I am all for protecting nature and against killing zooplankton and whales, but what is the scale of this? I tend to think that one ship is a literal "drop in the ocean". Does anyone have data not on the effect of these blasts on fish next to it, but rather on fish populations? Also, it sounds like it would be a waste of time and money to blast too loudly where a softer blast would suffice, and therefore my guess is that the power of the blast should be quite small by the time it reaches ocean floor...? I will be happy to be proven wrong but could this be a similar case to the "kids killing themselves with the parents' gun" versus "kids drowned in a swimming pool"?
69% of victims are under 45? Just wait for my research that shows the amazing blessings of high age in avoiding email scams - less than 1% of victims are over 90!
Well, first - once someone publicly lies, how can I expect them to be truthful in other situations? Second - if someone promises to be faithful to their wife and then sleeps with someone else, how can I expect them to keep their promises when it comes to politics? Third - if someone is not able to make their closest relationship work, why should I expect them to be able to make crucial relationships work both inside the country and outside?
So perhaps I don't care who he sleeps with, but it gives me a ton of information about how they view truth, promises and relationships.
Perhaps it is the other way around. GDPR Article 20 states: "The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided." (emphasis mine)
For some time now, I have a "full time job" that I do four days a week and I am treated as a full-time employee, and I do some work for a nonprofit on the fifth day. I have to agree that I feel my work performance is not worse and I am much happier about the job as well. In many jobs, condensing the work from five to four days helps focus and removes slack...
Let's not judge others too fast. My understanding is: low-risk index funds should bring 5-10% return p.a., but high-risk movie franchise investment should bring 15-25% return p.a. So I guess it was not lack of doing math, it was just doing math too fast for some other people to follow:)
Very good question. For example, our company sells to a small number of customers, and not everyone can afford our price. I do not feel it is wrong to discount the product for those who would otherwise not be able to afford it. The marginal utility of cash for the rich and poor is not just theory - it is a simple reality that a 20% tax impacts the poor in very different ways than it affects the rich.
On top of that - I have a minimum I am willing to sell my product for. My customer has a maximum they are willing to pay. If we are able to haggle and set a price right in the middle, both of us would benefit and be happy about the result right? Unlike a situation where I as a seller need to go above my minimum, and therefore the benefit of the sale gets split unevenly for my buyers:)
Here (one small European country) you can cross the street, but only if the nearest "zebra crossing" is farther than 100 meters. Outside the crossing, though, (understandably) pedestrians do not have right of way.
+1 for -1 Misinformed (or Facts wrong, or Unsubstantiated). I believe many Slashdot readers consider facts to be rather important in a discussion and yet, this mod is missing. And yes, I often don't know whether to choose Troll or Flamebait.
Interesting, I hope someone mods you up. However, it is sad they were unable to provide evidence, when it seems like they have quite a few fact-based ideas they used to design the website.
It is known that gut microbes have a lot of influence on physiology including mood. I wonder if these skin microbes also influence some things in their host in some way... could help explain why long-term couples are alike in a number of things that are not necessarily habits.
I always pick my own charity when I buy on Humble Bundle, and I tend to buy basically all of their bundles.
I pay Amazon Glacier fees for them to back up my family photos (encrypted).
I pay for an Internet accountability monitor (not a filter) - keeps me from procrastination, makes it easier for kids to avoid stuff they would later regret.
I wish I had read the Bible earlier, but it strongly discouraged in our country. Once I got to it, it profoundly changed how I think about life, how external events influence me, and throughout the years, it has had immense impact on my character, dealing with my selfishness. Without these changes, I doubt I would have finished my Ph.D., my marriage would likely not be that amazing and our business partnership would not work so well. It is a long explanation that is impractical to put in Slashdot comments but please realize that if sacrificing chickens is the biggest take away from the Bible, one may be missing something. And, just in anticipation of a likely reaction - the Bible certainly helps me clearly differentiate between what Jesus' principles are and what empty religion/legalism is.
I wonder if "programming by example" could work for data processing.
Telling the system: if I input "1,3,7,5,4", I want the output to be "1,3,4,5,7", or just "get me a sorting algorithm". Then the system searches all kinds of known algorithms and picks the one that does this task and is most commonly searched for in a context similar to mine. Then it proceeds by asking me "ok, but what would be your desirable output for '1,2,a'?". I think these days, so much programming actually seems to be recreating things that someone else has already done...
This might also work for what amounts to the biggest nightmare for me when learning new languages and environments - e.g. in Unity3D, I have this button and I have this variable, but being a complete newbie - when I push this button, how to make it change the variable. What are the correct names, methods, events? Again, can I program this by way of example or natural language search, and have the system take care of things like passing parameters?
In other words - superfast computers should just allow me to more easily find and connect work done by others (and released as open source, yippee!)
I am surprised you were seriously modded as "interesting", since I find a number of your claims dubious.
1. I am not sure about US banks, but in my country banks earn money by transforming the maturities and amounts of deposits and spreading around risks to give loans, as well as providing other services such as card payments. Competition forces them to work relatively efficiently.
2. In my country, people who do not display "due care" when acting as officers of a limited liability company can be sued.
3. I very much doubt that being publically dragged through the dirt for wasting $9m of customers' money will look good on their CVs, let alone help them get better jobs.
I do admit that sometimes scams and fraud happen but I do not share your conviction that the whole environment we live in is built on it alone.
Please calm down. Accusing someone of being a shill and then posting "MS hasn't tested a patch before deploying it in 3 fucking years"? Almost nobody likes Microsoft in this corner of the Web, but here I was thinking Slashdot modders usually favor reasonable discussion...
No, twentysomethings do not usually have parents who are 60 and have a life expectancy of further 20 years. They talk more about children perhaps in their 50 who will now take care of their parents at the same time as taking care of their twentysomethings.
And no, I am not scratching my head, I guess I am that 0.001 percent... loneliness is a real killer, or if you want this in more romantic words, love gives life:)
That is interesting. One would expect, if this is the case, that the manufacturers would increase prices until there are only so many interested buyers that the whole production will be sold. What am I missing?
I've read the Bible over a two-year period several times. It is a lot of reading, and not easy to absorb. However, I have to say that each time I got a lot of new insights and ideas from it. It complements the tons of technical and sci-fi reading that I do otherwise. Understanding the relationship between the Old and the New Testament is key, I think, and explains a lot of the ethical issues. I found two things interesting with regard to that - first, Jesus really gives an amazing ethical basis in the Sermon on the Mount, and I am so glad that a huge part of our Western civilization is built on its premises. And second, Jesus' message in the end does not seem to be about the new ethical rules, but rather about how to deal with the fact that we're all breaking them. Fascinating reading, but from the discussion here it seems it is definitely not for everyone.
Good point. I would add another bit of lawyer speak - Niantic 'does not have plans' to sell personal info in the future which does not mean 'we will not sell' but means 'we could make plans to sell'
This would allow to have autonomously driven delivery trucks where the "last mile" might be just a couple of meters from the public road to the door of the house.
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I am all for protecting nature and against killing zooplankton and whales, but what is the scale of this? I tend to think that one ship is a literal "drop in the ocean". Does anyone have data not on the effect of these blasts on fish next to it, but rather on fish populations? Also, it sounds like it would be a waste of time and money to blast too loudly where a softer blast would suffice, and therefore my guess is that the power of the blast should be quite small by the time it reaches ocean floor...? I will be happy to be proven wrong but could this be a similar case to the "kids killing themselves with the parents' gun" versus "kids drowned in a swimming pool"?
69% of victims are under 45? Just wait for my research that shows the amazing blessings of high age in avoiding email scams - less than 1% of victims are over 90!
So perhaps I don't care who he sleeps with, but it gives me a ton of information about how they view truth, promises and relationships.
Perhaps it is the other way around. GDPR Article 20 states: "The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided." (emphasis mine)
For some time now, I have a "full time job" that I do four days a week and I am treated as a full-time employee, and I do some work for a nonprofit on the fifth day. I have to agree that I feel my work performance is not worse and I am much happier about the job as well. In many jobs, condensing the work from five to four days helps focus and removes slack...
Let's not judge others too fast. My understanding is: low-risk index funds should bring 5-10% return p.a., but high-risk movie franchise investment should bring 15-25% return p.a. So I guess it was not lack of doing math, it was just doing math too fast for some other people to follow :)
On top of that - I have a minimum I am willing to sell my product for. My customer has a maximum they are willing to pay. If we are able to haggle and set a price right in the middle, both of us would benefit and be happy about the result right? Unlike a situation where I as a seller need to go above my minimum, and therefore the benefit of the sale gets split unevenly for my buyers :)
Here (one small European country) you can cross the street, but only if the nearest "zebra crossing" is farther than 100 meters. Outside the crossing, though, (understandably) pedestrians do not have right of way.
Just wait until someone hacks this and displays anything they want to all the other cars around :)
+1 for -1 Misinformed (or Facts wrong, or Unsubstantiated). I believe many Slashdot readers consider facts to be rather important in a discussion and yet, this mod is missing. And yes, I often don't know whether to choose Troll or Flamebait.
Interesting, I hope someone mods you up. However, it is sad they were unable to provide evidence, when it seems like they have quite a few fact-based ideas they used to design the website.
It is known that gut microbes have a lot of influence on physiology including mood. I wonder if these skin microbes also influence some things in their host in some way... could help explain why long-term couples are alike in a number of things that are not necessarily habits.
Does this therefore mean "you cannot have good measurable targets"?
I pay Amazon Glacier fees for them to back up my family photos (encrypted).
I pay for an Internet accountability monitor (not a filter) - keeps me from procrastination, makes it easier for kids to avoid stuff they would later regret.
I wish I had read the Bible earlier, but it strongly discouraged in our country. Once I got to it, it profoundly changed how I think about life, how external events influence me, and throughout the years, it has had immense impact on my character, dealing with my selfishness. Without these changes, I doubt I would have finished my Ph.D., my marriage would likely not be that amazing and our business partnership would not work so well. It is a long explanation that is impractical to put in Slashdot comments but please realize that if sacrificing chickens is the biggest take away from the Bible, one may be missing something. And, just in anticipation of a likely reaction - the Bible certainly helps me clearly differentiate between what Jesus' principles are and what empty religion/legalism is.
Well, try to find some other outlet online... oh wait!
Telling the system: if I input "1,3,7,5,4", I want the output to be "1,3,4,5,7", or just "get me a sorting algorithm". Then the system searches all kinds of known algorithms and picks the one that does this task and is most commonly searched for in a context similar to mine. Then it proceeds by asking me "ok, but what would be your desirable output for '1,2,a'?". I think these days, so much programming actually seems to be recreating things that someone else has already done...
This might also work for what amounts to the biggest nightmare for me when learning new languages and environments - e.g. in Unity3D, I have this button and I have this variable, but being a complete newbie - when I push this button, how to make it change the variable. What are the correct names, methods, events? Again, can I program this by way of example or natural language search, and have the system take care of things like passing parameters?
In other words - superfast computers should just allow me to more easily find and connect work done by others (and released as open source, yippee!)
1. I am not sure about US banks, but in my country banks earn money by transforming the maturities and amounts of deposits and spreading around risks to give loans, as well as providing other services such as card payments. Competition forces them to work relatively efficiently.
2. In my country, people who do not display "due care" when acting as officers of a limited liability company can be sued.
3. I very much doubt that being publically dragged through the dirt for wasting $9m of customers' money will look good on their CVs, let alone help them get better jobs.
I do admit that sometimes scams and fraud happen but I do not share your conviction that the whole environment we live in is built on it alone.
Please calm down. Accusing someone of being a shill and then posting "MS hasn't tested a patch before deploying it in 3 fucking years"? Almost nobody likes Microsoft in this corner of the Web, but here I was thinking Slashdot modders usually favor reasonable discussion...
No, twentysomethings do not usually have parents who are 60 and have a life expectancy of further 20 years. They talk more about children perhaps in their 50 who will now take care of their parents at the same time as taking care of their twentysomethings. And no, I am not scratching my head, I guess I am that 0.001 percent... loneliness is a real killer, or if you want this in more romantic words, love gives life :)
That is interesting. One would expect, if this is the case, that the manufacturers would increase prices until there are only so many interested buyers that the whole production will be sold. What am I missing?
I've read the Bible over a two-year period several times. It is a lot of reading, and not easy to absorb. However, I have to say that each time I got a lot of new insights and ideas from it. It complements the tons of technical and sci-fi reading that I do otherwise. Understanding the relationship between the Old and the New Testament is key, I think, and explains a lot of the ethical issues. I found two things interesting with regard to that - first, Jesus really gives an amazing ethical basis in the Sermon on the Mount, and I am so glad that a huge part of our Western civilization is built on its premises. And second, Jesus' message in the end does not seem to be about the new ethical rules, but rather about how to deal with the fact that we're all breaking them. Fascinating reading, but from the discussion here it seems it is definitely not for everyone.
Good point. I would add another bit of lawyer speak - Niantic 'does not have plans' to sell personal info in the future which does not mean 'we will not sell' but means 'we could make plans to sell'
This would allow to have autonomously driven delivery trucks where the "last mile" might be just a couple of meters from the public road to the door of the house.