LSD poisoning is also almost unheard of. While it is technically possible to take a lethal dose, it don't think it has ever happened. You need thousands of doses for this. Those who seek emergency medical attention usually just went into a trip that is too much for them to handle. Same situation as with cannabis.
One reason shrooms have less problems is that inexperienced people tend to take it in small doses. With LSD and cannabis it is common for people to take way more than they can handle. With LSD, you are never sure about the dosage, and cannabis (a "soft" drug) tends not to be taken seriously.
With very few exceptions, everybody want your heart surgery to succeed. There isn't much to gain by messing you up.
Money is different. As far as your savings account is concerned, it is a zero-sum game. The money you lost is money someone else gained, and vice versa. So there is a lot of incentive to mess up with your robot.
It is easier to trust a robot when everyone is trying to make it better than when thousands of smart people are trying to turn it against you. It is possible to trick humans too but because humans are more diverse and adaptable, the return on investment is better when attacking robots.
This is a font for coders, monospace, designed to limit confusion between similar looking characters (I, 1, l, |,...). There are plenty of them : consolas, inconsolata,... I personally use SourceCodePro. Like hack, it is also free and open source.
I don't understand what it so bad about AMP? It looks like just another framework. In the end it is just a HTML document with a big.js blob that does stuff. Still standards-compliant. You are free to use it or not, or pick the parts that are interesting to you. You may be required to follow some rules in order to use Google's proxy service but you are not forced to use it.
Seeing how things go on the web, AMP will soon be deprecated. Perhaps with something that support gigabyte-sized minimalist pages better.
Traditional scientific journals had their use before internet and effective search engines became widespread. But now, why do people pay them? What do they bring to the table? Distribution is dirt cheap, search engines make finding relevant publications easy, most editing is done by the researchers themselves and peer-review is not paid. The only service they seem to offer is pass the papers from the original researchers to reviewers, and, based on the review, decide to grant it the honor of being published. Publishing means making it available online with a ludicrous price tag. And even for scientists, what good does it make being published in a journal that restricts access. I know some researchers who simply don't use paywalled papers. If they find something interesting, they try to work around the paywall (legally) and if they can't, the paper is ignored and therefore not cited.
Of course researchers know about statistics, but they also want to publish successful results. Even honest researchers will try to make their papers as impressive as possible, because their funding depend on it, and a simple correlation is better than nothing. Failures, even though they may be as valuable as successes don't publish well. These papers may be picked up by less rigorous journalists and presented with the conclusion the original researchers carefully avoided.
You cite horseback riding, that's a good example. Horseback riding has lost almost all its practical value, and even when it is allowed, we don't see many horses on the road. It doesn't mean those who enjoy riding are screwed. They just do it in specially designed places. If self driving cars become the norm, people who enjoy driving will end up in places more adapted to their hobby, like race tracks.
In this study, they made people read classical short stories. Some had an added introduction revealing the plot. They then asked participants to rate how much they enjoyed it. In all cases except one, the "spoiler" group consistently enjoyed it more than the control group, and the remaining case is a close call. Out of the 12 tested short stories, 4 are of the mystery genre and 4 other are ironic-twist stories, i.e. the kind where you most likely don't want to get spoiled.
Millennials will become the "previous gen" soon enough. A lot of millennials have children now, and the first of GenZ or whatever you call it are coming of age.
Yeah, I wouldn't call a country shutting down nuclear power plants and building new coal plants "progressive".
If you look here : https://www.electricitymap.org... you'll see that most of the times, Germany is not that good. Right now it is at 414 gCO2/kWh, which is worse than the US (388) and 6 times worse than France (66). Ontario, Sweden and Norway are even better but they have the advantage of a high hydro capacity. What all the good players have in common : nuclear power of course.
Curious how women and children are seen as a resource to you, equivalent to money, land, water, and other resources. Rather than, you know, human beings.
Every company hiring more than a few dozen people has a HR department. HR stands for Human Resources. Humans can be considered resources in some contexts.
A good safe is not like a MasterLock No3. But the best thing about physical security is that someone has to get in there. A botnet won't automatically open your safe and take its content.
From what I understood, implementing UBI will go together with removing many other social benefits. One major selling point of UBI is that everyone will get the same thing. It means you won't have to justify anything, and there will be no need for processing applications and fighting against fraud. Which, by the way, will kill a lot of administrative jobs. Minimum wage, unemployment, housing, family, etc... All these benefits will have to go.
The result is that some people currently getting a lot of social benefits (for good or bad reasons) may find themselves with much less. It will make the transition difficult. I expect the actual implementation of a UBI to be a joke, with complex rules making the end result the same as what we have now. The Finland experiment has nothing to do with a true UBI. The amount is not enough to live decently in Finland without further help and only unemployed people are selected.
This election is a strange one. First turn, there were 4 major parties sharing about a quarter of the votes each, plus outsiders. This is unusual. Normally there are two major parties, like in many countries. Out of two traditional parties, the right wing candidate arrived 3rd and didn't pass and the left wing candidate ended up as one of the outsiders. The result is that we now have two candidates that most of the population doesn't want. Meaning that many people will vote Macron to prevent Le Pen from passing and others will vote Le Pen just to go against Macron. Many people want to damage Macron, not just Le Pen campaigners.
Anyways, for the presidential elections, the game is pretty much set : Macron will win. The polls give him about 60%, Le Pen is just too unpopular for anyone but her supporters. However, the presidential election will be followed by the parlement elections, and this is where the real game is being played now.
There is nuance, the maximum prison term has increased but it doesn't mean you will get 10 years for watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website. Judges are not complete morons, and when minor copyright cases go to judgment, the sentence typically ends up being a reasonable fine. In fact, most of them simply don't want to bother with such cases, they have better things to do. It doesn't stop lawyers from sending you scary letters though. In fact, for small offenders, the film industry would rather decriminalize it so that it could be made into a much easier to enforce administrative fine, like a parking ticket. The maximum sentence is for very large scale, financially motivated operations.
It is like the Chinese law that makes pollution a capital offense. They won't execute you because you didn't change your oil properly. But dumping industrial amounts of deadly chemicals in such a way that it ends up in drinking water is essentially mass murder, justifying the harshest punishment in the book.
Yes, money. But this is not exclusive to Microsoft. Perfecting code doesn't sell, you need something new, and with new features come new bugs. It is also applicable to free software. Free software mostly done by developers working for for-profit companies, and in most case their priority is not to perfect the code but rather adapt the software to their business model. A typical example is adding drivers for their products in the linux kernel. And it even applies to nonprofits, just look at Mozilla.
The solution: None that I can think of. And unless people are ready to pay for it, it will stay that way.
You have to know you are infected before you recover. With ramsomware or adware, it is obvious. But if you are part of a botnet, the attacker will go to great lengths to make sure you don't notice the infection.
The "lack of caching and acceleration" may be one of the reasons to stay with HTTP.
HTTPS proxy support is very limited by design (because a proxy is a man-in-the-middle). And a caching HTTP proxy is really great for public repositories. Also, HTTPS is supported in the client, it is just that most servers are HTTP-only.
How difficult would it be to drop listening devices in high traffic areas that listen for those tones, sending location information back to whoever? And that's just to augment other devices that might be infected with a listen-and-report app.
Pretty hard actually. Ultrasounds have short range and noisy area with plenty of moving obstacles isn't the best place to put such a system. And smartphones have some form of filtering out of inaudible frequencies. Ultrasounds are considered useless, so why waste energy amplifying these signals. And why waste bitrate transmitting them digitally. Speakers working in the human hearing range don't like them either, it's like feeding the treble to a subwoofer.
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LSD poisoning is also almost unheard of. While it is technically possible to take a lethal dose, it don't think it has ever happened. You need thousands of doses for this.
Those who seek emergency medical attention usually just went into a trip that is too much for them to handle. Same situation as with cannabis.
One reason shrooms have less problems is that inexperienced people tend to take it in small doses. With LSD and cannabis it is common for people to take way more than they can handle. With LSD, you are never sure about the dosage, and cannabis (a "soft" drug) tends not to be taken seriously.
With very few exceptions, everybody want your heart surgery to succeed. There isn't much to gain by messing you up.
Money is different. As far as your savings account is concerned, it is a zero-sum game. The money you lost is money someone else gained, and vice versa. So there is a lot of incentive to mess up with your robot.
It is easier to trust a robot when everyone is trying to make it better than when thousands of smart people are trying to turn it against you. It is possible to trick humans too but because humans are more diverse and adaptable, the return on investment is better when attacking robots.
This is a font for coders, monospace, designed to limit confusion between similar looking characters (I, 1, l, |, ...).
There are plenty of them : consolas, inconsolata,... I personally use SourceCodePro. Like hack, it is also free and open source.
Windows 10 has a built-in Ubuntu Linux subsystem. It is a bit hidden and a bit experimental but it's there.
I don't understand what it so bad about AMP? .js blob that does stuff. Still standards-compliant. You are free to use it or not, or pick the parts that are interesting to you.
It looks like just another framework. In the end it is just a HTML document with a big
You may be required to follow some rules in order to use Google's proxy service but you are not forced to use it.
Seeing how things go on the web, AMP will soon be deprecated. Perhaps with something that support gigabyte-sized minimalist pages better.
In Soviet Russia, the largest single-memory computer uses 64KGB segments.
FTFY
Traditional scientific journals had their use before internet and effective search engines became widespread.
But now, why do people pay them? What do they bring to the table? Distribution is dirt cheap, search engines make finding relevant publications easy, most editing is done by the researchers themselves and peer-review is not paid. The only service they seem to offer is pass the papers from the original researchers to reviewers, and, based on the review, decide to grant it the honor of being published. Publishing means making it available online with a ludicrous price tag.
And even for scientists, what good does it make being published in a journal that restricts access. I know some researchers who simply don't use paywalled papers. If they find something interesting, they try to work around the paywall (legally) and if they can't, the paper is ignored and therefore not cited.
Of course researchers know about statistics, but they also want to publish successful results.
Even honest researchers will try to make their papers as impressive as possible, because their funding depend on it, and a simple correlation is better than nothing. Failures, even though they may be as valuable as successes don't publish well. These papers may be picked up by less rigorous journalists and presented with the conclusion the original researchers carefully avoided.
You cite horseback riding, that's a good example.
Horseback riding has lost almost all its practical value, and even when it is allowed, we don't see many horses on the road. It doesn't mean those who enjoy riding are screwed. They just do it in specially designed places.
If self driving cars become the norm, people who enjoy driving will end up in places more adapted to their hobby, like race tracks.
Spoilers don't ruin stories : https://www.researchgate.net/p...
In this study, they made people read classical short stories. Some had an added introduction revealing the plot. They then asked participants to rate how much they enjoyed it. In all cases except one, the "spoiler" group consistently enjoyed it more than the control group, and the remaining case is a close call.
Out of the 12 tested short stories, 4 are of the mystery genre and 4 other are ironic-twist stories, i.e. the kind where you most likely don't want to get spoiled.
Millennials will become the "previous gen" soon enough.
A lot of millennials have children now, and the first of GenZ or whatever you call it are coming of age.
Yeah, I wouldn't call a country shutting down nuclear power plants and building new coal plants "progressive".
If you look here : https://www.electricitymap.org... you'll see that most of the times, Germany is not that good. Right now it is at 414 gCO2/kWh, which is worse than the US (388) and 6 times worse than France (66). Ontario, Sweden and Norway are even better but they have the advantage of a high hydro capacity.
What all the good players have in common : nuclear power of course.
Calling it fusion power would be more correct, but even more misleading.
Curious how women and children are seen as a resource to you, equivalent to money, land, water, and other resources.
Rather than, you know, human beings.
Every company hiring more than a few dozen people has a HR department. HR stands for Human Resources.
Humans can be considered resources in some contexts.
A good safe is not like a MasterLock No3.
But the best thing about physical security is that someone has to get in there. A botnet won't automatically open your safe and take its content.
You basically want a Galaxy S5, 2017 edition.
From what I understood, implementing UBI will go together with removing many other social benefits.
One major selling point of UBI is that everyone will get the same thing. It means you won't have to justify anything, and there will be no need for processing applications and fighting against fraud. Which, by the way, will kill a lot of administrative jobs.
Minimum wage, unemployment, housing, family, etc... All these benefits will have to go.
The result is that some people currently getting a lot of social benefits (for good or bad reasons) may find themselves with much less. It will make the transition difficult. I expect the actual implementation of a UBI to be a joke, with complex rules making the end result the same as what we have now.
The Finland experiment has nothing to do with a true UBI. The amount is not enough to live decently in Finland without further help and only unemployed people are selected.
This election is a strange one.
First turn, there were 4 major parties sharing about a quarter of the votes each, plus outsiders. This is unusual. Normally there are two major parties, like in many countries. Out of two traditional parties, the right wing candidate arrived 3rd and didn't pass and the left wing candidate ended up as one of the outsiders.
The result is that we now have two candidates that most of the population doesn't want. Meaning that many people will vote Macron to prevent Le Pen from passing and others will vote Le Pen just to go against Macron. Many people want to damage Macron, not just Le Pen campaigners.
Anyways, for the presidential elections, the game is pretty much set : Macron will win. The polls give him about 60%, Le Pen is just too unpopular for anyone but her supporters.
However, the presidential election will be followed by the parlement elections, and this is where the real game is being played now.
There is nuance, the maximum prison term has increased but it doesn't mean you will get 10 years for watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website.
Judges are not complete morons, and when minor copyright cases go to judgment, the sentence typically ends up being a reasonable fine. In fact, most of them simply don't want to bother with such cases, they have better things to do. It doesn't stop lawyers from sending you scary letters though.
In fact, for small offenders, the film industry would rather decriminalize it so that it could be made into a much easier to enforce administrative fine, like a parking ticket.
The maximum sentence is for very large scale, financially motivated operations.
It is like the Chinese law that makes pollution a capital offense. They won't execute you because you didn't change your oil properly. But dumping industrial amounts of deadly chemicals in such a way that it ends up in drinking water is essentially mass murder, justifying the harshest punishment in the book.
Yes, money.
But this is not exclusive to Microsoft. Perfecting code doesn't sell, you need something new, and with new features come new bugs.
It is also applicable to free software. Free software mostly done by developers working for for-profit companies, and in most case their priority is not to perfect the code but rather adapt the software to their business model. A typical example is adding drivers for their products in the linux kernel.
And it even applies to nonprofits, just look at Mozilla.
The solution: None that I can think of. And unless people are ready to pay for it, it will stay that way.
You have to know you are infected before you recover.
With ramsomware or adware, it is obvious. But if you are part of a botnet, the attacker will go to great lengths to make sure you don't notice the infection.
The "lack of caching and acceleration" may be one of the reasons to stay with HTTP.
HTTPS proxy support is very limited by design (because a proxy is a man-in-the-middle). And a caching HTTP proxy is really great for public repositories.
Also, HTTPS is supported in the client, it is just that most servers are HTTP-only.
Probably because you agreed to it by accepting the terms of service you didn't read.
How difficult would it be to drop listening devices in high traffic areas that listen for those tones, sending location information back to whoever? And that's just to augment other devices that might be infected with a listen-and-report app.
Pretty hard actually. Ultrasounds have short range and noisy area with plenty of moving obstacles isn't the best place to put such a system.
And smartphones have some form of filtering out of inaudible frequencies. Ultrasounds are considered useless, so why waste energy amplifying these signals. And why waste bitrate transmitting them digitally. Speakers working in the human hearing range don't like them either, it's like feeding the treble to a subwoofer.
Their goal is to compete with Apple.
They got the price, the locked down OS. Unfortunately, they weren't brave enough to remove the headphone jack.