It is also the county's biggest taxpayer, paying $56 million in the 2017-2018 tax year.
Let's see. Revenue of $229 billion for 2017 $.056 billion/ $229.23 billion = 0.02446% tax rate. Most individuals pay between 20-50% of their income (depending on the country). This is even more loony than the $200 campus. Can I buy your campus for $300 Apple -- you can make a 50% profit!
Why do application developers need recurring revenue from the application?
If I wrote a program for an iPhone in 2007, that's probably not going to run on modern iOS. Unlike Microsoft, Apple changes their software stack on a fairly regular basis.
As a developer, it's not worth it for me to maintain an app that maybe even a decent number of people still use every but who purchased it ten years ago when I can spend my time writing a new app and actually making money unless there's a bunch of new people buying it.
I also agree with the parent that Open Source fixes this problem..
Why don't we care about all the other countries and/or intenational groups or individuals that are also attempting the same stuff. Why not a single story that talks about anyone but Russia?
The goal of a union is whatever its members want -- higher salaries, more job security, making sure some lawyers don't walk away with our shares in a startup, etc.
One specific proposal: If members feel like H1Bs are basically indentured servitude, we can vote to make sure everyone makes the same money for the same job regardless of immigration status, which both protects our salaries and also benefits the engineers who do immigrate here.
Collective bargaining works for the same reason an army attacks together; not individual soldiers attacking on different days of every year.
The musical alphabet goes from A-G, each of which has a corresponding sharp (#) or flat (b). There simply isn't any Q#. And if there was, would it be the same as R?
As everyone knows, Unix was originally written in B#.
If this is "decentralized YouTube" then SVN and CVS are "decentralized version control". Every time people slap the word "decentralized" something (hi Diaspora) they mean something akin to sharding systems common to an MMO where you choose a server to play on and can only interact with other characters on that server -- which was done for performance reasons.
Git, on the other hand, is truly decentralized. No one's repo is more central than anyone else's by design. Doing social media this way is completely possible, but no one's done it yet...;)
Back before the days of cell phones, judges could give prosecutors the ability to (1) break into someone's house, (2) install a device like these and then collect data.
You could also take someone's smart phone, root it, and install a surveillance software (with the same due process above). Even with encryption, if I have access to your phone (and it's unlocked -- figuring out a 6 key pass-code by spying isn't exactly James Bond's hardest mission) I would have access to your private key to decrypt said messages.
What law enforcement wants here are not the old rights they've always had -- but new ones. As the late Antonin Scalia wrote for the unanimous court regarding the unconstitutionality of planting a GPS device without a warrant: “What we apply is an 18th century guarantee against unreasonable searches, which we believe must provide at a minimum the degree of protection it afforded when it was adopted,”
There's zero evidence our brains function like single core microprocessors. Lots of times inspiration or insights come at odd times -- shower inspirations have never resulted in anyone falling because we can't simultaneously have thoughts and use a shower. I would concede there's evidence that you can't use the same part of the brain for two different tasks. I can't listen to higher math lectures while programming but I can listen to music. And while I can listen to math lectures while practicing guitar, I can't practice guitar while not playing along with what I'm listening to. As a person with ADHD, I find it's helpful to have my every part of my brain engaged at all times. I've learned a a few new things about the history of our movement (Free Software/Open Source) by listening to a Tim O'Reilly interview while swimming because when my body is engaged, I can actually pay attention.
the virtues of erecting an open tent and near-sweatshop working conditions for their assembly lines
The engineers also get to work 80+ hours a week burn out fast. Tesla and Uber are having a contest about who can be the bigger asshole to their employees (and kill people with "self-driving" cars) and -- for now -- it looks like the investors are winning.
The entire point of Facebook is engagement. A bunch of people discussing whether the earth is round or not or whether vaccines cause autism really helps keep users checking Facebook as often as possible. Each button is carefully calibrated to express a reptilian emotion whose purpose is impossible to determine. Are you angered by the person's inflammatory rhetoric in a post, or is someone posting about something that makes you outraged? Who knows! Who cares! You're engaged! Facebook is like a shitty version of family/friend therapy where your everyone hates each other more but the therapist is happy because she got to show you some Viagra ads.
I've been working on an alternative for a little bit if anyone is interested. The central philosophy is basically that of the FSF: give users freedom and allow them to control the software they run.
Here's a nice chart explaining how income inequality was both solved and created. In the 20's/30's we had enormous income inequality -- even worse than today -- but workers organized, fought, died and voted together for their rights. As a results, union membership expands in the 40's,50's and income inequality goes down. Reagan -- who's first election win was as president of a labor union ironically -- dismantled unions and demonized them. Membership goes down, inequality goes up. None of this, of course, excludes the ability for their to be bad unions or union leaders any more than there are bad/corrupt judges in any judiciary. But instead, that just as a good judiciary is important for a functioning country, so is a good union system for income inequality. Which should make sense, as income inequality was literally the problem unions were created to solve.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Notice how the government doesn't give you these rights -- you have them regardless of whether the government recognizes them. I thought there used to be libertarians on/. who knew about such things? Also, we've haven't been defending freedom for a long time. Iraq/Afghanistan/Qatar (and Vietnam before) aren't places we can "defend" since they don't belong to us. It's simply "war".
The only major bills protecting rights which come to mind are the Civil Rights Acts, which barred racial discrimination. Of course, those were pushed by Republicans, with Democrats fighting against them, including a filibuster by Grand Dragon Robert Byrd, the only person Democrats elected to Congress for 55 years straight.
You're missing the part about it being Democrats introducing it, a Democratic president signing it, and how most (somehow Byrd stayed on) of the racists fled the Democrats into the waiting arms of the Republicans. The result was the openly racist Southern Strategy which persists as part of the GOP electoral map and campaign strategy to this day.
I did like the part about Byrd though -- didn't know that
Just a friendly reminder: No one is going to believe any story on Fox News who doesn't already agree with you. You should try finding a more neutral source if you want to convince people.
CUDA was first, fast, and runs well on Linux -- the primary platform of GPGPU engineers. OpenCL, on the other hand, can run on slower AMD based video cards. Your OS choices are Windows (less supported by the open source community), Linux (less supported by AMD's video driver), or on macOS (unsupported by Apple's hardware who's flagship server was last updated by Steve Jobs.) And if you're going to use NVivida hardware anyway, you may as well use CUDA.
How the fuck does the "locked down nature" of a typical phone - an irrelevant point to the discussion, anyhow - prevent you from using it to write code
Tell me, Mr. Andersonwhat good is a phone callif you're unable to speak?
Apple doesn't allow you to installer a compiler on your phone. Ergo, you can't write code that involves a compiler. I suppose you could backdoor the whole thing -- but it's also really annoying to write anything long (let alone code) on a touch screen keyboard.
...and for the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, you'll find that the GOP has made themselves the home of proud racists of all stripes and the Dixiecrats left the democrats to join the GOP. It's why the Southern Strategy has been central the any GOP presidential ambition.
It's like you're watching the American Revolution and saying "Wait a second, Benedict Arnold was on our side". Times, people and parties change.
Factory automation is different from self driving cars for several reasons (I've worked in both). While you certainly could create tests for detecting certain objects, road conditions, etc, the problem is that in FA the next state or states you get are highly predictable. If I tell a motor to move, it moves (or doesn't -- error). Simple.
By far, the HARDEST part about self-driving cars isn't the static road itself -- it's other drivers. Anyone who's ever driven in America knows this. Most accidents are between vehicles. I'm unconvinced you could ever automate that testing as you'd basically have to create an infinite number of AIs which simulate stupid, distracted, and/or drunk drivers. That is of course, in addition to the AI you're already writing to do the job well -- which creates a circular dependency.
Thus, the only alternative is to test on the road, with other drivers, with some automated testing in the perception and certain other components.
You can find how we got to 1984 in the book -- you just have to look.
The never-ending war between Oceana and Eurasia/Eastasia was justification for the erosion of civil liberties. Since it was perpetual, no civil rights ever returned under the guise of helping winning the war.
If Orwell would have seen just a little more clearly, he would have called this war "the war on terrorism".
Yeah. The problem with "Don't be evil" is that it doesn't necessarily create good; a dystopia relies not so much on the presence or dominance of evil, but rather than absence of the good.
The real irony is that China was founded on a worker's revolt and broad support of the ruling coalition among the lower classes and that over the years -- through corruption and graft -- it's lost any pretense of standing for worker's rights or indeed any rights other than for those in power and with wealth.
Conservatives love law enforcement at every level. They make up the bulk of the FBI/CIA (neither has ever had a Democrat lead it),. Sure, there's libertarians who aren't a fan of law enforcement, but that's because they're liberal (it's right in the name) on issues of personal rights.
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It is also the county's biggest taxpayer, paying $56 million in the 2017-2018 tax year.
Let's see. Revenue of $229 billion for 2017 $.056 billion/ $229.23 billion = 0.02446% tax rate. Most individuals pay between 20-50% of their income (depending on the country). This is even more loony than the $200 campus. Can I buy your campus for $300 Apple -- you can make a 50% profit!
Why do application developers need recurring revenue from the application?
If I wrote a program for an iPhone in 2007, that's probably not going to run on modern iOS. Unlike Microsoft, Apple changes their software stack on a fairly regular basis.
As a developer, it's not worth it for me to maintain an app that maybe even a decent number of people still use every but who purchased it ten years ago when I can spend my time writing a new app and actually making money unless there's a bunch of new people buying it.
I also agree with the parent that Open Source fixes this problem..
Why don't we care about all the other countries and/or intenational groups or individuals that are also attempting the same stuff. Why not a single story that talks about anyone but Russia?
Why not change the subject with a Russian propaganda technique?
The goal of a union is whatever its members want -- higher salaries, more job security, making sure some lawyers don't walk away with our shares in a startup, etc.
One specific proposal: If members feel like H1Bs are basically indentured servitude, we can vote to make sure everyone makes the same money for the same job regardless of immigration status, which both protects our salaries and also benefits the engineers who do immigrate here.
Collective bargaining works for the same reason an army attacks together; not individual soldiers attacking on different days of every year.
The musical alphabet goes from A-G, each of which has a corresponding sharp (#) or flat (b). There simply isn't any Q#. And if there was, would it be the same as R?
As everyone knows, Unix was originally written in B#.
If this is "decentralized YouTube" then SVN and CVS are "decentralized version control". Every time people slap the word "decentralized" something (hi Diaspora) they mean something akin to sharding systems common to an MMO where you choose a server to play on and can only interact with other characters on that server -- which was done for performance reasons.
Git, on the other hand, is truly decentralized. No one's repo is more central than anyone else's by design. Doing social media this way is completely possible, but no one's done it yet...;)
Back before the days of cell phones, judges could give prosecutors the ability to (1) break into someone's house, (2) install a device like these and then collect data.
You could also take someone's smart phone, root it, and install a surveillance software (with the same due process above). Even with encryption, if I have access to your phone (and it's unlocked -- figuring out a 6 key pass-code by spying isn't exactly James Bond's hardest mission) I would have access to your private key to decrypt said messages.
What law enforcement wants here are not the old rights they've always had -- but new ones. As the late Antonin Scalia wrote for the unanimous court regarding the unconstitutionality of planting a GPS device without a warrant:
“What we apply is an 18th century guarantee against unreasonable searches, which we believe must provide at a minimum the degree of protection it afforded when it was adopted,”
There's zero evidence our brains function like single core microprocessors. Lots of times inspiration or insights come at odd times -- shower inspirations have never resulted in anyone falling because we can't simultaneously have thoughts and use a shower. I would concede there's evidence that you can't use the same part of the brain for two different tasks. I can't listen to higher math lectures while programming but I can listen to music. And while I can listen to math lectures while practicing guitar, I can't practice guitar while not playing along with what I'm listening to.
As a person with ADHD, I find it's helpful to have my every part of my brain engaged at all times. I've learned a a few new things about the history of our movement (Free Software/Open Source) by listening to a Tim O'Reilly interview while swimming because when my body is engaged, I can actually pay attention.
the virtues of erecting an open tent and near-sweatshop working conditions for their assembly lines
The engineers also get to work 80+ hours a week burn out fast. Tesla and Uber are having a contest about who can be the bigger asshole to their employees (and kill people with "self-driving" cars) and -- for now -- it looks like the investors are winning.
The entire point of Facebook is engagement. A bunch of people discussing whether the earth is round or not or whether vaccines cause autism really helps keep users checking Facebook as often as possible. Each button is carefully calibrated to express a reptilian emotion whose purpose is impossible to determine. Are you angered by the person's inflammatory rhetoric in a post, or is someone posting about something that makes you outraged? Who knows! Who cares! You're engaged!
Facebook is like a shitty version of family/friend therapy where your everyone hates each other more but the therapist is happy because she got to show you some Viagra ads.
He was just trying to pull a Levandowski. All he has to do now is found a new self-driving car company. in China.
Or maybe this act was done on Levandowski's behalf....
I've been working on an alternative for a little bit if anyone is interested. The central philosophy is basically that of the FSF: give users freedom and allow them to control the software they run.
Here's a nice chart explaining how income inequality was both solved and created. In the 20's/30's we had enormous income inequality -- even worse than today -- but workers organized, fought, died and voted together for their rights. As a results, union membership expands in the 40's,50's and income inequality goes down. Reagan -- who's first election win was as president of a labor union ironically -- dismantled unions and demonized them. Membership goes down, inequality goes up.
None of this, of course, excludes the ability for their to be bad unions or union leaders any more than there are bad/corrupt judges in any judiciary. But instead, that just as a good judiciary is important for a functioning country, so is a good union system for income inequality. Which should make sense, as income inequality was literally the problem unions were created to solve.
If I have two plants at home and they spawn a seed with similar genetics, am I going to get sued for some patent violation?
Monsanto has been trying educate bees on copyright law for several years -- they've been spreading the round-up ready gene all over the place.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Notice how the government doesn't give you these rights -- you have them regardless of whether the government recognizes them. I thought there used to be libertarians on /. who knew about such things? Also, we've haven't been defending freedom for a long time. Iraq/Afghanistan/Qatar (and Vietnam before) aren't places we can "defend" since they don't belong to us. It's simply "war".
The only major bills protecting rights which come to mind are the Civil Rights Acts, which barred racial discrimination. Of course, those were pushed by Republicans, with Democrats fighting against them, including a filibuster by Grand Dragon Robert Byrd, the only person Democrats elected to Congress for 55 years straight.
You're missing the part about it being Democrats introducing it, a Democratic president signing it, and how most (somehow Byrd stayed on) of the racists fled the Democrats into the waiting arms of the Republicans. The result was the openly racist Southern Strategy which persists as part of the GOP electoral map and campaign strategy to this day.
I did like the part about Byrd though -- didn't know that
Just a friendly reminder:
No one is going to believe any story on Fox News who doesn't already agree with you. You should try finding a more neutral source if you want to convince people.
OpenCL really never took off though.
CUDA was first, fast, and runs well on Linux -- the primary platform of GPGPU engineers. OpenCL, on the other hand, can run on slower AMD based video cards. Your OS choices are Windows (less supported by the open source community), Linux (less supported by AMD's video driver), or on macOS (unsupported by Apple's hardware who's flagship server was last updated by Steve Jobs.) And if you're going to use NVivida hardware anyway, you may as well use CUDA.
How the fuck does the "locked down nature" of a typical phone - an irrelevant point to the discussion, anyhow - prevent you from using it to write code
Tell me, Mr. Andersonwhat good is a phone callif you're unable to speak?
Apple doesn't allow you to installer a compiler on your phone. Ergo, you can't write code that involves a compiler. I suppose you could backdoor the whole thing -- but it's also really annoying to write anything long (let alone code) on a touch screen keyboard.
...and for the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, you'll find that the GOP has made themselves the home of proud racists of all stripes and the Dixiecrats left the democrats to join the GOP. It's why the Southern Strategy has been central the any GOP presidential ambition.
It's like you're watching the American Revolution and saying "Wait a second, Benedict Arnold was on our side". Times, people and parties change.
Factory automation is different from self driving cars for several reasons (I've worked in both). While you certainly could create tests for detecting certain objects, road conditions, etc, the problem is that in FA the next state or states you get are highly predictable. If I tell a motor to move, it moves (or doesn't -- error). Simple.
By far, the HARDEST part about self-driving cars isn't the static road itself -- it's other drivers. Anyone who's ever driven in America knows this. Most accidents are between vehicles. I'm unconvinced you could ever automate that testing as you'd basically have to create an infinite number of AIs which simulate stupid, distracted, and/or drunk drivers. That is of course, in addition to the AI you're already writing to do the job well -- which creates a circular dependency.
Thus, the only alternative is to test on the road, with other drivers, with some automated testing in the perception and certain other components.
You can find how we got to 1984 in the book -- you just have to look.
The never-ending war between Oceana and Eurasia/Eastasia was justification for the erosion of civil liberties. Since it was perpetual, no civil rights ever returned under the guise of helping winning the war.
If Orwell would have seen just a little more clearly, he would have called this war "the war on terrorism".
Yeah. The problem with "Don't be evil" is that it doesn't necessarily create good; a dystopia relies not so much on the presence or dominance of evil, but rather than absence of the good.
Not sure why this is a joke.
Union participation has a strong correlation with a more equitable distribution between workers and investors (as measured by the Gini coefficient).
The real irony is that China was founded on a worker's revolt and broad support of the ruling coalition among the lower classes and that over the years -- through corruption and graft -- it's lost any pretense of standing for worker's rights or indeed any rights other than for those in power and with wealth.
What are you talking about?
Conservatives love law enforcement at every level. They make up the bulk of the FBI/CIA (neither has ever had a Democrat lead it),. Sure, there's libertarians who aren't a fan of law enforcement, but that's because they're liberal (it's right in the name) on issues of personal rights.
From blackmailing MLK to kill himself to overthrowing popularly elected (leftist) governments in other countries, liberals are generally not fans of law enforcement (or the military) at any level.