Why not? The dumb ones may be easier to find. A crime analyst once told me he rarely finds smart crooks, but usually the dumb ones who leave obvious patterns. If they were smart, they'd probably be in a real profession instead of breaking into houses.
Similarly, aliens that don't want to be detected are probably not the ones we'd find first. It's the stupid ones that will stand out.
Big Data is finally paying off: now one can sift jillions of bytes for hundreds coincidental correlations that used to take marketing departments and politicians several years and millions of dollars to concoct manually.
Make stiff penalties for breaches and make breach insurance required. Then the insurance companies will heavily encourage protective measures from those they insure because their profits are on the line.
Insurance companies would care more than regular companies because they deal in bulk. If there are lot of breaches, then they have a lot of payouts and lose money. A regular company views breaches as all or nothing incidents, which tempts them to gamble.
The research seems to suggest that the cells intrinsic ability to mutate developed early on in the evolution of life, certainly long before sexual reproduction.
I used reproduction as a more extreme case to illustrate the effects and didn't mean to imply it was the primary issue. The trade-offs affect almost all of life, just in different weights.
I can see such in reproduction-related cells, but not regular body cells because those are not passed on.
More likely cancer is simply the result of the trade-offs between efficiency versus duration. In a competitive world efficiency guarantees genetic success more than life duration. After all, the alpha male is in almost a winner-take-all role. To be the alpha male you have to have a high metabolism and an efficient metabolism (get big without having to find extra food).
This means that entropy (errors in cell division) builds up faster. There are generally two solutions to entropy: slower metabolism or error correcting mechanisms. Being slower means you'll never be able to be the alpha male, and error-correcting means you are less efficient during your prime because such mechanisms consume resources. (Some bacteria have such.)
Note how female mammals typically have lower metabolism and live longer. This is because they are not in the winner-take-all position of males.
Nobody has a perfect crystal ball. Languages die off and you should expect them to. COBOL would be the last language I would've expected to last such a long time, but it somehow did; it's almost like Latin: people use it because it's already dead such that there are no surprises in it. There are stupid things about almost every common current language that could doom them. Plus, fads come and go.
No career is easy, especially when you are green. I tell them to do what they love, do it well, but look around and be flexible so that you have options.
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from a probe built in the mid 70s.
Why not? The dumb ones may be easier to find. A crime analyst once told me he rarely finds smart crooks, but usually the dumb ones who leave obvious patterns. If they were smart, they'd probably be in a real profession instead of breaking into houses.
Similarly, aliens that don't want to be detected are probably not the ones we'd find first. It's the stupid ones that will stand out.
Indeed! Why always emphasize better techies and not better management?
Matthew 7:16: "By their farts shall ye know them"
In the future, dogs can vote.
They have to in order to remove the "Copyright Google Maps" watermark.
Why are the stars in the same spot? Looks suspicious. If they can't do the star field authentically, then better to leave it black.
There may be a real cause/effect correlation there, but if so, I don't want to know what it is.
Big Data is finally paying off: now one can sift jillions of bytes for hundreds coincidental correlations that used to take marketing departments and politicians several years and millions of dollars to concoct manually.
The sweet smell of progress!
Scientists recently uncovered dark data while trying to download information from a blackhole discovered at the Amazon headquarters marketing wing.
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Make stiff penalties for breaches and make breach insurance required. Then the insurance companies will heavily encourage protective measures from those they insure because their profits are on the line.
Insurance companies would care more than regular companies because they deal in bulk. If there are lot of breaches, then they have a lot of payouts and lose money. A regular company views breaches as all or nothing incidents, which tempts them to gamble.
Why doesn't the financial industry come up with a more modern money-friendly programming language? It's a big niche.
"We want A workers at C prices."
Yes, I get Dark Mod Points all the time.
It certainly seems they do. At least they are rarely punished for it such that the penalty is not a dis-incentive.
I used reproduction as a more extreme case to illustrate the effects and didn't mean to imply it was the primary issue. The trade-offs affect almost all of life, just in different weights.
Since society wouldn't allow it to happen to humans, they'd transplant human minds into pigs, goats, etc.
"I'm hungry. Since there's nothin' in the fridge, I'm goin' out back to graze."
I can see such in reproduction-related cells, but not regular body cells because those are not passed on.
More likely cancer is simply the result of the trade-offs between efficiency versus duration. In a competitive world efficiency guarantees genetic success more than life duration. After all, the alpha male is in almost a winner-take-all role. To be the alpha male you have to have a high metabolism and an efficient metabolism (get big without having to find extra food).
This means that entropy (errors in cell division) builds up faster. There are generally two solutions to entropy: slower metabolism or error correcting mechanisms. Being slower means you'll never be able to be the alpha male, and error-correcting means you are less efficient during your prime because such mechanisms consume resources. (Some bacteria have such.)
Note how female mammals typically have lower metabolism and live longer. This is because they are not in the winner-take-all position of males.
Only because of the "devil you know" argument. It's similar to QWERTY: we can't convert until everybody else does first.
"The best way to compete with a 3rd-world country is to become one".
Nobody has a perfect crystal ball. Languages die off and you should expect them to. COBOL would be the last language I would've expected to last such a long time, but it somehow did; it's almost like Latin: people use it because it's already dead such that there are no surprises in it. There are stupid things about almost every common current language that could doom them. Plus, fads come and go.
No career is easy, especially when you are green. I tell them to do what they love, do it well, but look around and be flexible so that you have options.
Just start a company that charges $0.01 for each OSS title.
PS. Please Diecrosoft
We still use Neanderthal bones...to pound Windows 8.1.