Some quick googling gives 12,000,000 bloggers worldwide out of 7 billion people. There are also around 400,000 murders worldwide each year. So one would expect to see around 700 bloggers murdered each year or 200 bloggers pro-rated to today . But the poster claims "the 20th writer to be murdered globally so far this year". So bloggers are actually doing extremely well!
"beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune"
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Why Pluto Still Matters
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"... for 48 years it remained the only known object whose orbit takes it beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune."
Wow! A truly distinct object. Even remote galaxies aren't "beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune." which drops off as 1/R^2 out to infinity but never disappears. I wonder what makes Pluto unique?
I think you are off by two orders of magnitude on the voyager data. Assuming you are correct that it will be coasting at around 10km/s, the speed of light is about 3x10^8 m/s or 3x10^5 km/s so voyager will travel a light year in approximately 3x10^4 = 30,000 years, not 1.8 million years. In 100 million years it will have traveled ~3,333 light years.
I worked for a company with a web based solution. Whenever there was an internal error in their code, instead of admitting there was an error they tried to blame it on the network and sent out a generic message: "Communication error". Actually 100% accurate in a self-referential sense.
Re:Such systems have been proposed before
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The Zuckerberg Tax
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No, this is not a wealth tax, it is an income tax. It is just recognizing that income can be received in other forms than dollars. If I paid your monthly salary in barrels of oil it would still be income you were receiving. The problem is putting a value on that income. The suggestion, as I understand it, is to tax income received as shares at the market value of the shares when received. This is an income tax, not a wealth tax.
I would have to go with any one of the many recent books on financial programming. No, I am not recommending financial programming as a field, I am just pointing out that all those graphs of historical stock prices would have been very useful 20 years ago:-)
Whether you happen to be right or wrong in claiming that there is a causal relation, the head of MI6 did NOT make that claim. So the article is a misrepresentation of his statements.
From the quotes in the article all the MI6 head said was that wikileaks and the revolutions both stem from the same empowerment of the public via technology, not that one caused the other.
I admit that I didn't watch the 20 minute video where it actual causality might be mentioned.
The actual results for this parents search are especially hillarious. Google comes up with a link to the book, Bing comes up with: "Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram"
GPL v1 goes back to 1989, so free as in Libre clearly existed way before the "open source" branding. Of course in actuallity RMS was pushing free as in Libre *way* before GPL v1
"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching path for information - like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."
Am I missing something? A picosecond to switch tracks implies a million billion times per second. A million times per second is a snails pace. And then they refer to terrabit capacity? Everything seems to be off by orders of magnitude all over the place...
"researchers speculate it is the most powerful laser in the universe"
They say that the applied Physics dept. at Alpha Centauri almost got funding for a Laser that was twice as powerful, but the funds got sidetracked to fund a SETI project.
You must use each number exactly once. The only operations permitted are addition, subtraction, mulitplication, division and parenthesis. Nothing tricky, this is straight forward.
What is nice about the riddle is that it would seem that it is either trivial or not doable. It turns out that it is doable but surprisingly difficult. Don't give up, it really is doable without any "cheats".
"Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?"
I don't mean to compare the two, but just to shed light on your question:
"Nazi's are killing people in gas chambers. Is it better to work on better gas chambers done right, or to object to it on moral grounds."
Again, I want to emphasize, I am in no way comparing the levels of evil involved, I am just using exaggeration to point out the weirdness of the question.
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Some quick googling gives 12,000,000 bloggers worldwide out of 7 billion people. There are also around 400,000 murders worldwide each year. So one would expect to see around 700 bloggers murdered each year or 200 bloggers pro-rated to today . But the poster claims "the 20th writer to be murdered globally so far this year". So bloggers are actually doing extremely well!
Look at the blue sky in the Moscow pic. It is VERY wavy in JPEG, smooth in BPG
The below site offers a better comparison interface than the Lena image link from the post. Drag your mouse across the image to see the effect:
http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yol...
"... for 48 years it remained the only known object whose orbit takes it beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune."
Wow! A truly distinct object. Even remote galaxies aren't "beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune." which drops off as 1/R^2 out to infinity but never disappears. I wonder what makes Pluto unique?
I think you are off by two orders of magnitude on the voyager data. Assuming you are correct that it will be coasting at around 10km/s, the speed of light is about 3x10^8 m/s or 3x10^5 km/s so voyager will travel a light year in approximately 3x10^4 = 30,000 years, not 1.8 million years. In 100 million years it will have traveled ~3,333 light years.
I worked for a company with a web based solution. Whenever there was an internal error in their code, instead of admitting there was an error they tried to blame it on the network and sent out a generic message: "Communication error". Actually 100% accurate in a self-referential sense.
No, this is not a wealth tax, it is an income tax. It is just recognizing that income can be received in other forms than dollars. If I paid your monthly salary in barrels of oil it would still be income you were receiving. The problem is putting a value on that income. The suggestion, as I understand it, is to tax income received as shares at the market value of the shares when received. This is an income tax, not a wealth tax.
I would have to go with any one of the many recent books on financial programming. No, I am not recommending financial programming as a field, I am just pointing out that all those graphs of historical stock prices would have been very useful 20 years ago :-)
Whether you happen to be right or wrong in claiming that there is a causal relation, the head of MI6 did NOT make that claim. So the article is a misrepresentation of his statements.
From the quotes in the article all the MI6 head said was that wikileaks and the revolutions both stem from the same empowerment of the public via technology, not that one caused the other.
I admit that I didn't watch the 20 minute video where it actual causality might be mentioned.
Liffe[sic] the universe and everything.
http://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+wolfram+is+famous+for+this+self+aggrandizing+book
http://www.bing.com/search?q=stephen+wolfram+is+famous+for+this+self+aggrandizing+book
The actual results for this parents search are especially hillarious. Google comes up with a link to the book, Bing comes up with: "Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram"
GPL v1 goes back to 1989, so free as in Libre clearly existed way before the "open source" branding. Of course in actuallity RMS was pushing free as in Libre *way* before GPL v1
A profiler was crashing when I tried to find bottlenecks in my code. The support rep. told me I should turn off optimization.
"Spoiler: 480 days paid paternity leave."
But there is no way society can afford to give paid paternity leave instead of paid maternity leave. Men's salaries are so much higher! :-)
"Global Warming Irreversible"
Wow, are there no limits to human ingenuity? We are finally safe from nuclear winters.
PHP is a HORRIBLE first language, and a horrible second, third or forth language.
Even Forth is a horrible forth language
I thought this paragraph was a doozer:
"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching path for information - like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."
Am I missing something? A picosecond to switch tracks implies a million billion times per second. A million times per second is a snails pace. And then they refer to terrabit capacity? Everything seems to be off by orders of magnitude all over the place...
"researchers speculate it is the most powerful laser in the universe"
They say that the applied Physics dept. at Alpha Centauri almost got funding for a Laser that was twice as powerful, but the funds got sidetracked to fund a SETI project.
The most important standard to enforce strictly is that everyone should use emacs (vi) and absolutely shun using vi (emacs).
VERY cute. I don't agree that it doesn't violate the rules, but it is still very cute.
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6/(1-5/7)
If you enjoy this, you will probably enjoy my post "Reach 21 using 1, 5, 6 and 7" at least as much.
You must use each number exactly once. The only operations permitted are addition, subtraction, mulitplication, division and parenthesis. Nothing tricky, this is straight forward.
What is nice about the riddle is that it would seem that it is either trivial or not doable. It turns out that it is doable but surprisingly difficult. Don't give up, it really is doable without any "cheats".
"Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?"
I don't mean to compare the two, but just to shed light on your question:
"Nazi's are killing people in gas chambers. Is it better to work on better gas chambers done right, or to object to it on moral grounds."
Again, I want to emphasize, I am in no way comparing the levels of evil involved, I am just using exaggeration to point out the weirdness of the question.