In the US, we use metric on almost all bottles that are sold. It's a good thing too: I can deal with 200ml but can never remember how many ounces in a quart.
Also worth mentioning that most countries use some kind of perverse mix of metric and traditional: they measure their height in meters but weigh themselves in pounds, or measure distances in traditional li or whatever.
It's really cool. I didn't know the US ever considered using the metric system in the 1700s, nor did I realize they were looking to standardize on any particular system at that time. The pirates is just a nice touch added to the story.
my cousin actually wrote a thesis on this because her entire life revolves around social work and obtaining half a dozen college degrees--so I have a more-direct answer for crime as well. If we cut the recidivism rate by more than half, we cut the crime; prisons that develop inmates into working members of society--rehabilitation from day one--will do that.
That sounds great, but what are you going to do to achieve that?
Didn't Microsoft get bent over for this once or twice?
MIcrosoft forgot to pay their dues to the politicians. As soon as they started contributing to national campaign budgets, their anti-trust lawsuit conveniently went away. Amazon pays, and so does Google.
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value.
That's the wrong way to look at it. A more informative way to look at it would be as a kind of FOREX arbitrage play. You can make plenty of profit off it by understanding the complexities of supply/demand as related to currency.
Obviously in this case, profiteering demand is a huge component, but it also was in the Swiss Franc run-up that happened a few years back.
I would argue that DNS Hijacking is a violation of net neutrality, no matter what the law particularly says. I would also argue that the primary problem is lack of competition between ISPs.
His initial point is either wrong (or to be generous to him, unproven). See for example how low level radiation may even prevent cancer. Our bodies evolved to thrive in th presence of low-level radiation, and if you want to talk about dangerous substances, Oxygen causes a much heavier wear on our bodies than background radiation.
The course mentioned in the summary is not CS101, it's CS50. So presumably a remedial class to help people get oriented before they actually hit the CS curriculum.
50 years ago J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI. I complain about the current NSA/CIA/FBI (with valid reason) but things were worse under J. Edgar Hoover.
I will say I would never willingly do business with a company that so easily files false libel lawsuits. Every company I've ever seen that does so is unstable (think, Donald Trump).
"in the same way that nobody knows exactly why bitcoin's price has [shot] up from a touch under $1,000 at the start of the year."
He doesn't know, he's ignorant. The reason it's shot up is because wall street banks started marketing bitcoin to their customers, and now every two-bit 'investor' wants a piece of the action. It's entirely because of marketing, that's why the price went up.
It will go up more because there is still so much hype around it, and the hype is growing. If the price drops, people will say, "This is an ideal time to get in."
To add to your comment, if it is possible for the hacker to brute-force a password using your API, brute-force dictionary attacks are so quick (and passwords people use are so short) that it doesn't matter if they know the user name exists or not.
Once you allow brute force attacks, you've lost. Everything else is a rounding error.
Meanwhile, the so called trolls (actually, sockpuppets) are really active in the Russian part of the Internet, and have two kinds of tactics which are more or less effective: defend the government's POV on the issue at hand
I don't know if that's the government though (it might be, I don't know), but there are plenty of average Russian citizens who will willingly do that without getting paid. Just like there are plenty of people in America who willingly defend Trump when he says stupid things.
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In the US, we use metric on almost all bottles that are sold. It's a good thing too: I can deal with 200ml but can never remember how many ounces in a quart.
Also worth mentioning that most countries use some kind of perverse mix of metric and traditional: they measure their height in meters but weigh themselves in pounds, or measure distances in traditional li or whatever.
It's really cool. I didn't know the US ever considered using the metric system in the 1700s, nor did I realize they were looking to standardize on any particular system at that time. The pirates is just a nice touch added to the story.
It always entertains me that one of the candidates actually wasn't born in the US (John McCain) and no one complained about that.
my cousin actually wrote a thesis on this because her entire life revolves around social work and obtaining half a dozen college degrees--so I have a more-direct answer for crime as well. If we cut the recidivism rate by more than half, we cut the crime; prisons that develop inmates into working members of society--rehabilitation from day one--will do that.
That sounds great, but what are you going to do to achieve that?
How is your campaign going?
Didn't Microsoft get bent over for this once or twice?
MIcrosoft forgot to pay their dues to the politicians. As soon as they started contributing to national campaign budgets, their anti-trust lawsuit conveniently went away. Amazon pays, and so does Google.
If Facebook is in danger of destruction, I want to know: how can we help? Help destroy it, that is. I am a moral person, after all.
Did Steve Jobs ever do programming anywhere? I know Bill Gates did, but I don't remember Jobs being referred to as a programmer ever......
I strongly suggest you consider an Enlightenment-based desktop.
You may call the french many things, but commies? meter is a french invented concept.
Communism was kind of a French thing, for example. Arguably Lenin patterned himself after Robespierre, using him as a role model.
No, you are wrong. The gullibility of people is infinite. If they think they have a chance of getting rich, they will trust.
It's a speculative bubble, one that *WILL* pop, and the fallout will be a complete annihilation of trust in cryptocurrencies.
That's a little extreme, don't you think? When have bank collapses ever caused a complete annihilation of trust in banks?
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value.
That's the wrong way to look at it. A more informative way to look at it would be as a kind of FOREX arbitrage play. You can make plenty of profit off it by understanding the complexities of supply/demand as related to currency.
Obviously in this case, profiteering demand is a huge component, but it also was in the Swiss Franc run-up that happened a few years back.
I would argue that DNS Hijacking is a violation of net neutrality, no matter what the law particularly says. I would also argue that the primary problem is lack of competition between ISPs.
His initial point is either wrong (or to be generous to him, unproven). See for example how low level radiation may even prevent cancer. Our bodies evolved to thrive in th presence of low-level radiation, and if you want to talk about dangerous substances, Oxygen causes a much heavier wear on our bodies than background radiation.
These sorts of statistics have been covered by XKCD
If you like Asian reality TV, then Terrace House is really good to being to understand Japanese culture.
The course mentioned in the summary is not CS101, it's CS50. So presumably a remedial class to help people get oriented before they actually hit the CS curriculum.
If you pay 63k/year, expect an A.
You are part of the problem.
50 years ago J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI. I complain about the current NSA/CIA/FBI (with valid reason) but things were worse under J. Edgar Hoover.
Congrats, Bruce! Way to go.
I will say I would never willingly do business with a company that so easily files false libel lawsuits. Every company I've ever seen that does so is unstable (think, Donald Trump).
"in the same way that nobody knows exactly why bitcoin's price has [shot] up from a touch under $1,000 at the start of the year."
He doesn't know, he's ignorant. The reason it's shot up is because wall street banks started marketing bitcoin to their customers, and now every two-bit 'investor' wants a piece of the action. It's entirely because of marketing, that's why the price went up.
It will go up more because there is still so much hype around it, and the hype is growing. If the price drops, people will say, "This is an ideal time to get in."
To add to your comment, if it is possible for the hacker to brute-force a password using your API, brute-force dictionary attacks are so quick (and passwords people use are so short) that it doesn't matter if they know the user name exists or not.
Once you allow brute force attacks, you've lost. Everything else is a rounding error.
Goldman Sachs will trade anything people show interest in. They don't care if it's a good investment or not, they make the money off transaction fees.
Meanwhile, the so called trolls (actually, sockpuppets) are really active in the Russian part of the Internet, and have two kinds of tactics which are more or less effective: defend the government's POV on the issue at hand
I don't know if that's the government though (it might be, I don't know), but there are plenty of average Russian citizens who will willingly do that without getting paid. Just like there are plenty of people in America who willingly defend Trump when he says stupid things.