Passenger pigeons were tasty. They're extinct. A lot of other animals were "useful" at one time and went extinct, such as colorful birds in North America that all got killed for lady's hats.
Simply being tasty and/or useful apparently isn't enough; but it does help. Whales--almost extinct but huge, majestic, romantic. and protected *now*. That was a close call. Pandas! Whoah, big, furry, cute, stupid, and the PRC uses them as a symbol. These guys really have it dialed in; but they still almost got wiped out because of their specialized diet making it hard for them to live outside of their region. If panda evolution were really that great, they'd have figured out how to live on garbage.
We have a critter that does that, and they even call it the "trash panda". Raccoons. Big. Sort of useful as rustic hats. You can eat them... but most people don't. It's dark meat, and really not as gamey as you'd think; but I digress. The trash panda is not endangered. It's adapted to us better than the other panda.
I guess the point is... tasty and useful is trumped by a lot of other factors. I mean... roaches, gack! They're everywhere in the city, and we do all kinds of things to kill them but they just keep going. They're not useful. Only a few people obsessed with trying to make us all insectivores would call them tasty. The roach is hearty and omnivorous. It lives off our garbage.
A better way to sum up the greatest evolutionary advantage would be: "being able to co-exist with humans".
Note, in case you don't get the joke--he got by the censor by bolding the letter i. Apparently the filter isn't smart enough to parse away the HTML. AFAIK, n-word without intervening HTML formatting is censored on Slashdot.
I'm given to understand that Ruby is slow in part because all objects can be "monkey patched" at run time. I've always taken it as the language where you can serve web pages from an integer if you like. 3X faster than old Ruby is still not fast, right? All the JIT in the world can't help you if there's no clean mapping from the language's objects to the machine's objects. You'd need some kind of "lock" optimization keyword in the language, and perhaps other fundamental changes.
Other posters have mentioned Python + ScyPy having a hold on the research community, with ScyPy being in Fortran not C. C got the *restrict* keyword relatively recently so it could optimize aliasing. Fortran has been restrict by default all along, so I suspect ScyPy is built in Fortran in part because people who work with it are used to faster aliasing assumptions.
I'm willing to wager that Ruby is still pretty far behind in all of that. It had a "just throw more hardware at it" mentality from the very beginning, and is only going to survive in areas where people can be convinced that it's easier and cheaper to do that.
Lanphear and colleagues examined potential confounders and effect modifiers, including age, sex, ethnic origin, urban residence, smoking status, diabetes, hypertension, serum cholesterol, alcohol intake, and household income. They noted no appreciable attenuation of their estimates by any of these factors. The effect of lead on all-cause mortality and on cardiovascular disease mortality was greater in people younger than 50 years than in older adults, and it was significantly larger for non-smokers than for smokers.
I would classify this as spatial arbitrage, or perhaps regulatory arbitrage if they were taking advantage of the way power was supplied to large consumers during certain times.
Many utility stocks yield in the 4 to 5% range. At 5% yield, a $4000 purchase of shares yields $200/yr. Depending on your rates, this might be close to paying for what a cheap $100 resistance heater would consume, or it might not. YMMV depending on how often you use such things.
Of course stocks aren't risk-free; but you don't even have to chose your local utility--you can evaluate your appetite for risk in the market. I think in most cases, a good utility stock is far more likely to hold value than this thing. Even a utility with aging plants isn't going to become obsolete anywhere near as fast as a mining rig.
If you don't like finance, you can always put the money towards a solar install if you're setup for that to work. The beauty of the financial approach is that you can do it anywhere--even in an apartment.
Long story short, I can think of many better ways to deploy that cash for the purpose of paying utility bills.
The option to use a 3rd party compiler for the release has always been there. The big news in TFA is that Microsoft helped them with the PDB format so that you could compile *and* debug with Clang.
You can't keep that a secret. We couldn't keep the atomic bomb a secret. The only reason every criminal doesn't have one in his garage is because you need massive industrial processing to refine the uranium and make a bomb. Secrecy has nothing to do with it. A paper on how to build the A-bomb was published by a high school student in the 80s, and that ruffled quite a few feathers. Experts said it would work; but of course the kid was missing the key ingredient and wasn't likely to ever get it.
AI is not the atomic bomb. You don't need rare elements. You just need stuff that's already in millions of offices already. One algorithm for handling insurance claims walks out the door, and it'll be running at all the major companies the next day. Plans for burger-bots get published, and it's all she wrote. Intellectual property laws might slow it down, but secrecy ain't gonna stop it.
A company like Getty is displaying usable images on the Internet and getting pissed off about copyright? How hard would it be for them to overlay a watermark that can't be easily 'shopped out? How many pixels are they displaying anyway? Anybody who's legit is going to want to scrub the watermark and resize the image without losing any more quality than necessary. They should be hiding high quality images behind a paid login if they care that much. Even Flickr can do that. Come on, Getty. Put on your big boy pants.
Of course; but this one's not designed to do that. If you're committed to the Falcon style of recovery, the parachute system is dead mass. In space flight, mass is money so you sort of have to commit to one recovery system or another.
As a highly rated reply said, "practice". I'd like to add that it's also the only nominal way to land them. The alternative is to make a mess on the LZ, or chuck them someplace where they'd be pollution.
How about allowing residents to avoid capital gains on anything they sell to pay their taxes? Of course if the law were worded that way, they'd still have to declare capital gains on their Federal tax return.
If you're allowed to pay state taxes in something other than USD, and that something has an unrealized capital gain then the state is effectively allowing you to dodge Federal capital gains... or is it?
I see this being an administrative nightmare and/or going to court, possibly the Supreme Court because it seems like the states might be facilitating some kind of Federal tax dodge. Either that, or there are issues with what is "money" at the Federal level.
It's kind of moot anyway, because how are they going to handle something as volatile as BTC? You can literally go from overpaying to underpaying by a day's wages in seconds.
Really though, One of the things I've said about health care is that we could easily care for patients without all that overhead. Thing is, just like Brawndo, the economy sort of depends on it. Until the plants actually start growing again, this is going to hurt.
It seems like that place is destined to be at the epicenter of the USA's social issues. Unionization of coal mines there sparked a massive civil conflict back in the 1920s.
Face blind people don't perceive faces as grey non-descript blurs. It's more like being illiterate. A person who can't read sees the same letters and words that you do; but doesn't impart meaning to them.
Sigh... and we had a serial arsonist here who started the fire that burned Lower Lake, CA. I bet he didn't use a flame thrower. You don't need one to start a wild fire. Faulty power lines throwing a few sparks is all you need. Gasoline and a match would do just fine. All this law does is probably send a few recreational users to Nevada.
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It doesn't sound like they needed rules on paper to fix their problem. They added the code of conduct *after* they forked the project.
Passenger pigeons were tasty. They're extinct. A lot of other animals were "useful" at one time and went extinct, such as colorful birds in North America that all got killed for lady's hats.
Simply being tasty and/or useful apparently isn't enough; but it does help. Whales--almost extinct but huge, majestic, romantic. and protected *now*. That was a close call. Pandas! Whoah, big, furry, cute, stupid, and the PRC uses them as a symbol. These guys really have it dialed in; but they still almost got wiped out because of their specialized diet making it hard for them to live outside of their region. If panda evolution were really that great, they'd have figured out how to live on garbage.
We have a critter that does that, and they even call it the "trash panda". Raccoons. Big. Sort of useful as rustic hats. You can eat them... but most people don't. It's dark meat, and really not as gamey as you'd think; but I digress. The trash panda is not endangered. It's adapted to us better than the other panda.
I guess the point is... tasty and useful is trumped by a lot of other factors. I mean... roaches, gack! They're everywhere in the city, and we do all kinds of things to kill them but they just keep going. They're not useful. Only a few people obsessed with trying to make us all insectivores would call them tasty. The roach is hearty and omnivorous. It lives off our garbage.
A better way to sum up the greatest evolutionary advantage would be: "being able to co-exist with humans".
That's a bold move you made there.
Note, in case you don't get the joke--he got by the censor by bolding the letter i. Apparently the filter isn't smart enough to parse away the HTML. AFAIK, n-word without intervening HTML formatting is censored on Slashdot.
Whodathunk it? Now excuse me, I'm off to have some nice refreshing water.
I'm given to understand that Ruby is slow in part because all objects can be "monkey patched" at run time. I've always taken it as the language where you can serve web pages from an integer if you like. 3X faster than old Ruby is still not fast, right? All the JIT in the world can't help you if there's no clean mapping from the language's objects to the machine's objects. You'd need some kind of "lock" optimization keyword in the language, and perhaps other fundamental changes.
Other posters have mentioned Python + ScyPy having a hold on the research community, with ScyPy being in Fortran not C. C got the *restrict* keyword relatively recently so it could optimize aliasing. Fortran has been restrict by default all along, so I suspect ScyPy is built in Fortran in part because people who work with it are used to faster aliasing assumptions.
I'm willing to wager that Ruby is still pretty far behind in all of that. It had a "just throw more hardware at it" mentality from the very beginning, and is only going to survive in areas where people can be convinced that it's easier and cheaper to do that.
You must lower me into the steel.
I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but video war X will be fought with a vintage analog video recorder aimed at a monitor.
The last hand-cranked telephone was disconnected in the 1980s., decades after they were common. IIRC, The last telegram was sent in India less than 10 years ago. There's always a long tail of old tech that had a large installed base.
From TFS:
I would classify this as spatial arbitrage, or perhaps regulatory arbitrage if they were taking advantage of the way power was supplied to large consumers during certain times.
Many utility stocks yield in the 4 to 5% range. At 5% yield, a $4000 purchase of shares yields $200/yr. Depending on your rates, this might be close to paying for what a cheap $100 resistance heater would consume, or it might not. YMMV depending on how often you use such things.
Of course stocks aren't risk-free; but you don't even have to chose your local utility--you can evaluate your appetite for risk in the market. I think in most cases, a good utility stock is far more likely to hold value than this thing. Even a utility with aging plants isn't going to become obsolete anywhere near as fast as a mining rig.
If you don't like finance, you can always put the money towards a solar install if you're setup for that to work. The beauty of the financial approach is that you can do it anywhere--even in an apartment.
Long story short, I can think of many better ways to deploy that cash for the purpose of paying utility bills.
Corporations have a right to auto-sentries. It's in the Constitution. /sarc.
The option to use a 3rd party compiler for the release has always been there. The big news in TFA is that Microsoft helped them with the PDB format so that you could compile *and* debug with Clang.
Of course, because on the Internet men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
You can't keep that a secret. We couldn't keep the atomic bomb a secret. The only reason every criminal doesn't have one in his garage is because you need massive industrial processing to refine the uranium and make a bomb. Secrecy has nothing to do with it. A paper on how to build the A-bomb was published by a high school student in the 80s, and that ruffled quite a few feathers. Experts said it would work; but of course the kid was missing the key ingredient and wasn't likely to ever get it.
AI is not the atomic bomb. You don't need rare elements. You just need stuff that's already in millions of offices already. One algorithm for handling insurance claims walks out the door, and it'll be running at all the major companies the next day. Plans for burger-bots get published, and it's all she wrote. Intellectual property laws might slow it down, but secrecy ain't gonna stop it.
A company like Getty is displaying usable images on the Internet and getting pissed off about copyright? How hard would it be for them to overlay a watermark that can't be easily 'shopped out? How many pixels are they displaying anyway? Anybody who's legit is going to want to scrub the watermark and resize the image without losing any more quality than necessary. They should be hiding high quality images behind a paid login if they care that much. Even Flickr can do that. Come on, Getty. Put on your big boy pants.
Of course; but this one's not designed to do that. If you're committed to the Falcon style of recovery, the parachute system is dead mass. In space flight, mass is money so you sort of have to commit to one recovery system or another.
As a highly rated reply said, "practice". I'd like to add that it's also the only nominal way to land them. The alternative is to make a mess on the LZ, or chuck them someplace where they'd be pollution.
How about allowing residents to avoid capital gains on anything they sell to pay their taxes? Of course if the law were worded that way, they'd still have to declare capital gains on their Federal tax return.
If you're allowed to pay state taxes in something other than USD, and that something has an unrealized capital gain then the state is effectively allowing you to dodge Federal capital gains... or is it?
I see this being an administrative nightmare and/or going to court, possibly the Supreme Court because it seems like the states might be facilitating some kind of Federal tax dodge. Either that, or there are issues with what is "money" at the Federal level.
It's kind of moot anyway, because how are they going to handle something as volatile as BTC? You can literally go from overpaying to underpaying by a day's wages in seconds.
It sounds like the author of the text book was from New Cuyama.
Billing codes. The body mutilator!
Really though, One of the things I've said about health care is that we could easily care for patients without all that overhead. Thing is, just like Brawndo, the economy sort of depends on it. Until the plants actually start growing again, this is going to hurt.
It seems like that place is destined to be at the epicenter of the USA's social issues. Unionization of coal mines there sparked a massive civil conflict back in the 1920s.
Face blind people don't perceive faces as grey non-descript blurs. It's more like being illiterate. A person who can't read sees the same letters and words that you do; but doesn't impart meaning to them.
A cigarette butt isn't a burning stick; but it's close.
Sigh... and we had a serial arsonist here who started the fire that burned Lower Lake, CA. I bet he didn't use a flame thrower. You don't need one to start a wild fire. Faulty power lines throwing a few sparks is all you need. Gasoline and a match would do just fine. All this law does is probably send a few recreational users to Nevada.