Yes, the new position was more prestigious, because the scientist had been demoted by the NC museum director. It's easier to lure people away when they've received an ill-justified demotion.
Getting a demotion out of the blue is chilling for an employee. Watching well-respected and highly competent employees leave in the wake of such actions is chilling for the rest of us.
While I do like the reporting from the CSM, I don't think your logical analysis here is up to snuff.
GP made the claim that supporting the CSM, by buying it or giving them pageviews, supports an organization that is actively promoting harm. To follow your analogy, if Ford Motor Company today were actively promoting an anti-Semitic (or anti-Christian) agenda, you can bet that people buying their cars would catch grief for it.
...because this doesn't look at all like the laser retinal scanners from 10-15 years ago. And that's a good thing.
I got to try one of the laser retinal scanners at SIGGRAPH ages ago. I was pretty excited, because they promised to dodge the corrective-lenses issue -- in effect, it's as though you're stopping the eye down to a microscopic aperture, which means focus and aberration issues become arbitrarily small. The problem, though, was diffraction artifacts, and they were overwhelming -- there were big, heavily-fringed blobs at fixed positions in the image, and you couldn't make them go away.
Laser technology has come a long way since then, but it doesn't matter. As far as I know, there's nothing that technology can do to overcome this fundamental flaw.
It won't be long before our fully-purchased representatives finish overturning the last vestiges of Network Neutrality, allowing our Rightful Owners to specify and enforce the proper balance of Internet traffic.
So, since USPS was already offering Sunday delivery, the news here must be some favorable pricing terms for Amazon. Which, of course, they're not going to specify in detail.
But you are advocating pissing away MY MONEY. I just wish you would have the balls to tell that to me to my face. But we all know you are nothing but a pathetic lying statist thief and a coward.
Or you can build a rotating camera mount, or insert a rotating element in the optical path. Either way, you're supporting and moving a relatively small weight, so it's a much easier task than building the main drive.
Yes, that's exactly it. It clearly has nothing to do with proximity to family and friends, or stability for kids in their schools, or just not wanting to turn your entire life upside down for the sake of an extra few K a year. Those factors can't be relevant, because there's no column for them in the productivity spreadsheet.
(This is where the analogy falls apart. How useful is a partly sorted array? Not very. An almost correct floating point calculation on the other hand might even be just as good as the correct result, depending on the application.)
Actually, it seems to me that the analogy is still quite valid. Having a large array where items are guaranteed to be off by no more than one spot -- in other words, where some adjacent items may be swapped from their correct positions -- could be quite useful. I'm thinking of things like "sort by most recent" for news articles, or "search by price ascending" in an online store. In fact, I'm seeing such "approximate ordering" a lot more frequently on large-scale Web apps; it's better to have an approximately-ordered list quickly than a precisely-ordered list much more slowly.
Of course, if you're looking for a sorted list to support binary search, your mileage will vary.
Yep, some people need a semi, some need an ultra-compact car -- and some need a minivan. And, just like Raspberry Pi users, the minivan drivers will catch a lot of grief from people whose self-image is somehow wrapped up in hardware choices.
I don't usually raise my hand to ask for a definition, but when Google and Urban Dictionary say they've never heard of it, I figure I've done my due diligence.
I got a different impression of the author's agenda. Consider these bits (excerpted, but not unfairly taken out of context IMO):
Traders in California start their day at 5 am to participate in New York markets. True, not all Californians work on East Coast time, but research by economists Daniel Hamermesh, Catlin Meyers, and Mark Peacock showed communities are more productive when there's more time coordination.
[...]
Frequent travel between the coasts causes jet lag, robbing employees of productive work time. With a one-hour time difference, bi-costal travel would become almost effortless.
It seems to me that the author is generalizing the "flyover states don't matter" attitude. The important people -- traders, people who frequently fly from coast to coast -- would benefit from timezone collapse. It might present a hardship for the rest (most) of the population, but really, those plebes ought to suck it up and adapt to the needs of their betters.
Hmm. I know Morton Nadler at Virgina Tech was working on a system to image-process, recognize, compress and transmit sign language (I think it may have been fingerspelling) back in the early- to mid-1980s. I think he was using racks of custom hardware; this may have pre-dated even FPGAs. It was expensive, but everybody knew that hardware would keep getting cheaper...
It won't go away, but it might end up being like riding. It used to be a common skill, necessary for daily life in many cases. Now it is an expensive hobby, and an extremely rare skill.
I really, really like this analogy. (I assume you're talking about horseback riding.) There are still lots of people who love horses, and a separate (but largely overlapping) set of people who love riding horses. The people who actually ride regularly are a small minority, though; most of us don't think about horses, or think they're kind of cool, but not enough to invest the time and money they require.
If I rode a horse to work around here (suburbia), I'd get a lot of double-takes, but there's a rails-to-trails park a few miles away where I encounter people riding most days. If I go back to visit friends in Pennsylvania's Amish country, there are horse-drawn buggies all over the place, drivers expect and adapt to them, and many businesses have "parking" to accommodate them.
Decades hence, I'd expect to see an analogous situation with manual vehicles.
Congratulations on your rationality in this scenario.
If you're claiming that you're perfectly rational in all situations (as opposed to the "irrational people" you called out in your comment), well, congratulations on your... self-confidence, I guess.
Exactly. Nonetheless, I applaud the GP for citing actual numbers where I was too lazy to do so (although I'd like to see more detail on the battery-manufacture figures, and 60mpg is better mileage than just about anything you can currently buy in the US). I'd mod you both up if Slashdot worked that way.
Large fossil-fuel power plants can be made a lot more efficient than internal-combustion engines, even counting transmission and distribution losses (especially if you count distribution costs for gasoline). Running a car on energy from the electric grid is greener than running on gasoline, even if your power comes from coal plants -- and in most places, not all grid power is derived from coal.
All that I've read indicates that the vast majority of people are bad at evaluating low-probability risks, in just the way I described. If you're able to evaluate all risks with unbounded rationality, congratulations.
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Yes, the new position was more prestigious, because the scientist had been demoted by the NC museum director. It's easier to lure people away when they've received an ill-justified demotion.
Getting a demotion out of the blue is chilling for an employee. Watching well-respected and highly competent employees leave in the wake of such actions is chilling for the rest of us.
N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences director puts kibosh on documentary about sea-level rise
This wasn't the simple-minded decision that partisans on both sides are trying to make it. But in the wake of the high-profile departure of the Nature Research Center's top scientist, it does seem a bit chilling.
So, the only thing that will stop a bad guy with toilet paper is a good guy with toilet paper?
While I do like the reporting from the CSM, I don't think your logical analysis here is up to snuff.
GP made the claim that supporting the CSM, by buying it or giving them pageviews, supports an organization that is actively promoting harm. To follow your analogy, if Ford Motor Company today were actively promoting an anti-Semitic (or anti-Christian) agenda, you can bet that people buying their cars would catch grief for it.
...and our distant descendants will gain the most accurate picture of us from our landfills, if we haven't already mined them out.
...because this doesn't look at all like the laser retinal scanners from 10-15 years ago. And that's a good thing.
I got to try one of the laser retinal scanners at SIGGRAPH ages ago. I was pretty excited, because they promised to dodge the corrective-lenses issue -- in effect, it's as though you're stopping the eye down to a microscopic aperture, which means focus and aberration issues become arbitrarily small. The problem, though, was diffraction artifacts, and they were overwhelming -- there were big, heavily-fringed blobs at fixed positions in the image, and you couldn't make them go away.
Laser technology has come a long way since then, but it doesn't matter. As far as I know, there's nothing that technology can do to overcome this fundamental flaw.
Without them, we might never have suspected that large moneyed interests influence international policy in their own favor.
Seriously, though, good on WikiLeaks. It can't hurt to rub people's noses in the facts -- can it?
It won't be long before our fully-purchased representatives finish overturning the last vestiges of Network Neutrality, allowing our Rightful Owners to specify and enforce the proper balance of Internet traffic.
I remember the USPS advertising Sunday delivery for Express Mail quite a long time ago -- ten years or more, I think.
Still advertised today: http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/classes/express.htm. A bit more digging indicates that there's a $12.50 surcharge for Sunday/holiday delivery.
So, since USPS was already offering Sunday delivery, the news here must be some favorable pricing terms for Amazon. Which, of course, they're not going to specify in detail.
Quoting the Anonymous Coward:
But you are advocating pissing away MY MONEY. I just wish you would have the balls to tell that to me to my face. But we all know you are nothing but a pathetic lying statist thief and a coward.
LOL -- and you even got a bite.
Or you can build a rotating camera mount, or insert a rotating element in the optical path. Either way, you're supporting and moving a relatively small weight, so it's a much easier task than building the main drive.
As always, choosing martyrdom is a career-limiting move.
Yes, that's exactly it. It clearly has nothing to do with proximity to family and friends, or stability for kids in their schools, or just not wanting to turn your entire life upside down for the sake of an extra few K a year. Those factors can't be relevant, because there's no column for them in the productivity spreadsheet.
(This is where the analogy falls apart. How useful is a partly sorted array? Not very. An almost correct floating point calculation on the other hand might even be just as good as the correct result, depending on the application.)
Actually, it seems to me that the analogy is still quite valid. Having a large array where items are guaranteed to be off by no more than one spot -- in other words, where some adjacent items may be swapped from their correct positions -- could be quite useful. I'm thinking of things like "sort by most recent" for news articles, or "search by price ascending" in an online store. In fact, I'm seeing such "approximate ordering" a lot more frequently on large-scale Web apps; it's better to have an approximately-ordered list quickly than a precisely-ordered list much more slowly.
Of course, if you're looking for a sorted list to support binary search, your mileage will vary.
Yep, some people need a semi, some need an ultra-compact car -- and some need a minivan. And, just like Raspberry Pi users, the minivan drivers will catch a lot of grief from people whose self-image is somehow wrapped up in hardware choices.
"Taffed"?
I don't usually raise my hand to ask for a definition, but when Google and Urban Dictionary say they've never heard of it, I figure I've done my due diligence.
I got a different impression of the author's agenda. Consider these bits (excerpted, but not unfairly taken out of context IMO):
Traders in California start their day at 5 am to participate in New York markets. True, not all Californians work on East Coast time, but research by economists Daniel Hamermesh, Catlin Meyers, and Mark Peacock showed communities are more productive when there's more time coordination.
[...]
Frequent travel between the coasts causes jet lag, robbing employees of productive work time. With a one-hour time difference, bi-costal travel would become almost effortless.
It seems to me that the author is generalizing the "flyover states don't matter" attitude. The important people -- traders, people who frequently fly from coast to coast -- would benefit from timezone collapse. It might present a hardship for the rest (most) of the population, but really, those plebes ought to suck it up and adapt to the needs of their betters.
Hmm. I know Morton Nadler at Virgina Tech was working on a system to image-process, recognize, compress and transmit sign language (I think it may have been fingerspelling) back in the early- to mid-1980s. I think he was using racks of custom hardware; this may have pre-dated even FPGAs. It was expensive, but everybody knew that hardware would keep getting cheaper...
It won't go away, but it might end up being like riding. It used to be a common skill, necessary for daily life in many cases. Now it is an expensive hobby, and an extremely rare skill.
I really, really like this analogy. (I assume you're talking about horseback riding.) There are still lots of people who love horses, and a separate (but largely overlapping) set of people who love riding horses. The people who actually ride regularly are a small minority, though; most of us don't think about horses, or think they're kind of cool, but not enough to invest the time and money they require.
If I rode a horse to work around here (suburbia), I'd get a lot of double-takes, but there's a rails-to-trails park a few miles away where I encounter people riding most days. If I go back to visit friends in Pennsylvania's Amish country, there are horse-drawn buggies all over the place, drivers expect and adapt to them, and many businesses have "parking" to accommodate them.
Decades hence, I'd expect to see an analogous situation with manual vehicles.
Congratulations on your rationality in this scenario.
If you're claiming that you're perfectly rational in all situations (as opposed to the "irrational people" you called out in your comment), well, congratulations on your... self-confidence, I guess.
Exactly. Nonetheless, I applaud the GP for citing actual numbers where I was too lazy to do so (although I'd like to see more detail on the battery-manufacture figures, and 60mpg is better mileage than just about anything you can currently buy in the US). I'd mod you both up if Slashdot worked that way.
Large fossil-fuel power plants can be made a lot more efficient than internal-combustion engines, even counting transmission and distribution losses (especially if you count distribution costs for gasoline). Running a car on energy from the electric grid is greener than running on gasoline, even if your power comes from coal plants -- and in most places, not all grid power is derived from coal.
I guess car stories are good for starting high-traffic, high-clickthrough flamewars, but it seems like we're going a bit overboard lately.
Where did I say "all people"?
All that I've read indicates that the vast majority of people are bad at evaluating low-probability risks, in just the way I described. If you're able to evaluate all risks with unbounded rationality, congratulations.
Yeah, yeah, and before you let that steam drill beat you down, you'll die with a hammer in your hand.
Enjoy your superiority while you can. You've probably got years to do so, but certainly not decades.