Scoring systems (which are based on algorithms) produce values, not just true or false. If you act like all positive scores are the same (or over your threshold or whatever) then it's not the algorithm that's failed, it's the logic. The problem isn't the programmer who implements the algorithm that's the problem, it's the programmer who makes use of it incorrectly.
"It is entirely possible that the supply chain for renewables is already stretched and that there is little to no impact to that supply chain buy building other kinds of plants."
No, it isn't. Nuclear plants are intensively labor, capital, and resource intensive from stem to stern. There is no reason to imagine that we can't spend that effort on renewables. Nothing required to make them is available on only one location, so we can make more by spending our effort there.
In short, no. If we can find evidence of craters older than 300M years, then we can't take them into account. Pangaea was 335M years ago. It's no coincidence that the big craters we know of postdate that time. Evidence of older ones has been subducted. How do you think we would account for them?
"What the fuckity fuck, we spent years, centuries, millenia without them. They are fucking nothing,"
No, the web was fucking nothing before search engines. It was a research toy. Before Hotbot it was all but useless. And Hotbot didn't scale, nor altavista. So now we have Google.
"DuckDuckGo is already a better search engine,"
And just like that, you lost all credibility. Go on, pull the other one. DDG is absolutely useless. In the dozen times I've tried it, it has delivered useful results zero times. Google has what I want in the top ten results at least 80% of the time. Wake me up when DDG can even hit 20%.
"Not only do they have competition but it is gaining on them as we speak."
"Apple. They got ruined by the death of Jobs, not by money."
Nope. They took Jobs back due to love of money. They could have had BeOS and a CEO who would still be alive, but they went with Steve and NeXTStep instead, and now you're holding it wrong.
pretty much the entirety of these games can be played via an emulator (or many of the better ones using one of the new "mini" consoles), yet people still want to have one of the physical cartridges.
Almost all mini consoles are actually emulators, and some of the best-loved games on some consoles don't work well in emulators.
Convent size, doses not skip, cheep less distracting in a car than a phone. Seems like wins to me
Before the mp3 flash player, tape decks still made sense for people driving on bumpy roads, or off-road. But now that flash is cheap and so are mp3 playing head units, and basically all new head units play mp3s, they make none at all.
I've heard very good sound quality from cassettes, if they are the right kind of tape.
It's not the quality of the sound, it's the noise. Even the very best cassettes (and I've fiddled with a variety of them over the years, sometimes even in good decks) feature a crapload of noise. There's just nothing like digital. Maybe it doesn't bother everyone the same, but it definitely bothers me.
Assuming at least some trappings of democracy, or at least a vestige of "consent of the governed" is to be maintained... How do you propose to enforce universal destitution?
That's your proposal, not mine. We need to end the cycle of make-work. Modern society is the broken window fallacy writ large.
if we really can't build renewables as fast as is necessary, nuclear is a hell of a lot better than fossil fuels. If we find ourselves building new fossil fuel facilities (which we are in fact doing), then it's a fail on the global warming front.
We're not building natgas plants because we need to. We could be putting that effort into renewables instead. We're building more natgas plants because we have more natgas production, because we're fracking. It's better to burn the natgas than to let it escape into the atmosphere, but it's even better not to do fracking in the first place, and to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels.
The number of workers needed per ton of produce uh... produced... has plummeted. But the amount produced has gone up, so we still need human labor. They are still necessary for certain high-value crops, like strawberries.
However, this is about to change, and robots will actually be capable of doing a better job of picking strawberries than humans because they don't have to bend over, and you can build in a brix meter. In fact, you could cover the plants with a plastic film or net that would protect them from birds, and the robot could work under it.
The corporations don't give a shit about humans, or the environment, or anything else but the bottom line. When it becomes cheaper to deploy robots than to hire illegal immigrants, they'll do that. And it will happen relatively soon. It's been "on the horizon" for a long time, as such things usually are, but now it's actually close.
Losers whine about fair. Winners get to go home and fuck the prom queen. But it's actually entirely fair. Wind turbines are fairly recyclable, and solar panels are both recyclable (nobody bothers yet because peak sand isn't affecting solar panels so much as ICs) and also required not to leach if landfilled.
"Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism."
The ones who are in denial are those who don't understand that we have to reduce economic output because we're spending natural capital faster than it can be replenished. We are burning our house not even to stay warm, but just to see the pretty fire.
I didn't care about the thinness either, and the width was perfect for my massive, ape-like hands. That was a pretty good phone hardware-wise. Too bad the software was so awful.
It's very easy to imagine other intelligent life in the universe. What's hard, given our understanding of physics, is imagining a plausible way for them to be involved with us. The easiest way would be to believe that Earth had a prior technically advanced civilization, but that's hard to swallow as well. They would likely have left evidence in the form of artificial stone, if nothing else. Interstellar distances are perhaps not an insurmountable obstacle, but everything we know says that they effectively are.
Contrary claims require evidence. "I can't explain this" doesn't qualify.
"Ageing has to exist because entropy is entropy. There's no way around it. "
Nonsense. Aging is caused by replication errors, damage, etc. A life form that replaced everything regularly and was sufficiently well-regulated might indeed not age, if it had a more reliable means of replication than we've got.
Or, a life form could be continually replacing parts with new parts which are not the same, but which fulfill the same function. As an individual it might change, but is it really aging if it's not a road to failure and death?
It's not a comet now, but who knows what it used to be? We sure don't. There's lots of other things it could be that aren't alien probes, and no evidence that it is one. One can't say "I can't explain this rock's trajectory, therefore aliens". Even playing with a 2D gravitational simulation shows that sometimes bodies are lost due to interactions with other bodies, and they depart systems on seemingly inexplicable trajectories if viewed from sufficient distance.
The third Reich was defeated. Plenty of Nazis ran off with their stolen art and Jew gold and settled in Argentina or Costa Rica, etc. Or went to work for the US government.
"All that's left is some dumb teenagers drawing swastikas with sharpies on bathroom walls."
There's plenty of that, but there's also organized groups of white supremacists doing stuff like infiltrating police and military organizations. Or taking the presidency...
You do realize that it doesn't matter where the money came from, polls influence elections, so influencing the polls is an attempt to influence elections.
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Scoring systems (which are based on algorithms) produce values, not just true or false. If you act like all positive scores are the same (or over your threshold or whatever) then it's not the algorithm that's failed, it's the logic. The problem isn't the programmer who implements the algorithm that's the problem, it's the programmer who makes use of it incorrectly.
"She claimed to be part Cherokee"
False. She claimed that her family claimed that she was part Cherokee. Nice try though
That tells us the relative ages of the craters on the moon, but not their ages...
"It is entirely possible that the supply chain for renewables is already stretched and that there is little to no impact to that supply chain buy building other kinds of plants."
No, it isn't. Nuclear plants are intensively labor, capital, and resource intensive from stem to stern. There is no reason to imagine that we can't spend that effort on renewables. Nothing required to make them is available on only one location, so we can make more by spending our effort there.
In short, no. If we can find evidence of craters older than 300M years, then we can't take them into account. Pangaea was 335M years ago. It's no coincidence that the big craters we know of postdate that time. Evidence of older ones has been subducted. How do you think we would account for them?
"What the fuckity fuck, we spent years, centuries, millenia without them. They are fucking nothing,"
No, the web was fucking nothing before search engines. It was a research toy. Before Hotbot it was all but useless. And Hotbot didn't scale, nor altavista. So now we have Google.
"DuckDuckGo is already a better search engine,"
And just like that, you lost all credibility. Go on, pull the other one. DDG is absolutely useless. In the dozen times I've tried it, it has delivered useful results zero times. Google has what I want in the top ten results at least 80% of the time. Wake me up when DDG can even hit 20%.
"Not only do they have competition but it is gaining on them as we speak."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
"Apple. They got ruined by the death of Jobs, not by money."
Nope. They took Jobs back due to love of money. They could have had BeOS and a CEO who would still be alive, but they went with Steve and NeXTStep instead, and now you're holding it wrong.
Entropy is not evenly distributed.m
pretty much the entirety of these games can be played via an emulator (or many of the better ones using one of the new "mini" consoles), yet people still want to have one of the physical cartridges.
Almost all mini consoles are actually emulators, and some of the best-loved games on some consoles don't work well in emulators.
Convent size, doses not skip, cheep less distracting in a car than a phone. Seems like wins to me
Before the mp3 flash player, tape decks still made sense for people driving on bumpy roads, or off-road. But now that flash is cheap and so are mp3 playing head units, and basically all new head units play mp3s, they make none at all.
I've heard very good sound quality from cassettes, if they are the right kind of tape.
It's not the quality of the sound, it's the noise. Even the very best cassettes (and I've fiddled with a variety of them over the years, sometimes even in good decks) feature a crapload of noise. There's just nothing like digital. Maybe it doesn't bother everyone the same, but it definitely bothers me.
Assuming at least some trappings of democracy, or at least a vestige of "consent of the governed" is to be maintained... How do you propose to enforce universal destitution?
That's your proposal, not mine. We need to end the cycle of make-work. Modern society is the broken window fallacy writ large.
if we really can't build renewables as fast as is necessary, nuclear is a hell of a lot better than fossil fuels. If we find ourselves building new fossil fuel facilities (which we are in fact doing), then it's a fail on the global warming front.
We're not building natgas plants because we need to. We could be putting that effort into renewables instead. We're building more natgas plants because we have more natgas production, because we're fracking. It's better to burn the natgas than to let it escape into the atmosphere, but it's even better not to do fracking in the first place, and to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels.
The number of workers needed per ton of produce uh... produced... has plummeted. But the amount produced has gone up, so we still need human labor. They are still necessary for certain high-value crops, like strawberries.
However, this is about to change, and robots will actually be capable of doing a better job of picking strawberries than humans because they don't have to bend over, and you can build in a brix meter. In fact, you could cover the plants with a plastic film or net that would protect them from birds, and the robot could work under it.
The corporations don't give a shit about humans, or the environment, or anything else but the bottom line. When it becomes cheaper to deploy robots than to hire illegal immigrants, they'll do that. And it will happen relatively soon. It's been "on the horizon" for a long time, as such things usually are, but now it's actually close.
In the US, minors can't sign contracts. Any contract with a minor is considered 'null and void'.
Tell that to all the people who signed up for student loans at 17.
The thrust of TFA is "build as much wind and solar as you can, but that won't be enough so fill in the rest of the demand with nuclear".
Right, but it's wrong. We need batteries, not nuclear plants.
Losers whine about fair. Winners get to go home and fuck the prom queen. But it's actually entirely fair. Wind turbines are fairly recyclable, and solar panels are both recyclable (nobody bothers yet because peak sand isn't affecting solar panels so much as ICs) and also required not to leach if landfilled.
"Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism."
The ones who are in denial are those who don't understand that we have to reduce economic output because we're spending natural capital faster than it can be replenished. We are burning our house not even to stay warm, but just to see the pretty fire.
I didn't care about the thinness either, and the width was perfect for my massive, ape-like hands. That was a pretty good phone hardware-wise. Too bad the software was so awful.
It's very easy to imagine other intelligent life in the universe. What's hard, given our understanding of physics, is imagining a plausible way for them to be involved with us. The easiest way would be to believe that Earth had a prior technically advanced civilization, but that's hard to swallow as well. They would likely have left evidence in the form of artificial stone, if nothing else. Interstellar distances are perhaps not an insurmountable obstacle, but everything we know says that they effectively are.
Contrary claims require evidence. "I can't explain this" doesn't qualify.
"Ageing has to exist because entropy is entropy. There's no way around it. "
Nonsense. Aging is caused by replication errors, damage, etc. A life form that replaced everything regularly and was sufficiently well-regulated might indeed not age, if it had a more reliable means of replication than we've got.
Or, a life form could be continually replacing parts with new parts which are not the same, but which fulfill the same function. As an individual it might change, but is it really aging if it's not a road to failure and death?
It's not a comet now, but who knows what it used to be? We sure don't. There's lots of other things it could be that aren't alien probes, and no evidence that it is one. One can't say "I can't explain this rock's trajectory, therefore aliens". Even playing with a 2D gravitational simulation shows that sometimes bodies are lost due to interactions with other bodies, and they depart systems on seemingly inexplicable trajectories if viewed from sufficient distance.
"Real Nazis?
No, they were defeated.
In 1945."
The third Reich was defeated. Plenty of Nazis ran off with their stolen art and Jew gold and settled in Argentina or Costa Rica, etc. Or went to work for the US government.
"All that's left is some dumb teenagers drawing swastikas with sharpies on bathroom walls."
There's plenty of that, but there's also organized groups of white supremacists doing stuff like infiltrating police and military organizations. Or taking the presidency...
You do realize that it doesn't matter where the money came from, polls influence elections, so influencing the polls is an attempt to influence elections.
I recently speculated that it was because mod_perl is a pita. I wanted to use Perl rather than PHP but gave up for that reason and now I run Drupal.