Oh? Please tell me how a bunch of people doing the same speed creates a dangerous situation.
For the record I agree unless you're overtaking don't be in the lane.
Oh, that's an easy one.
When people who speed can't pass they get irrationally angry and start to do dangerous things, like tailgating, swerving, and suddenly accelerating/braking.
So you see, it's really your fault for making them SO DANGED ANGRY because they can't speed and pass people at that particular instant.
Would you bother playing the "how do they compare over the past 1- or 2- year period" game, then? In the name of fairness, of course--neither one of us cherry-picking a particularly good or bad 30-day window for either currency, no?
I mean, can you think of any, I dunno, unusual things that happened to the global economy between 9/25/2008 and 10/28/2008?
Or would you call this specific period on our world's financial history just another typical 30-day window, where 20% fluctuations in major global currencies are a totally normal and commonplace and not at all hugely rare and alarming thing?
It goes beyond politics. In pretty much any human endeavor, odds will heavily favor groups that are well-organized and have clear structures of authority over those that are lacking these things. The larger the group, the more pronounced this becomes.
Humans have gotten as far as we have in very large part because we've successfully exploited the overwhelming power of coordination. Without hierarchy, authority, and structure, coordination is difficult--and becomes increasingly so with each new person you add to the mix.
Become too decentralized, too uncoordinated, and some other large group of humans is going to come along and wipe the floor with you.
There shouldn't be a libertarian party. Everybody should be his own candidate.
Exactly. The very concept of a "libertarian party" is an oxymoron.
Political parties are about coalition-building, structure, organization, compromise, and incremental, collaborative progress.
The vast majority of modern libertarians--at least the American strain--are all about independence, personal control, certitude, and a fundamental aversion to the organization and structuring of power. A party of this nature looks like...well, it looks exactly like what we saw this week--from the overhead-projected Excel spreadsheet tally of votes right on down to the candidate with the large Iron Cross tattoo who decided to perform a burlesque show on a dare.
Libertarians will never be more than a fringe force on American politics, simply because they're intrinsically unwilling to build kind of structured organization that makes it possible to win tens of millions of votes.
My family lives 1,100 miles away. My wife's family lives 2,500 miles away. Not flying cuts, on average, two days off any visit to my own family. For my wife's family, it's completely impractical to drive.
For me (and others with distant family,) that's well worth the (generally overblown) drawbacks of air travel and security theater.
After that, what have they got? Apple Car? They're not a car company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Phone? They're not a phone company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Tunes? They're not a music label; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Walkman? They're not a portable music player company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Stores? They're not a bricks-and-mortar retailer; how the heck is this going to work?
If there's one thing that Apple has shown that it can do--repeatedly--it's that they can break into new markets in ways that completely circumvent what the current players are doing. NOW, it remains to be seen just how much of that was due single-handedly to Jobs, but I'm well past the point where I'd be surprised if an Apple Car were a hit.
"Programmers who hurl insults at each other like to think it's because they're honest, no-nonsense efficiency machines that get things done. The reality is that they never bothered to learn how to interact effectively with other human beings, and that deficiency is typically far more detrimental to their professional lives than they realize."
As AI puts lawyers, doctors, and other highly paid professionals out of business... suddenly liberal arts majors are in high demand. At what point did I fall down that rabbit hole?
...it's almost as if there's some tangible, real-world value in a liberal arts education that's been neglected in tech circles through years of derision and mockery...
I still don't understand, why we don't have self-driving trains already — the task is so much simpler with one-dimensional roads, no size/weight restrictions on the necessary equipment, and full control of the signs and signals — without having to teach the computer to understand, what's meant for humans...
We do have self-driving trains, and have had them for ages. The most immediate example that springs to mind is the Paris Metro, which has an entire line that is fully automated.
It has carried well in excess of 100 million passengers with only a handful of minor incidents.
Pain is a warning that something is wrong and is harming you. You don't want the warning to go away... you want the problem that's causing the warning to be solved.
That's not really what chronic pain is, though. Yes, pain is a warning, and an important one for most situations. When the system designed to regulate and deliver pain is broken, though, you get chronic pain. You feel pain regardless of whether or not there's actual harm being done. It's like trying to live in a house where the fire alarm is always going off.
My wife has PMPS. When her surgery was performed, a number of nerve endings deep in her chest cavity were damaged; they can't grow back, and they're constantly firing alarms at every slightest thing. For her, riding in a car hurts when the car goes over a small bump in the road. Coughing or sneezing hurts like hell. Getting hugged to hard or run into too quickly by our 6-year-old daughter hurts. Don't even think of trying to pick that kid up, either, because that'll hurt, too. My wife's low-impact elliptical workouts are an exercise in constant nerve pain, but she does them anyway to keep up her health. Pulling on a locked door handle expecting it to be open hurts. Trying to grab a pan off the top shelf hurts. Lying on her back hurts. Rolling over in bed hurts. She's lucky to get four hours of sleep on a typical day, thanks to a vicious combination of anti-cancer meds and pain. Countless little, insignificant, pedestrian things that most people wouldn't even bat an eyelid at are constant and grinding sources of pain for her.
She knows what the problem is; she's got busted nerves in her chest. You can't really fix busted nerves. Yes, there are risks to not feeling pain, but holy hell we'd take them in a heartbeat just to be able to shut this goddamned internal fire alarm off, even for a day.
There are millions of people dealing with the same kind of thing: constant, chronic pain. This would very literally change their lives.
They're renaming the authoring tool, which is currently known as Flash Professional CC. It appears that the Flash Player will remain just that.
This makes perfect sense, as Flash Professional CC is increasingly being used to generate media that targets HTML5, not Flash, as output. Renaming Flash Professional CC to Animate CC eliminates the whole need to do the song and dance of "we're talking about Flash the authoring environment, not Flash the plugin" to non-technical audiences.
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Oh? Please tell me how a bunch of people doing the same speed creates a dangerous situation.
For the record I agree unless you're overtaking don't be in the lane.
Oh, that's an easy one.
When people who speed can't pass they get irrationally angry and start to do dangerous things, like tailgating, swerving, and suddenly accelerating/braking.
So you see, it's really your fault for making them SO DANGED ANGRY because they can't speed and pass people at that particular instant.
:P
Larry Page Was Secretly Working On a Flying Car
Would you bother playing the "how do they compare over the past 1- or 2- year period" game, then? In the name of fairness, of course--neither one of us cherry-picking a particularly good or bad 30-day window for either currency, no?
CDN-USD 1 yr: low 1.22, high 1.45
BTC-USD 1 yr: low $209, high $537
CDN-USD 2 yr: low 1.06, high 1.45
BTC-USD 2 yr: low $177, high $665
Could individuals recognize this and establish such coordination on a temporary basis as needed?
Sure--but as with so many things, it takes time, resources, and expertise to do so. In a crisis, all three of those things will be in short supply.
The fact that the individuals in question are all accustomed to being their own leader will likely exacerbate things, as well.
I mean, can you think of any, I dunno, unusual things that happened to the global economy between 9/25/2008 and 10/28/2008?
Or would you call this specific period on our world's financial history just another typical 30-day window, where 20% fluctuations in major global currencies are a totally normal and commonplace and not at all hugely rare and alarming thing?
It goes beyond politics. In pretty much any human endeavor, odds will heavily favor groups that are well-organized and have clear structures of authority over those that are lacking these things. The larger the group, the more pronounced this becomes.
Humans have gotten as far as we have in very large part because we've successfully exploited the overwhelming power of coordination. Without hierarchy, authority, and structure, coordination is difficult--and becomes increasingly so with each new person you add to the mix.
Become too decentralized, too uncoordinated, and some other large group of humans is going to come along and wipe the floor with you.
Because let's be honest--who doesn't want a currency whose value is 20% different than it was last week?
There shouldn't be a libertarian party. Everybody should be his own candidate.
Exactly. The very concept of a "libertarian party" is an oxymoron.
Political parties are about coalition-building, structure, organization, compromise, and incremental, collaborative progress.
The vast majority of modern libertarians--at least the American strain--are all about independence, personal control, certitude, and a fundamental aversion to the organization and structuring of power. A party of this nature looks like...well, it looks exactly like what we saw this week--from the overhead-projected Excel spreadsheet tally of votes right on down to the candidate with the large Iron Cross tattoo who decided to perform a burlesque show on a dare.
Libertarians will never be more than a fringe force on American politics, simply because they're intrinsically unwilling to build kind of structured organization that makes it possible to win tens of millions of votes.
"may"?
One would think that YouTube fame would protect one from the consequences of faking a realistic-looking burglary at a major museum.
:|
My family lives 1,100 miles away. My wife's family lives 2,500 miles away. Not flying cuts, on average, two days off any visit to my own family. For my wife's family, it's completely impractical to drive. For me (and others with distant family,) that's well worth the (generally overblown) drawbacks of air travel and security theater.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
...is it cool if I use the same the fork y'all were sticking 'em with after they released the G4 Cube?
After that, what have they got? Apple Car? They're not a car company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Phone? They're not a phone company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Tunes? They're not a music label; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Walkman? They're not a portable music player company; how the heck is this going to work?
After that, what have they got? Apple Stores? They're not a bricks-and-mortar retailer; how the heck is this going to work?
If there's one thing that Apple has shown that it can do--repeatedly--it's that they can break into new markets in ways that completely circumvent what the current players are doing. NOW, it remains to be seen just how much of that was due single-handedly to Jobs, but I'm well past the point where I'd be surprised if an Apple Car were a hit.
"Programmers who hurl insults at each other like to think it's because they're honest, no-nonsense efficiency machines that get things done. The reality is that they never bothered to learn how to interact effectively with other human beings, and that deficiency is typically far more detrimental to their professional lives than they realize."
As AI puts lawyers, doctors, and other highly paid professionals out of business ... suddenly liberal arts majors are in high demand. At what point did I fall down that rabbit hole?
...it's almost as if there's some tangible, real-world value in a liberal arts education that's been neglected in tech circles through years of derision and mockery...
There once was a poet from Kansas
Who landed a job for her stanzas
But all joy departed
The moment rent started
To burn massive holes in her pantses
that, and I bet they aren't really Scottish, either!
Specifically, the ability to remotely update code on a device automatically, without user intervention, represents a fairly serious threat vector.
This is a core feature of most modern operating systems. It is easily disabled in both iOS and OS X.
Your argument is only slightly less inane than suggesting that allowing a computer to access the Internet counts as a backdoor.
I feel like Google deserves a big ol' Apple-style "Finally" dropped in this headline, tho
Epoch fail.
I still don't understand, why we don't have self-driving trains already — the task is so much simpler with one-dimensional roads, no size/weight restrictions on the necessary equipment, and full control of the signs and signals — without having to teach the computer to understand, what's meant for humans...
We do have self-driving trains, and have had them for ages. The most immediate example that springs to mind is the Paris Metro, which has an entire line that is fully automated.
It has carried well in excess of 100 million passengers with only a handful of minor incidents.
Pain is a warning that something is wrong and is harming you. You don't want the warning to go away... you want the problem that's causing the warning to be solved.
That's not really what chronic pain is, though. Yes, pain is a warning, and an important one for most situations. When the system designed to regulate and deliver pain is broken, though, you get chronic pain. You feel pain regardless of whether or not there's actual harm being done. It's like trying to live in a house where the fire alarm is always going off.
My wife has PMPS. When her surgery was performed, a number of nerve endings deep in her chest cavity were damaged; they can't grow back, and they're constantly firing alarms at every slightest thing. For her, riding in a car hurts when the car goes over a small bump in the road. Coughing or sneezing hurts like hell. Getting hugged to hard or run into too quickly by our 6-year-old daughter hurts. Don't even think of trying to pick that kid up, either, because that'll hurt, too. My wife's low-impact elliptical workouts are an exercise in constant nerve pain, but she does them anyway to keep up her health. Pulling on a locked door handle expecting it to be open hurts. Trying to grab a pan off the top shelf hurts. Lying on her back hurts. Rolling over in bed hurts. She's lucky to get four hours of sleep on a typical day, thanks to a vicious combination of anti-cancer meds and pain. Countless little, insignificant, pedestrian things that most people wouldn't even bat an eyelid at are constant and grinding sources of pain for her.
She knows what the problem is; she's got busted nerves in her chest. You can't really fix busted nerves. Yes, there are risks to not feeling pain, but holy hell we'd take them in a heartbeat just to be able to shut this goddamned internal fire alarm off, even for a day.
There are millions of people dealing with the same kind of thing: constant, chronic pain. This would very literally change their lives.
They're renaming the authoring tool, which is currently known as Flash Professional CC. It appears that the Flash Player will remain just that.
This makes perfect sense, as Flash Professional CC is increasingly being used to generate media that targets HTML5, not Flash, as output. Renaming Flash Professional CC to Animate CC eliminates the whole need to do the song and dance of "we're talking about Flash the authoring environment, not Flash the plugin" to non-technical audiences.
The root problem here is that every time you think you've found the ultimate vacuum tube, you find one more.