Nah, not nihilism. I'm not really sure what you call how I feel these days, but I've been fighting and screaming about corruption and collusion for so long and have really seen how deep and wide it goes, so much that HuffPo screaming bloody murder about corruption in the big mean oil companies makes me feel like I'm a kid watching Captain Planet and obsessing over someone littering or not recycling.
Journalists could expose real corruption and real "conspiracies", but that would be dangerous and they'd have to risk something to print it. A nice, safe story about oil companies is about as risque as wearing a bikini on Miami Beach.
I'm guessing -- no I'm certain -- that you didn't RTFA, because from your posts you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. To avoid your further embarrassment, I'll just point out that this article originated with Fairfax Media, where their journalist was contacted by an anonymous insider. He travelled to several countries, risking his safety perhaps, in a classic example of old school investigative journalism. He exposed real corruption -- that is exactly the fucking point of the article.
As to real corruption, I lived and worked in Indonesia for 24 years. If you know more than I do about corruption please feel free to inform us all. Otherwise you'd be better off if you STFU.
I'm still an undergraduate student. I fully expect to be able to make a living in the industry though, and I intend to use whatever skills and time I have to educate as many people as possible about the massive fraud that is the open source "movement". It is time to take back programming from the narcissists and the amateurs
... says the person who just admitted he doesn't get paid to program.
Given the small impact crater (60cm according to CNN) and the police statement that they have a piece of whatever fell to earth this seems unlikely to be a meteorite to me. If it was big enough to leave remains, and moving as fast as a meteor then I don't see how the crater could be so small. More likely IMO to have been a bit of space junk from one of the many satellites and stuff up there.
Never mind that language is fluid and evolves, trying to halt that evolution is futile.
(And really really annoyed with all my Australian coworkers who feel the need to say "what language were you speaking, it's unintelligble?" every time I say "aluminum" or the like.)
I think that language can and must evolve, but spelling need not.
The English/Aussie spelling/pronunciation makes more sense if you look at the periodic table, but your coworkers might not have thought of that. Aussies like to take the piss...
Anyway, insisting on only one spelling is stupid, whether it is from language fascists trying to halt evolution, or someone who insists "potatoe" is the only correct answer versus those who were equally wrong in insisting "potato" is the only valid one. Language changes, deal with it.
I respectfully disagree. English spelling is already a nightmare for children and newcomers learning the language; allowing different people to spell the same word however they liked would only make it worse. Personally, I think we should simplify the spelling on all words using standard phonetics, and just have a cut-off date for transition, after which "old English spelling" would only be an academic option for those interested in transcribing older works.
There is evidence that children in English-speaking countries learn at a slower rate than their peers with a more logical and consistent spelling.
But if you're willing to not worry about realism and enjoy the fantasy...
Seriously, in a discussion about Star Wars TFA? I've seen the movie and, while I haven't seen John Carter it would be hard pressed to be less realistic;-)
I disagree with everything you are saying, and I'm convinced you should consider not advising people on simple math. Safe highway driving intervals are measured in time, not distance -- maybe you once came across the "two second rule"? Doubling the speed doesn't increase throughput by a factor of two: if people are driving with any concern for their lives it won't budge. Your other argument in your earlier post, about slower people causing accidents, exists only in your rationalizing world.
(I have worked in motor vehicle accident investigation, and am a mechanical engineer.)
So basically, Google is pushing to completely remove me and replace me with a tiny script.:(
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll take a look into "remove me" as soon as I can. In the meantime you can contact your IT business partner for more information about our efforts to "remove me and replace me with a tiny script." Have a nice day.
Typically laws should be about an outcome more than a method.
Thanks for putting this so eloquently. This is a concept I have tried to explain to people in the past (even at work in a previous job) and I lacked your excellent phrasing.
I could have used this a couple of years back. Long story short, I cross-connected 220V live and ground on a solid state relay connected to a Raspberry Pi and a USB hub on the other side which was in turn connected to another Pi and then a TV. I burned out almost everything (1 Pi, hub, maybe an HDMI cable and an HDMI input to my TV). The HDMI 2 port on the TV was hot, not passive (thanks LG) but there were many possible avenues to ground the charge before damage was done. The device you describe would have saved me a great deal of time and money.
Copyleft didn't need strengthening. In effect this just takes benefits away from the citizens of the 12 countries involved and gives them to corporations for longer. Your comments are welcome in the circular filing cabinet beneath my desk...
Agreed and this is where I see good potential. There are many, many airports and airstrips around the world used very infrequently. Some I have visited cannot stay open at all without local government support. Paying full time staff to help land one plane a day is a huge inefficiency that this solves.
On the newer Latitude laptops, Dell moved the Home and End keys down onto the arrow keys and made them Fn enabled. It is really frustrating because I often use Home and End when editing text, often in conjunction with Shift or Control to manipulate large blocks of text.
This of course has nothing to do with TFA, but this is/. and I need to rant damn it.
Unfortunately, I use the Home key every time I load a/. page. Why only this fscking site jumps to somewhere arbitrarily near the end of the page after loading is mysterious, and very annoying.
Electric heating is 100% efficient once the electricity enters your house, whether it's central or not (and central suggests heating areas of your home you don't need to). Google entropy, or basic thermodynamics.
It's a critical point, one that Parker also mentions, that scale matters -- in fact I think it should be the first constraint before deciding what you want to do. Some things are too big for a small charity; some things are too big (malaria, polio) for any single government to make a difference for long. I also agree that MSF is one of the best -- when I visited Sudan 10 years ago they were the only NGO I bumped into (although I was there for other things). They take on the really difficult shit without complaint.
In 1987, I bought an 80 MEGAbyte drive for $775 (around $1600 today), thinking how amazing it was that disk drives had broken the $10/MB barrier. When the first 1GB drives came out a few years later, I remember thinking, "Who would trust that much data to a single device? What an amazing single point of failure!" Now there are 128GB MicroSD cards for under $1/GB. Even understanding the technology, the mind boggles.
You got a deal. Around 1989 I sold a 315MB IBM "Winchester" drive to the phone company, for a whopping $10,095 (list price at the time). It slid into a fairly clunky PS/2 Model 80, as I recall.
China has the right idea. If you don't work, you don't eat.
I imagine that would do wonders to clean up my city's streets from the hundreds of young people who prefer to camp there 24/7 versus getting a job.
Where I live and work (as a CSR consultant), Indonesia, people also don't eat if they don't get a job. Among other failings, malnutrition of children under 5 years runs at around 35%. That causes stunting and is associated with poor cognitive test scores, which is in turn correlated with lower income. I don't have the data for China handy, but your solution is overly simplistic and reflects poorly on your understanding of the article and the issue.
Was just in Vancouver and learned that they've done away with Uber. It was horrible. Not enough taxis so it was impossible to get around the city. Frankly, it will impact my decision on whether or not I go back to visit. Unless your taxi companies can offer the same level of service, killing Uber will result in an impact to tourism... maybe just from me, but it'll be an impact.:)
Toronto has poor to adequate taxi service. Vancouver has NO taxi service. It is not a taxi town, everyone drives cars. Taxis, when you can get them (airport or phone in) cost real money. Public transit is perfectly fine for the young and poor. Vancouver also has the worst traffic in North America, according to Wikipedia.
You could work the same hours (per family) today and still have a vastly higher standard of living than people had in the 60s. You might have a lower standard of living than your neighbors, with 2 earners, and that's mostly what people care about, but that's a relative, not absolute, measure. And we are absolutely doing better now.
I understand your point -- please don't jump up and down saying I don't get it. I disagree with it. You are correct that your money today, even in nominal terms, can arguably buy more value in manufactured goods. That may or may not be true, but it is only a small subset of what we buy. Manufacturing (both what we buy and who we employ) is a constantly decreasing share of the economy in most countries -- including some in the developing world. Services can generally be grouped into professional and unskilled, and there are more and more people looking for fewer and fewer unskilled jobs.
Others are correctly pointing out that the important criterion is what the person with the median income can buy. That excludes the education many of us older folks got, the DB pension our parents got and many other things. Medicine is probably a wash, depending on where you live and in the US your coverage.
There is, tragically, no doubt that the median earner has experienced a decline in his standard of living. Real median incomes are declining, and the cheaper cost / higher functionality of manufactured goods today is not enough to compensate.
I've long thought flywheels were an ideal component of an urban bus, but you wouldn't need them for an electric bus with batteries since the motors are efficient-enough generators under braking. For a diesel bus they make a lot of sense in theory, but machining them is expensive, and to be really efficient they would need to spin really, really fast, with possibly deadly results if it begins to wobble.
But the bottom line is: people aren't as stupid as you'd like to think they are...
Your post is strong evidence that at least one of us is. Since you're taking on and defaming scientists as a group, perhaps you would care to share your analysis leading to your figures of "trillions" and "5%".
Everybody who's against Bitcoin is mad because they didn't mine it in the early days.
I didn't invest in google in the early days either, but I don't hate them.
I hate bitcoin for a number of reason. The few that top the list:
1) I hate the idea of having all of these computers working harder and harder, using more and more energy, and every day there being more miners setting up more computers, all of it in an unproductive pursuit of nothing but wealth. The energy wasted for no real societal gain makes it more socially useless than a marketing department for a law firm.
2) The price varies so wildly, but it's all based off of nothing. At least with stocks, you have company metrics and financials you can at least try to use to figure out where it's going. At least with national currencies, you can look at what the country is doing politically and financially to try and guess where the currency is going. With bithcoin, it's like it's decided by a magic eight ball...there is nothing you can base decisions on other than a random guess.
Here's where we disagree. I don't believe fundamentals influence, in any way, exchange rates. What influences exchange rates is only expectations of future exchange rates. These are regularly very different from past experience. I speak from intense personal experience in Indonesia in 1999, when the rate of the local currency dropped from 2,500 to the dollar to more than 15,000 in a little more than a month.
Stock prices yes, exchange rates no -- they are solely based on subjective impressions of future trends.
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Nah, not nihilism. I'm not really sure what you call how I feel these days, but I've been fighting and screaming about corruption and collusion for so long and have really seen how deep and wide it goes, so much that HuffPo screaming bloody murder about corruption in the big mean oil companies makes me feel like I'm a kid watching Captain Planet and obsessing over someone littering or not recycling.
Journalists could expose real corruption and real "conspiracies", but that would be dangerous and they'd have to risk something to print it. A nice, safe story about oil companies is about as risque as wearing a bikini on Miami Beach.
I'm guessing -- no I'm certain -- that you didn't RTFA, because from your posts you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. To avoid your further embarrassment, I'll just point out that this article originated with Fairfax Media, where their journalist was contacted by an anonymous insider. He travelled to several countries, risking his safety perhaps, in a classic example of old school investigative journalism. He exposed real corruption -- that is exactly the fucking point of the article.
As to real corruption, I lived and worked in Indonesia for 24 years. If you know more than I do about corruption please feel free to inform us all. Otherwise you'd be better off if you STFU.
I'm still an undergraduate student. I fully expect to be able to make a living in the industry though, and I intend to use whatever skills and time I have to educate as many people as possible about the massive fraud that is the open source "movement". It is time to take back programming from the narcissists and the amateurs
... says the person who just admitted he doesn't get paid to program.
Given the small impact crater (60cm according to CNN) and the police statement that they have a piece of whatever fell to earth this seems unlikely to be a meteorite to me. If it was big enough to leave remains, and moving as fast as a meteor then I don't see how the crater could be so small. More likely IMO to have been a bit of space junk from one of the many satellites and stuff up there.
Never mind that language is fluid and evolves, trying to halt that evolution is futile.
(And really really annoyed with all my Australian coworkers who feel the need to say "what language were you speaking, it's unintelligble?" every time I say "aluminum" or the like.)
I think that language can and must evolve, but spelling need not.
The English/Aussie spelling/pronunciation makes more sense if you look at the periodic table, but your coworkers might not have thought of that. Aussies like to take the piss...
Anyway, insisting on only one spelling is stupid, whether it is from language fascists trying to halt evolution, or someone who insists "potatoe" is the only correct answer versus those who were equally wrong in insisting "potato" is the only valid one. Language changes, deal with it.
I respectfully disagree. English spelling is already a nightmare for children and newcomers learning the language; allowing different people to spell the same word however they liked would only make it worse. Personally, I think we should simplify the spelling on all words using standard phonetics, and just have a cut-off date for transition, after which "old English spelling" would only be an academic option for those interested in transcribing older works.
There is evidence that children in English-speaking countries learn at a slower rate than their peers with a more logical and consistent spelling.
But if you're willing to not worry about realism and enjoy the fantasy...
Seriously, in a discussion about Star Wars TFA? I've seen the movie and, while I haven't seen John Carter it would be hard pressed to be less realistic ;-)
I disagree with everything you are saying, and I'm convinced you should consider not advising people on simple math. Safe highway driving intervals are measured in time, not distance -- maybe you once came across the "two second rule"? Doubling the speed doesn't increase throughput by a factor of two: if people are driving with any concern for their lives it won't budge. Your other argument in your earlier post, about slower people causing accidents, exists only in your rationalizing world. (I have worked in motor vehicle accident investigation, and am a mechanical engineer.)
So basically, Google is pushing to completely remove me and replace me with a tiny script. :(
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll take a look into "remove me" as soon as I can. In the meantime you can contact your IT business partner for more information about our efforts to "remove me and replace me with a tiny script." Have a nice day.
JakartaDean
Typically laws should be about an outcome more than a method.
Thanks for putting this so eloquently. This is a concept I have tried to explain to people in the past (even at work in a previous job) and I lacked your excellent phrasing.
Ted Cruz (R-Canada)
I saw what you did there...
I could have used this a couple of years back. Long story short, I cross-connected 220V live and ground on a solid state relay connected to a Raspberry Pi and a USB hub on the other side which was in turn connected to another Pi and then a TV. I burned out almost everything (1 Pi, hub, maybe an HDMI cable and an HDMI input to my TV). The HDMI 2 port on the TV was hot, not passive (thanks LG) but there were many possible avenues to ground the charge before damage was done. The device you describe would have saved me a great deal of time and money.
Copyleft didn't need strengthening. In effect this just takes benefits away from the citizens of the 12 countries involved and gives them to corporations for longer. Your comments are welcome in the circular filing cabinet beneath my desk...
Agreed and this is where I see good potential. There are many, many airports and airstrips around the world used very infrequently. Some I have visited cannot stay open at all without local government support. Paying full time staff to help land one plane a day is a huge inefficiency that this solves.
On the newer Latitude laptops, Dell moved the Home and End keys down onto the arrow keys and made them Fn enabled. It is really frustrating because I often use Home and End when editing text, often in conjunction with Shift or Control to manipulate large blocks of text.
This of course has nothing to do with TFA, but this is /. and I need to rant damn it.
Unfortunately, I use the Home key every time I load a /. page. Why only this fscking site jumps to somewhere arbitrarily near the end of the page after loading is mysterious, and very annoying.
Electric heating is 100% efficient once the electricity enters your house, whether it's central or not (and central suggests heating areas of your home you don't need to). Google entropy, or basic thermodynamics.
Only because I don't have mod points. I was laughing out loud 20 words in.
It's a critical point, one that Parker also mentions, that scale matters -- in fact I think it should be the first constraint before deciding what you want to do. Some things are too big for a small charity; some things are too big (malaria, polio) for any single government to make a difference for long. I also agree that MSF is one of the best -- when I visited Sudan 10 years ago they were the only NGO I bumped into (although I was there for other things). They take on the really difficult shit without complaint.
In 1987, I bought an 80 MEGAbyte drive for $775 (around $1600 today), thinking how amazing it was that disk drives had broken the $10/MB barrier. When the first 1GB drives came out a few years later, I remember thinking, "Who would trust that much data to a single device? What an amazing single point of failure!" Now there are 128GB MicroSD cards for under $1/GB. Even understanding the technology, the mind boggles.
You got a deal. Around 1989 I sold a 315MB IBM "Winchester" drive to the phone company, for a whopping $10,095 (list price at the time). It slid into a fairly clunky PS/2 Model 80, as I recall.
China has the right idea. If you don't work, you don't eat.
I imagine that would do wonders to clean up my city's streets from the hundreds of young people who prefer to camp there 24/7 versus getting a job.
Where I live and work (as a CSR consultant), Indonesia, people also don't eat if they don't get a job. Among other failings, malnutrition of children under 5 years runs at around 35%. That causes stunting and is associated with poor cognitive test scores, which is in turn correlated with lower income. I don't have the data for China handy, but your solution is overly simplistic and reflects poorly on your understanding of the article and the issue.
Was just in Vancouver and learned that they've done away with Uber. It was horrible. Not enough taxis so it was impossible to get around the city. Frankly, it will impact my decision on whether or not I go back to visit. Unless your taxi companies can offer the same level of service, killing Uber will result in an impact to tourism... maybe just from me, but it'll be an impact. :)
Toronto has poor to adequate taxi service. Vancouver has NO taxi service. It is not a taxi town, everyone drives cars. Taxis, when you can get them (airport or phone in) cost real money. Public transit is perfectly fine for the young and poor. Vancouver also has the worst traffic in North America, according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, I thought it was brave of him not to post AC with a comment like that.
You could work the same hours (per family) today and still have a vastly higher standard of living than people had in the 60s. You might have a lower standard of living than your neighbors, with 2 earners, and that's mostly what people care about, but that's a relative, not absolute, measure. And we are absolutely doing better now.
I understand your point -- please don't jump up and down saying I don't get it. I disagree with it. You are correct that your money today, even in nominal terms, can arguably buy more value in manufactured goods. That may or may not be true, but it is only a small subset of what we buy. Manufacturing (both what we buy and who we employ) is a constantly decreasing share of the economy in most countries -- including some in the developing world. Services can generally be grouped into professional and unskilled, and there are more and more people looking for fewer and fewer unskilled jobs.
Others are correctly pointing out that the important criterion is what the person with the median income can buy. That excludes the education many of us older folks got, the DB pension our parents got and many other things. Medicine is probably a wash, depending on where you live and in the US your coverage.
There is, tragically, no doubt that the median earner has experienced a decline in his standard of living. Real median incomes are declining, and the cheaper cost / higher functionality of manufactured goods today is not enough to compensate.
I've long thought flywheels were an ideal component of an urban bus, but you wouldn't need them for an electric bus with batteries since the motors are efficient-enough generators under braking. For a diesel bus they make a lot of sense in theory, but machining them is expensive, and to be really efficient they would need to spin really, really fast, with possibly deadly results if it begins to wobble.
But the bottom line is: people aren't as stupid as you'd like to think they are...
Your post is strong evidence that at least one of us is. Since you're taking on and defaming scientists as a group, perhaps you would care to share your analysis leading to your figures of "trillions" and "5%".
Everybody who's against Bitcoin is mad because they didn't mine it in the early days.
I didn't invest in google in the early days either, but I don't hate them.
I hate bitcoin for a number of reason. The few that top the list: 1) I hate the idea of having all of these computers working harder and harder, using more and more energy, and every day there being more miners setting up more computers, all of it in an unproductive pursuit of nothing but wealth. The energy wasted for no real societal gain makes it more socially useless than a marketing department for a law firm.
2) The price varies so wildly, but it's all based off of nothing. At least with stocks, you have company metrics and financials you can at least try to use to figure out where it's going. At least with national currencies, you can look at what the country is doing politically and financially to try and guess where the currency is going. With bithcoin, it's like it's decided by a magic eight ball...there is nothing you can base decisions on other than a random guess.
Here's where we disagree. I don't believe fundamentals influence, in any way, exchange rates. What influences exchange rates is only expectations of future exchange rates. These are regularly very different from past experience. I speak from intense personal experience in Indonesia in 1999, when the rate of the local currency dropped from 2,500 to the dollar to more than 15,000 in a little more than a month.
Stock prices yes, exchange rates no -- they are solely based on subjective impressions of future trends.