This makes sense. Photosynthesis is a biochemical process. So increasing the inputs (CO2 being one) should increase the outputs. The higher concentrations should also increase the rate of reaction. It would seem earths CO2 levels should never get above a certain threshold given the balancing nature of this reaction rate.
Then let's not make any assumptions and wait to see what the effects really are. Remember, all that carbon was at one time in the earths biosphere, being trapped in large reservoirs underground is the unusual state.
It's awesome that we (humans) are going to be surpassing where mankind left off on our endless adventure. Whatever language we speak, wherever we live, I really hope we celebrate this instrument of adventure and science the way it deserves to be. China is still somewhere on that pale blue dot.
You made (or missed) my point. Yes, for the reasons you pointed out, blacks are prejudiced. But my point was that the prejudice we feel keeps the status quo. Because you associate aggressive stupidity with the black community, you are less likely to engage with them (stupid or not) making them economically challenged, and preventing them from having the means to escape their below-average incomes and education.
Second. I'll admit I'm am racist, and so are most people we know. A lot of us feel prejudice and judge people by their appearance, and even within a race. We are more likely to hold the door open for the prettier blonde, criticize the fat person ordering more than they require, and so on. The reason we judge people is because it was incredibly important for our survival pre-civilization. Faces are incredibly expressive, and sizing one another up tells you a great deal about the possible outcomes of a given encounter. The blonde excites you. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson would scare the piss out of most people if his face was angry. We needed that information to survive.
The reason Uber drivers do not pick up black people as willingly as whites is because history has taught them to be racist. But it's not their fault. They are wired that way, they follow their prejudices. Their prejudice tells them "a black person is more likely to commit a crime, and I may be the victim of that crime". And statistically, that prejudice is right. Black men are more likely to get arrested, and convicted of violent crime. The problem is that the state of racism is a twisted sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. Statistically, that Uber guy you picked up later than his white counterpart would be slightly later to a job interview, get the job less often, earn less as a result, and render him more desperate to commit a crime in the first place. Thats the problem.
The disadvantage non-whites experience is due to our prejudices, is what it is due to their circumstances. Now, I'm not excusing any crime anyone commits ever, I'm just point out the cycle of self-perpetuating racism that exists. If you want to solve the problem, first understand the data. Our prejudices make their lives harder, and when they react badly to that hard life, we stand back and think "See? I was right all along. Next time I encounter one, ill be weary". It's so sad.
I'm not saying user experience isn't worth anything, I'm just saying Apple hasn't done enough with their user experience to be worth the cost
to me. - FTFY
But don't you like having the option to pass on it? If it's not for you, then you can shop the market for something else, I'd recommend a Microsoft Surface or a Dell; but there are so many to chose from. I'm sure you'll find one that fits your value-set. I found mine.
Both the P50, Lenovo's workstation laptop and the new MacBook Pro use Intel Core i7 6820 CPUs. But let's not allow dumb facts to ruin an otherwise great point. I like Lenovo laptops, it's just the root kits and malware that keep me away.
For System76, and other comparisons, the new MacBook Pro is always going to come out 10-20% more expensive because you can not really compare the laptops.
Yes, for most of the components like RAM, CPU, Disk, etc, etc, etc, you can order a similarly built laptop. But in no laptop I have seen can you order a separate ARM CPU to power a part of the keyboard, none of them will come with fans that reduce noise by having blades configured with unequal spacing (like the Macbook Pro has), and none of them will of course be licensed to run OS X (if that's your thing). Apple computers are expensive compared to the rest of the market on a spec vs. spec order, but thats OK.
You can of course go to Amazon and order the components and build a desktop, cheaper than an iMac, you can order a Dell laptop cheaper than Apple. Why? Because Apple will price their products to reflect the development costs and engineering expense they invest to design and deliver new parts, services, and experience. System76 does not develop any of the parts they install in their laptops, they design a package using off-the-shelf components sold by Intel, Samsung, Synaptic, and others, then put a label on it. Apple went through the expense of building the touch bar (whatever you may think about it, it wasn't free). They have Touch-ID on the laptop (also not free), and that required the Secure Element (also not free), and to design and deliver those components, of course the price is going to be more expensive, they had the cost of building those components which the other laptops do not account for.
But if you buy a laptop to run Linux, you would be ill-advised to buy a Mac. It's extremely unlikely Apple will release Linux drivers for their touch-bar, touch-id, or other components that require OS X to deliver that integrated experience. Apple do not try to deliver a "me too" laptop, they would be killed in the free market if they attempted that. They deliver a product that has differentiators other manufacturers are unable to "me too", at least at the off-set, and the price will reflect that. So i you are a budget conscious consumer, you should be looking into System-76. Those laptops will cost you less and be just as fast rendering your designs, running your programs, and doing the other things you might use it for.
From what I understand, it's not the DRAM chips. It's the separate memory controller to support that many memory lanes. I think these CPU has that integrated, but we'll have to see what a tear down looks like.
Ha. See another coward bite the dust! OS X is fully POSIX Certified . Now take your toy computer and go manage a 1000 hit website with it. Leave the real world to be managed by those who know what a real workstation and world-class operating system is. Take your fucking toy and enjoy the rootkit on it. Douchebag
Bench your SSD, I bet it sucks as much dick as you. I was referring to a Mac Pro, and they are still plenty fast doing awesome work. They have yet to be updated with the newest Xeons, but you only refresh your workstations every so often, and Apple will refresh it in time for a bunch of current owners who appreciate the machine to refresh it. The best engineers and designers in the world use Apple machines for specifically that reason. NASA engineers landing Curiosity.
Whoa, why so angry? BTW, I'm certified in AIX Administration, and have extensive experience administering z/OS and Solaris systems. I also administer over 500 VMs running OracleVM, CentOS, and Ubuntu. And if you think that's tough, the hypervisor is KVM. You must not know what the hell you are talking about, since OS X is much more unix like than Linux.
The Thunderbolt Display was a fantastic monitor, and sold at $1k. I bought two of them back in 2012 and they have served me well, functioning as my primary displays for years. I feel I certainly have had my use of them, and they are no where near the end of their useful life. They have Thunderbolt, USB, Gig-e ports, and pretty good speakers.
Besides, doing design work, programming, web design, and handling a massive amount of information, long code blocks, huge CSV files, etc... etc... $1K was really not a lot for this display. If you were to buy 2 displays and a mac pro to boot, you would be out maybe $6k. That setup would last you for at least 3 years, and Mac's keep going. Especially the desktops. To spend $2k/year on the tools that earn you a really good six-figure salary is pretty stellar.
I don't really understand why people complain about Apple's prices so much. Yes, they are more expensive when you compare the components bit-by-bit, but the whole package is a value proposition that I believe can't be beat. You never have to worry about drivers. Your stuff works perfectly together. Each piece, like the magic trackpad (and trust me, compared to a trackpad on some random PC Laptop, it is magic), or the displays, the backup to time-capsule... it all works so well together. Billing out at $150/hour, you really need to be productive, and not constantly work on being your own Sysadmin. That is who apple makes these devices for, since the high-end highly integrated workstation market pretty much collapsed. You used to be able to get workstations from Sun, etc. Not anymore. Now, only Apple make a truly workstation-class computer. Everyone else just assembles PCs and throws Windows on it.
It sucks to see them back away from that market. Maybe they feel the unit volume they spend is not worth the time, or the market has really caught up with the bar they set. You can still bank on the performance engineering they put into their systems. I remember reading an article a while ago, that benched a MacBook Pro as the fastest Windows Laptop (if you change the OS, obviously).
What really frustrates me is that you can use a Google phone and use the USB-C to USB-C cord that COMES WITH YOUR MAC. The only major phone that doesn't use USB-C at this point is the iPhone, but Apple use USB-C for their laptops now. So it seems the best combo is a Mac and an Android, from a cables perspective. Why?
Yeah I didn't make a ton of sense. What I meant by not an issue is that there are no problems with what goes into a decision. We have to trust women (and everyone in general) to make the decisions with the information they have.
Outside factors are not an issue. If your parents were doctors, maybe you'll follow in their footsteps. If you liked to draw as a child, maybe architecture or animator is for you. Whatever it is. Outside factors help influence a decision, but don't sit there and say that the decision is wrong. It's not yours or anyone else's to make. I'm angry because this story casts their decisions to enter whatever they do instead of computer science as misguided. No one is keeping them from deciding to enter Computer Science. It's just not the choice they prefer. I'm sure automobile mechanics are also low on their choices, but you don't see people freaking out to "help them make the right decision" there, do you?
I don't understand why they should be "encouraged" to study computer science to just keep up some random statistic vs. encouraging them to do whatever their hearts tell them they should be doing? Stories like this make me so angry because it casts women as unable to decide for themselves and we should be "correcting" their life choices. Whatever...
Right, but a small mention of "Entire family wiped out in car crash" pales in comparison to the news coverage that a Tesla just scraped a parked car.
This shows the the level of media attention does not correlate to the appropriate levels of concern. Just like the terrorist attacks. Tobacco companies kill far more Americans than terrorists. Do not ramble on on the argument that smokers choose to risk their health and life, I'm talking about second hand smoke.
Tesla's autopilot will save many lives on the motor ways. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be statistically better than you or I. Even though this technology is in its infancy, it is already a better than you are, statistically.
Apple Pay is a net-positive value to the consumer, because the risk rates are lower. As a merchant, your processing charges are smaller with Apple Pay than with swipe or web form. Apple has innovated to create Apple Pay by making contactless payments simple to manage and administer, creating the platforms and hardware to use them (phone, watch), and bringing tokenization to the payment processing system (true Apple Pay vs. just NFC payment).
Another net positive for the consumer (IMHO, depends on who you ask), is that merchants can't track one-time payments for goods, because the payment info always change. This was the primary sticking point between walmart, et al, and the current crop of mobile wallets. They created MCX specifically so they would obtain mobile payments and still retain the data analytics that consumer spending gives these retailers.
No. If you are an analyst, you make your trades, and then explain your thinking, hoping the market follows you. If you made a purchase, and then others continue to buy, the price moves up and your purchase is now worth more. If you sold, your stocks, then others sell, you can re-enter the position after it moves down.
There are more fundamental questions here than just UBI. For the past 30,000 years, mankind has settled, and formed civilization amongst ourselves predicated on the notion that specialization and trade increases yields for the society as a whole. 1 guy can make more bread full time than 5 guys who only make the bread they need. This is the first economic principle of economies of scale. As time went on, the need for general purchasing (armies, ships, government coordination, central planning, etc...) meant that standard units of value had to be made, so that the trading can become coordinated and standardized. Money was born, and the price system itself was created. It was the first form of middleware. Suddenly you could trade with whole horses of people all around the world, using money and the price system in free markets to coordinate. When you buy a laptop, you trade a portion of your skill and profession for some plastic, some metal, some silicon, some machine time, design, manufacturing, standards, IP, etc... to bring you a laptop. You traded with hundreds of thousands of people to bring the laptop to you. That price system, and the money system that backs it, is the basis for today's global civilization and economy. The best value propositions won the market and were in demand to trade. Now, I don't want to trade with you. I want to trade with a machine that has a better value proposition than you do. The problem is, there's a machine that has a better value proposition than me. The net effect is that our trade-based system is breaking down. The old basis for civilization no longer functions. So to does the need for people. The more people I had to trade with, the more value I got for my profession. Now that paradigm is going away. We need instead more machines and less people. This raises ethical questions. How many people do we need? Should we still incentivize child-rearing? Should we still allow unlimited population growth? We don't need more people. For the health of the environment and sustainable living, we need less. But what replaces trade and money? I don't know the right answers, but I think that we have to frame the question correctly before we solve it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Vote yourself a 10% tax? Why not donate that extra to a homeless cause? There are plenty, and would use your donation much more efficiently than some government mess squandering a tax.
Here have yourself a good time donating to a cause you believe in with that extra you plan to spend on a tax. Personally, I prefer children's charities, since they are truly innocent, every time, and not disparaged due to some drug addiction, and are truly self-helpless. But to each their own. Please get your fucking hands off my ability to donate as I see fit by asking me to pay a tax for a cause I don't believe in. Fucktard.
How is he corrupt? Has corruption of Donald even been accused? He is many things but I didn't note corruptible being one of them. Who has bribed him? Site references please.
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This makes sense. Photosynthesis is a biochemical process. So increasing the inputs (CO2 being one) should increase the outputs. The higher concentrations should also increase the rate of reaction. It would seem earths CO2 levels should never get above a certain threshold given the balancing nature of this reaction rate.
Then let's not make any assumptions and wait to see what the effects really are. Remember, all that carbon was at one time in the earths biosphere, being trapped in large reservoirs underground is the unusual state.
It's awesome that we (humans) are going to be surpassing where mankind left off on our endless adventure. Whatever language we speak, wherever we live, I really hope we celebrate this instrument of adventure and science the way it deserves to be. China is still somewhere on that pale blue dot.
You made (or missed) my point. Yes, for the reasons you pointed out, blacks are prejudiced. But my point was that the prejudice we feel keeps the status quo. Because you associate aggressive stupidity with the black community, you are less likely to engage with them (stupid or not) making them economically challenged, and preventing them from having the means to escape their below-average incomes and education.
First, I resemble that comment!!
Second. I'll admit I'm am racist, and so are most people we know. A lot of us feel prejudice and judge people by their appearance, and even within a race. We are more likely to hold the door open for the prettier blonde, criticize the fat person ordering more than they require, and so on. The reason we judge people is because it was incredibly important for our survival pre-civilization. Faces are incredibly expressive, and sizing one another up tells you a great deal about the possible outcomes of a given encounter. The blonde excites you. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson would scare the piss out of most people if his face was angry. We needed that information to survive.
The reason Uber drivers do not pick up black people as willingly as whites is because history has taught them to be racist. But it's not their fault. They are wired that way, they follow their prejudices. Their prejudice tells them "a black person is more likely to commit a crime, and I may be the victim of that crime". And statistically, that prejudice is right. Black men are more likely to get arrested, and convicted of violent crime. The problem is that the state of racism is a twisted sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. Statistically, that Uber guy you picked up later than his white counterpart would be slightly later to a job interview, get the job less often, earn less as a result, and render him more desperate to commit a crime in the first place. Thats the problem.
The disadvantage non-whites experience is due to our prejudices, is what it is due to their circumstances. Now, I'm not excusing any crime anyone commits ever, I'm just point out the cycle of self-perpetuating racism that exists. If you want to solve the problem, first understand the data. Our prejudices make their lives harder, and when they react badly to that hard life, we stand back and think "See? I was right all along. Next time I encounter one, ill be weary". It's so sad.
I'm not saying user experience isn't worth anything, I'm just saying Apple hasn't done enough with their user experience to be worth the cost to me. - FTFY
But don't you like having the option to pass on it? If it's not for you, then you can shop the market for something else, I'd recommend a Microsoft Surface or a Dell; but there are so many to chose from. I'm sure you'll find one that fits your value-set. I found mine.
Both the P50, Lenovo's workstation laptop and the new MacBook Pro use Intel Core i7 6820 CPUs. But let's not allow dumb facts to ruin an otherwise great point. I like Lenovo laptops, it's just the root kits and malware that keep me away.
For System76, and other comparisons, the new MacBook Pro is always going to come out 10-20% more expensive because you can not really compare the laptops.
Yes, for most of the components like RAM, CPU, Disk, etc, etc, etc, you can order a similarly built laptop. But in no laptop I have seen can you order a separate ARM CPU to power a part of the keyboard, none of them will come with fans that reduce noise by having blades configured with unequal spacing (like the Macbook Pro has), and none of them will of course be licensed to run OS X (if that's your thing). Apple computers are expensive compared to the rest of the market on a spec vs. spec order, but thats OK.
You can of course go to Amazon and order the components and build a desktop, cheaper than an iMac, you can order a Dell laptop cheaper than Apple. Why? Because Apple will price their products to reflect the development costs and engineering expense they invest to design and deliver new parts, services, and experience. System76 does not develop any of the parts they install in their laptops, they design a package using off-the-shelf components sold by Intel, Samsung, Synaptic, and others, then put a label on it. Apple went through the expense of building the touch bar (whatever you may think about it, it wasn't free). They have Touch-ID on the laptop (also not free), and that required the Secure Element (also not free), and to design and deliver those components, of course the price is going to be more expensive, they had the cost of building those components which the other laptops do not account for.
But if you buy a laptop to run Linux, you would be ill-advised to buy a Mac. It's extremely unlikely Apple will release Linux drivers for their touch-bar, touch-id, or other components that require OS X to deliver that integrated experience. Apple do not try to deliver a "me too" laptop, they would be killed in the free market if they attempted that. They deliver a product that has differentiators other manufacturers are unable to "me too", at least at the off-set, and the price will reflect that. So i you are a budget conscious consumer, you should be looking into System-76. Those laptops will cost you less and be just as fast rendering your designs, running your programs, and doing the other things you might use it for.
From what I understand, it's not the DRAM chips. It's the separate memory controller to support that many memory lanes. I think these CPU has that integrated, but we'll have to see what a tear down looks like.
Ha. See another coward bite the dust! OS X is fully POSIX Certified . Now take your toy computer and go manage a 1000 hit website with it. Leave the real world to be managed by those who know what a real workstation and world-class operating system is. Take your fucking toy and enjoy the rootkit on it. Douchebag
Bench your SSD, I bet it sucks as much dick as you. I was referring to a Mac Pro, and they are still plenty fast doing awesome work. They have yet to be updated with the newest Xeons, but you only refresh your workstations every so often, and Apple will refresh it in time for a bunch of current owners who appreciate the machine to refresh it. The best engineers and designers in the world use Apple machines for specifically that reason. NASA engineers landing Curiosity.
Whoa, why so angry? BTW, I'm certified in AIX Administration, and have extensive experience administering z/OS and Solaris systems. I also administer over 500 VMs running OracleVM, CentOS, and Ubuntu. And if you think that's tough, the hypervisor is KVM. You must not know what the hell you are talking about, since OS X is much more unix like than Linux.
The Thunderbolt Display was a fantastic monitor, and sold at $1k. I bought two of them back in 2012 and they have served me well, functioning as my primary displays for years. I feel I certainly have had my use of them, and they are no where near the end of their useful life. They have Thunderbolt, USB, Gig-e ports, and pretty good speakers.
Besides, doing design work, programming, web design, and handling a massive amount of information, long code blocks, huge CSV files, etc... etc... $1K was really not a lot for this display. If you were to buy 2 displays and a mac pro to boot, you would be out maybe $6k. That setup would last you for at least 3 years, and Mac's keep going. Especially the desktops. To spend $2k/year on the tools that earn you a really good six-figure salary is pretty stellar.
I don't really understand why people complain about Apple's prices so much. Yes, they are more expensive when you compare the components bit-by-bit, but the whole package is a value proposition that I believe can't be beat. You never have to worry about drivers. Your stuff works perfectly together. Each piece, like the magic trackpad (and trust me, compared to a trackpad on some random PC Laptop, it is magic), or the displays, the backup to time-capsule... it all works so well together. Billing out at $150/hour, you really need to be productive, and not constantly work on being your own Sysadmin. That is who apple makes these devices for, since the high-end highly integrated workstation market pretty much collapsed. You used to be able to get workstations from Sun, etc. Not anymore. Now, only Apple make a truly workstation-class computer. Everyone else just assembles PCs and throws Windows on it.
It sucks to see them back away from that market. Maybe they feel the unit volume they spend is not worth the time, or the market has really caught up with the bar they set. You can still bank on the performance engineering they put into their systems. I remember reading an article a while ago, that benched a MacBook Pro as the fastest Windows Laptop (if you change the OS, obviously).
What really frustrates me is that you can use a Google phone and use the USB-C to USB-C cord that COMES WITH YOUR MAC. The only major phone that doesn't use USB-C at this point is the iPhone, but Apple use USB-C for their laptops now. So it seems the best combo is a Mac and an Android, from a cables perspective. Why?
Yeah I didn't make a ton of sense. What I meant by not an issue is that there are no problems with what goes into a decision. We have to trust women (and everyone in general) to make the decisions with the information they have.
Outside factors are not an issue. If your parents were doctors, maybe you'll follow in their footsteps. If you liked to draw as a child, maybe architecture or animator is for you. Whatever it is. Outside factors help influence a decision, but don't sit there and say that the decision is wrong. It's not yours or anyone else's to make.
I'm angry because this story casts their decisions to enter whatever they do instead of computer science as misguided. No one is keeping them from deciding to enter Computer Science. It's just not the choice they prefer. I'm sure automobile mechanics are also low on their choices, but you don't see people freaking out to "help them make the right decision" there, do you?
I don't understand why they should be "encouraged" to study computer science to just keep up some random statistic vs. encouraging them to do whatever their hearts tell them they should be doing? Stories like this make me so angry because it casts women as unable to decide for themselves and we should be "correcting" their life choices. Whatever...
Windows, definitely a deficiency in Windows
Right, but a small mention of "Entire family wiped out in car crash" pales in comparison to the news coverage that a Tesla just scraped a parked car .
This shows the the level of media attention does not correlate to the appropriate levels of concern. Just like the terrorist attacks. Tobacco companies kill far more Americans than terrorists. Do not ramble on on the argument that smokers choose to risk their health and life, I'm talking about second hand smoke.
Tesla's autopilot will save many lives on the motor ways. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be statistically better than you or I. Even though this technology is in its infancy, it is already a better than you are, statistically.
Apple Pay is a net-positive value to the consumer, because the risk rates are lower. As a merchant, your processing charges are smaller with Apple Pay than with swipe or web form. Apple has innovated to create Apple Pay by making contactless payments simple to manage and administer, creating the platforms and hardware to use them (phone, watch), and bringing tokenization to the payment processing system (true Apple Pay vs. just NFC payment).
Another net positive for the consumer (IMHO, depends on who you ask), is that merchants can't track one-time payments for goods, because the payment info always change. This was the primary sticking point between walmart, et al, and the current crop of mobile wallets. They created MCX specifically so they would obtain mobile payments and still retain the data analytics that consumer spending gives these retailers.
No. If you are an analyst, you make your trades, and then explain your thinking, hoping the market follows you. If you made a purchase, and then others continue to buy, the price moves up and your purchase is now worth more. If you sold, your stocks, then others sell, you can re-enter the position after it moves down.
There are more fundamental questions here than just UBI. For the past 30,000 years, mankind has settled, and formed civilization amongst ourselves predicated on the notion that specialization and trade increases yields for the society as a whole. 1 guy can make more bread full time than 5 guys who only make the bread they need. This is the first economic principle of economies of scale. As time went on, the need for general purchasing (armies, ships, government coordination, central planning, etc...) meant that standard units of value had to be made, so that the trading can become coordinated and standardized. Money was born, and the price system itself was created. It was the first form of middleware. Suddenly you could trade with whole horses of people all around the world, using money and the price system in free markets to coordinate. When you buy a laptop, you trade a portion of your skill and profession for some plastic, some metal, some silicon, some machine time, design, manufacturing, standards, IP, etc... to bring you a laptop. You traded with hundreds of thousands of people to bring the laptop to you. That price system, and the money system that backs it, is the basis for today's global civilization and economy. The best value propositions won the market and were in demand to trade. Now, I don't want to trade with you. I want to trade with a machine that has a better value proposition than you do. The problem is, there's a machine that has a better value proposition than me. The net effect is that our trade-based system is breaking down. The old basis for civilization no longer functions. So to does the need for people. The more people I had to trade with, the more value I got for my profession. Now that paradigm is going away. We need instead more machines and less people. This raises ethical questions. How many people do we need? Should we still incentivize child-rearing? Should we still allow unlimited population growth? We don't need more people. For the health of the environment and sustainable living, we need less. But what replaces trade and money? I don't know the right answers, but I think that we have to frame the question correctly before we solve it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Vote yourself a 10% tax? Why not donate that extra to a homeless cause? There are plenty, and would use your donation much more efficiently than some government mess squandering a tax.
Here have yourself a good time donating to a cause you believe in with that extra you plan to spend on a tax. Personally, I prefer children's charities, since they are truly innocent, every time, and not disparaged due to some drug addiction, and are truly self-helpless. But to each their own. Please get your fucking hands off my ability to donate as I see fit by asking me to pay a tax for a cause I don't believe in. Fucktard.
How is he corrupt? Has corruption of Donald even been accused? He is many things but I didn't note corruptible being one of them. Who has bribed him? Site references please.