Every advance in automation has necessarily watered down capitalism. The agricultural and industrial revolutions moved countries from fedualism and laissez-faire capitalism to mixed economies (yes, even the US). The next one will move economies further that direction. Previous advances required some of the rich people lose their heads. This one might be different, or it might not.
New technology created some jobs yes, but I think a much more important effect was that it freed up people to do unnecessary jobs. Very few people used to have servants, but now lots of middle and even lower middle class people have someone who cleans for them, and almost everybody has someone who cooks for and serves them food, at least some of the time. Does their nails. "Manages" their money. Sells them shit they don't need.
What we're actually talking about is cosmic rays, which are matter particles (mostly protons), not any kind of electromagnetic radiation. Those generally slam into something in the atmosphere, producing showers of secondary particles. Occasionally some of these make it to the ground. The article mentions neutrons, but these seem to be mostly muons.
Of course Bruce Perens, to whom you replied, was talking about the radio waves from HAARP, which was mentioned by the OP.
Mmmm... Ajax is a pretty standard client request to a server for information. The "innovation" is cramming it into the framework of javascript and a web browser.
I finished my CS degree a long time before Ajax existed and we certainly did a lot of asynchronous communication with other computers. Except we used sockets and threads and everything was pretty obvious.
Funny, I think you hit the nail on the head, except used it to support entirely the wrong conclusion. All those useless app companies tout their "innovation." They have some mediocre idea and flog it to death.
The real innovators are the ones who have an idea then go and execute it really, really well. Linus didn't say innovation was worthless, he said it was a minor part of the whole; just the starting point.
No. Good. Linus is competent. It's a shame when competent people get wasted in management. If more of them were loudmouths the world would be a better place. Perhaps a good enough place that we'd view managers as low level employees whose job is to take care of the mundane crap so the competent people weren't bothered by it.
Yes, I am also disqualified from management or public office.
It doesn't usually work like that. The FDA is (quite rightly) suspicious of putative surrogate measures in clinical trials. It takes a lot of work to actually get something like an imaging metric accepted as a surrogate and validated as a primary outcome, and very few have been.
This study provides clues about what exactly autism is and when it starts. Its interesting scientifically, and having something you can image will help immensely for scientific studies, just as you describe.
The Geneva convention and it's relatives and predecessors have been enforced. Yes, it tends to be after the fact, but the war crimes tribunal hasn't had a lack of work. The international community does tend to enforce the rules, either directly or via sanctions, and it appears to have had a major effect in the world.
It's really only a big problem with the offenders are Russia, the US or China. Even then, those powers are hesitant to break international law directly: see for example the US dissembling over the use of torture.
Judging by the comments so far in this thread the work he so brilliantly started has a long way to go. I hope his foundation successfully continues his legacy.
When you're excoriating someone, particularly on the Internet, you really shouldn't use words you've only ever heard. A cantor is someone who leads people in singing. I think you meant "canter" which is a quadrupedal gait between a trot and a gallop.
There was a story on Slashdot a while ago about the world's largest hedge fund replacing their fund managers with computers. That's not really that impressive though, since many studies have shown you can replace fund managers with monkeys flipping coins and get the same performance.
Many of the best learning systems are currently taught in an unsupervised way. They're fed stimuli and form their own internal model. Finally they're given a minimum of supervised training. Like a baby gazing around at the world for a few years then being told that the fluffy four legged thing is called a cat.
Actions speak louder than professional poker faces. Professional poker players pay attention to the betting histories, both in the current game and over longer time periods, of their opponents. That information is also available to the computer.
Ironically, modern neuroscience is beginning to find evidence that your self awareness might consist in large part of your conscious simply being told of decisions that your subconscious has already made. Disturbing thought, isn't it?
There is zero evidence that the brain is magic, even for low values of magic such as "quantum." Actual "Science" does regard the brain as performing computations, massively in parallel.
You're on Slashdot, so assuming you can use a screwdriver, you can replace the battery in an Apple phone in about ten minutes, for about $20. Batteries on Amazon, or lots of other online retailers. They even come with screwdrivers for the annoying security screws.
It's impressive that your batteries lasted 5+ years.
When you say "according to" you need to supply a citation, not just "google is that way." As far as I can tell, Chinal Labor Watch has stories (they are stories) about lots of different retailers and manufacturers, including both Apple and Samsung. There aren't any real numbers and there are no comparisons. So calling bullshit on your post.
Possibly. More likely they'll go into a textbook about how shipping few units with a large profit margin is a viable alternative to shipping many units with razor thin margins. Actually, they already have.
That's not completely true. There are possibilities for dark matter that absorb light but are compact enough that we don't routinely detect them. Primordial black holes and things like brown dwarfs were contenders for dark matter. Transit studies showed that there ARE a lot of brown dwarf type objects out there, but not enough to make up more than a fraction of the missing matter. Microlensing and other observations have put pretty good limits on the numbers and masses of black holes that can be wandering around, although IIRC there is a razor thin bit of parameter space that hasn't been ruled out that would let them make up a good chunk of dark matter.
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Every advance in automation has necessarily watered down capitalism. The agricultural and industrial revolutions moved countries from fedualism and laissez-faire capitalism to mixed economies (yes, even the US). The next one will move economies further that direction. Previous advances required some of the rich people lose their heads. This one might be different, or it might not.
New technology created some jobs yes, but I think a much more important effect was that it freed up people to do unnecessary jobs. Very few people used to have servants, but now lots of middle and even lower middle class people have someone who cleans for them, and almost everybody has someone who cooks for and serves them food, at least some of the time. Does their nails. "Manages" their money. Sells them shit they don't need.
The best thing to flavour soda with is gin. Not sure why so many people like to use syrup instead.
What we're actually talking about is cosmic rays, which are matter particles (mostly protons), not any kind of electromagnetic radiation. Those generally slam into something in the atmosphere, producing showers of secondary particles. Occasionally some of these make it to the ground. The article mentions neutrons, but these seem to be mostly muons.
Of course Bruce Perens, to whom you replied, was talking about the radio waves from HAARP, which was mentioned by the OP.
Mmmm... Ajax is a pretty standard client request to a server for information. The "innovation" is cramming it into the framework of javascript and a web browser.
I finished my CS degree a long time before Ajax existed and we certainly did a lot of asynchronous communication with other computers. Except we used sockets and threads and everything was pretty obvious.
Linus seems to be plenty disruptive.
Funny, I think you hit the nail on the head, except used it to support entirely the wrong conclusion. All those useless app companies tout their "innovation." They have some mediocre idea and flog it to death.
The real innovators are the ones who have an idea then go and execute it really, really well. Linus didn't say innovation was worthless, he said it was a minor part of the whole; just the starting point.
No. Good. Linus is competent. It's a shame when competent people get wasted in management. If more of them were loudmouths the world would be a better place. Perhaps a good enough place that we'd view managers as low level employees whose job is to take care of the mundane crap so the competent people weren't bothered by it.
Yes, I am also disqualified from management or public office.
It doesn't usually work like that. The FDA is (quite rightly) suspicious of putative surrogate measures in clinical trials. It takes a lot of work to actually get something like an imaging metric accepted as a surrogate and validated as a primary outcome, and very few have been.
This study provides clues about what exactly autism is and when it starts. Its interesting scientifically, and having something you can image will help immensely for scientific studies, just as you describe.
The Geneva convention and it's relatives and predecessors have been enforced. Yes, it tends to be after the fact, but the war crimes tribunal hasn't had a lack of work. The international community does tend to enforce the rules, either directly or via sanctions, and it appears to have had a major effect in the world.
It's really only a big problem with the offenders are Russia, the US or China. Even then, those powers are hesitant to break international law directly: see for example the US dissembling over the use of torture.
Judging by the comments so far in this thread the work he so brilliantly started has a long way to go. I hope his foundation successfully continues his legacy.
I see you still don't actually know what a Fourier transform is.
This isn't the investors, it's the jerks who charge big fees to essentially flip a coin.
I think they stopped teaching children what recursion is.
They can all get off my lawn.
When you're excoriating someone, particularly on the Internet, you really shouldn't use words you've only ever heard. A cantor is someone who leads people in singing. I think you meant "canter" which is a quadrupedal gait between a trot and a gallop.
There was a story on Slashdot a while ago about the world's largest hedge fund replacing their fund managers with computers. That's not really that impressive though, since many studies have shown you can replace fund managers with monkeys flipping coins and get the same performance.
Many of the best learning systems are currently taught in an unsupervised way. They're fed stimuli and form their own internal model. Finally they're given a minimum of supervised training. Like a baby gazing around at the world for a few years then being told that the fluffy four legged thing is called a cat.
Actions speak louder than professional poker faces. Professional poker players pay attention to the betting histories, both in the current game and over longer time periods, of their opponents. That information is also available to the computer.
Ironically, modern neuroscience is beginning to find evidence that your self awareness might consist in large part of your conscious simply being told of decisions that your subconscious has already made. Disturbing thought, isn't it?
There is zero evidence that the brain is magic, even for low values of magic such as "quantum." Actual "Science" does regard the brain as performing computations, massively in parallel.
Alternatively you could just have an ad that screams "hey, this evil hacker is using evil hacking tools!" at full volume.
I certainly leave the volume on my computer turned up nice and high when I'm browsing questionable content in public.
Assigning all the frequent flier rewards to yourself is as good as stealing tickets if you can do it frequently enough.
You're on Slashdot, so assuming you can use a screwdriver, you can replace the battery in an Apple phone in about ten minutes, for about $20. Batteries on Amazon, or lots of other online retailers. They even come with screwdrivers for the annoying security screws.
It's impressive that your batteries lasted 5+ years.
When you say "according to" you need to supply a citation, not just "google is that way." As far as I can tell, Chinal Labor Watch has stories (they are stories) about lots of different retailers and manufacturers, including both Apple and Samsung. There aren't any real numbers and there are no comparisons. So calling bullshit on your post.
All of those things apply to Android phones as well. Improving your hardware isn't planned obsolescence.
Possibly. More likely they'll go into a textbook about how shipping few units with a large profit margin is a viable alternative to shipping many units with razor thin margins. Actually, they already have.
That's not completely true. There are possibilities for dark matter that absorb light but are compact enough that we don't routinely detect them. Primordial black holes and things like brown dwarfs were contenders for dark matter. Transit studies showed that there ARE a lot of brown dwarf type objects out there, but not enough to make up more than a fraction of the missing matter. Microlensing and other observations have put pretty good limits on the numbers and masses of black holes that can be wandering around, although IIRC there is a razor thin bit of parameter space that hasn't been ruled out that would let them make up a good chunk of dark matter.