I moved to Melbourne more than 50 years and there's been a great tradition of vilifying each new wave of immigrants
Really? That simple? Most of the current immigrants are from China, India and UK. Sure there are a few grumbles about minor matters, but who is vilifying them? I do remember a backlash against some groups, and maybe all if you go back far enough. Vietnamese drug importation, high crime rate among Islanders who came via NZ, fraud from Greeks, the Griffith Mafia,...
But not every group, and not recently. The Chinese are working hard, not on welfare, and not committing crime. Not "vilified" .
There was never a huge problem with any of those groups. Not so many violent attacks on random strangers. But the tiny percentage of immigrants from Sudan are causing a wave of of crimes that were previously rare in Melbourne. All by mobs of male youths, around 15 to 25. Carjackings and home invasions, as well as swarms of youth snatching phones and handbags at public events and beaches. Not all immigrant groups are the same. To suggest so would be a bit racist, no?
Sadly 100% true and not a troll. Mods please undo the bad moderation.
Because of this, anyone of African appearance would terrify an AirBnB host. But if they heard your American or British accent, they would relax. Nigerian too, if they know the difference between Nigerian and Sudanese. Its not about "race", but about all the recent violent crime from a particular refugee group.
Many people, through no fault of their own, have become locked into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple killed their last phone with 3.5mm socket a few months ago.
Are you on drugs?
I was aiming for condescending (toward iPhone users):-) Maybe they were given one as a hand-me-down from parents, or from work?
The original iPhone kind of sucked. No copy&paste even! But the early Androids (later) were not great either.
Now, either one is great, and we are just arguing over details.
[CD players] used a single DAC... (rendering the two channels permanently half a sample out of phase).
I'm going to query that part, because it is specific. Have you done the maths on this? (Am I off?) 44kHz, so 11ms. Multiply by 343m/s = 4mm. FOUR MILLIMETRES
Please explain to me how this makes any sense? Moving one of your speakers by 4mm (or head by 2mm) will have the exact same delay effect. Does that ruin your listening experience? Are you detecting phase in the top octave of your hearing range?
Because I don't buy phones that don't have one. Genius, isn't it?
Yes, easy to be smug if you are an Android user, and have real choice. But isn't "smug" what we accuse the Apple "sheeple" of ? Let's not be hypocrites. Many people, through no fault of their own, have become locked into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple killed their last phone with 3.5mm socket a few months ago.
It is a serious annoyance, just just that. Apple is missing countless features that you may or may not want, but people only complain about the one that was there, and taken away.
Bluetooth headphones were made for making phone calls, not listening to music.
Back in the 1990s, yes. But welcome to the 21st century.
Technically what you hear through them is not the music itself, but a compressed approximation of the music.
You will be very sad if you every study anatomy and psychology, and learn how human senses work. Our perception is necessarily highly compressed. Do you imagine you "hear" the sound-pressure level at every moment? Are you one of those Luddites who hated CDs because of the sampling, or born too late? Best not to use the word "Technically" when you have zero technical comprehension.
Put simply - most of the "Human Intelligence" you see is really fancy pattern matching as well.
What is "Human Intelligence" exactly? Every time we try to define what makes us special, somebody finds an example of animal behaviour that fits the definition.
Evolution produced impressive intelligence hundreds of millions of years ago, comparable to what AI is attempting now. But the brains with sufficient self-awareness, abstraction and imagination (or whatever it take - we don't really know) to ask these questions have appeared once, with humans, to the best of our knowledge.
In that interval, life has evolved complex eyes and flight systems many times over, independently. There must be something very hard about going from the sort of AI we have now, to something resembling human intelligence.
How will goods be brought into the city without the use of vehicles?
Try reading. The trucks will have an easier time making deliveries with fewer cars choking the roads. Anyone who has driven in central Oslo will know this is an experience not to be missed. Nobody will ever miss it.
Since the billion-dollar Bjørvika tunnel opened in 2010, there is not much reason to even drive through Oslo.
If you decide your priority is to "care for" 7 dogs over [something else], then why should others have sympathy
Apparently, you only sympathise with people who have physical illness or disability. Anything wrong above the neck, and they are vile people who deserve what they got.
Center of empire has moved on to China, which is more economically free than the US and Europe
Free? The economy is less regulated, freedom for capitalists, but not individuals. True freedom comes from economic security, which means savings for the middle class, or at least a welfare system that allows people to keep their homes and health insurance if they lose their job. Even well-paid professionals in Silicon Valley can feel like serfs.
China is of course struggling with a mass-migration of workers at a speed and scale unprecedented in world history. 50 million new apartments are empty, while millions of migrant workers live in squalid dormitories. China is improving rapidly, but it is a rough road. And will get worse when the debt bomb explodes.
How about Jupiter? There is a good chance the Great Red Spot will be gone in a few decades. Maybe we could drop in a few thermonuclear weapons in the right spot to give it a kick?
That kind of puts the 100 million years for the rings in perspective.
4G has been around a while, but isn't VoLTE - voice over LTE - only a few years old? Many handsets still rely on 3G for voice calls, while using 4G LTE for data. Not in Taiwan?
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I moved to Melbourne more than 50 years and there's been a great tradition of vilifying each new wave of immigrants
Really? That simple? Most of the current immigrants are from China, India and UK. ...
Sure there are a few grumbles about minor matters, but who is vilifying them?
I do remember a backlash against some groups, and maybe all if you go back far enough.
Vietnamese drug importation, high crime rate among Islanders who came via NZ, fraud from Greeks, the Griffith Mafia,
But not every group, and not recently. The Chinese are working hard, not on welfare, and not committing crime. Not "vilified" .
There was never a huge problem with any of those groups. Not so many violent attacks on random strangers.
But the tiny percentage of immigrants from Sudan are causing a wave of of crimes that were previously rare in Melbourne.
All by mobs of male youths, around 15 to 25. Carjackings and home invasions, as well as swarms of youth snatching phones and handbags at public events and beaches. Not all immigrant groups are the same. To suggest so would be a bit racist, no?
https://www.google.com/search?...
Sadly 100% true and not a troll. Mods please undo the bad moderation.
Because of this, anyone of African appearance would terrify an AirBnB host.
But if they heard your American or British accent, they would relax. Nigerian too, if they know the difference between Nigerian and Sudanese.
Its not about "race", but about all the recent violent crime from a particular refugee group.
Are you on drugs?
I was aiming for condescending (toward iPhone users) :-)
Maybe they were given one as a hand-me-down from parents, or from work?
The original iPhone kind of sucked. No copy&paste even! But the early Androids (later) were not great either.
Now, either one is great, and we are just arguing over details.
[CD players] used a single DAC ... (rendering the two channels permanently half a sample out of phase).
I'm going to query that part, because it is specific. Have you done the maths on this? (Am I off?)
44kHz, so 11ms. Multiply by 343m/s = 4mm. FOUR MILLIMETRES
Please explain to me how this makes any sense? Moving one of your speakers by 4mm (or head by 2mm) will have the exact same delay effect. Does that ruin your listening experience? Are you detecting phase in the top octave of your hearing range?
so its like listening with your ears clogged full of wax.
If they seem the same to you, you have terrible hearing and may as well stick to AM radio. :-)
The emperor truly has no clothes.
Because I don't buy phones that don't have one.
Genius, isn't it?
Yes, easy to be smug if you are an Android user, and have real choice. But isn't "smug" what we accuse the Apple "sheeple" of ?
Let's not be hypocrites.
Many people, through no fault of their own, have become locked into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple killed their last phone with 3.5mm socket a few months ago.
It is a serious annoyance, just just that. Apple is missing countless features that you may or may not want, but people only complain about the one that was there, and taken away.
Bluetooth headphones were made for making phone calls, not listening to music.
Back in the 1990s, yes. But welcome to the 21st century.
Technically what you hear through them is not the music itself, but a compressed approximation of the music.
You will be very sad if you every study anatomy and psychology, and learn how human senses work. Our perception is necessarily highly compressed.
Do you imagine you "hear" the sound-pressure level at every moment? Are you one of those Luddites who hated CDs because of the sampling, or born too late?
Best not to use the word "Technically" when you have zero technical comprehension.
Put simply - most of the "Human Intelligence" you see is really fancy pattern matching as well.
What is "Human Intelligence" exactly? Every time we try to define what makes us special, somebody finds an example of animal behaviour that fits the definition.
Evolution produced impressive intelligence hundreds of millions of years ago, comparable to what AI is attempting now.
But the brains with sufficient self-awareness, abstraction and imagination (or whatever it take - we don't really know) to ask these questions have appeared once, with humans, to the best of our knowledge.
In that interval, life has evolved complex eyes and flight systems many times over, independently. There must be something very hard about going from the sort of AI we have now, to something resembling human intelligence.
This article was posted two weeks ago and now reappearing as a dupe. Was the first one returned to Amazon?
It is the Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Threads. Being posted as new.
The irony must be deliberate. Surely!?
But we thought that about Kindle sending 1984 to the memory hole.
No, the whole story is an obvious troll. Let's just move on.
The only concrete fact is that they are eliminating street parking. There are still plenty of multi-storey P-hus .
There is a vague "plan to turn the area into a car-free zone" one day. Not a ban of all vehicles.
How will goods be brought into the city without the use of vehicles?
Try reading. The trucks will have an easier time making deliveries with fewer cars choking the roads.
Anyone who has driven in central Oslo will know this is an experience not to be missed. Nobody will ever miss it.
Since the billion-dollar Bjørvika tunnel opened in 2010, there is not much reason to even drive through Oslo.
Yes, it is like the Mafia banning gambling in their headquarters. But only for lower echelons without chauffeurs.
Yes it is internal. It is local government debt, not national, that is most worrying. A totally different situation to US or other countries.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
That "10% rate" is a widely circulated urban legend, or zombie statistic.
Real studies in western countries show around 1-2% .
Though 10% has been seen in studies from Mexico, and blacks in Detroit.
https://isogg.org/wiki/Non-pat...
http://insidestory.org.au/the-...
I said, "white supremacist". OTOH it says something about the alt-right that when you mention white supremacists folks think of the two together...
What does it says? Except that oft-repeat slurs stick.
The 90s called. They want their lame Chuck Norris jokes back.
Hey, uh, 1995 called! They want their “certain decade called wanting its 'blank back' formula back!
If you decide your priority is to "care for" 7 dogs over [something else], then why should others have sympathy
Apparently, you only sympathise with people who have physical illness or disability. Anything wrong above the neck, and they are vile people who deserve what they got.
Center of empire has moved on to China, which is more economically free than the US and Europe
Free? The economy is less regulated, freedom for capitalists, but not individuals.
True freedom comes from economic security, which means savings for the middle class, or at least a welfare system that allows people to keep their homes and health insurance if they lose their job. Even well-paid professionals in Silicon Valley can feel like serfs.
China is of course struggling with a mass-migration of workers at a speed and scale unprecedented in world history.
50 million new apartments are empty, while millions of migrant workers live in squalid dormitories.
China is improving rapidly, but it is a rough road. And will get worse when the debt bomb explodes.
Crysis?
I would have gone with "I, for one, welcome our new Amoeba overlords."
China still has the ability to put humans in space, something the US currently does not. And the next person on the moon will likely be Chinese too.
Very likely. The US and Russians have nothing to prove, and no other reason to justify the cost. I don't see India beating China.
Mars could be a NASA mission, with SpaceX providing the rockets.
For the yanks, it was a Winston Churchill reference.
Wow, I'm so concerned.
How about Jupiter? There is a good chance the Great Red Spot will be gone in a few decades.
Maybe we could drop in a few thermonuclear weapons in the right spot to give it a kick?
That kind of puts the 100 million years for the rings in perspective.
https://news.nationalgeographi...
You, sir, are full of ignorant prejudices.
He may be boorish, but in the morning he will be sober, and you will still be naive.
4G has been around a while, but isn't VoLTE - voice over LTE - only a few years old?
Many handsets still rely on 3G for voice calls, while using 4G LTE for data.
Not in Taiwan?