I have to comment that thoses studies and VW example you've given were conducted in an environment where relative success is an ultimate goal and, more importantly, success is defined as material well-being.
Please imagine society where material well being is not a most important part of life. The outcome would be different.
During the War, Russians made wood artillery base mockup. Germans dutyfully bombed that mockup using... wooden bombs!
After learning that germans know about mockery, headquarters decided to place real artillery there and brought fire to germans from unexpected direction.
Your post contains contradictions. Criminals do not want to kill innocent people and also want to kill people with guns (even if those people are innocent).
Also you do not provide source for your statistics.
The moment inheritance works is when spermatozoon meets egg. This is a single moment in whole life of the individual.
Everything else is nurture.
As for "presumable less intelligent", cro-magnons had brains bigger than contemporary humans, they possible were more intelligent than us. The difference here is that we use more results of applied (through centuries and millenniums) intelligence.
If we define marriage as a bond between man and weterosexual guys are no more legible to enter marriage than homosexual guys. So there is no discrimination at all.
So by this logic, do you think it would be ok to ban marriage for black people?
I, for example, cannot work for CIA. I am Russian. I am OK with that, even understanding that such work would create many opportunities for me. But to drive my point, I'd like to ask you to stop your jihad on ban to gay marriage and fight for my right to work as the top officer of CIA and NSA.
I think that marriage is a bond between man and women just by definition of it. So I see at least one reason to ban marriage between gay people.
Call it differently, I (and many others) will have no reason to oppose. Like, for example, civil union. E.g., marriage assumes civil union, but civil union can be between gay people, triples, teams of eight and so on.
As there is mostly heterosexual couples in the world, I think we have very valid reason to call this very common case of civil union by using special term. Let's use the term marriage. I think that provides you with the reason to stick with this term for this specific case and other terms for other cases.
Government discriminates people from top to bottom for various reasons, from age to the gender, to the wealth to the height. I do not see the reason to discriminate gay people in their discrimination by government.
As far as I understand the thing, Muslim can live along others if those others do not violate "the agreement". That "agreement" says that others should not try to advertise their religion among muslims, convert muslims into theirs and prevent muslims from converting others into Islam. This is so because all other religions are wrong.
As far as I understand the thing, even me saying that it is easy to violate such agreement is a capital offense to Islam.
So, yes. There's is a line that ordered muslims to live along the other people of the Book, but it is very much conditional one. And conditions are easy to violate for me or someone else.
And I even not started about pagans to whom I do belong, I am atheist.
I have to note that there should be engineering positions hierarchy parallel to management hierarchy, with payment extended to the levels of management.
In former Soviet Union there were two lines: the age until which minor does not understand anything (the probability of him/her understand is small) and the age after which man or woman completely understands everything (again, there can be exceptions). The ages were about 14 and 18, I don't remember correctly.
When there was sexual behavior of adult towards minor, which can constitute a crime, special commission was employed to determine whether minor understood what was going on. If minor didn't then it was a crime.
I believe it is a better system than one single arbitrary line, after which everything is possible and nothing is possible before that.
You can compare Ada (then Project Green) to ML, they were designed around same time.
ML has type inference, Ada has type declarations. ML has first class functions, polymorphism, recursive data types and whatnot, Ada has arbitrary sizes and bases for arrays.
The deepness and thoroughness of array declarations and types in Ada makes me think that this is the most important thing in universe of programming (please read "Real programmers don't use Pascal").
Ada is so into it's own view on arrays it completely missed APL, which handles arrays much better.
I think that Ada is the prime example of the design with external constraints from committee. All designs are guided by constraints. If constraints are arbitrary, you'll have Ada.
For one example, Altera has a starter kit with HDMI support. This is for previous generation of their FPGAs (Stratix IV), but still.
What you have to do right, is to write the driver. And here we have a huge task, because no current 3D accelerator card will do any good without optimization of shaders and, more importantly, the combination of shaders and other calls, like texture loading, etc.
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I have to comment that thoses studies and VW example you've given were conducted in an environment where relative success is an ultimate goal and, more importantly, success is defined as material well-being.
Please imagine society where material well being is not a most important part of life. The outcome would be different.
Russians weren't that far behind. I am mostly posting because of the "cold war asset" reason for secrecy.
One link: http://leon-spb67.livejournal.... (Russian)
During the War, Russians made wood artillery base mockup. Germans dutyfully bombed that mockup using... wooden bombs!
After learning that germans know about mockery, headquarters decided to place real artillery there and brought fire to germans from unexpected direction.
Just one of many episodes from our War.
Divide your image into blocks of 16x16 and all of sudden (local) transposition is much faster.
I agree.
I once worked with a man who wrote a parallelizing compiler of (subset of) Fortran in his 70s. In two weeks.
They are heritable just like heritability of, say, home or fortune. Home the children live in is not influenced by genes, but is still heritable.
More than that, fellows pointed that what they consider TypeScript are XML files from Qt projects, where layout and everything reside.
This study is flawed albeit flattering to my view.
You realize that you are disccussing means to get to communism, do you?
The slogan of Communism.
Very weird to see that at Slashdot if you ask me.
Russian railroads employed such bracelets for at least ten years, I squeezed hand of one of developers behind those watches.
Here's video, in Russian, sorry.
The sensor measures electrical resistance of skin and system as a whole can infer several important vital and mental characteristics.
Strict consistency does not conflict with high availability: deterministic approach to DBs.
You can have your ACID and eat it too.
Your post contains contradictions. Criminals do not want to kill innocent people and also want to kill people with guns (even if those people are innocent).
Also you do not provide source for your statistics.
Stanislav Lem put it earlier and much nicer.
It also explains the need for the speed of light.
The moment inheritance works is when spermatozoon meets egg. This is a single moment in whole life of the individual.
Everything else is nurture.
As for "presumable less intelligent", cro-magnons had brains bigger than contemporary humans, they possible were more intelligent than us. The difference here is that we use more results of applied (through centuries and millenniums) intelligence.
I would like to see that constitution, actually.
I think you are mistaken.
If we define marriage as a bond between man and weterosexual guys are no more legible to enter marriage than homosexual guys. So there is no discrimination at all.
So by this logic, do you think it would be ok to ban marriage for black people?
I, for example, cannot work for CIA. I am Russian. I am OK with that, even understanding that such work would create many opportunities for me. But to drive my point, I'd like to ask you to stop your jihad on ban to gay marriage and fight for my right to work as the top officer of CIA and NSA.
Please, I beg you!
Ah, I see.
I think that marriage is a bond between man and women just by definition of it. So I see at least one reason to ban marriage between gay people.
Call it differently, I (and many others) will have no reason to oppose. Like, for example, civil union. E.g., marriage assumes civil union, but civil union can be between gay people, triples, teams of eight and so on.
As there is mostly heterosexual couples in the world, I think we have very valid reason to call this very common case of civil union by using special term. Let's use the term marriage. I think that provides you with the reason to stick with this term for this specific case and other terms for other cases.
Government discriminates people from top to bottom for various reasons, from age to the gender, to the wealth to the height. I do not see the reason to discriminate gay people in their discrimination by government.
Because right now it seems that gay people are in greater mental risk than normal people. pubmed.
Given that homosexuality is related to prenatal stress (pbmed and see this for more links and information), it is not astonishing at all.
This is same discrimination as applied by insurance companies.
You can get various interesting results with such simple equation. Hypoproteinemia is one of them.
As far as I understand the thing, Muslim can live along others if those others do not violate "the agreement". That "agreement" says that others should not try to advertise their religion among muslims, convert muslims into theirs and prevent muslims from converting others into Islam. This is so because all other religions are wrong.
As far as I understand the thing, even me saying that it is easy to violate such agreement is a capital offense to Islam.
So, yes. There's is a line that ordered muslims to live along the other people of the Book, but it is very much conditional one. And conditions are easy to violate for me or someone else.
And I even not started about pagans to whom I do belong, I am atheist.
...we say that "the strictness of laws is alleviated by the optionality of their execution".
Now I see that it is universal approach.
Take a look here: Spaced Repetition.
In short, you have to measure the speed of the forgetting and repeat things at the moment that you almost forget them.
I have to note that there should be engineering positions hierarchy parallel to management hierarchy, with payment extended to the levels of management.
It is so easy to get citation against your opinion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands#21st_century:_reducing_the_size_of_the_red_light_district
Basically, even legalized prostitution is a fertile ground for many sorts of criminal activity.
In former Soviet Union there were two lines: the age until which minor does not understand anything (the probability of him/her understand is small) and the age after which man or woman completely understands everything (again, there can be exceptions). The ages were about 14 and 18, I don't remember correctly.
When there was sexual behavior of adult towards minor, which can constitute a crime, special commission was employed to determine whether minor understood what was going on. If minor didn't then it was a crime.
I believe it is a better system than one single arbitrary line, after which everything is possible and nothing is possible before that.
I have to express my disagreement.
You can compare Ada (then Project Green) to ML, they were designed around same time.
ML has type inference, Ada has type declarations. ML has first class functions, polymorphism, recursive data types and whatnot, Ada has arbitrary sizes and bases for arrays.
The deepness and thoroughness of array declarations and types in Ada makes me think that this is the most important thing in universe of programming (please read "Real programmers don't use Pascal").
Ada is so into it's own view on arrays it completely missed APL, which handles arrays much better.
I think that Ada is the prime example of the design with external constraints from committee. All designs are guided by constraints. If constraints are arbitrary, you'll have Ada.
You can get away with starter kits.
For one example, Altera has a starter kit with HDMI support. This is for previous generation of their FPGAs (Stratix IV), but still.
What you have to do right, is to write the driver. And here we have a huge task, because no current 3D accelerator card will do any good without optimization of shaders and, more importantly, the combination of shaders and other calls, like texture loading, etc.
Actually, when there are money on the table, the gap closes.
Basically, the gap perceived is to further the agenda and to identify members of the group.