I don't know about the U.S. (I remember having read about it though), but in Europe, getting a driving license goes down on young people's priority list. Many people feel that cars are too expensive buy, too expensive to maintain, and that a bicycle and a bus or train ticket get you wherever you want to anyway, so even the freedom aspect is miniscule. Autonomous cars which you hire for exactly the one trip you need them are the way to go. They arrive at your doorstep on time, and you just leave them there when you don't need them anymore. They don't occupy a parking lot most of the time, and if they do, it's not yours.
I might have been one of the early adopters of the trend, getting my drivers license only at age 27, because I really didn't need it before.
I don't understand where this meme of "Polish coal plants selling energy to Germany" comes from, as it is not rooted anywhere in reality.
Germany in 2013 net-exported 34 TWh of electrical energy (buying 38 TWh and selling 72 TWh). And it imported 0.1 TWh from Poland while exporting 4 TWh to Poland.
Many prices are open in public. If I want to know the prices my competitor offers, I just look up his price sheet. But for employees, appearently having a public price list is frowned upon, which gives employers an unfair advantage in the negotiation. Differently than the employee, the employer has perfect information, he knows how much he pays every employee. And thus the power in salary negotiation is very loopsided, as the employee has much less information about the market and the competition than the employer has. Thus salary negotiations in most cases don't happen in a free market environment.
If they don't like the license I pick, then I'm not forcing them to use my code. It's a simple concept, really.
And it's only half of the concept, that's why it appears simple. People who don't use your code will not share their experiences with your, will never tell you about problems that could arise, about simple changes that might improve runtime performances, will not develop new uses for your code. One of the biggest reasons we have all that code sharing culture is because no single person is able to invent everything on her own. Yes, for a small project, it might work. But it will stay a small project for the rest of its life. By choosing the wrong license, you cut off a large part of the feedback loop that's necessary for any further development.
Yes, you can choose to have it that way. It's up to you. But then, your project will always be that obscure little hobbyist project which crawls slowly from version to version, if it crawls at all, and maybe even the most patient of your users will find a similar project, make the transition and enjoy faster responses on feedback, implementations of change requests, bug fixing and adaption to new use cases.
Instead I was talking about arbitrary cutoffs where some genetic markers are allowed and others aren't, but they don't fit a racist agenda. You could for instance block off everyone missing both the immunoglobulin A allel and the immunoglobulin B allel, and then you allow access only to people with blood group 0. It would probably work, but your blood group is no indicator for the perceived race.
Maybe 23andMe will yield exactly that result? Because genetic markers are many, and because there are no clear cut races of humans, but rather a continuum of different sets of genetic markers, sites that use 23andMe to permit access will find out that they either have to loosen their criteria to enable access to all the people they want or they have to tighten controls to keep people out they don't want but at the same time exclude many which would fit their agenda.
Those LEDs are pure status LEDs and have no other means than to tell you how the next input will be interpreted by the computer. They are meaningless without input from the keyboard, and are only considered in the context of input.
Otherways you would also have to consider a monitor an input device because it tells the graphics card what the possible and the optimal settings are. But here again, those information is solely used in context with the output of the graphics card, thus it is not considered input per se.
Statistics is collecting data and then make statements about the general characteristics of the data.
It's far away from wild guesses. Yes, you can do awful things that might appear to someone not looking closely like Statistics, but they really aren't. And you can draw conclusions from Statistics that are not really supported by the data, but again, it might look like Statistic, but it isn't.
Statistics are a very valuable tool for Science. Science is of course not just Statistics, it is much more. But Statistics have their uses in Science, and in many cases, there is no replacement. Thermodynamics for instance are purely Statistics.
And even Europe is not exactly Europe. Many people are used to call the E.U. and its member states Europe, but that's not really true. About half of the territory and about a third of the inhabitants of Europe are not in the E.U..
There is a subtle difference between selective breeding and outright GMO, and there are the hybrids inbetween. And some people choose to ignore the differences.
Selective breeding works only on the allels. Genes come in different expressions, called allels. Selective breeding chooses sets of allels. The actual genes remain the same. Thus you can revert most of the selective breeding by randomly crossbreeding different strands, and you get something pretty close to the original wild organism.
If you need an analogon, selective breeding is like changing the configuration file of a customable program.
Hybrids are crossbred between different species of the same genus. Some are fertile, most are not. Many traditional agricultural crops are hybrids. In most cases, the genes of the species within a genus are pretty close to each other, thus a combination of them can yield an working organism, albeit not necessarily a fertile one, so you have to hybridize every generation of the agricultural crop from their respective species, or you have to use asexual reproduction. (An interesting case in point are apples. You can't actually breed a typical apple, the ability to do so has been lost at least 2500 years ago. All strands of apple you can buy at a grocery store are engrafted and asexually reproduced.)
The analogon would be using some program parts that were written for a different version of the same program.
GMO introduces genes from completely unrelated species into an organism. It can thus combine genes that have evolved in different species for more than 500 million years. You can add virus genes into plants, bacterial genes into vertebratae, monocotyledonous genes into dicotyledons.
An analogon would be cut and paste program code from completely different programming projects into your code and just hope it still compiles afterwards.
Actually, the five classical planets (which we call Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) were known to all cultures we know of, thus we can call them "general knowledge", It has nothing to do with "European Aryan Übermensch". We can speculate that at least Uranus might have been discovered by other people than just Europeans, as the oldest known hint to its existence can be traced back to Hipparchos in 128 BC, but he didn't notice its planetary character. The discovery of Neptune with an apparent magnitude of 7.7 requires an optical instrument, as it is to dim to be discovered by a bare eye. Thus discovery of Neptune is restricted to cultures which were looking at the sky with optical instruments, which, as far as we know, leaves the Arabs and the Europeans.
Thus, you are wrong. Planets (at least the above mentioned five) were discovered by about any culture we know of, and rightly assumed to be different from stars.
Water has a 14 times higher Reynolds number than air, so it's better to have most of the ship not having to move through water. But that's a completely separate issue. We don't want the train to bore its own tunnel each time it goes from San Francisco to L.A.. We build the tunnel just once and then keep it. Thus what we have is the friction between the wheel and the rail, if we use a rail based system. Or we use a maglev system, which indeed needs to be powered and thus creates additional energy cost compared to a wheel-rail-system. It's then a question of speed if the cost for the friction or the cost for the maglev is higher. We could get the cost for the maglev to be close to zero if we manage to use superconductivity, but that would add to the installation cost.
The main difference between a ground based and a flying vehicle is the transport cost. A flying vehicle has to invest energy in lift, a ground vehicle does not. So in the end, the higher energy cost for flying from San Francisco to L.A. might offset the lower initial cost of "boring airplanes".
(This might beneath lots of other reasons also be one of the main causes why we don't have flying cars yet in every garage.)
Traffic fatalities barely outnumber peacetime firearm fatalities. Actually, we are talking 32,000 traffic related deaths vs. 30,000 gun releated deaths per year.
Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias.
Shocking that parents are happy when their daughters like feminine things. It's almost like they don't think they're defective males and their views on clothing is orthogonal to computer issues.
You got it reversely. At first, it's the parents and the grand parents and other relatives who gives princess clothes as presents and then act gleefully. Only after that positive reaction, girls show interest in being a princess, and then parents and grand parents give new girlish presents and again show happiness if the girl smiles. Don't underestimate the amount of impression you make on a child until it conciously expresses interest in some thing and disdain for others! Each toy shop with "girl aisles" and "boy aisles" enforces the gender disparities. Each clothing shop with pink clothing for girls and blue clothing for boys enforces the disparities again. You radiate a message to the child with your bias, which behaviour you consider normal and acceptable and which one you would rather classify as non-typical.
I've seen it unravelling with my daughter. At first she showed interest in the stuff her older brother played with, and in the neighborhood, there were (just by chance) mainly boys. Then a new family moved in with two daughters, and suddenly princesses and horses were all the rage. But when the family left again, the interest in both diminished, princesses were forgotten very soon, horses were of interest until age 9, and now she's mainly interested in computer games, watches countless "lets play" videos, bought a Wii U and a PS4 from the money she begged from the relatives instead of birthday and christmas presents, refuses to wear dresses at all, and in junior high, she took Robotics as optional topic. She likes dystopial novels and movies. And no, she doesn't want to go into STEM, she wants to become a writer for a living (I don't know how this will work out in the end).
People who discount the enormous environmental influences on the choices of young people and who believe in a "natural" interest of boys into STEM and of girls into everything non-STEM seem to be oblivious of the actual situation.
Of course people are also researching the bias leading to medical schools with 90% women. You just don't hear too often about them, because you are not working in the field. Your disdain is mainly fed by your confirmation bias. One of my main customers is a large health care provider with about 15,000 employees, and if I am on site, I see the information announcing research papers about exactly that topic: Where does the gender disparity in the health care professions come from?
And thus I conclude, that there is similar research in the field of construction workers or garbage men, you just don't know about it, because you are neither a construction worker nor a garbage man.
Rather than concluding that the current situation is somehow normal and will never change, we should look in the past and in other regions of the world, where the biases were and are different and thus the numbers of men and women in particular jobs differ from what we see here. And then we wouldn't blame it on "girls and boys are different", because then we would know that it has not so much to do with the differences between girls and boys but more with the choices we as parents, as relatives, as teachers, as classmates and as a society make conciously or inconciously for our children.
As I have a daughter, I know better. Of course bias is a big part of it, expressed verbally and non-verbally. Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias. Parents who at the same christmas complain if the daughter plays to much on the new computer express a bias. Television programming where the only computer affiliate is a dorky guy who might be brilliant at computers but is awkward at anything else expresses a bias.
Yes, you can actually spark interest in computer science. Yes, you can actually kindle the awakening interest and encourage it. Yes, you can actually make a point in not mentioning that interest in computer science is not a typically girlish thing.
Pretty well actually. As in your class, there were only a few women to begin with, chances of you to find a spouse there were minimal. Same for your wife, who probably hadn't had many men being in the same class.
While many of your female co-students found a mate in the engineering class, and many of the male nursery students are now probably married to a nurse.
Child abuse, as horrible as it is, has how much to do with wrongful incarceration?
This is just either mudslinging on your side, or it is showing that you have no idea what Amnesty International is about.
I don't expect Greenpeace to talk about government overreach, and I don't expect the taxpayers union to report on human rights violations in a country on another continent. Why do you expect Amnesty International to investigate cases of child abuse?
Actually, the same sector of a spinning disk can not be overwritten for the entire life of the disk. I have some old systems around (some of them running since more than 20 years) with old 2- and 4-GB-SCSI disks. While they read fine, you should not try to write onto them. If there is any upgrade necessary, we do it by imaging a 73 GB disk and replacing the old drives (and even the 73 GB disks are leftovers from the old days).
And no, those machines are no all purpose computers, they are phone switches which just boot up, read their OS and configuration data from disk and then work solely from memory. Configuration changes which might cause a sector to fail after a write are seldom, but can still be handled by spare sectors on the disks.
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I might have been one of the early adopters of the trend, getting my drivers license only at age 27, because I really didn't need it before.
Germany in 2013 net-exported 34 TWh of electrical energy (buying 38 TWh and selling 72 TWh). And it imported 0.1 TWh from Poland while exporting 4 TWh to Poland.
Many prices are open in public. If I want to know the prices my competitor offers, I just look up his price sheet. But for employees, appearently having a public price list is frowned upon, which gives employers an unfair advantage in the negotiation. Differently than the employee, the employer has perfect information, he knows how much he pays every employee. And thus the power in salary negotiation is very loopsided, as the employee has much less information about the market and the competition than the employer has. Thus salary negotiations in most cases don't happen in a free market environment.
If they don't like the license I pick, then I'm not forcing them to use my code. It's a simple concept, really.
And it's only half of the concept, that's why it appears simple. People who don't use your code will not share their experiences with your, will never tell you about problems that could arise, about simple changes that might improve runtime performances, will not develop new uses for your code. One of the biggest reasons we have all that code sharing culture is because no single person is able to invent everything on her own. Yes, for a small project, it might work. But it will stay a small project for the rest of its life. By choosing the wrong license, you cut off a large part of the feedback loop that's necessary for any further development.
Yes, you can choose to have it that way. It's up to you. But then, your project will always be that obscure little hobbyist project which crawls slowly from version to version, if it crawls at all, and maybe even the most patient of your users will find a similar project, make the transition and enjoy faster responses on feedback, implementations of change requests, bug fixing and adaption to new use cases.
because there are no clear cut races of humans
Instead I was talking about arbitrary cutoffs where some genetic markers are allowed and others aren't, but they don't fit a racist agenda. You could for instance block off everyone missing both the immunoglobulin A allel and the immunoglobulin B allel, and then you allow access only to people with blood group 0. It would probably work, but your blood group is no indicator for the perceived race.
Maybe 23andMe will yield exactly that result? Because genetic markers are many, and because there are no clear cut races of humans, but rather a continuum of different sets of genetic markers, sites that use 23andMe to permit access will find out that they either have to loosen their criteria to enable access to all the people they want or they have to tighten controls to keep people out they don't want but at the same time exclude many which would fit their agenda.
Those LEDs are pure status LEDs and have no other means than to tell you how the next input will be interpreted by the computer. They are meaningless without input from the keyboard, and are only considered in the context of input.
Otherways you would also have to consider a monitor an input device because it tells the graphics card what the possible and the optimal settings are. But here again, those information is solely used in context with the output of the graphics card, thus it is not considered input per se.
It's far away from wild guesses. Yes, you can do awful things that might appear to someone not looking closely like Statistics, but they really aren't. And you can draw conclusions from Statistics that are not really supported by the data, but again, it might look like Statistic, but it isn't.
Statistics are a very valuable tool for Science. Science is of course not just Statistics, it is much more. But Statistics have their uses in Science, and in many cases, there is no replacement. Thermodynamics for instance are purely Statistics.
And even Europe is not exactly Europe. Many people are used to call the E.U. and its member states Europe, but that's not really true. About half of the territory and about a third of the inhabitants of Europe are not in the E.U..
And you want to hammer this "GMO food is safe" factoid into people's heads by not telling them? Somehow I miss the logic behind that argument.
If you need an analogon, selective breeding is like changing the configuration file of a customable program.
The analogon would be using some program parts that were written for a different version of the same program.
An analogon would be cut and paste program code from completely different programming projects into your code and just hope it still compiles afterwards.
Thus, you are wrong. Planets (at least the above mentioned five) were discovered by about any culture we know of, and rightly assumed to be different from stars.
Water has a 14 times higher Reynolds number than air, so it's better to have most of the ship not having to move through water. But that's a completely separate issue. We don't want the train to bore its own tunnel each time it goes from San Francisco to L.A.. We build the tunnel just once and then keep it. Thus what we have is the friction between the wheel and the rail, if we use a rail based system. Or we use a maglev system, which indeed needs to be powered and thus creates additional energy cost compared to a wheel-rail-system. It's then a question of speed if the cost for the friction or the cost for the maglev is higher. We could get the cost for the maglev to be close to zero if we manage to use superconductivity, but that would add to the installation cost.
(This might beneath lots of other reasons also be one of the main causes why we don't have flying cars yet in every garage.)
According to the article, the resolution to arrest him was already clear before the police even knew how he would react.
Traffic fatalities barely outnumber peacetime firearm fatalities. Actually, we are talking 32,000 traffic related deaths vs. 30,000 gun releated deaths per year.
Still thinking someone just wants to sling mud.
Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias.
Shocking that parents are happy when their daughters like feminine things. It's almost like they don't think they're defective males and their views on clothing is orthogonal to computer issues.
You got it reversely. At first, it's the parents and the grand parents and other relatives who gives princess clothes as presents and then act gleefully. Only after that positive reaction, girls show interest in being a princess, and then parents and grand parents give new girlish presents and again show happiness if the girl smiles. Don't underestimate the amount of impression you make on a child until it conciously expresses interest in some thing and disdain for others! Each toy shop with "girl aisles" and "boy aisles" enforces the gender disparities. Each clothing shop with pink clothing for girls and blue clothing for boys enforces the disparities again. You radiate a message to the child with your bias, which behaviour you consider normal and acceptable and which one you would rather classify as non-typical.
I've seen it unravelling with my daughter. At first she showed interest in the stuff her older brother played with, and in the neighborhood, there were (just by chance) mainly boys. Then a new family moved in with two daughters, and suddenly princesses and horses were all the rage. But when the family left again, the interest in both diminished, princesses were forgotten very soon, horses were of interest until age 9, and now she's mainly interested in computer games, watches countless "lets play" videos, bought a Wii U and a PS4 from the money she begged from the relatives instead of birthday and christmas presents, refuses to wear dresses at all, and in junior high, she took Robotics as optional topic. She likes dystopial novels and movies. And no, she doesn't want to go into STEM, she wants to become a writer for a living (I don't know how this will work out in the end).
People who discount the enormous environmental influences on the choices of young people and who believe in a "natural" interest of boys into STEM and of girls into everything non-STEM seem to be oblivious of the actual situation.
And thus I conclude, that there is similar research in the field of construction workers or garbage men, you just don't know about it, because you are neither a construction worker nor a garbage man.
Rather than concluding that the current situation is somehow normal and will never change, we should look in the past and in other regions of the world, where the biases were and are different and thus the numbers of men and women in particular jobs differ from what we see here. And then we wouldn't blame it on "girls and boys are different", because then we would know that it has not so much to do with the differences between girls and boys but more with the choices we as parents, as relatives, as teachers, as classmates and as a society make conciously or inconciously for our children.
Yes, you can actually spark interest in computer science. Yes, you can actually kindle the awakening interest and encourage it. Yes, you can actually make a point in not mentioning that interest in computer science is not a typically girlish thing.
While many of your female co-students found a mate in the engineering class, and many of the male nursery students are now probably married to a nurse.
This is just either mudslinging on your side, or it is showing that you have no idea what Amnesty International is about.
I don't expect Greenpeace to talk about government overreach, and I don't expect the taxpayers union to report on human rights violations in a country on another continent. Why do you expect Amnesty International to investigate cases of child abuse?
In Europe, I've seen Roman roads that are still maintained (and upgraded).
And no, those machines are no all purpose computers, they are phone switches which just boot up, read their OS and configuration data from disk and then work solely from memory. Configuration changes which might cause a sector to fail after a write are seldom, but can still be handled by spare sectors on the disks.