I have selectively ignored some news for decades. For instance, you can filter out all news about the Middle East for twenty years, and when you tune in again the situation will be exactly the same.
Here is a quick cheat sheet: 1. Always ignore news about "people". 2. Selectively ignore news about "events". 3. Read news about ideas and innovations - stuff that matters.
The reason for the false positives is almost certainly a dearth of desert pictures in the NN training set. So download 10,000 desert images, and retrain.
Does this really mean they need more people to sort the results because there is no way the algorithm alone will be enough for a conviction.
Umm. The purpose of the program is to flag suspicious images for human review. There is no fricken way that the program's output is going to be directly admissible in court.
You don't know about people working under the table.
I know people without green cards that work under the table, but for a poor person with a right to work, working outside the system is very foolish. EITC means they will almost always benefit from reporting legal income, and it is foolish for their employer as well, since illegal pay is not deductible.
Maybe if you're stuck in a bad marriage with a wealthy spouse, you would be more likely to maintain that marriage for reasons other than love.
In other words, they compromise.
The wealthy spouse would rather not go through the expense of a divorce. So they buy separate homes and find a workable relationship.
This is not supported by evidence. For families with children, the more affluent and better educated are more likely to all live together. It is the poor families where Dad doesn't live at home.
The Moneylenders in the temple say screw the libtard poor
They were money CHANGERS, not money lenders.
The story of JC driving the "money lenders" from the temple is TOTALLY MISUNDERSTOOD by most people, and even many theologists. The lesson they take away is that JC wanted to "keep the temple holy", but the actual point was the exact opposite. At the time, mainstream Judaism was obsessed with "purity" rituals, and people would change their soiled and worn money for clean and polished money (paying a premium to do so) so they could make an offering with "clean" money. But JC was objecting to the "purity" rather than the "commerce", and was expressing the Essene philosophy of getting back to basics, and doing away with purity and ritual. He wanted to make the temple more accessible to the common people.
The study is absurd at the outset because they have a ridiculous definition of wisdom.
The methodology is silly as well. Rather than doing "surveys", they should have looked at hard data: Less educated and less affluent people have much higher rates of divorce and domestic violence. So it is unlikely that they are "better at compromising".
Indeed it is, but if it is any lower the math doesn't work. The longer Japan waits, the worse it will be. My prediction is that it will get a lot worse, since Japan has a very strong cultural preference for inaction, even when delay is obviously foolish.
I feel like the world economy is slowly moving toward "you work until you drop dead". I think that's unfortunate.
Two solutions: 1. Have more babies. 2. Build more robots.
Indeed. Japan produces far more innovation per capita than Niger, perhaps by a thousandfold.
Some cultures can become worse through immigration
Um. You lost me. I thought we were talking about more Japanese babies, not immigration.
Also, higher population always means more pollution.
Except when the extra people are highly educated and productive like the Japanese, and invent better wind turbines, better semiconductors for solar power, better thermal insulators, and blue LEDs (which made white light LEDs possible). Do you really believe that we would have less pollution if Shuji Nakamura had never been born?
If they don't know anything, then perhaps they shouldn't be spouting off nonsense. Just saying it will "eventually" crash, is meaningless, since anything is likely to happen eventually.
and shorting stuff is dangerous.
You can "short" bitcoin with limited downside risk, using options and/or prediction markets.
Simple rule of thumb: If you know that Hillary colluded with the DNC to sabotage Bernie's campaign, then, directly or indirectly, you were exposed to Russian propaganda.
The dastardly Russians used a sneaky and underhanded technique called "telling the truth".
Instead of blabbing about your opinion on Slashdot, why don't you put your money where your mouth is, and short bitcoin. When it crashes, you will make a fortune, and you can come back here and say "I told you so!!!"
Only Japan being at the top in life expectancy may be a bit troublesome.
An obvious solution would be to raise the retirement age. Most Japanese retire at 60, when they qualify for public pensions (social security). To keep the system solvent, the retirement/pension age needs to go up to at least 68.
A big problem in Japan is that most promotions are based on seniority rather than competence, so the system is clogged up with old dolts that have no idea how to manage or lead. So they have an absurdly low retirement system to flush out the incompetents. Raising the retirement system will require reforming the seniority system, which will be culturally difficult.
You seem to prefer a more! more! more! people attitude. Why?
More people means more new ideas, and more progress.
Why do you want to continually increase people on this planet?
We don't. But the world would benefit from more educated and productive people like the Japanese. The country with the highest population growth is Niger, which is a poor war-torn drought-ridden country suffering from overgrazing, desertification and unable to even feed themselves. Many of the women in Niger would prefer smaller families but have no access to contraceptives, and have cultural pressures for large families.
We would be much better off if birthrates in both Japan and Niger were stabilized at or near ZPG.
What is with this need for us to continually breed like a virus?
You might want to learn a bit more about how viruses "breed".
A Ponzi scheme is fraud when the private sector does it, but not when the government does it. The difference is that the government can compel people to participate, and force later entrants to pay more, thus preventing collapse.
For download speeds, anything over 10Mbps is fine for 99% of normal users
Indeed. At 10 Mbps my wife and daughter can each watch a different movie, and I can still get work done. That is enough for me.
Quibble: The UK is saying that 10 Mbps is an entitlement, not a right. An entitlement is what someone else is required to give to you... although you still have to pay your bill to get your bits.
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Since Trump was elected I mostly ignore the news.
I have selectively ignored some news for decades. For instance, you can filter out all news about the Middle East for twenty years, and when you tune in again the situation will be exactly the same.
Here is a quick cheat sheet:
1. Always ignore news about "people".
2. Selectively ignore news about "events".
3. Read news about ideas and innovations - stuff that matters.
Okay so there are some false positives.
The reason for the false positives is almost certainly a dearth of desert pictures in the NN training set. So download 10,000 desert images, and retrain.
Does this really mean they need more people to sort the results because there is no way the algorithm alone will be enough for a conviction.
Umm. The purpose of the program is to flag suspicious images for human review. There is no fricken way that the program's output is going to be directly admissible in court.
You don't know about people working under the table.
I know people without green cards that work under the table, but for a poor person with a right to work, working outside the system is very foolish. EITC means they will almost always benefit from reporting legal income, and it is foolish for their employer as well, since illegal pay is not deductible.
Let me tell you another thing about poor people you probably don't know. For the most part they work. Often a hell of a lot
Your assertion is not supported by evidence:
Average number of income earners per household in bottom quintile: 0.45
Average number of income earners per household in top quintile: 2.04
Income inequality by household demographics.
Maybe if you're stuck in a bad marriage with a wealthy spouse, you would be more likely to maintain that marriage for reasons other than love.
In other words, they compromise.
The wealthy spouse would rather not go through the expense of a divorce. So they buy separate homes and find a workable relationship.
This is not supported by evidence. For families with children, the more affluent and better educated are more likely to all live together. It is the poor families where Dad doesn't live at home.
But not that long ago we had a pro-choice President, Senate, and House - where was the law protecting "a woman's right to choose"?
Both parties prefer to keep abortion as a wedge issue.
The wedge helps Republicans to get poor social conservatives to vote for tax cuts for the rich.
It helps Democrats to win over suburban soccer moms who may agree with the Republicans on economic issues.
Making money by treating people like shit doesn't make you successful in my book. It just makes you an asshole.
When a recession hits, the "asshole" CED will immediately lay off 10% of his workforce.
The "nice" CEO will delay and dither while his finances deteriorate, and eventually have to lay off 20-30%, or possibly go bankrupt.
Not putting off hard decisions out of empathy is one reason that psychopaths often make better leaders.
The Moneylenders in the temple say screw the libtard poor
They were money CHANGERS, not money lenders.
The story of JC driving the "money lenders" from the temple is TOTALLY MISUNDERSTOOD by most people, and even many theologists. The lesson they take away is that JC wanted to "keep the temple holy", but the actual point was the exact opposite. At the time, mainstream Judaism was obsessed with "purity" rituals, and people would change their soiled and worn money for clean and polished money (paying a premium to do so) so they could make an offering with "clean" money. But JC was objecting to the "purity" rather than the "commerce", and was expressing the Essene philosophy of getting back to basics, and doing away with purity and ritual. He wanted to make the temple more accessible to the common people.
The study is absurd at the outset because they have a ridiculous definition of wisdom.
The methodology is silly as well. Rather than doing "surveys", they should have looked at hard data: Less educated and less affluent people have much higher rates of divorce and domestic violence. So it is unlikely that they are "better at compromising".
People with college degrees are half as likely to divorce as those without.
She also colluded with the majority of the democratic primary voters.
Cheating doesn't become "OK" just because in the end it turned out she would have won anyway.
Do you know who else would have won anyway? Richard Nixon. So should we have given him a pass on Watergate?
The easiest way to tell if a journalist is economically illiterate is when they don't understand the difference between revenue and profit.
TFA was written by someone who is not qualified to be writing about business.
68 is an extremely high retirement age
Indeed it is, but if it is any lower the math doesn't work. The longer Japan waits, the worse it will be. My prediction is that it will get a lot worse, since Japan has a very strong cultural preference for inaction, even when delay is obviously foolish.
I feel like the world economy is slowly moving toward "you work until you drop dead". I think that's unfortunate.
Two solutions:
1. Have more babies.
2. Build more robots.
All cultures are not created equal.
Indeed. Japan produces far more innovation per capita than Niger, perhaps by a thousandfold.
Some cultures can become worse through immigration
Um. You lost me. I thought we were talking about more Japanese babies, not immigration.
Also, higher population always means more pollution.
Except when the extra people are highly educated and productive like the Japanese, and invent better wind turbines, better semiconductors for solar power, better thermal insulators, and blue LEDs (which made white light LEDs possible). Do you really believe that we would have less pollution if Shuji Nakamura had never been born?
why don't you educate yourself on how shorting works first?
Why don't you read the citation I provided above ... which explains why everything you wrote is wrong.
Because nobody knows when the crash will come
If they don't know anything, then perhaps they shouldn't be spouting off nonsense. Just saying it will "eventually" crash, is meaningless, since anything is likely to happen eventually.
and shorting stuff is dangerous.
You can "short" bitcoin with limited downside risk, using options and/or prediction markets.
Simple rule of thumb: If you know that Hillary colluded with the DNC to sabotage Bernie's campaign, then, directly or indirectly, you were exposed to Russian propaganda.
The dastardly Russians used a sneaky and underhanded technique called "telling the truth".
It will likely crash below $1000
Instead of blabbing about your opinion on Slashdot, why don't you put your money where your mouth is, and short bitcoin. When it crashes, you will make a fortune, and you can come back here and say "I told you so!!!"
5 ways to short bitcoin
Only Japan being at the top in life expectancy may be a bit troublesome.
An obvious solution would be to raise the retirement age. Most Japanese retire at 60, when they qualify for public pensions (social security). To keep the system solvent, the retirement/pension age needs to go up to at least 68.
A big problem in Japan is that most promotions are based on seniority rather than competence, so the system is clogged up with old dolts that have no idea how to manage or lead. So they have an absurdly low retirement system to flush out the incompetents. Raising the retirement system will require reforming the seniority system, which will be culturally difficult.
You seem to prefer a more! more! more! people attitude. Why?
More people means more new ideas, and more progress.
Why do you want to continually increase people on this planet?
We don't. But the world would benefit from more educated and productive people like the Japanese. The country with the highest population growth is Niger, which is a poor war-torn drought-ridden country suffering from overgrazing, desertification and unable to even feed themselves. Many of the women in Niger would prefer smaller families but have no access to contraceptives, and have cultural pressures for large families.
We would be much better off if birthrates in both Japan and Niger were stabilized at or near ZPG.
What is with this need for us to continually breed like a virus?
You might want to learn a bit more about how viruses "breed".
Nope. A Ponzi scheme is fraud.
A Ponzi scheme is fraud when the private sector does it, but not when the government does it. The difference is that the government can compel people to participate, and force later entrants to pay more, thus preventing collapse.
No, because that would mean the password is stored in clear text in the database, or hashed but not salted randomly
Those are not the only alternatives. For instance, you can salt the password with the username.
$hashedPw = SHA512("username,correcthorsebatterystaple");
$userInfo = lookupUser("username", $hashedPw);
This is just as effective as using random salt at preventing the use of rainbow tables.
but cannot do a single thing to keep people out.
Actually, ICE is catching more illegal immigrants within 100 miles of the border since Trump was elected, although total deportations are down.
Besides, what's the penalty if they're on a flight home one day past their visa?
The penalty for overstaying a visa is that you will have a harder time getting another visa in the future.
Disclaimer: I think immigration is good for America, and I wish we had more of it.
When will they change time_t to 64-bits?
They already have:
% uname -a ./a.out
Darwin Mac15 17.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.3.0
% cat > foo.c
#include
int
main(void)
{
printf("sizeof(time_t) = %ld\n", sizeof(time_t));
return 0;
}
END
% gcc foo.c
%
sizeof(time_t) = 8
If it works like this, aren't guns in US (or at least parts of it) an entitlement and not a right, too?
Of course not. Nobody is required to give you a gun.
For download speeds, anything over 10Mbps is fine for 99% of normal users
Indeed. At 10 Mbps my wife and daughter can each watch a different movie, and I can still get work done. That is enough for me.
Quibble: The UK is saying that 10 Mbps is an entitlement, not a right. An entitlement is what someone else is required to give to you ... although you still have to pay your bill to get your bits.