exactly...other intelligent life isn't impossible at all, it's just extremely rare...rare enough that two intelligent species in the universe will probably never contact each other
If intelligence-driven extinction doesn't explain this great cosmic silence, then what does?
They just aren't there! Why can't people of science accept this?
It's sometimes called the Rare Earth Hypothesis but KS Robinson really explains it well in his Mars Trilogy books.
Basically the theory goes that lower level life may or may not be 'common' in the universe, but intelligent life is so rare that given distances and the speed of light and whatnot we just probably won't ever encounter each other.
It's elegant and explains everything and should be the accepted theory in exobiology (if it isn't already) until evidence proves otherwise.
> MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, et al piece that's highly critical of clinton or any other feminist figurehead...
First, ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF HILLARY
2nd, and more importantly, Hillary Clinton is not a "feminist figurehead". To call her that shows you are ignorant about why people support Hillary and ignorant about what feminism is.
Feminism is the 'radical' idea that men and women should be treated equally.
Hillary's policy positions are to the right of Bernie Sanders, Barrack Obama, and most of the voting populace nationally. She is a left leaning centrist
I'm just saying, from the day I heard of Kaspersky from a friend and looked them up I thought they were sketchy.
I even used Kaspersky briefly before I stopped using Windows forever.
Still.
It always seemed inconveniently a bit sketchy. Like many others I was a bit lazy and assumed that something as widespread as Kaspersky virus protection software would be tested to death for vulnerabilities.
Many people here are saying things like "Apple/Woz hasn't innovated since [insert really old Apple product]" and it is not true.
Part of "innovation" is closing the loop and making it happen.
That's what I think Woz has in mind when he said this:
their founders create the products they really want, without the dilution that occurs with multiple decision-makers
Good ideas die in meetings ('to thunderous applause') in other words. Big companies are difficult to make things happen in. It's practically by design. The whole point of a publicly held company is that it will generate reliable returns and/or keep a stable, growing stock price.
Woz sees that happening at Tesla. I'm not sure if I completely agree with him there (they do have cool robot factories), but I can see why he'd say that.
Feminism has made it quite clear that this is patently false.
Wrong. That's not what "feminism" is...and it's not what progressive policies are based on.
Well, I'll grant you that if you are a GOPer/Conservative who willfully misrepresents what "feminism" is then your definition is the approved definition from your overlords.
Wouldn't want all of those useless, disposable freeloading homeless men taking up a shelter slot.
I think we can handle it.
Men, at least stereotypically, have better survival skills and can live in a tent somewhere while they do temp construction work to afford a shitty apartment where they can then live while they get hired on full-time at a fast-food restaurant.
Some men of course have mental illness and/or addiction and that is relevant.
I think we need more money for men's rehabilitative services...well all aspects of homeless services need more money, but men are more likely to be street addicts or homeless metally ill and that needs to be addressed
This is bogus. It is completely a question of semantics.
I know dozens of software engineers and sound engineers who advertise their services in Oregon without a license.
This is for a specific type of "engineering" related to surveying.
I know there is a huge "who is an engineer" debate going back probably to the Usenet days but this case is bullshit semantics and could easily get thrown out...it's definitely legal trolling from that Engineering org.
Sergey Brin wasn't born here, Elon Musk wasn't born here, Steve Jobs' father wasn't born here. On and on and on. At some point you will realize that immigrants and their families make a huge contribution to making the US tech industry the best and the biggest in the world.
Brin, Musk, and Jobs' father are not relevant examples here.
Brin and Musk came from money, they were set for life before they were born.
This is not about company founders it is about removing policies that give unfair advantage to corporations and to foreign workers.
H1-B gives foreign workers and unfair advantage over US workers
Obama and progressives were headed towards this move...I am anti-Trump and anti-GOP but when they do things that progressives are also trying to do, I am happy. I give Trump no respect for this...it doesn't change one iota of his failure...
Not sure Trump's logic behind this policy, and I am by nature anti-GOP and anti-Trump, but if they want to do something that helps US workers I will take it.
I give no credit to Trump, none...this is the right policy and anyone should do it.
Obama was heading towards changing the H1-B as well.
Too bad Trump doesn't follow Obama's policies on tech more often.
Interesting comments on this thread, thanks. I've learned a lot.
fwiw, I have a network engineering background and Hadoop always seemed like a clusterfsk to me...good to learn the actual story isn't far from my impressions.
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well said, this is the right answer plain and simple
intelligent life is rare and the universe is big...asked and answered...next question please!
> Standing on the shore in Spain you couldn't hear anyone shouting from Hispaniola, yet when Columbus landed there he found loads of people.
excellent analogy
exactly...other intelligent life isn't impossible at all, it's just extremely rare...rare enough that two intelligent species in the universe will probably never contact each other
They just aren't there! Why can't people of science accept this?
It's sometimes called the Rare Earth Hypothesis but KS Robinson really explains it well in his Mars Trilogy books.
Basically the theory goes that lower level life may or may not be 'common' in the universe, but intelligent life is so rare that given distances and the speed of light and whatnot we just probably won't ever encounter each other.
It's elegant and explains everything and should be the accepted theory in exobiology (if it isn't already) until evidence proves otherwise.
Good info.
To me Javascript has always looked like an abstract impressionist version of M C Eischer's work.
This whole Hugo Awards flap is so hilarious yet so sad. It's the perfect case of a bad solution to a real problem.
I agree the scifi status quo was sexist, puerile, over-dense, plotless garbage. Something needed to change.
-simultaneously-
I also agree that there has been an over-correction almost as extreme as the original problem!
Both are true.
The original problem was sexist garbage scifi but the solution is not to promote insipid non-scifi fluff.
Good example.
This whole Hugo Awards flap is so hilarious yet so sad. It's the perfect case of a bad solution to a real problem.
I agree scifi was sexist, puerile, over-dense, and plotless.
-simultaneously-
I also agree that there has been an over-correction almost as extreme as the original problem!
Both are true.
The original problem was sexist garbage scifi but the solution is not to promote insipid non-scifi fluff.
> MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, et al piece that's highly critical of clinton or any other feminist figurehead...
First, ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF HILLARY
2nd, and more importantly, Hillary Clinton is not a "feminist figurehead". To call her that shows you are ignorant about why people support Hillary and ignorant about what feminism is.
Feminism is the 'radical' idea that men and women should be treated equally.
Hillary's policy positions are to the right of Bernie Sanders, Barrack Obama, and most of the voting populace nationally. She is a left leaning centrist
Wrong.
Your false dichotomy is clear. Just because the US has Fox News doesn't invalidate *any* criticism of Russia's press or specific criticisms of RT.
If there were no bill of rights, and all news was like Fox News, then and only then would your criticism have any connection to reality.
As it stands now, US journalism is one of the few areas where we can actively fight oppression.
RT is Russian propaganda made for English speakers. Of course they report some actual facts...it's necessary for their cover.
Always seemed like bullshit to me.
I'm just saying, from the day I heard of Kaspersky from a friend and looked them up I thought they were sketchy.
I even used Kaspersky briefly before I stopped using Windows forever.
Still.
It always seemed inconveniently a bit sketchy. Like many others I was a bit lazy and assumed that something as widespread as Kaspersky virus protection software would be tested to death for vulnerabilities.
Kind of a herd mentality.
I mean, I'd never have typed that comment, but it's what I was thinking.
I know way too many js people.
Many people here are saying things like "Apple/Woz hasn't innovated since [insert really old Apple product]" and it is not true.
Part of "innovation" is closing the loop and making it happen.
That's what I think Woz has in mind when he said this:
Good ideas die in meetings ('to thunderous applause') in other words. Big companies are difficult to make things happen in. It's practically by design. The whole point of a publicly held company is that it will generate reliable returns and/or keep a stable, growing stock price.
Woz sees that happening at Tesla. I'm not sure if I completely agree with him there (they do have cool robot factories), but I can see why he'd say that.
Nice work Airstrip One.
Wrong. That's not what "feminism" is...and it's not what progressive policies are based on.
Well, I'll grant you that if you are a GOPer/Conservative who willfully misrepresents what "feminism" is then your definition is the approved definition from your overlords.
I think we can handle it.
Men, at least stereotypically, have better survival skills and can live in a tent somewhere while they do temp construction work to afford a shitty apartment where they can then live while they get hired on full-time at a fast-food restaurant.
Some men of course have mental illness and/or addiction and that is relevant.
I think we need more money for men's rehabilitative services...well all aspects of homeless services need more money, but men are more likely to be street addicts or homeless metally ill and that needs to be addressed
Nice work Airstrip One.
This is bogus. It is completely a question of semantics.
I know dozens of software engineers and sound engineers who advertise their services in Oregon without a license.
This is for a specific type of "engineering" related to surveying.
I know there is a huge "who is an engineer" debate going back probably to the Usenet days but this case is bullshit semantics and could easily get thrown out...it's definitely legal trolling from that Engineering org.
this is cool...
this is real, valuable R&D research
imho, companies spend way too much on marketing and not enough on R&D
The sun shines on every dog's ass every once in awhile.
Brin, Musk, and Jobs' father are not relevant examples here.
Brin and Musk came from money, they were set for life before they were born.
This is not about company founders it is about removing policies that give unfair advantage to corporations and to foreign workers.
H1-B gives foreign workers and unfair advantage over US workers
Obama and progressives were headed towards this move...I am anti-Trump and anti-GOP but when they do things that progressives are also trying to do, I am happy. I give Trump no respect for this...it doesn't change one iota of his failure...
I'm happy this is happening.
Not sure Trump's logic behind this policy, and I am by nature anti-GOP and anti-Trump, but if they want to do something that helps US workers I will take it.
I give no credit to Trump, none...this is the right policy and anyone should do it.
Obama was heading towards changing the H1-B as well.
Too bad Trump doesn't follow Obama's policies on tech more often.
nope...wrong
Flash died because it was an inferior standard for the internet.
It was bloated, unsecure, proprietary, slow, and required too many updates.
In fact, analyzing Flash's design is a good way to learn what *not* to do at every development point.
Steve Jobs may have been a 'prick' but not when he was banning flash from his devices. It was simply good sense.
This is fsking ridiculous, and only a Trump-supporter type person would put forth such a warped, bullshit comment.
Democrats do not, in any way shape or form, want to keep people from negative consequences.
Interesting comments on this thread, thanks. I've learned a lot.
fwiw, I have a network engineering background and Hadoop always seemed like a clusterfsk to me...good to learn the actual story isn't far from my impressions.
Just because taste is subjective doesn't mean we can't agree on an evaluation of a film.
Consensus says Batman V Superman was a shit film. That's a relevant fact.
Just because you are a snowflake doesn't render near-unanimous disdain isn't relevant.
Any way you define consensus, it's fairly known that the film was garbage.
I'm not saying Rotten Tomatoes is a good measure or that all critics hated BvS...that's not it at all.
I am rejecting the notion that consensus is irrelevant because everyone has a unique perspective and opinion.