So nowadays, you need to talk about climate change in some way to get a grant? What's next? - Accurate rendering of underwater caustics in the context of raising sea levels - High efficiency airplane control surfaces and the effect of CO2 on aerodynamic drag - Melting tungsten and how global warming may reduce the required temperature differential - How crossing the even horizon of a black hole may affect climate
Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
Uhm... it explains why it looks consistent at first but try to access it later and it becomes full of garbage. A common bug, someone probably returned a pointer to a local variable.
I live in France and let me tell you that it amazes me how low taxes are in the US. We are on the top of the list for income taxes but I suspect we are on top in other areas. VAT is 20%, if you own property, about half of the rent value typically goes to tax (property, city, income,...). Requirements like the backflow valve inspections and all that stuff. You bet we have these too.
All this to say that the "hidden" part probably matches the visible part and that the taxes in the US are indeed rather low. And yeah, at least some of the tax money actually serve the people. We have generally good social service, healthcare, and government pensions. But it doesn't change the fact that France, and most of Europe for that matter, is taxed a lot more than the US.
The option is to check-in early. Premium tickets and passengers with special needs get priority, then the rule is usually first-come, first-served. By arriving early you may even get the option of voluntarily taking the next flight for a significant compensation or keep your seat. For those who arrive late, it is no longer voluntary.
I'd even go further and say it is a mild form of embezzlement, corruption, or at least some kind of fraud. Employees travel on their company's account and get miles on their personal account. It means they essentially get to use company's money for themselves. Companies are usually OK with it as it is essentially an undeclared perk, and we are back to tax evasion. The reason it is corruption is that when employees get to plan travels for themselves, what airlines do is essentially pay these employees personally in order to influence the way they spend their company's money.
AlphaGo is much more human-like than chess programs. It can go very deep very quickly down the game tree, possibly down to the very end. It eventually goes back up to explore other options as much as time allows it. It uses neural networks and randomness to select moves that "look good". Neural networks are first trained using databases of human games then follow up by competing against itself. It essentially plays like a tireless human with perfect focus. This is in contrast to chess AIs that analyse every single turn in order to find the optimal solution according to some predefined heuristics.
As for humans doing something strategically novel, I don't count on it. For chess, it worked for a time until heuristics were perfected but it turned out humans are no match for raw computing power. With machine learning, the odds are even less for humans. AlphaGo learned thousands of years of go in a couple of years. It will assimilate the new strategy in no time.
"Because we're idiots" is evading the question. That some people are idiots, OK, I get it. Some people have crippling diseases, others are idiots, you can't always win at the genetic lottery. But when idiocy is the norm, then there is a problem. Normally, these traits should be selected out by evolution, and it is often interesting to know why that one stayed. Is it pure chance? is it because it co-exists with another beneficial trait? does it offer some competitive advantage?
Understanding why we are idiots often has very interesting results, and often we find out that we aren't actually idiots.
People are already selling lifetime to others in exchange for money. It's called a job. It that sense, sleeping would become a job. In that context, getting the positive effects of sleep out of nothing would be like robotisation. A net benefit but it would put sleepers out of a job.
Don't mix the gig economy and smartphones. Smartphones allow better management of a car fleet. You don't need smartphones to make money driving people. Just put a "taxi" sign on your car and pick up passengers. The first part is no problem. The second one is illegal without a license. Uber does both in one package. Maybe the law is adapted to the gig economy but smartphones, internet and the GPS have nothing to do with it.
It is not about being bitchy or anything. You can ask for a raise as much as you want, if you don't show the other party any good reason why they should give you a raise, it won't work. Merit isn't a good reason. If your boss judges that he can keep you doing great job for him without paying you more, he won't pay you more no matter how good you are or how underpaid you are. Typically, it means that if you ask for a raise, you must be ready do leave if you don't have it, or at least appear like it. If you don't, you will appear as bitchy, no matter your gender.
Commas don't have their place in numbers, they can mean too many things. - Decimal point in some countries - Digit group in some other countries - Separator between numbers - Their usual meaning in a sentence
It can often be deduced from the context but there are cases like that where it is not obvious. It is worse when software is involved.
It is a risk,cost/reward analysis, something most animals including humans can do quite effectively from instinct alone. What you enumerate are mostly the risks and costs. However, the calorie content of the mammoth makes the reward really high, and thus, high risk is appropriate.
Of course they don't have an table with the calorie content of each specie but they should have a good idea about how well each one can feed the tribe.
It is not the console, it's the game, and it is also available on the WiiU. It is slightly less beautiful and slightly less fluid but it doesn't affect the gameplay.
As for RSI, I don't know how the Switch controllers compare to the WiiU controllers. Being the older system, you have more choice on the WiiU so it may be the better option.
Seriously, developing is not very exciting to the casual audience. You are not going to make a movie about a totally unremarkable guy fixing misaligned text. And even if we take the most excited stuff, like a rocket engine control software, the development process is quite boring, probably even more so than the one involving misaligned text. It is tedious process with a lot of testing. And in case of emergency it becomes a tedious process with less testing and less sleep.
Characters are here to serve the plot and their job is just a mean to an end. When filmmakers portray a hoodie type developer, they don't actually want to portray a developer. They want a recluse character, genius type, manipulating the world from the shadows. In a fantasy setting, it would be a wizard, in modern days, it is a hoodie developer. It is the same for most jobs. Librarians are usually here because the plot calls for a guardian of knowledge characters. An electrician is convenient because he is a stranger invited in other people's homes, though plumbers are often preferred. Lawyers make great detectives and animate trials, doctors naturally follow wounded heroes, etc... They pick the stereotype first and assign the job after.
That job stereotypes develop around this is an unfortunate consequence, but if it help make better fiction, I won't blame filmmakers for this.
The reason this insurance is only for the rich : it is prohibitively expensive. For someone who has more than $1M in assets, insurance is already expensive, and so they can easily scare people with cyber horror stories into paying 10-15% more. After all, they are rich, they can pay. The "exclusive" stuff is a marketing tactic to make these rich customers feel special, and maybe more targeted, and more ready to pay. But it is a much harder sell on average people. The risk is comparable, attacks are usually indiscriminate, and ransomware ask for a fixed sum. So it means that if you have a more typical home insurance, it could double the premium before the insurance company can expect a profit. And they probably judged that the average person won't pay. It it turns out that normal people also want to get ripped off like the rich, they will arrange it.
And what if you watch porn? Many porn sites actually care about your privacy. And if you are watching porn... well, it just means you are normal... 75% of American people do at least monthly.
AFAIK there is no "HTML-DRM". EME (the W3C DRM standard) only applies to media, not to the page structure. You can still access to DOM, block HTTP requests and do all the cleanup that ad-blockers do. You may not be able to modify the pictures or videos on the fly (but you could block or replace them). AFAIK, no "webpage cleaner" modifies media. Technically what EME (the DRM standard in question) does is that if provides an API for deciphering and displaying protected media. The layout and network part is still done by the browser, no change here. In fact making the browser stay in control is the primary motivation for that W3C recommendation. As for the legal part, DRM doesn't change anything. The only aspect that matters would be in case DRM is circumvented, but as I said before, no circumvention is required to cleanup EME enabled pages.
It is definitely possible but probably inefficient and a bit laggy.
I remember with a coworker we even developed an email based HTTP proxy to bypass a restrictive company policy. We had no internet access, only email, so the system worked like this : a local proxy server takes a request, puts it in an email which is sent to an external server that decodes the message, fetches the page and send it back as a reply, the proxy forwards it to the browser. The round trip took about 10 seconds on a good day.
You don't buy a TV from the cable company, you don't buy a computer from your ISP, so why should you buy a smartphone from your carrier? The subsidized phone model is a relic from the pre-smartphone days and more and more people are turning away from it.
So buy your own phone full price and if you like Verizon, get an unsubsidized plan from Verizon.
I know that immigration is supposedly the trigger for Brexit. However I don't see it as a convincing argument. First of all, the UK is not part of Schengen so it already takes care of its borders. In fact France is helping the UK keeping refugees at bay by not letting them cross the channel. Second, a significant part of all that's related to human rights and refugees are actually from the UN, not the EU. And the UK has no intention of leaving the UN. Everything military is more about NATO than the EU.
Once we remove things covered by other treaties and what the UK didn't sign, what remain is mostly related to trade. And about trade, the UK skipped the big one : the Euro. In fact I'm wondering if the UK was really part of the EU to begin with.
Humanity has existed for millions of years without electricity and antibiotics. I still think we are better with it than without it. The world different from 1000 years ago. No country, especially not the UK, is self-sufficient. Trade agreements are a necessity. And guess what, the EU is, as its core, a trade agreement. By leaving the EU, the UK will have to renegotiate every necessary agreement included in the EU package. It will be a tedious and costly process for maybe just getting back to the current situation but without the flag.
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So nowadays, you need to talk about climate change in some way to get a grant? What's next?
- Accurate rendering of underwater caustics in the context of raising sea levels
- High efficiency airplane control surfaces and the effect of CO2 on aerodynamic drag
- Melting tungsten and how global warming may reduce the required temperature differential
- How crossing the even horizon of a black hole may affect climate
Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
Uhm... it explains why it looks consistent at first but try to access it later and it becomes full of garbage.
A common bug, someone probably returned a pointer to a local variable.
I discovered this the hard way showing up to a 12 hour Hainan Airlines flight to Beijing with nothing but a Note 4 and a few spare batteries.
At least, it wasn't a Note 7.
I live in France and let me tell you that it amazes me how low taxes are in the US. ...). Requirements like the backflow valve inspections and all that stuff. You bet we have these too.
We are on the top of the list for income taxes but I suspect we are on top in other areas. VAT is 20%, if you own property, about half of the rent value typically goes to tax (property, city, income,
All this to say that the "hidden" part probably matches the visible part and that the taxes in the US are indeed rather low.
And yeah, at least some of the tax money actually serve the people. We have generally good social service, healthcare, and government pensions. But it doesn't change the fact that France, and most of Europe for that matter, is taxed a lot more than the US.
The option is to check-in early.
Premium tickets and passengers with special needs get priority, then the rule is usually first-come, first-served.
By arriving early you may even get the option of voluntarily taking the next flight for a significant compensation or keep your seat. For those who arrive late, it is no longer voluntary.
I'd even go further and say it is a mild form of embezzlement, corruption, or at least some kind of fraud.
Employees travel on their company's account and get miles on their personal account. It means they essentially get to use company's money for themselves. Companies are usually OK with it as it is essentially an undeclared perk, and we are back to tax evasion.
The reason it is corruption is that when employees get to plan travels for themselves, what airlines do is essentially pay these employees personally in order to influence the way they spend their company's money.
AlphaGo is much more human-like than chess programs.
It can go very deep very quickly down the game tree, possibly down to the very end. It eventually goes back up to explore other options as much as time allows it. It uses neural networks and randomness to select moves that "look good". Neural networks are first trained using databases of human games then follow up by competing against itself. It essentially plays like a tireless human with perfect focus.
This is in contrast to chess AIs that analyse every single turn in order to find the optimal solution according to some predefined heuristics.
As for humans doing something strategically novel, I don't count on it. For chess, it worked for a time until heuristics were perfected but it turned out humans are no match for raw computing power. With machine learning, the odds are even less for humans. AlphaGo learned thousands of years of go in a couple of years. It will assimilate the new strategy in no time.
"Because we're idiots" is evading the question.
That some people are idiots, OK, I get it. Some people have crippling diseases, others are idiots, you can't always win at the genetic lottery.
But when idiocy is the norm, then there is a problem. Normally, these traits should be selected out by evolution, and it is often interesting to know why that one stayed. Is it pure chance? is it because it co-exists with another beneficial trait? does it offer some competitive advantage?
Understanding why we are idiots often has very interesting results, and often we find out that we aren't actually idiots.
People are already selling lifetime to others in exchange for money. It's called a job.
It that sense, sleeping would become a job. In that context, getting the positive effects of sleep out of nothing would be like robotisation. A net benefit but it would put sleepers out of a job.
Don't mix the gig economy and smartphones.
Smartphones allow better management of a car fleet.
You don't need smartphones to make money driving people. Just put a "taxi" sign on your car and pick up passengers.
The first part is no problem. The second one is illegal without a license. Uber does both in one package.
Maybe the law is adapted to the gig economy but smartphones, internet and the GPS have nothing to do with it.
It is not about being bitchy or anything.
You can ask for a raise as much as you want, if you don't show the other party any good reason why they should give you a raise, it won't work. Merit isn't a good reason. If your boss judges that he can keep you doing great job for him without paying you more, he won't pay you more no matter how good you are or how underpaid you are.
Typically, it means that if you ask for a raise, you must be ready do leave if you don't have it, or at least appear like it. If you don't, you will appear as bitchy, no matter your gender.
Commas don't have their place in numbers, they can mean too many things.
- Decimal point in some countries
- Digit group in some other countries
- Separator between numbers
- Their usual meaning in a sentence
It can often be deduced from the context but there are cases like that where it is not obvious. It is worse when software is involved.
It is a risk,cost/reward analysis, something most animals including humans can do quite effectively from instinct alone.
What you enumerate are mostly the risks and costs. However, the calorie content of the mammoth makes the reward really high, and thus, high risk is appropriate.
Of course they don't have an table with the calorie content of each specie but they should have a good idea about how well each one can feed the tribe.
It is not the console, it's the game, and it is also available on the WiiU.
It is slightly less beautiful and slightly less fluid but it doesn't affect the gameplay.
As for RSI, I don't know how the Switch controllers compare to the WiiU controllers. Being the older system, you have more choice on the WiiU so it may be the better option.
Seriously, developing is not very exciting to the casual audience. You are not going to make a movie about a totally unremarkable guy fixing misaligned text. And even if we take the most excited stuff, like a rocket engine control software, the development process is quite boring, probably even more so than the one involving misaligned text. It is tedious process with a lot of testing. And in case of emergency it becomes a tedious process with less testing and less sleep.
Characters are here to serve the plot and their job is just a mean to an end. When filmmakers portray a hoodie type developer, they don't actually want to portray a developer. They want a recluse character, genius type, manipulating the world from the shadows. In a fantasy setting, it would be a wizard, in modern days, it is a hoodie developer. It is the same for most jobs. Librarians are usually here because the plot calls for a guardian of knowledge characters. An electrician is convenient because he is a stranger invited in other people's homes, though plumbers are often preferred.
Lawyers make great detectives and animate trials, doctors naturally follow wounded heroes, etc... They pick the stereotype first and assign the job after.
That job stereotypes develop around this is an unfortunate consequence, but if it help make better fiction, I won't blame filmmakers for this.
The reason this insurance is only for the rich : it is prohibitively expensive.
For someone who has more than $1M in assets, insurance is already expensive, and so they can easily scare people with cyber horror stories into paying 10-15% more. After all, they are rich, they can pay. The "exclusive" stuff is a marketing tactic to make these rich customers feel special, and maybe more targeted, and more ready to pay.
But it is a much harder sell on average people. The risk is comparable, attacks are usually indiscriminate, and ransomware ask for a fixed sum. So it means that if you have a more typical home insurance, it could double the premium before the insurance company can expect a profit. And they probably judged that the average person won't pay.
It it turns out that normal people also want to get ripped off like the rich, they will arrange it.
So why don't you just short sell Tesla and get rich?
My parents like to road trip and they use a regular looking cargo van for that very reason.
RVs are harassed much too often.
And what if you watch porn?
Many porn sites actually care about your privacy.
And if you are watching porn... well, it just means you are normal... 75% of American people do at least monthly.
AFAIK there is no "HTML-DRM". EME (the W3C DRM standard) only applies to media, not to the page structure. You can still access to DOM, block HTTP requests and do all the cleanup that ad-blockers do. You may not be able to modify the pictures or videos on the fly (but you could block or replace them). AFAIK, no "webpage cleaner" modifies media.
Technically what EME (the DRM standard in question) does is that if provides an API for deciphering and displaying protected media. The layout and network part is still done by the browser, no change here. In fact making the browser stay in control is the primary motivation for that W3C recommendation.
As for the legal part, DRM doesn't change anything. The only aspect that matters would be in case DRM is circumvented, but as I said before, no circumvention is required to cleanup EME enabled pages.
It is definitely possible but probably inefficient and a bit laggy.
I remember with a coworker we even developed an email based HTTP proxy to bypass a restrictive company policy. We had no internet access, only email, so the system worked like this : a local proxy server takes a request, puts it in an email which is sent to an external server that decodes the message, fetches the page and send it back as a reply, the proxy forwards it to the browser. The round trip took about 10 seconds on a good day.
Hearing "hashtag include" for "#include" directives in C code is particularly cringeworthy.
You don't buy a TV from the cable company, you don't buy a computer from your ISP, so why should you buy a smartphone from your carrier?
The subsidized phone model is a relic from the pre-smartphone days and more and more people are turning away from it.
So buy your own phone full price and if you like Verizon, get an unsubsidized plan from Verizon.
I know that immigration is supposedly the trigger for Brexit. However I don't see it as a convincing argument.
First of all, the UK is not part of Schengen so it already takes care of its borders. In fact France is helping the UK keeping refugees at bay by not letting them cross the channel.
Second, a significant part of all that's related to human rights and refugees are actually from the UN, not the EU. And the UK has no intention of leaving the UN.
Everything military is more about NATO than the EU.
Once we remove things covered by other treaties and what the UK didn't sign, what remain is mostly related to trade. And about trade, the UK skipped the big one : the Euro. In fact I'm wondering if the UK was really part of the EU to begin with.
Humanity has existed for millions of years without electricity and antibiotics. I still think we are better with it than without it.
The world different from 1000 years ago. No country, especially not the UK, is self-sufficient. Trade agreements are a necessity. And guess what, the EU is, as its core, a trade agreement.
By leaving the EU, the UK will have to renegotiate every necessary agreement included in the EU package. It will be a tedious and costly process for maybe just getting back to the current situation but without the flag.