Also it sounds like you were suggesting shitty places to eat lunch and they were doing their best to politely tell you better places to go.
If you leave lunch up the the Japanese, you will eat at Denny's everyday. For some reason, Denny's is considered a good restaurant in Japan, even though the food is just as terrible as what they serve in America.
Wouldn't this encourage everyone to work as a contractor an be paid hourly? Or is that not a thing in Japan?
In Japan, it is common for women to be paid hourly, while men are paid salary. The result is that early in their careers, women tend to make more than men, but as they age and gain seniority, the men make more. But older people have high mortgages and families to support. So the result is that about 80% of the disposable income in Japan is control by young women in their 20s and 30s. This distorts the economy in surprising ways. For instance, new technology is often packaged primarily for young women, because that is where the big market is. So you see yakuza with tattoos and shaved heads hanging out on the street corner in Harajuku making deals on their cellphones... which are pink and shaped like "Hello Kitty".
When I was a Marine stationed on Okinawa, 90% of the tourists on the beaches in Nago and Henoko were young single women travelling together from the main islands. I have many fond memories of living on Okinawa.
Hogwash. There is no way that employees would put up with that crap in today's economy. I notice that you don't actually name the company, which is a good idea when you are making up BS. Unemployment in the Seattle area is below 4%, and tech unemployment is around 2%. Every company in the area is desperate for talent, so these workers could quit and walk across the street for a new job. I might tolerate 100 hour weeks for a few years if I was getting paid $300k, but no sane company would pay that when they could hire two workers at normal hours (50 or 60 hour weeks) for the same cost, and get far better productivity.
The Japanese put in a lot of hours, but not much of that is "working". Japan's productivity is only 60% of America's. There is a social taboo to leave work before your boss, so people stay late and surf the web. The bosses are promoted based on seniority rather than ability, and are often incompetent with no incentive to take the initiative on more enlightened working conditions. It is better to just stick to prevailing social conventions and keep a low profile.
America: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Japan: The nail that sticks up will be hammered back down.
Lab ones are more pure and are actually less valuable, purely because of the De Beers monopoly on natural diamonds.
I wanted to buy a lab diamond as an anniversary gift, because I figured CVD is a lot less damaging to the environment than mining, and I found that the lab diamonds are MORE EXPENSIVE, not cheaper. A quick look at prices on eBay confirms this is still true. Apparently, I am not the only one who prefers to avoid the environmental destruction and political corruption caused by mining.
It is the owner's responsibility to investigate the quality of the self-driving mechanism and be certain it is up to snuff
Except that the "mechanism" is 99.9% software, and fewer than 0.00001% of the population would be qualified to disassemble and analyse it enough to "be certain it is up to snuff". Pushing product liability for SDCs onto individual owners makes no sense.
This will probably slow manufacturing of self driving cars.
It will more likely have the opposite effect. By buying an SDC, people no longer have to deal with the hassle and cost of individual insurance policies. If they use "on demand" SDCs (which both Uber and Lyft are planning to provide), then the cost and hassle is even less. This legal clarity should speed adoption, at least in the UK, but other countries will likely have similar policies. How else would SDC liability work?
The cost will be built into the price of the car, but it will likely be cheaper than the current system of individual insurance policies, due both to reduced administrative overhead, and lower accident rates.
Except that, by any objective measure, the news is NOT negative. The world is most peaceful. The worst war is in Syria, which is a minor conflict by historical standards. There is almost no chance of major power conflict. Living standards are improving across the world. Hundreds of millions of people are rising to the middle class, and in the last ten years, more than a billion have risen out of extreme poverty. Populate growth is falling almost everyone outside Africa. Literacy rates are going up. We are finding cures for diseases, and beating back HIV and malaria. We are making steady progress on solutions to pollution and climate change.
The major headlines in America today (Feb 23rd) are not about war, famine, or plague, but about whether school restroom usage policy should be decided by the federal government, or left up to locals. I don't mean to belittle the issue, but that is hardly an existential crisis for humanity.
If you think that the reality of what is happening in the world is mostly negative, you should reconsider your news sources, and get a more balanced perspective.
If you were actually going to do this, you would NOT use a CPU. A data-lite computation-intensive task like this is ideal for FPGAs, where it could be massively parallelized. If you needed to run multiple MITM attacks, then you could fab some ASICs and cut the hash/joule cost much more. There is likely some NSA datacenter in Utah doing this right now.
Nope. I am fine with Pluto going back to being a planet, but MOONS ARE NOT PLANETS. The concept of a "planet" has been around for millennia, and the moon (and later Jupiter's Galilean moons) have never been considered planets. We need to stop with the arbitrary redefinition of common words. If astronomers want a term to refer to hydrostatically stable bodies, they should make up a new word rather than trying to steal one that is already in use.
Actually, it is not. SSNs are not unique. Many people share SSNs with other people that they have never met, and may not even be aware of. What is unique is the SSN+DOB combination. That is why any government form that asks for your SSN, will also ask for your DOB.
Most households only file one return. Last year there were about 140M returns filed. So the chance is actually about 1:150... and those are only the confirmed cases.
All these individual security tactics are NOT where the problem lies.... But thieves steal the enitire DB at Intuit or irs.gov.
You are correct that "individual security" is not the problem, but DBs are not the problem either. The real problem is the idiotic notion that SSNs can be both widely known and secret. I am required to provide my SSN to my employer, my bank, my doctor, my state government, etc. Yet mere knowledge of that number is supposed to authenticate my identity? That makes no sense.
If anyone is confused as to the effect of combining two words, just point out to them the meaning of "critical"
The problem is that in English, "critical" has two meanings. It can mean "critique", but it can also mean "important". So instead of meaning "to critique reasoning", it has come to mean "any thinking that is important".
Look, if it's ok for google and co to have their half-baked crap navigate on public roads...
The difference is that Google has applied for, and been given, a license to test their SDCs on public roads.
Money doesn't bring people back from the dead.
But money does pay for repairs and medical bills. Injuries are far more common than fatalities, and non-injury accidents causing vehicle damage are even more common.
The World Wars may have level the playing field somewhat, but the biggest leveler in Western civilization was the Black Death of the 14th century. Before the plague, labor was plentiful and cheap, and land was valuable and held by the wealthy. But with a third of the population gone, labor became much more scarce and expensive, while the value of land plummeted, and fields were left fallow for a lack of farmers to tend them. There was a huge shift of wealth from the landowning class, toward farmers and craftsmen.
I used to stay up late in front of my computer. Ever since I started using my computer glasses, bam, proper sleep cycle restored.
I often wake up about 3am, and I avoid using a computer because of the blue light. Instead, I read a book illuminated by a "warm" led light that emits little blue light, and I usually go back to sleep around 5am. If these glasses could allow me to get computer work during those two hours, it would be a godsend. It would be nice if there was real data about this rather than just anecdotes.
Sniffing out Bull was pretty much the overarching goal of all degrees when I went to college.
When was that? When I went to college 35 years ago, it was about convincing all the students that capitalism is evil, Karl Marx was right about everything, we needed to advocate for the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the way to get an "A" in the class was to parrot the propaganda back in all your essays.
Back when I was in school (when the Earth was still cooling) this was called, "Critical Thinking."
Indeed. "Critical thinking" used to mean recognizing logical fallacies and other flaws in reasoning. Unfortunately, the term has become meaningless through misuse. Today, it is often used to describe normal deductive logic and problem solving, which is not the original meaning of the term. Wikipedia lists nine different definitions, some of which contradict each other.
How does one "demand" full time employment? Can I demand that you provide me with a full time job?
The root problem is that we have pushed more and more social responsibilities and costs onto employers. If I hire someone to drive a truck, why should I suddenly be responsible for his medical care? If most people swap jobs every few years, does it really make sense for employers to be responsible for their retirement savings?
In Maoist China, each factory ran a school for the children of their workers. If you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a different school. That seems crazy, but employer provided medical care, and changing doctors when you change jobs, is just as silly. The only difference is that we are used to it.
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Also it sounds like you were suggesting shitty places to eat lunch and they were doing their best to politely tell you better places to go.
If you leave lunch up the the Japanese, you will eat at Denny's everyday. For some reason, Denny's is considered a good restaurant in Japan, even though the food is just as terrible as what they serve in America.
Wouldn't this encourage everyone to work as a contractor an be paid hourly? Or is that not a thing in Japan?
In Japan, it is common for women to be paid hourly, while men are paid salary. The result is that early in their careers, women tend to make more than men, but as they age and gain seniority, the men make more. But older people have high mortgages and families to support. So the result is that about 80% of the disposable income in Japan is control by young women in their 20s and 30s. This distorts the economy in surprising ways. For instance, new technology is often packaged primarily for young women, because that is where the big market is. So you see yakuza with tattoos and shaved heads hanging out on the street corner in Harajuku making deals on their cellphones ... which are pink and shaped like "Hello Kitty".
When I was a Marine stationed on Okinawa, 90% of the tourists on the beaches in Nago and Henoko were young single women travelling together from the main islands. I have many fond memories of living on Okinawa.
Hogwash. There is no way that employees would put up with that crap in today's economy. I notice that you don't actually name the company, which is a good idea when you are making up BS. Unemployment in the Seattle area is below 4%, and tech unemployment is around 2%. Every company in the area is desperate for talent, so these workers could quit and walk across the street for a new job. I might tolerate 100 hour weeks for a few years if I was getting paid $300k, but no sane company would pay that when they could hire two workers at normal hours (50 or 60 hour weeks) for the same cost, and get far better productivity.
The Japanese put in a lot of hours, but not much of that is "working". Japan's productivity is only 60% of America's. There is a social taboo to leave work before your boss, so people stay late and surf the web. The bosses are promoted based on seniority rather than ability, and are often incompetent with no incentive to take the initiative on more enlightened working conditions. It is better to just stick to prevailing social conventions and keep a low profile.
America: The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Japan: The nail that sticks up will be hammered back down.
The paper said that aerodynamics are unable to explain how bumblebees fly.
What paper said that? The Weekly World News?
Lab ones are more pure and are actually less valuable, purely because of the De Beers monopoly on natural diamonds.
I wanted to buy a lab diamond as an anniversary gift, because I figured CVD is a lot less damaging to the environment than mining, and I found that the lab diamonds are MORE EXPENSIVE, not cheaper. A quick look at prices on eBay confirms this is still true. Apparently, I am not the only one who prefers to avoid the environmental destruction and political corruption caused by mining.
It is the owner's responsibility to investigate the quality of the self-driving mechanism and be certain it is up to snuff
Except that the "mechanism" is 99.9% software, and fewer than 0.00001% of the population would be qualified to disassemble and analyse it enough to "be certain it is up to snuff". Pushing product liability for SDCs onto individual owners makes no sense.
This will probably slow manufacturing of self driving cars.
It will more likely have the opposite effect. By buying an SDC, people no longer have to deal with the hassle and cost of individual insurance policies. If they use "on demand" SDCs (which both Uber and Lyft are planning to provide), then the cost and hassle is even less. This legal clarity should speed adoption, at least in the UK, but other countries will likely have similar policies. How else would SDC liability work?
Yes, of course, everyone will have to pay for it.
The cost will be built into the price of the car, but it will likely be cheaper than the current system of individual insurance policies, due both to reduced administrative overhead, and lower accident rates.
Maybe because all the news is negative nowadays.
Except that, by any objective measure, the news is NOT negative. The world is most peaceful. The worst war is in Syria, which is a minor conflict by historical standards. There is almost no chance of major power conflict. Living standards are improving across the world. Hundreds of millions of people are rising to the middle class, and in the last ten years, more than a billion have risen out of extreme poverty. Populate growth is falling almost everyone outside Africa. Literacy rates are going up. We are finding cures for diseases, and beating back HIV and malaria. We are making steady progress on solutions to pollution and climate change.
The major headlines in America today (Feb 23rd) are not about war, famine, or plague, but about whether school restroom usage policy should be decided by the federal government, or left up to locals. I don't mean to belittle the issue, but that is hardly an existential crisis for humanity.
If you think that the reality of what is happening in the world is mostly negative, you should reconsider your news sources, and get a more balanced perspective.
If you were actually going to do this, you would NOT use a CPU. A data-lite computation-intensive task like this is ideal for FPGAs, where it could be massively parallelized. If you needed to run multiple MITM attacks, then you could fab some ASICs and cut the hash/joule cost much more. There is likely some NSA datacenter in Utah doing this right now.
Things are finally going back to normal.
Nope. I am fine with Pluto going back to being a planet, but MOONS ARE NOT PLANETS. The concept of a "planet" has been around for millennia, and the moon (and later Jupiter's Galilean moons) have never been considered planets. We need to stop with the arbitrary redefinition of common words. If astronomers want a term to refer to hydrostatically stable bodies, they should make up a new word rather than trying to steal one that is already in use.
NONE of those show that the SSA reissues SSNs
Nobody said they did. I said they were NOT UNIQUE. They aren't.
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The SSN is fine as an ID.
Actually, it is not. SSNs are not unique. Many people share SSNs with other people that they have never met, and may not even be aware of. What is unique is the SSN+DOB combination. That is why any government form that asks for your SSN, will also ask for your DOB.
787000/330000000 = less than a 1:500 chance.
Most households only file one return. Last year there were about 140M returns filed. So the chance is actually about 1:150 ... and those are only the confirmed cases.
they can't hack the paper forms I mail in.
They can as soon as the forms are scanned, and your info is inserted into the same DB as everyone else.
All these individual security tactics are NOT where the problem lies. ... But thieves steal the enitire DB at Intuit or irs.gov.
You are correct that "individual security" is not the problem, but DBs are not the problem either. The real problem is the idiotic notion that SSNs can be both widely known and secret. I am required to provide my SSN to my employer, my bank, my doctor, my state government, etc. Yet mere knowledge of that number is supposed to authenticate my identity? That makes no sense.
If anyone is confused as to the effect of combining two words, just point out to them the meaning of "critical"
The problem is that in English, "critical" has two meanings. It can mean "critique", but it can also mean "important". So instead of meaning "to critique reasoning", it has come to mean "any thinking that is important".
Look, if it's ok for google and co to have their half-baked crap navigate on public roads...
The difference is that Google has applied for, and been given, a license to test their SDCs on public roads.
Money doesn't bring people back from the dead.
But money does pay for repairs and medical bills. Injuries are far more common than fatalities, and non-injury accidents causing vehicle damage are even more common.
The World Wars may have level the playing field somewhat, but the biggest leveler in Western civilization was the Black Death of the 14th century. Before the plague, labor was plentiful and cheap, and land was valuable and held by the wealthy. But with a third of the population gone, labor became much more scarce and expensive, while the value of land plummeted, and fields were left fallow for a lack of farmers to tend them. There was a huge shift of wealth from the landowning class, toward farmers and craftsmen.
I used to stay up late in front of my computer. Ever since I started using my computer glasses, bam, proper sleep cycle restored.
I often wake up about 3am, and I avoid using a computer because of the blue light. Instead, I read a book illuminated by a "warm" led light that emits little blue light, and I usually go back to sleep around 5am. If these glasses could allow me to get computer work during those two hours, it would be a godsend. It would be nice if there was real data about this rather than just anecdotes.
Sniffing out Bull was pretty much the overarching goal of all degrees when I went to college.
When was that? When I went to college 35 years ago, it was about convincing all the students that capitalism is evil, Karl Marx was right about everything, we needed to advocate for the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the way to get an "A" in the class was to parrot the propaganda back in all your essays.
Back when I was in school (when the Earth was still cooling) this was called, "Critical Thinking."
Indeed. "Critical thinking" used to mean recognizing logical fallacies and other flaws in reasoning. Unfortunately, the term has become meaningless through misuse. Today, it is often used to describe normal deductive logic and problem solving, which is not the original meaning of the term. Wikipedia lists nine different definitions, some of which contradict each other.
...and demand full time employment.
How does one "demand" full time employment? Can I demand that you provide me with a full time job?
The root problem is that we have pushed more and more social responsibilities and costs onto employers. If I hire someone to drive a truck, why should I suddenly be responsible for his medical care? If most people swap jobs every few years, does it really make sense for employers to be responsible for their retirement savings?
In Maoist China, each factory ran a school for the children of their workers. If you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a different school. That seems crazy, but employer provided medical care, and changing doctors when you change jobs, is just as silly. The only difference is that we are used to it.