You are both wrong. Go back to local time, like it was before the meddling railroads got involved and forced time zones on us! Then keep UTC for coordination from place to place.
Since that's not going to happen, just pick a time standard and quit changing it twice a year. Since I live on the eastern edge of a time zone, standard or daylight saving would be about a half hour off local time either way. However, if I were on the western edge of a timezone, I would not want year-round daylight saving time.
If you have a billion in sunk costs and it will cost another 3 to make it at all useful but you can also choose plan B for a forward going cost of 2 billion (it doesn't matter how much, if any, you've spent on plan B so far), then before you take plan B, you should remember that you estimated Plan A to cost only a billion, and chances are Plan B will have the same magnitudes of cost overruns, so maybe you should think twice and stick with Plan A, which by now, you should have a better grip on costs for it than for some new, untested plan. (Depends entirely on the particulars, though)
Hillary Clinton voted for the war; that's a bit more serious.
So did most of congress at the time and they did so largely based on bad data from our intelligence agencies and the Bush administration.
BS. Most of the politicians voted for it because the war was very popular with their constituents at the time.
Most wars do tend to be more popular before they start than after they drag on for 10 years.
It's steam, even if it's below the boiling point of water. Saying that you're not seeing steam just because you're seeing the droplets of re-condensed water vapor rather than the gaseous water molecules is awfully pedantic. And you are not seeing "droplets of water coming off the condensate that has come out of the condensors [sic]". The cooling towers are not condensers - they don't condense water, they evaporate a portion of the water to cool the bulk of it - and the condensate from the condensers never comes in direct contact with the cooling tower water. The condensers are heat exchangers that separate the open cooling tower and the closed steam system.
Sensors aren't the issue, you need EXCELLENT software.
Unfortunately, they are planning on using neural net software, which, while it may be Excellent at being a neural net, cannot be proven to be fool-proofed, as they relies on training in such a way that the actual calculations are not determined ahead of time.
.... every time I have filed my taxes I have gotten back more than I paid until I started making near $100,000 per year.
I call bullshit. Getting back some of the money that was withheld, sure, depending on how many exemptions you claimed for withholding. But getting back more than was withheld? No way, unless you're double dipping with some seriously aggressive loopholes.
As others have pointed out, there's nothing in the article about the energy efficiency of this process.
The 63% called out in TFA refers to the percentage of carbon dioxide converted.
I don't think you understand human learning very well at all. Most human learning is not conveyed through some sort of "rules," but rather is extrapolated from patterns humans notice.
It seems all you've done is move the rules from something handed down to you to something you figured out for yourself. When it comes down to it, it seems obvious that anything you know has to be figured out by yourself, at least at the most basic level. But when learning for yourself, it's pretty handy to have someone who's already been figuring things out to give you a leg up on the learning process by explaining the rules they've already come up with, which you can then judge for yourself.
Though you do make some good points, nonetheless.
I can see that this has application in some areas, but to be a good member of society shouldn't we want certain aspects of co-existence, values and social behaviour to come from rules, rather than each person or computer coming too its own conclusion about co-operating?
No, not for most people, anyway. Read Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments. (Twitter version: People instinctively empathize. From that naturally comes a sense of right and wrong.) Rules handed down from authorities do not do the job half as well - the rules can't possibly cover all situations, sometimes get things wrong, and do not have the same influence in people's hearts and actions that a person's own moral sense has. That said, Adam Smith does seem to dismiss what we would call psychopathic people a little to easily, and spends too much time justifying the class system of 1700s Britain. But he also has some insights into why people fawn over "successful" people like Trump, showing how people tend to admire others with wealth and power, because when they observe the wealthy or powerful, ordinary people tend to see themselves in that situation.
Witness the conflating of democracy with a political party's selection of a nominee that is an actual member of that party, and not an independent socialist.
See also the Republican party's current dilemma for an example of a nominee that does not actually agree with the philosophy of the nominating party.
What the election process needs is to let the parties choose whoever they want before the government holds a non-partisan primary election where the top vote getters go on to the general election regardless of party nominations.
White female teacher has sex with 15 year old student. Gets a slap on the wrist.
White male teacher has sex with 15 year old student. Gets life ruined, sex offender, and a lengthy prison sentence . . .
The issue seems to be less what the gender of the offender is, and more what the gender of the victim is. (Though homophobia would possibly work against a same-sex offender even more)
The two gay guys I know best (my brother and his long time partner) are on completely different sides this election. One can't stand Trump and thinks Hillary would be OK. The other can't stand Clinton, and thinks Trump would be better than her, at least.
Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat, anyway. He was, and is, an Independent that decided that he could get more traction running as a Democrat. Nobody should be surprised that an Independent, especially a self-avowed socialist, would not be favored by the Democratic Party officials.
Much of what you're saying seems to be right, but sentience does not equal intelligence or self-awareness. In spite of Star Trek TNG's misuse of the word when dealing with Data, sentience means the capacity to feel or sense, as opposed to the capacity to reason that a person has or the incapacity to feel that a rock exhibits. And I'm not certain that self-awareness would be required for intelligence, at least not for the lower levels of intelligence that many animals exhibit, though self-awareness certainly seems to raise humans' intelligence level above that of less-aware animals.
People tend to think that saying something is 99% successful is a good thing but in reality that can be a terrible outcome
I keep seeing those ATT internet commercials where they brag about 99% reliability as if that's a good thing. I can only think: that means my internet service is down more than 7 hours a month. That's about right, in my experience, so at least you can't accuse them of false advertising. But 7 hours of downtime a month sucks, especially as it usually seems to happen at the most inconvenient times.
So if one service becomes unusable to someone else because you demand full priority access to a file download, that's ok.
Yes, that's exactly what I'd want. If the ISP can't provide the bandwidth for all of their demand, then they can't. They have no business deciding that my demand is less important than some other user's demand.
The fact that high-bandwidth, low-latency applications have been shoehorned into TCP/IP is a technological achievement, but there are better ways of providing those services, if that's what you need and your ISP can't give you the bandwidth without throttling the bandwidth of other paying customers.
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You are both wrong. Go back to local time, like it was before the meddling railroads got involved and forced time zones on us! Then keep UTC for coordination from place to place.
Since that's not going to happen, just pick a time standard and quit changing it twice a year. Since I live on the eastern edge of a time zone, standard or daylight saving would be about a half hour off local time either way. However, if I were on the western edge of a timezone, I would not want year-round daylight saving time.
Actually, they are thought to be caused by deep well injection for wastewater disposal, not the oil drilling, itself.
Please provide link. Considering how awful Acrobat Reader DC is, I'd be interested in PDF viewers that don't even come close to it.
No, the license for Linux explicitly allows for that.
If you have a billion in sunk costs and it will cost another 3 to make it at all useful but you can also choose plan B for a forward going cost of 2 billion (it doesn't matter how much, if any, you've spent on plan B so far), then before you take plan B, you should remember that you estimated Plan A to cost only a billion, and chances are Plan B will have the same magnitudes of cost overruns, so maybe you should think twice and stick with Plan A, which by now, you should have a better grip on costs for it than for some new, untested plan. (Depends entirely on the particulars, though)
Hillary Clinton voted for the war; that's a bit more serious.
BS. Most of the politicians voted for it because the war was very popular with their constituents at the time.
Most wars do tend to be more popular before they start than after they drag on for 10 years.
It's steam, even if it's below the boiling point of water. Saying that you're not seeing steam just because you're seeing the droplets of re-condensed water vapor rather than the gaseous water molecules is awfully pedantic. And you are not seeing "droplets of water coming off the condensate that has come out of the condensors [sic]". The cooling towers are not condensers - they don't condense water, they evaporate a portion of the water to cool the bulk of it - and the condensate from the condensers never comes in direct contact with the cooling tower water. The condensers are heat exchangers that separate the open cooling tower and the closed steam system.
Unfortunately, they are planning on using neural net software, which, while it may be Excellent at being a neural net, cannot be proven to be fool-proofed, as they relies on training in such a way that the actual calculations are not determined ahead of time.
within the constraints of the amount of money Congress appropriates for those uses.
I call bullshit. Getting back some of the money that was withheld, sure, depending on how many exemptions you claimed for withholding. But getting back more than was withheld? No way, unless you're double dipping with some seriously aggressive loopholes.
As others have pointed out, there's nothing in the article about the energy efficiency of this process.
The 63% called out in TFA refers to the percentage of carbon dioxide converted.
It seems all you've done is move the rules from something handed down to you to something you figured out for yourself. When it comes down to it, it seems obvious that anything you know has to be figured out by yourself, at least at the most basic level. But when learning for yourself, it's pretty handy to have someone who's already been figuring things out to give you a leg up on the learning process by explaining the rules they've already come up with, which you can then judge for yourself.
Though you do make some good points, nonetheless.
No, not for most people, anyway. Read Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments. (Twitter version: People instinctively empathize. From that naturally comes a sense of right and wrong.) Rules handed down from authorities do not do the job half as well - the rules can't possibly cover all situations, sometimes get things wrong, and do not have the same influence in people's hearts and actions that a person's own moral sense has. That said, Adam Smith does seem to dismiss what we would call psychopathic people a little to easily, and spends too much time justifying the class system of 1700s Britain. But he also has some insights into why people fawn over "successful" people like Trump, showing how people tend to admire others with wealth and power, because when they observe the wealthy or powerful, ordinary people tend to see themselves in that situation.
Yeah. Where is William Randolph Hearst when you need him?
Witness the conflating of democracy with a political party's selection of a nominee that is an actual member of that party, and not an independent socialist.
See also the Republican party's current dilemma for an example of a nominee that does not actually agree with the philosophy of the nominating party.
What the election process needs is to let the parties choose whoever they want before the government holds a non-partisan primary election where the top vote getters go on to the general election regardless of party nominations.
The issue seems to be less what the gender of the offender is, and more what the gender of the victim is. (Though homophobia would possibly work against a same-sex offender even more)
The two gay guys I know best (my brother and his long time partner) are on completely different sides this election. One can't stand Trump and thinks Hillary would be OK. The other can't stand Clinton, and thinks Trump would be better than her, at least.
Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat, anyway. He was, and is, an Independent that decided that he could get more traction running as a Democrat. Nobody should be surprised that an Independent, especially a self-avowed socialist, would not be favored by the Democratic Party officials.
Much of what you're saying seems to be right, but sentience does not equal intelligence or self-awareness. In spite of Star Trek TNG's misuse of the word when dealing with Data, sentience means the capacity to feel or sense, as opposed to the capacity to reason that a person has or the incapacity to feel that a rock exhibits. And I'm not certain that self-awareness would be required for intelligence, at least not for the lower levels of intelligence that many animals exhibit, though self-awareness certainly seems to raise humans' intelligence level above that of less-aware animals.
Thank you for playing. Your ranting comments are appreciated.
I admire and envy your bladder.
I bet you're wrong.
I keep seeing those ATT internet commercials where they brag about 99% reliability as if that's a good thing. I can only think: that means my internet service is down more than 7 hours a month. That's about right, in my experience, so at least you can't accuse them of false advertising. But 7 hours of downtime a month sucks, especially as it usually seems to happen at the most inconvenient times.
Yes, that's exactly what I'd want. If the ISP can't provide the bandwidth for all of their demand, then they can't. They have no business deciding that my demand is less important than some other user's demand.
The fact that high-bandwidth, low-latency applications have been shoehorned into TCP/IP is a technological achievement, but there are better ways of providing those services, if that's what you need and your ISP can't give you the bandwidth without throttling the bandwidth of other paying customers.