Or, ya know, you can call up your insurance company and get a policy that covers using your car for business and pay a little extra each month so you don't have to worry about exactly that.
Not everything needs to be run like a chickenshit operation. You're allowed to cross your t's and dot your i's like a real boy.
Some say it is exploitation of older people who work as independent contractors, without any benefits, because their age means they have a harder time finding full-time employment.
Why can't a thing just be for some money on the side, or something one does to keep active, or prevent boredom? Why is it that every arrangement between two people that even remotely has the possibility of money changing hands must be a viable way to support a spouse and two children? Why is there always a crowd of people who think there should be no middle ground between volunteer work and a full-time job with a "living wage" as they like to call it?
This is a perfect example of why there should be such a middle ground, without this BS about exploitation and victimization that always creeps in to these discussions.
Which is all well and good (sort of, not really) when all you're doing is fiddling with numbers in a bank account. Cutting metal though...that's where things become somewhat less reversible and somewhat more consequential.
Well then you must never have worked as an engineer on a product/scientific instrument/piece of software/whatever from start to finish like the author of TFA has. I have, and his observation of how crucial it is to communicate design intent down from the drafting room to the shop floor and forward in time from the conception to the execution is spot-on.
Any idiot can have a brilliant idea, but the follow-through to make sure it's realized the way it was conceived, and to make sure the conception keeps pace with physical reality...that's a learned skill that takes hands-on experience to master.
You don't want to use an OS on your computer or on your phone that's made by people who don't use computers or have never had a cell phone, so why should you want the physical fabrication of your phone handled by people who don't have a stake in using the product?
There's a reason that old-time religion places sloth on the list of cardinal sins: because it is. Here's a clue for ya: any political or moral philosophy that can be placed in bijection with "give me free stuff in exchange for nothing" is nothing other than plain, stupid, simple, evil. If you're too damn lazy and/or stupid to carry your own weight, you deserve what you get. There's no secret stash of free stuff just sitting there, being jealously guarded by the beastly dragon of capitalism; everyone has to work for what they get, no exceptions.
It's not the government's job to protect you from your own bad decisionmaking by taking away everyone else's freedoms. Suicide is sad. So is drug addiction and alcoholism. Government has no business solving those problems at the margins with a wrecking ball to the middle. I don't want my behavior conditioned by you on other people's sad stories.
Or you're using it wrong because you don't understand how it works when it's translated into procedural instructions.
int foo(int bar){
return 1+foo(bar);
}
may not be the same as
int foo(int bar){
return foo(bar)+1;
}
which may not be the same as
int foo(int bar){
return foo(bar+1);
}
That's the question that needs to be asked when deciding between direct democracy vs republicanism, or when deciding how long a term of office for an elected official should be.
Think of it in private sector terms. What's better for the long-term health of the company|the shareholders|the employees|the customers? Having the bean-counters on your back once a year? Once per quarter? Once a week? Every day?
What's the best split of your time? Working or making powerpoints about working to feed your boss(es)?
Maybe we should have federal recall elections (with a suitably high threshold to initiate it, to avoid gumming up the works). Maybe we should move to proportional representation, or staggered terms, or something else. But I can see no good coming from injecting the BS of a perpetual election cycle into American politics.
All mechanisms can be gamed, and no system can be perfect. The real answer is to elect good people to office. That's always the hard part. Run for office yourself if you feel no one else can do a better job and it bothers you enough. But let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater just yet.
Neat fact: the non-linear aerodynamics will always tend to excite a structural mode around its natural frequency.
The fact that it's technically not steady state behavior and thus isn't rightly referred to in the language of linear steady-state analysis ("resonance") just goes to show you how it's the transient phenomena that real engineering is about. Any idiot can come to any comforting conclusion about steady state and average trends, but if you don't rigorously account for the nonlinearities and the transients, you don't have shit. I'm looking at you climate "scientists".
Seriously, the toaster emailing you when the toast is done was a joke, not a prognostication. Will the next big thing be underpants that text you when you've farted?
Many of their concerns were either wrong (for example, that it would damage aquifers) or unprovable (that it would damage the 'spiritual waters' of the Mauna). What do you say about concerns like that?
You make nice to the local duly elected authorities ahead of time and then tell the primitives to go fuck themselves, same as you do on the mainland, where 'primitives' becomes 'homeowners' and 'go fuck yourself' becomes eminent domain, which is the constitutionally prescribed mechanism by which property may be seized from its uncooperative owners for other purposes in exchange for fair market rate value of said property. If the complainers don't actually own the land you're building on, then 'go fuck yourself' doesn't need to transform into anything else. No special treatment for Hawaii please.
No. The Hawaiian people's unelected monarch got dollar signs for pupils and let in a ton of whites and Asians to run the sugar plantations. And then got an unpleasant surprise when said foreigners had the gall to expect something resembling civilized government and toppled the monarchy and instituted a democracy.
And now the natives are free citizens of a free country with exactly the same rights as everyone else, and exactly the same responsibilities.
Well let's see. Out of that 100k, about 25k will have college degrees, 5k or so in technical disciplines. Maybe a 10k will have vocational training, and a good 1-2k will have hands-on agricultural experience. And roughly all of them will have had capital-F Freedom, small-r republicanism, and rule of law drilled into their heads from kindergarten. My guess is they'd do pretty damn well for themselves.
Oh I'm sorry, did you mean to take 100k Anglo-looking devils and replace their minds and culture with that of the primitives, run the experiment, get the predictable answer, and somehow claim a moral high ground?
Uh huh. And in some African villages, they've been living in the same grass huts for a thousand centuries. I don't think you wanna get into a contest of which civilization has done better for the length of its history.
It's not. That's why you don't run consumer-grade Apple or Microsoft for mission-critical applications where "surprises" are not in the plan. And if you don't run it on the real stuff, why does your personal box need to be subjected to the same nonsense?
While GCC is probably still best when it comes to speed, he argues, Clang is improving release by release, and features tools that developers could find useful
Translation: "network tran--I mean speed is a feature that most of our users don't need, so it's not in our development plan"
Nope. Sorry. Aboriginal superstitions about sacred rocks do not live in the same universe as scientific (gasp!) risk assessments for nuclear reactors. Bullshit and fuzzy thinking have no reason to enter into any technical decisionmaking. Also, there are plenty of research nuclear reactors in dense urban areas. MIT has one in the middle of Cambridge, MA.
Obsolete how? If you think that there's anything other than the threat of physical violence that keeps the good intentions and first world problems we've got here in the West from collapsing, you're smoking something. And if you honestly think that the tribal savages in the rest of the world would have come up with small-L liberal society on their own, I direct your attention no further than the African continent.
I don't think your reverse-psychology is gonna work. The more you tell them it's fake, the harder they'll look. And the hard they look, the faster they'll find. How do you like being responsible for them getting their hands on this wonder-weapon?
Which is why you look at choice of major, transcripts, and the reputation and quality of the university. You get to do that when you're on the hiring side of the desk.
Example: Hiring for a software job? Hint: don't pick the guy who majored in anthropology at some liberal arts school without an engineering program and got a C average for his time.
Hiring for a sales position? Don't go for the guy who barely slinked through an economics degree at middle-of-nowhere State where it's well known that the econ degree is rocks for jocks the Div I athletics program.
More to the point, most people aren't cut out for what the 4 year institutions sell as their vision of themselves. Try as you might, if you're meant to be a truck driver, no amount of schoolin' is going to turn you into a philosopher, rocket scientist, or pure mathematician.
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Or, ya know, you can call up your insurance company and get a policy that covers using your car for business and pay a little extra each month so you don't have to worry about exactly that.
Not everything needs to be run like a chickenshit operation. You're allowed to cross your t's and dot your i's like a real boy.
Some say it is exploitation of older people who work as independent contractors, without any benefits, because their age means they have a harder time finding full-time employment.
Why can't a thing just be for some money on the side, or something one does to keep active, or prevent boredom? Why is it that every arrangement between two people that even remotely has the possibility of money changing hands must be a viable way to support a spouse and two children? Why is there always a crowd of people who think there should be no middle ground between volunteer work and a full-time job with a "living wage" as they like to call it? This is a perfect example of why there should be such a middle ground, without this BS about exploitation and victimization that always creeps in to these discussions.
when the animal rights nutters and the diversity nutters decide to join forces and hire a thousand monkeys to crank out our code for us. Oh wait...
Which is all well and good (sort of, not really) when all you're doing is fiddling with numbers in a bank account. Cutting metal though...that's where things become somewhat less reversible and somewhat more consequential.
Well then you must never have worked as an engineer on a product/scientific instrument/piece of software/whatever from start to finish like the author of TFA has. I have, and his observation of how crucial it is to communicate design intent down from the drafting room to the shop floor and forward in time from the conception to the execution is spot-on.
Any idiot can have a brilliant idea, but the follow-through to make sure it's realized the way it was conceived, and to make sure the conception keeps pace with physical reality...that's a learned skill that takes hands-on experience to master.
You don't want to use an OS on your computer or on your phone that's made by people who don't use computers or have never had a cell phone, so why should you want the physical fabrication of your phone handled by people who don't have a stake in using the product?
You insensitive clod! Some people don't have bootstraps. Or boots. Or feet.
There's a reason that old-time religion places sloth on the list of cardinal sins: because it is. Here's a clue for ya: any political or moral philosophy that can be placed in bijection with "give me free stuff in exchange for nothing" is nothing other than plain, stupid, simple, evil. If you're too damn lazy and/or stupid to carry your own weight, you deserve what you get. There's no secret stash of free stuff just sitting there, being jealously guarded by the beastly dragon of capitalism; everyone has to work for what they get, no exceptions.
It's not the government's job to protect you from your own bad decisionmaking by taking away everyone else's freedoms. Suicide is sad. So is drug addiction and alcoholism. Government has no business solving those problems at the margins with a wrecking ball to the middle. I don't want my behavior conditioned by you on other people's sad stories.
Or you're using it wrong because you don't understand how it works when it's translated into procedural instructions.
int foo(int bar){ return 1+foo(bar); }
may not be the same as
int foo(int bar){ return foo(bar)+1; }
which may not be the same as
int foo(int bar){ return foo(bar+1); }
That's the question that needs to be asked when deciding between direct democracy vs republicanism, or when deciding how long a term of office for an elected official should be.
Think of it in private sector terms. What's better for the long-term health of the company|the shareholders|the employees|the customers? Having the bean-counters on your back once a year? Once per quarter? Once a week? Every day?
What's the best split of your time? Working or making powerpoints about working to feed your boss(es)?
Maybe we should have federal recall elections (with a suitably high threshold to initiate it, to avoid gumming up the works). Maybe we should move to proportional representation, or staggered terms, or something else. But I can see no good coming from injecting the BS of a perpetual election cycle into American politics.
All mechanisms can be gamed, and no system can be perfect. The real answer is to elect good people to office. That's always the hard part. Run for office yourself if you feel no one else can do a better job and it bothers you enough. But let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater just yet.
Neat fact: the non-linear aerodynamics will always tend to excite a structural mode around its natural frequency.
The fact that it's technically not steady state behavior and thus isn't rightly referred to in the language of linear steady-state analysis ("resonance") just goes to show you how it's the transient phenomena that real engineering is about. Any idiot can come to any comforting conclusion about steady state and average trends, but if you don't rigorously account for the nonlinearities and the transients, you don't have shit. I'm looking at you climate "scientists".
Seriously, the toaster emailing you when the toast is done was a joke, not a prognostication. Will the next big thing be underpants that text you when you've farted?
Many of their concerns were either wrong (for example, that it would damage aquifers) or unprovable (that it would damage the 'spiritual waters' of the Mauna). What do you say about concerns like that?
You make nice to the local duly elected authorities ahead of time and then tell the primitives to go fuck themselves, same as you do on the mainland, where 'primitives' becomes 'homeowners' and 'go fuck yourself' becomes eminent domain, which is the constitutionally prescribed mechanism by which property may be seized from its uncooperative owners for other purposes in exchange for fair market rate value of said property. If the complainers don't actually own the land you're building on, then 'go fuck yourself' doesn't need to transform into anything else. No special treatment for Hawaii please.
No. The Hawaiian people's unelected monarch got dollar signs for pupils and let in a ton of whites and Asians to run the sugar plantations. And then got an unpleasant surprise when said foreigners had the gall to expect something resembling civilized government and toppled the monarchy and instituted a democracy. And now the natives are free citizens of a free country with exactly the same rights as everyone else, and exactly the same responsibilities.
Injustice my ass. The people building the telescope had expectations that they were going to do it in America, not in TheRocksAreSacredIstan.
Well let's see. Out of that 100k, about 25k will have college degrees, 5k or so in technical disciplines. Maybe a 10k will have vocational training, and a good 1-2k will have hands-on agricultural experience. And roughly all of them will have had capital-F Freedom, small-r republicanism, and rule of law drilled into their heads from kindergarten. My guess is they'd do pretty damn well for themselves.
Oh I'm sorry, did you mean to take 100k Anglo-looking devils and replace their minds and culture with that of the primitives, run the experiment, get the predictable answer, and somehow claim a moral high ground?
Uh huh. And in some African villages, they've been living in the same grass huts for a thousand centuries. I don't think you wanna get into a contest of which civilization has done better for the length of its history.
It's not. That's why you don't run consumer-grade Apple or Microsoft for mission-critical applications where "surprises" are not in the plan. And if you don't run it on the real stuff, why does your personal box need to be subjected to the same nonsense?
While GCC is probably still best when it comes to speed, he argues, Clang is improving release by release, and features tools that developers could find useful
Translation: "network tran--I mean speed is a feature that most of our users don't need, so it's not in our development plan"
Nope. Sorry. Aboriginal superstitions about sacred rocks do not live in the same universe as scientific (gasp!) risk assessments for nuclear reactors. Bullshit and fuzzy thinking have no reason to enter into any technical decisionmaking. Also, there are plenty of research nuclear reactors in dense urban areas. MIT has one in the middle of Cambridge, MA.
Obsolete how? If you think that there's anything other than the threat of physical violence that keeps the good intentions and first world problems we've got here in the West from collapsing, you're smoking something. And if you honestly think that the tribal savages in the rest of the world would have come up with small-L liberal society on their own, I direct your attention no further than the African continent.
If you're still using crappy dial-up, you've got bigger problems than McAf~/. What a weird hostname anyway.
I don't think your reverse-psychology is gonna work. The more you tell them it's fake, the harder they'll look. And the hard they look, the faster they'll find. How do you like being responsible for them getting their hands on this wonder-weapon?
Which is why you look at choice of major, transcripts, and the reputation and quality of the university. You get to do that when you're on the hiring side of the desk.
Example: Hiring for a software job? Hint: don't pick the guy who majored in anthropology at some liberal arts school without an engineering program and got a C average for his time.
Hiring for a sales position? Don't go for the guy who barely slinked through an economics degree at middle-of-nowhere State where it's well known that the econ degree is rocks for jocks the Div I athletics program.
More to the point, most people aren't cut out for what the 4 year institutions sell as their vision of themselves. Try as you might, if you're meant to be a truck driver, no amount of schoolin' is going to turn you into a philosopher, rocket scientist, or pure mathematician.