I was expecting this kind of comment. You fell into my trap! Muahahaha!:)
Now, seriously, Karl Popper is a late guest in the show. There are two lines of thought, verificationism and falsationism (Popper and its following). The first one states that you must verify your hypothesis with experiments. Those experiments, though, are nothing more than steps in an endless stair of confirmation. Popper said that scientists should aim for the opposite, that is, you can't verify but you can falsify, and Science's objective (with capital "s") should be to keep trying to falsify hypothesis.
It doesn't matter in the end with which epistemological view you adhere, as they are two sides of the same coin. If you are a verificationist, you keep doing experiments that will verify your hypothesis until you find one that doesn't. If you are a falsationist, you keep doing experiments that will falsify your hypotesis while you wait for the one that succeed in doing that. Either way, you keep on testing: that is the essence of the scientific knowledge.
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it BY OBSERVING REALITY!
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it by observing reality...
Why have a nav system where you have to buy updates on DVD for $300 every year, instead of just downloading them for free whenever you're connected to a WiFi hotspot?
I can assure you my city (>1 million people) doesn't change THAT often.
Not everyone can be as good as you evading the law...
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I'll never convince those who are skeptical just with a comment on/. . The best way to understand this, as Buddhists say, is through personal experience.
Fine, so it's just a game with an agenda. You can argue that it's more expensive than what it should be, but just for the sake of the argument, it would be harder to play IRL here: health insurance costs twice as much, rent is a little less than twice, Internet is just a little more expensive, and food is cheaper. You can also argue that there were little options available, after all you couldn't have illegal jobs like stealing or selling crack. All of that is irrelevant, because the point of the game was to recreate the poverty cycle, how you cut corners all the time but it hits you later. You can't pay for a new window, so you put a plastic wrap, but now you pay more gas to heat your home and may get sick. You keep going to work even if you are sick, but then it takes two weeks to recover from Influenza. Then, a wild depression appears! Now your self-esteem is on the floor. Little expenses appear and you have to say no, and living tastes more like surviving. The month luckily ends, and the whole thing starts anew.
Finally, who cares why or how you end up in that situation? If you need an excuse, your wife divorced you and kept the house and the best car, but thankfully your lawyer made it so you don't have to pay alimony. There you go. Now, can we pay attention to what matters?
While our HPC cluster core count has increased by a factor of 4 (allowing researchers to do more work), the amount of energy and floor space required did not increase that much at all.
How much did it increase, then? Just curious about the efficiency...
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I don't spend more money than I take in. I see commercials for people like that who have credit card debt because they couldn't do some simple balancing and see that they were spending more than they made.
Wow, I didn't expect an oversimplification from you, but I guess we are all humans...
First, play Spent to understand the dynamics of being poor, and why would someone pay more than what he/she earns (it's quite faithful, talking from experience here).
As for the rest of your argument, the solution is more taxes and less spending. The debt is 95% of the GDP. The consensus in/. seems to be to tax the rich and stop going to wars. Seems reasonable enough, that thing alone will give you a few trillions and bring you closer to those 14 you owe...
You really mean that? You are wrong, but I'm too tired to reply (Android's keyboard doesn't help either). Enjoy yout TSA mandatory groping! And don't forget to smile to the camera when you go outside!
Laws in the US resemble an authoritarian police state. The usual thing to do is to go away. Europe is the first and obvious choice (just don't go to London, the place is as full of cameras as 1984 described). Alternatively, go to South America, either Brazil, Chile or Argentina: people are more open and easygoing, if not chaotic:). The culture shock may be greater with Asia. Run while the state still issue passports!
Other people did a breakdown before me of the costs. Lucky thing: it's expensive to start but cheap to keep it, just remind people every 6 months that they should use the software. Oh, and check very often that you can restore your backups: there's nothing funny in working your whole weekend because an encrypted backup has locked itself in.
The fact that he also broke all traces of the image now kinda makes it suspicious to me. (Not to mention that its probably copyright infringement too, but that's unrelated).
Regardless that it's the cover of an album of Scorpions, If he got the pic to make that point about legality, he reasonably wanted to isolate his procuring activities as much as possible to be accountable and/or on the safe/legal side (only one copy, never return to the original place). Of course, Google was not happy to find out that such collection was in its servers and it kicked him out. In the end he won't be prosecuted and got the exposure he was looking for, in exchange for his Google Account (and everything that means).
Not defending him or criticizing, just trying to think as he thought...
My brother is a brony, and he made me watch the show. The first episode I saw is the one in which Pinky Pie goes schizophrenic... yeah, you read it right. I didn't expect this kind of content, so it was quite a shock. The next one was Rarity making dresses, essentially a joke on professions like ours: everyone asked for changes, time was ticking, unhelpful customers, freaking out and messing up... This, once again, surprised me: shows for the little people are devoid of content or flavor, like a rice cracker; MLP had instead some major stuff going on. Not all episodes are like this, mind you, and I haven't seen them all (nor planning to). Just don't discard it just like that! It's not like Rocko's Modern Life, where sexual references are small and sparse, in MLP the interesting themes (shall we call them adult?) work along the plot.
I would argue though that the best thing MLP brought to the world is the OC that flooded 4chan for a while. Also, this.
Likely, they just had very different reasons, possibly financial in nature.
I thought I was the only one sane. Thank you!:)
Nowhere in the article mentions copyright as an issue. Why jump into conclusions? Maybe the data isn't sanitized, maybe there's bureaucracy, and maybe they are waiting for a huge batch of data (assuming old equipment).
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Two responses+corrections, and both are completely opposite to one another. This surely is /. :) .
Check my other post for an epistemological explanation.
I was expecting this kind of comment. You fell into my trap! Muahahaha! :)
Now, seriously, Karl Popper is a late guest in the show. There are two lines of thought, verificationism and falsationism (Popper and its following). The first one states that you must verify your hypothesis with experiments. Those experiments, though, are nothing more than steps in an endless stair of confirmation. Popper said that scientists should aim for the opposite, that is, you can't verify but you can falsify, and Science's objective (with capital "s") should be to keep trying to falsify hypothesis.
It doesn't matter in the end with which epistemological view you adhere, as they are two sides of the same coin. If you are a verificationist, you keep doing experiments that will verify your hypothesis until you find one that doesn't. If you are a falsationist, you keep doing experiments that will falsify your hypotesis while you wait for the one that succeed in doing that. Either way, you keep on testing: that is the essence of the scientific knowledge.
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it BY OBSERVING REALITY!
FTFY
Sorry, I have a sore throat. ;)
Heh, you got me. :P
I was going to scream "This is the way to do prevention! You pay now and recover your investment later!" but then I read your second sentence.
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it by observing reality...
Why have a nav system where you have to buy updates on DVD for $300 every year, instead of just downloading them for free whenever you're connected to a WiFi hotspot?
I can assure you my city (>1 million people) doesn't change THAT often.
Not everyone can be as good as you evading the law...
I'll never convince those who are skeptical just with a comment on /. . The best way to understand this, as Buddhists say, is through personal experience.
Fine, so it's just a game with an agenda. You can argue that it's more expensive than what it should be, but just for the sake of the argument, it would be harder to play IRL here: health insurance costs twice as much, rent is a little less than twice, Internet is just a little more expensive, and food is cheaper. You can also argue that there were little options available, after all you couldn't have illegal jobs like stealing or selling crack. All of that is irrelevant, because the point of the game was to recreate the poverty cycle, how you cut corners all the time but it hits you later. You can't pay for a new window, so you put a plastic wrap, but now you pay more gas to heat your home and may get sick. You keep going to work even if you are sick, but then it takes two weeks to recover from Influenza. Then, a wild depression appears! Now your self-esteem is on the floor. Little expenses appear and you have to say no, and living tastes more like surviving. The month luckily ends, and the whole thing starts anew.
Finally, who cares why or how you end up in that situation? If you need an excuse, your wife divorced you and kept the house and the best car, but thankfully your lawyer made it so you don't have to pay alimony. There you go. Now, can we pay attention to what matters?
While our HPC cluster core count has increased by a factor of 4 (allowing researchers to do more work), the amount of energy and floor space required did not increase that much at all.
How much did it increase, then? Just curious about the efficiency...
I don't spend more money than I take in. I see commercials for people like that who have credit card debt because they couldn't do some simple balancing and see that they were spending more than they made.
Wow, I didn't expect an oversimplification from you, but I guess we are all humans...
First, play Spent to understand the dynamics of being poor, and why would someone pay more than what he/she earns (it's quite faithful, talking from experience here).
As for the rest of your argument, the solution is more taxes and less spending. The debt is 95% of the GDP. The consensus in /. seems to be to tax the rich and stop going to wars. Seems reasonable enough, that thing alone will give you a few trillions and bring you closer to those 14 you owe...
You really mean that? You are wrong, but I'm too tired to reply (Android's keyboard doesn't help either). Enjoy yout TSA mandatory groping! And don't forget to smile to the camera when you go outside!
Good point. I read Montreal is a nice cosmopolitan city, with a lot of ethnicities.
Laws in the US resemble an authoritarian police state. The usual thing to do is to go away. Europe is the first and obvious choice (just don't go to London, the place is as full of cameras as 1984 described). Alternatively, go to South America, either Brazil, Chile or Argentina: people are more open and easygoing, if not chaotic :). The culture shock may be greater with Asia. Run while the state still issue passports!
This machine transforms heat into work. It could be used to reverse entrophy! Take that, thermodynamics!
Problem, thermodynamics?
An earlier article said that women use more smilies and words like OMG and hair. But now that the observed know it, I don't trust those signs. ;)
Other people did a breakdown before me of the costs. Lucky thing: it's expensive to start but cheap to keep it, just remind people every 6 months that they should use the software. Oh, and check very often that you can restore your backups: there's nothing funny in working your whole weekend because an encrypted backup has locked itself in.
+1. The only problem is that I usually recognize people because of their sigs, not their user names...
The fact that he also broke all traces of the image now kinda makes it suspicious to me. (Not to mention that its probably copyright infringement too, but that's unrelated).
Regardless that it's the cover of an album of Scorpions, If he got the pic to make that point about legality, he reasonably wanted to isolate his procuring activities as much as possible to be accountable and/or on the safe/legal side (only one copy, never return to the original place). Of course, Google was not happy to find out that such collection was in its servers and it kicked him out. In the end he won't be prosecuted and got the exposure he was looking for, in exchange for his Google Account (and everything that means).
Not defending him or criticizing, just trying to think as he thought...
I lol'd. :)
Thank you for an informative reply! :) This was the last piece of the puzzle!
What about non-ionizing UV light, then, which indeed causes DNA damage?
Which is like trying to stop drug abuse by spreading other drugs that don't harm anymore but still are addictive. Not. A. Solution.
Actually, it is exactly how to treat opioid addictions: transition to a more manageable drug, namely methadone.
My brother is a brony, and he made me watch the show. The first episode I saw is the one in which Pinky Pie goes schizophrenic... yeah, you read it right. I didn't expect this kind of content, so it was quite a shock. The next one was Rarity making dresses, essentially a joke on professions like ours: everyone asked for changes, time was ticking, unhelpful customers, freaking out and messing up... This, once again, surprised me: shows for the little people are devoid of content or flavor, like a rice cracker; MLP had instead some major stuff going on. Not all episodes are like this, mind you, and I haven't seen them all (nor planning to). Just don't discard it just like that! It's not like Rocko's Modern Life, where sexual references are small and sparse, in MLP the interesting themes (shall we call them adult?) work along the plot.
I would argue though that the best thing MLP brought to the world is the OC that flooded 4chan for a while. Also, this.
Likely, they just had very different reasons, possibly financial in nature.
I thought I was the only one sane. Thank you! :)
Nowhere in the article mentions copyright as an issue. Why jump into conclusions? Maybe the data isn't sanitized, maybe there's bureaucracy, and maybe they are waiting for a huge batch of data (assuming old equipment).