Just submit the revised changes under a pseudo-name.
From what I can remember, the fixes were too small (within 1-3 lines) to be done differently.
Anything can be bloated up if you work on it. Example:
NORMAL
print(a + b)
BLOATED
am = new math.ArithmeticManager()
opA = new math.Operand((float) a)
opB = new math.Operand((float) b)
am.addOperand(opA)
am.addOperand(opB)
am.operator = new math.operators.Addition()
am.executeMathOperation()
system.io.output.print(am.mathOperationResult())
this explanation would then require that every civilization is making the exact same set of choices, which seems at best unlikely
Not "every", just the vast majority. It's similar how every civilization seems to eventually develop a writing system. It happened in S. America even though they had no (known) contact with western civilization. And there may be cross-species patterns that "tune" behavior certain ways, as I'll describe later.
When artificial brains make biological ones obsolete, making biological beings second-class citizens, then volume reproduction may naturally stop being a top priority/urge.
If you want to do heavy-duty computations, you [will want more tamed energy]
Maybe there's a point of diminishing returns such that turning a galaxy into a server farm is only slightly better than a star cluster server farm. At that point, the logical allocation of resources would be to spend your efforts on spreading out than on galaxy-sized server farms.
Or maybe large server farms keep getting hijacked. If you are focused on spreading, you are not going to be a big target. If you start building a galaxy-sized server farm, then maybe multiple other civilizations will partner up to swipe or destroy it, being it's a big single target. After it happens a few times and news gets outs, civilizations go back to cluster farms and spreading.
Thus, stationary "farmers" get weeded out.
We don't really know the aggregate patterns. Due to the relative newness of heavy elements needed for forming complex life, most civilizations are probably relatively new, and find it's easier to spread than mass-farm due to natural invasion patterns. When real-estate becomes scarce, the pattern may change.
The idea that advanced civilizations would be releasing tons of concentrated or distinct infrared waste radiation is not a reliable assumption.
For example, they may value spreading fast over reproducing fast because spreading out perhaps ensures their survival more than volume of species members.
They may move past reliance on biological bodies and don't see a need for more than a few billion emulated/artificial brains to manage things.
If you are no longer biology-dependent and want to ensure your species and/or civilization survives, then spreading out as far as possible and not leaving behind obvious hints of your existence may be the more rational plan. It's harder to destroy something that is dispersed.
Maybe there are hundreds of civilizations doing just that and they often pass each other and don't mind much because spreading is more important to them than conquering, hogging real-estate, and reproducing.
It's kind of like the early days of the wild west: Why fight over land when you can get unoccupied land by moving on. (Unoccupied from the settler's perspective. The native Americans didn't see it that way.)
I agree that H is a spinner, but so are most politicians. Bernie is arguably a spinner, but whether he is "spinnier" than H is kind of hard to say because their pasts are so different. His "spending math" stretches things to the very edge of what reality could supply without some low-probability luck kicking in.
H has been in the public eye and the right has spent a lot of money to magnify and advertise her mistakes (or alleged mistakes) so that everyone remembers them and make them memes. If you did that to ANY candidate's mistakes, it would taint public opinion on them. Slander works.
Look at the fact checking sites and you can find spin and/or mistakes from any candidate that could be made into a meme if one spends enough to highlight the mistake.
(I won't call the mistakes "lies" because human memory is so unreliable that Hanlon's razor could apply.)
Hopefully, an Apple press release about the AZ decision will point that out, making AZ look like fools, and we get to see them sweat as they try to spin their way out of it.
My understanding is that San Bernardino had such software for their employee iPhones, but didn't bother to activate it on the perp's phone.
When surveys ask for personal details that I don't want to supply, I often put crap data in if they don't offer a way to bypass it, such as a "Do not wish to state" option among the choices. For example, age, occupation, and income level.
Okay, that makes sense, but how do they know that the frequency-dependent dispersion/delay of the radio waves is caused by baryonic matter and not one or more of the newer types of "matter"? The newer types are not explored enough to say what they do to radio waves, it seems.
Why doesn't MS offer a "normal" edition and a "spam and snoop" edition ("Windows 10 SSE" *). The normal version would cost more. At least you'd know what you are getting and can avoid junk by paying more.
Doesn't that require different countries to agree to the same practice? That's not realistic in my opinion. Country A will likely have a different taxing philosophy than country B.
I'm trying to approach it from the perspective of a country only having to care what happens inside its own borders (or at transfers in and out). There would be no such thing as a "tax haven" within that country. That way computations of tax don't depend on what a co. does or earns in different lands (outside of a given country).
Perhaps it's time to tax companies based on revenues and expenses (purchases) that happen in a given country rather than on "profits", because profits are too convoluted to track in international companies.
Neither are the alternatives. Unless we can find a compact and practical way to convert matter directly into energy, or something fanstasmic like opening worm-holes on command, we are stuck with indirect or convoluted techniques. Going really fast is really hard.
If there were an ad service with a good reputation and who uses only strait HTML, one could make a case for not blocking them. But too many ads are stupid-ware or malware.
I see it more like the PC pattern. Macs are better engineered but have only about 15% of market (long-term average), while PC's became almost a commodity.
iPhone will be the "pocket" version of the Mac, and Android-clones the pocket version of the PC. Google is the new Microsoft, but perhaps with less control over the OS. Google can make some money defining and coordinating phone OS standards, but cannot charge and arm and a leg (no pun int.); more like the ARM model.
I did find my iPhone had a cleaner interface than my Android. Android kind of slapped together apps or features designed mostly independently, while iPhone has the feel of being more carefully planned and coordinated, and more likely to say "no" to clutter and junk.
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Americans are just not in the mood to pay for humans on Mars, unless somebody finds a cheapo way to pull it off.
Just submit the revised changes under a pseudo-name.
Anything can be bloated up if you work on it. Example:
That's what I was thinking. If the original company isn't cooperative, then just reinvent the wheel slightly differently.
Usually I have a better design the second time around anyhow because I have the experience to shape it right from the start.
Why don't they make their own (anti) social network: MedievalBook or something? They can share decap pics among friends and fam.
Not "every", just the vast majority. It's similar how every civilization seems to eventually develop a writing system. It happened in S. America even though they had no (known) contact with western civilization. And there may be cross-species patterns that "tune" behavior certain ways, as I'll describe later.
When artificial brains make biological ones obsolete, making biological beings second-class citizens, then volume reproduction may naturally stop being a top priority/urge.
Maybe there's a point of diminishing returns such that turning a galaxy into a server farm is only slightly better than a star cluster server farm. At that point, the logical allocation of resources would be to spend your efforts on spreading out than on galaxy-sized server farms.
Or maybe large server farms keep getting hijacked. If you are focused on spreading, you are not going to be a big target. If you start building a galaxy-sized server farm, then maybe multiple other civilizations will partner up to swipe or destroy it, being it's a big single target. After it happens a few times and news gets outs, civilizations go back to cluster farms and spreading.
Thus, stationary "farmers" get weeded out.
We don't really know the aggregate patterns. Due to the relative newness of heavy elements needed for forming complex life, most civilizations are probably relatively new, and find it's easier to spread than mass-farm due to natural invasion patterns. When real-estate becomes scarce, the pattern may change.
Not for a biologist.
The idea that advanced civilizations would be releasing tons of concentrated or distinct infrared waste radiation is not a reliable assumption.
For example, they may value spreading fast over reproducing fast because spreading out perhaps ensures their survival more than volume of species members.
They may move past reliance on biological bodies and don't see a need for more than a few billion emulated/artificial brains to manage things.
If you are no longer biology-dependent and want to ensure your species and/or civilization survives, then spreading out as far as possible and not leaving behind obvious hints of your existence may be the more rational plan. It's harder to destroy something that is dispersed.
Maybe there are hundreds of civilizations doing just that and they often pass each other and don't mind much because spreading is more important to them than conquering, hogging real-estate, and reproducing.
It's kind of like the early days of the wild west: Why fight over land when you can get unoccupied land by moving on. (Unoccupied from the settler's perspective. The native Americans didn't see it that way.)
I hope they don't try to delete Earth so they can claim their model is correct. (We already have politicians on that job.)
We cannot say how many different environments there are capable of evolving complex life. We only have a sample size of one.
There may still yet be fairly complex life on/in Europa, Enceladus, and the gas giants. We haven't looked very hard yet.
I produce plenty, don't need a dish, only a web connection.
I agree that H is a spinner, but so are most politicians. Bernie is arguably a spinner, but whether he is "spinnier" than H is kind of hard to say because their pasts are so different. His "spending math" stretches things to the very edge of what reality could supply without some low-probability luck kicking in.
H has been in the public eye and the right has spent a lot of money to magnify and advertise her mistakes (or alleged mistakes) so that everyone remembers them and make them memes. If you did that to ANY candidate's mistakes, it would taint public opinion on them. Slander works.
Look at the fact checking sites and you can find spin and/or mistakes from any candidate that could be made into a meme if one spends enough to highlight the mistake.
(I won't call the mistakes "lies" because human memory is so unreliable that Hanlon's razor could apply.)
Hopefully, an Apple press release about the AZ decision will point that out, making AZ look like fools, and we get to see them sweat as they try to spin their way out of it.
My understanding is that San Bernardino had such software for their employee iPhones, but didn't bother to activate it on the perp's phone.
When surveys ask for personal details that I don't want to supply, I often put crap data in if they don't offer a way to bypass it, such as a "Do not wish to state" option among the choices. For example, age, occupation, and income level.
Okay, that makes sense, but how do they know that the frequency-dependent dispersion/delay of the radio waves is caused by baryonic matter and not one or more of the newer types of "matter"? The newer types are not explored enough to say what they do to radio waves, it seems.
Why doesn't MS offer a "normal" edition and a "spam and snoop" edition ("Windows 10 SSE" *). The normal version would cost more. At least you'd know what you are getting and can avoid junk by paying more.
* Or Godwin it: "SS"
Indeed. I was hoping they'd declare they found fahrvergnugen.
Same reason "God" needs a spaceship.
It's official, CEO #3 is just as jerky as #1 and #2. The MS tradition of corporate mayhem continues.
Doesn't that require different countries to agree to the same practice? That's not realistic in my opinion. Country A will likely have a different taxing philosophy than country B.
I'm trying to approach it from the perspective of a country only having to care what happens inside its own borders (or at transfers in and out). There would be no such thing as a "tax haven" within that country. That way computations of tax don't depend on what a co. does or earns in different lands (outside of a given country).
Perhaps it's time to tax companies based on revenues and expenses (purchases) that happen in a given country rather than on "profits", because profits are too convoluted to track in international companies.
Neither are the alternatives. Unless we can find a compact and practical way to convert matter directly into energy, or something fanstasmic like opening worm-holes on command, we are stuck with indirect or convoluted techniques. Going really fast is really hard.
I'll forgive ugly if it's easy to use and functional. I don't want to spend money on eye candy alone.
If there were an ad service with a good reputation and who uses only strait HTML, one could make a case for not blocking them. But too many ads are stupid-ware or malware.
I see it more like the PC pattern. Macs are better engineered but have only about 15% of market (long-term average), while PC's became almost a commodity.
iPhone will be the "pocket" version of the Mac, and Android-clones the pocket version of the PC. Google is the new Microsoft, but perhaps with less control over the OS. Google can make some money defining and coordinating phone OS standards, but cannot charge and arm and a leg (no pun int.); more like the ARM model.
I did find my iPhone had a cleaner interface than my Android. Android kind of slapped together apps or features designed mostly independently, while iPhone has the feel of being more carefully planned and coordinated, and more likely to say "no" to clutter and junk.