It is not more disrespectful than the post it was replying to. Making an unfounded accusation no one can check and being anonymous at the same time is not a good way to earn respect, especially if the party the accusation was made against is not in a position to fight back.
This makes the first poster likely to be just a troll or someone trying to spread lies.
In the most cases, the role of politics is either completely misunderstood, or greatly exaggerated. There are much more simple processes at work. Some of the ideas might have been really good, but for every good concept, there are two adversaries: the one, that is better, and the other one, that is good enough. Having an idea that is really at the sweet spot of being feasable and being between being really better than the current state of affairs, and not being outcompeted by another idea that is better is a very rare occurance.
It's not the politics that are the big obstacle. Politics is the playing field where the different interests are fighting each other until there is some result. Politics thus are mainly a result, not the reason for something. The big obstacle is that we don't need most of those transportation means so much, that it might be feasible to invest enough. What's the point of having a cruiser ship like bus line across the U.S.? It might have made sense in a time when even air travel was not faster than 150 mph, and when NY - LA was a two day trip with 10 hrs of flight each day. It does't make much sense when it takes 5 hrs.
And? No one ever said there was a causal connection between the two. Just a link - a co-relation, as you called it.
And yes, there are many possible root causes for the link. One you already cited: Living excessive is connected to both early death without a dominant cause, and excessive consumation of certain products.
No, it doesn't fit. The server has not encountered any error, and it would be capable to perform the request. It is not allowed to do so, which has nothing to do with technical reasons. Thus 4xx is the right range for the errors.
But that's exactly the problem. If the NSA don't know jack shit about the real threats, what about the thwarted threads we hear so much about? How many of them are false positives? I remember a Robert Sheckley story (Ticket to Tranai), where it was the task of government officials to kill potential mass murderer. And when the lead character asked a government official what happens if they kill the wrong guy, the answer was: Can't happen. Whoever is killed by a government official is a potential mass murderer by definition. Somehow I get the impression that's just a slightly exaggerated version of what is happening here. The big data from the NSA sends a random signal, the drones fly and hit, and then the target persons are terrorist leaders by definition.
I guess, one of the reasons to kill the used game block feature was the thread from the E.U. legislation that actually forbid the blocking of software resales. Microsoft had to either enable unlimited resales in the E.U. or face stiff penalties up to being blocked to sell the Xbox at all.
You definitely have lost more people to influenza than to terrorism, about half a million. Yes, about 50,000 people in the U.S. die every year of the flu. You have even lost more people to choking on a fishbone than to terrorism. But no one is going to declare the War on the Fish Pond.
It might be that you are a tribesmen of the Picts. They probably would think that noh8rz10 is no real man with his naked face. Deal with it - tattoos are everyone's personal business, and to judge people by their tattoos is in the literal sense of the word superficial.
While this is true, it doesn't help the NSO very much as those keyservers only hold your public key, and your public key is -- well -- public anyway. It would be problematic if they hold your private key as well, which they don't.
All a NSL would cause in this case is that now the secret organisation knows how to send you encrypted mail, which they could have known before anyway by just requesting your public key. They could in theory use them to start MITM attacks by putting tainted keys there, but then their key mismatches the key you would get from other keyservers if you ask them for the same key.
I call bullshit on this one. This works for three month at a maximum, and then you are exhausted. I've worked for 60 hrs/week the last six weeks, and I see already how the work I am doing gets lower and lower in quality. Either I slow down, take some time off, or I'll screw up big time in the next weeks. Luckily I have the chance to slow down.
No, civil matters are about compromise and getting along somehow. They are not meant to and they will never be about putting or not putting guild on the defendant. They are here to arbitrage the demands the parties have against each other. Thus "innocent until proven guilty" does not fit here. It only works if the plaintiff is the state, and if it presses criminal charges against you.
Wikipedia is agnostic about the copyrights of the sources it's based on. It's only important that the sources exist, and that they are at least in theory attendable. Wikipeda does not want to be a site of original research, because that would make the respective articles unmaintenable for people not involved in the actual research, as they don't have anything to relay on if there are questions arising.
Wikipedia always has to expect the maintainer of a site to disappear - losing interest or losing internet or losing his life. Then it needs someone capable of replacing the maintainer, and if an article is either too special-interest, or it is original research by the first maintainer, then no one will be able to replace him, making the article in question unmaintenable and thus dead wood, becoming increasingly inaccurate and outdated. This has nothing to do with any copyrights.
But "finding a very fast algorithm for solving all the NP problems" means nothing else than having a proof for P=NP in the first place.
The problem with NP is not that there are no algorithms to solve them, the problem is that the time they take to solve the problem in question increases faster than polynominal if the number increases of the elements the algorithm has to take into account. Look at the travelling salesman problem for instance. For a low number of cities the salesman has to travel, one just computes all possible ways he can take and then chooses the shortest one. This works nice for low numbers - five cities give you 120 possible routes, and finding the lowest number within 120 numbers is a piece of cake.
But if the salesman has to travel 10 towns, it's already 3628800 possible routes, and 100 towns give you a number close to 10 to the power of 158. That's what NP means. The sheer size of the problem space increases faster than any polynome. You can't even say that for instance doubling the number of elements will increase the problem space say by 1000, as this would be still polynominal. While doubling the number from 5 to 10 towns increased the travelling salesman problem a moderate 362880 times, doubling the number of towns from 100 to 200 would increase it ~8,5 * 10^216 times! And if you manage to improve your computing power one million times and manage to speed up your algorithm another one million times, this speed up will be eaten completely by just increasing the number of towns from 200 to a mere 206. Six simple elements added, and all your progress of an one-trillion-improvement are eaten up.
NP means that improving just the speed of the algorithm and increasing the number of operations you can perform per second will not increase the size of problems you can tackle in any meaningful way. There may be single problems where the problem space you usually have is not very large to begin with, and thus you can use a NP algorithm here. Type checking might be one of them as there are not too many types in a given ML program to begin with. But doubling the number of types you use in an ML program might work the first time, and it might even work a second time, but very soon you hit a hard limit.
Hm. Similar argument: Adding 100 grams of sodium chloride to your drink will add about 0.000,000,000,000...1% to the world's sodium chloride supply. But for some reason, it will kill you if you drink it anyway.
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Maybe because the NSA doesn't care so much for drug sites as they care for sites that the NSA considers a threat to the NSA?
Said by an Anonymous Coward. Proud. Strong. Standing up for himself.
This makes the first poster likely to be just a troll or someone trying to spread lies.
In the most cases, the role of politics is either completely misunderstood, or greatly exaggerated. There are much more simple processes at work. Some of the ideas might have been really good, but for every good concept, there are two adversaries: the one, that is better, and the other one, that is good enough. Having an idea that is really at the sweet spot of being feasable and being between being really better than the current state of affairs, and not being outcompeted by another idea that is better is a very rare occurance.
It's not the politics that are the big obstacle. Politics is the playing field where the different interests are fighting each other until there is some result. Politics thus are mainly a result, not the reason for something. The big obstacle is that we don't need most of those transportation means so much, that it might be feasible to invest enough. What's the point of having a cruiser ship like bus line across the U.S.? It might have made sense in a time when even air travel was not faster than 150 mph, and when NY - LA was a two day trip with 10 hrs of flight each day. It does't make much sense when it takes 5 hrs.
The drone sent out to kill someone is armed. Stop trying to be rabulistic.
A drone is an offensive weapon. So it's offensive per definition.
And yes, there are many possible root causes for the link. One you already cited: Living excessive is connected to both early death without a dominant cause, and excessive consumation of certain products.
No, it doesn't fit. The server has not encountered any error, and it would be capable to perform the request. It is not allowed to do so, which has nothing to do with technical reasons. Thus 4xx is the right range for the errors.
But that's exactly the problem. If the NSA don't know jack shit about the real threats, what about the thwarted threads we hear so much about? How many of them are false positives? I remember a Robert Sheckley story (Ticket to Tranai), where it was the task of government officials to kill potential mass murderer. And when the lead character asked a government official what happens if they kill the wrong guy, the answer was: Can't happen. Whoever is killed by a government official is a potential mass murderer by definition. Somehow I get the impression that's just a slightly exaggerated version of what is happening here. The big data from the NSA sends a random signal, the drones fly and hit, and then the target persons are terrorist leaders by definition.
So according to your definition, a suicide bomber is a hero, but a soldier seeking cover is not?
I guess, one of the reasons to kill the used game block feature was the thread from the E.U. legislation that actually forbid the blocking of software resales. Microsoft had to either enable unlimited resales in the E.U. or face stiff penalties up to being blocked to sell the Xbox at all.
The half a million was for the 10 years, as in the previous post.
Heroes do not renounce their citizenship and seek asylum amongst foreign intelligence communities.
Heroes do. It's called asylum. And it's considered a human right.
If telling the truth about illegal activities is treason, I wonder what lying to the American public is in your book.
You definitely have lost more people to influenza than to terrorism, about half a million. Yes, about 50,000 people in the U.S. die every year of the flu. You have even lost more people to choking on a fishbone than to terrorism. But no one is going to declare the War on the Fish Pond.
It might be that you are a tribesmen of the Picts. They probably would think that noh8rz10 is no real man with his naked face. Deal with it - tattoos are everyone's personal business, and to judge people by their tattoos is in the literal sense of the word superficial.
All a NSL would cause in this case is that now the secret organisation knows how to send you encrypted mail, which they could have known before anyway by just requesting your public key. They could in theory use them to start MITM attacks by putting tainted keys there, but then their key mismatches the key you would get from other keyservers if you ask them for the same key.
I call bullshit on this one. This works for three month at a maximum, and then you are exhausted. I've worked for 60 hrs/week the last six weeks, and I see already how the work I am doing gets lower and lower in quality. Either I slow down, take some time off, or I'll screw up big time in the next weeks. Luckily I have the chance to slow down.
No, civil matters are about compromise and getting along somehow. They are not meant to and they will never be about putting or not putting guild on the defendant. They are here to arbitrage the demands the parties have against each other. Thus "innocent until proven guilty" does not fit here. It only works if the plaintiff is the state, and if it presses criminal charges against you.
Read that post again, she actually hinted at possible evidence for multiple abiogenesis.
Wikipedia always has to expect the maintainer of a site to disappear - losing interest or losing internet or losing his life. Then it needs someone capable of replacing the maintainer, and if an article is either too special-interest, or it is original research by the first maintainer, then no one will be able to replace him, making the article in question unmaintenable and thus dead wood, becoming increasingly inaccurate and outdated. This has nothing to do with any copyrights.
The problem with NP is not that there are no algorithms to solve them, the problem is that the time they take to solve the problem in question increases faster than polynominal if the number increases of the elements the algorithm has to take into account. Look at the travelling salesman problem for instance. For a low number of cities the salesman has to travel, one just computes all possible ways he can take and then chooses the shortest one. This works nice for low numbers - five cities give you 120 possible routes, and finding the lowest number within 120 numbers is a piece of cake.
But if the salesman has to travel 10 towns, it's already 3628800 possible routes, and 100 towns give you a number close to 10 to the power of 158. That's what NP means. The sheer size of the problem space increases faster than any polynome. You can't even say that for instance doubling the number of elements will increase the problem space say by 1000, as this would be still polynominal. While doubling the number from 5 to 10 towns increased the travelling salesman problem a moderate 362880 times, doubling the number of towns from 100 to 200 would increase it ~8,5 * 10^216 times! And if you manage to improve your computing power one million times and manage to speed up your algorithm another one million times, this speed up will be eaten completely by just increasing the number of towns from 200 to a mere 206. Six simple elements added, and all your progress of an one-trillion-improvement are eaten up.
NP means that improving just the speed of the algorithm and increasing the number of operations you can perform per second will not increase the size of problems you can tackle in any meaningful way. There may be single problems where the problem space you usually have is not very large to begin with, and thus you can use a NP algorithm here. Type checking might be one of them as there are not too many types in a given ML program to begin with. But doubling the number of types you use in an ML program might work the first time, and it might even work a second time, but very soon you hit a hard limit.
Hm. Similar argument: Adding 100 grams of sodium chloride to your drink will add about 0.000,000,000,000...1% to the world's sodium chloride supply. But for some reason, it will kill you if you drink it anyway.
But cave-dwelling^Wbasement-living geeks don't interact with the sun anyway.