Too precise? What's "too precise" for humans? The available precision in corn stalks isn't very fine grained, and many crop circles were done by a group that had effectively made it their profession.
Too much meaning? Whatever meaning humans are capable of deducing from them, humans are capable of encoding into them.
It's a real step up from MS Excel, which is shockingly common. The huge tech company I work for keeps all it's pricing stuff in freaking Excel sheets: I blame the mandatory lobotomy that accompanies an MBA.
That's the CIO, BTW. CTOs have nothing to do with internal IT operations, their job is to guid the tech that the company creates, not uses. Well, mostly it's to tell large sales prospects that the company is working on really cool stuff. The CIO runs IT.
He was a developer not a systems administrator. There is NO reason why he should even be allowed access to production data, let alone live production data.
Welcome to DevOps. It's the fad sweeping the industry. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you think it is. It's so obviously wrong, so mind-bogglingly stupid that only a manager with an MBA could possibly have thought it up. So of course it's the latest fad.
If you hire someone to clean your house and they break an expensive vase on their first day, do you say they should have had a more senior cleaner shadow them for a while?
Well, given crop circles come from bored farmers (heck, most of them early in the craze came from the same guys, doing it full time), it wouldn't surprise me at all that they contained messages.
Pepe was the most popular meme of 2015. Maybe some alt-right trolls use it too - wouldn't surprise me. Doesn't make it an alt-right meme.
"Kek" is just what the cool kids say instead of "lol". Seriously.
You need therapy for your paranoia. Not saying that to be a dick: when you see hate in words and symbols that are used by everyone for everything, it's a warning sign. Take that seriously; seek help.
I haven't seen much moaning about Apple in the comments for this story. Nothing surprising in Apple floating with every moral panic, or rumor of a moral panic.It's the product they sell, and apparently people like it. Fair enough.
The annoying bit is that one story in the Daily Beast, based on sources that were channers and (naturally) trolled the reporter about Pepe being an alt-right symbol, was all it took for people to believe that nonsense. (The bit where the Hillary campaign called Pepe a hate symbol quoted directly from the Daily Beast story). Astonishing how little critical thinking ability, how little willingness to do 2 minutes of research, people have.
It has been co-oped to be the symbol for Kek, a neo-fash (New Fascists) group that is associated with the so-called "Men's Rights Movement" and "The Red Pill".
100% false. You just made that up. Complete BS.
Kekistan is a satire of identity politics. It mocks the white nationalists as much as anyone else. Kekistan was created (or at least popularized) by YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, whose politicla views are well know and not alt-right. (He has a track record of sending known alt-right people who follow him interracial porn until they unfollow).
Pepe is just a meme. There are Million s of Pepe images, with only about a half dozen base images that could be considered racist, such as Hitler Pepe. It was the most popular meme image of 2015 (according to Tumblr) so of course there a Hitler Pepe - there's an everything Pepe.
But now Pepe is a counter-culture Icon, ever since it was attacked by the Hillary campaign.
How many parallel reader threads did you use? How many clients? I haven't seen a problem like that, but then I consume the data within the cloud in the same region.
Amazon does make multiple copies (tho I can't find their SLA for cloud drive), but you're mostly paying for convenience.
Heck, S3 will run you $283 per TB per year. And download isn't cheap either. But with S3 you get many copies of the data, and while you pay by the GB to get the data out, you can scale to absurd bandwidth. It's that last bit that justifies the price. Heck, it's half off if you promise not to access it very often.
And glacier is $50 per TB per year, cheaper than Cloud Drive and more reliable, but it's not at all convenient to get your data back (just the $100/TB for the bandwidth is enough to be painful by comparison).
Your way is definitely cheaper, no question at all, as long as your time is free.
Connection failure isn't data loss. Cloud outages aren't data loss. Has any big cloud provider ever lost data? Gmail lost some email once, years ago, when the redundant systems failed too, but then that's a free service (they had tape backups or something for the paying customers).
Well, sure, that's true of everyone, all the time. Everyone's beliefs are mostly wrong, and if you're an expert in some field then, sure, there some narrow domain in which your beliefs are only somewhat wrong, but that's as good as it gets.
Oh, absolutely. He's pretty much the opposite of what one expects a politician to be. I'm still not sure that's a bad thing, because politicians are on the whole so very bad.
But, c'mon CNN, there are other things happening in the world, some of them quite important.
The news media has been interested in every president, but it hasn't been this obsessed with a president since JFK, and perhaps not ever. CNN and MSNBC are, from what I can tell, 24/7 Trump coverage for the past 6 months. It's bizarre.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest). An honest politician is so outside my experience that it's almost hallucinatory.
No, really, I want the big money solving biochem problems. Really. Not "other write offs". Many people are idiots - let's cure cancer, end viral infection as a thing, and live forever.
"Crazy" prices is entirely subjective. You would have government step in a set prices for products? That never ends well. In this case, people are choosing to pay more for a brand they like. Other cases might be different, but generics are quite common across the board.
I'm sure ideological studies have found what they were looking for.
But you've missed my point. It's not about "R&D costs", it's specifically about the venture capitalists getting their 20-1 returns on funding risky startups, which can only happen if the big companies (that do little of value, other than sell at scale) know they'll make absurd amounts from those acquired startups.
Most monopolies that have ever existed were granted by the government, including many that annoy us today. It doesn't take much government for the rare case of trust-busting. As far as the rest, "environmentally and socially irresponsible, and exploitative", that hand-in-glove with crony capitalism. There's nothing a big, entrenched company loves better than a regulation - as long as they get to write that regulation.
Complete lack of regulation in some area may be bad, but it's not crony capitalism. Regulations that look good and create a barrier to entry, but don't actually encumber the best political donors, that's crony capitalism.
But the worst of course is government-granted monopolies, and especially a government mandate to buy a specific product.
And, sure, it comes back, as does communism, The tree of liberty etc etc,
no politician could do anything about Turing Pharmaceuticals' price gouging
There are generics available at a reasonable price. To the extent this is a branding/fashion issue, it's none of the government's business. To the extent e.g. school districts require the EpiPen specifically, that something that some politician somewhere can fix.
Meh, IP law as a concept is neutral on the big-small government axis. The details are what matters. Many aspects of IP law fit right into the minimalist libertarian* idea of government: enforce contracts and prevent fraud.
Patents are "bigger government" than that, they're more than just fraud prevention, they're a contract with the government. Bu there's a definite quid pro quo there: limited term in return more making the idea public. That in an of itself is a fairly middle-of-the-spectrum concept. But the concept can of course be abused, dragging it towards totalitarianism: selective honoring of the contract by the government (selective patent protection), or the other way, allowing patents where the implementation is not specific, or not well described.
It's that sort of BS, that abuse of the concept of patents, that most deserves objection.
Is there any evidence to suggest that research and development would be significantly curtailed if the businesses doing it were only able to make a substantial profit, not an astronomical one, though?
Yes, every day in boardrooms across the country. It's all about risk analysis. * Large companies invent very little - they buy small, inventive companies, then make the $billions sell those ideas * Start ups are where most modern invention comes from - especially in software and biochem. * The funding for this invention comes from venture capitalists
The money needs to flow through that chain. The more the large company stands to make, the more it can pay for acquisitions, and the more risk it can take on acquisitions. The more the payout, and the larger the likelyhood for any payout, the more ideas will get funded. The more money flows through this chain, the more invention there will be.
That's not to say more is better without limit, but specific investment bubbles are the clear (at least after the fact) and definite sign that things have gone too far, and that the funding process has lost necessary discrimination. But bubbles are obvious, at least in hindsight. No bubble means those profits are in fact paying for the rapid pace of innovation.
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Too precise? What's "too precise" for humans? The available precision in corn stalks isn't very fine grained, and many crop circles were done by a group that had effectively made it their profession.
Too much meaning? Whatever meaning humans are capable of deducing from them, humans are capable of encoding into them.
It's a real step up from MS Excel, which is shockingly common. The huge tech company I work for keeps all it's pricing stuff in freaking Excel sheets: I blame the mandatory lobotomy that accompanies an MBA.
That's the CIO, BTW. CTOs have nothing to do with internal IT operations, their job is to guid the tech that the company creates, not uses. Well, mostly it's to tell large sales prospects that the company is working on really cool stuff. The CIO runs IT.
He was a developer not a systems administrator. There is NO reason why he should even be allowed access to production data, let alone live production data.
Welcome to DevOps. It's the fad sweeping the industry. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you think it is. It's so obviously wrong, so mind-bogglingly stupid that only a manager with an MBA could possibly have thought it up. So of course it's the latest fad.
If you hire someone to clean your house and they break an expensive vase on their first day, do you say they should have had a more senior cleaner shadow them for a while?
You know that's how it usually works, right?
I wonder if they spew chemtrails as well?
Of course they do - that's why Pluto turned gay and had to be exiled from the Plant Club! Damn chemtrails making everyone gay.
binary messages from, crop circles
Well, given crop circles come from bored farmers (heck, most of them early in the craze came from the same guys, doing it full time), it wouldn't surprise me at all that they contained messages.
I'm not sure how you read my post and figured out I'd assumed it was sent on purpose.
Perhaps it's your sig. :)
Pepe was the most popular meme of 2015. Maybe some alt-right trolls use it too - wouldn't surprise me. Doesn't make it an alt-right meme.
"Kek" is just what the cool kids say instead of "lol". Seriously.
You need therapy for your paranoia. Not saying that to be a dick: when you see hate in words and symbols that are used by everyone for everything, it's a warning sign. Take that seriously; seek help.
I haven't seen much moaning about Apple in the comments for this story. Nothing surprising in Apple floating with every moral panic, or rumor of a moral panic.It's the product they sell, and apparently people like it. Fair enough.
The annoying bit is that one story in the Daily Beast, based on sources that were channers and (naturally) trolled the reporter about Pepe being an alt-right symbol, was all it took for people to believe that nonsense. (The bit where the Hillary campaign called Pepe a hate symbol quoted directly from the Daily Beast story). Astonishing how little critical thinking ability, how little willingness to do 2 minutes of research, people have.
It has been co-oped to be the symbol for Kek, a neo-fash (New Fascists) group that is associated with the so-called "Men's Rights Movement" and "The Red Pill".
100% false. You just made that up. Complete BS.
Kekistan is a satire of identity politics. It mocks the white nationalists as much as anyone else. Kekistan was created (or at least popularized) by YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, whose politicla views are well know and not alt-right. (He has a track record of sending known alt-right people who follow him interracial porn until they unfollow).
Pepe is just a meme. There are Million s of Pepe images, with only about a half dozen base images that could be considered racist, such as Hitler Pepe. It was the most popular meme image of 2015 (according to Tumblr) so of course there a Hitler Pepe - there's an everything Pepe.
But now Pepe is a counter-culture Icon, ever since it was attacked by the Hillary campaign.
How many parallel reader threads did you use? How many clients? I haven't seen a problem like that, but then I consume the data within the cloud in the same region.
Amazon does make multiple copies (tho I can't find their SLA for cloud drive), but you're mostly paying for convenience.
Heck, S3 will run you $283 per TB per year. And download isn't cheap either. But with S3 you get many copies of the data, and while you pay by the GB to get the data out, you can scale to absurd bandwidth. It's that last bit that justifies the price. Heck, it's half off if you promise not to access it very often.
And glacier is $50 per TB per year, cheaper than Cloud Drive and more reliable, but it's not at all convenient to get your data back (just the $100/TB for the bandwidth is enough to be painful by comparison).
Your way is definitely cheaper, no question at all, as long as your time is free.
Connection failure isn't data loss. Cloud outages aren't data loss. Has any big cloud provider ever lost data? Gmail lost some email once, years ago, when the redundant systems failed too, but then that's a free service (they had tape backups or something for the paying customers).
Well, sure, that's true of everyone, all the time. Everyone's beliefs are mostly wrong, and if you're an expert in some field then, sure, there some narrow domain in which your beliefs are only somewhat wrong, but that's as good as it gets.
Oh, absolutely. He's pretty much the opposite of what one expects a politician to be. I'm still not sure that's a bad thing, because politicians are on the whole so very bad.
But, c'mon CNN, there are other things happening in the world, some of them quite important.
The news media has been interested in every president, but it hasn't been this obsessed with a president since JFK, and perhaps not ever. CNN and MSNBC are, from what I can tell, 24/7 Trump coverage for the past 6 months. It's bizarre.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest). An honest politician is so outside my experience that it's almost hallucinatory.
How many people will protest this by cutting out trips by plane?
If this happens, I'm done flying. It's borderline now, and this BS would cross the line.
This ... is very hard to argue against. As a theory, it seems to have great predictive power.
I did the same analysis, with the same result. Google also has a long history of ruthlessly monetizing any data you let them have.
No, really, I want the big money solving biochem problems. Really. Not "other write offs". Many people are idiots - let's cure cancer, end viral infection as a thing, and live forever.
"Crazy" prices is entirely subjective. You would have government step in a set prices for products? That never ends well. In this case, people are choosing to pay more for a brand they like. Other cases might be different, but generics are quite common across the board.
I'm sure ideological studies have found what they were looking for.
But you've missed my point. It's not about "R&D costs", it's specifically about the venture capitalists getting their 20-1 returns on funding risky startups, which can only happen if the big companies (that do little of value, other than sell at scale) know they'll make absurd amounts from those acquired startups.
Most monopolies that have ever existed were granted by the government, including many that annoy us today. It doesn't take much government for the rare case of trust-busting. As far as the rest, "environmentally and socially irresponsible, and exploitative", that hand-in-glove with crony capitalism. There's nothing a big, entrenched company loves better than a regulation - as long as they get to write that regulation.
Complete lack of regulation in some area may be bad, but it's not crony capitalism. Regulations that look good and create a barrier to entry, but don't actually encumber the best political donors, that's crony capitalism.
But the worst of course is government-granted monopolies, and especially a government mandate to buy a specific product.
And, sure, it comes back, as does communism, The tree of liberty etc etc,
no politician could do anything about Turing Pharmaceuticals' price gouging
There are generics available at a reasonable price. To the extent this is a branding/fashion issue, it's none of the government's business. To the extent e.g. school districts require the EpiPen specifically, that something that some politician somewhere can fix.
Slashcode ate half my comment, but:
Meh, IP law as a concept is neutral on the big-small government axis. The details are what matters. Many aspects of IP law fit right into the minimalist libertarian* idea of government: enforce contracts and prevent fraud.
Patents are "bigger government" than that, they're more than just fraud prevention, they're a contract with the government. Bu there's a definite quid pro quo there: limited term in return more making the idea public. That in an of itself is a fairly middle-of-the-spectrum concept. But the concept can of course be abused, dragging it towards totalitarianism: selective honoring of the contract by the government (selective patent protection), or the other way, allowing patents where the implementation is not specific, or not well described.
It's that sort of BS, that abuse of the concept of patents, that most deserves objection.
Is there any evidence to suggest that research and development would be significantly curtailed if the businesses doing it were only able to make a substantial profit, not an astronomical one, though?
Yes, every day in boardrooms across the country. It's all about risk analysis.
* Large companies invent very little - they buy small, inventive companies, then make the $billions sell those ideas
* Start ups are where most modern invention comes from - especially in software and biochem.
* The funding for this invention comes from venture capitalists
The money needs to flow through that chain. The more the large company stands to make, the more it can pay for acquisitions, and the more risk it can take on acquisitions. The more the payout, and the larger the likelyhood for any payout, the more ideas will get funded. The more money flows through this chain, the more invention there will be.
That's not to say more is better without limit, but specific investment bubbles are the clear (at least after the fact) and definite sign that things have gone too far, and that the funding process has lost necessary discrimination. But bubbles are obvious, at least in hindsight. No bubble means those profits are in fact paying for the rapid pace of innovation.