My home address doesn't need to be public. I list the address of the local post office, and my real name. Mail sent there will reach me.
And of course a unique email address with very strong spam filters on it.
Been doing it this way more than 10 years - no problems yet.
Yes, a government monopoly is slightly less bad than a corporate monopoly.
But a competitive market is vastly better than either one. Then customers have choice, and can walk away from bad deals. Vendors are forced to either offer good deals, or lose business.
Very soon, perhaps sooner than we can establish a Mars colony, we will have the technology to engineer our bodies so that a different gravity isn't a problem.
And "never" is a longer time than you probably think.
... and for them, productivity is important.
I agree that most productivity *advice* is BS, but productivity itself, is not.
People differ. If you're happy to accomplish little in your life - fine. Enjoy.
Other people are different. They're just as entitled as you are to their own goals and priorities - whatever they are.
Don't go telling them their goals are not important, or wrong. That's rude.
I don't know exactly what Draper (Cap'n Crunch) is accused of, but I wonder if we (as a society) are crossing into witch hunt territory.
Rape is rape, and rapists belong in jail.
Flirting, making passes, and asking permission - when the askee is free to say 'no' - isn't criminal. Even if it's kinky.
This is overdue. I often lend my credit card to other people so they can buy stuff with it.
Nobody looks at the name on the card or the signature anyway - this works fine.
Because society runs on trust. I trust the people I give my card to, the retailer trusts the purchaser.
And in a decent society, that's OK, because criminals are rare enough that we can treat them as a special case.
Yay trust.
What good is a cell phone? How about calling 911? Or doing business? Coordinating reconstruction? Medical advice?
Telephones are pretty critical infrastructure - it's hard to think of anything more so.
And they're easy to charge even without mains power - you can charge from car and truck batteries, solar cells, generators - all are sufficient to charge lots of phones, because they don't need much power.
At best they've shown that our universe can't be simulated by a Turing machine.
But machines simulating our universe, if they exist, are not constrained to be Turning machines. Indeed, we know nothing of the physics of the universe such machines inhabit, and therefore can't say anything about what physical or mathematical limits they may face.
This may be interesting in the sense that it shows limits on what *our* computers can simulate, but it says *nothing* about what God's computers can do.
Falcon 9 first stages do have enough delta-V to get to orbit by themselves - no 2nd stage.
But with virtually no payload, and no way to get back down. So not much point in it.
Multi-billion dollar firms are not automatically in the wrong just because they're big.
If they're wrong, we should condemn them. If they're right, we should defend them.
No matter who they are.
Yes, but they were spending money to SUBTRACT value from their products. The "differentiation" was that their phones were worse the those running stock Android.
It feels so good when you stop banging your own head against the wall.
"Burning cash" simply means using up cash reserves, without replenishing them from sales.
Cash can be 'burnt' wastefully (throwing parties) or usefully (investing in production machinery), but it's still called 'burning' if you're using it up faster than it's coming in.
That's just how the term is used.
I didn't comment on the cause.
I just pointed out that a correlation doesn't show that "Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs".
The cause could be connections, as you say.
Or less-qualified students.
Or many other things.
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My home address doesn't need to be public. I list the address of the local post office, and my real name. Mail sent there will reach me. And of course a unique email address with very strong spam filters on it. Been doing it this way more than 10 years - no problems yet.
Either that, or not. One or the other. Never can tell.
Yes, a government monopoly is slightly less bad than a corporate monopoly. But a competitive market is vastly better than either one. Then customers have choice, and can walk away from bad deals. Vendors are forced to either offer good deals, or lose business.
Very soon, perhaps sooner than we can establish a Mars colony, we will have the technology to engineer our bodies so that a different gravity isn't a problem. And "never" is a longer time than you probably think.
... and for them, productivity is important. I agree that most productivity *advice* is BS, but productivity itself, is not. People differ. If you're happy to accomplish little in your life - fine. Enjoy. Other people are different. They're just as entitled as you are to their own goals and priorities - whatever they are. Don't go telling them their goals are not important, or wrong. That's rude.
It's their social duty to track down the criminal and see that he's prosecuted. Otherwise they'll find new victims.
And I should care there are no jobs...why? I don't write software because people pay me to. I write software because I want the software that I write.
I don't think mathematics ever becomes "out-of-date".
I don't know exactly what Draper (Cap'n Crunch) is accused of, but I wonder if we (as a society) are crossing into witch hunt territory. Rape is rape, and rapists belong in jail. Flirting, making passes, and asking permission - when the askee is free to say 'no' - isn't criminal. Even if it's kinky.
Propaganda, maybe. But not commie propaganda. The Chinese are capitalists.
Most progressives I know drive SUVs.
Use TFA. Here it is 2017. I'm running low on sympathy for those who get hacked because they didn't use TFA.
This is overdue. I often lend my credit card to other people so they can buy stuff with it. Nobody looks at the name on the card or the signature anyway - this works fine. Because society runs on trust. I trust the people I give my card to, the retailer trusts the purchaser. And in a decent society, that's OK, because criminals are rare enough that we can treat them as a special case. Yay trust.
What good is a cell phone? How about calling 911? Or doing business? Coordinating reconstruction? Medical advice? Telephones are pretty critical infrastructure - it's hard to think of anything more so. And they're easy to charge even without mains power - you can charge from car and truck batteries, solar cells, generators - all are sufficient to charge lots of phones, because they don't need much power.
At best they've shown that our universe can't be simulated by a Turing machine. But machines simulating our universe, if they exist, are not constrained to be Turning machines. Indeed, we know nothing of the physics of the universe such machines inhabit, and therefore can't say anything about what physical or mathematical limits they may face. This may be interesting in the sense that it shows limits on what *our* computers can simulate, but it says *nothing* about what God's computers can do.
Falcon 9 first stages do have enough delta-V to get to orbit by themselves - no 2nd stage. But with virtually no payload, and no way to get back down. So not much point in it.
Just wait till you're old.
no, Sparticus invented email! And me.
Multi-billion dollar firms are not automatically in the wrong just because they're big. If they're wrong, we should condemn them. If they're right, we should defend them. No matter who they are.
Yes, but they were spending money to SUBTRACT value from their products. The "differentiation" was that their phones were worse the those running stock Android. It feels so good when you stop banging your own head against the wall.
"Burning cash" simply means using up cash reserves, without replenishing them from sales. Cash can be 'burnt' wastefully (throwing parties) or usefully (investing in production machinery), but it's still called 'burning' if you're using it up faster than it's coming in. That's just how the term is used.
Care to explain *why* you think it's evil? It's not obvious to many of us.
I didn't comment on the cause. I just pointed out that a correlation doesn't show that "Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs". The cause could be connections, as you say. Or less-qualified students. Or many other things.
News flash: Students who can't get paid internships often later can't get the best-paying jobs, either. Correlation is not causation.
So sad. Another case of patents suppressing innovation.