This is a variant of the Prisoner's dilemma, where if everyone does what's in their immediate best interest then everyone suffers needlessly.
It would only be the Prisoner's dilemma, if it was always better not to get vaccinated, regardless of what others chose. But in the "vaccination game" you want to get vaccinated if nobody else is and you don't need to if everybody else is. So you want to do the opposite of the crowd. That makes it a Chicken game.
Interesting graph but it shows a power-law, not a straight line. Notice the natural logarithms, "ln", on the axes. So the relationship is
(maximum longevity) ~ (adult body mass)^x
where x looks to be about 1/4 from the graph.
Anti-pokerites believe in something that is obviously untrue (the non-existence of two pair). I'm not saying you believe in this, but this turns out to be the only consistent stance that anti-pokerites fall into when they start talking about the after-round. They do this to avoid the unavoidable consequence that based on the fact that two pair exist, and didn't exist before the hand was dealt, the evidence is actually on the side of pokerites of various stripes that two pair exist again after the round.
Why can't the "self" be a transient pattern, like "two pair" in poker?
I've got an affected router (DI-524 Rev C1 v3.23 firmware). From the advisory:
Older models, such as the DI-524, require authentication for all of the supported SOAP actions, but
allow both the administrator and user accounts to execute any of these actions. This allows a malicious
individual to use the often-ignored user account (default login of 'user' with a blank password) to
perform administrative actions
If I read that right I should be fine as long as I secure the user account as well as the admin account. (And, of course, disable remote access.)
Can anybody confirm/correct? Thanks.
Hmm, that doesn't seem right. Stopping from v = 200 mph = 89.4 m/s over a distance of x = 0.65 m would require a constant deceleration of a = -v^2/(2 x) = -6150 m/s^2 = -630 g, 630 times the force of gravity. The highest g-force test I'm aware of was 46 g and that caused permanent injury.
Your memory seems fine: I've also seen a slowdown in hard drive capacity gains since 2001. It's still growing exponentially but at a slower rate (went from doubling every ~14 months to ~19).
Oh come on, that's a complete troll! Obviously, if any action has (or can reasonably be expected to have) negative consequences to another person then it should be watched over by the state. That's the whole point of law: to establish the limits of interactions between individuals. It doesn't matter if it's within your own home or not--if others are impacted.
But if there are no negative consequences to others (or the expected consequences fall below some minimum "noise" level) then the state should not interfere. Establishing these criteria is where law gets interesting.
Anyway, thanks for trolling. It's helped me crystallize my thoughts on the issue.
Hmm, I haven't kept up with the research but about 12 years ago I ran a simulation out to 200000x200000. I used a linked list data structure rather than an array to store the data since the typical density of live sites in GL is pretty low (~3%). If you're interested check out Fig 3.27 (page 69) of my MSc thesis.</blatant self-promotion>
As I recall it took around 3 months to run on one of the latest Sparcstations at the time.
Wow. How'd you get modded troll for this, Moridin? Granted, your rant doesn't address the GP's main point but you laid out the role of science very nicely.
Watch out for "reload bias", though. The temptation is to load OO.o, time it, turn off Java, close and reload. But the second time it's loaded it's already faster even without disabling Java. My first load was 15s and the second was 5s. Turning off Java then did *not* reduce the load time from 5s for me.
I'm with you. IAAAPS (I am also a practicing scientist) and I strictly define science by the testability requirement. But...arguing this with people who don't understand science's boundaries is what makes the philosophy of science fun!
Thinking just about classical computing (ie. not quantum) here's my back-of-the envelope calculation for a "long-enough" (uncrackable) key:
The universe is estimated(!) to contain 10^100 or B=2^332 bits of information. If all that information were dedicated to brute-forcing a length L key it would take
B = L 2^L
to store all possible keys.
If that's right then the universe could never brute force a key longer than L=324 bits.
God uses 324-bit encryption and that's good enough for me!:P
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This is a variant of the Prisoner's dilemma, where if everyone does what's in their immediate best interest then everyone suffers needlessly.
It would only be the Prisoner's dilemma, if it was always better not to get vaccinated, regardless of what others chose. But in the "vaccination game" you want to get vaccinated if nobody else is and you don't need to if everybody else is. So you want to do the opposite of the crowd. That makes it a Chicken game.
Interesting graph but it shows a power-law, not a straight line. Notice the natural logarithms, "ln", on the axes. So the relationship is (maximum longevity) ~ (adult body mass)^x where x looks to be about 1/4 from the graph.
Why can't the "self" be a transient pattern, like "two pair" in poker?
If I read that right I should be fine as long as I secure the user account as well as the admin account. (And, of course, disable remote access.) Can anybody confirm/correct? Thanks.
Sony shills: You missed one!
Hmm, that doesn't seem right. Stopping from v = 200 mph = 89.4 m/s over a distance of x = 0.65 m would require a constant deceleration of a = -v^2/(2 x) = -6150 m/s^2 = -630 g, 630 times the force of gravity. The highest g-force test I'm aware of was 46 g and that caused permanent injury.
Yup: Karma-whoring.
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Your memory seems fine: I've also seen a slowdown in hard drive capacity gains since 2001. It's still growing exponentially but at a slower rate (went from doubling every ~14 months to ~19).
Oh come on, that's a complete troll! Obviously, if any action has (or can reasonably be expected to have) negative consequences to another person then it should be watched over by the state. That's the whole point of law: to establish the limits of interactions between individuals. It doesn't matter if it's within your own home or not--if others are impacted.
But if there are no negative consequences to others (or the expected consequences fall below some minimum "noise" level) then the state should not interfere. Establishing these criteria is where law gets interesting.
Anyway, thanks for trolling. It's helped me crystallize my thoughts on the issue.
Hmm, I haven't kept up with the research but about 12 years ago I ran a simulation out to 200000x200000. I used a linked list data structure rather than an array to store the data since the typical density of live sites in GL is pretty low (~3%). If you're interested check out Fig 3.27 (page 69) of my MSc thesis.</blatant self-promotion> As I recall it took around 3 months to run on one of the latest Sparcstations at the time.
Wow. How'd you get modded troll for this, Moridin? Granted, your rant doesn't address the GP's main point but you laid out the role of science very nicely.
Well done.
Watch out for "reload bias", though. The temptation is to load OO.o, time it, turn off Java, close and reload. But the second time it's loaded it's already faster even without disabling Java. My first load was 15s and the second was 5s. Turning off Java then did *not* reduce the load time from 5s for me.
I'm with you. IAAAPS (I am also a practicing scientist) and I strictly define science by the testability requirement. But...arguing this with people who don't understand science's boundaries is what makes the philosophy of science fun!
That explains the huge drop in value I saw in late 2001. But why has the value not rebounded since then?
Thinking just about classical computing (ie. not quantum) here's my back-of-the envelope calculation for a "long-enough" (uncrackable) key:
The universe is estimated(!) to contain 10^100 or B=2^332 bits of information. If all that information were dedicated to brute-forcing a length L key it would take
B = L 2^L
to store all possible keys.
If that's right then the universe could never brute force a key longer than L=324 bits.
God uses 324-bit encryption and that's good enough for me! :P