I came here to say this. Windows 3.11 can now run entirely in the cache of my laptop's mid-range processor. Applications that could be envisioned for that level of power include just about everything you would want to do with a watch. You're not short on computronium, you're too cheap to program for the environment.
Unless the pills come with a warning less than two sentences long in large print explaining WHY the instructions should be followed*, this will hurt more people than it will save. Some people won't trust advice like "do not take this except in the case of a nuclear accident." They'll take them for their cold. They'll take them to treat cancer. They'll take them to see it it gets them high. And if, God forbid, there is an accident some will take disastrously large doses leaving others without. You could publicly distribute clearly marked salt pills and expect 10 cases of salt overdose within the week.
There are 14 trackers on that page after adblock stops scripts. While I support anonymity I can't imagine a more preposterous site for claiming to be anonymous anything.Why is anyone paying attention to a group that blatantly denies the principles in its name? This is like the Gay Black Jewish Klansmen for Peace and Understanding.
Whatever their agenda and whoever signs their paychecks it's time to stop giving attention to these bozos.
Can I ask the reason, with that much power, not to include a real OS?
Also it's disingenuous to name high specs, then say "starting at $lowprice", and THEN say the low specs that go with the low price. That smells like slashvertising.
I understand the value of a place like this. A positive, clean environment where I can feel safe. I'm tired of the harassment and constant fighting I see in other sites. I can't wait to join. I just have a quick question.
The lobotomy, does it come free with membership or do I have to pay separately?
Amazon is a good place to shop. It has a huge selection, decent prices and it's simple to use. But recent changes, such as forcing my to buy $25 of most things before they'll ship it and the change in TFA make it less convenient. I'll stop shopping at Amazon the moment it becomes less useful than alternatives. I can definitely see that moment approaching soon.
Lots of big companies do what Amazon is doing. They all have different words for it, but the appropriate phrase is "managed dissatisfaction". When your grocery store shuts down a register and makes you wait longer, when Amazon makes itself less convenient, when your bank demands payment for sending you paper statements, when you have to wait on hold half an hour, when you have to walk through an isle of shit you don't need to get what you want, all of this stuff. They recognize they're offering a disservice and they're betting it's not quite bad enough to make you stop going there. They aim for as much dissatisfaction as they can give you and still keep you as a customer. As someone who doesn't like being fucked with my threshold is a little more sensitive than a lot of people. Maybe if you lower yours too stores in general will fuck with everyone a little less.
My guess, though, is that Amazon's leadership are jumping the shark. They're trying to liquidate customers for short-term gain. If I'm right they'll keep milking until they hemorrhage customers and lose their hard-won reputation at which point they'll rebrand and start it all over again. Coming in five years: the totally-not-Amazon shopping network. New! Shiny!
>Come down from your high loft and explain to us how we get 30K
By eliminating corporate tax loopholes, inefficient welfare procedures, counting on lower crime rates from people who are no longer desperate, and counting on more innovation from people who can afford the time to innovate instead of working dead-end jobs.
to give to everyone all the time without making that 30K have no value?
This idea that the basic income would create a floor... That's your idea. And you have completely failed to justify it. Is a WIC dollar as given out now worthless? Is a Section 8 subsidy dollar as given out now worthless? If not why would a basic income dollar be worthless? How does a merchant know whether my dollar is coming from my basic income or from my job? How is significant inflation created without any money being added to the economy?
That question has been addressed over and over again. Just by claiming it hasn't you illustrate that you haven't looked into it. Basic income doesn't involve printing more money, only increasing the velocity of existing money. Serious inflation is caused by having a larger money supply, not by reallocating existing money. Basic income would raise demand but keep the money supply the same.
For the lazy and if I may pick the low-hanging fruit, here and here are some articles about soil surcharging. It's actually an interesting technique. They mitigate risk of shear related failure by stiffening the ground.
I agree: they're passing up the chance to capture a good deal of publicity and the imagination and approval of the public in favor of being stuffy for no benefit at all.
I think the most important piece of information here is that AI just isn't ready for the big time yet. People are going to do and say all kinds of fucked up and bizarre things. People will try to have sex with anything. They'll try to convince their AI assistant to support genocide. They'll demand that it pretend to agree with them about things like that. They'll ask for information that's not available, they'll cuss and scream, they'll talk about things that seem completely off-topic. People will use puns, innuendo, and vague references. They'll yell insults, start stupid arguments, and lie through their teeth even when it only hurts themselves. And yes they will talk about Hitler. An AI that can properly handle all of this and not go off the deep end is a full-fledged strong AI.
We're not there yet but this effort by Microsoft is, IMHO, as smart as a mouse. And with geometric progress that means the real thing won't be long now.
The way most companies do backups there's no point. If backups are a checkmark on the official risk management schedule, you're fucked when you need one. I've seen it. To PROPERLY manage backups means you need to dedicate extra man-hours to making sure they can be restored in a wide variety of circumstances. By actually restoring from backup on occasion. Can you restore after you lose a server and the backup software on it? Can you restore after you've had a virus undetected for a week? For a month? Are your incremental backups too unwieldy to work in real life? Does it actually take a full day to pull the reels and get the data back? Do you have offline copies? How sure are you that your encryption can be decrypted?
Doing backups properly is hard. The story would have had a ring of truth if it included backups that couldn't be restored because the encryption key was the wrong version.
Not all of us live in countries where we can happily piss 100watts of power continuously into the wind.
That's pretty sad. It's 2016. It's time for a certain base load to be available and all-but-free almost anywhere in the world on demand. Some basic infrastructure is essential to basic industry, and that essential infrastructure includes enough electricity for 100 watts per person on an ongoing basis to be overshadowed. If a region doesn't have that it doesn't have the electricity to support and repair heavy equipment, industrial-scale cooking, modern hospitals, and so forth.
What's so special about base 10? There are other primes in base 9 that are also prime when the digits are reversed. And base 8. Does it really provide any useful information?
I admire this effort to look out for my privacy but it's too little and waaaaaaaay too late. The travesty of Windows 10, cooperation with the Chinese government, rolling over for the NSA, peering agreements that include customer data, privacy agreements detailing essentially inevitable loss of all personal data, abuse of certification programs... Microsoft hasn't cared about my privacy for the last 41 years and now suddenly they want to give precisely one fuck?
Sorry Microsoft, I know a shit sandwich when I bite into one. If you want my trust here's what you need to do: Divest the software you want me to trust into a new department. Enforce complete transparency in that department. Enforce a top-to-bottom ethics code in that department. Offer a transparent reward for whistle-blowers there, overseen by an independent privacy-minded organization. Do all this and I'll trust the software from that one department.
He's saying they're lying again. Them money given to the "professional hacking group" was sent to a slush fund and Apple probably updated the individual phone's firmware to allow the crack, something they can do on any other iphone.
Minor differences like that can be expected. Larger ones, even. Worrying about this kind of thing is counter-productive and has to be hurting moral. You know what, pay everyone else 100 and 1 percent what I make. I won't complain. Because 1% of my pay is far overshadowed by other aspects of the environment. My boss being a slightly cooler guy is more important. My workplace being less uptight is worth more than that. Knowing we're not wasting money counting pennies is worth more than that. So here's my 2 cents. Keep it, because you're worth it.
You can't get much more evil than praying on people trying to find work. These are people with very little left to lose. People who are close to suicide or criminal behavior in many cases. I'm against torture in general but shit like that makes me question my stance.
It may be inefficient but cash is essential to anonymity and anonymity is essential to liberty. If the government can track every purchase you make they can begin to control every purchase you make.
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I came here to say this. Windows 3.11 can now run entirely in the cache of my laptop's mid-range processor. Applications that could be envisioned for that level of power include just about everything you would want to do with a watch. You're not short on computronium, you're too cheap to program for the environment.
Unless the pills come with a warning less than two sentences long in large print explaining WHY the instructions should be followed*, this will hurt more people than it will save. Some people won't trust advice like "do not take this except in the case of a nuclear accident." They'll take them for their cold. They'll take them to treat cancer. They'll take them to see it it gets them high. And if, God forbid, there is an accident some will take disastrously large doses leaving others without. You could publicly distribute clearly marked salt pills and expect 10 cases of salt overdose within the week.
*and a huge public education effort as well
There are 14 trackers on that page after adblock stops scripts. While I support anonymity I can't imagine a more preposterous site for claiming to be anonymous anything.Why is anyone paying attention to a group that blatantly denies the principles in its name? This is like the Gay Black Jewish Klansmen for Peace and Understanding.
Whatever their agenda and whoever signs their paychecks it's time to stop giving attention to these bozos.
Can I ask the reason, with that much power, not to include a real OS? Also it's disingenuous to name high specs, then say "starting at $lowprice", and THEN say the low specs that go with the low price. That smells like slashvertising.
How applicable is this to real-time RPG's? And if it's equally applicable how is that different from real-life war fighting?
I understand the value of a place like this. A positive, clean environment where I can feel safe. I'm tired of the harassment and constant fighting I see in other sites. I can't wait to join. I just have a quick question. The lobotomy, does it come free with membership or do I have to pay separately?
Amazon is a good place to shop. It has a huge selection, decent prices and it's simple to use. But recent changes, such as forcing my to buy $25 of most things before they'll ship it and the change in TFA make it less convenient. I'll stop shopping at Amazon the moment it becomes less useful than alternatives. I can definitely see that moment approaching soon.
Lots of big companies do what Amazon is doing. They all have different words for it, but the appropriate phrase is "managed dissatisfaction". When your grocery store shuts down a register and makes you wait longer, when Amazon makes itself less convenient, when your bank demands payment for sending you paper statements, when you have to wait on hold half an hour, when you have to walk through an isle of shit you don't need to get what you want, all of this stuff. They recognize they're offering a disservice and they're betting it's not quite bad enough to make you stop going there. They aim for as much dissatisfaction as they can give you and still keep you as a customer. As someone who doesn't like being fucked with my threshold is a little more sensitive than a lot of people. Maybe if you lower yours too stores in general will fuck with everyone a little less.
My guess, though, is that Amazon's leadership are jumping the shark. They're trying to liquidate customers for short-term gain. If I'm right they'll keep milking until they hemorrhage customers and lose their hard-won reputation at which point they'll rebrand and start it all over again. Coming in five years: the totally-not-Amazon shopping network. New! Shiny!
Great job attacking the source but are you claiming a Hillary Superpac is not spending a million dollars astroturfing?
>Come down from your high loft and explain to us how we get 30K By eliminating corporate tax loopholes, inefficient welfare procedures, counting on lower crime rates from people who are no longer desperate, and counting on more innovation from people who can afford the time to innovate instead of working dead-end jobs. to give to everyone all the time without making that 30K have no value? This idea that the basic income would create a floor... That's your idea. And you have completely failed to justify it. Is a WIC dollar as given out now worthless? Is a Section 8 subsidy dollar as given out now worthless? If not why would a basic income dollar be worthless? How does a merchant know whether my dollar is coming from my basic income or from my job? How is significant inflation created without any money being added to the economy?
Please disregard the above comment. I am an idiot who doesn't read carefully.
That question has been addressed over and over again. Just by claiming it hasn't you illustrate that you haven't looked into it. Basic income doesn't involve printing more money, only increasing the velocity of existing money. Serious inflation is caused by having a larger money supply, not by reallocating existing money. Basic income would raise demand but keep the money supply the same.
I'll just leave my usual links here. You've probably seen most of them before
In Praise of Idleness, essay
A town in Canada tried it.
Humans Need Not Apply
Ooh, a new one. Canada is going large-scale now? linky
Sweden is starting to take it seriously as a political issue. linky
For the lazy and if I may pick the low-hanging fruit, here and here are some articles about soil surcharging. It's actually an interesting technique. They mitigate risk of shear related failure by stiffening the ground.
I agree: they're passing up the chance to capture a good deal of publicity and the imagination and approval of the public in favor of being stuffy for no benefit at all.
I think the most important piece of information here is that AI just isn't ready for the big time yet. People are going to do and say all kinds of fucked up and bizarre things. People will try to have sex with anything. They'll try to convince their AI assistant to support genocide. They'll demand that it pretend to agree with them about things like that. They'll ask for information that's not available, they'll cuss and scream, they'll talk about things that seem completely off-topic. People will use puns, innuendo, and vague references. They'll yell insults, start stupid arguments, and lie through their teeth even when it only hurts themselves. And yes they will talk about Hitler. An AI that can properly handle all of this and not go off the deep end is a full-fledged strong AI.
We're not there yet but this effort by Microsoft is, IMHO, as smart as a mouse. And with geometric progress that means the real thing won't be long now.
The way most companies do backups there's no point. If backups are a checkmark on the official risk management schedule, you're fucked when you need one. I've seen it. To PROPERLY manage backups means you need to dedicate extra man-hours to making sure they can be restored in a wide variety of circumstances. By actually restoring from backup on occasion. Can you restore after you lose a server and the backup software on it? Can you restore after you've had a virus undetected for a week? For a month? Are your incremental backups too unwieldy to work in real life? Does it actually take a full day to pull the reels and get the data back? Do you have offline copies? How sure are you that your encryption can be decrypted?
Doing backups properly is hard. The story would have had a ring of truth if it included backups that couldn't be restored because the encryption key was the wrong version.
That's pretty sad. It's 2016. It's time for a certain base load to be available and all-but-free almost anywhere in the world on demand. Some basic infrastructure is essential to basic industry, and that essential infrastructure includes enough electricity for 100 watts per person on an ongoing basis to be overshadowed. If a region doesn't have that it doesn't have the electricity to support and repair heavy equipment, industrial-scale cooking, modern hospitals, and so forth.
What's so special about base 10? There are other primes in base 9 that are also prime when the digits are reversed. And base 8. Does it really provide any useful information?
I admire this effort to look out for my privacy but it's too little and waaaaaaaay too late. The travesty of Windows 10, cooperation with the Chinese government, rolling over for the NSA, peering agreements that include customer data, privacy agreements detailing essentially inevitable loss of all personal data, abuse of certification programs... Microsoft hasn't cared about my privacy for the last 41 years and now suddenly they want to give precisely one fuck?
Sorry Microsoft, I know a shit sandwich when I bite into one. If you want my trust here's what you need to do: Divest the software you want me to trust into a new department. Enforce complete transparency in that department. Enforce a top-to-bottom ethics code in that department. Offer a transparent reward for whistle-blowers there, overseen by an independent privacy-minded organization. Do all this and I'll trust the software from that one department.
It's like a law implementing harsh punishment for leaving your car in a stable without a bale of hay and a clean water trough.
He's saying they're lying again. Them money given to the "professional hacking group" was sent to a slush fund and Apple probably updated the individual phone's firmware to allow the crack, something they can do on any other iphone.
Or you could just pay for a non-logging VPN, set up an anonymous server for washed bitcoin, and do your stuff through that server.
Minor differences like that can be expected. Larger ones, even. Worrying about this kind of thing is counter-productive and has to be hurting moral. You know what, pay everyone else 100 and 1 percent what I make. I won't complain. Because 1% of my pay is far overshadowed by other aspects of the environment. My boss being a slightly cooler guy is more important. My workplace being less uptight is worth more than that. Knowing we're not wasting money counting pennies is worth more than that. So here's my 2 cents. Keep it, because you're worth it.
You can't get much more evil than praying on people trying to find work. These are people with very little left to lose. People who are close to suicide or criminal behavior in many cases. I'm against torture in general but shit like that makes me question my stance.
It may be inefficient but cash is essential to anonymity and anonymity is essential to liberty. If the government can track every purchase you make they can begin to control every purchase you make.