Saboteur was shorting TSLA, now shorting a Supercharger. Saboteur at fault for fire, now on fire due to electrical fault. Saboteur meant to retire to Sun City, went way of SolarCity. Saboteur trying to halt Model 3 production gets overrun by Model 3.
The game came on several disks and I didn't want to swap between them constantly. Also, installing the english patch more or less required a hard drive install, which AFAICT requires running the game from workbench. I agree that's not a typical step, though.
I knew nothing about the Amiga, and a few months ago set up an Amiga emulator to play an obscure game exclusive to that platform. Learning the basics about all the different systems and specs and addons and which were most appropriate for a latter-day game was a drag. The system has more classifications of RAM than DOS did. It was harder than it should've been to figure out why nothing happened when I turned on the emulator, even after configuring BIOS. I had to pay attention to which OS versions worked with which BIOS versions (and some require certain hardware) and try to find two that were compatible. That the OS is usually called 'workbench' and so too is the main utility disk, is confusing. Eventually I got the OS installed to a virtual hard drive, and then the game itself. Trying to patch the game from Windows was an additional hassle. Too bad the game was buggy and meh. Oh and no savestates so it's a drag every time the game crashes.
I'm spoiled by DOSBox. Wish they just emulated the AmigaOS API so you didn't have to faff with it.
That's why you use spherical people, in a vacuum. If they are spherical before or only after the vacuum exposure, is left as an exercise to the reader.
It's an interesting thought experiment, like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, even if it's bullshit. One can consider "what would I do if I were a guard and my superiors looked the other way?" there are probably better experiments that show what people are in the dark, though.
That jailers can be cruel is no revelation. What was ostensibly being tested was to find whether or not jailers are self-selecting, i.e. if sadists intentionally apply for jobs as prison guards, because they want a position of power that lets them mistreat others; or, if becoming a jailer inherently causes one to become abusive.
This case is different from the Milgram experiment in that in this case, actors were being told to act, then their acting was put forth as headline evidence. The jailers knew they weren't physically hurting the inmates, which differs from the Milgram experiment, and they most likely discounted psychological harm to the inmates, since mundane mental harm wasn't taken very seriously by laymen back in 1971.
How clever is 'clever'? How skillful is 'skillful'? Some words are just inherently nebulous. How obscure does something have to be to be a 'hack'? What might be painfully obvious to one person could be a life-changing epiphany to a patent examiner, apparently.
I mean Microsoft or whoever could have software that crawls the web, parses posts to find ones that seemingly meet the legal definition of defamation (where Microsoft is the target), and then files a suit for each one. And then the people on the receiving end of these suits get bankrupted by the legal fees of their human lawyers and/or the judgement/settlement.
Resisting Arrest should be a fine, and Breaching the Peace is a catch-all law that should be used for e.g. putting a drunk in a cell overnight. Neither should have prison sentences attached.
According to TFA, the $260k was awarded due to California's anti-SLAPP law. However, this is half of what Perens asked for to cover legal fees. I'm really wondering why he chose to spend over $500k on lawyers, for a defamation and business interference case. Surely the default judgement wouldn't even be that much money? Posting a comment to slashdot leads to half a million dollars in legal fees for the poster? Doesn't anyone else see this as insane? Imagine how many slashdotters would be bankrupted daily by various posts about Theranos, Microsoft, Systemd, Yahoo, Google, or various government officials, if robo-lawyers automatically filed charges for every arguably-defamatory post about them, leading to $500k legal fees each.
As promised, now that the AT&T/Time Warner deal was judge-approved, expect the Sprint/T-mobile deal to move forward. And for Fox to be bought by Disney or Comcast. By the time we have flying cars, there'll just be 3 conglomerates that one can work for, Shadowrun-style.
The next generation won't know what 'television' means. Sure, you will still be able to buy a Television, but broadcast/cable/satellite will refer to Internet connectivity methods. They'll think it's quaint that people set their schedule around certain shows only being watchable at certain times.
It's plausible that two models of Xbox will be released out the gate: a standard model with a spinning hard drive and baseline performance (enough for 4k 30fps play), and another model with a SSD and substantially more powerful graphics (for 4k ~60fps). Coming late 2020, that could be ~11TFLOPS (40% improvement from architecture, and a compounded 35% from 7nm die shrink) for $399, and ~18TFLOPS for $549 respectively. Expect a price drop as NAND prices come down and the 5nm shrink happens a year or so later, eventually ditching the standard model. Compatible with (maybe only 2nd-gen) Windows Mixed Reality headsets, as well.
Rumor is also that the PS5 devkits are going out to 3rd party developers already. That could signal a late 2019 launch, although rumors suggest 2020 is more likely. In any case, new console generations will be defined by how much RAM they have, rather than how much graphical power they have. Scaling back graphics (particularly resolution, now) is relatively straightforward but changing coding to require less RAM isn't so easy.
The problem with lying and cheating is that eventually your malfeasance will come to light. Facebook is like a domestic abuser that people just can't leave because they love it so much.
So it's not how rich YOU are, it's how rich your NEIGHBORHOOD is? I think that's Exhibit A for why the 1% hoarding the world's wealth won't turn out well for anybody, even themselves. Sure they can lock themselves up in a gated community and try to surround themselves with other affluent people, but they'd have to pretty much avoid all contact with the outside world (TV, internet, newspapers, books, cinema, music, even video games.)
There's a reason superhero movies are so popular right now, and it's not (just) because Marvel just now figured out how to get their shit together.
GMO crops, and improved fertilizer and water application, have led to a huge increase in crop production on the same area of land. That's a big reason farmland is worth more. Organic crops are less productive, but worth a premium, which creates more competition for intensive farming land.
It's for liability reasons. Curating means if anything 'gets through', they have a target on their back. Letting everything through means they're not liable for what's there. Kickstarter did the same thing years ago, for the same reason.
His implication is that a unit of time/money/political capital spent on reducing gun violence would be more effectively spent on some more probable cause of death. It is plausible that politicians could debate about gun violence all day and achieve nothing that has a statistically significant effect on the gun violence stats, yet spend the same day passing a dozen laws that slash far more common causes of death. Of course, there are diminishing returns for those 'other causes' whereas a perceived lack of firearm regulation can be considered more egregious or to require simpler regulations to solve.
When Rogue One came out, I was skeptical that a spinoff movie could be any good, so I didn't see it at first. I was impressed by it, so figured Solo might be a safer bet than I'd ordinarily expect. Now with the fan reaction, I'm not so sure. Perhaps the reason Rogue One succeeded where Solo did not is that the former stars all-new characters (with some classic characters in ancillary roles) whereas Solo puts classic characters front and center, played by new actors. I.e. don't fuck with viewers' nostalgia. The Boba Fett movie will probably crash and burn, similarly.
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Saboteur was shorting TSLA, now shorting a Supercharger.
Saboteur at fault for fire, now on fire due to electrical fault.
Saboteur meant to retire to Sun City, went way of SolarCity.
Saboteur trying to halt Model 3 production gets overrun by Model 3.
Just sayin', lots of people hate him about now.
The game came on several disks and I didn't want to swap between them constantly. Also, installing the english patch more or less required a hard drive install, which AFAICT requires running the game from workbench. I agree that's not a typical step, though.
I knew nothing about the Amiga, and a few months ago set up an Amiga emulator to play an obscure game exclusive to that platform. Learning the basics about all the different systems and specs and addons and which were most appropriate for a latter-day game was a drag. The system has more classifications of RAM than DOS did. It was harder than it should've been to figure out why nothing happened when I turned on the emulator, even after configuring BIOS. I had to pay attention to which OS versions worked with which BIOS versions (and some require certain hardware) and try to find two that were compatible. That the OS is usually called 'workbench' and so too is the main utility disk, is confusing. Eventually I got the OS installed to a virtual hard drive, and then the game itself. Trying to patch the game from Windows was an additional hassle. Too bad the game was buggy and meh. Oh and no savestates so it's a drag every time the game crashes.
I'm spoiled by DOSBox. Wish they just emulated the AmigaOS API so you didn't have to faff with it.
That's why you use spherical people, in a vacuum. If they are spherical before or only after the vacuum exposure, is left as an exercise to the reader.
It's an interesting thought experiment, like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, even if it's bullshit. One can consider "what would I do if I were a guard and my superiors looked the other way?"
there are probably better experiments that show what people are in the dark, though.
That jailers can be cruel is no revelation. What was ostensibly being tested was to find whether or not jailers are self-selecting, i.e. if sadists intentionally apply for jobs as prison guards, because they want a position of power that lets them mistreat others; or, if becoming a jailer inherently causes one to become abusive.
This case is different from the Milgram experiment in that in this case, actors were being told to act, then their acting was put forth as headline evidence. The jailers knew they weren't physically hurting the inmates, which differs from the Milgram experiment, and they most likely discounted psychological harm to the inmates, since mundane mental harm wasn't taken very seriously by laymen back in 1971.
How clever is 'clever'? How skillful is 'skillful'? Some words are just inherently nebulous. How obscure does something have to be to be a 'hack'?
What might be painfully obvious to one person could be a life-changing epiphany to a patent examiner, apparently.
I mean Microsoft or whoever could have software that crawls the web, parses posts to find ones that seemingly meet the legal definition of defamation (where Microsoft is the target), and then files a suit for each one.
And then the people on the receiving end of these suits get bankrupted by the legal fees of their human lawyers and/or the judgement/settlement.
Bad things don't happen to good people, bad thing happened, QED guilty.
Resisting Arrest should be a fine, and Breaching the Peace is a catch-all law that should be used for e.g. putting a drunk in a cell overnight. Neither should have prison sentences attached.
According to TFA, the $260k was awarded due to California's anti-SLAPP law. However, this is half of what Perens asked for to cover legal fees. I'm really wondering why he chose to spend over $500k on lawyers, for a defamation and business interference case. Surely the default judgement wouldn't even be that much money? Posting a comment to slashdot leads to half a million dollars in legal fees for the poster? Doesn't anyone else see this as insane? Imagine how many slashdotters would be bankrupted daily by various posts about Theranos, Microsoft, Systemd, Yahoo, Google, or various government officials, if robo-lawyers automatically filed charges for every arguably-defamatory post about them, leading to $500k legal fees each.
As promised, now that the AT&T/Time Warner deal was judge-approved, expect the Sprint/T-mobile deal to move forward. And for Fox to be bought by Disney or Comcast.
By the time we have flying cars, there'll just be 3 conglomerates that one can work for, Shadowrun-style.
The next generation won't know what 'television' means. Sure, you will still be able to buy a Television, but broadcast/cable/satellite will refer to Internet connectivity methods. They'll think it's quaint that people set their schedule around certain shows only being watchable at certain times.
It's plausible that two models of Xbox will be released out the gate: a standard model with a spinning hard drive and baseline performance (enough for 4k 30fps play), and another model with a SSD and substantially more powerful graphics (for 4k ~60fps). Coming late 2020, that could be ~11TFLOPS (40% improvement from architecture, and a compounded 35% from 7nm die shrink) for $399, and ~18TFLOPS for $549 respectively. Expect a price drop as NAND prices come down and the 5nm shrink happens a year or so later, eventually ditching the standard model. Compatible with (maybe only 2nd-gen) Windows Mixed Reality headsets, as well.
Rumor is also that the PS5 devkits are going out to 3rd party developers already. That could signal a late 2019 launch, although rumors suggest 2020 is more likely. In any case, new console generations will be defined by how much RAM they have, rather than how much graphical power they have. Scaling back graphics (particularly resolution, now) is relatively straightforward but changing coding to require less RAM isn't so easy.
The bad parts of the gene? Are those like the evil bit?
The problem with lying and cheating is that eventually your malfeasance will come to light.
Facebook is like a domestic abuser that people just can't leave because they love it so much.
So it's not how rich YOU are, it's how rich your NEIGHBORHOOD is?
I think that's Exhibit A for why the 1% hoarding the world's wealth won't turn out well for anybody, even themselves. Sure they can lock themselves up in a gated community and try to surround themselves with other affluent people, but they'd have to pretty much avoid all contact with the outside world (TV, internet, newspapers, books, cinema, music, even video games.)
There's a reason superhero movies are so popular right now, and it's not (just) because Marvel just now figured out how to get their shit together.
GMO crops, and improved fertilizer and water application, have led to a huge increase in crop production on the same area of land. That's a big reason farmland is worth more. Organic crops are less productive, but worth a premium, which creates more competition for intensive farming land.
Don't tell them you have a degree and they wont' ask to see your transcript. Problem solved.
the right wants them to ban anything with breasts and/or penes
And vagina.
Am I doing this right?
It's for liability reasons. Curating means if anything 'gets through', they have a target on their back. Letting everything through means they're not liable for what's there. Kickstarter did the same thing years ago, for the same reason.
His implication is that a unit of time/money/political capital spent on reducing gun violence would be more effectively spent on some more probable cause of death. It is plausible that politicians could debate about gun violence all day and achieve nothing that has a statistically significant effect on the gun violence stats, yet spend the same day passing a dozen laws that slash far more common causes of death. Of course, there are diminishing returns for those 'other causes' whereas a perceived lack of firearm regulation can be considered more egregious or to require simpler regulations to solve.
Most of the geriatrics in Congress don't qualify as 'adults', so let's just set it to square root of -1.
It's got what carbon-based microbes crave. It's got organic compounds!
When Rogue One came out, I was skeptical that a spinoff movie could be any good, so I didn't see it at first. I was impressed by it, so figured Solo might be a safer bet than I'd ordinarily expect. Now with the fan reaction, I'm not so sure. Perhaps the reason Rogue One succeeded where Solo did not is that the former stars all-new characters (with some classic characters in ancillary roles) whereas Solo puts classic characters front and center, played by new actors. I.e. don't fuck with viewers' nostalgia. The Boba Fett movie will probably crash and burn, similarly.