Unless it's a small startup formed with people you're friends with, there's not much worse than a corporate culture of socially coerced "fun". Let's party with the boss!
One additional thing that inconveniences adults is that indexed works can't be imported (even by adults), but only purchased at German shops. So it makes it illegal to order them from, for example, a British or French online retailer.
True, but in this case the feds are just saying that the numbers don't add up, not that AT&T has to invest in their own infrastructure. They could perfectly legally choose to let their infrastructure continue to suck if they want. But the DOJ is pointing out that AT&T's official reasons for buying T-Mobile can't be right, because if you add the numbers, it'd cost them less to build out the infrastructure that they claim they're buying. Therefore part of the value of the deal must be from the way it eliminates a competitor.
It is well documented that the measles cures blindness, so I can only congratulate the orchestrators of this anti-vaccine campaign for having the vision to improve America's public health in such a manner.
Not sure if this post was intended to be serious, but we're not talking about stacking them to a particularly large height. A single wafer is far thinner than any practical phone thickness, and a few of them stacked is still super-thin.
Obama proposed the old conservative healthcare reform, very similar to what was proposed by Nixon in the 70s, the Heritage Foundation in the 90s, and implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. And even that he ended up watering down; Nixon's proposal was actually considerably better.
Yeah, I take it to be basically a two-part decision: 1) if you run a music locker service in a non-stupid way, you are legally safe; and 2) MP3Tunes failed to run theirs in a non-stupid way. So for everyone else, #1 is still good precedent, assuming they don't do something absurd like have the founder himself upload and post public links to "privately" stored music he doesn't own the rights to.
It may well be a very important lab, but this piece reads a bit like fluff. The fact that one of the lab's members gave a talk saying it's important isn't the world's most neutral assessment of its importance; that is pretty much what people do when representing their labs at conferences.
I, too, am glad that we are fortunate enough to live in a world where none of RMS's 1980s predictions about future attempts to increase corporate and governmental control over technology have come to fruition.
Sure, but in informal writing by earthlings, kg as a unit of weight pretty clearly is taken to mean "the weight that a 1 kg object would have at sea-level earth gravity".
Responding to myself: from the full version of the release, it looks like (b)(5) was an annotation added on top of some blacked-out sections to cite which section of the FOIA justifies blanking out. Some other more limited redactions on later pages have a box saying (b)(6) next to them. So it's not that they blacked out a whole page except for a section heading; they blacked out the entire page and cited (b)(5) as the reason.
Never mind the phone cost; the cost of data, if billed at U.S. rates, would be something only a fairly small percentage of the Kenyan population could afford. Do they have much lower data rates?
Yeah, I agree on the last point, and I think this is something people actually get backwards about the flexibility of buses, versus any mode with fixed, less-frequent stations (whether BRT, light rail, metro, etc.). The fact that buses can be rerouted and don't have specific stations is flexible but keeps anyone from being able to rely on it, while having more widely spaced major stations is enough stability that people can actually rely on them staying in place long enough to build denser housing near them.
Yeah, that's a tricky aspect of public-transit accounting. In particular, you can't decouple every bus from every other bus, because choices to use the system depend in large part on the overall system. If you cut all past-9pm buses, you might save a bunch of money and carbon emissions looking just at those buses, but you might also depress ridership on the daytime buses, because suddenly people are worried that they'll get stranded at work if something comes up and they have to stay late, so better play it safe and drive.
To properly account for what, say, the 10pm-midnight buses are doing, you need a more systemic analysis that predicts what would happen to the usage of various modes of transit, including at other times of the day, if those buses were decreased/increased/cancelled/kept-the-same.
This is also a common problem with spacing: it's tempting to think, we have N passengers an hour and run a bus every 10 minutes, but N/2 totally fit in a bus, so we could really improve our finances if we just ran a bus every 30 minutes instead. But when the bus runs every 30 minutes rather than 10 minutes, a lot fewer people take it.
The article's a little unclear, but I think they're trying to ID a chip design, rather than a specific individual chip. They want to be able to answer questions like: is my supplier cutting corners by putting an El Cheapo NAND chip inside a packaging labeled Expensive NAND?
So they can't rely on properties like the bad-cell distribution of one particular chip, but they're instead trying to use ideas like, this type of chip will show this kind of failure in many fewer iterations than this other kind of chip would. The trick is to pick properties where faking them is no easier than just fabbing the right chip in the first place.
What about a gasoline tax, like we already have? Directly penalizes you based on how much you drive, and how inefficient the vehicle you use for driving is.
It makes more sense to me to just raise the gasoline tax, since it exactly measures how much gas you're using, and taxes proportionally to that.
Automatically driving a car isn't easy per se, but it's not anywhere near the hardest AI problems we have. In particular, if we were to take a realistic bar for safety--- beating the average human driver--- the bar is actually pretty low, because the average safety record of human drivers is pretty shitty. A robot driver could just not speed and drive relatively defensively, and that alone would give it a big built-in accident-rate advantage, even if its raw skill was worse than a typical human driver.
I could see the specific form of a PC tower (ATX/microATX board, etc.) being on its way out. But what constitutes a "laptop" has been expanding in both directions, to the point where it's a bit of an incoherent category. On the small end, you have netbooks, which are sort of in the process of eventually merging with tablets and handhelds as well. But on the other end, you have gigantic luggables, which are sprouting more weight and expansion slots. I wouldn't be surprised if, within a few years, they start having external screw-in or snap-on mount points for extra hard drives.
I'm going to respond to your comment and say "amplifier", without reading the seven responses your comment already has, which I'm sure mine won't be duplicating. This is how to post well, right?
Yeah, I agree. Part of my point with writing the "Soviet gamification" essay was to point out that constructing reward systems, even game-like reward systems, isn't a new idea, and we should learn from history about the various ways it can go spectacularly wrong.
A lot of the current trend seems to think that putting "points" and "level-ups" into our classroom/workplace is a great new idea that nobody's tried, when in fact the history of education, for example, is littered with crazy "game-like" reward schemes, ranging from gold-star merits boards to competition between classrooms.
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Unless it's a small startup formed with people you're friends with, there's not much worse than a corporate culture of socially coerced "fun". Let's party with the boss!
One additional thing that inconveniences adults is that indexed works can't be imported (even by adults), but only purchased at German shops. So it makes it illegal to order them from, for example, a British or French online retailer.
I have no idea how well that's enforced, though.
True, but in this case the feds are just saying that the numbers don't add up, not that AT&T has to invest in their own infrastructure. They could perfectly legally choose to let their infrastructure continue to suck if they want. But the DOJ is pointing out that AT&T's official reasons for buying T-Mobile can't be right, because if you add the numbers, it'd cost them less to build out the infrastructure that they claim they're buying. Therefore part of the value of the deal must be from the way it eliminates a competitor.
It is well documented that the measles cures blindness, so I can only congratulate the orchestrators of this anti-vaccine campaign for having the vision to improve America's public health in such a manner.
Not sure if this post was intended to be serious, but we're not talking about stacking them to a particularly large height. A single wafer is far thinner than any practical phone thickness, and a few of them stacked is still super-thin.
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Best is to not commit any crimes.
This particular strategy doesn't help you if the cops plant evidence to close out a case.
Turned out to be true with Atari, too, after Bushnell sold it in 1984.
I'm confident that an SEC investigation of this issue will set the record straight.
Obama proposed the old conservative healthcare reform, very similar to what was proposed by Nixon in the 70s, the Heritage Foundation in the 90s, and implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. And even that he ended up watering down; Nixon's proposal was actually considerably better.
Yeah, I take it to be basically a two-part decision: 1) if you run a music locker service in a non-stupid way, you are legally safe; and 2) MP3Tunes failed to run theirs in a non-stupid way. So for everyone else, #1 is still good precedent, assuming they don't do something absurd like have the founder himself upload and post public links to "privately" stored music he doesn't own the rights to.
It may well be a very important lab, but this piece reads a bit like fluff. The fact that one of the lab's members gave a talk saying it's important isn't the world's most neutral assessment of its importance; that is pretty much what people do when representing their labs at conferences.
I, too, am glad that we are fortunate enough to live in a world where none of RMS's 1980s predictions about future attempts to increase corporate and governmental control over technology have come to fruition.
Sure, but in informal writing by earthlings, kg as a unit of weight pretty clearly is taken to mean "the weight that a 1 kg object would have at sea-level earth gravity".
Responding to myself: from the full version of the release, it looks like (b)(5) was an annotation added on top of some blacked-out sections to cite which section of the FOIA justifies blanking out. Some other more limited redactions on later pages have a box saying (b)(6) next to them. So it's not that they blacked out a whole page except for a section heading; they blacked out the entire page and cited (b)(5) as the reason.
It's actually (b)(5). I think we know what that means.
Never mind the phone cost; the cost of data, if billed at U.S. rates, would be something only a fairly small percentage of the Kenyan population could afford. Do they have much lower data rates?
Yeah, I agree on the last point, and I think this is something people actually get backwards about the flexibility of buses, versus any mode with fixed, less-frequent stations (whether BRT, light rail, metro, etc.). The fact that buses can be rerouted and don't have specific stations is flexible but keeps anyone from being able to rely on it, while having more widely spaced major stations is enough stability that people can actually rely on them staying in place long enough to build denser housing near them.
Yeah, that's a tricky aspect of public-transit accounting. In particular, you can't decouple every bus from every other bus, because choices to use the system depend in large part on the overall system. If you cut all past-9pm buses, you might save a bunch of money and carbon emissions looking just at those buses, but you might also depress ridership on the daytime buses, because suddenly people are worried that they'll get stranded at work if something comes up and they have to stay late, so better play it safe and drive.
To properly account for what, say, the 10pm-midnight buses are doing, you need a more systemic analysis that predicts what would happen to the usage of various modes of transit, including at other times of the day, if those buses were decreased/increased/cancelled/kept-the-same.
This is also a common problem with spacing: it's tempting to think, we have N passengers an hour and run a bus every 10 minutes, but N/2 totally fit in a bus, so we could really improve our finances if we just ran a bus every 30 minutes instead. But when the bus runs every 30 minutes rather than 10 minutes, a lot fewer people take it.
The article's a little unclear, but I think they're trying to ID a chip design, rather than a specific individual chip. They want to be able to answer questions like: is my supplier cutting corners by putting an El Cheapo NAND chip inside a packaging labeled Expensive NAND?
So they can't rely on properties like the bad-cell distribution of one particular chip, but they're instead trying to use ideas like, this type of chip will show this kind of failure in many fewer iterations than this other kind of chip would. The trick is to pick properties where faking them is no easier than just fabbing the right chip in the first place.
What about a gasoline tax, like we already have? Directly penalizes you based on how much you drive, and how inefficient the vehicle you use for driving is.
It makes more sense to me to just raise the gasoline tax, since it exactly measures how much gas you're using, and taxes proportionally to that.
Automatically driving a car isn't easy per se, but it's not anywhere near the hardest AI problems we have. In particular, if we were to take a realistic bar for safety--- beating the average human driver--- the bar is actually pretty low, because the average safety record of human drivers is pretty shitty. A robot driver could just not speed and drive relatively defensively, and that alone would give it a big built-in accident-rate advantage, even if its raw skill was worse than a typical human driver.
I could see the specific form of a PC tower (ATX/microATX board, etc.) being on its way out. But what constitutes a "laptop" has been expanding in both directions, to the point where it's a bit of an incoherent category. On the small end, you have netbooks, which are sort of in the process of eventually merging with tablets and handhelds as well. But on the other end, you have gigantic luggables, which are sprouting more weight and expansion slots. I wouldn't be surprised if, within a few years, they start having external screw-in or snap-on mount points for extra hard drives.
I'm going to respond to your comment and say "amplifier", without reading the seven responses your comment already has, which I'm sure mine won't be duplicating. This is how to post well, right?
Yeah, I agree. Part of my point with writing the "Soviet gamification" essay was to point out that constructing reward systems, even game-like reward systems, isn't a new idea, and we should learn from history about the various ways it can go spectacularly wrong.
A lot of the current trend seems to think that putting "points" and "level-ups" into our classroom/workplace is a great new idea that nobody's tried, when in fact the history of education, for example, is littered with crazy "game-like" reward schemes, ranging from gold-star merits boards to competition between classrooms.