If you don't make Google pay for those stamps then you're basically telling any company that if you steal a few cents from hundreds of millions of people, even if it's wrong, you won't be punished. I think they really should have to go through the process of giving back those six and a half cents to each person, because that'll deter them from doing it again.
I think you're missing a big part of this discussion.:) It's about using a lightsail to accelerate a tiny probe up to a significant fraction of the speed of light using Earth based lasers. See the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. The discussion was about the difficulty of slowing down on the other end.
Well, if they forgot to include a docking port, they can always to up there an attach to it with an Advanced Grabbing Unit and transfer fuel over that way, right?
If you have to be in a crash, that's a good car to be in. However, they're not really taking into account the tendency for anyone to drives one to mash the accelerator (which is very fun) or be distracted by the huge iPad in the middle of the dash. On the other hand, I assume it handles quite well in the snow, both because of the low center of gravity and the full ESC and Traction Control capabilities. Overall it's a great car, but there's more to the safety of a vehicle than how it handles an accident. Probability of accident is a factor too.
Ok, so any time you take a solar panel and add some kind of energy storage device, that's a story now? There are a lot of ways you can store the energy - many different battery types, pumped water storage, molten salt I suppose. This is just silly.
IANAL, but from my reading, mens rea would only apply if you accidentally or were forced to do the criminal thing. For instance, you can't use mens rea as a defense against reckless driving if you were doing 150 mph down the freeway just because you didn't intend to hit anyone. You chose to drive that fast. The only use for mens rea would be if the accelerator got stuck, or someone was shooting at you and you were faced with either speeding away or getting shot. In this case there's no way a mens rea defense would apply. Essentially, not understanding the criminality of the consequences of your action isn't the same as accidentally performing the criminal action or being forced to perform it.
Yes, but everything I've read about this in the past few years suggests that the simplest explanation is that the Geiger counter acts as the "observer" and "collapses the wave function" which determines at that point if it'll release the poison or not. From the Geiger counter (and the cat's) perspective, the cat is either alive or dead. All of this quantum weirdness goes away when the wave collapses, which means the particle (or pair of entangled particles) interacts with something else.
I've been a programmer for 18 years now. I've had 3 different jobs in that time. All 3 of those paid overtime. The second one pressured me to switch to salary plus bonus, and I left within a year because the bonus was setup as a scam. The jobs that pay overtime are out there - you just have to look for them. You don't resent an occasional crunch time if you're paid for it.
From my perspective, social networks are working quite well. They distract everyone else while I get work done. It's pretty easy to appear productive when you're being compared to all these people getting interrupted by LinkedIn emails, Facebook messages and tweets all the time. It's a lack of impulse control. The worst, though, is they all think they have a right to interrupt me while I'm working to ask me something they could have looked up online, or could've thought through themselves. Now I've taken to saying, "I think you could've worked that our for yourself." They're starting to get the hint.
Just finished reading "The Three Body Problem" trilogy. It's translated from Chinese. The first book is interesting both because you can see the different cultural viewpoint coming through, and it's just good sci-fi. The sequels are more epic in scope and darker, and honestly are a bit terrifying. Good reads.
As I recall, they were at least debating political opinions. Yes, Demosthenes was a rabble rouser and espousing the popular opinions to get people stirred up. I guess you can compare that to Trump and others, but something about that comparison doesn't seem right. Where in Ender's Game was the mob of people following them around doxing people and issuing death and rape threats? I don't think that was portrayed in the book. Did Demosthenes incite violence? Having an emotionally charged debate about, e.g., abortion is a good thing, but shooting doctors is way past well reasoned political debate.
I can remember reading a well reasoned post on slashdot, back around 2000, where the author basically said, the future of the internet isn't a Muslim and a Jewish person having a reasoned debate online (a la Locke and Demosthenes from Ender's Game), it was actually going to be one trolling the other with a picture of their prophet swathed in bacon, and honestly that's clearly come to pass.
I understand why the people building the internet in their ivory towers though it would enlighten and uplift the human race. They were so wrong. I've long since deleted my Facebook and recently my Twitter account, but I'm still wary as I walk around town that I might say or do something "wrong" and have my picture taken and posted online for community shaming. Worse yet, someone who's ticked off at me might make an unsubstantiated claim against me and thanks to the court of public opinion, my career and family life could be ruined.
We've certainly succeeded in empowering the rabble. The uplifting that was supposed to happen turn out of be opposite.
Might as well hire someone to break up with your significant other too. Or... how about grow up, schedule a meeting with your boss, and explain to them in a respectful way that you've decided to move on and you're hereby providing your 2 weeks notice. Explain that you'll work to make the transition as easy as possible by transferring knowledge to other workers, and provide a personal email contact they can use in case you forgot to tell them where something is before you leave. Tell them you're thankful for the opportunity you had to work there. When they ask why you're leaving, don't complain about the current employer, just make up some acceptable excuse like "opportunities" or "location" etc. It's a small world, don't burn bridges!
Those working moms want to count the time they spend emailing on the train to offset the number of hours less that they're in the office compared with their male colleagues, but the fact is those male colleagues are likely emailing on the train too, so it still won't help make up the difference. Only fix is to change the accepted fact that the mom is supposed to drop the kids off at school and start expecting half the dads to be doing it too. (More and more dads are doing it.)
Seriously, some companies attract sociopaths. They hide themselves well, but look out for the knife in your back. Especially from HR. Found a nice family-run business that'd been around a while. Much more sane.
Arguably that's the only correct way to do it in a computer system, and any system that has to work in multiple time zones at once must actually be working this way (i.e. use UTC internally and convert to a display representation every time). However, UTC doesn't have any of the benefits of something like the International Fixed Calendar (where every nth of every month is always the same day of the week, there are always exactly 28 days in a month, and an economic quarter is always exactly 13 weeks long (and the same days of the year every year). These are things that reduce the cognitive load during our daily lives. I would argue that UTC fixes "time" and a Fixed Calendar fixes "dates".
Well, I've always thought the International Fixed Calendar was a decent attempt at sanity, but if there's people in the world that can't adopt the metric system, there's no way in hell the calendar could change.
So by employing a certain color of laser, I'm forcing you to dress in clothing that reflects and scatters that color? I guess I'll use a bright red laser then, since that color of clothing will stand out nicely in most landscapes we'll be fighting in.
I would think an expensive car would be oppositely correlated. We're definitely in the top quartile, but we both drive $15k 4-year-old used cars, but my wife got the most expensive iPhone I could get her for Christmas simply because buying the best unlocked iPhone caps out at $1k so for someone in the top quartile it really doesn't break the bank (I have a $140 Motorola, but I'm anti-smartphone). With most people spending twice what we spend on vehicles, easily, what we save there buys a lot of other stuff: retirement savings, kids education savings, vacations, with a little left over for smaller luxuries here and there. Price out a really nice mattress, for instance - maybe $1k or $1500? You spend a third of your life in bed, might as well splurge there. I park my crappy old car in the parking lot beside a kid that drives a relatively new Camaro and I know he doesn't make a 3rd of what I do. People generally make poor car-buying decisions.
If you only have one customer, you have no leverage. You're an employee with none of the benefits of being an employee. Ideally no customer should be more than a 3rd of your business, to reduce the risk of them taking that business away.
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If you don't make Google pay for those stamps then you're basically telling any company that if you steal a few cents from hundreds of millions of people, even if it's wrong, you won't be punished. I think they really should have to go through the process of giving back those six and a half cents to each person, because that'll deter them from doing it again.
I think you're missing a big part of this discussion. :) It's about using a lightsail to accelerate a tiny probe up to a significant fraction of the speed of light using Earth based lasers. See the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. The discussion was about the difficulty of slowing down on the other end.
It seems like there are some theories about how to slow down, at least if you're aiming for the Alpha Centauri system (which is a 3 star system).
Well, if they forgot to include a docking port, they can always to up there an attach to it with an Advanced Grabbing Unit and transfer fuel over that way, right?
Maybe if you're not willing to fulfill your obligation to society (like standing for jury duty) then you shouldn't get to vote.
There's also an extra O on the left, so I assume it becomes H2O.
If you have to be in a crash, that's a good car to be in. However, they're not really taking into account the tendency for anyone to drives one to mash the accelerator (which is very fun) or be distracted by the huge iPad in the middle of the dash. On the other hand, I assume it handles quite well in the snow, both because of the low center of gravity and the full ESC and Traction Control capabilities. Overall it's a great car, but there's more to the safety of a vehicle than how it handles an accident. Probability of accident is a factor too.
Ok, so any time you take a solar panel and add some kind of energy storage device, that's a story now? There are a lot of ways you can store the energy - many different battery types, pumped water storage, molten salt I suppose. This is just silly.
IANAL, but from my reading, mens rea would only apply if you accidentally or were forced to do the criminal thing. For instance, you can't use mens rea as a defense against reckless driving if you were doing 150 mph down the freeway just because you didn't intend to hit anyone. You chose to drive that fast. The only use for mens rea would be if the accelerator got stuck, or someone was shooting at you and you were faced with either speeding away or getting shot. In this case there's no way a mens rea defense would apply. Essentially, not understanding the criminality of the consequences of your action isn't the same as accidentally performing the criminal action or being forced to perform it.
Yes, but everything I've read about this in the past few years suggests that the simplest explanation is that the Geiger counter acts as the "observer" and "collapses the wave function" which determines at that point if it'll release the poison or not. From the Geiger counter (and the cat's) perspective, the cat is either alive or dead. All of this quantum weirdness goes away when the wave collapses, which means the particle (or pair of entangled particles) interacts with something else.
I've been a programmer for 18 years now. I've had 3 different jobs in that time. All 3 of those paid overtime. The second one pressured me to switch to salary plus bonus, and I left within a year because the bonus was setup as a scam. The jobs that pay overtime are out there - you just have to look for them. You don't resent an occasional crunch time if you're paid for it.
From my perspective, social networks are working quite well. They distract everyone else while I get work done. It's pretty easy to appear productive when you're being compared to all these people getting interrupted by LinkedIn emails, Facebook messages and tweets all the time. It's a lack of impulse control. The worst, though, is they all think they have a right to interrupt me while I'm working to ask me something they could have looked up online, or could've thought through themselves. Now I've taken to saying, "I think you could've worked that our for yourself." They're starting to get the hint.
Just finished reading "The Three Body Problem" trilogy. It's translated from Chinese. The first book is interesting both because you can see the different cultural viewpoint coming through, and it's just good sci-fi. The sequels are more epic in scope and darker, and honestly are a bit terrifying. Good reads.
As I recall, they were at least debating political opinions. Yes, Demosthenes was a rabble rouser and espousing the popular opinions to get people stirred up. I guess you can compare that to Trump and others, but something about that comparison doesn't seem right. Where in Ender's Game was the mob of people following them around doxing people and issuing death and rape threats? I don't think that was portrayed in the book. Did Demosthenes incite violence? Having an emotionally charged debate about, e.g., abortion is a good thing, but shooting doctors is way past well reasoned political debate.
I can remember reading a well reasoned post on slashdot, back around 2000, where the author basically said, the future of the internet isn't a Muslim and a Jewish person having a reasoned debate online (a la Locke and Demosthenes from Ender's Game), it was actually going to be one trolling the other with a picture of their prophet swathed in bacon, and honestly that's clearly come to pass.
I understand why the people building the internet in their ivory towers though it would enlighten and uplift the human race. They were so wrong. I've long since deleted my Facebook and recently my Twitter account, but I'm still wary as I walk around town that I might say or do something "wrong" and have my picture taken and posted online for community shaming. Worse yet, someone who's ticked off at me might make an unsubstantiated claim against me and thanks to the court of public opinion, my career and family life could be ruined.
We've certainly succeeded in empowering the rabble. The uplifting that was supposed to happen turn out of be opposite.
Might as well hire someone to break up with your significant other too. Or... how about grow up, schedule a meeting with your boss, and explain to them in a respectful way that you've decided to move on and you're hereby providing your 2 weeks notice. Explain that you'll work to make the transition as easy as possible by transferring knowledge to other workers, and provide a personal email contact they can use in case you forgot to tell them where something is before you leave. Tell them you're thankful for the opportunity you had to work there. When they ask why you're leaving, don't complain about the current employer, just make up some acceptable excuse like "opportunities" or "location" etc. It's a small world, don't burn bridges!
Those working moms want to count the time they spend emailing on the train to offset the number of hours less that they're in the office compared with their male colleagues, but the fact is those male colleagues are likely emailing on the train too, so it still won't help make up the difference. Only fix is to change the accepted fact that the mom is supposed to drop the kids off at school and start expecting half the dads to be doing it too. (More and more dads are doing it.)
Seriously, some companies attract sociopaths. They hide themselves well, but look out for the knife in your back. Especially from HR. Found a nice family-run business that'd been around a while. Much more sane.
Arguably that's the only correct way to do it in a computer system, and any system that has to work in multiple time zones at once must actually be working this way (i.e. use UTC internally and convert to a display representation every time). However, UTC doesn't have any of the benefits of something like the International Fixed Calendar (where every nth of every month is always the same day of the week, there are always exactly 28 days in a month, and an economic quarter is always exactly 13 weeks long (and the same days of the year every year). These are things that reduce the cognitive load during our daily lives. I would argue that UTC fixes "time" and a Fixed Calendar fixes "dates".
Well, I've always thought the International Fixed Calendar was a decent attempt at sanity, but if there's people in the world that can't adopt the metric system, there's no way in hell the calendar could change.
When Jesus comes back do we need to reset the year back to zero? Crap, as a programmer I hate our calendar system(s)!
If I have a laser of that color, then I can have a sensor that can detect that wavelength too.
So by employing a certain color of laser, I'm forcing you to dress in clothing that reflects and scatters that color? I guess I'll use a bright red laser then, since that color of clothing will stand out nicely in most landscapes we'll be fighting in.
I would think an expensive car would be oppositely correlated. We're definitely in the top quartile, but we both drive $15k 4-year-old used cars, but my wife got the most expensive iPhone I could get her for Christmas simply because buying the best unlocked iPhone caps out at $1k so for someone in the top quartile it really doesn't break the bank (I have a $140 Motorola, but I'm anti-smartphone). With most people spending twice what we spend on vehicles, easily, what we save there buys a lot of other stuff: retirement savings, kids education savings, vacations, with a little left over for smaller luxuries here and there. Price out a really nice mattress, for instance - maybe $1k or $1500? You spend a third of your life in bed, might as well splurge there. I park my crappy old car in the parking lot beside a kid that drives a relatively new Camaro and I know he doesn't make a 3rd of what I do. People generally make poor car-buying decisions.
If you only have one customer, you have no leverage. You're an employee with none of the benefits of being an employee. Ideally no customer should be more than a 3rd of your business, to reduce the risk of them taking that business away.