70% of the population (from 80% to 10%) die between ages 75 and 95
Yeah, but what that doesn't tell you is what their quality if life was like. I'd rather live to 65 and be healthy and active than live to 95 but spend 30 years in pain or with dementia.
Actually even if I do only live to 65 it will be more than 30 years in pain, since I already started. That's a depressing thought.
we now have no less than the President's eldest son releasing emails showing he (quite gleefully) went to a meeting with some Russians
This is a classic set up for creating some damaging stories about someone that you can later leak. The managed to put a weak and ineffective government in office, and seem to have plenty of material to keep drip feeding out to make sure that it stays unstable indefinitely.
I knew a guy who would change his signature every few years. If someone came up with some old agreement that he wanted out of, he would just say the signature wasn't his and produce a current example to "prove" it.
I always thought that signatures were a bad form of authentication. Relatively easy to copy, difficult to reliably verify, problematic for people with arthritis and other disabilities, and vulnerable to this kind of fraud.
If you insist on eating a lot of food the body will grow in weight and if you eat less you won't.
This fundamental misconception is why so many people are struggling to lose weight.
Energy retained = energy in - energy out
You can regulate energy in by eating less, although you body will fight you. But what is much harder to regulate is energy out.
Exercise can burn a few hundred calories if you really go at it every day. Unfortunately your body can save way more than that just by adjusting your rest state to burn less energy. Studies have found that when the body decides to go into "starvation mode" a person can get to the point where they would need to eat so few calories just to maintain weight that they couldn't get enough nutrition and would be extremely lethargic an unable to function in daily life.
So when you start dieting, you body fights back. Figuring out how to control this response is the key to helping people lose weight. Surgery that reduces the size of the stomach has been shown to work, but it would be better if we could find some chemical way to do it, i.e. a pill or injection.
I was expecting "70% of our code is stolen from Stack Exchange."
The questioner clearly hangs out there far too much, judging by the awkward phrasing of the question that is designed to meet the arbitrary requirements of SE.
It's bollocks anyway. I'm typing this on Windows 8, and it's fine. No a "complete disaster" at all. It works, it's no worse than other desktop environments like Gnome.
Look, every OS has some stuff that pisses you off, and some bits that are half arsed. On MacOS you still throw drives in the bin to eject them. Doesn't make MacOS a "complete disaster".
The only real major flaw in Windows 10 is the forced updates that always seem to pick the most inopportune moment. Well, the telemetry too maybe, but most people don't seem to care.
Designing complex circuits does require maths, but not on the level this thing starts out with.
Of much more practical use would be to learn about all the basic component types. Maths wise all you really need is V=IR and you can design a huge number of useful circuits, from power supplies to complex digital systems. Throw in a little theory about op-amp operation, which is really basic maths, and you can do a whole lot of analogue stuff too.
This is a beginners course. Lot of people learn by doing, in fact it's much more common than people who learn by reading alone. That's why most books start with practical examples and measuring stuff.
Anyone who doesn't post a glowingly positive comment about Rust will quickly become the victim of downvote attacks.
So no worse than Slashdot or Reddit or HN then, despite having the dreaded Code of Conduct.
I've found the Rust community helpful and welcoming. The only systemic down-voting I've seen is when there is obvious trolling or people complaining about the very existence of the CoC. I'm sure you will supply us with some links to evidence of the kind of abuse you speak of.
It's not a binary no-test/full verification though, there are many degrees between those two points. Changing from C to Rust gets you a lot of verification for free. Also using libraries that have been well tested and widely adopted helps, although you do have to keep them up to date.
A lot of this can be covered under the mantra that you probably shouldn't try to do security yourself. Don't code your own encryption/hashing system, use a well respected and well tested one. The same advice works well for things like input parsers in many cases.
2 Doctors ago you called "there will be another two white, male doctors, and then a woman"?
Or did you just make a vague prediction that one day there would be a female doctor, knowing that eventually the unbroken run of male doctors might come to and end eventually and if it didn't well no-one is doing to remember some random comment posted by argStyopa on Slashdot.
Anyway, I bookmarked your comment. In ~8 years time we can see if you are right.
I forgot to mention, the Star Trek pilot episode the second in command was a woman. Apparently that was too much for the studio though, so they replaced her for the main series. Again, it was a very overt and in-your-face move to put a woman in that role at the time.
The Master was a rather two dimensional character, which is why they tried to add some depth and give him a chance to develop with the possibility of redemption.
Things had to change after the Time War. In the movie the Doctor is taking the Master to be executed, apparently fine with the concept of capital punishment which seems rather out of character now. After the Time War there are very few Gallifraians left, in fact for a time the Doctor thinks he is the only one. So naturally when he meets the Master he wants to save him, but it ends with the Master dying.
The Missy/Doctor "romance" is entirely one sided, and really just Missy trying to make the Doctor feel uncomfortable.
There may be some episodes say where the Doctor is in the past and the men in charge will not listen to her, just because the Doctor is a woman.
The male Doctors had that problem so often they had invent the magic ID badge that instantly convinces people he is someone important with authority over them. Of course, if the stakes need raising a bit they just forget that he has it and that week's redshirts dispose of themselves before the survivors decide to listen to him.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, I guess the issue is not so much the sex tape as the fact that Thiel was able to use it to destroy Gawker in revenge for outing him. Outing him was a nasty thing to do as well, but apparently not actionable as if it was he would have sued them. Instead, he started funding other people's lawsuits against Gawker.
It's a shitty situation all round. Most people don't have the ability to fund multiple lawsuits against people they don't like, and even if the lawsuits are without merit they all cost money to defend. Imagine if the rich guy you pissed off started secretly funding lawsuits against you, all without any merit but still requiring you to defend.
On the other hand, Hogan did have a genuine case and deserved to win, and private funding of lawsuits is probably good thing in many cases. But it's still unfair - most people don't have billionaires helping them, so they have less access to justice than those who do.
Not much to do with free speech though, as you say.
The relative merits of Gawker aside, the issue here is fair access to justice.
The rich have better access to justice. They can afford expensive legal action and the risk it carries, and they can afford lawyers with more time and resources to dedicate to them.
Anyone should be able to do what Hogan did, without the backing of a billionaire.
Everyone except for the US signed up to the Paris agreement on climate change. Science denial is pretty much only a major problem in the US, in other developed nations it's just some fringe idiots.
Even in Australia, this one moron is now being mocked for his ridiculous comments. Don't mistake being PM for some kind of endorsement of his sanity or IQ, such things are rarely factors in any election.
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I work for a tech company that's out in the sticks. It's fine, all we really need in terms of infrastructure is roads and broadband.
I'd live around here too, but in the UK rural housing is often very expensive because selfish assholes like to have a country home and a city home.
70% of the population (from 80% to 10%) die between ages 75 and 95
Yeah, but what that doesn't tell you is what their quality if life was like. I'd rather live to 65 and be healthy and active than live to 95 but spend 30 years in pain or with dementia.
Actually even if I do only live to 65 it will be more than 30 years in pain, since I already started. That's a depressing thought.
Maybe it was 7 millidollars, i.e. $0.007. Or at least it will be by next week.
How did the Information Commissioner's Office even have $7m lying around to be stolen?!
we now have no less than the President's eldest son releasing emails showing he (quite gleefully) went to a meeting with some Russians
This is a classic set up for creating some damaging stories about someone that you can later leak. The managed to put a weak and ineffective government in office, and seem to have plenty of material to keep drip feeding out to make sure that it stays unstable indefinitely.
I've got a gallon and a half you can have for free buddy... Just give me a week or two to prepare it.
I knew a guy who would change his signature every few years. If someone came up with some old agreement that he wanted out of, he would just say the signature wasn't his and produce a current example to "prove" it.
I always thought that signatures were a bad form of authentication. Relatively easy to copy, difficult to reliably verify, problematic for people with arthritis and other disabilities, and vulnerable to this kind of fraud.
If you insist on eating a lot of food the body will grow in weight and if you eat less you won't.
This fundamental misconception is why so many people are struggling to lose weight.
Energy retained = energy in - energy out
You can regulate energy in by eating less, although you body will fight you. But what is much harder to regulate is energy out.
Exercise can burn a few hundred calories if you really go at it every day. Unfortunately your body can save way more than that just by adjusting your rest state to burn less energy. Studies have found that when the body decides to go into "starvation mode" a person can get to the point where they would need to eat so few calories just to maintain weight that they couldn't get enough nutrition and would be extremely lethargic an unable to function in daily life.
So when you start dieting, you body fights back. Figuring out how to control this response is the key to helping people lose weight. Surgery that reduces the size of the stomach has been shown to work, but it would be better if we could find some chemical way to do it, i.e. a pill or injection.
I hope you are getting rich and not someone else off your hard work.
I was expecting "70% of our code is stolen from Stack Exchange."
The questioner clearly hangs out there far too much, judging by the awkward phrasing of the question that is designed to meet the arbitrary requirements of SE.
It's a great stimulus programme too. Spread them around the country, create jobs, manufacturing, on-going maintenance etc.
To be clear, Windows 8/10 isn't great, but it's not even below average for an OS.
It's bollocks anyway. I'm typing this on Windows 8, and it's fine. No a "complete disaster" at all. It works, it's no worse than other desktop environments like Gnome.
Look, every OS has some stuff that pisses you off, and some bits that are half arsed. On MacOS you still throw drives in the bin to eject them. Doesn't make MacOS a "complete disaster".
The only real major flaw in Windows 10 is the forced updates that always seem to pick the most inopportune moment. Well, the telemetry too maybe, but most people don't seem to care.
I was going to make a reasoned argument that it's not wealth transfer in the way you describe it, but then I read
"Have college free for STEM studies but "Baskweaving as an Anti-Imperialist TransGender Affirmation" classes must be paid in full by the student."
and just realized I was wasting my time.
How much will climate change cost to deal with? Is it less than the cost of the Paris agreement?
Designing complex circuits does require maths, but not on the level this thing starts out with.
Of much more practical use would be to learn about all the basic component types. Maths wise all you really need is V=IR and you can design a huge number of useful circuits, from power supplies to complex digital systems. Throw in a little theory about op-amp operation, which is really basic maths, and you can do a whole lot of analogue stuff too.
This is a beginners course. Lot of people learn by doing, in fact it's much more common than people who learn by reading alone. That's why most books start with practical examples and measuring stuff.
Anyone who doesn't post a glowingly positive comment about Rust will quickly become the victim of downvote attacks.
So no worse than Slashdot or Reddit or HN then, despite having the dreaded Code of Conduct.
I've found the Rust community helpful and welcoming. The only systemic down-voting I've seen is when there is obvious trolling or people complaining about the very existence of the CoC. I'm sure you will supply us with some links to evidence of the kind of abuse you speak of.
It's not a binary no-test/full verification though, there are many degrees between those two points. Changing from C to Rust gets you a lot of verification for free. Also using libraries that have been well tested and widely adopted helps, although you do have to keep them up to date.
A lot of this can be covered under the mantra that you probably shouldn't try to do security yourself. Don't code your own encryption/hashing system, use a well respected and well tested one. The same advice works well for things like input parsers in many cases.
2 Doctors ago you called "there will be another two white, male doctors, and then a woman"?
Or did you just make a vague prediction that one day there would be a female doctor, knowing that eventually the unbroken run of male doctors might come to and end eventually and if it didn't well no-one is doing to remember some random comment posted by argStyopa on Slashdot.
Anyway, I bookmarked your comment. In ~8 years time we can see if you are right.
I forgot to mention, the Star Trek pilot episode the second in command was a woman. Apparently that was too much for the studio though, so they replaced her for the main series. Again, it was a very overt and in-your-face move to put a woman in that role at the time.
The Master was a rather two dimensional character, which is why they tried to add some depth and give him a chance to develop with the possibility of redemption.
Things had to change after the Time War. In the movie the Doctor is taking the Master to be executed, apparently fine with the concept of capital punishment which seems rather out of character now. After the Time War there are very few Gallifraians left, in fact for a time the Doctor thinks he is the only one. So naturally when he meets the Master he wants to save him, but it ends with the Master dying.
The Missy/Doctor "romance" is entirely one sided, and really just Missy trying to make the Doctor feel uncomfortable.
There may be some episodes say where the Doctor is in the past and the men in charge will not listen to her, just because the Doctor is a woman.
The male Doctors had that problem so often they had invent the magic ID badge that instantly convinces people he is someone important with authority over them. Of course, if the stakes need raising a bit they just forget that he has it and that week's redshirts dispose of themselves before the survivors decide to listen to him.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, I guess the issue is not so much the sex tape as the fact that Thiel was able to use it to destroy Gawker in revenge for outing him. Outing him was a nasty thing to do as well, but apparently not actionable as if it was he would have sued them. Instead, he started funding other people's lawsuits against Gawker.
It's a shitty situation all round. Most people don't have the ability to fund multiple lawsuits against people they don't like, and even if the lawsuits are without merit they all cost money to defend. Imagine if the rich guy you pissed off started secretly funding lawsuits against you, all without any merit but still requiring you to defend.
On the other hand, Hogan did have a genuine case and deserved to win, and private funding of lawsuits is probably good thing in many cases. But it's still unfair - most people don't have billionaires helping them, so they have less access to justice than those who do.
Not much to do with free speech though, as you say.
The relative merits of Gawker aside, the issue here is fair access to justice.
The rich have better access to justice. They can afford expensive legal action and the risk it carries, and they can afford lawyers with more time and resources to dedicate to them.
Anyone should be able to do what Hogan did, without the backing of a billionaire.
Everyone except for the US signed up to the Paris agreement on climate change. Science denial is pretty much only a major problem in the US, in other developed nations it's just some fringe idiots.
Even in Australia, this one moron is now being mocked for his ridiculous comments. Don't mistake being PM for some kind of endorsement of his sanity or IQ, such things are rarely factors in any election.