The world has historically been "xenophobic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, transphobic, misogynistic, anti Hispanic, etc." so, to some extent, if you are expounding "turning back the clock," there is implicit (intentional or not) advocacy to amplify these things. The Gen Z thing is interesting as it challenges the notion that, as we become more racially diverse, we'll become more tolerant. Interesting times.
I had a friend in college who was a film student. She would always say that, if a move is good, you don't need a big screen, you don't need high-end audio, and you don't even need to understand the dialog in order for it to be a great experience. I have a good (not great) home theater system. The cinemas are still better. But if there is any difference in enjoyment between the, it's an indictment of the quality of the movie.
This is conceptually true, but flights don't generally circle anymore (except in bad weather). The approaching flights are slowed down so that they stream in. Saves fuel and makes it easier for ATC.
You could make it an octagon shape where four segments (wind permitting) can be used simultaneously. Access and egress tunnels aren't that expensive to build. In fact most large airports already have them along with shuttle trains to move people between terminals, et cetera. I'm not saying that this is actually the ideal solution, but airports are not very efficient in terms of overhead. It often takes more time to get to the airport and board than it does to actually fly.
A fifteen minute taxi via the plane would actually be wonderful if it means that the terminal is close to the city center. You may have come up with a brilliant solution. Instead of dedicated train tracks to the cities which is how it's done now, why not just put the airline terminal where the train station is and taxi the whole length of the tracks!
I would presume, however, that when *testing* a golf ball, you would use a machine that swings in a very well-defined way. Not the same way every time, but maybe one perfect shot, a slight hook, a slight slice, large pull, et cetera. This gives a controlled test that can provide quantitative metrics for different ball designs.
Cash is terribly inconvenient. Unless the price is an exact multiple of US$20 (here in the US), you have to fuss with making change and coins. I use cash to save small businesses the discount points for Visa/AmEx purchases, but if there were a low-cost electronic cash alternative, I'd use it exclusively.
Yes, but it's much easier to build redundant infrastructure in urban areas. You're not stringing infrastructure over as long of distances and you have a higher population density to spread the fixed costs across making the build-out more economically attractive.
Well, kind of. The cost for wafers keeps staying about the same but the transistor-density goes up. So if you were to measure cost/transistor, the prices are sinking like a rock.
This is an insightful comment in terms of user psychology. Fortunately, there is a technical solution for this. For security reasons, you have to always validate server-side. Validating client-side does improve user experience. But the way you satisfy both camps is you make sure that your site still works even with JavaScript disabled. That way both of your sets of constituents can use your application with joy.
The fact that WaPo is a reputable source isn't based on them being infallible in their reporting. Everybody makes mistakes. It's based on the fact that they put accuracy above an agenda rather than the other way around. One way to tell real news from fake news is what happens when they make a mistake. WaPo printed a correction. They're not trying to defend the originally wrong story. Using your standard, any news source that ever made an honest mistake would be in the same league as the celebrity gossip tabloids. This is nonsense.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
How the heck can anybody get modded up for calling WaPo "fake news." It's right up there with calling the media the "enemy of the people." The mods have gone crazy.
I'm not sure how we got from the wiretapping allegations to this post. Even if there were wiretaps (which seem to be nothing more than the ravings of a lunatic), there is not even a shred of evidence that information obtained was used to influence a campaign. If anything, this shows the great level of restraint of the Obama administration. If there were an active investigation of an opposing-party candidate and information surfaces (such as maybe campaign strategy), there would be a strong temptation to provide this to allies. But there has not even been an allegation of any such thing. So the only thing to learn here is that the Obama administration is an example of good governance.
From TFA, Uber had an algorithm for detecting burner phones. Basically the $10 phones are all assumed to be burners. So it wasn't very sophisticated. But buying burners turns out not to be sufficient.
Although I appreciate most of your comment, I think you are grossly mischaracterizing mine. All nation-states need to do both domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering. Those activities aren't going away. We have a framework for ensuring that civil liberties are protected while still allowing our agencies to engage in these necessary functions. Right now, however, there is a dual-threat. As you mention, there are those who are trying to erode civil liberties and using various (poor) justifications to do so. The other is that the current rules of engagement we have aren't very effective in the more globalized world in which we now live. In order to achieve a reasonable outcome, both will need to be addressed.
More likely JD's business model is similar to printer manufacturers and razor blade makers. Sell the product at a loss and then milk the customer on supplies and maintenance. Hence why they are so opposed to this type of legislation.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, the distinction between operating domestically and overseas was eroded when we started dealing with bits and bytes that flow around the world. Should the CIA stop an investigation of two foreign terrorists if they use an email server located in a US data center? I am not a fan of our intelligence agencies and tend to think that they've completely ignored civil rights. But I'm also cognizant that separating domestic from foreign activities is no longer a good way to define the various agencies' behavior.
Given that we have a very strong (albeit not perfect) correlation between criminal statue and harm, I'm not sure that I understand this comment. It's not illegal to sleep late on a Sunday. It is illegal to murder the people who live upstairs so that they don't wake you up in the morning. There are some cases where it is very difficult to decide where to draw the line in terms of what should or should not be a crime. In those cases, we typically treat them as civil infractions which isn't a perfect answer but it's at least reasonable. When there is a mismatch between what is criminal and what *should* be criminal, having the activity go underground and not get caught is the worst possible answer. Better to either change the laws or change behavior.
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The world has historically been "xenophobic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, transphobic, misogynistic, anti Hispanic, etc." so, to some extent, if you are expounding "turning back the clock," there is implicit (intentional or not) advocacy to amplify these things. The Gen Z thing is interesting as it challenges the notion that, as we become more racially diverse, we'll become more tolerant. Interesting times.
I had a friend in college who was a film student. She would always say that, if a move is good, you don't need a big screen, you don't need high-end audio, and you don't even need to understand the dialog in order for it to be a great experience. I have a good (not great) home theater system. The cinemas are still better. But if there is any difference in enjoyment between the, it's an indictment of the quality of the movie.
This is conceptually true, but flights don't generally circle anymore (except in bad weather). The approaching flights are slowed down so that they stream in. Saves fuel and makes it easier for ATC.
You could make it an octagon shape where four segments (wind permitting) can be used simultaneously. Access and egress tunnels aren't that expensive to build. In fact most large airports already have them along with shuttle trains to move people between terminals, et cetera. I'm not saying that this is actually the ideal solution, but airports are not very efficient in terms of overhead. It often takes more time to get to the airport and board than it does to actually fly.
A fifteen minute taxi via the plane would actually be wonderful if it means that the terminal is close to the city center. You may have come up with a brilliant solution. Instead of dedicated train tracks to the cities which is how it's done now, why not just put the airline terminal where the train station is and taxi the whole length of the tracks!
I would presume, however, that when *testing* a golf ball, you would use a machine that swings in a very well-defined way. Not the same way every time, but maybe one perfect shot, a slight hook, a slight slice, large pull, et cetera. This gives a controlled test that can provide quantitative metrics for different ball designs.
Cash is terribly inconvenient. Unless the price is an exact multiple of US$20 (here in the US), you have to fuss with making change and coins. I use cash to save small businesses the discount points for Visa/AmEx purchases, but if there were a low-cost electronic cash alternative, I'd use it exclusively.
Yes, but it's much easier to build redundant infrastructure in urban areas. You're not stringing infrastructure over as long of distances and you have a higher population density to spread the fixed costs across making the build-out more economically attractive.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green...
Manufacturing computer chips is an industry that looks clean (fancy, spotless manufacturing facilities), but is actually very dirty.
Well, kind of. The cost for wafers keeps staying about the same but the transistor-density goes up. So if you were to measure cost/transistor, the prices are sinking like a rock.
Yes, but to do this, you have to actually go to court which is an insurmountable obstacle in many cases and fails to provide timely relief in others.
The problem with that is that employers will do searches with criteria that you won't meed and/or filter inbound resumes with bots.
This is an insightful comment in terms of user psychology. Fortunately, there is a technical solution for this. For security reasons, you have to always validate server-side. Validating client-side does improve user experience. But the way you satisfy both camps is you make sure that your site still works even with JavaScript disabled. That way both of your sets of constituents can use your application with joy.
The fact that WaPo is a reputable source isn't based on them being infallible in their reporting. Everybody makes mistakes. It's based on the fact that they put accuracy above an agenda rather than the other way around. One way to tell real news from fake news is what happens when they make a mistake. WaPo printed a correction. They're not trying to defend the originally wrong story. Using your standard, any news source that ever made an honest mistake would be in the same league as the celebrity gossip tabloids. This is nonsense. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
How the heck can anybody get modded up for calling WaPo "fake news." It's right up there with calling the media the "enemy of the people." The mods have gone crazy.
I'm not sure how we got from the wiretapping allegations to this post. Even if there were wiretaps (which seem to be nothing more than the ravings of a lunatic), there is not even a shred of evidence that information obtained was used to influence a campaign. If anything, this shows the great level of restraint of the Obama administration. If there were an active investigation of an opposing-party candidate and information surfaces (such as maybe campaign strategy), there would be a strong temptation to provide this to allies. But there has not even been an allegation of any such thing. So the only thing to learn here is that the Obama administration is an example of good governance.
From TFA, Uber had an algorithm for detecting burner phones. Basically the $10 phones are all assumed to be burners. So it wasn't very sophisticated. But buying burners turns out not to be sufficient.
Although I appreciate most of your comment, I think you are grossly mischaracterizing mine. All nation-states need to do both domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering. Those activities aren't going away. We have a framework for ensuring that civil liberties are protected while still allowing our agencies to engage in these necessary functions. Right now, however, there is a dual-threat. As you mention, there are those who are trying to erode civil liberties and using various (poor) justifications to do so. The other is that the current rules of engagement we have aren't very effective in the more globalized world in which we now live. In order to achieve a reasonable outcome, both will need to be addressed.
More likely JD's business model is similar to printer manufacturers and razor blade makers. Sell the product at a loss and then milk the customer on supplies and maintenance. Hence why they are so opposed to this type of legislation.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, the distinction between operating domestically and overseas was eroded when we started dealing with bits and bytes that flow around the world. Should the CIA stop an investigation of two foreign terrorists if they use an email server located in a US data center? I am not a fan of our intelligence agencies and tend to think that they've completely ignored civil rights. But I'm also cognizant that separating domestic from foreign activities is no longer a good way to define the various agencies' behavior.
I thought CIA stood for confidentiality, integrity, and availability and that was the mission of this agency!
I was referring to the burn-in, not the cost!
Uh so do the CRTs that they would be replacing!
Given that we have a very strong (albeit not perfect) correlation between criminal statue and harm, I'm not sure that I understand this comment. It's not illegal to sleep late on a Sunday. It is illegal to murder the people who live upstairs so that they don't wake you up in the morning. There are some cases where it is very difficult to decide where to draw the line in terms of what should or should not be a crime. In those cases, we typically treat them as civil infractions which isn't a perfect answer but it's at least reasonable. When there is a mismatch between what is criminal and what *should* be criminal, having the activity go underground and not get caught is the worst possible answer. Better to either change the laws or change behavior.