What you're missing is that the current US healthcare system, the really inefficient one in terms of outcome per $, is not run by the government you bozo. It's private for-profit.
Computerized trading systems can be programmed to look at an announcement text and search for certain presumed to be significant keywords, then "near instantly" make a speculative trade based on the presence of those keywords in the announcement.
The problem is, this computerized trading system apparently received the text and made the decision faster than the speed of light would allow.
Does anyone have any notiion of how much gold per square meter would be needed for production solar panels based on this technology?
Bear in mind that one of the enthusiasm dampeners about PEM fuel cells is that they currently use Platinum / Palladium which are expensive and limited in supply.
How about we leave it to those with at least a Master's degree in a directly relevant field of science to do the thinking for us on whether there is a possible/probable problem here and how serious it is, rather than relying on some basement-dwelling personal website author whose motto is something along the lines of "You can pry the steering wheel of my SUV/manly-oversized pickup truck out of my COLD dead hands ! "
Header is read by smart switch/routers and they ensure that the associated packets do not get routed to any US-addressed (or US-puppet-addressed) host or router.
To do this one properly, an AVOID_US bit in the IPV6 packets should be used instead.
As to how a polygraph test ever works on an intelligent person:
Q: Is your name Edward Jones? A: (Thinks "calibration question: no bother") Yes.
Q: Have you ever lied to a police officer? A: (Thinks: "Calibration question: no real worries" (Yes or No - doesn't matter. Not much stress)
Q: Were you present at this place at this time. A: (Thinks: Holy shit - this is the murder scene - this is the all or nothing question for rest of my life!!!!!!!!!!) "Uh No" (Enormous stress levels - whether did the crime or completely innocent)
So I just don't get it - how can they distinguish between stress caused by knowing that a given question has a high likelihood of ruining the rest of your life - even if innocent, and the stress of worrying that your lie will be seen through.
Fragmentation also makes it more difficult, my guess is, for Google developers to upgrade core vanilla "Nexus" Android. They would have fewer options to change things as more and more phone vendor variants depend on particular feature sets in the core. Or conversely, variants will be inherently fragile and break / need re-engineering everytime Google ignores them and freely upgrades the core.
How many people a nation-state can efficiently govern depends on the level of cultural and technological tools for organization, education, communication, transport, and force projection. That is, it depends on the cultural and technological ingenuity of the society. Federating (dividing into sub-jurisdictions hierarchically, with division of responsibility over different issues) is an example of a cultural tool (pattern/meme) for implementing organization on a large scale. Federating allows a nation-state to become bigger than the region/group that could effectively be administered as one (for all issues).
By the way, since cultural memes and technology for transport, communication etc are on a trajectory of general improvement in capability and efficiency, one should expect larger nation-states (or a single one) in the future, albeit definitely federated (possibly 3-level federation).
No, the answer is don't go if you don't give a shit about the movie or the other people around you and just want to live in your little texty world with your "friends" who also, BTW, can't stand you either.
If you are deranged or evil enough and you go to a crowded public square, pick a particular moment (particular crowd), and start turning in a circle shooting with your semi automatic rifle with no particular aiming, you are no more or less effectively discriminating who you are killing and maiming than if you went to the same square and placed a small bomb and waited for a particular moment (particular crowd). You don't know the people in either case, and you in either case "discriminated" (picked) the general group that would be targeted, by your timing and observation.
Yes. Why is a small explosive a WMD but an assault rifle with multiple large magazines, which is much more deadly, is perfectly legal?
The US already has zero credibility worldwide on the question of identifying weapons of mass destruction anyway (a small war based on a total lie had something to do with that), so this indictment just puts it into the negative credibility zone.
Hobby projects demonstrate:
1) They are in the software field because they love it, they are fascinated by, and it's a large part of who they are or want to be
2) A self-motivated desire to continuously learn and continuously perfect their craft
3) Inherent creativity and inventiveness - a tendency to perceive problems or gaps in what exists and to want to solve the problems and fill the gaps
Doesn't sound like someone who's going to be a terrible software engineer.
And yes, if doctors could safely do hobby appendectomies in their garage and routinely had all the equipment needed in their garage, I would hire them if they did that. With software, all you need is a computer and an Internet connection, so it is perfectly reasonable to do hobby projects.
you need to steer a million miles clear of.
They are guaranteed to implement the project quickly, skillfully, and in a way which misses the entire point.
Q: A wise man says "I know that I know a) Everything b) Nothing
-1 for end user experience for getting code.
At least, google code should still include a tab called downloads for links to whereever else for each download.
That will minimize end-user-of-software (as in non-developer) confusion.
Oh and I would also like to extend my personal invitation to all the MFs who abused the service with malware to please leave the planet as soon as possible. Remember, suicide is always an option to a worthless, counterproductive life.
"rather than see oneself as obliged to adhere to it."
Obliged by what/whom to adhere to the ethical path?
Would we not agree that our perception of what would be an ethical path in a given situation or in general must be influenced either by a culturally arrived at, or personally arrived at "code of ethics" or "heuristics for ethics"?
And where do those come from? Are they not either inculcated by parents, story absorption, education, or cultural context and social pressure? And what is the source of all of those contextual elements being present front and centre in human society and existence? Might it not be an evolved cultural behaviour (as well as an evolved self-maintaining meme?), as well as perhaps a biological adaptation of our species to conceptualize and organize our behaviour so that we do well in the surrounding presence of that successful meme?
What is the basis of this ethics of which you speak. And please (for the love of God) don't say God.
What criteria do you use to judge if something is ethical?
Do we not find that behaviour/decision that is considered ethical is identical with that which would tend to promote co-operation?
i.e. behaviour that tends (whether intended as such or not) toward encouraging the creation of the larger co-operating whole?
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What you're missing is that the current US healthcare system, the really inefficient one in terms of outcome per $, is not run by the government you bozo. It's private for-profit.
Computerized trading systems can be programmed to look at an announcement text and search for certain presumed to be significant keywords, then "near instantly" make a speculative trade based on the presence of those keywords in the announcement.
The problem is, this computerized trading system apparently received the text and made the decision faster than the speed of light would allow.
Not possible. Sounds like fraud.
I think they plan to speed up the Earth's rotation so that the computer clocks will stay synchronized with daylight.
Also we can't exclude that someone was walking through the sand... backwards. Just saying.
per area multiplied by a large area.
Does anyone have any notiion of how much gold per square meter would be needed for production solar panels based on this technology?
Bear in mind that one of the enthusiasm dampeners about PEM fuel cells is that they currently use Platinum / Palladium which are expensive and limited in supply.
Isn't gold a little bit, um, expensive?
Could these gold nano-whatchamacallits be done for a grand total of less than $1 a watt which is about the current price of PV?
Yes. Why would we want more accurate and specific knowledge?
Why not just follow our usual procedure: Ready! Fire! Aim!
Why would we want any knowledge at all? It makes it so much harder to make up convenient facts.
"You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
How about we leave it to those with at least a Master's degree in a directly relevant field of science to do the thinking for us on whether there is a possible/probable problem here and how serious it is, rather than relying on some basement-dwelling personal website author whose motto is something along the lines of "You can pry the steering wheel of my SUV/manly-oversized pickup truck out of my COLD dead hands ! "
Seriously how much do you get paid to be nearly first in with asinine comments like that to pollute this sort of conversation?
The real issue is not real-time but automated data collection and gathering.
For this to be helpful there would need to be many many of these operating (at a range of depths) worldwide.
The logistics and costs of gathering the data manually from each would probably be prohibitive.
At the risk of continuing your flamebait session, I think we can summarize your post by quoting the first two words of its last line:
"I hate"
Header is read by smart switch/routers and they ensure that the associated packets do not get routed to any US-addressed (or US-puppet-addressed) host or router.
To do this one properly, an AVOID_US bit in the IPV6 packets should be used instead.
As to how a polygraph test ever works on an intelligent person:
Q: Is your name Edward Jones? A: (Thinks "calibration question: no bother") Yes.
Q: Have you ever lied to a police officer? A: (Thinks: "Calibration question: no real worries" (Yes or No - doesn't matter. Not much stress)
Q: Were you present at this place at this time. A: (Thinks: Holy shit - this is the murder scene - this is the all or nothing question for rest of my life!!!!!!!!!!) "Uh No" (Enormous stress levels - whether did the crime or completely innocent)
So I just don't get it - how can they distinguish between stress caused by knowing that a given question has a high likelihood of ruining the rest of your life - even if innocent, and the stress of worrying that your lie will be seen through.
Fragmentation also makes it more difficult, my guess is, for Google developers to upgrade core vanilla "Nexus" Android. They would have fewer options to change things as more and more phone vendor variants depend on particular feature sets in the core. Or conversely, variants will be inherently fragile and break / need re-engineering everytime Google ignores them and freely upgrades the core.
How many people a nation-state can efficiently govern depends on the level of cultural and technological tools for organization, education, communication, transport, and force projection. That is, it depends on the cultural and technological ingenuity of the society. Federating (dividing into sub-jurisdictions hierarchically, with division of responsibility over different issues) is an example of a cultural tool (pattern/meme) for implementing organization on a large scale. Federating allows a nation-state to become bigger than the region/group that could effectively be administered as one (for all issues).
By the way, since cultural memes and technology for transport, communication etc are on a trajectory of general improvement in capability and efficiency, one should expect larger nation-states (or a single one) in the future, albeit definitely federated (possibly 3-level federation).
Is it just me or is there a certain arbitrariness to all of this?
Can't we all just call ourselves the Earthling Humanoids, get along, and start working to save the polar bears and ourselves?
No, the answer is don't go if you don't give a shit about the movie or the other people around you and just want to live in your little texty world with your "friends" who also, BTW, can't stand you either.
My definition of people using cellphones, or talking, in movie theatres...
A teachable moment.
If you are deranged or evil enough and you go to a crowded public square, pick a particular moment (particular crowd), and start turning in a circle shooting with your semi automatic rifle with no particular aiming, you are no more or less effectively discriminating who you are killing and maiming than if you went to the same square and placed a small bomb and waited for a particular moment (particular crowd). You don't know the people in either case, and you in either case "discriminated" (picked) the general group that would be targeted, by your timing and observation.
Yes. Why is a small explosive a WMD but an assault rifle with multiple large magazines, which is much more deadly, is perfectly legal?
The US already has zero credibility worldwide on the question of identifying weapons of mass destruction anyway
(a small war based on a total lie had something to do with that),
so this indictment just puts it into the negative credibility zone.
Hobby projects demonstrate: 1) They are in the software field because they love it, they are fascinated by, and it's a large part of who they are or want to be 2) A self-motivated desire to continuously learn and continuously perfect their craft 3) Inherent creativity and inventiveness - a tendency to perceive problems or gaps in what exists and to want to solve the problems and fill the gaps Doesn't sound like someone who's going to be a terrible software engineer. And yes, if doctors could safely do hobby appendectomies in their garage and routinely had all the equipment needed in their garage, I would hire them if they did that. With software, all you need is a computer and an Internet connection, so it is perfectly reasonable to do hobby projects.
you need to steer a million miles clear of. They are guaranteed to implement the project quickly, skillfully, and in a way which misses the entire point. Q: A wise man says "I know that I know a) Everything b) Nothing
-1 for end user experience for getting code. At least, google code should still include a tab called downloads for links to whereever else for each download. That will minimize end-user-of-software (as in non-developer) confusion. Oh and I would also like to extend my personal invitation to all the MFs who abused the service with malware to please leave the planet as soon as possible. Remember, suicide is always an option to a worthless, counterproductive life.
"rather than see oneself as obliged to adhere to it." Obliged by what/whom to adhere to the ethical path? Would we not agree that our perception of what would be an ethical path in a given situation or in general must be influenced either by a culturally arrived at, or personally arrived at "code of ethics" or "heuristics for ethics"? And where do those come from? Are they not either inculcated by parents, story absorption, education, or cultural context and social pressure? And what is the source of all of those contextual elements being present front and centre in human society and existence? Might it not be an evolved cultural behaviour (as well as an evolved self-maintaining meme?), as well as perhaps a biological adaptation of our species to conceptualize and organize our behaviour so that we do well in the surrounding presence of that successful meme?
What is the basis of this ethics of which you speak. And please (for the love of God) don't say God. What criteria do you use to judge if something is ethical? Do we not find that behaviour/decision that is considered ethical is identical with that which would tend to promote co-operation? i.e. behaviour that tends (whether intended as such or not) toward encouraging the creation of the larger co-operating whole?