The far lefties KNOW that China is unethical in many things.
Yes: everyone knows that.
This is just more of the same that they continue to back.
There's no outrage quite like manufactured outrage. Go on point to when someone you consider "the left" supported China. Bonus points for telling me that China is communist without actually showing when someone supported them.
It's kind of ironic using religious terminology to attack people who think global warming is a thing. Liberally the only reason anyone disbelieves it is because for various reasons, global warming goes against their worldview.
The absorption and emission spectra of CO2 were measured in the nineteenth century and that was when the greenhouse effect was discovered. The physics of that is absolutely crystal clear and very well settled in this regard. If you really cared you could but a spectrometer and look for yourself, or even make one. Butt you won't because you'd not interested in the science, and you're not a skeptic.
You could then move your disbelief I to the moor recent work which deals with the much more complex feedback systems of the earth to make actuate predictions. The fact that predictions have been successful won't alter your opinion of them nor does your lack of knowledge of how the models work.
You also likely believe that following the consensus doesn't make you smart. That's true, but you've forgetting that contrarianism doesn't make your smart either.
So it has not been demonstrated that averaging out the weather (almost certainly a chaotic process) produces anything of value.
Tell you what, since you don't believe that averaging weather is useful then I have a wager for you. If it snows in London in on August 10th this year I will pay you $100,000, but if it fails to snow, you pay me $100.
If averaging weather is useless then you'd be a fool not to take the wager since your expected gain is $50,050. If you refuse to take the wager then you are admitting that averaging of weather is meaningful.
I know, I know you don't believe that I'll honour the wager. You're probably right, since I'm a pseudonymous rando on the internet. So take it up with a betting shop and post a picture of the betting slip to prove you stand by your claim. They'll give you MUCH better odds than I did.
"if you disagree with my orthodoxy it's heresy!" who's the zealot?
Being called foolish for disagreeing with the commonly held position does not mean the person calling you an idiot is religous. Sometimes it means you really are an idiot.
These large companies are built on civilisation, which is paid for by taxes. Everybody needs to pay in so success stories like Apple can exist. And it's certainly fair that those that benefit the most pay the most.
Anything else is fleecing the middle class to pay for the extravagance of the ultra rich. A strong middle class is needed for a strong economy and demand. If the Apple's of this world all actually got what they wanted they'd be screwed since there would be no one to buy their "premium" offerings.
It's pure hypocrisy. The excuses for doing it are just terrible too and amount to saying it's ok doing something deeply unethical and borderline illegal if you do it for money.
Political correctness is absolutely destroying UK society and things are becoming visibly worse on the streets.
Bullshit.
The police have become largely irrelevant in many communities, and I don't even waste my time reporting crime to them since I know from past attempts to report serious crime that they will do absolutely nothing.
Right, so the Tories relentlessly cut and cut and cut the police until there's not enough of the to do the job, but it's the fault of "political correctness". Of course the Daily Fail loves the tories for some reason so they'll keep yelling about how some other random boogeyman of the day is the REAL cause of teh problems.
I run with noscript and I block all of the ad networks. I can't remember the last time I saw an autoplaying video. I didn't even know that feature existed or was broken.
Except that is not what they did. Taking a ruler and drawing a tangent to a curve is drafting not science.
You're taking a second (or third, or worse) hand lay summary of what they did and using that to assume the original science was simply linear extrapolation. That seems pretty unlikely.
No, you are supposed to feel sorry that stealing Monopoly money only agreed upon by a relative few people
That's a massive, massive misrepresentation of reality.
*You* clearly don't like bitcoin but that's irrelevant. It has a market cap of 60 billion dollars, about the same as Phillip Morris.
You can equally well level your accusaions against shares in that company. They are paper money, not many people hold them (i.e. the value is agreed by relatively few people) and the organisation is a deeply hateful one.
It doesn't matter though. The money can be got in and out easily and it's REAL money. The guy stole 5 million real dollars whether or not you personally happen to like that kind of value.
If nothing else, feel sorry for the tax dollars being spent on keeping this guy out of society for ten years rather than slapping him with a huge fine and forcing him to work it off.
Your previous argument has no bearing on that. The relative merits of prison vs non custodial sentances is irrelevant to you not liking the money he stole. Shame really because your second point is a much more interesting one, but it's realy overshadowed by the first.
This project got momentum by trashing on MacPorts, although MacPorts has always worked fine for me.
I never had luck with macports. I found it would work for a few months, then screw up and need a reinstall. Since it was compile from source that was an overnighter.
Technically I found it flawed. I didn't catch any drama regarding it but there's not really an excuse for that.
And for some silly reason, they decided to put everything in/usr/local
Imagine if you could buy milk in reusable containers!
They could deliver it for you at night in glass bottles, so you have fresh milk in the morning. The amazing idea is you can also leave out your bottles to be collected by the very same person delivering them. They could take the bottles back to the deopt, wash,sterilise and re-use them.
To make it even more super-duper environmental they could even use electric vehicles to do the collection and delivery.
I've found homebrew to be, well, it's better than macports, but that's not saying much. And macports was better than nothing, so homebrew is at least twice as good as nothing! On the other hand it somehow seems less good than what's available on Linux. The compile from source model is also just a bit on the annoyingly slow side. Kind of like gentoo, but with less of the funroll overtones.
Might bo OK on Windows though, that doesn't have well established package managers like Linux.
It's a big problem for gaming or ssh sessions, and for pathetically poorly designed sites that require a bunch of back-and-forth with AJAX to fill in a page
The problem is that's most sites now. Even loads of blogs which are basically static text and images won't even render anythng without JavaScript. Naturally, the promise of AJAX (that it would make everything faster because there was no need to fetch whole pages) never panned out.
Spectre etc are dreadful if you're running a server with secrets on. Things that turn remote exploits into local ones are bad.
I don't want the slowdowns on compute machines though. It's not like there's remote access from anything untrusted anyway so the security holes aren't an issue.
Until we get to level 5 autonomy these technologies cannot be used as a substitute for safe driving.
Well the key there is "safe driving". I don't think you need that before you're a good substitute for average human driving.
As someone pointed out up thread, if the drivers fell asleep and caused a 5 car pileup with multiple deaths, it would barely make the local news. Unfortunately that kind of thing happens all the time. Autonomus cars aren't a substitute for an altert, well trained, non distracted human driver in familiar driving conditions. However people get begging the wheel sleep deprived, yelling at the kids, annoyed about something at work and impatient with the heavy traffic due to the one snowfall that year.
Lots of documentation, tons of useful libraries, the old saying of "write once debug everywhere" doesn't seem to hold anymore.
Well, everywhere kind of shrank to Linux servers. Back when that phrase was coined, there were still strong showings from AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT and probably some others I've forgotten. I hear some people still use Windows for serving web services, but I've not seen it much in the wild recently.
It just works, it works well, and it's fast. Not like the old days.
Also in fairness it has improved a lot.
Node fanboys baffle me. We spent decades explaining the value of strict types, for example, and now they want to throw it all out the window... Yes, you CAN write complex software with JavaScript but dear god why the hell would you want to?
Quite. And then there's leftpad. Leftpad FFS, leftpad.
While 304 isn't the strongest grade (IIRC) I just don't see the case for stainless. It's not like rockets need long term rust resistance, and you have to sacrifice various desirable properties for that. Why not a high grade of non stainless?
As you and the person who modded you up demonstrated very well that line of attack still works.
The media is never going to be perfect and it's beyond foolish to expect infalliability. In fact the tactic of "it's not prefect therefore it's worthless" is one of the most common tools in the arsenal of people trying to discredit the media.
Except, that "fact checkers" have been held up as infallible arbiters of truth with lines like,
No they have not been held up as infallible. You're doing the whole puritanical thing of dividing the world starkly into perfect and worthless.
"We know Trump lied, because Snopes said...."
Trump lies much of the time. Snopes is right most of the time. The vast majority of times people have pitted Snopes against Trump and claimed Trump lied, they were right, Trump did.
Snopes is sometimes wrong, but they issue corrections and retractions.
Could you please elaborate the boldface part ("these people")? Who are they? Foreign students or Americans?
You do realise I was specifically quoting the person I was replying to? I'm pretty sure from the context he means the foreign students. As in we can retain foreign students without fucking things up for Americans. The sentiment doesn't really make sense if you substitute "Americans" in there since there's not a problem with mass emigration of educated Americans.
Also, when you are talking about student loan in America, there are a few way to avoid paying it (some people do). One easiest way is to have multiple SSNs (and I know some people who have them).
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The far lefties KNOW that China is unethical in many things.
Yes: everyone knows that.
This is just more of the same that they continue to back.
There's no outrage quite like manufactured outrage. Go on point to when someone you consider "the left" supported China. Bonus points for telling me that China is communist without actually showing when someone supported them.
It's kind of ironic using religious terminology to attack people who think global warming is a thing. Liberally the only reason anyone disbelieves it is because for various reasons, global warming goes against their worldview.
The absorption and emission spectra of CO2 were measured in the nineteenth century and that was when the greenhouse effect was discovered. The physics of that is absolutely crystal clear and very well settled in this regard. If you really cared you could but a spectrometer and look for yourself, or even make one. Butt you won't because you'd not interested in the science, and you're not a skeptic.
You could then move your disbelief I to the moor recent work which deals with the much more complex feedback systems of the earth to make actuate predictions. The fact that predictions have been successful won't alter your opinion of them nor does your lack of knowledge of how the models work.
You also likely believe that following the consensus doesn't make you smart. That's true, but you've forgetting that contrarianism doesn't make your smart either.
Go get hit by a bus cunt
What is a bus cunt? And what would be the effect if one hit you?
So it has not been demonstrated that averaging out the weather (almost certainly a chaotic process) produces anything of value.
Tell you what, since you don't believe that averaging weather is useful then I have a wager for you. If it snows in London in on August 10th this year I will pay you $100,000, but if it fails to snow, you pay me $100.
If averaging weather is useless then you'd be a fool not to take the wager since your expected gain is $50,050. If you refuse to take the wager then you are admitting that averaging of weather is meaningful.
I know, I know you don't believe that I'll honour the wager. You're probably right, since I'm a pseudonymous rando on the internet. So take it up with a betting shop and post a picture of the betting slip to prove you stand by your claim. They'll give you MUCH better odds than I did.
$10 says you won't!
Let me alter it slightly:
Being called foolish for disagreeing with the commonly held position does not mean the person calling you an idiot is religous. Sometimes it means you really are an idiot.
But again, none of this really says anything about proving CO2 based AGW.
Out of interest do you dispute the absorbtion and emission spectra of CO2?
These large companies are built on civilisation, which is paid for by taxes. Everybody needs to pay in so success stories like Apple can exist. And it's certainly fair that those that benefit the most pay the most.
Anything else is fleecing the middle class to pay for the extravagance of the ultra rich. A strong middle class is needed for a strong economy and demand. If the Apple's of this world all actually got what they wanted they'd be screwed since there would be no one to buy their "premium" offerings.
It's pure hypocrisy. The excuses for doing it are just terrible too and amount to saying it's ok doing something deeply unethical and borderline illegal if you do it for money.
Political correctness is absolutely destroying UK society and things are becoming visibly worse on the streets.
Bullshit.
The police have become largely irrelevant in many communities, and I don't even waste my time reporting crime to them since I know from past attempts to report serious crime that they will do absolutely nothing.
Right, so the Tories relentlessly cut and cut and cut the police until there's not enough of the to do the job, but it's the fault of "political correctness". Of course the Daily Fail loves the tories for some reason so they'll keep yelling about how some other random boogeyman of the day is the REAL cause of teh problems.
I run with noscript and I block all of the ad networks. I can't remember the last time I saw an autoplaying video. I didn't even know that feature existed or was broken.
Except that is not what they did. Taking a ruler and drawing a tangent to a curve is drafting not science.
You're taking a second (or third, or worse) hand lay summary of what they did and using that to assume the original science was simply linear extrapolation. That seems pretty unlikely.
I really don't get how people have such problems work basic English and the connector of cause and effect.
Global warming is happening, that causes in climate change.
No, you are supposed to feel sorry that stealing Monopoly money only agreed upon by a relative few people
That's a massive, massive misrepresentation of reality.
*You* clearly don't like bitcoin but that's irrelevant. It has a market cap of 60 billion dollars, about the same as Phillip Morris.
You can equally well level your accusaions against shares in that company. They are paper money, not many people hold them (i.e. the value is agreed by relatively few people) and the organisation is a deeply hateful one.
It doesn't matter though. The money can be got in and out easily and it's REAL money. The guy stole 5 million real dollars whether or not you personally happen to like that kind of value.
If nothing else, feel sorry for the tax dollars being spent on keeping this guy out of society for ten years rather than slapping him with a huge fine and forcing him to work it off.
Your previous argument has no bearing on that. The relative merits of prison vs non custodial sentances is irrelevant to you not liking the money he stole. Shame really because your second point is a much more interesting one, but it's realy overshadowed by the first.
From the article: "The model is similar to milk deliveries in the early 20th century,".
I was kind of taking the piss out of the rather clickbaity headline.
This project got momentum by trashing on MacPorts, although MacPorts has always worked fine for me.
I never had luck with macports. I found it would work for a few months, then screw up and need a reinstall. Since it was compile from source that was an overnighter.
Technically I found it flawed. I didn't catch any drama regarding it but there's not really an excuse for that.
And for some silly reason, they decided to put everything in /usr/local
yep.
Imagine if you could buy milk in reusable containers!
They could deliver it for you at night in glass bottles, so you have fresh milk in the morning. The amazing idea is you can also leave out your bottles to be collected by the very same person delivering them. They could take the bottles back to the deopt, wash ,sterilise and re-use them.
To make it even more super-duper environmental they could even use electric vehicles to do the collection and delivery.
So futuristic.
Yeah came here to say that.
I've found homebrew to be, well, it's better than macports, but that's not saying much. And macports was better than nothing, so homebrew is at least twice as good as nothing! On the other hand it somehow seems less good than what's available on Linux. The compile from source model is also just a bit on the annoyingly slow side. Kind of like gentoo, but with less of the funroll overtones.
Might bo OK on Windows though, that doesn't have well established package managers like Linux.
It's a big problem for gaming or ssh sessions, and for pathetically poorly designed sites that require a bunch of back-and-forth with AJAX to fill in a page
The problem is that's most sites now. Even loads of blogs which are basically static text and images won't even render anythng without JavaScript. Naturally, the promise of AJAX (that it would make everything faster because there was no need to fetch whole pages) never panned out.
Spectre etc are dreadful if you're running a server with secrets on. Things that turn remote exploits into local ones are bad.
I don't want the slowdowns on compute machines though. It's not like there's remote access from anything untrusted anyway so the security holes aren't an issue.
Until we get to level 5 autonomy these technologies cannot be used as a substitute for safe driving.
Well the key there is "safe driving". I don't think you need that before you're a good substitute for average human driving.
As someone pointed out up thread, if the drivers fell asleep and caused a 5 car pileup with multiple deaths, it would barely make the local news. Unfortunately that kind of thing happens all the time. Autonomus cars aren't a substitute for an altert, well trained, non distracted human driver in familiar driving conditions. However people get begging the wheel sleep deprived, yelling at the kids, annoyed about something at work and impatient with the heavy traffic due to the one snowfall that year.
It's dead on the desktop because it's dreadful, slow, memory-hungry
Not any more. I mean ostensibly yes, but compared to what we have now, it's svelte and fast. The JVM is way thinner than electron.
Lots of documentation, tons of useful libraries, the old saying of "write once debug everywhere" doesn't seem to hold anymore.
Well, everywhere kind of shrank to Linux servers. Back when that phrase was coined, there were still strong showings from AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT and probably some others I've forgotten. I hear some people still use Windows for serving web services, but I've not seen it much in the wild recently.
It just works, it works well, and it's fast. Not like the old days.
Also in fairness it has improved a lot.
Node fanboys baffle me. We spent decades explaining the value of strict types, for example, and now they want to throw it all out the window... Yes, you CAN write complex software with JavaScript but dear god why the hell would you want to?
Quite. And then there's leftpad. Leftpad FFS, leftpad.
While 304 isn't the strongest grade (IIRC) I just don't see the case for stainless. It's not like rockets need long term rust resistance, and you have to sacrifice various desirable properties for that. Why not a high grade of non stainless?
As you and the person who modded you up demonstrated very well that line of attack still works.
The media is never going to be perfect and it's beyond foolish to expect infalliability. In fact the tactic of "it's not prefect therefore it's worthless" is one of the most common tools in the arsenal of people trying to discredit the media.
Except, that "fact checkers" have been held up as infallible arbiters of truth with lines like,
No they have not been held up as infallible. You're doing the whole puritanical thing of dividing the world starkly into perfect and worthless.
"We know Trump lied, because Snopes said...."
Trump lies much of the time. Snopes is right most of the time. The vast majority of times people have pitted Snopes against Trump and claimed Trump lied, they were right, Trump did.
Snopes is sometimes wrong, but they issue corrections and retractions.
Could you please elaborate the boldface part ("these people")? Who are they? Foreign students or Americans?
You do realise I was specifically quoting the person I was replying to? I'm pretty sure from the context he means the foreign students. As in we can retain foreign students without fucking things up for Americans. The sentiment doesn't really make sense if you substitute "Americans" in there since there's not a problem with mass emigration of educated Americans.
Also, when you are talking about student loan in America, there are a few way to avoid paying it (some people do). One easiest way is to have multiple SSNs (and I know some people who have them).
That doesn't soud legal.