Don't be retarded. "Security of the state" is a lot broader than "foreign invaders". Shit, we could be 7 weeks away from electing one of the two most unscrupulous candidates to ever run for president, and you _still_ want people to give up the only thing that denies the government absolute power.
And then Oregonians just turn around and let the government run even more of their lives. Because we all know, piping money through the government is the pinnacle of efficiency.
How the fuck do you run your organization so badly, that you get to the point where you have 400 "redundant" people in the first place? And how the fuck something like Skype is using all those people? It's a fucking VOIP app, it's not rocket science. I'd expect the _total_ size of the org to be smaller than that.
You deliberately misunderstood what I was saying. I'm pointing out that SJWs try to extract political brownie points out of the whole PC charade, and pandering to them does not serve the interest of the company, at least not in the longer term. I didn't say "it's OK to be asshole" to one another. I merely think that when someone is inventing bullshit reasons to be offended in order to get ahead in the rat race, the last thing you should do is let them do so unabated.
I hope Apple is more meritocratic than Google. My Google contacts are telling me G is being torn apart internally by SJWs right now. I'm talking full on mandatory "unconscious bias" and "microaggressions" trainings, shutting down internal discussions on anything even vaguely non-PC (and as you can imagine, for an SJW that includes just about anything they disagree with), "reconsidering" female interview candidates that don't quite cut it, etc. You can either have all that, or you can have straight up meritocracy, which Google was famous for in the years past. You can't have both.
Apple always has a plan. The next years iPhone will be super thin (since it no longer has to be thick enough to accommodate 3.5mm jack) and waterproof to N meters (since everything can now be sealed). All while providing even higher performance and more battery life. Plus you can now have active noise cancellation in your wired headphones without a separate power adapter. Watch every other manufacturer jump onto USB-C bandwagon to do the same.
You need to know how Microsoft operates to understand this. Once a release of Windows is "done", its support is handed over to Sustained Engineering organization. This org is where you go if you can't make it at Microsoft proper. They simply have neither the capability nor the desire to add new features to operating system versions you can't even buy anymore.
Consider also that the vast majority of "normal" people only update the OS to a new release when they buy a new computer. So support for newer hardware by older OSs is not as huge an issue in the real world as it is here on Slashdot.
If true (whic it is not), it's only fair. The US interferes with everyone else's elections (including Russian) all the time. Sometimes through CIA, sometimes by financing NGOs which serve its needs. This doesn't work in Russia, of course, because Putin is famous for his 146% voter turnout, but they still try.
What do you mean "technology preview"? People use it in production. Google itself has used in production for a couple of years now. And it scales down all the way to phones, and up all the way to distributed clusters. If TF is too low level for you, use Keras or TFLearn, those are much higher level.
As a side note, if you expect a pre-packaged, "production ready" solution to come out of academia, you're naive. This statement does not apply to TF itself: unlike many other frameworks it's a _second_ iteration of a production system that Google ran at scale for many years (Google Brain), and some of Google's best engineers are working on it. And it's just getting started. I bet sometime next year they'll release support for TPUs on Google Cloud, which will make even fairly computationally intensive inference cost effective in real-time.
I work in a research lab, and as far as we're concerned, game is basically over, and TensorFlow has won. Some computer vision researchers are still using Torch, but even they are considering moving to TF because it's faster, and Lua is, how can I say this diplomatically, not a good choice for many reasons.
Yes, but there are humans in the loop, some of which may disagree with vote rigging. Electronic voting is about removing humans from the loop. Once you're done with that, you can run elections with very predictable outcomes.
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Internet voting would basically remove the last remaining perception of legitimacy from any of this "democracy" farce that we have in this country. If government counts the votes, government will make sure the "right" candidate wins every time.
And when Trump says the same thing, it's a national outrage. It's not a coincidence the Left is trying to eliminate voter registration laws, and switch everything to electronic voting.
There's nothing wrong with being rich. The goal should be to reduce poverty, not eliminate the rich. Liberal establishment just likes the poor because they are inextricably dependent on the government for survival, and therefore trivial to control.
Can we get some coverage of the actual leaks, pretty please? Corruption at the DNC? Clinton's underhanded tactics? I mean, salient stuff like that. I don't care if it's Putin himself who got those emails.
About 200 years ago, in 1812. Napoleon had big plans for the US, it was to be a part of the French Empire. The reason why the US hasn't been invaded since are two fold. For one thing it's in a very fortunate position geographically. The only two ways it could be invaded are through Canada and Mexico, and both of those countries are our allies. For another, even if someone invaded, the US has by far the most powerful military in the world.
But repelling invasions is not what today's armies are for. A major part of their mission is projecting force across the world's oceans, and making sure people don't interfere with US interests, trade and otherwise. Read George Friedman's "Flashpoints" to gain a better understanding of these issues. Our military is actually quite a bargain compared to the benefits it provides.
Who do you think has "fostered" this "interdependence"? And why would anyone listen to a country that wouldn't be able to do shit if they didn't listen?
>> please don't turn it into the country I ran away from
As a successful immigrant myself, this is _exactly_ my sentiment. Fuck that commie shit with a broomstick. I came to this country not just with not a dime to my name, I had significant debts as well. I now pay four times in taxes alone compared to what I made here in the first year. It took me 15 years and a lot of hard work and perseverance to get to this point. Now some communist comes out of the woodwork and says I need to "share". But dude, I already "share". Even with my great accountant doing my taxes, Uncle Sam takes fully 29% of what I make, with nearly zero accountability for how this money is being spent. To me it appears as though it disappears into the void, since neither the federal nor the state government ever has money to fund even the basic necessities like education. There's literally zero incentive for the government to spend this money wisely, _especially_ if the government is run by democrats who think they should have unobstructed access to my wallet.
You can't directly compare how much other countries spend on their militaries. For one thing, their soldiers make a lot less, and their benefits (such as, you know, treating them if their extremities are blown off) are much lower. That alone is about half of the entire military budget. It's also not like you have a choice to buy foreign military gear, it all has to be designed and made right here, at great expense. And even so, 5% of GDP is a small price to pay for having your children die on someone's bayonets. If you want to tell me this can't happen, this has happened multiple times in just recent history to countries which also thought this couldn't happen. In fact, US military (and US in general) is a major reason there hasn't been another major European war. What you now recognize as the EU, was created with heavy prodding from post-war US diplomats.
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Don't be retarded. "Security of the state" is a lot broader than "foreign invaders". Shit, we could be 7 weeks away from electing one of the two most unscrupulous candidates to ever run for president, and you _still_ want people to give up the only thing that denies the government absolute power.
And then Oregonians just turn around and let the government run even more of their lives. Because we all know, piping money through the government is the pinnacle of efficiency.
How the fuck do you run your organization so badly, that you get to the point where you have 400 "redundant" people in the first place? And how the fuck something like Skype is using all those people? It's a fucking VOIP app, it's not rocket science. I'd expect the _total_ size of the org to be smaller than that.
You deliberately misunderstood what I was saying. I'm pointing out that SJWs try to extract political brownie points out of the whole PC charade, and pandering to them does not serve the interest of the company, at least not in the longer term. I didn't say "it's OK to be asshole" to one another. I merely think that when someone is inventing bullshit reasons to be offended in order to get ahead in the rat race, the last thing you should do is let them do so unabated.
I hope Apple is more meritocratic than Google. My Google contacts are telling me G is being torn apart internally by SJWs right now. I'm talking full on mandatory "unconscious bias" and "microaggressions" trainings, shutting down internal discussions on anything even vaguely non-PC (and as you can imagine, for an SJW that includes just about anything they disagree with), "reconsidering" female interview candidates that don't quite cut it, etc. You can either have all that, or you can have straight up meritocracy, which Google was famous for in the years past. You can't have both.
Apple always has a plan. The next years iPhone will be super thin (since it no longer has to be thick enough to accommodate 3.5mm jack) and waterproof to N meters (since everything can now be sealed). All while providing even higher performance and more battery life. Plus you can now have active noise cancellation in your wired headphones without a separate power adapter. Watch every other manufacturer jump onto USB-C bandwagon to do the same.
You need to know how Microsoft operates to understand this. Once a release of Windows is "done", its support is handed over to Sustained Engineering organization. This org is where you go if you can't make it at Microsoft proper. They simply have neither the capability nor the desire to add new features to operating system versions you can't even buy anymore.
Consider also that the vast majority of "normal" people only update the OS to a new release when they buy a new computer. So support for newer hardware by older OSs is not as huge an issue in the real world as it is here on Slashdot.
Did I say different? You don't get 146% turnout and widespread vote rigging otherwise.
If true (whic it is not), it's only fair. The US interferes with everyone else's elections (including Russian) all the time. Sometimes through CIA, sometimes by financing NGOs which serve its needs. This doesn't work in Russia, of course, because Putin is famous for his 146% voter turnout, but they still try.
There it's called "DiRT" (stands for "Disaster Recovery Test").
What do you mean "technology preview"? People use it in production. Google itself has used in production for a couple of years now. And it scales down all the way to phones, and up all the way to distributed clusters. If TF is too low level for you, use Keras or TFLearn, those are much higher level.
As a side note, if you expect a pre-packaged, "production ready" solution to come out of academia, you're naive. This statement does not apply to TF itself: unlike many other frameworks it's a _second_ iteration of a production system that Google ran at scale for many years (Google Brain), and some of Google's best engineers are working on it. And it's just getting started. I bet sometime next year they'll release support for TPUs on Google Cloud, which will make even fairly computationally intensive inference cost effective in real-time.
I work in a research lab, and as far as we're concerned, game is basically over, and TensorFlow has won. Some computer vision researchers are still using Torch, but even they are considering moving to TF because it's faster, and Lua is, how can I say this diplomatically, not a good choice for many reasons.
Yes, but there are humans in the loop, some of which may disagree with vote rigging. Electronic voting is about removing humans from the loop. Once you're done with that, you can run elections with very predictable outcomes.
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Internet voting would basically remove the last remaining perception of legitimacy from any of this "democracy" farce that we have in this country. If government counts the votes, government will make sure the "right" candidate wins every time.
And when Trump says the same thing, it's a national outrage. It's not a coincidence the Left is trying to eliminate voter registration laws, and switch everything to electronic voting.
There's nothing wrong with being rich. The goal should be to reduce poverty, not eliminate the rich. Liberal establishment just likes the poor because they are inextricably dependent on the government for survival, and therefore trivial to control.
It's not a conspiracy theory, it has happened before. Bubba Clinton only won against Bush in 1982 because Ross Perot was also running.
And transmitted images digitally from the surface, in 1975. Cold War was a gift to mankind, that pissing match was legendary.
Can we get some coverage of the actual leaks, pretty please? Corruption at the DNC? Clinton's underhanded tactics? I mean, salient stuff like that. I don't care if it's Putin himself who got those emails.
Instead of showing leadership by going medieval on the DNC bigwigs, we get some stupid color coding scheme. Obama administration in a nutshell.
I'm disturbed by his "non-tough" approach. I hope CTOs reading this draw the right conclusions.
>> When was the last time we were invaded?
About 200 years ago, in 1812. Napoleon had big plans for the US, it was to be a part of the French Empire. The reason why the US hasn't been invaded since are two fold. For one thing it's in a very fortunate position geographically. The only two ways it could be invaded are through Canada and Mexico, and both of those countries are our allies. For another, even if someone invaded, the US has by far the most powerful military in the world.
But repelling invasions is not what today's armies are for. A major part of their mission is projecting force across the world's oceans, and making sure people don't interfere with US interests, trade and otherwise. Read George Friedman's "Flashpoints" to gain a better understanding of these issues. Our military is actually quite a bargain compared to the benefits it provides.
Who do you think has "fostered" this "interdependence"? And why would anyone listen to a country that wouldn't be able to do shit if they didn't listen?
>> please don't turn it into the country I ran away from
As a successful immigrant myself, this is _exactly_ my sentiment. Fuck that commie shit with a broomstick. I came to this country not just with not a dime to my name, I had significant debts as well. I now pay four times in taxes alone compared to what I made here in the first year. It took me 15 years and a lot of hard work and perseverance to get to this point. Now some communist comes out of the woodwork and says I need to "share". But dude, I already "share". Even with my great accountant doing my taxes, Uncle Sam takes fully 29% of what I make, with nearly zero accountability for how this money is being spent. To me it appears as though it disappears into the void, since neither the federal nor the state government ever has money to fund even the basic necessities like education. There's literally zero incentive for the government to spend this money wisely, _especially_ if the government is run by democrats who think they should have unobstructed access to my wallet.
You can't directly compare how much other countries spend on their militaries. For one thing, their soldiers make a lot less, and their benefits (such as, you know, treating them if their extremities are blown off) are much lower. That alone is about half of the entire military budget. It's also not like you have a choice to buy foreign military gear, it all has to be designed and made right here, at great expense. And even so, 5% of GDP is a small price to pay for having your children die on someone's bayonets. If you want to tell me this can't happen, this has happened multiple times in just recent history to countries which also thought this couldn't happen. In fact, US military (and US in general) is a major reason there hasn't been another major European war. What you now recognize as the EU, was created with heavy prodding from post-war US diplomats.