Nitrogen is more popular than oxygen by a factor of about 3.7
Only if you look at just the atmosphere. If you include the lithosphere and the oceans, oxygen wins by a landslide. In the universe, oxygen is about ten times as common. But as a consolation prize, nitrogen-14 is by far the most common substance with an odd number of both protons and neutrons.
What does any of this have to do with programming languages?
Why exactly is Amazon forced to keep unreasonably low margin and stiff its employees?
If Jeff Bezos had high prices and paid his employees generously, he would be the proprietor of a corner grocery store rather than the 3rd richest guy on the planet.
Can none of these hipsters run a lathe or a milling machine?
Why? Because it is supposed to be hard? For most of the parts they are making, 3D printing is superior in every way. Less material, less time, less training, less effort, less waste.
Disclaimer: I know how to run a lathe and CNC milling machine, and have a Sherline in my garage. But I also know how to select the right tool for the job.
Which is really seriously stupid since almost anyone can fake a signature.
There is no need to "fake" a signature. Any scribble will suffice. No one, absolutely no one, checks the signature for anything. Just drag the stylus across the screen in a straight line, and it will say "accepted".
Amazon is a public company. They are required to publish their financial statements. Their margins are public information, and are very low. Amazon has pursued a strategy of low prices and low margins in order to build market share. That strategy seems to be working well, leading to a high stock price.
Because nearly all of that "net worth" is tied up in his company stock. He's only rich on paper.
He can sell the stock anytime he wants. He has already sold plenty, and has billions in diversified assets.
He doesn't cash out because he finds pleasure in DOING STUFF rather than sitting on a beach. I once took a two week vacation to Hawaii, and after the first week I was already bored, and thinking about potential new projects, and I have way less than $63B.
Seriously, this is a nerd site, and nerds care about performance.
True nerds don't care about graphics performance, they only care how fast their GPU can do matrix multiplications in OpenCL/CUDA for their neural network training cycles.
Has anyone benchmarked these cards for, say, a three layer denoising autoencoder ANN on MNIST digit recognition?
Funny how "cheap" never seems to apply to their salaries and bonuses though.
You might want to talk to some SWA employees about that. SWA is notorious for low pay and stingy benefits. That is one way that they keep their fares low.
The reason they pay American income tax is because the USA provides the infrastructure that allows them to exist in the first place.
No. This is wrong. If an American company designs a product in France, manufactures it in China, and sells it in Germany, they pay tax on that sale, despite using no American infrastructure. If they re-incorporate in Ireland, they avoid the tax, despite no change in infrastructure use. If they manufacture in America but pay an "IP license fee" to their Cayman Island subsidiary, then they can pay no tax despite using American infrastructure. Corporate income tax is in no way correlated with infrastructure use.
Apple, Google, Microsoft etc won't let this heinous idea get loose.
Actually, all these companies, and many others, are strong advocates of corporate tax reform, even though they would almost certainly pay more tax. Our current system is idiotic. We incentivise companies to keep profits outside America, and to move jobs overseas. We need to stop the extraterritorial taxation (which no other country demands), and we need to align taxes on domestic profits with other countries so companies invest here.
But there is too much pandering and populism from both parties for these problems to be fixed. My company has offices in San Jose, California, and Shanghai, China. We are adding several employees this year, and whether Donald or Hillary wins, I think you can guess where those jobs will be created (hint: not in California).
Not to mention things like Blu Tac, Sellotape, a lot of brands of condoms, Bic Pens, most brands of cigarettes.
Those are consumables. If you only look at durable goods, and you multiply the number manufactured by the useful lifetime, then I nominate the AK-47. Over 100 million have been manufactured, and many are still in use after more than 60 years.
Sex without consent is rape. Period. No exceptions.
That is an idealistic fantasy. In real life, it is complicated, "no" often means "yes", and that is especially true the first time a couple has sex. Women have been conditioned to appear chaste, and not too willing. Many women expect the man to take the initiative, and may be offended if he asks them for explicit consent. The first time I had sex with my last girlfriend, she was saying "no, no, no" while giggling and helping me unbutton her clothes. We are now happily married with two kids.
What do you mean by "critical thinking"? How does it differ from "normal" thinking?
According to Wikipedia, critical thinking is "the commitment to the social and political practice of participatory democracy". Do you really think that is what is missing in tech employees?
The government shouldn't artificially restrict the number of tech people but neither should it artificially increase it via the H1B program.
The H1B program does not "artificially increase" the supply. It artificially restricts it. There are a limited number of H1B quotas. The "free market" solution would be unrestricted movement of labor, which would almost certainly result in far more techie immigrants.
I could argue (at least up to a point) that WordStar 5.5 had everything you need for, you know, writing.
Not at all. By far the hardest part of writing is thinking of something to say. Wordstar didn't help with that. But Bing-enhanced Word-365 can actually help you create the content. This is especially useful when you have no opinion or knowledge about the subject, such as writing a school term paper.
It appears that some of the emails may have been tampered with
I have been following the story, and this is the first time I have heard of the "tampering" accusation. Can you provide a citation? Anyway, the head of the DNC has already been forced to resign, so it seems pretty clear that enough of the emails were real.
and the timing of the release is clearly intended to interfere in the US democratic process.
Sure, if exposing the truth counts as "interfering".
Some people appear more willing to make excuses for Tesla than accept they may have screwed up here.
Nobody is saying they didn't screw up. Obviously, they did. But that doesn't mean the answer is more bureaucracy and delay. I am sorry this guy is dead, but about 80 Americans die in traffic deaths EVERY DAY, and self-driving technology could likely prevent most of those. So we should be pushing this tech forward aggressively, and if there is a small bodycount along the way, we should be willing to accept that as the price we pay for the greater good. Many more lives will be saved in the long run.
I am sick of America's constant "can't do" attitude. I own a Tesla (actually, my wife owns it, but whatever), and part of the reason we bought it was to support a company that is actually getting shit done, and pushing things forward. I understand and accept that I am being used as a guinea pig.
Totally seems like a joke, tongue in cheek type of thing. "Oh the Russians can friggen find them I bet!"
Except that the Russians exposed the DNC corruption scandal just a few days ago. The exposure was perfectly timed to deflate Hillary's "convention bounce". Asking them to repeat something that they just did, doesn't seem like a joke to me.
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Look at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps you should look at that page yourself. This is the very first sentence (emphasis mine):
This category lists scripting programming languages.
"Scripting" and "programming" are not two different things. Scripting is programming.
Nitrogen is more popular than oxygen by a factor of about 3.7
Only if you look at just the atmosphere. If you include the lithosphere and the oceans, oxygen wins by a landslide. In the universe, oxygen is about ten times as common. But as a consolation prize, nitrogen-14 is by far the most common substance with an odd number of both protons and neutrons.
What does any of this have to do with programming languages?
And how much energy does it take to extract CO2 from the atmosphere regardless of the conversion process?
You don't have to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. You could instead extract it from the exhaust pipe of a power plant.
Why exactly is Amazon forced to keep unreasonably low margin and stiff its employees?
If Jeff Bezos had high prices and paid his employees generously, he would be the proprietor of a corner grocery store rather than the 3rd richest guy on the planet.
Can none of these hipsters run a lathe or a milling machine?
Why? Because it is supposed to be hard? For most of the parts they are making, 3D printing is superior in every way. Less material, less time, less training, less effort, less waste.
Disclaimer: I know how to run a lathe and CNC milling machine, and have a Sherline in my garage. But I also know how to select the right tool for the job.
At present I cannot see it scaling beyond small garden plots.
Farmbot doesn't scale because it uses a gantry system. In order to scale, you have to use a more flexible technology, such as wheels.
Which one?
The Democrats. The Republicans are safe because they haven't figured out how to use computers yet.
Which is really seriously stupid since almost anyone can fake a signature.
There is no need to "fake" a signature. Any scribble will suffice. No one, absolutely no one, checks the signature for anything. Just drag the stylus across the screen in a straight line, and it will say "accepted".
How exactly is Amazon making low margins?
Amazon is a public company. They are required to publish their financial statements. Their margins are public information, and are very low. Amazon has pursued a strategy of low prices and low margins in order to build market share. That strategy seems to be working well, leading to a high stock price.
Apple didn't design a product overseas. They designed it here.
You are missing the point. It doesn't matter where the work was done. The tax due to America is the same.
(and all of their staff uses the USA's infrastructure).
That is irrelevant. The tax is the same.
Stop assuming that the tax laws make sense.
Because nearly all of that "net worth" is tied up in his company stock. He's only rich on paper.
He can sell the stock anytime he wants. He has already sold plenty, and has billions in diversified assets.
He doesn't cash out because he finds pleasure in DOING STUFF rather than sitting on a beach. I once took a two week vacation to Hawaii, and after the first week I was already bored, and thinking about potential new projects, and I have way less than $63B.
Just how hard is it to disable one of these $600,000 mobile golf carts?
The best way to disable a military vehicle is to shoot the driver. Since this vehicle doesn't have a driver, it will be less vulnerable.
Seriously, this is a nerd site, and nerds care about performance.
True nerds don't care about graphics performance, they only care how fast their GPU can do matrix multiplications in OpenCL/CUDA for their neural network training cycles.
Has anyone benchmarked these cards for, say, a three layer denoising autoencoder ANN on MNIST digit recognition?
Funny how "cheap" never seems to apply to their salaries and bonuses though.
You might want to talk to some SWA employees about that. SWA is notorious for low pay and stingy benefits. That is one way that they keep their fares low.
The reason they pay American income tax is because the USA provides the infrastructure that allows them to exist in the first place.
No. This is wrong. If an American company designs a product in France, manufactures it in China, and sells it in Germany, they pay tax on that sale, despite using no American infrastructure. If they re-incorporate in Ireland, they avoid the tax, despite no change in infrastructure use. If they manufacture in America but pay an "IP license fee" to their Cayman Island subsidiary, then they can pay no tax despite using American infrastructure. Corporate income tax is in no way correlated with infrastructure use.
Apple, Google, Microsoft etc won't let this heinous idea get loose.
Actually, all these companies, and many others, are strong advocates of corporate tax reform, even though they would almost certainly pay more tax. Our current system is idiotic. We incentivise companies to keep profits outside America, and to move jobs overseas. We need to stop the extraterritorial taxation (which no other country demands), and we need to align taxes on domestic profits with other countries so companies invest here.
But there is too much pandering and populism from both parties for these problems to be fixed. My company has offices in San Jose, California, and Shanghai, China. We are adding several employees this year, and whether Donald or Hillary wins, I think you can guess where those jobs will be created (hint: not in California).
Not to mention things like Blu Tac, Sellotape, a lot of brands of condoms, Bic Pens, most brands of cigarettes.
Those are consumables. If you only look at durable goods, and you multiply the number manufactured by the useful lifetime, then I nominate the AK-47. Over 100 million have been manufactured, and many are still in use after more than 60 years.
Sex without consent is rape. Period. No exceptions.
That is an idealistic fantasy. In real life, it is complicated, "no" often means "yes", and that is especially true the first time a couple has sex. Women have been conditioned to appear chaste, and not too willing. Many women expect the man to take the initiative, and may be offended if he asks them for explicit consent. The first time I had sex with my last girlfriend, she was saying "no, no, no" while giggling and helping me unbutton her clothes. We are now happily married with two kids.
What is lacking is critical thinking
What do you mean by "critical thinking"? How does it differ from "normal" thinking?
According to Wikipedia, critical thinking is "the commitment to the social and political practice of participatory democracy". Do you really think that is what is missing in tech employees?
The government shouldn't artificially restrict the number of tech people but neither should it artificially increase it via the H1B program.
The H1B program does not "artificially increase" the supply. It artificially restricts it. There are a limited number of H1B quotas. The "free market" solution would be unrestricted movement of labor, which would almost certainly result in far more techie immigrants.
The only good thing about PowerPoint was that it forced people to think about what they were going to say and in what order.
Exactly. If Abraham Lincoln had Powerpoint, the Gettysburg Address could have looked like this.
I could argue (at least up to a point) that WordStar 5.5 had everything you need for, you know, writing.
Not at all. By far the hardest part of writing is thinking of something to say. Wordstar didn't help with that. But Bing-enhanced Word-365 can actually help you create the content. This is especially useful when you have no opinion or knowledge about the subject, such as writing a school term paper.
It appears that some of the emails may have been tampered with
I have been following the story, and this is the first time I have heard of the "tampering" accusation. Can you provide a citation? Anyway, the head of the DNC has already been forced to resign, so it seems pretty clear that enough of the emails were real.
and the timing of the release is clearly intended to interfere in the US democratic process.
Sure, if exposing the truth counts as "interfering".
Some people appear more willing to make excuses for Tesla than accept they may have screwed up here.
Nobody is saying they didn't screw up. Obviously, they did. But that doesn't mean the answer is more bureaucracy and delay. I am sorry this guy is dead, but about 80 Americans die in traffic deaths EVERY DAY, and self-driving technology could likely prevent most of those. So we should be pushing this tech forward aggressively, and if there is a small bodycount along the way, we should be willing to accept that as the price we pay for the greater good. Many more lives will be saved in the long run.
I am sick of America's constant "can't do" attitude. I own a Tesla (actually, my wife owns it, but whatever), and part of the reason we bought it was to support a company that is actually getting shit done, and pushing things forward. I understand and accept that I am being used as a guinea pig.
Totally seems like a joke, tongue in cheek type of thing. "Oh the Russians can friggen find them I bet!"
Except that the Russians exposed the DNC corruption scandal just a few days ago. The exposure was perfectly timed to deflate Hillary's "convention bounce". Asking them to repeat something that they just did, doesn't seem like a joke to me.