WTF? Of course we can identify them. They put their names right on the garbage they publish in their SJW "academic" journals and their youtube channels.
Anita Sarkesian, Brianna Wu, Melissa Click, Ward Churchill, Sundar Pichai, the President of Evergreen State, all of them. They aren't hiding. You're just not listening.
Yeah! Keep on wasting your residents' taxes on virtue-signalling baloney and then tying yourself in knots over inflated housing, electricity, and transportation costs by trying tax dodge tax hikes like 'charitable donations in lieu of state taxes.' Grow the fuck up and learn to do arithmetic, the lot of yous.
If a typical car's gas tank held 500lb of fuel, it would have a range of 2000 miles. My average-sized car with average mileage has a 16 gallon tank. 16 gallons is about 60 liters. Gasoline is about 80 pct as dense as water, so that's about 100 lbs to go (in the worst case of all city stop-and-go traffic) of 300 miles to empty, in the best case over 500 miles to empty, and in the average case about 400 miles to empty. If I took on 5x as much fuel, I'd roughly quintuple my range.
Air drag dominates the waste, and there aren't too many hills around these parts, so the added weight wouldn't eat into my range that much. An extra 400lbs is like driving with two more people in the car, and my mileage stays the same when I do that.
'Considered' and 'objectively evaluated to be' are not the same. In 50 years' time, monkeys will still be monkeys, dogs will still be dogs, insects will still be insects, and people will still be people.
Let's also point out the obvious flaw here: encryption takes time and writing to a flash memory device takes time.
This thread is turning into another "smart gun" debate. One side wants a technology that has to read minds and violate laws of math or physics in order to work as conceived, and the other side isn't interested in going down a rabbit hole of silly.
It takes 5-7 Yeats to learn anything to a more than cursory level. Simple programming languages are included in that statement. It's just that some languages fool you into thinking you know more than you do. It's a function of the size of the ecosystem and the primary area of application.
C++ is used for more complicated stuff, on average, than Perl or JavaScript, so you end up feeling like you don't know what you're doing when you jump into the deep end on a C++ project. Again, on average.
Fair enough. I guess I wasn't clear. My point was that individually sane thoughts like "add these numbers" and "Johnny did X" can get pasted together without filling in the necessary details in between, and that slips through the editing process. Here, for example, the missing information can be something like "In order to operate a boat with X amount of cargo, you need Y years experience; a goat weights Z kilos, a sheep weighs fifty percent more than a goat" that would have turned it into a real math problem, but the middle might have been lost in between.
if it's really as intended. But it's probably a typo that didn't get caught. They happen. Feynman has a story in one of his books about finding a math problem like
Johnny observes three stars through his telescope. The stars' temperatures are X, Y, and Z kelvin. What is the total temperature observed?
when he was asked to evaluate science textbooks for the school board in Pasadena.
Jarone? Come on now. All your other names were at least real. And I was expecting the 'Bernie' one to be about something something Venezuelan socialism.
Our government does and should do lots of things. But I draw the line in a different place than you do. I don't think commercial product development is what government labs are for.
No kidding. You know what the difference is though? Business can fail. Government can't. All the BS you see in working on government contract doesn't go away if you do the same work "in house." The decision to pursue a line of work is where the mistake happens, not so much the execution of it. But government research doesn't fail. If funding priorities change, everyone and their mother start bellyaching to their congressman about the Evil Republicans Defunding Science (TM) or Evil Democrats Wasting Money (TM). Creative destruction doesn't occur in government labs. It does in the private sector. Not black-and-white, but pretty clear contrast in the aggregate.
Email for communication, slashdot and the like to troll on, actual face-to-face interaction for just about everything else. Been facebook-free for nearly a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
To the extent that corporate governance is broken (in your estimate, at least), the only role for federal government is identifying and remediating laws and regulations that incentivize that sort of short-term thinking. Tax cuts for R&D work can be a carrot. Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders on a per-quarter schedule can be a stick. Neither are carved in stone and can be adjusted to incentivize good behavior and avoid incentivizing bad behavior.
No, I'm arguing that federal government doing commercial R&D is bad. I am not arguing all federal scientific work is bad. That would be hypocritical of me since that's what I do for a living.
Power systems and civilian vehicle technology is commercial R&D, though. Whoever wants to make a buck off of selling me a car can pay to have that research done. I don't want my tax dollars wasted on giving away corporate freebies that private business is capable of paying for out of its own pocket.
Life isn't binary just about all the time. Arguing like it is makes you look like a fool.
My opinion aligns with the intent of the Constitution. The federal government is explicitly empowered to do only the things which it is charged to do by the Constitution. This is stated explicitly in the original Constitution and the 10th Amendment, implicitly in much of the Bill of Rights and other Amendments, and explicitly affirmed by centuries of nonbinding convention and binding legal rulings.
You are quite free to have an alternate opinion about the role of government, and you are quite welcome to advocate for amendments to the Constitution to enable that alternative vision, but you ought not fool yourself (and you ought not attempt to fool me) into thinking that your opinion is legal to implement.
Look guy, I work in government R&D. We do things inefficiently. Not because we don't know what we're doing, not because we're out to suckle at the taxpayer's teat, but because the federal government is a large organization with multiple competing constituencies and institutional priorities. Some things we need to do in-house because they're of strategic value to not outsource. Other things...are best left to private organizations to do in the way that best fits their corporate cultures.
Fracking and nuclear energy and aviation and all of that stuff were pie in the sky decades ago and it was appropriate for federal institutions to dabble in them on the off chance that they'd yield strategic or military benefits down the line. But the moment something takes off commercially, it's time for the federal juggernaut to back off and let it grow on its own.
Slashdot Mirror
WTF? Of course we can identify them. They put their names right on the garbage they publish in their SJW "academic" journals and their youtube channels.
Anita Sarkesian, Brianna Wu, Melissa Click, Ward Churchill, Sundar Pichai, the President of Evergreen State, all of them. They aren't hiding. You're just not listening.
Left-wing fake news does indeed have higher production values.
I Watched YouTube today. Oh...look at my Watch, it's dinner time. Watcha think I'm gonna cook today?
I knew that. You knew that. But somewhere out on the internets an army of SJWs are about to crown you their emperor.
Too many lobsters.
Make one girl dollar equal to 1/.78 of a man dollar. That'll even things out.
Yeah! Keep on wasting your residents' taxes on virtue-signalling baloney and then tying yourself in knots over inflated housing, electricity, and transportation costs by trying tax dodge tax hikes like 'charitable donations in lieu of state taxes.' Grow the fuck up and learn to do arithmetic, the lot of yous.
If a typical car's gas tank held 500lb of fuel, it would have a range of 2000 miles. My average-sized car with average mileage has a 16 gallon tank. 16 gallons is about 60 liters. Gasoline is about 80 pct as dense as water, so that's about 100 lbs to go (in the worst case of all city stop-and-go traffic) of 300 miles to empty, in the best case over 500 miles to empty, and in the average case about 400 miles to empty. If I took on 5x as much fuel, I'd roughly quintuple my range.
Air drag dominates the waste, and there aren't too many hills around these parts, so the added weight wouldn't eat into my range that much. An extra 400lbs is like driving with two more people in the car, and my mileage stays the same when I do that.
'Considered' and 'objectively evaluated to be' are not the same. In 50 years' time, monkeys will still be monkeys, dogs will still be dogs, insects will still be insects, and people will still be people.
Let's also point out the obvious flaw here: encryption takes time and writing to a flash memory device takes time.
This thread is turning into another "smart gun" debate. One side wants a technology that has to read minds and violate laws of math or physics in order to work as conceived, and the other side isn't interested in going down a rabbit hole of silly.
It takes 5-7 Yeats to learn anything to a more than cursory level. Simple programming languages are included in that statement. It's just that some languages fool you into thinking you know more than you do. It's a function of the size of the ecosystem and the primary area of application.
C++ is used for more complicated stuff, on average, than Perl or JavaScript, so you end up feeling like you don't know what you're doing when you jump into the deep end on a C++ project. Again, on average.
Touche
Slowing down the economy and getting themselves killed one idiotic stunt at a time.
Fair enough. I guess I wasn't clear. My point was that individually sane thoughts like "add these numbers" and "Johnny did X" can get pasted together without filling in the necessary details in between, and that slips through the editing process. Here, for example, the missing information can be something like "In order to operate a boat with X amount of cargo, you need Y years experience; a goat weights Z kilos, a sheep weighs fifty percent more than a goat" that would have turned it into a real math problem, but the middle might have been lost in between.
Unpatriotic lies! Of course you can buy tennis shoes on a Sunday in Oklahoma City.
Johnny observes three stars through his telescope. The stars' temperatures are X, Y, and Z kelvin. What is the total temperature observed?
when he was asked to evaluate science textbooks for the school board in Pasadena.
Jarone? Come on now. All your other names were at least real. And I was expecting the 'Bernie' one to be about something something Venezuelan socialism.
Overall grade: Low pass.
Our government does and should do lots of things. But I draw the line in a different place than you do. I don't think commercial product development is what government labs are for.
No kidding. You know what the difference is though? Business can fail. Government can't. All the BS you see in working on government contract doesn't go away if you do the same work "in house." The decision to pursue a line of work is where the mistake happens, not so much the execution of it. But government research doesn't fail. If funding priorities change, everyone and their mother start bellyaching to their congressman about the Evil Republicans Defunding Science (TM) or Evil Democrats Wasting Money (TM). Creative destruction doesn't occur in government labs. It does in the private sector. Not black-and-white, but pretty clear contrast in the aggregate.
Email for communication, slashdot and the like to troll on, actual face-to-face interaction for just about everything else. Been facebook-free for nearly a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
To the extent that corporate governance is broken (in your estimate, at least), the only role for federal government is identifying and remediating laws and regulations that incentivize that sort of short-term thinking. Tax cuts for R&D work can be a carrot. Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders on a per-quarter schedule can be a stick. Neither are carved in stone and can be adjusted to incentivize good behavior and avoid incentivizing bad behavior.
No, I'm arguing that federal government doing commercial R&D is bad. I am not arguing all federal scientific work is bad. That would be hypocritical of me since that's what I do for a living.
Power systems and civilian vehicle technology is commercial R&D, though. Whoever wants to make a buck off of selling me a car can pay to have that research done. I don't want my tax dollars wasted on giving away corporate freebies that private business is capable of paying for out of its own pocket.
Life isn't binary just about all the time. Arguing like it is makes you look like a fool.
My opinion aligns with the intent of the Constitution. The federal government is explicitly empowered to do only the things which it is charged to do by the Constitution. This is stated explicitly in the original Constitution and the 10th Amendment, implicitly in much of the Bill of Rights and other Amendments, and explicitly affirmed by centuries of nonbinding convention and binding legal rulings.
You are quite free to have an alternate opinion about the role of government, and you are quite welcome to advocate for amendments to the Constitution to enable that alternative vision, but you ought not fool yourself (and you ought not attempt to fool me) into thinking that your opinion is legal to implement.
Look guy, I work in government R&D. We do things inefficiently. Not because we don't know what we're doing, not because we're out to suckle at the taxpayer's teat, but because the federal government is a large organization with multiple competing constituencies and institutional priorities. Some things we need to do in-house because they're of strategic value to not outsource. Other things...are best left to private organizations to do in the way that best fits their corporate cultures.
Fracking and nuclear energy and aviation and all of that stuff were pie in the sky decades ago and it was appropriate for federal institutions to dabble in them on the off chance that they'd yield strategic or military benefits down the line. But the moment something takes off commercially, it's time for the federal juggernaut to back off and let it grow on its own.
Got a chip on your shoulder? Well, that's OK.
We're not the Soviet Union here. Everything isn't automatically military just because the military may benefit from it.