Trump's tweets are the only reason I have Twitter installed. They're a national embarrassment, incredibly reckless, and I wish they'd stop. I REALLY wish they'd stop. But, since they won't, I make the most of them. They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man. We always know exactly what he's thinking. And, for better or worse, so does anyone else. In the sense that he's accurately reflecting his thoughts, he's more honest there than anywhere else. Even when his tweets are wildly inaccurate, I'm convinced that he believes what he tweets when he tweets it.
50k in Silicon Valley will get you a brand new Maytag box in one of the premium alleys. No recycle-bin scrounging for this guy's palace! And prime real-estate next to a restaurant dumpster.
Easy. Once you have 23 people with the same name, you have better than even odds of falsely identifying two of them...
Assuming that the entire population was born in the same year. FTA, it appears that they're not restricting themselves to month/day. The example they give is January 1, 1973.
It makes sense when you recognize that our brains evolved 250,000 years ago and the conditions that optimize happiness are the same ones that were available before money, fame or luxury travel were ever invented.
Some people would claim that our brains are still evolving. Other people might claim that our brain started evolving even before the emergence of mammals.
I'm not trying to discount your point. Happiness is an ancient drive, predating $$, etc. I am suggesting that happiness hasn't reached its final form and that it's older (and not specific to) the species.
I didn't think Facebook used the microphone for anything before i read that...
Apparently there are FB features that allow video capture. That's why they claim they need mic access. I'm not worried about the mic - It's what they do with my location that gives me the creeps. Of course, that's easy to turn off if you're willing to give up the perks.
It's cute how Americans think tipping is a standard, socially required thing in the rest of the world.
I think that most Americans are aware that it's an American thing. What else are we supposed to do? Pay everyone working full time enough to live? Even waiters and doormen? If they wanted to eat, they should have become engineers.
> a CAPTCHA is considered broken if a bot can pass it 1 percent of the time.
Who decided that? That's well within the realm of random dumb luck.
Dumb luck??? With 52 potential characters and a 6-character CAPTCHA, dumb luck should get it right about 50 out of every trillion tries. How is that 1%?
I do not need nor want help keeping me safe from myself.
I do. At the very least I want either a ban on harmful additives, or even better, regulation requiring sellers to state all additives...
I'd like that too, but that's different entirely. Alert me to the danger, then let me decide for myself. If my lifestyle crimps your insurance plan, charge me for it.
The part where e-cigs contain the addictive substance ?
Coffee contains an addictive substance too. Do I have your permission to drink coffee? Or are you here to save me since I can't make the decision on my own? OMG DRUGS!
What other potentially dangerous activities do you want to protect us from? Sky diving? Deep sea diving? Walking across streets? Leaving our homes?
Sure, if you feel you're unable to perform those tasks without danger to yourself.
You want to keep us from those activities unless we can assure you there's no danger? That is fucking stupid. Of course there's danger associated with every one of those activities. There could be a drunken maniac poised to smear me across the crosswalk. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop crossing the street.
If something's dangerous, by all means alert me to the danger. Then let me do what I want. I set my own threshold for risk and compare it against perceived benefits. I don't remember asking you to make my decisions. I'd rather you didn't try.
Then please don't use the same group health insurance company I do.
Insurance companies are free to charge more for nicotine users. And they often do. Many high-risk groups get a pass. You're worried about being in a pool with somebody who vapes? You're also in a pool with the guy who drinks a fifth of whiskey every night.
Coworking is a social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently, but who share values, and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with people who value working in the same place alongside each other. Coworking offers a solution to the problem of isolation that many freelancers experience while working at home, while at the same time letting them escape the distractions of home.
Of course, nicotine causes anxiety and sleeping disorders, so it's not harmless either.
The only solution to that is to find something else to smoke that helps with anxiety and sleep. Lemme think... What could I smoke that would help with anxiety and sleep...
Of course, some people may find solutions that don't involve smoking at all, but what use are those?
That depends on your definition of "easily". You make it sound like this happens accidentally in some recognizable rate. You can chain smoke packs and not have much to worry about in terms of putting yourself in the hospital. It's not like alcohol. You might notice a racing pulse and nausea. In which case, stop...
No, you can't "easily" overdose on it unless you mean "intentionally" overdose on it.
I would argue that the next frontier in Artificial Intelligence is actual Artificial Intelligence.
Actual artificial intelligence only exists in the world of sci-fi. I don't believe it's acheivable, depending on your definition of actual. All we can do is produce better AI emulators.
The President canâ(TM)t order nuclear war âoeat any time for any reasonâ.
I guess he can't declare war, but he can order a nuclear strike. I'd imagine that if he nuked somebody, the chances of that leading to war are pretty good.
Bart: Well, Dad, here's my report card. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Homer: 'A+'!? You don't think much of me, do you, boy? Bart: No, sir. Homer: You know a 'D' turns into a 'B' so easily. You just got greedy.
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Trump's tweets are the only reason I have Twitter installed. They're a national embarrassment, incredibly reckless, and I wish they'd stop. I REALLY wish they'd stop. But, since they won't, I make the most of them. They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man. We always know exactly what he's thinking. And, for better or worse, so does anyone else. In the sense that he's accurately reflecting his thoughts, he's more honest there than anywhere else. Even when his tweets are wildly inaccurate, I'm convinced that he believes what he tweets when he tweets it.
50k in Silicon Valley will get you a brand new Maytag box in one of the premium alleys. No recycle-bin scrounging for this guy's palace! And prime real-estate next to a restaurant dumpster.
I think to pay my student loans, I'm gonna sell meth...
There was a high school chem teacher in NM that tried that to pay for his chemo treatments. It didn't end well for him but made a helluva story.
Ritalin in Russian is spelled with a 'V'.
"Vodka"
Easy. Once you have 23 people with the same name, you have better than even odds of falsely identifying two of them...
Assuming that the entire population was born in the same year. FTA, it appears that they're not restricting themselves to month/day. The example they give is January 1, 1973.
It's not the "kids" that are having their voting rights revoked, it's the adults.
Most adult voters were kids when they were named.
It makes sense when you recognize that our brains evolved 250,000 years ago and the conditions that optimize happiness are the same ones that were available before money, fame or luxury travel were ever invented.
Some people would claim that our brains are still evolving. Other people might claim that our brain started evolving even before the emergence of mammals.
I'm not trying to discount your point. Happiness is an ancient drive, predating $$, etc. I am suggesting that happiness hasn't reached its final form and that it's older (and not specific to) the species.
But your copy has no monetary value...
Every copy has the same monetary value as the original. Source? The MPAA's piracy damage estimates.
I didn't think Facebook used the microphone for anything before i read that...
Apparently there are FB features that allow video capture. That's why they claim they need mic access. I'm not worried about the mic - It's what they do with my location that gives me the creeps. Of course, that's easy to turn off if you're willing to give up the perks.
It's cute how Americans think tipping is a standard, socially required thing in the rest of the world.
I think that most Americans are aware that it's an American thing. What else are we supposed to do? Pay everyone working full time enough to live? Even waiters and doormen? If they wanted to eat, they should have become engineers.
I learned something. I guess I never asked the question. GNU, GIMP, SNAFU, PEBKAC, these things I know. Unleash your fury on my ignorance.
Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart
> a CAPTCHA is considered broken if a bot can pass it 1 percent of the time.
Who decided that? That's well within the realm of random dumb luck.
Dumb luck??? With 52 potential characters and a 6-character CAPTCHA, dumb luck should get it right about 50 out of every trillion tries. How is that 1%?
It's entirely possible for there to be 10 different wrong views on climate change...
You want him to... ignore the consensus because the people contributing to it are routinely proven to be hilariously incorrect?
10 different wrong views do not make a consensus. This does.
I do not need nor want help keeping me safe from myself.
I do. At the very least I want either a ban on harmful additives, or even better, regulation requiring sellers to state all additives...
I'd like that too, but that's different entirely. Alert me to the danger, then let me decide for myself. If my lifestyle crimps your insurance plan, charge me for it.
The part where e-cigs contain the addictive substance ?
Coffee contains an addictive substance too. Do I have your permission to drink coffee? Or are you here to save me since I can't make the decision on my own? OMG DRUGS!
What other potentially dangerous activities do you want to protect us from? Sky diving? Deep sea diving? Walking across streets? Leaving our homes?
Sure, if you feel you're unable to perform those tasks without danger to yourself.
You want to keep us from those activities unless we can assure you there's no danger? That is fucking stupid. Of course there's danger associated with every one of those activities. There could be a drunken maniac poised to smear me across the crosswalk. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop crossing the street.
If something's dangerous, by all means alert me to the danger. Then let me do what I want. I set my own threshold for risk and compare it against perceived benefits. I don't remember asking you to make my decisions. I'd rather you didn't try.
Then please don't use the same group health insurance company I do.
Insurance companies are free to charge more for nicotine users. And they often do. Many high-risk groups get a pass. You're worried about being in a pool with somebody who vapes? You're also in a pool with the guy who drinks a fifth of whiskey every night.
Or, deity forbid, someone actually cares about the addicted n00bs injuring themselves so that an industry can profit?
I do not need nor want help keeping me safe from myself.
It's when workers from different companies share an office, apparently. It's a business because you can rent office space for a profit.
Coworking is a social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently, but who share values, and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with people who value working in the same place alongside each other. Coworking offers a solution to the problem of isolation that many freelancers experience while working at home, while at the same time letting them escape the distractions of home.
Of course, nicotine causes anxiety and sleeping disorders, so it's not harmless either.
The only solution to that is to find something else to smoke that helps with anxiety and sleep. Lemme think... What could I smoke that would help with anxiety and sleep...
Of course, some people may find solutions that don't involve smoking at all, but what use are those?
You can easily overdose on it and die.
That depends on your definition of "easily". You make it sound like this happens accidentally in some recognizable rate. You can chain smoke packs and not have much to worry about in terms of putting yourself in the hospital. It's not like alcohol. You might notice a racing pulse and nausea. In which case, stop...
No, you can't "easily" overdose on it unless you mean "intentionally" overdose on it.
I would argue that the next frontier in Artificial Intelligence is actual Artificial Intelligence.
Actual artificial intelligence only exists in the world of sci-fi. I don't believe it's acheivable, depending on your definition of actual. All we can do is produce better AI emulators.
The President canâ(TM)t order nuclear war âoeat any time for any reasonâ.
I guess he can't declare war, but he can order a nuclear strike. I'd imagine that if he nuked somebody, the chances of that leading to war are pretty good.
Point is AC's point was pointless.
Bart: Well, Dad, here's my report card. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Homer: 'A+'!? You don't think much of me, do you, boy?
Bart: No, sir.
Homer: You know a 'D' turns into a 'B' so easily. You just got greedy.