Though we're substantially in agreement, I thought it was especially telling that you mentioned cystic fibrosis. It's one of those things that might well be complicated, as you're implying (heterozygous advantage).
I think you may have missed the point. These aren't advantages that can be lost later. There's no social 'churn' in such a situation; the advantages snowball, as the cutting edge belongs to the sleepless. It's sorta like how, in the US, we've created permanent inequality with our tax structure and Citizens United. Or like a somewhat more organic singularity, run by the love-child of Hillary and Donald.
Fortunately, spaghetti-code that DNA is, my guess is it'll be a lot more brittle than most people suppose.
"... The route recalculation is complete; proceeding to the nearest Google coroner-partner."
Easy peasy; it's all in the TOS for which you clicked "OK" at the beginning of the trip.
This could change everything, if it simply filled in its own content instead of unmuting. Agreement with my bizarre political opinions would be universal, that cab {buy Crest} driver would be yelling compliments concerning my driving (and parentage), and the homeless people yelling at their imaginary friends would {buy Crest now!} be shouting the current news and {buy Crest immediately!} weather. Hard to see the harm in that...
Little thing, but what an amazing name for a telescope. According to the site, it's 'more KAT' (the original name for the array), as well as, of course, the unbearably cute mammal that lives in the area. But that, along with the "standing up to look around" mission of the array itself makes me absolutely convinced that I live in a novel of some sort (most likely Dickens, who liked to name his characters with oddly appropriate names (I'm lookin' at you, Ms. Malaprop)).
Big fan of the UBI, and yet I think this guy's not entirely wrong. People talk about phase-in's like "we start with $5,000 for everybody, then ramp up year over year by x dollars. This guy is saying something more, I think, like start with a livable amount for the very poor, and work your way up the income ladder. Think it'll peter out before it gets to the rich? You don't know any rich folks, do you? Wealth trickles up, anyhow...
A lot of serious academic research went on in the early 70's to prove that taxing the poor was wholly unproductive. See Dennis Moore's work, for a good, easy to digest example.
In the mid 74, in first year algebra, we had a week-long unit in programming using BASIC. The computer was... somewhere. Our access to it was via a paper terminal with a tape reader, phone coupled modem, you know the drill. I fell in love. Spent any lunches and free periods I could get my hands on writing my very first program (a grand units conversion program) with a basic manual at my side. Can't say I learned in any systematic way; and I'm sure I learned some awful habits that took some time to unlearn, but oh it was magic. Punched cards just weren't the same in '78:-)
even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation
Yow! Cell phone radiation extends ratty lifespan
Or possibly Tumors cause life extension in rats!
The researchers are such negative nellies... look on the bright side!
Well put. For those of us (here in the US) who have forgotten the difference between capitalism and plutocracy (I know, so technical, right?), a couple of citations:
Information Asymetry. Why you (and your 401K) care.
In short, voting with your dollars for a product whose contents you're forbidden to know is like voting in an election for a candidate behind door number three or taking what's behind the curtain. Kinda like now. But I digress.
A lot of people aren't aware of it, but Google has been using existing infrastructure like this for years; here's one of their older ads. The difference? Note that it used to be free!
Right with you... this was already standard practice for a lot of developers. Some of the supporting comments can be pretty intricate and long... not something I want to repeat in my code comments, but something I want later developers (or later me) to have access to.
... they'd have called it forced, (under)damped harmonic motion, no? Given that this is slashdot, it may well be called that in the article I couldn't be troubled to read;-)
You're certainly right about these not being new ideas
Alienation: (in Marxist theory) a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.
You're going to be lucky to get what you pay for, developing this way. Most likely you'll get worse.
Man, this is going to have a lot of unintentionally surprising effects. In my own software shop, we're definitely testing new versions in a Windows 10 environment, but any number of users are (for perfectly good reason) using old releases. I don't know of any reason our older releases *won't* run on 10, but it's completely untested...
I mean, it's really a shame about gun-related deaths, traffic deaths that outnumber even those, crumbling infrastructure that makes us look closer to third-world every day, and higher infant mortality numbers than seen anywhere else in the western world, but at least they've taken a firm hand on ticket scalpers.
It's like the f-ing cavalry showing up in the nick of time to save us. Thanks, really!
Signed,
America
Slashdot Mirror
Though we're substantially in agreement, I thought it was especially telling that you mentioned cystic fibrosis. It's one of those things that might well be complicated, as you're implying (heterozygous advantage).
I think you may have missed the point. These aren't advantages that can be lost later. There's no social 'churn' in such a situation; the advantages snowball, as the cutting edge belongs to the sleepless. It's sorta like how, in the US, we've created permanent inequality with our tax structure and Citizens United. Or like a somewhat more organic singularity, run by the love-child of Hillary and Donald. Fortunately, spaghetti-code that DNA is, my guess is it'll be a lot more brittle than most people suppose.
" ... The route recalculation is complete; proceeding to the nearest Google coroner-partner."
Easy peasy; it's all in the TOS for which you clicked "OK" at the beginning of the trip.
Sort of remind me of this guy
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. ... Itâ(TM)s the only way to be sure" -- from the seminal text on destroying monsters ...
This could change everything, if it simply filled in its own content instead of unmuting. Agreement with my bizarre political opinions would be universal, that cab {buy Crest} driver would be yelling compliments concerning my driving (and parentage), and the homeless people yelling at their imaginary friends would {buy Crest now!} be shouting the current news and {buy Crest immediately!} weather. Hard to see the harm in that ...
AC, you have become much wiser with the passing of years ...
Little thing, but what an amazing name for a telescope. According to the site, it's 'more KAT' (the original name for the array), as well as, of course, the unbearably cute mammal that lives in the area. But that, along with the "standing up to look around" mission of the array itself makes me absolutely convinced that I live in a novel of some sort (most likely Dickens, who liked to name his characters with oddly appropriate names (I'm lookin' at you, Ms. Malaprop)).
Big fan of the UBI, and yet I think this guy's not entirely wrong. People talk about phase-in's like "we start with $5,000 for everybody, then ramp up year over year by x dollars. This guy is saying something more, I think, like start with a livable amount for the very poor, and work your way up the income ladder. Think it'll peter out before it gets to the rich? You don't know any rich folks, do you? Wealth trickles up, anyhow ...
Please keep your "facts" out of my outraged 'science is soooooo stupid' thread ...
A lot of serious academic research went on in the early 70's to prove that taxing the poor was wholly unproductive. See Dennis Moore's work, for a good, easy to digest example.
In the mid 74, in first year algebra, we had a week-long unit in programming using BASIC. The computer was ... somewhere. Our access to it was via a paper terminal with a tape reader, phone coupled modem, you know the drill. I fell in love. Spent any lunches and free periods I could get my hands on writing my very first program (a grand units conversion program) with a basic manual at my side. Can't say I learned in any systematic way; and I'm sure I learned some awful habits that took some time to unlearn, but oh it was magic. Punched cards just weren't the same in '78 :-)
Yow! Cell phone radiation extends ratty lifespan ... look on the bright side!
Or possibly Tumors cause life extension in rats! The researchers are such negative nellies
Arguably, at this point reality has jumped the shark.
Well put. For those of us (here in the US) who have forgotten the difference between capitalism and plutocracy (I know, so technical, right?), a couple of citations:
Information Asymetry.
Why you (and your 401K) care.
In short, voting with your dollars for a product whose contents you're forbidden to know is like voting in an election for a candidate behind door number three or taking what's behind the curtain. Kinda like now. But I digress.
A lot of people aren't aware of it, but Google has been using existing infrastructure like this for years; here's one of their older ads. The difference? Note that it used to be free!
Right with you ... this was already standard practice for a lot of developers. Some of the supporting comments can be pretty intricate and long ... not something I want to repeat in my code comments, but something I want later developers (or later me) to have access to.
Well, we want share what we have ...
Just describe the illustrations ... common wisdom is that they'll be about a thousand words each ;-)
Glad I looked before I posted; 'stage left' vs 'house left' occurred to me as well.
... they'd have called it forced, (under)damped harmonic motion, no? Given that this is slashdot, it may well be called that in the article I couldn't be troubled to read ;-)
Missed this option in the poll ...
You're going to be lucky to get what you pay for, developing this way. Most likely you'll get worse.
Man, this is going to have a lot of unintentionally surprising effects. In my own software shop, we're definitely testing new versions in a Windows 10 environment, but any number of users are (for perfectly good reason) using old releases. I don't know of any reason our older releases *won't* run on 10, but it's completely untested ...
I mean, it's really a shame about gun-related deaths, traffic deaths that outnumber even those, crumbling infrastructure that makes us look closer to third-world every day, and higher infant mortality numbers than seen anywhere else in the western world, but at least they've taken a firm hand on ticket scalpers. It's like the f-ing cavalry showing up in the nick of time to save us. Thanks, really! Signed, America