It was a joke, since I'm an electrical engineer and 90% of electronics that randomly stop working do so because a cheap electrolytic cap has failed. Besides, in my post-apocalyptic society, wandering monks will be welcomed everywhere, as they are the Bringers of Knowledge who can dispense technical advice to the unwashed masses.
In a post-apocalypse society, I will raid the nearest electronics stores then wander the land, repairing electronics with my knowledge and large stash of replacement electrolytic capacitors.
It doesn't just take aptitude to become a programmer. You must also have opportunity. I assure you that 100% of the people born in the 1500s who had the aptitude to become programmers did not do so. Likewise, due to the overall poor nature of the area and resulting limited exposure to technology and investment in customized per-student education opportunities, and yes due to lack of knowledge of parents (who are the best people to teach their children to be inquisitive), I fully expect some kids in West Virginia who had the aptitude to become programmers are instead shoveling coal.
But in no way does that imply that everyone currently shoveling coal has the aptitude to become a programmer.
But in no way does that imply that everyone currently shoveling coal is incapable of learning and doing some other rewarding job, if given the opportunity to learn one.
Whether I can see a car in an adjacent lane behind me or not, I always leave enough space in front of me and then accelerate as I change lanes. I can slow back down right away, but being in that mindset means I'm better prepared if there's someone going 25 MPH over the limit approaching from behind, which is someone that any of us might not see regardless of mirror position.
He was talking about regularly using a car where two different people adjusted the mirrors, neither of which included a portion of the rear quarter panel, because he might not be able to distinguish between the two positions readily.
If he (or I) get into a car that we know has the mirrors set wrong (i.e. this isn't my exclusive car and I don't know I drove it last), it's easy to remember to set the side mirrors. You know, the same way you remember to set the seat and steering wheel and center mirror each time. It's part of the mental checklist that every competent driver should be going through before they put the car in gear.
In the same way that you don't need to look at your own hands to know where they are, I don't need to look at my own rear quarterpanel to remember where it is. Maybe that's because I've driven the same care for ~13 years, or maybe because it's small enough that I can feel it as an extension of myself, or maybe I make a point of keeping the size and shape of my car in my head along with the other information necessary to operate a motor vehicle, but I know the boundaries of the car I'm driving.
I'm trying to articulate why your answer isn't correct, but I think the simplest way is to say that, in my car, that's not true. I can see back down the side lanes better with my mirrors where they are than if they were pointed more into my own lane, especially when there's a big car directly behind me. Sorry.
Bloomberg didn't say that you can't teach any coal worker to code, just that you can't teach every coal worker to code, refuting Zuckerberg's Marie-Antoinette-style "let them write code" statement.
Only the Zuck sounds like an out-of-touch elitist in this case; Bloomberg is making a legitimate point that the retraining process is more complicated than that because it has to be tailored to the skills and interests of each person. The article summary is misleading, and the headline is outright wrong.
No, no it's not. The rationalization used by slave owners was that everyone - adults and children alike - would be unable to learn to do anything else because of inherent limitations in their capabilities. The argument put forth here is that adults may be unable to learn to do one specific job that may require not only years of training, but also a familiarity with the underlying math and technology - a familiarity that they may lack. Nothing whatsoever implies that the children of current coal workers couldn't become excellent programmers, or excellent managers, or excellent architects, etc., and so they should be indentured into coal work, too. Nor does this imply that current coal workers couldn't become good mechanical engineers, or mechanics, or architects, or artists, just that some of them could never become good programmers.
The dark pools run by some of the big brokerage houses are doing what the GP describes though, and while that's not HFT it is another problem with the markets.
You're greatly exaggerating with "swinging your head wildly" in response to the OP's post. I learned to drive with and always have my mirrors splayed out to cover my blind spots rather than the end of my own car (as is recommended by many driving experts). However, given the size of the mirrors, I still have a tiny blind spot that's the perfect fit for a motorcycle who's riding too close to my lane and hugging my rear quarter panel. A slight tilt of my head and I can clear that spot. It's not necessary when regularly scanning the road to keep track of traffic, but I always do it before I change lanes just in case.
Contrast that with 90% of folks who have their mirrors turned to watch their own gas caps, and have to fully turn their heads to check their much larger blind spots before changing lanes. That's the "swinging wildly" bit that's more dangerous.
I don't have any issues with your 180 degree mirror idea, other than that it would take time to adapt to it. Drivers that start with it would likely be fine.
I worry about someone's computer telling them that the light is about to change... it's about to change... it's about to change... and when they realize it's not going to change and they can't stop in time is also when they hear the ambulance's siren coming through from the right, where the ambulance used their local override to keep their own light green. Voila, car - ambulance accident.
Yeah, I don't even think the idea of spy satellites doing this is particularly shocking. I'd be more shocked to learn that we don't have any satellites able to pick up the broadcasts from commercial planes over the Indian Ocean at 3 AM. If you or your airplane broadcasts something into space, you should expect it to be heard by anyone up there who's listening.
Because if enough of them do it you can triangulate where it came from?
I generally assume spy satellites pick up and record anything and everything they can. There's no laws that protect data being broadcast into space from being captured by spy satellites, so why not grab anything you can and sort through it later?
Of the many millions of primates infected with retroviruses like this, some of those infections replaced egg or sperm DNA that was previously responsible for the specialization of stem cells. When the replacement DNA didn't also drive specialization, I suspect the offspring was naturally aborted (or grew as a tumor until it killed its mother).
Sometimes though, the virus mutation that replaced the DNA also happened to be able to create the same or similar encoding. Voila, this virus is more successful, because it lives on in viable offspring, who now specialize their cells via virus DNA instead of regular old normal DNA. Since this virus lives on, this particular mutation manages to show up in lots of other places in the DNA of the creatures it infects, until many years later folks on Slashdot are wondering about it.
That's a pretty successful virus IMO. Though since the "virus" part is just the DNA, and the DNA is now part of us, it would make more sense to say that our great^1000th ancestor had three parents: mommy, daddy, and virus.
So because the NSA could install a keylogger on every gmail user's machine worldwide, google shouldn't bother to encrypt the data on their internal gmail servers where the NSA was previously snooping on all of it at once?
Of course there's always a weak point. Make that point less weak and the work to steal the data gets a little harder - maybe hard enough to defer the attacker - until the attacker adapts. Then fix the new weak point, and iterate until death.
World of Warcraft gold isn't a great example, but if you traded your Eve cash for free playing time, you might have created a taxable event.
Blizzard at least says that WoW gold has no value and is exclusively owned by them and can't be traded for anything else that has value either (since all in game items are worthless) and so there's no taxable event. Eve at least lets you swap your cash for free playing time, which has some sort of measurable real-world value in a way that the IRS might understand.
Or, if limits are fixed per species rather than per hunter, then the drones make it easier to run through the numbers faster and ensure everyone who gets a permit gets a kill. They'd have to reduce the limits to have the same effective kill rate, and that would hurt tourism - equally bad when the goal is to preserve the status quo.
They do if the same guide company can host more hunters per day, each with his or her own bag limit. With the odds of finding more game greatly increased, they can bring out more hunters and still have most leave satisfied with a chance to shoot their gun a few times at something living.
I thought that maybe a bunch of spy satellites picked up and stored the broadcasts, and that they can use timestamps from the various receptions to triangulate the position. That's sort of a reverse-active GPS.
Of course they'll never say "we got this from U.S. and British spy satellites" so they make up something about doppler shift data from a single satellite and hope they find the debris soon to corroborate the story.
Or maybe they did do it all from the doppler shift data they happened to store. It's at least plausible, and there's no need to create conspiracy theories when they aren't particularly shocking.
If there are voices on it, it might indicate who was in the cockpit. It would be even more telling if there's shouting, such as from a locked-out copilot begging the pilot to turn around, or from the pilot yelling at terrorists that they don't have enough fuel to reach Antarctica and that they're going down into the ocean.
We have a six cell embryo on ice from last year's IVF cycles. It divided a bit slowly and just missed the cutoff to be included in the fresh transfer, but beat the cutoff to be non-viable and discarded so was eligible to freeze for later.
Given how expensive IVF is and that my company dropped insurance coverage for IVF this year, that embryo is probably my only chance to have a second kid (with the first one on the way). The odds aren't good though, especially for a single-embryo transfer.
That might be your reason to prefer LPs, but that's not at all the reason that I prefer LPs. I have a record player sitting next to me at my desk here at work, and I listen to records because they remind me of music as it sounded in my youth.
And I readily argue that hipsters will continue to prefer LPs over even high-dynamic-range CDs because they will have trained themselves to prefer the distortion.
I didn't say I work that many hours, but that's what I see from peers at larger companies. I have to ask for citations for startups being okay with 40 hour work weeks for salaried employees though, because that is counter to the limited evidence I've seen, and frankly I don't believe you.
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It was a joke, since I'm an electrical engineer and 90% of electronics that randomly stop working do so because a cheap electrolytic cap has failed. Besides, in my post-apocalyptic society, wandering monks will be welcomed everywhere, as they are the Bringers of Knowledge who can dispense technical advice to the unwashed masses.
In a post-apocalypse society, I will raid the nearest electronics stores then wander the land, repairing electronics with my knowledge and large stash of replacement electrolytic capacitors.
It doesn't just take aptitude to become a programmer. You must also have opportunity. I assure you that 100% of the people born in the 1500s who had the aptitude to become programmers did not do so. Likewise, due to the overall poor nature of the area and resulting limited exposure to technology and investment in customized per-student education opportunities, and yes due to lack of knowledge of parents (who are the best people to teach their children to be inquisitive), I fully expect some kids in West Virginia who had the aptitude to become programmers are instead shoveling coal.
But in no way does that imply that everyone currently shoveling coal has the aptitude to become a programmer.
But in no way does that imply that everyone currently shoveling coal is incapable of learning and doing some other rewarding job, if given the opportunity to learn one.
Whether I can see a car in an adjacent lane behind me or not, I always leave enough space in front of me and then accelerate as I change lanes. I can slow back down right away, but being in that mindset means I'm better prepared if there's someone going 25 MPH over the limit approaching from behind, which is someone that any of us might not see regardless of mirror position.
He was talking about regularly using a car where two different people adjusted the mirrors, neither of which included a portion of the rear quarter panel, because he might not be able to distinguish between the two positions readily.
If he (or I) get into a car that we know has the mirrors set wrong (i.e. this isn't my exclusive car and I don't know I drove it last), it's easy to remember to set the side mirrors. You know, the same way you remember to set the seat and steering wheel and center mirror each time. It's part of the mental checklist that every competent driver should be going through before they put the car in gear.
In the same way that you don't need to look at your own hands to know where they are, I don't need to look at my own rear quarterpanel to remember where it is. Maybe that's because I've driven the same care for ~13 years, or maybe because it's small enough that I can feel it as an extension of myself, or maybe I make a point of keeping the size and shape of my car in my head along with the other information necessary to operate a motor vehicle, but I know the boundaries of the car I'm driving.
I'm trying to articulate why your answer isn't correct, but I think the simplest way is to say that, in my car, that's not true. I can see back down the side lanes better with my mirrors where they are than if they were pointed more into my own lane, especially when there's a big car directly behind me. Sorry.
Bloomberg didn't say that you can't teach any coal worker to code, just that you can't teach every coal worker to code, refuting Zuckerberg's Marie-Antoinette-style "let them write code" statement.
Only the Zuck sounds like an out-of-touch elitist in this case; Bloomberg is making a legitimate point that the retraining process is more complicated than that because it has to be tailored to the skills and interests of each person. The article summary is misleading, and the headline is outright wrong.
No, no it's not. The rationalization used by slave owners was that everyone - adults and children alike - would be unable to learn to do anything else because of inherent limitations in their capabilities. The argument put forth here is that adults may be unable to learn to do one specific job that may require not only years of training, but also a familiarity with the underlying math and technology - a familiarity that they may lack. Nothing whatsoever implies that the children of current coal workers couldn't become excellent programmers, or excellent managers, or excellent architects, etc., and so they should be indentured into coal work, too. Nor does this imply that current coal workers couldn't become good mechanical engineers, or mechanics, or architects, or artists, just that some of them could never become good programmers.
The dark pools run by some of the big brokerage houses are doing what the GP describes though, and while that's not HFT it is another problem with the markets.
You're greatly exaggerating with "swinging your head wildly" in response to the OP's post. I learned to drive with and always have my mirrors splayed out to cover my blind spots rather than the end of my own car (as is recommended by many driving experts). However, given the size of the mirrors, I still have a tiny blind spot that's the perfect fit for a motorcycle who's riding too close to my lane and hugging my rear quarter panel. A slight tilt of my head and I can clear that spot. It's not necessary when regularly scanning the road to keep track of traffic, but I always do it before I change lanes just in case.
Contrast that with 90% of folks who have their mirrors turned to watch their own gas caps, and have to fully turn their heads to check their much larger blind spots before changing lanes. That's the "swinging wildly" bit that's more dangerous.
I don't have any issues with your 180 degree mirror idea, other than that it would take time to adapt to it. Drivers that start with it would likely be fine.
I worry about someone's computer telling them that the light is about to change... it's about to change... it's about to change... and when they realize it's not going to change and they can't stop in time is also when they hear the ambulance's siren coming through from the right, where the ambulance used their local override to keep their own light green. Voila, car - ambulance accident.
Yeah, I don't even think the idea of spy satellites doing this is particularly shocking. I'd be more shocked to learn that we don't have any satellites able to pick up the broadcasts from commercial planes over the Indian Ocean at 3 AM. If you or your airplane broadcasts something into space, you should expect it to be heard by anyone up there who's listening.
Because if enough of them do it you can triangulate where it came from?
I generally assume spy satellites pick up and record anything and everything they can. There's no laws that protect data being broadcast into space from being captured by spy satellites, so why not grab anything you can and sort through it later?
Of the many millions of primates infected with retroviruses like this, some of those infections replaced egg or sperm DNA that was previously responsible for the specialization of stem cells. When the replacement DNA didn't also drive specialization, I suspect the offspring was naturally aborted (or grew as a tumor until it killed its mother).
Sometimes though, the virus mutation that replaced the DNA also happened to be able to create the same or similar encoding. Voila, this virus is more successful, because it lives on in viable offspring, who now specialize their cells via virus DNA instead of regular old normal DNA. Since this virus lives on, this particular mutation manages to show up in lots of other places in the DNA of the creatures it infects, until many years later folks on Slashdot are wondering about it.
That's a pretty successful virus IMO. Though since the "virus" part is just the DNA, and the DNA is now part of us, it would make more sense to say that our great^1000th ancestor had three parents: mommy, daddy, and virus.
Aye, just need someone to dump some chocolate and a few billion yellow, orange, and brown candy shells!
So because the NSA could install a keylogger on every gmail user's machine worldwide, google shouldn't bother to encrypt the data on their internal gmail servers where the NSA was previously snooping on all of it at once?
Of course there's always a weak point. Make that point less weak and the work to steal the data gets a little harder - maybe hard enough to defer the attacker - until the attacker adapts. Then fix the new weak point, and iterate until death.
World of Warcraft gold isn't a great example, but if you traded your Eve cash for free playing time, you might have created a taxable event.
Blizzard at least says that WoW gold has no value and is exclusively owned by them and can't be traded for anything else that has value either (since all in game items are worthless) and so there's no taxable event. Eve at least lets you swap your cash for free playing time, which has some sort of measurable real-world value in a way that the IRS might understand.
Or, if limits are fixed per species rather than per hunter, then the drones make it easier to run through the numbers faster and ensure everyone who gets a permit gets a kill. They'd have to reduce the limits to have the same effective kill rate, and that would hurt tourism - equally bad when the goal is to preserve the status quo.
They do if the same guide company can host more hunters per day, each with his or her own bag limit. With the odds of finding more game greatly increased, they can bring out more hunters and still have most leave satisfied with a chance to shoot their gun a few times at something living.
I thought that maybe a bunch of spy satellites picked up and stored the broadcasts, and that they can use timestamps from the various receptions to triangulate the position. That's sort of a reverse-active GPS.
Of course they'll never say "we got this from U.S. and British spy satellites" so they make up something about doppler shift data from a single satellite and hope they find the debris soon to corroborate the story.
Or maybe they did do it all from the doppler shift data they happened to store. It's at least plausible, and there's no need to create conspiracy theories when they aren't particularly shocking.
If there are voices on it, it might indicate who was in the cockpit. It would be even more telling if there's shouting, such as from a locked-out copilot begging the pilot to turn around, or from the pilot yelling at terrorists that they don't have enough fuel to reach Antarctica and that they're going down into the ocean.
It's only completely worthless if its silent.
We have a six cell embryo on ice from last year's IVF cycles. It divided a bit slowly and just missed the cutoff to be included in the fresh transfer, but beat the cutoff to be non-viable and discarded so was eligible to freeze for later.
Given how expensive IVF is and that my company dropped insurance coverage for IVF this year, that embryo is probably my only chance to have a second kid (with the first one on the way). The odds aren't good though, especially for a single-embryo transfer.
That might be your reason to prefer LPs, but that's not at all the reason that I prefer LPs. I have a record player sitting next to me at my desk here at work, and I listen to records because they remind me of music as it sounded in my youth.
And I readily argue that hipsters will continue to prefer LPs over even high-dynamic-range CDs because they will have trained themselves to prefer the distortion.
I didn't say I work that many hours, but that's what I see from peers at larger companies. I have to ask for citations for startups being okay with 40 hour work weeks for salaried employees though, because that is counter to the limited evidence I've seen, and frankly I don't believe you.