Yeah, that's the law in many states in America, too. For example, in California, if I buy something mail-order or online, I am required to report it on my taxes. It is mostly not enforced, though.
All the same, it's hard to see the legal argument for taxing someone who doesn't do anything in your state. If I send a package to Sri Lanka (for example), I'm not subject to Sri Lanka law. They can confiscate the package or something, but they can't make me pay taxes.
Taiwan uses a simplified version of the same pictographs, but "mainland" China rejects those probably for political reasons. The simplified set is more efficient to use.
NB this is exactly backwards: Taiwan uses the traditional version, mainland China uses the simplified version. It's not really a big deal....in each system, most of the characters are the same (and the characters that are simplified are simplified in mostly a systematic way). In my observation it only takes a few weeks to get used to the other system if you already know one of them.
Good point. All the negativity around Uber lately has completely centered on things that can be blamed on the ex-CEO, while the company moves forward making tons of money.
Of course they will trust them......there will still be an actual human driver behind the wheel.
This is putting the cart before the horse so to speak (the bumper before the AI?)......the technology isn't ready for self-driving yet, and they are already trying to sell it. Realistically, once the technology is ready, people will be lining up to buy it. That stuff will sell itself.
didn't we all pretty much move on to Google ratings on Google maps?
No, the number of ratings (and quality as well) on Yelp are much higher than on Google maps. If you search a place in Google search, often Yelp is the first thing to come up.
Is "conservative" considered a political affiliation though?
I don't know, we have to look at the exact wording of the law to be sure (and to be extra sure, any relevant cases). The California law seems rather broad though, since it includes political activities. I would guess that "political affiliation" means more than just "political party" since if the law intended that, it would have said that.
Protected classes. Race and gender are protected classes everywhere in the US, and political affiliation (and activities) are a protected class in California.
I remember people claiming that DaMore was a liberal or democrat, but I guess that's clarified now.
The amount of bitcoin produced by mining won't change.......roughly N new bitcoins will be created every 10 minutes (by algorithmic design). If the amount of processing power available decreases, then the difficulty of the algorithm decreases. If the amount of processing power increases, then the difficulty of the algorithm increases. N is set (by the algorithm) to decrease over time to zero, at which point the transactions will be covered entirely by transaction fees (the person creating the transaction can set the fee to anything they want. If they set it to zero, the transaction won't get settled).
The most common exploit today is the SQL Injection exploit. If you think your language makes your code safe, then you almost certainly have security flaws, huge ones.
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it.
This is a good point: people who care about security (like AWS) have different requirements, and may be willing to forgo some performance in exchange for security.
I know a guy whose entire job is to build clocks in CPUs. That's all he does. He's really good at it.
I mention that to give you an idea of the specialization that has taken place in the hardware industry. In Software, you can still be a full-stack developer. In Hardware, those days are past.
I'll give you another concrete case: my parents have ancestors from similar regions in Europe, but as far back as we have records, they have no shared ancestors. What are the chances I'm an outlier? Unlikely, because of the close proximity of those two ancestor trees.
Linus is in a unique position - he is an engineer, almost 100% focused on technical solutions, yet he is also a public facing figure and is able to make public comments. He also (to the best of my knowledge) doesn't have to worry about customers, profits, shareholders, etc., things that a for-profit, publicly-traded company does
You've succinctly explained why Intel is in the troubles they are.
According to Joseph Chang, a statistician at Yale, the figures are just 600 years for everyone currently alive in Europe
It's hard to know for sure, but looking at my own ancestry, which is traced to the 1500s, I find this number unlikely. People largely stayed in the same area for many many years. I understand (from the article) he used numerical analysis to make an estimate of how people mix, and I accept it's true if you go back farther (for example, 700s), but 600 years seems too short just based on empirical evidence.
I also have serious doubts about 3,400 years for everyone in the world......some of the populations were isolated for 10s of thousands of years (Australian aborigine, for example), and 3,400 years seems too short. If he'd said most people share an ancestor from 3,400 years ago, that would pass the "smell test," but statistically there is high probability of straggling communities who are a bit isolated.
Most programming isn't creative anymore. Most of what we make is some version of a workflow app, where the organization of the code follows the organization of the UI. There are slightly interesting problems around scaling, but most of those are solved too, unless you are Google or Amazon.
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Yeah, that's the law in many states in America, too. For example, in California, if I buy something mail-order or online, I am required to report it on my taxes. It is mostly not enforced, though.
All the same, it's hard to see the legal argument for taxing someone who doesn't do anything in your state. If I send a package to Sri Lanka (for example), I'm not subject to Sri Lanka law. They can confiscate the package or something, but they can't make me pay taxes.
GPS doesn't go out.
Let's hope the auto-makers aren't also making that assumption.
for new paragraphs. You can change the formatting in your settings.
These days you don't have to worry about writing, just type.
Taiwan uses a simplified version of the same pictographs, but "mainland" China rejects those probably for political reasons. The simplified set is more efficient to use.
NB this is exactly backwards: Taiwan uses the traditional version, mainland China uses the simplified version. It's not really a big deal....in each system, most of the characters are the same (and the characters that are simplified are simplified in mostly a systematic way). In my observation it only takes a few weeks to get used to the other system if you already know one of them.
Good point. All the negativity around Uber lately has completely centered on things that can be blamed on the ex-CEO, while the company moves forward making tons of money.
Oh, that's good to know.
Of course they will trust them......there will still be an actual human driver behind the wheel.
This is putting the cart before the horse so to speak (the bumper before the AI?)......the technology isn't ready for self-driving yet, and they are already trying to sell it. Realistically, once the technology is ready, people will be lining up to buy it. That stuff will sell itself.
Well I guess if you can't care for oil properly that means *no more oil for YOU*.
Oh if only the world were so lucky then we could switch over to wind/solar/nuclear in under a year.
Sue the Oil Companies out of existence and we will have to do that you know..
Do you realize that most oil is not actually used in electricity production?
You can run the antenna up the earbud cord. I've seen that done, anyway.
didn't we all pretty much move on to Google ratings on Google maps?
No, the number of ratings (and quality as well) on Yelp are much higher than on Google maps. If you search a place in Google search, often Yelp is the first thing to come up.
Is "conservative" considered a political affiliation though?
I don't know, we have to look at the exact wording of the law to be sure (and to be extra sure, any relevant cases). The California law seems rather broad though, since it includes political activities. I would guess that "political affiliation" means more than just "political party" since if the law intended that, it would have said that.
Protected classes. Race and gender are protected classes everywhere in the US, and political affiliation (and activities) are a protected class in California.
I remember people claiming that DaMore was a liberal or democrat, but I guess that's clarified now.
The amount of bitcoin produced by mining won't change.......roughly N new bitcoins will be created every 10 minutes (by algorithmic design). If the amount of processing power available decreases, then the difficulty of the algorithm decreases. If the amount of processing power increases, then the difficulty of the algorithm increases. N is set (by the algorithm) to decrease over time to zero, at which point the transactions will be covered entirely by transaction fees (the person creating the transaction can set the fee to anything they want. If they set it to zero, the transaction won't get settled).
The most common exploit today is the SQL Injection exploit. If you think your language makes your code safe, then you almost certainly have security flaws, huge ones.
This will never be as efficient as a fully-custom chip, but it can be good enough. Many of us will be happier using it.
This is a good point: people who care about security (like AWS) have different requirements, and may be willing to forgo some performance in exchange for security.
I know a guy whose entire job is to build clocks in CPUs. That's all he does. He's really good at it.
I mention that to give you an idea of the specialization that has taken place in the hardware industry. In Software, you can still be a full-stack developer. In Hardware, those days are past.
I'll give you another concrete case: my parents have ancestors from similar regions in Europe, but as far back as we have records, they have no shared ancestors. What are the chances I'm an outlier? Unlikely, because of the close proximity of those two ancestor trees.
Linus is in a unique position - he is an engineer, almost 100% focused on technical solutions, yet he is also a public facing figure and is able to make public comments. He also (to the best of my knowledge) doesn't have to worry about customers, profits, shareholders, etc., things that a for-profit, publicly-traded company does
You've succinctly explained why Intel is in the troubles they are.
More nearly a heretical Jungian, with a bias as to what religion means.
What does that mean? It sounds atheistic, or like you are calling yourself a god. Serious question.
According to Joseph Chang, a statistician at Yale, the figures are just 600 years for everyone currently alive in Europe
It's hard to know for sure, but looking at my own ancestry, which is traced to the 1500s, I find this number unlikely. People largely stayed in the same area for many many years. I understand (from the article) he used numerical analysis to make an estimate of how people mix, and I accept it's true if you go back farther (for example, 700s), but 600 years seems too short just based on empirical evidence.
I also have serious doubts about 3,400 years for everyone in the world......some of the populations were isolated for 10s of thousands of years (Australian aborigine, for example), and 3,400 years seems too short. If he'd said most people share an ancestor from 3,400 years ago, that would pass the "smell test," but statistically there is high probability of straggling communities who are a bit isolated.
And when they end up managing a team where innovation is critical, they screw up all innovation.
Good point.
To be fair, the far left isn't dumb enough to actually call themselves Nazis.
Most programming isn't creative anymore. Most of what we make is some version of a workflow app, where the organization of the code follows the organization of the UI. There are slightly interesting problems around scaling, but most of those are solved too, unless you are Google or Amazon.