Real cash is easy to track. Most bills don't travel very far between each time they are taken from an ATM and deposited back at a bank. At both of those points, you can link the serial number of the bill to the identity of the person. Also, you have to be physically present to exchange cash, which opens you up to even more surveillance options, as well as limiting where you can practically spend your cash.
But why is it really frustrating ? I don't see the same kind of frustration when people are dealing with getting more women in sewer cleaning jobs, or more men in nursing/teaching/child care. What is the problem with different people have different interests in life ?
The problem is that the end users of a file system like to have a coherent state. If you save a source file in one window, and then run a build in the other, you'd like to know for sure that the build is done with the latest version of that file.
If you read Tanenbaum's book, you will find that he's claiming that such weakly coupled message-passing code is so much easier to design than a big monolithic monster with critical sections everywhere. Yet, we are now a few decades further along the road, and we're still waiting for high performance, high reliability distributed file systems.
There's plenty of design work at the lower levels where you don't need to know what appeals to the masses. In fact, that's going to be most of the work. Squeezing an extra 0.1 dB of sensitivity out of the RF receiver path, for instance.
Also, when given equal chances and opportunities, men and women simply have different interests. Here's a Norwegian documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In the end, perhaps Linus should have listened more to Andrew Tanenbaum
No way. In the end Linus turned out to be right. The only reasonable way to implement all the features of Linux, and with the performance of Linux, is to use a monolithic kernel. And the problem is not the time it takes to pass a message, or the time it takes for a context switch. The biggest problem of a microkernel is to maintain a coherent sense of state among a bunch of distributed processes. As an example, try to imagine a file system as a distributed design.
Even if Mars would support life, you could realistically only move a tiny portion of the human population over there, so your mega disease would still kill nearly everybody.
The problem is/was that the fixation on CO2 lead to the neglect of other external factors
What do you base this on ? Variation in the output of the sun is certainly part of any decent climate model, as well as concentration of aerosols and volcanic activity, and anything else that has a known effect. Cosmic radiation has not been shown to influence temperatures, as far as I know.
Moreover, this happens regularly, around every 120k years....and the last one was about 120k years ago, meaning it's time.
What is the mechanism behind these regular spikes ? Can we see that this mechanism is active right now ? Can this mechanism adequately explain the very sudden rise in temperature ?
Nothing to do with the fact we're coming out of an ice age
No, temperatures from the last glaciation stopped rising about 8000 years ago. And it certainly doesn't explain the sudden sharp rise we've seen this century.
"warming" is a fine word. Seen from space, the Earth is a fairly simple system. Light from the sun shines on the surface, and IR radiation shines back into space. Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere lowers the IR radiation into space. The result is that more heat stays on the Earth, therefore it is warming. The only chaotic part is the exact distribution of all this extra heat.
I said evidence was only a few mouse clicks away, and you responded "like this". So, yes, you were implying that your link points to some evidence.
So, okay, let's assume the models from the '90s aren't accurate. That doesn't necessarily mean that AGW is wrong, just that the models are incomplete. Now, if you could come up with a more accurate model that doesn't depend on AGW, *that* would be interesting.
there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the recent years in which mortality events occurred (2009, 2011, and 2014) and the years in which lower ice levels were recorded (2007 and 2012)
Arctic ice has quite a bit of local variability from year to year, so you probably don't want to average ice area in the entire Arctic, but only look at the habitat area of the walrus.
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Ordinary people shouldn't invest in mining. It's only profitable for a few big places, with the lowest $/Hash ratio.
Real cash is easy to track. Most bills don't travel very far between each time they are taken from an ATM and deposited back at a bank. At both of those points, you can link the serial number of the bill to the identity of the person. Also, you have to be physically present to exchange cash, which opens you up to even more surveillance options, as well as limiting where you can practically spend your cash.
He only bought 640k, claiming that this is enough.
When drawn, they look remarkably like snowflakes, which have a similar branching structure.
Except that the there's no basis for the hexagonal outline, except when remarkably trying to make them look like snowflakes.
But why is it really frustrating ? I don't see the same kind of frustration when people are dealing with getting more women in sewer cleaning jobs, or more men in nursing/teaching/child care. What is the problem with different people have different interests in life ?
The problem is that the end users of a file system like to have a coherent state. If you save a source file in one window, and then run a build in the other, you'd like to know for sure that the build is done with the latest version of that file. If you read Tanenbaum's book, you will find that he's claiming that such weakly coupled message-passing code is so much easier to design than a big monolithic monster with critical sections everywhere. Yet, we are now a few decades further along the road, and we're still waiting for high performance, high reliability distributed file systems.
There's plenty of design work at the lower levels where you don't need to know what appeals to the masses. In fact, that's going to be most of the work. Squeezing an extra 0.1 dB of sensitivity out of the RF receiver path, for instance.
Being good with tech is not the ability to play with a smart phone. It's the ability to design one.
Also, when given equal chances and opportunities, men and women simply have different interests. Here's a Norwegian documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Of course there's a biological difference. In fact, just looking at the group of men, most of them aren't going to be good at writing code.
In the end, perhaps Linus should have listened more to Andrew Tanenbaum
No way. In the end Linus turned out to be right. The only reasonable way to implement all the features of Linux, and with the performance of Linux, is to use a monolithic kernel. And the problem is not the time it takes to pass a message, or the time it takes for a context switch. The biggest problem of a microkernel is to maintain a coherent sense of state among a bunch of distributed processes. As an example, try to imagine a file system as a distributed design.
You are unable to grasp when a copy constructor or an assignment operator is called?
If all you see is 'a = b' in a few lines of a patch, yes, it's impossible to say.
Even if Mars would support life, you could realistically only move a tiny portion of the human population over there, so your mega disease would still kill nearly everybody.
Just leave the people at home, and send a robot to do the work.
The problem is/was that the fixation on CO2 lead to the neglect of other external factors
What do you base this on ? Variation in the output of the sun is certainly part of any decent climate model, as well as concentration of aerosols and volcanic activity, and anything else that has a known effect. Cosmic radiation has not been shown to influence temperatures, as far as I know.
Moreover, this happens regularly, around every 120k years. ...and the last one was about 120k years ago, meaning it's time.
What is the mechanism behind these regular spikes ? Can we see that this mechanism is active right now ? Can this mechanism adequately explain the very sudden rise in temperature ?
Nothing to do with the fact we're coming out of an ice age
No, temperatures from the last glaciation stopped rising about 8000 years ago. And it certainly doesn't explain the sudden sharp rise we've seen this century.
"warming" is a fine word. Seen from space, the Earth is a fairly simple system. Light from the sun shines on the surface, and IR radiation shines back into space. Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere lowers the IR radiation into space. The result is that more heat stays on the Earth, therefore it is warming. The only chaotic part is the exact distribution of all this extra heat.
I did not claim it was, now did I?
I said evidence was only a few mouse clicks away, and you responded "like this". So, yes, you were implying that your link points to some evidence. So, okay, let's assume the models from the '90s aren't accurate. That doesn't necessarily mean that AGW is wrong, just that the models are incomplete. Now, if you could come up with a more accurate model that doesn't depend on AGW, *that* would be interesting.
That's just one data point, yes. By itself, it's not evidence for one thing or another.
It's served by providing evidence to back up your claims and explaining why your opponent's claims are factually incorrect
Evidence is only a few mouse clicks away, readily accessible for anybody with a decent understanding of science.
there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the recent years in which mortality events occurred (2009, 2011, and 2014) and the years in which lower ice levels were recorded (2007 and 2012)
Arctic ice has quite a bit of local variability from year to year, so you probably don't want to average ice area in the entire Arctic, but only look at the habitat area of the walrus.
The intent of the project was to ensure a constant water flow. A big reservoir is a prerequisite for that.
And those who understand history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
Apparently, the Founding Fathers didn't think of the children. We're fixing that now.