The people representing "Minorities' don't really understand, the smallest minority is the minority of one. There are 7.7 billion minority groups on the planet. They know they can't represent the individual, so they start representing the group. Without realizing it, they are siding with the tyranny against the individual, and are in a cause against that which they claim to represent, those groups that are oppressed by larger groups.
Again, I agree with your logic/reasoning. Not to sound like an apologist for the people representing "minorities", but do you have an alternative?
There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan. Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90. Kind of a pointless venture. That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.
Agree, with your logic but i don't believe that's their angle, maybe it means that they are FIGURATIVELY representing an entire race or gender?
On other note, we do need more competition and the need to continue to strengthen free alternatives like GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, GIMP, VLC, etc. So please send a small penny to your favorite free software each year if you can. It will keep your commercial proprietary software in check if possible, and save you more money in the long run.
Gonna sound like a troll (if I was I'd post AC) but come back to me when LibreOffice has the same if not more functionality than Microsoft Excel. Sure MS have changed the layout several times and have even broken macro spreadsheets with some iterations of Excel but they aren't the only ones guilty of doing this (not to sound like an apologist).
Say what you want about excel but its pretty handy for a lot of things (but the vast majority of credit goes to Dan Bricklin who invented VisiCalc).
The Japanese home islands are already highly populated -- no need to increase the population. Stabilizing at early-1900s levels would be much more sustainable.
Over population isn't their biggest problem; the population pyramid no longer looks like a pyramid when compared to 1950:
If it continues to go in this direction, Japan could be facing serious problems (if they aren't already), unless they implement something like planned immigration, for example. Germany has a similar problem with their population pyramid, but the difference is Germany's rate of net migration per head of the population is over 5.5 times that of Japan's:
Exponential to the power of x is sitting by himself in a bar. The bartender says: "hey man, you look lonely, why don't you integrate?" To which Exponential to the power of x replies: "Nah, it won't make a difference"
a person with that ethic shouldn't be concerned with the "observations" of nothing more than an internet troll, easy to throw shit when you are behind a keyboard, go back to reddit, loser
What do you mean by the "free ones"? You mean free software or free beer?
Is there any specific features in Outlook that are so unique ?
Who the hell is getting 1500 mail a day? Is that real job? Does this guy do anything but read mails during the day?
I havent seen Outlook being used since a while but, in any case, I have no recollection of it being such a smart and superior software.
Your message, sir, look like a cheap advertisement.
If you are working some sort of technical support and depending on the scope of your team/role/the inbox 1500 a day is definitely believable, but based on my experience a significant portion of these will be automated alerts.
I think you'd have to mix at least Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, Donald Knuth, Dwayne Johnson, and George Clooney together to get a man as strong, good-looking, confident and well-rounded as Craig Federighi is.
And having robots take away the exercise of squeezing it is just making it worse. Calories need to be burned somehow.
Before this sentence i was with you, but if someone wants to burn calories they shouldn't rely on something that is the equivalent of a muscle spasm with respect to burning calories, they should take a (very slow, if recently inactive) jog. Taking this "every little helps" approach to burning calories doesn't help anybody, you need to fuckin break a sweat and slowly build up your endurance to the point that you can withstand an very quick heartrate, or much easier you can change your diet...just sayin
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Sure looks like it, its timed, and the initials match up.
His exit speech reads exactly like a boilerplate corporate memo (might have gotten help writing it, who knows), barring any major fuck ups, this kid has it made.
I don't think that you're talking through your ass in this case. Human drivers, and arguably human beings in general both learn how to predict what will happen, and when to take risks if their predictions are less than certain. This doesn't mean that humans are immune to making errors as the auto accident statistics strongly demonstrate, but in this case a human driver probably would have seen the lane restriction and the reason for it from further out, and even if not (like following a large vehicle that chose to merge at the last moment) the human driver would recognize what the people in the median are actually doing and judge it reasonably safe that they're not going to walk out in front of traffic without warning.
In short, the human driver is going to call on his life experiences while driving in order to attempt to predict the behavior of his surroundings. Even a novice fifteen year old with a learner's permit has fifteen years of learning about some forms of human behavior, and would probably recognize a worker with a hardhat at a wood chipper as someone unlikely to cross into the right-of-way. A computer system doesn't learn in that fashion.
Saw a funny one a couple of weeks ago. A Waymo car (technically a Pacifica minivan) was essentially stuck. The street had a median and a maintenance crew had closed the left lane with cones, and they had a wood chipper trailer and truck, and the various workers were cutting apart trees that had tipped over and were dragging pieces over to the chipper's hopper, which faced oncoming traffic.
The Waymo car was up at the start of the cones, and it couldn't interpret what the workers were doing and couldn't figure out how to merge-right. I think it was assuming the workers were going to run out into the street, so it would begin to move right but would stop as soon as a worker moved, and the rest of the vehicle traffic that was moving-right was just thick enough that it couldn't manage to get moving in those few seconds when workers were not being interpreted as an obstruction.
It was pretty funny to watch, and the employee in the car gave it a good ten minutes before giving up and manually taking control.
This is a good example of where current machine learning (what people incorrectly call AI) doesn't work. Sure, in a discrete solution space like the go game (a LOT of different solutions, but still a discrete solution space) machine learning can beat the best human, but, in a semi-discrete, semi-continuous solution space like traffic (semi-discrete in the sense that the vehicle is bounded by the road, semi-continuous in the sense that a hazard/obstruction/malfunction/misinterpretation could be anything a.k.a. real life) it's just not good enough yet.
I don't claim to be a expert, i'm just giving my (not recently researched) opinion. Feel free to mod me into oblivion, if you think i'm talking through my ass.
Fourth Reich is today's German government of Angela Merkel. The one that's successfully forced the EU to take in any Muslims who want to come, and is now trying to force countries like Poland, Czech, Hungary & Slovakia to do the same. The government that's not only thrown their women to the mercies of Muslim rapefugees, but also issues flyers on how to rape vaginally, as opposed to anally or orally. It was hard to imagine a German chancellor who'd be worse than Hitler, but Frau Merkel managed it!
At the time of this reply the quoted comment has a score of 2; I find that really, really sad. If you are gonna compare Merkel's germany to the Nazi regime and say that she is worse than Hitler, then are you be implying that it's OK to set up concentration camps (under hitler's command) and systemically exterminate (mostly innocent, if not ignorant, considering Islam didn't have a reformation like Christianity) Muslims? because that would just make the whole situation worse, giving radical Muslims an excuse to be more bold in their acts of terror against the west, aside from the fact that doing that to any human being is totally horrific.
no, nationalism is divisive, just like religion is.
Not necessarily, it can be used also to distinguish a nation from an occupying foreign power, as was the case with Ireland's struggle against the British (to name a popular yet completely valid example). Personally I don't like this whole "one world, no nation" idea; people may be fundamentally the same across countries; there is only a finite number of observable personally types (if looked at from a robust and not an idiosyncratic perspective), but cultural differences do exist, and should be respected and preserved. Why should a person from a melting pot like, New York for example be expected to click with someone from a rural and homogeneous town in Japan for example.
>Everybody knows that a space suit should have a flag
I disagree strongly. we nearly rid ourselves of religion. we need to put this divisive nazi-onalistic bullshit behind us as well.
Bullshit? Then what would we be defined (i used the word defined loosely) by then? private enterprise? GDP? National debt? An arbitrary symbol? (what the Nazis in fact used)
In a way I don't blame him; how did they let it come to the point that one person was able to game the system? Why didn't they have procedures in place to stop this? Or maybe why didn't they hold people who weren't directly involved accountable for not checking what this guy was doing? Easy to say in hindsight true but this wasn't on par with rigging a community raffle, there was MILLIONS of dollars involved.
Management isn't a skill that can be formally learned; it is a mix of experience and the soft skills/persona of the manager
That may or may not be true. However the first time you do something you have, by definition, zero experience. If I was doing something I had zero experience in I'd like at least some theoretical background.
without both of the latter 2 you will end up with a rigid, incompetent manager.
Not necessarily. I've encountered plenty who were incompetent because they weren't rigid enough, or had nothing to be rigid about because they never actually made a decision.
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The people representing "Minorities' don't really understand, the smallest minority is the minority of one. There are 7.7 billion minority groups on the planet. They know they can't represent the individual, so they start representing the group. Without realizing it, they are siding with the tyranny against the individual, and are in a cause against that which they claim to represent, those groups that are oppressed by larger groups.
Again, I agree with your logic/reasoning. Not to sound like an apologist for the people representing "minorities", but do you have an alternative?
There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan.
Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90.
Kind of a pointless venture.
That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.
Agree, with your logic but i don't believe that's their angle, maybe it means that they are FIGURATIVELY representing an entire race or gender?
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
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WTF did SuperKendall do? Is the new Cdreimer? Speaking of the latter, where is that guy?
Were AI is used to determine the direction and intensity of the lazer!
On other note, we do need more competition and the need to continue to strengthen free alternatives like GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, GIMP, VLC, etc. So please send a small penny to your favorite free software each year if you can. It will keep your commercial proprietary software in check if possible, and save you more money in the long run.
Gonna sound like a troll (if I was I'd post AC) but come back to me when LibreOffice has the same if not more functionality than Microsoft Excel. Sure MS have changed the layout several times and have even broken macro spreadsheets with some iterations of Excel but they aren't the only ones guilty of doing this (not to sound like an apologist).
Say what you want about excel but its pretty handy for a lot of things (but the vast majority of credit goes to Dan Bricklin who invented VisiCalc).
Showing off his big rocket to everyone in public!? THE INDECENCY!
Why is overpopulation a laudable thing?
The Japanese home islands are already highly populated -- no need to increase the population. Stabilizing at early-1900s levels would be much more sustainable.
Over population isn't their biggest problem; the population pyramid no longer looks like a pyramid when compared to 1950:
https://www.google.fi/search?q...
If it continues to go in this direction, Japan could be facing serious problems (if they aren't already), unless they implement something like planned immigration, for example. Germany has a similar problem with their population pyramid, but the difference is Germany's rate of net migration per head of the population is over 5.5 times that of Japan's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And Japan's population is almost 60% larger than Germany's; It's not looking good for them at all.
I try not to buy anything made in China, even if it costs more to buy things made elsewhere.
May I ask why? Serious question
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
I'm sure that was also the case with gas stations when they first came on the scene.
Exponential to the power of x is sitting by himself in a bar. The bartender says: "hey man, you look lonely, why don't you integrate?" To which Exponential to the power of x replies: "Nah, it won't make a difference"
I'll get my coat...
How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that's a hardware problem.
a person with that ethic shouldn't be concerned with the "observations" of nothing more than an internet troll, easy to throw shit when you are behind a keyboard, go back to reddit, loser
What do you mean by the "free ones"? You mean free software or free beer?
Is there any specific features in Outlook that are so unique ?
Who the hell is getting 1500 mail a day? Is that real job? Does this guy do anything but read mails during the day?
I havent seen Outlook being used since a while but, in any case, I have no recollection of it being such a smart and superior software.
Your message, sir, look like a cheap advertisement.
If you are working some sort of technical support and depending on the scope of your team/role/the inbox 1500 a day is definitely believable, but based on my experience a significant portion of these will be automated alerts.
I think you'd have to mix at least Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, Donald Knuth, Dwayne Johnson, and George Clooney together to get a man as strong, good-looking, confident and well-rounded as Craig Federighi is.
As well rounded as apple's rounded corners?
And having robots take away the exercise of squeezing it is just making it worse. Calories need to be burned somehow.
Before this sentence i was with you, but if someone wants to burn calories they shouldn't rely on something that is the equivalent of a muscle spasm with respect to burning calories, they should take a (very slow, if recently inactive) jog. Taking this "every little helps" approach to burning calories doesn't help anybody, you need to fuckin break a sweat and slowly build up your endurance to the point that you can withstand an very quick heartrate, or much easier you can change your diet...just sayin
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please stand up
please stand up ....ducks!......
Satoshi don't mess around because he loves bitcoin and this we know for sho!
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Sure looks like it, its timed, and the initials match up.
His exit speech reads exactly like a boilerplate corporate memo (might have gotten help writing it, who knows), barring any major fuck ups, this kid has it made.
I don't think that you're talking through your ass in this case. Human drivers, and arguably human beings in general both learn how to predict what will happen, and when to take risks if their predictions are less than certain. This doesn't mean that humans are immune to making errors as the auto accident statistics strongly demonstrate, but in this case a human driver probably would have seen the lane restriction and the reason for it from further out, and even if not (like following a large vehicle that chose to merge at the last moment) the human driver would recognize what the people in the median are actually doing and judge it reasonably safe that they're not going to walk out in front of traffic without warning.
In short, the human driver is going to call on his life experiences while driving in order to attempt to predict the behavior of his surroundings. Even a novice fifteen year old with a learner's permit has fifteen years of learning about some forms of human behavior, and would probably recognize a worker with a hardhat at a wood chipper as someone unlikely to cross into the right-of-way. A computer system doesn't learn in that fashion.
Agree
Saw a funny one a couple of weeks ago. A Waymo car (technically a Pacifica minivan) was essentially stuck. The street had a median and a maintenance crew had closed the left lane with cones, and they had a wood chipper trailer and truck, and the various workers were cutting apart trees that had tipped over and were dragging pieces over to the chipper's hopper, which faced oncoming traffic.
The Waymo car was up at the start of the cones, and it couldn't interpret what the workers were doing and couldn't figure out how to merge-right. I think it was assuming the workers were going to run out into the street, so it would begin to move right but would stop as soon as a worker moved, and the rest of the vehicle traffic that was moving-right was just thick enough that it couldn't manage to get moving in those few seconds when workers were not being interpreted as an obstruction.
It was pretty funny to watch, and the employee in the car gave it a good ten minutes before giving up and manually taking control.
This is a good example of where current machine learning (what people incorrectly call AI) doesn't work. Sure, in a discrete solution space like the go game (a LOT of different solutions, but still a discrete solution space) machine learning can beat the best human, but, in a semi-discrete, semi-continuous solution space like traffic (semi-discrete in the sense that the vehicle is bounded by the road, semi-continuous in the sense that a hazard/obstruction/malfunction/misinterpretation could be anything a.k.a. real life) it's just not good enough yet.
I don't claim to be a expert, i'm just giving my (not recently researched) opinion. Feel free to mod me into oblivion, if you think i'm talking through my ass.
Fourth Reich is today's German government of Angela Merkel. The one that's successfully forced the EU to take in any Muslims who want to come, and is now trying to force countries like Poland, Czech, Hungary & Slovakia to do the same. The government that's not only thrown their women to the mercies of Muslim rapefugees, but also issues flyers on how to rape vaginally, as opposed to anally or orally. It was hard to imagine a German chancellor who'd be worse than Hitler, but Frau Merkel managed it!
At the time of this reply the quoted comment has a score of 2; I find that really, really sad. If you are gonna compare Merkel's germany to the Nazi regime and say that she is worse than Hitler, then are you be implying that it's OK to set up concentration camps (under hitler's command) and systemically exterminate (mostly innocent, if not ignorant, considering Islam didn't have a reformation like Christianity) Muslims? because that would just make the whole situation worse, giving radical Muslims an excuse to be more bold in their acts of terror against the west, aside from the fact that doing that to any human being is totally horrific.
no, nationalism is divisive, just like religion is.
Not necessarily, it can be used also to distinguish a nation from an occupying foreign power, as was the case with Ireland's struggle against the British (to name a popular yet completely valid example). Personally I don't like this whole "one world, no nation" idea; people may be fundamentally the same across countries; there is only a finite number of observable personally types (if looked at from a robust and not an idiosyncratic perspective), but cultural differences do exist, and should be respected and preserved. Why should a person from a melting pot like, New York for example be expected to click with someone from a rural and homogeneous town in Japan for example.
>Everybody knows that a space suit should have a flag I disagree strongly. we nearly rid ourselves of religion. we need to put this divisive nazi-onalistic bullshit behind us as well.
Bullshit? Then what would we be defined (i used the word defined loosely) by then? private enterprise? GDP? National debt? An arbitrary symbol? (what the Nazis in fact used)
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In a way I don't blame him; how did they let it come to the point that one person was able to game the system? Why didn't they have procedures in place to stop this? Or maybe why didn't they hold people who weren't directly involved accountable for not checking what this guy was doing? Easy to say in hindsight true but this wasn't on par with rigging a community raffle, there was MILLIONS of dollars involved.
That may or may not be true. However the first time you do something you have, by definition, zero experience. If I was doing something I had zero experience in I'd like at least some theoretical background.
Not necessarily. I've encountered plenty who were incompetent because they weren't rigid enough, or had nothing to be rigid about because they never actually made a decision.
Good observation, point taken