It should be an example of socialism working really poorly, considering that over 50 cents out of every healthcare dollar is provided by some level of government, either the Federal, state, or local.
Seems to me it's an example of what happens when you take the worst bits of socialism - unrestrained government funding - and combine them with the worst bits of capitalism - unrestrained free markets applied where consumers are not free. With that combination, no wonder it's a mess.
This whole story doesn't make sense. The question is "can they communicate?".
Not necessarily.
And if the satellites were not intended to communicate, what are they used for?
See Landsat, the Jason series, the GPM core observatory, or Planet's cubesats, just off the top of my head. None of these are about comms. Generally they're observing either the atmosphere or the surface, and for a plethora of different possible reasons related to science, public policy, disaster relief, etc. These satellites do communicate with the ground, of course, but to do their job they also have to know where they are, and for some tasks you have to know it very precisely. That means that if these satellites are in a swarm you'd either need a pencil beam antenna fine enough to pick it out from it's neighbors - expensive for a cubesat - or you'd need a sufficiently-precise on-board location determination system, which is, again, expensive for a cubesat.
Right, because your anecdotal experience with your cats, apparently completely ungrounded in behavioral science, conclusively proves that it's the vocalization of it's name that your cats were responding to and not any of the other dozens of uncontrolled factors present. Obviously they know it's their name, as otherwise why would they respond?
There's a big difference between "mittens comes when I call him" and "studies show that these specific species of cat are able to recognize their name and treat it as a social interaction, responding as needed". Know the difference and you'll be less likely to spout FUD.
It's better to let Socialism criticize itself by pointing out that there are no successful implementations of it
Same's true of capitalism - there's no successful implementation of pure capitalism either, and it's had quite a number of notable failures, for instance the Great Recession, Great Depression, Robber Baron period, etc...
Pure ideologies rarely succeed. So far the most successful societies have been blends.
and there are many failed implementations that have killed millions of people.
Citation needed - examples of this showing that socialism was the cause of the deaths.
Feel free to point out an "actual" Socialist country and we'll point out how it isn't Socialist.
Recipe says I need 1.5 cups, but the can says it's 14.7 oz. Quick, is one can enough or do I need to buy two? What if the recipe called for 3 tbsp and the jar is 4 oz? Generate examples for other commonly-used units as necessary.
Agreed, although I'd be ok with talking to my phone if the processing was done locally.
But, given that's not today's tech yet, I just switched to a phone with a custom android ROM. Didn't root and did install Play Store, but I left out all the annoying bits, such as Voice, Now, etc... Feels much better not to have to worry about that any more.
Does carry some risk and takes some technological know-how, but at this point I think it's worth the effort.
You think of the intent that way, but as far as I can tell it's a story you've spun out of thin air. Where's your evidence for any of this?
Here's the letter from the board that initially accused him of violating the law. It clearly states the issue was that he kept using the title in communication with that same board, so clearly the people he contacted already knew he wasn't a PE.
You can find links to the rest here. It includes a letter of him writing that he is an "electronics engineer" from Sweden and states why his experience is relevant, but at no point states he's licensed. Show me in these documents where they confuse him for a PE at any point in the conversation.
Your analogy isn't relevant because he wasn't claiming experience he didn't have - It's more like an out-of-state doctor stating he's a medical doctor (but no more) in a state when he's not licensed to practice, and when asked on what basis he's making a medical argument.
Considering the board asked him to stop calling himself an "engineer", it's pretty clear they knew he wasn't an PE and he knew they knew he wasn't, but yet he still he persisted in calling himself an engineer. Given both sides knew the state of affairs clearly, I'm puzzled by where you see fudging going on.
On what basis do you accuse him of malicious intent?
But he was in fact a practicing engineer, which is why TFS refers to a "truthful" description being criminalized. He wasn't a "professional engineer", but I've yet to find any reference to him calling himself that.
As far as "sounding" authoritative, he *is* in fact an authority in as far as electrical systems go, versus being a layman.
Full disclosure: engineer, not PE, but EU dipl. eng., which is protected there but not in the US.
Not everyone uses Mobil Oil though. Everyone uses Facebook, one way or another. In fact, one of my last job interviews had it as a requirement for employment.
There is just nothing else out there for making discussion groups, pages, or creating events.
Gist of that article is that teenagers have moved on from Facebook for event planning, since everybody and their mother is on there and can see (and interfere with) what they're planning. Instagram's the way now, and I'm sure in 5 years it'll again be something else.
GP is not denying that complexity has negative consequences, he's refuting the argument that it has no advantage whatsoever. Added complexity is worth it if it improves usefulness more than it creates headaches.
You're right. All those new emojis (and now animated emojis) that get added to every new OS release are critical to the function of mobile phones./s, because sure as heck, someone out there will think that a shit-ton (and growing pile) of useless --ing emojis actually are critical.
Yes, because the only thing that gets added in every new version of IOS is more emojis...
Remember times when an OS, apps and all your data fit on a floppy?
Yes, and I also remember that the machine wasn't very useful beyond for playing Alley Cat and Leisure Suit Larry.
Yeah, yeah, javascript is slower than C, complex software is hard to optimize, etc... all true, but he entirely fails to recognize the gains that have been made in software as a consequence of accepting these faults. On IOS 5 vs 9, what about the encryption and other security features that have been extensively discussed here on/., just to start? On web apps, I resisted moving away from mutt as an email client for years, but I'm now a dedicated webmail user because I can get the same interface on multiple machines without any hassle, despite the fact that all that javascript is much more taxing on machines. Same's true for my feed reader, book library, budgeting software, and various other tools.
NPM may be a pile of cruft, I don't know. Google Maps on Android is heading in that direction, I'll agree. There are definitely some bad actors, but that doesn't mean that everything using more than 640 kb is bloat.
The generality that "There are no additional functions [programs] just... grow?" is rose-tinted bullshit.
If you're on the edge of the time zone, the solar maximum will almost always be at 11:30 or 12:30, not "more or less around 12:00".
As far as "for the entire year", look up the Analemma, linked below. Essentially, the location of the sun at 12:00 at any given point on the Earth shifts East and West throughout the year, such that even in the middle of the time zone, 12:00 is the solar maximum only twice a year.
To me it merely implies that the truth falls somewhere between crap and pleasant. It's not uncommon to take a stance on the opposite side of where you think the truth might actually be, to counterbalance another's argument. You're not going to find out what he actually believes, however, by starting with accusations.
I would also consider "abusive hostility" to be significantly worse than "treating people like crap" - the former for me would require direct action against the victim, whereas the latter could just be inaction or indirect, and is generally easier to push aside. For example, we'd refer to a cashier who ignores customers as someone treating customers like crap but not necessarily as abusively hostile.
You're putting your own false dichotomy in GP's mouth, as nowhere does GP claim that you need "abusively hostility" to get by in an elite environment. They said is that elite environments are not usually characterized by "constant pleasant social interaction". How do you get "belittlement, hostility, and personal attacks" from that?
Only barely, and not on a 10-minute walk to the bus. Nor has 95F/98% ever actually happened in the US: seems the official record is a dew point of 88 F in 2011.
Unless you are down and out with regards to money, why would anyone choose it?
Avoiding traffic and the hassle of parking and maintenance. Because you have a disability (say, blindness), or a general dislike of driving. Because you want to sleep/read/... an extra half hour. Because you want to do your bit for global warming. Because that extra bit of walking it requires keeps you just a little bit healthier.
Parking and traffic may be fine where you live, and I agree that walking in 95F/98% is unpleasant, but driving isn't the only solution and not everywhere has such problematic weather. Uber's fine on occasion, but not for regular use.
I don't care if they're violating the rules to counter another rule violator, *anyone* violating the rules has no place in the government. The whole point of a rules-based order is to have most people stick to it, and those that don't held accountable by it, such that people living under the rules can trust that they'll be enforced fairly and evenly. If the people at the top all start breaking the rules, the whole thing collapses regardless of how well-intentioned they were.
See for reference the people who will now point to this as conclusive proof that there's a deep state, and that therefore the US govt is illegitimate, needs to be scrapped, etc... That could be more damaging to the US in the long term than anything Trump's done so far.
If my "employer" appears to be unbalanced, and has the authority to start World War III, I just might be inclined to do a little undermining for the sake of the planet and the human race.
If my employer were unhinged enough to need to be undermined in this way and I was aware of it, then I'd be a pretty compelling witness for an impeachment or a 25th amendment action, and that'd clearly be the more ethical choice. If he's really that dangerous, leaving him in power is morally bankrupt, and not even that effective considering you never know when he'll fire you and replace you with a more pliant individual.
Thinking you can "fix" this through subterfuge is counterproductive: it's anti-democratic, increases Trump's paranoia even further, decreases popular trust in the bureaucracy, etc...
Umm, couldn't an adversary use the same tech to detect the larger ripples (albeit not targeted) generated by the sub displacing water as it moves?
Depends. There's more low-frequency energy than high-frequency energy on the ocean surface, so if the sub motion only generates large slow waves then it may in fact fall below the noise level, even while this high-frequency stuff doesn't.
A lacklustre teaser, the sociopolitical backdrop of the casting and storylines that have sucked for years.
Again, you have no idea yet whether or not the backdrop will have any impact on her performance. I'm hoping she'll do fine despite it. Don't judge a book by its cover, eh?
As far as bad storylines, that's both debatable (I'd disagree, but to each his own) and, considering that the storylines you're referring to were with male actors, it has nothing to do with a woman being cast.
Equity espousing SJW types are sociopaths, there is no intellectual basis for their politics only vacuous dogma and group-think. Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Conner... There was never any big deal about female characters (or race) until identity politics. Now we have paper thin, poorly motivated and overpowered characters like the chick in Star Wars. It's nothing other than political grandstanding and everything the SJW's touch turns to shit as a result. This is why it's an issue now and why people are calling it out and rejecting it.
It is yet to be seen if the new Doctor will be a Lea/Ripley/Conner or a Rei. There have been thinly-written female characters as of late, but neither are all of them universally thin, nor are all future ones necessarily going to be thin. If 13 turns out to be thin then feel free to call her out, but you have no basis for doing so yet, do you?
Attacking a character as poorly written before we've even seen them in action reeks of agenda having nothing to do with the actual character.
The backhaul bandwidth is only a tiny fraction of the cost to provide service, most of the cost is providing and maintaining the physical line so it doesn't cost significantly less for an ISP to provide a 2mb DSL service than it does to provide fibre assuming the infrastructure is already in place.
Fair enough, but it doesn't cost $60 a customer, at least not for urban customers. You can get DSL for a third of that in suburbia or cities where there is competition, and these other companies aren't going broke from maintenance costs.
Yes, there's some cost of maintenance in there, but there's also some price gouging going on too.
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Seems to me it's an example of what happens when you take the worst bits of socialism - unrestrained government funding - and combine them with the worst bits of capitalism - unrestrained free markets applied where consumers are not free. With that combination, no wonder it's a mess.
Not necessarily.
See Landsat, the Jason series, the GPM core observatory, or Planet's cubesats, just off the top of my head. None of these are about comms. Generally they're observing either the atmosphere or the surface, and for a plethora of different possible reasons related to science, public policy, disaster relief, etc. These satellites do communicate with the ground, of course, but to do their job they also have to know where they are, and for some tasks you have to know it very precisely. That means that if these satellites are in a swarm you'd either need a pencil beam antenna fine enough to pick it out from it's neighbors - expensive for a cubesat - or you'd need a sufficiently-precise on-board location determination system, which is, again, expensive for a cubesat.
Right, because your anecdotal experience with your cats, apparently completely ungrounded in behavioral science, conclusively proves that it's the vocalization of it's name that your cats were responding to and not any of the other dozens of uncontrolled factors present. Obviously they know it's their name, as otherwise why would they respond?
There's a big difference between "mittens comes when I call him" and "studies show that these specific species of cat are able to recognize their name and treat it as a social interaction, responding as needed". Know the difference and you'll be less likely to spout FUD.
Same's true of capitalism - there's no successful implementation of pure capitalism either, and it's had quite a number of notable failures, for instance the Great Recession, Great Depression, Robber Baron period, etc...
Pure ideologies rarely succeed. So far the most successful societies have been blends.
Citation needed - examples of this showing that socialism was the cause of the deaths.
Ditto for capitalism/free market.
Cooking.
Recipe says I need 1.5 cups, but the can says it's 14.7 oz. Quick, is one can enough or do I need to buy two? What if the recipe called for 3 tbsp and the jar is 4 oz? Generate examples for other commonly-used units as necessary.
Agreed, although I'd be ok with talking to my phone if the processing was done locally.
But, given that's not today's tech yet, I just switched to a phone with a custom android ROM. Didn't root and did install Play Store, but I left out all the annoying bits, such as Voice, Now, etc... Feels much better not to have to worry about that any more.
Does carry some risk and takes some technological know-how, but at this point I think it's worth the effort.
You think of the intent that way, but as far as I can tell it's a story you've spun out of thin air. Where's your evidence for any of this?
Here's the letter from the board that initially accused him of violating the law. It clearly states the issue was that he kept using the title in communication with that same board, so clearly the people he contacted already knew he wasn't a PE.
https://www.scribd.com/documen...
You can find links to the rest here. It includes a letter of him writing that he is an "electronics engineer" from Sweden and states why his experience is relevant, but at no point states he's licensed. Show me in these documents where they confuse him for a PE at any point in the conversation.
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Your analogy isn't relevant because he wasn't claiming experience he didn't have - It's more like an out-of-state doctor stating he's a medical doctor (but no more) in a state when he's not licensed to practice, and when asked on what basis he's making a medical argument.
Considering the board asked him to stop calling himself an "engineer", it's pretty clear they knew he wasn't an PE and he knew they knew he wasn't, but yet he still he persisted in calling himself an engineer. Given both sides knew the state of affairs clearly, I'm puzzled by where you see fudging going on.
On what basis do you accuse him of malicious intent?
But he was in fact a practicing engineer, which is why TFS refers to a "truthful" description being criminalized. He wasn't a "professional engineer", but I've yet to find any reference to him calling himself that.
As far as "sounding" authoritative, he *is* in fact an authority in as far as electrical systems go, versus being a layman.
Full disclosure: engineer, not PE, but EU dipl. eng., which is protected there but not in the US.
Yes, but Facebook != Instagram.
You're dating yourself.
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
Gist of that article is that teenagers have moved on from Facebook for event planning, since everybody and their mother is on there and can see (and interfere with) what they're planning. Instagram's the way now, and I'm sure in 5 years it'll again be something else.
GP is not denying that complexity has negative consequences, he's refuting the argument that it has no advantage whatsoever. Added complexity is worth it if it improves usefulness more than it creates headaches.
Would you go back to booting DOS from floppies?
Yes, because the only thing that gets added in every new version of IOS is more emojis...
Stop being disingenuous.
Yes, and I also remember that the machine wasn't very useful beyond for playing Alley Cat and Leisure Suit Larry.
Yeah, yeah, javascript is slower than C, complex software is hard to optimize, etc... all true, but he entirely fails to recognize the gains that have been made in software as a consequence of accepting these faults. On IOS 5 vs 9, what about the encryption and other security features that have been extensively discussed here on /., just to start? On web apps, I resisted moving away from mutt as an email client for years, but I'm now a dedicated webmail user because I can get the same interface on multiple machines without any hassle, despite the fact that all that javascript is much more taxing on machines. Same's true for my feed reader, book library, budgeting software, and various other tools.
NPM may be a pile of cruft, I don't know. Google Maps on Android is heading in that direction, I'll agree. There are definitely some bad actors, but that doesn't mean that everything using more than 640 kb is bloat.
The generality that "There are no additional functions [programs] just... grow?" is rose-tinted bullshit.
If you're on the edge of the time zone, the solar maximum will almost always be at 11:30 or 12:30, not "more or less around 12:00".
As far as "for the entire year", look up the Analemma, linked below. Essentially, the location of the sun at 12:00 at any given point on the Earth shifts East and West throughout the year, such that even in the middle of the time zone, 12:00 is the solar maximum only twice a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To me it merely implies that the truth falls somewhere between crap and pleasant. It's not uncommon to take a stance on the opposite side of where you think the truth might actually be, to counterbalance another's argument. You're not going to find out what he actually believes, however, by starting with accusations.
I would also consider "abusive hostility" to be significantly worse than "treating people like crap" - the former for me would require direct action against the victim, whereas the latter could just be inaction or indirect, and is generally easier to push aside. For example, we'd refer to a cashier who ignores customers as someone treating customers like crap but not necessarily as abusively hostile.
You're putting your own false dichotomy in GP's mouth, as nowhere does GP claim that you need "abusively hostility" to get by in an elite environment. They said is that elite environments are not usually characterized by "constant pleasant social interaction". How do you get "belittlement, hostility, and personal attacks" from that?
Only barely, and not on a 10-minute walk to the bus. Nor has 95F/98% ever actually happened in the US: seems the official record is a dew point of 88 F in 2011.
Avoiding traffic and the hassle of parking and maintenance. Because you have a disability (say, blindness), or a general dislike of driving. Because you want to sleep/read/... an extra half hour. Because you want to do your bit for global warming. Because that extra bit of walking it requires keeps you just a little bit healthier.
Parking and traffic may be fine where you live, and I agree that walking in 95F/98% is unpleasant, but driving isn't the only solution and not everywhere has such problematic weather. Uber's fine on occasion, but not for regular use.
I don't care if they're violating the rules to counter another rule violator, *anyone* violating the rules has no place in the government. The whole point of a rules-based order is to have most people stick to it, and those that don't held accountable by it, such that people living under the rules can trust that they'll be enforced fairly and evenly. If the people at the top all start breaking the rules, the whole thing collapses regardless of how well-intentioned they were.
See for reference the people who will now point to this as conclusive proof that there's a deep state, and that therefore the US govt is illegitimate, needs to be scrapped, etc... That could be more damaging to the US in the long term than anything Trump's done so far.
If my employer were unhinged enough to need to be undermined in this way and I was aware of it, then I'd be a pretty compelling witness for an impeachment or a 25th amendment action, and that'd clearly be the more ethical choice. If he's really that dangerous, leaving him in power is morally bankrupt, and not even that effective considering you never know when he'll fire you and replace you with a more pliant individual.
Thinking you can "fix" this through subterfuge is counterproductive: it's anti-democratic, increases Trump's paranoia even further, decreases popular trust in the bureaucracy, etc...
Depends. There's more low-frequency energy than high-frequency energy on the ocean surface, so if the sub motion only generates large slow waves then it may in fact fall below the noise level, even while this high-frequency stuff doesn't.
Again, you have no idea yet whether or not the backdrop will have any impact on her performance. I'm hoping she'll do fine despite it. Don't judge a book by its cover, eh?
As far as bad storylines, that's both debatable (I'd disagree, but to each his own) and, considering that the storylines you're referring to were with male actors, it has nothing to do with a woman being cast.
It is yet to be seen if the new Doctor will be a Lea/Ripley/Conner or a Rei. There have been thinly-written female characters as of late, but neither are all of them universally thin, nor are all future ones necessarily going to be thin. If 13 turns out to be thin then feel free to call her out, but you have no basis for doing so yet, do you?
Attacking a character as poorly written before we've even seen them in action reeks of agenda having nothing to do with the actual character.
Fair enough, but it doesn't cost $60 a customer, at least not for urban customers. You can get DSL for a third of that in suburbia or cities where there is competition, and these other companies aren't going broke from maintenance costs.
Yes, there's some cost of maintenance in there, but there's also some price gouging going on too.