Newspapers still provide an important and valuable service to our society.
The market is already quantifying just how valuable the newspapers' services are.
If nobody's buying them or giving them any money then in what sense can you say that they're valuable to society?
Note: you may find them valuable, but you are not society.
Hey, instead of getting upset at the deal that the worker agreed to (or that you and I agreed to, presuming that we have jobs) what about just let the worker go into business for himself?
Don't like the deal? Don't join it, don't sign up for it.
Think you could do better on your own? Go and have at it and more power to you.
Think you would be such a better person if you were in charge? Feel free to start your own company and be the magnanimous awesome person that you say you are.
They're planning on impacting the moon of Didymos-- nicknamed Didymoon-- not Didymos itself.
At present the mass of Didymoon is unknown, but certainly smaller than 527 billion kg.
This guy built one for about $200 and claims he got over 80MB/s through SMB.
But it looks like that enclosure he bought ate up a huge chunk of that price. If you're willing to put all the parts into a leftover beigebox or a shoebox or something then you could probably get it all for less than $100 including the price of the ODROID XU4.
<quote>As soon as Oculus Rift has Linux support, I'll be switching OSes.</quote> <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Oculus_Rift">Doesn't it already?</a> If not then you probably shouldn't hold your breath.<br> Also, <a href="https://www.khronos.org/openxr">OpenXR is like OpenGL but for VR</a>.
It's such a shame too because Ruby is nicer and more regular than Python. Everything Python tries to do Ruby does better.
For example:
# run some other program using the shell and get its stdout # ruby: out = `ls -al | foo -a -b | grep -i bar` # python: from subprocess import call call(["ls", "-l"])
# classes # ruby class Dog # getters and setters implemented with one line if that's your style attr_accessor:breed:name
# constructor: notice no stupid __double_underscores__ def initialize(breed, name) # Instance variables are denoted with the @ sigil @breed = breed @name = name end
def bark puts 'Ruff! Ruff!' end
def display # string interpolation like a civilized scripting language # note that parenthesis are semi-optional in ruby puts "I am of #{@breed} breed and my name is #{@name}" end end
# python # note the repetitive and pedantic use of self everywhere class Dog (): # note the hacky __double_underscores__ necessary to prevent name collision for the class' constructor def __init__ (self, breed, name): self.breed = breed self.name = name
def bark (self): print ("Ruff! Ruff!")
def display (self): # lack of proper string interpolation makes this clunky and tedious print ("I am of {breed} breed and my name is {name}".format(breed=self.breed, name=self.name))
One of the things I dislike about the left is that it seems like their leaders use purely emotional appeals (i.e. on gun control) rather than considering evidence and a rational and pragmatic problem solving mindset.
And one of the things I hate most about Trump is that he's now doing the same for what should have been the conservative side.
But we have only ourselves to blame, don't we? We keep rewarding these idiots for their fallacious reasoning and their appeals to emotion rather than rewarding principled and rational thinkers who come up with concrete solutions to real problems.
Only when we have clear, concrete, and principled options in front of us can we make reasonable decisions. These appeals to emotion only serve to lead us like sheep. While the government gains ever more power and away more and more of our rights we fight like dogs over who's more outraged than the other.
Vote for more rights. Vote for fewer laws. Vote for lower taxes. Vote for more for all people and less for the government.
No, fuck you, NSA. You're not our friend, you're not cool, you're not hip, you're not edgy hacker bad asses, you're just plain assholes. Fuck you. Apology not accepted.
Everything the government uses or mandates the use of (i.e. tax software, research software such as that used at NASA, textbooks for public universities etc.) should all be open source.
We, the taxpayers, are paying for it. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Why open source? Because if the government mandates the use of a privately owned product then that's crony-ism and should be despised by everyone who loves freedom. For example, if they required the use of Apple products in order to read the law of the country (say if it was in an Apple proprietary format) then how would you feel? NO! It should be open! It must be open. Anything else is tyranny and crony-ism!
Don't try to imply that I meant national security / spy stuff should be open. That's not what I meant and you know it.
The issue is not that nothing is happening, it's that he is simply tearing up a lot of stuff without any real plan to replace it or understanding of why it is there in the first place.
There's no need to replace it if you don't believe that the problem it was meant to solve was a problem in the first place.
Ok, I agree with you. Getting into IoT seemed like the right move for them.
What I'm really saying is "If they were going to half-ass it like they did then why did they even bother?".
What's so pathetic about this is that they basically pulled a Microsoft-and-mobile on this.
Arduino, BBB, and RPi had already been out for years before Intel finally figured out that there was a market there.
Then, when they finally got off their butts they came to the party with a stupidly overpriced offering that didn't fit with the existing ecosystem.
Why did they even try doing their own thing at all instead of helping to improve what already existed? For example, why not work with ODROID to put Intel chips on their boards instead of ARM?
This whole thing was stupid and ham-fisted on Intel's part-- whoever the exec was that made the decision should get a stern talking-to.
This also matches up with Intel's flailing in response to AMD's recent surge (sad as it was that AMD was on the ropes for so long).
Intelligent devs use IDEs that handle all this formatting nonsense for them
And that's precisely the point of tabs in the first place!
1 tab == 1 indentation!
instead of futzing around and worrying about how many spaces to use.
Like many politicians German politicians too have little clue about how the internet and computers work...
Sounds gullible and naive to me.
I think they know exactly what they're doing. "Can't allow areas practically outside the law" eh? Yet muslims are routinely gang raping girls in the streets and setting up zone of sharia law and no-go zones wherever they please? And all this is financed by the taxpayers?
And then they government excuses terrorist attacks-- nawt all muzlums!!1!-- while out the other side of their mouths demanding increased surveillance and ever more power.
They know exactly what they're doing. "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Indeed.
Of course the Russians weren't hacking the DNC out of the pureness of their altruistic little hearts.
But I don't care because if the DNC hadn't been scumbags in the first place there'd be nothing to bring to light.
Not that it matters anyway in my case because there's absolutely no way I would vote for a socialist or for Hillary unless it was proven that Trump was a serial killer or something.
And don't give me any bull crap about the rape allegations. Those aren't proven, for starters, and secondarily the Clintons are already proven to be even worse in that regard-- especially BJ Clinton. Furthermore, where are the rape allegations now? Are they actually going through the courts are has all that stuff just magically and oh-so-coincidentally died down now that the election is over?
tl;dr: So what if Putin wanted us to elect trump? As long as he didn't literally hack the voting machines and change the votes then so what if our choice happens to align with his?
Crappy parable that I made up on the spot:
There was a farmer who had some vegetables he needed to sell at the village market.
To get to the market in the village he needed to cross a river. There were two bridges he could take-- and he had to take one of them because there was no other way across. At first he didn't know which bridge he would take but figured he would decide when the time came.
He came to a fork in the road-- one fork leading to the north bridge, the other fork leading the south bridge.
Time to decide.
But there in road stood a thug. The thug was lounging by the sign post and looked up when the farmer approached.
The thug greeted the farmer, who was wary of this obvious ne'er-do-well. There was an awkward silence as the farmer looked at the sign and was making up his mind on which way to go.
"The northern bridge is almost impassible" said the thug, "Flood's lapping over the top of the bridge this morning. You're best off taking the southern bridge."
The farmer knew that flooding was a definite problem at this time of year and that the thug was almost certainly telling the truth.
The farmer didn't like taking the southern bridge because it was a shabbier bridge and the route after it was stony and rough.
But farmer figured that since the northern bridge was almost certainly flooded that he had to take the difficult southern bridge because if he went north and the bridge turned out to be flooded that by the time he could turn around and take the southern bridge it would be too late in the day and he would lose all the profits that he needed from selling his vegetables.
So he wound up taking the southern bridge-- what choice did he have?
Yet when he finally returned home and described his day to his wife she shouted at him: "Why did you listen to the thug? Don't you know he was just trying to influence you? It might have been a trap!"
But trap or not, what choice did the farmer have? Isn't a broken clock right twice a day? Do not even liars sometimes tell the truth?
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Newspapers still provide an important and valuable service to our society.
The market is already quantifying just how valuable the newspapers' services are.
If nobody's buying them or giving them any money then in what sense can you say that they're valuable to society?
Note: you may find them valuable, but you are not society.
It's a copy of data.
Also, a scifi short story.
People wont even pay 50c for an iPhone app.
Wrong.
And if you consider the USA where the previous time was ~1860 we're only about fifty years away from it ourselves...
...we spend huge amounts on medicines that only prolong the inevitable.
ALL medicine is only prolonging the inevitable.
Hey, instead of getting upset at the deal that the worker agreed to (or that you and I agreed to, presuming that we have jobs) what about just let the worker go into business for himself?
Don't like the deal? Don't join it, don't sign up for it.
Think you could do better on your own? Go and have at it and more power to you.
Think you would be such a better person if you were in charge? Feel free to start your own company and be the magnanimous awesome person that you say you are.
Until then, stop complaining.
They're planning on impacting the moon of Didymos-- nicknamed Didymoon-- not Didymos itself.
At present the mass of Didymoon is unknown, but certainly smaller than 527 billion kg.
ODROID XU4 === $60
This guy built one for about $200 and claims he got over 80MB/s through SMB.
But it looks like that enclosure he bought ate up a huge chunk of that price. If you're willing to put all the parts into a leftover beigebox or a shoebox or something then you could probably get it all for less than $100 including the price of the ODROID XU4.
This guy did something similar but doesn't say how much he spent.
<quote>As soon as Oculus Rift has Linux support, I'll be switching OSes.</quote>
<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Oculus_Rift">Doesn't it already?</a> If not then you probably shouldn't hold your breath.<br>
Also, <a href="https://www.khronos.org/openxr">OpenXR is like OpenGL but for VR</a>.
It's such a shame too because Ruby is nicer and more regular than Python. Everything Python tries to do Ruby does better.
:breed :name
For example:
# run some other program using the shell and get its stdout
# ruby:
out = `ls -al | foo -a -b | grep -i bar`
# python:
from subprocess import call
call(["ls", "-l"])
# string length, toString etc.
# ruby
puts '10'.to_i.to_s
# python
print (string (int ('10')))
# classes
# ruby
class Dog
# getters and setters implemented with one line if that's your style
attr_accessor
# constructor: notice no stupid __double_underscores__
def initialize(breed, name)
# Instance variables are denoted with the @ sigil
@breed = breed
@name = name
end
def bark
puts 'Ruff! Ruff!'
end
def display
# string interpolation like a civilized scripting language
# note that parenthesis are semi-optional in ruby
puts "I am of #{@breed} breed and my name is #{@name}"
end
end
# python
# note the repetitive and pedantic use of self everywhere
class Dog ():
# note the hacky __double_underscores__ necessary to prevent name collision for the class' constructor
def __init__ (self, breed, name):
self.breed = breed
self.name = name
def bark (self):
print ("Ruff! Ruff!")
def display (self):
# lack of proper string interpolation makes this clunky and tedious
print ("I am of {breed} breed and my name is {name}".format(breed=self.breed, name=self.name))
Googled the citation for y'all in case anyone cared:
Article on revolvesolar.com
Links to the actual bill here.
Renewable energy gives back control of your energy sources and localises them.
Sure, this sounds pretty cool.
This fully compatible with a conservative world view.
As long as it actually makes fiscal sense, then sure.
But if you want to crony things up and waste tax payer money (i.e. Solyndra) then no.
One of the things I dislike about the left is that it seems like their leaders use purely emotional appeals (i.e. on gun control) rather than considering evidence and a rational and pragmatic problem solving mindset.
And one of the things I hate most about Trump is that he's now doing the same for what should have been the conservative side.
But we have only ourselves to blame, don't we? We keep rewarding these idiots for their fallacious reasoning and their appeals to emotion rather than rewarding principled and rational thinkers who come up with concrete solutions to real problems.
Only when we have clear, concrete, and principled options in front of us can we make reasonable decisions. These appeals to emotion only serve to lead us like sheep. While the government gains ever more power and away more and more of our rights we fight like dogs over who's more outraged than the other.
Vote for more rights. Vote for fewer laws. Vote for lower taxes. Vote for more for all people and less for the government.
No, fuck you, NSA. You're not our friend, you're not cool, you're not hip, you're not edgy hacker bad asses, you're just plain assholes. Fuck you. Apology not accepted.
Everything the government uses or mandates the use of (i.e. tax software, research software such as that used at NASA, textbooks for public universities etc.) should all be open source.
We, the taxpayers, are paying for it. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Why open source? Because if the government mandates the use of a privately owned product then that's crony-ism and should be despised by everyone who loves freedom. For example, if they required the use of Apple products in order to read the law of the country (say if it was in an Apple proprietary format) then how would you feel? NO! It should be open! It must be open. Anything else is tyranny and crony-ism!
Don't try to imply that I meant national security / spy stuff should be open. That's not what I meant and you know it.
How do we know the NSA didn't pay M$ or apply pressure to insert that coding error in the first place? They've done similar things in the past.
The issue is not that nothing is happening, it's that he is simply tearing up a lot of stuff without any real plan to replace it or understanding of why it is there in the first place.
There's no need to replace it if you don't believe that the problem it was meant to solve was a problem in the first place.
Just saying.
Ok, I agree with you. Getting into IoT seemed like the right move for them.
What I'm really saying is "If they were going to half-ass it like they did then why did they even bother?".
What's so pathetic about this is that they basically pulled a Microsoft-and-mobile on this.
Arduino, BBB, and RPi had already been out for years before Intel finally figured out that there was a market there.
Then, when they finally got off their butts they came to the party with a stupidly overpriced offering that didn't fit with the existing ecosystem.
Why did they even try doing their own thing at all instead of helping to improve what already existed? For example, why not work with ODROID to put Intel chips on their boards instead of ARM?
This whole thing was stupid and ham-fisted on Intel's part-- whoever the exec was that made the decision should get a stern talking-to.
This also matches up with Intel's flailing in response to AMD's recent surge (sad as it was that AMD was on the ropes for so long).
Intelligent devs use IDEs that handle all this formatting nonsense for them
And that's precisely the point of tabs in the first place!
1 tab == 1 indentation!
instead of futzing around and worrying about how many spaces to use.
Like many politicians German politicians too have little clue about how the internet and computers work...
Sounds gullible and naive to me.
I think they know exactly what they're doing. "Can't allow areas practically outside the law" eh? Yet muslims are routinely gang raping girls in the streets and setting up zone of sharia law and no-go zones wherever they please? And all this is financed by the taxpayers?
And then they government excuses terrorist attacks-- nawt all muzlums!!1!-- while out the other side of their mouths demanding increased surveillance and ever more power.
They know exactly what they're doing. "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Indeed.
Please quote the passage which suggests that Jesus revoked Leviticus 20:13.
Please read.
Of course the Russians weren't hacking the DNC out of the pureness of their altruistic little hearts.
But I don't care because if the DNC hadn't been scumbags in the first place there'd be nothing to bring to light.
Not that it matters anyway in my case because there's absolutely no way I would vote for a socialist or for Hillary unless it was proven that Trump was a serial killer or something.
And don't give me any bull crap about the rape allegations. Those aren't proven, for starters, and secondarily the Clintons are already proven to be even worse in that regard-- especially BJ Clinton. Furthermore, where are the rape allegations now? Are they actually going through the courts are has all that stuff just magically and oh-so-coincidentally died down now that the election is over?
tl;dr: So what if Putin wanted us to elect trump? As long as he didn't literally hack the voting machines and change the votes then so what if our choice happens to align with his?
Crappy parable that I made up on the spot:
There was a farmer who had some vegetables he needed to sell at the village market.
To get to the market in the village he needed to cross a river. There were two bridges he could take-- and he had to take one of them because there was no other way across. At first he didn't know which bridge he would take but figured he would decide when the time came.
He came to a fork in the road-- one fork leading to the north bridge, the other fork leading the south bridge.
Time to decide.
But there in road stood a thug. The thug was lounging by the sign post and looked up when the farmer approached.
The thug greeted the farmer, who was wary of this obvious ne'er-do-well. There was an awkward silence as the farmer looked at the sign and was making up his mind on which way to go.
"The northern bridge is almost impassible" said the thug, "Flood's lapping over the top of the bridge this morning. You're best off taking the southern bridge."
The farmer knew that flooding was a definite problem at this time of year and that the thug was almost certainly telling the truth.
The farmer didn't like taking the southern bridge because it was a shabbier bridge and the route after it was stony and rough.
But farmer figured that since the northern bridge was almost certainly flooded that he had to take the difficult southern bridge because if he went north and the bridge turned out to be flooded that by the time he could turn around and take the southern bridge it would be too late in the day and he would lose all the profits that he needed from selling his vegetables.
So he wound up taking the southern bridge-- what choice did he have?
Yet when he finally returned home and described his day to his wife she shouted at him: "Why did you listen to the thug? Don't you know he was just trying to influence you? It might have been a trap!"
But trap or not, what choice did the farmer have? Isn't a broken clock right twice a day? Do not even liars sometimes tell the truth?
No matter who took or was given power in Iraq there would have been an insurgency.