
IUPAC did try to sort this out a while ago, but swiftly folded in the face of massive indifference from the American people. Seems a bit unfair to me, since we Brits got saddled with the US spelling of 'sulfur' in the same drive for standardization, and seem to have adopted it pretty universally.
And for added fun, put it back together with a single edge flipped (or a single corner rotated), then jumble it up and leave it in the vicinity of a smart-arsed kid who thinks he knows how to solve it:-)
"The sonic screwdriver? But that's just a... Oh! Nevermind."
Well obviously the TARDIS is just a set, but the sonic screwdriver seems to work fine IRL, as Matt demonstrates in this footage from Glastonbury Festival this summer.
It's an interesting theory, but not really bourne out in reality - U.S. sports betting is usually done on a handicap basis, with the stronger side penalised a certain number of points.
The result of a match may be more predictable, but bookmakers do all they can to turn the betting opportunity into a coin-toss in order to increase the action.
I think if you look at qualifying performance and squad strength, you have to give England a reasonable chance. They are still a slightly false price at 8.6 on betfair, but that is nowhere near as overbet as they usually are for international tournaments
I wouldn't be surprised if they made it to the semis, at which point they would probably have to win two matches as slight underdogs (depending on the opposition) - not an overwhelming possibility, granted, but nowhere near hilarious; you'd have to tip someone like Switzerland or USA for that.
Speaking as a Welshman, I'd love England to get to the final - then get beaten by Argentina (with an Aguerro goal that had more than a hint of hand-ball:-))
So Manny dies - Sarah rings the Golders Green Chronicle and says "My husband just passed away, how much do you charge for a Death Notice" "Ten pounds per word." comes the reply. "A little steep," says Sarah, "but at times like these it can't be helped - just write 'Manny's Dead'" "Sorry madam, but we have a fifty pound minimum charge" "Hmmm...Ok, well could you put 'Manny's Dead. Volvo for Sale.'?"
One of my family members is a kleptomaniac - all shops should be closed immediately to remove temptation; Another one is an alcoholic - let's bring back prohibition; His sister is bulimic - let's ban food. Seriously, get a grip. The 'menace' isn't 'online', it's inside your family member. The sooner you face up to that fact, the more help you are going to be to them.
...And makes one pause when they try to equate it to economic 'communism' (central economic planning)...
You keep using that word my friend - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Many people have equated FOSS with 'communism', but no-one seriously sees any connection between Soviet Bloc state capitalism and the free software movement. The 'other side' pretend they do, but that's just FUD, surely? (Or perhaps not; the opposition to universal health care in the US confused the hell out of me - there still seems to be an almost McCarthyist zeal in America which denys that co-operation and concrete goals can ever, under any circumstances, be superior to competition and blind market forces, even though one gave you Apollo and the other gave you General Motors.)
Many people in Europe see the obvious parallels between FOSS and Socialism/Communism and have no problem with that, it seems that many in the US, even the ones that deride Bible Belters for blindly following an outdated and ludicrous ideology, are guilty of the same fault - the Cold War is over, guys - you won - why are you still drinking the same old Kool-Aid? Sometimes co-operation can be a "good thing".
Many European countries have the same reservations about the US; how can you protect the vulnerable poor without universal healthcare? How can you protect the environment whilst flouting Kyoto? The poverty which exists in areas of the US may be nothing in comparison with India, but is still considered barbaric by most of Europe. Which 'level playing field' would you like?
ALL labour is 'exploited'; that's how Capitalism works. It doesn't need to be put in such loaded terms, but the fact is that Capitalism cannot exist without the appropriation of surplus value created by labour - if you want Capitalism, you have to put up with 'exploitation'. It seems to me that 'competing', in a purely business sense, is exactly what India is doing.
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It's 'The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel'. Pretending it is a 'real' Nobel just serves the interests of those who like to pretend Economics is a 'real' science. Let's not give them a legitimacy they don't deserve.
Our emails at least get a bounce message from Microsoft addresses, which I suppose is something :-)
Earlier in the year, following WannaCry, we were getting a lot of bounces from UK government addresses as they tightened their filters. At the time, we were using the service providers webmail (1&1 as it happens), so everything went through their pool of SMTP servers. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of unsavory characters using these same servers, so blacklisting them wasn't unreasonable. The solution we adopted was to move mail onto our VPS and run our own Postfix server, which so far has worked perfectly for the entire planet EXCEPT MICROSOFT.
Hotmail (and outlook.com etc) routinely bounce our emails because the IP address of our VPS is in the *same block* as a blacklisted server. Numerous emails to Microsoft and 1&1 have failed to resolve this, and frankly I now just tell people not to expect mail to these addresses to get through. If there was a concerted effort by SMTP admins to blacklist MS addresses until they honour the RFCs I would sign up in a flash - they just think they are too big to have to play by the rules.
Yeah, had a very similar experience - set up my hotmail pre-Microsoft, and used it as a principal destination address for about ten years (my work and ISP based addresses changed quite often back then, so it was good to have a stable point of contact). Nowadays I use gmail for the same purpose, but I was still getting the odd email sent to the hotmail address, usually from old work colleagues or mates wanting to get back in touch - all autoforwarded to gmail.
Then earlier this year Microsoft decided that I needed to verify my account to carry on using it - never got as far as cellphone verification as I couldn't remember what fictional date of birth I'd entered 20-odd years ago to set up an account in the name of a mythical wizard. That was it - locked out of 20 years of email history.
The optimal strategy (as many posters have said) is R = 1/2, P = 1/6, S = 1/3 for the constrained player (A) and r = 1/3, p = 2/3 for the unconstrained player (B), and the value of the game is 1/6 in favour of B (pretty straightforward game theory). If a fee is charged on every round of the game, then $16.66 is the fair price. If a fee is only charged on rounds with a definite result, then the fair price is $23.07 since 5/18 of the time the result will be a draw. Fair odds for each player, if draws are counted as 'push' bets, are 8/5 for A and 5/8 for B. If B can choose the stake for each round, and is paid off at evens, he should bet 3/13 (23.08%) of his current bankroll to maximise his long-term expectation.
This is a point that has been made several times in the thread, and I'm not sure I fully agree with it. Although the personnel at a team may have changed several times, they don't all change at once, and the team (especially in the wider sense of backroom staff and fans) retains a distinct identity over long periods. Significant events in the past, such as strings of defeats against another team, winning against the odds in key games and especially losing a key game that you looked certain to win, remain embedded in the psyche of a team for decades.
I would agree that the effect of such 'group memories' is minor compared with the value of current form, but to say that it has 'absoloutely no bearing' is, I think, incorrect.
(I am basing this argument on my experience of UK football, rugby union and rugby league teams, and to a lesser extent on observations of large european football teams such as F.C. Barcelona - I have no idea if this transfers to NFL franchises, and while I can't see why it wouldn't, I appreciate that certain factors could well diminish it's effect)
. I couldn't think of any case where a Barbarian tribe handed over one of theirs to the Romans for trial.
How about Caradog (Caractacus), handed over to the Romans by Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes?
Doesn't any Kensington station automatically mean old money, or does the Cameron Eurodestruction Protocol supersede that?
High Street Kensington
Killing a murderous criminal in the act of resisting arrest using deadly force is hardly assassination.
Unless you do it it somebody else's country without asking or even informing them first - then it pretty much is.
Dozens of people around the world contributed to the early development of powered flight, and even though the Wright Brothers were (probably) first, their excessive and draconian use of patents ensured their work was largely irrelevant to the development of the aeroplane. A lot of other people shared what they learned, which is why many of their machines quickly started to look like our modern idea of an aeroplane rather than the tail-first pusher-prop wing-warping monstrosity that was the Flyer.
I have no problem with giving the Wright Brothers credit for the first sustained heavier-than-air powered flight over level ground, but their subsequent actions had the effect of holding back rather than advancing the field of aeronautics, which is kind of the point TFA is making about Bunsen and patents. The only worse example that comes to mind is Matthew Bolton, who through his sharp business practices and political chicanery only narrowly avoided bringing the entire Industrial Revolution to a grinding halt.
People actually use editors without tag completion, syntax highlighting/validation and such?
I suppose some do, but since autocompletion and syntax highlighting are enabled by default in recent emacs, they would need to edit the .emacs file and turn off M-/ and global-font-lock-mode.
Imagine if you will, you find a lamp with a genie in it. You get three wishes. Most people wish for selfish things, for which only a bad outcome can happen (or so says TV). But you thought this through...
Yes, I have. I wish for an infinite supply of wishes.
I could never understand why people didn't just do that in the stories.
Because that would be a meta-wish, and before you ask, you can't wish that it wasn't because that would be a meta-meta-wish, and genies don't do those either.
In the UK you can buy yearly prepaid prescription cards for about £100,
In England you can; In Wales and (shortly) Scotland there is no charge for prescription medicine - we take 'free at the point of use' to mean what it says.
/*
* [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
* possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
* to talk to the University of Mars.
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
* ftp to mars will work nicely.
*/
(Comment from an old version of tcp.c)
-No, it's anodized aluminum.
Ah, the classic example of a typo - (allegedly). The story is that the word was misspelled on advertising in the ninteenth century, and just stuck. Some people disagree, but the fact that patent applications by the same firm use the spelling 'aluminium' lend creedence to the claim.
IUPAC did try to sort this out a while ago, but swiftly folded in the face of massive indifference from the American people. Seems a bit unfair to me, since we Brits got saddled with the US spelling of 'sulfur' in the same drive for standardization, and seem to have adopted it pretty universally.
And for added fun, put it back together with a single edge flipped (or a single corner rotated), then jumble it up and leave it in the vicinity of a smart-arsed kid who thinks he knows how to solve it :-)
(posting to undo wrong mod)
"The sonic screwdriver? But that's just a... Oh! Nevermind."
Well obviously the TARDIS is just a set, but the sonic screwdriver seems to work fine IRL, as Matt demonstrates in this footage from Glastonbury Festival this summer.
It's an interesting theory, but not really bourne out in reality - U.S. sports betting is usually done on a handicap basis, with the stronger side penalised a certain number of points.
The result of a match may be more predictable, but bookmakers do all they can to turn the betting opportunity into a coin-toss in order to increase the action.
I think if you look at qualifying performance and squad strength, you have to give England a reasonable chance. They are still a slightly false price at 8.6 on betfair, but that is nowhere near as overbet as they usually are for international tournaments
I wouldn't be surprised if they made it to the semis, at which point they would probably have to win two matches as slight underdogs (depending on the opposition) - not an overwhelming possibility, granted, but nowhere near hilarious; you'd have to tip someone like Switzerland or USA for that.
Speaking as a Welshman, I'd love England to get to the final - then get beaten by Argentina (with an Aguerro goal that had more than a hint of hand-ball :-))
I liked the opening line in his solo spot on the last tour:
"It's good to be here - It's good to be ANYWHERE!"
So Manny dies - Sarah rings the Golders Green Chronicle and says "My husband just passed away, how much do you charge for a Death Notice"
"Ten pounds per word." comes the reply.
"A little steep," says Sarah, "but at times like these it can't be helped - just write 'Manny's Dead'"
"Sorry madam, but we have a fifty pound minimum charge"
"Hmmm...Ok, well could you put 'Manny's Dead. Volvo for Sale.'?"
One of my family members is a kleptomaniac - all shops should be closed immediately to remove temptation;
Another one is an alcoholic - let's bring back prohibition;
His sister is bulimic - let's ban food.
Seriously, get a grip. The 'menace' isn't 'online', it's inside your family member. The sooner you face up to that fact, the more help you are going to be to them.
...And makes one pause when they try to equate it to economic 'communism' (central economic planning)...
You keep using that word my friend - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Many people have equated FOSS with 'communism', but no-one seriously sees any connection between Soviet Bloc state capitalism and the free software movement. The 'other side' pretend they do, but that's just FUD, surely? (Or perhaps not; the opposition to universal health care in the US confused the hell out of me - there still seems to be an almost McCarthyist zeal in America which denys that co-operation and concrete goals can ever, under any circumstances, be superior to competition and blind market forces, even though one gave you Apollo and the other gave you General Motors.)
Many people in Europe see the obvious parallels between FOSS and Socialism/Communism and have no problem with that, it seems that many in the US, even the ones that deride Bible Belters for blindly following an outdated and ludicrous ideology, are guilty of the same fault - the Cold War is over, guys - you won - why are you still drinking the same old Kool-Aid? Sometimes co-operation can be a "good thing".
Many European countries have the same reservations about the US; how can you protect the vulnerable poor without universal healthcare? How can you protect the environment whilst flouting Kyoto? The poverty which exists in areas of the US may be nothing in comparison with India, but is still considered barbaric by most of Europe. Which 'level playing field' would you like?
ALL labour is 'exploited'; that's how Capitalism works. It doesn't need to be put in such loaded terms, but the fact is that Capitalism cannot exist without the appropriation of surplus value created by labour - if you want Capitalism, you have to put up with 'exploitation'. It seems to me that 'competing', in a purely business sense, is exactly what India is doing.