You're suggesting a false dichotomy. The internet has gotten more accessible and easier to use, but that change doesn't necessitate the loss of freedom.
We could, in principle, have accessibility and ease-of-use and freedom.
> > The professor says he feels sorry for one researcher who recently submitted a paper about how to treat sheath tumors, because "the journal has sent it to a dog to review."
> Why? How bad was the dog's criticisms of the paper?
Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if she is doing a better job than the human she replaced.
(I read the article to check if the dog was male or female to get the gender right, but held back replacing "dog" with "bitch," which would be more accurate. I recommend rereading this entire thread, replacing "dog" with "bitch" for a more entertaining and still PC read).
Even if plants in greenhouses converted all the CO2 into themselves, the total used is nowhere close to the order of gigatons. Meanwhile, a lot of the CO2 will have escaped into the atmosphere, which undoes the benefit.
If you twist the EULA If you push your album on me again If I could delete it, yes I would If I could, I would Let it go Surrender Dislocate
If I could throw this Overreaching iPhone to the wind Leave this walled garden See Apple and U2 walk, walk away Into the night And through the rain Into the half-light And through the flame
If I could like speech and beer Make my software free I'd lead your marketing away See you break, break away Into the light And to the day
Delete it! Go! And so to fade away Delete it! Go! And so fade away
I'm quite annoyed I'm quite annoyted Wide awake I can't delete it Oh, no, no, no
If I could delete it, you know I would If I could, I would Let it go...
This desperation Dislocation Separation Condemnation Revelation In temptation Isolation Desolation Let it go
And so fade away Delete it! Go! And so fade away Delete it! Go! And so to fade away
"'If you look at the late 19th Century,' he says, Victorian clerks could stand at their desks and 'moved around a lot more'. 'It's possible to look back at the industrial office of the past 100 years or so as some kind of weird aberration in a 1,000-year continuum of work where we've always moved around.'"
If you look at any time in the past million years of our history, I doubt you're going to find a time when people stayed nearly perfectly so still for so long, standing or sitting. We even sit still when we travel from one place to another, which I can guarantee never happened before, even when we rode horses.
The difference between sitting at a desk all day or standing at a desk all day seems to me like the choice between someone punching you in the face or slapping you in the face. The position of the hand is small compared to someone hitting you in the face.
If you're at a desk all day and took a car to get there, whether you sit or stand seems to me a negligible difference compared to how anyone you inherited genes from behaved, except, maybe, when they were sick or about to die. I suspect that before the industrial revolution even when people sat around, they still moved around a fair amount relative to today.
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> We're not dinosaurs.
Speak for yourself, and get off my lawn or I'll come after you with my buggy whip!
> Have not heard about too many right-wing riots where they were trying to silence a left-wing speaker.
Looking up Martin Luther King Junior and watching videos of Selma, or Nelson Mandela and Apartheid, might give you a good start.
They are blatant historical examples. The trend continues today.
You're suggesting a false dichotomy. The internet has gotten more accessible and easier to use, but that change doesn't necessitate the loss of freedom.
We could, in principle, have accessibility and ease-of-use and freedom.
> > The professor says he feels sorry for one researcher who recently submitted a paper about how to treat sheath tumors, because "the journal has sent it to a dog to review."
> Why? How bad was the dog's criticisms of the paper?
She ate it.
How does the dog compare to her replacement?
Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if she is doing a better job than the human she replaced.
(I read the article to check if the dog was male or female to get the gender right, but held back replacing "dog" with "bitch," which would be more accurate. I recommend rereading this entire thread, replacing "dog" with "bitch" for a more entertaining and still PC read).
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
What about the remaining 9.9 or so Gigatonnes?
Even if plants in greenhouses converted all the CO2 into themselves, the total used is nowhere close to the order of gigatons. Meanwhile, a lot of the CO2 will have escaped into the atmosphere, which undoes the benefit.
> If closing/dismissing/saying "NO" would silence them for good that'd be one thing, but they won't fucking go away. They keep coming back.
You look like you're trying to complain about a tool popping up unwanted and not going away. I can help with that.
> 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' ... five assumptions which, when examined closely, are not based on any evidence
I'd debunk the myth of human intelligence first. I've heard about it many times, but haven't seen any evidence for it either.
There was already a documentary on it, called "The Thing," by John Carpenter.
Very informative and worth watching.
Senators, if you believe he committed a crime, have him arrested and take him to court.
We have a legal system. This is what it's for.
If you don't think it will achieve the goal, accept that the system needs reform and start reforming it.
On top of a unit mismatch how about a unit missing:
> Musk thinks the market for home batteries will expand to at least two billion, eventually.
Two billion what?!? ... Batteries, people, dollars, years, kWh?
As long as we're leaving out units, why not project the market to three billion, a trillion, or even a hogshead?
I'd suggest a study going farther than just checking reproducibility.
I bet for many studies you could produce opposite or contradictory outcomes.
That ought to get someone's PhD published.
Headline writer: Why ask us when you can ask Betteridge?
> At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices
I can't think of anything wrong with secret police behavior. I mean, has that led to any problems in the past? What could possibly go wrong?
"We're okay. It's not copyright infringement. It's theft."
Movies "all show technology that doesn't work, that ... kills people, that it is bad for the world,"
What do you mean? We elected it governor of California.
3.14 sounds like a pi-in-the-sky release.
"Re-worked default theme" sounds like they're just going 'round in circles.
"New animations" are hardly a sine of great progress, 'cos they sound tangential to real progress, which really hertz.
I'll wait for 6.28.
If you twist the EULA
If you push your album on me again
If I could delete it, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Overreaching iPhone to the wind
Leave this walled garden
See Apple and U2 walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could like speech and beer
Make my software free
I'd lead your marketing away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
Delete it! Go!
And so to fade away
Delete it! Go!
And so fade away
I'm quite annoyed
I'm quite annoyted
Wide awake
I can't delete it
Oh, no, no, no
If I could delete it, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
Delete it! Go!
And so fade away
Delete it! Go!
And so to fade away
I will not be satisfied until Apple provides a tool to remove Bono entirely.
So you still haven't found what you're looking for?
How much of the cost of the internet goes to costs of the ads?
They seem like most of the bandwidth on many sites.
Take them out and the cost would probably drop to $2.30.
Now that the USPTO has shown it can cancel intellectual property, how about canceling some patents?
We could start with the software patents and continue from there.
All those arches in Rome seem to be holding up pretty well after thousands of years.
I saw some arrowheads in a museum that looked as ready for use as when someone left them there.
"'If you look at the late 19th Century,' he says, Victorian clerks could stand at their desks and 'moved around a lot more'. 'It's possible to look back at the industrial office of the past 100 years or so as some kind of weird aberration in a 1,000-year continuum of work where we've always moved around.'"
If you look at any time in the past million years of our history, I doubt you're going to find a time when people stayed nearly perfectly so still for so long, standing or sitting. We even sit still when we travel from one place to another, which I can guarantee never happened before, even when we rode horses.
The difference between sitting at a desk all day or standing at a desk all day seems to me like the choice between someone punching you in the face or slapping you in the face. The position of the hand is small compared to someone hitting you in the face.
If you're at a desk all day and took a car to get there, whether you sit or stand seems to me a negligible difference compared to how anyone you inherited genes from behaved, except, maybe, when they were sick or about to die. I suspect that before the industrial revolution even when people sat around, they still moved around a fair amount relative to today.