What purpose does it serve to compare global temperatures today with local temperatures a long time ago?
Deception. Which in turn serves to fight the idea that something needs to be done, thus serving both Big Oil and taxation is theft -crowd. Which is why climate "scepticism" tends to correlate with conservatism.
Behavioral interviewing is all the rage, led by a few large, successful companies. In this situation, candidates are asked to describe specific things that happened to them in past jobs (or specific problems they have worked on), and the interviewer tries to get a feel for how the candidate behaved in that situation (overcoming adversity, dealing with ambiguity, working on seemingly intractable problems), and to extrapolate to how the candidate would behave in similar situations in future.
So basically, to get a job you need to get involved and practice with fanfiction and theater communities.
C-3PO: a bumbling, whining, annoying, cowardly intelligentsia ("I'm familiar with over 6 million forms of communication") who's only saving grace is ultimate loyalty to R2. R2-D2: super proletariat, a factory worker who saves the day through its superior manual labour skills over and over again. Where royalty is ineptly captured (Leia) and priesthood is either struck down (Obi-Wan) or nearly goes to the dark side (Luke), and capitalists (Han) only join the fight out of greed and return to avoid a mutiny of the downtrodden underclass (Chewbacca) when they aren't actively betraying each other (Lando), R2 tirelessly carries the rebllion towards the glorious new Red Dawn.
Never thought of it that way, but yeah, I guess Lucas really was a communist spy. And the prequel trilogy is as it is because he no longer has his KGB contacts write his propaganda for him.
Does this guy think that the ONLY place you learn about new things is in school?
No, he's trying to convince potential employees they're worth less than they are, to get a better negotiating position. Think of it as the Invisible Hand putting on a latex glove.
Remember how many people tried to tell you Network Neutrality was the road to a heavily regulated internet...
And lack of regulation leads to monopoly abuse.
The Internet, as it is, can't survive. Both governments and corporations have an interest in stamping out a model based on participation and user-generated content. When those same Powers that Be control the physical infrastructure of the Internet itself, the end result is pretty obvious.
The question is, could anything replace it and do so in time? For example, could the emerging trends of 3D printing and drones result in swarms of "netdrones" enacting a true P2P network? Naturally, the latency would be horrible without a backbone, and there would be a constant war of attrition as these illegal bots were hunted down, but aside from a breakthrough in physics I don't see much alternatives.
That's why we have science, because "anecdotal point of view" is completely untrustworthy.
If I disagree with it, it's an untrustworthy anecdote. If I agree with it, it's a representative example.
Human nature is fundamentally incompatible with science, or any other form of objectivity. The result is humanity bumbling from one disaster to another, and climate change seems to be no exception.
In essence you are saying that the Unix password hash was buggy because technology improvements made it possible to brute force it thus making it necessary to implement the shadow file.
Yes, it was a bug to leave password hashes in a publicly readable file. Even if hashing was a magical algorithm that always took the same amount of time regardless of CPU, leaving the hash in the open allowed a potential attacker to try a dictionary attack without alerting anyone. It was simply idiotic.
A pity superstition (like stupidity in general) isn't painful. Stupid should hurt, dammnit.
It is, and it does. But pain is a bad, ambiguous teacher: does it hurt because you are a Neo-Nazi in modern-day Germany or because you are an antifascist in Nazi Germany?
The only thing pain tells you is that you're at odds with your surroundings. It does not reveal which one, if either, is in the right.
In Python 3, it does not "just work", but that is because character encoding is never a "just works" problem, and languages that say it is fail miserably in this regard as soon as it meets real world international encodings.
What's wrong with simply presenting everything with Unicode? It might not be the most efficient possible way of representing text, but that's unlikely to matter much, given that you're using Python.
I'm not looking for *mandatory*. Just stop subsidizing it. In the US, there's a tax credit per child. If you are on public assistance, the monthly payment goes up with the number of children.
So basically, you think it's a good idea to make sure already disenfranchised people have no stake whatsoever in the future of their country, the world or the human species?
Instead of subsidizing children, why not pay people for either permanent or temporary contraception?
Because the birth rate in countries that could afford that is already beneath the replacement rate. And the population growth in developing countries is falling in lockstep with rising quality of life (specifically, as an inverse of infant mortality). Basically, the population bomb is fizzling out on its own, so let it and concentrate on optimizing per-person resource usage instead. And one of the most efficient ways of doing that is ensuring they don't acquire an obsession with hoarding in the first place, which in turn requires subsidizing them to the point where their quality of life gets them past the first two steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
We don't have too many people. We have too little concern for the Big Picture and the large-scale effects of our actions - selfishness, in other words. That problem would still be there even if population was halved.
The only reason for something like that to happen is if the code is not pure Java but has some kind of native concoction of things, which is outside of the JVM control.
Or it could simply be buggy threaded code, doing things like starting new threads from object constructors. Those can sometimes do things like give the appearance of working under one garbage collector yet start throwing NullPointerExceptions under another.
It might sound a little bizarre, but there are some users who demand that "exact reproduction of results of a previous run from the previous version" as an acceptance test of the new version. Even if the vendor proves the old run was buggy, and the old "gold standard" results are bad, they want exact rerun including the bugs.
There is nothing bizarre about this: sometimes output is best stored in the form of input (for example, see Pov-Ray) and repeatability trumps aesthetics.
The real solution is fewer people, but no one wants to look at that.
Look at what, exactly speaking? Are you talking about some dystopia with mandatory birth control or outright mass murder of all the "extra" people? Because either of those seems a rather extreme solution compared to simply limiting car usage and eventually switching to electric, at least for city use.
Also, China has looked at that - the mandatory birth control version, altough Chairman Mao is also the reigning world champion in mass murder - so if that's your cup of tea, apply for citizenship.
A mere $50 Billion of treasury dumped in one month, could trigger Derivatives expansion and pretty much destroy the London and USA financial centers.
The mistake you make here is thinking "the market" is an independent entity. It's not. There's no reason US can't, in an extreme case, simply declare any Russia-held bond void. Yes, it would have consequences, but then again, maybe not that much - after all, in this hypothetical situation, Russia is intentionally using them as weapons of mass destruction against their issuer. That's not a situation really relevant for an average nation or investor using them as mere value store.
The real question is: will Putin stop his empire-building in time, or will he misjudge and start World War III? Because that's how the previous two began.
I could write a Ph.d thesis on how the United States is breeding itself into obsolecense.
Start by learning to spell "obsolescence". Then decide whether your paper is about biological or cultural evolution, since you seem to be mixing the two. Finally, look up "eugenics" and decide if you really think that shit hasn't done enough damage already.
Earth to hippie: It's that way in pretty much all aspects of life on this planet. Money makes a difference in opportunities in life, and in what you can do.
Human to AC: the whole point of having sapience is seeing things not just like they are, but also like how they could be, and if that's a prettier picture, steering them towards it. Animals take things as they are, humans don't have to.
Maybe some states don't have a gifted program, but before we all go tilting at windmills, maybe we should realize this is a state-level problem, one that does not apply to Virginia, and may not apply to your state either.
But if it does not apply to your state, how do you explain yourself and your children not outshining all those average "looters" and "sheeple" and rolling in the dough you so clearly deserve? It can't be because you're just average, so it must be because the state used the money that should had been spent on you to help those mediocre people instead, because socialism.
Of course, if the state didn't spend money ensuring the average or below-average people get at least basic education, then the complain would be that they are on food stamps due to being unemployable.
funny, of course the norm for humans isn't leaders elected by votes.
Sure it is, and even dictatorships acknowledge this. What is a cult of personality or state propaganda but an attempt to persuade people to vote for the current leader and system, either formally or with their feet? What is brutal oppression other than an attempt to secure votes through intimidation?
You can't rule without the consent of the ruled, and a formal voting mechanism is simply a means of establishing who has it in a public and unambiguous way.
And Xbox One. It wouldn't particularly surprise me if this was a backroom deal to intentionally bloat the game to make it look heavier, and by extension the XO more powerful.
When you have 128 FLACs playing back at the same time, the dynamics change.
You can't stream 128 uncompressed audio streams from the HDD simultaneously, which means they have to be preloaded, which means you could just as well store them in compressed form on HDD and uncompress during loading.
It seems that these days, adding "with drones." to any old headline makes it newsworthy.
Yeah. Why would a tech site has any interest in autonomous(?) robotic couriers flying around the city? Tell me something about the sci-fi future we were supposed to have already!
Any increase in resource consumption results in an increase in price. Any increase in production results in a reduction of price. If the system gets to a point where consumption outpaces production then the price rises, and it can rise a lot! This results in people using less of the resource and finding alternatives.
The collapse results when neither the supply (because all oil fields are already producing all they can) nor the demand (because you must get stuff from place to place somehow) are elastic, and are forced past each other. At that point the resulting shocks going through the system tear it apart, and individual parts die from losing their inputs and outputs.
The problem is that developing alternatives takes time and energy; they don't simply materialize the moment you need them. But until that moment, it always makes more short-term profit to not invest in the research, so no one does. Add the enviromental groups who complain no matter what solution anyone tries, be it a nuclear plant or even a windmill, and you have a system reaching a local optimum optimizing for a dead end.
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Deception. Which in turn serves to fight the idea that something needs to be done, thus serving both Big Oil and taxation is theft -crowd. Which is why climate "scepticism" tends to correlate with conservatism.
So basically, to get a job you need to get involved and practice with fanfiction and theater communities.
Hmm...
C-3PO: a bumbling, whining, annoying, cowardly intelligentsia ("I'm familiar with over 6 million forms of communication") who's only saving grace is ultimate loyalty to R2.
R2-D2: super proletariat, a factory worker who saves the day through its superior manual labour skills over and over again. Where royalty is ineptly captured (Leia) and priesthood is either struck down (Obi-Wan) or nearly goes to the dark side (Luke), and capitalists (Han) only join the fight out of greed and return to avoid a mutiny of the downtrodden underclass (Chewbacca) when they aren't actively betraying each other (Lando), R2 tirelessly carries the rebllion towards the glorious new Red Dawn.
Never thought of it that way, but yeah, I guess Lucas really was a communist spy. And the prequel trilogy is as it is because he no longer has his KGB contacts write his propaganda for him.
No, he's trying to convince potential employees they're worth less than they are, to get a better negotiating position. Think of it as the Invisible Hand putting on a latex glove.
And lack of regulation leads to monopoly abuse.
The Internet, as it is, can't survive. Both governments and corporations have an interest in stamping out a model based on participation and user-generated content. When those same Powers that Be control the physical infrastructure of the Internet itself, the end result is pretty obvious.
The question is, could anything replace it and do so in time? For example, could the emerging trends of 3D printing and drones result in swarms of "netdrones" enacting a true P2P network? Naturally, the latency would be horrible without a backbone, and there would be a constant war of attrition as these illegal bots were hunted down, but aside from a breakthrough in physics I don't see much alternatives.
If I disagree with it, it's an untrustworthy anecdote. If I agree with it, it's a representative example.
Human nature is fundamentally incompatible with science, or any other form of objectivity. The result is humanity bumbling from one disaster to another, and climate change seems to be no exception.
Yes, it was a bug to leave password hashes in a publicly readable file. Even if hashing was a magical algorithm that always took the same amount of time regardless of CPU, leaving the hash in the open allowed a potential attacker to try a dictionary attack without alerting anyone. It was simply idiotic.
It is, and it does. But pain is a bad, ambiguous teacher: does it hurt because you are a Neo-Nazi in modern-day Germany or because you are an antifascist in Nazi Germany?
The only thing pain tells you is that you're at odds with your surroundings. It does not reveal which one, if either, is in the right.
Americans are never happy unless you're getting your human sacrifices, eh?
Fixed that for you. US is a democratic republic; it's government does what its citizens want.
What's wrong with simply presenting everything with Unicode? It might not be the most efficient possible way of representing text, but that's unlikely to matter much, given that you're using Python.
So basically, you think it's a good idea to make sure already disenfranchised people have no stake whatsoever in the future of their country, the world or the human species?
Because the birth rate in countries that could afford that is already beneath the replacement rate. And the population growth in developing countries is falling in lockstep with rising quality of life (specifically, as an inverse of infant mortality). Basically, the population bomb is fizzling out on its own, so let it and concentrate on optimizing per-person resource usage instead. And one of the most efficient ways of doing that is ensuring they don't acquire an obsession with hoarding in the first place, which in turn requires subsidizing them to the point where their quality of life gets them past the first two steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
We don't have too many people. We have too little concern for the Big Picture and the large-scale effects of our actions - selfishness, in other words. That problem would still be there even if population was halved.
Or it could simply be buggy threaded code, doing things like starting new threads from object constructors. Those can sometimes do things like give the appearance of working under one garbage collector yet start throwing NullPointerExceptions under another.
There is nothing bizarre about this: sometimes output is best stored in the form of input (for example, see Pov-Ray) and repeatability trumps aesthetics.
Look at what, exactly speaking? Are you talking about some dystopia with mandatory birth control or outright mass murder of all the "extra" people? Because either of those seems a rather extreme solution compared to simply limiting car usage and eventually switching to electric, at least for city use.
Also, China has looked at that - the mandatory birth control version, altough Chairman Mao is also the reigning world champion in mass murder - so if that's your cup of tea, apply for citizenship.
The mistake you make here is thinking "the market" is an independent entity. It's not. There's no reason US can't, in an extreme case, simply declare any Russia-held bond void. Yes, it would have consequences, but then again, maybe not that much - after all, in this hypothetical situation, Russia is intentionally using them as weapons of mass destruction against their issuer. That's not a situation really relevant for an average nation or investor using them as mere value store.
The real question is: will Putin stop his empire-building in time, or will he misjudge and start World War III? Because that's how the previous two began.
Start by learning to spell "obsolescence". Then decide whether your paper is about biological or cultural evolution, since you seem to be mixing the two. Finally, look up "eugenics" and decide if you really think that shit hasn't done enough damage already.
Human to AC: the whole point of having sapience is seeing things not just like they are, but also like how they could be, and if that's a prettier picture, steering them towards it. Animals take things as they are, humans don't have to.
But if it does not apply to your state, how do you explain yourself and your children not outshining all those average "looters" and "sheeple" and rolling in the dough you so clearly deserve? It can't be because you're just average, so it must be because the state used the money that should had been spent on you to help those mediocre people instead, because socialism.
Of course, if the state didn't spend money ensuring the average or below-average people get at least basic education, then the complain would be that they are on food stamps due to being unemployable.
Sure it is, and even dictatorships acknowledge this. What is a cult of personality or state propaganda but an attempt to persuade people to vote for the current leader and system, either formally or with their feet? What is brutal oppression other than an attempt to secure votes through intimidation?
You can't rule without the consent of the ruled, and a formal voting mechanism is simply a means of establishing who has it in a public and unambiguous way.
And Xbox One. It wouldn't particularly surprise me if this was a backroom deal to intentionally bloat the game to make it look heavier, and by extension the XO more powerful.
You can't stream 128 uncompressed audio streams from the HDD simultaneously, which means they have to be preloaded, which means you could just as well store them in compressed form on HDD and uncompress during loading.
Yeah. Why would a tech site has any interest in autonomous(?) robotic couriers flying around the city? Tell me something about the sci-fi future we were supposed to have already!
The collapse results when neither the supply (because all oil fields are already producing all they can) nor the demand (because you must get stuff from place to place somehow) are elastic, and are forced past each other. At that point the resulting shocks going through the system tear it apart, and individual parts die from losing their inputs and outputs.
The problem is that developing alternatives takes time and energy; they don't simply materialize the moment you need them. But until that moment, it always makes more short-term profit to not invest in the research, so no one does. Add the enviromental groups who complain no matter what solution anyone tries, be it a nuclear plant or even a windmill, and you have a system reaching a local optimum optimizing for a dead end.
And then the gun nuts can combine work and play by selling tickets for zombie banker safaris.
"Honey? That guy who repossessed our home 20 years ago is a Chernobyl zombie now. I know where we're vacationing this year."