I don't understand why the kind of information SteamSpy used couldn't still be made available in aggregate. Surely Steam itself could post statistics on game adoption and current player base? I agree that personal data should be protected, but statistical data will still exist and could be published by Steam itself.
The goal should not be to predict or control climate, but to adapt to it as Nature does.
Yes, back when we had all that acid rain we really should have just learned to live with it and all the environmental damage it caused, rather than adapting our industry to curtail the pollution which caused it.
Seriously you're as bad as "the solution to pollution is dilution".
Pretty good? They're anti-competitive, they aren't stupid. Do you really think that in the current media climate any company is going to intentionally try to suppress any kind of media related to sexual harassment? There's no story here.
McDonald's had those when I worked there. I'd wager the difference is that this thing also independently monitors meat temperature and also removes them from the grill. I can see value in the temperature check alone.
One day when I worked at McDonald's, the meat hadn't been taken out of the deep freeze early enough and so the burgers weren't fully cooked after their preset cook time. They looked fully cooked on the outside (thanks to the double-sided grill press), but were quite raw in the middle even on the thin patties. We had a lot of complaints that day. Part of the problem is that the kitchen staff are not trained to cook burgers - they are trained to put frozen burgers on the grill, push a button, and take the burgers off when it dings. The managers occasionally verify the internal temperature, though I only witnessed that a couple times in a year of work.
Nothing. Nova hasn't posted since January, but in his/her 2 posts today there are 3 links to their own blog... so we can assume they will take any excuse to put in a plug.
It's not even that, it's just the same fear-mongering that Apple was trying to push when they wanted to criminalize jail-breaking iPhones a number of years ago. Back then it was claimed to be risk to the mobile infrastructure allowed by having users install third-party software on a device connected to the network. All they really wanted was to maintain full control at the expense of the consumer because it's part of their business model. The difference is that today the fear-du-jour for devices is privacy and there are more players in the market.
America has higher prices mostly because we pay for most of the world's medical research
Except that's not actually how it works. It's the same company selling a drug to both the US and everyone else. For example, in the listing below Mirapex is owned by a German company.
Mirapex, for Parkinson's disease: $157 in Canada vs. $263 in the United States. Celexa, for depression: $149 in Canada vs. $253 in the United States. Diovan, for high blood pressure: $149 in Canada vs. $253 in the United States. Oxazepam, for insomnia: $13 in Canada vs. $70 in the United States. Seroquel, for insomnia: $33 in Canada vs. $124 in the United States.
A better argument would be that drugs cost less for everyone else BECAUSE they are able to charge more in US markets. As in premium US prices allow them to give discounts to others. But in reality it's simpler than that - drugs cost more in the US because the US health care system gives the drug companies a huge negotiating advantage compared to single-payer.
You are making the presumption that there are only two courses of action - assume it is real or assume it is a drill. There are other actions, like taking 10 seconds and speaking to one of the other people who is within 20 feet of you. Based on the information so far, there were numerous people involved and only 1 of them thought it was real.
If you say, "choose which option is mostly likely to be true," then the result is...
... it's a drill. 100% of all times they previously received any message, it was a drill.
It was still a failure of the officer, but it might also be a small failure of someone higher up. A message that begins and ends with "EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE" is pretty likely not a real event regardless of what is said in between. The officer said he didn't hear the exercise part - so why didn't he hear both the beginning and end of the message?
wait until he actually fires because, oddly enough, given that everyone is several hundred feet away, there was about zero chance that any of the officers were seriously threatened even if he managed to fire several shots.
I wonder about this one. My assumption is that the person who fired was near to the door, and fired because they thought themselves or their team was in danger. My question is - given what they presumed they were getting into (a threatening situation), why did they immediately put themselves in a position where they would likely have to defend themselves?
It reminds me of that teenager flashing a fake gun at a park, and two officers show up to confront him. The driver of the patrol car stops the car less than 10 feet from the guy, and the cop in the passenger seat is now placed in a position where he's immediately vulnerable to the presumed armed individual and shoots him. I don't blame the cop who shot the kid, I blame the driver. But all the media coverage was about the shooter.
But it doesn't matter, since the purpose of the war was never extermination, or enslavement, or any form of subjugation; it was self defence.
Isn't the first encounter in the book a mission where he reflects that what they are doing is military bullying to achieve a specific political outcome?
I think sovereign immunity applies to criminal acts, not monetary liability. In Canada, our citizens have certain rights, and if the government doesn't respect those rights then they can be sued. I'm sure this varies by country. Best example for us was quite recent.
Notch sold Minecraft to Microsoft and left. The guy being promoted is (I guess) the guy Microsoft put in charge of the product after they bought it from Notch. But you're right, Minecraft has had continued success under Microsoft. However from a layman's view you might compare this to putting a guy on a train that is already moving at top speed, then later rewarding him for not fucking it up.
Deciding which data points are predictors of a certain outcome in regards to crime has nothing to do with software, programmers, or designers. That's the job of statisticians, who probably weren't involved in the creation of this software.
I don't think the results are directly comparable, though the article doesn't elaborate on what the test is like. The question quoted in the article is "what causes rain". Do you score a point if you understand the question, or do you only get a point if you can both understand the question and provide the answer? AIs would parse the question and then return a result based on a massive knowledge base. Are human's allowed to look up the answer? Was the human score a single smart human or was it an average over many humans taking the test? If a smart human can't understand the question but a computer can, doesn't that mean the question is poor?
Or, this was real but neutralized and then disavowed with a cover story.
Except that the US isn't the only one with the ability to detect missile launches. Japan is often the first to identify a missile launch because the missiles tend to fly right past them.
The sentence is also partially misleading. In Canada the contactless Tap & Go method for purchases under $100 has been growing for years. You just tap your debit or credit card on the handset rather than inserting the chip. Not sure if mastercard owns this tech but I have it in both my mastercard and my bank's debit card. For $100+ you still have to do chip & PIN, but otherwise it's just super fucking fast. Most businesses with third-party card-scanners support them, whereas some larger retailers with their own POS infrastructure don't (e.g. Home Depot).
So the US can enjoy their super slow adoption of the crap pay methods we're already moving beyond.
It astounds me that American politics has devolved into confused name-calling and an almost complete inability to form coherent and rational arguments.
That's mostly how it appears on TV.
I think he was referring to right here on Slashdot, as this is exactly how any politically charged, public discussion devolves. Sound and reasonable arguments do get modded up, but sadly so do comments that are mostly just feel-good flag waving for one side or the other.
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I don't understand why the kind of information SteamSpy used couldn't still be made available in aggregate. Surely Steam itself could post statistics on game adoption and current player base? I agree that personal data should be protected, but statistical data will still exist and could be published by Steam itself.
The next top-level post has the correct term.
The goal should not be to predict or control climate, but to adapt to it as Nature does.
Yes, back when we had all that acid rain we really should have just learned to live with it and all the environmental damage it caused, rather than adapting our industry to curtail the pollution which caused it.
Seriously you're as bad as "the solution to pollution is dilution".
Pretty good? They're anti-competitive, they aren't stupid. Do you really think that in the current media climate any company is going to intentionally try to suppress any kind of media related to sexual harassment? There's no story here.
The ride-hailing app's social team booked the tickets, saying they regularly organize theater trips and that it would be "fun to see the production."
They booked it so they could actually go see it.
McDonald's had those when I worked there. I'd wager the difference is that this thing also independently monitors meat temperature and also removes them from the grill. I can see value in the temperature check alone.
One day when I worked at McDonald's, the meat hadn't been taken out of the deep freeze early enough and so the burgers weren't fully cooked after their preset cook time. They looked fully cooked on the outside (thanks to the double-sided grill press), but were quite raw in the middle even on the thin patties. We had a lot of complaints that day. Part of the problem is that the kitchen staff are not trained to cook burgers - they are trained to put frozen burgers on the grill, push a button, and take the burgers off when it dings. The managers occasionally verify the internal temperature, though I only witnessed that a couple times in a year of work.
Nothing. Nova hasn't posted since January, but in his/her 2 posts today there are 3 links to their own blog... so we can assume they will take any excuse to put in a plug.
It's not even that, it's just the same fear-mongering that Apple was trying to push when they wanted to criminalize jail-breaking iPhones a number of years ago. Back then it was claimed to be risk to the mobile infrastructure allowed by having users install third-party software on a device connected to the network. All they really wanted was to maintain full control at the expense of the consumer because it's part of their business model. The difference is that today the fear-du-jour for devices is privacy and there are more players in the market.
America has higher prices mostly because we pay for most of the world's medical research
Except that's not actually how it works. It's the same company selling a drug to both the US and everyone else. For example, in the listing below Mirapex is owned by a German company.
Mirapex, for Parkinson's disease: $157 in Canada vs. $263 in the United States.
Celexa, for depression: $149 in Canada vs. $253 in the United States.
Diovan, for high blood pressure: $149 in Canada vs. $253 in the United States.
Oxazepam, for insomnia: $13 in Canada vs. $70 in the United States.
Seroquel, for insomnia: $33 in Canada vs. $124 in the United States.
A better argument would be that drugs cost less for everyone else BECAUSE they are able to charge more in US markets. As in premium US prices allow them to give discounts to others. But in reality it's simpler than that - drugs cost more in the US because the US health care system gives the drug companies a huge negotiating advantage compared to single-payer.
On what basis should we decide how to act?
You are making the presumption that there are only two courses of action - assume it is real or assume it is a drill. There are other actions, like taking 10 seconds and speaking to one of the other people who is within 20 feet of you. Based on the information so far, there were numerous people involved and only 1 of them thought it was real.
If you say, "choose which option is mostly likely to be true," then the result is...
... it's a drill. 100% of all times they previously received any message, it was a drill.
It was still a failure of the officer, but it might also be a small failure of someone higher up. A message that begins and ends with "EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE" is pretty likely not a real event regardless of what is said in between. The officer said he didn't hear the exercise part - so why didn't he hear both the beginning and end of the message?
wait until he actually fires because, oddly enough, given that everyone is several hundred feet away, there was about zero chance that any of the officers were seriously threatened even if he managed to fire several shots.
I wonder about this one. My assumption is that the person who fired was near to the door, and fired because they thought themselves or their team was in danger. My question is - given what they presumed they were getting into (a threatening situation), why did they immediately put themselves in a position where they would likely have to defend themselves?
It reminds me of that teenager flashing a fake gun at a park, and two officers show up to confront him. The driver of the patrol car stops the car less than 10 feet from the guy, and the cop in the passenger seat is now placed in a position where he's immediately vulnerable to the presumed armed individual and shoots him. I don't blame the cop who shot the kid, I blame the driver. But all the media coverage was about the shooter.
But it doesn't matter, since the purpose of the war was never extermination, or enslavement, or any form of subjugation; it was self defence.
Isn't the first encounter in the book a mission where he reflects that what they are doing is military bullying to achieve a specific political outcome?
I think sovereign immunity applies to criminal acts, not monetary liability. In Canada, our citizens have certain rights, and if the government doesn't respect those rights then they can be sued. I'm sure this varies by country. Best example for us was quite recent.
That's why Notch got the promotion.
Notch sold Minecraft to Microsoft and left. The guy being promoted is (I guess) the guy Microsoft put in charge of the product after they bought it from Notch. But you're right, Minecraft has had continued success under Microsoft. However from a layman's view you might compare this to putting a guy on a train that is already moving at top speed, then later rewarding him for not fucking it up.
Deciding which data points are predictors of a certain outcome in regards to crime has nothing to do with software, programmers, or designers. That's the job of statisticians, who probably weren't involved in the creation of this software.
probably the best retaliation against NK.
I agree, but it wouldn't work. NK would then use the same strategy against Trump and it would be 100x more effective.
I don't think the results are directly comparable, though the article doesn't elaborate on what the test is like. The question quoted in the article is "what causes rain". Do you score a point if you understand the question, or do you only get a point if you can both understand the question and provide the answer? AIs would parse the question and then return a result based on a massive knowledge base. Are human's allowed to look up the answer? Was the human score a single smart human or was it an average over many humans taking the test? If a smart human can't understand the question but a computer can, doesn't that mean the question is poor?
Or, this was real but neutralized and then disavowed with a cover story.
Except that the US isn't the only one with the ability to detect missile launches. Japan is often the first to identify a missile launch because the missiles tend to fly right past them.
The sentence is also partially misleading. In Canada the contactless Tap & Go method for purchases under $100 has been growing for years. You just tap your debit or credit card on the handset rather than inserting the chip. Not sure if mastercard owns this tech but I have it in both my mastercard and my bank's debit card. For $100+ you still have to do chip & PIN, but otherwise it's just super fucking fast. Most businesses with third-party card-scanners support them, whereas some larger retailers with their own POS infrastructure don't (e.g. Home Depot).
So the US can enjoy their super slow adoption of the crap pay methods we're already moving beyond.
It astounds me that American politics has devolved into confused name-calling and an almost complete inability to form coherent and rational arguments.
That's mostly how it appears on TV.
I think he was referring to right here on Slashdot, as this is exactly how any politically charged, public discussion devolves. Sound and reasonable arguments do get modded up, but sadly so do comments that are mostly just feel-good flag waving for one side or the other.
But the term "reverse racism" is certainly a useful classification of racist behaviour.
It's very sad that you've taught your child that he can only be proud of the accomplishments of white male characters in movies.
I haven't seen it yet, but thanks for the spoiler. I never would have thought Luke would become a buffoon or villain.
How is this different than a job fair at college?
At a college job fair an older student would be able to see the job advertisements at your booth.