Unfortunately, though, the people who are ashamed are for the most part not really in any position to do anything about it. They're the low-paid extras hired to act in the security theater, not the playwright, production company, or theater owner...
It's the first "3rd generation" reactor design to be approved, and is supposed to have much better passive-safety features than previous generations. For example, in a reactor scram, the core would be cooled by a gravity-driven cooling system that works without power.
Those two statements may both be true, but they aren't strongly related. He's a billionaire because he sold a shitty website to Yahoo!, at the height of the dot-com bubble, for $6 billion. Yes, Yahoo paid him six billion dollars for a website. Not even a website that was making much money, either. They subsequently, unsurprisingly, took a huge write-down on broadcast.com's value, which collapsed to near nothing. So, Cuban got lucky in riding the bubble and cashing out before it burst.
3D printing is a fascinating new technology and an exploding new market. The process involved is pretty basic actually. Heat up some plastic, and sort of like that Play-Doh Fun Factory you were so fond of as a kid, you extrude the melted plastic out to create objects.
This would all be very interesting new information if Slashdot weren't running like five 3d-printing stories per week.
Yeah, talking about whether IQ exists is a bit silly, since it's a metric and definitionally exists. The question is whether it maps to anything interesting outside of itself.
What people are really interested in is whether there is a so-called "g factor" that represents a single major axis of variation in intelligence.
all of these — especially the efforts to mine resources in space — are hampered by the fact that existing treaties, like the Outer Space Treaty, seem to prohibit private ownership of space resources
That is one problem, but a somewhat bigger problem is that nobody has yet come up with a plan to mine moon rocks and return them to earth where the cost of the missions doesn't greatly exceed the value of the rocks.
That's why, unsurprisingly, even folks like Jain who claim that "private companies can do things better" are wholly dependent on taxpayer subsidies.
If I'm reviewing untrusted third-party code, or code which is suspected to be buggy, I agree, but it really slows things down, even at an expert level, to completely ignore comments, if it's a setting where I'm working with people I know to be good engineers, and am not actively debugging/auditing their code. There has to be some amount of trust to make large projects work, and trusting that my colleagues are writing sane and reasonably accurate comments is one form of it. If it turns out to be wrong in a certain case, well, that's what tests are there to discover.
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Is it actually used on the Kindle? The only Qt-on-Kindle project I know of was an unofficial port which was abandoned by the maintainer two years ago.
If anything the intent appears to be to reduce the chilling effect of the existing guidelines. It might not go far enough, but it still seems like a step in the right direction.
I've used Python for some things, but somehow it just seems clunkier to me. For example, if you want to scan a text-file line-by-line and run some regexes on each line, it's much more explicit in Python: have to explicitly read each line into a variable, hoist some re.compile()s out of the loop if you don't want them being recompiled on each iteration, etc.
Just about anything a mobile phone company does is aimed at maximizing revenue. The reason they would even pretend otherwise is that it can be easier to convince people to pay more for things, and avoid being as angry about it, if you can feed them some kind of cover story to mollify them.
For script-type usages, where I might otherwise have used bash/awk or something, Perl feels like it retains more of the lightweight, quick-to-script aspect. I like autovivification, the implicit $_ variable, etc. They can be used to make unreadable code, but in idiomatic usage they're very nice and not particularly hard to understand.
I don't really use Perl for "big" applications, though. Mostly for text processing and "glue" between other tools.
Yeah, there's a separate set of doctrines around "famous marks", which may have protection in all domains. So you can't call your new operating system Coca-Cola OS unless it's actually approved/licensed by Coke, despite that company not currently having any interest in the OS market.
There is occasional usage from the '60s, yes, but as a common term it seems to be mainly based on "open source" becoming a common cultural thing in the tech world in the '90s. At least, that seems to be the case in public sources (or should I say, "open" sources?) using the term, where widespread usage dates to around 1995.
That's just the free market at work: they can get a different carrier than UPS if they don't like the service UPS is giving them. And if they're suffering problems from vandalism, they should hire better security.
There's nothing like that with unions, either. Companies are not forced to sign agreements with unions: if they don't want exclusive use of their labor, they can refuse to sign, and hire replacement workers instead.
Perhaps it's a little more complicated than forcing people to work with the threat of poverty?
This is one reason Scandinavia's taken the path it has: the societies have bet (correctly, imo) that in the modern world, the quality of labor you get solely from threatening people "work or die!" is relatively low, and that labor forms an increasingly irrelevant part of a country's total GDP. What actually drives the economy are people who have some additional reason and motivation to work, and skills to do so at a higher level than basic drudgery. So there is a high minimum wage (around $18/hr in Denmark), and the entire unemployment system is geared towards retraining people (with free education) to fill high-skill jobs where there's a shortage of labor.
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Unfortunately, though, the people who are ashamed are for the most part not really in any position to do anything about it. They're the low-paid extras hired to act in the security theater, not the playwright, production company, or theater owner...
Or maybe you Christian-right nannies should fuck right off.
rationality doesn't really come into play with "sex offender" laws.
p.s. you can be put on a sex-offender registry because you "sexted" with your gf/bf when you were both in high school!
they're a bit pricey still, though
very easily manage
I think you will find this is not true for the vast majority of people.
However, this regulation doesn't seem to really improve matters, either.
It's the first "3rd generation" reactor design to be approved, and is supposed to have much better passive-safety features than previous generations. For example, in a reactor scram, the core would be cooled by a gravity-driven cooling system that works without power.
Those two statements may both be true, but they aren't strongly related. He's a billionaire because he sold a shitty website to Yahoo!, at the height of the dot-com bubble, for $6 billion. Yes, Yahoo paid him six billion dollars for a website. Not even a website that was making much money, either. They subsequently, unsurprisingly, took a huge write-down on broadcast.com's value, which collapsed to near nothing. So, Cuban got lucky in riding the bubble and cashing out before it burst.
This would all be very interesting new information if Slashdot weren't running like five 3d-printing stories per week.
Yeah, talking about whether IQ exists is a bit silly, since it's a metric and definitionally exists. The question is whether it maps to anything interesting outside of itself.
What people are really interested in is whether there is a so-called "g factor" that represents a single major axis of variation in intelligence.
I guess from a European perspective, U.S. politics looks like it ranges from center-left to far-right...
That is one problem, but a somewhat bigger problem is that nobody has yet come up with a plan to mine moon rocks and return them to earth where the cost of the missions doesn't greatly exceed the value of the rocks.
That's why, unsurprisingly, even folks like Jain who claim that "private companies can do things better" are wholly dependent on taxpayer subsidies.
Where have you found an extreme left even existing in the United States? The Communist Party USA has like, 50 members.
If I'm reviewing untrusted third-party code, or code which is suspected to be buggy, I agree, but it really slows things down, even at an expert level, to completely ignore comments, if it's a setting where I'm working with people I know to be good engineers, and am not actively debugging/auditing their code. There has to be some amount of trust to make large projects work, and trusting that my colleagues are writing sane and reasonably accurate comments is one form of it. If it turns out to be wrong in a certain case, well, that's what tests are there to discover.
Is it actually used on the Kindle? The only Qt-on-Kindle project I know of was an unofficial port which was abandoned by the maintainer two years ago.
what about all the money they saved from not buying software?!
If anything the intent appears to be to reduce the chilling effect of the existing guidelines. It might not go far enough, but it still seems like a step in the right direction.
I wouldn't consider every book indexed in Google Books to constitute "my peers".
I've used Python for some things, but somehow it just seems clunkier to me. For example, if you want to scan a text-file line-by-line and run some regexes on each line, it's much more explicit in Python: have to explicitly read each line into a variable, hoist some re.compile()s out of the loop if you don't want them being recompiled on each iteration, etc.
Just about anything a mobile phone company does is aimed at maximizing revenue. The reason they would even pretend otherwise is that it can be easier to convince people to pay more for things, and avoid being as angry about it, if you can feed them some kind of cover story to mollify them.
For script-type usages, where I might otherwise have used bash/awk or something, Perl feels like it retains more of the lightweight, quick-to-script aspect. I like autovivification, the implicit $_ variable, etc. They can be used to make unreadable code, but in idiomatic usage they're very nice and not particularly hard to understand.
I don't really use Perl for "big" applications, though. Mostly for text processing and "glue" between other tools.
Yeah, there's a separate set of doctrines around "famous marks", which may have protection in all domains. So you can't call your new operating system Coca-Cola OS unless it's actually approved/licensed by Coke, despite that company not currently having any interest in the OS market.
There is occasional usage from the '60s, yes, but as a common term it seems to be mainly based on "open source" becoming a common cultural thing in the tech world in the '90s. At least, that seems to be the case in public sources (or should I say, "open" sources?) using the term, where widespread usage dates to around 1995.
That's just the free market at work: they can get a different carrier than UPS if they don't like the service UPS is giving them. And if they're suffering problems from vandalism, they should hire better security.
There's nothing like that with unions, either. Companies are not forced to sign agreements with unions: if they don't want exclusive use of their labor, they can refuse to sign, and hire replacement workers instead.
Perhaps it's a little more complicated than forcing people to work with the threat of poverty?
This is one reason Scandinavia's taken the path it has: the societies have bet (correctly, imo) that in the modern world, the quality of labor you get solely from threatening people "work or die!" is relatively low, and that labor forms an increasingly irrelevant part of a country's total GDP. What actually drives the economy are people who have some additional reason and motivation to work, and skills to do so at a higher level than basic drudgery. So there is a high minimum wage (around $18/hr in Denmark), and the entire unemployment system is geared towards retraining people (with free education) to fill high-skill jobs where there's a shortage of labor.