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I personally believe in the principle of free market economics, however you can't for a moment seriously claim that the US is a any kind of example of a truly free market.
> If you don't know any female nerds then you need to get out of your basement for a bit.
I'm not the AP above and I do in principle agree with you, but even you have to admit that female engineers are pretty thin on the ground, and to me it seems like that's almost entirely by their own choice. At least every company I've ever worked at has gone out of their way to hire and accommodate women engineers (far more than they would do for guys), yet there just aren't (m)any out there.
IANAL but as a Brit myself; I believe you're right, kinda. It would first require that those police officers get investigated and also found guilty of fabricating evidence. Only then could anyone previously found guilty at least partially on the testimony of either of those officers apply for a re-trial/hearing, on the grounds of a previous mis-trial. A reversal of judgement would still not just be automatic, it would still depend on the judge's decision, which would be mostly based on the degree that the testimony of those officer(s) formed the evidence that determined the original verdict.
The money wasn't recovered from the scammers it was paid back by Western Union, which means the real cost will inevitably be passed on to its other customers.
Doesn't falling for such an obvious con as this become self-inflicted at some point, even if some Western Union staff were duplicitous?
Although I hate to see anyone scammed out of their life savings, by saying that society will pay to bail out even obviously stupid/self-inflicted actions, is society really sending the right message, or is it just making more people comfortable with not taking responsibility for their own actions?
You were basically lucky. Playing the stock market is effectively gambling, since no-one can predict the future. For every one of you there has to be at least two people who lost as much as you gained, otherwise the system just wouldn't work, as all those middlemen (including the government) have to get their cut from you even playing at all, that you can loose even when you win.
You're deluding yourself. I'm also a European and at least in theory will get a state pension. Its so little that it won't even start to pay the bills, and the retirement age keeps being pushed back. Word is that there are so many dependents on the welfare system and its growing, that they wont even be able to pay the tiny pension they are currently promising by the time I get to retire in 12 years or so. I'm glad I made my own alternative plans years ago, so I don't actually need to rely on the state pension. I'd be screwed if I had just drunk the welfare state koolaid and trusted that the government would actually honour their promises to give everyone a liveable retirement income from all the extra tax we pre-paid to cover it.
I think you're massively overreacting and doomsaying. Also... all your arguments are based on conjecture and suppositions... In fact there are many natural sources of heat and cooling affecting ocean temps already much more and on a much larger scale than a few server boxes could.
Isn't it about time the government smacked Zuckerberg down hard? I mean this is just more proof that his evasion and lies during his congressional hearings were blatant.
>> so the layer where this thing hangs out is going to end up hotter...with probably far-ranging consequences for marine ecology,
Yep agreed. But if undersea volcanic activity is anything to go by, actually more life will live and thrive there.
> This is potentially going to end up being next-level bad,
I truly doubt that one small server box could make any real difference to ambient sea temperature more than a handful of feet away, even if it tried. If this experiment starts a trend where companies like Microsoft and Google that have big server farms start moving all their servers underwater, then maybe you'll start to have an actual point.
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...yet another bought-and-paid-for politician just outed himself.
Well WU do have a captive market don;t they? I mean who else does the same money transfer thing as them in the US?
Have you ever actually written anything in COBOL? As a computer language It truly sucks. FAR too verbose.
Yeah but the probability is that a 6 figure job would represent a pay cut to him.
Companies don't really have profits. They have shareholders and dividends, so its still coming out of the pockets of future customers.
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I sort of agree, but it is also a form of education and/or natural selection, and the US is already in dire need of both.
I personally believe in the principle of free market economics, however you can't for a moment seriously claim that the US is a any kind of example of a truly free market.
> If you don't know any female nerds then you need to get out of your basement for a bit.
I'm not the AP above and I do in principle agree with you, but even you have to admit that female engineers are pretty thin on the ground, and to me it seems like that's almost entirely by their own choice. At least every company I've ever worked at has gone out of their way to hire and accommodate women engineers (far more than they would do for guys), yet there just aren't (m)any out there.
>> CTO Megan Smith revealed ... that she gave President Obama a computing history lesson on the same day he learned to code..
So he learnt to program in maybe half a day? Wow. Here I am, 35 years in, and still pretty sure I don't know everything...
IANAL but as a Brit myself; I believe you're right, kinda.
It would first require that those police officers get investigated and also found guilty of fabricating evidence. Only then could anyone previously found guilty at least partially on the testimony of either of those officers apply for a re-trial/hearing, on the grounds of a previous mis-trial. A reversal of judgement would still not just be automatic, it would still depend on the judge's decision, which would be mostly based on the degree that the testimony of those officer(s) formed the evidence that determined the original verdict.
The money wasn't recovered from the scammers it was paid back by Western Union, which means the real cost will inevitably be passed on to its other customers.
Doesn't falling for such an obvious con as this become self-inflicted at some point, even if some Western Union staff were duplicitous?
Although I hate to see anyone scammed out of their life savings, by saying that society will pay to bail out even obviously stupid/self-inflicted actions, is society really sending the right message, or is it just making more people comfortable with not taking responsibility for their own actions?
>> the difference between hiranya shraddham and a regular shraddham.
I know this.... one comes with fries right?
You were basically lucky. Playing the stock market is effectively gambling, since no-one can predict the future.
For every one of you there has to be at least two people who lost as much as you gained, otherwise the system just wouldn't work, as all those middlemen (including the government) have to get their cut from you even playing at all, that you can loose even when you win.
Totally agree.
You're deluding yourself. I'm also a European and at least in theory will get a state pension. Its so little that it won't even start to pay the bills, and the retirement age keeps being pushed back. Word is that there are so many dependents on the welfare system and its growing, that they wont even be able to pay the tiny pension they are currently promising by the time I get to retire in 12 years or so.
I'm glad I made my own alternative plans years ago, so I don't actually need to rely on the state pension.
I'd be screwed if I had just drunk the welfare state koolaid and trusted that the government would actually honour their promises to give everyone a liveable retirement income from all the extra tax we pre-paid to cover it.
> Find a lower quality fast food chain to compare EA with.
I don't think one exists.
I think you're massively overreacting and doomsaying. Also... all your arguments are based on conjecture and suppositions...
In fact there are many natural sources of heat and cooling affecting ocean temps already much more and on a much larger scale than a few server boxes could.
Isn't it about time the government smacked Zuckerberg down hard?
I mean this is just more proof that his evasion and lies during his congressional hearings were blatant.
>> so the layer where this thing hangs out is going to end up hotter ...with probably far-ranging consequences for marine ecology,
Yep agreed. But if undersea volcanic activity is anything to go by, actually more life will live and thrive there.
> This is potentially going to end up being next-level bad,
I truly doubt that one small server box could make any real difference to ambient sea temperature more than a handful of feet away, even if it tried. If this experiment starts a trend where companies like Microsoft and Google that have big server farms start moving all their servers underwater, then maybe you'll start to have an actual point.
== no thanks.
If you don't like it then stop doing it to others.
I *might* start to believe it when a phone has enough power to play AAA games or drive my Vive, or I can install linux on it natively.
> PCs becoming irrelevant for content consumption
Are you really trying to convince us that a fiddly little phone screen is as convenient and good as a big HD monitor, mouse and fullsize keyboard?
> What's been missing, in my opinion, is a richer gesture-based GUI.... There should be a rich, standard set of gestures,
There's only one gesture I'd ever use with Windows.