That's just silly. People are still finding new things in the Podesta emails.
The stuff in the Podesta emails wasn't duplicates, it was scandalous or suspicious statements. There is no algorithm yet that can find obnoxious or outrageous things in emails- humans are required for that.
Now how do you design an algorithm to scan a large pile of emails for duplicates? That's a good question to ask when interviewing candidates for an entry-level programming job.
Is it my imagination or is Chrome starting to get really unstable? It stops responding to keystrokes or mouse clicks for about 15 seconds at a time, and some websites make the fan spin so fast that other people in the room complain about the noise. I usually have to restart it once an hour. It's starting to feel like Netscape 1.0.
I don't really oppose or support higher levels of immigration; from my own selfish perspective it isn't clear which is better. Legal immigration basically just increases the US population, which I'm not sure has a positive or a negative effect. (I work at a company started by a guy who came here from Jordan, and before that I made pretty good money working in SV for two guys from Russia and Pakistan, so that affects my opinion a bit.)
Illegal immigration- the kind that really obsesses people- affects me by letting me buy cheaper strawberries. They're picked in the hot sun by people making $1.50 an hour. I'm not worried about not getting a job picking strawberries- nobody is when McDonalds is still hiring. I'm more worried about expensive strawberries. It may be immoral to exploit people like this, but this is a good racket we've got going and if we were smart, we wouldn't let our xenophobia blind us to the artificially low cost of groceries- at least not until strawberries can be picked by robots.
Outsourcing is a different beast altogether. The economic impact is much worse when the job moves overseas, or (same thing) is filled by an H1-B who earns little money here and then takes it back home instead of spending it here. Companies save fistfuls of money this way and they tend to stuff it into their mattresses.
How hard would it be to train an AI to say this shit? Instead of sending bots to Twitter to make artificial racists, Microsoft can start making artificial CEOs instead.
This was a classic case of little lies leading to big ones. NOBODY ever cared for one instant whether this guy was for the Iraq War in 2003. 70% of the population was for it. A normal person would say, "well, I guess I forgot I said that, since after all this was 13 years ago". But that almost sounds like an apology, or at least admitting to an imperfection- which he will not do unless an ISIS fighter is behind him with a sword. Instead he has to double down and construct an imaginary alternative universe of conspiracy theories where people are spreading malicious lies about him, trying to insinuate that he favored the Iraq War- as if anyone ever gave a flying fuck in the first place.
...and she voted for the Iraq War. Donald Trump did not vote for the Iraq War, was against it, and said so. I hear people have tapes of Donald Trump saying he was for the Iraq War. It's all fabrications, all lies. Donald Trump does not tell lies. Donald Trump is a very honest person, very decent person. The best. The best. And all these people faking audio tapes, making all these fraudulent, phony, tapes, are all linked to Hillary's campaign rigging the election. All these people coming out of nowhere, saying "Trump, even though I never met him, he was for the war, I heard him say so on the radio." No witnesses. All lies. It's a huge scam, people, a huge scam. Donald Trump exhibits only a narrow subset of normal human behaviors which does NOT INCLUDE PATHOLOGICAL LYING but does include referring to himself in the third person- that makes me smart.
I'm not saying to go violent, but we have to watch, folks, because our democracy is being stolen by the media, by the government, by a bunch of lying whores too ugly to grope, by SNL, and by illegal aliens who get airlifted from Mexico to the inner cities so they can vote five times for Crooked Hillary! It's all rigged, the system is totally rigged, folks, totally rigged, and you know it's true because if Trump loses, believe me, everything is rigged, I can tell you that much.
Conservatives seem to be more concerned with hypothetical scenarios than things that actually happen. Hypothetically, a good guy with a gun might shoot a bad guy with a gun, a guy might put on a wig and enter a women's restroom to leer at girls, a Syrian refugee will show up in Chicago and vote 10 times for Clinton or set off a fission bomb, etc. The fact that these things never happen doesn't matter- if they can *imagine* it occurring, that's enough.
It's amazing how many people are convinced of "voter fraud" without actually thinking about what it means. Voter fraud means someone stands in line, votes, then gets back at the end of the line and votes again- thus risking years in prison in order to get in one extra vote! Which is believable if you're utterly incapable of putting yourself in another person's shoes and imagining what they might be thinking.
Ever since voter fraud paranoia took hold, governments have been policing for voter fraud more vigorously. And so far the only offenders have been conservatives trying to prove how easy voter fraud is.
In the sequel, the Tyrell Corporation meets its downfall. After Eldon gets his eyeballs pushed inside out, the company is managed for four years by a replicant of Carly Fiorina. As a result the replicants refuse to work unless constantly supplied with overpriced genuine Tyrell superpower refill cartridges.
4. Since climate scientists are also considered "experts", they must be idiots too.
5. Therefore the climate isn't changing. QED.
Although this analysis depends on several logical fallacies, and basically amounts to an anti-intellectual attack on science and reason, I have to admit that it's more sound than most denier arguments.
The cytosine methylation signal along a strand of DNA is theoretically heritable, even though it has nothing to do with the actual sequence of bases.
There are vast stretches of junk DNA in the genome, some with old genes for ancient viruses or parasitic sequences like transposons, and the way the cell keeps those parts of DNA away from cell machinery is by methylating the cytosine residues. The methyl groups prevent RNA polymerase from transcribing the DNA and therefore it gets silenced.
When a cell divides, the methyl groups are only on the original strand; the new complimentary strand doesn't have any. The methylation signal has to be actively transcribed from one strand to another; an enzyme runs up the DNA feeling for methylated cytosine residues. When it finds some, it starts methylating any cytosine residues that might be nearby on the opposite strand, to make sure the troublesome regions all stay commented out. That's why it's heritable.
Hey Dan, ready for that public hanging of political prisoners? I'm just finishing up here with my new kayaking friends.
Kayaking friends on your computer?
Dan: Yeah, I just got North Korea online.
Sounds great. Listen, I can't go to the public executions today.
WHAT?
First my kids have to go to the library to read books on how great Our Leader is. Then I have to stand on a street corner and yell revolutionary slogans at complete strangers. And I have to contact my mother; she's making kayaks in a slave labor camp and gets executed tomorrow.
Perhaps we could focus on saving the fauna we have now that is on the verge of going extinct from a variety of reasons.
I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
If any extinct species deserves a second chance it should be mammoths. They only went extinct because we arrived as an invasive species and killed them all ourselves.
I'd rather my taxes went to solar cells than a half-trillion-dollar F-35. Even if the solar cells aren't making somebody a fortune, they still don't pollute the air.
Now, pardon me but I need to ask you some questions. Have I answered all your customer concerns about your fighter aircraft in a timely and satisfactory fashion today? Have I accurately and politely provided answers to your questions in a courteous and prompt fashion and offered good customer service? Thank you very much bye!
Although it's an old technology, older than the 3.5 mm audio jack even, the ordinary mousetrap is humane, effective, reusable, and available in multiple sizes. They kill instantly; you'll never find a mousetrap with a live rodent wiggling around in it.
The glue boards, on the other hand, are pretty gross. The rat sticks to them and then you toss the thing into the trash, which always struck me as somewhat psycho. Sometimes people buy them without it dawning on them they're going to end up throwing a live mammal into the garbage. I knew one guy who came across a starving mouse wiggling in the glue, was overcome by an unexpected burst of empathy, and spent the next half hour making a mess outside with rubbing alcohol trying to pry it off without tearing any limbs.
the fracking helps to release that stress early in a much smaller-than-it-would-have-been quake. The anti-oil folks should probably find a different row to hoe.
Yes, instead of a single huge quake happening several millenia from now, we're much better off having medium-sized quakes destroying houses every week.
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That's just silly. People are still finding new things in the Podesta emails.
The stuff in the Podesta emails wasn't duplicates, it was scandalous or suspicious statements. There is no algorithm yet that can find obnoxious or outrageous things in emails- humans are required for that.
Now how do you design an algorithm to scan a large pile of emails for duplicates? That's a good question to ask when interviewing candidates for an entry-level programming job.
This shit is happening on both OSX and Windows.
Is it my imagination or is Chrome starting to get really unstable? It stops responding to keystrokes or mouse clicks for about 15 seconds at a time, and some websites make the fan spin so fast that other people in the room complain about the noise. I usually have to restart it once an hour. It's starting to feel like Netscape 1.0.
If those illiegals become legal those strawberry prices will rise
Yep. Like I said, we've got a good racket going with the status quo.
I don't really oppose or support higher levels of immigration; from my own selfish perspective it isn't clear which is better. Legal immigration basically just increases the US population, which I'm not sure has a positive or a negative effect. (I work at a company started by a guy who came here from Jordan, and before that I made pretty good money working in SV for two guys from Russia and Pakistan, so that affects my opinion a bit.)
Illegal immigration- the kind that really obsesses people- affects me by letting me buy cheaper strawberries. They're picked in the hot sun by people making $1.50 an hour. I'm not worried about not getting a job picking strawberries- nobody is when McDonalds is still hiring. I'm more worried about expensive strawberries. It may be immoral to exploit people like this, but this is a good racket we've got going and if we were smart, we wouldn't let our xenophobia blind us to the artificially low cost of groceries- at least not until strawberries can be picked by robots.
Outsourcing is a different beast altogether. The economic impact is much worse when the job moves overseas, or (same thing) is filled by an H1-B who earns little money here and then takes it back home instead of spending it here. Companies save fistfuls of money this way and they tend to stuff it into their mattresses.
How hard would it be to train an AI to say this shit? Instead of sending bots to Twitter to make artificial racists, Microsoft can start making artificial CEOs instead.
This was a classic case of little lies leading to big ones. NOBODY ever cared for one instant whether this guy was for the Iraq War in 2003. 70% of the population was for it. A normal person would say, "well, I guess I forgot I said that, since after all this was 13 years ago". But that almost sounds like an apology, or at least admitting to an imperfection- which he will not do unless an ISIS fighter is behind him with a sword. Instead he has to double down and construct an imaginary alternative universe of conspiracy theories where people are spreading malicious lies about him, trying to insinuate that he favored the Iraq War- as if anyone ever gave a flying fuck in the first place.
...and she voted for the Iraq War. Donald Trump did not vote for the Iraq War, was against it, and said so. I hear people have tapes of Donald Trump saying he was for the Iraq War. It's all fabrications, all lies. Donald Trump does not tell lies. Donald Trump is a very honest person, very decent person. The best. The best. And all these people faking audio tapes, making all these fraudulent, phony, tapes, are all linked to Hillary's campaign rigging the election. All these people coming out of nowhere, saying "Trump, even though I never met him, he was for the war, I heard him say so on the radio." No witnesses. All lies. It's a huge scam, people, a huge scam. Donald Trump exhibits only a narrow subset of normal human behaviors which does NOT INCLUDE PATHOLOGICAL LYING but does include referring to himself in the third person- that makes me smart.
And he's trying to cause election day violence.
I'm not saying to go violent, but we have to watch, folks, because our democracy is being stolen by the media, by the government, by a bunch of lying whores too ugly to grope, by SNL, and by illegal aliens who get airlifted from Mexico to the inner cities so they can vote five times for Crooked Hillary! It's all rigged, the system is totally rigged, folks, totally rigged, and you know it's true because if Trump loses, believe me, everything is rigged, I can tell you that much.
Conservatives seem to be more concerned with hypothetical scenarios than things that actually happen. Hypothetically, a good guy with a gun might shoot a bad guy with a gun, a guy might put on a wig and enter a women's restroom to leer at girls, a Syrian refugee will show up in Chicago and vote 10 times for Clinton or set off a fission bomb, etc. The fact that these things never happen doesn't matter- if they can *imagine* it occurring, that's enough.
It's amazing how many people are convinced of "voter fraud" without actually thinking about what it means. Voter fraud means someone stands in line, votes, then gets back at the end of the line and votes again- thus risking years in prison in order to get in one extra vote! Which is believable if you're utterly incapable of putting yourself in another person's shoes and imagining what they might be thinking.
Ever since voter fraud paranoia took hold, governments have been policing for voter fraud more vigorously. And so far the only offenders have been conservatives trying to prove how easy voter fraud is.
I'm actually wondering at this point, is he deliberately trying to cause election day violence?
Nah- what's happening here is that he knows he's going to lose, and he's desperately groping for excuses.
Samsung should install suicide nets around their customer service support call centers.
In the sequel, the Tyrell Corporation meets its downfall. After Eldon gets his eyeballs pushed inside out, the company is managed for four years by a replicant of Carly Fiorina. As a result the replicants refuse to work unless constantly supplied with overpriced genuine Tyrell superpower refill cartridges.
Geez, you'd think destroying a laptop was like drowning a puppy from the way people react here.
Although this analysis depends on several logical fallacies, and basically amounts to an anti-intellectual attack on science and reason, I have to admit that it's more sound than most denier arguments.
Asking the "CO2 is plant food" crowd to support their claims is a waste of time.
The cytosine methylation signal along a strand of DNA is theoretically heritable, even though it has nothing to do with the actual sequence of bases.
There are vast stretches of junk DNA in the genome, some with old genes for ancient viruses or parasitic sequences like transposons, and the way the cell keeps those parts of DNA away from cell machinery is by methylating the cytosine residues. The methyl groups prevent RNA polymerase from transcribing the DNA and therefore it gets silenced.
When a cell divides, the methyl groups are only on the original strand; the new complimentary strand doesn't have any. The methylation signal has to be actively transcribed from one strand to another; an enzyme runs up the DNA feeling for methylated cytosine residues. When it finds some, it starts methylating any cytosine residues that might be nearby on the opposite strand, to make sure the troublesome regions all stay commented out. That's why it's heritable.
Hey Dan, ready for that public hanging of political prisoners? I'm just finishing up here with my new kayaking friends.
Kayaking friends on your computer?
Dan: Yeah, I just got North Korea online.
Sounds great. Listen, I can't go to the public executions today.
WHAT?
First my kids have to go to the library to read books on how great Our Leader is. Then I have to stand on a street corner and yell revolutionary slogans at complete strangers. And I have to contact my mother; she's making kayaks in a slave labor camp and gets executed tomorrow.
Hey, we can take care of all that before we go.
Yeah, right!
No, with North Korea online!
North Korea online can do all that?
How about sending your mother some nice flowers?
Perhaps we could focus on saving the fauna we have now that is on the verge of going extinct from a variety of reasons.
I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
If any extinct species deserves a second chance it should be mammoths. They only went extinct because we arrived as an invasive species and killed them all ourselves.
I'd rather my taxes went to solar cells than a half-trillion-dollar F-35. Even if the solar cells aren't making somebody a fortune, they still don't pollute the air.
Now, pardon me but I need to ask you some questions. Have I answered all your customer concerns about your fighter aircraft in a timely and satisfactory fashion today? Have I accurately and politely provided answers to your questions in a courteous and prompt fashion and offered good customer service? Thank you very much bye!
Although it's an old technology, older than the 3.5 mm audio jack even, the ordinary mousetrap is humane, effective, reusable, and available in multiple sizes. They kill instantly; you'll never find a mousetrap with a live rodent wiggling around in it.
The glue boards, on the other hand, are pretty gross. The rat sticks to them and then you toss the thing into the trash, which always struck me as somewhat psycho. Sometimes people buy them without it dawning on them they're going to end up throwing a live mammal into the garbage. I knew one guy who came across a starving mouse wiggling in the glue, was overcome by an unexpected burst of empathy, and spent the next half hour making a mess outside with rubbing alcohol trying to pry it off without tearing any limbs.
We routinely kill pigs using CO2 as well. (I guess nitrogen is too expensive.)
the fracking helps to release that stress early in a much smaller-than-it-would-have-been quake. The anti-oil folks should probably find a different row to hoe.
Yes, instead of a single huge quake happening several millenia from now, we're much better off having medium-sized quakes destroying houses every week.
He doesn't want to see or go near any phones. He's been crying to his mother.
Don't worry, kid- for Christmas you're getting an iPhone 7 and an expensive set of wired headphones!