I'm not even Ukranian, but I know to call the country "Ukraine", not "The Ukraine". Putin wants you to call it "The Ukraine", indicating it's part of Russia.
This *is* a simulation. Except that the computing substrate is atoms and molecules rather than electrons and transistors. The only remaining questions are, who is running the simulation, and why are we inside of it?
Lucas has attributed the origins of "The Force" to a 1963 abstract film by Arthur Lipsett, which sampled from many sources.
One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God."
When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was "an echo of that phrase in 21-87." The idea behind it, however, was universal: "Similar phrases have been used extensively by many different people for the last 13,000 years to describe the 'life force,'" he says.
Siri also "sounds very white", but can you imagine the outcry if Apple released a voice with a thick "culturally black" accent? Or a thick Mexican English accent? Or an Asian English accent?
For many California business groups, the state's decision to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15 by 2022 is a terrible thing
If your business is not profitable when you have to pay salaries over $15/hr, you should do something else. Cutting into the salaries of your most valuable asset, your employees, in order to increase your margins is pitiful. Nobody can be expected to live off of $15/hr.
You can value technical correctness above all else, even mandate it, without resorting to incivility or profanity. Linus' biggest weakness is that he gets emotional about what should be purely technical decisions. There is no room for emotions or ego in engineering or in science: truth is truth and must stand on its own; technical merit must withstand scrutiny without emotions getting involved.
Willing to be wrong, after yelling at, screaming at, swearing at opposition until all but the most thick-skinned and persistent get the message through.
I tried a standing desk for 6 months. Got nerve compression issues in my feet, and had to go back to sitting. The reality is that the human body was not designed to be in one position (any position) all day long.
This card would only cost $700-800 if prices didn't get artificially inflated in the last few years because every card on the planet was being bought by Bitcoin miners (and then Litecoin miners once you couldn't profitably mine Bitcoin without ASICs)...
Correct. PRISM was not a streamlined legal framework. It was a way to eavesdrop on data between corporate datacenters, and then decrypt, store and index it. e.g. in the case of traffic between Google datacenters, the NSA had to decypher the serialized Google protocol buffer format for Google data, then figure out which data corresponded with which Gmail service.
If you watch the video on the linked site, they say it happened at least once before, in 1989.
The water is sucked in by gravity, and the outlet is a canal inside the plant, supporting a population of fish and other things that have been sucked in in the past. The water goes through several stages of filtration before it's mechanically pumped, so the diver was pretty safe. I wonder if he knew it was safe, and decided to take a risk to see if he could get some money out of the power company...
This is quite ironic, given that the Whatsapp acquisition was purportedly worth $22B for the very reason that it would run on the oldest J2ME featurephones used by Masai warriors and Tibetan monks at the corners of the earth.
"One of the worst disasters in US history"? Cows and other livestock release 238 million metric tons of methane per year [source]. The estimated 97,100 metric tons from this leak amounts to a whopping 0.04% of that amount.
You forgot your units: 1 meter = 1/Pi wandering albatross wingspans. Therein lies the problem for reproducibility between labs: the albatrosses won't hold still.
I bet they're going to change the definition from 1 kg = 1024 grams to 1 kg = 1000 grams. And we'll probably have to write "kig" too to make sure we don't get confused about the old definition.
You're making the ridiculously optimistic assumption that users are running software that can actually make use of more than one core. (It's 2016; why do all mainstream languages still generate single-threaded code by default?)
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Turns out we should have been using the better fork since 2002 anyway.
I'm not even Ukranian, but I know to call the country "Ukraine", not "The Ukraine". Putin wants you to call it "The Ukraine", indicating it's part of Russia.
This *is* a simulation. Except that the computing substrate is atoms and molecules rather than electrons and transistors. The only remaining questions are, who is running the simulation, and why are we inside of it?
Maybe adulterous women only bear daughters.
Lucas has attributed the origins of "The Force" to a 1963 abstract film by Arthur Lipsett, which sampled from many sources. One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God."
When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was "an echo of that phrase in 21-87." The idea behind it, however, was universal: "Similar phrases have been used extensively by many different people for the last 13,000 years to describe the 'life force,'" he says.
Siri also "sounds very white", but can you imagine the outcry if Apple released a voice with a thick "culturally black" accent? Or a thick Mexican English accent? Or an Asian English accent?
So what they're saying is that satire is dangerous in China -- it might disrupt government-imposed harmony.
For many California business groups, the state's decision to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15 by 2022 is a terrible thing
If your business is not profitable when you have to pay salaries over $15/hr, you should do something else. Cutting into the salaries of your most valuable asset, your employees, in order to increase your margins is pitiful. Nobody can be expected to live off of $15/hr.
They're probably just busy rewriting Skype to work with WebRTC. (Or if they're smart, that's where they're expending their resources.)
You can value technical correctness above all else, even mandate it, without resorting to incivility or profanity. Linus' biggest weakness is that he gets emotional about what should be purely technical decisions. There is no room for emotions or ego in engineering or in science: truth is truth and must stand on its own; technical merit must withstand scrutiny without emotions getting involved.
Willing to be wrong, after yelling at, screaming at, swearing at opposition until all but the most thick-skinned and persistent get the message through.
I tried a standing desk for 6 months. Got nerve compression issues in my feet, and had to go back to sitting. The reality is that the human body was not designed to be in one position (any position) all day long.
This card would only cost $700-800 if prices didn't get artificially inflated in the last few years because every card on the planet was being bought by Bitcoin miners (and then Litecoin miners once you couldn't profitably mine Bitcoin without ASICs)...
Is this true in all bases? There's nothing special about base 10, other than the fact that we have 10 fingers.
Maybe the F-35 had to update the Flash plugin.
Correct. PRISM was not a streamlined legal framework. It was a way to eavesdrop on data between corporate datacenters, and then decrypt, store and index it. e.g. in the case of traffic between Google datacenters, the NSA had to decypher the serialized Google protocol buffer format for Google data, then figure out which data corresponded with which Gmail service.
If you watch the video on the linked site, they say it happened at least once before, in 1989.
The water is sucked in by gravity, and the outlet is a canal inside the plant, supporting a population of fish and other things that have been sucked in in the past. The water goes through several stages of filtration before it's mechanically pumped, so the diver was pretty safe. I wonder if he knew it was safe, and decided to take a risk to see if he could get some money out of the power company...
Who cares?
This is quite ironic, given that the Whatsapp acquisition was purportedly worth $22B for the very reason that it would run on the oldest J2ME featurephones used by Masai warriors and Tibetan monks at the corners of the earth.
"One of the worst disasters in US history"? Cows and other livestock release 238 million metric tons of methane per year [source]. The estimated 97,100 metric tons from this leak amounts to a whopping 0.04% of that amount.
You forgot your units: 1 meter = 1/Pi wandering albatross wingspans. Therein lies the problem for reproducibility between labs: the albatrosses won't hold still.
I bet they're going to change the definition from 1 kg = 1024 grams to 1 kg = 1000 grams. And we'll probably have to write "kig" too to make sure we don't get confused about the old definition.
In the UK, concrete is frequently referred to as simply "cement", e.g. "the cement building", "it's made of cement".
You're making the ridiculously optimistic assumption that users are running software that can actually make use of more than one core. (It's 2016; why do all mainstream languages still generate single-threaded code by default?)
Somehow I don't think that Twitter has raised their character limit that high yet.