As opposed to the more traditional form of identity politics where the country was run largely for the benefit of white men (preferably Protestant), and they just mistreated other groups because they had the power? Despite this, they did do a fairly good job of balkanizing the lesser groups.
Sure we haven't had women dong that? There's a lot of stigma for a woman saying she was sexually harassed or worse, but there's far more stigma for men. It took an internet campaign to get all these women speaking up.
You're talking about politics in a number of highly successful first-world wealthy countries, many of them having higher general happiness scores than ours. Those political systems are empirically sound and work well. If you'd like to list highly successful countries with left-wing parties significantly to the right of modern US Republicans, go for it. Let me know if you find one.
The question is how profitable? Can you finance a website with JS mining without pissing off your visitors? The next question, also vital, is how profitable, and how infuriating, does it get when lots of websites do this? Is mining at a fixed rate, so there's a specific amount of coins mined in January 2018, say, and they're divvied up among miners (in which case diminishing returns hits awfully fast)?
For places that don't get all that cold (say, rarely below -10C) the heat pump is more efficient than resistive heating. There doesn't need to be much ducting, just an intake and an exhaust port and some way to distribute warm air connected to the heat pump. I've got a portable one in my dining room (usually used as an air conditioner) that sits next to a window, has intake and exhaust that can be inside the window, and sends the air out its front.
Where I live, it gets pretty cold, so houses around here burn natural gas for heat. This is more efficient than burning it at the power plant, making electricity, and sending it to us so we can run it through resistors.
For most cases, resistive heat is significantly less efficient than the alternatives.
Good to know your reading comprehension sucks. You said Stalin had no limits, but in practice he did. I was assuming we all had some idea of how evil Stalin was.
You don't seem to realize that neither the guy in question nor I are excusing anything that happened in Russia or the Soviet Union. The question we're addressing is not which is worse (Russia, by a big margin), but which we're more concerned about (our government, typically by a big margin). I can vote, write to my Congressional representatives, and kick in money to influence US politics, and the governments in the US are what have authority over me.
Is it reasonable for me to complain about something my government does without going through a list of all worse governments, starting with North Korea?
And we're back to the question of how we assure that authors have a good chance to get paid. With free eBooks readily and legally available, who's going to buy a copy when they can wait a few months and get a free one? Either we have a reasonably long period of exclusivity, or we need to find another way to pay authors.
The Inquisition was not anti-science. Galileo was put under house arrest after publicly mocking the Pope Creationism was something of an exception, but the Catholic Church accepted it fairly quickly. Currently, it's more of a fundamentalist Protestant idiocy (I don't know about non-Christian religions here).
I'm certainly not excusing a lot of what the Church has done, but it's been fairly pro-science.
Weird. Most of the mortgages I've known have had escrow payments for insurance and taxes. This requires some additional trust on the part of whoever's issuing the mortgage, so I'd imagine most first-time buyers would have escrow accounts.
Smart people in charge doesn't always work. Ideally, you'd have smart people in charge, but not all smart people should be trusted with running anything.
Also, some people don't register very well. Fingerprint scanners are pretty bad at recognizing me, for some reason. I turned off fingerprint identification on my iPhone because it almost never worked, and if it wasn't going to help me I didn't want it suddenly deciding to work when someone forces my finger on the sensor.
And A6 is the best version of all of them, and it's proprietary and can't be licensed except at considerable cost and a requirement of DRM on the software. B then throws a tantrum because B can't get the best versions without complying with licenses.
Seriously, B can use one of the permissively licensed versions or write his own (perhaps using one of the permissively licensed ones as a starting point). B doesn't have the right to whatever B wants.
A lack of reduction of complaints means little in itself. It may be that the cameras reduced misconduct, but also made citizens more confident in filing complaints, balancing out. If we knew if the ratio of misconduct to complaints was over time, the number of complaints would be far more useful.
One thing authors often do is sell some sort of first publication rights to get some cash sooner rather than to wait for the royalties. One thing magazines etc. do is to buy first publication rights so they can ensure that they can publish before anyone else, rather than having the December issue come out with a featured story that the competitor had in their November issue.
So, this would reduce the desire to publish an author's works and reduce the amount of stuff published, while adding overhead to the whole system. Doesn't look like a win to me.
Also, it completely sidesteps the copyright issue. How do we make sure the 20% is paid? How do we deal with illicit free copies potentially hurting the commercial market?
To be pedantic, if he's talking about anything he's talking about L! without knowing about it, and that's not a stable Lagrange point. Were the ISS at L1, it would have to counter any force, and wouldn't stay there for free. L4 and L5, in the Moon's orbit, are stable, and something that's in there will tend to stay there.
If there's whitelists, there will have to be ways to put new applications on the whitelists. (I would have a great deal of difficulty if I couldn't run vim on all text files, for example, but it's not something most people want on their Windows machines.) That looks like one additional button to get the user to click on.
Excuse me, you were disputing my disagreement with jandjmh about the similarity of Myers-Briggs and Sun signs. My mistake. However, I'm not the one who made the comparison.
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As opposed to the more traditional form of identity politics where the country was run largely for the benefit of white men (preferably Protestant), and they just mistreated other groups because they had the power? Despite this, they did do a fairly good job of balkanizing the lesser groups.
Sure we haven't had women dong that? There's a lot of stigma for a woman saying she was sexually harassed or worse, but there's far more stigma for men. It took an internet campaign to get all these women speaking up.
You're talking about politics in a number of highly successful first-world wealthy countries, many of them having higher general happiness scores than ours. Those political systems are empirically sound and work well. If you'd like to list highly successful countries with left-wing parties significantly to the right of modern US Republicans, go for it. Let me know if you find one.
The question is how profitable? Can you finance a website with JS mining without pissing off your visitors? The next question, also vital, is how profitable, and how infuriating, does it get when lots of websites do this? Is mining at a fixed rate, so there's a specific amount of coins mined in January 2018, say, and they're divvied up among miners (in which case diminishing returns hits awfully fast)?
For places that don't get all that cold (say, rarely below -10C) the heat pump is more efficient than resistive heating. There doesn't need to be much ducting, just an intake and an exhaust port and some way to distribute warm air connected to the heat pump. I've got a portable one in my dining room (usually used as an air conditioner) that sits next to a window, has intake and exhaust that can be inside the window, and sends the air out its front.
Where I live, it gets pretty cold, so houses around here burn natural gas for heat. This is more efficient than burning it at the power plant, making electricity, and sending it to us so we can run it through resistors.
For most cases, resistive heat is significantly less efficient than the alternatives.
Good to know your reading comprehension sucks. You said Stalin had no limits, but in practice he did. I was assuming we all had some idea of how evil Stalin was.
You don't seem to realize that neither the guy in question nor I are excusing anything that happened in Russia or the Soviet Union. The question we're addressing is not which is worse (Russia, by a big margin), but which we're more concerned about (our government, typically by a big margin). I can vote, write to my Congressional representatives, and kick in money to influence US politics, and the governments in the US are what have authority over me.
Is it reasonable for me to complain about something my government does without going through a list of all worse governments, starting with North Korea?
And we're back to the question of how we assure that authors have a good chance to get paid. With free eBooks readily and legally available, who's going to buy a copy when they can wait a few months and get a free one? Either we have a reasonably long period of exclusivity, or we need to find another way to pay authors.
The Inquisition was not anti-science. Galileo was put under house arrest after publicly mocking the Pope Creationism was something of an exception, but the Catholic Church accepted it fairly quickly. Currently, it's more of a fundamentalist Protestant idiocy (I don't know about non-Christian religions here).
I'm certainly not excusing a lot of what the Church has done, but it's been fairly pro-science.
When I was 14, I had a slide rule.
Weird. Most of the mortgages I've known have had escrow payments for insurance and taxes. This requires some additional trust on the part of whoever's issuing the mortgage, so I'd imagine most first-time buyers would have escrow accounts.
Smart people in charge doesn't always work. Ideally, you'd have smart people in charge, but not all smart people should be trusted with running anything.
Some of my relatives had careers in retail without aspiring to management. They didn't do too badly back in the day.
The hardest-working person I know is the guy who mows my lawn and tends the black raspberry bushes etc. He doesn't make anywhere near the money I do.
It's possible to make moral underpinnings profitable under some circumstances.
The Catholic Church has normally been favorable to scientific inquiry. There have been exceptions. Science is far from being its #1 enemy.
Insightful? The social liberals I know dislike the Chinese government and like free speech.
Also, some people don't register very well. Fingerprint scanners are pretty bad at recognizing me, for some reason. I turned off fingerprint identification on my iPhone because it almost never worked, and if it wasn't going to help me I didn't want it suddenly deciding to work when someone forces my finger on the sensor.
And A6 is the best version of all of them, and it's proprietary and can't be licensed except at considerable cost and a requirement of DRM on the software. B then throws a tantrum because B can't get the best versions without complying with licenses.
Seriously, B can use one of the permissively licensed versions or write his own (perhaps using one of the permissively licensed ones as a starting point). B doesn't have the right to whatever B wants.
A lack of reduction of complaints means little in itself. It may be that the cameras reduced misconduct, but also made citizens more confident in filing complaints, balancing out. If we knew if the ratio of misconduct to complaints was over time, the number of complaints would be far more useful.
One thing authors often do is sell some sort of first publication rights to get some cash sooner rather than to wait for the royalties. One thing magazines etc. do is to buy first publication rights so they can ensure that they can publish before anyone else, rather than having the December issue come out with a featured story that the competitor had in their November issue.
So, this would reduce the desire to publish an author's works and reduce the amount of stuff published, while adding overhead to the whole system. Doesn't look like a win to me.
Also, it completely sidesteps the copyright issue. How do we make sure the 20% is paid? How do we deal with illicit free copies potentially hurting the commercial market?
Probably designed by people who went to the same school as the people who designated a standard orbit as being in the planet's atmosphere.
To be pedantic, if he's talking about anything he's talking about L! without knowing about it, and that's not a stable Lagrange point. Were the ISS at L1, it would have to counter any force, and wouldn't stay there for free. L4 and L5, in the Moon's orbit, are stable, and something that's in there will tend to stay there.
If there's whitelists, there will have to be ways to put new applications on the whitelists. (I would have a great deal of difficulty if I couldn't run vim on all text files, for example, but it's not something most people want on their Windows machines.) That looks like one additional button to get the user to click on.
So, I inherently distrust it.
Excuse me, you were disputing my disagreement with jandjmh about the similarity of Myers-Briggs and Sun signs. My mistake. However, I'm not the one who made the comparison.
From what I've seen , the Big Five personality traits (some acronyms for the traits being OCEAN or CANOE) is generally accepted as useful, at least in this culture (the article has a brief discussion on other cultures). The E/I pair in Myers-Briggs is the E of the Big Five. I therefore consider this significant information.
What general traits would you consider important to know?