It's been a bit of a problem in their community since a sizable chunk of their leadership's been forced out by it.
Who has been forced out? Do you have a citation?
According to PBS, alt-right groups do not cast out people with "non-white" DNA. They instead question the validity of the results, and there are conspiracy theories that the DNA labs are telling many people that their DNA is "mixed" to push their liberal agenda that "we are all the same".
I mean seriously, I get it: Bitcoin is a 'tech' thing but we don't need to have a NEWS story every time it goes up or down, do we?
Bitcoin stories get posted because they generate page views and traffic. If you want to see fewer of them, then stop reading them and posting messages about them.
We're not regularly seeing postings when RAM skyrockets or falls, are we?
RAM prices are way more stable and uninteresting than they used to be.
It's an imaginary commodity that some people have agreed to treat like money
Actually, almost nobody treats it like money. Money is not something you invest in with an expectation it will appreciate in value.
by its very nature it's going to be volatile.
Bitcoin is not inherently volatile. It is mostly volatile because it is thinly traded. The total value of all Bitcoins is about $100B. There is about $8 trillion in gold, and about $10 trillion dollars in circulation.
There are tons of simple heuristics for quickly getting "good enough" solutions to optimization problems. So that is not interesting at all, and is not "solving" the TSP. To solve the TSP means to get the absolute shortest path. An amoeba based computer can't do that in polynomial time.
Hate speech is defined as incitement to violence, a crime.
Nonsense. Hate and violence are two different things. So where is your "definition"?
Merriam-Webster: Hate speech - speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people.
Wikipedia: Hate speech - speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Dictionary.com: Hate speech - Speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
None of these definitions includes a mention of violence.
People have a right to hate, and a constitutional right to express that hatred. Any law that says otherwise should be vigorously opposed.
Bill you just conflated "hate speech" = a crime the ACLU does not legally support - with - "unpopular speech" by conservative (bigots) on campuses
No I didn't. Both "hate speech" and "unpopular speech" are constitutionally protected, and the ACLU supports your right to speak either.
The 1st Amendment doesn't say anything about "hate". What it does say is "no law" abridging speech.
They are not the same thing
Yes they are. Hate speech is only illegal if it is also unpopular. Nobody is going to arrest you for saying "I hate Nazis", because that is a popular viewpoint.
The ACLU absolutely does support actual free speech, but unfortunately for nazi faggots, that doesn't include their illegal and unsupportable hate screech
There may indeed be a vast conspiracy of thousands of Amazon employees willfully and blatantly violating federal and state laws, and sworn to secrecy, for no obvious benefit to themselves, and risking jail time and a hundred billion dollar collapse in market capitalization if the secret is exposed... in order to record inane kitchen chatter. But that is getting into serious tinfoil hat territory. If you believe this, yet think it is okey-dokey to own a cell phone, which has a vastly greater spying capability and exploitable attack surface, then you are a moron.
The Alexa Dot costs $29. That is about the price of an extra large pizza.
The "snoop risk" is nonsense promulgated by dumb people who are trying to sound smart. It only records the sentence after the keyword. This is documented behavior, and has been confirmed by many people running packet sniffers. Your cell phone, with all its 3rd party apps, is a FAR greater "snoop risk" than your speaker.
The purpose of a job is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". Zero-sum jobs are not good for the economy, and the labor intensive nature of dementia care is a very negative thing with no silver lining.
Clinical medication/drug trials have repeatedly shown that removing amyloid clusters doesn't reverse dementia and usually doesn't even slow its progression.
Do you have a citation for this? I am not aware of any drugs that significantly reduce beta amyloids, so how can we say that removing them doesn't work... when we aren't removing them?
I won't get my hopes up, but it'd be wonderful if things go better this time.
Indeed. Dementia costs the American economy $200B annually. Worldwide, it costs more than $1T. When you consider the enormous benefits of a cure, it is obvious that dementia research is vastly underfunded, as is mental health research in general. Schizophrenia costs America another $100B annually, and autism costs $125B, and far more worldwide.
I have also had direct dealings with the FBI's Computer Crime Lab. The team leader had a degree in history, and his subordinates were even more clueless than he was. The only way they could have done this is if the three named companies that provided them "addition assistance", handed them all the evidence on a silver platter. Even then, it is a miracle that they didn't screw it up.
The FBI prides themselves on their "special agents" being able to "do it all" without any actually being "special". But, at least with tech crimes, that clearly isn't working.
China does far more corporate espionage on America than America does on China. The is obviously because we are technological leaders and they want to catch up. We spy less because they have less that we want.
Also, it is a matter of opportunity. There are far fewer Americans in China than there are Chinese in America. Leading tech companies in America are filled with foreign nationals. At many meetings in Silicon Valley, I am the only white guy in the room. In China, it is uncommon for a foreign national to work for a leading tech company.
China is a "low trust" society, and workers instinctively hoard information. They often have no idea what their colleagues are working on, sometimes even when they are on the same team. My company has an office in Shanghai, and it is a struggle to get the people there to open up and share information with each other. So even if an American spy could infiltrate a Chinese tech company, they might not learn much.
Much American spying on China is SIGINT rather than HUMINT, which has far lower risk of getting caught.
Are you saying that if Japan hadn't surrendered right away, we wouldn't have been able to nuke them any more times?
It would have taken a few months to generate enough fissile material for another bomb. Maybe late October.
Kokura was the next city scheduled to be nuked. It was the original target for Fat Man, but it was clouded over on the morning of August 9th, so the B-29 was diverted to the alternate target of Nagasaki.
Seriously dude. Nobody cares about your tunnel. And in California? It'll never get done. NEVER.
If there is one thing that Californians care about, it is traffic. It is the #1 topic of conversation, since we don't talk about the weather. What would we say? "Well, it looks like another nice sunny day with clear blue skies, just like every other day for the past six months."
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It's been a bit of a problem in their community since a sizable chunk of their leadership's been forced out by it.
Who has been forced out? Do you have a citation?
According to PBS, alt-right groups do not cast out people with "non-white" DNA. They instead question the validity of the results, and there are conspiracy theories that the DNA labs are telling many people that their DNA is "mixed" to push their liberal agenda that "we are all the same".
Also, they may not be as bigoted as you think. The founder of the Aryan Brotherhood is a Jew.
Disclaimer: I am white, but my wife and kids are not.
I mean seriously, I get it: Bitcoin is a 'tech' thing but we don't need to have a NEWS story every time it goes up or down, do we?
Bitcoin stories get posted because they generate page views and traffic. If you want to see fewer of them, then stop reading them and posting messages about them.
We're not regularly seeing postings when RAM skyrockets or falls, are we?
RAM prices are way more stable and uninteresting than they used to be.
It's an imaginary commodity that some people have agreed to treat like money
Actually, almost nobody treats it like money. Money is not something you invest in with an expectation it will appreciate in value.
by its very nature it's going to be volatile.
Bitcoin is not inherently volatile. It is mostly volatile because it is thinly traded. The total value of all Bitcoins is about $100B. There is about $8 trillion in gold, and about $10 trillion dollars in circulation.
The travelling salesman problem is not difficult if you're willing to settle for "approximate solutions".
As a general rule, solving most problems is not difficult if you don't actually solve them.
There are tons of simple heuristics for quickly getting "good enough" solutions to optimization problems. So that is not interesting at all, and is not "solving" the TSP. To solve the TSP means to get the absolute shortest path. An amoeba based computer can't do that in polynomial time.
"right to work" laws means no notice, no severance, and no reasons need to be given for termination.
You are thinking of "At Will". "Right to Work" means something completely different: A ban on closed union shops.
With minor exemptions, "at will" is the law in all 50 states.
27 states have "right to work" laws.
At-will employment
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Hate speech is defined as incitement to violence, a crime.
Nonsense. Hate and violence are two different things. So where is your "definition"?
Merriam-Webster: Hate speech - speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people.
Wikipedia: Hate speech - speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Dictionary.com: Hate speech - Speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
None of these definitions includes a mention of violence.
People have a right to hate, and a constitutional right to express that hatred. Any law that says otherwise should be vigorously opposed.
Bill you just conflated "hate speech" = a crime the ACLU does not legally support - with - "unpopular speech" by conservative (bigots) on campuses
No I didn't. Both "hate speech" and "unpopular speech" are constitutionally protected, and the ACLU supports your right to speak either.
The 1st Amendment doesn't say anything about "hate". What it does say is "no law" abridging speech.
They are not the same thing
Yes they are. Hate speech is only illegal if it is also unpopular. Nobody is going to arrest you for saying "I hate Nazis", because that is a popular viewpoint.
Probably the most odious example of hate speech was the Nazi march through a Jewish neighborhood in Skokie, Illinois. The ACLU defended their right to march and speak.
As long as it's not hate speech or speech that hurts someone's feelings.
Bullcrap. From their own website: The First Amendment to the Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content.
Next time take a few seconds to check your facts before posting ignorant garbage.
The ACLU absolutely does support actual free speech, but unfortunately for nazi faggots, that doesn't include their illegal and unsupportable hate screech
Bullcrap. The ACLU most certainly does defend hate speech, and they have specifically defended Nazis.
They are not the hypocrites that you claim they are.
There may indeed be a vast conspiracy of thousands of Amazon employees willfully and blatantly violating federal and state laws, and sworn to secrecy, for no obvious benefit to themselves, and risking jail time and a hundred billion dollar collapse in market capitalization if the secret is exposed ... in order to record inane kitchen chatter. But that is getting into serious tinfoil hat territory. If you believe this, yet think it is okey-dokey to own a cell phone, which has a vastly greater spying capability and exploitable attack surface, then you are a moron.
My kids have found the smart speakers especially helpful for their foreign language classes.
... the downsides, like cost and snoop risk?
The Alexa Dot costs $29. That is about the price of an extra large pizza.
The "snoop risk" is nonsense promulgated by dumb people who are trying to sound smart. It only records the sentence after the keyword. This is documented behavior, and has been confirmed by many people running packet sniffers. Your cell phone, with all its 3rd party apps, is a FAR greater "snoop risk" than your speaker.
Granted, the care of these people employs an army of people that may otherwise not have jobs.
This is a variant of the Broken Window Fallacy.
The purpose of a job is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". Zero-sum jobs are not good for the economy, and the labor intensive nature of dementia care is a very negative thing with no silver lining.
I would have also been nice if they had included Samsung's Bixby, you know, just for laughs.
Citing Wikipedia is a no-no.
Citing any encyclopedia is a no-no. Citations should be to original sources, not to secondary compilations.
So where do you find link to the original sources? At the bottom of the Wiki page, of course.
Clinical medication/drug trials have repeatedly shown that removing amyloid clusters doesn't reverse dementia and usually doesn't even slow its progression.
Do you have a citation for this? I am not aware of any drugs that significantly reduce beta amyloids, so how can we say that removing them doesn't work ... when we aren't removing them?
I won't get my hopes up, but it'd be wonderful if things go better this time.
Indeed. Dementia costs the American economy $200B annually. Worldwide, it costs more than $1T. When you consider the enormous benefits of a cure, it is obvious that dementia research is vastly underfunded, as is mental health research in general. Schizophrenia costs America another $100B annually, and autism costs $125B, and far more worldwide.
Don't answer calls from people you don't know.
Many of us rely on our phones for business. I get calls almost every day from clients and prospective clients. If I don't take the call, I starve.
I have an iPhone. Almost all spam calls say "Scam Likely" in the name field. If Apple can identify scammers, why can't the phone company, or the FBI?
I have also had direct dealings with the FBI's Computer Crime Lab. The team leader had a degree in history, and his subordinates were even more clueless than he was. The only way they could have done this is if the three named companies that provided them "addition assistance", handed them all the evidence on a silver platter. Even then, it is a miracle that they didn't screw it up.
The FBI prides themselves on their "special agents" being able to "do it all" without any actually being "special". But, at least with tech crimes, that clearly isn't working.
If it's encrypted there is no child pornography. Only strings of random bytes of data.
According to the summary, it is "openly shared" encryption. I am not sure how that differs from "unencrypted", but apparently it does.
Is there anyone who understands what TFA is trying to say? What level of outrage, if any, should we have about this?
China does far more corporate espionage on America than America does on China. The is obviously because we are technological leaders and they want to catch up. We spy less because they have less that we want.
Also, it is a matter of opportunity. There are far fewer Americans in China than there are Chinese in America. Leading tech companies in America are filled with foreign nationals. At many meetings in Silicon Valley, I am the only white guy in the room. In China, it is uncommon for a foreign national to work for a leading tech company.
China is a "low trust" society, and workers instinctively hoard information. They often have no idea what their colleagues are working on, sometimes even when they are on the same team. My company has an office in Shanghai, and it is a struggle to get the people there to open up and share information with each other. So even if an American spy could infiltrate a Chinese tech company, they might not learn much.
Much American spying on China is SIGINT rather than HUMINT, which has far lower risk of getting caught.
If CoCs are really so bad, then why do critics always need to wildly exaggerate them and make up strawman arguments?
If you can't find anything real to criticise, perhaps it is because in reality they aren't an actual problem.
It's something he can do as opposed to trying to make deals with every polluting country on the planet.
Why would he need to "make deals" to pull trash out of a river?
Even if there was somewhere in the world where that requires a permit (I doubt it), why would he need to make deals with "every" polluter?
Are you saying that if Japan hadn't surrendered right away, we wouldn't have been able to nuke them any more times?
It would have taken a few months to generate enough fissile material for another bomb. Maybe late October.
Kokura was the next city scheduled to be nuked. It was the original target for Fat Man, but it was clouded over on the morning of August 9th, so the B-29 was diverted to the alternate target of Nagasaki.
Seriously dude. Nobody cares about your tunnel. And in California? It'll never get done. NEVER.
If there is one thing that Californians care about, it is traffic. It is the #1 topic of conversation, since we don't talk about the weather. What would we say? "Well, it looks like another nice sunny day with clear blue skies, just like every other day for the past six months."
Here are some photos of "rivers of trash" flowing into the ocean.
As long as this continues, it is absurd to send ships thousands of miles out to sea to strain a few microparticles out of the ocean.
The place to stop pollution is at the source.