As horrific as corporate actions have been throughout history, none have even come close to the heinous shit that governments have been able to do when given too much power.
You might want to read up a bit. Start by searching for something called "East India Company." From there you might try "United Fruit Company." There are other examples.
And if I say I've had a long, busy day at the office and I have a real big appetite -- but I'm actually the restaurant reviewer for The New York Times -- what's my level of "wrongness"? If a company offers tours of their facilities to prospective customers, there's no way of keeping that information secret. What if the people taking the tour didn't lie? What if they really DID work for AcmeCorp... only their sole purpose in being there was to go back to their friends at WeWork with a complete report of what they saw? To assume your competitors aren't going to/aren't allowed to research you seems naive at best.
A co-working space is where a company buys a few floors of a building, then partitions them up into rooms of various sizes. So a four-person company might rent a medium-sized room. Occasionally, that company might have visitors for meetings, so on those days they reserve a conference room using a credit card. They only pay for the conference room when they need it. There might also be other small spaces where, say, an individual can close a door to take a personal phone call. Most also provide things like a furnished lobby with magazines on a table, digital sign-in for visitors, security, clean bathrooms, and so on.
Basically, it's pretty much like leasing office space, only with sort of a pay-as-you-go model.
If people are willing to give you $5000 for a single bitcoin, then that's its price.
But who is? We're told that's its price. But if I have 1,000 Bitcoins and the price for each is $5,000, can I reasonably expect to yawn, scratch my belly, and have $5 million in my bank account this weekend? I doubt it. But hey, why should I worry? My Bitcoins will each be worth $5,100 tomorrow.
And as he was hauled away to finish out the rest of his education in a local remedial school, he was heard to shout, "HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!"
You are NOT free to walk into a bank waving a gun. That freedom is denied you. You ARE free, however, to walk into a bank and withdraw a large amount of money, with the reasonable expectation that nobody else in the bank will shoot you and take it from you.
For both of those things, your recovery is massively impacted. The doctor can't just "fix your damn knee", your body is going to do that - and you aren't helping it one little bit.
But how does that impact the surgeon? He does the surgery, he takes his gloves off, he never sees me again.
Smoking and obesity aren't things that increase risks in your surgery by something small value, they increase it by large values.
Seriously? If I trip and tear some ligaments in my knee, what does smoking have to do with it? What does obesity have to do with it? I pay into the healthcare system, fix my damn knee.
What is "non-urgent surgery," anyway? If it wasn't urgent, why would it require surgery?
I was just thinking about architecture. Sure, computers have freed architects from the tedious task of drafting floor plans with pencil and ruler. But we're a long, long, perhaps infinitely long way from, "I see you're trying to remodel your kitchen. Would you like some help with that?"
My other question is, do we really need AI for this? For computers to "write code," don't we really just need a high degree of automation? And we already have that -- as someone else said, optimizing compilers are an example of that -- and we're dreaming up new ways to optimize the build/test/deploy pipeline all the time.
Could machine learning be used to create a better optimizing compiler? Interesting question, and I'd be surprised if nobody's tried it. If you told me they have, though, I'd say, "right, thought so." I wouldn't wiggle my fingers like a wizard and go, "Woooooo, it's AI!"
Or you could buy a $99 Kindle Paperwhite and a $30 IP68 case.
Or you could buy a $49 refurbished Nook Glowlight Plus from Wal-Mart. You'll only get IP67, but you'll avoid getting dragged into the Amazon ecosystem. I've had every model of e-ink Nook and I've never found a compelling reason to switch to Kindle yet.
What's even worse is that TFA is uncredited. It's clearly an editorial (i.e. - "opinion") piece, but there is no attribution to an individual writer to be found.
Really? The version I saw is attributed to Brenden Gallagher. Clicking on his name reveals he's written three movie/TV reviews for Motherboard.
How is Google a monopoly? If I were to use Bing I would be able to do nearly everything that Google has.
I can vouch for that, as I actually do use Bing as my primary search engine. I started as an experiment and I just never turned it off. Google is still superior for some things (mainly, its index seems to be more up-to-the-minute) but for the most part I don't even notice that I'm using Bing and there's nothing that keeps pulling me back over to Google (hence, no monopoly).
That's not true. The computer spoke in ToS, maybe just not in every episode. Remember it saying things like "Working!" and "Affirmative!" in that grating, obnoxious voice?
Microsoft is not the company they used to be. If you don't believe that, you only have to look as far as the Top Linux kernel contributors list to see it.
That's a joke. The only times Microsoft has made that list is when it added thousands of lines of code to the kernel to support its own stuff, like Hyper-V, Azure, etc. The reason Microsoft had to write all that code itself was because nobody else was interested.
Serious question: I have not heard of a single one of these cryptocurrencies. They can only be in use by a tiny fraction of people compared to the Bitcoin community, which is already a very small, self-selecting minority. How can these random cryptocurrencies possibly be worth anything?
I mean... we all know money is a fiction, right? So how can a cryptocurrency have any value if nobody will even accept it as a medium of exchange?
So, to recap: even though we think you're not a danger and not a flight risk, we're still going to make sure to transfer some of your money to that rich guy's pocket so he can continue getting rich off poor people and be happier... So "at the expense of the many"? That "expense" is that the many have a greater standard-of-living--it's the difference between the US and a poor third-world country like Chile.
Why should there be some kind of surprise that the market for iPhones eventually becomes saturated?
Maybe because the market for Samsung Galaxy phones does not appear to be saturated? There's this theory that companies need to compete to win sales they haven't already made.
I rarely get to a flight more than an hour early unless I feel like hanging out at the airport bar awhile. Admittedly I had to pass a bunch of security checks, but the fastest I've made it from the Airtrain to my gate has been about 9 minutes.
Yup, I'll agree with this. The experience of flying a newer plane was sort of interesting but I can't recall feeling any more comfortable. Maybe the most interesting thing is that they automatically dim the electronic window shades to help let people sleep and acclimate the ones who don't sleep to the changing time zones.
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As horrific as corporate actions have been throughout history, none have even come close to the heinous shit that governments have been able to do when given too much power.
You might want to read up a bit. Start by searching for something called "East India Company." From there you might try "United Fruit Company." There are other examples.
And if I say I've had a long, busy day at the office and I have a real big appetite -- but I'm actually the restaurant reviewer for The New York Times -- what's my level of "wrongness"? If a company offers tours of their facilities to prospective customers, there's no way of keeping that information secret. What if the people taking the tour didn't lie? What if they really DID work for AcmeCorp ... only their sole purpose in being there was to go back to their friends at WeWork with a complete report of what they saw? To assume your competitors aren't going to/aren't allowed to research you seems naive at best.
A co-working space is where a company buys a few floors of a building, then partitions them up into rooms of various sizes. So a four-person company might rent a medium-sized room. Occasionally, that company might have visitors for meetings, so on those days they reserve a conference room using a credit card. They only pay for the conference room when they need it. There might also be other small spaces where, say, an individual can close a door to take a personal phone call. Most also provide things like a furnished lobby with magazines on a table, digital sign-in for visitors, security, clean bathrooms, and so on.
Basically, it's pretty much like leasing office space, only with sort of a pay-as-you-go model.
If people are willing to give you $5000 for a single bitcoin, then that's its price.
But who is? We're told that's its price. But if I have 1,000 Bitcoins and the price for each is $5,000, can I reasonably expect to yawn, scratch my belly, and have $5 million in my bank account this weekend? I doubt it. But hey, why should I worry? My Bitcoins will each be worth $5,100 tomorrow.
Not if you ship it a few days before you leave.
So your two-day business trip has you out of commission for, what? Six days? Sounds like that airline just lost a sale.
And as he was hauled away to finish out the rest of his education in a local remedial school, he was heard to shout, "HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!"
Are you being willfully stupid?
You are NOT free to walk into a bank waving a gun. That freedom is denied you. You ARE free, however, to walk into a bank and withdraw a large amount of money, with the reasonable expectation that nobody else in the bank will shoot you and take it from you.
See how this works?
For both of those things, your recovery is massively impacted. The doctor can't just "fix your damn knee", your body is going to do that - and you aren't helping it one little bit.
But how does that impact the surgeon? He does the surgery, he takes his gloves off, he never sees me again.
Smoking and obesity aren't things that increase risks in your surgery by something small value, they increase it by large values.
Seriously? If I trip and tear some ligaments in my knee, what does smoking have to do with it? What does obesity have to do with it? I pay into the healthcare system, fix my damn knee.
What is "non-urgent surgery," anyway? If it wasn't urgent, why would it require surgery?
I was just thinking about architecture. Sure, computers have freed architects from the tedious task of drafting floor plans with pencil and ruler. But we're a long, long, perhaps infinitely long way from, "I see you're trying to remodel your kitchen. Would you like some help with that?"
My other question is, do we really need AI for this? For computers to "write code," don't we really just need a high degree of automation? And we already have that -- as someone else said, optimizing compilers are an example of that -- and we're dreaming up new ways to optimize the build/test/deploy pipeline all the time.
Could machine learning be used to create a better optimizing compiler? Interesting question, and I'd be surprised if nobody's tried it. If you told me they have, though, I'd say, "right, thought so." I wouldn't wiggle my fingers like a wizard and go, "Woooooo, it's AI!"
It is unfortunate that you would have to fucking read to find out the name of the "special software," even though you already know what it is.
Or you could buy a $99 Kindle Paperwhite and a $30 IP68 case.
Or you could buy a $49 refurbished Nook Glowlight Plus from Wal-Mart. You'll only get IP67, but you'll avoid getting dragged into the Amazon ecosystem. I've had every model of e-ink Nook and I've never found a compelling reason to switch to Kindle yet.
What's even worse is that TFA is uncredited. It's clearly an editorial (i.e. - "opinion") piece, but there is no attribution to an individual writer to be found.
Really? The version I saw is attributed to Brenden Gallagher. Clicking on his name reveals he's written three movie/TV reviews for Motherboard.
How is Google a monopoly? If I were to use Bing I would be able to do nearly everything that Google has.
I can vouch for that, as I actually do use Bing as my primary search engine. I started as an experiment and I just never turned it off. Google is still superior for some things (mainly, its index seems to be more up-to-the-minute) but for the most part I don't even notice that I'm using Bing and there's nothing that keeps pulling me back over to Google (hence, no monopoly).
Any software platform that takes away users' ability to control their own computers isn't a real OS.
Hmmmm. And here I thought the whole purpose of an OS was to have software that automates control of your hardware.
Haha, right. Jon Katz was the biggest clown. Every story he posted was like reading a Dan Brown book.
Are you using Zero Clients? (i.e. Teradici PCoIP protocol, probably via VMware Horizon)? Because that stuff actually is pretty cool.
Original Series: Lost her voice again
That's not true. The computer spoke in ToS, maybe just not in every episode. Remember it saying things like "Working!" and "Affirmative!" in that grating, obnoxious voice?
And making it run poorly in the native web browser saw Chrome for iOS get downloaded more.
I thought Chrome for iOS still used Apple's built-in WebKit?
Microsoft is not the company they used to be. If you don't believe that, you only have to look as far as the Top Linux kernel contributors list to see it.
That's a joke. The only times Microsoft has made that list is when it added thousands of lines of code to the kernel to support its own stuff, like Hyper-V, Azure, etc. The reason Microsoft had to write all that code itself was because nobody else was interested.
Serious question: I have not heard of a single one of these cryptocurrencies. They can only be in use by a tiny fraction of people compared to the Bitcoin community, which is already a very small, self-selecting minority. How can these random cryptocurrencies possibly be worth anything?
I mean ... we all know money is a fiction, right? So how can a cryptocurrency have any value if nobody will even accept it as a medium of exchange?
So, to recap:
So, to recap: even though we think you're not a danger and not a flight risk, we're still going to make sure to transfer some of your money to that rich guy's pocket so he can continue getting rich off poor people and be happier ... So "at the expense of the many"? That "expense" is that the many have a greater standard-of-living--it's the difference between the US and a poor third-world country like Chile.
Why should there be some kind of surprise that the market for iPhones eventually becomes saturated?
Maybe because the market for Samsung Galaxy phones does not appear to be saturated? There's this theory that companies need to compete to win sales they haven't already made.
I rarely get to a flight more than an hour early unless I feel like hanging out at the airport bar awhile. Admittedly I had to pass a bunch of security checks, but the fastest I've made it from the Airtrain to my gate has been about 9 minutes.
Yup, I'll agree with this. The experience of flying a newer plane was sort of interesting but I can't recall feeling any more comfortable. Maybe the most interesting thing is that they automatically dim the electronic window shades to help let people sleep and acclimate the ones who don't sleep to the changing time zones.