Indeed. Who engineered the Commodore 64, which was superior to the Apple II in most regards, including sales? (And, as a sign of things to come, was half the price as well.)
I wonder what the world would be like if victory went to the most competent and capable instead of the most determined.
Exactly. What makes something bad is that the downsides aren't worth the benefits, not that there are no benefits. I mean, beating up people is great exercise...
If the business was closed, then what was the harm in her parking there? None. There's no harm in me parking in your driveway when I'm not there either.
Did the business complain, or did the towing company take her car on their own initiative? Usually businesses sign contracts to allow the towing companies to patrol their lots and tow violators.
Is there any regulatory limit on how much a towing company can demand from car owners? Yes, in most jurisdictions.
Does the business get a kickback, for their participation in this extortion racket? Why would they? They get their lots patrolled for free -- that's their kickback.
Particular to the antisemitism of the Nazis, one can look at the need to find a villain, some group that they could hold responsible for their economic depression (largely the result of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles) that did not require that they question their Germanic superiority.
See any Slashdot article about H1Bs to see the phenomenon in action.
I think his argument is that he's advertising that he will prevent false positives, not that he will suppress actual positives. That's little different than advertising that you can help prevent audits -- by making sure the forms are filled out correctly.
If people didn't pay for it, it wouldn't exist. I'm not talking about any specific game, but the pay-to-play/pay-to-win trend itself. People have shown that they're willing to pay to overcome obstacles -- even obstacles that exist solely to get them to pay, which would be extortion in any other context. The only way to eliminate extortion is to ban it, otherwise it's really damned effective.
Capital punishment is a legal argument, not a moral one. The two are only tangentially related, at best, otherwise name-calling and being a bad parent would be illegal. In a democracy, law is about how many people support an idea, or don't care enough to oppose it, not how moral it is.
But I believe the OP did make a point, while kind of vague, about asking who executes who if you execute an innocent man?
Only if you think people should be executed for acting in good faith in accordance with the law, which seems a bit absurd, especially if you're against capital punishment.
Nevermind, I read "bailed out" to mean the company was saved by the sale, or the company was "bailed out," not that he opted out of the sale. I still think the headline could be more clear.
Maybe it's my reading comprehension, but this headline made it sound like this deal actually happened to me.
According to the article, "But the deal never happened because Tesla's fortunes quickly began to turn after Musk demanded that all staff, no matter what their job title, get on the phones and sell cars to curious customers who had placed refundable deposits."
Perhaps the headline should read "almost bailed out," or something similar.
Floating point numbers, by definition, trade accuracy for size. They're compressed as two numbers -- a base and an exponent, and are limited to the precision of the size of the register.
You need fixed-point numbers to do a level of zoom without losing accuracy, where the level is dependent upon the size of the number you can store.
You're absolutely correct about what the article is asserting, and the GP seems to have overlooked how the scale was determined. At the same time, he did hit upon how the Planck length is an arbitrary divisor.
"There is currently no proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of theoretical research." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is no scale to the universe that we can prove.. any length could be infinitely divisible, so it's overselling it a bit to say that the scale of the mandelbrot set exceeded the scale of the universe in any real, or even theoretical way.
math, as a set of rules and logical conclusions made from them, doesn't depend on the universe.
I'm not sure that's provable, as GP said, especially when the term "magical" is invoked as a descriptor. It quickly becomes a philosophical argument, and without a testable hypothesis, probably not worth debating.
Virginia is overwhelmingly Democratic at the state executive level, so it's not that surprising that they voted Democratic at the Federal level. Most of VA's population growth over the past decade has been in the urban and suburban NOVA and Tidewater areas as well, which are Democrat voting strongholds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
PA has been voting Democratic for decades, so it seems neither of us know WTF you're talking about. http://www.270towin.com/states...
"What these people don't understand is that they are lowering said life style."
What do you expect them to think? "Oh, sorry, I don't want to affect your much higher standard of living. I'll just stick to my subsistence living with my postgrad education then."
Would you care that you were "lowering said lifestyle," if half the standard of living where you're going is multiple times better than the standard of living where you are now? Probably not. I certainly wouldn't.
The blame doesn't fall on people wanting to work for a better life. I don't blame them at all, and most of them are good people, just like anyone else. I do blame a system that is stacked toward hiring foreign nationals before citizens. That's a policy problem and a regulation problem, and to a lesser extent, a problem with the businesses that take advantage of these policies -- although they're making good business decisions.
Most of the blame, though, lies squarely on the shoulders of elected officials, and the people who elected them or failed to participate. We can't just not pay attention and then expect things to work themselves out. Nobody is going to give more of a shit about your interests than you do, so make your voice heard, and tell others to do the same.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Montesquieu
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Indeed. Who engineered the Commodore 64, which was superior to the Apple II in most regards, including sales? (And, as a sign of things to come, was half the price as well.)
I wonder what the world would be like if victory went to the most competent and capable instead of the most determined.
Exactly. What makes something bad is that the downsides aren't worth the benefits, not that there are no benefits. I mean, beating up people is great exercise...
If the business was closed, then what was the harm in her parking there? None. There's no harm in me parking in your driveway when I'm not there either.
Did the business complain, or did the towing company take her car on their own initiative? Usually businesses sign contracts to allow the towing companies to patrol their lots and tow violators.
Is there any regulatory limit on how much a towing company can demand from car owners? Yes, in most jurisdictions.
Does the business get a kickback, for their participation in this extortion racket? Why would they? They get their lots patrolled for free -- that's their kickback.
Particular to the antisemitism of the Nazis, one can look at the need to find a villain, some group that they could hold responsible for their economic depression (largely the result of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles) that did not require that they question their Germanic superiority.
See any Slashdot article about H1Bs to see the phenomenon in action.
I think his argument is that he's advertising that he will prevent false positives, not that he will suppress actual positives. That's little different than advertising that you can help prevent audits -- by making sure the forms are filled out correctly.
If people didn't pay for it, it wouldn't exist. I'm not talking about any specific game, but the pay-to-play/pay-to-win trend itself. People have shown that they're willing to pay to overcome obstacles -- even obstacles that exist solely to get them to pay, which would be extortion in any other context. The only way to eliminate extortion is to ban it, otherwise it's really damned effective.
Capital punishment is a legal argument, not a moral one. The two are only tangentially related, at best, otherwise name-calling and being a bad parent would be illegal. In a democracy, law is about how many people support an idea, or don't care enough to oppose it, not how moral it is.
But I believe the OP did make a point, while kind of vague, about asking who executes who if you execute an innocent man?
Only if you think people should be executed for acting in good faith in accordance with the law, which seems a bit absurd, especially if you're against capital punishment.
Exactly. And there's no evidence that drinking more than that has any benefit whatsoever.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
gold stars on a calendar can work surprisingly well.
If you're seven.
Nevermind, I read "bailed out" to mean the company was saved by the sale, or the company was "bailed out," not that he opted out of the sale. I still think the headline could be more clear.
Maybe it's my reading comprehension, but this headline made it sound like this deal actually happened to me.
According to the article, "But the deal never happened because Tesla's fortunes quickly began to turn after Musk demanded that all staff, no matter what their job title, get on the phones and sell cars to curious customers who had placed refundable deposits."
Perhaps the headline should read "almost bailed out," or something similar.
Floating point numbers, by definition, trade accuracy for size. They're compressed as two numbers -- a base and an exponent, and are limited to the precision of the size of the register.
You need fixed-point numbers to do a level of zoom without losing accuracy, where the level is dependent upon the size of the number you can store.
You're absolutely correct about what the article is asserting, and the GP seems to have overlooked how the scale was determined. At the same time, he did hit upon how the Planck length is an arbitrary divisor.
"There is currently no proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of theoretical research."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is no scale to the universe that we can prove.. any length could be infinitely divisible, so it's overselling it a bit to say that the scale of the mandelbrot set exceeded the scale of the universe in any real, or even theoretical way.
math, as a set of rules and logical conclusions made from them, doesn't depend on the universe.
I'm not sure that's provable, as GP said, especially when the term "magical" is invoked as a descriptor. It quickly becomes a philosophical argument, and without a testable hypothesis, probably not worth debating.
Murphy's law means that whatever can happen, will happen. Matthew McConaughey taught me that, by having a career.
If you think that's an imaginary word, you should see
Damnit, Facebook. If it wasn't for fake likes, I wouldn't have no likes at all.
I wrote a program about 6 months ago that can beat a human at literally any game that I make up and don't explain.
Virginia is overwhelmingly Democratic at the state executive level, so it's not that surprising that they voted Democratic at the Federal level. Most of VA's population growth over the past decade has been in the urban and suburban NOVA and Tidewater areas as well, which are Democrat voting strongholds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
PA has been voting Democratic for decades, so it seems neither of us know WTF you're talking about.
http://www.270towin.com/states...
Not even. "This treatment has been approved in Europe under the name Duodopa since 2004."
"They were more interested in getting *their* solution jammed through for a personal victory than the greater good."
Please -- you just described at least half the population, and probably 90% of managers.
You're spouting nonsense. There is nothing about "minorities" in the Federal law, which takes precedence.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/pract...
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statu...
"What these people don't understand is that they are lowering said life style."
What do you expect them to think? "Oh, sorry, I don't want to affect your much higher standard of living. I'll just stick to my subsistence living with my postgrad education then."
Would you care that you were "lowering said lifestyle," if half the standard of living where you're going is multiple times better than the standard of living where you are now? Probably not. I certainly wouldn't.
The blame doesn't fall on people wanting to work for a better life. I don't blame them at all, and most of them are good people, just like anyone else. I do blame a system that is stacked toward hiring foreign nationals before citizens. That's a policy problem and a regulation problem, and to a lesser extent, a problem with the businesses that take advantage of these policies -- although they're making good business decisions.
Most of the blame, though, lies squarely on the shoulders of elected officials, and the people who elected them or failed to participate. We can't just not pay attention and then expect things to work themselves out. Nobody is going to give more of a shit about your interests than you do, so make your voice heard, and tell others to do the same.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Montesquieu
If there's no air gap between the passengers and the engines on your flights, then I'll take another flight please.