Depends on what level of perspective you want to look at. If you look at simple tasks and abilities, yes, a human will learn and think (some more than others) over the course of his life. It is evident if you take for example twins that grow in different environments, they get to have different abilities and understanding of the world.
OTOH if you widen your view and look at how humans interact between each other (i.e. society), how they think (technology, culture), and other things like that they don't really learn anything during their life. That's where evolution kicks in, people born in different generations have different ways of interacting and thinking. Some are behind their times while others are ahead which I see as a normal mutation, if you will, that can be a succesful one or a failing one. But even revolutionary people become conservatives after a certain age. That's why people die, that's how society evolves.
Yes, it's not all black and white like I made it sound, some things in the first category are inate and some in the secondary can still be modified by experience but I think my point was properly made.
Yes, I am wondering the same thing, here's a quote: "And it certainly gets at a central mystery surrounding them: if trading firms aren't sending out these orders, how are they getting into the market?"
Is there a server with a simple API that receives these quotes or WTF is going on? Can I just send some packets to the server and have my quote put up? How can they not know who is sending the requests?
The whole article reminds me of those documentaries on discovery that show you something simple like a cloud that looks like a giraffe and they keep asking "is this just a cloud or is there something that we don't understand about the giraffe cloud?"
Or that the "anonymous celeb" just doesn't understand what it means to have a secure password and security question and not entering them in phishing sites...
i usually have like 30 tabs open at work. they are for documentation, information on certain APIs, etc. when i'm done with the task i'm working on i just close them all. i use TreeStyleTabs for this, it's an awesome way of managing tabs.
Yeah, when someone wants to beat you up just tell something funny, if it's a joke that the idiot bully can understand and like you'll probably have a new guy to protect you from other retards or at least not hit you.
whoever moded you down is just annoyed that you ruined a perfectly good first post with some real discussion, not a "FRIST PSOT" like it should have been.
Exactly, all the conversations here are more or less eating our energy. There are many situations where I'd want to reply to someone but it doesn't seem important enough that I waste my time with it (in this case I'm making an exception for obvious reasons).
Going back to the discussion about spam, you are not obligated to read it, but just the effort required to realize it's spam and skip it is a time waster. Anyway, I was thinking more about the hosters and the site maintainers. They have a lot of trouble paying for wasted bandwidth and deleting spam.
I don't want unclear laws, I want laws that are retarded or incomplete to not be taken literally and I want more common sense to be used in courts. I also don't think that what those people did is bad, even remotely. What's the worse thing that can happen if some spammer finds your email address? You just change it and you're done.
Also, look at the quote in my post above, it expresses some of my ideas more clearly.
it wastes your time and brain cells. that is the worse thing you could do to someone. There is a very good quote in Dune about this:
``The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy." ``
So if you go on a site that has a commenting system but no captcha it's OK to spam it because it's something the site is meant to do? Anything that harms other people should be illegal. Of course we can't create laws for every possible situation so I think that the idea of "something you should know you're not supposed to do" is actually good. Everything about laws is taken too literally these days. I'd love a juridicial system where even if the law says something different, if it's clear that the accused did something bad that hurt someone else, he/she will get punished.
well yeah, the code would probably look similar to the one on a turing machine with a binary tape. You can have N operations on M pieces of data and every time just ask something like "run operation number 0? y/n" "run opeartion number 1? y/n"... then "run it on 0 pieces of data? y/n"... then "for parameter 1 use piece number 0? y/n"... etc
it will take days to compile and years to run but it will work
That seems a good thing for being at the supreme court, no? Yes, she might have a secret agenda but it's more likely she's just not very biased about stuff.
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Depends on what level of perspective you want to look at. If you look at simple tasks and abilities, yes, a human will learn and think (some more than others) over the course of his life. It is evident if you take for example twins that grow in different environments, they get to have different abilities and understanding of the world.
OTOH if you widen your view and look at how humans interact between each other (i.e. society), how they think (technology, culture), and other things like that they don't really learn anything during their life. That's where evolution kicks in, people born in different generations have different ways of interacting and thinking. Some are behind their times while others are ahead which I see as a normal mutation, if you will, that can be a succesful one or a failing one. But even revolutionary people become conservatives after a certain age. That's why people die, that's how society evolves.
Yes, it's not all black and white like I made it sound, some things in the first category are inate and some in the secondary can still be modified by experience but I think my point was properly made.
no, 1.3E+8
Yes, I am wondering the same thing, here's a quote: "And it certainly gets at a central mystery surrounding them: if trading firms aren't sending out these orders, how are they getting into the market?"
Is there a server with a simple API that receives these quotes or WTF is going on? Can I just send some packets to the server and have my quote put up? How can they not know who is sending the requests?
The whole article reminds me of those documentaries on discovery that show you something simple like a cloud that looks like a giraffe and they keep asking "is this just a cloud or is there something that we don't understand about the giraffe cloud?"
Or that the "anonymous celeb" just doesn't understand what it means to have a secure password and security question and not entering them in phishing sites...
fuck, it looks like a neural network with a few weeks of training on conspiracy theory material has been put on repeat
i usually have like 30 tabs open at work. they are for documentation, information on certain APIs, etc. when i'm done with the task i'm working on i just close them all. i use TreeStyleTabs for this, it's an awesome way of managing tabs.
lemonparty.org seems legit though
http://www.cslacker.com/images/file/mediums/lemon_party.jpg
(note -- the first link is NSFW, the second one is SFW)
Yeah, when someone wants to beat you up just tell something funny, if it's a joke that the idiot bully can understand and like you'll probably have a new guy to protect you from other retards or at least not hit you.
loled
whoever moded you down is just annoyed that you ruined a perfectly good first post with some real discussion, not a "FRIST PSOT" like it should have been.
>> faith healers
>> thank god it didn't come to me making that kind of decision
I don't get it, which side are you on?
Exactly, all the conversations here are more or less eating our energy. There are many situations where I'd want to reply to someone but it doesn't seem important enough that I waste my time with it (in this case I'm making an exception for obvious reasons).
Going back to the discussion about spam, you are not obligated to read it, but just the effort required to realize it's spam and skip it is a time waster. Anyway, I was thinking more about the hosters and the site maintainers. They have a lot of trouble paying for wasted bandwidth and deleting spam.
I don't want unclear laws, I want laws that are retarded or incomplete to not be taken literally and I want more common sense to be used in courts. I also don't think that what those people did is bad, even remotely. What's the worse thing that can happen if some spammer finds your email address? You just change it and you're done.
Also, look at the quote in my post above, it expresses some of my ideas more clearly.
it wastes your time and brain cells. that is the worse thing you could do to someone. There is a very good quote in Dune about this:
``The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy." ``
So if you go on a site that has a commenting system but no captcha it's OK to spam it because it's something the site is meant to do? Anything that harms other people should be illegal. Of course we can't create laws for every possible situation so I think that the idea of "something you should know you're not supposed to do" is actually good. Everything about laws is taken too literally these days. I'd love a juridicial system where even if the law says something different, if it's clear that the accused did something bad that hurt someone else, he/she will get punished.
why would carriers have access to the GPS data your phone receives?
well yeah, the code would probably look similar to the one on a turing machine with a binary tape. You can have N operations on M pieces of data and every time just ask something like "run operation number 0? y/n" "run opeartion number 1? y/n" ... then "run it on 0 pieces of data? y/n" ... then "for parameter 1 use piece number 0? y/n" ... etc
it will take days to compile and years to run but it will work
use yopmail.com
really? so what's the next step from IM? the one that should have made it obsolete already...
actually, now that i think about it, you're probably just trolling considering your question about myspace
or change the extension of the files
well the discussion was about the "you wouldn't steal a car" advert. I'd give the same example in that context.
dogs are not that slow? what happened, you were too much in a rush to be able to find a decent metaphorical comparison?
It's easy to see someone with power as acting with bias when you yourself are biased :P
That seems a good thing for being at the supreme court, no? Yes, she might have a secret agenda but it's more likely she's just not very biased about stuff.
Most of the people I work with would probably like that kind of discussion :P