As a liberal and an atheist with a high IQ, I'd like to call bullshit on this study. It is VERY suspicious. It's like all that Bell Curve bullshit from a few years back that tried to say that black people averaged a lower IQ because of their genetics. Bullshit.
So you got it from me first. This thing is bullshit. I haven't looked him up, but if the author doesn't turn out to be a pure bullshit artist, I'll have sex with Cowboy Neal.
Nice! Except power density is expressed in watts per square METER. Not watts per square micron. So while your calculation suggests that 1 / 3,716,121,600,000th is a tiny number, there's a trillion square microns in a square meter. So while the power measured is a tiny amount of what you'd measure at one micron, it's not such a small number when measuring using meters.
One time I couldn't get to a toilet fast enough, and I had to shit right then and there. So I dropped my pants right in the middle of the parking lot and laid a huge log. But I didn't realize that my phone had fallen out of my pocket onto the ground, and I had actually shit all over my phone.
I was looking at the thing in disgust, but just then my girlfriend called me and without even thinking I answered the goddamned thing. That shit went straight in my ear just like a babelfish.
"Dear Lord, I have a constant that I'd like you to update. And Lord, if it's not too much, can you comment your code and remember to commit the change to CVS?"
Unless you plan to murder his children, if he has any the article doesn't say, then his genes are still in the pool. NOT a Darwin award anything. Fail.
But, a human is ultimately a bit of meat that hasn't spoiled yet. So, that little bit of paper is what tells me that the bit of meat sitting in front of me will do some good work before it spoils.
Kindle is not for reference books! Kindle is for reading books, not looking up things in books. There's a real difference, and the two things would require vastly different user interfaces.
I hope they figure it out, because ATT somehow keeps my new Samsung phone from running Google maps properly. It can't figure out where it is at all. Makes it useless.
I don't want to pay the fuckers "by the drink" for a GPS service. And I want to strangle the marketer that invented that idiotic bit of buzzword bingo too.
Very true! What if the universe was complete nonsense and if you just wrote down whatever nonsense came into your head that would be a really good theory?
There's a workaround. You don't need to simulate the entire universe at one time, and there's no way that anything inside the universe would ever be able to tell that huge swaths of the universe aren't being actively simulated.
Reasoning: If a universe simulator needs to have more states than exist inside the universe (we're both assuming this) then then any process which verifies the universe simulator would also need to have more states than exist inside the universe. Therefore, the universe can only be fully simulated from outside the universe, and you could only determine that the universe was fully simulated from outside the universe. From inside the universe, all you could simulate and all you could check would be a subset of the universe you are in.
So you could actually pull off a neat trick, just like the human eye does. The human eye doesn't actually see clearly except in the very middle of the vision. But, wherever you look, whatever you're looking at is clearly resolved. Your brain gets the distinct impression that it's looking at the entire scene clearly, except it's not. Only the part that it's actually looking at is clear.
Well, that's enough hacking of the universe for today. I need a beer.
Well, you shouldn't multiply entities unnecessarily. Occam's razor.
The two arguments aren't exclusive, and they're not black and white. They are both valid, and both operating at the same time.
Certainly it is possible that there are more modes of evolution, or more likely, cultural development. And it is true that there is only one example that we have.
But, it is also true that without SOME reason, we should not multiply entities. We should not make unnecessary guesses.
Taken together, this tells me that I should have a reason to think an alternate scenario is plausible. And it suggests a certain amount of slack that I should give to your reasons when I consider them.
That's one way to do it, but the people who should get a decent wage are still screwed. It's nice to see the outsourcers suffer, but it's nice to eat too.
You can watch the outsourcers suffer AND eat at the same time. It's called a Union.
Disclaimer: I put 4 of my own people out of a job last year by sending their jobs overseas. And I enjoyed it.
You need to give a good reason why this alternate scenario might be plausible. I won't say that it's not, because it might just be a failure of my own imagination. However, since you're proposing the alternate scenario, it's fair for me to ask you to provide some reason that it might be plausible.
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Shut the fuck up. I'm betting that this stupid research was faked by 4chan as a joke.
As a liberal and an atheist with a high IQ, I'd like to call bullshit on this study. It is VERY suspicious. It's like all that Bell Curve bullshit from a few years back that tried to say that black people averaged a lower IQ because of their genetics. Bullshit.
So you got it from me first. This thing is bullshit. I haven't looked him up, but if the author doesn't turn out to be a pure bullshit artist, I'll have sex with Cowboy Neal.
It's bullshit.
Nice! Except power density is expressed in watts per square METER. Not watts per square micron. So while your calculation suggests that 1 / 3,716,121,600,000th is a tiny number, there's a trillion square microns in a square meter. So while the power measured is a tiny amount of what you'd measure at one micron, it's not such a small number when measuring using meters.
One time I couldn't get to a toilet fast enough, and I had to shit right then and there. So I dropped my pants right in the middle of the parking lot and laid a huge log. But I didn't realize that my phone had fallen out of my pocket onto the ground, and I had actually shit all over my phone.
I was looking at the thing in disgust, but just then my girlfriend called me and without even thinking I answered the goddamned thing. That shit went straight in my ear just like a babelfish.
the delta-V needed to get something into the sun is enormous. It's harder to do that than to send it to Mars.
More to the point, he's not reading Slashdot or jacking off for almost all that time. So it's more productive than normal.
So god is a maintenance programmer?
"Dear Lord, I have a constant that I'd like you to update. And Lord, if it's not too much, can you comment your code and remember to commit the change to CVS?"
A human born within the last 5,000 years or so is not all that different, especially in terms of cranial capacity
What is this, some kind of joke? The world is only 4000 years old.
Aren't you awfully young to be drinking coffee?
Well who died and made THEM Darwin huh?
Unless you plan to murder his children, if he has any the article doesn't say, then his genes are still in the pool. NOT a Darwin award anything. Fail.
Yes, a degree is ultimately a bit of paper.
But, a human is ultimately a bit of meat that hasn't spoiled yet. So, that little bit of paper is what tells me that the bit of meat sitting in front of me will do some good work before it spoils.
Or, something like that.
Samsung Flight.
The app itself goes where you put it. The cell id information on the help screen looks ok, but it doesn't display my current location from it.
Kindle is not for reference books! Kindle is for reading books, not looking up things in books. There's a real difference, and the two things would require vastly different user interfaces.
My Samsung phone can't do it. ATT is blocking it. Google maps can't find my location either with the GPS or with the triangulation cell id location.
I hope they figure it out, because ATT somehow keeps my new Samsung phone from running Google maps properly. It can't figure out where it is at all. Makes it useless.
I don't want to pay the fuckers "by the drink" for a GPS service. And I want to strangle the marketer that invented that idiotic bit of buzzword bingo too.
Very true! What if the universe was complete nonsense and if you just wrote down whatever nonsense came into your head that would be a really good theory?
There's a workaround. You don't need to simulate the entire universe at one time, and there's no way that anything inside the universe would ever be able to tell that huge swaths of the universe aren't being actively simulated.
Reasoning: If a universe simulator needs to have more states than exist inside the universe (we're both assuming this) then then any process which verifies the universe simulator would also need to have more states than exist inside the universe. Therefore, the universe can only be fully simulated from outside the universe, and you could only determine that the universe was fully simulated from outside the universe. From inside the universe, all you could simulate and all you could check would be a subset of the universe you are in.
So you could actually pull off a neat trick, just like the human eye does. The human eye doesn't actually see clearly except in the very middle of the vision. But, wherever you look, whatever you're looking at is clearly resolved. Your brain gets the distinct impression that it's looking at the entire scene clearly, except it's not. Only the part that it's actually looking at is clear.
Well, that's enough hacking of the universe for today. I need a beer.
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I don't call people hicks, but that's because I never see hicks. I have my people to keep them away from my sight.
Nobody voted for McCain. They voted for Palin. And yes, they were urbanally challenged.
Well, you shouldn't multiply entities unnecessarily. Occam's razor.
The two arguments aren't exclusive, and they're not black and white. They are both valid, and both operating at the same time.
Certainly it is possible that there are more modes of evolution, or more likely, cultural development. And it is true that there is only one example that we have.
But, it is also true that without SOME reason, we should not multiply entities. We should not make unnecessary guesses.
Taken together, this tells me that I should have a reason to think an alternate scenario is plausible. And it suggests a certain amount of slack that I should give to your reasons when I consider them.
Constellation would have been the end of the spaceflight program. It was the most ill-conceived design since the space shuttle.
The man-rated rocket program needs a reboot. Wipe the page clean and start over. This time, do it right and make it a liquid-fuel rocket.
That's one way to do it, but the people who should get a decent wage are still screwed. It's nice to see the outsourcers suffer, but it's nice to eat too.
You can watch the outsourcers suffer AND eat at the same time. It's called a Union.
Disclaimer: I put 4 of my own people out of a job last year by sending their jobs overseas. And I enjoyed it.
You need to give a good reason why this alternate scenario might be plausible. I won't say that it's not, because it might just be a failure of my own imagination. However, since you're proposing the alternate scenario, it's fair for me to ask you to provide some reason that it might be plausible.