It may be more important for stability of the system to have constant churn in the serf population, though. Churn prevents the individuals from accumulating any appreciable amount of knowledge or money, which helps to maintain their desperation and dependence.
The constant cycle of growing up in hardship, only to be broken by unavoidable work, and then death is important for cementing the permanence of their position.
That you're fixated on the devices (the vampires) used to explore some philosophical concept only shows a limitation in your capability or interest. The vampire is just an established fictional method of achieving immortality, just like the (also fictional) medical treatments used by Heinlein and Niven and the like. Since immortality is currently a fictional concept to begin with, the choice of fiction used to explore it is just a matter of taste.
If the genre actually invalidates the philosophical point for you, then you're not a very competent thinker. (Spoken as someone who doesn't care for the vampire genre at all but was able to appreciate the exploration of immortality in her books nonetheless.)
The bigger worry in the end is there aren't many platforms that last over 10 years - PalmOS started in the mid 90s and was wiped out in the mid 2000's, Windows Mobile started late 90s and was wiped out in the mid 2000's. Symbian started in the 80s as EPOC and probably lasted the longest, but again, dead. Ditto say, Blackberry. There's a good possibility that say, 2020 would bring about a new platform or innovation that renders iOS and Android both obsolete.
That was my point, though my example was subpar. The iPod dock connector lasted a while, but there were fairly new cars still sporting it when Apple switched connectors. These are very fluid "standards".
These auto systems will likely never be updated, either, so they will work at whatever level the API was at when the car's development cycle stopped... even while Apply and Google keep the API churn going and possibly depreciate old versions of it. This is a recipe for constantly obsoleted car interfaces, just as these companies' phones are constantly obsoleted (some more than others).
What you don't seem to realize is that this is the equivalent of that for connecting your smartphone to your car.
These are the equivalent of cars with built-in iPod docks, not aux jacks. Both of these standards are incompatible with each other, brand new, and controlled by companies that change/drop their old "standards" at the drop of a hat. In five to ten years, these systems will be just as obsolete as the cars with slots to fit a first-gen iPod, 30-pin connectors, and firewire level power output.
Not to mention the privacy aspects of this. The sheer amount of data that Android Auto shares with apps is a creepy stalker/advertiser wet dream (in-car microphones, GPS, car telemetry, etc).
I submit that there is not a single human being, alive or dead, that can stay true to their promise of integrity AND be in the highest power office in the world. its not possible, its not do-able and we should stop expecting it. abs power corrupts absolutely, we all know this and we can see it, first-hand.
For all of his pretty promises and moving speeches, Obama is (and always was) a politician first. That nobody can occupy a position of high power without being corrupted doesn't follow from us believing the calculated lies of a politician. And anyways, a "promise of integrity" is not the same thing as actual integrity.
Power attracts the corrupt and the higher the office, the more it will be coveted by the most corrupt among us. Your hypothesis will never be tested because nobody who isn't thoroughly corrupt will ever make it to the highest power office in the world, even in the unlikely event of them wanting to.
As someone who uses DuckDuckGo, I have to point out that that's a misleading suggestion. If other engines start doing this, it may well end up in DDG as well.
DDG relies heavily on the indices of others and many of the crappy trends in modern search engines are filtering into DDG. Search terms are replaced by synonyms and common misspellings, all searches seem to be boolean OR searches and terms are dropped without any notice at all, etc. More than that, any dissatisfaction with the results is dismissed and blamed on the other indices that they use.
Honestly, if it weren't for the extremely addictive bang searches (holy shit are those awesome), I'd probably ditch DDG. I know that you can implement those in Firefox, so I might get around to that eventually.
It also has a CCID compatible secure element, so you can use it to store your SSH keys. Instead of setting up OTP on each server and pressing the button, just add the NEO's key to.ssh/authorized_keys on each host. Much simpler.
It also acts as a OpenPGP Card and has support in Android for signing/decrypting email.
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock.
Actually, in addition to a couple of real keys, a little flash drive and a Yubikey NEO (for my GPG keys), I have a tiny little knife on my keyring.
TSA has bugged me about extra camera batteries, a little bit of water left in a bottle, hotel shampoo that wasn't in its proper ziplock bag, even nail clippers... but not once about the knife on my keyring.
There's a wide plain between Einstein (who was a theoretical scientist anyway and didn't observe, record, and verify data) and a technician whose only role is to observe, record, and verify data. The GP was referring to PhDs in science, whose role involves making models to explain the data that they collect, not just collecting data and applying it to models that somebody else made.
While anybody can observe, record, and verify data (which isn't even remotely true and many people trained in science are terrible at this, let alone determining what data needs to be collected), very few people have the talent, training, and desire to make models that explain the collected data.
Considering that the vast majority of people have been vaccinated and vaccines aren't 100% effective, the answer to your question wouldn't be the huge blow to vaccination policy that you're thinking it would be.
Here are some more questions that may provide some context:
How many people who didn't get sick with measles were vaccinated?
How many people are there who got sick with measles and were vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who were vaccinated? Now, how many people are there who got sick with measles and weren't vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who weren't vaccinated?
What is the frequency of measles outbreaks since kids started getting MMR and the the frequency of measles outbreaks since the rise of the antivax movement.
I think that our government is planning to become increasingly unpopular with its citizens and overreactions like these will prove important to the continued well-being of the self proclaimed important people.
Now on to the players who hit each other. We're playing a game, we hit each other. But we're not trying to hurt each other - and the exceptions tend to get tossed from the game. Intent is important.
I think that this is an important distinction to draw attention to. The overwhelming majority of contact sports do not condone the intentional injury of other players. There's a general acceptance that incidental injuries are inevitable, but the same is true for non-contact sports and even solo athletic activities. Even when hitting other people is a part of the sport, doing so recklessly or maliciously is not cool and will end with you being excluded from the game or entire sport.
His own administration is the one that has so forcefully prosecuted all of these whistleblowers. What makes you think he has any desire at all to pardon them?
The weird Stockholm Syndrome (or battered spouse)-like feelings that people have towards politicians baffles me.
You don't go there because of the war on drugs, not the drugs themselves. The US became a much safer place when the war on alcohol was abandoned and the world will be a safer place when the war on drugs is abandoned.
Black markets create a criminal element, so it's important policy to only use prohibition when absolutely necessary (contract killing and the like). The war on drugs have killed more people and caused more economic damage than drugs ever have.
Those, and most purges, aren't about "rational inquiry and the scientific method", but about eliminating fervent devotion to anything but the state. They're really more akin to interdenominational wars. Political purges attack the entrenched and competing power structures, not the metaphysical beliefs themselves. The point is to make sure that there is no authority higher than the state.
The contacts will probably be the first to fail, followed by the storage capacitors. The panels are generally overspecced, and fail by degradation, so they'll likely outlive the LEDs. It's kind of depressing that such a simple and solid state device would fail so quickly.
The GPS satellites will continue to function for a while, but the positioning system itself depends on the satellites being tracked and managed by ground stations. It's not an autonomous system.
I agree about windows in bathrooms. It works out well in my house, but it doesn't work out very often. I've seen many houses without windows in the bathrooms, though, so it may just be shitty design and not a (universal) code issue. There's no shortage of shitty design around.
I think that ventilation may have been one of the predominant concerns earlier in human history. The desire for ventilation may have even trumped the desire for light, initially. That explains basement windows. Modern office building windows don't provide ventilation, but they're still seen as desirable for the light.
I think the lack of blinds issue really only applies to people who don't care about privacy. Even as a poor college student who couldn't afford blinds, I tacked sheets over the windows at night. Windows that can't accept blinds on bathrooms due to being in the shower are probably just an example of shitty architecture. My neighbor's house is like that and they installed frosted glass, but it still doesn't cut it. That's just bad design.
That may be a concern, but that's not the only, or even main, reason that houses actually have windows. Most humans like natural light and rooms without windows are depressing and shitty to be in.
All of the windows on skyscrapers speak pretty convincingly against that logic, too.
WRT 4) It's not really a symptom of stupidity as much as a matter of limited choices. The OS can, and should, be hardened to prevent privilege escalation by malicious programs, but there's no universal and foolproof way to identify a user-run malicious program. A database of blacklisted known viruses isn't ideal, but it's not a bad approach. Especially if it's coupled with a whitelist of assumed benign programs (code signing). Without completely locking everything down and turning the general purpose computer into an appliance, how do you keep a user from running a program that fucks up their data?
It's better described as "after somebody else's horse has bolted" security. That's a valid approach if your horse isn't the first to bolt.
Beats me. I'm not against self-driving cars at all and am genuinely curious to see the data.
As a scientist who occasionally works with correlated datasets, I'm just sick of people trotting out that meme, like Pavlov's fucking dog, every time they see the word "correlation". "Correlated" means very damn much related, but people around here treat it like it means the opposite. If you're concerned about an outcome (like vehicular collisions), a correlation is extremely useful in finding the root cause.
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It may be more important for stability of the system to have constant churn in the serf population, though. Churn prevents the individuals from accumulating any appreciable amount of knowledge or money, which helps to maintain their desperation and dependence.
The constant cycle of growing up in hardship, only to be broken by unavoidable work, and then death is important for cementing the permanence of their position.
That you're fixated on the devices (the vampires) used to explore some philosophical concept only shows a limitation in your capability or interest. The vampire is just an established fictional method of achieving immortality, just like the (also fictional) medical treatments used by Heinlein and Niven and the like. Since immortality is currently a fictional concept to begin with, the choice of fiction used to explore it is just a matter of taste.
If the genre actually invalidates the philosophical point for you, then you're not a very competent thinker. (Spoken as someone who doesn't care for the vampire genre at all but was able to appreciate the exploration of immortality in her books nonetheless.)
The bigger worry in the end is there aren't many platforms that last over 10 years - PalmOS started in the mid 90s and was wiped out in the mid 2000's, Windows Mobile started late 90s and was wiped out in the mid 2000's. Symbian started in the 80s as EPOC and probably lasted the longest, but again, dead. Ditto say, Blackberry. There's a good possibility that say, 2020 would bring about a new platform or innovation that renders iOS and Android both obsolete.
That was my point, though my example was subpar. The iPod dock connector lasted a while, but there were fairly new cars still sporting it when Apple switched connectors. These are very fluid "standards".
These auto systems will likely never be updated, either, so they will work at whatever level the API was at when the car's development cycle stopped... even while Apply and Google keep the API churn going and possibly depreciate old versions of it. This is a recipe for constantly obsoleted car interfaces, just as these companies' phones are constantly obsoleted (some more than others).
What you don't seem to realize is that this is the equivalent of that for connecting your smartphone to your car.
These are the equivalent of cars with built-in iPod docks, not aux jacks. Both of these standards are incompatible with each other, brand new, and controlled by companies that change/drop their old "standards" at the drop of a hat. In five to ten years, these systems will be just as obsolete as the cars with slots to fit a first-gen iPod, 30-pin connectors, and firewire level power output.
Not to mention the privacy aspects of this. The sheer amount of data that Android Auto shares with apps is a creepy stalker/advertiser wet dream (in-car microphones, GPS, car telemetry, etc).
I submit that there is not a single human being, alive or dead, that can stay true to their promise of integrity AND be in the highest power office in the world. its not possible, its not do-able and we should stop expecting it. abs power corrupts absolutely, we all know this and we can see it, first-hand.
For all of his pretty promises and moving speeches, Obama is (and always was) a politician first. That nobody can occupy a position of high power without being corrupted doesn't follow from us believing the calculated lies of a politician. And anyways, a "promise of integrity" is not the same thing as actual integrity.
Power attracts the corrupt and the higher the office, the more it will be coveted by the most corrupt among us. Your hypothesis will never be tested because nobody who isn't thoroughly corrupt will ever make it to the highest power office in the world, even in the unlikely event of them wanting to.
And of course, actual "good guys" don't have to continually describe themselves by that label because it's apparent by their actions.
As someone who uses DuckDuckGo, I have to point out that that's a misleading suggestion. If other engines start doing this, it may well end up in DDG as well.
DDG relies heavily on the indices of others and many of the crappy trends in modern search engines are filtering into DDG. Search terms are replaced by synonyms and common misspellings, all searches seem to be boolean OR searches and terms are dropped without any notice at all, etc. More than that, any dissatisfaction with the results is dismissed and blamed on the other indices that they use.
Honestly, if it weren't for the extremely addictive bang searches (holy shit are those awesome), I'd probably ditch DDG. I know that you can implement those in Firefox, so I might get around to that eventually.
It also has a CCID compatible secure element, so you can use it to store your SSH keys. Instead of setting up OTP on each server and pressing the button, just add the NEO's key to .ssh/authorized_keys on each host. Much simpler.
It also acts as a OpenPGP Card and has support in Android for signing/decrypting email.
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock.
Actually, in addition to a couple of real keys, a little flash drive and a Yubikey NEO (for my GPG keys), I have a tiny little knife on my keyring.
TSA has bugged me about extra camera batteries, a little bit of water left in a bottle, hotel shampoo that wasn't in its proper ziplock bag, even nail clippers... but not once about the knife on my keyring.
There's a wide plain between Einstein (who was a theoretical scientist anyway and didn't observe, record, and verify data) and a technician whose only role is to observe, record, and verify data. The GP was referring to PhDs in science, whose role involves making models to explain the data that they collect, not just collecting data and applying it to models that somebody else made.
While anybody can observe, record, and verify data (which isn't even remotely true and many people trained in science are terrible at this, let alone determining what data needs to be collected), very few people have the talent, training, and desire to make models that explain the collected data.
Considering that the vast majority of people have been vaccinated and vaccines aren't 100% effective, the answer to your question wouldn't be the huge blow to vaccination policy that you're thinking it would be.
Here are some more questions that may provide some context:
How many people who didn't get sick with measles were vaccinated?
How many people are there who got sick with measles and were vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who were vaccinated? Now, how many people are there who got sick with measles and weren't vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who weren't vaccinated?
What is the frequency of measles outbreaks since kids started getting MMR and the the frequency of measles outbreaks since the rise of the antivax movement.
If you home-school, do you still have to pay school taxes?
Sure, just like all of those other taxes that you don't get to opt out of because you don't use the services they pay for.
I think that our government is planning to become increasingly unpopular with its citizens and overreactions like these will prove important to the continued well-being of the self proclaimed important people.
Now on to the players who hit each other. We're playing a game, we hit each other. But we're not trying to hurt each other - and the exceptions tend to get tossed from the game. Intent is important.
I think that this is an important distinction to draw attention to. The overwhelming majority of contact sports do not condone the intentional injury of other players. There's a general acceptance that incidental injuries are inevitable, but the same is true for non-contact sports and even solo athletic activities. Even when hitting other people is a part of the sport, doing so recklessly or maliciously is not cool and will end with you being excluded from the game or entire sport.
His own administration is the one that has so forcefully prosecuted all of these whistleblowers. What makes you think he has any desire at all to pardon them?
The weird Stockholm Syndrome (or battered spouse)-like feelings that people have towards politicians baffles me.
You don't go there because of the war on drugs, not the drugs themselves. The US became a much safer place when the war on alcohol was abandoned and the world will be a safer place when the war on drugs is abandoned.
Black markets create a criminal element, so it's important policy to only use prohibition when absolutely necessary (contract killing and the like). The war on drugs have killed more people and caused more economic damage than drugs ever have.
Those, and most purges, aren't about "rational inquiry and the scientific method", but about eliminating fervent devotion to anything but the state. They're really more akin to interdenominational wars. Political purges attack the entrenched and competing power structures, not the metaphysical beliefs themselves. The point is to make sure that there is no authority higher than the state.
The contacts will probably be the first to fail, followed by the storage capacitors. The panels are generally overspecced, and fail by degradation, so they'll likely outlive the LEDs. It's kind of depressing that such a simple and solid state device would fail so quickly.
The GPS satellites will continue to function for a while, but the positioning system itself depends on the satellites being tracked and managed by ground stations. It's not an autonomous system.
Also, they're not in geosynchronous orbits.
I agree about windows in bathrooms. It works out well in my house, but it doesn't work out very often. I've seen many houses without windows in the bathrooms, though, so it may just be shitty design and not a (universal) code issue. There's no shortage of shitty design around.
I think that ventilation may have been one of the predominant concerns earlier in human history. The desire for ventilation may have even trumped the desire for light, initially. That explains basement windows. Modern office building windows don't provide ventilation, but they're still seen as desirable for the light.
I think the lack of blinds issue really only applies to people who don't care about privacy. Even as a poor college student who couldn't afford blinds, I tacked sheets over the windows at night. Windows that can't accept blinds on bathrooms due to being in the shower are probably just an example of shitty architecture. My neighbor's house is like that and they installed frosted glass, but it still doesn't cut it. That's just bad design.
That may be a concern, but that's not the only, or even main, reason that houses actually have windows. Most humans like natural light and rooms without windows are depressing and shitty to be in.
All of the windows on skyscrapers speak pretty convincingly against that logic, too.
WRT 4) It's not really a symptom of stupidity as much as a matter of limited choices. The OS can, and should, be hardened to prevent privilege escalation by malicious programs, but there's no universal and foolproof way to identify a user-run malicious program. A database of blacklisted known viruses isn't ideal, but it's not a bad approach. Especially if it's coupled with a whitelist of assumed benign programs (code signing). Without completely locking everything down and turning the general purpose computer into an appliance, how do you keep a user from running a program that fucks up their data?
It's better described as "after somebody else's horse has bolted" security. That's a valid approach if your horse isn't the first to bolt.
Beats me. I'm not against self-driving cars at all and am genuinely curious to see the data.
As a scientist who occasionally works with correlated datasets, I'm just sick of people trotting out that meme, like Pavlov's fucking dog, every time they see the word "correlation". "Correlated" means very damn much related, but people around here treat it like it means the opposite. If you're concerned about an outcome (like vehicular collisions), a correlation is extremely useful in finding the root cause.