There is a huge difference between copyright infringement and industrial espionage.
There's also a huge similarity, it's been copied not taken. So if you object to the word stolen when it comes to copyright infringement you should also object to the word stolen when it comes to espionage. At least unless any documents, prototypes, backup disks or similar was actually removed from Tesla's possession.
Theft of information can deprive someone of something - exclusivity. Theft of a song may deprive a record company or artist of a sale, but not exclusivity.
I guess you should tell these dumbasses they don't know what they're talking about:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The message Bowman says she got was: "You're unemployable. You're not worth investing in." (...) A lot of people that are stuck in poverty actually want to work.
Those two are not mutually exclusive. Every time when benefit recipients get called lazy bums and parasites there's a group of highly unwilling recipients that lash out because they genuinely can't work or would need so much help and have so little or erratic residual work capability left it'd be a net zero or negative to spend resources on it as anything other than a feelgood project. And I can understand their anger and frustration, particularly if it's the kind of problems that aren't obvious to the naked eye. And if they do share a happy moment or achievement on Facebook that becomes "proof" that they're just faking it the rest of the time, even though most just share the glamorous moments.
But I think we also know some of those who whine like a baby over a paper cut or take sick days if they get a light sniffle or act like a teen's first heartbreak over nothing and are just milking it to the fullest. And if you try to overrule that person's own assessment then all hell breaks loose, but somebody's got to push back and say no. And then you have the people that are kinda in the middle, they're poor but are they working minimum wage because they didn't get choices or are they really those who would get the last pick of work? Because most people think they deserve better than they got, even if they objectively don't. At least not relative to other workers, not talking about the 1% vs the 99%.
I'm all for Universal Basic Income, because I personally believe that no one should starve to death, and everyone should have a basic platform where they could work themselves up from rock-bottom to a worthy place in society.
Many countries in Europe have something like a "last resort" program for people who'd otherwise be homeless and starve. Here in Norway it's the primary income of 1% of the population and costs us 0.5% of the national budget. That's only if you don't qualify for anything else like unemployment benefits, disability, public pension and don't have any income or savings to support yourself though and it's really just to cover the basics. It's nothing like an UBI program though.
Europeans and their quaint ideas on remote. There are spots in the US have may have dozen people in the area of an European country. The US is has the 3rd largest population, but is 50th in population density.
The 50th in what? Not population density, the US is 191st in the world with 33 people/km^2. I'll won't repeat the notation, but the EU would - if it were a country - have a density of 116 so on average it's true. Wiring up the UK (271) is like Conneticut (286), Germany (232) is like Maryland (238), Italy (201) is like Delaware (187), France (124) is like Florida (145), Spain (92) is like California (97), Greece (82) is like Virginia (81). Then there's a pretty big gap in western Europe, we don't have anything like Texas (40). But we do have Sweden (23) which is like Arizona (23) and Norway (16) that is like Maine (16) that here in Europe have pretty damn good Internet, though to be fair most people live along the coastline. If we were evenly distributed inland it'd be much harder.
But yeah if you're in Nevada (10), Nebraska (9), Idaho (7), New Mexico (6), South Dakota (4), North Dakota (4), Montana (2), Wyoming (2) or Alaska (0)... yeah, that's really out in the boonies. Though you'd really need get into the details like in Las Vegas you should definitively be able to get a decent Internet connection, how well you should be covered depends on how "lumpy" the population is, like there are places with broadband in Canada (4) even if the overall density suggests you don't. I mean where there's literally nobody you don't need to bring broadband, just to the places people live. But if you're the one farmer in the middle of a huge farm then of course it really is that rural.
3D XPoint memory is in between NVRAM which is RAM backed by supercapacitators, running some kind of kind of machine/rack-level UPS to ensure RAM is saved to "regular" flash drives or just persisting against NVMe drives before declaring the transaction complete. So there are faster and more expensive options and slower and less expensive options and it also depends on how many components you want involved. But that's always a discussion, if a disgruntled data center worker takes a sledgehammer to your machine it's not really persisted enough until it's hit your hot swap / cluster / backup. So if Intel can deliver the right price-performance value that's great, if they can't... no big deal. There are alternatives, if you need them.
But that isn't how debates ought to take place. Debates should start with premises and mutually agreed facts and then reach conclusions via reason and logic.
First of all the world is full of complex systems where you can't directly link cause and effect, predictions of the future, other people's actions and reactions and so on that can't be proven like a science experiment. Even when we agree on the facts, we disagree on the significance and meaning of the facts or even the overall model or ideology that they fit into. A question like "Are Trump's import tariffs good for the American economy?" could probably fill volumes of economic journals without a definitive answer in sight. Even in retrospect 10 years from now they'll still be arguing how much it actually mattered and how much would have happened anyway and certainly a lot of guesswork on the alternatives, so ending in conclusions is wildly optimistic. And that's when they don't have a self-interest in disagreeing with it.
Most public and political debates aren't actual debates, they're more like elevator pitches. You get two minutes in the spotlight to tell people who have no clue about the topic why your idea is great and their idea sucks. They will do the same. What you're looking for is buried deep down in committees, reports, propositions and whatnot where people decide that maybe goods of type X and not Y should be included or the rate should be 25% and not 22%. That's the kind of debate you take when you're preaching to the choir or have an expert group or something. When you're pitching to the general public the goal is simply to convince them that you're the person they should follow.
he also formally recognized Kim Jun Un's dictatorship as the legitimate ruler of N. Korea (something they'd been trying to get America to do for decades going back to when his dad was in charge)
Any claims of occupation or illegitimacy should have an expiry date anyway or you'd end up like the Middle East where they've fought for 2000 years about who occupied who. You want the native Americans to re-start wars based on 19th century borders? North Korea has been on the map for 70 years. Maybe you should make that 100 so everyone who had a birthright claim is either dead or was a small child at the time, but it has to end sometime.
Here's the problem: how does one avoid a bad feedback loop? i.e. Computer predicts patient is likely to die, so doctors spend less time attempting to work the problem and/or shift the patient into a palliative care pathway. By predicting that a patient is likely to die, the computer will have made that patient EVEN MORE likely to die.
Unless they're doing combat triage or something it's generally the other way around, they put more resources into the patients at most risk of dying. Unless it's already palliative care and you're just trying to predict when the inevitable will occur. Which is sadly part of the capacity planning, not everything can be fixed and nobody lives forever so for many the hospital is where they draw their last breath. And honestly the death's door treatment rarely does them much good, if the doctors can do something fairly early to give people a little extended time that's fine.
If it's resuscitating your dying body so you can spend another week in pain, weak and helpless hooked up to machines in a hospital bed waiting to die... it's not for the patient. It's not for the doctor, no matter what oath they took. It's for the relatives that can't let go, who want to stretch those few moments out into infinity. Who can't cope with the fact that the person is gone forever and not coming back. I hope for a long and good life, but after having seen a few other ways to go.... I hope for a quick and painless death, if I could get a day or two to do the soggy good-byes that would be nice but the slow death of body and mind falling apart bit by bit is not pretty to watch.
> In Norway, electricity is way cheaper than jet fuel. Because of this, if electric planes become relevant, Norway could insert itself as a major air traffic hub for other European travel.
First of all, have you looked at how much of a detour that'd be for most of Europe? Also I think you can flip that one around. We have a lot of hydro power because of very challenging geography with tall mountains, deep fjords, narrow valleys that produce floods in spring, tons of snow and avalanches in winter, landslides in autumn and in summer it's construction work everywhere to fix the damage. So Norwegians often go by plane on relatively short hops where most other countries would have trains, which would be superior anywhere it's reasonably flat. And we're willing to massively subsidize EVs over ICEs, we're more like the perfect trial balloon/research project. Like if electric planes can't be made to work here, even with all the crutches we'll give them they won't work anywhere.
And it's highly unlikely this will lead to some sort of quick revolution, we've invested tons of money in electric cars since the 1990s that went bankrupt four times because the technology was not mature enough, they get tax breaks, free toll roads, free parking, free HOV lanes etc. and with all that we're up to 25% EVs, 30% hybrids and it's still ongoing. If we cut the subsidies sales would flop back to the noise floor. Like maybe Norway can make electric planes kinda work with generous subsidies but the rest of the world won't care. And as the oil dries up and demographics change towards 2050 I think we'll lose the taste for hideously expensive eco-boondoggles too. But so far we have the money for this...
to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: to hack around with HTML.
That definition makes hacks sound like a good thing, it definitively needs some balance that hacks are usually kludges and quick fixes. A hack and a hacker are on opposite sites of the skill scale, so are clever hacks and dirty hacks. Hacks themselves are more neutral, they're small modifications to bypass/replace other code like security systems, safety systems, malfunctioning code or add new functionality. If they're poor, great or malicious depends on the nature of the hack.
that would make more sense in the US than norway. how many military conflicts is norway involved in right now, or in the last 10 years.
Having a large number of bulk conscripts makes way more sense for Norway. Apart from a few token contributions to NATO missions the primary task of the Norwegian defense is to resist a Russian invasion. Crueler tongues would even say it's to escalate any conflict into a full scale war and invoke NATOs mutual defense clause because realistically we couldn't win a war against Russia alone. In any case if it should happen the Russians would have the element of surprise and take out key infrastructure and troops everywhere.
Well the alternative is to say VW is just going to pass it on to the customers, let's not punish them for the emissions scandal. If you believe in the free market you'll think that competition will keep prices down so the investors will have to eat the loss. I mean, if WU could raise prices because of this why couldn't they like raise prices anyway? If they have that sort of captive market...
Side A builds robots that can't fire without human control. Side B builds jammers. Side A decides robot soldiers need to be able to act in "self-defense". Side B puts civilians in harm's way. Side A decides they need "smart robots" who can tell friend from foe by themselves. Or that we need tighter coordination between light arms, heavy arms, air support, putting down covering fire for advancing troops etc. with so tight margins that it can't be done on manual. If you're being mauled to death by a perfectly coordinated fully automatic enemy you will fight fire with fire. Maybe you're creating the world where we'll lose control of our Terminators. But in the short term if you're not playing the game you're going to lose right now.
For example when is the IQ test conducted? Before they are conscripted into service of before that as an evaluation of their abilities?
During the intake ("sesjon"), up until 2009 all males had to go through that even if they'd be dismissed afterwards as not fit for service, conscientious objector or whatever. Then they'd choose to draft some of the people deemed fit for duty. That's probably why the study is to 2009, from 2010 they added a pre-screening because they did have a lot more candidates than they actual needed. And now the process is gender-neutral, everybody goes through the same pre-screening but in practice you don't get called into service unless you want to. Though it theory they can now draft all men and women of service age if shit happens, of course we'd never have time to equip and train them in an actual emergency.
That debate was actually quite funny, originally it was mostly men complaining that why should they waste a year living in bunk beds and digging trenches and the women don't while the women were generally against it. The turning point was certain people taunting like "awwwww, of course us big strong men will protect you delicate little flowers" and feminists going "oh heeeeeeeeell no we can defend ourselves thankyouverymuch where's that's uniform?" Once it became their own cause then it was pretty much a done deal. Kinda like sex and porn, if it's women being what men want it's all hiss boo, if it's women embracing their sexuality then yeah hurrah. Even if it's doing exactly the same...
Well ya, if they gave English IQ tests to young Norwegians entering military service, I suspect they wouldn't do as well as they could
My guess would be that the difference would be extremely low, Norway is consistently ranked in very top for English proficiency, you start with English in first grade and we don't dub English shows except for little kids. With Internet, YouTube etc. kids also get exposed to lots of material that's neither dubbed nor subtitled. The Harry Potter books sold ~1 million in Norwegian, ~200k in English so one in six preferred English and that's for kids. If you take any kind of higher education, expect English textbooks. Even though English doesn't have an official status, with a high number of immigrants and foreign workers pretty much everything exists in an English translation. Now if you go as far back as this study it would be different, but apart from cultural reasons we could easily make English our official language.
Probably because they have real traffic costs. Take a look at the map, South Africa is south of Sahara and almost all international traffic is a long trip by undersea cable. And since most people there understand English they consume a lot of media that originate from the US/Europe which is far, far away. If you have fiber the "last mile" is no longer a problem, you have a dedicated 1 Gbps+ capable link if somebody installs the right box in each end. In fact, I doubt there's anything less than 100 Mbps capable nodes.
It sounds like the key difference here is they're predicting parts of the scene they haven't seen, such as what the other side of an object they haven't seen looks like.
Yeah, the key feature here seems to be extrapolation from a very small number of observations. Say you're in a park and you're snapping a few photos and from that you're trying to reconstruct a 3D model of the park. You don't have nearly enough data to do that properly, but you can make an educated guess. At least that seems to be the focus to me, how well can it fill in the blanks and make some copy-paste assumptions.
Well the fame is obviously because of the chair and the voice, because you don't get famous for doing physics. If you go through the list of Nobel prize winners I think the only one any significant number would remember is Albert Einstein, and if he'd been more serious and well-groomed I doubt even he'd reach that fame on merit alone. Maybe Schrödinger for the cat but very little else. So what's the merits if you try to take away all the fame? I honestly don't know enough physics to tell and you can't really go by other physicist's awards and whatnot if you assuming they were all swooning over his disability.
He was pretty clearly a very bright young student bordering on genius before he was diagnosed with the condition though. And I doubt physicists are really handing out participation awards, I don't think any of them would hold back from arresting Hawking on any flaws in his theories. His main theory of Hawking radiation isn't proven yet which is why he doesn't have a Nobel prize, but it certainly could be true. I know he plays into a human idea that mind and body are in balance so an extraordinary mind and crippled go together like Xavier in X-Men but reality is they're quite orthogonal. His condition doesn't make his mind that special, but it doesn't preclude that possibility either.
However, if we the human race are going to finally band together and solve our problems as a species, we are going to need one language.
Doesn't mean it has to be one and only one language though. Most people are more than capable of being bi-lingual, their native language and the common language.
It's purpose is for communication.
Yes - but also from one generation to the next, passing down a heritage. It would be very strange to not speak or write the language of my parents and their generation.
And as we are seeing in our digital age. English is winning the Darwinian race. It's perfect for representation with computers - unlike languages like Chinese and it has the leg up of being the language of the Creators of the Digital Age.
English is a cluster fuck of a language and the single reason it's becoming the global language and not yet another regional language like Russian, Chinese or Arabic is the British Empire. It's the only language with reach in Europe (UK), North America (US & Canada), Africa (bunch of former colonies), Asia (India) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). And with the Germans losing two World Wars and the French being insufferable they cornered the market as the business language in Europe too. It helps that the Internet was started in the US, but if nobody else spoke English other countries would just make their own enclaves. There's many Russian, Chinese, Spanish etc. speakers that don't know the English-speaking part at all.
Despite almost every person in the world now having a common benefit for accessing a world-wide open information network - greed always find a way to add in barrier and costs wherever it can.
Meanwhile here in Norway: Mean download: 94.0 Mbps (+58.0% YoY) Median download: 45.8 Mbps (+45.4% YoY) Broadband (>128 kbps): 85.3% of households Over 40% fiber and climbing fast
And we are more sparsely populated with way smaller cities than the US. The generation growing up now won't know what bandwidth scarcity is, everybody can watch their own UHD Netflix stream...
Because Steam is partly a DRM solution. Being able to run unpatched versions would allow for crackers to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities which could be used for piracy.
Meh, I have the feeling they could solve this very easily by having a legacy client that can only authorize legacy games, like only games that support XP/Vista. I mean they're both out of extended support, there's probably nobody releasing games for them now. Drop all the optional features, you could even drop the store functionality, all you can do is log into your library, download and run old games you already have. Even if you could find a crack for 5+ year old games sales are probably microscopic.
Remember that this means that in 2022 or so Steam is likely to stop working on Windows 7. Even if you've just firewalled off everything but Steam and said fuck it, I'll just go Linux/Mac and use this to play all my old games it won't work, it's Win10 or lose all your games. And once there are no other supported versions of Windows I expect the really nasty stuff to begin. Being able to have a legacy PC to play legacy games without Steam killing it off is hardly too much to ask.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
And for good reason too, if you could sell goods "as-is" with no warranty they'd make it part of the standard boilerplate, which is what consumer laws are supposed to protect against. Not to mention all the shady companies that would send out faulty batches and pretend you got the lemon, too bad that's the risk you signed up for. And consumers who'd blame any problem they have on being a faulty return claiming you scammed them, even when it's unrelated. And there will be mental cases you've pissed off because they lost their job or whatever that'll make bad returns with malice.
Basically you either have to take it in and process it before you can sell it again or you have to sell it as scrap or parts. But the former costs too much money and selling a piece of clothing as a rag isn't worth anything so it's not worth doing. Personally I think free returns is inflating the price for everyone else, if something is defective or not as advertised sure. If you pay the restocking fee if you get buyer's regret, fine. But reality is that some of us are subsidizing people who can't be arsed to figure out what they actually want before they buy it.
For me, I think the items I've wanted to return because they're defective or not matching the description greatly outnumber the products I've wanted to return for other reasons. And in most cases I've simply been asked to visibly destroy it, snap a photo and they'll either send a new one or refund me the money. It's not worth their time or my time to waste more resources on a broken product. It will eventually become trash anyway, it's just a small percentage that skipped being useful in between.
Obj-C generally "did the right thing" with nil in most contexts. Sure, nil-pointer errors are a pain, but declaring them away and just forcing everyone to type ! everywhere does not eliminate them. It does, however, eliminate the simplicity of binding a nil to a text field and just getting a zero, precisely what has to happen in code now.
So... you read an object that has no description because field is nil, show it in a dialog and afterwards the description is "0"? Why not the empty string ""? And when doing debug messaging I usually replace it with "(null)". And you sure don't want to convert nil to zero when it comes to numbers because for a field like "number_of_kids" nil would typically be used for unknown / didn't want to answer / not relevant / not applicable. That said, I wish they'd turn it around so you'd get a nil assignment error rather than a calling error. I also hate nil and the default nil != nil for change comparison and such whereas "" = "" and "0" = "0". Sometimes it would be really, really useful to use nil as an extra value with normal value semantics.
Most of the twitchy games are online multiplayer, I can access local newspapers online with a 11-12 ms round trip. I assume that means when I play Overwatch it already takes 6ms for my keystrokes to reach the server and 6ms to send a response back like that's already a sunk cost. I find there's ultra low latency encoders that use 3ms on a frame. Worst case if the line can barely keep up is 16.67ms lag at 60 FPS, but if for example you send 5 Mbps 1080p over a 30 Mbit line or 25 Mbps UHD over a 100Mbit line it'll be more like 4-5ms. Lots and lots of games are still playable with 10 ms extra lag total. I think the biggest problem is chicken and egg, when hardly any game supports it most gamers will buy a gaming card. And if you have a gaming card you don't need this service.
Well it's easy to make caricatures of both methodologies. While the W manager may get the budget I've certainly met projects that follow the 90-90 rule:
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
The project progress report tend to follow the first 90% and then the shit show starts with everything that's not working the way somebody thought it would and a whole lot of wrangling about how the spec is to be understood and how supposedly done code doesn't actually work the way they wanted it. That's why it's gotten a lot more iterative and agile-like in that the customer wants proof you're actually progressing and that they're getting what they want. The caricature of manager A only cares about the highest priority for the next sprint, but you want high level estimates for the backlog items. You need good enough estimates for a go-no go decision at every level, whether it's products, features, enhancements or tiny tweaks. But if you think the feature will get done quicker by having someone report a "percent complete" all the time, well... it doesn't work that way.
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There is a huge difference between copyright infringement and industrial espionage.
There's also a huge similarity, it's been copied not taken. So if you object to the word stolen when it comes to copyright infringement you should also object to the word stolen when it comes to espionage. At least unless any documents, prototypes, backup disks or similar was actually removed from Tesla's possession.
Theft of information can deprive someone of something - exclusivity. Theft of a song may deprive a record company or artist of a sale, but not exclusivity.
I guess you should tell these dumbasses they don't know what they're talking about:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The message Bowman says she got was: "You're unemployable. You're not worth investing in." (...) A lot of people that are stuck in poverty actually want to work.
Those two are not mutually exclusive. Every time when benefit recipients get called lazy bums and parasites there's a group of highly unwilling recipients that lash out because they genuinely can't work or would need so much help and have so little or erratic residual work capability left it'd be a net zero or negative to spend resources on it as anything other than a feelgood project. And I can understand their anger and frustration, particularly if it's the kind of problems that aren't obvious to the naked eye. And if they do share a happy moment or achievement on Facebook that becomes "proof" that they're just faking it the rest of the time, even though most just share the glamorous moments.
But I think we also know some of those who whine like a baby over a paper cut or take sick days if they get a light sniffle or act like a teen's first heartbreak over nothing and are just milking it to the fullest. And if you try to overrule that person's own assessment then all hell breaks loose, but somebody's got to push back and say no. And then you have the people that are kinda in the middle, they're poor but are they working minimum wage because they didn't get choices or are they really those who would get the last pick of work? Because most people think they deserve better than they got, even if they objectively don't. At least not relative to other workers, not talking about the 1% vs the 99%.
I'm all for Universal Basic Income, because I personally believe that no one should starve to death, and everyone should have a basic platform where they could work themselves up from rock-bottom to a worthy place in society.
Many countries in Europe have something like a "last resort" program for people who'd otherwise be homeless and starve. Here in Norway it's the primary income of 1% of the population and costs us 0.5% of the national budget. That's only if you don't qualify for anything else like unemployment benefits, disability, public pension and don't have any income or savings to support yourself though and it's really just to cover the basics. It's nothing like an UBI program though.
Europeans and their quaint ideas on remote. There are spots in the US have may have dozen people in the area of an European country. The US is has the 3rd largest population, but is 50th in population density.
The 50th in what? Not population density, the US is 191st in the world with 33 people/km^2. I'll won't repeat the notation, but the EU would - if it were a country - have a density of 116 so on average it's true. Wiring up the UK (271) is like Conneticut (286), Germany (232) is like Maryland (238), Italy (201) is like Delaware (187), France (124) is like Florida (145), Spain (92) is like California (97), Greece (82) is like Virginia (81). Then there's a pretty big gap in western Europe, we don't have anything like Texas (40). But we do have Sweden (23) which is like Arizona (23) and Norway (16) that is like Maine (16) that here in Europe have pretty damn good Internet, though to be fair most people live along the coastline. If we were evenly distributed inland it'd be much harder.
But yeah if you're in Nevada (10), Nebraska (9), Idaho (7), New Mexico (6), South Dakota (4), North Dakota (4), Montana (2), Wyoming (2) or Alaska (0)... yeah, that's really out in the boonies. Though you'd really need get into the details like in Las Vegas you should definitively be able to get a decent Internet connection, how well you should be covered depends on how "lumpy" the population is, like there are places with broadband in Canada (4) even if the overall density suggests you don't. I mean where there's literally nobody you don't need to bring broadband, just to the places people live. But if you're the one farmer in the middle of a huge farm then of course it really is that rural.
3D XPoint memory is in between NVRAM which is RAM backed by supercapacitators, running some kind of kind of machine/rack-level UPS to ensure RAM is saved to "regular" flash drives or just persisting against NVMe drives before declaring the transaction complete. So there are faster and more expensive options and slower and less expensive options and it also depends on how many components you want involved. But that's always a discussion, if a disgruntled data center worker takes a sledgehammer to your machine it's not really persisted enough until it's hit your hot swap / cluster / backup. So if Intel can deliver the right price-performance value that's great, if they can't... no big deal. There are alternatives, if you need them.
But that isn't how debates ought to take place. Debates should start with premises and mutually agreed facts and then reach conclusions via reason and logic.
First of all the world is full of complex systems where you can't directly link cause and effect, predictions of the future, other people's actions and reactions and so on that can't be proven like a science experiment. Even when we agree on the facts, we disagree on the significance and meaning of the facts or even the overall model or ideology that they fit into. A question like "Are Trump's import tariffs good for the American economy?" could probably fill volumes of economic journals without a definitive answer in sight. Even in retrospect 10 years from now they'll still be arguing how much it actually mattered and how much would have happened anyway and certainly a lot of guesswork on the alternatives, so ending in conclusions is wildly optimistic. And that's when they don't have a self-interest in disagreeing with it.
Most public and political debates aren't actual debates, they're more like elevator pitches. You get two minutes in the spotlight to tell people who have no clue about the topic why your idea is great and their idea sucks. They will do the same. What you're looking for is buried deep down in committees, reports, propositions and whatnot where people decide that maybe goods of type X and not Y should be included or the rate should be 25% and not 22%. That's the kind of debate you take when you're preaching to the choir or have an expert group or something. When you're pitching to the general public the goal is simply to convince them that you're the person they should follow.
he also formally recognized Kim Jun Un's dictatorship as the legitimate ruler of N. Korea (something they'd been trying to get America to do for decades going back to when his dad was in charge)
Any claims of occupation or illegitimacy should have an expiry date anyway or you'd end up like the Middle East where they've fought for 2000 years about who occupied who. You want the native Americans to re-start wars based on 19th century borders? North Korea has been on the map for 70 years. Maybe you should make that 100 so everyone who had a birthright claim is either dead or was a small child at the time, but it has to end sometime.
Here's the problem: how does one avoid a bad feedback loop? i.e. Computer predicts patient is likely to die, so doctors spend less time attempting to work the problem and/or shift the patient into a palliative care pathway. By predicting that a patient is likely to die, the computer will have made that patient EVEN MORE likely to die.
Unless they're doing combat triage or something it's generally the other way around, they put more resources into the patients at most risk of dying. Unless it's already palliative care and you're just trying to predict when the inevitable will occur. Which is sadly part of the capacity planning, not everything can be fixed and nobody lives forever so for many the hospital is where they draw their last breath. And honestly the death's door treatment rarely does them much good, if the doctors can do something fairly early to give people a little extended time that's fine.
If it's resuscitating your dying body so you can spend another week in pain, weak and helpless hooked up to machines in a hospital bed waiting to die... it's not for the patient. It's not for the doctor, no matter what oath they took. It's for the relatives that can't let go, who want to stretch those few moments out into infinity. Who can't cope with the fact that the person is gone forever and not coming back. I hope for a long and good life, but after having seen a few other ways to go.... I hope for a quick and painless death, if I could get a day or two to do the soggy good-byes that would be nice but the slow death of body and mind falling apart bit by bit is not pretty to watch.
> In Norway, electricity is way cheaper than jet fuel. Because of this, if electric planes become relevant, Norway could insert itself as a major air traffic hub for other European travel.
First of all, have you looked at how much of a detour that'd be for most of Europe? Also I think you can flip that one around. We have a lot of hydro power because of very challenging geography with tall mountains, deep fjords, narrow valleys that produce floods in spring, tons of snow and avalanches in winter, landslides in autumn and in summer it's construction work everywhere to fix the damage. So Norwegians often go by plane on relatively short hops where most other countries would have trains, which would be superior anywhere it's reasonably flat. And we're willing to massively subsidize EVs over ICEs, we're more like the perfect trial balloon/research project. Like if electric planes can't be made to work here, even with all the crutches we'll give them they won't work anywhere.
And it's highly unlikely this will lead to some sort of quick revolution, we've invested tons of money in electric cars since the 1990s that went bankrupt four times because the technology was not mature enough, they get tax breaks, free toll roads, free parking, free HOV lanes etc. and with all that we're up to 25% EVs, 30% hybrids and it's still ongoing. If we cut the subsidies sales would flop back to the noise floor. Like maybe Norway can make electric planes kinda work with generous subsidies but the rest of the world won't care. And as the oil dries up and demographics change towards 2050 I think we'll lose the taste for hideously expensive eco-boondoggles too. But so far we have the money for this...
to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: to hack around with HTML.
That definition makes hacks sound like a good thing, it definitively needs some balance that hacks are usually kludges and quick fixes. A hack and a hacker are on opposite sites of the skill scale, so are clever hacks and dirty hacks. Hacks themselves are more neutral, they're small modifications to bypass/replace other code like security systems, safety systems, malfunctioning code or add new functionality. If they're poor, great or malicious depends on the nature of the hack.
that would make more sense in the US than norway. how many military conflicts is norway involved in right now, or in the last 10 years.
Having a large number of bulk conscripts makes way more sense for Norway. Apart from a few token contributions to NATO missions the primary task of the Norwegian defense is to resist a Russian invasion. Crueler tongues would even say it's to escalate any conflict into a full scale war and invoke NATOs mutual defense clause because realistically we couldn't win a war against Russia alone. In any case if it should happen the Russians would have the element of surprise and take out key infrastructure and troops everywhere.
Well the alternative is to say VW is just going to pass it on to the customers, let's not punish them for the emissions scandal. If you believe in the free market you'll think that competition will keep prices down so the investors will have to eat the loss. I mean, if WU could raise prices because of this why couldn't they like raise prices anyway? If they have that sort of captive market...
Side A builds robots that can't fire without human control. Side B builds jammers. Side A decides robot soldiers need to be able to act in "self-defense". Side B puts civilians in harm's way. Side A decides they need "smart robots" who can tell friend from foe by themselves. Or that we need tighter coordination between light arms, heavy arms, air support, putting down covering fire for advancing troops etc. with so tight margins that it can't be done on manual. If you're being mauled to death by a perfectly coordinated fully automatic enemy you will fight fire with fire. Maybe you're creating the world where we'll lose control of our Terminators. But in the short term if you're not playing the game you're going to lose right now.
For example when is the IQ test conducted? Before they are conscripted into service of before that as an evaluation of their abilities?
During the intake ("sesjon"), up until 2009 all males had to go through that even if they'd be dismissed afterwards as not fit for service, conscientious objector or whatever. Then they'd choose to draft some of the people deemed fit for duty. That's probably why the study is to 2009, from 2010 they added a pre-screening because they did have a lot more candidates than they actual needed. And now the process is gender-neutral, everybody goes through the same pre-screening but in practice you don't get called into service unless you want to. Though it theory they can now draft all men and women of service age if shit happens, of course we'd never have time to equip and train them in an actual emergency.
That debate was actually quite funny, originally it was mostly men complaining that why should they waste a year living in bunk beds and digging trenches and the women don't while the women were generally against it. The turning point was certain people taunting like "awwwww, of course us big strong men will protect you delicate little flowers" and feminists going "oh heeeeeeeeell no we can defend ourselves thankyouverymuch where's that's uniform?" Once it became their own cause then it was pretty much a done deal. Kinda like sex and porn, if it's women being what men want it's all hiss boo, if it's women embracing their sexuality then yeah hurrah. Even if it's doing exactly the same...
Well ya, if they gave English IQ tests to young Norwegians entering military service, I suspect they wouldn't do as well as they could
My guess would be that the difference would be extremely low, Norway is consistently ranked in very top for English proficiency, you start with English in first grade and we don't dub English shows except for little kids. With Internet, YouTube etc. kids also get exposed to lots of material that's neither dubbed nor subtitled. The Harry Potter books sold ~1 million in Norwegian, ~200k in English so one in six preferred English and that's for kids. If you take any kind of higher education, expect English textbooks. Even though English doesn't have an official status, with a high number of immigrants and foreign workers pretty much everything exists in an English translation. Now if you go as far back as this study it would be different, but apart from cultural reasons we could easily make English our official language.
40Mbps fiber? Sounds like shitty fiber to me.
Probably because they have real traffic costs. Take a look at the map, South Africa is south of Sahara and almost all international traffic is a long trip by undersea cable. And since most people there understand English they consume a lot of media that originate from the US/Europe which is far, far away. If you have fiber the "last mile" is no longer a problem, you have a dedicated 1 Gbps+ capable link if somebody installs the right box in each end. In fact, I doubt there's anything less than 100 Mbps capable nodes.
It sounds like the key difference here is they're predicting parts of the scene they haven't seen, such as what the other side of an object they haven't seen looks like.
Yeah, the key feature here seems to be extrapolation from a very small number of observations. Say you're in a park and you're snapping a few photos and from that you're trying to reconstruct a 3D model of the park. You don't have nearly enough data to do that properly, but you can make an educated guess. At least that seems to be the focus to me, how well can it fill in the blanks and make some copy-paste assumptions.
Well the fame is obviously because of the chair and the voice, because you don't get famous for doing physics. If you go through the list of Nobel prize winners I think the only one any significant number would remember is Albert Einstein, and if he'd been more serious and well-groomed I doubt even he'd reach that fame on merit alone. Maybe Schrödinger for the cat but very little else. So what's the merits if you try to take away all the fame? I honestly don't know enough physics to tell and you can't really go by other physicist's awards and whatnot if you assuming they were all swooning over his disability.
He was pretty clearly a very bright young student bordering on genius before he was diagnosed with the condition though. And I doubt physicists are really handing out participation awards, I don't think any of them would hold back from arresting Hawking on any flaws in his theories. His main theory of Hawking radiation isn't proven yet which is why he doesn't have a Nobel prize, but it certainly could be true. I know he plays into a human idea that mind and body are in balance so an extraordinary mind and crippled go together like Xavier in X-Men but reality is they're quite orthogonal. His condition doesn't make his mind that special, but it doesn't preclude that possibility either.
However, if we the human race are going to finally band together and solve our problems as a species, we are going to need one language.
Doesn't mean it has to be one and only one language though. Most people are more than capable of being bi-lingual, their native language and the common language.
It's purpose is for communication.
Yes - but also from one generation to the next, passing down a heritage. It would be very strange to not speak or write the language of my parents and their generation.
And as we are seeing in our digital age. English is winning the Darwinian race. It's perfect for representation with computers - unlike languages like Chinese and it has the leg up of being the language of the Creators of the Digital Age.
English is a cluster fuck of a language and the single reason it's becoming the global language and not yet another regional language like Russian, Chinese or Arabic is the British Empire. It's the only language with reach in Europe (UK), North America (US & Canada), Africa (bunch of former colonies), Asia (India) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). And with the Germans losing two World Wars and the French being insufferable they cornered the market as the business language in Europe too. It helps that the Internet was started in the US, but if nobody else spoke English other countries would just make their own enclaves. There's many Russian, Chinese, Spanish etc. speakers that don't know the English-speaking part at all.
Despite almost every person in the world now having a common benefit for accessing a world-wide open information network - greed always find a way to add in barrier and costs wherever it can.
Meanwhile here in Norway:
Mean download: 94.0 Mbps (+58.0% YoY)
Median download: 45.8 Mbps (+45.4% YoY)
Broadband (>128 kbps): 85.3% of households
Over 40% fiber and climbing fast
And we are more sparsely populated with way smaller cities than the US. The generation growing up now won't know what bandwidth scarcity is, everybody can watch their own UHD Netflix stream...
Because Steam is partly a DRM solution. Being able to run unpatched versions would allow for crackers to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities which could be used for piracy.
Meh, I have the feeling they could solve this very easily by having a legacy client that can only authorize legacy games, like only games that support XP/Vista. I mean they're both out of extended support, there's probably nobody releasing games for them now. Drop all the optional features, you could even drop the store functionality, all you can do is log into your library, download and run old games you already have. Even if you could find a crack for 5+ year old games sales are probably microscopic.
Remember that this means that in 2022 or so Steam is likely to stop working on Windows 7. Even if you've just firewalled off everything but Steam and said fuck it, I'll just go Linux/Mac and use this to play all my old games it won't work, it's Win10 or lose all your games. And once there are no other supported versions of Windows I expect the really nasty stuff to begin. Being able to have a legacy PC to play legacy games without Steam killing it off is hardly too much to ask.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
And for good reason too, if you could sell goods "as-is" with no warranty they'd make it part of the standard boilerplate, which is what consumer laws are supposed to protect against. Not to mention all the shady companies that would send out faulty batches and pretend you got the lemon, too bad that's the risk you signed up for. And consumers who'd blame any problem they have on being a faulty return claiming you scammed them, even when it's unrelated. And there will be mental cases you've pissed off because they lost their job or whatever that'll make bad returns with malice.
Basically you either have to take it in and process it before you can sell it again or you have to sell it as scrap or parts. But the former costs too much money and selling a piece of clothing as a rag isn't worth anything so it's not worth doing. Personally I think free returns is inflating the price for everyone else, if something is defective or not as advertised sure. If you pay the restocking fee if you get buyer's regret, fine. But reality is that some of us are subsidizing people who can't be arsed to figure out what they actually want before they buy it.
For me, I think the items I've wanted to return because they're defective or not matching the description greatly outnumber the products I've wanted to return for other reasons. And in most cases I've simply been asked to visibly destroy it, snap a photo and they'll either send a new one or refund me the money. It's not worth their time or my time to waste more resources on a broken product. It will eventually become trash anyway, it's just a small percentage that skipped being useful in between.
Obj-C generally "did the right thing" with nil in most contexts. Sure, nil-pointer errors are a pain, but declaring them away and just forcing everyone to type ! everywhere does not eliminate them. It does, however, eliminate the simplicity of binding a nil to a text field and just getting a zero, precisely what has to happen in code now.
So... you read an object that has no description because field is nil, show it in a dialog and afterwards the description is "0"? Why not the empty string ""? And when doing debug messaging I usually replace it with "(null)". And you sure don't want to convert nil to zero when it comes to numbers because for a field like "number_of_kids" nil would typically be used for unknown / didn't want to answer / not relevant / not applicable. That said, I wish they'd turn it around so you'd get a nil assignment error rather than a calling error. I also hate nil and the default nil != nil for change comparison and such whereas "" = "" and "0" = "0". Sometimes it would be really, really useful to use nil as an extra value with normal value semantics.
Most of the twitchy games are online multiplayer, I can access local newspapers online with a 11-12 ms round trip. I assume that means when I play Overwatch it already takes 6ms for my keystrokes to reach the server and 6ms to send a response back like that's already a sunk cost. I find there's ultra low latency encoders that use 3ms on a frame. Worst case if the line can barely keep up is 16.67ms lag at 60 FPS, but if for example you send 5 Mbps 1080p over a 30 Mbit line or 25 Mbps UHD over a 100Mbit line it'll be more like 4-5ms. Lots and lots of games are still playable with 10 ms extra lag total. I think the biggest problem is chicken and egg, when hardly any game supports it most gamers will buy a gaming card. And if you have a gaming card you don't need this service.
Well it's easy to make caricatures of both methodologies. While the W manager may get the budget I've certainly met projects that follow the 90-90 rule:
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
The project progress report tend to follow the first 90% and then the shit show starts with everything that's not working the way somebody thought it would and a whole lot of wrangling about how the spec is to be understood and how supposedly done code doesn't actually work the way they wanted it. That's why it's gotten a lot more iterative and agile-like in that the customer wants proof you're actually progressing and that they're getting what they want. The caricature of manager A only cares about the highest priority for the next sprint, but you want high level estimates for the backlog items. You need good enough estimates for a go-no go decision at every level, whether it's products, features, enhancements or tiny tweaks. But if you think the feature will get done quicker by having someone report a "percent complete" all the time, well... it doesn't work that way.