I don't know where you get the impression I'm disagreeing with you.
My personal opinion is that widespread adoption of Nuclear power is THE answer to solving climate change. I like wind and solar power too, but that whole "constantly available" thing is a struggle for those technologies to get past. Zero emissions is zero emissions that means no coal plants that means either we pave the world with the current tech solar panels or we use nuclear.
So I'm really talking about doing what needs to be done instead of passing a bunch of laws and/or passing around a bunch of money (ie. carbon credits).
And yes my dig on Gore and Leo is not key to solving a problem, but dammit, I'd like the people stating that this is a problem ACTING like they know its a problem and showing it in how they act.
Right now Gore and DiCaprio come across like people telling us how horribly awful second hand smoke is while lighting up yet another cigar....
This is NASA, they're pretty anal about manned spaceflight. You damn well better engineer the turbines to get rid of the cracks.
There is a huge potential for savings with SpaceX's model for launching and reusing rockets, but it all collapses given just a few failures.
If they get very high reliability of their rockets, reuse will end up being a cost destroyer. If they blow some rockets up the reuse savings will disappear.
But overreacting just kills credibility. Telling everyday people that they have to pay twice as much for electricity and $5/gal or more for gasoline to get to work because CARBON BAD!!! while China India, Brazil and Al Gore game the system to their benefit just pisses people off.
Yep. Also, refusing to build zero emission nuclear plants to replace dirty coal plants, proves that the issue must not be that big of a deal.
Why is it that all climate change responses are about people giving up personal freedom and living under more restrictive laws and any change that really wouldn't be noticed by people is not really fought for...?
We can build the necessary nuclear plants, except the very same people saying "we're all gonna die unless we do something!!" are also out in force to protest against nuclear being one of the answers....
Oh and as for Gore and Leo and all the other celebs lecturing us on how much more control over our lives is needed to save the planet , they continue to fly around the world on charter jets. It is literally the worst thing you can do, carbon footprint wise. We should ban charter flights because of they uselessness and wastefulness. Fly commercial Al and Leo!! Or do you just not care about the environment..?
And the only "problem" anyone sees in this is that they might not find all the "real" fake stuff.
The real problem is we've given control of information and news to people who cannot be unbiased because no human can.
You will see what they let you see. What they let you see will be "correct".
The terrifying thing is not that "there's incorrect stuff on Facebook!!!" The terrifying thing is "Facebook" is actively monitoring and controlling what you see in an effort to get you to believe the "correct" things.... (note any interpretation of correct, that is not one you make yourself, is coercion, manipulation, and propaganda by definition).
The commitment to "cleanse" fake news from the world is one of the most totalitarian efforts I've seen undertaken on a mass scale in my entire life...
Eliminate the red tape and regulation that hampers our building of zero emission Nuclear power plants for our electricity needs. Then replace all coal plants with Nuclear plants.
Until you do this step, stop hectoring me about climate change because if you don't do this step you are NOT serious about fixing Anything, you are just trying to enact legislation to control people's lives....
Because everyone switching to electric cars is pretty useless (yes yes they're more efficient, but thats marginal) until they are All being charged by clean power....
The evil is in the fact that Facebook, not you, owns and controls this data. It is not "your data", it is THIER data. Another evil, or more just bad, is that people willingly put information on Facebook that will later cause them harm. Another evil is that Facebook does not allow anonymous accounts for users, you are you on Facebook and by their rules cannot retain anonymity.
More evil is that Facebook sells "your data" for its own purposes. An inverse evil is that Facebook selectively chooses what to show your friends and will actively hide some of your posts from some of your friends.
Back towards this topic, Facebook will help the government look at "your data".
While checking their phones is disturbing, facebook is public folks. That shits posted straight there and it sure as hell isn't the posters anymore when it hits faceboooks servers.
We can whine all we want about lack of privacy, but not after willingly abdicating it...
I so look forward to the day if the National Popular Vote legislation gets enacted... of a Republican winning the popular vote and all those Democrats having to vote for the Republican....
It would be almost assured that every one of the Democrat electors forced to change their vote by that law would not do so because....well its all really about Democrats always winning.
Collectively Democrats have been an absolute embarrassment this election. They are whiny sniveling, pretentious, condescending, toddlers. They should be ashamed to call themselves a political party. They already were ashamed to call themselves Americans...and that is why they lost...
Good luck convincing your manager that you should code an algorithm 4 different ways and see which one works the best. I actually believe this is a viable strategy to find the best code and it fits your analogy to a T.
The only problem is, your manager is only willing to pay for 0.75 the cost to create a good quality stable efficient (i.e. evolution winning algorithm).
Or to put it another way, instead of arguing whether Software Engineers believe in biological evolution we've got a ton of work left to do to evolve our own discipline towards methodologies that actually work.
BTW I get you believe in evolution and commend you on that, but do you believe in capitalist free market principles, or on On-high authority making the laws and rules....
Yeah, dang, I remember after 9/11 happened when everyone was all "9/11 Truthers are Fake News!!" was being touted everywhere. Oh wait, it wasn't.
We saw the 9/11 Truther shit and people advocated it, and you know what, most people came to understand it was complete bullshit, all without some government agency (TM) having to point out to voters that it was fake.
The fake news shit is a quest for totalitarian speech and press control. Too bad fake news == free press == free speech.
People gotta figure shit out for themselves. The citizenry are not infants....
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Wellll I guess we're not using a strongly typed language then...
I don't know where you get the impression I'm disagreeing with you.
My personal opinion is that widespread adoption of Nuclear power is THE answer to solving climate change. I like wind and solar power too, but that whole "constantly available" thing is a struggle for those technologies to get past. Zero emissions is zero emissions that means no coal plants that means either we pave the world with the current tech solar panels or we use nuclear.
So I'm really talking about doing what needs to be done instead of passing a bunch of laws and/or passing around a bunch of money (ie. carbon credits).
And yes my dig on Gore and Leo is not key to solving a problem, but dammit, I'd like the people stating that this is a problem ACTING like they know its a problem and showing it in how they act.
Right now Gore and DiCaprio come across like people telling us how horribly awful second hand smoke is while lighting up yet another cigar....
Well to be honest the concept of binary would complete blow a Gender Studies major's mind....
This is NASA, they're pretty anal about manned spaceflight. You damn well better engineer the turbines to get rid of the cracks.
There is a huge potential for savings with SpaceX's model for launching and reusing rockets, but it all collapses given just a few failures.
If they get very high reliability of their rockets, reuse will end up being a cost destroyer. If they blow some rockets up the reuse savings will disappear.
One has to wonder if Mozilla is lacking for leadership at the CEO level, and that maybe better leadership could have averted this crisis....
But overreacting just kills credibility. Telling everyday people that they have to pay twice as much for electricity and $5/gal or more for gasoline to get to work because CARBON BAD!!! while China India, Brazil and Al Gore game the system to their benefit just pisses people off.
Yep. Also, refusing to build zero emission nuclear plants to replace dirty coal plants, proves that the issue must not be that big of a deal.
Why is it that all climate change responses are about people giving up personal freedom and living under more restrictive laws and any change that really wouldn't be noticed by people is not really fought for...?
We can build the necessary nuclear plants, except the very same people saying "we're all gonna die unless we do something!!" are also out in force to protest against nuclear being one of the answers....
Oh and as for Gore and Leo and all the other celebs lecturing us on how much more control over our lives is needed to save the planet , they continue to fly around the world on charter jets. It is literally the worst thing you can do, carbon footprint wise. We should ban charter flights because of they uselessness and wastefulness. Fly commercial Al and Leo!! Or do you just not care about the environment..?
Arbiters of what is real or what is fake?!!
And the only "problem" anyone sees in this is that they might not find all the "real" fake stuff.
The real problem is we've given control of information and news to people who cannot be unbiased because no human can.
You will see what they let you see. What they let you see will be "correct".
The terrifying thing is not that "there's incorrect stuff on Facebook!!!" The terrifying thing is "Facebook" is actively monitoring and controlling what you see in an effort to get you to believe the "correct" things.... (note any interpretation of correct, that is not one you make yourself, is coercion, manipulation, and propaganda by definition).
The commitment to "cleanse" fake news from the world is one of the most totalitarian efforts I've seen undertaken on a mass scale in my entire life...
"Apple refuses to pay artificial, complete made up tax bill to the EU."
Most electrical engineers can't re-wire a house.
Bullshit, most EE's could easily do this. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be to code, but we can have a discussion about the regulatory state later.
There is no labor shortage.
There is a companies willing to pay what it takes to hire someone competent shortage...
Eliminate the red tape and regulation that hampers our building of zero emission Nuclear power plants for our electricity needs. Then replace all coal plants with Nuclear plants.
Until you do this step, stop hectoring me about climate change because if you don't do this step you are NOT serious about fixing Anything, you are just trying to enact legislation to control people's lives....
Because everyone switching to electric cars is pretty useless (yes yes they're more efficient, but thats marginal) until they are All being charged by clean power....
The evil is in the fact that Facebook, not you, owns and controls this data. It is not "your data", it is THIER data. Another evil, or more just bad, is that people willingly put information on Facebook that will later cause them harm. Another evil is that Facebook does not allow anonymous accounts for users, you are you on Facebook and by their rules cannot retain anonymity.
More evil is that Facebook sells "your data" for its own purposes. An inverse evil is that Facebook selectively chooses what to show your friends and will actively hide some of your posts from some of your friends.
Back towards this topic, Facebook will help the government look at "your data".
While checking their phones is disturbing, facebook is public folks. That shits posted straight there and it sure as hell isn't the posters anymore when it hits faceboooks servers.
We can whine all we want about lack of privacy, but not after willingly abdicating it...
Facebook is evil for many reasons, this is one...
If they did this then there would be free college for anyone getting any type of social justice "studies" degree....
Not one iota, not a smidgen of lying in Obama's administration....
Obama: The attack on Benghazi was because of a YouTube video...
Press: Ok, sure, we believe it.
Trump: Lots of people saw my inauguration.
Press: LIAR!!!!
They should always use Open Source and just follow the GPL.... ;-)
I so look forward to the day if the National Popular Vote legislation gets enacted... of a Republican winning the popular vote and all those Democrats having to vote for the Republican....
It would be almost assured that every one of the Democrat electors forced to change their vote by that law would not do so because....well its all really about Democrats always winning.
Collectively Democrats have been an absolute embarrassment this election. They are whiny sniveling, pretentious, condescending, toddlers. They should be ashamed to call themselves a political party. They already were ashamed to call themselves Americans...and that is why they lost...
Better they work at McDonalds than driver for Uber....
"its the gift that keeps on giving...."
At least its not literally the jelly of the month club, but its not much better.
Good luck convincing your manager that you should code an algorithm 4 different ways and see which one works the best. I actually believe this is a viable strategy to find the best code and it fits your analogy to a T.
The only problem is, your manager is only willing to pay for 0.75 the cost to create a good quality stable efficient (i.e. evolution winning algorithm).
Or to put it another way, instead of arguing whether Software Engineers believe in biological evolution we've got a ton of work left to do to evolve our own discipline towards methodologies that actually work.
BTW I get you believe in evolution and commend you on that, but do you believe in capitalist free market principles, or on On-high authority making the laws and rules....
What part about freedom of the press and "congress shall make no law" don't they understand
Shit, they might as well name the new effort the Ministry of Truth so that it can be crystal clear what they are trying to accomplish.
How can you tell someone has vastly overestimated their intelligence?
Easy, every person who says "all these people who don't think just like me are stupid," is an absolute moron.
Ridiculous overreactions much??
Yeah, dang, I remember after 9/11 happened when everyone was all "9/11 Truthers are Fake News!!" was being touted everywhere. Oh wait, it wasn't.
We saw the 9/11 Truther shit and people advocated it, and you know what, most people came to understand it was complete bullshit, all without some government agency (TM) having to point out to voters that it was fake.
The fake news shit is a quest for totalitarian speech and press control. Too bad fake news == free press == free speech.
People gotta figure shit out for themselves. The citizenry are not infants....
I have it on good authority from Hillary Clinton supporters that this should be no big deal....