Are you referring to processed chocolate or the growing of the beans? My impression was that Central/South America don't do much processing of chocolate, and that the U.S. doesn't grow cocoa. Beans are generally roasted, blended and processed in first-world countries.
So you'd want to say;
"The best beans come from Central and South America rather than Africa", or
"The best chocolate comes from France, Switzerland and Belgium"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding.
He's even written an entire book defending his conduct through the whole thing, I guess that's a way to use the publicity to work around his destroyed career.
But this thread proves the whole story. Even those with 'correct' scientific beliefs are susceptible to believing what they want to hear, and it will become accepted canon that Andrew Wakefield was deliberately fraudulent and admitted it.
Samzenpus' shit-stirring title: "Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines"
First line of the article: "... which posts news items directly to a user’s newsfeed."
The use of "timeline" suggests these articles will be auto-posted to people's walls, which is not the case and would seriously annoy most people. Currently there is a side box of trending articles - this change, while still mildly annoying, will simply put the articles in your news stream where it is less easy to ignore.
Given the large drop in night time demand, I assume power supply must already be quite reactive. Solar should go some way toward reducing the variability between night and day. How does this reduction in 24-hour variability compare to the increase in daytime variability?
You don't deserve to be moderated troll. The AC point is technically valid (tool danger + cover danger > tool danger), but your point is that cover danger is so vanishingly small that it could not be the real reason many/most covers are round.
Yes, all the fighting calculations are done on the server. The client doesn't get to do the dice roll for how much damage a swing of their golden mace did. However the client will do their own temporary calculations as to whether the mace can swing (target is in range, last swing is complete etc.) and update the graphics to start showing the swing. Generally the server will return with the damage, or whether it was a miss/block, before the graphical swing is complete, and the client can therefore show the result in real time.
If the server comes back and says, no, your opponent had just moved out of range then the client has to stop it and it looks a bit jerky. A similar thing happens for movement. The client will move your character instantly, but ultimately the server will sync and tell the client the real position. I believe in some games you can take advantage of the server erring on the side of client smoothness (by tolerating lag and therefore giving a little trust to the client) and get your client to cheat by running a few percent faster.
Spot on. How about calling it the ability to negotiate well or successfully? For a whole bunch of reasons, men on average are more inclined to sell themselves and their abilities. If Reddit is too naive to see past this or they truly have a problem with aggressive/bullying negotiators then they need to become tougher negotiators themselves or stop hiring aggressive people.
"Getting the money out of politics" means reducing the influence of business and lobby groups. It may be true that increased advertising needs equates to more overall money being used, but certainly getting the 80% of uninterested voters involved will radically dilute the sway of the aforementioned groups.
I would also question the notion of that 80% being uninterested. The poor tend to be sceptical about changing their situation and don't see the point of voting. The young are less organised. For sure many non-voters are uninterested, but that doesn't mean that, were they forced to vote, they would not make somewhat informed choices that were in their own interests.
I assume you're talking about Micallef, but I think there's a difference. Mad As Hell shows no obvious political leaning, it's more deconstructionist/Python humour than political satire, it just happens to use political news as its basis.
"Trusted newsman" is going a bit far. The problem I have with political comedy is that, to be funny, it has to take an idea to the extreme, which means everything turns into a strawman argument, reinforcing the tribal polarisation of political discourse.
You must be joking (I half suspect you are), that's 1000 lines of code per day. The mythical man month figure is 10 lines. Of course it depends on the language and the domain area, and whether you're hacking or following a depressive production line like Agile, but the larger a project becomes the more time you spend on the inter-relationships to keep it well-architected, and the less lines you can add.
However, if you do burn stuff on, soak it overnight in water with plenty of bio laundry detergent
Nice tip. I find in most situations it's easier to deglaze immediately with tap water. You get the added benefit that you can use all that flavour (straight into the stew, or a sauce if you're cooking a steak).
Liberals are for equal outcomes, not equal opportunities.
Conservatives are for equal treatment.
In truth both conservatives and liberals want a balance of equal outcomes and equal opportunities, they just disagree on where that balance is.
For example, wheelchair-bound people have the same opportunity to ascend a set of stairs as their able-bodied counterparts, but most voters agree we should focus more on equal outcome in this case.
I still have an issues with the claim of "world's smallest chess program on any platform"
This gives me an idea, create my own operating system, ChessOS, then write a 1-bit implementation, breaking the record. It will have a raytraced GUI too.
Then ultra conservatives gained power and killed it because it was Labor's idea.
A couple of points to be fair. First, it's polemical to call the LNP ultra conservatives. Second, the National Broadband Network would have been Australia's largest ever infrastructure project, all undertaken without a cost-benefit analysis (primary use = entertainment) and committed to during a financial crisis at the end of a boom. The conservatives would never have pushed this even if it were there own idea. We seem to have a cycle of Labor overspending and the LNP overcutting.
Uptake on the part of the NBN they did manage to build has been terrible because they started work in high-unemployment areas to create jobs, then found that those areas couldn't afford to pay extra for high-speed internet, go figure:) We'll need new broadband infrastructure eventually, I just hope it is done with more planning to keep the leeches out.
This entire discussion is a great example of the tragedy of the commons. Consider why you only view the large corporation sites - they offer something superior (for you, and many people), which is why they are larger, but also their revenue size is required to provide that superior service (professional journalists, double-checking by editors etc.).
So your own browsing habits reveal that you actually do care about their revenue, indirectly. The world wouldn't end if we were all forced to get our news from random blog sites or state media, but the question is, how can larger organisations maintain a sufficient revenue stream given the inherent selfishness of the individual consumer? Subscription doesn't seem to work (and frankly I am surprised that advertising does).
That's not quite right. Jesus often gave 'tricky' or 'smartarse' answers to questions that were designed to trap him, and this is one of them. Christian theologians often refer to fulfilment as something that has been completed and is no longer needed (for example with Jesus' death as the ultimate sacrifice, doing away with the need for further animal sacrifices). You may disagree with this interpretation but it's been Christian belief since the start (the book of Galations is mostly about how new believers don't need to adhere to practices like circumcision).
Actually Jesus was pretty apolitical. His message was more about the attitude of the heart than pushing a set of rules for a Christian society. That leaves the actual implementation open to a lot of interpretation, which is probably why Christians pick and choose which OT laws apply as society's attitudes change.
However, it is their bodies and their right to do whatever they please, and I will defend that to my grave.
The question is why is freedom so important, what's the goal? It seems to me that the U.S. was founded by oppressed people, so the solution to their oppression was to increase freedom in particular areas. Now, freedom has been deified and has become the goal in itself, whereas the purpose of most rules governing a society is more pragmatic - to improve that society in some way.
I interpret "Where are you from?" as "What is your cultural and ethnic background, because I believe all ways of living are valid and I'm interested in your story."
To be ageist, reading her answers made me think that, however precocious you may be, there are some things that can only be learnt with life experience. Most of the answers, while highly articulate, read like they're straight out of a book called How To Be Perfectly Politically Correct. There's very little nuance or original insight.
We still have the same degree of far leftists and far rightists that we've always had. What we have is different proportions, but that doesn't actually change what the left and right are.
Perhaps not in academic political science, but if you have 0.01% communists, and everyone else grouped around fascism and libertarianism, you can bet that practical political discourse will apply "left" and "right" to the 99.99%.
Incidentally, it fails from an economics standpoint... That wind farm produced the staggering total of ten permanent jobs.
That's actually a success from an economic standpoint as it indicates efficiency*. You wouldn't say the farming industry was more economically successful if implemented a new procedure that required twice as many people to produce the same output.
* Ignoring your point about the relative power produced of wind vs coal as that's incidental to your reasoning.
Perhaps you are exaggerating to make a point but that's a very polarised view. Society (us) places quite stringent roles on both men and women in how they relate within their sex and with the other sex. While I'd agree that the roles have changed more for women, they have clearly changed for men too (think being present at birth or being the primary carer). Similarly, a quick survey of your local CBD, nightlife area or Facebook shows that women have hardly escaped the pressure to present themselves as suitable for breeding, and you have overstated how far we are from the 50s ideal.
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Are you referring to processed chocolate or the growing of the beans? My impression was that Central/South America don't do much processing of chocolate, and that the U.S. doesn't grow cocoa. Beans are generally roasted, blended and processed in first-world countries.
So you'd want to say;
"The best beans come from Central and South America rather than Africa", or
"The best chocolate comes from France, Switzerland and Belgium"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding.
He's even written an entire book defending his conduct through the whole thing, I guess that's a way to use the publicity to work around his destroyed career.
But this thread proves the whole story. Even those with 'correct' scientific beliefs are susceptible to believing what they want to hear, and it will become accepted canon that Andrew Wakefield was deliberately fraudulent and admitted it.
Samzenpus' shit-stirring title: "Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines"
First line of the article: "... which posts news items directly to a user’s newsfeed."
The use of "timeline" suggests these articles will be auto-posted to people's walls, which is not the case and would seriously annoy most people. Currently there is a side box of trending articles - this change, while still mildly annoying, will simply put the articles in your news stream where it is less easy to ignore.
Given the large drop in night time demand, I assume power supply must already be quite reactive. Solar should go some way toward reducing the variability between night and day. How does this reduction in 24-hour variability compare to the increase in daytime variability?
You don't deserve to be moderated troll. The AC point is technically valid (tool danger + cover danger > tool danger), but your point is that cover danger is so vanishingly small that it could not be the real reason many/most covers are round.
Yes, all the fighting calculations are done on the server. The client doesn't get to do the dice roll for how much damage a swing of their golden mace did. However the client will do their own temporary calculations as to whether the mace can swing (target is in range, last swing is complete etc.) and update the graphics to start showing the swing. Generally the server will return with the damage, or whether it was a miss/block, before the graphical swing is complete, and the client can therefore show the result in real time.
If the server comes back and says, no, your opponent had just moved out of range then the client has to stop it and it looks a bit jerky. A similar thing happens for movement. The client will move your character instantly, but ultimately the server will sync and tell the client the real position. I believe in some games you can take advantage of the server erring on the side of client smoothness (by tolerating lag and therefore giving a little trust to the client) and get your client to cheat by running a few percent faster.
Spot on. How about calling it the ability to negotiate well or successfully? For a whole bunch of reasons, men on average are more inclined to sell themselves and their abilities. If Reddit is too naive to see past this or they truly have a problem with aggressive/bullying negotiators then they need to become tougher negotiators themselves or stop hiring aggressive people.
"Getting the money out of politics" means reducing the influence of business and lobby groups. It may be true that increased advertising needs equates to more overall money being used, but certainly getting the 80% of uninterested voters involved will radically dilute the sway of the aforementioned groups.
I would also question the notion of that 80% being uninterested. The poor tend to be sceptical about changing their situation and don't see the point of voting. The young are less organised. For sure many non-voters are uninterested, but that doesn't mean that, were they forced to vote, they would not make somewhat informed choices that were in their own interests.
Probably exactly as many of the Egyptian perpetrators who were Swedish citizens.
He had just installed an 'anti-virus' toolbar as directed by a helpful caller from Microsoft?
we have similar act here in Oz
I assume you're talking about Micallef, but I think there's a difference. Mad As Hell shows no obvious political leaning, it's more deconstructionist/Python humour than political satire, it just happens to use political news as its basis.
A closer show would be the now defunct The Roast.
"Trusted newsman" is going a bit far. The problem I have with political comedy is that, to be funny, it has to take an idea to the extreme, which means everything turns into a strawman argument, reinforcing the tribal polarisation of political discourse.
You must be joking (I half suspect you are), that's 1000 lines of code per day. The mythical man month figure is 10 lines. Of course it depends on the language and the domain area, and whether you're hacking or following a depressive production line like Agile, but the larger a project becomes the more time you spend on the inter-relationships to keep it well-architected, and the less lines you can add.
However, if you do burn stuff on, soak it overnight in water with plenty of bio laundry detergent
Nice tip. I find in most situations it's easier to deglaze immediately with tap water. You get the added benefit that you can use all that flavour (straight into the stew, or a sauce if you're cooking a steak).
Liberals are for equal outcomes, not equal opportunities. Conservatives are for equal treatment.
In truth both conservatives and liberals want a balance of equal outcomes and equal opportunities, they just disagree on where that balance is.
For example, wheelchair-bound people have the same opportunity to ascend a set of stairs as their able-bodied counterparts, but most voters agree we should focus more on equal outcome in this case.
I still have an issues with the claim of "world's smallest chess program on any platform"
This gives me an idea, create my own operating system, ChessOS, then write a 1-bit implementation, breaking the record. It will have a raytraced GUI too.
Then ultra conservatives gained power and killed it because it was Labor's idea.
A couple of points to be fair. First, it's polemical to call the LNP ultra conservatives. Second, the National Broadband Network would have been Australia's largest ever infrastructure project, all undertaken without a cost-benefit analysis (primary use = entertainment) and committed to during a financial crisis at the end of a boom. The conservatives would never have pushed this even if it were there own idea. We seem to have a cycle of Labor overspending and the LNP overcutting.
Uptake on the part of the NBN they did manage to build has been terrible because they started work in high-unemployment areas to create jobs, then found that those areas couldn't afford to pay extra for high-speed internet, go figure :) We'll need new broadband infrastructure eventually, I just hope it is done with more planning to keep the leeches out.
This entire discussion is a great example of the tragedy of the commons. Consider why you only view the large corporation sites - they offer something superior (for you, and many people), which is why they are larger, but also their revenue size is required to provide that superior service (professional journalists, double-checking by editors etc.).
So your own browsing habits reveal that you actually do care about their revenue, indirectly. The world wouldn't end if we were all forced to get our news from random blog sites or state media, but the question is, how can larger organisations maintain a sufficient revenue stream given the inherent selfishness of the individual consumer? Subscription doesn't seem to work (and frankly I am surprised that advertising does).
Jesus asked if he wanted it healed, but the guy ignored him.
Actually Luke records that Jesus does heal the ear (the other three gospels don't).
That's not quite right. Jesus often gave 'tricky' or 'smartarse' answers to questions that were designed to trap him, and this is one of them. Christian theologians often refer to fulfilment as something that has been completed and is no longer needed (for example with Jesus' death as the ultimate sacrifice, doing away with the need for further animal sacrifices). You may disagree with this interpretation but it's been Christian belief since the start (the book of Galations is mostly about how new believers don't need to adhere to practices like circumcision).
Actually Jesus was pretty apolitical. His message was more about the attitude of the heart than pushing a set of rules for a Christian society. That leaves the actual implementation open to a lot of interpretation, which is probably why Christians pick and choose which OT laws apply as society's attitudes change.
However, it is their bodies and their right to do whatever they please, and I will defend that to my grave.
The question is why is freedom so important, what's the goal? It seems to me that the U.S. was founded by oppressed people, so the solution to their oppression was to increase freedom in particular areas. Now, freedom has been deified and has become the goal in itself, whereas the purpose of most rules governing a society is more pragmatic - to improve that society in some way.
Score 2 Flamebait, congratulations :)
I interpret "Where are you from?" as "What is your cultural and ethnic background, because I believe all ways of living are valid and I'm interested in your story."
To be ageist, reading her answers made me think that, however precocious you may be, there are some things that can only be learnt with life experience. Most of the answers, while highly articulate, read like they're straight out of a book called How To Be Perfectly Politically Correct. There's very little nuance or original insight.
We still have the same degree of far leftists and far rightists that we've always had. What we have is different proportions, but that doesn't actually change what the left and right are.
Perhaps not in academic political science, but if you have 0.01% communists, and everyone else grouped around fascism and libertarianism, you can bet that practical political discourse will apply "left" and "right" to the 99.99%.
Incidentally, it fails from an economics standpoint... That wind farm produced the staggering total of ten permanent jobs.
That's actually a success from an economic standpoint as it indicates efficiency*. You wouldn't say the farming industry was more economically successful if implemented a new procedure that required twice as many people to produce the same output.
* Ignoring your point about the relative power produced of wind vs coal as that's incidental to your reasoning.
Perhaps you are exaggerating to make a point but that's a very polarised view. Society (us) places quite stringent roles on both men and women in how they relate within their sex and with the other sex. While I'd agree that the roles have changed more for women, they have clearly changed for men too (think being present at birth or being the primary carer). Similarly, a quick survey of your local CBD, nightlife area or Facebook shows that women have hardly escaped the pressure to present themselves as suitable for breeding, and you have overstated how far we are from the 50s ideal.