He's got a model that explains cancer based on faulty cell division. It is causative. He's crunched the numbers and found that his model explains 65% of occurrences of cancer. His model might still be wrong, but a 'correlation is not causation' critique is not applicable here.
Yes, but actually assigning instances of a deadly disease to bad luck rather than bad choices goes against the puritan heart of America, where everybody gets what they deserve, and no person that is well off should feel inclined to share any of the product of good luck with anyone else. Because, you know, they obviously made good choices, no bad ones. No luck involved.
Depends on who pays for the locks. If there is a separate department that pays for the locks, then yes, that's a cost center. If it comes from the retail store's budget, then no, it is paid by the profit center. Being part of a profit center doesn't mean you don't have costs. Being part of a cost center doesn't mean you're not involved in profit.
Interesting evidence you bring to the table. So we have a prediction that increased tides induced by sea level rise will likely become very dangerous by 2050 for the bay area (up to half a meter of additional storm surge tide). An "underwater map" about what could happen in about 100 years from 1997 given a 1 meter sea level rise at the highest tide, and a professor that states that species will need to move to Canada if the temperature rises by about 2.5 degrees Celsius in 100 years.
Not sure if this truly supports your point, as this seems to be pretty consistent with what we're expecting to experience. Not 100% sure about the specifics of the Bay Area as that seems to be a bit on the high side, but could be an effect of the actual geography of the area.
I'm from Holland. It's pretty easy to obtain a gun if you really want to. But law-abiding citizens typically don't do this, because... it's the law (duh).
By not having an arms-race, I'm not afraid being shot at by a burglar, because also they don't typically carry a gun.
Yes, and I'm pretty sure that intruders carry a healthy arsenal of weaponry to survive a confrontation with an armed homeowner. It's the arms race that's not very healthy.
Your argument doesn't hold water. You state roughly that the Nazis are leftist because all totalitarians are leftist. And as Nazis are totalitarians they must be leftist.
You mix terms: you draw an opposite between 'totalitarian' and 'liberal', and you equate them to 'left' and 'right'. That doesn't work: the traditional 'left' versus 'right' divide is about those who believe in 'class equality' and those that believe in 'private property'. Both have totalitarian as well as liberal factions. Where the left have communists that are as totalitarian as it gets, the right have fascists and authoritarian factions that drive towards a totalitarian state. The US "democrat and republican party" being one example of such an authoritarian right wing faction.
The NAZI party was the NATIONAL Socialist GERMAN Workers PARTY. So per your argument, that's as right wing as it gets. All the NATIONAL parties of the history have been right wing. Left wing parties are typically INTERNATIONAL (their war-song is even called the "Internationale"), as their ideology is about class, not about nation.
So the name of the Nazis both appeal to extreme left wing, as well as extreme right wing. This is not a coincidence.
The rest of the AC's argument is as stupid and ill-informed.
Let me predict the legal outcome of this situation. If you're a cop, it's okay, you can walk free. If you're black, you will be shot when arrested. If you're neither, the outcome will depend on how much money you have.
I understood that Google pays their taxes in Ireland, just like Microsoft, Facebook, and many others, I guess that makes them EU companies, so what's your point?
If price/megabyte is all you need, I'd suggest to remove your hard-drive and replace it with tape. Yes, the seek times are a bit long, but then again, you didn't care about your time, right. Just price/megabyte.
Edsger Dijkstra had a famous quip about this: "The question whether a machine can think is about as interesting as the question whether a submarine can swim".
If that's your point, you might want to get off your operating system as well. That thing is doing all kinds of stuff while running your program that you didn't tell it to do, leading to all kinds of unexpected behavior.
Not sure if this is still allowed by the latest standards, but it used to work.This makes use of the fact that the bracket operator x[y] is syntactic sugar for *(x+y). So:
Well, for starters, 10,000 leagues is a quite a bit over the circumference of the earth, so being so far under the sea is just simply impossible. If this Verne character is serious about his scientific ambitions, he shouldn't be three to four orders off with his approximations.
Sure, and by the same measure, the average European citizen is about 20 times less fearful of their government as the average American citizen. And that's the land of the free?
I think you're overestimating the effect of marketing software. Oh, yes, it's extremely effective at figuring out who you are over many sites, but then the offers are absolutely atrocious. To wit:
There is no time in my life I am less likely to buy some white pants, a toaster or a flight to Los Angeles than after I've just bought these items, yet that's precisely the time I see ads for these products or services.
In other words, digital marketing is a con. It's conning business into paying for technology. No actual value is achieved.
America is special. Because at foundation time had a war with a dictatorship, they started anew, with a fresh constitution. Luckily, the forces that be found a workaround. Now they have a two party dictatorship. God bless you all.
Why do you think the sign of a dying society is a decreasing population? What is your long term outlook? Are we to support 10 billion people, then 100 billion, then a trillion? How do you think this would work out?
I think a population, decreasing or increasing toward stability, is a sign of civilization. Resources are being maxed out, people are no longer starving, and you do not need children to take care of you in your old age. I'm sure that in the US this doesn't hold, as you'll have infinite resources and infinite growth potential, though in the rest of the world, people beg to differ.
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He's got a model that explains cancer based on faulty cell division. It is causative. He's crunched the numbers and found that his model explains 65% of occurrences of cancer. His model might still be wrong, but a 'correlation is not causation' critique is not applicable here.
Yes, but actually assigning instances of a deadly disease to bad luck rather than bad choices goes against the puritan heart of America, where everybody gets what they deserve, and no person that is well off should feel inclined to share any of the product of good luck with anyone else. Because, you know, they obviously made good choices, no bad ones. No luck involved.
Gauss also says that quantum mechanics is bollocks and we haven't found the true cause of non-determinism yet. But also there he is wrong.
So you're stating that in a world where PHP was not invented, Wikipedia would not have been created? Doubtful.
Depends on who pays for the locks. If there is a separate department that pays for the locks, then yes, that's a cost center. If it comes from the retail store's budget, then no, it is paid by the profit center. Being part of a profit center doesn't mean you don't have costs. Being part of a cost center doesn't mean you're not involved in profit.
Interesting evidence you bring to the table. So we have a prediction that increased tides induced by sea level rise will likely become very dangerous by 2050 for the bay area (up to half a meter of additional storm surge tide). An "underwater map" about what could happen in about 100 years from 1997 given a 1 meter sea level rise at the highest tide, and a professor that states that species will need to move to Canada if the temperature rises by about 2.5 degrees Celsius in 100 years.
Not sure if this truly supports your point, as this seems to be pretty consistent with what we're expecting to experience. Not 100% sure about the specifics of the Bay Area as that seems to be a bit on the high side, but could be an effect of the actual geography of the area.
I'm from Holland. It's pretty easy to obtain a gun if you really want to. But law-abiding citizens typically don't do this, because ... it's the law (duh).
By not having an arms-race, I'm not afraid being shot at by a burglar, because also they don't typically carry a gun.
Yes, and I'm pretty sure that intruders carry a healthy arsenal of weaponry to survive a confrontation with an armed homeowner. It's the arms race that's not very healthy.
You don't understand how mail servers work, do you?
Your argument doesn't hold water. You state roughly that the Nazis are leftist because all totalitarians are leftist. And as Nazis are totalitarians they must be leftist.
You mix terms: you draw an opposite between 'totalitarian' and 'liberal', and you equate them to 'left' and 'right'. That doesn't work: the traditional 'left' versus 'right' divide is about those who believe in 'class equality' and those that believe in 'private property'. Both have totalitarian as well as liberal factions. Where the left have communists that are as totalitarian as it gets, the right have fascists and authoritarian factions that drive towards a totalitarian state. The US "democrat and republican party" being one example of such an authoritarian right wing faction.
The NAZI party was the NATIONAL Socialist GERMAN Workers PARTY. So per your argument, that's as right wing as it gets. All the NATIONAL parties of the history have been right wing. Left wing parties are typically INTERNATIONAL (their war-song is even called the "Internationale"), as their ideology is about class, not about nation.
So the name of the Nazis both appeal to extreme left wing, as well as extreme right wing. This is not a coincidence.
The rest of the AC's argument is as stupid and ill-informed.
Let me predict the legal outcome of this situation. If you're a cop, it's okay, you can walk free. If you're black, you will be shot when arrested. If you're neither, the outcome will depend on how much money you have.
I understood that Google pays their taxes in Ireland, just like Microsoft, Facebook, and many others, I guess that makes them EU companies, so what's your point?
If price/megabyte is all you need, I'd suggest to remove your hard-drive and replace it with tape. Yes, the seek times are a bit long, but then again, you didn't care about your time, right. Just price/megabyte.
Question: I've can buy a nice 128 GB SSD drive for about 100 bucks. Where can I buy a 128 GB HDD for $10?
Edsger Dijkstra had a famous quip about this: "The question whether a machine can think is about as interesting as the question whether a submarine can swim".
Because this destroy the competitive market.
If that's your point, you might want to get off your operating system as well. That thing is doing all kinds of stuff while running your program that you didn't tell it to do, leading to all kinds of unexpected behavior.
Yes, I have a kid. Mortally afraid to jump off a platform a quarter her height. No, overconfidence is not innate.
One of my favourites in C:
Not sure if this is still allowed by the latest standards, but it used to work.This makes use of the fact that the bracket operator x[y] is syntactic sugar for *(x+y). So:
Now try that somewhere else!
Well, for starters, 10,000 leagues is a quite a bit over the circumference of the earth, so being so far under the sea is just simply impossible. If this Verne character is serious about his scientific ambitions, he shouldn't be three to four orders off with his approximations.
Sure, and by the same measure, the average European citizen is about 20 times less fearful of their government as the average American citizen. And that's the land of the free?
In other words, digital marketing is a con. It's conning business into paying for technology. No actual value is achieved.
America is special. Because at foundation time had a war with a dictatorship, they started anew, with a fresh constitution. Luckily, the forces that be found a workaround. Now they have a two party dictatorship. God bless you all.
I think a population, decreasing or increasing toward stability, is a sign of civilization. Resources are being maxed out, people are no longer starving, and you do not need children to take care of you in your old age. I'm sure that in the US this doesn't hold, as you'll have infinite resources and infinite growth potential, though in the rest of the world, people beg to differ.