So global warming has nothing to do with it? It's all about the carbon dioxide buildup?
Why are you still trolling this bullshit?
It's all about burning fossil fuels. This has many effects, of which global warming is the most dangerous to humans right now, but raising the dangers of space junk is another bad effect.
What you are trying to imply is like saying cigarettes have nothing to do with lung cancer, because there are people who die of emphysema as well.
This is like going to Hawaii in a rowboat. Make a 1 degree miscalculation in San Francisco, and you run out of food 20 miles north of the Big Island.
What? How do you think the first people got to all the islands in the Pacific?
Navigation is not shooting a gun. You don't need to aim precisely. In the old days, before GPS and other electronic navigation systems, ships calculated corrections to their route just once a day, and they did fine.
Traveling to a star would be even easier, because you see your destination all the time. Just keep your ship pointed at that bright dot. Trivially simple.
Exactly! And I would add copyrights to that. If it gets the benefit of being protected by the law, it should become public property when the protection expires.
My Uncle, and cousins run a very successful business with revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. My cousin is dyslexic and has terrible trouble reading and doing mathematics, but he's sitting pretty on a pile of cash
That just goes to show how cash is distributed so unfairly in our current society.
The fact that your uncle and cousins are so rich without knowing anything means they are parasites. They control a great amount of resources which they are unable to use in an efficient way, because of their ignorance. They are probably good only at manipulating other people.
It shouldn't be like this. I cringe every time I see an elected politician or a successful business leader boasting that he doesn't know math.
That's the reason why public debt is in the trillions range. That's why there are people who believe they can spend their way out of debt. Ignorance at math is evil.
People who don't know math shouldn't control anything more complex than some basic gardening tools or something like that, they should be limited by law to the simplest and lowest paying jobs.
São Paulo is a violent city, but you cannot say that's caused by the difference between rich and poor. There's a bigger difference in many other places.
The main cause of violence in Brazil are the extremely lenient laws, especially for minors. If you are under 18, let's say 17 years, 11 months, and 27 days old, you can do anything, literally anything at all in Brazil, and you are guaranteed to walk free after at most three years of detention.
All criminal gangs have at least one 17-year-old who will pull the trigger, or say he did, and take the blame for anything they do.
When people are guaranteed immunity, some of them will do the most atrocious acts, this is true of Canada as well as Brazil.
If you want to get an idea of what this looks like in practice, just look at Brazil. The rich live in heavily-secured opulence, the poor live in abysmal poverty.
I live in Brazil and do not understand what you are trying to say.
And how did the 230,000 Brazilians (same link as above) that moved from the middle class to the upper class in 2011 get to heavily-secure their opulence? Surely, there must be a lot of trickle down jobs in security...
E-waste yields 100g/1000kg of material compared to 8g/1000kg of ore.
Only for some definitions of "E-waste".
That amount you mentioned is after you remove the circuit boards from its enclosure. The bitch is taking apart the enclosure.
Each piece of equipment is closed with a different kind of fastener, some, like Apple, are glued together. It takes a lot of labor to pry apart the circuit board from the plastic and metal structures around it. That's why recycling is outsourced to third world countries.
If the government really wanted to increase recycling, the first thing they should regulate would be how enclosures are put together. Make philips type screws mandatory everywhere, no glue, torx screws, or any other fastener that requires special tools.
Well, FWIW Slashdot has done a lot of effort to kill themselves by trying so much to eliminate the trolls.
When I first came here I had seen several discussion forums before, but what caught my attention was how, from time to time, a really funny troll appeared from nowhere.
Slashdot without trolls is rather bland and uninteresting.
Basically, Chinese gov. is trying to sink the west economically, and they are winning because of idiots that keep saying that this is China just building themselves up.
The last time the US had a positive balance of trade was in 1975, when Mao was still alive and ruling China as a totally isolated Communist economy.
Basically, the US committed economic suicide in 1973, when OPEC first raised oil prices. Instead of raising prices an letting the economy adjust to the new reality, the US federal government imposed price controls and rationing. The result is that the US never abandoned the pick-up truck as a personal transportation vehicle.
People in Europe drive subcompact cars with diesel engines that get 70 mpg, while in the US they drive to work in F-150s.
Surely Apple have the choice when it comes to a patent that has been granted to them. If they *want* to licence it for a steep fee, they can. If they *want* to block anyone else from using it, they can.
Not according to the US Constitution which says patents exist "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".
Unless Apple shows how their blocking others from using their patents will promote the progress of science and useful arts, what they are doing is unconstitutional.
I'm an electronics engineer and have had postgraduate courses on this. Any delay introduced in the feedback loop will tend to destabilize the system. HFT works fine, it provides liquidity to the market, it benefits everyone.
BTW, I also derive most of my income today from trading stocks, not in a bank, but my own savings, trading from home. I'm perfectly satisfied with the way the system works.
People who hate the market suffer from the same problem as those who hate people from a different race. It's prejudice caused by ignorance.
To assume that traders are greedy people who only want to steal from you is the same as some Alabaman who believes blacks are lazy and stupid men who only want to rape white girls with their huge penises.
The free market is a very positive force that benefits everyone. Look at North Korea for what will happen when there's no free market. Look at other third world countries to see what happens when markets are small and primitive.
HFT is necessary because prices are not continuous amounts, they are broken at $0.01 intervals. To see how bad this is, imagine a share with a price in the single-digits cent range. This company really exists. If you could buy it at $0.01 you would have the perfect deal, it cannot go any lower and if it goes up you win at least 100%. According to my broker page, which I cannot link here, right now there are bids to buy 7882 million TecToy shares at $0.01.
One cent is an extreme case, but this problem appears at any price. Prices are not an analog value, they are subject to effects coming from the gaps between the cents. HFT is a way to filter some of these problems through dithering. This is the same principle that lets printers print gray scales with black ink, they print many very small black dots and varying the interval between the dots lets it show any value of gray.
most of the sites for which I develop have been on hosted servers. And most of those support Rails these days, but relatively few actively support Python and its frameworks.
I haven't noticed this. The only thing that Ruby has over Python is that it has one framework, Rails, that predominates. With Python there is Django, TurboGears, Zope, and a bunch of others. However I've never found a hosting company that offers Rails but not Python.
I read TFA and it's absolutely correct. Tesla's contribution to the development of science and technology has been FAR overrated lately.
Edison's contribution, OTOH, was significant. He didn't "invent" that many things, he made them practical.
We had flying cars forty years ago. So why can't you buy one? Because they are not practical.
Everything that Tesla invented was like the Mizar Flying Pinto. Kind of interesting to look at, wonderful if it were true, but totally outside of practical reality.
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So global warming has nothing to do with it? It's all about the carbon dioxide buildup?
Why are you still trolling this bullshit?
It's all about burning fossil fuels. This has many effects, of which global warming is the most dangerous to humans right now, but raising the dangers of space junk is another bad effect.
What you are trying to imply is like saying cigarettes have nothing to do with lung cancer, because there are people who die of emphysema as well.
Go away, oil industry shill!
Sad for the universe, but not for us. There's at least several billion years left when the universe is pretty much as it is today.
In a hundred years or so we will start sending probes to other star systems. In a couple thousand years we will be actively exploring the galaxy.
In a million years, who knows? A billion years? Wow!
This is like going to Hawaii in a rowboat. Make a 1 degree miscalculation in San Francisco, and you run out of food 20 miles north of the Big Island.
What? How do you think the first people got to all the islands in the Pacific?
Navigation is not shooting a gun. You don't need to aim precisely. In the old days, before GPS and other electronic navigation systems, ships calculated corrections to their route just once a day, and they did fine.
Traveling to a star would be even easier, because you see your destination all the time. Just keep your ship pointed at that bright dot. Trivially simple.
But use the wrong process for replication, and you'll end up paying for it for almost two decades!
It gets worse. You get liability even if the process is not completed
Patents should come with source code
Exactly! And I would add copyrights to that. If it gets the benefit of being protected by the law, it should become public property when the protection expires.
Software patents without source code and copyrighted binary files defeat the purpose of intellectual property, which is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"
Sneeze expressions and orgasm expressions are identical.
Still a security risk. There are women who fake orgasms all the time.
People in the military say that MRE is three lies in one acronym.
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1936 was an outlier. It happened "every 7 decades or so".
The last decade, setting YEAR AFTER YEAR records was NOT an outlier.
My Uncle, and cousins run a very successful business with revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. My cousin is dyslexic and has terrible trouble reading and doing mathematics, but he's sitting pretty on a pile of cash
That just goes to show how cash is distributed so unfairly in our current society.
The fact that your uncle and cousins are so rich without knowing anything means they are parasites. They control a great amount of resources which they are unable to use in an efficient way, because of their ignorance. They are probably good only at manipulating other people.
It shouldn't be like this. I cringe every time I see an elected politician or a successful business leader boasting that he doesn't know math.
That's the reason why public debt is in the trillions range. That's why there are people who believe they can spend their way out of debt. Ignorance at math is evil.
People who don't know math shouldn't control anything more complex than some basic gardening tools or something like that, they should be limited by law to the simplest and lowest paying jobs.
São Paulo is a violent city, but you cannot say that's caused by the difference between rich and poor. There's a bigger difference in many other places.
The main cause of violence in Brazil are the extremely lenient laws, especially for minors. If you are under 18, let's say 17 years, 11 months, and 27 days old, you can do anything, literally anything at all in Brazil, and you are guaranteed to walk free after at most three years of detention.
All criminal gangs have at least one 17-year-old who will pull the trigger, or say he did, and take the blame for anything they do.
When people are guaranteed immunity, some of them will do the most atrocious acts, this is true of Canada as well as Brazil.
If you want to get an idea of what this looks like in practice, just look at Brazil. The rich live in heavily-secured opulence, the poor live in abysmal poverty.
I live in Brazil and do not understand what you are trying to say.
Where do you put the 54% of Brazilians that are middle class?
And how did the 230,000 Brazilians (same link as above) that moved from the middle class to the upper class in 2011 get to heavily-secure their opulence? Surely, there must be a lot of trickle down jobs in security...
E-waste yields 100g/1000kg of material compared to 8g/1000kg of ore.
Only for some definitions of "E-waste".
That amount you mentioned is after you remove the circuit boards from its enclosure. The bitch is taking apart the enclosure.
Each piece of equipment is closed with a different kind of fastener, some, like Apple, are glued together. It takes a lot of labor to pry apart the circuit board from the plastic and metal structures around it. That's why recycling is outsourced to third world countries.
If the government really wanted to increase recycling, the first thing they should regulate would be how enclosures are put together. Make philips type screws mandatory everywhere, no glue, torx screws, or any other fastener that requires special tools.
Well, FWIW Slashdot has done a lot of effort to kill themselves by trying so much to eliminate the trolls.
When I first came here I had seen several discussion forums before, but what caught my attention was how, from time to time, a really funny troll appeared from nowhere.
Slashdot without trolls is rather bland and uninteresting.
Basically, Chinese gov. is trying to sink the west economically, and they are winning because of idiots that keep saying that this is China just building themselves up.
The last time the US had a
positive balance of trade was in 1975, when Mao was still alive and ruling China as a totally isolated Communist economy.
Basically, the US committed economic suicide in 1973, when OPEC first raised oil prices. Instead of raising prices an letting the economy adjust to the new reality, the US federal government imposed price controls and rationing. The result is that the US never abandoned the pick-up truck as a personal transportation vehicle.
People in Europe drive subcompact cars with diesel engines that get 70 mpg, while in the US they drive to work in F-150s.
Blame not China if the US economy is fucked up.
Surely Apple have the choice when it comes to a patent that has been granted to them. If they *want* to licence it for a steep fee, they can. If they *want* to block anyone else from using it, they can.
Not according to the US Constitution which says patents exist "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".
Unless Apple shows how their blocking others from using their patents will promote the progress of science and useful arts, what they are doing is unconstitutional.
The fact that they used MS-Access clearly indicates stupidity.
Malice could also play a part here, of course, but I know of no instance where MS-Access is used that doesn't involve stupidity;
Railroad barons in the 19th century are as far away from a free market as could possibly be.
Unless "free market" means government regulations granting you ten square miles of land for each mile of railroad you build.
Markets are feedback control systems
I'm an electronics engineer and have had postgraduate courses on this. Any delay introduced in the feedback loop will tend to destabilize the system. HFT works fine, it provides liquidity to the market, it benefits everyone.
BTW, I also derive most of my income today from trading stocks, not in a bank, but my own savings, trading from home. I'm perfectly satisfied with the way the system works.
People who hate the market suffer from the same problem as those who hate people from a different race. It's prejudice caused by ignorance.
To assume that traders are greedy people who only want to steal from you is the same as some Alabaman who believes blacks are lazy and stupid men who only want to rape white girls with their huge penises.
The free market is a very positive force that benefits everyone. Look at North Korea for what will happen when there's no free market. Look at other third world countries to see what happens when markets are small and primitive.
HFT is necessary because prices are not continuous amounts, they are broken at $0.01 intervals. To see how bad this is, imagine a share with a price in the single-digits cent range. This company really exists. If you could buy it at $0.01 you would have the perfect deal, it cannot go any lower and if it goes up you win at least 100%. According to my broker page, which I cannot link here, right now there are bids to buy 7882 million TecToy shares at $0.01.
One cent is an extreme case, but this problem appears at any price. Prices are not an analog value, they are subject to effects coming from the gaps between the cents. HFT is a way to filter some of these problems through dithering. This is the same principle that lets printers print gray scales with black ink, they print many very small black dots and varying the interval between the dots lets it show any value of gray.
most of the sites for which I develop have been on hosted servers. And most of those support Rails these days, but relatively few actively support Python and its frameworks.
I haven't noticed this. The only thing that Ruby has over Python is that it has one framework, Rails, that predominates. With Python there is Django, TurboGears, Zope, and a bunch of others. However I've never found a hosting company that offers Rails but not Python.
"All time low" means I have downloaded all the movies and TV shows I could ever want, so now I'm seeding at unprecedented rates.
It's too bad they don't make phone software or something that could help them pick up at least a little market share in that area, amirite?
Exactly. Google is doing way more to get into the mobile business than mobile companies are doing to enter the search business.
Search? What search? How, exactly, does one do search in a mobile app, other than googling it?
Copyright Infringement is a crime (or at least an infraction) that you can commit in the privacy of your own home.
Just like interracial sex. If it harms no one, you do it in the privacy of your home, why should it be a crime?
I read TFA and it's absolutely correct. Tesla's contribution to the development of science and technology has been FAR overrated lately.
Edison's contribution, OTOH, was significant. He didn't "invent" that many things, he made them practical.
We had flying cars forty years ago. So why can't you buy one? Because they are not practical.
Everything that Tesla invented was like the Mizar Flying Pinto. Kind of interesting to look at, wonderful if it were true, but totally outside of practical reality.
the juror we removed happened to be the one that was holding out...
That would suck if you were the accused in this story
It's an illusion to believe you pay more taxes because corporations pay less.
Having corporations pay more taxes would only mean they would raise their prices. Taxing corporations means taxing everybody.
Let all corporations be tax free and charge income tax on shareholders and high-salary managers instead. That would be a much more just system.