The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies.
You must have seen/heard a different version of that Schoolhouse Rock song/episode, The Preamble. Here's what I saw/heard:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
He says, " Immigration to my country harms me, it harms my family,..." Are there a lot of immigrants writing software that builds phylogenetic trees from sequence data? Are they taking his job as a programmer and/or scientist? And, if so, does that harm him more if done (by either a local or immigrant) in his country than abroad? His work can be done anywhere.
Fiat currency is also supported by the military, economic, and diplomatic might of its host nation.
The two main problems with Fiat currency is how impractical it is to carry around a large quantity and getting useful change. The newer, smaller models help, but there's always someone who has a problem converting between two and four-door units, etc...
Have random audits to confirm people are following the rules. Enforce those rules.
Sure, but that requires *more* government -- to enforce those rules and punishments -- and, as we all know, that would be bad and a "job killer", unlike easy access to cheap, foreign H-1B workers... oh, wait.
What I do object to is not having the choice (CHOICE!) of buying my own 'tv' modem' in the market place...
As far as I know, you can buy a Tivo and use it with Cox, but still have to rent the CableCard(s) from Cox. The latest Tivo systems even support a tuning adapter via USB for Switched Digital Video. In addition, the Tivo system will integrate with your Netflix (and possibly Amazon / other) accounts. I have friends in another city on Verizon FiOS who has a Tivo system and several Tivo mini-boxes in their house and it all seems to work rather well. (FiOS doesn't use SDV)
If you aren't trying to directly marry Google and replace human emotions with feelings of corporate loyalty, you obviously have no place in the technological world of today.
Google is a sloppy kisser -- and their tongue algorithm is stuck in "beta".
You can expect to spend lots of time diagramming data structures and talking about big O notation. Popular hits include "reverse a linked list in place," "balance a binary search tree," and "find the missing number in an array."
Ya, I hate these kind of interview "tests". I and my brain don't work like that, solving specifics in detail on the spot.
From TFA:
Not long ago, Max Howell, the author of Homebrew (software that basically every engineer with a Mac uses), famously quipped about being rejected from Google after being unable to invert a binary tree.
Would probably be me too.
Like it or not, a “Google-style” coding interview may stand between you and your dream job. So it’s in your best interest to learn how to beat it.
Ya, my dream job is "independently wealthy", which I am -- or, at least, I'm debt-free and financially independent within my budget indefinitely, so I'm good to go. Of course, I'd give it all up to get my wife back - she died in 2006. (I had my dream and now she's only in my dreams...) In case anyone is wondering, I do still work - to support my teammates (who rely on me and need their jobs) and because I don't know what else to do.
'The people who care most about this stuff are completely crazy. They are very black and white,' he said... 'Security in itself is useless. The upside is always somewhere else. The security is never the thing that you really care about.'"
This nails it entirely on the head, and is why a lot of security and privacy nutters gain so little traction when dealing with the masses. Security and privacy are important, but they need to be balanced pragmatically with what people actually want to do with the system.
Agreed. My experience with computer security people is that they're only happy with a system's security if the machine is still in the box -- and a few are still a little twitchy about that. Unfortunately, the system is fairly unusable in that state - but the security people are fine with that.
Just curious. How do you burn through 300 GB in a week? I think an hour of Netflix programming ~= 1GB, so 24x7 use of Netflix would be about 100 GB in a week. What's a bigger bandwidth hog than that?
He spends a LOT of time masturbating to UHD/4k porn.
Who do you have a better chance of using social engineering against, for the purposes of gaining access to my data? Me at my home, or Amazon employee #43225 at Amazon's data center?
Of course, you mean Amazon "Independent Contractor" #43225.
I am, a little, if only because it actually requires more work to create the error-state that causes it to spit-back the answer regarding subscriptions than it does to simply search from the rest of the available information on the Internet, such that two different users may get different results depending on what's in Apple's database that may not be available to one of them.
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
You should be careful what you say. When Siri becomes self aware your house is the first place that will be blown up by the Apple shaped hunter killer bots.
And, sure, she'll warn you they'll bomb your house at 8pm,... knowing full-well that you don't have a watch.
Thanks. Others pointed that out and I realized I needed more coffee. And I agree that his money management skills are lacking. [Speaking as someone who is 52, completely debt-free and financially independent (even w/o a job) for the rest of my life - indefinitely if I include SSI.]
45k - 1 car loan = 42k
42k - single car insurance for 2 drivers = 40k
So he's paying off his (expensive) car all in one year and paying 40k/y in car insurance? Right. I can see maybe about 10% of that for each. (My car insurance for one driver / two cars is $900/year here in Virginia.) The rest of his number seem fishy too.
anyone ever seen a fish bowl? No matter how clean you get it there is always gunk buildup. The ISS is like a fish bowl, a closed system. as such of course there will be higher risks for pathogens.
And the astronauts hate it when you tap on the glass.
The vegetable oils and especially the hydrogenated vegetable oils are heavily processed and totally unnatural.
No that's silly. Plain vegtable oil is entirely natural and unprocessed and exists to a greater ot lesser extent in a lot of vegetables, especially seeds. Lumping plain vegetable oil and hydrogenated vegetable oil together as "unnatural" is completely nonsensical.
Define natural and "unprocessed". Not all are processed as simply as you think. Take Soybeans for example:
(1) The soybeans are first cleaned, dried and dehulled prior to oil extraction.
(2) The soybeans are also heated to about 75C to coagulate the soy proteins to make the oil extraction easier.
(3) The soybeans are cut in flakes which are put in a percolation extractors and immersed with a solvent, normally hexane.
(4) The hexane is separated from the soybean oil in evaporators. The evaporated hexane is recovered and returned to the extraction process.
(5) The hexane free crude soybean oil is then further purified.
(6) The crude soybean oil still contains many oil-insoluble and oil-soluble impurities that needs to be removed. The oil-insoluble material are removed with filtration and the soluble materials is removed with different processes including degumming (removing of phosphatides), alkali refining (washing with alkaline solution to remove free fatty acids, colorants, insoluble matter and gums) and bleaching (with activated earth or activated carbon to remove colour and other impurities.
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The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies.
You must have seen/heard a different version of that Schoolhouse Rock song/episode, The Preamble. Here's what I saw/heard:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I guess your PBS station sucks.
He says, " Immigration to my country harms me, it harms my family, ..." Are there a lot of immigrants writing software that builds phylogenetic trees from sequence data? Are they taking his job as a programmer and/or scientist? And, if so, does that harm him more if done (by either a local or immigrant) in his country than abroad? His work can be done anywhere.
Or is he simply a xenophobic racist?
Fiat currency is also supported by the military, economic, and diplomatic might of its host nation.
The two main problems with Fiat currency is how impractical it is to carry around a large quantity and getting useful change. The newer, smaller models help, but there's always someone who has a problem converting between two and four-door units, etc...
Have random audits to confirm people are following the rules. Enforce those rules.
Sure, but that requires *more* government -- to enforce those rules and punishments -- and, as we all know, that would be bad and a "job killer", unlike easy access to cheap, foreign H-1B workers ... oh, wait.
"This was a very difficult decision, as we value all of our nearly 4,000 U.S. employees and their contributions."
Truthfully phrased:
"This was a very simple decision, as we nearly value all of our 4,000 U.S. employees and their contributions."
What I do object to is not having the choice (CHOICE!) of buying my own 'tv' modem' in the market place ...
As far as I know, you can buy a Tivo and use it with Cox, but still have to rent the CableCard(s) from Cox. The latest Tivo systems even support a tuning adapter via USB for Switched Digital Video. In addition, the Tivo system will integrate with your Netflix (and possibly Amazon / other) accounts. I have friends in another city on Verizon FiOS who has a Tivo system and several Tivo mini-boxes in their house and it all seems to work rather well. (FiOS doesn't use SDV)
If you aren't trying to directly marry Google and replace human emotions with feelings of corporate loyalty, you obviously have no place in the technological world of today.
Google is a sloppy kisser -- and their tongue algorithm is stuck in "beta".
You can expect to spend lots of time diagramming data structures and talking about big O notation. Popular hits include "reverse a linked list in place," "balance a binary search tree," and "find the missing number in an array."
Ya, I hate these kind of interview "tests". I and my brain don't work like that, solving specifics in detail on the spot.
From TFA:
Not long ago, Max Howell, the author of Homebrew (software that basically every engineer with a Mac uses), famously quipped about being rejected from Google after being unable to invert a binary tree.
Would probably be me too.
Like it or not, a “Google-style” coding interview may stand between you and your dream job. So it’s in your best interest to learn how to beat it.
Ya, my dream job is "independently wealthy", which I am -- or, at least, I'm debt-free and financially independent within my budget indefinitely, so I'm good to go. Of course, I'd give it all up to get my wife back - she died in 2006. (I had my dream and now she's only in my dreams...) In case anyone is wondering, I do still work - to support my teammates (who rely on me and need their jobs) and because I don't know what else to do.
'The people who care most about this stuff are completely crazy. They are very black and white,' he said ... 'Security in itself is useless. The upside is always somewhere else. The security is never the thing that you really care about.'"
This nails it entirely on the head, and is why a lot of security and privacy nutters gain so little traction when dealing with the masses. Security and privacy are important, but they need to be balanced pragmatically with what people actually want to do with the system.
Agreed. My experience with computer security people is that they're only happy with a system's security if the machine is still in the box -- and a few are still a little twitchy about that. Unfortunately, the system is fairly unusable in that state - but the security people are fine with that.
They even suggest avoiding the term "cap,"
The "C word" used to refer to something different.
"Congress" ?
Just curious. How do you burn through 300 GB in a week? I think an hour of Netflix programming ~= 1GB, so 24x7 use of Netflix would be about 100 GB in a week. What's a bigger bandwidth hog than that?
He spends a LOT of time masturbating to UHD/4k porn.
Me too. Three in fact. Inherited them from my grandparents ... and I can actually use them -- to a small extent. Don't have any manuals though.
If I recall, this is how SkyNet gets started ...
Who do you have a better chance of using social engineering against, for the purposes of gaining access to my data? Me at my home, or Amazon employee #43225 at Amazon's data center?
Of course, you mean Amazon "Independent Contractor" #43225.
Only 75TB? That seems like an awful lot for a home user. A stack of 75 1TB hard drives would be taller than you.
Yes, but a stack of 75TB Libraries of Congress would be shorter - since we're stating useless observations.
It weighs 1 million pounds (454,000 kg), ...
Or, at least, it did. Now it's in space.
...except systemd, which will soon become linuxd.
I am, a little, if only because it actually requires more work to create the error-state that causes it to spit-back the answer regarding subscriptions than it does to simply search from the rest of the available information on the Internet, such that two different users may get different results depending on what's in Apple's database that may not be available to one of them.
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
You should be careful what you say. When Siri becomes self aware your house is the first place that will be blown up by the Apple shaped hunter killer bots.
And, sure, she'll warn you they'll bomb your house at 8pm, ... knowing full-well that you don't have a watch.
Thanks. Others pointed that out and I realized I needed more coffee. And I agree that his money management skills are lacking. [Speaking as someone who is 52, completely debt-free and financially independent (even w/o a job) for the rest of my life - indefinitely if I include SSI.]
Thanks. Someone else pointed out that he's doing a running subtraction of expenses. I didn't notice that. Need more coffee...
Oh, He's doing a running subtraction of expenses. Got it. Thanks. It was either unclear or I haven't had enough coffee today...
His number are still crap. No way he's paying 40k / year in auto insurance.
Not the worst of his "problems". He's paying:
45k - 1 car loan = 42k
42k - single car insurance for 2 drivers = 40k
So he's paying off his (expensive) car all in one year and paying 40k/y in car insurance? Right. I can see maybe about 10% of that for each. (My car insurance for one driver / two cars is $900/year here in Virginia.) The rest of his number seem fishy too.
anyone ever seen a fish bowl? No matter how clean you get it there is always gunk buildup. The ISS is like a fish bowl, a closed system. as such of course there will be higher risks for pathogens.
And the astronauts hate it when you tap on the glass.
The vegetable oils and especially the hydrogenated vegetable oils are heavily processed and totally unnatural.
No that's silly. Plain vegtable oil is entirely natural and unprocessed and exists to a greater ot lesser extent in a lot of vegetables, especially seeds. Lumping plain vegetable oil and hydrogenated vegetable oil together as "unnatural" is completely nonsensical.
Define natural and "unprocessed". Not all are processed as simply as you think. Take Soybeans for example:
(1) The soybeans are first cleaned, dried and dehulled prior to oil extraction.
(2) The soybeans are also heated to about 75C to coagulate the soy proteins to make the oil extraction easier.
(3) The soybeans are cut in flakes which are put in a percolation extractors and immersed with a solvent, normally hexane.
(4) The hexane is separated from the soybean oil in evaporators. The evaporated hexane is recovered and returned to the extraction process.
(5) The hexane free crude soybean oil is then further purified.
(6) The crude soybean oil still contains many oil-insoluble and oil-soluble impurities that needs to be removed. The oil-insoluble material are removed with filtration and the soluble materials is removed with different processes including degumming (removing of phosphatides), alkali refining (washing with alkaline solution to remove free fatty acids, colorants, insoluble matter and gums) and bleaching (with activated earth or activated carbon to remove colour and other impurities.