"...chemically indistinguishable from the natural variety, but are 3-D printed to look the same. The idea is that if they can flood the market with human-made rhino horns, it will cut poaching"
how exactly are the buyers going to know whether it's genuine horn or counterfeit? the point is to lie and sell these as real, thus dropping the price considerably.
using the ikea LACK side table on top of my normal desk, which puts my keyboard and mouse right and hand-height. You can use a circular saw to cut the legs off to your exact specifications. + tall VIVO desk mount monitor stand, which raises the monitor & laptop to eye height. + hog heaven floor mat to stand on.
The rare times I need to sit, I just unplug my laptop and take it over to a chair. In theory, the monitor height is easily adjustable via a fast-latch, and the ikea stand can be removed, so within a minute I could be back to a normal desk - but i find the change of environment from disconnecting and moving to a separate space is more relaxing.
My lower back used to hurt CONSTANTLY, but since I've been standing it has been a night-and-day improvement. I can't recommend it enough. the transition period was surprisingly easy. I suggest taking your chair away completely for the first week or two - if it's nearby you will be tempted to cheat, and far more likely to give up, I think.
Ok let's say that only 60% of experts agree that man is the primary cause of the current trends. A number that I pulled out my anus, and is surely way too low.
I'm going to go with 60% of the experts.
Incidentally, those are the 60% that aren't on the payroll of the oil or coal industry.
congratulations, you correctly identified that not everything in the list was a fact. here's your cookie.
the OPINIONS of the people on that list were ultimately formed based on facts, either real ones or fake ones doled out by alarmists, quacks, or fox news. my point stands.
please share with us, where did you receive your advanced degrees in environmental science and climatology? it was probably somewhere really prestigious!
because the topics mentioned aren't opinions, they are facts - there is no room for someone to have an opinion on whether "the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to human activity" for instance. Either it is, or it isn't, and facts overwhelmingly point to yes. By denying those facts we are totally fucking ourselves in the ass, pardon my french.
it would have answered your questions, and you wouldn't have looked like a tool, and i wouldn't have mocked you. the world would have been a better place! if only.
holy crap facebook should pay you a million dollar salary for noticing the glaring flaw in their solution. it's a shame that their team of experts were unfamiliar with this 'hard drive' technology you speak of. If only they had done more research!
Good thing we have you, stoned_ritual, expert on the subject, to chime in with a better solution!
in at least some cases the cost of following up is greater than the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system. see: drug testing for welfare recipients
so, is the money actually what's important to you? or are you just a hardass that can't stand to see someone get something for free on principle?
so here's the cool thing about heat. creating heat is one of the few things that we can actually do with amazing efficiency, nearly 100% in fact.
so i'm not sure what you think thermodynamics has to do with this, but even a 7th grader could tell you that running a computer is actually a very effective and efficient way to generate heat from electricity.
now, when sending servers out to a bunch of different locations and keeping track of them, i would say that a logistics manager is pretty darn useful. here's the definition, in case you aren't clear: http://www.merriam-webster.com...
when it comes to creating a distributed system of servers that handle programming tasks and then report their findings back to a central source, i'd probably want a hot-dog vendor to plan that out for me. wait, no, i'd want a programmer, that's right.
what are your qualifications, oh anonymous coward?
clearly you are an expert in this field and have done all the necessary research to determine whether this could be pursued in a trial rollout.
unfortunately, the project is not being run by experts such as yourself, it is being run by random dudes that just troll the internet posting drivel in comment threads. they are doomed!
sure, i'll play along, even though you already know the answer to your own question.
I don't think anyone would argue that men and women are physically equivalent. men are, on average, bigger and stronger. so men and women have different leagues.
so that's your argument - programming is analogous to sports, that women are inferior coders? because their brains aren't as strong as men's brains?
It's a terrible metric. The test would pass if a female developer wrote a simple function and other female developer called it somewhere else. The function need not even do anything at all or be in anyway important to the project. The simple function and the call to it may be the only code contributed to the project by those individuals.
Do we get to feel good about our project and pat ourselves on the back for being progressive after passing this test even though it's utterly meaningless?
no, you should feel like an asshat for trying to game the system, and missing the entire fucking point. it's not a test in the sense of, 'oh you passed the test, move on to round two'. it's more of a tool for self-reflection. it's a way to see if your company/project/whatever is anywhere near gender equality.
Any industry which does not appeal to ~half of its prospective workers might want to spend a bit of time trying to figure out why, instead of getting all defensive and blaming everyone and everything else for the issue.
Why? The logging industry isn't likely losing any sleep over the lack of female lumberjacks and I doubt the child daycare industry cares one iota about the lack of male workers. No one seems to be jumping on their backs about any kind of sex-based disparity and trying to shove inane tests like the above down everyone's throat is going to do more harm than good because it just serves to alienate people.
neither the logging industry nor the child care industry are particularly prestigious, well-paying, or difficult to break into. aka, nobody cares about those fields, they just aren't important enough to worry about, when there are more important conversations to be having.
except that robbing banks is a crime, while ordering your search results however you like is not.
they made the product, they can decide how it functions. if they want to put google products first, that's their right. if you don't like it, use bing.
btw, i imagine that if you search on bing you will find MSDN, MSNBC, etc tends to dominate the rankings for their respective categories.
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can a highly advanced, well funded laboratory tell the difference? probably.
can the seedy vendors and back alley thugs that sell this stuff? or the superstitious clients buying it? seems less likely.
in fact, why would the sellers even care? as long as the buyers can't tell the difference, the sellers will happily sell fake stuff, even knowingly.
"...chemically indistinguishable from the natural variety, but are 3-D printed to look the same. The idea is that if they can flood the market with human-made rhino horns, it will cut poaching"
how exactly are the buyers going to know whether it's genuine horn or counterfeit? the point is to lie and sell these as real, thus dropping the price considerably.
using the ikea LACK side table on top of my normal desk, which puts my keyboard and mouse right and hand-height. You can use a circular saw to cut the legs off to your exact specifications.
+ tall VIVO desk mount monitor stand, which raises the monitor & laptop to eye height.
+ hog heaven floor mat to stand on.
The rare times I need to sit, I just unplug my laptop and take it over to a chair. In theory, the monitor height is easily adjustable via a fast-latch, and the ikea stand can be removed, so within a minute I could be back to a normal desk - but i find the change of environment from disconnecting and moving to a separate space is more relaxing.
My lower back used to hurt CONSTANTLY, but since I've been standing it has been a night-and-day improvement. I can't recommend it enough. the transition period was surprisingly easy. I suggest taking your chair away completely for the first week or two - if it's nearby you will be tempted to cheat, and far more likely to give up, I think.
Ok let's say that only 60% of experts agree that man is the primary cause of the current trends. A number that I pulled out my anus, and is surely way too low.
I'm going to go with 60% of the experts.
Incidentally, those are the 60% that aren't on the payroll of the oil or coal industry.
congratulations, you correctly identified that not everything in the list was a fact. here's your cookie.
the OPINIONS of the people on that list were ultimately formed based on facts, either real ones or fake ones doled out by alarmists, quacks, or fox news. my point stands.
please share with us, where did you receive your advanced degrees in environmental science and climatology? it was probably somewhere really prestigious!
not you, random internet guy.
because the topics mentioned aren't opinions, they are facts - there is no room for someone to have an opinion on whether "the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to human activity" for instance. Either it is, or it isn't, and facts overwhelmingly point to yes. By denying those facts we are totally fucking ourselves in the ass, pardon my french.
it would have answered your questions, and you wouldn't have looked like a tool, and i wouldn't have mocked you. the world would have been a better place! if only.
holy crap facebook should pay you a million dollar salary for noticing the glaring flaw in their solution. it's a shame that their team of experts were unfamiliar with this 'hard drive' technology you speak of. If only they had done more research!
Good thing we have you, stoned_ritual, expert on the subject, to chime in with a better solution!
was trying to mod 'funny' but clicked 'overrated' instead. whoops.
those people are assholes. I'd love to give everything to everyone for free.
basic supply and demand makes that pretty impossible for now, but maybe one day we'll have replicators. a guy can dream.
in at least some cases the cost of following up is greater than the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system. see: drug testing for welfare recipients
so, is the money actually what's important to you? or are you just a hardass that can't stand to see someone get something for free on principle?
but china is not a developing country, nor is it lacking a government.
if you want to steal phones, i promise you that finding people with their phones already out will not be a problem.
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so here's the cool thing about heat. creating heat is one of the few things that we can actually do with amazing efficiency, nearly 100% in fact.
so i'm not sure what you think thermodynamics has to do with this, but even a 7th grader could tell you that running a computer is actually a very effective and efficient way to generate heat from electricity.
now, when sending servers out to a bunch of different locations and keeping track of them, i would say that a logistics manager is pretty darn useful. here's the definition, in case you aren't clear: http://www.merriam-webster.com...
when it comes to creating a distributed system of servers that handle programming tasks and then report their findings back to a central source, i'd probably want a hot-dog vendor to plan that out for me. wait, no, i'd want a programmer, that's right.
what are your qualifications, oh anonymous coward?
clearly you are an expert in this field and have done all the necessary research to determine whether this could be pursued in a trial rollout.
unfortunately, the project is not being run by experts such as yourself, it is being run by random dudes that just troll the internet posting drivel in comment threads. they are doomed!
look up summertime temperatures in netherlands.
yep! those greedy women, asking for equal pay and equal opportunities. so ENVIOUS and GREEDY of them!
sure, i'll play along, even though you already know the answer to your own question.
I don't think anyone would argue that men and women are physically equivalent. men are, on average, bigger and stronger. so men and women have different leagues.
so that's your argument - programming is analogous to sports, that women are inferior coders? because their brains aren't as strong as men's brains?
It's a terrible metric. The test would pass if a female developer wrote a simple function and other female developer called it somewhere else. The function need not even do anything at all or be in anyway important to the project. The simple function and the call to it may be the only code contributed to the project by those individuals.
Do we get to feel good about our project and pat ourselves on the back for being progressive after passing this test even though it's utterly meaningless?
no, you should feel like an asshat for trying to game the system, and missing the entire fucking point. it's not a test in the sense of, 'oh you passed the test, move on to round two'. it's more of a tool for self-reflection. it's a way to see if your company/project/whatever is anywhere near gender equality.
Any industry which does not appeal to ~half of its prospective workers might want to spend a bit of time trying to figure out why, instead of getting all defensive and blaming everyone and everything else for the issue.
Why? The logging industry isn't likely losing any sleep over the lack of female lumberjacks and I doubt the child daycare industry cares one iota about the lack of male workers. No one seems to be jumping on their backs about any kind of sex-based disparity and trying to shove inane tests like the above down everyone's throat is going to do more harm than good because it just serves to alienate people.
neither the logging industry nor the child care industry are particularly prestigious, well-paying, or difficult to break into. aka, nobody cares about those fields, they just aren't important enough to worry about, when there are more important conversations to be having.
Yes they do, and yes they did. And yet, no suit has been filed.
Unless that happens, and unless Google loses, saying that Google violated anti-trust law is pure speculation on your part.
are you a lawyer? care to cite the exact law they are breaking, along with court precedent of a comparable case?
except that robbing banks is a crime, while ordering your search results however you like is not.
they made the product, they can decide how it functions. if they want to put google products first, that's their right. if you don't like it, use bing.
btw, i imagine that if you search on bing you will find MSDN, MSNBC, etc tends to dominate the rankings for their respective categories.