*shrug* I am under 40, never went to MIT or any of the other classic CS schools and I knew what this was. And when I do not recognize something, I google it.
Understanding consequences does not make other parties immune to them. The photographer is still a person with free will, and there is no ethical loophole for 'but she said yes at one time!' for future behavior.
Why is it victims only ever have to accept consequences? Why do people doing crappy things get support by claiming it is the victim's own fault for needing to know better?
Hrm. I never thought about the whitespace requirements in python from an accessibility perspective.
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*nods* who uses a language has more impact on its usefulness then anything inherent to the language. LIbraries, support community, easy of hiring people who both know the language and have domain specific skills, much more important then what kind of sugar the language has.
Even if the law says it is ok, they still have a worrying amount of power regarding which books get to see the light of day and which do not. The harder it is for customers to hear about, locate, and purchase your work, the fewer will do so. Outside niches with fan bases willing to put in that extra work and communities that do the heavy lifting for them, this kind of censorship could be enough to pick winners and losers not based off consumer demand, but Amazon"s politics.
A while back there was an internal report by the DoD giving estimates of how long a US occupation would take before Afghanistan could be rebuilt into a stable industrialized nation. It estimated a 30 year minimum, with 40 or 50 not being out of range. Naturally this was not politically very attractive, but yeah, that is about the timescale it would take.
Which I always find rather telling given how happily US manufacturers still sell things like landmines and napalm to other countries, and those companies have significant lobbying power to prevent the US gov from even saying such things are bad (much less signing any agreements).
It also ended up causing psychological problems for the people doing the shooting. The long term mental effect of calmly putting a bullet into someone who can not even move started catching up with people, it has a way of haunting them decades later. Even people who shoot in self defense or in the heat of the moment often start having problems, but killing when there is absolutely no present danger? Ritual only goes so far in mitigating that.
Eh, it is not quite as effective as people like to think. People on the internet have really latched on to nitrogen asphyxiation and suicide bags, but it is a case of the idea being better then the implementation and a significant number of people who try it find that it can go pretty wrong, resulting in significant pain and injury but not death.
Well, simple solution, if a person who has been sentenced to death is found innocent, then the prosecutor, witnesses, jury, and judge are all charged with attempted murder. We could also charge the voters who were responsible for the specific local laws and makeup of the court system with accessory to murder since prosecutions have a significant political component to them and pleasing the electorate is one of the primary motivations for aggressive prosecution. So if we find innocent people on death row, then voters should bare the punishment.
Let us also not forget that one ending up with the death penalty has little to do with the specific crime and more often comes down to race and jury makeup. So it brings up the significant question of 'why are will killing this child rapist but not this other one?'
And, if you are the type who gets happy feelings from other people's suffering but do not want the moral pangs of being a 'bad person', having a population of people that it is ok to kill is desirable. And since we can not do it with blacks, gays, hispanics, prostitutes, or any of the other historical 'it is not really murder, they are bad people' groups, I guess this is one of the new outlets.
Someone should just get these people a whole pile of video games.
Actually, no. Brain inspired systems are used extensively throughout industry for real work, they can be really powerful tools for pattern recognition when working with large data sets that we do not have a good complete model for.
Both approaches are important and, in real AI research, both tend to be used to various degrees. What you are describing is 'GOFAI', Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence. There are domains where it does better then biologically inspired methods like neural nets and genetic algorithms, and places where it does worse.
Not as long as you might think. The technology needed for this level of data collection is only a few decades old at best. 20-30 years ago even tracing a call in an industrialized nation could be a laborious task and collection like this was just undoable.
How is 'GPS' coming into this at all? In what way is it 'GPS-style'?
This sounds like a new variation of how submarines's have been navigating for decades. They already have a device that measures movement without satellites using gyroscopes that works pretty well, and this sounds like it is filling the same basic function except using the background magnetic field.
So it is a cool (no pun intended) piece of tech, but I am not understanding why it is being compared to a completely different technology like this.
Thing is, consumers like portals, at least in numbers significant enough that if you are hosted on a site that has a large user base you will get more attention then having your own custom site that people have to search for.
For all of its problems, Youtube provides a consistent interface, relatively stable performance, and a linking system that encourages people to explore videos and artists that they are not already aware of or are aware of and seeing the 'suggestion' spurns interest in rewatching something.
It is interesting how much more people get worked up about interruption of entertainment and connivence then things that actually impact their life. I guess if nothing else this does indicate just how good Americans have it. If this is the industry people complain the most about, then that means other more critical things are doing pretty well.
Though I suspect that the people in the US who actually do have to worry about things like power, water, roads, food, etc, are not generally covered by such surveys. 'consumer' tends to be code for 'middle class with significant disposable income and an inferiority complex in regard to the upper class and blindness in regard the lower class'.
'effective' is a problematic term. Specifically, one has to look at the purpose of 'punishment' before one can determine if it is being effective or not, and the goal of punishment has nothing to do with deterrent, it is to please 3rd parties.
Kickstarter and Indigogo are new venues for this kind of scam, I see 'alternative tech' projects pop up (and get wiped) from kickstarer every couple weeks. Most people do not have the first hand domain knowledge to evaluate physics heavy projects, so the posters depend on pulling people's mythology and trying to tie their project to some kind of anti-status-quo narrative.
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*shrug* I am under 40, never went to MIT or any of the other classic CS schools and I knew what this was. And when I do not recognize something, I google it.
You can keep claiming your narrow alternative history all you like, does not make it any more accurate.
Understanding consequences does not make other parties immune to them. The photographer is still a person with free will, and there is no ethical loophole for 'but she said yes at one time!' for future behavior.
Why is it victims only ever have to accept consequences? Why do people doing crappy things get support by claiming it is the victim's own fault for needing to know better?
Hrm. I never thought about the whitespace requirements in python from an accessibility perspective.
*nods* who uses a language has more impact on its usefulness then anything inherent to the language. LIbraries, support community, easy of hiring people who both know the language and have domain specific skills, much more important then what kind of sugar the language has.
Invalidate no, but it does mean that not everything we in the community would consider prior art actually is.
Even if the law says it is ok, they still have a worrying amount of power regarding which books get to see the light of day and which do not. The harder it is for customers to hear about, locate, and purchase your work, the fewer will do so. Outside niches with fan bases willing to put in that extra work and communities that do the heavy lifting for them, this kind of censorship could be enough to pick winners and losers not based off consumer demand, but Amazon"s politics.
A while back there was an internal report by the DoD giving estimates of how long a US occupation would take before Afghanistan could be rebuilt into a stable industrialized nation. It estimated a 30 year minimum, with 40 or 50 not being out of range. Naturally this was not politically very attractive, but yeah, that is about the timescale it would take.
Which I always find rather telling given how happily US manufacturers still sell things like landmines and napalm to other countries, and those companies have significant lobbying power to prevent the US gov from even saying such things are bad (much less signing any agreements).
It also ended up causing psychological problems for the people doing the shooting. The long term mental effect of calmly putting a bullet into someone who can not even move started catching up with people, it has a way of haunting them decades later. Even people who shoot in self defense or in the heat of the moment often start having problems, but killing when there is absolutely no present danger? Ritual only goes so far in mitigating that.
Eh, it is not quite as effective as people like to think. People on the internet have really latched on to nitrogen asphyxiation and suicide bags, but it is a case of the idea being better then the implementation and a significant number of people who try it find that it can go pretty wrong, resulting in significant pain and injury but not death.
Well, simple solution, if a person who has been sentenced to death is found innocent, then the prosecutor, witnesses, jury, and judge are all charged with attempted murder. We could also charge the voters who were responsible for the specific local laws and makeup of the court system with accessory to murder since prosecutions have a significant political component to them and pleasing the electorate is one of the primary motivations for aggressive prosecution. So if we find innocent people on death row, then voters should bare the punishment.
Let us also not forget that one ending up with the death penalty has little to do with the specific crime and more often comes down to race and jury makeup. So it brings up the significant question of 'why are will killing this child rapist but not this other one?'
And, if you are the type who gets happy feelings from other people's suffering but do not want the moral pangs of being a 'bad person', having a population of people that it is ok to kill is desirable. And since we can not do it with blacks, gays, hispanics, prostitutes, or any of the other historical 'it is not really murder, they are bad people' groups, I guess this is one of the new outlets.
Someone should just get these people a whole pile of video games.
Actually, no. Brain inspired systems are used extensively throughout industry for real work, they can be really powerful tools for pattern recognition when working with large data sets that we do not have a good complete model for.
Both approaches are important and, in real AI research, both tend to be used to various degrees. What you are describing is 'GOFAI', Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence. There are domains where it does better then biologically inspired methods like neural nets and genetic algorithms, and places where it does worse.
I had a similar thought. Of course brains crash, we tend to call it 'death'.
Translators? Why bother, the data probably just ends up poorly filed in some tape farm. Data collection is sexy, data processing is dull.
Not as long as you might think. The technology needed for this level of data collection is only a few decades old at best. 20-30 years ago even tracing a call in an industrialized nation could be a laborious task and collection like this was just undoable.
How is 'GPS' coming into this at all? In what way is it 'GPS-style'?
This sounds like a new variation of how submarines's have been navigating for decades. They already have a device that measures movement without satellites using gyroscopes that works pretty well, and this sounds like it is filling the same basic function except using the background magnetic field.
So it is a cool (no pun intended) piece of tech, but I am not understanding why it is being compared to a completely different technology like this.
Thing is, consumers like portals, at least in numbers significant enough that if you are hosted on a site that has a large user base you will get more attention then having your own custom site that people have to search for.
For all of its problems, Youtube provides a consistent interface, relatively stable performance, and a linking system that encourages people to explore videos and artists that they are not already aware of or are aware of and seeing the 'suggestion' spurns interest in rewatching something.
Which is part of why there is such an interest in standing desks or other ways of getting people moving during the day.
It is interesting how much more people get worked up about interruption of entertainment and connivence then things that actually impact their life. I guess if nothing else this does indicate just how good Americans have it. If this is the industry people complain the most about, then that means other more critical things are doing pretty well.
Though I suspect that the people in the US who actually do have to worry about things like power, water, roads, food, etc, are not generally covered by such surveys. 'consumer' tends to be code for 'middle class with significant disposable income and an inferiority complex in regard to the upper class and blindness in regard the lower class'.
'effective' is a problematic term. Specifically, one has to look at the purpose of 'punishment' before one can determine if it is being effective or not, and the goal of punishment has nothing to do with deterrent, it is to please 3rd parties.
Kickstarter and Indigogo are new venues for this kind of scam, I see 'alternative tech' projects pop up (and get wiped) from kickstarer every couple weeks. Most people do not have the first hand domain knowledge to evaluate physics heavy projects, so the posters depend on pulling people's mythology and trying to tie their project to some kind of anti-status-quo narrative.