You need to have not just a gun, but also a good spot to bury bodies and the ability the keep your mouth shut! I'm pretty sure criminals don't file a flight plan before invading homes, so nobody knows where they disappeared. And it's not like they're going to park right in front of the house they're breaking into.
Aren't their documented incidents of retaliation against hackers harming innocent third party internet businesses? That's why we let law enforcement hand out consequences instead of engaging in vigilante justice. (That being said the guys who chased after the Texas church shooter are awesome!)
Interesting note: Many Lowe's and Home Depot stores are located next door to each other, and those stores to MORE business than the other stores! They become "the place" to buy hard-to-find products because customers know if they can't find it in one, they can check the other. I even sometimes check both before buying to make sure I'm getting the lowest price. In other words, Sam's Club locating next to KMart doesn't necessarily put KMart out of business!
Don't worry; global warming makes volcanic eruptions much more probable, and the eruption of the Yosemite supervolcano will cause a nuclear winter-like event that will more than compensate for the warming caused by massive C02 and methane emissions. Face it, in the long run the Earth does regulate it's own temperature, and massive global extinction events are just part of that regulation mechanism. Just like parents used to say whenever we whined about something terrible happening to us as kids: "100 years from now, nobody will know the difference!"
Yes, indentation being significant is annoying as hell, but I just edit in SciTE and constantly run the syntax checker which flags any indentation mistakes, which usually occur when doing cut/paste edits. I also found I get C++ and Python confused, e.g. writing "break;" in Python. Then I grepped through the existing code, and found out the previous author did it a lot more than I did! (For the record, a semicolon is also a statement separator in Python, so it does no harm. The difference is in C++ only the semicolon is a statement separator, whereas in Python both newline and semicolon are statement separators. Having coded C for over 30 years, I have a bias towards the C/C++ way of doing things.)
Coded in Delphi, and the main drawbacks are it is old and little used. If I remember, the biggest problems I had were moving data between managed and unmanaged code, but that's probably not the fault of the language.
Sadly, C# is actually a good language, once you understand it, it looks like Microsoft took all the common mistakes that programmers make using C++ and tried to design a language where all those mistakes were impossible. So, if you got idiot programmers, you're better off having them write C# and managed code. The down side, of course, is that locks you into the Microsoft ecosystem. Too bad Mono never got anywhere.
The usual remark I make about Perl is that valid Perl code is indistinguishable from modem noise. But then, I also say that Python is like somebody combined C++ and Perl. In Perl, everything is a string, whereas in Python, everything is an object -- even integers. This makes for a very inefficient language.
To put it slightly differently, for social animals, evolution is driven by the survival of tribes or packs, not the survival of individuals. That's why wolf packs do just fine with only the alphas breeding, and why evolution hasn't eliminated homosexuality.
If my friends larger brains were helping them get laid, then yes, damn right I would grow a larger brain too! (No, that's not quite how evolution works, but you get the point.)
Large brains aren't necessary for survival. Large brains only help with social competition. If your success at breeding is predicated on your success in social competition, then you evolve complex intelligence just to compete. This rule would apply to most highly social animals, so of course cetaceans and primates. What we think of as "status" is just another word for "fitness to breed", that's why humans crave high status so much -- it literally increases their chances of getting laid.
Correcting myself: Aimbots sound like a permanent arms race, hard to design software to make them impossible, just increasingly complex measures/countermeasures. Encrypting game data would make the other cheats much more difficult.
If you have to block that many cheaters, isn't that a tacit admission that your system and/or your communications are designed so poorly that it's ridiculously easy to "cheat"? Granted, some compromises are probably made in the interest of optimizing perceived response times, but still... can't you design a game that is more difficult to hack? (Of course, the "analog hole" always exists; one can always automate the mouse and keyboard input... but where's the fun in that?)
Are people still buying his books? If there was no demand, there would be no supply! Sure, the beauty of futurism is that by the time people prove you're wrong, you've already put millions in the bank and retired!
AI aren't perfect, but they make far fewer mistakes than human drivers. In other words, the accident rate goes down when AI takes over driving. What I fear most is the interaction of unpredictable human drivers with AI trying to predict what the cars around it are going to do - that's the most dangerous thing. 100% AI on the road would be a lot safer, except for the occasional catastrophic hardware failures.
Strangely, the job market for prostitutes has not diminished in hundreds of years. And the job market for politicians has increased... but then, I repeat myself.
No, it just means that the ability to work well with an AI will become the most valuable job skill in the near future. Our new robotic overlords ain't going to maintain themselves!
The key words here are "at the top of the skill ladder." We don't currently have a shortage of highly skilled jobs, we have a shortage of jobs for unskilled labor, which of course are easier to automate. And at the same time, getting the education required for the new high-skills jobs is getting much harder. Thanks, Betsy DeVos!
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Is there any way to short bitcoin? Somebody could make a fortune!
You need to have not just a gun, but also a good spot to bury bodies and the ability the keep your mouth shut! I'm pretty sure criminals don't file a flight plan before invading homes, so nobody knows where they disappeared. And it's not like they're going to park right in front of the house they're breaking into.
Aren't their documented incidents of retaliation against hackers harming innocent third party internet businesses? That's why we let law enforcement hand out consequences instead of engaging in vigilante justice. (That being said the guys who chased after the Texas church shooter are awesome!)
Interesting note: Many Lowe's and Home Depot stores are located next door to each other, and those stores to MORE business than the other stores! They become "the place" to buy hard-to-find products because customers know if they can't find it in one, they can check the other. I even sometimes check both before buying to make sure I'm getting the lowest price. In other words, Sam's Club locating next to KMart doesn't necessarily put KMart out of business!
Explain to me how exactly this business model makes a profit for Amazon? Are the discounts subsidized by the $100/year payment for Amazon Prime?
"The planet isn't f-ed... we are!" https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
Don't worry; global warming makes volcanic eruptions much more probable, and the eruption of the Yosemite supervolcano will cause a nuclear winter-like event that will more than compensate for the warming caused by massive C02 and methane emissions. Face it, in the long run the Earth does regulate it's own temperature, and massive global extinction events are just part of that regulation mechanism. Just like parents used to say whenever we whined about something terrible happening to us as kids: "100 years from now, nobody will know the difference!"
Yes, indentation being significant is annoying as hell, but I just edit in SciTE and constantly run the syntax checker which flags any indentation mistakes, which usually occur when doing cut/paste edits. I also found I get C++ and Python confused, e.g. writing "break;" in Python. Then I grepped through the existing code, and found out the previous author did it a lot more than I did! (For the record, a semicolon is also a statement separator in Python, so it does no harm. The difference is in C++ only the semicolon is a statement separator, whereas in Python both newline and semicolon are statement separators. Having coded C for over 30 years, I have a bias towards the C/C++ way of doing things.)
Coded in Delphi, and the main drawbacks are it is old and little used. If I remember, the biggest problems I had were moving data between managed and unmanaged code, but that's probably not the fault of the language.
Sadly, C# is actually a good language, once you understand it, it looks like Microsoft took all the common mistakes that programmers make using C++ and tried to design a language where all those mistakes were impossible. So, if you got idiot programmers, you're better off having them write C# and managed code. The down side, of course, is that locks you into the Microsoft ecosystem. Too bad Mono never got anywhere.
Agreed, since everything is a string, it's good for quick hacks of HTML. Not sure what else it's good for.
The usual remark I make about Perl is that valid Perl code is indistinguishable from modem noise. But then, I also say that Python is like somebody combined C++ and Perl. In Perl, everything is a string, whereas in Python, everything is an object -- even integers. This makes for a very inefficient language.
To put it slightly differently, for social animals, evolution is driven by the survival of tribes or packs, not the survival of individuals. That's why wolf packs do just fine with only the alphas breeding, and why evolution hasn't eliminated homosexuality.
When did Donald Trump get a slashdot account?
If my friends larger brains were helping them get laid, then yes, damn right I would grow a larger brain too! (No, that's not quite how evolution works, but you get the point.)
Large brains aren't necessary for survival. Large brains only help with social competition. If your success at breeding is predicated on your success in social competition, then you evolve complex intelligence just to compete. This rule would apply to most highly social animals, so of course cetaceans and primates. What we think of as "status" is just another word for "fitness to breed", that's why humans crave high status so much -- it literally increases their chances of getting laid.
Correcting myself: Aimbots sound like a permanent arms race, hard to design software to make them impossible, just increasingly complex measures/countermeasures. Encrypting game data would make the other cheats much more difficult.
If you have to block that many cheaters, isn't that a tacit admission that your system and/or your communications are designed so poorly that it's ridiculously easy to "cheat"? Granted, some compromises are probably made in the interest of optimizing perceived response times, but still... can't you design a game that is more difficult to hack? (Of course, the "analog hole" always exists; one can always automate the mouse and keyboard input... but where's the fun in that?)
Are people still buying his books? If there was no demand, there would be no supply! Sure, the beauty of futurism is that by the time people prove you're wrong, you've already put millions in the bank and retired!
AI aren't perfect, but they make far fewer mistakes than human drivers. In other words, the accident rate goes down when AI takes over driving. What I fear most is the interaction of unpredictable human drivers with AI trying to predict what the cars around it are going to do - that's the most dangerous thing. 100% AI on the road would be a lot safer, except for the occasional catastrophic hardware failures.
Bill Joy was fear mongering about AI long before Elon Musk... and I can't say I really disagree with him.
Strangely, the job market for prostitutes has not diminished in hundreds of years. And the job market for politicians has increased... but then, I repeat myself.
All good lawyers now use LexisNexis for everything. When was the last time someone did a patent search by reading physical paper?
No, it just means that the ability to work well with an AI will become the most valuable job skill in the near future. Our new robotic overlords ain't going to maintain themselves!
The key words here are "at the top of the skill ladder." We don't currently have a shortage of highly skilled jobs, we have a shortage of jobs for unskilled labor, which of course are easier to automate. And at the same time, getting the education required for the new high-skills jobs is getting much harder. Thanks, Betsy DeVos!