There's many studies that have separated those and still find a positive "effect" (really a correlation of course).
The thing is, if you choose to be a teetotaller, you sadly isolate yourself from a lot of social activity, since alcohol use is so central to our culture. This has enough negative effects on average that it makes up for the health effects of very low consumption.
Although, since how much people drink is heavily mediated by how much people they know drink, teetotallers still contribute greatly to public health. Just mostly to people other than themselves.
Speak for yourself. Since I was considering a job where there would be some work with Microsoft technologies, I looked into what dot-net is like today. I didn't exactly have high expectations, after what it looked like 12 years ago when I last used it.
I was very pleased that everything was friendly and easy and seemed to work with no hassle. On my Ubuntu system. Wut??? Even the cloud stuff they try to push, Linux is option number one. Wait, they're not serving this up to me just from the browser useragent, are they?
Obviously, that isn't necessary. But there comes a time when the country is destabilized enough, and enemies (including the CIA) start planning for what comes after the destabilization. "He's unpopular enough that we can kill him now" - not a smart thing to think, probably, but in issues like these CIA has a track record of being monumentally stupid, so it's not impossible.
Avoiding overfitting to your training data is easy.
Models generalize to at least some data it wasn't trained on - that's the whole point. If they don't, they get thrown out.
But if the new compound is really dissimilar, enough that it can't be said to look like the data in the test set, then all bets are off.
I don't know enough about chemistry to know if that's likely to happen often. Hopefully, chemists will know if the compound they have an idea for is widely different from existing ones. Humans aren't out of the loop here.
Cryptocurrency being stolen with old fashioned stuff like actual hacking and phishing, rather than by saying "we got hacked" and running away with your users' bits.
This is the guy who wrote on twitter that Manning should be shot. On the face of it, it seems strange that he should turn around and do exactly the same as Manning a few years later.
Though, for the CIA, it probably doesn't matter much if he didn't do it, as long as the public can be convinced he did it - and that he's a pedophile to boot.
The problem of micropayments and the problem of byzantine fault tolerance have little to do with each other. Byzantine fault tolerance is so expensive to get, it would be very strange if it turned out to just accidentally be good for something different to.
So we should not have been surprised that bitcoin stopped being good for micropayments long ago.
> The company wearing Atari's skin thinks it can make the Ouya work.
Thank you. We should not get into the habit of addressing such name-buyers as if they were the original thing. When names with goodwill are sold, the buyer with a plan to cash in on it inevitably can land the highest bid.
So you think it's impossible for a machine learning algorithm to learn that novelty is something you like.
It's plain that most of you never tried Spotify's recommendation playlists. They're considerably better than Google Play's or last.fm's. You get exposed to way more original music than you would ever get through the usual channels (radio, friends).
It's probably similar with the "threat to democracy" filtering. You probably didn't get all that many new and different ideas from traditional media.
Going all sad-eyed about "we only want apple pie and motherhood! How can anyone be against that? I don't understand it!"
The most common culprit is the side which you're defending now. But I also see conservative types doing the same ("How can anyone be against meritocracy? How can you even be against merit?" - literally saw that one on twitter), and I wouldn't be surprised if stormfront-nazi types do it too ("We only want our children to survive! How can anyone be against their children surviving?").
In all cases, those unquestionably good things you can't comprehend anyone being against come with a side dish of questionable (at best) political assumptions.
The uncontroversial claim is that ketosis is a thing. The controversial claim is that inducing ketosis by starving yourself of carbohydrates is a good idea.
Also, it's naive to think the meat industry (which is a much more real and organized thing than "Big Pasta") had no finger in the whole high-meat diet fads thing.
It's not quite that simple. Some people who are well-paid are that because they do something really critical that no one else can do, so that every day they're on vacation without a phone is risky. Bad situation for the employer to be in, sure, but it happens. Similar but less extreme cases can be a reason why many employers are reluctant to offer vacation as a benefit.
In other businesses, where there is high risk of corruption, people are sometimes forced to take vacations. This is because they've noticed that it's very hard to keep your clever embezzling scheme running without access to your office.
That's only about projects which are successful from the project starter's perspective, i.e. successfully funded. Failure to deliver or delivery of incomplete or unsatisfying products is not counted.
Oh, that is going to be "fun". Wal-Mart is one of the few "serious" businesses which sends me spam. Pure, unfalsified spam, not some newsletter they pretend you signed up for by not checking a box somewhere. At first I thought it must be someone doing it to sully their name, or maybe it redirected to a phishing site or something... nope. It's actually them.
Never mind that I live in the wrong freaking hemisphere for Wal-Mart, they're SURE I would like some offers anyway!
Bitcoin leaves open the problem that people can scam you and take your money. Credit card companies and paypal and what have you mitigate that problem, but do so at the cost that people can falsely accuse you of scamming them and taking your money, pretend to pay you but don't, confiscate or freeze your money with little accountability, and do a lot of other nasty things.
Are the ways to abuse the system worse than the things the system is supposed to protect you against? I don't know. But it's a valid question - one that is likely to have different answers at different times and places. The answer may vary for different people too. For that reasons, bitcoin is a good thing. Whether the wild west mentality is better is one thing, but having the option of the wild west mentality can't really be bad.
What kind of "females" are you hanging out with? Elderly members of the British Royal Family?
No one is approaching a random group of stranger "females" to tell dick jokes. There just happens to exist somewhere, in public, a place with lot of dick jokes. People going in there, men or women, are idiots if they think it's supposed to make them feel uncomfortable. If it does make them feel uncomfortable anyway, well, tough luck! The world is full of things that would make us uncomfortable if we sought them out. Hope you never have to deal with someone from another culture, if you can't even handle some crude humor from your own.
Sadly, 985 of them suck ass, which makes this a meaningless statistic.
No, the statistics are still valuable, unless you make an argument that Windows has a higher percentage of shitty games. Absent any other information, it's reasonable to assume the percentage of awful games are similar on all platforms.
(But in fact, I think that the existence of more shovelware-friendly middleware on Windows means Windows has a higher percentage of bad games).
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There's many studies that have separated those and still find a positive "effect" (really a correlation of course).
The thing is, if you choose to be a teetotaller, you sadly isolate yourself from a lot of social activity, since alcohol use is so central to our culture. This has enough negative effects on average that it makes up for the health effects of very low consumption.
Although, since how much people drink is heavily mediated by how much people they know drink, teetotallers still contribute greatly to public health. Just mostly to people other than themselves.
Speak for yourself. Since I was considering a job where there would be some work with Microsoft technologies, I looked into what dot-net is like today. I didn't exactly have high expectations, after what it looked like 12 years ago when I last used it.
I was very pleased that everything was friendly and easy and seemed to work with no hassle. On my Ubuntu system. Wut??? Even the cloud stuff they try to push, Linux is option number one. Wait, they're not serving this up to me just from the browser useragent, are they?
Either way, I think that's hugely preferable to trying to sue it out of existence via proxy.
attempting to destabilize Venezuela
Obviously, that isn't necessary. But there comes a time when the country is destabilized enough, and enemies (including the CIA) start planning for what comes after the destabilization. "He's unpopular enough that we can kill him now" - not a smart thing to think, probably, but in issues like these CIA has a track record of being monumentally stupid, so it's not impossible.
Avoiding overfitting to your training data is easy.
Models generalize to at least some data it wasn't trained on - that's the whole point. If they don't, they get thrown out.
But if the new compound is really dissimilar, enough that it can't be said to look like the data in the test set, then all bets are off.
I don't know enough about chemistry to know if that's likely to happen often. Hopefully, chemists will know if the compound they have an idea for is widely different from existing ones. Humans aren't out of the loop here.
Cryptocurrency being stolen with old fashioned stuff like actual hacking and phishing, rather than by saying "we got hacked" and running away with your users' bits.
"So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans." Philip K. Dick was a prophet.
This is the guy who wrote on twitter that Manning should be shot. On the face of it, it seems strange that he should turn around and do exactly the same as Manning a few years later.
Though, for the CIA, it probably doesn't matter much if he didn't do it, as long as the public can be convinced he did it - and that he's a pedophile to boot.
The problem of micropayments and the problem of byzantine fault tolerance have little to do with each other. Byzantine fault tolerance is so expensive to get, it would be very strange if it turned out to just accidentally be good for something different to.
So we should not have been surprised that bitcoin stopped being good for micropayments long ago.
> The company wearing Atari's skin thinks it can make the Ouya work.
Thank you. We should not get into the habit of addressing such name-buyers as if they were the original thing. When names with goodwill are sold, the buyer with a plan to cash in on it inevitably can land the highest bid.
I think it's mostly bots watching Vevo music videos anyway, to boost their viewership numbers and payouts from Google.
Asset flip.
So you think it's impossible for a machine learning algorithm to learn that novelty is something you like.
It's plain that most of you never tried Spotify's recommendation playlists. They're considerably better than Google Play's or last.fm's. You get exposed to way more original music than you would ever get through the usual channels (radio, friends).
It's probably similar with the "threat to democracy" filtering. You probably didn't get all that many new and different ideas from traditional media.
Definitively don't cite wikipedia as an authority on how their own politics work.
So, he's doing his job. He's also a bestselling author.
All political cults do this, and I hate it:
Going all sad-eyed about "we only want apple pie and motherhood! How can anyone be against that? I don't understand it!"
The most common culprit is the side which you're defending now. But I also see conservative types doing the same ("How can anyone be against meritocracy? How can you even be against merit?" - literally saw that one on twitter), and I wouldn't be surprised if stormfront-nazi types do it too ("We only want our children to survive! How can anyone be against their children surviving?").
In all cases, those unquestionably good things you can't comprehend anyone being against come with a side dish of questionable (at best) political assumptions.
The uncontroversial claim is that ketosis is a thing. The controversial claim is that inducing ketosis by starving yourself of carbohydrates is a good idea.
Also, it's naive to think the meat industry (which is a much more real and organized thing than "Big Pasta") had no finger in the whole high-meat diet fads thing.
It's not quite that simple. Some people who are well-paid are that because they do something really critical that no one else can do, so that every day they're on vacation without a phone is risky. Bad situation for the employer to be in, sure, but it happens. Similar but less extreme cases can be a reason why many employers are reluctant to offer vacation as a benefit.
In other businesses, where there is high risk of corruption, people are sometimes forced to take vacations. This is because they've noticed that it's very hard to keep your clever embezzling scheme running without access to your office.
That's only about projects which are successful from the project starter's perspective, i.e. successfully funded. Failure to deliver or delivery of incomplete or unsatisfying products is not counted.
* Any headphones
* Any chargers
* Any pens
* Any watches
* Any jerky
* Any box
* Anything for your pet
* "World's first" anything
* "Premium" anything
Oh, that is going to be "fun". Wal-Mart is one of the few "serious" businesses which sends me spam. Pure, unfalsified spam, not some newsletter they pretend you signed up for by not checking a box somewhere. At first I thought it must be someone doing it to sully their name, or maybe it redirected to a phishing site or something... nope. It's actually them.
Never mind that I live in the wrong freaking hemisphere for Wal-Mart, they're SURE I would like some offers anyway!
Bitcoin leaves open the problem that people can scam you and take your money. Credit card companies and paypal and what have you mitigate that problem, but do so at the cost that people can falsely accuse you of scamming them and taking your money, pretend to pay you but don't, confiscate or freeze your money with little accountability, and do a lot of other nasty things.
Are the ways to abuse the system worse than the things the system is supposed to protect you against? I don't know. But it's a valid question - one that is likely to have different answers at different times and places. The answer may vary for different people too. For that reasons, bitcoin is a good thing. Whether the wild west mentality is better is one thing, but having the option of the wild west mentality can't really be bad.
What kind of "females" are you hanging out with? Elderly members of the British Royal Family?
No one is approaching a random group of stranger "females" to tell dick jokes. There just happens to exist somewhere, in public, a place with lot of dick jokes. People going in there, men or women, are idiots if they think it's supposed to make them feel uncomfortable. If it does make them feel uncomfortable anyway, well, tough luck! The world is full of things that would make us uncomfortable if we sought them out. Hope you never have to deal with someone from another culture, if you can't even handle some crude humor from your own.
No, the statistics are still valuable, unless you make an argument that Windows has a higher percentage of shitty games. Absent any other information, it's reasonable to assume the percentage of awful games are similar on all platforms.
(But in fact, I think that the existence of more shovelware-friendly middleware on Windows means Windows has a higher percentage of bad games).
Well yeah, technically it's Valve that helps people get their games running on multiple platforms, not Stream. But that's still picking nits.