Equifax is part of a sector of the financial industry that makes some tidy profit monetizing fear of the incompetence of the financial industry. It is not exactly surprising they could not wrap their heads around how competent they needed to be to not get caught. But then again, having been caught being incompetent, how much do they care?
Indeed. If young children did not possess the audacious courage to believe they can do things untethered to any rational analysis, they would never learn to walk or talk without the support of professional physical therapists and professional speech therapists.
I am 99.9% certain that the first time a baby tries to walk they will fail. But they have more important things to care about than the likelihood of failure staring them in the face.
Cancer cells, being rapidly growing and highly metabolic cells, die relatively often. So there is disproportionately more "circulating tumor DNA" (ctDNA) in the "cell free DNA" (cfDNA) circulating in the blood.
Now whether that small portion of ctDNA can be detected and characterized, and how reliably that can be accomplished for particular kinds of patients, that is cutting edge cancer research.
The caveat: "You must finance with GM financial". Of course, at their rates which are well above what the local credit unions charge, and no doubt plenty of the uneducated crowd who buy their trucks will be suckered to sign to a long term (yes, 84 month now!) loan ensures they make most of that back.
The leases are where they make a killing. Now over a quarter of new vehicles are lease.
That is financial insanity. Yeah, there are a few people who own their business and it makes some kind of legit tax sense to lease the vehicle, but that cannot be more than 5% of the populace.
I agree that there is probably a correlation between ADHD, creativity, and high intelligence.
If we were to somehow remove the genetic tendencies and risk factors for ADHD from the gene pool, I bet we would lose more than half of our geniuses, more than that from the arts.
Indeed. Slapping a nuclear weapon on robotic toys sounds nice when fantasizing about apocalyptic scenarios, but in the real world nuclear weapons are so valuable that they are targets for all kinds of mischief.
If I wrap your nuclear armed toy in a gauss cage and seize physical control in deep water, is there a automated system to blow it up "safely" while spreading nuclear crap into the water? Or can I take it home, take it apart and refurbish it to become a nuclear power?
Making the South China Sea a place where nuclear explosions can go off and China itself has no idea if it was their own nuke or not, that is not the kind of neighborhood improvement project that serves a rising great power.
Everyone is completely bereft of personal responsibility? In the richest country in the history of the world, people can not be held responsible for their own future? They can be excused because they have to have the latest big-screen LED and Iphone? Fun fact: A high school student working less that 20 hours a week at minimum wage makes more than 90% of the rest of humanity.
Making wide sweeping assumptions about prolific consumer spending correlating with failure to save undermines your argument.
Every generation in all times and all places has had conspicuous spenders. They do so in order to, among other things, get attention. That that sliver of the population is going to be in money trouble at the end of their life is both unsurprising and unimportant.
The 20 year-old in the cafe with the fancy phone may well be more frugal than you, because that phone is a birthday gift from grandma and selling the phone for cash is not going to be viewed favorably. Or perhaps that young person can afford that phone because their family is made of money? How would you know?
In fact, some of those well-located servers can react to the day traders' orders before they are even executed, scoping up little bits of profit at very minimal risk. The day traders are not really beating the system, they are now first in line to pay for the system.
Perhaps. But you are trusting that greed is intrinsically good under these conditions. The claims that non-centralized non-gov't actors make Bitcoin trustworthy has been proven wrong.
This will never replace a jet engine or turboprop for passenger planes or other fast vehicles. But jet engines and propellers are not efficient at very high altitudes.
But a solar powered very high-flying blimp or ultra-light that is a platform as a pseudo-satellite for scientific or communications purposes could make use of this system.
Yes. But so what? Is a well-paying job that drains the nation's coffers to dubious ends somehow better than a blue-collar job keeping a subway track in running condition?
The topic on hand is whether public transit is net economically beneficial. We must consider the full and complete costs of keeping passenger cars running on the roads, in order to come to a meaningful conclusion.
Why some might be politically motivated to hide costs is really necessary.
Well, if you only care about confirming your own ideologically pre-ordained conclusion, then discussing reality is not for you, no.
NYC is a tremendous economic engine. The economic health of NYC a city, state, and national asset. Albany likes to tax all those hefty salaries in NYC, yet balks at paying a share for things like public transit, that helps keep the goose laying the golden eggs healthy. Ditto Washington DC.
Add to that list: -- A lot of the money we spend via the Pentagon 'effin around in the Middle East is also a barely hidden oil price subsidy. Let's add a Keeping The Middle East Safe For The Nicest Vicious Dictators Tax on our gasoline.
We are robbing our general funds to the tune of trillions of dollars. Public transit is not going to look so crazy when ALL the hidden subsidies are paid overtly, and the price at the pump heads towards $10 a gallon.
In a large sense, that's true. Facebook (and other social media) has increased political polarization by creating a feedback loop out of people's narrowly focused worldview, instead of expanding their range of thought.
FB did not invent gamification. But it was a natural fit for FB to gamify their users' social lives. That boils down to a social platform constantly gaming us into acting like pavlovian animal experiments, where it is emotionally powerful images that are the carrots and sticks, rather than food and electric shocks.
I think his point roughly boils down to: We are counting this 1000 qubit computer being a juxtaposition of all 2^1000 states, in the first place. How do you know you have achieved that status? Are you going to measure those 2^1000 states? No, of course not.
The initial state is something that is easy to describe in the abstract on a chalkboard, but what it really means in the physical world is extremely problematic.
There is a lot of handwaving around this point from the quantum computing enthusiasts. "Oh, if we can get things 0.1% correct, we can just run the experiment many times." That would be true. If only.
My counter argument is that getting a random 2^500 states rights in a 1000 qubit machine may already be too close to impossible. You do not have time before the heat death of the universe to run your calculation 2^500 times, to compensate for this shortcoming.
Missile guidance systems have gotten better and better with every decade. Flares can still confuse some dirt cheap systems, but how do you fool a well designed phased array radar? It is not the 80s anymore: Russia and China have access to excellent computer technology to build their guidance systems with. What they sell to the highest bidder today is both more lethal and cheaper than
The bigger question is whether a big expensive craft carrying a pilot makes sense when you might have better mission capability with drones.
And drones do not come home in flag draped caskets.
Heavens help us, if we actually were to try to represent all our legitimately held moral beliefs through the power of law. Heavens help us, if we actually were to believe we achieved that status.
IMNSHO yours is the perfect non-argument, because if we were to take it seriously, the answer is to change the laws to compel Amazon to behave exactly the way we want, because might is right. That is probably not what you mean.
Bingo. There is a reason why there is actually a thing taught in law school called Contract Law, and that one of the fundamental concepts of contract law is "the meeting of minds"*. Interpreting something in a contract or EULA in a manner that most people would find strange is always open to the challenge that it is not reasonable to believe that one party understood the agreement in that manner, so a judge might decide to void it.
In this case, the idea that Adobe software might nuke files in within some directory under its "control" is something people might accept. But that it can nuke files somewhere else or "nearby" is not.
* "The meeting of minds" is not some arbitrary concept. It is a logical necessity when using any human language that is not perfectly unambiguous under every scenario, i.e. every language. Because if the language of a contract can be interpreted in multiple ways, what do you do? Flip a coin? No, you try and understand what the parties involved were probably thinking.
I get the reasoning behind looking for an alternative, but I do not see this as a sensible solution. And anyway, isn't 1 kilogram already defined at 1 L of pure H2O?
Depends what you mean by "defined".
Getting the exact temperature and pressure correct is hard. It come down to what is more reproducible with a certain degree of precision, and what effort that entails.
As measurement has become more precise, it is observable that the "exact copies" of the official kilo are drifting slightly differently from the original.
Now that you mention it, I know a fellow who bought into "Galt's Gulch" down in Chile. He might yet get a few pennies back from his $130k, after the criminal and civil courts have finally finished going through the mess.
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It is a very firm and clear message being sent, that they must answer to: all calls from Congressional re-election PACs asking for donations.
Equifax is part of a sector of the financial industry that makes some tidy profit monetizing fear of the incompetence of the financial industry. It is not exactly surprising they could not wrap their heads around how competent they needed to be to not get caught. But then again, having been caught being incompetent, how much do they care?
Indeed. If young children did not possess the audacious courage to believe they can do things untethered to any rational analysis, they would never learn to walk or talk without the support of professional physical therapists and professional speech therapists.
I am 99.9% certain that the first time a baby tries to walk they will fail. But they have more important things to care about than the likelihood of failure staring them in the face.
Cancer cells, being rapidly growing and highly metabolic cells, die relatively often. So there is disproportionately more "circulating tumor DNA" (ctDNA) in the "cell free DNA" (cfDNA) circulating in the blood.
Now whether that small portion of ctDNA can be detected and characterized, and how reliably that can be accomplished for particular kinds of patients, that is cutting edge cancer research.
In context, an inefficient result disproves efficacy.
The caveat: "You must finance with GM financial". Of course, at their rates which are well above what the local credit unions charge, and no doubt plenty of the uneducated crowd who buy their trucks will be suckered to sign to a long term (yes, 84 month now!) loan ensures they make most of that back.
The leases are where they make a killing. Now over a quarter of new vehicles are lease.
That is financial insanity. Yeah, there are a few people who own their business and it makes some kind of legit tax sense to lease the vehicle, but that cannot be more than 5% of the populace.
Sounds like you saw news about people dying in Yemen, and just assumed that the bogeyman of the year must be to blame, like an obedient sheeple.
I agree that there is probably a correlation between ADHD, creativity, and high intelligence.
If we were to somehow remove the genetic tendencies and risk factors for ADHD from the gene pool, I bet we would lose more than half of our geniuses, more than that from the arts.
Indeed. Slapping a nuclear weapon on robotic toys sounds nice when fantasizing about apocalyptic scenarios, but in the real world nuclear weapons are so valuable that they are targets for all kinds of mischief.
If I wrap your nuclear armed toy in a gauss cage and seize physical control in deep water, is there a automated system to blow it up "safely" while spreading nuclear crap into the water? Or can I take it home, take it apart and refurbish it to become a nuclear power?
Making the South China Sea a place where nuclear explosions can go off and China itself has no idea if it was their own nuke or not, that is not the kind of neighborhood improvement project that serves a rising great power.
Everyone is completely bereft of personal responsibility? In the richest country in the history of the world, people can not be held responsible for their own future? They can be excused because they have to have the latest big-screen LED and Iphone? Fun fact: A high school student working less that 20 hours a week at minimum wage makes more than 90% of the rest of humanity.
Making wide sweeping assumptions about prolific consumer spending correlating with failure to save undermines your argument.
Every generation in all times and all places has had conspicuous spenders. They do so in order to, among other things, get attention. That that sliver of the population is going to be in money trouble at the end of their life is both unsurprising and unimportant.
The 20 year-old in the cafe with the fancy phone may well be more frugal than you, because that phone is a birthday gift from grandma and selling the phone for cash is not going to be viewed favorably. Or perhaps that young person can afford that phone because their family is made of money? How would you know?
In fact, some of those well-located servers can react to the day traders' orders before they are even executed, scoping up little bits of profit at very minimal risk. The day traders are not really beating the system, they are now first in line to pay for the system.
Perhaps. But you are trusting that greed is intrinsically good under these conditions. The claims that non-centralized non-gov't actors make Bitcoin trustworthy has been proven wrong.
This will never replace a jet engine or turboprop for passenger planes or other fast vehicles. But jet engines and propellers are not efficient at very high altitudes.
But a solar powered very high-flying blimp or ultra-light that is a platform as a pseudo-satellite for scientific or communications purposes could make use of this system.
Yes. But so what? Is a well-paying job that drains the nation's coffers to dubious ends somehow better than a blue-collar job keeping a subway track in running condition?
The topic on hand is whether public transit is net economically beneficial. We must consider the full and complete costs of keeping passenger cars running on the roads, in order to come to a meaningful conclusion.
Why some might be politically motivated to hide costs is really necessary.
Well, if you only care about confirming your own ideologically pre-ordained conclusion, then discussing reality is not for you, no.
NYC is a tremendous economic engine. The economic health of NYC a city, state, and national asset. Albany likes to tax all those hefty salaries in NYC, yet balks at paying a share for things like public transit, that helps keep the goose laying the golden eggs healthy. Ditto Washington DC.
With modern technology, it is quite plausible to apply microcharges based on the vehicle license plate.
20 or more years ago, it would have been completely nuts.
Not saying either is obviously better. Just saying these are two viable methods, and perhaps could be combined.
Add to that list:
-- A lot of the money we spend via the Pentagon 'effin around in the Middle East is also a barely hidden oil price subsidy. Let's add a Keeping The Middle East Safe For The Nicest Vicious Dictators Tax on our gasoline.
We are robbing our general funds to the tune of trillions of dollars. Public transit is not going to look so crazy when ALL the hidden subsidies are paid overtly, and the price at the pump heads towards $10 a gallon.
In a large sense, that's true. Facebook (and other social media) has increased political polarization by creating a feedback loop out of people's narrowly focused worldview, instead of expanding their range of thought.
FB did not invent gamification. But it was a natural fit for FB to gamify their users' social lives. That boils down to a social platform constantly gaming us into acting like pavlovian animal experiments, where it is emotionally powerful images that are the carrots and sticks, rather than food and electric shocks.
I think his point roughly boils down to: We are counting this 1000 qubit computer being a juxtaposition of all 2^1000 states, in the first place. How do you know you have achieved that status? Are you going to measure those 2^1000 states? No, of course not.
The initial state is something that is easy to describe in the abstract on a chalkboard, but what it really means in the physical world is extremely problematic.
There is a lot of handwaving around this point from the quantum computing enthusiasts. "Oh, if we can get things 0.1% correct, we can just run the experiment many times." That would be true. If only.
My counter argument is that getting a random 2^500 states rights in a 1000 qubit machine may already be too close to impossible. You do not have time before the heat death of the universe to run your calculation 2^500 times, to compensate for this shortcoming.
Missile guidance systems have gotten better and better with every decade. Flares can still confuse some dirt cheap systems, but how do you fool a well designed phased array radar? It is not the 80s anymore: Russia and China have access to excellent computer technology to build their guidance systems with. What they sell to the highest bidder today is both more lethal and cheaper than
The bigger question is whether a big expensive craft carrying a pilot makes sense when you might have better mission capability with drones.
And drones do not come home in flag draped caskets.
Heavens help us, if we actually were to try to represent all our legitimately held moral beliefs through the power of law.
Heavens help us, if we actually were to believe we achieved that status.
IMNSHO yours is the perfect non-argument, because if we were to take it seriously, the answer is to change the laws to compel Amazon to behave exactly the way we want, because might is right. That is probably not what you mean.
Bingo. There is a reason why there is actually a thing taught in law school called Contract Law, and that one of the fundamental concepts of contract law is "the meeting of minds"*. Interpreting something in a contract or EULA in a manner that most people would find strange is always open to the challenge that it is not reasonable to believe that one party understood the agreement in that manner, so a judge might decide to void it.
In this case, the idea that Adobe software might nuke files in within some directory under its "control" is something people might accept. But that it can nuke files somewhere else or "nearby" is not.
* "The meeting of minds" is not some arbitrary concept. It is a logical necessity when using any human language that is not perfectly unambiguous under every scenario, i.e. every language. Because if the language of a contract can be interpreted in multiple ways, what do you do? Flip a coin? No, you try and understand what the parties involved were probably thinking.
And 1024 * 1024 grams will be one Matrix ton.
I get the reasoning behind looking for an alternative, but I do not see this as a sensible solution. And anyway, isn't 1 kilogram already defined at 1 L of pure H2O?
Depends what you mean by "defined".
Getting the exact temperature and pressure correct is hard. It come down to what is more reproducible with a certain degree of precision, and what effort that entails.
As measurement has become more precise, it is observable that the "exact copies" of the official kilo are drifting slightly differently from the original.
Now that you mention it, I know a fellow who bought into "Galt's Gulch" down in Chile. He might yet get a few pennies back from his $130k, after the criminal and civil courts have finally finished going through the mess.