>She doesn't seem to be all that good at picking IT subordinates
To the contrary. Her choice in IT specialist seems to have worked out perfectly for her, since he was able to violate a document preservation order (protecting her, if the Wikileaks emails are anything to go by) and get immunity for it (protecting him). Nobody got to see the emails to see if they had any classified information before they were deleted, so there's that also.
And she was able to blame her use of classified material on an unclassified server on her brain blood clot, and then later on deny any health problems that would disqualify her for the presidency.
If it wasn't for the media doing everything they can short of calling Trump a molestor (oh, wait, Anderson Cooper did that during the debate), Hill-dawg would have been disqualified a long time ago.
It was not vectorizing properly. I rewrote the library call in C++ and got it to vectorize correctly, which took it from 6 seconds to about 0.06 seconds, but with assembly I was able to beat it by a factor of 2. Again, without much work on my part.
Actually, the most time consuming thing was implementing the whole thing a fourth way using C++ intrinsics, which are supposed to compile down to assembly in an optimal fashion, but are sparsely documented and didn't end up being any faster than what the optimizer was able to do.
>This doesn't mean that the ARM instruction set isn't a joy to work on though.
Yes, I'm glad somebody here said this. I have programmed assembly for x86, 68k, MIPS, SPARC, etc., and ARM is my favorite by far to program in. It's very sane and sensible. The ISA's documentation is... ok, there could be better documentation on ARM's part, but it's good enough I suppose.
I was able to take an image manipulation library function call written in C++ from 6 seconds to.03s using assembly in about an hour's work. (A 4K image file held in memory, processed by a RPi 2.) That would be good enough to do sepia toning in real time on a 4K video stream if the RPi 2 was actually capable of doing I/O fast enough to feed the function.
>The timeline is that she was investigeated for Benghazi, and while being investigated, noticed improper emails. She wipes the improper emails, then later there's an investigation into the improper emails. The "evidence" was already destroyed, back before it was evidence.
The evidence was wiped after the state department asked for her emails:
âoeWe learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server,â he continued. âoeWhile it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.â (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416125/hillary-clinton-defies-subpoena-wiped-her-server-clean-joel-gehrke)
And then after they found an archive of the emails after the subpeona, illegally destroyed the evidence AFTER it was evidence:
"On March 4, 2015, the House subpoenaed all emails from Clintonâ(TM)s personal servers, including a document preservation order.
PRN staff member X had a âoeconference call with President Clintonâ(TM)s staffâ on March 25, 2015, after which â" sometime between March 25th and 31st â" âoehe had an âoh shitâ(TM) moment,â when he realized he had forgotten to wipe clean the PRN server as he had been instructed to do by Mills in December 2014.
At some point during those six days, PRN wiped the server clean using BleachBit â" despite the subpoena from the House earlier in the same month.
In fact, PRN staff member X admitted to deleting the remaining emails despite being âoeaware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clintonâ(TM)s e-mail data on the PRN server.â" (http://thedailycoin.org/2016/09/04/clinton-email-server-wiped-after-her-subpoena/)
This is direct destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice, so naturally the FBI gave immunity deals to the people responsible, who then turned around and say Hill Dawg had nothing to do with it. It is fantastic (and I don't mean that in the good sense) how this investigation was conducted.
>EMACS and systemd are both credible complete operating systems, but EMACS is lighter weight, includes a web browser, and can emit textual log files. It's a clear victory for EMACS.
EMACS is a great OS, that just lacks a good text editor.
This is actually a big part of Trump's plan for his presidency. Tax holiday, bring back the billions Apple and Microsoft have stashed overseas, and put the money to work inside of America as well.
It's well known that they're just waiting for a tax holiday to do this, so Obama could theoretically steal some of Trump's fire in the unlikely event it looks like he's going to win and do it early.
> Also we went recently through a phase in computer science education where people were really only taught java. Its the only tool in their toolbox.
Yep. I went through the curriculum of the top 10 computer science universities in the country, and all of them teach either Java or Python in their introductory programming classes.
Only a single one (Stanford) even offered C++ as an alternative.
Which is why I'm working on a tool that will hopefully make C++ more appealing to educators, by replacing the traditionally horrendous error messages with an easy to read paragraph targeted at newbie programmers. I'll be presenting it at CppCon next month.
I can't tell if you are serious or not, but their Zen architecture should be dropping soon, and they at least in theory have caught up with the Intel CPUs of a generation or two ago.
If they have a good price point, they might start actually giving Intel some competition, which is good, since Intel has done next to nothing very interesting since the Ivy/Sandy Bridge days.
I teach classes using the Raspberry Pi 2 (soon to be switching to 3, I hope) in a variety of contexts, such as with students wanting to learn ARM assembly and to K-12 teachers who want to do physical computing in their science classrooms.
It feels to me like the RPi is focused a little too much on Python and Scratch. I understand that it's called the Pi because of Python, but ARM assembly is my favorite assembly language, and bare metal assembly in particular is just a really natural fit for physical computing due to how easy it is to turn GPIO pins on and off. But the lack of documentation for the newer Broadcom SoCs has made it difficult for my students to write bare metal projects. So this leads to my question for you: are there any plans on rolling out better documentation / support / code examples for assembly on the RPi 2 and 3?
Despite this sounding like grousing, I would like to assure you that I love everything you've done with the Raspberry Pi and the notion of physical computing in general. Everyone who takes an assembly class or science technology workshop with me this year will get a free RPI3 and a bunch of sensors, wires, and motors to do hands-on, open ended projects. And I've been doing this for a while and it works really well. Thanks again for all of your vision and tireless effort you've spent in this arena.
>A lot of tech people tend to forget that for most people, a computer is not an end unto itself. It's just another tool for getting their real work done. Why "advocate" a desktop if people can get their work done on a tablet or phone? A desktop system has a lot of complexity that, for most people, probably tends to get in the way of actually getting their work done as much as it helps them.
Tablets and phones are consumption devices, not creation devices. They are a hideously bad match for trying to do any sort of serious development work, or even your bog standard PowerPoint deck. A Surface is about as tablet-y as you can get while still being able to do reasonable work, but a Surface is still a real computer under the hood. Anyone who works with touch-only systems could probably give you a long list of design decisions that slow them down when trying to do anything serious.
>I'd argue that very few people's productivity is measured in how efficient their file operations are. It's sort of like believing you're going to be vastly more efficient as a programmer if you memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts or type 60wpm instead of 30. Unlike the movies, programming isn't about how fast you type.
I think his point isn't just doing file operations, but rather that everything from the CLI is going to be faster and more powerful than a GUI when you know what you're doing. GUIs are great when doing graphical stuff, but for text-based work, text-based interfaces work better. UNIX is an operating system that is also an integrated development environment.
And typing fast really does make a difference. I mean, sure, Amdahl's Law and everything, but when you know what you're going to do, your typing speed will linearly translate into productivity.
>"allowed those responsible to switch on cameras and microphones within the computer, take screenshots and track what was being typed by monitoring keyboard strokes." Kindergarden level keylogger hack by standards of the indistry
>False. What telecoms â" correctly â" object to, are efforts by local governments to compete with them. Private businesses, individuals, or non-profits are fine...
No. They lock up the last mile and do everything they can to stop private competition as well. If you're lucky enough to live in a densely populated and affluent area, you might be able to get high speed internet through microwave (the pricing is actually pretty competitive), otherwise you're going to be stuck choosing between the two horribly shitty options of either AT&T or Comcast.
It's a duopoly, and enforced by our legislators that are bought and sold by them.
>There is a saying in the C++ community, that many language features are intended to protect against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
And yet as C++ progresses, it becomes easier and easier to write simple and performant code that can't be exploited. We're a long way from the strcpy() days. I can, for example, uppercaseify strings without ever using a pointer, iterator, square bracket, or at(). And the strict typing of C++ stops every one of the exploits detailed in those Perl Jam videos, with -Wall being there to watch for anything you can do that is technically legal, but a bad idea.
>Unlike Java, Perl does not even try to protect you from malicious programmers. Being a scripting language, Perl also doesn't try hard to protect you from careless programmers. Nonetheless, these particular examples of brokenness would be hard to encounter by accident. You can't say that of PHP.
Very true. You will definitely encounter more accidental weirdness in PHP. But long past are the days where it was common practice in PHP to pollute your variable namespace with parameters passed in by the user. But the point of those videos is that even if you are a security conscious programmer, following established language patterns, the weirdness of Perl - the language itself - works against you in your goal of trying to write secure code.
The way the system works is that the first time you take an action, it creates a virtual sphere that grows at a certain rate (something like 15 miles per hour?). If you take any actions outside of that sphere, then you get locked out for 15 to 30 minutes.
So catching a flight isn't an issue, the sphere will have expired by the time you land. Driving on the interstate could potentially be problematic if you hit a portal, speed to another place, and then hit another portal within 15 minutes.
The common case that it fails on the most, though, is the jitter you get right when you turn on GPS. If you are close to two portals when you turn it on, the jerking around as it tries to pinpoint your location can move you faster than 15MPH according to the app, and lock you out.
>The cops around me start at only $32k-38k max out at less than $70k unless they make at least watch commander, get only 50% pay for pension, and the minority of the pension fund comes from payroll deductions.
Here's rates for California:
$74,700 to start, 5% raises annually, capping at $92,640. Plus full benefits, plus other bonuses (worth probably another 10k or so) that you can go through here:
>The way politics is in this country, Hillary could shoot someone in broad daylight on the National Mall and not only would she not be prosecuted, many of her supporters would still vote for her. "What difference does it make?"
The actual quotes are even more hilariously depressing. Let me grab some from the NPR thread on this:
"I suggest a ban on the following words until election day: email, server, Benghazi. She is acquitted, we are done. (some Americans seem to forget innocent until proven guilty tenet our country was built upon....) We can HOPEFULLY focus on education, infrastructure, health care, environement [sp], global policy and equality. Somehow, it feels like a lofty goal to make those things relevant in this election." -Christiana Schweitzer
"The right wing has (once again) been told that Santa Claus is not real. Add it to the list of things like Birtherism, the IRS, Benghazi, Planned Parenthood, and Death Panels. When will people on the right hold those that lead them down rabbit holes accountable for wasting their time?" -Edward Long
"GOP has done nothing to help Americans except waste millions on useless investigation...IRS, VA, Benghazi, Emails.... A bunch of unpatriotic clowns is what they are." -Edwin Johnson
"OK, so can we put this to bed already? For the gazillionth time? And for a GOP that wants a smaller gubmint intruding in people's lives, I'd like to see how much of my taxes paid for this absolute charade of an investigation." -Samantha McColeman
"Despite an 800 page, $7 million Benghazi investigation, and an FBI investigation - which allegedly involved "dozens" of investigators, they all found NOTHING. What will the trolls now have to write about? "Hillary for Prison" is now dead. As a country, can we all now focus our resources and energy on larger issues such as climate change, terrorism, race relations, and the economy." -David Archibald
>Everyone must learn to code or you'll starve to death in the new economy!!
Well, computer science IS everywhere these days.
But I see it more as an attempt to solve the rather difficult problem of how to get people started on programming. The people who do best in computer science classes in college are almost universally people that have done coding before as a hobby or something. This would be another way of providing that knowledge.
Do you get equally upset at science museums for trying to teach students about electromagnetism prior to AP Physics?
>I'm sorry. I just don't believe this. First of all, what kind of quality assurance job, particularly code review, would allow you to automate most of what you do? I would suggest any programmer capable of so significantly automating their job that they can sit back for over five years and jerk off would be among the most elite programmers on the planet...
Uh, no. One of my freshman students completely automated his job. He was a bright guy, but hardly one of the most elite programmers on the planet. He worked for a real estate agent, going through whatever the real estate database is called, grabbing houses that looked like good deals (based on various criteria), and preparing them into a report in a certain format. Six months into the job, he realized everything was repetitive, and automated the whole thing. The RE agent was happy, he was happy, so who cares?
Sure. But it seems highly unlikely in the extreme that a person could deliberately invoke a mode and then forget about it immediately three seconds later, especially when it would be reinforced by a traumatic event. (Trauma increases memory retention.)
Which means the only live possibilities are that Tesla didn't notify him properly - i.e. he activated it without knowing he activated it - or there is a bug in Tesla's software. Both are very possible events. Both are Tesla's fault.
It has been long known that there is a delay between conscious thought and awareness of conscious thought. This has shit-all to do with the free will debate, and science journalists (or whatever you want to call them) should be ashamed for conflating the two issues to make headlines.
It's related to the stopped escalator phenomenon. If you ever step on a broken escalator, you'll usually experience a moment of vertigo as your brain anticipates you moving forward, and then you realize you didn't. This is the same sort of delay that we're talking about here. Nothing to do with free will, it's just our brains' amazing capability to hide the fact that we are experiencing the world on a delay.
>That's kinda the thing though isn't it. The current economic situation is that a greater number of people can't make "a bit of money".
Unemployment is at 5%. Underemployment is an issue, but Obamacare is a massive reason for underemployment - if a person now works too many hours, they get "free" health care. So their employers just don't pay them enough hours.
A bigger issue isn't employment, but the increasing cost of living. The number of months of wages to buy a house has skyrocketed. Electricity costs are through the roof. Health care costs are through the roof. College costs are through the roof.
Is capitalism the source of college costs going up three times faster than inflation since 1978? No. Rather obviously not. If people had to actually pay their own money for college, they would be a lot smarter about it, and colleges would need to compete on price. Instead what we have is the federal government calculating "need" based on the cost of college minus the expected contribution from a student+parents, and then guaranteeing that they'll make up the difference through grants and loans. So they incentivize colleges to raise rates over and over again, since the feds'll be good for it.
The solution is actually easy. Turn off need-based financial aid. Tuition rates would collapse overnight.
If you still want to support higher education, take the money that we're spending right now and switch to a flat subsidy, or a flat subsidy based on income. Between our student loan program, student grants, and job retraining budget, we have enough to pay every student to go to community college, which costs far less to educate a student than a state or private institution. If the student wants to go to a state or private college instead, they can pay the difference or get a loan.
What capitalism teaches us is that both people and institutions respond to financial incentives, and the trick is to get the incentives working FOR us.
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>She doesn't seem to be all that good at picking IT subordinates
To the contrary. Her choice in IT specialist seems to have worked out perfectly for her, since he was able to violate a document preservation order (protecting her, if the Wikileaks emails are anything to go by) and get immunity for it (protecting him). Nobody got to see the emails to see if they had any classified information before they were deleted, so there's that also.
And she was able to blame her use of classified material on an unclassified server on her brain blood clot, and then later on deny any health problems that would disqualify her for the presidency.
If it wasn't for the media doing everything they can short of calling Trump a molestor (oh, wait, Anderson Cooper did that during the debate), Hill-dawg would have been disqualified a long time ago.
>Hillary did not say that she destroyed email after receiving a subpoena from Congress. The guy managing her email destroyed the emails
Ah, well, as long as the destruction of evidence was by a person *working for her*, then everything is okay.
It was not vectorizing properly. I rewrote the library call in C++ and got it to vectorize correctly, which took it from 6 seconds to about 0.06 seconds, but with assembly I was able to beat it by a factor of 2. Again, without much work on my part.
Actually, the most time consuming thing was implementing the whole thing a fourth way using C++ intrinsics, which are supposed to compile down to assembly in an optimal fashion, but are sparsely documented and didn't end up being any faster than what the optimizer was able to do.
>This doesn't mean that the ARM instruction set isn't a joy to work on though.
Yes, I'm glad somebody here said this. I have programmed assembly for x86, 68k, MIPS, SPARC, etc., and ARM is my favorite by far to program in. It's very sane and sensible. The ISA's documentation is... ok, there could be better documentation on ARM's part, but it's good enough I suppose.
I was able to take an image manipulation library function call written in C++ from 6 seconds to .03s using assembly in about an hour's work. (A 4K image file held in memory, processed by a RPi 2.) That would be good enough to do sepia toning in real time on a 4K video stream if the RPi 2 was actually capable of doing I/O fast enough to feed the function.
>The timeline is that she was investigeated for Benghazi, and while being investigated, noticed improper emails. She wipes the improper emails, then later there's an investigation into the improper emails. The "evidence" was already destroyed, back before it was evidence.
The evidence was wiped after the state department asked for her emails:
âoeWe learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server,â he continued. âoeWhile it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.â (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416125/hillary-clinton-defies-subpoena-wiped-her-server-clean-joel-gehrke)
And then after they found an archive of the emails after the subpeona, illegally destroyed the evidence AFTER it was evidence:
"On March 4, 2015, the House subpoenaed all emails from Clintonâ(TM)s personal servers, including a document preservation order.
PRN staff member X had a âoeconference call with President Clintonâ(TM)s staffâ on March 25, 2015, after which â" sometime between March 25th and 31st â" âoehe had an âoh shitâ(TM) moment,â when he realized he had forgotten to wipe clean the PRN server as he had been instructed to do by Mills in December 2014.
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At some point during those six days, PRN wiped the server clean using BleachBit â" despite the subpoena from the House earlier in the same month.
In fact, PRN staff member X admitted to deleting the remaining emails despite being âoeaware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clintonâ(TM)s e-mail data on the PRN server.â" (http://thedailycoin.org/2016/09/04/clinton-email-server-wiped-after-her-subpoena/)
This is direct destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice, so naturally the FBI gave immunity deals to the people responsible, who then turned around and say Hill Dawg had nothing to do with it. It is fantastic (and I don't mean that in the good sense) how this investigation was conducted.
>EMACS and systemd are both credible complete operating systems, but EMACS is lighter weight, includes a web browser, and can emit textual log files. It's a clear victory for EMACS.
EMACS is a great OS, that just lacks a good text editor.
This is actually a big part of Trump's plan for his presidency. Tax holiday, bring back the billions Apple and Microsoft have stashed overseas, and put the money to work inside of America as well.
It's well known that they're just waiting for a tax holiday to do this, so Obama could theoretically steal some of Trump's fire in the unlikely event it looks like he's going to win and do it early.
> Also we went recently through a phase in computer science education where people were really only taught java. Its the only tool in their toolbox.
Yep. I went through the curriculum of the top 10 computer science universities in the country, and all of them teach either Java or Python in their introductory programming classes.
Only a single one (Stanford) even offered C++ as an alternative.
Which is why I'm working on a tool that will hopefully make C++ more appealing to educators, by replacing the traditionally horrendous error messages with an easy to read paragraph targeted at newbie programmers. I'll be presenting it at CppCon next month.
I can't tell if you are serious or not, but their Zen architecture should be dropping soon, and they at least in theory have caught up with the Intel CPUs of a generation or two ago.
If they have a good price point, they might start actually giving Intel some competition, which is good, since Intel has done next to nothing very interesting since the Ivy/Sandy Bridge days.
Hi Eben,
I teach classes using the Raspberry Pi 2 (soon to be switching to 3, I hope) in a variety of contexts, such as with students wanting to learn ARM assembly and to K-12 teachers who want to do physical computing in their science classrooms.
It feels to me like the RPi is focused a little too much on Python and Scratch. I understand that it's called the Pi because of Python, but ARM assembly is my favorite assembly language, and bare metal assembly in particular is just a really natural fit for physical computing due to how easy it is to turn GPIO pins on and off. But the lack of documentation for the newer Broadcom SoCs has made it difficult for my students to write bare metal projects. So this leads to my question for you: are there any plans on rolling out better documentation / support / code examples for assembly on the RPi 2 and 3?
Despite this sounding like grousing, I would like to assure you that I love everything you've done with the Raspberry Pi and the notion of physical computing in general. Everyone who takes an assembly class or science technology workshop with me this year will get a free RPI3 and a bunch of sensors, wires, and motors to do hands-on, open ended projects. And I've been doing this for a while and it works really well. Thanks again for all of your vision and tireless effort you've spent in this arena.
>A lot of tech people tend to forget that for most people, a computer is not an end unto itself. It's just another tool for getting their real work done. Why "advocate" a desktop if people can get their work done on a tablet or phone? A desktop system has a lot of complexity that, for most people, probably tends to get in the way of actually getting their work done as much as it helps them.
Tablets and phones are consumption devices, not creation devices. They are a hideously bad match for trying to do any sort of serious development work, or even your bog standard PowerPoint deck. A Surface is about as tablet-y as you can get while still being able to do reasonable work, but a Surface is still a real computer under the hood. Anyone who works with touch-only systems could probably give you a long list of design decisions that slow them down when trying to do anything serious.
>I'd argue that very few people's productivity is measured in how efficient their file operations are. It's sort of like believing you're going to be vastly more efficient as a programmer if you memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts or type 60wpm instead of 30. Unlike the movies, programming isn't about how fast you type.
I think his point isn't just doing file operations, but rather that everything from the CLI is going to be faster and more powerful than a GUI when you know what you're doing. GUIs are great when doing graphical stuff, but for text-based work, text-based interfaces work better. UNIX is an operating system that is also an integrated development environment.
And typing fast really does make a difference. I mean, sure, Amdahl's Law and everything, but when you know what you're going to do, your typing speed will linearly translate into productivity.
>"allowed those responsible to switch on cameras and microphones within the computer, take screenshots and track what was being typed by monitoring keyboard strokes." Kindergarden level keylogger hack by standards of the indistry
Or you just upgrade them to Windows 10.
>False. What telecoms â" correctly â" object to, are efforts by local governments to compete with them. Private businesses, individuals, or non-profits are fine...
No. They lock up the last mile and do everything they can to stop private competition as well. If you're lucky enough to live in a densely populated and affluent area, you might be able to get high speed internet through microwave (the pricing is actually pretty competitive), otherwise you're going to be stuck choosing between the two horribly shitty options of either AT&T or Comcast.
It's a duopoly, and enforced by our legislators that are bought and sold by them.
http://www.politico.com/story/...
>There is a saying in the C++ community, that many language features are intended to protect against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
And yet as C++ progresses, it becomes easier and easier to write simple and performant code that can't be exploited. We're a long way from the strcpy() days. I can, for example, uppercaseify strings without ever using a pointer, iterator, square bracket, or at(). And the strict typing of C++ stops every one of the exploits detailed in those Perl Jam videos, with -Wall being there to watch for anything you can do that is technically legal, but a bad idea.
>Unlike Java, Perl does not even try to protect you from malicious programmers. Being a scripting language, Perl also doesn't try hard to protect you from careless programmers. Nonetheless, these particular examples of brokenness would be hard to encounter by accident. You can't say that of PHP.
Very true. You will definitely encounter more accidental weirdness in PHP. But long past are the days where it was common practice in PHP to pollute your variable namespace with parameters passed in by the user. But the point of those videos is that even if you are a security conscious programmer, following established language patterns, the weirdness of Perl - the language itself - works against you in your goal of trying to write secure code.
The way the system works is that the first time you take an action, it creates a virtual sphere that grows at a certain rate (something like 15 miles per hour?). If you take any actions outside of that sphere, then you get locked out for 15 to 30 minutes.
So catching a flight isn't an issue, the sphere will have expired by the time you land. Driving on the interstate could potentially be problematic if you hit a portal, speed to another place, and then hit another portal within 15 minutes.
The common case that it fails on the most, though, is the jitter you get right when you turn on GPS. If you are close to two portals when you turn it on, the jerking around as it tries to pinpoint your location can move you faster than 15MPH according to the app, and lock you out.
>The cops around me start at only $32k-38k max out at less than $70k unless they make at least watch commander, get only 50% pay for pension, and the minority of the pension fund comes from payroll deductions.
Here's rates for California:
$74,700 to start, 5% raises annually, capping at $92,640. Plus full benefits, plus other bonuses (worth probably another 10k or so) that you can go through here:
https://www.chp.ca.gov/chp-car...
That's more than they pay software engineers working for the department (I just went through their job listings).
Retirement is based on 90% of their highest three years of salary, plus health and dental.
Lutherans don't do Confession like Catholics.
Confession of sins and forgiveness is done en masse in a service.
>The way politics is in this country, Hillary could shoot someone in broad daylight on the National Mall and not only would she not be prosecuted, many of her supporters would still vote for her. "What difference does it make?"
The actual quotes are even more hilariously depressing. Let me grab some from the NPR thread on this:
"I suggest a ban on the following words until election day: email, server, Benghazi. She is acquitted, we are done. (some Americans seem to forget innocent until proven guilty tenet our country was built upon....) We can HOPEFULLY focus on education, infrastructure, health care, environement [sp], global policy and equality. Somehow, it feels like a lofty goal to make those things relevant in this election." -Christiana Schweitzer
"The right wing has (once again) been told that Santa Claus is not real. Add it to the list of things like Birtherism, the IRS, Benghazi, Planned Parenthood, and Death Panels. When will people on the right hold those that lead them down rabbit holes accountable for wasting their time?" -Edward Long
"GOP has done nothing to help Americans except waste millions on useless investigation...IRS, VA, Benghazi, Emails.... A bunch of unpatriotic clowns is what they are." -Edwin Johnson
"OK, so can we put this to bed already? For the gazillionth time? And for a GOP that wants a smaller gubmint intruding in people's lives, I'd like to see how much of my taxes paid for this absolute charade of an investigation." -Samantha McColeman
"Despite an 800 page, $7 million Benghazi investigation, and an FBI investigation - which allegedly involved "dozens" of investigators, they all found NOTHING. What will the trolls now have to write about? "Hillary for Prison" is now dead. As a country, can we all now focus our resources and energy on larger issues such as climate change, terrorism, race relations, and the economy." -David Archibald
>Everyone must learn to code or you'll starve to death in the new economy!!
Well, computer science IS everywhere these days.
But I see it more as an attempt to solve the rather difficult problem of how to get people started on programming. The people who do best in computer science classes in college are almost universally people that have done coding before as a hobby or something. This would be another way of providing that knowledge.
Do you get equally upset at science museums for trying to teach students about electromagnetism prior to AP Physics?
To be fair, Ben Franklin visited London and had a fun time, when he wasn't being pilloried in Parliament. His son ended up living there.
> They get to pick the arbitration company
Yep. Which is why this bullshit should be illegal.
Arbitration companies know that if they rule against Kaiser or something too often, they'll lose the contract.
It is preposterously unethical.
>I'm sorry. I just don't believe this. First of all, what kind of quality assurance job, particularly code review, would allow you to automate most of what you do? I would suggest any programmer capable of so significantly automating their job that they can sit back for over five years and jerk off would be among the most elite programmers on the planet...
Uh, no. One of my freshman students completely automated his job. He was a bright guy, but hardly one of the most elite programmers on the planet. He worked for a real estate agent, going through whatever the real estate database is called, grabbing houses that looked like good deals (based on various criteria), and preparing them into a report in a certain format. Six months into the job, he realized everything was repetitive, and automated the whole thing. The RE agent was happy, he was happy, so who cares?
>Please look up some studies on human memory
Sure. But it seems highly unlikely in the extreme that a person could deliberately invoke a mode and then forget about it immediately three seconds later, especially when it would be reinforced by a traumatic event. (Trauma increases memory retention.)
Which means the only live possibilities are that Tesla didn't notify him properly - i.e. he activated it without knowing he activated it - or there is a bug in Tesla's software. Both are very possible events. Both are Tesla's fault.
It has been long known that there is a delay between conscious thought and awareness of conscious thought. This has shit-all to do with the free will debate, and science journalists (or whatever you want to call them) should be ashamed for conflating the two issues to make headlines.
It's related to the stopped escalator phenomenon. If you ever step on a broken escalator, you'll usually experience a moment of vertigo as your brain anticipates you moving forward, and then you realize you didn't. This is the same sort of delay that we're talking about here. Nothing to do with free will, it's just our brains' amazing capability to hide the fact that we are experiencing the world on a delay.
>That's kinda the thing though isn't it. The current economic situation is that a greater number of people can't make "a bit of money".
Unemployment is at 5%. Underemployment is an issue, but Obamacare is a massive reason for underemployment - if a person now works too many hours, they get "free" health care. So their employers just don't pay them enough hours.
A bigger issue isn't employment, but the increasing cost of living. The number of months of wages to buy a house has skyrocketed. Electricity costs are through the roof. Health care costs are through the roof. College costs are through the roof.
Is capitalism the source of college costs going up three times faster than inflation since 1978? No. Rather obviously not. If people had to actually pay their own money for college, they would be a lot smarter about it, and colleges would need to compete on price. Instead what we have is the federal government calculating "need" based on the cost of college minus the expected contribution from a student+parents, and then guaranteeing that they'll make up the difference through grants and loans. So they incentivize colleges to raise rates over and over again, since the feds'll be good for it.
The solution is actually easy. Turn off need-based financial aid. Tuition rates would collapse overnight.
If you still want to support higher education, take the money that we're spending right now and switch to a flat subsidy, or a flat subsidy based on income. Between our student loan program, student grants, and job retraining budget, we have enough to pay every student to go to community college, which costs far less to educate a student than a state or private institution. If the student wants to go to a state or private college instead, they can pay the difference or get a loan.
What capitalism teaches us is that both people and institutions respond to financial incentives, and the trick is to get the incentives working FOR us.