In my experience, tautologies have a tendency of being true.
Free-market economic theory does rely partly on the claim "all action is self-interested" but, crucially, only on a tautological interpretation. I suspect that you're making the common error of misunderstanding either "action" or "self-interest" in this context.
No I think I understand it. What I don't think you understand is why Tautologies are by definition illogical. When an axioms truth value requires itself to first be true, then , it is, by definition unproven. and thus any theory premised on it, is also by necessity unproven and unprovable.
In science its called "pseudoscience". In philosophy its just "not even wrong".
That says as much about the march of progress as it does about the decline of slashdot. Even if slashdot were at it's peak, times 2, the capacity of the hardware and the internet has grown many times that, plus dynamic loadbalancing and scaling and content delivery networks...
The first web server I administered was a pentium 75 with well under a gig of ram (cant remember. very early 2000s). It was already a redundant piece of hardware, dumpster dived for a cash strapped student union. It ran on slackware, apache, php and I *think* zope (although that might have come later). It handled about 40 websites, an IRC server, email for countless domains, and a MUD server. And it did it without breaking a sweat. And by god did I fear slashdot ever linking to something on it.
I wouldn't be surprised if a smart watch has more power than it.
1) Do nothing, This would be best but politically will be impossible after another attack or two.
Thanks to the first ammendment and forth ammendment, not only is "do nothing" politically possible, it also renders the censor/great wall/wiretap-everything proposals practically impossible.
Its not even a debate. Options 2 and 3 don't pass constitutional muster, and a politician can huff and puff all he likes, but it doesn't actually matter. Its not allowed.
Theres almost no support in australia at all. Hell one of our previous conservative parlimentarians was on the board of Sea Shephard.
The only thing that stopped australia from sending the navy out and putting and end to all this is the fact that apparently trade with japan is more important than stopping illegal poachers violating our territorial waters repeatedly. Well unless your a poor indonesian fisherman, in which case your screwed.
The legal limit is "dont kill the patient". Unfortunately the realities of terminal illness is that people can be in such harrowing agony the only rational thing to do is to help the patient pass away so doctors will often quietly administer a dose that will probably kill the patient reasoning that its the only dose that will contain the suffering and if the patient dies, well such is terminal illness.
This puts doctors in a horrible situation legally. We accept without question that it is humane to euthenise pets whos suffering is more than they can deal with. Yet we cant allow our own species to take a dignified exit when they, and the doctor, agree that hope is lost.
In the fever dreams of conservatives, people disagreeing with them are "censoring" them, and people mocking them when they spout nonsense are "bullying" them. And I guess that qualifies as terrorism?
You say that as if 1%'ers somehow behave differently from the other 99%? *Everyone* acts in their self-interest, you act surprised that having money would somehow change the laws of nature?
You are aware that the "all actions are self interested" thing is pretty much a nonsense that economics stubbornly maintains over the objections of psychology and philosophy.
Philosophers point out that all formulations of the statement are more or less tautological, psychologists point out that the claim simply doesnt line up with what we know about how the brain works.
But half a century of dubious free market economic theory falls into a heap if the axiom is abandoned, so its repeated as an article of faith.
Normally I tend to think Dawkins is bit of a dick (And I say that as someone who is also a rusted on atheist) but yeah.
A lot of liberals seem terminally worried about offending with religion , but its not clear whos getting offended.
Most atheists , me included, take a live-and-let-live approach to religion. Its fine as long as its not going after me. The muslims are 99% of the time completely OK with christianity (Seriously, Jesus is their second most important prophet) , Jews are non evangelical and pretty much dont bother with brow beating gentiles. Hinduism and Sikhism are totally into religious pluralism, its kind of in the DNA of their religions. So whos left? Pagans? (Hippies). Eh....
Theres no war on christmas, except in the minds of nutty conservatives and confused liberals.
In my opinion, their description of religious and terrorist merely means that engineers are more likely to be *religious terrorists*.
Your right, although largely left wing terrorism isn't really as big an issue as it was in the 70s. I mean other than the odd punch up with cops and the rare instance of a morally confused environmentalist lighting something on fire, how often do you see marxists blowing things up these days, compared to neo-nazis and religious nutters blowing things up and killing people.
Smedley served in world war I, and that war really *was* a racket. It was everything wrong with 'war' in concept and practice. Empires colliding fighting over which shitty monarchy gets to rule which shitty land. It was poor against poor whilst the rich raked in the rewards.
So you can probably forgive him if he treated the battle cry of yet another global conflict with a degree of suspicion.
I have no idea if any of the "Business plot" stuff is true. There was definately *some sort* of funny business going on but maybe it was exagurated, but he's not wrong about war. Even WW-II, the one where pretty much everyone agrees the nazis and the empire of japan needed to be smashed (And they did) was ultimately just a mass grave for the poor, even though in the balance it was better that it was fought than it wasn't.
One of these days, they are going to find themselves accidently threatening a russian mafia boss, hells angel commander, mexican cartel boss or something to that effect, and they will find themselves very very dead.
Voyager was terrible but I recommend rewatching enterprise as it was actually pretty good in parts. The xindi arc was almost up there with the dominion war for sheer epic scale
A torp launcher, cruise launcher, a heavy assault launcher, a heavy launcher, a rocket launcher, a light missile launcher, a shield booster, an armor repairer, a hull repairer, a 1MN afterburner, a 10MN afterburner, a 100MN afterburner.....
So you just whacked any old shit on your ship and decided it should be invincible. Good god, read a wiki or something before undocking.
Honestly, your better off pointing your vitriol at your lawmakers than at the library. This list of exceptions is better than what most expected. If we want to actually get rid of the DMCAs prohibition on jailbreaking DRM, it'll require legislation.
It really depends on what mood the judge or jury are in. If they decide his actions are malicious and coud have endangered lives, the guy might well end up growing old on the inside.
Though I'm sure his baby face will make him popular with "Bubba" the 200 pound polynesian sex offender.
Masonry and carpentry is an apprenticeship. I wish that more people in the software business realised that software is too. [/quote]
Once upon a time many of the sciences where too. Back around the second world war, my grandfather who was around 14-15 started an apprentiship with the local national science organization (Cant remember if it was the CSIRO back then) as an industrial chemist. Because university places where largely for the wealthy, as a working class lad his only option was to work as an apprentice chemist and work his way up. Eventually he worked up to becoming a qualified chemical engineer (And yes, they actually awarded bachelor degrees, but they where not as prestigious as ones from a university) , and ultimately ended up at BP designing process control systems for oil refineries.
Personally I think for practical programming that makes a lot of sense. Of course theres still a role for the research side of it , that still belongs at a university, but there really isn't anything in programming as a tool that precludes it being taught in the same way an electrician learns his trade.
Sometimes I wonder if ISIS has become something of a psychopath magnet. Not allowed to murder and torture people at home without ending up in big trouble for being a serial killer? Fly to sunny Syria where you can rape murder and torture to your hearts content with fellow like minded sociopaths from around the world.
The problem is , its a question that has institutional meaning that can have effects in quite significant ways.
As Art, it is speech, and thus owed protections under the first ammendment. If its not art, then its hard to argue that its anything more than an industrial product.
As Art. its eligible for arts development grants that can be vital to starting indy game devs towards being financially self reliant.
As Art, we recognize it as a legitimate topic of review and critique, and as something important to societies internal dialogue about itself.
Apple has been generally pretty good with that. Older iPhones will still run newer software, although in some cases its debatable if its actually a good idea to do so, if the software is written under the assumption of a more performant processor. At least with the laptops, my Macbook 2011 is running the latest and greatest OSX at a cracking pace, and my GFs iphone 5 is fully updated and running well.
If they have no problem trampling on people, why would they have a problem with ignoring a computer telling them to speed up or slow down?
Clearly you've never been in a crowd stampede. I have, at a festival about 15 years ago,. Nobody *wants* to trample or be trampled, its the panic that sets into the crowd that starts turning thousands of individually rational responses ("flee the danger") into a very irrational crowd ("lets all run into each other"). Nobody is individually making a decision against their own interest or against others interest, its just whats happens when a lot of those decisions collide with each other.
To some extent neural nets do model what happens in a human brain, but they also do things that we're fairly sure human neurons dont, most notable being back propagation, or at least not in the format we do it with neural networks. Thats not to say there are analogous mechanisms, in fact there *must* be one (how else to explain the elasticity of inputs). But there are critical differences.
Now that doesnt mean of course that a computer neural network is stupider. In fact cell for cell our neural networks out perform the shit out of biological neurons , its just the brains have so much more , both in terms of mechanisms and sheer neuron count + connectivity.
Yeah im the same. I'm often working in fits and starts. Often I'll get into the office, smash down a coffee and blast a couple pages of code out, then hit a snag, lose steam and not really achieve much for half an hour, then blast back into it for another 10 minutes, then completely zone out for an hour before hitting the groove again for an hour straight. Some bosses see this and whilst they might note I *always* hit my deadlines want me to spend less time non productive. The problem is, programming is brain work, and brains dont work well by constant pumping. They are muscles that need to relax and turn off to recharge for more work. And sometimes the best ideas happen during that zone out. I'll be idly reading some wikipedia page on a particular algorithm, and then it strikes me that its the solution to a problem that I've been wrestling with. Or I'll be out the back having a cigarette with the boss talking over the job and we'll stumble over a great way to move forward.
Productivity isnt just a constant flow of key strokes. Thats just makework metrics. Productivity is the whole ugly process, and as much as we try and structure it with various time management techniques, at the end of the day, creativity is chaotic.
Yes, but still significantly less evil than the crew that replaced him.
The problem with the Iranian revolution wasn't the iranian revolution, but the people who hijacked it. The revolutionaries where great people who wanted democracy and a liberal and free Iran , but unfortunately a lot of Iran where illiterate and conservative and this allowed the far right religious conservatives to sweep in and sieze control from the people. And the first thing they did was not only round up and execute the shahs men, but also the very people who overthrew the shah.
Irans revolution is a modern tragedy, and something we are seeing repeated in Syria as ISIS snatches victory away from the people for their own sinister ends.
The reason they used their own bytecode was because of the Sun vs MS thing. Google wanted to add apis that where needed for modern android, but feared doing so would put them at odds with Sun, so they created a whole new bytecode system to avoid copyright entanglements.
Regardless, Androids about the only reason Java is still relevant. Sure theres the enterprise java thing, but even thats getting eaten away by web apps in more agile languages. Last job I had was at a government department where we where rewriting clunky old java apps to django and ruby on rails.
If it was about "the future of Java" Oracle should be thanking Google. But its not, its about getting a slice of that android pie.
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In my experience, tautologies have a tendency of being true.
Free-market economic theory does rely partly on the claim "all action is self-interested" but, crucially, only on a tautological interpretation. I suspect that you're making the common error of misunderstanding either "action" or "self-interest" in this context.
No I think I understand it. What I don't think you understand is why Tautologies are by definition illogical. When an axioms truth value requires itself to first be true, then , it is, by definition unproven. and thus any theory premised on it, is also by necessity unproven and unprovable.
In science its called "pseudoscience". In philosophy its just "not even wrong".
The first web server I administered was a pentium 75 with well under a gig of ram (cant remember. very early 2000s). It was already a redundant piece of hardware, dumpster dived for a cash strapped student union. It ran on slackware, apache, php and I *think* zope (although that might have come later). It handled about 40 websites, an IRC server, email for countless domains, and a MUD server. And it did it without breaking a sweat. And by god did I fear slashdot ever linking to something on it.
I wouldn't be surprised if a smart watch has more power than it.
Thanks to the first ammendment and forth ammendment, not only is "do nothing" politically possible, it also renders the censor/great wall/wiretap-everything proposals practically impossible.
Its not even a debate. Options 2 and 3 don't pass constitutional muster, and a politician can huff and puff all he likes, but it doesn't actually matter. Its not allowed.
Theres almost no support in australia at all. Hell one of our previous conservative parlimentarians was on the board of Sea Shephard.
The only thing that stopped australia from sending the navy out and putting and end to all this is the fact that apparently trade with japan is more important than stopping illegal poachers violating our territorial waters repeatedly. Well unless your a poor indonesian fisherman, in which case your screwed.
The legal limit is "dont kill the patient". Unfortunately the realities of terminal illness is that people can be in such harrowing agony the only rational thing to do is to help the patient pass away so doctors will often quietly administer a dose that will probably kill the patient reasoning that its the only dose that will contain the suffering and if the patient dies, well such is terminal illness.
This puts doctors in a horrible situation legally. We accept without question that it is humane to euthenise pets whos suffering is more than they can deal with. Yet we cant allow our own species to take a dignified exit when they, and the doctor, agree that hope is lost.
In the fever dreams of conservatives, people disagreeing with them are "censoring" them, and people mocking them when they spout nonsense are "bullying" them. And I guess that qualifies as terrorism?
You are aware that the "all actions are self interested" thing is pretty much a nonsense that economics stubbornly maintains over the objections of psychology and philosophy.
Philosophers point out that all formulations of the statement are more or less tautological, psychologists point out that the claim simply doesnt line up with what we know about how the brain works.
But half a century of dubious free market economic theory falls into a heap if the axiom is abandoned, so its repeated as an article of faith.
But its wrong.
Normally I tend to think Dawkins is bit of a dick (And I say that as someone who is also a rusted on atheist) but yeah.
A lot of liberals seem terminally worried about offending with religion , but its not clear whos getting offended.
Most atheists , me included, take a live-and-let-live approach to religion. Its fine as long as its not going after me. The muslims are 99% of the time completely OK with christianity (Seriously, Jesus is their second most important prophet) , Jews are non evangelical and pretty much dont bother with brow beating gentiles. Hinduism and Sikhism are totally into religious pluralism, its kind of in the DNA of their religions. So whos left? Pagans? (Hippies). Eh....
Theres no war on christmas, except in the minds of nutty conservatives and confused liberals.
Your right, although largely left wing terrorism isn't really as big an issue as it was in the 70s. I mean other than the odd punch up with cops and the rare instance of a morally confused environmentalist lighting something on fire, how often do you see marxists blowing things up these days, compared to neo-nazis and religious nutters blowing things up and killing people.
Smedley served in world war I, and that war really *was* a racket. It was everything wrong with 'war' in concept and practice. Empires colliding fighting over which shitty monarchy gets to rule which shitty land. It was poor against poor whilst the rich raked in the rewards.
So you can probably forgive him if he treated the battle cry of yet another global conflict with a degree of suspicion.
I have no idea if any of the "Business plot" stuff is true. There was definately *some sort* of funny business going on but maybe it was exagurated, but he's not wrong about war. Even WW-II, the one where pretty much everyone agrees the nazis and the empire of japan needed to be smashed (And they did) was ultimately just a mass grave for the poor, even though in the balance it was better that it was fought than it wasn't.
Somewhat ham-fistedly.
One of these days, they are going to find themselves accidently threatening a russian mafia boss, hells angel commander, mexican cartel boss or something to that effect, and they will find themselves very very dead.
David Hume worked out that "is", is not the same as "ought", about 300 years ago. Apparently you haven't.
Voyager was terrible but I recommend rewatching enterprise as it was actually pretty good in parts. The xindi arc was almost up there with the dominion war for sheer epic scale
So you just whacked any old shit on your ship and decided it should be invincible. Good god, read a wiki or something before undocking.
Honestly, your better off pointing your vitriol at your lawmakers than at the library. This list of exceptions is better than what most expected. If we want to actually get rid of the DMCAs prohibition on jailbreaking DRM, it'll require legislation.
It really depends on what mood the judge or jury are in. If they decide his actions are malicious and coud have endangered lives, the guy might well end up growing old on the inside.
Though I'm sure his baby face will make him popular with "Bubba" the 200 pound polynesian sex offender.
[quote]
Masonry and carpentry is an apprenticeship. I wish that more people in the software business realised that software is too.
[/quote]
Once upon a time many of the sciences where too. Back around the second world war, my grandfather who was around 14-15 started an apprentiship with the local national science organization (Cant remember if it was the CSIRO back then) as an industrial chemist. Because university places where largely for the wealthy, as a working class lad his only option was to work as an apprentice chemist and work his way up. Eventually he worked up to becoming a qualified chemical engineer (And yes, they actually awarded bachelor degrees, but they where not as prestigious as ones from a university) , and ultimately ended up at BP designing process control systems for oil refineries.
Personally I think for practical programming that makes a lot of sense. Of course theres still a role for the research side of it , that still belongs at a university, but there really isn't anything in programming as a tool that precludes it being taught in the same way an electrician learns his trade.
Sometimes I wonder if ISIS has become something of a psychopath magnet. Not allowed to murder and torture people at home without ending up in big trouble for being a serial killer? Fly to sunny Syria where you can rape murder and torture to your hearts content with fellow like minded sociopaths from around the world.
The problem is , its a question that has institutional meaning that can have effects in quite significant ways.
As Art, it is speech, and thus owed protections under the first ammendment. If its not art, then its hard to argue that its anything more than an industrial product.
As Art. its eligible for arts development grants that can be vital to starting indy game devs towards being financially self reliant.
As Art, we recognize it as a legitimate topic of review and critique, and as something important to societies internal dialogue about itself.
And so on.
Apple has been generally pretty good with that. Older iPhones will still run newer software, although in some cases its debatable if its actually a good idea to do so, if the software is written under the assumption of a more performant processor. At least with the laptops, my Macbook 2011 is running the latest and greatest OSX at a cracking pace, and my GFs iphone 5 is fully updated and running well.
Clearly you've never been in a crowd stampede. I have, at a festival about 15 years ago,. Nobody *wants* to trample or be trampled, its the panic that sets into the crowd that starts turning thousands of individually rational responses ("flee the danger") into a very irrational crowd ("lets all run into each other"). Nobody is individually making a decision against their own interest or against others interest, its just whats happens when a lot of those decisions collide with each other.
To some extent neural nets do model what happens in a human brain, but they also do things that we're fairly sure human neurons dont, most notable being back propagation, or at least not in the format we do it with neural networks. Thats not to say there are analogous mechanisms, in fact there *must* be one (how else to explain the elasticity of inputs). But there are critical differences.
Now that doesnt mean of course that a computer neural network is stupider. In fact cell for cell our neural networks out perform the shit out of biological neurons , its just the brains have so much more , both in terms of mechanisms and sheer neuron count + connectivity.
Yeah im the same. I'm often working in fits and starts. Often I'll get into the office, smash down a coffee and blast a couple pages of code out, then hit a snag, lose steam and not really achieve much for half an hour, then blast back into it for another 10 minutes, then completely zone out for an hour before hitting the groove again for an hour straight. Some bosses see this and whilst they might note I *always* hit my deadlines want me to spend less time non productive. The problem is, programming is brain work, and brains dont work well by constant pumping. They are muscles that need to relax and turn off to recharge for more work. And sometimes the best ideas happen during that zone out. I'll be idly reading some wikipedia page on a particular algorithm, and then it strikes me that its the solution to a problem that I've been wrestling with. Or I'll be out the back having a cigarette with the boss talking over the job and we'll stumble over a great way to move forward.
Productivity isnt just a constant flow of key strokes. Thats just makework metrics. Productivity is the whole ugly process, and as much as we try and structure it with various time management techniques, at the end of the day, creativity is chaotic.
Yes, but still significantly less evil than the crew that replaced him.
The problem with the Iranian revolution wasn't the iranian revolution, but the people who hijacked it. The revolutionaries where great people who wanted democracy and a liberal and free Iran , but unfortunately a lot of Iran where illiterate and conservative and this allowed the far right religious conservatives to sweep in and sieze control from the people. And the first thing they did was not only round up and execute the shahs men, but also the very people who overthrew the shah.
Irans revolution is a modern tragedy, and something we are seeing repeated in Syria as ISIS snatches victory away from the people for their own sinister ends.
The reason they used their own bytecode was because of the Sun vs MS thing. Google wanted to add apis that where needed for modern android, but feared doing so would put them at odds with Sun, so they created a whole new bytecode system to avoid copyright entanglements.
Regardless, Androids about the only reason Java is still relevant. Sure theres the enterprise java thing, but even thats getting eaten away by web apps in more agile languages. Last job I had was at a government department where we where rewriting clunky old java apps to django and ruby on rails.
If it was about "the future of Java" Oracle should be thanking Google. But its not, its about getting a slice of that android pie.