The GP is a moron. Anyone who has been to India over the last 25 years (for about 25 years I went every year or two) knows food security has MASSIVELY improved. Hell, when I was really young we would carry boxes of Ritz crackers to the country so we would have something easy to eat if we either got food poisoning (every trip, at least once) or were going rural and knew there would be little to no food around.
He is literally spouting complete lies about a country he knows little or nothing of.
actually they can't. there are some great studies (out of france) and one off tests written about for years.
wine tasters, professionals I mean, cannot tell the different between a white and a red at the same temperature if you add dye to the white (tested at the Bordeaux institute I believe). And there are great stories of wine writers and tasters not being able to identify either of two wines they were given (turned out, no one got it right, and they were the same wine served at a temperate difference of 5 degrees).
Yes wines taste different. And wine tasting is basically the same as clairvoyance. Wine tasting is the greatest reality distortion field ever.
I know very little about headphones, but just looking them up, AKG seems to have tons of headphones in the same range and style as Bose (100-300 USD). Of course, almost all of bose falls in that bracket, but AKG seemed to have 5-6 offerings around there as well.
I thought his point was crystal clear. A software company will, by competition, want to offer software that is as versatile as possible to make you want to spend hundreds of dollars on that software.
a hardware company, on the other hand, offers software only as a complement to their hardware. And so frankly, using their software on any other hardware than their own they don't care about. so they won't waste time and money programming software that does X which does not support their business and by extension, their customers (you know, the folks who already own apple hardware). Of course, the base of OSX is an open source OS, so yeah, people have figured out how to modify config files just right to make it play with other hardware (and in some cases, written more complete drivers). But it isn't some trivial set of hardware checks they are bypassing. If so, it would be effortless to maintain a hackintosh. But it isn't effortless unless you buy very specific hardware, and even then it can still be a real PITA when you go to update the OS.
Of course, I have a lot of complaints of the apple direction of making everything glued down, irreplaceable or user upgradable ever, etc, etc. But that is relatively recent (i.e. started after my last computer upgrade) and so up till now have been a happy customer. I don't know if that will continue, but I so strongly prefer OSX I think it will for now. I still have a couple years at least before I cross that bridge so maybe they will come back to the light?
huh, how can an OS be unfit or fit for number crunching? number crunching is the least OS relevant task I've ever run across. can you give even a single example where the OS interfered with a number crunching application?
And my experience is windows is generally worse because you have a number of background applications putting a resource drain on your machine.
I think, and am no expert, that while the majority of hardware on a mac is the same as any old windows PC ( and these pieces are hardware are what completely determine user experience from a hardware perspective), there are certain pieces of hardware that because they are only sold on a mac, had no drivers available.
so for example, the isight camera and mac mice and keyboards have not traditionally had windows drivers written for them. but that doesn't mean I can't buy a laptop with a built in camera of equal specs and claim I have built an equivalent computer.
I say this as no expert, but as someone who used to build my own computers for the fun of it and install random OSs just to see what everyone was talking about.
I've only lived in NYC in the US but my bill was definitely split. In fact over half my cost was surcharges related to being connected to the grid. I thought everyone has this....
Its not surprising with the spread of cars with idling stop, that this device could get you simply for coming to a halt at a light. I doubt they actually tested these things broadly before roll out.
Actually, in considering morality I think athiests get the best kind.
You accept that all moral philosophies are inherently constructed by people, which means you yourself are capable of constructing one. You also get for free the ability to ignore any part of someone else's morality you don't like.
I can't stress the last part enough. I can accept the morality of Jesus without requiring an explanation as to why god could order genocide as a punishment for not being welcoming. I can take that entire morality and cut out what makes no sense, and unlike the religious person who struggles with that explanation, regularly giving unappealing answers to the critical mind (roman slaves were treated differently so that is why slavery is OK...leads to "so the freeing of the slaves was wrong and against nature, why didn't Lincoln be a good christian and simply require slaves to be treated as they were in ancient Rome?), you can just cut it out as an incorrect view.
Athiests get it easy. Religious believers of most western religions have the hard time with morality. And for athiests, its incredibly clear why.
And of course, this view isn't limited to athiests and not all athiests may agree, but it is a view that is completely consistent with atheism. It happens to be many eastern religions follow in some way. It may be why those rejecting western religion gravitate towards eastern philosophy (which is just religion in those countries).
momentum? I have family in tech, and 2 are in San Jose, 1 in New Jersey, and another in Atlanta (a fourth left the industry).
From what it looks like there, they ended up where they are by momentum and job opportunities. Once you have a couple kids and your life is settled, sure moving to another city is in theory ok, but it can be hard if you have a house, schools, etc. It seems moves from one city to another were mainly dominated by loss of job and no options in the local area for that skill set at the time.
I think it's like asking why are investment banks and trading floors located in NYC. It is patently absurd when you could locate in Florida or Texas with much lower taxes, lower costs, etc and almost all the work is done on computer over the internet. But 150 years of momentum (from the days when stock broking was the job and working on an exchange meant something about location) the last 15 haven't seen large scale exodus.
the real kicker is that these people are well off by any measure. you are talking about 6 figure household income folks getting pushed out, not the minimum wage worker at McDonalds (or whatever fast food joint is popular in SF). People need to think a bit, no one working and earning as much as these tech guys are search out neighborhoods where the household income is 20k. It's upper middle class white folks getting displaced.
no, people are mad because they want to bash someone without cause. the city decided to try something to massively reduce traffic and infrastructure burdens by extending bus stops to include these corporate buses. If your use of the stop offered some form of public benefit you probably could convince the city to allow you to use it as well (i.e. it can't just be you wanting to pick up a friend there before you head out to get a beer). Just start a bus service for companies that don't want to run their own in the bay area, get a few contracts and you will probably be offered the same terms as Google and Apple. In fact, there would be a strong argument they must offer you those terms.
I wouldn't even give them the mantle for best cars. Maybe if I'm looking at 1980s models. Now though, I found them horribly overpriced and the interior done only about as well as most American cars (and that is saying something about how much they have fallen relatively).
really? speed limits in the US are on par with most of Europe and the UK. The exception may be Germany with their lack of speed limits, but most interstates I drove on had the limit at 75 (120 kph, above the UK) and highways are regularly 65 (104 kph). Everyone takes as grace an extra 5 mph (8 kph) so I generally drove the same speed between the UK, France, and the US (and my 1 week in croatia). What areas have higher limits?
your comments on the US seem to be a question of being used to it. In the US you do not make changes to allow for merging cars/cars behind you. And frankly, in the UK, I thought it was ridiculous people would try and do that. instead, you leave enough following distance to allow cars that are entering/changing lanes/what ever, to be able to do it smoothly without you making a change.
This way every driver sees a much more static situation. It also allows for everyone to go faster. My experience in the UK was that people left very little distance because most of the roads were too shitty to allow for much speed (well, too shitty well outside of London and half decent roads around London were either poorly designed (multiple close intersections on a major artery, including 2 only for pedestrians rather than using a raised walkway) or too naturally crowded to matter.
Of course, it doesn't work that way when you get to some cities like Atlanta and in some areas where people hold the left late even when going quite slow (Florida, where I grew up). But then, I've been in the UK and France and stuck in exactly the same situation. The best at times has been Japan, though speed limits here are super low, so everyone goes much faster than legal and every once in a while you get a stupid ticket because you were unlucky.
not that hard, have a friend drive in front of you at 15 miles an hour (or even slower if the car has good enough adaptive cruise control) and deal with the discomfort of jumping out of the car (unfortunately, probably the window so the door isn't swinging along open)
there is a weird hybrid in the maxima, but otherwise the nissan infiniti cars all come from the high end JDM Nissans.
When I was looking at cars (living in Japan) the equivalents were: Fuga --> M series Skyline --> G series or Q series now cima --> higher ended infiniti, but they don't sell either anymore.
The problem is hte JDM nissans for "regular" folks weren't ported exactly so it makes comparisons a little off.
not quite, there can be weird situations (like construction areas) where it comes to a stop because it doesn't understand and has you take control until it does again.
But in emergency situations, it is always better to come to a full stop rather than hand of control while moving.
autonomous cars won't all fail the same way unless the situation is exactly the same. They are MORE sensitive to minor differences because they can actually comprehend all the minor differences. That isn't to say they won't do something incredibly stupid at some point, but you may want to learn a bit about how those systems work. And of course, the software won't be the same on every car.
But I like your dig about American drivers. After spending my last year driving in the UK, I found the drivers there spectacularly bad. If they are better than Aussies, I'm glad I've never had to drive in Sydney. But my first few weeks I wasn't exactly a daisy, the roundabouts really screw with you if you have never taken them before (especially on the dual carriageways).
Then again, it could be as simple the driving standards (i.e. etiquette and culture) are different in each country.
I've taken tests before and "known" every answer. The score didn't always turn out as I expected because I made silly mistakes by rushing. I'll bet the graders (there are generally 2 for every free response question though there can be 3 if there is argument as to the merit of a score, and it is scored in a blind fashion to what other graders see) knew the material better than you, and frankly you got the answers not right enough.
that you screwed up that day doesn't make the test invalid. It really just means you screwed up that day and didn't (I don't know you so this may not be true) perform at the top of your ability level.
actually, my first thought when I saw the stats was "isn't that about a 30% pass rate for the "new" students"? It turns out it's about a 35% pass rate. Though I don't know what the variability is in pass rates from year to year so it's a pretty meaningless calculation.
The real win is we are getting more people to TRY. Not everyone has to succeed, but it's sad that everyone gets a chance to play basketball in school and we feel that is somehow a relevant experience but we cringe at throwing a little money at giving more kids a chance to experience computer programming. I mean, how do you even know you have an interest if you are never exposed?
I think the biggest difference is your wife was with you. There is, culturally, a huge difference between separating a 6 year old from the only parent and separating a wife and husband, and reasonably so. I almost never fly southwest, so I didn't realize they don't have a "Young children first" rule like every other airline I've been on.
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The GP is a moron. Anyone who has been to India over the last 25 years (for about 25 years I went every year or two) knows food security has MASSIVELY improved. Hell, when I was really young we would carry boxes of Ritz crackers to the country so we would have something easy to eat if we either got food poisoning (every trip, at least once) or were going rural and knew there would be little to no food around.
He is literally spouting complete lies about a country he knows little or nothing of.
actually they can't. there are some great studies (out of france) and one off tests written about for years.
wine tasters, professionals I mean, cannot tell the different between a white and a red at the same temperature if you add dye to the white (tested at the Bordeaux institute I believe). And there are great stories of wine writers and tasters not being able to identify either of two wines they were given (turned out, no one got it right, and they were the same wine served at a temperate difference of 5 degrees).
Yes wines taste different. And wine tasting is basically the same as clairvoyance. Wine tasting is the greatest reality distortion field ever.
I know very little about headphones, but just looking them up, AKG seems to have tons of headphones in the same range and style as Bose (100-300 USD). Of course, almost all of bose falls in that bracket, but AKG seemed to have 5-6 offerings around there as well.
I thought his point was crystal clear. A software company will, by competition, want to offer software that is as versatile as possible to make you want to spend hundreds of dollars on that software.
a hardware company, on the other hand, offers software only as a complement to their hardware. And so frankly, using their software on any other hardware than their own they don't care about. so they won't waste time and money programming software that does X which does not support their business and by extension, their customers (you know, the folks who already own apple hardware). Of course, the base of OSX is an open source OS, so yeah, people have figured out how to modify config files just right to make it play with other hardware (and in some cases, written more complete drivers). But it isn't some trivial set of hardware checks they are bypassing. If so, it would be effortless to maintain a hackintosh. But it isn't effortless unless you buy very specific hardware, and even then it can still be a real PITA when you go to update the OS.
Of course, I have a lot of complaints of the apple direction of making everything glued down, irreplaceable or user upgradable ever, etc, etc. But that is relatively recent (i.e. started after my last computer upgrade) and so up till now have been a happy customer. I don't know if that will continue, but I so strongly prefer OSX I think it will for now. I still have a couple years at least before I cross that bridge so maybe they will come back to the light?
huh, how can an OS be unfit or fit for number crunching? number crunching is the least OS relevant task I've ever run across. can you give even a single example where the OS interfered with a number crunching application?
And my experience is windows is generally worse because you have a number of background applications putting a resource drain on your machine.
I think, and am no expert, that while the majority of hardware on a mac is the same as any old windows PC ( and these pieces are hardware are what completely determine user experience from a hardware perspective), there are certain pieces of hardware that because they are only sold on a mac, had no drivers available.
so for example, the isight camera and mac mice and keyboards have not traditionally had windows drivers written for them. but that doesn't mean I can't buy a laptop with a built in camera of equal specs and claim I have built an equivalent computer.
I say this as no expert, but as someone who used to build my own computers for the fun of it and install random OSs just to see what everyone was talking about.
I've only lived in NYC in the US but my bill was definitely split. In fact over half my cost was surcharges related to being connected to the grid. I thought everyone has this....
I've been out of the US for years, where can you get unlimited 4G for 30 bucks? Hell, 5 GB is enough for me. And what does the national map look like?
Its not surprising with the spread of cars with idling stop, that this device could get you simply for coming to a halt at a light. I doubt they actually tested these things broadly before roll out.
Actually, in considering morality I think athiests get the best kind.
You accept that all moral philosophies are inherently constructed by people, which means you yourself are capable of constructing one. You also get for free the ability to ignore any part of someone else's morality you don't like.
I can't stress the last part enough. I can accept the morality of Jesus without requiring an explanation as to why god could order genocide as a punishment for not being welcoming. I can take that entire morality and cut out what makes no sense, and unlike the religious person who struggles with that explanation, regularly giving unappealing answers to the critical mind (roman slaves were treated differently so that is why slavery is OK...leads to "so the freeing of the slaves was wrong and against nature, why didn't Lincoln be a good christian and simply require slaves to be treated as they were in ancient Rome?), you can just cut it out as an incorrect view.
Athiests get it easy. Religious believers of most western religions have the hard time with morality. And for athiests, its incredibly clear why.
And of course, this view isn't limited to athiests and not all athiests may agree, but it is a view that is completely consistent with atheism. It happens to be many eastern religions follow in some way. It may be why those rejecting western religion gravitate towards eastern philosophy (which is just religion in those countries).
No no, that's called "the Grinch"
momentum? I have family in tech, and 2 are in San Jose, 1 in New Jersey, and another in Atlanta (a fourth left the industry).
From what it looks like there, they ended up where they are by momentum and job opportunities. Once you have a couple kids and your life is settled, sure moving to another city is in theory ok, but it can be hard if you have a house, schools, etc. It seems moves from one city to another were mainly dominated by loss of job and no options in the local area for that skill set at the time.
I think it's like asking why are investment banks and trading floors located in NYC. It is patently absurd when you could locate in Florida or Texas with much lower taxes, lower costs, etc and almost all the work is done on computer over the internet. But 150 years of momentum (from the days when stock broking was the job and working on an exchange meant something about location) the last 15 haven't seen large scale exodus.
the real kicker is that these people are well off by any measure. you are talking about 6 figure household income folks getting pushed out, not the minimum wage worker at McDonalds (or whatever fast food joint is popular in SF). People need to think a bit, no one working and earning as much as these tech guys are search out neighborhoods where the household income is 20k. It's upper middle class white folks getting displaced.
no, people are mad because they want to bash someone without cause. the city decided to try something to massively reduce traffic and infrastructure burdens by extending bus stops to include these corporate buses. If your use of the stop offered some form of public benefit you probably could convince the city to allow you to use it as well (i.e. it can't just be you wanting to pick up a friend there before you head out to get a beer). Just start a bus service for companies that don't want to run their own in the bay area, get a few contracts and you will probably be offered the same terms as Google and Apple. In fact, there would be a strong argument they must offer you those terms.
I wouldn't even give them the mantle for best cars. Maybe if I'm looking at 1980s models. Now though, I found them horribly overpriced and the interior done only about as well as most American cars (and that is saying something about how much they have fallen relatively).
really? speed limits in the US are on par with most of Europe and the UK. The exception may be Germany with their lack of speed limits, but most interstates I drove on had the limit at 75 (120 kph, above the UK) and highways are regularly 65 (104 kph). Everyone takes as grace an extra 5 mph (8 kph) so I generally drove the same speed between the UK, France, and the US (and my 1 week in croatia). What areas have higher limits?
your comments on the US seem to be a question of being used to it. In the US you do not make changes to allow for merging cars/cars behind you. And frankly, in the UK, I thought it was ridiculous people would try and do that. instead, you leave enough following distance to allow cars that are entering/changing lanes/what ever, to be able to do it smoothly without you making a change.
This way every driver sees a much more static situation. It also allows for everyone to go faster. My experience in the UK was that people left very little distance because most of the roads were too shitty to allow for much speed (well, too shitty well outside of London and half decent roads around London were either poorly designed (multiple close intersections on a major artery, including 2 only for pedestrians rather than using a raised walkway) or too naturally crowded to matter.
Of course, it doesn't work that way when you get to some cities like Atlanta and in some areas where people hold the left late even when going quite slow (Florida, where I grew up). But then, I've been in the UK and France and stuck in exactly the same situation. The best at times has been Japan, though speed limits here are super low, so everyone goes much faster than legal and every once in a while you get a stupid ticket because you were unlucky.
not that hard, have a friend drive in front of you at 15 miles an hour (or even slower if the car has good enough adaptive cruise control) and deal with the discomfort of jumping out of the car (unfortunately, probably the window so the door isn't swinging along open)
there is a weird hybrid in the maxima, but otherwise the nissan infiniti cars all come from the high end JDM Nissans.
When I was looking at cars (living in Japan) the equivalents were:
Fuga --> M series
Skyline --> G series or Q series now
cima --> higher ended infiniti, but they don't sell either anymore.
The problem is hte JDM nissans for "regular" folks weren't ported exactly so it makes comparisons a little off.
if everyone else is doing something and you aren't, hate to break this to you, you are wrong.
not quite, there can be weird situations (like construction areas) where it comes to a stop because it doesn't understand and has you take control until it does again.
But in emergency situations, it is always better to come to a full stop rather than hand of control while moving.
autonomous cars won't all fail the same way unless the situation is exactly the same. They are MORE sensitive to minor differences because they can actually comprehend all the minor differences. That isn't to say they won't do something incredibly stupid at some point, but you may want to learn a bit about how those systems work. And of course, the software won't be the same on every car.
But I like your dig about American drivers. After spending my last year driving in the UK, I found the drivers there spectacularly bad. If they are better than Aussies, I'm glad I've never had to drive in Sydney. But my first few weeks I wasn't exactly a daisy, the roundabouts really screw with you if you have never taken them before (especially on the dual carriageways).
Then again, it could be as simple the driving standards (i.e. etiquette and culture) are different in each country.
I've taken tests before and "known" every answer. The score didn't always turn out as I expected because I made silly mistakes by rushing. I'll bet the graders (there are generally 2 for every free response question though there can be 3 if there is argument as to the merit of a score, and it is scored in a blind fashion to what other graders see) knew the material better than you, and frankly you got the answers not right enough.
that you screwed up that day doesn't make the test invalid. It really just means you screwed up that day and didn't (I don't know you so this may not be true) perform at the top of your ability level.
actually, my first thought when I saw the stats was "isn't that about a 30% pass rate for the "new" students"? It turns out it's about a 35% pass rate. Though I don't know what the variability is in pass rates from year to year so it's a pretty meaningless calculation.
The real win is we are getting more people to TRY. Not everyone has to succeed, but it's sad that everyone gets a chance to play basketball in school and we feel that is somehow a relevant experience but we cringe at throwing a little money at giving more kids a chance to experience computer programming. I mean, how do you even know you have an interest if you are never exposed?
I think the biggest difference is your wife was with you. There is, culturally, a huge difference between separating a 6 year old from the only parent and separating a wife and husband, and reasonably so. I almost never fly southwest, so I didn't realize they don't have a "Young children first" rule like every other airline I've been on.