I have little sympathy for technolibertarians playing word games to dance around sensible regulation. Particularly when they grumble that sensible regulation is fascism.
I know, they're so shocked that they're supposed to be honest about investments that they sell to people. How dare we not be allowed to lie about how much money people will make by giving their money to us?!
They don't seem to understand that creating a "new" equivalent thing that is also being marketed for the purposes of investment is already some type of investment instrument. They were playing a word game, but they were doing something regulated all along.
I don't where all these dill weeds came from, but this isn't some blue-sky study to try to prove anything.
It is a study to gather information about a known harm that is affecting people, that has clear and unquestioned causes, but where the extent of damage is not well known.
Like for example if I neglect to water my tomatoes, and it hasn't rained, and I know there is damage from lack of water, I'm not doing a study to find out why the plants are turning yellow. Instead, I'm looking at how many of them are yellow, how yellow are they, what can recover, etc.
There is not just one type of study in the world. That is something to consider if you love talking about studies in a way that would imply you read them or otherwise understand them.
Soccer players who frequently use their heads to hit the ball may be at even higher risk than football players. Luckily, heading the ball is not very useful at the teenage level and most of the players are receiving many fewer head strikes than football players. However, some studies have suggested that a minority of players, presumably the most skilled, are already taking a large number of head strikes in high school.
It is worth doing that sort of study, but because of macho societal stereotypes soccer players are less likely to admit concern. Soccer isn't perceived as being as dangerous, so they'd have to be pretty whiny to worry about it. But football is seen as really dangerous, so it is more accepted by the players and their families to ask those types of questions.
Very few rock stars take lots of blows to the head. Drug use tends to damage the heart/liver/kidneys primarily. Opiates damage pleasure receptors, but you wouldn't see visible damage like you have in CTE. CTE is physical damage. It is like asking if smoking weed causes blisters. The answer is no. And when rock stars fall down, they're more likely to break an arm or to merely cut their head than to actually get a concussion. It certainly isn't normal to get repeated concussions, because if you party that hard you learn to party that hard, and if you can't even learn not to fall down and split your head open, you almost certainly already OD'd.
Or that one way of getting through college if you have problems with your brain is through athletics programs.
It seems unlikely that you would find many who turned to athletics late enough for that to make sense actually getting to play on something like a football team. I'm under the assumption that it is well proven that most of the people playing a competitive college-level sport had to begin practicing at a fairly young age. I can't really imagine somebody saying, "Gosh, I'm sure struggling in biology class, I better apply for a football scholarship."
So what is the causal chain to explain why there are so many comments like yours on slashdot? Is it because kids with brain damage can fit in with nerds if they play enough video games?
I just assumed most of them got the brain damage from their fathers. That's why they learned to like being hit in the head in first place, after all, and if your team is good you can even earn your father's love for a few hours a year.
And some of us got to play baseball, which has different ethics regarding hitting each other.
Sometimes I think they were created as a foil to drive me to reading about Bat Boy. But I'd sooner sit on the kitchen floor reading soup labels to get my reading fix than to click that link.
It is a prison supply company, they're not doing something evil to their employees, they're just testing the systems temporarily and getting discounts on snacks for their trouble.
When they use it on prisoners it might be a big improvement, mostly because they don't have any privacy or freedom anyways, and the guards are often bad people. So increased automation is likely to be appreciated by the users.
Horse shit, you're not king and you don't make the rules.
If you enter legally and your visa expires, there is no law or rule that says you have to leave. You're eligible to be removed at the government's whim, sure, but that is not the same as being in violation of a law.
You're just a racist idiot who can't comprehend what the rules might actually be, because you get your civics from AM radio.
It isn't illegal unless it is against the law. Duh. Entering without permission is a crime. Overstay isn't even a traffic violation, it isn't any sort of violation.
Welcome to America. Please learn our fucking rules.
You failed to comprehend the words. Upgrade your vocabulary. Figure out wtf direct democracy is, or if you can still blame the gubermint when we vote on stuff directly whenever we want to. You didn't understand the words. So don't reply. Re-read it until you understand it, and you'll both learn something and also realize you had nothing to add.
Bullshit, you have math and physics requirements, sure, but they're not taken in the context of how they're used in computers. Most of the math you learn is worthless rote nonsense and when programming you would actually need to just read an API manual, a datasheet or a white paper. A significant percent, over 90% probably, of the rules and things you learn in math class are absolutely useless to programming, and that remains true even if you're implementing a math routine in assembly. There are all sorts of assumptions, implicitly ordered steps, and things you just can't get away with in programming. And you have to use the functionality you have available, not some theoretical perfect set of functionality. Even things like dividing by zero; is it an error that also assigns a NotANumber designator to the result, or is the answer Infinity? That depends what type of numbers you're using, which API you're using. You can learn all the math, and then have to learn what the computer really does, or you can just learn what the computer really does.
You can either take the basic "advanced" math classes required for the CS degree, or test out of them and take more useful things related to statistics.
Same for low-level stuff; there will be a list of classes that includes stuff like logic gates, or you might instead choose one on assembly language. You do not get walked from discrete logic all the way up to fluffy shit. Instead there is a basic program that includes basic programming, data structures, algorithms, systems, operating systems, information systems, networking, and then lists of multiple choice baskets. Many people only have one class with any low-level stuff, and it isn't actually very low level. Maybe they had to write a custom linux loopback device driver in C or something like that. That might be all they got that wasn't in Java or a scripting language. The next person might have fulfilled the same requirements with most of their classes in C or verilog. They may have had lots of SQL including academic normalization nonsense, or they may have taken some other class on data systems.
Most schools will give out either a BS or BA in Programming.
The CS classes are the same, but the requirements are different. One learns a bunch of extra science that is useless when programming, the other learns how to think about how the software will be used and write the thing people want.
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I have little sympathy for technolibertarians playing word games to dance around sensible regulation. Particularly when they grumble that sensible regulation is fascism.
I know, they're so shocked that they're supposed to be honest about investments that they sell to people. How dare we not be allowed to lie about how much money people will make by giving their money to us?!
They don't seem to understand that creating a "new" equivalent thing that is also being marketed for the purposes of investment is already some type of investment instrument. They were playing a word game, but they were doing something regulated all along.
They'll deny it, but they won't have any better explanation for their behavior.
Luckily, since they won't even admit it, over time it will really drag them down. It creates a war of attrition against themselves.
It is probably just a fruit smoothie by now. Sorry.
I don't where all these dill weeds came from, but this isn't some blue-sky study to try to prove anything.
It is a study to gather information about a known harm that is affecting people, that has clear and unquestioned causes, but where the extent of damage is not well known.
Like for example if I neglect to water my tomatoes, and it hasn't rained, and I know there is damage from lack of water, I'm not doing a study to find out why the plants are turning yellow. Instead, I'm looking at how many of them are yellow, how yellow are they, what can recover, etc.
There is not just one type of study in the world. That is something to consider if you love talking about studies in a way that would imply you read them or otherwise understand them.
Soccer players who frequently use their heads to hit the ball may be at even higher risk than football players. Luckily, heading the ball is not very useful at the teenage level and most of the players are receiving many fewer head strikes than football players. However, some studies have suggested that a minority of players, presumably the most skilled, are already taking a large number of head strikes in high school.
It is worth doing that sort of study, but because of macho societal stereotypes soccer players are less likely to admit concern. Soccer isn't perceived as being as dangerous, so they'd have to be pretty whiny to worry about it. But football is seen as really dangerous, so it is more accepted by the players and their families to ask those types of questions.
Very few rock stars take lots of blows to the head. Drug use tends to damage the heart/liver/kidneys primarily. Opiates damage pleasure receptors, but you wouldn't see visible damage like you have in CTE. CTE is physical damage. It is like asking if smoking weed causes blisters. The answer is no. And when rock stars fall down, they're more likely to break an arm or to merely cut their head than to actually get a concussion. It certainly isn't normal to get repeated concussions, because if you party that hard you learn to party that hard, and if you can't even learn not to fall down and split your head open, you almost certainly already OD'd.
I doubt there is a single known case of anybody developing CTE when they die. It seems highly unlikely.
You're going to need a brand new wild guess.
Or that one way of getting through college if you have problems with your brain is through athletics programs.
It seems unlikely that you would find many who turned to athletics late enough for that to make sense actually getting to play on something like a football team. I'm under the assumption that it is well proven that most of the people playing a competitive college-level sport had to begin practicing at a fairly young age. I can't really imagine somebody saying, "Gosh, I'm sure struggling in biology class, I better apply for a football scholarship."
So what is the causal chain to explain why there are so many comments like yours on slashdot? Is it because kids with brain damage can fit in with nerds if they play enough video games?
I just assumed most of them got the brain damage from their fathers. That's why they learned to like being hit in the head in first place, after all, and if your team is good you can even earn your father's love for a few hours a year.
And some of us got to play baseball, which has different ethics regarding hitting each other.
I think they already did.
Sometimes I think they were created as a foil to drive me to reading about Bat Boy. But I'd sooner sit on the kitchen floor reading soup labels to get my reading fix than to click that link.
Never allow anything until after what you were trying to do failed. Then consider if you even want to do it.
Never trust.
Surely there is no way anybody would actually click something when the summary is that stupid. That's what these new guys don't get.
It is a prison supply company, they're not doing something evil to their employees, they're just testing the systems temporarily and getting discounts on snacks for their trouble.
When they use it on prisoners it might be a big improvement, mostly because they don't have any privacy or freedom anyways, and the guards are often bad people. So increased automation is likely to be appreciated by the users.
Those aren't for safety, they're because metal blurs the image.
I saw a fun one on a sign today, it said
And I just can't stop wondering if the assistant manager is passive-aggressive, or the owner and sign company are both just idiots.
Well, if they all had to watch the same movie somebody would get murdered.
Or, they'd all be doing heroin in the bathroom. I think that is the old way bands passed the time on the road.
But they could at least rip the music to a personal collection instead of constant streaming if they're that into music.
He's on third, and I Don't Give a Darn.
It is only the third time they posted this story, it is a bit early to declare it perpetual.
Horse shit, you're not king and you don't make the rules.
If you enter legally and your visa expires, there is no law or rule that says you have to leave. You're eligible to be removed at the government's whim, sure, but that is not the same as being in violation of a law.
You're just a racist idiot who can't comprehend what the rules might actually be, because you get your civics from AM radio.
It isn't illegal unless it is against the law. Duh. Entering without permission is a crime. Overstay isn't even a traffic violation, it isn't any sort of violation.
Welcome to America. Please learn our fucking rules.
You failed to comprehend the words. Upgrade your vocabulary. Figure out wtf direct democracy is, or if you can still blame the gubermint when we vote on stuff directly whenever we want to. You didn't understand the words. So don't reply. Re-read it until you understand it, and you'll both learn something and also realize you had nothing to add.
I think they stopped tracking karma numerically around 2002 or something. Welcome back, new old coward!
Bullshit, you have math and physics requirements, sure, but they're not taken in the context of how they're used in computers. Most of the math you learn is worthless rote nonsense and when programming you would actually need to just read an API manual, a datasheet or a white paper. A significant percent, over 90% probably, of the rules and things you learn in math class are absolutely useless to programming, and that remains true even if you're implementing a math routine in assembly. There are all sorts of assumptions, implicitly ordered steps, and things you just can't get away with in programming. And you have to use the functionality you have available, not some theoretical perfect set of functionality. Even things like dividing by zero; is it an error that also assigns a NotANumber designator to the result, or is the answer Infinity? That depends what type of numbers you're using, which API you're using. You can learn all the math, and then have to learn what the computer really does, or you can just learn what the computer really does.
You can either take the basic "advanced" math classes required for the CS degree, or test out of them and take more useful things related to statistics.
Same for low-level stuff; there will be a list of classes that includes stuff like logic gates, or you might instead choose one on assembly language. You do not get walked from discrete logic all the way up to fluffy shit. Instead there is a basic program that includes basic programming, data structures, algorithms, systems, operating systems, information systems, networking, and then lists of multiple choice baskets. Many people only have one class with any low-level stuff, and it isn't actually very low level. Maybe they had to write a custom linux loopback device driver in C or something like that. That might be all they got that wasn't in Java or a scripting language. The next person might have fulfilled the same requirements with most of their classes in C or verilog. They may have had lots of SQL including academic normalization nonsense, or they may have taken some other class on data systems.
Most schools will give out either a BS or BA in Programming.
The CS classes are the same, but the requirements are different. One learns a bunch of extra science that is useless when programming, the other learns how to think about how the software will be used and write the thing people want.
An excise tax is a type of sales tax. Even wikipedia could have told you that.
Don't be aliterate, look it up before you correct people!
LOL shipping on bicycles is expensive.
WTF does "Made in the USA" have to do with taxes? Wow, talk about clueless. Guess what, you have no idea what is going on around you.