Kind of like asking a white South African about their views on racial equality.
I'm a white 23 yo Hungarian programmer. No matter where I am, I'm discriminated against. If you don't believe me, try to get a job in Hungary. Seriously.
I moved to the UK in august, because 1. it's in the EU, 2. I speak the language, 3. the minimal wage here is roughly 3 times that of the one back home. (Really. My last job back home was 570 HUF/hour before taxes (less than £1.50). Now, I make £6 with a fucking cleaning job, and it will at least double as soon as I get the proper language skills, and my education recognized.)
I don't know about you, but a 8x increase in salary is a pretty fucking compelling reason to move. And it gets reinforced every time I hear news about what's happening back home. The Forint is basically dying, along with the Hungarian economics.
Don't assume, however, that I agree with these people. If nothing else, I know what sunshine is like. (When I came here, it was 35 degree Celsius home. Here, I didn't see the sun for three weeks.)
inb4 Language, I do have it in writing, you can check my history here, but verbal is a different story.
tl;dr For me, racial equality means I can't depend on anyone else but myself.
int main(){ while (1) { printf("%s", random_nonsensical_bullshit()); printf("God bless America!"); bank_account += take_campaign_contribution(contributor_list); if (elected) keep_happy(contributor_list); } return bank_account; }/* FIXME: keep_happy() ignores entries with too small contributions assigned, to avoid race conditions */
Every crazy leader you've ever heard of was like that. We get more and more dissatisfied with living under the system we're in, until one day, some madman who doesn't care about political correctness stands up and says "We're all thinking the same way, lets get those motherfuckers!", and everyone follows them because they were the sanest person who was willing to lead them against their enemies.
It has to be a madman, because they're the outsiders. The insiders are paralyzed into indecisiveness by what they stand to lose, and are crippled by their tendency to use traditional methods to achieve their goals, which is a liability when you're trying to create a fresh new system.
In the name of the Hungarian people, let me say: FUCK YOU. Hofi was not a leader, he was a comedian. He never tried to tell anyone what to do, except "stop being stupid". We loved him precisely because of that. And because he was not afraid to tell that to those in power as well. There are few things you can do to piss off a Hungarian: calling Hofi a madman is one of them.
RTFWiki.
His death created an enormous vacuum in Hungarian comedy, and it is a common consensus among people who witnessed his performances that there may never be another comedian like him. Even today, he is referred to as "The Hofi", with the definite article. He was indeed a national institution.
Hofi's historical significance - beyond his obvious merits as a comedian - was that he maintained his identity and dignity in a totalitarian regime where most others would have bailed. He can never be compared to those stand-up comedians who were making fun of politicians while living under a democratic government.
Turkey (don't mention the "genocide" against Armenians
Killing hundreds of thousands of people deserve a bit more than quotation marks, don't you think?
Germany (no holocaust denial)
Which is fucked up itself. Any historical truth is only worth as much as it is allowed to research. Jailing people for asking "has that really happened?" is not freedom of speech.
Lying about a massacre of that degree should or should not be a crime, depending on your political views, but researching it? And if I find something contrary to the "truth" set in law, am I a criminal for saying it? Does even a historian not have the right to his own opinion anymore?
I don't deny the Holocaust, but there's a certain amount of doubt in me against any fact you have to protect by force of law. That's Thought Police, even if what they're defending is true.
My initial response is that Google should just ignore the blockage
When in Rome...
But it is my hope that Youtube, blogs and similar sites have a positive effect on subverting the PRC government's policies of censorship and thought control, even when censored.
Thought control is nonexistant. Chinese media may seem that way from the outside, but you have to understand that people are much more critical when they know it's controlled.
A seemingly irrelevant quote: "Strangely enough, Hungarians living outside of Hungary - especially those living overseas - never really understood Hofi's message. This wasn't because of a language barrier: it was a consequence of drastically different experiences regarding certain historical events."
He became a legend not because he was critical, but because he said what everyone in the country was thinking anyway.
No, no, no. Opt-in is the way it should work. It's only opt-out because of the hassle it takes to actually opt-out, and it depends on the general ignorance of the people that they won't be properly informed that they're even paying this extra tax and that it's possible to opt-out. With these two issues, they would get a huge "sign-up' to this scheme.
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In your example, say you scribbled all your math down, and then A won and wiped out B. You have falsified your premise with your experiment.
No, then you'd have an infinite loop. The exit condition was "B becomes dominant". Also I had no premise. It was just something interesting I wanted you to do so you understand the basic mechanism of exponential functions through an example.
The fact that B wins means you did not succeed in falsifiying it.
Let me rephrase it:
10 * x^n < (2x)^n,if n is large enough, where x is the reproduction rate (assumed to be positive), and n is the number of generations (positive integer). Rearrange it: 10 < 2^n. Now we even know B takes over in generation 4.
This is not an attempt to falsify the teaching of evolution.
Get a pen and a paper, draw 10 of gene A organisms, and 1 of gene B. Assume gene B organisms reproduce twice as fast, and ideal conditions. Start drawing the generations. Do that until gene B becomes dominant.
Now, falsify the principle you just proved. Mathematics. Reproduction rate sets an exponential curve, the initial conditions are just the polinomial part of the equation. It's not something you can or can not believe in.
If you increase the chance of reproducing of those with a specific gene, that gene will become dominant.
You cannot falsify evolution any more than you can falsify "1 2", because that's what it really is. If you accept the fact that genes exist (even christians know about dogs I believe), and that living organisms tend to reproduce as much as they can, you're already there. (Oh, one more assumption: random genes can appear. We have evidence of that too, just talk to your doctor about the latest flu variant.)
I believe the idea is to check for Flash apps that are dangerous to the server, not the client. For example, you don't want to have the admin password to your database stored as a string inside your flash app.
Does it also neuter the writer when it finds something like this? Those people should not reproduce.
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Kind of like asking a white South African about their views on racial equality.
I'm a white 23 yo Hungarian programmer. No matter where I am, I'm discriminated against. If you don't believe me, try to get a job in Hungary. Seriously.
I moved to the UK in august, because 1. it's in the EU, 2. I speak the language, 3. the minimal wage here is roughly 3 times that of the one back home. (Really. My last job back home was 570 HUF/hour before taxes (less than £1.50). Now, I make £6 with a fucking cleaning job, and it will at least double as soon as I get the proper language skills, and my education recognized.)
I don't know about you, but a 8x increase in salary is a pretty fucking compelling reason to move. And it gets reinforced every time I hear news about what's happening back home. The Forint is basically dying, along with the Hungarian economics.
Don't assume, however, that I agree with these people.
If nothing else, I know what sunshine is like. (When I came here, it was 35 degree Celsius home. Here, I didn't see the sun for three weeks.)
inb4 Language, I do have it in writing, you can check my history here, but verbal is a different story.
tl;dr For me, racial equality means I can't depend on anyone else but myself.
Are you willing to back that statement up by giving us your real name and address?
Yuri Kovacs
43 Victoria Avenue
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1ED
If you need to post anonymously, you didn't have free speech in the first place.
Luckily for the American political system, you also just programmed an electronic Democrat.
You mispelt "unfortunately".
I linked it in GGGP... That's what I get for assuming slashdotters can read the first sentence of a link before replying.
Géza Hofi (born Géza Hoffmann, July 2, 1936 in Budapest; died April 10, 2002 in Budapest) was a Hungarian actor and comedian.
Whoosh.
The court ruled that anonymous posters have no reasonable expectation of privacy
I'm behind 7 proxies
Does anyone see something wrong with this? Courts can now redefine reality? Or will they just outlaw proxies to keep reality updated?
I sense a dejavu coming up, Matrix style.
Turns out they're all called John Doe.
Too bad he didn't read what he was replying to.
And it's not? I mean, what good has humanity done for anything else other than itself?
Bestiality.
omg they have invented an electronic republican.
int main(){ while (1) { /* FIXME: keep_happy() ignores entries with too small contributions assigned, to avoid race conditions */
printf("%s", random_nonsensical_bullshit());
printf("God bless America!");
bank_account += take_campaign_contribution(contributor_list);
if (elected) keep_happy(contributor_list);
}
return bank_account;
}
They would actually make more intelligent decisions!
Decision: humans are a security risk.
You left out for whom is it intelligent.
Yeah people are in no way easily manipulated, especially highly educated people such as the Chinese that are tought from birth to question authority.
Which is why China will never be as totalitarian as the US.
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Every crazy leader you've ever heard of was like that. We get more and more dissatisfied with living under the system we're in, until one day, some madman who doesn't care about political correctness stands up and says "We're all thinking the same way, lets get those motherfuckers!", and everyone follows them because they were the sanest person who was willing to lead them against their enemies.
It has to be a madman, because they're the outsiders. The insiders are paralyzed into indecisiveness by what they stand to lose, and are crippled by their tendency to use traditional methods to achieve their goals, which is a liability when you're trying to create a fresh new system.
In the name of the Hungarian people, let me say: FUCK YOU. Hofi was not a leader, he was a comedian. He never tried to tell anyone what to do, except "stop being stupid". We loved him precisely because of that. And because he was not afraid to tell that to those in power as well.
There are few things you can do to piss off a Hungarian: calling Hofi a madman is one of them.
RTFWiki.
His death created an enormous vacuum in Hungarian comedy, and it is a common consensus among people who witnessed his performances that there may never be another comedian like him. Even today, he is referred to as "The Hofi", with the definite article. He was indeed a national institution.
Hofi's historical significance - beyond his obvious merits as a comedian - was that he maintained his identity and dignity in a totalitarian regime where most others would have bailed. He can never be compared to those stand-up comedians who were making fun of politicians while living under a democratic government.
Turkey (don't mention the "genocide" against Armenians
Killing hundreds of thousands of people deserve a bit more than quotation marks, don't you think?
Germany (no holocaust denial)
Which is fucked up itself. Any historical truth is only worth as much as it is allowed to research. Jailing people for asking "has that really happened?" is not freedom of speech.
Lying about a massacre of that degree should or should not be a crime, depending on your political views, but researching it? And if I find something contrary to the "truth" set in law, am I a criminal for saying it? Does even a historian not have the right to his own opinion anymore?
I don't deny the Holocaust, but there's a certain amount of doubt in me against any fact you have to protect by force of law. That's Thought Police, even if what they're defending is true.
I'll alert the presses!!!!!
Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?
My initial response is that Google should just ignore the blockage
When in Rome...
But it is my hope that Youtube, blogs and similar sites have a positive effect on subverting the PRC government's policies of censorship and thought control, even when censored.
Thought control is nonexistant. Chinese media may seem that way from the outside, but you have to understand that people are much more critical when they know it's controlled.
A seemingly irrelevant quote: "Strangely enough, Hungarians living outside of Hungary - especially those living overseas - never really understood Hofi's message. This wasn't because of a language barrier: it was a consequence of drastically different experiences regarding certain historical events."
He became a legend not because he was critical, but because he said what everyone in the country was thinking anyway.
No, no, no. Opt-in is the way it should work. It's only opt-out because of the hassle it takes to actually opt-out, and it depends on the general ignorance of the people that they won't be properly informed that they're even paying this extra tax and that it's possible to opt-out. With these two issues, they would get a huge "sign-up' to this scheme.
Translation:
If you do not wish to get notified about our latest v14gr4 and c1al1s offerings, please send an empty email to unsubscribe@spammer.cx
The result is also the same: you get targeted.
In your example, say you scribbled all your math down, and then A won and wiped out B. You have falsified your premise with your experiment.
No, then you'd have an infinite loop. The exit condition was "B becomes dominant". Also I had no premise. It was just something interesting I wanted you to do so you understand the basic mechanism of exponential functions through an example.
The fact that B wins means you did not succeed in falsifiying it.
Let me rephrase it:
10 * x^n < (2x)^n ,if n is large enough, where x is the reproduction rate (assumed to be positive), and n is the number of generations (positive integer).
Rearrange it: 10 < 2^n. Now we even know B takes over in generation 4.
How do you plan to falsify that?
("The developers trendsourced the project by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")
Translation: they got posted on /. and now they're putting out the fire in the server room.
You absolutely can falsify evolution. If you couldn't, it wouldn't be a scientific theory.
Not quite. You talk about a scientific theory, I talk about a mathematical phenomenon.
Or devise an experiment were less-suited organisms outpopulate more tailored relatives.
The experiment itself defines the term "less-suited". Survival is the only measure of fitness. You, sir, ask the impossible.
You still have to be able to at least hypothetically disprove a theory or you won't be able to test it, and if you can't test it, it's not science.
What do you mean by disprove? Abandon math hypothetically? Kill off some firstborns? Do the pen-and-paper thing, and you'll see what I mean.
duh.
This is not an attempt to falsify the teaching of evolution.
Get a pen and a paper, draw 10 of gene A organisms, and 1 of gene B. Assume gene B organisms reproduce twice as fast, and ideal conditions. Start drawing the generations. Do that until gene B becomes dominant.
Now, falsify the principle you just proved. Mathematics. Reproduction rate sets an exponential curve, the initial conditions are just the polinomial part of the equation. It's not something you can or can not believe in.
If you increase the chance of reproducing of those with a specific gene, that gene will become dominant.
You cannot falsify evolution any more than you can falsify "1 2", because that's what it really is. If you accept the fact that genes exist (even christians know about dogs I believe), and that living organisms tend to reproduce as much as they can, you're already there. (Oh, one more assumption: random genes can appear. We have evidence of that too, just talk to your doctor about the latest flu variant.)
Unless they make it into a Firefox plug-in that checks the flash code before running it, just what good is this?
For starters, it might allow someone to make a Firefox plugin based on it.
unemployment tax
Don't you just love the concept? Ranks in stupidity right up there with voting on Bush two times.
I believe the idea is to check for Flash apps that are dangerous to the server, not the client. For example, you don't want to have the admin password to your database stored as a string inside your flash app.
Does it also neuter the writer when it finds something like this? Those people should not reproduce.