> they know that they could go to a community college for 2 years (and we're in Canada where education doesn't cost as much as in the US), then do an apprenticeship for 2 years, and they'd be making double what they make now, and hardly anyone's doing it.
One of my first jobs was in a warehouse. I worked with those people, and their primary issue was an inability to plan for the future AT ALL. If you gave them a buck, they'd be at the vending machine as soon as they felt like a snack. Most of them couldn't wait to take their pay to a cheque-cashing business because having a float in their bank account so they could wait for a cheque to clear was impossible for them.
And rather than rent (which might be delayed for a month or two without getting evicted), that expensively-cashed cheque went straight to beer and weed.
Delayed gratification for personal benefit just wasn't something they could handle, because even tomorrow was too far into the future for them to plan.
No, you just post shit as if it's not shit and you're an authority. But keep going, I'm sure there's a possibility there's somebody out there still following this conversation you believes you.
Obviously they can afford to ship those batteries at the lower price point, so adding in the artificial limit gouging the customers who buy the higher 'capacity' (really 'access') and screwing over the customers who have paid for the physical component but aren't allowed to use it.
On the other hand, you know Tesla had to realize there'd be some backlash coming if they made this move, and they did it anyway. So thank/fuck them.
> You know that no CEO guy is going to shower you with riches for giving his anus a tongue bath, right?
Sometimes you get to marry their relatively hot daughter, with the business access and probable inheritance that implies.
Of course... you risk getting thrown under the bus when the father-in-law doesn't feel like going to jail for conspiring to collude with Russia to meddle in an election.
>The human race has not evolved much. In fact I'm pretty sure we are slipping backwards.
I understand your meaning, but keep in mind there isn't really a 'backwards' in evolution. We're evolving in response to current selection pressures based on available genetic code plus mutations.
Perhaps we're maintaining more deleterious genes (as defined by humans), but we're also getting greater variety. If anything I would expect increased survival rates and population mixing to be moving us towards a more homogeneous global population... but I'm not a biologist, geneticist, or anyone else who can offer an expert prediction there.
If we went by 'none of your business' there would be nothing to talk about on this site at all. Since you're here, that can't be your standard and I'm forced to conclude you're simply being an ass.
My problem with Pakistan and India is that they seem to be a hell of a lot more 'hot' than the US and Russians were in the height of the Cold War... and now we know that at least a couple of times we got really, really close to starting WWIII.
And with Pakistan there's the additional issue of Islamic fundamentalists having support from the intelligence service.
I never claimed authority over him, just the right of armchair quarterbacking.
If you're responsible for making a business work and you walk away while it is floundering, that's not really fulfilling your responsibilities. Whether that's fine with the stakeholders or not for some reason doesn't make it optimal.
To get elected generally requires you to convince people you're best for the job. That means, first and foremost, you need to be able to charm people.
To climb your way up the political ladder, you need to learn how to please as many people as possible while not pissing off anyone important. This involves double-speak, backroom dealing, and not getting caught doing anything that will cause public outcry and end your career.
Then you need either a thick skin or to be so self-centered you don't care about all the people constantly trying to tear you down.
Quite frankly, to find someone who has all those qualities and ALSO has the general public's best interests at heart is so improbable it's a wonder it ever happens at all. It's a lot easier to simply tell people what they want to hear and then do whatever you can get away with once they elect you.
CEOs shouldn't vacation while their company is failing.
On the other hand, when your company is essentially running a scam that has been uncovered, I don't think there's much for a CEO to do except get the hell out ASAP with as much money as they can extract.
I think if you're watching your scam's easy money dry up, you might want to get stoned in the desert for a while to avoid thinking about the sudden and likely long-term drop in standard of living you're going to have in the future.
>Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
I think being able to ensure any victory over you by your enemies is Pyrrhic at best is perfectly sane.
What makes NK seem crazy is the dictatorship, its methods of controlling the population, and the unnecessary hardship put upon the average North Korean to sustain it. And the loony and obvious propaganda, of course.
Then again, threatening a superpower more or less capable of ending human civilization when all you can do is wipe out a city or two... that's like your average bar scrapper picking a fight with an MMA champ to impress a girl. Most likely you're insignificant enough that it's not worth the trouble to drop you so long as you don't throw the first punch, but there's a risk you're going to get dead very fast.
In that sense, while it's still comparable to MAD, NK vs. USA isn't quite the same as USA vs. USSR in terms of 'sanity'.
That seems a silly comparison, since it is transistor-based, has none of the potential advantages of a memristor-based system, and isn't a hardware implementation of a neural network.
It's a MAD situation, I think it's fairly comparable to the Cold War in that respect.
The North seems crazy, but under it all they do want to live, and they will NEVER have enough power to take over so much as a child's playground without being immediately obliterated.
In that light, investment in Seoul isn't unwise. The city won't get destroyed because war isn't really all that likely. In fact, giving North Korea a juicier target to threaten kind of stabilizes the situation, since if there was a chance to take out North Korea without collateral damage... someone might be inclined to try it.
IIRC, IBM has made memristors, a basic electronic component only recently produced (and I believe also difficult to produce which is why they're still in the lab).
Memristors are nice little toys that effectively combine memory and processing, are non-volatile, fast-switching, low-power, small, and can be non-binary. In other words, they sound very much like a non-biological implementation of a neuron.
I'd love to see a hardware implementation of an artificial neural network, as getting it out of software should immediately massively improve the potential speed and complexity.
Believe it or not, it's really difficult to cleanly erase a mark left by a pencil. If someone is scrutinizing ballots looking for tampering, the indentation of the previous mark will be visible even if every speck of graphite is lifted from the paper.
Everyone involved hopes to exploit the system to their own benefit, they're not interested in a fair, honest, open system. That's why ballot stuffing is a thing and why we have secret ballots so people can't be reliably threatened or bribed for their votes.
Then there's the fact that there is a lot of money on the line, and you can bet lobbying (both honest and dishonest) is going on to keep that money flowing.
It seems very strange that there's so much wrangling over how to create a ballot until you recognize that the parties involved WANT it to be confusing because they're hoping they'll have enough name recognition to be the default choice.
It's pretty simple:
* Allow each person on the ballot to have a representative at every polling station if they wish.
* Have a ballot with a list of names with empty circles beside them. (Include party affiliation under the name if required).
* Give voters a pencil to mark one appropriate circle (per section of ballot if adding a referendum or something).
* Have the voter feed the ballot through a scanner that empties into a secure ballot box.
* If you have reason to think the scanner system has been corrupted... manually count ballots the old fashioned way.
* If you're worried about people voting multiple times under fake IDs... go that route so wonderfully demonstrated in Iraq - one vote, one purple-stained finger.
>I think you could reasonably define email as an electronic messaging system allowing users to exchange private messages asynchronously.
I think that's a pretty good working definition. The name itself - 'email' is obviously short for 'electronic mail', which is obviously meant to invoke an electronic replacement for the standard postal letter.
And it's just a name. Maybe somebody was calling it 'email' back when I was sending messages across FidoNet, but it doesn't matter. Setting the standard (which this guy didn't do) isn't inventing the concept. Coining the term (which this guy ALSO didn't do) isn't inventing the concept.
This is not something you need to work out by looking at the history of RFCs, it's as obvious as saying "It's nice to have breathable air".
A couple of well-placed agents in the stands with good cameras and a cell phone could have handled this almost as effectively without ever getting caught.
Incompetence.
I don't see this as cheating, though, it's more of an opportunity to enter a technology arms race. The other team needs radios with throat mics on an encrypted channel so they can't be intercepted. Or maybe safety glasses with a HUD.
It looks like I might have actually seen something... if my region wasn't also predicted to be blanketed with rain clouds and the occasional thunderstorm through to the weekend.:(
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> they know that they could go to a community college for 2 years (and we're in Canada where education doesn't cost as much as in the US), then do an apprenticeship for 2 years, and they'd be making double what they make now, and hardly anyone's doing it.
One of my first jobs was in a warehouse. I worked with those people, and their primary issue was an inability to plan for the future AT ALL. If you gave them a buck, they'd be at the vending machine as soon as they felt like a snack. Most of them couldn't wait to take their pay to a cheque-cashing business because having a float in their bank account so they could wait for a cheque to clear was impossible for them.
And rather than rent (which might be delayed for a month or two without getting evicted), that expensively-cashed cheque went straight to beer and weed.
Delayed gratification for personal benefit just wasn't something they could handle, because even tomorrow was too far into the future for them to plan.
> Also, I don't slum for mod points,
No, you just post shit as if it's not shit and you're an authority. But keep going, I'm sure there's a possibility there's somebody out there still following this conversation you believes you.
My guess is you came back to the discussion days later because you couldn't handle people with mod points downvoting you for being an idiot.
Obviously they can afford to ship those batteries at the lower price point, so adding in the artificial limit gouging the customers who buy the higher 'capacity' (really 'access') and screwing over the customers who have paid for the physical component but aren't allowed to use it.
On the other hand, you know Tesla had to realize there'd be some backlash coming if they made this move, and they did it anyway. So thank/fuck them.
I think we can implement that in the blockchain!
> You know that no CEO guy is going to shower you with riches for giving his anus a tongue bath, right?
Sometimes you get to marry their relatively hot daughter, with the business access and probable inheritance that implies.
Of course... you risk getting thrown under the bus when the father-in-law doesn't feel like going to jail for conspiring to collude with Russia to meddle in an election.
>The human race has not evolved much. In fact I'm pretty sure we are slipping backwards.
I understand your meaning, but keep in mind there isn't really a 'backwards' in evolution. We're evolving in response to current selection pressures based on available genetic code plus mutations.
Perhaps we're maintaining more deleterious genes (as defined by humans), but we're also getting greater variety. If anything I would expect increased survival rates and population mixing to be moving us towards a more homogeneous global population... but I'm not a biologist, geneticist, or anyone else who can offer an expert prediction there.
That's none of your business.
And an overly simplistic view of the situation, to boot.
If we went by 'none of your business' there would be nothing to talk about on this site at all. Since you're here, that can't be your standard and I'm forced to conclude you're simply being an ass.
My problem with Pakistan and India is that they seem to be a hell of a lot more 'hot' than the US and Russians were in the height of the Cold War... and now we know that at least a couple of times we got really, really close to starting WWIII.
And with Pakistan there's the additional issue of Islamic fundamentalists having support from the intelligence service.
I never claimed authority over him, just the right of armchair quarterbacking.
If you're responsible for making a business work and you walk away while it is floundering, that's not really fulfilling your responsibilities. Whether that's fine with the stakeholders or not for some reason doesn't make it optimal.
That's not class envy.
To get elected generally requires you to convince people you're best for the job. That means, first and foremost, you need to be able to charm people.
To climb your way up the political ladder, you need to learn how to please as many people as possible while not pissing off anyone important. This involves double-speak, backroom dealing, and not getting caught doing anything that will cause public outcry and end your career.
Then you need either a thick skin or to be so self-centered you don't care about all the people constantly trying to tear you down.
Quite frankly, to find someone who has all those qualities and ALSO has the general public's best interests at heart is so improbable it's a wonder it ever happens at all. It's a lot easier to simply tell people what they want to hear and then do whatever you can get away with once they elect you.
CEOs shouldn't vacation while their company is failing.
On the other hand, when your company is essentially running a scam that has been uncovered, I don't think there's much for a CEO to do except get the hell out ASAP with as much money as they can extract.
I think if you're watching your scam's easy money dry up, you might want to get stoned in the desert for a while to avoid thinking about the sudden and likely long-term drop in standard of living you're going to have in the future.
>Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
I think being able to ensure any victory over you by your enemies is Pyrrhic at best is perfectly sane.
What makes NK seem crazy is the dictatorship, its methods of controlling the population, and the unnecessary hardship put upon the average North Korean to sustain it. And the loony and obvious propaganda, of course.
Then again, threatening a superpower more or less capable of ending human civilization when all you can do is wipe out a city or two... that's like your average bar scrapper picking a fight with an MMA champ to impress a girl. Most likely you're insignificant enough that it's not worth the trouble to drop you so long as you don't throw the first punch, but there's a risk you're going to get dead very fast.
In that sense, while it's still comparable to MAD, NK vs. USA isn't quite the same as USA vs. USSR in terms of 'sanity'.
That seems a silly comparison, since it is transistor-based, has none of the potential advantages of a memristor-based system, and isn't a hardware implementation of a neural network.
It's a MAD situation, I think it's fairly comparable to the Cold War in that respect.
The North seems crazy, but under it all they do want to live, and they will NEVER have enough power to take over so much as a child's playground without being immediately obliterated.
In that light, investment in Seoul isn't unwise. The city won't get destroyed because war isn't really all that likely. In fact, giving North Korea a juicier target to threaten kind of stabilizes the situation, since if there was a chance to take out North Korea without collateral damage... someone might be inclined to try it.
IIRC, IBM has made memristors, a basic electronic component only recently produced (and I believe also difficult to produce which is why they're still in the lab).
Memristors are nice little toys that effectively combine memory and processing, are non-volatile, fast-switching, low-power, small, and can be non-binary. In other words, they sound very much like a non-biological implementation of a neuron.
I'd love to see a hardware implementation of an artificial neural network, as getting it out of software should immediately massively improve the potential speed and complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>Pencils have no advantage.
They don't dry out, they don't leak if broken, and their marks don't run if the paper gets wet.
Believe it or not, it's really difficult to cleanly erase a mark left by a pencil. If someone is scrutinizing ballots looking for tampering, the indentation of the previous mark will be visible even if every speck of graphite is lifted from the paper.
Everyone involved hopes to exploit the system to their own benefit, they're not interested in a fair, honest, open system. That's why ballot stuffing is a thing and why we have secret ballots so people can't be reliably threatened or bribed for their votes.
Then there's the fact that there is a lot of money on the line, and you can bet lobbying (both honest and dishonest) is going on to keep that money flowing.
It seems very strange that there's so much wrangling over how to create a ballot until you recognize that the parties involved WANT it to be confusing because they're hoping they'll have enough name recognition to be the default choice.
It's pretty simple:
* Allow each person on the ballot to have a representative at every polling station if they wish.
* Have a ballot with a list of names with empty circles beside them. (Include party affiliation under the name if required).
* Give voters a pencil to mark one appropriate circle (per section of ballot if adding a referendum or something).
* Have the voter feed the ballot through a scanner that empties into a secure ballot box.
* If you have reason to think the scanner system has been corrupted... manually count ballots the old fashioned way.
* If you're worried about people voting multiple times under fake IDs... go that route so wonderfully demonstrated in Iraq - one vote, one purple-stained finger.
>I think you could reasonably define email as an electronic messaging system allowing users to exchange private messages asynchronously.
I think that's a pretty good working definition. The name itself - 'email' is obviously short for 'electronic mail', which is obviously meant to invoke an electronic replacement for the standard postal letter.
And it's just a name. Maybe somebody was calling it 'email' back when I was sending messages across FidoNet, but it doesn't matter. Setting the standard (which this guy didn't do) isn't inventing the concept. Coining the term (which this guy ALSO didn't do) isn't inventing the concept.
This is not something you need to work out by looking at the history of RFCs, it's as obvious as saying "It's nice to have breathable air".
Sure. But my example was selected for the region and the current risk.
It's OK, eventually some fanatical Muslim group will destroy that blasphemous evidence and the next generation won't know it ever existed.
>they're stupid enough to get caught cheating?
I know, right?
A couple of well-placed agents in the stands with good cameras and a cell phone could have handled this almost as effectively without ever getting caught.
Incompetence.
I don't see this as cheating, though, it's more of an opportunity to enter a technology arms race. The other team needs radios with throat mics on an encrypted channel so they can't be intercepted. Or maybe safety glasses with a HUD.
OK, so I found the experimental 3 day forecast:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/produ...
It looks like I might have actually seen something... if my region wasn't also predicted to be blanketed with rain clouds and the occasional thunderstorm through to the weekend. :(