Where the hell did you learn "developing the tech needed to leave Earth" is some sort of goal of life? WTF? I feel like you're part of some bizarre context nobody but you and a small group understand.
Uh, no? The Soviet Union was an empire, Russia is a country. I'm more than a little surprised to see Leftists, of all people, banging the drums for war with Russia. Hell, you were on their side until recently. What caused the big change? And don't say alleged election meddling because Obama attempted to alter the result of Brexit and you were all for that.
At the Starbucks near me, it's not on the menu, but you can ask for it. It's always a wait because they have to make it. I'm sure I'm the only one who ever asks for it at this location.
Conservatives who voted for Trump are either 100% behind his bigotry, or they are 100% okay with it; there is no effective difference between the two. Apathy is just as dangerous as active hatred.
Yes, actually, if Hillary had said something so blatantly abusive, had run on a platform of racism, sexism, Islamaphobia, classism, ableism, and basically further disenfranchisement for anyone who isn't a white Christian straight cisgender male - yes, I'd feel exactly the same way about her and anyone who voted for her (and probably be looking for a bridge to jump off, if both of our candidates were so uniformly awful). Because it doesn't matter who does it, it's equally as crappy. It's not about championing a particular issue, it's about not championing the administration who literally wants to institute policies that will kill people.
It hit me so hard because no matter how much I gave dire warnings to the people who handwaved Trump's chances away, I never truly expected him to win. I never, ever, in my heart of hearts, believed that so many people in my country believed in his racist, sexist, ableist, vile rhetoric.
The US is much more racist and backward than we ever thought.
In their minds, the 'losers' from the 'fake news' outlets are outraged that Trump won and are trying to sabotage him from every angle, so obviously the news are going to report negative things about him but that's just because they don't want him to "win."
In what universe is this not true? The media gets caught lying all the time. CNN just had to fire 3 people for lying about Trump.
The establishment press uncritically "vetted" and embraced a Clinton campaign talking point designed to make Trump look foolish, divorced it of its political context and reiterated it word-of-God style for more than six months - all the time either ignoring or missing entirely easily obtainable information proving it false - and then suddenly reversed course on the claim weeks after it was unambiguously and authoritatively debunked.
We live in a world where r/the_donald - a Reddit thread teeming with Trump supporters - proved more shrewd than The New York Times and the Associated Press when vetting an important claim about the Russia investigation.
The Soviet Union was an evil empire. It was a legitimate superpower. Their Communist philosophy told them to conquer the whole world. They were a huge threat to the West, back when Europe and America had common ground together.
Russia is just a country. It's not pledged to conquer the world. It has a huge, indefensible border and is ringed by NATO bases. They have a really shitty situation. Even the useless NATO allies alone, without the USA, outnumber Russia 3 to 1. Anyone telling you TEH ROOSHINS are a dire threat is pushing an agenda that smells suspiciously like the one used to justify Iraq. And we all know how well that turned out.
An absurd absolute is a restatement of the other personâ(TM)s reasonable position as an absurd absolute. For example, if your point is there is high crime in Detroit, the absurd absolute would be your debate opponent saying something such as âoeSo, youâ(TM)re saying every person in Detroit is a criminal.â When your debate opponent recasts your opinion to include an âoeabsoluteâ word, such as every, always, never, all, completely, universally, and the like, you are seeing cognitive dissonance.
Some people call what I just described a strawman argument. But a strawman argument refers to any sort of inaccurate recasting of your opponentâ(TM)s argument. That is the generic case. Iâ(TM)m referring to a specific strawman argument that uses an absurd absolute. When your debate opponent recasts your point as an absurd absolute, you won the debate. Thatâ(TM)s as far as you can go.
I've seen this happening more and more often recently. Someone will not know what a term means, guess at the meaning according to what it looks like, and then begin using the term wrong. A million dollars in turnover isn't a millionaire, but whoever wrote this thinks so. Someone, probably the Slashdot editor, put it in quotes.
Yeah, but Amazon is going down too. They've let in all these unscrupulous sellers from China, and it's going to pollute the whole brand. Amazon is going to turn into a retail Alibaba and get a reputation as a place you go to get screwed. Chinese are the world champions of cheating in business, they have ways we've never even heard of. Amazon is basically built on trust and trust is going away once people start realizing there's no vetting.
I've worked with your "lean practices" before. It's not lean, it's cutting to the bone. You wouldn't believe the shit I've seen them go through to save a penny. Add to that the aggressive "F U consumer" attitude. Deliberately making things non-repairable so they the consumer MUST buy a replacement. ZOMG added thickness for screws! What ever shall we do?
Everything MUST be as thin as paper because...I don't know why really.
Oh, so devices will cost a few cents more so that we can repair them? Gosh, what a tragedy. Keep our landfills full of toxic e-waste so your lives can be more convenient. F off, polluter.
It will make them far less able to export their terrorism. Moreover without the ability to purchase spare parts and training, their militaries will quickly decay. Sure, it will take time. But at the end of it, they'll revert back to the status quo ante: barbarous Islamic nations that are held at arm's length and who lack the ability to harm us. One day, the oil wealth era will be looked upon as Islam's second golden age.
And this, folks, is what a disinformation post looks like. You can go collect your rubles from Putin now. Sure Google wouldn't cooperate with the US government when ordered. LOL. Just like CNN would never report fake news.
This particular Atari game was one of the few games that resisted to Deep Q Learning (a form of Reinforcement Learning invented by DeepMind). Many researchers have tried over the last couple of years to solve it. This time, Microsoft found an ingenious solution to the problem, that combines experience from multiple agents and learns to form sub-goals. Their solution could mean that in the future it might be easier to apply reinforcement learning to other settings, such as robotics. The interesting part about reinforcement learning is that it learns dynamic behavior, as opposed to static classification. It learns to act in a way that mimics intelligence. This kind of machine learning is invaluable.
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The whole point of this story is that humans are evil exterminating monsters. Quoting a genocidal slavemaster really doesn't help.
Where the hell did you learn "developing the tech needed to leave Earth" is some sort of goal of life? WTF? I feel like you're part of some bizarre context nobody but you and a small group understand.
Uh, no? The Soviet Union was an empire, Russia is a country. I'm more than a little surprised to see Leftists, of all people, banging the drums for war with Russia. Hell, you were on their side until recently. What caused the big change? And don't say alleged election meddling because Obama attempted to alter the result of Brexit and you were all for that.
Yaknow, when you're quoting a genocidal slavemaster to support your argument, you're not really making a good point for your side. Just sayin'.
At the Starbucks near me, it's not on the menu, but you can ask for it. It's always a wait because they have to make it. I'm sure I'm the only one who ever asks for it at this location.
Conservatives who voted for Trump are either 100% behind his bigotry, or they are 100% okay with it; there is no effective difference between the two. Apathy is just as dangerous as active hatred.
Yes, actually, if Hillary had said something so blatantly abusive, had run on a platform of racism, sexism, Islamaphobia, classism, ableism, and basically further disenfranchisement for anyone who isn't a white Christian straight cisgender male - yes, I'd feel exactly the same way about her and anyone who voted for her (and probably be looking for a bridge to jump off, if both of our candidates were so uniformly awful). Because it doesn't matter who does it, it's equally as crappy. It's not about championing a particular issue, it's about not championing the administration who literally wants to institute policies that will kill people.
It hit me so hard because no matter how much I gave dire warnings to the people who handwaved Trump's chances away, I never truly expected him to win. I never, ever, in my heart of hearts, believed that so many people in my country believed in his racist, sexist, ableist, vile rhetoric.
The US is much more racist and backward than we ever thought.
Did you forget Iraq? Oops, inconvenient truth there. The world's most invasion-y country sure ain't Russia.
You're going to say something like that with no link? Come on, man.
Soviets, not Russians. There's a big difference.
In their minds, the 'losers' from the 'fake news' outlets are outraged that Trump won and are trying to sabotage him from every angle, so obviously the news are going to report negative things about him but that's just because they don't want him to "win."
In what universe is this not true? The media gets caught lying all the time. CNN just had to fire 3 people for lying about Trump.
The establishment press uncritically "vetted" and embraced a Clinton campaign talking point designed to make Trump look foolish, divorced it of its political context and reiterated it word-of-God style for more than six months - all the time either ignoring or missing entirely easily obtainable information proving it false - and then suddenly reversed course on the claim weeks after it was unambiguously and authoritatively debunked. We live in a world where r/the_donald - a Reddit thread teeming with Trump supporters - proved more shrewd than The New York Times and the Associated Press when vetting an important claim about the Russia investigation.
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The Soviet Union was an evil empire. It was a legitimate superpower. Their Communist philosophy told them to conquer the whole world. They were a huge threat to the West, back when Europe and America had common ground together.
Russia is just a country. It's not pledged to conquer the world. It has a huge, indefensible border and is ringed by NATO bases. They have a really shitty situation. Even the useless NATO allies alone, without the USA, outnumber Russia 3 to 1. Anyone telling you TEH ROOSHINS are a dire threat is pushing an agenda that smells suspiciously like the one used to justify Iraq. And we all know how well that turned out.
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassee, CEO Be, Inc.
Read it again. The icon doesn't mean "Android" to the Slashdot editor, he considers it a generic icon. It's msmash, he's dumb.
An absurd absolute is a restatement of the other personâ(TM)s reasonable position as an absurd absolute. For example, if your point is there is high crime in Detroit, the absurd absolute would be your debate opponent saying something such as âoeSo, youâ(TM)re saying every person in Detroit is a criminal.â When your debate opponent recasts your opinion to include an âoeabsoluteâ word, such as every, always, never, all, completely, universally, and the like, you are seeing cognitive dissonance.
Some people call what I just described a strawman argument. But a strawman argument refers to any sort of inaccurate recasting of your opponentâ(TM)s argument. That is the generic case. Iâ(TM)m referring to a specific strawman argument that uses an absurd absolute. When your debate opponent recasts your point as an absurd absolute, you won the debate. Thatâ(TM)s as far as you can go.
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What, women don't like attention? Women love attention. Since when is that a men's rights issue?
I thought suppressing your emotions was harmful? Bottle it up inside and say nothing. Didn't Elsa from Frozen sing a song about this?
The icon doesn't mean "Android" to the Slashdot editor, it's a generic icon that means "smartphone." I should have been a taxonomist.
I've seen this happening more and more often recently. Someone will not know what a term means, guess at the meaning according to what it looks like, and then begin using the term wrong. A million dollars in turnover isn't a millionaire, but whoever wrote this thinks so. Someone, probably the Slashdot editor, put it in quotes.
Yeah, but Amazon is going down too. They've let in all these unscrupulous sellers from China, and it's going to pollute the whole brand. Amazon is going to turn into a retail Alibaba and get a reputation as a place you go to get screwed. Chinese are the world champions of cheating in business, they have ways we've never even heard of. Amazon is basically built on trust and trust is going away once people start realizing there's no vetting.
I know American megacorps aren't very popular in Europe right now. What is the local equivalent of Ebay that Europeans can use?
I've worked with your "lean practices" before. It's not lean, it's cutting to the bone. You wouldn't believe the shit I've seen them go through to save a penny. Add to that the aggressive "F U consumer" attitude. Deliberately making things non-repairable so they the consumer MUST buy a replacement. ZOMG added thickness for screws! What ever shall we do? Everything MUST be as thin as paper because...I don't know why really.
Oh, so devices will cost a few cents more so that we can repair them? Gosh, what a tragedy. Keep our landfills full of toxic e-waste so your lives can be more convenient. F off, polluter.
It will make them far less able to export their terrorism. Moreover without the ability to purchase spare parts and training, their militaries will quickly decay. Sure, it will take time. But at the end of it, they'll revert back to the status quo ante: barbarous Islamic nations that are held at arm's length and who lack the ability to harm us. One day, the oil wealth era will be looked upon as Islam's second golden age.
President "let's provoke a big shooting war with Russia" Hillary Clinton? Are you insane?
And this, folks, is what a disinformation post looks like. You can go collect your rubles from Putin now. Sure Google wouldn't cooperate with the US government when ordered. LOL. Just like CNN would never report fake news.
This particular Atari game was one of the few games that resisted to Deep Q Learning (a form of Reinforcement Learning invented by DeepMind). Many researchers have tried over the last couple of years to solve it. This time, Microsoft found an ingenious solution to the problem, that combines experience from multiple agents and learns to form sub-goals. Their solution could mean that in the future it might be easier to apply reinforcement learning to other settings, such as robotics. The interesting part about reinforcement learning is that it learns dynamic behavior, as opposed to static classification. It learns to act in a way that mimics intelligence. This kind of machine learning is invaluable.