What is actually happening can probably be better summarized something like this: highly paid legal teams in huge patent lawsuit continue to jockey for position with miscellaneous legal moves.
Amazon actually now charges sales tax in the following states: California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. That's about 1/3 of the U.S. population there.
Cyber Monday is about as much of a scam as Black Friday, and furthermore, using the prefix "cyber" in this sense is annoying unless you are in a 1980s novel.
That's true, and an interesting angle. Some of that does happen already: at university-affiliated research hospitals in particular, there is a trend towards digitizing this information and making it available to researchers (under various confidentiality agreements, and with Institutional Research Board approval), who do things like mine it for patterns. I know some people at U. Washington in St. Louis doing that kind of thing. But it's a good point that it might become more widespread if there were an open corpus to work from; right now access to the records is governed by HIPAA, which puts various restrictions on it. On the other hand, the corpus they use at WashU is possibly less biased, because it includes all patients' records, rather than only those who have chosen to opt-in by putting theirs online.
That's not saying we have to get rid of them, but they need to be seriously overhauled to keep their costs within realistic levels
Something needs to be done, surely, but I'm not sure it requires lower benefits. I live in Denmark, which has better social programs than the United States, but less debt. Why? Two things mainly: 1) The programs are run much more efficiently, with competent administration by technocrats, and some use of private-sector contracting where appropriate; and 2) taxes are set at a level sufficient to pay for the programs.
There were a ton of people interested in his case, but imo that was strongly dependent on the novelty and the fact that it's uncommon so far. Why did these geneticists and researchers spend a bunch of unpaid time on his case in particular? Because it was one of the few (only?) available in this form. But every year there are about 13 million people diagnosed with cancer. What if even 1% of them were uploaded online? Would there be folks like Jimmy Lin looking through all 130,000 of those cases on a volunteer basis? My guess would be no: once it gets to be a few hundred or thousand people trying the same thing, and then it just goes back to being normal medicine again, of the kind where you need doctors who're doing it as a full-time job to go through all the cases.
While true in principle, if it came down to any kind of legal action, it'd probably be the U.S. list of terrorist groups that would be relevant, since Twitter's a U.S. company.
White noise is actually not perceptually neutral noise. It's mathematically random noise, with a flat power spectrum, meaning that for example the sound energy between 25-75 Hz is the same as that between 15000-15050 Hz. But because the human ear's perceptual loudness curve is not flat, the perceptual frequency distribution of white noise is not actually flat. To produce perceptually neutral noise, you need to apply the inverse of the human ear's perceptual loudness curve to white noise, which results in grey noise.
But beyond that, it seems they actually mean something different, more like "perceived as indistinct background noise". That's a wider range of things, and has to do with being able to resolve specific, distracting components, not necessarily with mathematical definitions of noise.
Apart from the spin in either direction, is there any solid information? Some quick googling turns up wildly divergent performance rumors, ranging from "equivalent to a 1 GHz x86" to "equivalent to a 3.5 GHz x86".
Sources suggest that apart from a brief blip during the economic downturn in 2009, worldwide coal consumption has been steadily increasing for the past 10 years or so, after plateauing in 1988-2000.
They didn't specifically purchase duck.com, though. They bought On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation, in order to acquire the VP8 codec, which became WebM, and got all the rest of On2's assets as part of the package. It seems unlikely that the real point of the purchase was to acquire duck.com, considering that VP8 is actually pretty important to them.
1) He offered to buy duck.com from On2 Technologies (which was originally named The Duck Corporation), but they held out for more than he was willing to offer. It's an obviously valuable domain name so this doesn't require some kind of secret agreement with Google: maybe they just thought they could get more than he was offering for it.
2) Sometime later, Google bought On2 for their codec (VP8, on which WebM was based). Of course this means they got all their other assets too, like their old domain name. Typical Google practice is to redirect acquired domain names to google.com, or to a specific product page on google.com if relevant. Considering that Google is very interested in codecs, it seems rather unlikely that Google really bought On2 for the domain name.
You might have missed the part where Denmark consistently ranks as the happiest country in the world. People like the social system. It is not a communist system: the economy is market-based, entrepreneurship is encouraged, and people make different levels of income. But there is a strong social system and good public benefits, and by and large this makes the society better. For example, compared to the United States, crime is much lower, and I don't walk past homeless people on my way to work.
I grew up in that country, and I know all too well what you get at the other side of the spectrum. (Hint: nothing good.)
I think it's a bit more complicated than that: there are different ways to reach either side of the spectrum. I moved from the USA to Denmark, which by most Americans' estimation is a "socialist" country, and there is in fact a lot of good here. There is a national healthcare system available to anyone without payment, good public transit, 2 years' unemployment insurance with skills retraining, and a strong welfare system. And, of course, high taxes to pay for all of that without going much into debt. There are, however, no gulags, and there is strong freedom of speech (you might recall that Danish embassies were bombed over the "Mohammed cartoons"). So there is no particular reason that a "left" policy cannot be democratic and successful.
While he opportunistically attached himself to Hindutva ideology in the latter part of his career, Thackeray was really more of an ethno-nationalist than a religious fundamentalist. He started out pretty explicitly as a Marathi nationalist, positioning himself as a hardline advocate for the Marathi ethnic group, and pushing for them to have a privileged position in local politics/economy, versus other Indians who came from ethnic groups not native to Maharashtra. But he wanted to go bigger, so he started playing up more Hindu symbolism at some point to break out of being seen as only a Marathi partisan, even though they remained the core of his followers.
So in a sense it's religious, but afaict it's not religious in any sort of devout/belief sense, but more in the sense of symbols used to construct a nationality.
The chances of your property in particular exploding though are pretty low, low enough that most people seem to put off getting these kinds of things inspected or fixed.
While I'm also suspicious of their ulterior motives, on that particular point, Lukianoff has said they don't include universities that explicitly claim to be partisan or sectarian. So universities that explicitly say, "this is a [right|left|Christian|Islamic|socialist] university, other views not welcome here" aren't considered within FIRE's purview, since in their opinion at least those universities are openly warning students about what to expect if they attend, so nobody is being misled.
Of course in practice that basically means religious universities, because I'm not aware of a Socialist University of America or similarly openly-sectarian university on the left.
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Consider ICOA has a market cap of around $800,000, Google would have to be really shit at negotiating to acquire them for $400 million.
What is actually happening can probably be better summarized something like this: highly paid legal teams in huge patent lawsuit continue to jockey for position with miscellaneous legal moves.
Amazon actually now charges sales tax in the following states: California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. That's about 1/3 of the U.S. population there.
Cyber Monday is about as much of a scam as Black Friday, and furthermore, using the prefix "cyber" in this sense is annoying unless you are in a 1980s novel.
That's true, and an interesting angle. Some of that does happen already: at university-affiliated research hospitals in particular, there is a trend towards digitizing this information and making it available to researchers (under various confidentiality agreements, and with Institutional Research Board approval), who do things like mine it for patterns. I know some people at U. Washington in St. Louis doing that kind of thing. But it's a good point that it might become more widespread if there were an open corpus to work from; right now access to the records is governed by HIPAA, which puts various restrictions on it. On the other hand, the corpus they use at WashU is possibly less biased, because it includes all patients' records, rather than only those who have chosen to opt-in by putting theirs online.
Something needs to be done, surely, but I'm not sure it requires lower benefits. I live in Denmark, which has better social programs than the United States, but less debt. Why? Two things mainly: 1) The programs are run much more efficiently, with competent administration by technocrats, and some use of private-sector contracting where appropriate; and 2) taxes are set at a level sufficient to pay for the programs.
There were a ton of people interested in his case, but imo that was strongly dependent on the novelty and the fact that it's uncommon so far. Why did these geneticists and researchers spend a bunch of unpaid time on his case in particular? Because it was one of the few (only?) available in this form. But every year there are about 13 million people diagnosed with cancer. What if even 1% of them were uploaded online? Would there be folks like Jimmy Lin looking through all 130,000 of those cases on a volunteer basis? My guess would be no: once it gets to be a few hundred or thousand people trying the same thing, and then it just goes back to being normal medicine again, of the kind where you need doctors who're doing it as a full-time job to go through all the cases.
Sadly, you might soon have to, in the sense that you'll need to [pdf] keep your security patches up to date...
That exists also. In fact it seems that there are a number of projects working on the basic idea of exporting from Minecraft to a 3d printer.
In addition, they don't even claim their findings were statistically significant...
That's not entirely fair: there's also the religious conservatives who believe that the government should run your private life!
While true in principle, if it came down to any kind of legal action, it'd probably be the U.S. list of terrorist groups that would be relevant, since Twitter's a U.S. company.
White noise is actually not perceptually neutral noise. It's mathematically random noise, with a flat power spectrum, meaning that for example the sound energy between 25-75 Hz is the same as that between 15000-15050 Hz. But because the human ear's perceptual loudness curve is not flat, the perceptual frequency distribution of white noise is not actually flat. To produce perceptually neutral noise, you need to apply the inverse of the human ear's perceptual loudness curve to white noise, which results in grey noise.
But beyond that, it seems they actually mean something different, more like "perceived as indistinct background noise". That's a wider range of things, and has to do with being able to resolve specific, distracting components, not necessarily with mathematical definitions of noise.
Here's last year's attempt to do something about it. Maybe something is happening this time?
Oh and,
Not to mention for terrorist organizations...
Apart from the spin in either direction, is there any solid information? Some quick googling turns up wildly divergent performance rumors, ranging from "equivalent to a 1 GHz x86" to "equivalent to a 3.5 GHz x86".
Sources suggest that apart from a brief blip during the economic downturn in 2009, worldwide coal consumption has been steadily increasing for the past 10 years or so, after plateauing in 1988-2000.
They didn't specifically purchase duck.com, though. They bought On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation, in order to acquire the VP8 codec, which became WebM, and got all the rest of On2's assets as part of the package. It seems unlikely that the real point of the purchase was to acquire duck.com, considering that VP8 is actually pretty important to them.
What seems more likely:
1) He offered to buy duck.com from On2 Technologies (which was originally named The Duck Corporation), but they held out for more than he was willing to offer. It's an obviously valuable domain name so this doesn't require some kind of secret agreement with Google: maybe they just thought they could get more than he was offering for it.
2) Sometime later, Google bought On2 for their codec (VP8, on which WebM was based). Of course this means they got all their other assets too, like their old domain name. Typical Google practice is to redirect acquired domain names to google.com, or to a specific product page on google.com if relevant. Considering that Google is very interested in codecs, it seems rather unlikely that Google really bought On2 for the domain name.
That is not enough to keep people happy.
You might have missed the part where Denmark consistently ranks as the happiest country in the world. People like the social system. It is not a communist system: the economy is market-based, entrepreneurship is encouraged, and people make different levels of income. But there is a strong social system and good public benefits, and by and large this makes the society better. For example, compared to the United States, crime is much lower, and I don't walk past homeless people on my way to work.
I grew up in that country, and I know all too well what you get at the other side of the spectrum. (Hint: nothing good.)
I think it's a bit more complicated than that: there are different ways to reach either side of the spectrum. I moved from the USA to Denmark, which by most Americans' estimation is a "socialist" country, and there is in fact a lot of good here. There is a national healthcare system available to anyone without payment, good public transit, 2 years' unemployment insurance with skills retraining, and a strong welfare system. And, of course, high taxes to pay for all of that without going much into debt. There are, however, no gulags, and there is strong freedom of speech (you might recall that Danish embassies were bombed over the "Mohammed cartoons"). So there is no particular reason that a "left" policy cannot be democratic and successful.
As a European, it's hilarious that Americans think their center-right government is made up of "crazy radicals".
While he opportunistically attached himself to Hindutva ideology in the latter part of his career, Thackeray was really more of an ethno-nationalist than a religious fundamentalist. He started out pretty explicitly as a Marathi nationalist, positioning himself as a hardline advocate for the Marathi ethnic group, and pushing for them to have a privileged position in local politics/economy, versus other Indians who came from ethnic groups not native to Maharashtra. But he wanted to go bigger, so he started playing up more Hindu symbolism at some point to break out of being seen as only a Marathi partisan, even though they remained the core of his followers.
So in a sense it's religious, but afaict it's not religious in any sort of devout/belief sense, but more in the sense of symbols used to construct a nationality.
The chances of your property in particular exploding though are pretty low, low enough that most people seem to put off getting these kinds of things inspected or fixed.
"Totaler Krieg – Kürzester Krieg", as they say
While I'm also suspicious of their ulterior motives, on that particular point, Lukianoff has said they don't include universities that explicitly claim to be partisan or sectarian. So universities that explicitly say, "this is a [right|left|Christian|Islamic|socialist] university, other views not welcome here" aren't considered within FIRE's purview, since in their opinion at least those universities are openly warning students about what to expect if they attend, so nobody is being misled.
Of course in practice that basically means religious universities, because I'm not aware of a Socialist University of America or similarly openly-sectarian university on the left.