What are the odds that the best candidate for a board position ends up being a man 10 times in a row? Women make up 50% of the population, and men aren't inherently more skillful or educated than women, so if you randomize an M or F over 10 iterations, how can all 10 be M?
You're right. The election will be such a joke that you and all your liberal buddies should just stay home. You guys got this. Seriously. Just stay home. It won't matter.
Liberals are typically well educated and good at critical thinking (certainly better than conservatives. After all, being a conservative by definition means you've chosen not to think for yourself but to go along with what your ancestors thought). As a result, you can be assured that most liberals realize what an incredibly bad president Trump would be. Indescribably bad. Probably the worst in all of American history. They will show up to vote against him.
Hell, have you seen how many conservatives are against Trump too? He's going to lose by such a landslide.
So the other day, my internet was very slow, I did a speed test on speedtest.net, and it reported about 25Mpbs, which is exactly what my internet is supposed to be.
But it didn't seem right, because every site was painfully slow. So I went to speedof.me and did a speed test, and I was getting like 1.5Mbps, which was definitely more accurate.
The other day I overheard a Comcast commercial where they mentioned that they're number 1 on speedtest.net. So, I came to the very obvious conclusion that Comcast deliberately makes sure to un-throttle your internet when doing a speedtest on speedtest.net (and who knows where else).
John Oliver did a show last year where he mentioned that Tom Wheeler, head of the FCC, was a former telecom lobbyist. He then said that it was like hiring a dingo to watch over your baby.
Tom Wheeler responded by saying he was not a dingo.
I guess he was speaking metaphorically and literally when he said that.
When your PC is self-built and maintained with upgrades as needed, it's hard to tell the age of it. I got one part in it that's only like a year old, but I got a secondary HDD in there that's from the last decade.
Why should the race always be to the swift, or the Jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well I say, "Cheating is the gift man gives himself."
I think that he did think he knew how to break into an iPhone. But then after his interview, he found out that breaking into a modern mobile device is not the same as breaking into a computer back in the 80s and 90s, so he's just trying to save face.
I lived in a town with municipal internet. It was wonderful. My up/down speeds were synchronous, I didn't have to buy my own modem (or lease one for 10 bucks a month), and here comes the kicker: If I had a problem and had to call them, I talked to an actual person. No machine, no waiting on hold, just a person picked up on the other end of the line. A person who was even competent enough to perform basic tasks, like renewing my IP address.
I had Sprint back from 2011-2013. The data was so slow, when I first signed up I called them a few times, wondering what was wrong, because there was just no way that the data could actually be that slow. Over the next two years, I had developed a somewhat perverted fascination with the slowness of Sprint's network. I ran speed tests all the time just to see those 50-130 kbps speeds (that's bits, not bytes). It's like when you have a sore in your mouth, and you keep touching it with your tongue just to verify that it still hurts.
And yes, that was the speed I consistently saw. It doesn't matter if it was in the morning, afternoon, or 2AM. It was always around those speeds. It doesn't matter if I was on the east coast of florida, west coast, or in central florida. My phone at the time could use their WiMax network, which did get good speed, but it was the most useless technology ever. It basically didn't work unless you were standing right in front of a cell tower.
I then switched to T-Mobile. The first thing I did was run a speed test. I saw 12Mpbs.
This type of comment is always inevitable any time Simpsons gets mentioned in an online community.
No one denies that 3-9 was the golden age of the Simpsons. However 10-12 was the dark age of the simpsons. This was when Mike Scully ran the show; it had become very cartoony and "Family Guy"ish (maybe not so much with the cut-away gags, but in how it will compromise character integrity for the sake of a punch line). Around season 13 Al Jean rejoined the show as the showrunner, and the quality went back up. He was one of the original writers/show runners of the show.
So yes, Simpsons is not as good as it was in it golden years—I'm not sure if anything on TV is—but I think it's unfair to downright say it's bad now. It's a decent show, and still leagues better than Family Guy, at least. (I'm not sure why I'm suddenly comparing it to Family Guy—maybe it's because I hate Family Guy).
And before anyone points it out, yes, I'm aware of the irony that my signature comes from a Mike Scully episode of the Simpsons.
John Oliver once said having a former telecom lobbyist be the chairman of the FCC was like having a dingo babysit your baby. Wheeler responded to this by saying "I am not a dingo"
I always wondered if that had like a double meaning.
I think if someone were to create a simulation model of a truly free market with no regulation, and seed it with hundreds (thousands) of little businesses to start with, given enough time, you'll end up single monopoly that controls every industry, service, and product.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable, since ads pay for a lot of stuff. People also don't want to have to directly pay for things (plus, could you imagine if every website was paywalled?)
Seems to me that the best solution is to just run unintrusive ads. People don't really mind ads all that much, they just hate it when they're noisy (literally and metaphorically) and get in the way
His point is that "food science" is confusing and everybody is an expert who knows everything. Look at this discussion, for example. Every post starts with "The problem is..." or "No, the problem is actually..." Basically, everybody chiming in because they have it figured out
One person will tell you that eating whole grains is good, because they have complex carbs and fiber that will help you lower your cholesterol.
But then another person will tell you that whole grains are bad, because they have phytic acid which will rob you of nutrients and make your teeth rot.
Then someone will tell you that all you simply have to do is burn more calories than you consume, to create an energy deficit (and thus burn fat)
But then someone will tell you that your body will refuse to let go of certain fat because it acts as a storage device for toxins, so you need to cleanse with nutrient-rich food to lose weight.
One person will scream low carbs is the key.
Then another person corrects them, stating that simple carbs are bad, and complex carbs are good.
Yet another will state that fatty oils should be avoided, unless it's olive oil because everybody knows olive oil is healthy, just look how skinny the mediterranean people are!
This goes on and on. Everybody is an expert on health, and yet there's still obesity and health problems run amok. Personally, I think food is a very complex thing that we're not close to understanding. The best thing is to just eat like a dumb human animal, eating fruits, mushrooms, nuts and seeds, vegetables, whatever you can grab with your amazing human hands. Maybe occasionally, after lots and lots of running, you can eat some meat too.
I must *really* not be a car guy, but I just don't understand the appeal of engine noise. I hear an ICS engine roaring and all I can think is "That ancient technology is really struggling with its task."
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What are the odds that the best candidate for a board position ends up being a man 10 times in a row? Women make up 50% of the population, and men aren't inherently more skillful or educated than women, so if you randomize an M or F over 10 iterations, how can all 10 be M?
Last time I used Maven, all it could do was manage my java libraries.
You're right. The election will be such a joke that you and all your liberal buddies should just stay home. You guys got this. Seriously. Just stay home. It won't matter.
Liberals are typically well educated and good at critical thinking (certainly better than conservatives. After all, being a conservative by definition means you've chosen not to think for yourself but to go along with what your ancestors thought). As a result, you can be assured that most liberals realize what an incredibly bad president Trump would be. Indescribably bad. Probably the worst in all of American history. They will show up to vote against him.
Hell, have you seen how many conservatives are against Trump too? He's going to lose by such a landslide.
So the other day, my internet was very slow, I did a speed test on speedtest.net, and it reported about 25Mpbs, which is exactly what my internet is supposed to be.
But it didn't seem right, because every site was painfully slow. So I went to speedof.me and did a speed test, and I was getting like 1.5Mbps, which was definitely more accurate.
The other day I overheard a Comcast commercial where they mentioned that they're number 1 on speedtest.net. So, I came to the very obvious conclusion that Comcast deliberately makes sure to un-throttle your internet when doing a speedtest on speedtest.net (and who knows where else).
John Oliver did a show last year where he mentioned that Tom Wheeler, head of the FCC, was a former telecom lobbyist. He then said that it was like hiring a dingo to watch over your baby.
Tom Wheeler responded by saying he was not a dingo.
I guess he was speaking metaphorically and literally when he said that.
When your PC is self-built and maintained with upgrades as needed, it's hard to tell the age of it. I got one part in it that's only like a year old, but I got a secondary HDD in there that's from the last decade.
Why should the race always be to the swift, or the Jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well I say, "Cheating is the gift man gives himself."
I think that he did think he knew how to break into an iPhone. But then after his interview, he found out that breaking into a modern mobile device is not the same as breaking into a computer back in the 80s and 90s, so he's just trying to save face.
I lived in a town with municipal internet. It was wonderful. My up/down speeds were synchronous, I didn't have to buy my own modem (or lease one for 10 bucks a month), and here comes the kicker: If I had a problem and had to call them, I talked to an actual person. No machine, no waiting on hold, just a person picked up on the other end of the line. A person who was even competent enough to perform basic tasks, like renewing my IP address.
I had Sprint back from 2011-2013. The data was so slow, when I first signed up I called them a few times, wondering what was wrong, because there was just no way that the data could actually be that slow. Over the next two years, I had developed a somewhat perverted fascination with the slowness of Sprint's network. I ran speed tests all the time just to see those 50-130 kbps speeds (that's bits, not bytes). It's like when you have a sore in your mouth, and you keep touching it with your tongue just to verify that it still hurts.
And yes, that was the speed I consistently saw. It doesn't matter if it was in the morning, afternoon, or 2AM. It was always around those speeds. It doesn't matter if I was on the east coast of florida, west coast, or in central florida. My phone at the time could use their WiMax network, which did get good speed, but it was the most useless technology ever. It basically didn't work unless you were standing right in front of a cell tower.
I then switched to T-Mobile. The first thing I did was run a speed test. I saw 12Mpbs.
This type of comment is always inevitable any time Simpsons gets mentioned in an online community.
No one denies that 3-9 was the golden age of the Simpsons. However 10-12 was the dark age of the simpsons. This was when Mike Scully ran the show; it had become very cartoony and "Family Guy"ish (maybe not so much with the cut-away gags, but in how it will compromise character integrity for the sake of a punch line). Around season 13 Al Jean rejoined the show as the showrunner, and the quality went back up. He was one of the original writers/show runners of the show.
So yes, Simpsons is not as good as it was in it golden years—I'm not sure if anything on TV is—but I think it's unfair to downright say it's bad now. It's a decent show, and still leagues better than Family Guy, at least. (I'm not sure why I'm suddenly comparing it to Family Guy—maybe it's because I hate Family Guy).
And before anyone points it out, yes, I'm aware of the irony that my signature comes from a Mike Scully episode of the Simpsons.
I don't want their technology that will run like crap on any AMD, or NVIDIA card older than 2 years.
They're a substantially less evil force than either Intel or NVIDIA.
If they were smart they would use a more specific percentage. Something like 96.3%
If you're going to pull a number out of your ass, may as well make it sound authentic.
CEO Brian Roberts said, "Today, we move on. Of course, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities..."
Hey Brian, guess what. You still can! Nobody is stopping you.
Oh wait, what's that? You don't want to enter a market where there's any competition? I see.
Yes, it is a simplistic caricature. That's what makes it pretty accurate.
Unreal Engine 4 is free, but after 3k you have to pay 5% of the gross revenue.
John Oliver once said having a former telecom lobbyist be the chairman of the FCC was like having a dingo babysit your baby. Wheeler responded to this by saying "I am not a dingo"
I always wondered if that had like a double meaning.
Back in my day, we called them RC helicopters.
I've seen pictures of marathoners, and I've seen pictures of sprinters.
I'd sure as hell would rather look like a sprinter.
I think if someone were to create a simulation model of a truly free market with no regulation, and seed it with hundreds (thousands) of little businesses to start with, given enough time, you'll end up single monopoly that controls every industry, service, and product.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable, since ads pay for a lot of stuff. People also don't want to have to directly pay for things (plus, could you imagine if every website was paywalled?)
Seems to me that the best solution is to just run unintrusive ads. People don't really mind ads all that much, they just hate it when they're noisy (literally and metaphorically) and get in the way
His point is that "food science" is confusing and everybody is an expert who knows everything. Look at this discussion, for example. Every post starts with "The problem is..." or "No, the problem is actually..." Basically, everybody chiming in because they have it figured out
One person will tell you that eating whole grains is good, because they have complex carbs and fiber that will help you lower your cholesterol.
But then another person will tell you that whole grains are bad, because they have phytic acid which will rob you of nutrients and make your teeth rot.
Then someone will tell you that all you simply have to do is burn more calories than you consume, to create an energy deficit (and thus burn fat)
But then someone will tell you that your body will refuse to let go of certain fat because it acts as a storage device for toxins, so you need to cleanse with nutrient-rich food to lose weight.
One person will scream low carbs is the key.
Then another person corrects them, stating that simple carbs are bad, and complex carbs are good.
Yet another will state that fatty oils should be avoided, unless it's olive oil because everybody knows olive oil is healthy, just look how skinny the mediterranean people are!
This goes on and on. Everybody is an expert on health, and yet there's still obesity and health problems run amok. Personally, I think food is a very complex thing that we're not close to understanding. The best thing is to just eat like a dumb human animal, eating fruits, mushrooms, nuts and seeds, vegetables, whatever you can grab with your amazing human hands. Maybe occasionally, after lots and lots of running, you can eat some meat too.
I must *really* not be a car guy, but I just don't understand the appeal of engine noise. I hear an ICS engine roaring and all I can think is "That ancient technology is really struggling with its task."
Elon did an AMA on reddit last week. Someone asked what software SpaceX uses for their rocket simulations, and Elon responded: "Kerbal!"