and how exactly do they pay their rent or mortgage?
From their spouse's paycheck. Or their parent's. Or their SSDI check.
why are the trains in NYC packed with people going to work every morning?
NYC is not typical. The economy in NYC is booming. Same where I live, in San Jose CA. Everyone that wants a job has one, and many people get regular offers to jump to a new job. But there are many areas in middle America, or even California's central valley, that are economically depressed. One thing that has changed in recent years, is that people are less willing to pull up their roots and move to better opportunities. I am baffled why anyone would choose to stay in someplace like, say, Flint MI, with dysfunctional government, 30% unemployment, horrible weather, and poisoned water, when they can hop on a bus and improve their life in every way.
Primes, in all bases, are highly useful in many areas, encryption being a good one most people likely know of.
Engineering is another area, prime-sizing, matrices and so many practical uses.
Also biology. Cicadas and locusts tend to appear in cycles based on primes, such as every 13 or 17 years. If they instead used a composite period, like, say 12, then they could be prey to predators that had a 3, 4, or 6 year cycle.
For the same reason, machinery sometimes use gears or belts with a prime number of teeth. That can reduce vibrations by eliminating some possible resonances.
Not to mention, at what point does a number being "interesting" stop being mathematics and start being numerology?
There are no uninteresting numbers. Proof: Assume N is the smallest uninteresting number. That property in itself makes it interesting. Therefore there can be no smallest uninteresting number, so logically uninteresting numbers cannot exist. QED.
I mean, are things like taxicab numbers and 'emirps' useful for anything?
There is no requirement that mathematics be useful. Many fields of math, including non-Euclidian geometry, trans-infinite set theory, etc. were developed long before there were any applications. The Greeks and Romans had no use for zero. Some mathematicians consider it a badge of honor to work on a topic that is considered purely theoretical, and therefore useless.
In the past when you did it sloppy, you'd get called out on it
I have been in tech for 30+ years, and I have seen no evidence whatsoever that sys admins were less sloppy in the past, nor do I believe that management was better at "calling them out" when they made mistakes. Backups and reliability in particular are way better today.
Every generation tends to believe that young'ins are dumber and lazier than they were. They are usually wrong.
Traditionally, this was easily solved because there was an engineering mindset.
You seem to be implying that data loss was less common in the "Good ole' days", when all sys admins were highly trained engineers. That is almost certainly untrue, and based on false nostalgia. Backups are much easier today, with reliable high-capacity storage, journaling file systems, ubiquitous connectivity, and plenty of off-the-shelf software solutions.
Why are you calling out Feinstein but not Burr? They are both asshats.
Sure, but as a Republican, Burr is supposed to be an ignorant authoritarian asshat. That is the whole point of the GOP. There is a libertarian wing to the Republican party, but they are only around 10%.
But Feinstein is different. She is just as much of an asshat as Burr on social authoritarianism, but also has all the economic authoritarianism of the Democratic Party. If you took the absolute worst of American Politics, and blended them into a Frankenstein chimera, you would get Dianne Feinstein. She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
As a Californian, I am very ashamed to admit that she is my senator.
The packets that compose an email do not have the same time constraints of packets that compose a Netflix video stream.
NN can, in theory, allow packets to have different priorities based on the type of data, just not based on the source of that data.
Net Neutrality is really about truth in advertising
No. NN is about countering monopoly power. NN would not be necessary in a competitive market. Advertising is irrelevant if customers have no other choice.
Netflix, for example, could become its own ISP
Sure, and FedEx and UPS could each build their own set of roads.
People standing up to large corporate interests who just want to keep cutting jobs, pay, and benefits is a good thing.
How is striking going to convince a corporation to stop offshoring and automating jobs? It seems to me that it will convince them to do more. Look at what UAW strikes did to Detroit.
I love how to try to conflate copyright infringement with the actual theft of a DVD.
My company has DVDs replicated for 20 cents each. I am sure a big Hollywood studio pays even less. So if the DVD sells for $20, then 99% of the value is in the content, not the physical media. So "stealing" a movie online really isn't so different than stealing a DVD. The monetary difference is negligible.
Disclaimer: I watch pirated movies occasionally, because I am cheap and I know I can get away with it. But I don't try to rationalize it.
Insurance rates are based on actuarial predictions of risk. Social Security treats everyone the same. But since people are not the same, this is a huge benefit to rich old white people, at the expense of poor young black people.
Social Security was designed to be unfair toward poor people, and especially toward blacks. It was the only way for FDR to get Southern Democrats to vote for it. But it is deeply unjust, that 8 decades later, we still haven't fixed the problem.
I don't think that diet and fitness are a science fail. They are a pseudo-science fail.
Plenty of mainstream scientific institutions pushed the "high carb, low fat" diet for an entire generation. The government promoted carbs and spent billions subsidizing high carb diets (and, of course, the subsidies continue to be paid, as all subsidies do, even though they are now recognized as a mistake). To claim that it was all mere pseudo-science is just a No True Scotsman fallacy. Nobody was calling it pseudo-science back in the 1970s and 1980s. In fact it was the opposite: most scientists attacked Atkins and others as "frauds" when they questioned the prevailing dogma.
This was a colossal failure of the scientific establishment, and you cannot just hand-wave that away.
It reminds me of that scene from "Sleeper" where Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in the future and asks for granola for breakfast, and they wonder why he didn't request "healthy" food like deep fat, and cream pies. That was supposed to be a joke, but actually reflects reality. The high carb diet that we were all told was healthy, turns out to have been an oops.
People who cry out socialism at the drop of the hat don't want their tax dollars being used to help those OTHER people.
People that went to college make average salaries much higher than the median. So this is just another way that well intentioned social policy has been turned around to make the poor subsidize the rich... and before you protest that these people are disabled, you should be aware that the number of people classified as "disabled" has tripled under Obama. At least 2/3rds of these people should be working.
That don't mind if the government pays for the programs that they care about, say, Social Security benefits.
... which is yet another example of the poor subsidizing the rich. Poor people, and especially black people, have much shorter expected lifetimes than rich white people. So they pay into the system, but collect much less in benefits, since they have many fewer years of retirement.
Seems to be this is exactly what is happening here in the Hillary email scandal....anyone else pulling this same exact thing, would have been indicted already.....and likely convicted.
No, this is not true. Violations of confidential material are daily occurrences, and while they sometimes result in a reprimand, they very rarely result in criminal charges. Criminal charges are usually filed only when the violations are repeated, or result in actual leaks of important information.
I served in the military, and had a secret clearance. I also worked a few years for a defense contractor. We should have occasional security sweeps, and they always found violations. Yet there were never any charges.
I am no fan of Hillary, but Servergate is way overblown.
Centuries of jurisprudence. Please do me the favor of researching the matter yourself before further argument.
Those centuries have included many oppressive governments, which have used "prosecutorial discretion" to a far greater extent than democracies. They prosecute their opponents, while giving their cronies a pass. That is what is happening in China today, as the opponents of Xi Jinping are arrested in the "corruption crackdown". When his brother-in-law was caught in the Panama Papers scandal, hiding billions in overseas accounts, it was not him, but the people trying to raise awareness of the issue that have been arrested or intimidated.
In America, blacks and other minorities are prosecuted for crimes while white people committing near identical crimes are let off with a warning.
Rather than "prosecutorial discretion", we should have clearly written laws, and a minimal number of them. If a crime is not prosecuted, then the decision and the reasoning should be made public, to ensure that the same standard is applied to others.
Perhaps you failed to notice that almost every news outlet, regardless of media type, is more interested in feeding cuntish groupthink on social wankfestery than actually covering news.
Nonsense. There are plenty of good sources of news. I subscribe to The Economist, and I consider it quality journalism, with plenty of good coverage of real issues, and never a mention of the Kardashians. Most American media is garbage, but that is because that is what most people choose to consume, and they DO have a choice.
I'm just not sure if it'll be a "Come for the dystopian surveillance; stay to enjoy the fraud!" or the other way around...
The main motivation for this scheme is entitlement reform. In the past, India provided subsidized rice to the poor, and about 80% of the rice was typically stolen before it reached the intended recipients. Under this new system, the poor will have money transferred directly to their e-accounts, so they can then buy rice (or something else that they need) in local markets. So even if there is plenty of fraud, it will still be better than what it replaced. One thing that Indians have plenty of is low expectations.
By the same token, female police officers are 5 times more likely to resort to using their firearm, and their partner is twice as likely to be hurt on the job.
Source?
A quick Google search will bring up several citations that female cops are less likely to shoot. But I could only find one citation from Ann Coulter that women are "vastly more likely" to shoot. I suppose that counts as a negative citation, since if Ann Coulter claims something is true, it usually isn't.
A patent troll doesn't need a bullet proof patent to make your life miserable. It can be easier and cheaper to just pay them.
It can be even easier and cheaper to just ignore them. My company has been threatened many times by patent trolls, including Acacia Research and Intellectual Ventures. In every case, we chose to just ignore them. Sometimes they sent a follow up letter. We ignored those too.
It costs more to pursue a patent lawsuit that to defend against one. Their business model depends on a quick payout. So they shotgun out lots of letters, waiting for some intimidated fool to bite. If you respond, you are basically saying "Hey, look at me, I'm a target!" Unless they have actually filed papers with the court, you have no obligation to respond.
Of course, if you talk to a lawyer, they will be horrified at the idea of ignoring a legal threat, and will instead recommend that you spend a lot of money on your lawyer. Here's another free lesson in life: Your lawyer does not represent your best interests.
it's trivial to get a city hukou if you have a college degree.
Riiiight, because the son of a rice farmer, banned from public schools, should have no problem getting a college degree. And if the peasants don't have bread, let them eat cake!
The hukou class of a child can follow either the mother's or the father's.
Here is a citation that says you are wrong. A quick Google search turns up many more. Illegitimate children in China (heihaizi or "black children") are denied many basic rights of citizenship.
The reason why China had set up a hukou system was to make sure that the social services that were provided in the cities wouldn't be overtaxed.
Nonsense. For every extra person given education or medical care in a city, is one less given those services in a rural village. So the cost is not higher to relocate the services. Migration to the cities started more than 30 years ago. That was plenty of time to adjust.
It's also no different than people who argue against illegal immigration.
More nonsense. Illegal immigrants are not citizens of the country denying them basic services. Also, their status is not hereditary. The child of an illegal immigrant is not considered an illegal.
It's not like children from rural areas DON'T get any education or health care. That's not true. They just have to go to school in THEIR area.
You are completely missing the point. These children are NOT "from rural areas". They were BORN IN THE CITY. In many cases, their parents were also born in the city. In some cases, so were their grandparents. Their class has nothing to do with where they were born. It is inherited paternally. So their class is whatever is printed on their father's hukou (identity card). If they are illegitimate, and their father is not identified, then they are screwed, and have no rights to education or healthcare, regardless of their mother's social status.
The hukou system is no more justified than Apartheid was in South Africa, or Jim Crow in the American South. It is a morally reprehensible system, and it should be abolished.
You can't imitate something that you don't understand. Understand?
Yes you can. The people that developed Alpha-Go are not particularly good Go players. Yet they created a program that can easily beat its creators. Many systems display emergent properties that are were not planned by the designers.
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and how exactly do they pay their rent or mortgage?
From their spouse's paycheck. Or their parent's. Or their SSDI check.
why are the trains in NYC packed with people going to work every morning?
NYC is not typical. The economy in NYC is booming. Same where I live, in San Jose CA. Everyone that wants a job has one, and many people get regular offers to jump to a new job. But there are many areas in middle America, or even California's central valley, that are economically depressed. One thing that has changed in recent years, is that people are less willing to pull up their roots and move to better opportunities. I am baffled why anyone would choose to stay in someplace like, say, Flint MI, with dysfunctional government, 30% unemployment, horrible weather, and poisoned water, when they can hop on a bus and improve their life in every way.
Primes, in all bases, are highly useful in many areas, encryption being a good one most people likely know of.
Engineering is another area, prime-sizing, matrices and so many practical uses.
Also biology. Cicadas and locusts tend to appear in cycles based on primes, such as every 13 or 17 years. If they instead used a composite period, like, say 12, then they could be prey to predators that had a 3, 4, or 6 year cycle.
For the same reason, machinery sometimes use gears or belts with a prime number of teeth. That can reduce vibrations by eliminating some possible resonances.
Not to mention, at what point does a number being "interesting" stop being mathematics and start being numerology?
There are no uninteresting numbers. Proof: Assume N is the smallest uninteresting number. That property in itself makes it interesting. Therefore there can be no smallest uninteresting number, so logically uninteresting numbers cannot exist. QED.
I mean, are things like taxicab numbers and 'emirps' useful for anything?
There is no requirement that mathematics be useful. Many fields of math, including non-Euclidian geometry, trans-infinite set theory, etc. were developed long before there were any applications. The Greeks and Romans had no use for zero. Some mathematicians consider it a badge of honor to work on a topic that is considered purely theoretical, and therefore useless.
In the past when you did it sloppy, you'd get called out on it
I have been in tech for 30+ years, and I have seen no evidence whatsoever that sys admins were less sloppy in the past, nor do I believe that management was better at "calling them out" when they made mistakes. Backups and reliability in particular are way better today.
Every generation tends to believe that young'ins are dumber and lazier than they were. They are usually wrong.
Traditionally, this was easily solved because there was an engineering mindset.
You seem to be implying that data loss was less common in the "Good ole' days", when all sys admins were highly trained engineers. That is almost certainly untrue, and based on false nostalgia. Backups are much easier today, with reliable high-capacity storage, journaling file systems, ubiquitous connectivity, and plenty of off-the-shelf software solutions.
Why are you calling out Feinstein but not Burr? They are both asshats.
Sure, but as a Republican, Burr is supposed to be an ignorant authoritarian asshat. That is the whole point of the GOP. There is a libertarian wing to the Republican party, but they are only around 10%.
But Feinstein is different. She is just as much of an asshat as Burr on social authoritarianism, but also has all the economic authoritarianism of the Democratic Party. If you took the absolute worst of American Politics, and blended them into a Frankenstein chimera, you would get Dianne Feinstein. She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
As a Californian, I am very ashamed to admit that she is my senator.
The packets that compose an email do not have the same time constraints of packets that compose a Netflix video stream.
NN can, in theory, allow packets to have different priorities based on the type of data, just not based on the source of that data.
Net Neutrality is really about truth in advertising
No. NN is about countering monopoly power. NN would not be necessary in a competitive market. Advertising is irrelevant if customers have no other choice.
Netflix, for example, could become its own ISP
Sure, and FedEx and UPS could each build their own set of roads.
People standing up to large corporate interests who just want to keep cutting jobs, pay, and benefits is a good thing.
How is striking going to convince a corporation to stop offshoring and automating jobs? It seems to me that it will convince them to do more. Look at what UAW strikes did to Detroit.
I love how to try to conflate copyright infringement with the actual theft of a DVD.
My company has DVDs replicated for 20 cents each. I am sure a big Hollywood studio pays even less. So if the DVD sells for $20, then 99% of the value is in the content, not the physical media. So "stealing" a movie online really isn't so different than stealing a DVD. The monetary difference is negligible.
Disclaimer: I watch pirated movies occasionally, because I am cheap and I know I can get away with it. But I don't try to rationalize it.
So it's like insurance?
Insurance rates are based on actuarial predictions of risk. Social Security treats everyone the same. But since people are not the same, this is a huge benefit to rich old white people, at the expense of poor young black people.
Social Security was designed to be unfair toward poor people, and especially toward blacks. It was the only way for FDR to get Southern Democrats to vote for it. But it is deeply unjust, that 8 decades later, we still haven't fixed the problem.
I don't think that diet and fitness are a science fail. They are a pseudo-science fail.
Plenty of mainstream scientific institutions pushed the "high carb, low fat" diet for an entire generation. The government promoted carbs and spent billions subsidizing high carb diets (and, of course, the subsidies continue to be paid, as all subsidies do, even though they are now recognized as a mistake). To claim that it was all mere pseudo-science is just a No True Scotsman fallacy. Nobody was calling it pseudo-science back in the 1970s and 1980s. In fact it was the opposite: most scientists attacked Atkins and others as "frauds" when they questioned the prevailing dogma.
This was a colossal failure of the scientific establishment, and you cannot just hand-wave that away.
It reminds me of that scene from "Sleeper" where Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in the future and asks for granola for breakfast, and they wonder why he didn't request "healthy" food like deep fat, and cream pies. That was supposed to be a joke, but actually reflects reality. The high carb diet that we were all told was healthy, turns out to have been an oops.
People who cry out socialism at the drop of the hat don't want their tax dollars being used to help those OTHER people.
People that went to college make average salaries much higher than the median. So this is just another way that well intentioned social policy has been turned around to make the poor subsidize the rich ... and before you protest that these people are disabled, you should be aware that the number of people classified as "disabled" has tripled under Obama. At least 2/3rds of these people should be working.
That don't mind if the government pays for the programs that they care about, say, Social Security benefits.
... which is yet another example of the poor subsidizing the rich. Poor people, and especially black people, have much shorter expected lifetimes than rich white people. So they pay into the system, but collect much less in benefits, since they have many fewer years of retirement.
Seems to be this is exactly what is happening here in the Hillary email scandal....anyone else pulling this same exact thing, would have been indicted already.....and likely convicted.
No, this is not true. Violations of confidential material are daily occurrences, and while they sometimes result in a reprimand, they very rarely result in criminal charges. Criminal charges are usually filed only when the violations are repeated, or result in actual leaks of important information.
I served in the military, and had a secret clearance. I also worked a few years for a defense contractor. We should have occasional security sweeps, and they always found violations. Yet there were never any charges.
I am no fan of Hillary, but Servergate is way overblown.
Centuries of jurisprudence. Please do me the favor of researching the matter yourself before further argument.
Those centuries have included many oppressive governments, which have used "prosecutorial discretion" to a far greater extent than democracies. They prosecute their opponents, while giving their cronies a pass. That is what is happening in China today, as the opponents of Xi Jinping are arrested in the "corruption crackdown". When his brother-in-law was caught in the Panama Papers scandal, hiding billions in overseas accounts, it was not him, but the people trying to raise awareness of the issue that have been arrested or intimidated.
In America, blacks and other minorities are prosecuted for crimes while white people committing near identical crimes are let off with a warning.
Rather than "prosecutorial discretion", we should have clearly written laws, and a minimal number of them. If a crime is not prosecuted, then the decision and the reasoning should be made public, to ensure that the same standard is applied to others.
Perhaps you failed to notice that almost every news outlet, regardless of media type, is more interested in feeding cuntish groupthink on social wankfestery than actually covering news.
Nonsense. There are plenty of good sources of news. I subscribe to The Economist, and I consider it quality journalism, with plenty of good coverage of real issues, and never a mention of the Kardashians. Most American media is garbage, but that is because that is what most people choose to consume, and they DO have a choice.
I'm just not sure if it'll be a "Come for the dystopian surveillance; stay to enjoy the fraud!" or the other way around...
The main motivation for this scheme is entitlement reform. In the past, India provided subsidized rice to the poor, and about 80% of the rice was typically stolen before it reached the intended recipients. Under this new system, the poor will have money transferred directly to their e-accounts, so they can then buy rice (or something else that they need) in local markets. So even if there is plenty of fraud, it will still be better than what it replaced. One thing that Indians have plenty of is low expectations.
By the same token, female police officers are 5 times more likely to resort to using their firearm, and their partner is twice as likely to be hurt on the job.
Source?
A quick Google search will bring up several citations that female cops are less likely to shoot. But I could only find one citation from Ann Coulter that women are "vastly more likely" to shoot. I suppose that counts as a negative citation, since if Ann Coulter claims something is true, it usually isn't.
A patent troll doesn't need a bullet proof patent to make your life miserable. It can be easier and cheaper to just pay them.
It can be even easier and cheaper to just ignore them. My company has been threatened many times by patent trolls, including Acacia Research and Intellectual Ventures. In every case, we chose to just ignore them. Sometimes they sent a follow up letter. We ignored those too.
It costs more to pursue a patent lawsuit that to defend against one. Their business model depends on a quick payout. So they shotgun out lots of letters, waiting for some intimidated fool to bite. If you respond, you are basically saying "Hey, look at me, I'm a target!" Unless they have actually filed papers with the court, you have no obligation to respond.
Of course, if you talk to a lawyer, they will be horrified at the idea of ignoring a legal threat, and will instead recommend that you spend a lot of money on your lawyer. Here's another free lesson in life: Your lawyer does not represent your best interests.
That would probably add 25 cents of cost to a $500 device.
It would cost far more than that just to handle all the tech support calls from people complaining that their cameras and microphones don't work.
But yes, yes they should.
No, they shouldn't. I trust black tape far more than I trust a mechanical switch that someone else installed.
it's trivial to get a city hukou if you have a college degree.
Riiiight, because the son of a rice farmer, banned from public schools, should have no problem getting a college degree. And if the peasants don't have bread, let them eat cake!
The hukou class of a child can follow either the mother's or the father's.
Here is a citation that says you are wrong. A quick Google search turns up many more. Illegitimate children in China (heihaizi or "black children") are denied many basic rights of citizenship.
The reason why China had set up a hukou system was to make sure that the social services that were provided in the cities wouldn't be overtaxed.
Nonsense. For every extra person given education or medical care in a city, is one less given those services in a rural village. So the cost is not higher to relocate the services. Migration to the cities started more than 30 years ago. That was plenty of time to adjust.
It's also no different than people who argue against illegal immigration.
More nonsense. Illegal immigrants are not citizens of the country denying them basic services. Also, their status is not hereditary. The child of an illegal immigrant is not considered an illegal.
It's not like children from rural areas DON'T get any education or health care. That's not true. They just have to go to school in THEIR area.
You are completely missing the point. These children are NOT "from rural areas". They were BORN IN THE CITY. In many cases, their parents were also born in the city. In some cases, so were their grandparents. Their class has nothing to do with where they were born. It is inherited paternally. So their class is whatever is printed on their father's hukou (identity card). If they are illegitimate, and their father is not identified, then they are screwed, and have no rights to education or healthcare, regardless of their mother's social status.
The hukou system is no more justified than Apartheid was in South Africa, or Jim Crow in the American South. It is a morally reprehensible system, and it should be abolished.
But I'm sure as hell not buying from the first production run
So then you are relying on the early adopters, the very people you are denigrating, to lead the way.
You can't imitate something that you don't understand. Understand?
Yes you can. The people that developed Alpha-Go are not particularly good Go players. Yet they created a program that can easily beat its creators. Many systems display emergent properties that are were not planned by the designers.