NASA's budget represents about 0.5% of the U.S. national budget. I think we can probably find _something_ to cut (say, maybe getting in a few less wars). Or maybe we could raise taxes on the 400 Americans who control more wealth than 150 million other Americans?
The real issue is people who promise to "increase your twitter follower count" (whether they're a person you hire, or a firm you contract), but instead buy you fake followers. If you can trust your "social media expert," this is a non-story.
Well, that and investors who see "Oooh! 85000 followers can't be wrong!" without bothering to use one of the many tools to estimate fake follower percentages. But I have little sympathy for wealthy fools.
1) There will not be enough jobs, because machines will supply all we need. 2) This lack of jobs will result in not enough supply.
Also, do you get your news from Fox? Cuz that whole figure about "more people on disability than working" includes all people in a household where one person receives assistance (like, kids, the elderly, stay-at-home moms) and also includes people with full-time jobs (cuz min wage doesn't pay enough to not need government assistance).
For a $150 price premium over the 290X, I'd expect more than "single-digit percentages." I know there's always a tax on the high end cards, but 27% pricier for (up to) 9% speed doesn't seem like a great trade-off.
There's an article here http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.html that, once you get past the deliberately inflammatory intro, makes a heck of a lot of sense.
Ender's Game makes way more sense when you read it as a combination of nerd-wish-fulfillment and some weird-ass militant Jesus propaganda. He (and only he) can empathize with the people who are killed - he loves them so much, that he must destroy them. When he kills other children, it's because of his wonderful rationality - but it's okay, because he didn't _mean_ to, and besides, he's really, really sorry. He "sacrifices" himself with self-imposed exile at the end of the novel, ending up spreading his philosophy throughout the cosmos.
Ender is an endlessly-suffering figure, targeted for (what else) his greatness. He's a "Mary Sue" character through and through.
(It's also interesting to think about the imagined persecution of straight white christian (mormon in this case) men, and how it relates to Ender, whom everyone is necessarily against).
As far as I can tell, the problem is that nuclear plants were closed in the interests of safety while they await safety recertification - which seems like the straightforward thing to do in any case where safety requirements are found to be in violation.
Is it simply a matter of failure modes? That is, because the worst-case scenario for a fission plant is worse than that of a coal plant?
Sorry, I didn't set my tone right in my original post. I meant to indicate that capitalism, by nature, incentivizes actors to erode the foundation that it relies upon to work. False (or fake) advertisements or reviews are simply one way that people with capital game the system against those without. They will actively seek to coerce you, feed you misinformation, and distort your perception of your own self-interest.
When you go shopping, each item that you look at, you are pitting (at most) a few minutes of your own time against months of work done by a marketing team. The idea that this scenario allows you to be a perfectly rational, informed, self-interested actor is laughable.
tl;dr I agree with practically every word you said up there.
I would totally be on board with that. It's hard to mount cultural opposition to advertisments as they're so ubiquitous, even if they are misleading/wrong/awful. I also wouldn't mind seeing additional regulations on advertisements (especially regarding intentionally misleading statements), but I know the majority of slashdot is pretty opposed to "Free Speech" limitations like this.
It is a serious problem to me. My point is that, in any capitalist society, you can expect advertisements to be present, and they will be as sleazy and manipulative as companies can get away with.
Taking your argument at face value, do a "s/white folk/white culture/g" on my previous post.
Seems to me that if everybody who cares about something is dead, it doesn't much matter what happens to it. People have a tendency to preserve that which is important to them, whether that's the traditions of their ancestors or a prototype Commodore64 with all-original hardware.
Also, first-wave immigrants have always "rejected" their new country's culture, causing fears about being "taken over". It is my understanding that the recent immigration to Europe is little different than most others, with the first wave retaining much of their ways, and subsequent generations beginning to assimilate and meld the two cultures. If you are American, you might know that Irish immigrants in the mid 1800's were not well-liked. Concerns were raised about their Catholicism being incompatible with "American" Protestantism, and more than a few people went so far as to say that they were non-white (playing to racist fears).
But it probably doesn't matter much in the long term since much of the West is heading towards a demographic death spiral. The future belongs to those who show up.
Oh no, another doomsayer lamenting the imminent extinction of white folk via not having enough babies. What a terrible loss, that will be.
Of course, this is only if you believe that white folk are inherently more special than people of other colors.
“The problem wasn’t that we stopped listening to customers,” said one former RIM insider. “We believed we knew better what customers needed long term than they did. Consumers would say, ‘I want a faster browser.’ We might say, ‘You might think you want a faster browser, but you don’t want to pay overage on your bill.’ "
I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between "not listening to" and "listening and then disregarding" what the customer wants.
Also, I wasn't aware that your carrier billed you more for using a browser that loads pages quickly and remains responsive on modern sites. He is Canadian, though - Rogers must be even worse than I thought.
Ah, thanks for the writeup. I'm actually using a 4850 too, and just kinda assumed that the architectural improvements & extra/faster RAM (mine has 512MB) would compensate for the lower shader counts. Thanks for correcting me!
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Something something Henry Ford, something something faster horse
Unless Alibaba starts putting warehouses in the US (so they can take advantage of bulk shipping).
NASA's budget represents about 0.5% of the U.S. national budget. I think we can probably find _something_ to cut (say, maybe getting in a few less wars). Or maybe we could raise taxes on the 400 Americans who control more wealth than 150 million other Americans?
The real issue is people who promise to "increase your twitter follower count" (whether they're a person you hire, or a firm you contract), but instead buy you fake followers. If you can trust your "social media expert," this is a non-story.
Well, that and investors who see "Oooh! 85000 followers can't be wrong!" without bothering to use one of the many tools to estimate fake follower percentages. But I have little sympathy for wealthy fools.
You make two contradictory points:
1) There will not be enough jobs, because machines will supply all we need.
2) This lack of jobs will result in not enough supply.
Also, do you get your news from Fox? Cuz that whole figure about "more people on disability than working" includes all people in a household where one person receives assistance (like, kids, the elderly, stay-at-home moms) and also includes people with full-time jobs (cuz min wage doesn't pay enough to not need government assistance).
Aaaaaand I just looked back at the summary and noticed the "up to 30%." I should really double-check before I post these things.
For a $150 price premium over the 290X, I'd expect more than "single-digit percentages." I know there's always a tax on the high end cards, but 27% pricier for (up to) 9% speed doesn't seem like a great trade-off.
I like this post, because I can't tell if it means
"No honorable person would work for the NSA"
or
"Anyone applying to the NSA is out to betray them."
There's an article here http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.html that, once you get past the deliberately inflammatory intro, makes a heck of a lot of sense.
Ender's Game makes way more sense when you read it as a combination of nerd-wish-fulfillment and some weird-ass militant Jesus propaganda. He (and only he) can empathize with the people who are killed - he loves them so much, that he must destroy them. When he kills other children, it's because of his wonderful rationality - but it's okay, because he didn't _mean_ to, and besides, he's really, really sorry. He "sacrifices" himself with self-imposed exile at the end of the novel, ending up spreading his philosophy throughout the cosmos.
Ender is an endlessly-suffering figure, targeted for (what else) his greatness. He's a "Mary Sue" character through and through.
(It's also interesting to think about the imagined persecution of straight white christian (mormon in this case) men, and how it relates to Ender, whom everyone is necessarily against).
If your rival's site suddenly had a 99% sale on all products. :)
Dang, where are you at? NoScript only passed partially in front of the logo in my area. You're really lucky to see the full eclipse!
Right, because prison's such a nice place, on account of all the delicious food.
Myers-Briggs test, and it's 'N' for intuitive. :)
As far as I can tell, the problem is that nuclear plants were closed in the interests of safety while they await safety recertification - which seems like the straightforward thing to do in any case where safety requirements are found to be in violation.
Is it simply a matter of failure modes? That is, because the worst-case scenario for a fission plant is worse than that of a coal plant?
Nobody threatened to default on our debt unless we repealed the PATRIOT Act, though.
When they get beat on both axes, though - that makes it a fair comparison.
Sorry, I didn't set my tone right in my original post. I meant to indicate that capitalism, by nature, incentivizes actors to erode the foundation that it relies upon to work. False (or fake) advertisements or reviews are simply one way that people with capital game the system against those without. They will actively seek to coerce you, feed you misinformation, and distort your perception of your own self-interest.
When you go shopping, each item that you look at, you are pitting (at most) a few minutes of your own time against months of work done by a marketing team. The idea that this scenario allows you to be a perfectly rational, informed, self-interested actor is laughable.
tl;dr I agree with practically every word you said up there.
I would totally be on board with that. It's hard to mount cultural opposition to advertisments as they're so ubiquitous, even if they are misleading/wrong/awful. I also wouldn't mind seeing additional regulations on advertisements (especially regarding intentionally misleading statements), but I know the majority of slashdot is pretty opposed to "Free Speech" limitations like this.
It is a serious problem to me. My point is that, in any capitalist society, you can expect advertisements to be present, and they will be as sleazy and manipulative as companies can get away with.
Capitalism relies on people trying to make the best decision for themselves they can, based on what information they have.
How is trying to control the information people receive about your product anything but a logical and necessary outcome of capitalism?
Taking your argument at face value, do a "s/white folk/white culture/g" on my previous post.
Seems to me that if everybody who cares about something is dead, it doesn't much matter what happens to it. People have a tendency to preserve that which is important to them, whether that's the traditions of their ancestors or a prototype Commodore64 with all-original hardware.
Also, first-wave immigrants have always "rejected" their new country's culture, causing fears about being "taken over". It is my understanding that the recent immigration to Europe is little different than most others, with the first wave retaining much of their ways, and subsequent generations beginning to assimilate and meld the two cultures. If you are American, you might know that Irish immigrants in the mid 1800's were not well-liked. Concerns were raised about their Catholicism being incompatible with "American" Protestantism, and more than a few people went so far as to say that they were non-white (playing to racist fears).
But it probably doesn't matter much in the long term since much of the West is heading towards a demographic death spiral. The future belongs to those who show up.
Oh no, another doomsayer lamenting the imminent extinction of white folk via not having enough babies. What a terrible loss, that will be.
Of course, this is only if you believe that white folk are inherently more special than people of other colors.
He says,
I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between "not listening to" and "listening and then disregarding" what the customer wants.
Also, I wasn't aware that your carrier billed you more for using a browser that loads pages quickly and remains responsive on modern sites. He is Canadian, though - Rogers must be even worse than I thought.
Ah, thanks for the writeup. I'm actually using a 4850 too, and just kinda assumed that the architectural improvements & extra/faster RAM (mine has 512MB) would compensate for the lower shader counts. Thanks for correcting me!