Maybe we need a start screen on every web browser that says "WARNING: NOTHING ON THE WEB IS GUARANTEED TO BE PRIVATE. LOSE ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE."
What a shitty world to live in. We can do better than that.
I think the ISPs holding out for some way to make money on the copyright extortion racket. As soon as they figure out how to get paid for punishing their customers, they'll be all over it.
University presidents should get a high salary - certainly higher than the faculty and staff that they manage...
Why? How is a "president" more valuable to a university than a "professor"? More generally, how is a manager more valuable to a company than a productive worker?
We choose the better future, of course. The path to that future is not simple or easy, though, and we have to proceed very carefully to avoid a lot of suffering and chaos.
AI doesn't just put people out of their current job, it puts them out of every possible job. We need to find something to do with all the unemployable people. And we can't really afford another world war to sort it out for us.
e.g. If I could know what decisions you were making (a notion that is at least theoretically possible, if the universe were truly deterministic), I could analyze it and predict the answer you would give to a particular question, even if I told you truthfully what the answer to that question were going to be.... however, with your so-called illusion of free will, you could utilize the information that I gave you in the present about your alleged future action, and then deliberately contradict it, invalidating the prediction that I made, meaning that my knowledge about the future state was incorrect, which leads one inescapably to the conclusion that even if the universe is deterministic, it is impossible to know it.
If you know the state and rules of the deterministic universe and use that knowledge to predict my decision, you must also in making that prediction predict your own actions, such as telling me your predictions, and my reaction to your actions. So I cannot contradict your actual prediction, unless you weren't really using the state and rules of the deterministic universe to make your prediction. (Of course I could contradict your announced prediction, if it were other than your actual prediction.)
It seems counter-intuitive that I would be unable to make a decision other than the decision you tell me I'm going to make, but if you grant that the universe is deterministic and has consistent rules, and your are able to know enough of the state and rules to make accurate local predictions, then that must be the case.
Arguing that such a universe cannot exist (or cannot be known) because it violates your intuition about free will is begging the question.
Complaints about systemd are like complaints about the TSA -- richly deserved, but kind of pointless, because that shit is just not going away (until it gets superceded by something even worse).
Silly Earthling! Mars does not have plentiful gaseous nitrogen, so those nitrogen-fixing symbiotes are useless. Martian farmers will be adding nitrogen fertilizer directly to the soil for the foreseeable future.
Germany, for example, needs to take in ~800,000 immigrants a year to make up for the massive decline in birthrate.
What. Automation is making human labor less and less necessary. Declining population due to lower birth rate is a good thing, not a problem that needs to be fixed.
The next new Unicode symbol will be a picture of a water skier jumping over a shark. There will be a few more after that, but nobody will be paying attention any more.
That particular setting does fuck-all as far as I can tell. It most certainly does not stop HTML5 videos from playing automatically. There isn't even any add-on that can do that reliably.
Hmmm, take 2,606, "add four zeros"... Gives you either 2,606 or 26,060,000 depending on what that's supposed to mean. I'll assume the latter. "Double that," and get 52,120,000. Deaths "the U.S. is responsible for since WWII." Really? Can you provide any justification whatsoever for that figure?
If I were complaining about the evils of the USA, I'd probably go with slavery and the genocide of Native Americans. I wonder, what comparable atrocities the USA has committed since WWII?
The 2,606 referenced above were killed in an act of cold-blooded, premeditated murder. Can you give an example of the U.S. committing such an act on that scale in the last hundred years?
Crude oil is not produced to make plastic. It is produced to make fuel. After the crude oil is refined into fuel, the stuff left over is used for plastic, chemicals, asphalt, etc. The plastic and other by-products are basically free.
Agreed that plastic production and recycling aren't energy- and pollution free, but you have the same problems with paper of course.
Hurray! Somebody went to jail! Did he actually do it, or was he some random schmuck railroaded into a guilty plea by overzealous cops and prosecutors? Who cares! Somebody went to jail! Hurray!
I like Flash because it's easy to disable. Everything that's awful about Flash (i.e. all of it) is now being integrated into HTML, which makes annoying flashy crap much harder to avoid.
Can we get an EverythingThatUsedToBeInFlashButIsNowInHTML_Block add-on for our browsers?
I have never, not even once, in all the time that PCs have had number pads, used the number pad to type a number. I use it for cursor control more than I use a mouse. As much as most people want to get rid of the CapsLock key, I want to get rid of the NumLock key.
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Maybe we need a start screen on every web browser that says "WARNING: NOTHING ON THE WEB IS GUARANTEED TO BE PRIVATE. LOSE ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE."
What a shitty world to live in. We can do better than that.
X to the 2nd power is exponential.
No. X^2 does not increase exponentially with X.
But it does increase exponentially with 2, which is clearly what he meant. For large values of 2, X^2 is HUGE!
I think the ISPs holding out for some way to make money on the copyright extortion racket. As soon as they figure out how to get paid for punishing their customers, they'll be all over it.
Well, general random logic is at 22nm, and memory class devices are usually a half-node ahead, so 16-18nm would be the size.
CPUs are at 14nm already.
We were previously lead
As in Pb, the metal?
University presidents should get a high salary - certainly higher than the faculty and staff that they manage...
Why? How is a "president" more valuable to a university than a "professor"? More generally, how is a manager more valuable to a company than a productive worker?
We choose the better future, of course. The path to that future is not simple or easy, though, and we have to proceed very carefully to avoid a lot of suffering and chaos.
AI doesn't just put people out of their current job, it puts them out of every possible job. We need to find something to do with all the unemployable people. And we can't really afford another world war to sort it out for us.
Money is a measure of wealth. Wealth is created by labor. Labor will be provided by robots. So the magic money will come from robots! Ta da!
e.g. If I could know what decisions you were making (a notion that is at least theoretically possible, if the universe were truly deterministic), I could analyze it and predict the answer you would give to a particular question, even if I told you truthfully what the answer to that question were going to be.... however, with your so-called illusion of free will, you could utilize the information that I gave you in the present about your alleged future action, and then deliberately contradict it, invalidating the prediction that I made, meaning that my knowledge about the future state was incorrect, which leads one inescapably to the conclusion that even if the universe is deterministic, it is impossible to know it.
If you know the state and rules of the deterministic universe and use that knowledge to predict my decision, you must also in making that prediction predict your own actions, such as telling me your predictions, and my reaction to your actions. So I cannot contradict your actual prediction, unless you weren't really using the state and rules of the deterministic universe to make your prediction. (Of course I could contradict your announced prediction, if it were other than your actual prediction.)
It seems counter-intuitive that I would be unable to make a decision other than the decision you tell me I'm going to make, but if you grant that the universe is deterministic and has consistent rules, and your are able to know enough of the state and rules to make accurate local predictions, then that must be the case.
Arguing that such a universe cannot exist (or cannot be known) because it violates your intuition about free will is begging the question.
Since you brought it up....
Complaints about systemd are like complaints about the TSA -- richly deserved, but kind of pointless, because that shit is just not going away (until it gets superceded by something even worse).
Silly Earthling! Mars does not have plentiful gaseous nitrogen, so those nitrogen-fixing symbiotes are useless. Martian farmers will be adding nitrogen fertilizer directly to the soil for the foreseeable future.
Reporters get science wrong because reporters get everything wrong. You notice it more when the subject is something you know well.
Germany, for example, needs to take in ~800,000 immigrants a year to make up for the massive decline in birthrate.
What. Automation is making human labor less and less necessary. Declining population due to lower birth rate is a good thing, not a problem that needs to be fixed.
Iron Sky also features lunar He3 and is about as scientifically accurate as Moon (i.e. not at all).
The next new Unicode symbol will be a picture of a water skier jumping over a shark. There will be a few more after that, but nobody will be paying attention any more.
Somebody wrote a book about the future of television, among other things. It's called "1984".
In corporatist 21st century, television watches you!
That particular setting does fuck-all as far as I can tell. It most certainly does not stop HTML5 videos from playing automatically. There isn't even any add-on that can do that reliably.
Hmmm, take 2,606, "add four zeros" ... Gives you either 2,606 or 26,060,000 depending on what that's supposed to mean. I'll assume the latter. "Double that," and get 52,120,000. Deaths "the U.S. is responsible for since WWII." Really? Can you provide any justification whatsoever for that figure?
If I were complaining about the evils of the USA, I'd probably go with slavery and the genocide of Native Americans. I wonder, what comparable atrocities the USA has committed since WWII?
The 2,606 referenced above were killed in an act of cold-blooded, premeditated murder. Can you give an example of the U.S. committing such an act on that scale in the last hundred years?
Crude oil is not produced to make plastic. It is produced to make fuel. After the crude oil is refined into fuel, the stuff left over is used for plastic, chemicals, asphalt, etc. The plastic and other by-products are basically free.
Agreed that plastic production and recycling aren't energy- and pollution free, but you have the same problems with paper of course.
According to my calculations, 7680*4320 pixels * 24 bits/pixel * 120 Hz equals about 95 gigabits/second. Wow.
Sheesh. A Social Justice Warrior is someone who fights for social justice. It's really not that complicated.
Hurray! Somebody went to jail! Did he actually do it, or was he some random schmuck railroaded into a guilty plea by overzealous cops and prosecutors? Who cares! Somebody went to jail! Hurray!
the rules say president and VP can't come from the same state.
False.
I like Flash because it's easy to disable. Everything that's awful about Flash (i.e. all of it) is now being integrated into HTML, which makes annoying flashy crap much harder to avoid.
Can we get an EverythingThatUsedToBeInFlashButIsNowInHTML_Block add-on for our browsers?
I have never, not even once, in all the time that PCs have had number pads, used the number pad to type a number. I use it for cursor control more than I use a mouse. As much as most people want to get rid of the CapsLock key, I want to get rid of the NumLock key.