You won't find a house anywhere near Crystal City or that part of Long Island at all affordable if your family income is "merely" one job in the 100s. These are two of themost expensive areas in the US. They are the kind of places where a guy worth $50B buys a house, not the kind of places where the peasants can live.
You fail it. You will never troll as hard as Amazon trolled 20 cities with their HQ2 "selection" con game. It is the most epic troll of my lifetime. The cities were obviously chosen ahead of time.
If you doubt that, consider the following: JeffB has 3 houses. Amazon will have 3 HQs. The average distance between a HQ and a JeffB house will be 6-7 miles (depending on exact location). The whole thing was a con game to bilk the cities.
Indeed. The quote in TFS asserts that Art communicates an emotion between the artist and the observer, but that's blatantly false. Artists don't reveal their intended emotion any more than magicians reveal how a trick was done, because that's not the point of the exercise.
Heck, sometimes ambiguity is itself the point of a work of art.
I think the intent is clear: censorship by the good guys is a praiseworthy protection against hate speech. Censorship by the bad guys is deplorable. Doublethink is key to duckspeak.
Godspeed my man - you're the Watcher in the sky now.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
Good idea, lets appreciate the animals by not caring and the corporations can go in and destroy their habitat... oh wait, that seems to happen either way.
US forest coverage has increased dramatically in the past 100 years, as almost our our farmland has been reclaimed, thanks to evil corporations and their evil technology.
Worldwide, forest coverage is a net increase of a few percent over the past 30 years, as clearcutting in third world nations is counterbalanced by growth in modern nations full of evil corporations.
The other evidence that they're idiots is that they failed hard. Whatever their business objectives might have been, going under is a strong sign it wasn't a smart one.
Legalizing weed federally has always seemed like an "only Nixon could go to China" problem. Only the Republicans can do it. That doesn't mean they ever will, but Trump is more likely than most. Seems like a good play to me: few socons still care much about it, and it would bring the weedbertarians into the fold.
The GOP coalition is falling apart and I strongly suspect we'll see a new one over the next couple of years, so plenty of room for negotiation.
If your city actually fixes streetlights when their out, it's doing OK. It has its pension costs under control. Good on em. Last city I lived in in California just turned them all off to save money. Of course, that led to people stealing the copper out of the street lights, so a huge net loss long term, but that's Cali for you. (Fremont eventually gave in and fired a couple of government workers, the horror, and was back in the business of street lights and even filling pot holes, but it took years.)
I just can't understand this. Amazon is Oracle's customer, you don't speak to your customers like that in any business If I had an interest in Oracle i'd call for him to be fired over it.
The way Oracle usually speaks to it's customers is "nice business you got there, pity if an audit were to happen to it". Then force you to buy some $2M product you don't want or need to avoid an audit that would cost you $3M to comply with. That's the entirety of Oracles cloud business, from the rumors I hear.
That seems to have been more of a Rian Johnson problem than a larger problem with the franchise. However, the franchise has been IMO creatively bankrupt since Disney took over, unwilling to add anything really new to the established film universe (with the notable exception of Rebels, for all that it was aimed at a younger audience). TFA was effectively a reboot, Rogue One and Solo were prequels, and TLJ ignored consistency with character or canon, yet still didn't go anywhere new, being very similar in outline to ESB.
Tell an original story guys, not something we already know. Or pick one of the good multi-book story lines from the EU, that's fine too. That will at least be new ground for film audiences.
By comparison Disney owns the Marvel, Pixar, *and* Star Wars franchises (amongst others), all of which have a large overlap in popularity with those who watch Trek. Should Disney decide to stream all series from those franchises on Disney+ one day before general release to cable, etc., then I can easily see them being the service that many will pay for then mop up the few other shows they watch from less legal sources.
Those were once nerdy franchises, to be sure. However, I'm done with Star Wars until there's a major shift in creative control, Marvel is getting stale, and Pixar has been in a drought for a long time.
Not to say they won't make money, but I think the "News for Nerds" audience is moving on.
So you have to change your clock twice a year. Boo-fucking-Hoo. Your phone updates automatically.. Your computer updates the time automatically. The GPS in you car updates the time automatically.
Get over it already.
There's a special place in Hell reserved for you and furries. It's the worst place.
Nothing like that represents a serious mental illness. When you're hearing voices, or have crippling paranoia, or otherwise have a delusion that prevents you from functioning you need outside help. I have a feeling you've never seen how bad this gets.
Just to be clear, you're saying the preferable thing would be to kill people because the act of killing them is cheaper than anything else, and cost is the most important measure on which you'd base your actions?
Well, we could build tax-funded asylums for the large percentage of the homeless who are mentally ill and will never adapt to society. But we as a democratic nation decided a couple decades ago that that was too expensive. I merely suggest the next logical step.
Do a great job taking care of the homeless and your city will become a magnet for the homeless of the nation. If that's what you want, go for it. Cheaper to turn them all into Soylent Green, but, hey, democracy, and each city can have its own values.
Frankly, this is less odd and government-intrusive than most stuff SF does, and companies of course have the option of just excluding SF from their business if it's not worth the cost.
There's a related idea in math: De Bruijn sequences. Like many basic ideas in math, they show up in surprising places. De Bruijn sequences are more strict than the problem statement in TFA, as they're cyclic and have no duplicates, but it's very close to the same problem.
I'd think finding the length of a De Bruijn sequence for an alphabet of 14 and a substring length of 14 would be a quick way to set an upper bound very close to the minimal sequence.
Anyone who knows the answer to that question is too busy trying to start a company to take advantage of the newly available cheap labor instead of stopping to satisfy your curiosity. If you wait long enough though, they'll tell you all about it in the ads that they run to attract your business.
Too late! New business in my area include internet-dispatched lawn mowing, internet-dispatched car watching, internet-dispatched clothes cleaning, and, well, you get the theme. All these jobs pay more than minimum wage, too
Amazon bought robotics company Kiva Systems for $775 million in 2012, and began using its orange robots in warehouses in late 2014. By mid-2016, it had become clear just how big a difference those robots were making. The little orange guys could handle in 15 minutes the sorting, picking, packing, and shipping that used to take human workers an hour or more to complete.
All these robots do is move shelves full of bins around. That's it. They don't sort. They don't pack. They don't ship. They help with picking (and stowing) by bringing the shelves to the human who does everything except walk to the shelves.
Well, actually. Earth is the only habitable zone that exists within a lifetime's travel distance.
Cloud cities on Venus are possible with current tech levels. Much easier that Mars, as you have air pressure, oxygen, water, reasonable sunlight, and natural radiation shielding. You also have all the trace elements needed to keep soil good. While you couldn't do it with COTS gear, you don't need any amazing breakthroughs either.
So 'space travel' is possible, if your idea of 'travel' is to get in the cramped Winnebago and stay inside it for the entire trip.
Unless there's "new physics", we'll only be going to another star in a space ship that carries 100k-1M people. It's not clear that it will ever be possible to send humans light years in a small ship, but he problems get easier as you scale up. At scale though, it's just a question of asteroid mining and heavy industry in space to build such a thing. Not current tech, but no "new science" needed.
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You won't find a house anywhere near Crystal City or that part of Long Island at all affordable if your family income is "merely" one job in the 100s. These are two of themost expensive areas in the US. They are the kind of places where a guy worth $50B buys a house, not the kind of places where the peasants can live.
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You fail it. You will never troll as hard as Amazon trolled 20 cities with their HQ2 "selection" con game. It is the most epic troll of my lifetime. The cities were obviously chosen ahead of time.
If you doubt that, consider the following: JeffB has 3 houses. Amazon will have 3 HQs. The average distance between a HQ and a JeffB house will be 6-7 miles (depending on exact location). The whole thing was a con game to bilk the cities.
Indeed. The quote in TFS asserts that Art communicates an emotion between the artist and the observer, but that's blatantly false. Artists don't reveal their intended emotion any more than magicians reveal how a trick was done, because that's not the point of the exercise.
Heck, sometimes ambiguity is itself the point of a work of art.
I think the intent is clear: censorship by the good guys is a praiseworthy protection against hate speech. Censorship by the bad guys is deplorable. Doublethink is key to duckspeak.
Godspeed my man - you're the Watcher in the sky now.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
allowing a monk to find the right manuscript without having to talk to their fellow menk.
Can we all adopt "menk" as the plural of "monk"? Like polygoose as the plural of mongoose, it's obviously right in hindsight.
Good idea, lets appreciate the animals by not caring and the corporations can go in and destroy their habitat... oh wait, that seems to happen either way.
US forest coverage has increased dramatically in the past 100 years, as almost our our farmland has been reclaimed, thanks to evil corporations and their evil technology.
Worldwide, forest coverage is a net increase of a few percent over the past 30 years, as clearcutting in third world nations is counterbalanced by growth in modern nations full of evil corporations.
The other evidence that they're idiots is that they failed hard. Whatever their business objectives might have been, going under is a strong sign it wasn't a smart one.
Legalizing weed federally has always seemed like an "only Nixon could go to China" problem. Only the Republicans can do it. That doesn't mean they ever will, but Trump is more likely than most. Seems like a good play to me: few socons still care much about it, and it would bring the weedbertarians into the fold.
The GOP coalition is falling apart and I strongly suspect we'll see a new one over the next couple of years, so plenty of room for negotiation.
If your city actually fixes streetlights when their out, it's doing OK. It has its pension costs under control. Good on em. Last city I lived in in California just turned them all off to save money. Of course, that led to people stealing the copper out of the street lights, so a huge net loss long term, but that's Cali for you. (Fremont eventually gave in and fired a couple of government workers, the horror, and was back in the business of street lights and even filling pot holes, but it took years.)
Stop calling people idiots because they have different ideas from you.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
He's not calling them idiots just because they had different ideas.
I just can't understand this. Amazon is Oracle's customer, you don't speak to your customers like that in any business If I had an interest in Oracle i'd call for him to be fired over it.
The way Oracle usually speaks to it's customers is "nice business you got there, pity if an audit were to happen to it". Then force you to buy some $2M product you don't want or need to avoid an audit that would cost you $3M to comply with. That's the entirety of Oracles cloud business, from the rumors I hear.
Too much effort. If the effort is more than a torrent, it won't fly.
You people expected bundle/meal deal/combo pricing per item on a la carte product. Sorry it doesn't work that way.
The Pirate Bay does. All content together in one place for a single price.
Like it or not, that's the competition that content providers face. I'll happily subscribe to any one of these services.
Rule of thumb: light does:
* 1 m / 3 ns - signal in vacuum
* 1 m / 4 ns - signal in copper wire
* 1 m / 5 ns - signal in fiber optic cable
It's a lot slower in in a bent fiber optic cable, of course, but long runs are effectively straight.
That seems to have been more of a Rian Johnson problem than a larger problem with the franchise. However, the franchise has been IMO creatively bankrupt since Disney took over, unwilling to add anything really new to the established film universe (with the notable exception of Rebels, for all that it was aimed at a younger audience). TFA was effectively a reboot, Rogue One and Solo were prequels, and TLJ ignored consistency with character or canon, yet still didn't go anywhere new, being very similar in outline to ESB.
Tell an original story guys, not something we already know. Or pick one of the good multi-book story lines from the EU, that's fine too. That will at least be new ground for film audiences.
By comparison Disney owns the Marvel, Pixar, *and* Star Wars franchises (amongst others), all of which have a large overlap in popularity with those who watch Trek. Should Disney decide to stream all series from those franchises on Disney+ one day before general release to cable, etc., then I can easily see them being the service that many will pay for then mop up the few other shows they watch from less legal sources.
Those were once nerdy franchises, to be sure. However, I'm done with Star Wars until there's a major shift in creative control, Marvel is getting stale, and Pixar has been in a drought for a long time.
Not to say they won't make money, but I think the "News for Nerds" audience is moving on.
So you have to change your clock twice a year. Boo-fucking-Hoo. Your phone updates automatically.. Your computer updates the time automatically. The GPS in you car updates the time automatically.
Get over it already.
There's a special place in Hell reserved for you and furries. It's the worst place.
Nothing like that represents a serious mental illness. When you're hearing voices, or have crippling paranoia, or otherwise have a delusion that prevents you from functioning you need outside help. I have a feeling you've never seen how bad this gets.
Just to be clear, you're saying the preferable thing would be to kill people because the act of killing them is cheaper than anything else, and cost is the most important measure on which you'd base your actions?
Well, we could build tax-funded asylums for the large percentage of the homeless who are mentally ill and will never adapt to society. But we as a democratic nation decided a couple decades ago that that was too expensive. I merely suggest the next logical step.
Do a great job taking care of the homeless and your city will become a magnet for the homeless of the nation. If that's what you want, go for it. Cheaper to turn them all into Soylent Green, but, hey, democracy, and each city can have its own values.
Frankly, this is less odd and government-intrusive than most stuff SF does, and companies of course have the option of just excluding SF from their business if it's not worth the cost.
There's a related idea in math: De Bruijn sequences. Like many basic ideas in math, they show up in surprising places. De Bruijn sequences are more strict than the problem statement in TFA, as they're cyclic and have no duplicates, but it's very close to the same problem.
I'd think finding the length of a De Bruijn sequence for an alphabet of 14 and a substring length of 14 would be a quick way to set an upper bound very close to the minimal sequence.
Anyone who knows the answer to that question is too busy trying to start a company to take advantage of the newly available cheap labor instead of stopping to satisfy your curiosity. If you wait long enough though, they'll tell you all about it in the ads that they run to attract your business.
Too late! New business in my area include internet-dispatched lawn mowing, internet-dispatched car watching, internet-dispatched clothes cleaning, and, well, you get the theme. All these jobs pay more than minimum wage, too
Well, this BS is certainly false.
Amazon bought robotics company Kiva Systems for $775 million in 2012, and began using its orange robots in warehouses in late 2014. By mid-2016, it had become clear just how big a difference those robots were making. The little orange guys could handle in 15 minutes the sorting, picking, packing, and shipping that used to take human workers an hour or more to complete.
All these robots do is move shelves full of bins around. That's it. They don't sort. They don't pack. They don't ship. They help with picking (and stowing) by bringing the shelves to the human who does everything except walk to the shelves.
Clickbait nonsense.
Well, actually. Earth is the only habitable zone that exists within a lifetime's travel distance.
Cloud cities on Venus are possible with current tech levels. Much easier that Mars, as you have air pressure, oxygen, water, reasonable sunlight, and natural radiation shielding. You also have all the trace elements needed to keep soil good. While you couldn't do it with COTS gear, you don't need any amazing breakthroughs either.
So 'space travel' is possible, if your idea of 'travel' is to get in the cramped Winnebago and stay inside it for the entire trip.
Unless there's "new physics", we'll only be going to another star in a space ship that carries 100k-1M people. It's not clear that it will ever be possible to send humans light years in a small ship, but he problems get easier as you scale up. At scale though, it's just a question of asteroid mining and heavy industry in space to build such a thing. Not current tech, but no "new science" needed.