I've seen no cases of Google firing someone for disagreeing with them. Damore was fired because he made a nuisance of himself, pushing his essay on people in a way that could reasonably be foreseen to get out of Google.
There was a Slashdot article not long ago, in which a city was having problems with cryptocoin miners. The city got a certain amount of power at a reduced rate, as part of a deal with a hydro company wanting to build a nearby power station, and the miners blew through that like it wasn't there, dramatically raising electrical bills for everybody. The city then got permission to charge different rates based on use, and things seemed to settle down. That's the only reference I've seen to power companies wanting to shut down miners. Power companies are used to places wanting very large amounts of electricity. It's not unusual.
I can't, by myself, fix the real problems of corruption and public distrust. That's a long-term goal for a large number of people. What I can do is disable the fingerprint sensor on my phone.
It's easier to rig the nomination process than the selection process. Many more people vote for the Hugos themselves than vote to nominate. If a minority group can force the nomination of fiction the majority doesn't consider good, that's what happens.
From what I heard, the Governator was intelligent, not doctrinaire, and listened to people who knew more than he did. I had a better look at Jesse "the Governor" Ventura, who did much the same thing, and was a fairly good governor. Not great, but he didn't have major screw-ups. His main failing seemed to be an overly thin skin for a politician.
There's tens of millions of people who voted for a Presidential candidate that tens of millions of people thought a dystopian nightmare. One of them got into the White House.
Do you really think it would have been nearly as easy to beat German without Soviet assistance? If most of the German Army and Air Force had been in the West? Sending weapons and stuff to the Soviet Union enabled us in the West to beat Germany relatively economically.
The Soviets built most of their own weapons anyway, and weren't going to be defeated by the Germans. (The most dangerous time for the Soviet Union was before significant help had reached the Red Army.) After that, the person who controlled who got what of Europe was Hitler, by moving forces to face whoever was the most immediate threat.
Not supplying the Soviets would have made little difference in where the Iron Curtain fell, but it would have taken a lot longer to defeat Germany, and many more lives would have been lost.
Trump looks like a good example to illustrate what GP wanted to say, and he's well known. Why not use him as an example? If I wanted to talk about certain brain problems in a person in a position of authority, I'd probably mention Woodrow Wilson.
You left out the measures taken to keep you from moving. If stuffed into an oil drum, I could escape. People generally can't get out of an MRI machine by themselves, and there are reports of patients being left in them during a fire alarm or overnight. Other than that, you've pretty well got it right.
It's really fortunate that I was into relaxation exercises before I went in for the first one. I tend to be claustrophobic.
They used to do that. My father managed the PO Box section at the main post office here for years, and by law or regulation parcels or envelopes suspected of containing porn had to be opened in his presence and the recipient's presence. Dad made a point of not judging it, and just declaring what it was not porn, since it was his call.
The power companies in question wanted cryptominers to pay what they cost. Not all ISPs block outgoing ports, and you can easily set up a server on AWS or some other host, and that's probably got better connectivity than you have. It's not that bad yet.
Or the older generations. What's changed is not so much the desire for censorship, as the censorship people in general want. When I was young, different things were censored.
I can't believe people born with the right to free speech can be so dismissive of it.
Actually, that's quite predictable. People in the US take free speech for granted, and don't support it because they feel like it's the natural order of things. You've had experience with lacking freedom of speech, so you know what it's like when it doesn't exist.
It's much like the reaction against the EPA. Somebody of my age remembers what the US was like before it, while someone my son's age has no memory, and might want the regulations dismantled and subconsciously believe that the air and water will still be clean.
It's allowed to be racist against blacks. Until recently, it was expressed either in private or using euphemism, but the Republicans are trying to Make American Racist Again.
Exactly how are Religious Right gasbags drained? All they had to do was throw away all their moral principles and laud Trump's morals, and they're in. Trump caters to their publicly expressed views.
The hypocrisy is going to bite them eventually, but right now they're riding high.
It's not necessarily their political agendas. Political agendas of people in Congress and the White House matter also, and large targets like Google might well not want to leave openings for attack.
You might want to look into actual facts sometime. The Southern Strategy was a deliberate Republican attempt to turn racists into Republicans. Since then, Republicans have resisted efforts that would erode racial inequality. I'm not claiming that the Democrats have always been right in their efforts, but (since the 1960s) they've consistently pushed for racial equality.
It's more a legal issue. The government can listen in on telecommunications, because a law called CALEA says telecommunications systems must be designed so the government can. It would be technologically easy to make systems that couldn't be tapped, but illegal.
To look at it another way, decryption is in NP. It has to be efficient (P) to decrypt given the key. Therefore, the hardest any crypto algorithm can be (except something like the one-time pad) is NP-complete. We don't know that large NP-complete problems are impractical to solve, although it sure looks that way, and I don't know of any crypto that's been proven NP-complete.
If you could prove that, say, AES-256 can't be solved without something more or less equivalent to trying all the keys, that would be most of a proof that P != NP
I dislike open primaries, because it encourages spoilers. If there's, say, two strong Democrats in a primary (who I'll arbitrarily call Fraser and Short), and one Republican who is pretty well going to win (call him Durenburger), there's a strong incentive for Republicans to vote for the weaker Democrat in the Democratic primary. I don't actually know if Short won because of Republicans, but there was something of a push for them to do so.
Proportional representation is also a possibility. By my reading of the Constitution, states can elect their Representatives using any democratic process they want, including having parties submitting slates and allocating Representative seats based on vote for party.
In every place in the US I know about, the candidate with the highest vote total gets elected. This actually doesn't apply to the Electoral College, since if no candidate gets a majority vote there the House of Representatives elects the President. I've seen lots of people elected without majorities.
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I've seen no cases of Google firing someone for disagreeing with them. Damore was fired because he made a nuisance of himself, pushing his essay on people in a way that could reasonably be foreseen to get out of Google.
There was a Slashdot article not long ago, in which a city was having problems with cryptocoin miners. The city got a certain amount of power at a reduced rate, as part of a deal with a hydro company wanting to build a nearby power station, and the miners blew through that like it wasn't there, dramatically raising electrical bills for everybody. The city then got permission to charge different rates based on use, and things seemed to settle down. That's the only reference I've seen to power companies wanting to shut down miners. Power companies are used to places wanting very large amounts of electricity. It's not unusual.
In other words, bring your own lube and bend over or else!
iPhones are encrypted with AES-256, and brute-forcing that is impossible using only the resources of the Solar System.
I can't, by myself, fix the real problems of corruption and public distrust. That's a long-term goal for a large number of people. What I can do is disable the fingerprint sensor on my phone.
The Japanese characters in the TV series Man in the High Castle seem to be portrayed by reasonably Japanese-looking actors, and Amazon made that.
It's easier to rig the nomination process than the selection process. Many more people vote for the Hugos themselves than vote to nominate. If a minority group can force the nomination of fiction the majority doesn't consider good, that's what happens.
From what I heard, the Governator was intelligent, not doctrinaire, and listened to people who knew more than he did. I had a better look at Jesse "the Governor" Ventura, who did much the same thing, and was a fairly good governor. Not great, but he didn't have major screw-ups. His main failing seemed to be an overly thin skin for a politician.
There's tens of millions of people who voted for a Presidential candidate that tens of millions of people thought a dystopian nightmare. One of them got into the White House.
His belief was also hindering his attempt to get funding, because everyone knew the Earth was bigger than he claimed.
Do you really think it would have been nearly as easy to beat German without Soviet assistance? If most of the German Army and Air Force had been in the West? Sending weapons and stuff to the Soviet Union enabled us in the West to beat Germany relatively economically.
The Soviets built most of their own weapons anyway, and weren't going to be defeated by the Germans. (The most dangerous time for the Soviet Union was before significant help had reached the Red Army.) After that, the person who controlled who got what of Europe was Hitler, by moving forces to face whoever was the most immediate threat.
Not supplying the Soviets would have made little difference in where the Iron Curtain fell, but it would have taken a lot longer to defeat Germany, and many more lives would have been lost.
Trump looks like a good example to illustrate what GP wanted to say, and he's well known. Why not use him as an example? If I wanted to talk about certain brain problems in a person in a position of authority, I'd probably mention Woodrow Wilson.
You left out the measures taken to keep you from moving. If stuffed into an oil drum, I could escape. People generally can't get out of an MRI machine by themselves, and there are reports of patients being left in them during a fire alarm or overnight. Other than that, you've pretty well got it right.
It's really fortunate that I was into relaxation exercises before I went in for the first one. I tend to be claustrophobic.
They used to do that. My father managed the PO Box section at the main post office here for years, and by law or regulation parcels or envelopes suspected of containing porn had to be opened in his presence and the recipient's presence. Dad made a point of not judging it, and just declaring what it was not porn, since it was his call.
The power companies in question wanted cryptominers to pay what they cost. Not all ISPs block outgoing ports, and you can easily set up a server on AWS or some other host, and that's probably got better connectivity than you have. It's not that bad yet.
Or the older generations. What's changed is not so much the desire for censorship, as the censorship people in general want. When I was young, different things were censored.
Actually, that's quite predictable. People in the US take free speech for granted, and don't support it because they feel like it's the natural order of things. You've had experience with lacking freedom of speech, so you know what it's like when it doesn't exist.
It's much like the reaction against the EPA. Somebody of my age remembers what the US was like before it, while someone my son's age has no memory, and might want the regulations dismantled and subconsciously believe that the air and water will still be clean.
It's allowed to be racist against blacks. Until recently, it was expressed either in private or using euphemism, but the Republicans are trying to Make American Racist Again.
Exactly how are Religious Right gasbags drained? All they had to do was throw away all their moral principles and laud Trump's morals, and they're in. Trump caters to their publicly expressed views.
The hypocrisy is going to bite them eventually, but right now they're riding high.
It's not necessarily their political agendas. Political agendas of people in Congress and the White House matter also, and large targets like Google might well not want to leave openings for attack.
You might want to look into actual facts sometime. The Southern Strategy was a deliberate Republican attempt to turn racists into Republicans. Since then, Republicans have resisted efforts that would erode racial inequality. I'm not claiming that the Democrats have always been right in their efforts, but (since the 1960s) they've consistently pushed for racial equality.
I don';t see why you think this is primarily a feminist thing. The more vocal opponents to porn tend to be evangelicals and people appealing to them.
It's more a legal issue. The government can listen in on telecommunications, because a law called CALEA says telecommunications systems must be designed so the government can. It would be technologically easy to make systems that couldn't be tapped, but illegal.
To look at it another way, decryption is in NP. It has to be efficient (P) to decrypt given the key. Therefore, the hardest any crypto algorithm can be (except something like the one-time pad) is NP-complete. We don't know that large NP-complete problems are impractical to solve, although it sure looks that way, and I don't know of any crypto that's been proven NP-complete.
If you could prove that, say, AES-256 can't be solved without something more or less equivalent to trying all the keys, that would be most of a proof that P != NP
I dislike open primaries, because it encourages spoilers. If there's, say, two strong Democrats in a primary (who I'll arbitrarily call Fraser and Short), and one Republican who is pretty well going to win (call him Durenburger), there's a strong incentive for Republicans to vote for the weaker Democrat in the Democratic primary. I don't actually know if Short won because of Republicans, but there was something of a push for them to do so.
Proportional representation is also a possibility. By my reading of the Constitution, states can elect their Representatives using any democratic process they want, including having parties submitting slates and allocating Representative seats based on vote for party.
In every place in the US I know about, the candidate with the highest vote total gets elected. This actually doesn't apply to the Electoral College, since if no candidate gets a majority vote there the House of Representatives elects the President. I've seen lots of people elected without majorities.