True. Even in home improvement stores like Lowe's. You go to their website and you see a wide variety of products, styles, etc. Then you filter on what's available local to you and it's maybe a couple of products, and usually the crappier ones. And if I'm going to be ordering online anyway, I'm probably going to head over to Amazon to see what they have.
For minimum wage? Yeah good luck with that. There are no incentives to work retail for anyone. People do that job because they have no other prospects and need to put food on the table. Until that changes, retail stores are going to continue to lose to Amazon.
$100,000? Like, really? The Clinton+Trump campaigns have spent together over $200,000,000 [bloomberg.com] on their campaigns. Either the Russians are absolute geniuses and light years ahead of everybody else when it comes to effective political ads, or this is just another inflated sensationalist article trying to get views for WaPo using a hot topic.
You really haven't been paying attention, have you? Yes, the Russians are well ahead of the curve. They've been doing this for a LONG time. Our allies warned us that they've been doing for a long time. They warned us that we were going to be targeted. Putin isn't fucking stupid. He caught on to how powerful (and cheap) using social media was as a tool. You get something to go viral even just once, and it's already paid back a thousand fold.
And that's what happened. Not just here, but also in Europe. More to the point, it was extremely successful.
Yeah, that's bullshit. The left doesn't believe in "Utopia". Why the fuck do you think they're supposedly the party of "evil" laws and regulations the right likes to demonize? It's the CONSERVATIVES who think we need less regulation. They're the ones who want to remove environmental protections. They're the ones that want to remove business regulations. They're the ones who want to remove the FDA. They're the ones that want to remove consumer protections. So on and so forth.
The CONSERVATIVES are the ones who believe in this ridiculous notion of Utopia. We'd all be happy if we just got rid of all these pesky rules and regulations! That's utter bullshit.
This study is one of those "Well, duh!" type studies. Strongly typed languages are easier to refactor, maintain, and debug. It's also easier for someone else to understand as they can see exactly what types of objects are being used at any given point in the code.
Weakly typed languages are easier to do short, quick, dynamic programming. And arguably, that's what they were designed for. I'm not going to haul out a C++ toolchain just to write a few simple REST services when I can write a few short Python/Flask scripts in a fraction of the time.
As always, use the right tool for the right job. Well, unless all there are is shitty tools for the job in which case you're stuck using a shitty tool. I'm looking at you Javascript, you worthless piece of Turing complete trash.
No, you just need one thing. Luck. That's it. It is now an objective fact that you are more likely to be rich by being born to a wealthy family than you are through any amount of intelligence or hard work.Too much wealth is controlled by too few people, and the roadblocks in the way of you becoming one of the wealthy keep getting higher.
Sure, people trot out these rags to riches stories but they are black swans (and most don't even start in rags). Upward mobility is generally a farce, and the "American Dream" has pretty much become just a dream over the past few decades.
Hard work and being smart is usually enough to survive, and in time possibly even become well off. But to become independently wealthy is a whole different matter. You almost have better odds winning the lottery.
No, I think the last election demonstrated that voters are easily manipulated and not that intelligent, as Winston Churchill pointed out decades ago ("The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.").
Forget democrats for a moment. Let's just look at the republicans. You had a whole host of at least somewhat viable candidates. Then you had a narcissistic sociopath with the mental capacity of a rotting melon who has decades of history of demonstrable behavior that would certainly have made anyone a non-viable candidate.
But did the republicans choose a smart, eloquent, respectable conservative? No. They chose the real life version of Biff Tannen. Not smart, not eloquent, and certainly not respectable. The voters had many chances to chose someone else, but they didn't. So why was he selected and then elected when there were far better candidates?
No, voters in general are not smart. That's why ads work, especially attack ads. It's why despotic chants work. It's why negative smear campaigns work. It's why fake news works. It's how people like Trump can get elected.
And with no central governing authority nor protections, bitcoin behaves just like the gold backed currencies of yore on steroids (and those days sucked).
Sorry, but I prefer stable currencies that have at least some form of regulation and protection. I don't like currencies that swing between worthless and hoard. I also don't like currencies that can vanish from wherever and have absolutely no legal recourse. Been there, done that.
If you truly believe global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions is occurring, and you truly believe it's going to cause mass extinction in less than 100 years, then you want to prevent it in the most effective and expeditious method we have available - nuclear power.
Belief has absolutely nothing to do with. It's physics, chemistry, and math. There isn't a single person I know who accepts the science who WANTS climate change to be happening. As far as the extinction goes, it's already underway. In less than a 100 years we'll reach the tipping point, at which there won't really be much we can do to stop it (irreversible climate destabilization).
Nuclear power would help. But you have to deal with another complete set of morons to push that through.
If you think this is just an opportunity to advance renewable energy development, then you do not truly believe one of those things. Either you think global warming is not really happening, but you can use it to scare the world into adopting your preferred energy source. Or you believe it's happening but it's not really that serious, so we have plenty of time to develop renewable energy sources and phase them in.
That's not really true. Renewables can be phased in now, but there is opposition to doing so. Sure there are incentives for slapping solar panels on your roof, but then you have to deal with state/local governments who kow tow to the big power companies in their states. Some of them have done a wonderful job guaranteeing that any solar installation you want to do is going to cost so much that it simply isn't worth it. For example, I can buy a 6KW solar grid tie kit for about $7000. Pretty good, right? Buuuuut...I'm not allowed to install it. No, I have to get a CERTIFICATED solar installer to do it, even the parts not dealing with the grid connection. That certified installer has to be certified by the power company, and there's a whole process for that. Long story short, it costs about $30K for the installation. Pretty fucking stupid right? If I lived somewhere else, I could actually install the panels, wire them up to the inverter, then hire an electrician to come out and check it and connect it to the mains for a grand total of about $1000 plus my own labor (and the $7K for the panels and parts). But here, If a certified installer didn't do it then you can't connect to their grid. Period.
Opposition by entrenched companies. Opposition by stupidity. Those are the enemies.
Nuclear power doesn't have to be our final energy source. All we need is to use it to immediately arrest climate change, buying us more time to develop cleaner energy sources. Then we can phase out nuclear power in favor of renewables. Trying to jump straight to renewables is like being on a sinking ship, and insisting that nobody is allowed to use the existing life rafts. Instead you want us to research, design, and construct new life rafts to save ourselves, even if that might take more time than it takes for the ship to sink.
Again, not true. Nuclear can be part of the plan, but renewables can easily provide a bulk of the power if we weren't stupid and greedy. But we are.
You used WUWT as a source. Next you'll claim that Christianity allows you to screw whoever you want because the prostitute down on the corner said Jesus told her it was ok.
Pro Tip: When supporting your scientific arguments, use validated sources of information. Referring to someone's website who has proven many times over he can't even do basic math makes your argument not worth the toilet paper you wiped it on.
Well to be fair, by the time things get so bad that even the most idiotic moron has to admit the climate is changing, it will be far too late to do anything about it.
Intelligence is a double edged sword. And like you I suspect many an intelligent species have gone the way of the dodo because they tripped and fell on the damn thing.
Technically we can still halt or at least slow down the current extinction IF we take steps to avoid the tipping point, though that window is closing pretty damn fast. The calculation in the paper is pointing out that the tipping point is somewhere around 2100. After that, the system will have so much momentum that there would be nothing we could really do to prevent climate destabilization, which will kick the mass extinction into higher gear.
Eventually the climate will stabilize again once it reaches a new equilibrium, but as paleoclimatology has shown usually a lot of life on the planet doesn't make it to the next point of equilibrium.
Trump doesn't insult broad swaths of Americans? He called New Hampshire a drug infested den. To the president of Mexico for fuck's sake.
Trump is a sociopathic asshole who's only nice when it benefits HIM. He's been like this for at least the past 5 decades, and nothing will ever change that.
You linked to the daily caller. You may as well just called up Scott Pruitt.
Since you clearly don't understand how models work (any model), let me clue you in: They are all wrong. Every single one of them. There is no such thing as a perfect model. Never has been, never will be. It doesn't matter if you're talking about a model for a bridge or a model for the climate. Every single model has error bars, caveats, assumptions, etc., which is why models are used for GUIDANCE and not PREDICTION. The predictions are made from models, additional data, additional analysis, etc. from EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. Models are TOOLS, not the end all be all of scientific analysis.
Now that we got that out of the way, the paper does not say anything about the models being completely wrong. The paper is examining several different aspects of potential sources that lead to temperatures increasing at a slightly slower rate than the models predicted over the past decade or so. The issues range from potential systemic biases in the data sets to various different aspects of internal variability that the models don't currently capture.
At no point do they claim that the models "are completely wrong". Nor are any current results invalidated. This is a paper discussing possible improvements to the models and/or data analysis to improve overall predictions.
You either didn't read the paper, or you need to really work on your reading comprehension.
On the bright side Equifax's stock price is plummeting faster than a metric based Mars probe.
I hope they go bankrupt and every corporate board member spends the rest of their lives fighting identity theft. They deserve no less, since now I have to spend the rest of my fucking life fighting identity theft thanks to these assholes.
It's all a plot. Cause a massive leak and that forces everyone to freeze their credit reports. Charge $60 a pop to lock and unlock them. Bam, instant profit.
This is correct. Hurricanes are small scale, short term, chaotic events. Climate models don't really deal with things on that level because that's not what they do. They're models are for climate, not weather.
That being said, the climate models show that there will be no shortage of energy for such storms to tap into. More heat, warmer ocean temperatures, more water vapor. The quantity of storms is kind of irrelevant.
Comcast is actually one of the reasons why I wouldn't move to Vermont. Unless DSL satisfies you're requirements (or you live in a few select areas), you're only real choice for broadband in Comcrap. Putting aside their horrible history of customer service, they actively work to sabotage every other broadband effort in the state. This is just another of many such efforts. They want the permits, but they don't actually want to build out anything. Why? Because if they did then another company could waltz in and use the lines.
The reason Vermont put that provision in there in the first place is because they're fed up with bullshit companies like Comcast fucking them over by buying permits just to sit on them. So finally they said "You buy a permit, you have to fucking use it."
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors. Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc. Since this person sits on the steering committee, his "barefoot-and-pregnant" ideals would bias against female contributors.
You know, I'd be interested in different things too if I had the bulk of the people I worked with looking at me like a pack of hungry wolves looking at a sheep. I might have second thoughts about my career choice if my boss said the best place to advance my career was to bend over his desk.
Women aren't fucking stupid. They aren't oblivious either. They can pick up on a vibe just as well as anyone else can. Sexual intimidation isn't always blatant or overt. It's like that feeling you get when you turn down the wrong street in a bad part of town. Nothing bad has happened to you yet, but you just know that it would be a much better choice to get the fuck out of there before something does.
There's a line between being brave and being stupid. He was stupid.
Not only was his manifesto a joke, he decided to broadcast it to the whole company as if it was the golden truth. He was either:
1. Blinded by his own ego. 2. Incredibly naive. 3. Plain fucking stupid.
Or some combination of the three. He went about things in just about the worst way possible. What the fuck was he thinking? He was going to inspire a mass cultural revolution at a multinational company?
Regardless of what this idiot wrote, the main point here is there's a right way of doing something and a wrong way of doing something. He chose the wrong way to do something and received a swift boot to the ass as a consequence. No one with even an ounce of corporate experience is surprised by what happened as result of his actions.
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True. Even in home improvement stores like Lowe's. You go to their website and you see a wide variety of products, styles, etc. Then you filter on what's available local to you and it's maybe a couple of products, and usually the crappier ones. And if I'm going to be ordering online anyway, I'm probably going to head over to Amazon to see what they have.
For minimum wage? Yeah good luck with that. There are no incentives to work retail for anyone. People do that job because they have no other prospects and need to put food on the table. Until that changes, retail stores are going to continue to lose to Amazon.
$100,000? Like, really? The Clinton+Trump campaigns have spent together over $200,000,000 [bloomberg.com] on their campaigns. Either the Russians are absolute geniuses and light years ahead of everybody else when it comes to effective political ads, or this is just another inflated sensationalist article trying to get views for WaPo using a hot topic.
You really haven't been paying attention, have you? Yes, the Russians are well ahead of the curve. They've been doing this for a LONG time. Our allies warned us that they've been doing for a long time. They warned us that we were going to be targeted. Putin isn't fucking stupid. He caught on to how powerful (and cheap) using social media was as a tool. You get something to go viral even just once, and it's already paid back a thousand fold.
And that's what happened. Not just here, but also in Europe. More to the point, it was extremely successful.
Yeah, that's bullshit. The left doesn't believe in "Utopia". Why the fuck do you think they're supposedly the party of "evil" laws and regulations the right likes to demonize? It's the CONSERVATIVES who think we need less regulation. They're the ones who want to remove environmental protections. They're the ones that want to remove business regulations. They're the ones who want to remove the FDA. They're the ones that want to remove consumer protections. So on and so forth.
The CONSERVATIVES are the ones who believe in this ridiculous notion of Utopia. We'd all be happy if we just got rid of all these pesky rules and regulations! That's utter bullshit.
This study is one of those "Well, duh!" type studies. Strongly typed languages are easier to refactor, maintain, and debug. It's also easier for someone else to understand as they can see exactly what types of objects are being used at any given point in the code.
Weakly typed languages are easier to do short, quick, dynamic programming. And arguably, that's what they were designed for. I'm not going to haul out a C++ toolchain just to write a few simple REST services when I can write a few short Python/Flask scripts in a fraction of the time.
As always, use the right tool for the right job. Well, unless all there are is shitty tools for the job in which case you're stuck using a shitty tool. I'm looking at you Javascript, you worthless piece of Turing complete trash.
To get rich you need three things...
No, you just need one thing. Luck. That's it. It is now an objective fact that you are more likely to be rich by being born to a wealthy family than you are through any amount of intelligence or hard work.Too much wealth is controlled by too few people, and the roadblocks in the way of you becoming one of the wealthy keep getting higher.
Sure, people trot out these rags to riches stories but they are black swans (and most don't even start in rags). Upward mobility is generally a farce, and the "American Dream" has pretty much become just a dream over the past few decades.
Hard work and being smart is usually enough to survive, and in time possibly even become well off. But to become independently wealthy is a whole different matter. You almost have better odds winning the lottery.
Putting classified information directly in the hands of a hostile foreign government is actual TREASON, yet Trump still sits in the White House.
The good news is that Mueller does not appear like he's going to let him off the hook.
No, I think the last election demonstrated that voters are easily manipulated and not that intelligent, as Winston Churchill pointed out decades ago ("The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.").
Forget democrats for a moment. Let's just look at the republicans. You had a whole host of at least somewhat viable candidates. Then you had a narcissistic sociopath with the mental capacity of a rotting melon who has decades of history of demonstrable behavior that would certainly have made anyone a non-viable candidate.
But did the republicans choose a smart, eloquent, respectable conservative? No. They chose the real life version of Biff Tannen. Not smart, not eloquent, and certainly not respectable. The voters had many chances to chose someone else, but they didn't. So why was he selected and then elected when there were far better candidates?
No, voters in general are not smart. That's why ads work, especially attack ads. It's why despotic chants work. It's why negative smear campaigns work. It's why fake news works. It's how people like Trump can get elected.
And with no central governing authority nor protections, bitcoin behaves just like the gold backed currencies of yore on steroids (and those days sucked).
Sorry, but I prefer stable currencies that have at least some form of regulation and protection. I don't like currencies that swing between worthless and hoard. I also don't like currencies that can vanish from wherever and have absolutely no legal recourse. Been there, done that.
If you truly believe global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions is occurring, and you truly believe it's going to cause mass extinction in less than 100 years, then you want to prevent it in the most effective and expeditious method we have available - nuclear power.
Belief has absolutely nothing to do with. It's physics, chemistry, and math. There isn't a single person I know who accepts the science who WANTS climate change to be happening. As far as the extinction goes, it's already underway. In less than a 100 years we'll reach the tipping point, at which there won't really be much we can do to stop it (irreversible climate destabilization).
Nuclear power would help. But you have to deal with another complete set of morons to push that through.
If you think this is just an opportunity to advance renewable energy development, then you do not truly believe one of those things. Either you think global warming is not really happening, but you can use it to scare the world into adopting your preferred energy source. Or you believe it's happening but it's not really that serious, so we have plenty of time to develop renewable energy sources and phase them in.
That's not really true. Renewables can be phased in now, but there is opposition to doing so. Sure there are incentives for slapping solar panels on your roof, but then you have to deal with state/local governments who kow tow to the big power companies in their states. Some of them have done a wonderful job guaranteeing that any solar installation you want to do is going to cost so much that it simply isn't worth it. For example, I can buy a 6KW solar grid tie kit for about $7000. Pretty good, right? Buuuuut...I'm not allowed to install it. No, I have to get a CERTIFICATED solar installer to do it, even the parts not dealing with the grid connection. That certified installer has to be certified by the power company, and there's a whole process for that. Long story short, it costs about $30K for the installation. Pretty fucking stupid right? If I lived somewhere else, I could actually install the panels, wire them up to the inverter, then hire an electrician to come out and check it and connect it to the mains for a grand total of about $1000 plus my own labor (and the $7K for the panels and parts). But here, If a certified installer didn't do it then you can't connect to their grid. Period.
Opposition by entrenched companies. Opposition by stupidity. Those are the enemies.
Nuclear power doesn't have to be our final energy source. All we need is to use it to immediately arrest climate change, buying us more time to develop cleaner energy sources. Then we can phase out nuclear power in favor of renewables. Trying to jump straight to renewables is like being on a sinking ship, and insisting that nobody is allowed to use the existing life rafts. Instead you want us to research, design, and construct new life rafts to save ourselves, even if that might take more time than it takes for the ship to sink.
Again, not true. Nuclear can be part of the plan, but renewables can easily provide a bulk of the power if we weren't stupid and greedy. But we are.
You used WUWT as a source. Next you'll claim that Christianity allows you to screw whoever you want because the prostitute down on the corner said Jesus told her it was ok.
Pro Tip: When supporting your scientific arguments, use validated sources of information. Referring to someone's website who has proven many times over he can't even do basic math makes your argument not worth the toilet paper you wiped it on.
Well to be fair, by the time things get so bad that even the most idiotic moron has to admit the climate is changing, it will be far too late to do anything about it.
Intelligence is a double edged sword. And like you I suspect many an intelligent species have gone the way of the dodo because they tripped and fell on the damn thing.
Technically we can still halt or at least slow down the current extinction IF we take steps to avoid the tipping point, though that window is closing pretty damn fast. The calculation in the paper is pointing out that the tipping point is somewhere around 2100. After that, the system will have so much momentum that there would be nothing we could really do to prevent climate destabilization, which will kick the mass extinction into higher gear.
Eventually the climate will stabilize again once it reaches a new equilibrium, but as paleoclimatology has shown usually a lot of life on the planet doesn't make it to the next point of equilibrium.
Trump doesn't insult broad swaths of Americans? He called New Hampshire a drug infested den. To the president of Mexico for fuck's sake.
Trump is a sociopathic asshole who's only nice when it benefits HIM. He's been like this for at least the past 5 decades, and nothing will ever change that.
Bitcoin. When you want your money to have all the safety and stability of a third world country.
Well, we elected Trump. They figure with a bar that low they can do just about whatever they want.
You linked to the daily caller. You may as well just called up Scott Pruitt.
Since you clearly don't understand how models work (any model), let me clue you in: They are all wrong. Every single one of them. There is no such thing as a perfect model. Never has been, never will be. It doesn't matter if you're talking about a model for a bridge or a model for the climate. Every single model has error bars, caveats, assumptions, etc., which is why models are used for GUIDANCE and not PREDICTION. The predictions are made from models, additional data, additional analysis, etc. from EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. Models are TOOLS, not the end all be all of scientific analysis.
Now that we got that out of the way, the paper does not say anything about the models being completely wrong. The paper is examining several different aspects of potential sources that lead to temperatures increasing at a slightly slower rate than the models predicted over the past decade or so. The issues range from potential systemic biases in the data sets to various different aspects of internal variability that the models don't currently capture.
At no point do they claim that the models "are completely wrong". Nor are any current results invalidated. This is a paper discussing possible improvements to the models and/or data analysis to improve overall predictions.
You either didn't read the paper, or you need to really work on your reading comprehension.
On the bright side Equifax's stock price is plummeting faster than a metric based Mars probe.
I hope they go bankrupt and every corporate board member spends the rest of their lives fighting identity theft. They deserve no less, since now I have to spend the rest of my fucking life fighting identity theft thanks to these assholes.
It's all a plot. Cause a massive leak and that forces everyone to freeze their credit reports. Charge $60 a pop to lock and unlock them. Bam, instant profit.
Right, because absolutely none of those are economic issues.
$DIETY, where do you people come from? You're so blinded by ideology that you don't even make sense.
This is correct. Hurricanes are small scale, short term, chaotic events. Climate models don't really deal with things on that level because that's not what they do. They're models are for climate, not weather.
That being said, the climate models show that there will be no shortage of energy for such storms to tap into. More heat, warmer ocean temperatures, more water vapor. The quantity of storms is kind of irrelevant.
Comcast is actually one of the reasons why I wouldn't move to Vermont. Unless DSL satisfies you're requirements (or you live in a few select areas), you're only real choice for broadband in Comcrap. Putting aside their horrible history of customer service, they actively work to sabotage every other broadband effort in the state. This is just another of many such efforts. They want the permits, but they don't actually want to build out anything. Why? Because if they did then another company could waltz in and use the lines.
The reason Vermont put that provision in there in the first place is because they're fed up with bullshit companies like Comcast fucking them over by buying permits just to sit on them. So finally they said "You buy a permit, you have to fucking use it."
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors. Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc. Since this person sits on the steering committee, his "barefoot-and-pregnant" ideals would bias against female contributors.
You know, I'd be interested in different things too if I had the bulk of the people I worked with looking at me like a pack of hungry wolves looking at a sheep. I might have second thoughts about my career choice if my boss said the best place to advance my career was to bend over his desk.
Women aren't fucking stupid. They aren't oblivious either. They can pick up on a vibe just as well as anyone else can. Sexual intimidation isn't always blatant or overt. It's like that feeling you get when you turn down the wrong street in a bad part of town. Nothing bad has happened to you yet, but you just know that it would be a much better choice to get the fuck out of there before something does.
That's why you don't see many women programmers.
There's a line between being brave and being stupid. He was stupid.
Not only was his manifesto a joke, he decided to broadcast it to the whole company as if it was the golden truth. He was either:
1. Blinded by his own ego.
2. Incredibly naive.
3. Plain fucking stupid.
Or some combination of the three. He went about things in just about the worst way possible. What the fuck was he thinking? He was going to inspire a mass cultural revolution at a multinational company?
Regardless of what this idiot wrote, the main point here is there's a right way of doing something and a wrong way of doing something. He chose the wrong way to do something and received a swift boot to the ass as a consequence. No one with even an ounce of corporate experience is surprised by what happened as result of his actions.