I agree. Right after desegregation things were so dire and discrimination so prevalent that color of the skin was a rather efficient and good proxy for "person who has suffered untold amounts of discrimination". Today an impoverished background is a much better proxy for the group of people we are trying to reach. In the end blacks would still be the main beneficiaries since they are over-represented among the lower classes, but at least this way we no longer need to classify people by the color of their skin, which in itself is a rather racist thing to do.
oh it absolutely is falling. slowly perhaps, maybe it will take 1 or 2 centuries. maybe a lot less.
You got it exactly backwards. By 2100 world population will be falling rather rapidly, and the problem will mostly take care of itself. So in the long run we are ok. The real problem is what will happen between now and then.
Climate change is real, and something needs to be done about it, but this chicken little "the sky is falling" articles hurt rather than help the cause. They give specific worst case targets that are unlikely to be true just to get a headline. These can then be used by climate deniers to minimize the real impacts of climate change.
Presently Tim Cook could shit in a handkerchief and there would an eight hour line up at the Apple store to buy a million of those. So yes, the Applewatch is a failure.
You don't get it. The contract says that if it turns out the car is overvalued (which in this case is the likeliest scenario) then you get to own a whole more of it. So no, effectively you didn't pay $2K for 20%, in all probability you paid $2K for 80%.
Most unicorns aren't. Think of the following car analogy deal. Suppose I sell you car for $10K, but we add a clause saying "a long time ago I lost a valuable engagement ring in the car. If found the sales price goes up to $100K".
Would you think it legit if I were then to turn around and issue a press release announcing that I just sold you car for $100K?
Similarly with unicorns nowadays, presently they all have this clause that if their business turns out not to be very successful (which is the case in 9 out of 10 startups) the VC ends up owning the whole thing and hence the price was actual cash exchanged (usually around $200-400 million). Then there is a clause saying that in the unlikely event that the company turns out to be wildly successful (i.e. the ring is found), then said $200-400M gets the VC only 20%-40% of the company.
Companies have announced these deals via press release declaring themselves to be worth a billion dollars and thus a unicorn. This is a misrepresentation of the facts, and indeed if the company had to be valued, say for the purposes of a divorce (not that this happened to me:p ), the probabilities of each outcome would be considered and the company would be given a sub-unicorn valuation.
eat more calories than you burn, and you'll gain weight. ..
Luckily this is a scientifically testable hypothesis. Go and drink a gallon of gasoline, and report back on your gain weight or better yet have one of your surviving relatives tell us about your calorie based weight gain.
There hasn't been an AI breakthrough that will become a game changer. What there has been is a steady, relatively slow improvements over the years. Lisp, logic, resolution, prolog, expert systems, neural networks, constraint programming, robotics, symbolic computation, NLP, machine learning, deep learning, genetic algorithms, SAT solvers... each of these have allowed us to solve problems that before were considered intractable. There remains a world of other problems which we have no idea how to solve, e.g. a decent walking robot as embarrassingly proven by the Atlas robot in the Darpa competition.
Just like you I couldn't make heads or tails out of this choice... until I figured out that what must have happened is that all of Cruz first choices turned him down and he had to settle for Carly.
The internet of things is mostly hype, as people with nests at home have learned . Sure you can talk to your thermostat at home via the internet, but why would you want to?
Back around 1999 to 2001 when people were all excited about user generated content being able to bypass the gatekeepers, I predicted that sooner or later out of practical considerations a bureaucracy would arise around wikipedia, just like the gatekeeper of say, encyclopaedia britannica, except sans the qualifications.
As I said, one expects people to do the right thing within reason. This is why carbon taxes are so effective. They place a big incentive for you not to pollute, but if for whatever reason you must, you are still free to do it, provided you pay the carbon tax penalty.
If Obama cares so much about climate change he would set an example
This is a ridiculous way of thinking put forward by large polluters in an attempt to shut down concerned citizens by making them feel guilty about their minor contribution to the problem.
Outside of a few ecoloonies no one is proposing we do without all CO2 pollution. We simply ask that we remove as much as is reasonable and practicable. The president needs for his job a big mama plain full of secrete service agents, weapons, long range fuel tanks, advisors, cabinet members, etc. So a 747 is fine with any sensible environment minded person in this specific case.
Do you realize that the cost would be then in the range of 100 trillion?
Lesee... 100 million households at a cost of $10-30K per household.. total cost $1-3 trillion i.e. a whole two orders of magnitude less than the figure you claimed.
overtime pay, which has long been isolated to a minority of workers, is about to be extended to almost the entire middle class."
When the old threshold was approved it applied equally extensively, but it eroded over the years. They are now just bringing it back to what used to be.
BS. I manage several loaner machines which are re-imaged every time they go out. Here's the process of Windows installation: enter CD, reboot, choose install, wait for a while, done.
My experience with Linux is generally positive. Usually installing the OS or a package works. But the few times that fails you are in for a lot of pain. One of every ten downloads lead to me having to chase some weird down some magic editing of a config file that makes the whole thing work, when it should have done this out of the box.
Yes, quite well actually. Whereas I bet all you know is whatever republican points you were told. Let's start with the most glaring omission from the GOP version of events. Something they almost never tell you: Clinton lost money in Whitewater.
You think that omission is accidental? If yes, there's a bridge I like to sell you
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
Thus Whitewater and any number of other scandals around the Clintons that never go away yet neither are they ever backed up with real hard actionable evidence.
Wrong, the growing regions of Canada are sufficiently far north that temperature is the limiting factor, not sun.
Quote from Agriculture Canada: The Coupled Global Climate Model (CGCM 3.1) model predicts a 1 to 2 degree Celsius increase in monthly average temperatures by 2010 to 2039, resulting in slightly earlier crop seeding dates, and later fall frost dates on the prairies.
When I hear the word crisis my BS detector goes up. Almost nothing that is described as a crisis nowadays isn't.
In fact to the contrary, the use of hyperbole instead of just-the-facts-madam arguments to make the point betrays that even for the proponent the situation isn't that serious and hence the overreach.
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I agree. Right after desegregation things were so dire and discrimination so prevalent that color of the skin was a rather efficient and good proxy for "person who has suffered untold amounts of discrimination". Today an impoverished background is a much better proxy for the group of people we are trying to reach. In the end blacks would still be the main beneficiaries since they are over-represented among the lower classes, but at least this way we no longer need to classify people by the color of their skin, which in itself is a rather racist thing to do.
oh it absolutely is falling. slowly perhaps, maybe it will take 1 or 2 centuries. maybe a lot less.
You got it exactly backwards. By 2100 world population will be falling rather rapidly, and the problem will mostly take care of itself. So in the long run we are ok. The real problem is what will happen between now and then.
Climate change is real, and something needs to be done about it, but this chicken little "the sky is falling" articles hurt rather than help the cause. They give specific worst case targets that are unlikely to be true just to get a headline. These can then be used by climate deniers to minimize the real impacts of climate change.
Food? generally from nowhere near a coastal plain.
Better think hard about how easy it is to "move".
Oh, it would be hard and expensive, still not a major catastrophe...
Or are you seriously suggesting that given the choice of drowning or spending money in moving we as a civilization will choose to drown?
Presently Tim Cook could shit in a handkerchief and there would an eight hour line up at the Apple store to buy a million of those. So yes, the Applewatch is a failure.
You don't get it. The contract says that if it turns out the car is overvalued (which in this case is the likeliest scenario) then you get to own a whole more of it. So no, effectively you didn't pay $2K for 20%, in all probability you paid $2K for 80%.
Most unicorns aren't. Think of the following car analogy deal. Suppose I sell you car for $10K, but we add a clause saying "a long time ago I lost a valuable engagement ring in the car. If found the sales price goes up to $100K".
Would you think it legit if I were then to turn around and issue a press release announcing that I just sold you car for $100K?
Similarly with unicorns nowadays, presently they all have this clause that if their business turns out not to be very successful (which is the case in 9 out of 10 startups) the VC ends up owning the whole thing and hence the price was actual cash exchanged (usually around $200-400 million). Then there is a clause saying that in the unlikely event that the company turns out to be wildly successful (i.e. the ring is found), then said $200-400M gets the VC only 20%-40% of the company.
Companies have announced these deals via press release declaring themselves to be worth a billion dollars and thus a unicorn. This is a misrepresentation of the facts, and indeed if the company had to be valued, say for the purposes of a divorce (not that this happened to me :p ), the probabilities of each outcome would be considered and the company would be given a sub-unicorn valuation.
eat more calories than you burn, and you'll gain weight. . .
Luckily this is a scientifically testable hypothesis. Go and drink a gallon of gasoline, and report back on your gain weight or better yet have one of your surviving relatives tell us about your calorie based weight gain.
There hasn't been an AI breakthrough that will become a game changer. What there has been is a steady, relatively slow improvements over the years. Lisp, logic, resolution, prolog, expert systems, neural networks, constraint programming, robotics, symbolic computation, NLP, machine learning, deep learning, genetic algorithms, SAT solvers... each of these have allowed us to solve problems that before were considered intractable. There remains a world of other problems which we have no idea how to solve, e.g. a decent walking robot as embarrassingly proven by the Atlas robot in the Darpa competition.
Just like you I couldn't make heads or tails out of this choice... until I figured out that what must have happened is that all of Cruz first choices turned him down and he had to settle for Carly.
largest-ever release of information about secret offshore companies and the people behind them
Actually there is so much data that this is possibly the largest release of a coherent text collection of any kind, secret or not.
The internet of things is mostly hype, as people with nests at home have learned . Sure you can talk to your thermostat at home via the internet, but why would you want to?
Back around 1999 to 2001 when people were all excited about user generated content being able to bypass the gatekeepers, I predicted that sooner or later out of practical considerations a bureaucracy would arise around wikipedia, just like the gatekeeper of say, encyclopaedia britannica, except sans the qualifications.
Guess what, here we are.
As I said, one expects people to do the right thing within reason. This is why carbon taxes are so effective. They place a big incentive for you not to pollute, but if for whatever reason you must, you are still free to do it, provided you pay the carbon tax penalty.
If Obama cares so much about climate change he would set an example
This is a ridiculous way of thinking put forward by large polluters in an attempt to shut down concerned citizens by making them feel guilty about their minor contribution to the problem.
Outside of a few ecoloonies no one is proposing we do without all CO2 pollution. We simply ask that we remove as much as is reasonable and practicable. The president needs for his job a big mama plain full of secrete service agents, weapons, long range fuel tanks, advisors, cabinet members, etc. So a 747 is fine with any sensible environment minded person in this specific case.
And a 1GWh costs 1 billion dollars which is another whole two orders of magnitude. So?
Do you realize that the cost would be then in the range of 100 trillion?
Lesee... 100 million households at a cost of $10-30K per household.. total cost $1-3 trillion i.e. a whole two orders of magnitude less than the figure you claimed.
overtime pay, which has long been isolated to a minority of workers, is about to be extended to almost the entire middle class."
When the old threshold was approved it applied equally extensively, but it eroded over the years. They are now just bringing it back to what used to be.
Try installing windows yourself, it's not fun.
BS. I manage several loaner machines which are re-imaged every time they go out. Here's the process of Windows installation: enter CD, reboot, choose install, wait for a while, done.
My experience with Linux is generally positive. Usually installing the OS or a package works. But the few times that fails you are in for a lot of pain. One of every ten downloads lead to me having to chase some weird down some magic editing of a config file that makes the whole thing work, when it should have done this out of the box.
Yes, quite well actually. Whereas I bet all you know is whatever republican points you were told. Let's start with the most glaring omission from the GOP version of events. Something they almost never tell you: Clinton lost money in Whitewater.
You think that omission is accidental? If yes, there's a bridge I like to sell you
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
Thus Whitewater and any number of other scandals around the Clintons that never go away yet neither are they ever backed up with real hard actionable evidence.
If they restrict themselves to posting factual information they are bots, not trolls
Wrong, the growing regions of Canada are sufficiently far north that temperature is the limiting factor, not sun.
Quote from Agriculture Canada: The Coupled Global Climate Model (CGCM 3.1) model predicts a 1 to 2 degree Celsius increase in monthly average temperatures by 2010 to 2039, resulting in slightly earlier crop seeding dates, and later fall frost dates on the prairies.
Kurzweil, among many accomplishments is responsible for a reverse version of the Turing test as follows:
If you are impressed with Kurzweil's vapid statements then you are not intelligent.
When I hear the word crisis my BS detector goes up. Almost nothing that is described as a crisis nowadays isn't.
In fact to the contrary, the use of hyperbole instead of just-the-facts-madam arguments to make the point betrays that even for the proponent the situation isn't that serious and hence the overreach.