Science isn't philosophy. Science doesn't seek to reveal "what's really going on". Science seeks predictive models. Almost everyone involved understands this. You're not bringing any insight or originality by repeating that "the map is not the territory". Yes, yes, everyone good "gets" that in sophomore physics. But the whole point of science is better maps - that's testable, empirical.
Explanations for "what's really going on", without the math, are just storytelling. There are plenty of entertaining stories.
Everything weird in quantum mechanics is there to explain the result of experiments. None of it was made up for fun. It's the universe that's weird, not the math (which isn't so weird, just lots of linear algebra and statistics).
In particular, the universe is weird in a way consistent with a simulation - but then, that's not really evidence one way or another, just interesting.
Who's to say our universe isn't very simple compared to the host universe? Certainly some of the rules of our universe, like relativity, seem carefully contrived to make us easier to simulate.
The best explanation for the events the the movie is that the whole thing is just the robots taking care of humans as best they're able. Most humans are happy enough in the matrix, and for the few who aren't, there's this other simulated world where they can fight the power. There are a lot of hints of this in the Animatrix - just made the terrible sequels even more disappointing.
Plus, they're cruel tormentors. Someone evil obviously gamed the program to give the US a choice between Donald and Hillary, just to see if the universe would collapse into black hole of existential angst.
You're looking at it wrong: it's a choice between their VPs, both of with are innocuous. Hillary's health is failing, and if Trump actually tries to change anything important against the interest of the billionaires (like restricting the immigration of low-cost workers), he'll go the way of James Garfield. Of course, if Trump is just a blow-hard who does nothing, then that's fine too - no harm done.
That's mostly my position. 2 distinct points: * If you offer a community service, that makes you a good person, unless there are a lot of strings attached to the "gift", in which case it makes you a bad person. * If you offer a community service, and people come to depend on it, you incur a responsibility to keep doing it. You chose to become responsible, and congrats you succeeded.
It's the nature of responsibility that you are required to plan ahead.
They have very little data less-than-optimal driving conditions, thus far. It's cool that they're finally gather data somewhere other than California - somewhere that gets weather. Two years sounds optimistic.
Their hubs, their rules. This is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons. There's always some douche who wants to abuse it. I'm curious as to why your ire isn't directed at the abusers.
When you're offering a community service "my stuff, my rules" doesn't fly, or at least, doesn't make you a good guy for offering that service.
Slashdot has had karma since - well, since this account was created. There is not a problem with high-karma users spamming. All the shitposting was from ACs and -1 accounts. Plus, you might have noticed, APK posts as much as he wants to as AC.
Have you seen Bill recently? He's fading fast. They both seem to be at that point where life collects the bill for a "high stress then party hard" lifestyle. The aren't that old at 70 and 68, but those lifestyle choices that seem consequence-free when you're young really catch up with you at that age.
What CD? The only thing included in my retail copy of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was a piece of paper with a Steam key on it.
Which my review of will no longer be counted apparently.
People still buy PC games in boxes in the 21st century? I'm surprised every time I hear this. You get nothing of value in the box any more, except maybe with some indie games. Oldschool games, sure, CDs are useful for games GOG doesn't have yet. Just find the patch online somewhere and you can run the game, at least once you escape Config Hell. But recent AAA games? None of that shit runs without a server playing nice. Once EA (or whoever) turns off the servers, you have a coaster anyway. Just buy the thing online.
And anything GOG has (and they do have some new games - more and more indie devs), you want to buy from them to begin with, to ensure no DRM. No install media needed, just backup their zip file.
No Man's Sky is a terrible $60 game. It's a tech demo for an important aspect of a game. As a stand-alone product, it's a neat little $10-20 indie effort that you'd wait to buy on sale for $5.
(Of course, as a console game it's much worse, since it crashes frequently - all the downsides of PC gaming - but you can't change the graphics settings to something reasonable - so all the downsides of console gaming too.)
Reamde is great. He totally overcomes his inability at pacing, and this story of a problem that just keeps getting worse and bigger is his first "page-turner" since Snow Crash.
John Lilly tortured dolphins to death (or at least suicide). He felt bad about it later, and eventually became a champion for better treatment, but still. He was also very high for a long time. "Interesting" indeed.
It isn't an American-centric thing, though Lewis Carrol did rail against it and maybe helped the British off it a bit earlier. It's a "make typeset text pretty" thing. "To the wall," she sad - just makes for more legible text (less fatiguing to read), and in a non-technical context, that's fine. It's only when you try to use English as a formal language, where the order of punctuation might possibly resolve some ambiguity, that it matters. "Makes more sense" isn't important here - typesetting isn't about coddling geek OCD.
If it is automated, why is it that Google flags a DMCA complaint on WB vs WB earlier this month? Why does Google not automatically take it down?
Because Google does all of this to serve the Studios. They have a whitelist of stuff that they just ignore takedown requests for, to prevent DMCA abuse by ordinary people from hurting the sstudios. Abuse the other direction is just fine, of course.
You're talking about the earnings of a Hollywood studio? Clearly you know nothing of Hollywood accounting. It's zero in every context where they want to not pay something, and they've been doing this long before anyone had heard of "double Irish".
Every EU member nation has special tax breaks in place for specific companies. Maybe the EU is trying to change what everybody does regularly, by singling out Apple and Ireland, but they are doing just that: making an example of one instance of something everyone does.
However, Ireland was one of the few places specifically allowed to do this (though that might have changed with the Treaty of Lisbon). The EU in the early days didn't want its member nations to be third world shitholes, and made special allowances for countries in strong need of economic development to make special deals.
The currency needs to be viable only for the 5 minutes between mining it and exchanging it. Or, for darknet purchases, for the few minutes between buying it for real money, and buying drugs with it. This is just criminal activity we're talking about - no one cares if the currency will even exist a week from now. If it meets their needs this hour, it's fine. Easier to use online than Tide, after all.
People are too used to a government, and the fact it hasn't been doing anything useful for quite some time now hasn't broken the habit. America is well on the way to being a totalitarian police state (we already have total electronic surveillance, and you can't read as fast a new law is made). If it weren't for civilian gun ownership, there wouldn't be a speedbump left to dictatorial control of all aspects of life. And many politicians seem to want to fix that gun thing.
You don't need to remove a port to offer lightning headphones.
Next you'll be arguing 1-button mice are better.
There's really no upside to remove the port, is the sad thing. There are thinner phones with headphone jacks. There's always dead space to fit the port, so you're not getting battery life. Waterproof headphone jacks are old hat. This is just Apple being either malicious or stupid.
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Science isn't philosophy. Science doesn't seek to reveal "what's really going on". Science seeks predictive models. Almost everyone involved understands this. You're not bringing any insight or originality by repeating that "the map is not the territory". Yes, yes, everyone good "gets" that in sophomore physics. But the whole point of science is better maps - that's testable, empirical.
Explanations for "what's really going on", without the math, are just storytelling. There are plenty of entertaining stories.
Everything weird in quantum mechanics is there to explain the result of experiments. None of it was made up for fun. It's the universe that's weird, not the math (which isn't so weird, just lots of linear algebra and statistics).
In particular, the universe is weird in a way consistent with a simulation - but then, that's not really evidence one way or another, just interesting.
Who's to say our universe isn't very simple compared to the host universe? Certainly some of the rules of our universe, like relativity, seem carefully contrived to make us easier to simulate.
The best explanation for the events the the movie is that the whole thing is just the robots taking care of humans as best they're able. Most humans are happy enough in the matrix, and for the few who aren't, there's this other simulated world where they can fight the power. There are a lot of hints of this in the Animatrix - just made the terrible sequels even more disappointing.
The better I understand quantum mechanics, the more likely I think this is.
Plus, they're cruel tormentors. Someone evil obviously gamed the program to give the US a choice between Donald and Hillary, just to see if the universe would collapse into black hole of existential angst.
You're looking at it wrong: it's a choice between their VPs, both of with are innocuous. Hillary's health is failing, and if Trump actually tries to change anything important against the interest of the billionaires (like restricting the immigration of low-cost workers), he'll go the way of James Garfield. Of course, if Trump is just a blow-hard who does nothing, then that's fine too - no harm done.
That's mostly my position. 2 distinct points:
* If you offer a community service, that makes you a good person, unless there are a lot of strings attached to the "gift", in which case it makes you a bad person.
* If you offer a community service, and people come to depend on it, you incur a responsibility to keep doing it. You chose to become responsible, and congrats you succeeded.
It's the nature of responsibility that you are required to plan ahead.
They have very little data less-than-optimal driving conditions, thus far. It's cool that they're finally gather data somewhere other than California - somewhere that gets weather. Two years sounds optimistic.
Their hubs, their rules. This is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons. There's always some douche who wants to abuse it. I'm curious as to why your ire isn't directed at the abusers.
When you're offering a community service "my stuff, my rules" doesn't fly, or at least, doesn't make you a good guy for offering that service.
Slashdot has had karma since - well, since this account was created. There is not a problem with high-karma users spamming. All the shitposting was from ACs and -1 accounts. Plus, you might have noticed, APK posts as much as he wants to as AC.
The 5-mnute posting cap needs to go.
Have you seen Bill recently? He's fading fast. They both seem to be at that point where life collects the bill for a "high stress then party hard" lifestyle. The aren't that old at 70 and 68, but those lifestyle choices that seem consequence-free when you're young really catch up with you at that age.
What CD? The only thing included in my retail copy of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was a piece of paper with a Steam key on it.
Which my review of will no longer be counted apparently.
People still buy PC games in boxes in the 21st century? I'm surprised every time I hear this. You get nothing of value in the box any more, except maybe with some indie games. Oldschool games, sure, CDs are useful for games GOG doesn't have yet. Just find the patch online somewhere and you can run the game, at least once you escape Config Hell. But recent AAA games? None of that shit runs without a server playing nice. Once EA (or whoever) turns off the servers, you have a coaster anyway. Just buy the thing online.
And anything GOG has (and they do have some new games - more and more indie devs), you want to buy from them to begin with, to ensure no DRM. No install media needed, just backup their zip file.
No Man's Sky is a terrible $60 game. It's a tech demo for an important aspect of a game. As a stand-alone product, it's a neat little $10-20 indie effort that you'd wait to buy on sale for $5.
(Of course, as a console game it's much worse, since it crashes frequently - all the downsides of PC gaming - but you can't change the graphics settings to something reasonable - so all the downsides of console gaming too.)
So, a normal Patch Tuesday story on Slashdot. Didn't these used to get the Microsoft icon?
Reamde is great. He totally overcomes his inability at pacing, and this story of a problem that just keeps getting worse and bigger is his first "page-turner" since Snow Crash.
Everything by:
* Isaac Asimov -- especially Foundation series.
* Robert A. Heinlein
* Arthur C. Clarke
Is A+.
Oh Hell no. Heinlein, especially, wrote for money, and man did he write some stinkers to pay the bills. "Sproing!"
Asimov had a bunch of mediocre stuff, though he never plumbed the depths Heinlein did.
Clark alone only seemed to write when he had a good idea to write about, but even then some of his sequels weren't all that.
They wrote some truly great stuff, each of them, but don't let nostalgia blind you.
Take it a step further and make "the wires" a public utility company, or at least the last mile, which is where the natural monopoly lives.
John Lilly tortured dolphins to death (or at least suicide). He felt bad about it later, and eventually became a champion for better treatment, but still. He was also very high for a long time. "Interesting" indeed.
It isn't an American-centric thing, though Lewis Carrol did rail against it and maybe helped the British off it a bit earlier. It's a "make typeset text pretty" thing. "To the wall," she sad - just makes for more legible text (less fatiguing to read), and in a non-technical context, that's fine. It's only when you try to use English as a formal language, where the order of punctuation might possibly resolve some ambiguity, that it matters. "Makes more sense" isn't important here - typesetting isn't about coddling geek OCD.
If it is automated, why is it that Google flags a DMCA complaint on WB vs WB earlier this month? Why does Google not automatically take it down?
Because Google does all of this to serve the Studios. They have a whitelist of stuff that they just ignore takedown requests for, to prevent DMCA abuse by ordinary people from hurting the sstudios. Abuse the other direction is just fine, of course.
You're talking about the earnings of a Hollywood studio? Clearly you know nothing of Hollywood accounting. It's zero in every context where they want to not pay something, and they've been doing this long before anyone had heard of "double Irish".
Every EU member nation has special tax breaks in place for specific companies. Maybe the EU is trying to change what everybody does regularly, by singling out Apple and Ireland, but they are doing just that: making an example of one instance of something everyone does.
However, Ireland was one of the few places specifically allowed to do this (though that might have changed with the Treaty of Lisbon). The EU in the early days didn't want its member nations to be third world shitholes, and made special allowances for countries in strong need of economic development to make special deals.
The currency needs to be viable only for the 5 minutes between mining it and exchanging it. Or, for darknet purchases, for the few minutes between buying it for real money, and buying drugs with it. This is just criminal activity we're talking about - no one cares if the currency will even exist a week from now. If it meets their needs this hour, it's fine. Easier to use online than Tide, after all.
People are too used to a government, and the fact it hasn't been doing anything useful for quite some time now hasn't broken the habit. America is well on the way to being a totalitarian police state (we already have total electronic surveillance, and you can't read as fast a new law is made). If it weren't for civilian gun ownership, there wouldn't be a speedbump left to dictatorial control of all aspects of life. And many politicians seem to want to fix that gun thing.
A dongle is not a port.
You don't need to remove a port to offer lightning headphones.
Next you'll be arguing 1-button mice are better.
There's really no upside to remove the port, is the sad thing. There are thinner phones with headphone jacks. There's always dead space to fit the port, so you're not getting battery life. Waterproof headphone jacks are old hat. This is just Apple being either malicious or stupid.