No, not bullshit. I'm not sure where the disconnect is but you don't seem to be following: tax service companies like Vertex handle all of your "50 states" and "tens of thousands of taxing districts" - I've used them on many projects that required sales tax calcs tied to catalog/retail/online sales systems.
It's a little entertaining to see all of these comments from people that are completely unaware this problem was solved in the 70's and that most companies with sales tax calc requirements just use these services either via API or local software that is kept updated.
Software did in 1992, and in 1982, starting sometime in the 70's. These types of tax systems have been a standard part of systems for a long long time - well before 1992.
Tax calcs for this stuff has been handled by companies like Vertex since 1978 and before (API's and up to date calc systems). It wasn't really a problem in 92 in that the market already provided a solution that pretty much every non-mom and pop shop with interstate retail/catalog/online sales was already using.
I think Boeing hurts the worst. I wanted to buy a 747 with expedited shipping, but because of the money I was spending on sales tax I had to suck it up and go with the free ground shipping.
An additional reason for ARM's success is willingness to license IP, which the major players want so they can customize/optimize, but Intel for obvious reasons would not do.
If I'm a theater trying to get millenials in, I would setup this separate room and then take this a step further: show a text comments section above or below the screen and display (censored/moderated) comments from the audience during the movie - could be pretty funny/entertaining as an optional experience (go to normal room if you just want to watch the movie).
It's a few man months for Apple because they have the source code and understand it. The FBI would have a very large job to create the modified version of the OS if they didn't have the source code and Apple's help.
Yes, the computer is using stats (neural network) to categorize/reduce the search space and make decisions based on that, which is what humans also do with their neural network, it's all stats.
I'm not sure they are going to make it past the headache/nausea issues - seems there is something fundamental about how we process those signals that is not quite working and could require a lot of research to fully understand why/fix it.
A title screen wasn't anything new, all the games I made (early 80's TRS-80 color) had title screens as did most of everyone else's. Not sure why the 2600 didn't have them.
I think the story is primarily an interesting bit of behind the scenes drama and personalities. Einstein was not used to peer-review process and reacted emotionally to a legit criticism and refused to publish in the premiere physics journal anymore despite the fact that the criticism turned out to be accurate. In addition, the story is pretty interesting the way the reviewer was able to indirectly get the criticisms explained to the assistant and ultimately to Einstein who accepted those criticisms as valid.
In addition, it (at least the summary) states that there is gender bias even when the gender is unknown. It seems to me that if gender is unknown and unassumed there can't be bias, but there can be patterns of behavior based on other criteria that happens to correlate to gender but is not driven due to a gender bias.
I was joking - I completely agree with your point that people arguing github being down is a non-event - that really shows a myopic understanding of workflow related issues.
But that's why github is so important: whether they are down or up they have the exact same value which is a pretty remarkable accomplishment.
What I can't figure out is whether their paying customers should continue to pay them. On the one hand they are probably the single most valuable entity on the planet given that their value is completely independent of the state of their service. On the other hand that infinite value can also be had for free.
I had no idea github was at the epi-center center of a mammoth shift in our worldwide economic structure.
Sure, we hear you, so let's dive a little deeper so we can provide you the answer: of the pilots with the highest ratio of average measurements to total measurements, we find that in no case were more than 70% measurements average.
That number by itself only tells part of the story, the next significant measurement of the pilots measurements was that a full 80% fell well within one standard deviation of those 70% on at least 50% of their respective measurements.
At this point most people are starting to see where this is heading but in case you aren't seeing it this should make it more clear: when any 2 random measurements per pilot were discarded and the 30% range recalculated, then cross hatched against the group of least average pilots, we are left with a group that is both outside the original average by 40% but well within the new groups average to a level of 90%.
What drove this in Europe was their extremely high fraud rate, it was much higher than US. With chip and pin they brought it down to US levels after many years and now they are a little below US levels except for card not present (online) which of course is where the fraud has shifted to.
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I've always used Vertex, not sure what their methods are to stay current but I've used them in many projects since the 80's and they are effective.
No, not bullshit. I'm not sure where the disconnect is but you don't seem to be following: tax service companies like Vertex handle all of your "50 states" and "tens of thousands of taxing districts" - I've used them on many projects that required sales tax calcs tied to catalog/retail/online sales systems.
interesting factoid, to avoid taxes? avoid some other regulations?
It's a little entertaining to see all of these comments from people that are completely unaware this problem was solved in the 70's and that most companies with sales tax calc requirements just use these services either via API or local software that is kept updated.
Software did in 1992, and in 1982, starting sometime in the 70's. These types of tax systems have been a standard part of systems for a long long time - well before 1992.
Tax calcs for this stuff has been handled by companies like Vertex since 1978 and before (API's and up to date calc systems). It wasn't really a problem in 92 in that the market already provided a solution that pretty much every non-mom and pop shop with interstate retail/catalog/online sales was already using.
I think Boeing hurts the worst. I wanted to buy a 747 with expedited shipping, but because of the money I was spending on sales tax I had to suck it up and go with the free ground shipping.
And where did they get 55 million, I wonder if that's space cash?
An additional reason for ARM's success is willingness to license IP, which the major players want so they can customize/optimize, but Intel for obvious reasons would not do.
If I'm a theater trying to get millenials in, I would setup this separate room and then take this a step further: show a text comments section above or below the screen and display (censored/moderated) comments from the audience during the movie - could be pretty funny/entertaining as an optional experience (go to normal room if you just want to watch the movie).
Even faster: writing it in all 0's or all 1's - switching between those two values takes up all the time
It's a few man months for Apple because they have the source code and understand it. The FBI would have a very large job to create the modified version of the OS if they didn't have the source code and Apple's help.
Yes, the computer is using stats (neural network) to categorize/reduce the search space and make decisions based on that, which is what humans also do with their neural network, it's all stats.
I'm not sure they are going to make it past the headache/nausea issues - seems there is something fundamental about how we process those signals that is not quite working and could require a lot of research to fully understand why/fix it.
Why do you think it's absurd? I assume you believe that any kind of supply and demand based salary is wrong? What are the other possibilities?
1 day difference in 3,200 years? Better bump this up to high priority
A title screen wasn't anything new, all the games I made (early 80's TRS-80 color) had title screens as did most of everyone else's. Not sure why the 2600 didn't have them.
I think the story is primarily an interesting bit of behind the scenes drama and personalities. Einstein was not used to peer-review process and reacted emotionally to a legit criticism and refused to publish in the premiere physics journal anymore despite the fact that the criticism turned out to be accurate. In addition, the story is pretty interesting the way the reviewer was able to indirectly get the criticisms explained to the assistant and ultimately to Einstein who accepted those criticisms as valid.
In addition, it (at least the summary) states that there is gender bias even when the gender is unknown. It seems to me that if gender is unknown and unassumed there can't be bias, but there can be patterns of behavior based on other criteria that happens to correlate to gender but is not driven due to a gender bias.
I was joking - I completely agree with your point that people arguing github being down is a non-event - that really shows a myopic understanding of workflow related issues.
But that's why github is so important: whether they are down or up they have the exact same value which is a pretty remarkable accomplishment.
What I can't figure out is whether their paying customers should continue to pay them. On the one hand they are probably the single most valuable entity on the planet given that their value is completely independent of the state of their service. On the other hand that infinite value can also be had for free.
I had no idea github was at the epi-center center of a mammoth shift in our worldwide economic structure.
So basically you're saying github should just shut down their servers permanently, they really aren't providing any value whatsoever.
Sure, we hear you, so let's dive a little deeper so we can provide you the answer: of the pilots with the highest ratio of average measurements to total measurements, we find that in no case were more than 70% measurements average.
That number by itself only tells part of the story, the next significant measurement of the pilots measurements was that a full 80% fell well within one standard deviation of those 70% on at least 50% of their respective measurements.
At this point most people are starting to see where this is heading but in case you aren't seeing it this should make it more clear: when any 2 random measurements per pilot were discarded and the 30% range recalculated, then cross hatched against the group of least average pilots, we are left with a group that is both outside the original average by 40% but well within the new groups average to a level of 90%.
I think that should read "we're going to kill those 33,000 people in new and interesting ways."
What drove this in Europe was their extremely high fraud rate, it was much higher than US. With chip and pin they brought it down to US levels after many years and now they are a little below US levels except for card not present (online) which of course is where the fraud has shifted to.