but have never thought about it beyond "man change - man change bad".
that's because the Rs have abdicated their responsibility. they're the party of industry and heartless growth, and they need to grow up and apply this view to a new industry of climate manipulation, rather than just shill and try to bury the issue in unthinking support of old oil.
in the end, climate will work out; the only question will be who gets shafted by our implementation of climate change technology. the Ds, of course, want a sort of austerity and personal responsibility. the Rs should be advocating some kind of free market solution that shafts the poor and indigenous cultures, so that we can work out an equilibrium between the two.
I see how passing this test is important in principle, I guess, but since it is elementary constructs used in a very complex and artificial way, does it really have much to do with how real math will look?
At least it's objective. That's something.
That chrome (at least the MacOS 26.0.1410.65 build) falls down hard on even the more reasonable mathml acid1 seems more significant...
First, google isn't in the anonymizing-proxy business.
Second, this is for an interview. In order to get the subject to explain things, it's often a good move to play yourself down, give a terse summary, and let the subject elaborate on things.
Third, depending on what he meant by "the recipient needs to be replicated," i'd say he gets the gist of the tor network. There are multiple recipients in the routing chain. "Replicated'' isn't the best word to use, but it's not completely wrong.
if the "self-selected" wine tasters can taste the difference, then it is real.
it might not matter to you, but it is real.
you're mostly right, though. high prices are based on prestige as well as quality. i'm not an oenophile myself but as i've had it explained to me, you can get wines in the 90th percentile of quality for $20-30/btl if you research diligently and have a well-stocked friendly neighborhood wine store.
of course, if you don't have the time, or if you shop exclusively at whole foods, yeah, they'll happily charge you $100 for the convenience of maintaining your ignorance.
Truffle is trivially distinguishable from other mushrooms. Is it worth paying hundreds or thousands per pound to try it (more than once, at least)? Probably not. Is the taste going to agree with everyone? No. Is a large part of the price the prestige factor? Yes.
But to assert that it is indistinguishable is just stupid. Either you've never tried them, or you've had your taste buds cauterized.
it's hard to unroot when the phone is, you know, broken and thus actually needs warranty work.
of course the last time i sent it in, all that happened was they fixed it, flashed the stock rom back on (!), and sent it back to me. they didn't reflash the stock bootloader, though, so recovery was quick.
true. cyanogen was great on my triumph except for the camera (it would click periodically as the autofocus just cycled back and forth; occasionally you'd get lucky, so i just took ten pictures instead of one and pick the best) and the hdmi. both were reverse-engineered as best as possible, which in the case of hdmi was not at all.
of course the triumph was still a piece of shit overall; i bought a nexus 4. it works well for now.
still don't see how this something the aclu should be doing.
while assuring that none of their blocking methods impact any portion of neighboring property.
or, rather than deal with the inevitable headaches (or at least significantly increased expense) which the enforcement of this would cause (think about urban areas if you haven't already), we just have a blanket ban.
it works well enough, i would even say very well. why fix what isn't broken?
you'll just have to deal with the oppression of rf waves contaminating your precious bodily fluids.
Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, and whoever played Miller were perfect. Olivia Barash and Agent Rogersz were supposed to be ridiculous. Everyone else was an extra.
i want to be excited about this, but Alex Cox seems to have lost it recently. i know Repo Chick had an incredibly tight budget, but still... he seems to have become lost in his own world. he even claimed that Repo: The Genetic Opera was a ripoff of Repo Man. sorry, Alex, you can't assert a claim to every dystopic story involving repossession.
What other things would it lead to? FL, like every other state excepting NV, asserts a government monopoly on gambling. (some states license out that monopoly geographically or otherwise, but that's not the same as being permissive.)
How is it at all surprising that they are cracking down on a scheme to circumvent this monopoly, and what will it ``lead to"?
Multinational corporations are a direct creation of government, they sure as hell don't exist in a state of nature.
that's true only insofar as the government funded most of the information age (this is either because the market wasn't smart enough to do it by itself, or because there's a nefarious plot to force people to rely on the state, depending on your ideology).
in a world with as much communication technology as we have now, multinational corporations are sure as shit ``natural."
clue the second: multinationals do defend their property with armed force, in countries where they can't rely on the military and police to do it for them...
To a communist, it sort of makes sense. $1M per year buys you most of life's luxuries while attenuating the maximum influence an individual can have over capital development. You can have a nice house, but you can't engage in a massive development project without forming or joining a collective.
If you want a sort of hierarchical quasi-meritocracy like we have now, while cutting down individual enterprise, a $1M cap is intuitively reasonable.
Of course I'm not advocating such a scheme (it would fail for any number of reasons), just saying that if this were your intention, you'd pick $1M over $100K or $1B.
Could you elaborate on the "called a pirate" thing? It doesn't make any sense. The only `hard restriction i can think of on my mac is that it has hdmi drm baked-in, which I don't care about, and is probably not what you're referring to. Some things are harder than linux, a lot of things are easier. Sure, you can't customize the gui, but if you really want to, you can run gnome through the X11 server; it's just that no one sees the need to develop and maintain such a port... gee, I can't imagine why...
On the other hand, Mac OS X has several unique avenues for creativity; automator for example is very powerful for how simple it is. Yes, it's far from ideal and it's dog slow, but it offers a level of consistency that is enabled by Mac OS X's centralized approach.
feynman has an anecdote where he tries to determine if people can count and read at the same time. his results were that half of the people he tested could, and the others could not. the ones who could, counted by imagining visually a clock face or such, and the numbers incrementing on that. the ones who couldn't counted by mentally counting verbally. there was no difference between the two groups in terms of IQ or other achievements. some people just think differently. (feynman's conclusion was that, if something this simple was that complicated, psychometry was totally hopeless.)
you know, a good analog watch gives more precision than an HH:MM:SS digital watch. is that dumbed down? no. some people like the digital readout; some people like the analog; and if you really need exact time you can get a watch with a millisecond timer.
To elaborate a bit, the problem frequentists have with Bayesians is that they claim a statement like "Before I take a measurement, I believe that there is a 0.0001% chance that the sun has exploded, and a 99.9999% chance that it has not" is total nonsense. Strictly speaking, they are correct. The sun has either exploded, or not. The probability is 100% for one or the other, you just don't know which.
But, the Bayesian replies, the frequentist is also using a fudge factor to set the significance level required (this is where Randall uses the strawman). After all, the frequentist has to decide how strong of evidence he requires to reject the null and accept the positive claim. If you claim that you can tell Coke and Pepsi apart in a blind taste test, I'll probably just believe you, or if I were really anal-retentive, I'd require 5% significance. That is, I would want an experiment such that if you actually can't tell them apart, there is only a 5% chance that you'll get lucky and convince me wrongly. But with the sun going nova, clearly I'll want stronger evidence. How much stronger? Eh, I dunno, maybe 1-in-a-million would be good enough. So, the Bayesian says, we're both making an ad-hoc assumption somewhere, and I'm actually giving more thought to it.
There aren't that many Bayesians who really believe in the Bayesian "subjective probability." Almost all Bayesians would want to be frequentists in an ideal world; it's just that Bayesianism is amazingly powerful, and usually the prior probability (though strictly speaking a lie) has an intuitive interpretation.
The thing is Randall didn't get into any of this, at least not convincingly.
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but have never thought about it beyond "man change - man change bad".
that's because the Rs have abdicated their responsibility. they're the party of industry and heartless growth, and they need to grow up and apply this view to a new industry of climate manipulation, rather than just shill and try to bury the issue in unthinking support of old oil.
in the end, climate will work out; the only question will be who gets shafted by our implementation of climate change technology. the Ds, of course, want a sort of austerity and personal responsibility. the Rs should be advocating some kind of free market solution that shafts the poor and indigenous cultures, so that we can work out an equilibrium between the two.
I see how passing this test is important in principle, I guess, but since it is elementary constructs used in a very complex and artificial way, does it really have much to do with how real math will look?
At least it's objective. That's something.
That chrome (at least the MacOS 26.0.1410.65 build) falls down hard on even the more reasonable mathml acid1 seems more significant...
An astute analysis and very well-put. Thank you.
First, google isn't in the anonymizing-proxy business.
Second, this is for an interview. In order to get the subject to explain things, it's often a good move to play yourself down, give a terse summary, and let the subject elaborate on things.
Third, depending on what he meant by "the recipient needs to be replicated," i'd say he gets the gist of the tor network. There are multiple recipients in the routing chain. "Replicated'' isn't the best word to use, but it's not completely wrong.
if the "self-selected" wine tasters can taste the difference, then it is real.
it might not matter to you, but it is real.
you're mostly right, though. high prices are based on prestige as well as quality. i'm not an oenophile myself but as i've had it explained to me, you can get wines in the 90th percentile of quality for $20-30/btl if you research diligently and have a well-stocked friendly neighborhood wine store.
of course, if you don't have the time, or if you shop exclusively at whole foods, yeah, they'll happily charge you $100 for the convenience of maintaining your ignorance.
Truffle is trivially distinguishable from other mushrooms. Is it worth paying hundreds or thousands per pound to try it (more than once, at least)? Probably not. Is the taste going to agree with everyone? No. Is a large part of the price the prestige factor? Yes.
But to assert that it is indistinguishable is just stupid. Either you've never tried them, or you've had your taste buds cauterized.
Tomorrow, the first thing you do is go down to the newsstand and get Harper's.
it's hard to unroot when the phone is, you know, broken and thus actually needs warranty work.
of course the last time i sent it in, all that happened was they fixed it, flashed the stock rom back on (!), and sent it back to me. they didn't reflash the stock bootloader, though, so recovery was quick.
true. cyanogen was great on my triumph except for the camera (it would click periodically as the autofocus just cycled back and forth; occasionally you'd get lucky, so i just took ten pictures instead of one and pick the best) and the hdmi. both were reverse-engineered as best as possible, which in the case of hdmi was not at all.
of course the triumph was still a piece of shit overall; i bought a nexus 4. it works well for now.
still don't see how this something the aclu should be doing.
while assuring that none of their blocking methods impact any portion of neighboring property.
or, rather than deal with the inevitable headaches (or at least significantly increased expense) which the enforcement of this would cause (think about urban areas if you haven't already), we just have a blanket ban.
it works well enough, i would even say very well. why fix what isn't broken?
you'll just have to deal with the oppression of rf waves contaminating your precious bodily fluids.
that's a great video, thanks for posting.
you're right. i meant to type "the vinyl". yes, vinyl is worse, but the vinyl of a particular record may be better due to mastering.
They are mistaking correlation with causation.
Uh, if there is a correlation, doesn't that mean that vinyl does sound better?
Not only is it a great social satire; it's possibly the best 80s coming-of-age story ever. The punk version of Stand By Me.
Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, and whoever played Miller were perfect. Olivia Barash and Agent Rogersz were supposed to be ridiculous. Everyone else was an extra.
i want to be excited about this, but Alex Cox seems to have lost it recently. i know Repo Chick had an incredibly tight budget, but still... he seems to have become lost in his own world. he even claimed that Repo: The Genetic Opera was a ripoff of Repo Man. sorry, Alex, you can't assert a claim to every dystopic story involving repossession.
i guess we'll see if this project gets funded.
many human interface guidelines in XI. new guidelines.
What other things would it lead to? FL, like every other state excepting NV, asserts a government monopoly on gambling. (some states license out that monopoly geographically or otherwise, but that's not the same as being permissive.)
How is it at all surprising that they are cracking down on a scheme to circumvent this monopoly, and what will it ``lead to"?
Multinational corporations are a direct creation of government, they sure as hell don't exist in a state of nature.
that's true only insofar as the government funded most of the information age (this is either because the market wasn't smart enough to do it by itself, or because there's a nefarious plot to force people to rely on the state, depending on your ideology).
in a world with as much communication technology as we have now, multinational corporations are sure as shit ``natural."
clue the second: multinationals do defend their property with armed force, in countries where they can't rely on the military and police to do it for them...
To a communist, it sort of makes sense. $1M per year buys you most of life's luxuries while attenuating the maximum influence an individual can have over capital development. You can have a nice house, but you can't engage in a massive development project without forming or joining a collective.
If you want a sort of hierarchical quasi-meritocracy like we have now, while cutting down individual enterprise, a $1M cap is intuitively reasonable.
Of course I'm not advocating such a scheme (it would fail for any number of reasons), just saying that if this were your intention, you'd pick $1M over $100K or $1B.
I don't think obvious trolling pays that much.
mathematically speaking, they're incomparable until you define a probability space.
Could you elaborate on the "called a pirate" thing? It doesn't make any sense. The only `hard restriction i can think of on my mac is that it has hdmi drm baked-in, which I don't care about, and is probably not what you're referring to. Some things are harder than linux, a lot of things are easier. Sure, you can't customize the gui, but if you really want to, you can run gnome through the X11 server; it's just that no one sees the need to develop and maintain such a port... gee, I can't imagine why...
On the other hand, Mac OS X has several unique avenues for creativity; automator for example is very powerful for how simple it is. Yes, it's far from ideal and it's dog slow, but it offers a level of consistency that is enabled by Mac OS X's centralized approach.
jesus fucking christ. it's not dumbed down.
feynman has an anecdote where he tries to determine if people can count and read at the same time. his results were that half of the people he tested could, and the others could not. the ones who could, counted by imagining visually a clock face or such, and the numbers incrementing on that. the ones who couldn't counted by mentally counting verbally. there was no difference between the two groups in terms of IQ or other achievements. some people just think differently. (feynman's conclusion was that, if something this simple was that complicated, psychometry was totally hopeless.)
you know, a good analog watch gives more precision than an HH:MM:SS digital watch. is that dumbed down? no. some people like the digital readout; some people like the analog; and if you really need exact time you can get a watch with a millisecond timer.
To elaborate a bit, the problem frequentists have with Bayesians is that they claim a statement like "Before I take a measurement, I believe that there is a 0.0001% chance that the sun has exploded, and a 99.9999% chance that it has not" is total nonsense. Strictly speaking, they are correct. The sun has either exploded, or not. The probability is 100% for one or the other, you just don't know which.
But, the Bayesian replies, the frequentist is also using a fudge factor to set the significance level required (this is where Randall uses the strawman). After all, the frequentist has to decide how strong of evidence he requires to reject the null and accept the positive claim. If you claim that you can tell Coke and Pepsi apart in a blind taste test, I'll probably just believe you, or if I were really anal-retentive, I'd require 5% significance. That is, I would want an experiment such that if you actually can't tell them apart, there is only a 5% chance that you'll get lucky and convince me wrongly. But with the sun going nova, clearly I'll want stronger evidence. How much stronger? Eh, I dunno, maybe 1-in-a-million would be good enough. So, the Bayesian says, we're both making an ad-hoc assumption somewhere, and I'm actually giving more thought to it.
There aren't that many Bayesians who really believe in the Bayesian "subjective probability." Almost all Bayesians would want to be frequentists in an ideal world; it's just that Bayesianism is amazingly powerful, and usually the prior probability (though strictly speaking a lie) has an intuitive interpretation.
The thing is Randall didn't get into any of this, at least not convincingly.