And more to the point, the biggest problem with the concept of Mars clearing its orbit is that its orbit was already largely cleared [nature.com] when it formed. According to our best models, Jupiter reached all the way in to around where Mars' orbit is today, and had cleared almost everything to around 1 AU.
How did the asteroid belt get there, then? That's a question, not a polemic.
I went through a workshop with some Xilinx vendors a few months ago on their new FPGA tools. They were nice, you could just drag-and-drop an entire CPU design into your FPGA, but at the end of the day, they didn't relieve you of the burden of actually understanding how things worked. In most cases I think you'd be better off just applying the time and effort to learn verilog (which is what I was hoping to get from the workshop, but oh well).
And the same Alan Perlis quote still applies: "When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." Note that this was also the goal of second-generation UML.
But you know, now that we have AI, this time it will work.
The problem (I would guess) is imprecision in how words match to reality. For example, you could say, "Tax employment income at 28%, and capital gains at 15%." It's a clear rule, but then what about royalties from a book? Are those employment income or capital gains? And that's a simple problem, then you get into depreciation rules, and what counts as a primary residency for purposes of a tax shelter, and the difference between a contractor and an employee, and it all gets so vague.
Of course, its' also possible that the Dutch contracted with Oracle or SAP and that's why their project failed.
That sounds like some kind of shamanistic stuff. Get in a trance, travel to the center of the world, get taught while there. Or he was hitting the mescaline. Searching online, it seems like Tesla was extreme in anti-drugs, so probably not. However, his homeland of Serbia seems to have been steeped in shamanistic tradition, so he could have picked it up there. Someone went wild on that wikipedia page, there's a lot of information.
while on the other hand claiming that he knew these things because he could tap into a universal, ethereal body of knowledge that exists in another dimension.
That's interesting, where did he come up with those kinds of thoughts? How did he learn to tap into the other dimension?
"corporate sabotage" <------- I'm going to use that excuse when my startup fails.
Physics says there is no way he could have done it without huge power losses, so basically you're hoping he had invented new physics but hadn't told anyone about it. Which would be cool.
Plus, the hair. Their hair gets EVERYWHERE, every-fucking-where. It ends up on your clothes, bedding, towels, food, furniture, carpets, bathroom- everywhere. You open the refrigerator and take out a plate of something, and there's cat hair in or on it.
You can largely fix this by 'shaving' them. You don't have to use a razor or anything, just standard hair clippers and cut their hair shorter.
Marx is so much fail. He was a guy who couldn't keep a job who kept writing about how it was the system keeping him down. For example, this formulation: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" completely and utterly ignores the problem of, "What do you do when everyone's needs are met?" Even in Marx's own day, arguably needs were met through poorhouses and such. No one was starving to death. Of course we can argue about the exact definition of 'needs', but overall, the question of how to distribute surpluses is much greater than how to fulfill everyone's needs.
I myself am proud to spend money on apps and help support a sustainable app ecosystem where I will see real improvements to apps because people are willing to spend money...
Clearly I am in a minority, but since you are making declarations, I will never spend money on a platform as locked down as the iPhone. I can and have spent money to support open source. I spent several years in jealousy because the iPhone was such a nice platform, and I really wanted one, but I stayed true to my principles.
Now iPhone isn't that much better than Android (and arguably is worse), so it's easier than it ever was.
So what is your definition of communism then? As soon as someone wants to hire an employee, it is no longer communism? Also, how do you deal with the fact that allocating resources is a tough problem, solved effectively by capitalism?
maintaining normal testosterone levels in elderly men has been shown to improve many parameters that are thought to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, such as increased lean body mass, decreased visceral fat mass, decreased total cholesterol, and glycemic control
because poor people have trouble affording real estate anymore, especially in the larger cities, and are stuck renting for most or all of their lives whereas in the 80s it was still relatively expected that you'd own a home by your early-to-mid 30s and back in the 50s during the post-war boom it was just taken as a near guarantee that you'd get your white picket fences
The worst part is when people complain about that, and also oppose new construction. Prices will go up whenever there isn't enough housing. That is true no matter how much inequality there is.
They didn't, though. It's even in the name, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. They had a communist party, whose goal was to achieve communism, but they were fully aware they hadn't gotten there yet.
Piketty argues that when inequality increases, economic productivity goes down. So that's one reason. Another reason is because it's not really fair: people who have more often didn't work an equivalent amount more to get their wealth. This is especially true for people who inherited their wealth.
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Record high temps, record low temps. record rain, record drought.
That's actually what you'd expect with a chaotic system built of multiple random variables. It would be unnatural for weather to always be the same.
not doing so makes you look ignorant, especially when your kids come up to you and tell you you're wrong because a textbook only has 8 planets listed.
It's a good chance for a teaching moment for your kids: that the establishment, and especially textbooks, can be wrong.
And more to the point, the biggest problem with the concept of Mars clearing its orbit is that its orbit was already largely cleared [nature.com] when it formed. According to our best models, Jupiter reached all the way in to around where Mars' orbit is today, and had cleared almost everything to around 1 AU.
How did the asteroid belt get there, then? That's a question, not a polemic.
I went through a workshop with some Xilinx vendors a few months ago on their new FPGA tools. They were nice, you could just drag-and-drop an entire CPU design into your FPGA, but at the end of the day, they didn't relieve you of the burden of actually understanding how things worked. In most cases I think you'd be better off just applying the time and effort to learn verilog (which is what I was hoping to get from the workshop, but oh well).
And the same Alan Perlis quote still applies: "When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." Note that this was also the goal of second-generation UML.
But you know, now that we have AI, this time it will work.
The problem (I would guess) is imprecision in how words match to reality. For example, you could say, "Tax employment income at 28%, and capital gains at 15%." It's a clear rule, but then what about royalties from a book? Are those employment income or capital gains? And that's a simple problem, then you get into depreciation rules, and what counts as a primary residency for purposes of a tax shelter, and the difference between a contractor and an employee, and it all gets so vague.
Of course, its' also possible that the Dutch contracted with Oracle or SAP and that's why their project failed.
looks like he got it from his home country.
That sounds like some kind of shamanistic stuff. Get in a trance, travel to the center of the world, get taught while there. Or he was hitting the mescaline. Searching online, it seems like Tesla was extreme in anti-drugs, so probably not. However, his homeland of Serbia seems to have been steeped in shamanistic tradition, so he could have picked it up there. Someone went wild on that wikipedia page, there's a lot of information.
while on the other hand claiming that he knew these things because he could tap into a universal, ethereal body of knowledge that exists in another dimension.
That's interesting, where did he come up with those kinds of thoughts? How did he learn to tap into the other dimension?
Close proximity to electrostatic or electromagnetic fields on a long-term basis is NOT good for you, period.
Really?
"corporate sabotage" <------- I'm going to use that excuse when my startup fails.
Physics says there is no way he could have done it without huge power losses, so basically you're hoping he had invented new physics but hadn't told anyone about it. Which would be cool.
Plus, the hair. Their hair gets EVERYWHERE, every-fucking-where. It ends up on your clothes, bedding, towels, food, furniture, carpets, bathroom- everywhere. You open the refrigerator and take out a plate of something, and there's cat hair in or on it.
You can largely fix this by 'shaving' them. You don't have to use a razor or anything, just standard hair clippers and cut their hair shorter.
Marx is so much fail. He was a guy who couldn't keep a job who kept writing about how it was the system keeping him down. For example, this formulation: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" completely and utterly ignores the problem of, "What do you do when everyone's needs are met?" Even in Marx's own day, arguably needs were met through poorhouses and such. No one was starving to death. Of course we can argue about the exact definition of 'needs', but overall, the question of how to distribute surpluses is much greater than how to fulfill everyone's needs.
I myself am proud to spend money on apps and help support a sustainable app ecosystem where I will see real improvements to apps because people are willing to spend money...
Clearly I am in a minority, but since you are making declarations, I will never spend money on a platform as locked down as the iPhone. I can and have spent money to support open source. I spent several years in jealousy because the iPhone was such a nice platform, and I really wanted one, but I stayed true to my principles.
Now iPhone isn't that much better than Android (and arguably is worse), so it's easier than it ever was.
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen for them. "Accessory to a crime" or something.
So what is your definition of communism then? As soon as someone wants to hire an employee, it is no longer communism? Also, how do you deal with the fact that allocating resources is a tough problem, solved effectively by capitalism?
nor is communism (if it is implemented as communism and not corrupted into state capitalism or despotism or some other perversion),
That's impossible. You'll always end up with people who want to own their own means of production, and you'll need to oppress them.
Testosterone is a cost you have to pay for the survival of the species, it has only bad effects on the long term
Uh, what bad effects does natural testosterone have? Wikipedia seems to think the opposite:
maintaining normal testosterone levels in elderly men has been shown to improve many parameters that are thought to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, such as increased lean body mass, decreased visceral fat mass, decreased total cholesterol, and glycemic control
because poor people have trouble affording real estate anymore, especially in the larger cities, and are stuck renting for most or all of their lives whereas in the 80s it was still relatively expected that you'd own a home by your early-to-mid 30s and back in the 50s during the post-war boom it was just taken as a near guarantee that you'd get your white picket fences
The worst part is when people complain about that, and also oppose new construction. Prices will go up whenever there isn't enough housing. That is true no matter how much inequality there is.
Although USSR identified itself as communist,
They didn't, though. It's even in the name, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. They had a communist party, whose goal was to achieve communism, but they were fully aware they hadn't gotten there yet.
Piketty argues that when inequality increases, economic productivity goes down. So that's one reason. Another reason is because it's not really fair: people who have more often didn't work an equivalent amount more to get their wealth. This is especially true for people who inherited their wealth.
Which, incidentally, will require the construction of concentration camps or something functionally identical to them.
Those already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm hoping beyond hope that he'll utterly fail in his signature issues,
Building a wall, re-doing Obamacare, and renegotiating some trade deals?
You have to hand it to the PHP crew - they actually get shit done, no matter what. :-)
They should make that their motto: "Getting shit done, no matter what!"
I figured you were aware. That's no reason to miss telling a good joke!