I'd also add that the "perpetual student" is a total myth. If you're continuously at university and university has no fees, sure, you don't have to pay that. That means you only have to pay the rent, food, heating, whatever. University won't magically make money for you. If you don't perform well (which implies getting a degree after a relatively short while), you won't get govt aid for long, if at all.
The proportion of people who can actually afford to stay at university for a very very long time (either rich or living with parents) AND who actually desire to do such a thing is so small it's almost zero.
Amusing. At this point the US education system is so broken and inflated that many people just can't afford higher education at all. Are you just saying "well fuck them, serves them right for not being rich"? Why would the best education be locked away from people who might benefit from it the most? A lot of the Ivy League students are quite subpar, but they have rich parents. What's logical about that? Nothing.
What exactly is wrong for no barrier to entry? If there are limited spots, select the people to enter by some metric, perhaps aptitude or past results. Make them work for it. Tying higher education with funds is the worst way around it, because you can be a fucking idiot and still be rich from your parents, and you can also be smart but come from a poor family.
Because of efficiency. Renewables aren't magically less prone to efficiency benefits with scale. Large-scale solar plants don't use the same photovoltaic cells that you will on your roof because they're absolutely terrible for efficiency (in terms of space, but more importantly cost) - they'll use large-scale reflectors and water tanks. The wind mill you put in your backyard will never reach the same peak capacity that industrial wind mills get; it's too small and not high enough. Let's not even talk about hydro, which isn't trendy but still is a renewable by all accounts.
There are advantages to distributed power, and they can be combined, but relying purely on distributed renewables is a bad idea.
What did you base your estimate on? A browser these days is such a complex beast. The amount of work done to run on multiple platforms, with platform-specific optimizations (including graphics acceleration), with a JIT Javascript compiler and so much more, is just staggering. Just implementing all the specs (remember, you can't just drop HTML4 or XHTML) would probably gobble up 1 million lines without even starting to think about performance which is absolutely paramount these days.
Let's be frank, all those Gecko-based offshoots would wither and die without Mozilla's backing, which is what this is all about: Mozilla is a non-profit with very few sources of revenue. This is a new one they found which can help them keep going. If you don't agree with that, don't complain when Mozilla shuts down and all those nice open source projects start trailing behind hard.
No, the comparison is correct: gravity is not being denied, despite multiple theories vying for the explanation. None of those theories go out and say "gravity does not exist". With evolution, the fundamental notion of evolution is being challenged; we're not at the same level at all. This would be more like multiple theories for how, say, traits are passed along were to arise: a specific element of the greater theory being put into question, but not entirely changing the premise.
Your entire description is, just like the random and totally unresearched example I gave, also way too complex and specialized for the context. We're talking about high school level stuff here. The gravity you see at that level is F=mg, which is entirely uncontested.
Canada's had a swipe and sign infrastructure for ages and we've recently completed the transition to chip and pin with minimal fuss. There's no real reason the US isn't doing the same beyond the complacency and laziness of your banks.
"Para bellum" is usually known from "Si vis pacem, para bellum", which means, roughly, "If you want peace, prepare for war." The problem is I think the Republicans A) forgot that first part and B) probably shouldn't consider the democratic process as a kind of war (this is a political data analytics thing, so that's the only logical interpretation). That they do explains a lot about their thought process in the past few years.
There are plenty of places to get new games with a discount. Green Man Gaming often offers between 15-25% off on new games through coupons (and that often includes pre-releases and new releases), and they're just one of many. It's very well known that the PC marketplace is significantly cheaper than the console marketplace for the same titles, both at launch and later down the line.
I agree, but I'd like to add one thing: a lot of people are claiming that women are somehow forced out or discouraged from coming in IT/comp sci. Now of course, I'm male, but I frankly have not noticed this, so I'd really, really like to see those issues exposed more clearly with examples of the wrongful behavior if possible.
What I mean by this is simple: if nobody says anything when something they feel unjust happens, it's impossible to correct course. If the event was not perceived as unjust by the parties actually causing it to unfold in that particular way, they will never correct themselves because they did not even think it was a problem. Bear in mind, I don't want to hear people say "Well that's even worse, you can't even notice your own failings!" That helps nobody. I want actual, reasoned explanations, things that can help everyone progress by noticing the pattern and understanding to break away from it.
Articles saying we need to get women into IT are a dime a dozen. Articles decrying discrimination are also a dime a dozen. What is a lot less frequent is articles proposing actual actions that people can, on an individual level, perform to help the situation.
I'll preface this by saying I do not know Nixie Pixel at all. My first impression however was quite negative and for one particular reason: when I come to a site looking for a person's ideas and thoughts, I don't want to see cartoons of the person peering at me (in revealing clothing even) and pictures of her face everywhere on the page. I also very much doubt that a persona similar to this, but male, would use the same sort of techniques to drag an audience in.
She might be great at what she does, but by openly flaunting herself in this manner I'm more put off than attracted frankly. I love smart people, people with ideas, be they men or women. If they're also good looking, all the better for them, but that's entirely orthogonal for me (unless I'm looking for a date, which I most certainly am not when I click on links on/.) and associating one with the other just... cheapens it. Like they're insecure about their content so they feel the need to add some more hooks in.
Montreal is just doing its spring cleanup right now. There's probably not an abnormal level of corruption, but it's all getting ousted right now, which makes it a lot more visible than normal.
In fact, I'd love to see the same process undertaken in other places... The EC should push for that if they think corruption is so bad, instead of just saying "Well it's rather bad and it's costing us a lot of money!" DO SOMETHING.
The politician can only be blackmailed if the revelation of said mistress is a cause for concern... which is only the case in the US. If the notion of a mistress is not an issue, then its being revealed isn't either. I don't even see what "corruptible" has to do with having a mistress (unless you take the religious extra-marital corruption line, in which case I'll just let you have fun with that).
Please don't compare Call of Duty to Mario. Nintendo's first party titles still have a lot of charm and are very attractive to a universal audience (instead of the 14-30 dudebro demographic CoD targets) and the day they start trying to ape the gruff and huff of shit like CoD is the day Nintendo dies for good.
Their problem is just actually releasing those fucking games. I have a WiiU and the only games I have for the system are Monster Hunter, a 3DS port, the Wind Waker HD version, a Gamecube port, and Mario Galaxy, a Wii game that's not even upscaled to 1080p by the WiiU. I don't know what the hell they're thinking, but all they have to do is actually release games in series that are popular. The only core game I've seen thus far has been Super Mario 3D World, and frankly A) the name is confusing, so many people probably thought it was some sort of port or other and B) the game still feels like a diversion as opposed to a true Mario sequel. Where's the next Galaxy? Skyward Sword? Donkey Kong? Hell right now the game I'm most looking forward to is Bayonetta 2, and that's such an odd fit for the console I'm still not sure how it happened in the first place.
What surprises me is that, knowing that this was a possibility, couldn't they just borrow trucks from northern states? I know we do it all the time in Canada. Every time there's a big snow storm somewhere, the trucks from the neighbors help lighten the load, which dramatically improves road conditions on short notice.
If the NWS had a report out by 3:30AM, that's enough time to get trucks from another state (please do correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not particularly familiar with US states) down before noon to start laying the salt. It wouldn't be enough to cover everything, of course not, but highways and major streets? Most likely. Of course, they could also plan ahead and get the trucks in a day or two ahead. Even if the snowstorm did not hit, it wouldn't have been as expensive as this unmitigated disaster will be.
If your Google account doesn't have your credit card number on file and uses two-factor auth, I think it'd be a lot harder to crack into it even using social engineering. The problem is always that most sites are designed so that in the event of people forgetting EVERYTHING, they can still recover their account somehow. If we accepted that losing your password, your security data for recovery and your two-factor auth would mean you lose your account (or you need something very, very elaborate to recover it, much more than just your last four CC numbers), security would be improved.
The problem is that for every super-focused hack like this one, there's a thousand people who forget their access credentials and want their account back, so it makes more sense to have lax security and cover the biggest proportion of your audience.
Considering his spiritual successor, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, went in a rather baffling direction, I'd say he probably isn't on the same page as the OpenTTD devs.
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I'd also add that the "perpetual student" is a total myth. If you're continuously at university and university has no fees, sure, you don't have to pay that. That means you only have to pay the rent, food, heating, whatever. University won't magically make money for you. If you don't perform well (which implies getting a degree after a relatively short while), you won't get govt aid for long, if at all.
The proportion of people who can actually afford to stay at university for a very very long time (either rich or living with parents) AND who actually desire to do such a thing is so small it's almost zero.
Amusing. At this point the US education system is so broken and inflated that many people just can't afford higher education at all. Are you just saying "well fuck them, serves them right for not being rich"? Why would the best education be locked away from people who might benefit from it the most? A lot of the Ivy League students are quite subpar, but they have rich parents. What's logical about that? Nothing.
What exactly is wrong for no barrier to entry? If there are limited spots, select the people to enter by some metric, perhaps aptitude or past results. Make them work for it. Tying higher education with funds is the worst way around it, because you can be a fucking idiot and still be rich from your parents, and you can also be smart but come from a poor family.
Because of efficiency. Renewables aren't magically less prone to efficiency benefits with scale. Large-scale solar plants don't use the same photovoltaic cells that you will on your roof because they're absolutely terrible for efficiency (in terms of space, but more importantly cost) - they'll use large-scale reflectors and water tanks. The wind mill you put in your backyard will never reach the same peak capacity that industrial wind mills get; it's too small and not high enough. Let's not even talk about hydro, which isn't trendy but still is a renewable by all accounts.
There are advantages to distributed power, and they can be combined, but relying purely on distributed renewables is a bad idea.
What did you base your estimate on? A browser these days is such a complex beast. The amount of work done to run on multiple platforms, with platform-specific optimizations (including graphics acceleration), with a JIT Javascript compiler and so much more, is just staggering. Just implementing all the specs (remember, you can't just drop HTML4 or XHTML) would probably gobble up 1 million lines without even starting to think about performance which is absolutely paramount these days.
Let's be frank, all those Gecko-based offshoots would wither and die without Mozilla's backing, which is what this is all about: Mozilla is a non-profit with very few sources of revenue. This is a new one they found which can help them keep going. If you don't agree with that, don't complain when Mozilla shuts down and all those nice open source projects start trailing behind hard.
No, the comparison is correct: gravity is not being denied, despite multiple theories vying for the explanation. None of those theories go out and say "gravity does not exist". With evolution, the fundamental notion of evolution is being challenged; we're not at the same level at all. This would be more like multiple theories for how, say, traits are passed along were to arise: a specific element of the greater theory being put into question, but not entirely changing the premise.
Your entire description is, just like the random and totally unresearched example I gave, also way too complex and specialized for the context. We're talking about high school level stuff here. The gravity you see at that level is F=mg, which is entirely uncontested.
Canada's had a swipe and sign infrastructure for ages and we've recently completed the transition to chip and pin with minimal fuss. There's no real reason the US isn't doing the same beyond the complacency and laziness of your banks.
"Para bellum" is usually known from "Si vis pacem, para bellum", which means, roughly, "If you want peace, prepare for war." The problem is I think the Republicans A) forgot that first part and B) probably shouldn't consider the democratic process as a kind of war (this is a political data analytics thing, so that's the only logical interpretation). That they do explains a lot about their thought process in the past few years.
There are plenty of places to get new games with a discount. Green Man Gaming often offers between 15-25% off on new games through coupons (and that often includes pre-releases and new releases), and they're just one of many. It's very well known that the PC marketplace is significantly cheaper than the console marketplace for the same titles, both at launch and later down the line.
Then post but also run Adblock and disable Google's tracking scripts.
It always amuses me that, in America, "socialist" sounds like some sort of insult. Combining socialist with bigot takes the prize though!
Just hit up SlashBI. You're welcome.
Apart from those very last words (the dictatorship bit), it's pretty close to what's happening in Greece, Italy and others...
I agree, but I'd like to add one thing: a lot of people are claiming that women are somehow forced out or discouraged from coming in IT/comp sci. Now of course, I'm male, but I frankly have not noticed this, so I'd really, really like to see those issues exposed more clearly with examples of the wrongful behavior if possible.
What I mean by this is simple: if nobody says anything when something they feel unjust happens, it's impossible to correct course. If the event was not perceived as unjust by the parties actually causing it to unfold in that particular way, they will never correct themselves because they did not even think it was a problem. Bear in mind, I don't want to hear people say "Well that's even worse, you can't even notice your own failings!" That helps nobody. I want actual, reasoned explanations, things that can help everyone progress by noticing the pattern and understanding to break away from it.
Articles saying we need to get women into IT are a dime a dozen. Articles decrying discrimination are also a dime a dozen. What is a lot less frequent is articles proposing actual actions that people can, on an individual level, perform to help the situation.
I'll preface this by saying I do not know Nixie Pixel at all. My first impression however was quite negative and for one particular reason: when I come to a site looking for a person's ideas and thoughts, I don't want to see cartoons of the person peering at me (in revealing clothing even) and pictures of her face everywhere on the page. I also very much doubt that a persona similar to this, but male, would use the same sort of techniques to drag an audience in.
/.) and associating one with the other just... cheapens it. Like they're insecure about their content so they feel the need to add some more hooks in.
She might be great at what she does, but by openly flaunting herself in this manner I'm more put off than attracted frankly. I love smart people, people with ideas, be they men or women. If they're also good looking, all the better for them, but that's entirely orthogonal for me (unless I'm looking for a date, which I most certainly am not when I click on links on
Montreal is just doing its spring cleanup right now. There's probably not an abnormal level of corruption, but it's all getting ousted right now, which makes it a lot more visible than normal.
In fact, I'd love to see the same process undertaken in other places... The EC should push for that if they think corruption is so bad, instead of just saying "Well it's rather bad and it's costing us a lot of money!" DO SOMETHING.
The politician can only be blackmailed if the revelation of said mistress is a cause for concern... which is only the case in the US. If the notion of a mistress is not an issue, then its being revealed isn't either. I don't even see what "corruptible" has to do with having a mistress (unless you take the religious extra-marital corruption line, in which case I'll just let you have fun with that).
Please don't compare Call of Duty to Mario. Nintendo's first party titles still have a lot of charm and are very attractive to a universal audience (instead of the 14-30 dudebro demographic CoD targets) and the day they start trying to ape the gruff and huff of shit like CoD is the day Nintendo dies for good.
Their problem is just actually releasing those fucking games. I have a WiiU and the only games I have for the system are Monster Hunter, a 3DS port, the Wind Waker HD version, a Gamecube port, and Mario Galaxy, a Wii game that's not even upscaled to 1080p by the WiiU. I don't know what the hell they're thinking, but all they have to do is actually release games in series that are popular. The only core game I've seen thus far has been Super Mario 3D World, and frankly A) the name is confusing, so many people probably thought it was some sort of port or other and B) the game still feels like a diversion as opposed to a true Mario sequel. Where's the next Galaxy? Skyward Sword? Donkey Kong? Hell right now the game I'm most looking forward to is Bayonetta 2, and that's such an odd fit for the console I'm still not sure how it happened in the first place.
Hold on, let me consult the cheat sheet...
What surprises me is that, knowing that this was a possibility, couldn't they just borrow trucks from northern states? I know we do it all the time in Canada. Every time there's a big snow storm somewhere, the trucks from the neighbors help lighten the load, which dramatically improves road conditions on short notice.
If the NWS had a report out by 3:30AM, that's enough time to get trucks from another state (please do correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not particularly familiar with US states) down before noon to start laying the salt. It wouldn't be enough to cover everything, of course not, but highways and major streets? Most likely. Of course, they could also plan ahead and get the trucks in a day or two ahead. Even if the snowstorm did not hit, it wouldn't have been as expensive as this unmitigated disaster will be.
You really don't need to do vote tampering when it's so much easier to just spin stories and get people to willingly vote for you.
If your Google account doesn't have your credit card number on file and uses two-factor auth, I think it'd be a lot harder to crack into it even using social engineering. The problem is always that most sites are designed so that in the event of people forgetting EVERYTHING, they can still recover their account somehow. If we accepted that losing your password, your security data for recovery and your two-factor auth would mean you lose your account (or you need something very, very elaborate to recover it, much more than just your last four CC numbers), security would be improved.
The problem is that for every super-focused hack like this one, there's a thousand people who forget their access credentials and want their account back, so it makes more sense to have lax security and cover the biggest proportion of your audience.
At least with a Minotaur you can lock it up in a labyrinth. Not so with an incompetent teacher.
Considering his spiritual successor, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, went in a rather baffling direction, I'd say he probably isn't on the same page as the OpenTTD devs.