I agree. Code is math, and thus of the experiment and analysis, and is not just an interpretation. "Duplicate it yourself" stands against the very idea of review and reproduction.
While there is tremendous utility in an independent reconstruction of an algorithm (I have numerous times built a separate chunk of code to calculate something in a completely different way, to test against the real algorithm/code, in practice they debug each other) the actual code needs to be there for review.
They may have a desire to keep it secret for exclusivity reasons of one type or another (fame, future additional research, money) that can't justify secrecy in normal publication.
Fair enough. Add in a new user agreement, in large blinking red letters at the top, so the user doesn't even have to scroll past pages of deliberately obfuscating boilerplate, "Facebook will do this for you. In exchange we will gather buying info tied to your purchases through us to sell ads targetted to your buying habits. Truth be told, we don't care if you buy Depends or urine catheters or Justin Bieber tix, it's all done automatically by computer aggregate anyway."
If they were pulling over speeders, or drunks, or people texting while actually driving, sure. But these are higway robbers when they do this:
- Wait for people who are stuck in traffic under a light that turns red. - Set needless "no right turn on red" signs then wait for people who do. - Set quota or reward systems for any of this, including speed traps.
OP is disgusting behavior that is the textbook definition of a robber highwayman, someone taking money by force with zero actual concern for the nominal spirit of the law.
They should be put in jail with other armed robbers. This is not a joke or hyperbole.
Note it is coucjed as sticking it to foreign companies, and helping the local French people, when it is actually another attempt to force the French to shoulder even more unnecessary financial burdens and make them more anti-competitive.
Basically: We politicians pretend this kicks the rich in the balls when they will just shift the burden onto you.
Thatcher: Charles, I happen to know you lost a million dollars on this little newspaper last year!
Kane: Yes, I lost a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know what, Mr. Thatcher? At a rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place...in sixty years.
Politicians stole the word "metadata" from computer science, and declared it on-limits for warrantless spying. This is a sophistry, invented out of whole cloth.
The king of England would have used phone metadata to round up the Founding Fathers in quick order. Therefore government doesn't get to do this.
Stop government from building the tools of tyrrany to begin with. That is the meaning of the Constitution.
I don't know what the point is -- they'll still have their Ultra-Mega room of highest top secret, where they will listen in on what they want anyway. And that's the room where a rogue might listen in on political opponents.
I don't know why people keep looking at it as rich people doing this. Inflation benefits borrowers by slowly (or rapidly) reduciing what they borrowed to chump change. If they can keep up the interest payments, as government does, then they never have to pay it back.
That they pay your money out like a fool paying a credit card, well, the government is getting close to having a balanced budget again...not counting the annual interest payment.
And the coveted position of frist psot, too! After 80 or so posts, neithet Twain, nor Churchill, nor Shakespeare could get an upmod to save their life.
> Who said that the trend of annual extent minima was supposed to be monotonic?
The hyperble of rhetoric from politicians and others. It does a disservice to scream "Global warming!!!!!!!" every time there is a major weather event, when they happen all the time and any increase in severity or nmber is a tiny fraction of the energy released.
See also heat waves and hurricanes. Things are shifted by a fraction of a percent, and due to energy delta gradients as energizers, a fraction of a fraction of a percent.
A real test would be to use such transitions to look for another one not associated with any mass extinctions, and then go look if one actually happened.
I don't know if such would have lain undiscovered so far, but it would make for a good predictive test.
It's not about hundreds of honest agents and managers doing the right thing. It's about creating an apparatus where a rogue agent at the behest of some powerful politician can get lost among the many and spy on opponent politicians and their supporters.
With easy to defeat or ignore technological barriers and just "you should go get approval first before you listen in", i.e. relying on agent honesty to Do The Right Thing, we've already lost. I keep bringing up the Watergate people -- these thugs, most of which would have been agents or that level of clearance, wouldn't think twice about doing this.
Cut him some slack on the exorcism -- after all, you guys are surrounded by fellow students whose heads are constantly spinning and vomiting and swearing like a sailor.
A few dollars' worth of free food coupons a day is not the same as rent and car and gas and $4000/year property tax because your heart beats.
If Bitcoin gets too big, expect a clampdown to get taxes from it, though it will be couched in verbiage of For The People they will demand government scrutiny and regulation. But it's about money. It always is.
Or a "constitution". "Contract" suggests two pre-existing entities -- the people, and the powerful who lord over them.
It is born in a world that is already a political philosophy faure. You should start with the people, who create a constitution, which creates a governmemt, with limited, well-defined powers and, explicitely, none others. If they need more, the people can go through a deliberative and deliberately laborious process to grant additional powers. Laborious because most people should agree to fundamental changes, not just a brief, transient 51% majority at the behest of a charismatic demagogue.
No democracy should ever forget the vote is merely an abstraction of might makes right, and thin majorities are scarcely any more deserving of rule than a large minority. "51%", therefore infinite dictator power, is just another tool for the power hungry rather than some all-enabling social theory justification.
Well, like all successful species, we are spreading to other lands and continents. At least the important, defining, bulging features are. Look about you.
It's about storage, not sun. With cheap mass storage you can spit out panels like popcorn and even transmit wastefully long distances.
That's the tech breakthrough we need, not efficient panels. Even panels that could drive a car in real time need backup, which means heavy batteries or gas co-engine.
> "To lose one's faith is to literally damn oneself."
That is a memeplex defense mechanism. Adopt a meme into a larger group of memes that to even question anything in the group will lead to failure, and that contrary evidence, no matter how well-proven, is the work of a sinister agent actively attempting to deceive you.
The scientific validity is thus irrelevant when it is fraudulent; e'en honest scientists are being deceived.
These things, by the way, are rampant in political narratives on the left as well as the right.
Indeed. I also take issue with the use of "missing." There was never any indication that it was there in the first place for it to be "missing."
Indeed. It's like expressing puzzlement over missing vaginas wrapping slashdotter wiener. Who the hell presumes its existence beyond fantasied hopes of life?
This statement is deeper than it seems. Assume for the sake of argument solutions will appear that do not involve massive command-amd-control takeover of the economy (we've dodged several bullets already like the BTU tax from the 1990s.)
Under the admittedly cynical theory certain leaders are more interested in command-and-control for good ol' political reasons like kickbacks, general power, or even wistful longing for the long-failed Workers of the World Unite! socialost rhetoric-as-rationale, what could we predict as reaction?
Furthermore, as I've been saying for years, such a sution is ludicrous, akin to people in 1900 making judgements about 100-300 years in the future and shit what can we do now now NOW?!?!?.
And tech is advancing even faster. Delta between now and 2113 is far greater than between now and 1913.
> "users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice"
*BZZZZZT* PLEASE STATE DREAM FOR RECORDING
I dreamt I was hitting on Victoria Justice, and she was gonna take her pants off, but then she ran over to Debby Ryan and that Zhendaya chick and they pointed at my crotch and started laughing then they started making put but pulled down a wicker shade so I couldn't see, so I was gonna try to peek through it but my mom was there so I just kinda stood next to it waiting for her to leave but she was talking at me saying you r a good boy, she said it "r", not sure how I knew that but I did, and I'm thinking go the hell away dammit but she comes up and hugs me and has no intention and sets down a little plastic Target table and chairs and pounds fencing into the ground and ya know what cancel recording and erase. No dreams last night.
I can even see legislation supporting auto auto driving (first auto was removing the horse, second the human) by forcing publication of speed limits, etc. No fancy roadside broadcasters necessary. Should already be digital anyway for traffic analysis planning as computers could guess bottlenecks or dangerous speeds or intersections.
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I agree. Code is math, and thus of the experiment and analysis, and is not just an interpretation. "Duplicate it yourself" stands against the very idea of review and reproduction.
While there is tremendous utility in an independent reconstruction of an algorithm (I have numerous times built a separate chunk of code to calculate something in a completely different way, to test against the real algorithm/code, in practice they debug each other) the actual code needs to be there for review.
They may have a desire to keep it secret for exclusivity reasons of one type or another (fame, future additional research, money) that can't justify secrecy in normal publication.
Fair enough. Add in a new user agreement, in large blinking red letters at the top, so the user doesn't even have to scroll past pages of deliberately obfuscating boilerplate, "Facebook will do this for you. In exchange we will gather buying info tied to your purchases through us to sell ads targetted to your buying habits. Truth be told, we don't care if you buy Depends or urine catheters or Justin Bieber tix, it's all done automatically by computer aggregate anyway."
If they were pulling over speeders, or drunks, or people texting while actually driving, sure. But these are higway robbers when they do this:
- Wait for people who are stuck in traffic under a light that turns red.
- Set needless "no right turn on red" signs then wait for people who do.
- Set quota or reward systems for any of this, including speed traps.
OP is disgusting behavior that is the textbook definition of a robber highwayman, someone taking money by force with zero actual concern for the nominal spirit of the law.
They should be put in jail with other armed robbers. This is not a joke or hyperbole.
Note it is coucjed as sticking it to foreign companies, and helping the local French people, when it is actually another attempt to force the French to shoulder even more unnecessary financial burdens and make them more anti-competitive.
Basically: We politicians pretend this kicks the rich in the balls when they will just shift the burden onto you.
Thatcher: Charles, I happen to know you lost a million dollars on this little newspaper last year!
Kane: Yes, I lost a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know what, Mr. Thatcher? At a rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place...in sixty years.
Cue horns: Waah waaah waaah waaaaaaaaaah.
Let's post all their calls with all donors, strategists, and members of the media.
If it's no big deal for people to know this, or abuse it .
Politicians stole the word "metadata" from computer science, and declared it on-limits for warrantless spying. This is a sophistry, invented out of whole cloth.
The king of England would have used phone metadata to round up the Founding Fathers in quick order. Therefore government doesn't get to do this.
Stop government from building the tools of tyrrany to begin with. That is the meaning of the Constitution.
I don't know what the point is -- they'll still have their Ultra-Mega room of highest top secret, where they will listen in on what they want anyway. And that's the room where a rogue might listen in on political opponents.
I don't know why people keep looking at it as rich people doing this. Inflation benefits borrowers by slowly (or rapidly) reduciing what they borrowed to chump change. If they can keep up the interest payments, as government does, then they never have to pay it back.
That they pay your money out like a fool paying a credit card, well, the government is getting close to having a balanced budget again...not counting the annual interest payment.
Got your money's worth?
And the coveted position of frist psot, too! After 80 or so posts, neithet Twain, nor Churchill, nor Shakespeare could get an upmod to save their life.
Can all the hipster douches just shut the fuck up and get back to posting pictures of naked women wearing body paint?
You know your purpose; now serve it! >:-(
> Who said that the trend of annual extent minima was supposed to be monotonic?
The hyperble of rhetoric from politicians and others. It does a disservice to scream "Global warming!!!!!!!" every time there is a major weather event, when they happen all the time and any increase in severity or nmber is a tiny fraction of the energy released.
See also heat waves and hurricanes. Things are shifted by a fraction of a percent, and due to energy delta gradients as energizers, a fraction of a fraction of a percent.
A real test would be to use such transitions to look for another one not associated with any mass extinctions, and then go look if one actually happened.
I don't know if such would have lain undiscovered so far, but it would make for a good predictive test.
It's not about hundreds of honest agents and managers doing the right thing. It's about creating an apparatus where a rogue agent at the behest of some powerful politician can get lost among the many and spy on opponent politicians and their supporters.
With easy to defeat or ignore technological barriers and just "you should go get approval first before you listen in", i.e. relying on agent honesty to Do The Right Thing, we've already lost. I keep bringing up the Watergate people -- these thugs, most of which would have been agents or that level of clearance, wouldn't think twice about doing this.
Cut him some slack on the exorcism -- after all, you guys are surrounded by fellow students whose heads are constantly spinning and vomiting and swearing like a sailor.
A few dollars' worth of free food coupons a day is not the same as rent and car and gas and $4000/year property tax because your heart beats.
If Bitcoin gets too big, expect a clampdown to get taxes from it, though it will be couched in verbiage of For The People they will demand government scrutiny and regulation. But it's about money. It always is.
Or a "constitution". "Contract" suggests two pre-existing entities -- the people, and the powerful who lord over them.
It is born in a world that is already a political philosophy faure. You should start with the people, who create a constitution, which creates a governmemt, with limited, well-defined powers and, explicitely, none others. If they need more, the people can go through a deliberative and deliberately laborious process to grant additional powers. Laborious because most people should agree to fundamental changes, not just a brief, transient 51% majority at the behest of a charismatic demagogue.
No democracy should ever forget the vote is merely an abstraction of might makes right, and thin majorities are scarcely any more deserving of rule than a large minority. "51%", therefore infinite dictator power, is just another tool for the power hungry rather than some all-enabling social theory justification.
Well, like all successful species, we are spreading to other lands and continents. At least the important, defining, bulging features are. Look about you.
It's about storage, not sun. With cheap mass storage you can spit out panels like popcorn and even transmit wastefully long distances.
That's the tech breakthrough we need, not efficient panels. Even panels that could drive a car in real time need backup, which means heavy batteries or gas co-engine.
> "To lose one's faith is to literally damn oneself."
That is a memeplex defense mechanism. Adopt a meme into a larger group of memes that to even question anything in the group will lead to failure, and that contrary evidence, no matter how well-proven, is the work of a sinister agent actively attempting to deceive you.
The scientific validity is thus irrelevant when it is fraudulent; e'en honest scientists are being deceived.
These things, by the way, are rampant in political narratives on the left as well as the right.
Indeed. It's like expressing puzzlement over missing vaginas wrapping slashdotter wiener. Who the hell presumes its existence beyond fantasied hopes of life?
This statement is deeper than it seems. Assume for the sake of argument solutions will appear that do not involve massive command-amd-control takeover of the economy (we've dodged several bullets already like the BTU tax from the 1990s.)
Under the admittedly cynical theory certain leaders are more interested in command-and-control for good ol' political reasons like kickbacks, general power, or even wistful longing for the long-failed Workers of the World Unite! socialost rhetoric-as-rationale, what could we predict as reaction?
Furthermore, as I've been saying for years, such a sution is ludicrous, akin to people in 1900 making judgements about 100-300 years in the future and shit what can we do now now NOW?!?!?.
And tech is advancing even faster. Delta between now and 2113 is far greater than between now and 1913.
Like the one Brazil is laying to Europe so the NSA can't spy on Brazilians downloading Denmark stuff.
> "users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice"
*BZZZZZT* PLEASE STATE DREAM FOR RECORDING
I dreamt I was hitting on Victoria Justice, and she was gonna take her pants off, but then she ran over to Debby Ryan and that Zhendaya chick and they pointed at my crotch and started laughing then they started making put but pulled down a wicker shade so I couldn't see, so I was gonna try to peek through it but my mom was there so I just kinda stood next to it waiting for her to leave but she was talking at me saying you r a good boy, she said it "r", not sure how I knew that but I did, and I'm thinking go the hell away dammit but she comes up and hugs me and has no intention and sets down a little plastic Target table and chairs and pounds fencing into the ground and ya know what cancel recording and erase. No dreams last night.
I can even see legislation supporting auto auto driving (first auto was removing the horse, second the human) by forcing publication of speed limits, etc. No fancy roadside broadcasters necessary. Should already be digital anyway for traffic analysis planning as computers could guess bottlenecks or dangerous speeds or intersections.