Or the news articles that went around last month about the asteroid that just buzzed by with $5 trillion worth of platinum on it.
Clearly no RoI there.
If you ever managed to mine that platinum, it wouldn't be worth $5 trillion any more. It's a commodity. The market would collapse. Gross demand for platinum in 2013 was only about 260 metric tonnes.
A person who gets half their calories from a meat like beef increases their caloric load by biking wherever they go instead of driving; they'd be better for the environment driving a large SUV without any passengers.
So much fail here.
Let's see. A 190 lb. person riding a bicycle at 15 mph uses about 58 calories per mile.. Gasoline contains about 31,000 calories per gallon.. Suppose the large SUV gets 20 mpg. That's 1550 calories per mile, or more than 26 times as much.
I gotta say, after sampling the noxious comments on this story, I feel really sad. Even the geeks, who should be siding with this poor kid, are jumping all over each other to paste him with partisan talking points.
He's a kid who was excited about technology and wanted to show his teacher. Now look.
As far as Europeans go, they're not nearly the liberal hippie types that Americans like to think they are. There are plenty of people we'd classify as rednecks over there, there's a very racist and homophobic segment all over, etc. Generally Europe has seen to not have had a big race problem in the past because the countries were very homogenous for a very long time (but always an underlying anti-semetic and anti Roma nastiness).
This. Having spent lots of time on both continents, I have to say that Europeans are much more racist than Americans, by which I mean prevailing attitudes among the educated, genteel middle class, not the right-wing fringe. Dog-whistle ideas like "cultural identity" and "tradition" are widely accepted without any critical thinking at all.
We get other meaningless jargon phrases like "placebo techno-radicalism"
Actually, that phrase resonated with me very much. He seems to be getting precisely how hollowed-out the techno-libertarian startup culture is, in terms of producing anything that is actually going to make the world better, instead of keeping people more entertained over the course of a brief product life cycle. Sounds like a great term for that, to me.
Techno-junk-food. It's making people billionaires right now, but that alone should be a pretty fucking big flag that it won't last.
... when we have neutrino or gravitational wave telescopes capable of detecting such signals. Which we don't. Current neutrino observatories are very crude, and we have yet to detect gravitational waves of any kind.
Could the data be correlated be because people mostly search for Wikipedia entries using Google? I know that if I'm looking for info on an unfamiliar topic, I search for it on Google, and will usually check the Wikipedia entry if there is one.
I'm not sure why anybody finds the statistic even slightly remarkable. The only thing that's surprising to me is that it's not higher than 75%.
The Josh Duggar revelation took me by surprise because my first thought was "He was unfaithful, really? With who - I don't think there were any real women on that site." (Now it sounds like it was unfaithful through other venues. I wonder if he even had a genuine affair through AM. For awhile I wondered if he was just calling the act of signing up alone "unfaithful.")
Oh, come on. I'm sure that "Self-righteous Christian reality TV star and admitted child molester seeks married women for discreet encounters (no diseases)" was a total chick-magnet profile.
When a woman gets married and has children, her whole life changes. Her husband is no longer the focus of her life, her children are. She loses interest in sex, and doesn't see why she should have to do it any more. If she wants another child, sure, but otherwise not. To her, it's just one more person who wants something from her at the end of a long day at work, and this one she can actually say "no" to. So, she does.
Meanwhile, the husband, cut completely off from one source of sex he is allowed to have, grows increasingly desperate and unhappy. I don't condone cheating at all - but damn, marriage doesn't mean celibacy. Or, it shouldn't. This is the point at which feminists burst into the conversation shouting "RAPE!" (but they always do that) and that's not my argument at all. A wife *should* love her husband and *want* to have sex with him of her own free will. This isn't happening.
I'm very sorry this happened to your friend. He must have come out of the experience with a horribly distorted view of women and a huge problem with misogyny.
governments to step in and choose winners and losers
I get so fucking tired of this "picking winners and losers" bullshit. Venture capitalists do this all the time. Do you think the people who do analysis for the Department of Energy are bunch of drooling morons? Backing technology development that is in the public interest is exactly what governments are for. Just like venture capital, some of it is going to pan out and some of it isn't.
The thing that distinguishes G+ is circles, which is actually a terrific idea. I have very little use for Facebook, but I use G+ for non-public communications quite regularly. (I won't call them exactly private, since the communications are still being mediated, and archived, by a centralized social network.) However, as with many other examples of technology, technical superiority doesn't mean much of anything with respect to widespread adoption. Facebook is the de facto standard, even if it sucks.
For me, and I would hazard to guess quite a few other people, the thing that makes G+ useful is that it failed to be adopted as a social media standard. I'll miss it when they finally turn it off.
The plugin randomizes (delays) the keypress inputs into the dom, you can change the values.
This seems more reasonable. However, it's not obvious that this would not itself be a trackable signature, easily distinguished from actual human behavior.
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Or the news articles that went around last month about the asteroid that just buzzed by with $5 trillion worth of platinum on it.
Clearly no RoI there.
If you ever managed to mine that platinum, it wouldn't be worth $5 trillion any more. It's a commodity. The market would collapse. Gross demand for platinum in 2013 was only about 260 metric tonnes.
A person who gets half their calories from a meat like beef increases their caloric load by biking wherever they go instead of driving; they'd be better for the environment driving a large SUV without any passengers.
So much fail here.
Let's see. A 190 lb. person riding a bicycle at 15 mph uses about 58 calories per mile.. Gasoline contains about 31,000 calories per gallon.. Suppose the large SUV gets 20 mpg. That's 1550 calories per mile, or more than 26 times as much.
See also here.
I gotta say, after sampling the noxious comments on this story, I feel really sad. Even the geeks, who should be siding with this poor kid, are jumping all over each other to paste him with partisan talking points.
He's a kid who was excited about technology and wanted to show his teacher. Now look.
As far as Europeans go, they're not nearly the liberal hippie types that Americans like to think they are. There are plenty of people we'd classify as rednecks over there, there's a very racist and homophobic segment all over, etc. Generally Europe has seen to not have had a big race problem in the past because the countries were very homogenous for a very long time (but always an underlying anti-semetic and anti Roma nastiness).
This. Having spent lots of time on both continents, I have to say that Europeans are much more racist than Americans, by which I mean prevailing attitudes among the educated, genteel middle class, not the right-wing fringe. Dog-whistle ideas like "cultural identity" and "tradition" are widely accepted without any critical thinking at all.
You are supposed to create headless bodies to perform experiments on and harvest organs from.
Extra points if they're in topless bars.
All ads are bad ads.
Nobody has the right to tell me what content I am required to receive. End of story.
All TED talks are not created equally
True that. Monica Lewinsky's talk was amazing.
We get other meaningless jargon phrases like "placebo techno-radicalism"
Actually, that phrase resonated with me very much. He seems to be getting precisely how hollowed-out the techno-libertarian startup culture is, in terms of producing anything that is actually going to make the world better, instead of keeping people more entertained over the course of a brief product life cycle. Sounds like a great term for that, to me.
Techno-junk-food. It's making people billionaires right now, but that alone should be a pretty fucking big flag that it won't last.
I'm becoming convinced TED talks actually make people stupider. Here's a TED talk about it.
Amazon doesn't let me take days off.
How would an existing species gain nourishment from another situated at interstellar distances?
Maybe they just do it for sport.
... when we have neutrino or gravitational wave telescopes capable of detecting such signals. Which we don't. Current neutrino observatories are very crude, and we have yet to detect gravitational waves of any kind.
Could the data be correlated be because people mostly search for Wikipedia entries using Google? I know that if I'm looking for info on an unfamiliar topic, I search for it on Google, and will usually check the Wikipedia entry if there is one.
I'm not sure why anybody finds the statistic even slightly remarkable. The only thing that's surprising to me is that it's not higher than 75%.
Comes with a free neckbeard.
... GM is re-branding its SUV as "The Chevy McKinley".
http://xkcd.com/1559/
The same as MS Windows. It is just the one people know. That does not make it a good choice for the cloud, just a familiar one.
Uh, I would assume that cloud servers are running Ubuntu Server. You know, the one which isn't a desktop OS.
The Josh Duggar revelation took me by surprise because my first thought was "He was unfaithful, really? With who - I don't think there were any real women on that site." (Now it sounds like it was unfaithful through other venues. I wonder if he even had a genuine affair through AM. For awhile I wondered if he was just calling the act of signing up alone "unfaithful.")
Oh, come on. I'm sure that "Self-righteous Christian reality TV star and admitted child molester seeks married women for discreet encounters (no diseases)" was a total chick-magnet profile.
When a woman gets married and has children, her whole life changes. Her husband is no longer the focus of her life, her children are. She loses interest in sex, and doesn't see why she should have to do it any more. If she wants another child, sure, but otherwise not. To her, it's just one more person who wants something from her at the end of a long day at work, and this one she can actually say "no" to. So, she does.
Meanwhile, the husband, cut completely off from one source of sex he is allowed to have, grows increasingly desperate and unhappy. I don't condone cheating at all - but damn, marriage doesn't mean celibacy. Or, it shouldn't. This is the point at which feminists burst into the conversation shouting "RAPE!" (but they always do that) and that's not my argument at all. A wife *should* love her husband and *want* to have sex with him of her own free will. This isn't happening.
I'm very sorry this happened to your friend. He must have come out of the experience with a horribly distorted view of women and a huge problem with misogyny.
This faculty comment pretty much sums it up:
"Curiosity, imagination and critical understanding are reduced to rodent responses in an academic Skinner-box."
Sadly, this might acually be better than sitting in a 300-student lecture taught by an adjunct.
governments to step in and choose winners and losers
I get so fucking tired of this "picking winners and losers" bullshit. Venture capitalists do this all the time. Do you think the people who do analysis for the Department of Energy are bunch of drooling morons? Backing technology development that is in the public interest is exactly what governments are for. Just like venture capital, some of it is going to pan out and some of it isn't.
What GP clearly means is that University education should be at no (or little) cost to the students. You're being willfully obtuse here.
Please stop, Ethan. You make me want to amputate my brain.
...suck your dick?
The thing that distinguishes G+ is circles, which is actually a terrific idea. I have very little use for Facebook, but I use G+ for non-public communications quite regularly. (I won't call them exactly private, since the communications are still being mediated, and archived, by a centralized social network.) However, as with many other examples of technology, technical superiority doesn't mean much of anything with respect to widespread adoption. Facebook is the de facto standard, even if it sucks.
For me, and I would hazard to guess quite a few other people, the thing that makes G+ useful is that it failed to be adopted as a social media standard. I'll miss it when they finally turn it off.
The plugin randomizes (delays) the keypress inputs into the dom, you can change the values.
This seems more reasonable. However, it's not obvious that this would not itself be a trackable signature, easily distinguished from actual human behavior.